Johngibb

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by Johngibb 15y ago
I made a post yesterday about address forms, and the uselessness of entering city and state when you're going to enter a zip code anyway ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525286 ). I spent most of the day today coming up with a solutio
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Show HN: The Perfect Address Form?(gibb-test-address.heroku.com)
2 points by Johngibb 15y ago|2 comments
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by Johngibb 15y ago
I thought maybe some of you guys would appreciate this, or use it as inspiration! I bought my GF a domain for her birthday, but I wanted to make something special as well.. and, since I'm on a ramen startup budget, why not make the only thi
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Show HN: My Heroku based Happy Bday Card to my GF(happybirthday.meghanmcnamara.me)
3 points by Johngibb 15y ago|1 comments
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by Johngibb 15y ago
I'm not following your arguments. If a zip code can 95% of the time uniquely identify a city and state, why make them type it in? Sure it's not "THAT" painful, but neither are a lot of small things that add up to making a big difference. As
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by Johngibb 15y ago
PS: Here's the original blog that was the source of the apple image: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?968
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Ask HN: Address Form With No City State (just Zip Code)
2 points by Johngibb 15y ago|8 comments
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by Johngibb 15y ago
I agree... I think that making the argument "try fossil because no one else uses it" is just as bad as recommending using git because everyone does. Why not judge it on it's merits?
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by Johngibb 15y ago
It looks like the average software developer makes about 7400 USD a year in India [1]. Assuming a reasonable average is 60k in USA, that's about an 8x salary difference, meaning spending $2/day on food in India is something like $16/day in
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by Johngibb 15y ago
This metric isn't really useful unless you can account for the different buying power of the dollar in a country like India vs. US.
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by Johngibb 15y ago
You should look into the rails gem 'devise' if you're not already. It comes built in with everything you need for login, like account creation, passwords encrypted with bcrypt, forgotten password reset. And it also works with oauth login so
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by Johngibb 16y ago
What if the front page had a few random picks from the "new" page to give a little random extra exposure to undiscovered stories? They'd be different for each user...
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Why is it newsworthy that the iPhone 5 will have a camera?
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Twitter # urls broken? (must be logged in)(twitter.com)
1 points by Johngibb 16y ago|0 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
It is definitely just as useful to have negative feedback as well as positive. However, your comment could have been a lot more useful had it been more constructive. For example, just saying that you see no need for it isn't enough to be he
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by Johngibb 16y ago
That's not chrome, it's the source of the page: <A HREF=" https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby.>https://github.com/M... ;
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by Johngibb 16y ago
As I think about this more, the point may be that .NET is most rewarding for developers at either end of the experience spectrum. As a very experienced developer, it's easy to get into the low-level framework type features like remoting (an
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by Johngibb 16y ago
This strikes me as the rantings of a CEO who doesn't have any touch with the reality of development. Thanks for the offer, but I wouldn't want to work for you anyway ;) In all seriousness, I just don't buy that .NET is an amateur language t
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Startup *School*(richpalmer.org)
3 points by Johngibb 16y ago|0 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Looks like it was knowingly done: http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/some-read...
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by Johngibb 16y ago
This is a lame false dichotomy. This is such an easy exploit that the developers must have known about it, and consciously decided to ship with a vulnerability. As others have suggested, they probably realized that those who break the paywa
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by Johngibb 16y ago
I really like this analogy. When the article said "Numbers everyone should know", it's not really the numbers that matter, but the general relative scale of performance costs for common operations. IOTW, memorizing the nanoseconds of a cach
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Basically, it was a site with a medium amount of paid users. Probably 10-20k daily uniques. However, the nature and diversity of the data behind this site required thousands of tables and tens of thousands of stored procedures. Since these
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by Johngibb 16y ago
That's a very valid point. You can get reallllly far with just one really powerful database. But, if you've built a site on the precondition that one database is enough, with a lot of joins so you can't split tables, and your hardware can't
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Because RDBMS can only scale as far as your most powerful machine. Unless of course you start sharding to several machines, and then you hit the same issues mentioned in this article.
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by Johngibb 16y ago
How does your stake in the company compare with that of th CEO?
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Read more about the backstory here: http://www.richpalmer.org/naming-your-baby-is-hard-let-us-he...
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Baby names based on domain availability(rewordio.us)
5 points by Johngibb 16y ago|2 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
To go along with the recent post "My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk." ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322696 )... Who cares? Let's just embrace the fact that a simple side project could very well turn into a profitable business
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by Johngibb 16y ago
To be fair, once you incorporate you need to name a CEO, no matter how small of a project is being created by the company.

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