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by dan_sim 17y ago
Why the subdomain? Can someone explain why a lot of app are doing it? Personally, I avoid using an app that uses a subdomain.
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by dan_sim 17y ago
Thanks a lot... you're right, the client doesn't realize the value of my time and it's the biggest problem for us. We should never say "yes" after a deal is done...
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Ask HN : When the client asks "one more little thing..."
3 points by dan_sim 17y ago|5 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
We use our own tracker at http://www.timmyontime.com . Actually, this is not a bug tracking app but a project monitoring one. We have a concept of "notes" and they can be anything you want : bugs, todos, ideas, etc. With that app, a bug b
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by dan_sim 17y ago
Actually, I'm particularly proud of stopping publishing content...
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by dan_sim 17y ago
I always wondered if DaVinci wanted that effect or it just "happened".
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Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard (fastcompany.com)
88 points by dan_sim 17y ago|29 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
I don't know what to think of this. Sure you are working to get this working and you deserve to be paid for it... but so does the actors. In my opinion, you were making money on the back of other people's dream.
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Difference between include and extend in Ruby(macournoyer.wordpress.com)
1 points by dan_sim 17y ago|0 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
Thanks a lot! That will save me a lot of frustrations...
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Ask HN : Is the "auto-starting a sound" new trend annoying?
3 points by dan_sim 17y ago|2 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
I'm a ubuntu user and I feel like sometimes Windows and Linux are caught in a battle while Apple makes its own way. I used this multi-touch gesture a couple of times on someone else computer and it just feels right. How many years will it t
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Ask HN : Where to find logos of social networks (facebook, twitter, ...)
1 points by dan_sim 17y ago|3 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
I thought about it but I don't want to change yet another time and use 3 different source-control...
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by dan_sim 17y ago
We have projects on git and other on SVN and we prefer SVN. It may be a pain in the ass sometimes but it just works. Git is too complicated when all you want is a source-control for a team of two. But, every of our new projects are on git n
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CouchDB first beta is out(damienkatz.net)
1 points by dan_sim 17y ago|0 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
The problem is that a CSS selector in a rails project may be hidden to you but not to someone else. Thus, it would consider that some selectors are not used when they are by other users.
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Ask HN : How to keep my CSS clean?
29 points by dan_sim 17y ago|24 comments
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Can we get more people to choose the stairs by making it fun?(youtube.com)
5 points by dan_sim 17y ago|2 comments
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API-driven phone calls(cloudvox.com)
5 points by dan_sim 17y ago|0 comments
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Retrieve and aggregate profiles from across the web with javascript(identengine.com)
7 points by dan_sim 17y ago|0 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
A majority of our users is in fact all of our users except us. We have less than 50 active users for the moment (it's still a beta).
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Ask HN : What to do with an underused feature
2 points by dan_sim 17y ago|5 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
What I'll remember from this post : it's not that because something already exists that you can't do it better. I once talked to one of my friend who had a great idea but didn't even bother working on it. He just said "probably someone else
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by dan_sim 17y ago
We use our own product called Timmy at http://www.timmyontime.com . To keep tracks of things, we write notes and tag them with whatever we need to. We use the search box or simply browse through note pages to get what we want. Example, yo
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Why good writers are bad conversationalists(nytimes.com)
2 points by dan_sim 17y ago|0 comments
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Leaving my job & starting my own thing(macournoyer.com)
24 points by dan_sim 17y ago|23 comments
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by dan_sim 17y ago
For an "unknown" artist, the hardest thing is to sell a CD. Nobody cares until they are emotionally attached to your music. And even if they are attached to it, they won't buy it in a store... they will buy it at your show! But even then, d
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by dan_sim 17y ago
3 years ago, I started a blog about javascript called Javascript Kata at http://www.javascriptkata.com . I will try to write more and more about best practices and new ways of doing things.
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by dan_sim 17y ago
I thought I was the only one bored of those "friendly" company that use cool expressions to talk about themselves (ex : "we kick ass at what we're doing, woot!", "no more boring meeting! yay!"). I don't want to be friend with a company or a

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