dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Why the Best Companies and Developers Give Away Almost Everything They Do
It's easier to share code nowadays given that momentum is part of a project's overall allure and that momentum is not easily recreatable.
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dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Twilio ramps up mobile play with programmable SIMs for IoT, handsets with T-Mo
From what I remember, you can change in and out of phone numbers like with Google voice - and there are a ton of them. I don't know if that matters for spammy calls - I don't know anything about that domain.
Twilio allows you to automate calls programmatically, and what a lot of the callers do is wait for you to say hello - they're robo dialers. I wonder how much Twilio has influenced that (unknowingly or deliberately)
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Twilio ramps up mobile play with programmable SIMs for IoT, handsets with T-Mo
Does anyone else wonder whether or not the explosion of solar panel telemarketing calls are a consequence of how easy Twilio makes it to set up call center operations and change in and out of numbers?
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
That was then. This is now.
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Flask Extension for Developing Amazon Echo Skills
This differs from other Python frameworks like ask-alexa-py by being geared towards HTTPS endpoint development.
ask-alexa-py is for Amazon Lambda.
A video tutorial on the github page shows how to setup ngrok for rapid app development https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard
In that case, you'd really enjoy Charlie Munger's parable about the Shoebutton Prince.
The story goes that one of Charlie's distant relatives had cornered some part of the 1920's shoebutton market. Back then, shoebuttons were smallish ornaments you put on your shoes.
The success entitled the prince to pontificate on any and all things in unlimited fashion--especially those outside the realm of shoebuttons.
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard
Yep - that's the one. I remember it was slow and seemed to be built with either Java or Flash or something crazy.
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard
I always suspected the cost was a function of the profits of the firms using them.
I think it is a smart move to force bundle the hardware and form the users' keystroke habits over a career. I imagine the switching costs are extreme.
I'm not a trader. I'm actually a programmer and just curious about a lot of things. One day, I contacted Thomson Reuters and asked to try their competing system, I think it was Elektron. It is a pure software system that I got bored with after a few days of exploring.
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard
Talk about your SaaS. $24,000 a year for one of these babies. I think it's how he made most of his fortune.
Edit: corrected for year
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Bootcamps vs. College
I think the debate about Colleges vs. Bootcamps is an apples to oranges comparison
Algorithms are commoditized into libraries. Web design has been commoditized with templates.
Open-ended programming is still more complicated, but putting apps on the web today is easier than static HTML just 5 years ago. Parts of programming will continue being commoditized.
So if it's easy to create something and put it out there, the great and all-important challenge that faces developers today is making it matter.
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
Another project Google with kill in 6 months.
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
More like VI months?
dontscale | 9 years ago | on: Web Developer Checklist
It's good sauce
dontscale | 10 years ago | on: Nissan app developer copied code from Stack Overflow
Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing.
When I paste code, I include a comment with the link back to SO. I see it as the standard way of declaring a precedent in programming, where upvotes signal strength.
dontscale | 10 years ago | on: Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process
This is all correct except that financial accounting deals with external reporting and managerial accounting deals with internal reporting. But the distinction between bookkeeping and accounting is spot on IMO.
dontscale | 10 years ago | on: The Pallets Project
Hopefully getlektor.com graduates to a top-level project there one day.
dontscale | 10 years ago | on: Team Work Made Simpler with Guilds
I bet you didn't know I'd read it with the Trivago spokesman's voice in my head. ;-P
dontscale | 10 years ago | on: Alert: NPM modules hijacked
For those of us who are pissed that this is going down but need the status to get on with our lives:
nj48 is a known friendly who has identified himself to us. We're going to clarify later today.
dontscale | 10 years ago | on: Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder
But you shouldn't condemn the developers over this. Arguably, there's not major differences between Colgate and Crest toothpaste, but having alternatives in the market drives innovation and keeps prices down.
dontscale | 10 years ago | on: Wire – modern, private messaging from Skype co-founder
Why... can't there be alternatives?
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