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by aculver 15y ago
All of the links are clickable.
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Steve Jobs on his upcoming biography: "I wanted my kids to know me."(macrumors.com)
2 points by aculver 15y ago|0 comments
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by aculver 15y ago
First, Steve's family asked us to respect their privacy. They never made his fight with cancer a public matter and it's terribly rude to speculate like this. That aside, I did have some thoughts on the alternative treatments this article is
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Appsumo experiences massive social backlash after Steve Jobs subject line(twitter.com)
6 points by aculver 15y ago|1 comments
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A list of statements and reactions to Steve Jobs' death(macrumors.com)
11 points by aculver 15y ago|0 comments
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by aculver 15y ago
Seeing noise about this on Twitter from folks in the local area (Virginia Beach, VA) but as far away as Philly.
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by aculver 15y ago
And how much have I not had to bill my clients for the incredible functionality of cancan (and to a lesser degree nested_form). cancan ( https://github.com/ryanb/cancan ) is probably the most valuable gem I install in every Rails project.
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by aculver 15y ago
No, really I'd rather hear. We're about to launch a product in Japan and all the advice I've been given from folks in Japan so far is that my standard credit card payment processing will be fine for our target user base. So, seeing a commen
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by aculver 15y ago
How does it compare to Japan?
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by aculver 15y ago
And when there is a place to park your bike, it looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/6eteaux . (From my last trip to Kyoto. :)
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by aculver 15y ago
I don't think the situation in Japan is really comparable to the situation in India. The huge problem with bribes in India is that the use of bribes is required not when caught up with organized crime groups, but when interacting with the g
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by aculver 15y ago
Not sure, but you got my vote. Love your summary of the company mission. Also, I love that beach. :) Best of luck in finding a good teammate.
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by aculver 15y ago
This reminds me of something the CEO of a fortune 500 company I worked for said during a company-wide Q&A. An employee had mentioned that he applied for an opportunity within the company and never heard back from the hiring manager. The
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by aculver 15y ago
Yeah, I was referred to Braintree when I was building http://limelightapp.com/ and I really liked them. However, using them required getting a merchant account, and getting a merchant account required getting a business license, and getti
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by aculver 15y ago
I can't remember the last time I had to actually pick between the two, but as long as the percent of positive reviews is still relatively high (~95%?) I would tend to go with the one who has more reviews. Seems to me that they'll be doing m
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by aculver 15y ago
Yes, Ruby (programming language) was, but Rails (a force-multiplying framework) wasn't. Also, anyone can correct me if I'm wrong, but my observation was that Rails adoption was not nearly as strong among Japanese Rubyist as it was in other
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by aculver 15y ago
After digging into the service a little, I stumbled on to this feature: "Compile the best quotes from your reviews on a great-looking promotional webpage." The result looks like this: http://pixelate.promoterapp.com/pub/spirits/ . That's
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by aculver 15y ago
The answer to your last question is the same one Jeff sent to all of us customers in his email yesterday. At the moment, there are a lot of titles only available on DVD. However, we still opted to drop DVD in exchange for streaming since ou
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by aculver 15y ago
Full disclosure: My boss's side-project is featured in this bundle. (That's how I knew it was going live today.) However, I just found out now that it includes all these other heavy hitting apps and services! I'm voting with my wallet as we
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Productivity Bundle from Fusion and Carbon(fusionads.net)
10 points by aculver 15y ago|2 comments
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Hackman: A startup trivia game(hackman.limelightapp.com)
4 points by aculver 15y ago|1 comments
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by aculver 15y ago
I've found the interest rate on outstanding debt to be a tremendous motivation to try and limit the number of frivolous things I buy. For example, our interest rate is 5.5% and we're not due to pay off our mortgage for 28 years. That means
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by aculver 15y ago
Signed up earlier today. Just got this email: "I do know some people might have questions, or want to learn more about my projects, or otherwise engage me, so tomorrow, September 16 between 9pm EST and 11pm EST, I'll be on both a Google Plu
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by aculver 15y ago
You're right, the support team is very friendly and supportive. But my resolution times for recent issues have been 24-hour turnarounds, even when we were feeling some level of pain and labeled it "high". In this instance, which was definit
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by aculver 15y ago
Just eyeballing it we have about 40-50 apps using the shared DB. We don't have any dedicated DB stuff with Heroku, but we use varying dynos levels. (Most apps idle at 1, though.)
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by aculver 15y ago
I'll jump in here, since you asked. Bad timing. About 2 hours ago we started getting these completely abstract errors 15 minutes before we were due to present to some VC folks: 2011-09-15T18:34:33+00:00 heroku[router]: Error H12 (Request ti
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by aculver 15y ago
My support for the documentary is based on my love of the NES/Famicom. I'm still playing new games, released in the 80's, emulated on my Nintendo DS. In fact, I only learned 6502 assembly years after it was really relevant by hacking on NES
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by aculver 15y ago
My favorite part of this article is the comment from the guy who says "this sounds like it could be a business" and then links to a fully functional landing page he's already created to gauge interest in that type of business. He didn't was
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by aculver 15y ago
I like the over-all look and feel of the page. However, it's flaws IMHO are numerous. I'm going to go from top-left to bottom-right, since it's safe to assume your visitors will do the same. Social media links should be at the bottom of the
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by aculver 15y ago
I think this commentary is relevant even within the U.S. It reminds me of companies like http://brainsonfire.com/ and http://bellstrike.com/ who have put the plug in for their state (South Carolina) when they present themselves national

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