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by zafriedman 14y ago
UPDATE: This was probably really stupid of me to do right now, but I've been wanting to change my GitHub name for awhile... and just did... so if anyone would like to checkout the repo you can find it now at https://github.com/kulte/ratche
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by zafriedman 14y ago
I think it really comes down to a matter of preference. This looks interesting to me, and it caught my eye when I saw it on Hacker News much in the same way Meteor did when it came out. For me personally, it just passed the initial smell te
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by zafriedman 14y ago
Thanks for mentioning Kendo, hadn't heard of it, just checked it out though... kinda pricey :) I think it's pretty awesome that someone developed a free, open-source mobile UI prototyping framework.
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by zafriedman 14y ago
The awesomeness in my opinion is that a) this took me literally five minutes which means that I had to write absolutely none of my own CSS classes for mobile prototyping, the wonderful guys who developed Ratchet did that for me already! Als
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by zafriedman 14y ago
If what you mean is there a CDN for the Ratchet javascript, I don't think so. If you go to the website http://maker.github.com/ratchet/ there is a download link, but my repo just augments what you get in the download folder... like I said
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Show HN: I built this in 5 minutes, and this is why Ratchet is awesome(github.com)
6 points by zafriedman 14y ago|13 comments
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by zafriedman 14y ago
I also recommend for node Guillermo Rauch's Smashing Node.js. Also Javascript the Good Parts by Crockford is the cononical language resource for Javascript, once you've reached your inevitable local maximum in just having knowledge of node.
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by zafriedman 14y ago
I agree that having a job and doing a startup is not giving either of those things a fair chance at succeeding. But also if I had to add one thing, I'd say that most entrepreneurs simply give up too fast. This might have represented a true
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by zafriedman 14y ago
A few observations. One, you haven't written that many pages, in fact you've written very, very few pages save for the preface and the like. This isn't an issue on its own, except theres no Table of Contents so it's hard for me to see where
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by zafriedman 14y ago
First off, let me state that I in no way wish to diminish the accomplishments of the authors of RailwayJS in making these comments. I think they've built an inevitable framework given that Rails was (and likely still is) the most popular op
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by zafriedman 14y ago
In the past few weeks, I don't know why, but I took a prominent note of how easy application development has become. The fact is that someone probably could learn how to write a web application in Ruby on Rails in three months without much
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by zafriedman 14y ago
An even quicker introduction to the final specification of WebSockets: http://socket.io . P.S. I'm aware that a) this doesn't help anyone not using Node.js on their server (it's not even part of my production stack at work (yet!), even tho
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by zafriedman 14y ago
I don't even think that was the point. I think the geographic comparison is more a novelty than anything, and I don't even think the author takes a viewpoint in writing his article. I clicked the link because I'm at an Excelerate Labs compa
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by zafriedman 14y ago
As both a programmer and a poker player I have strong opinions on the subject. In turn: "Math is useful I see a lot of people around telling “I don’t need math”. In poker (and in programming) you need a lot of math, even for simple operatio
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by zafriedman 14y ago
Investors shouldn't like acqui-hires unless it is an agreed upon goal in the first place. In fact, I guess that investors wouldn't appreciate any misunderstanding of goals on any level, and it seems to be an oft-cited reason for entrepreneu
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by zafriedman 14y ago
One observation. I posit that in certain situations, when from the outset a startup sets out to attract a microsegment which is the subset of an existing market that is owned by a major competitor, and furthermore has the explicit goal of b
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by zafriedman 14y ago
If you made this as a 'Farmville' style game, I think if I called it 'Startupville' that name would convey ostensibly everything that I would like to see in a game like this, I guarantee you that you'd at least be able to monetize me throug
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Why Global Variables Are Bad(c2.com)
1 points by zafriedman 14y ago|0 comments
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by zafriedman 14y ago
The article starts of by saying that a lot is at stake when a company rolls out a new logo. I'd like to point out the Microsoft has, either intentionally or unintentionally, been piloting this logo-style in their products for the past few y
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by zafriedman 14y ago
Last paragraph... hammer, meet nail.
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by zafriedman 14y ago
If you're just going to send plain HTML over the wire, why are you going to even bother thinking at the level of abstraction that most developers (well, at least me) tend to think of when "developing an API"? I'll give you that it's a loose
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by zafriedman 14y ago
I've done customer development on things along these lines and I basically have the following to share with the class: Any app that is at its core assisting people to hack their current behavior is inherently asking people to change their b
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by zafriedman 14y ago
Always
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by zafriedman 14y ago
Thanks for the response. A few things: The disclaimer was meant to say that I'm not labeling those as such, just that they seem overused to me. I'm also not looking for a startup idea. Can I ask what specifically you have used successfully
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Ask HN: I know how to build, but not what to build. I can haz help?
3 points by zafriedman 14y ago|4 comments
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by zafriedman 14y ago
I'm sorry for saying no more than this because it certainly doesn't contribute much to the discussion, but this wasn't really a secret.
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by zafriedman 14y ago
Counter question. Can a person be identified by just what it takes to get them to download the Wolfram CDF player?
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Understanding Bind and bindAll in Backbone.js(blog.bigbinary.com)
1 points by zafriedman 14y ago|0 comments
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by zafriedman 14y ago
This might be a stupid question and perhaps I didn't look hard enough on your website, but is this open source? I didn't see a GitHub link anywhere. I'm specifically curious as to how you routed Noko or whatever scraping library you're usin
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by zafriedman 14y ago
Please keep doing this, and explore what else besides keyboard shortcuts can be learned best with the "drill method". I plan on giving you real positive feedback by voting with my dollar as soon as I get some work done today, but I suspect

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