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by gtd 10mo ago
Peppa Pig is at least funny. The one that pushed me over the edge wrt to behavior modeling was Caillou. My god people have some self respect as parents. You have to have to create some boundaries for children, not just knee-jerk syrupy-sw
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by gtd 4y ago
> It is bad practice to have your authentication database be the same as your app database. No, this is resume-driven-development, Google-scale-wannabe FUD. Understand your requirements. Multiple databases is non-trivial overhead. T
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by gtd 13y ago
We did not publicize it in any way because we are a legit film streaming company with hundreds of distributors worldwide, and no good can come from any awareness of a site that looks like ours streaming pirated content. Maybe some day.
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by gtd 14y ago
But what would be the advantage over just running Drupal on PHP?
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by gtd 14y ago
Yes, but if you fuck it up heads are gonna roll.
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by gtd 14y ago
I switched to Notational Velocity years ago after trying to type things into Evernote, yet I am a premium user. Why? Because Evernote's killer feature is pasting in any kind of content and syncing that across devices. It is an extremely
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by gtd 14y ago
It's not about people who don't know what computers are. It's about creating simple solutions to common problems. Most people do not want to fiddle with their computers regardless of how well they understand them, they want to accomplish
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by gtd 14y ago
Could you elaborate on: > Sandboxing non-App store apps I thought sandboxing was only required for App store apps?
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by gtd 14y ago
Sure dependency hell, it's a problem anywhere. It's the worst in Rails though. Absolutely 100 times worse than PHP.
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by gtd 14y ago
> If something with Drupal's advantages were available within Rails (as an engine or what have you) it would be a clear game-over for other stacks vs. Rails. I have to disagree here. There are clear use cases for either Drupal or Rai
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by gtd 14y ago
Aside from PHP being around twice as long and around for years during the nascent phase of open source web apps, the number one reason it has more and more popular turnkey apps is the same reason it "killed" perl: easy deployment. The secon
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by gtd 14y ago
I know as well as anyone the relative futility of relying on HN, Reddit, or TC coverage for building a successful tech product. Feedback and traffic from social news is merely a blip that says next to nothing one way or another about you
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by gtd 14y ago
There was an article posted here a while ago that made the case that Lisp is so powerful that it makes it feasible to do much more yourself rather than relying on libraries, and thus it attracts a higher level of hacker that wants to do thi
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by gtd 14y ago
I don't think he consciously thinks that, but his entire argument seems to stem from Facebook being such a necessity that they are morally obligated to follow social norms or be somehow coerced into doing so, despite evidence that this has
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by gtd 14y ago
I don't think it's ironic because Anil clearly values Facebook and wants them to "do the right thing". This is made clear in the opening paragraph: > Now, Facebook follows the steps that most tyrants do, quietly moving from sham elect
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by gtd 14y ago
Very true, however I think the talent and ability of a technical team is just the tip of the iceberg here. The real coup that the Obama campaign pulled off was bringing a top-flight tech team in-house and somehow fitting them into the esta
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by gtd 14y ago
What's the value of humility in the professional world? Honesty, integrity, credit where credit is due, etc, but an overdeveloped sense of humility is the best way to go unrecognized, at least in America.
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by gtd 14y ago
I think you've spent more time reading social news linkbait than actually using ruby or examining its community at the ground level. > The whole tone of this article is a good example, actually Hold on there, don't extrapolate whateve
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by gtd 14y ago
But haven't you been consistent on the co-founder line since before YC was founded, and hence before you had significant data? Wouldn't that bias your YC data as well, which as far as I know only has a tiny minority of single founders?
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by gtd 14y ago
How is it not free distribution?
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by gtd 14y ago
> In the same way that BMW is a luxury brand, except to those who want to buy Ferrari and Bently. These people have even more money to spend and are not receptive to Starbucks. Starbucks / Blue Bottle makes even more sense considering
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by gtd 14y ago
I didn't have sympathy for Facebook when their traditional ads turned out to be worthless and the price fell through the floor. Likewise I don't have sympathy for businesses who feel entitled to free distribution on Facebook and don't like
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by gtd 14y ago
A sponsored post can stick around for a while. But in any case, if a user doesn't come they don't charge. It's exceedingly unlikely that 100% of your followers will see a post, but you don't pay for that.
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by gtd 14y ago
> Just because you enjoy a certain brand doesn't mean you actually want to know every little thing they're doing. Twitter is more obvious semantically, but heavy Likers of brands on Facebook already understand the implication, and inc
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by gtd 14y ago
To say nothing of brain plasticity. However actually shipping when you're that young is hard. It was not til I was 19 or 20 that I finally felt like I could write "real" software. The pieces just never fell into place before that despite
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by gtd 14y ago
Unless you had a Mac, in which case $200 was the price of simply buying the API reference (Inside Macintosh), without which your pirated copy of Think C was inscrutable. I did do some cool stuff in HyperTalk though.
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by gtd 14y ago
I would assume that Groupon has thought of most of these ideas, probably years ago, but let's not underestimate the power of the hype cycle. If you are literally the hottest startup in Silicon Valley as they were a couple years ago, the la
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by gtd 14y ago
I'm guessing simply because he could not verify that he was the account holder. Of course there could be numerous curatorial reasons, but that first one would seem to be a deal-breaker regardless.