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Hipchanon Leaving a Million Bucks on the Table: Why Flotype Pivoted in Y Combinator

I didn't realize NowJS was a startup...

I wrote my own equivalent of nowjs in a few weeks about a month ago... maybe I should apply to yc?

Hipchanon DotCloud Pricing Announced

Is websocket support for node.js coming any time soon?

There are already solutions for nginx/websockets on github.

Hipchanon Parallaxing Illustrations with jQuery

What's the difference between this and jquery.parallax?

Hipchanon Mozilla: Browser Benchmarks Suck

Sorry man. I thought it was clear that it was says me. I'm just one data point obviously, but the speed differences on the sites I go to/make was clear. I removed the earlier comment, it probably sounded more authoritative than it should.

And I was referring to whatever Chrome web developer timeline calls 'paint'. FF could be faster in other parts of rendering, I don't know. But paint matters to me the most right now and FF disappoints there.

Hipchanon Hire based on interest, not credentials

That's great when you're hiring CEOs or product people, but I think if you're hiring a manager it's ok if his interest is more in managing than the end product.

Otherwise what happened to Google will happen to you.

eg, losing people like Sheryl Sandberg because you can't accommodate the needs of competent careerists for self advancement.

Edit: Just want to clarify that I'm not disagreeing with the original post. When you're small everyone's a product person, but you can take that idea too far.

Hipchanon Why Google Does Not Own Skype

p2p uses more bandwidth in a multi-user scenario. Don't think that's an invalid point.

Hipchanon The War Over ‘Mother’s Day Flowers’

I honestly don't get what Google is supposed to do in situations like this. Google's algos are supposedly measuring for 'relevance'. But when it's not documents you're talking about but companies offering probably identical flowers for probably similar prices it's hard the make the argument that one is more 'relevant' than another.

I honestly think Google should start a different 'business' section of the search engine that plays by different rules. That is ranked by custom satisfaction or price or something.

Otherwise the only ones who win are the SEO companies.

Hipchanon Google humans.txt

I'm sure that's true, but I don't see why it would be unreasonable to use more inclusive language from the beginning.

Hipchanon Google humans.txt

There was actually a question there. I wrote it. I asked whether or not humans.txt is speciesist, and narrow minded. It's a reflection on our current understanding of who our peers are. I felt that future generations would look back on humans.txt with contempt. What might AI, aliens, or other hereto undiscovered sentient organisms think? There are groups working on genetically modifying dolphins to make them more intelligent. I wouldn't want them to feel like they are second class citizens. I proposed people.txt.

Stackoverflow was probably not the right place for the question so it got closed with extreme prejudice.

Probably should've tried LessWrong

Hipchanon Building a Web Application that makes $500 a Month – Part II

Congrats, and nice writeup. Thank you very much.

What's your most important sources of traffic?

Do you spend any money on getting users?

Hipchanon How do you use 1Gbps Internet links? Chattanooga residents find out

Obvious next step is 3D HD.

Also Onlive. Also more than one TV at the same time?

Live streaming HD video cameras from inside the house to outside when you're at work?

Hipchanon Extending Your jQuery Application with Amplify.js

It's really important to put the BENEFITS at the top. Do I really want to read all this just to find out what it does?

Hipchanon Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

Thanks, I had no idea that was a link. The color is the same as your logo color, which is tres confusing.

Hipchanon Inuit.css - Another CSS framework

Looks nice. But there should be some way to see the source without downloading a zip.

Github is an easy answer, something like what the HTML5 Boilerplate or backbone.js does would be even cooler.

Hipchanon Facebook - The Send Button, Because Sometimes It’s Private

I think a social layer is inevitable, the way that people used to interact with websites purely through urls today is too impersonal. What Facebook is doing is creating a great abstraction layer to improve the UX of the web as a whole.

Which is fantastic, except that it's Facebook.

Support an open competitor.

Hipchanon Show HN: my boilerplate CSS code for new designs, written in Less.

For all the cool kids on node.js: https://github.com/visionmedia/nib

Hipchanon Settle up: voicemails show P2P porn law firms in action

They should do the same thing brothel owners did when women started giving sex away for free. Get a different job.

Hipchanon Silicon Valley: Eating, bathing and girlfriends are incidental (video)

Nerds get exercise now. It's called DDR.

Hipchanon Silicon Valley: Eating, bathing and girlfriends are incidental (video)

Cause all Asians look the same? Haha. /s

Hipchanon Do we understand ethics well enough to build “Friendly artificial intelligence”?

Haha, it's impossible.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The goal is to make AI more powerful than humans is it not? We're not going to be able to control it, no way no how.

Hipchanon Dressed for Success

Revenue != value ok?

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Doesn't Google Compiler do this for you?

Hipchanon Former Google VP Kai-Fu Lee Got a Nickname, Start-Copy Lee

As much as it pains me as a person who values intellectual property, I have to admit that copying is a valid and important strategy. At least half (anyone know of a more educated number?) of the development in Asia since the Meji Restoration consists of pasting Western ideas.

I hope this means that all startups take the internationalization seriously from the beginning. Hopefully we can get some sort of solid services / startups / processes that can help internationalize companies much earlier on.

The current crop of localization services are frankly inadequate.

Hipchanon Calendar Apps Suck, Here Are My Suggestions

http://min.us/mvk23DG

Irony? Or makes perfect sense.

Hipchanon DRM authentication servers stop Dragon Age: Origins from working

Steam?

Hipchanon DRM authentication servers stop Dragon Age: Origins from working

They probably do have some kind of publishing schedule to space out their articles evenly.

Hipchanon IBM Open Sources Maqetta; WYSIWYG HTML5 UI authoring

This looks really really bad. I don't understand why a company that size would not have a designer on board.

Hipchanon Flock is dead

Good news or bad news for RockMelt?

Hipchanon Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive

Anyone know of a drive that I can stream videos from?