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by bhb 18y ago
That's a great point. Of course, there is a lot more upside to having the company you founded own your IP as opposed to some big company you don't control.
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Looking for your first CS job? Be sure to own your ideas(devver.net)
18 points by bhb 18y ago|15 comments
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37signal's Jason Fried on building companies & products(devver.net)
2 points by bhb 18y ago|0 comments
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by bhb 18y ago
While I like the sparse design (and badass logo), a huge problem is that I get to site and within the first ten seconds I don't know what it does (or even why I should care). I decide to figure out more by typing an artist and click 'music
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Tips for Unit Testing(devver.net)
4 points by bhb 18y ago|1 comments
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by bhb 18y ago
Exactly. I'd still love to see real study on whether unit testing is worth it (which our survey doesn't even begin to address, since it's very hard to measure). I think some good studies on that would be invaluable, but it's nearly impossib
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by bhb 18y ago
Interesting article, but the author seems to assume that unit testing == TDD. I think weirdness of "write your tests first" is one reason people initially resist writing tests ("I can't do exploratory programming!") I write lots of unit tes
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by bhb 18y ago
It does make it harder for me to completely throw out older versions, but it makes it way easier for me to refactor my old version into a better new version (which I think is often more productive than just starting from scratch)
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by bhb 18y ago
I actually enjoy writing unit tests _because_ I'm lazy :). When I write a piece of Ruby code, I have a choice: I could either write a unit test or load the code into IRB and manually test it (or even load the real app and test the code in t
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by bhb 19y ago
Cool, I'll check that out.
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by bhb 19y ago
I'd love for someone to make photo-sharing not suck horribly. Yes, Flickr is pretty great for some scenarios, but I still have yet to find a great solution for the following scenario: 1. I go to say, a wedding (but it could be anything) wit
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by bhb 19y ago
I'm surprised that Puerto Rico hasn't been mentioned. My hacker friends and I dabbled in both Settlers and Carcassonne, but ultimately ended up playing mostly Puerto Rico. Great game. Unfortunately, I haven't had much luck getting my non-ha
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by bhb 19y ago
Kind of cool. I could see it being a bit hard for the casual browser to find dreams of interest to them. I've seen others suggest tags or categories, either of which could prove useful. But you might also want to include a simple reddit-esq
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by bhb 19y ago
Very small nitpick, but I think "It an old one, as old as forums" should be "It _is_ an old one, as old as forums". Update: this has been corrected.
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by bhb 19y ago
I think the problem is that often you really do want to know if customer is nil. The nice thing about having to explicitly specify this is that you localize the effects - and make it clear in your code that you want this 'pass-through' beha
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by bhb 19y ago
Awesome, thanks for the advice. This is pretty much our biggest question right now (whether or not to go for the social angle and implement a facebook app), so I appreciate the feedback.
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by bhb 19y ago
Yeah, they are definitely similar. The main difference I see is that all the lists look individualize - that is, you can't merge lists across all users to get a comprehensive lists that includes all items. Thanks for the heads up.
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by bhb 19y ago
Good question regarding our audience. We don't really intend to make Seekler a place you would visit every day (as you noticed, we have quite a few gaps in our content, so for any niche, you'll probably only find a few lists that interest y
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by bhb 19y ago
Yes, basically it'll be supported via advertising and affiliate partnerships once we can get traffic going. The issue we've heard from users (including the news.yc community - thanks everyone for the feedback!) is that the site looks a litt
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by bhb 19y ago
We just launched seekler.com on January 7th. Seekler is a collection of community-built lists that make it really fast and easy to find new stuff like movies, music, etc. We had some good early traffic (from a few great links to one of our
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by bhb 19y ago
OK, good to know. We'll definitely try some tweaks to decrease the spamminess of the site.
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by bhb 19y ago
Thanks for the feedback, we'll continue to try to simplify the page so it's less crowded.
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by bhb 19y ago
Very interesting. We actually got feedback that we didn't have enough on the front page before (and as result, we weren't getting the main idea of site across). Do you think the 'too much text on the front page' issue is primarily because o
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by bhb 19y ago
Well, I'm pretty passionate about comics, but I'm always having trouble finding the next really great Batman graphic novel. We're trying to appeal to consumers who know something about an area, but are still looking to find new stuff within
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by bhb 19y ago
We have heard that during our alpha as well. Do you mean the home page or when looking at one of the lists? Or both? One of our challenges has been to present a lot of information without, well, looking too spammy. We'll continue to work o
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by bhb 19y ago
Oh, if you'd like to see an example of a list that's got a number of contributors (and some good information and tags), check out http://seekler.com/lists/Anticipated+Movies+of+2008 Ideally we'd like to have a ton of lists that have this
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by bhb 19y ago
We released our alpha a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. Now we've added some new features, fixed bugs, and most importantly, anyone can create an account. We'd love to hear any and all feedback. Thanks!
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Our startup (Seekler: community-built lists to help you find new stuff) goes beta. Feedback please?(seekler.com)
9 points by bhb 19y ago|15 comments
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Featuritis, Tyranny, and Web Applications(blog.pretheory.com)
7 points by bhb 19y ago|0 comments
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Pattern Matching in Ruby(blog.pretheory.com)
7 points by bhb 19y ago|2 comments

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