salman89

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by salman89 9y ago
Scalable system does not imply needing many machines. There is no reason you can't just deploy your entire system on a single host, but maintain the ability to reconfigure exactly when needed. But yes - its about finding the right bala
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by salman89 9y ago
I agree with the general premise of avoiding premature optimizations, but designing systems that scale is important for several reasons: - Startups grow exponentially, if you're playing catchup as you're growing you are focusing o
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by salman89 11y ago
Google Play supports splitting APKs on density. Its a little bit more work but can cut down the binary size if you have significant assets.
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by salman89 12y ago
I like Heap's ( https://heapanalytics.com ) approach - capture everything, query later. Depending on your needs (Heap is front-end UI oriented), might not be the right fit.
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by salman89 12y ago
I don't think it is as simple as learning that you can talk about it - you have to learn who to talk about it too. Not everyone wants to hear that things are not working quite as planned - most people would rather just hear "Great
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by salman89 12y ago
Changes the color temperature.
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by salman89 12y ago
Is there evidence to support that accelerators are pre-selecting based on elite backgrounds? It would be really interesting to see YC's % of founders from Ivy league + Stanford over time.
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by salman89 12y ago
Are you saying that these accelerators are not increasing the founders' chance of success?
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by salman89 12y ago
You can use cross-language templating options - personally I use mustache. No disagreements on multiple solutions - definitely a cool approach.
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by salman89 12y ago
Time till the page is usable comes under consideration. You can load the relevant html then begin the bootstrapping of the app. If I recall correctly, Twitter had this problem. The size of their apps + templates bloated to 2MB or so - makin
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by salman89 12y ago
What he's saying is that the views you want to be SEO'd can be generated server side and bootstrapped into Backbone (hook backbone views into an element that is rendered server side). I currently do this too - I'll add that i
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by salman89 13y ago
http://thepicrain.com/planets%C2%B3-an-open-world-voxel-base... I think it is bad practice - users cannot type it out if needed
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by salman89 13y ago
A cheap recruiting tool for these companies. Get top recruits through the door when the difference in a few K still matters to them.
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by salman89 13y ago
It sounds more like "if you are going to do mobile, don't execute poorly" vs "don't have a mobile version because mobile versions are awful".
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by salman89 13y ago
I too would think that the redirect links from Google are search-instance specific.
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by salman89 13y ago
Good points here, especially on session length when related to logging users out. I do however disagree with: "Anyways, the point of this is that in almost all uses, mobile site versions are god-awful." While the option to view th
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by salman89 13y ago
Where do we draw the line as companies in terms of user data collection? Should we stop tracking our users entirely? Government eavesdropping aside, I see the internet as just another form of communication. Anytime you talk to someone, you
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by salman89 13y ago
This is an issue of disruption that can cause a large, politically entrenched gun market to fail being disguised as a gun control issue. What steps need to be taken so that we can legally possess a 3D printed gun?
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by salman89 13y ago
If you are in a crowded space, UX differentiation is a feature. In the case of close.io, they are competing against well entrenched market leaders. Making a high quality, easy to use sales communication tool is their MVP.
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by salman89 13y ago
Absolutely. I'd be really interesting in seeing if the energy cost is lower than the average long term output. I'd be perfectly fine with leaving my iPhone plugged in all night if it meant it could generate me $x/night, where $x is greater
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by salman89 13y ago
Sure, but could the work not be distributed amongst many users? How many concurrent users would it take for it to be useful? Would likely demolish battery life and data caps, but I think you could run only when batt > 50% and wifi is on
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by salman89 13y ago
Is this a viable revenue stream for free app developers? Would it ever make it past the Apple review process?
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by salman89 13y ago
Has to do with URL character count - Twitter limit is 140.
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by salman89 13y ago
If the problem you are trying to solve is inaccessibility due to prohibitive cost, you'd have to at least show that there is market at that lower price point. With regards to matlab, I don't believe the cost to be prohibitive. In most situa
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by salman89 13y ago
I'll argue that signage and marking is already very well standardize and optimized for low ambiguity for human vision, but we are able to build things that humans cannot see but technology can. The cars do have to be able to drive anywhere,
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by salman89 13y ago
What are things city planners can do from an infrastructure perspective so that we can drop the amount of data that needs to analyzed in real time? For example, can we use special paint for road lines in order to make the cost of detection
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by salman89 13y ago
I have found a general lack of hosted PostGIS solutions and would have loved if this was around 6 months ago. Cartodb felt more like a mapping solution than a spatial database solution. SpacialDB ( https://spacialdb.com/ ) was the only thin
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by salman89 13y ago
I thought about this too, ideally you would want to use crowdsourcing to just gather evidence and let professionals who are also liable to sift through the evidence. Another angle to work is to allow the crowd to analyze the evidence but no
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by salman89 13y ago
Are telephone lines and cable lines leased from the public as well? Or the right to? I'm a bit ignorant here, but I would think that in those situations there is no free bidding on infrastructure deals.
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by salman89 13y ago
Is there enough liquidity (I'm not even sure if this is the right word) in the standard exchanges to move $100M USD of BTC?

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