barrydahlberg

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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I am, none of my clients ever are. :(
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
If you are writing simple services for passing JSON back and forth then something like this is great because it gives you the right amount of control. If you are writing full blown end user web applications then you are better off sticking
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Man this guy has some energy, I'm not sure what he's selling but I want it.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Direct link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/fashion/27Wong.html?pagewa...
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
A restaurant I frequent has a nice system where they add you to a list and then text you when a table is available. In the meantime you can wander around the nearby beach. Is this the sort of thing you are thinking of? (When I say system,
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
This plays very nicely with zoom in / out on Firefox too.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Cool. I has to type something and reload to see if it saved automatically. I like that it does, I just didn't trust it. Some basic formatting support would be awesome too.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
"...the languages that I know are limited to vb.net and c#. These are not exactly high level languages themselves..." Not only are these very good high level languages but there is lots of well paying and reasonably easy to get work around
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
A privacy policy will definately be coming, thanks for helping me fill it out, hah!
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Yeah the name was picked using the "Get it up now and fix it later" methodology. The domain wasn't available so I got x/t instead which I thought was clever, but probably doesn't help. I original had my samples in Google charts but I wasn'
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
That's one of the reasons the functionality was picked to be as simple as it could be and still solve my problem. Hopefully I can be a bit different by offering less but scaling easier and cheaper. Not there yet of course.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
The data on the homepage is actually real data from the server because I needed some examples. It does show a couple of interesting things: - The CPU is bored. - The web server has an interesting memory growth / garbage collection pattern.
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Tell HN: I just launched Log Anything and want to give away some API keys.
5 points by barrydahlberg 16y ago|7 comments
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
A link to where it found the image and / or a way to view a larger version of the source would be great. My search shows a couple of things which look like movie posters and some kind of icon, I would like to know what they are. Interestin
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I've tinkered a little with http://heroku.com/ and if Ruby is your thing it really is awesome, especially the setup and maintenance parts. The first few chapters of the tutorial at http://www.railstutorial.org/ are worth reading if you
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
When I was flatting in Australia a few years ago we used to buy groceries online as we had no car or nearby supermarket. The biggest problem I've seen is that people don't trust someone else to shop for fresh things for them. Vegetables, f
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I was just watching my son in the bath, learning how to squeeze the rubber ducky to make bubbles and fountains. I can't wait till he's old enough to do things like this with.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I'm in NZ and just got more delivered as well. I find them really useful, currently I use them for: - Lighting fires when it's cold. - Holding down the clothes airer when it's windy. - Holding up monitors. - Keeping muddy shoes off the flo
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
IIS definately became a whole lot less awful between 6 and 7.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I've been approached a few times even down here in NZ. For me you would need to: 1. Be a nice interesting person I would like to work with. 2. Convince me you have something valuable to contribute while I am hacking away. 3. Have an idea t
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
...start-ups need to be aware of what they are offering or could offer... That's exactly why I was thinking about it, thanks for your thoughts.
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Ask HN: Why do companies buy startups?
10 points by barrydahlberg 16y ago|11 comments
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Do you have any examples of your work so far?
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
Personally I'm not that interested in the deep mathematical side of CS. To me the two biggest problems are a poor understanding of abstraction and a lack of style. Abstraction is so much more than "Apple is a Fruit" style OOP. Objects, pr
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I'm working through this now. As an experienced ASP.Net developer it's a great intro to how things are done in the Rails world.
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I like the idea and the tool but yeah, the results made me go "Huh?": - "solutious averages" means nothing to me. - What does the size of the bars mean, I get lots of blue, is that good? - It says "SD 0.00" several times, what? I do like th
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by barrydahlberg 16y ago
I have worked in MVC 2 and while I feel it was the right decision based my skillset and the existing code base in the company, I envy the relative maturity and stability of the Rails framework. The fact that there is a "Rails Way" is good.