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Re:The Grid - AI websites that design themselves on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @02:35PM (#8460705)
Their claims sound too good to be true, if you ask me. I am especially skeptical since they advertise that they will export your data to GitHub [0] and give their own website's repo as example [1].

[0] It's on the bottom of their homepage somewhere.

[1] https://github.com/the-domains/the-grid

Re:I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral on Sunday September 14, 2014 @01:17PM (#8315656)
> You want someone to handle business, support, etc. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.

Is this really true? I mean that as an honest question, because, while being a coder with a typical distaste for shallow marketing folks myself, I think these "business things" actually constitute work, if done right (first and foremost good user support).

I would imagine that there exists a similar comment in a board for marketing guys and gals, where they say:

> You want someone to program the database. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.

Pun intended.

Re:Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch on Thursday September 11, 2014 @09:30PM (#8306182)
You did a great job of taking the "feeling overwhelmed by possible choices" out and putting a lot of "Steve Jobs" in. Good work!
Re:The Pied Piper Effect on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @08:20AM (#7672782)
What does this have to do with Pied Piper (or the "Silicon Valley" show)? Am I missing something in the article?
Re:Internetopia - the supersized Internet drawing on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @12:12PM (#6809439)
The main difference being that the Homepage scaled much better, made it's creator a million dollars and had no physical counterpart product that had to be manufactured from a handcrafted original.

But otherwise, it's really "smaller" and "cheaper", I guess.

Re:Mercurial 2.8 Released on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @10:50AM (#6675685)
Could you elaborate on this? Do you mean CLI/UI?
Re:Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts on Monday October 21, 2013 @05:30PM (#6588344)
The main problem here seems to be: Why must every company on earth have its own Wikipedia page?

That said, I can see why e.g. Microsoft, the East India Trading Company and BMW should be recognized in an encyclopedia. And there are examples of products (lines) that could/should be mentioned in a vast online encyclopedia as well (e.g. Windows, BMW 3 series) because they influenced industries/trends/zeitgeist and/or lifes.

But why, for the love of god, should every consultancy, contractor, forrester and his second cousin have an entry on this site?

EDIT: typo

Re:Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript on Friday October 18, 2013 @04:41AM (#6570378)
> That would be a game changer on how I'd develop.

Why? I'm honestly curious since I can't imagine any big advantages over more "classic" setups ...

Re:The Engineer Who converted 12,100 Cups Of Pudding to 1.25 Million A... on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @09:05AM (#6404975)
This seems like an urban legend to me, but your username made my day ;-)

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