jonaphin

I appreciate the honesty and foresight.

I feel this is spot-on. From previous experience trying to get into it, trading gold or silver today feels like buying from car dealerships. If your platform delivers on its premise you may well have built the Tesla of precious metals.

2K seems like a fairly high price of entry. Are there plans for fractional trades? (I'm not even sure that's a thing).

French guy living in the US now. I miss "Eau de Cologne" deeply. We've used it with fevers, headaches, indigestion... and my 95 y/o grandpa still uses it daily.

My understanding is the custom is probably more widespread than it being endemic to Turkey.

The immunology department of Marseille, France reported 3 days ago that taking hydroxy-chloroquine and azithromycin together led to 90% of pilot program patients testing negative after 6 days.

There are also several publications under review at the NIH. Glad to see the US Gov. stepping up to the plate so fast on the subject.

This business positioning reminds me of what "App.net" did to Twitter a few years back.

are you building a payment gateway for crypto currency?

Employers still get the data via background checks.

Contact Uber via Twitter directly, also contact their customer support. As for the driver's accusation it should be verifiable since they have cameras running.

On another note, this looks like old stains.

Congratulations on Raptor, I'll definitely give it a whirl. Regarding static asset serving, I'm fairly certain serving them through the application server is often not the way to go anyway.

I personally just marvel at the implications of opening up an API for it. Imagine playing Youtube workout playlists, or powering up other devices through it, it could certainly be the voice hub of the house. It's one giant step towards the enablement of the "internet of things" for the household.

Unrelated to your question, why are you leaving?

Unity has an Asset Store as well as a yearly subscription to their software's Pro version. More users = more sales + more conversions to Pro

Just received an email from FB stating there is increased latency on the API and to expect some 500-503s when querying.

ETA for fix: shortly.

Just noticed!

API Response time is growing fast! https://developers.facebook.com/status/

Not good to have customers call in on a Friday afternoon!

As I said, I've used Sails.js. Their ORM is subpar, doesn't even support associations yet. By wrong I meant that where Node.js shines most is in its unified approach to client/server relationships. Since you're building an API (as in server-side logic with world-facing endpoints) you may want to stick to Rails, since it's great at that out-of-the-box, for tried-and-true.

It seems that Go is fast, so if you expect a very high volume and want to keep the server bill low (I don't know about the developer cost comparison) it might be the way to go.

I've used Sails.js (built on top of Express.js) and can't say it's anywhere near Rails yet.

Also, Node maybe be the "wrong" tool for building APIs. By wrong I mean it's not its particular strength.

Absolutely, screenshots & icon are the first hook to an app. In my opinion screenshots greatly influence my decision if I'm presented with two unknown apps of potentially same value/ratings.

I'll only make one point (out of the many) regarding my own experience from having worked at both large corp and startups:

- Big Tech Companies have way more money to fund new projects. If they do back a project up, they give it proper resources. Big companies are however more stringent about which projects they back, and the risk has to be as minimum as can be. Business sense most often trumps vision.

- Startups are very free-form. There might not be money floating around but organic (as in self-thought-out, grown, and nurtured) projects are encouraged and rewarded.

The unfair advantage is often one of the hardest (if not the hardest) column to fill out on the lean canvas. I know I had problems.

The way you explain it makes sense, though it edges the "Unique Value Proposition" rather closely. Would this even be an issue?

Instimage.com here.

We haven't "failed" yet. But we're dying slowly. No one cares for Instimage, and there's no money backing it up.

No Investors, no angels, just a bootstrap and no boot.

Reminds me of companies that call themselves "startups" for 10 years...

Shouldn't one start-up then get moving?

Instimage.com here.

I make nothing. How I do it? It's fairly complex.

Step 1: Build a kickass website, take 6 months

Step 2: Deal with Paypal

Step 3: Rework

Step 4: Deal with Paypal

Step 5: Launch

Step 6: Recurring Step. Post Blog post, spam your FB friends until you lose them.

Step 7: It's built and they don't come.

Step 8: Move onto next idea? Or repeat Step 6/7 until you're ready to move on...

Instimage.com here

I'm still in the pennies.

How I do it? Simple. I build it, wait for them to come, then they don't.

Wow. My mind is blown.

It almost feels like what high level programming languages are to assembly code.

Sure, we can (and should) learn Regex constructs, but it is undeniable that this library provides an unmatched level of clarity.

Kudos to Krain for coming up with such an elegant solution to the issue of Regex building/reading.

I had the chance to set it up last night, and one very noticeable change is the speed of the UI. It is remarkably faster on my netbook. Congratulations are of the order. Thank you Canonical and the open source community.

You should run some A/B Testing on your landing page.

For example, try a version that specifies the state in which you live and one without. This should give you better conversion metrics.

Cool marketing stunt.

Oracle makes tons of money using this scheme. They can milk that cow for about one more year, with Win XP/Vista/7. Windows 8 is pushing hard to control the installation process. Oracle knows it is coming to an end.

Seems like school has had an influence on his grammar that numerous college graduates should envy.

Having been educated in France and lived my adult life in the US I can say the US education system has an advantage that other countries' may not have:

- In the US, one has the opportunity to get a college education at any age.

"...my 1988 Amiga 500+" Vidarh, you just brought tears to my eyes!

Am I the only one surprised that 8.8.8.8 is also Google's Public DNS address?