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by briancooley 16y ago
The Clojure debugging stuff at about 12:00 into the screencast is a really nice piece of information.
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by briancooley 16y ago
Yeah, I was pretty sure that was incorrect, though I didn't try it myself. I figured you guys might want a chance to reply, and I saw that you did.
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by briancooley 16y ago
I wish I could say that I drove a hard bargain to get full benefits, but it happens to be company policy. I went in to the meeting prepared to increase my portion of the cost of my healthcare if necessary. My biggest concerns prior to initi
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Bump is letting users send paid apps (on Android)?(groups.google.com)
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by briancooley 16y ago
About three weeks ago, I went to my employer to negotiate part-time employment. I am now working 3 days a week at 2/3 pay, full benefits, and prorated vacation. The caveats are that I was prepared to resign, the agreement includes a stipula
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by briancooley 16y ago
It's masterful negotiation once you realize that the user had already demonstrated that $9 had more utility than the time it took to write the email. Further, he demonstrated loyalty to the product and a lack of shame. Sounds like the perfe
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by briancooley 16y ago
If you are on MacOS, the package contents contain the memory settings in eclipse.ini. I'd recommend bumping them up, particularly the maximum memory. Here's what I am using: -Xms512m -Xmx700m
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by briancooley 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand the confrontational tone. So maybe developers are advertisers, but they are not buying ads, they are selling ad space in their app. The numbers for iPhone and iPod Touch devices from last September should be intere
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by briancooley 16y ago
Yes, I did. What I was expecting to see for free apps was something along the lines of using, say, AdMob metrics ( http://metrics.admob.com/ ) and his estimate of the number of free apps to come up with some rough idea of what the average i
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by briancooley 16y ago
His analysis of free apps doesn't really do that segment justice. He totally ignored the mobile ad network space and addressed only a portion of what the market seems to be by focusing on Hilton and Walgreens. I'm not sure those cases are w
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by briancooley 16y ago
"Full Analysis" seems like a bad title for this post. First off, in app purchases are not included. Secondly, his argument against free apps is simply that the reach is smaller than other platforms. Finally, he acknowledges that the median
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by briancooley 16y ago
Yes, they vary widely. If you control for certain variables, they can give you decent directional information. One of the biggest factors in the accuracy of the older Tanita brand scales (this is the brand I have had for many years) is your
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by briancooley 16y ago
The simple fact is that most people dramatically reduce sugar intake when dieting. That alone is likely to shift their insulin balance in a favorable direction. Weighing daily and graphing simply promote awareness and can be motivating. One
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by briancooley 16y ago
That one is a lot about Node.js performance. This one is a little better: http://jsconf.eu/2009/video_nodejs_by_ryan_dahl.html
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by briancooley 16y ago
Somehow this has a much bigger impact on me than the 37Signals series as far making the case for bootstrapping. Most likely it is because FW is a VC himself and presumably has a vested interest in seeing startups take capital.
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by briancooley 16y ago
My best hack, hands down is: just don't go to meetings. It's weird at first. Seems like you'll get in trouble, and people do get pissed. But they have a weird way of getting you just the information you need and little more. I don't skip ev
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by briancooley 16y ago
Hadn't seen this one before: http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/reading... Useful stuff in there.
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by briancooley 16y ago
No, mostly because it was on demand. There was no way to watch it on my television. (On demand > time shifted) In the past, I would have setup my laptop. I never considered that a hassle, but now I do. Also, the app itself was a cue. I
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by briancooley 16y ago
Well, if you don't mind pedantry, here goes. It's actually 80% of relatively close friends on a family unit basis, so it's 4 iPads out of 10 friends/5 couples that I see on a routine basis. That's an incomplete sampling of my universe of fr
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by briancooley 16y ago
But many normal people would rather get an easy to use laptop instead, or a "laptopised" dockable ipad Based on my empirical experience since my iPad was delivered April 3, most "normal" people want an iPad but are having trouble justifyi
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by briancooley 16y ago
I like how I feel when I am using the thing This sums up my opinion on the iPad. It just makes casual consuming fun. My wife still sings "Flash, ah-ah" to me every time we talk about it, but she's warming up to it. Watching Modern Family
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by briancooley 16y ago
Cultivate a solid understanding of the exponential function? In all seriousness, congratulations. Seems like a good problem to have. I don't have a lot of advice, but if it were me, I would avoid trying to leverage the money too much. It mi
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by briancooley 16y ago
OTOH, you can still leak memory in Android by holding references to unneeded resources, particularly Contexts. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/01/avoiding-memo... It's a different sort of problem, but you have to be careful ei
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by briancooley 16y ago
I would be interested to see exactly what is meant by "worse." One of the common lean startup themes seems to be that a simpler product can be an advantage over incumbents who have succumbed to feature bloat. I surmise that simpler might eq
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by briancooley 16y ago
If reading it causes a paradigm shift that results in a sustainable productivity improvement or reduces fear, it's a net win.
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by briancooley 16y ago
The "Back to the Future" bit at 7:05 or so was very funny. I was kind of skeptical to watch a video with content I had already seen as a TED talk and nearly clicked back before it started. Once it started, I was immediately engaged, and rea
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by briancooley 16y ago
I have a free app, the first one I built last November, that was stalling out around 6K downloads in early April. It's closing in on 10K today.
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by briancooley 16y ago
The value of having a guest editorial in the NYT goes far beyond whatever payment one might receive. Just ask the Diaspora quartet. (I realize they didn't have an editorial. Work with me. ;-) ) That component is so large, I'm not sure I can
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by briancooley 16y ago
Quick video summary: 1. Draw out your idea. The sentiment here seems to be more about getting the idea out of your head than planning how to implement it; that putting the idea on paper transforms it. It also lets you share it more easily.
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by briancooley 16y ago
My comment about Hibernate was wrong. A while back, I saw a thread on StackOverflow about ORM's on Android that linked to another thread about Hibernate. I just went back and looked and the linked comment was suggesting "lightweight alterna

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