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by palehose 5y ago
Does Amazon make any significant revenue from Goodreads? I can see how it might be something that boosts their kindle sales but other than that they probably have a good reason not to focus on it like... because it isn't a business bre
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by palehose 6y ago
usenet, especially rec.music.phish It's still there but not the same. Also I want to give a bit more info about why rec.music.phish was special. Phish, like the Grateful Dead, allow people to record and distribute concert recordings as
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by palehose 7y ago
https://www.phantasytour.com is one of my favorites. Phish in particular has a very vibrant community, if you enjoy their music you can find lots of other people who are passionate about them on just about any social network. Fo
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by palehose 7y ago
Every comment submitted here is kept by Y Combinator and they own it in the same way facebook or "applebook" would own it, except they don't run ads. But if you were to apply to their accelerator they would use your comments
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by palehose 7y ago
If the person who walks by did something memorable and unique then we do own that experience and it very much translates into meaningful data. If I was a witness to a crime happening on the street I can convey that information to the police
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by palehose 8y ago
"Translate this page" is missing.
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by palehose 8y ago
The mobile app Whisper can be useful to some for finding friends although there are tons of creepy people who primarily use it to try to hook up with women so if you can tolerate occasionally dealing with that sort of behavior then you can
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by palehose 10y ago
I'm not affiliated with Taproot, but am aware of them and that they have been successful with their model. Taproot Foundation - WHAT WE DO: The Taproot Foundation connects nonprofits and social change organizations with passionate, ski
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by palehose 10y ago
Disrupted by Dan Lyons
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by palehose 10y ago
https://barnacl.es/ is one of my favorites, for bootstrap startup news
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Why the Best Companies and Developers Give Away Almost Everything They Do(themacro.com)
4 points by palehose 10y ago|0 comments
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by palehose 10y ago
There is another company that uses the name "Canvas" as their brand at http://www.gocanvas.com
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by palehose 11y ago
Not if there is no investment and no one is getting paid anything yet.
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by palehose 11y ago
What about entrepreneurs starting a business that is not yet profitable? Is that something the government doesn't care about or are the numbers just too small?
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by palehose 12y ago
I have an application set up with Devise handling authentication for me and Devise allows me to create multiple accounts with the same email address. Considering how commonly used Devise is for setting up a site with Ruby on Rails, this is
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Meet the anonymous app police(gigaom.com)
3 points by palehose 12y ago|0 comments
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by palehose 12y ago
http://www.taprootfoundation.org/ - If you live in New York City, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, or Los Angeles this could be an option, as well as the sort of model for finding ways to help in your community. Altho
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What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future?(martinjeeblog.wordpress.com)
2 points by palehose 13y ago|0 comments
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by palehose 14y ago
Wouldn't these sorts of issues be solved more easily if the Gemfile listed specific versions of the gem dependencies? I don't like the idea of allowing a Rails app to just download whatever is the most recent version of a gem for this exact
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The horrendous prose of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz(blakemasters.com)
1 points by palehose 14y ago|0 comments
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by palehose 14y ago
My top priority when working on a side project is to work on something meaningful to me in ways that a full time job don't allow. Both on the technology side of getting to use tools I don't use full time, and working for non-profits or othe
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by palehose 14y ago
Thanks for the link to Calagator. I have been looking for any sort of open source alternative to meetup and had not found anything. I really don't understand why there isn't anything comparable that is open source already. I've seen a few o
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by palehose 14y ago
Does anyone know the link to the Kickstarter project "that involves taking an oak tree and splicing firefly genes into it"?
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by palehose 15y ago
eBay, used computers can be just as good as new.
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by palehose 15y ago
MBA is not nearly as glossy as the MBP.
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by palehose 15y ago
I'm developing a site right now in which I capture plaintext passwords on sign up within a separate table and then offload that data on an hourly basis to backup so that in case I ever need to change from BCrypt to some other encryption sch
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by palehose 15y ago
Upvoting a comment should signify that I agree with what the author is writing, not that I want that comment to have more karma points. I don't care how many upvotes a comment gets if the people who are upvoting it are not people I agree wi
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by palehose 15y ago
There was no backup of the CVS repository. The production server saved us since we were able to treat it as the definitive backup. This was before Git and the concept that everyone had their own copy of the entire repository. There is a sor
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by palehose 15y ago
A co-worker of mine once wiped out the entire CVS repository at the company we worked for because a symbolic link was placed in his home directory and he thought it was ok to 'rm -Rf' its contents. We were able to build a new repo based off
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Lamentations on the lack of women in information technology(absentelements.blogspot.com)
4 points by palehose 15y ago|0 comments

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