DLarsen

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by DLarsen 13y ago
The gain is non-trivial once your eyes and brain speak HAML fluently. It may vary person to person. Once you know both HTML and HAML fluently, your brain is going to find one easier/quicker to grok than the other. My brain happens t
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by DLarsen 13y ago
Yes. Their process is backwards. Lots of folks don't want to start with their markup. It'd be much better to be able to code up your forms and submit whatever you want.
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by DLarsen 13y ago
I love the concept, but I'd much prefer to self-host such a tool. I'd pay for something that easily handle all the ad-hoc forms we want to cook up on our otherwise static marketing site.
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by DLarsen 13y ago
I actually just landed on Betalist a few days ago and I've been very happy with the results. I added about 120 emails to my "early access" list. Knowing that the audience may not be directly within my target market I made su
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by DLarsen 13y ago
Connexity - Ventura, CA We have a small, nimble team building an online advertising platform. Always committed to picking the right tool for the job, we have Rails, Scala, Postgres, Hadoop, HBase and plenty of Redis. Lots of juicy challen
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by DLarsen 13y ago
Yeah. I'm advocating gifts with absolutely no strings attached. They may very well blow it on something else. Or they may pay rent and then a few months later buy an expensive toy rather than paying you back. You have to factor in
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by DLarsen 13y ago
Perhaps you could restore the relationship around by forgiving the debt. "Hey, I really regret loaning you that money. Hard lesson learned. Don't worry about paying me back. As far as I'm concerned we're back to squar
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by DLarsen 13y ago
If you're able to help out a friend or loved one, it's far better to just give a gift and expect nothing in return. Don't even expect any kind of recognition or credit. Although some folks might feel some kind of obligation
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by DLarsen 13y ago
As a hobby project, I'm working on a tool to help improve spending habits. I'm not crazy enough to imagine I'd ever reach feature parity with mint, but I personally know plenty of folks who use the well known personal financ
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by DLarsen 13y ago
I've thought about this a lot. What I really don't want to do is invest time in dealing with the data I don't care about. Because of the nature of spending, it tends to be pretty noisy data. When my budget isn't tight
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by DLarsen 13y ago
You essentially just want the app on each device tied into the same account?
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by DLarsen 13y ago
With such a small sample size, I generally tend to shy away from speaking of results in percentages. Stating the results as "5 conversions from 26 visits" keeps things in perspective. I appreciate the insight into your experience
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by DLarsen 13y ago
Thanks. You can reach my gmail directly at david.larsen.
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by DLarsen 13y ago
> Mint doesn't actually get you to change your behavior... Bingo! If you're spending more money than you should, it does you no good to see colorful graphs indicating you spent too much. If you get budget alerts but still blo
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by DLarsen 13y ago
I had similar experiences. The real value for a lot of folks would be to develop the proper mindset and decision making process for everyday spending. I have a hobby project ( http://www.spendlight.com/ ) that's growing
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by DLarsen 13y ago
Good point. This is absolutely essential. In some circles I've described it as "a money tracking tool built for couples" and that's true. This all emerged from a chart my wife and I had been using on our fridge. We wan
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by DLarsen 13y ago
I've been taking a similar approach to a side/hobby project that relates to personal spending/budgeting. I am seeking to apply the "easy data entry" + "subjective good/ok/bad" measures to help fo
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by DLarsen 13y ago
I like the idea, but in my brief test drive (before I ran out of searches) I didn't find much value in the discovered links on the right. Some samples which illustrate the value of the semantic search would be helpful. The screenshot
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by DLarsen 13y ago
I find that I rarely fix things marked with FIXME comments. I've had much better success with a 'throwaway.css' file. The idea that a client would load a file with that name on a finished product is distasteful enough for me to want to re
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by DLarsen 14y ago
I like the idea. Would love to have authenticated with my GitHub account.
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by DLarsen 14y ago
I got a call once. They told me that basic Windows Services were viruses. They were determined to get remote access to my machine to "fix" things. It ended with the "supervisor" getting upset that I was wasting his time and asking me if
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by DLarsen 14y ago
Now we know what the business is.
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by DLarsen 14y ago
Ventura, CA - Connexity We're looking for a full-time developer to help us build our next-generation online advertising platform. A talented, highly motivated software engineer will fit right in with our small, focused team. We offer owner
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by DLarsen 14y ago
As I understand it, most of the ad networks do the same thing in their opt-outs. You're not opting out of being cookied. You're just opting out of "personalized" advertising. Most non-technical users who "don't want cookies on my compute
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by DLarsen 14y ago
I have no problem with the new Gmail. After the initial adjustment period, I find myself enjoying it more than the old version. I have developed a reflex for using the buttons that didn't exist with the text versions. It just happened.
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by DLarsen 14y ago
I hope to see some new tag lines form Dropbox: "No incentive to explore your files." "Not selling you anything except storage space."
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Nothing new here. The basic versions of Win7 didn't have it.
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by DLarsen 15y ago
In the first few seconds of viewing the facelift vs the original, I preferred the facelift in each case. There are plenty of folks who do judge a book by its cover. "Will first time visitors think our company/product/service is legitimate?
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by DLarsen 15y ago
I'm very interested to see the privacy policy. Should we expect ads to be "better targeted" to the extent that we use Google Drive?
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by DLarsen 15y ago
Although I haven't followed the Forrst tale very closely, I always got the feeling that Forrst would not be very susceptible to acquisition. Had that smokey kind of campfire flavor to it. As a Forrst lurker, I'm glad I'll have the same fa

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