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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: My web app is going viral. Now what?
Are they hits to the front page? Direct would suggest something like a Twitter client or email. But I don't see much mention of your url on Twitter. Perhaps it's been shortened. Really annoying that there's probably no way to figure out what's going on in that case. What's the network distribution of your visitors? Does it look legit?
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: My web app is going viral. Now what?
High unlikely your app is going "viral". It's probably on the front page of something big. Uhh, can't you look at the referrer logs to find out where?
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15 years ago
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on: "Work for Hire" Contract Submitted as Evidence in Ceglia v. Facebook
Who here thinks that Zuck has always known about this contract? And has been praying every day that Ceglia had forgotten about it / died / etc. And the stress and stakes rose day after day, Zuck dying on the inside like w/ the tell-tale heart, stress coming through the cracks at his AllThingsD meltdown, etc...?
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Amazon asked me to develop for the Kindle, shall I?
Amazon reaching out is the opportunity. Not the droid/berry/nokia you have sitting on your desk that will be sitting there next month.
famfam
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15 years ago
What's going to happen is that they will disappear in the middle of the night some day, probably whenever some cop they've paid off let's them know they're about to get raided.
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Someone's using my ID on the web, what should I do ?
Maybe you're on Substance D?
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15 years ago
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on: Cuil launches Wikipedia killer
It's definitely killing Wikipedia in the area of random text generation. Reading Cpedia is like dropping acid and having William S. Burroughs read you search results.
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Surprised by your revenue? Easier than you thought?
I'd upvote you twice if I could for pointing out this amazing resource. I'm amazed I never knew about it.
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: B2B Opportunities?
Interesting ideas. I think I agree with trafficlight's reply. Without domain knowledge, it's hard to tell whether these are real pain points or not. Like - which of these are actually costing people money right now? Which of them need the human touch (e.g. plumbing scheduling, carpet cleaning sales)?
And then selling to these small businesses - how do you scale it? I almost think there's a meta problem here, of small business outreach. How can you connect people to tools that might improve their businesses - where are they even looking for tools to improve their business?
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15 years ago
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on: FeedBurner sucks, why haven't you built a better one?
How would you monetize this hypothetical FeedBurner challenger?
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?
The irony of Peter Cooper advocating the Peter Principle is not lost on me.
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How did you 'accidentally' make money?
Please explain this site... I don't get it! Especially the part about how it gets traffic! :)
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do I estimate app hosting costs?
Even if you assume all the traffic comes in during just an 8 hour window of a 24 hour day, that's still barely over 1TPS. It's nothing. You didn't say how big your dataset was in mysql. If you were at 100x data to RAM ratio I would definitely be worried, or if you had any especially slow queries. I think even if you were at 10x data to RAM ratio you would be okay mysql-wise, assuming you're getting something close to 10ms latency on your disks. (Which you ought to be able to with Linode/Slicehost/EC2). If your app for whatever reason has burstiness (e.g. sharing/viral events) then you need to plan around whatever peak load you're willing to support.
BTW, my personal opinion is that Joyent is grossly grossly overpriced. And are they still forcing you to run Solaris?
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What Card/Board Games Are You Playing?
Roll Through the Ages - Yahtzee meets Civilization. My wife AND parents both like it.
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15 years ago
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on: Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love
reference counting != "manual garbage collection"
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15 years ago
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on: Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love
Hah, okay, make it 3 then. I was only thinking of NSString and char*.
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15 years ago
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on: Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love
Are blocks available in the iOS version of Objective-C? (Not trying to refute your point, just curious, since that would be exciting news for me if I do another iPhone app...
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15 years ago
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on: Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love
It's the same as in C. va_list, va_start, va_arg, va_end, etc.
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15 years ago
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on: Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love
Didn't see a single explanation of why the language deserves my love. Let's see.
* The language is verbose.
* Practically speaking, it's only used to developer for two platforms (OSX and iOS).
* The frameworks for those platforms are MEGA verbose.
* The memory management model for the iOS platform is not GC, and it's not manual management. Frankly I found manual management of memory simpler than retain/release. And the autorelease pool? That's just wrong.
* Typically speaking back to two files per class.
* Doesn't have any functional elements to it whatsoever. Any manipulation of collections = instant development velocity kill.
* Typically have to deal with two different kind of strings (NS versus C).
So for now, yep, I still hate ObjectiveC.
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15 years ago
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on: A letter from Jason Calacanis, the owner of Hack a Day
A lot of people have done a lot worse things than Jason. I don't know why people feel the need to piss down his throat on a daily basis.
I do wish he'd put his energies into something better than Mahalo though.
