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ideas.trk7.app 1mo ago

Show HN: I made a startup idea validator for founders who move fast

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ideas.trk7.app 1mo ago

Show HN: Product Validation

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Show HN: Decision OS – A framework to evaluate job offer risk (not just salary)

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decide.trk7.app 5mo ago

Show HN: Decision Audit – A deterministic decision engine for career pivots

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Show HN: My Privacy Friendly Diary App

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trk7.com 13y ago

Show HN: Munin Graphs on Android - My first app

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github.com 14y ago

Please checkout my hacker news comments toggler

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www.h-online.com 14y ago

Is Google losing it?

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blog.edgeyo.com 15y ago

The Exit Mindset

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online.wsj.com 15y ago

Microsoft Filing: CEO Ballmer Sells $1.34 Billion in Microsoft Stock

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www.theserverside.com 15y ago

The Art of Cloud Computing - TheServerSide.com

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

Twitter by the Petabyte: Using Big Data to Define Market Sentiment

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www.slideshare.net 15y ago

Machine Learning for Web Data

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www.slideshare.net 15y ago

An introduction to Machine Learning

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www.alistapart.com 16y ago

Stop Forking with CSS3

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jaamun.in 16y ago

Jaamun - Email on Any Mobile

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www.slideshare.net 16y ago

Steve Huffman - Lessons learned while at reddit.com

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www.svendtofte.com 16y ago

Lusty-explorer-mod.vim

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www.trk7.com 16y ago

HN News sorter bookmarklet

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www.goopendb.org 16y ago

Elastic Lists for Movies - Please review..

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www.readwriteweb.com 17y ago

Facebook and Twitter on TV: Hands-On with Verizon FiOS's New Widgets

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labs.cybozu.co.jp 17y ago

Q4M (Queue for MySQ) Presentation Slides at MySQL Conference

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www.ipage.me 17y ago

IPage.me - Create web pages just by sending e-mails

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gigaom.com 17y ago

Why Big Data & Real-Time Web Are Made For Each Other

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www.smh.com.au 17y ago

Artist Gary Taxali to Google: show me the money, Will Not work for exposure

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git.gnome.org 17y ago

Evolution-data-server - Centralized access to appointments and contacts

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask News.YC: Thoughts on automating deployment of web based software application?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Recommend a CMS for a Review Site?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask YC: Have you come across any good interface for a search engine?

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask HN: Recommend any books about Medicine?

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Joel Spolsky: Lunch 15 years ago

Great points! But, it can get pretty lonely to have your lunch alone - sometimes even depressing. I tend to have lunch with 1 or 2 of the closest of workmates whenever I can.

It is almost impractical for me to be like Stallman and shun a lot of Hardware/Software. But, I do not wish for Stallman to be any less radical than he is as: by being radical he gains my attention and some of his thoughts and ideas stick with me and, it has made me think about 'freedom' while buying any piece of Hardware/Software.

I would never want to work him on anything - I watched him tear apart people while responding to their concerns - but, people like him are essential to the Free Software movement.

Not according to the guidelines:

    "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or        sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
But, I don't mind it all as I get to read views and firsthand accounts from fellow hackers that is much different from what I see on TV.
Ewww, You Use PHP? 16 years ago

Good example!

Things like "stat cache" and "memory leaks" are what I watch out for when I write command line scripts in PHP. Also, I do not run my scripts as a daemon and I make sure that they do not run for more than a set maximum execution time.

So yeah, it may not be the most perfect choice but, it beats : having to learn another language when I know what to look out for when I write a command line script in PHP.

Ewww, You Use PHP? 16 years ago

I have been writing command line scripts in PHP for the most part of the past 18 months.

I will have to agree with you that PHP is perceived as a web language. Hopefully with more articles like these that perception will change.

Ewww, You Use PHP? 16 years ago

Stupid was a bit too strong, but, I stand by what I said based on my experience. Articles like these exist partly because of the belief that PHP programmers in general are not competent. You do not hear such frequent rumbling on Python and it's practitioners. One could apply the same O(N)and O(k>>N) logic there as IMO, Python is not harder to learn/program in compared with PHP.

Ewww, You Use PHP? 16 years ago

I use PHP at work for creating not only web applications but, also to do a lot of non-user facing backend stuff. It's great to know that someone out there is using PHP at a much bigger scale for backend stuff.I hope he shares more technical details. If you don't like PHP, fine, but, don't think all PHP programmers are stupid.

I once had a Python programmer looking at the kind of stuff that I was doing with PHP and he was surprised that such things could be done in PHP.

This is an actual conversation that I had in a meetup:

Guy1: If PHP were to disappear, it would bring down a lot of the web with it, wouldn't it?

Guy2: Nah, but, that would be the case if Java or .net were to disappear.

Me: (to myself)Wtf!

Guy1: But, most of the links that I click on the web end with .php.

Guy2: um.....

Me: (to myself)pwn3d!

Welcome to the world of web development! You are going to be recreating a lot of stuff (especially if you are going to be working for a corporation). I have a little experience with using djano but, I do most of my work in PHP. I have started to like Zend Framework(ZF) and I would recommend that to you as you already know PHP (instead of learning django, ror, etc.). ZF should speed up your development a bit. These days, I mostly prefer doing Sys Admin stuff and playing with Javascript and I shudder at creating a web app from scratch. When I am not working for money, I do not force myself to create a web app. But, when I do start working on something I tend to work extremely hard.

I know it can be frustrating to have a software not work as expected but, I don't think Ubuntu is doing too bad in this respect (I have been using Kubuntu @ work and Fedora at home for the past 2-3 years). The author IMO is a bit too harsh on Ubuntu. On a somewhat related note, I think people should also read this while passing judgement on another OSS (esp bug fixes): http://ryanbigg.com/2010/04/want-it-give/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255905