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Re:Show HN: Startups by City on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @08:14PM (#8456588)
Agreed, yep, just haven't had time to implement that yet!
Re:Make pull requests easier on Saturday August 16, 2014 @02:20PM (#8187012)
You seem to have plenty of screenshots, but I don't find them to be particularly informative. After reading through the page and glancing at all of the images, here's what I take away: it's a tool that allows you to enter a pull request URL and display a side-by-side diff.

The side-by-side diff feature is buried at the bottom, and the whole page seems to imply that there are other features within somewhere, but I can't figure out what they would be (I would love to see screenshots of them!).

Ask HN: Contributing to open-source vs. startup projects

I have always been interested in doing my own startup, so I constantly have side projects, but because of this, I struggle to find the time to contribute to open-source.Is it overblown how much employers look for open-source contributions? Do they give any respect to closed-source (potentially profit-driven) side projects? Or might they even see a startup on the side as a negative? Does this...

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Re:Real-time applications and will Django adapt? on Sunday January 12, 2014 @04:12PM (#7047471)
I don't see the value proposition of making (most) web apps/sites real-time. Sure, it makes sense for a chat app or a stock ticker, but blogging? A news site? E-commerce?

Maybe it's important that eBay is "real time" in the last 5 minutes of an auction, but the rest of the time, the vast majority of the content is relatively static. A seller might update the description of a listing a couple times over a two week auction, for example. And while it sounds great to immediately update my search results when a new listing goes live, in reality, I already have 40 pages of results to look through, and that listing that just went live 5 seconds ago probably isn't much more relevant than any of the others I'm sifting through.

I'm not opposed to client-heavy apps where it makes sense. When done well, it can create a really responsive user experience. Gmail is great at this; I have no desire for it to be "real time" -- not any more than it already is.

Do we really believe that one day cnn.com will be "real-time", with article updates and errata popping up inline as we read?

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