jmstout

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by jmstout 9y ago
Makes me wonder how many of these companies are actually offered the "standard deal" of 120k for 7%. Would love for YC to release some stats on this.
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by jmstout 10y ago
But what's your budget though?
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by jmstout 11y ago
"Its not poverty changes brain, its your parents mindset change your brain." Which is not at all influenced by poverty, right?
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by jmstout 11y ago
What if it's the other way around? What if the smart and passionate folks at Facebook really do just want to get the internet to the rest of the world, and this is the way they can justify doing so? They are a public company, after all
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by jmstout 11y ago
Related: If you haven't seen John Oliver's segment on civil asset forfeiture, you should really check it out - https://youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks
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by jmstout 11y ago
I feel like he missed a big opportunity here to say, "iQuit". Just sayin'.
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by jmstout 12y ago
A fun read, but I'm not convinced the reason for all the orange and blue is rooted in trendiness, as the article makes it seem. It suggests that this color combination "might not be naturalistic", but in my experience with li
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by jmstout 12y ago
I first tried to view this article on my mobile device and saw this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117695213/static/larseid... To me, this is already revealing. A critique of a web framework and this is
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by jmstout 12y ago
Sounds like it's quite the artful balance between procedurally generated and manually curated content. A bit (but just a little) more information can be found here: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2014/06/25/
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by jmstout 12y ago
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7385634
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by jmstout 12y ago
Doesn't this method of including dynamic data in the index.html page prevent it being served from a CDN? When serving a web application, I'm generally more worried about the time it takes before the user sees a response, even if t
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by jmstout 12y ago
How to become a millionaire web developer? See web development as more than a means to an end.
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by jmstout 12y ago
Is a streamed/recorded song really considered a 'performance'? Isn't it just one performance? If one performance is recorded and replayed 14k times, how does that turn into 14k performances? I must be missing something..
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by jmstout 12y ago
Tables for one... you mean desks? They're eating on desks?
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by jmstout 13y ago
According to Mozilla Developer Docs <blink> is non-standard and deprecated. RIP blink tag. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...
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by jmstout 13y ago
Not being cynical about its incontrovertible success. I'm being cynical about the context of the statement -- Acquia is a company heavily invested in PHP / Drupal. What else would they want people to think? I guess it could all de
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by jmstout 13y ago
"That 80% marketshare is not going anywhere anytime soon." Whatever helps you sleep at night.
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by jmstout 13y ago
I also enjoyed this presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Timelines-Twitter It goes into more depth about how they handle timelines.
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by jmstout 13y ago
Get him a blue beanie.
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by jmstout 13y ago
This is an interesting metric, often forgotten. Companies are just people. What better way to gauge future success than by the mood in the room?
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by jmstout 13y ago
Where does he get off talking about sweet potatoes like that? The nerve of some people!
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by jmstout 13y ago
Good points, but I can't help but feel like these issues should be considered and addressed during the early development of a service. You're right, you can get into some serious trouble putting the cart before the horse. But, what gets me
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by jmstout 13y ago
I hate to be 'that guy', but is caching really considered 'premature optimization'?
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by jmstout 13y ago
When I was watching NBC the morning of the Watertown incident, during a phone interview, one of their 'chief investigative correspondents' said, he wouldn't say who, but a Brown University student that went missing in March was the prime su