daveungerer

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by daveungerer 15y ago
You're putting words in my mouth. Please don't do that. I think it should be a given that it's frustrating when a computer doesn't do what you tell it. That doesn't mean that the cost of that frustration isn't offset by the added convenie
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by daveungerer 15y ago
Can't agree enough this. I'm pretty sure user interface research has shown that it's incredibly frustrating to users when you tell a computer to do one thing and it does something else. The suggestions are helpful, but it should default t
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by daveungerer 15y ago
I really appreciated this comment, not because of what it says about Unity, but because of the analogy you used. It's like this girl I dated for 2 years, saying "What, you want to take up yoga? Is it just because you want to start at othe
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by daveungerer 15y ago
Now I realise why this news is so sad to me. You see, I watched that speech at a time when I didn't know what to do with my life and career. He's the one who inspired me to finally quit my job and do the "foolish" thing. It's not about t
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by daveungerer 15y ago
How did you manage to confuse getting attention from the tech media with gaining customers?
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by daveungerer 15y ago
You may want to try reading the links you post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga#Reception_in_the_West Let me save you the trouble while I'm here: "...legitimizing yoga as a purely physical system of health exercises outside of counter
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Referral Marketing for a SaaS Startup: An Experiment(simplepay.co.za)
1 points by daveungerer 15y ago|0 comments
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Ruby 1.9.2-p290 is released(ruby-forum.com)
14 points by daveungerer 15y ago|2 comments
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by daveungerer 15y ago
Cool! I use a version of haml-js that's been modified to work well in the browser. ( https://github.com/wintondeshong/haml-js ). Jammit allowed me to set the template function as Haml and it just worked, by passing the content of the jst
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by daveungerer 15y ago
I've been meaning to create something like this as a side-project. Well done! The first thought I captured was: "If you're in front of the computer right now, get away from it and use your notebook (i.e. pen and paper) for a while instead
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by daveungerer 15y ago
OK, enough is enough. Now I have no choice but to scrap prototype in favour of jQuery.
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by daveungerer 15y ago
This site used to be known as Startup News, a long time ago. It's also hosted on a sub-domain of a company that funds startups.
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by daveungerer 15y ago
The section on patents is definitely worth a read. Quote: A higher total volume of patents leads to increasing transaction costs, particularly in markets which are patent intensive. The cost/benefit trade-off of the patent system may shift
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by daveungerer 15y ago
Pleasure. Here's an example to help illustrate: Discounted (future) revenues: $100 Discounted (future) ongoing costs: $20 Value: $80 ($100 - $20) Acquisition cost: $60 (e.g. adwords) Net Present Value (NPV): $20 ($80 -
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by daveungerer 15y ago
That's not lifetime value. Let's break the term down: Lifetime: The entire length of the relationship with your customer, including the future, not just for the period where you have data, as done in the article. Of course there will be
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by daveungerer 16y ago
https://github.com/astashov/vim-ruby-debugger Works really well once you've sorted a few quirks - it's what finally allowed me to fully switch from NetBeans to Vim about a month ago. Hint: add the following to your .vimrc if using MacVim:
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Just to clarify, the $20/month Linode I'm referring to has 512MB ram. I'm just using compiling as an illustration of CPU performance. You'll have the same problem when running unit tests, for example. You can only spend so much time on fo
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Just try to compile Ruby from source on an EC2 Micro instance vs. a $20/month Linode. In my experience (repeated builds at various times of day) the EC2 instance is an order of magnitude slower. And the Linode includes some bandwith, as s
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Firefox does cache content - I just ran Firebug to confirm. I can only assume from how fast my site works in other browsers that the same applies to them. What browsers are you referring to?
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Ask HN: Your experience in hiring full-time offshore developers?
2 points by daveungerer 16y ago|0 comments
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Maybe gambling is too strong a word. He's not in it for the money, but to create a viable competitor to Microsoft. So not taking this "gamble" and sticking to the status quo would be actually be the riskier strategy for him. If it backfir
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Had a similar problem when googling ruby 1.9.2 slow snow leopard , since that describes the problem I had. There was no auto-correct, but somehow they decided to highlight the word low in the search results (which may or may not mean th
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Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 Released(weblog.rubyonrails.org)
3 points by daveungerer 16y ago|0 comments
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Flagged for the above reason. Come on, people. Don't be intentionally annoying. (I also flag posts that link to a tweet linking to some other page)
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by daveungerer 16y ago
We currently have enough nukes to destroy the world many times over. If you take the comparison between patents and nukes to its logical conclusion, the same probably holds. Google vs. Oracle == mutually assured destruction, regardless of
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by daveungerer 16y ago
May I suggest the use of the word archangel instead of super-angel?
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by daveungerer 16y ago
I think the key issue here is that when a government imposes administrative procedures on its citizens (e.g. tax returns), it should be entirely logical for said government to provide free software that reduces the administrative load. In
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Can someone explain the Montreal craigslist apartment listings to me? What does the "4 1/2" in "2br - 4 1/2" mean?
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by daveungerer 16y ago
It there no way to quickly add a default set of monitors? Because it seems quite tedious to add them one at a time just to get an idea of how the service works.
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by daveungerer 16y ago
Johannesburg, South Africa (Tele-commuting is fine if you're elsewhere in South Africa / neighbouring countries) Rails developer wanted. I've been on the lookout for a while, but finding one around here is not the easiest. For that reason

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