davetong

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by davetong 13y ago
http://railscasts.com/announcements/11 http://railscasts.com/announcements/12
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by davetong 13y ago
I really like what you are doing, but after seeing what happened to RailsCasts I am a worried what will happen to this business model once it hits 400+ episodes. Hopefully your "other plans" have this part worked out?
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I don't understand open source
7 points by davetong 14y ago|11 comments
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Amazon Boss Taught Me When To Quit(lifehacker.com.au)
1 points by davetong 14y ago|1 comments
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Jason Hoffman doesn't run your company so he doesn't care(davetong.posterous.com)
2 points by davetong 14y ago|0 comments
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by davetong 15y ago
That's how I have always seen it though - top flaps open... I still can't see how the base of the box is aligned :(
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Why is the DropBox logo wrong?(obiwanchinobi.tumblr.com)
1 points by davetong 15y ago|2 comments
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Kickstarter is smoking it up(kickstarter.com)
1 points by davetong 15y ago|0 comments
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$49 for a development PDF?(workshops.thoughtbot.com)
3 points by davetong 15y ago|0 comments
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by davetong 15y ago
"Mark Zuckerberg's design team is his imperial guard. They work closer to him than any other discipline in the company" Interesting... as I don't rate fb's design at all...
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Facebook's evangelist for MySQL is a joke
4 points by davetong 15y ago|4 comments
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Lego and iPhone(george.lego.com)
2 points by davetong 15y ago|0 comments
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by davetong 15y ago
Interesting... Are you measuring by the number of users or revenue?
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by davetong 15y ago
Hi Oliver, Thanks for participating in this thread. Just out of curiosity, how will your service differentiate from iCloud for Apple users?
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Words with Friends + American Super-Sized Greasy Food = Fail(davetong-ict.tumblr.com)
1 points by davetong 15y ago|0 comments
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Proprietary vs open source: don’t limit yourself and use both(dave-chino-tong.tumblr.com)
1 points by davetong 15y ago|0 comments
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by davetong 15y ago
An idea without execution isn't worth anything. You'll be doing all the work up front and then all the work maintaining and improving. You're also not a flight risk as it sounds like you're in it for the long haul. They also sound like they
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by davetong 15y ago
I'd hire you if you kept on going with your answer... you've shown the following traits already: - ability to analyse the problem - talk about possibilities, thus displaying communication skills I have probably misled my comment by using th
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by davetong 15y ago
The following are some of the main misconceptions of what's floating around between the blog, TC comments and HN comments. Misconception 1: answering programming questions tells if the developer is awesome No it doesn't. When an interviewer
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Simple tips for Startups(businessinsider.com)
3 points by davetong 15y ago|0 comments
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by davetong 15y ago
Patterns of the share market... Step 1: create fear through speculation Step 2: investors get cold feet from step 1 Step 3: the tech sector suffers again
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by davetong 15y ago
And today I eat my words regarding the reliability :)
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by davetong 15y ago
At my first professional job, the director of the company was a pathologist for 20 years. It then occurred to him that his industry could be run more efficiently so he embarked on developing his own pathology system. With no previous softwa
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Misuse of the term "Engineer" in job ads
2 points by davetong 15y ago|2 comments
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by davetong 15y ago
How is heroku doing these days: Recently acquired by Salesforce and expanding their add-on range means that they will be around for a long time and it is promising that they are catering to a larger variety of developers. Reliability: They
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by davetong 15y ago
Thomas, J.P. & Robert, H.W Jr 2004. "In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies", Harper Paperbacks. Ignore what the critics say about this book because I think this book's strengths is in their case studies on t
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by davetong 15y ago
Do you know how your friend feels about the two current interested VC's? Does friend not agree to their terms, are the VC's open to negotiations, does friend want to go after larger funding? If you can gauge friend's response to these quest
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by davetong 15y ago
To me, it sounds like you're pitching a hobby rather than a start-up? If that's the case, I wouldn't recommend that you quit your day job.
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by davetong 15y ago
This is a tough question because your ideas fall into many industries and most of them sound interesting so all the answers you get will leave you back to square one... which to pick?! I would suggest trying to narrow down your choices base
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by davetong 15y ago
Like @rdon stated, lawyers cost a lot, and that's fine if you have the capital. But if you are in the early stages of a start-up without the resources, all you need is a written document that states your terms that you would liked 'formaliz

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