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by codypo 16y ago
My startup has a slightly similar pitch to developers (shameless plug: http://www.famigogames.com/developer ). Well, we DID have a similar pitch at one point. After many customer development discussions, we've iterated on our pitch great
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by codypo 16y ago
Firstly, this is awfully impressive. Kudos to the Kik team! I'd love to know more here. Out of these 1,000,000 users, how many of these are actual activated users? After 15 days, what's the retention like? Where are all of these users c
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by codypo 16y ago
As someone who's spent thousands of hours on our current Pylons codebase, I'm very interested in knowing how difficult it'll be to move my now-legacy Pylons 1.0 apps to the new Pyramid framework. They don't make mention of that. They do s
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by codypo 16y ago
We're big fans of virtualized development environments at my startup. Not only is it very helpful in preventing weird environment-related bugs like the autor states, it's a huge shortcut when it comes to bringing new developers onboard. R
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by codypo 16y ago
I enjoyed the section on creating quality, not quantity, and its emphasis on minimizing variance. I can see how these heuristics could be applied to most startups. The section on diagnosing should be taken with a grain of salt, though. If
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by codypo 16y ago
One of my cofounders has a PhD in neuroscience. Whenever I am stuck on a technical issue, he encourages me to get up and exercise for a while. His reasoning is that vigorous activity increases bloodflow to the brain, which in turn leads t
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by codypo 16y ago
Currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. So far, it's a really charming history of science (and well, everything else), starting from the Big Bang. Bryson has never let me down before. I just finished Shadow
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by codypo 16y ago
Not only is it very political, but it forces some baffling decision making. Assume I have a team of 10 in which 5 are wonderful contributors, and that, due to stack ranking practices, only the top 1/3 of my team gets consideration for big b
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Yes, You Can Iterate Quickly In The App Store(famicode.tumblr.com)
2 points by codypo 16y ago|2 comments
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Continuous Deployment: What, Why, and How(codypowell.com)
2 points by codypo 17y ago|0 comments