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by catone 18y ago
I am lucky enough to work with Kelli Shaver on my startup. She's been a friend for 10 years, and is an awesome designer -- of everything, but especially of icons. She recently took down her icon site, but still does icon work for people.
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by catone 18y ago
To be honest, I usually just keep the thread open in a tab for a few hours until things die down. That said, I generally only comment on a handful of threads per week, so that's a manageable system for me. For those of you who participate
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by catone 18y ago
It's amazing what drawing a paycheck can do. Once I started making a respectable living as a blogger, my family stopped pestering me about getting a real job or going back to school. Of course, next up might be the startup thing... that'll
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by catone 18y ago
If anyone is interested, here are the stats for Rails Forum -- which is predictably pretty Mac heavy given how great Rails development is on a Mac. Windows: 47.84% / Mac: 32.76% / Linux: 18.95% / FreeBSD: 0.07% (iPhone is actually ahead of
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by catone 18y ago
As someone who recently switched from Windows to Mac, the only software I really miss on my Mac are Word and Excel -- the Mac Office 08 versions are vastly inferior to the Window Office 07 versions, imho. I had thought I would miss a lot mo
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by catone 18y ago
Counter-counter-argument: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/09/business/fi-moneyblo... Google News has had issues, too (see link above in which Google News published a 6-year old story this past September). It's the nature of the beas
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by catone 18y ago
On the rails job front, over at Rails Forum we also run a job board for rails positions @ http://www.railswork.com/ I've actually seen a fairly steady number of job postings the past couple of months (it's always been a somewhat low volum
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by catone 18y ago
Confusing, I clicked through on my RSS reader, and somehow landed on the original version of that post being submitted to HN -- and accidentally left a comment on that page. Anyway, now that I'm in the right place... I think I did alright
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by catone 18y ago
Hey, I think I did alright in that post. #3 came true (for the most part, though none of the big boys are relying parties). #2 was sort of half right. Sort of. And, #5 was a little bit right -- iPhone 3G has been one of the best-selling p
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by catone 18y ago
Maybe I am missing something, but this article doesn't seems to support the hypothesis the title advances. First it explains that the habitable zone for planets is bigger than we thought, but then it also introduces a ton of new criteria (o
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by catone 18y ago
Close new link submission, maybe, but don't close the site. Everyone is on different schedules, and I don't like the idea of having to adjust mine to yours if I want to read what the community submit/is talking about at the time I usually
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by catone 18y ago
I would be careful using PayPal. Another bounty site - microPledge - recently shut down because using PayPal to hold money in Escrow is against their TOS. I wrote about it here: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/09/open-source-fundin
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Grand Plans - Starting Up for Under $1000 in 1999(inc.com)
3 points by catone 18y ago|0 comments
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by catone 18y ago
The real question is: will the voting actually influence the paper's editorial? Will outside links show up on the Independent.co.uk homepage if people vote them up via the new Reddit-powered system? or will the results of users voting be c
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Thoughts from Rails Rumble Teams and Organizers(sitepoint.com)
1 points by catone 18y ago|0 comments
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by catone 18y ago
Blogging at SitePoint.com, switching RailsForum.com over to vBulletin (no, Beast won't cut it), and working on a utility for educators (K-12 and post secondary).
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by catone 18y ago
Or take some black beans, jack cheese, a tortilla and some salsa and make a quesadilla. To the OP: I find making pizza is really cheap and versatile (i.e., it can take you awhile to get sick of it). Most supermarkets sell premade dough for
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by catone 18y ago
Silverlight is more of a Flash competitor than an AIR competitor. Chrome + Gears is kind of AIR-like, but it's a different approach to the same goal. More like Mozilla Prism. I think offline/desktop access (whichever way you get it done)
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by catone 18y ago
I'm probably biased, because I work for SitePoint (which owns 99designs -- though I have nothing to do with that part of the operation), but have also previously owned a design contest site (GFXcontests.com). I'm not so sure it is bad for
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by catone 18y ago
I think the fact that so many people follow him and don't seem to mind. If it wasn't an "okay" thing, then more people would unfollow him and Scoble would be forced to change his tweeting behavior if he wanted to retain his large network.
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by catone 18y ago
You're only following 33 people... and one of them is Scoble. You have to expect your Twitter stream to be dominated by him. Especially during a conference.
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Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life(blog.wired.com)
8 points by catone 18y ago|1 comments
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by catone 18y ago
Er, Johnathan Schwartz has 12 updates (says 11 in the article) and we're supposed to think he's an actual Twitter user? Some of the inclusions in the article seemed like kind of a stretch. A few of the people on this list are only barely "
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by catone 18y ago
Though, Reddit is open source now, right? So theoretically, if you had the chops you could go the DIY route.
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by catone 18y ago
That was my first thought too -- it has a very GigaOm-ish feel. Most interesting change to me is that they moved the RSS link/Feedburner button to the footer.
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Liability and blogging, are bloggers journalists?(industry.bnet.com)
1 points by catone 18y ago|0 comments
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by catone 18y ago
That's not a bad idea, just make sure that a positive testimonial isn't a prerequisite for getting a free review.
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by catone 18y ago
I think you need to put more effort into selling yourself as a usability expert. I'm not going to pay $450 to have just some guy look at my web site. But if you can justify to me why you're an expert whose opinion I need to hear, then you'
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by catone 18y ago
http://co.mments.com http://commentful.blogflux.com/ http://www.cocomment.com/ I've had limited success with all of them -- but I also haven't tried any of them in a couple of years.
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by catone 18y ago
Maybe not drowned out, but from what sellers tell me, there's a good chance that low volume sellers just won't be able to afford to continue selling on eBay because of the new fee changes that favor BIN pricing. Those are the types of sell

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