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"Apple and Facebook application development: A rush for fool's gold?"
4 points by rythie about 1 year ago | link | parent | top
cached 7 months ago
I agree.

I think mostly people on HN are interested in making apps that provide real value to users and business for the long term.

Some people just want to get 2 months pay for 1 month's work and make they an iFart app or whatever to achieve that. It's not a long term bet but it makes more than being employed - for some people that is all the care about.

Also, the OP talks about companies being founded but I would guess in most cases Facebook and iPhone apps are people side projects made in their bedrooms or instead of doing consulting work. Those people are realistic and don't expect it to last, it's just a way to make money in the short term, they'd leave if there was more money to be made elsewhere and will probably leave anyway as the race to the bottom plays out.

"IE6 Upgrade Warning"
4 points by rythie about 1 year ago | link | top
cached 7 months ago
I don't know why people keep on trying to aggressively get rid of IE6, it will die of it's own accord anyway.

Even according to the W3c's web stats (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp), who are probably early adoptors, IE6 has 17% market share. IE6 still has more than Opera, Safari, Chrome and IE8 put together.

I don't see that it makes any business sense to annoy a large section of your users, just to save a little bit of development time. I know for example in some internet cafes in Eygpt in December last year they were still using IE6 and no warning message is likely to fix that soon.

I say just fix your sites until it's 2-3% of the market, like when Netscape 4 died.

"Notes on Mixergy interview with TwitPic founder Noah Everett"
4 points by rythie 6 months ago | link | parent | top
cached 6 months ago
That's in the short term of course. Twitpic is essentially a feature on top of Twitter and without Twitter, Twitpic wouldn't exist. In the end, if Twitter implemented picture hosting themselves, Twitpic would surely slowly die.
"Linus says Linux has become 'bloated and huge'"
4 points by rythie 11 months ago | link | parent | top
cached 5 months ago
Whilst libata and the unifying of the WLAN may make the code easier to maintain, it will only save a tiny amount of memory and in the short term, just like any new code, is going to increase the number of bugs.

It sounds like the problem is that everyone is writing new features that probably not many people actually need (since they did fine with out it before - I'm not talking about drivers here) but it's slowing the whole kernel down and people need to go back and optimise that stuff.

"Digg: 40x Performance Increase by Sorting in PHP Rather than MySQL"
4 points by rythie 5 months ago | link | parent | top
cached 5 months ago
I don't think you can have the fulltext index in the same index as the id since fulltext indexes don't mix with anything.
"What to do when an $8 million gorilla launches 3 weeks before you"
4 points by rythie 11 months ago | link | top
cached 5 months ago
If anything they could be over funded. I wouldn't call them a gorilla unless they were someone big like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft or have proved themselves in the market over 6+ months.
"Finally, CSS based gradient text, no images"
4 points by rythie about 1 year ago | link | parent | top
cached 5 months ago
Unusable for me on Linux/firefox too.
"Business Idea: Online Community Integration"
4 points by rythie 10 months ago | link | top
cached 4 months ago
This is essentially what we have been writing at friendbinder [http://friendbinder.com] for a couple of years now. There are also a number of other systems attempting the same thing. One of the key issues is lack of standards in the APIs and RSS/Atom are not designed for this.
"Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia"
4 points by rythie 10 months ago | link | top
cached 4 months ago
It seems like there is a basic problem here. Users have spent years using WYSIWYG editors like MS Word, Email apps and so on. Having a basic text box breaks that. Not only that, it's different markup on every site you go to. User don't want to relearn the basics, especially not for each site.

Lack of richtext editor support in browsers has been the problem so far - but I believe mostly there with contentEditable support in all browsers?

"How to find security holes"
4 points by rythie about 1 year ago | link | parent | top
cached 4 months ago
Also canonical.org != the people who make Ubuntu (that's canonical.com)
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