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Re:SeatGeek Raises $62M on Thursday April 02, 2015 @10:37PM (#9314211)
Fantastic team and founders. Love these guys and gals.
Re:Show HN: HTTP Status code directory on Thursday February 23, 2012 @10:34PM (#3627911)
Or the f7u12 version: http://www.httprage.com/
Re:Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale th... on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:37PM (#3587639)
Off-topic, but I put together a list of HN members on Tumblr not too long ago: http://blog.dozierhudson.com/post/9596967319/list-of-hacker-...

Get in touch and I'll add you to the list.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on for Launch-an-App Month? on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:32AM (#3238797)
I must have missed the original thread in which this idea was proposed. Anyone have a link?
Re:Dropbox Easter Egg? on Friday September 30, 2011 @10:46PM (#3059181)
I stumbled upon another well-known Dropbox easter egg last week: http://duzour.tumblr.com/post/10499147971/dropbox-is-so-awes...
Re:Why Privacy Policies Suck on Thursday September 08, 2011 @01:15PM (#2974756)
The broken by design thing is something that's always bothered me. I posted a draft of our company's Privacy Policy to github a while back as an experiment.

https://github.com/wetalky/privacy-policy/blob/master/POLICY...

We're trying to be completely open with updates to this document, and we welcome outside commits. We intend to do the same with our ToS.

I'm not sure anyone has tried this before, so I'm really excited to see where this experiment goes.

Re:Why I do not want to work at Google on Sunday August 28, 2011 @09:58AM (#2933941)
Much of Kragen's vision for the future is in line with where I think our world is heading.

It actually inspired me to draft up a blog post: http://blog.matthewghudson.com/post/9497957290/the-public-an...

Re:Best hacks in your .bash_profile and .bashrc? on Monday July 25, 2011 @06:52AM (#2802124)
This is great for showing/hiding files on OSX:

    alias show='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE; killall Finder'
    alias hide='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE; killall Finder'
Re:Ask HN: To delay or not delay, that is the question? on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @03:13PM (#2467959)
Having faced the same situation in the past, I encourage you to simply release it. No need to spend months upon months improving the backend while no one is using the damn thing.

How long has the refactor been on your mind? Has it been at least a month or two? Has your mental picture of the rebuild been consistent, or does it change week-to-week?

Here's my advice to get you going: Write down your general refactor plan in detail. Next, create a todo list / timeline that gets you to production deployment as quickly as possible based on your current codebase. Focus on other things a bit. Launch, marketing, etc.

Once this thing has been out in the wild for a bit, reassess that refactoring plan you wrote down and see if it still makes sense based on your application's performance - both as a product, and as a piece of software.

Ask HN: How do you document you stack?

Posted by matth on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @11:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have a fairly large project and I want to make it as easy as possible for other developers who come on board to get a broad overview of the application's structure and behavior. Do you document your system in a single README.md file sitting in your app's root? Do you draw network topology maps? How do you go about documenting the intricacies and nuances of your program?- Commenting code,...

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Re:DontEat.at: Check into a NYC restaurant, get texted of health code ... on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @07:42PM (#2146008)
To my way of thinking, this is exactly the kind of stuff that makes mobile computing so exciting: Choice and control.

Imagine when folks are able to be just as discerning when they are shopping for clothes (was this made in a sweat shop? is it american-made?) or grocery shopping (were these chickens treated humanly?).

Good work man! The digital democracy is coming.

Re:Markup validation of http://www.google.com on Thursday November 04, 2010 @02:04PM (#1870005)
I have to imagine that Google.com is the most bandwidth optimized page EVER.

Big picture, the W3C spec is not what matters here. What matters is making the same HTML document render exactly across different browsers. So maybe they could drop <html><head> according to W3C, but does that break the document in other browsers?

My guess is that Google doesn't care about the W3C spec in this specific regard. What matters is delivering the smallest document possible that can be rendered by as many browsers as possible.

*Grammar edit.

Ask HN: How do you visualize code in your head?

Posted by matth on Thursday October 28, 2010 @08:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I just realized something a little weird. When I think about code, I see the code itself. I picture the text, line breaks, the structure of the file, etc.What about you? Do you see colors? Shapes? Objects? Do things move or is the picture static?

( Read More... | 16 comments | 25 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Who Plays Go? on Sunday October 24, 2010 @11:09AM (#1826265)
I was working on this for a while: yayforgo.com.

I got a new job and just couldn't focus on it. Bummer!

Anyone want the source code?

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