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by ajsharp 14y ago
This post probably should've been titled, "Don't use vim. Use something else. Sublime Text, if you like."
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A Brief Note on Tools(alexjsharp.com)
1 points by ajsharp 14y ago|0 comments
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by ajsharp 14y ago
At Zaarly, we use next-day ACH to pay out our sellers. It's a total game-changer. Our sellers do business with buyers, and they have the funds in their bank account the following business day. The service level of payouts has enabled such a
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by ajsharp 14y ago
My off the cuff answer to your question is, because it's probably not quite that simple ;)
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by ajsharp 14y ago
My hunch is that Heroku isn't doing this to bleed customers dry. I know more than a few really, really great people who work there, and I don't think they'd stand for that type of corporate bullshittery. If this were the case, I think we'd
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by ajsharp 14y ago
"Congratulations! You've now started your brand new project with technical debt." Love it. The tl;dr here is that almost all of the decisions that an app template makes are decisions the team should be discussing. Otherwise, the homogeny of
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Why we don't use a Rails template(thunderboltlabs.com)
27 points by ajsharp 14y ago|22 comments
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This. IS. AWESOME.
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Having a team of remote people require a company to have it's shit together, mostly with respect to communication, and to a much less extent, "process". Most companies (read: executives and founders) are not good at communication, and are g
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Well put kneath, well fucking put :)
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Yea, the Palm letter clearly had been reviewed by someone in his corporate counsel. They probably coached him on what points to hit on that might look good to a judge one day.
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I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure what Jobs was suggesting was some form of collusion. I don't know that his threats could be held up as extortion, but collusion is a prosecutable offense. My question is, what might be the statute of limit
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Are Patent Trolls Now Zeroed In On Start-Ups?(forbes.com)
3 points by ajsharp 14y ago|0 comments
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Fair point. I agree with what you've said here with respect to most large corporations ("enterprise"). Generally, I think designers are better trained to think like this than engineers. Either way, this is the way I think both crafts need t
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by ajsharp 14y ago
All too typical of a tale. Too many people working on too many things, where the only person who has ownership is the guy not building any of the things (the PM). Simple solution: Small teams that own what they're working on, soup to nuts.
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1st. World. Problems. Get over it.
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How Zaarly Storefront Payments Work(blog.zaarly.com)
19 points by ajsharp 14y ago|0 comments
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Awesome write-up. Really love the technical depth in this post. Slurp looks great too, gonna play around with it.
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by ajsharp 14y ago
This article is just, plain, silly. The author criticizes Balanced because they don't support Bitcoin? Yea, so, here's the deal -- startups need to make money, not chase down ideological, academic experiments like Bitcoin. As a customer, I
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by ajsharp 14y ago
We found very similar results. In our experience (Zaarly) tech press has yielded very little long-term value, especially from a user growth perspective. The retention rate of users from article traffic is very, very low. An article on TC,
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Yes, indeed :)
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Real secret, ain't it :)
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Travis Shrugged(pandodaily.com)
121 points by ajsharp 14y ago|63 comments
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by ajsharp 14y ago
> I'm really curious if github's culture is the cause of their success or a result of it. If I had to bet on one of those choices, I'd say the culture is the cause, not the result. But, if I had another choice, I'd say probably neithe
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by ajsharp 14y ago
My favorite slide: Worry more about *building* the damn thing Worry less *about* the damn thing Many startups have a habit of being obsessed with themselves and their "culture" more than actually building the product. There
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by ajsharp 14y ago
Whole-heartedly disagree. You can't even parse a json-encoded POST body with plain-vanilla Rack without a middleware from rack-contrib HEAD (the "stable" version is about a year behind the last time I checked). Rack is a standard and abstra
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by ajsharp 14y ago
In my experience, Scrum / Agile / XP tend to be more about the process than the results. I find these methodologies to be particularly useful for contractors and consultants, primarily because the value proposition for a consultant is much
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> Was it to secure further funding? Lulz. IIRC she planned a few events for us around SF. As soon as we figured out she was a fraud, she was gone. As far as I could tell, her role at Zaarly served her more than it served us.
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by ajsharp 14y ago
I completely agree. Always ask why. I think retrospectives are a good weekly thing to do, but it's difficult to do retro's for company vision type stuff. Ultimately, I think this comes down to a leadership thing. What the company is doing,
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Thoughts on Process(alexjsharp.com)
5 points by ajsharp 14y ago|2 comments

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