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vineeton Heroku Postgres Basic Plan

Hmmm... now they need to bridge explaining the current plans with the new ones. Perhaps in the dashboard they will report both the size of the DB and the number of rows occupied.

vineeton Introducing the Distribution Hacks Blog

Great post. You need a place on your blog to subscribe via e-mail. (I use RSS only for the not-so-useful blogs).

vineeton Scalatron: Learn Scala with a programming game

Very nicely done.

I am looking forward to do what @freehunter said - and modify the tutorial so that users can start learning how to do stuff faster.

vineeton Snowflake Server

They are up right now.

vineeton Snowflake Server

http://fabfile.org/

Seems to be down right now though.

vineeton Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it

This point is not really relevant to the article. The article is calling for new non-MapReduce-based architectures that leverage the Hadoop core (as opposed to the entire Hadoop stack).

vineeton Show HN: Autobahn - Save Time on Hacker News

Interesting.

However, more than filtering out the bad stuff I would love to see content highlighted by one of the people whose opinions I am more interested in.

vineeton Khan Academy now supports tau

I think their main point is not to switch to tau but to allow it in answers. I like the attitude.

vineeton The Recruiter Honeypot

Yes, I meant she. It really was a typo.

(I realized it not because of the name - I have seen very weird names before. I realized it because of her picture on the about page.)

Regardless, my question above is still open.

vineeton [dead]

I can guess what it does, but I am really not sure. It will help if you explain in more detail and put a screenshot up.

vineeton The Recruiter Honeypot

Great article.

I was however confused by "I also needed a recruiter who was smart enough not to poach a founder".

Was he saying this just because founders in SV are not a good fit to Meebo? Or are they bad employees? Or that it is considered bad to poach to hire a founder?

vineeton Show HN: Prolifi.cc, a weekend project

So basically tumblr with zero sign-up?

vineeton Show HN: Prolifi.cc, a weekend project

TweetDeck used to let you post long messages. Have they stopped doing that, or is Prolifi.cc trying to let you do something else?

vineeton Judge throws out entire Apple/Motorola case

I wasn't clear (just updated the previous comment).

What I am wondering is - does this lead to the entire patent industry coming crumbling down? I am expecting that part might not be likely, but I am trying to figure out what part is to be expected.

vineeton Judge throws out entire Apple/Motorola case

Now that this has happened, I am wondering what the direct implications of this are to the industry (especially the 'dismissed with prejudice' part).

edit: added the "to the industry" part.

vineeton Introducing The New IFTTT

> I get really annoyed when I see sites like this that anoint winners. They already have an API to work with outside sites but they just don't publish it

It is much more important to get the experience right with one or two small specific cases first - and then to make it available to the larger public.

vineeton DarwinTunes software 'evolves' music without composers

I applaud their work, but have serious questions as to what this research really tell us.

vineeton THN Magazine Stole Our Code and Design

The link title needs to change, i.e. remove the 'how' from it (this is not on the linked post).

vineeton THN Magazine Stole Our Code and Design

Actually, my reaction as well. I was thinking that this was going to be a piece on how to copy well (re: "Good artists copy; great artists steal").

vineeton Show HN: My side project - Docco as a Service

The site is language neutral, but I do go beyond standard Docco for Objective C and Java apps.

vineeton Show HN: My side project - Docco as a Service

Yeah, I am gradually extending the language support and refining the user experience.

vineeton Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?

I liked the idea. But perhaps it needs to be tweaked. Getting gaming right is hard. Maybe:

* offer a $100 credit to start off.

* offer more services than just a tweet if successful - for example a very simple feedback widget that shows up.

* charge only for delaying ship dates, but not for changing what is being shipped, or for minor delays (say within a week).

* don't charge if the person accepts public humiliation with a tweet saying "I sucked and did not ship my planned item.".

vineeton Show HN: discuss.io - Get feedback on your designs with visual annotations

Looks great. It would be awesome if you could just enter a URL to start discussions with.

As for paying accounts - maybe keep 3-5 free design feedback free per user. That way people can try it, get some value from it, and the professionals who want to keep using more (and wanting to store old feedback) will want to pay.

vineeton Light Table funding successful, including Python support (over $300k raised)

I completely agree with the above. I spent my PhD building prototypes and tools for the above. Check out what we have done at: http://www.architexa.com.

Would love to hear your thoughts (see my profile for my email address). And feel free to get in touch for a free license of our software.

vineeton Jquery-timing and the timed invocation chain

Yes, it is helping developers.

vineeton Jquery-timing and the timed invocation chain

I don't think usability is the point. I believe they are going for cleaner code for when timing capabilities need to be used.

Use of timing capabilities can have a lot of benefits.

vineeton nReduce: an alliance of hackers

Signed up from Boston. So there is atleast one other person :-)

I am forwarding information about this to other teams as well.

vineeton Ask HN: Advice on Git hosting: self-hosting vs. Github

The problem with self-hosting is one of managing the servers. When you are a small team the effort is just not worth it. Yes, there are risks when you give your code to someone else, but hopefully a company whose job is to host source repositories will take enough precautions.

Note, you can host GitHub within your company, but again - it is usually not worth it unless you are a larger company.

vineeton Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

Glad to see that you have a great set of people endorsing you guys. I can't imagine people better than Andrew Carengie, Amelia Earhart, and Noah.

vineeton Apache Tika - a content analysis toolkit

On a related note, we are trying out a site which should help use projects like Tika - I am curious what you guys think of the site: http://www.codemaps.org/c/Apache_Tika