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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Hopefully this isn't in poor taste, I'm not trying to whore out my post. Just thought that some of you guys might be interested in this topic. Please let me know what you think, I want to continue on with a few of these topics if people are
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Tell HN: I just wrote a guide about browser automation with Ruby(layeredthoughts.com)
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Higher PR != Higher Traffic
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Thanks!
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I haven't had a chance to dive in and start a project with this yet, but it looks like a dream come true for people want a slimmed down version of Rails but don't want to sacrifice all of the helpers and goodies that Rails offers. In fact,
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Really nice blog design, I like it a lot. I've always thought that a split post design like that would be interesting for any sort of blog that revolved around the participation of a couple/pair. Good luck
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
you provided a tl;dr link to a BOOK???! haha, wednesday morning irony ftw
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
dude, yes. Thank you for posting those links. Do you listen to George Pettit's other band (he's the singer) City and Colour? Wayyyyy different then AOF but really freakin good too
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
If you don't mind a good amount of screaming in your music (or if you're particularly worked up and need some screaming), there's a song called "Boiled Frogs" by Alexisonfire that is about this topic. Very very good. In other news, this exa
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
What's going on on the SEO side of things? You need to get your meta info cleaned up, running a site:bookhu.com shows that you aren't even including your meta descriptions, and you have a bunch of duplicate titles. Additionally, why are onl
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
That's a great mod of the current layout! I would definitely recommend following this lead for a redesign, it will really help illuminate what the site's about. In other news, after 2 hours of sleep, I spent about 30 seconds trying to click
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twilio?
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Oh man I was loving the css work on the site until I hovered over What is Wappr?...please please tone down that blue drop shadow when you hover, it looks like a bad mistake because of the amount of blur. Otherwise, great design!
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Rather than increase your rate, maybe you can try and increase your bandwidth. Your rate will be able to go up as your portfolio grows and the size and quality of clients increases. So keep taking on more and more projects, and bring in som
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
unless you're seeing something I'm not seeing, you can only modify existing attributes. If you could show me though, an upvote will be in your future :-)
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
The element inspector comes somewhat close, but you can't add css attributes to selectors, only modify existing ones, which really makes the thing useless when doing front end dev
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Does not anyone else get really let down every time they read a Chrome submission that doesn't announce that Firebug has been ported over? I've started using Chrome for my day to day browsing, but I'll never be able to wholeheartedly switch
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Look at all of the companies you just listed: amazon, macmillan, google, apple, adobe... Those are the biggest corps in each of their respective fields, and they all somehow compete with each other in some way. Of course they're going to be
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Just some design points: The right side of your screenshot on the homepage has a sheer edge, kind of awkward because you show the left edge in the browser. Probably should balance that out because I thought the image was cut off. If I wasn'
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
I don't believe it matters. Sales is about first impressions and results. Coupling a beautiful presentation piece with a great product that brings results and you're golden. I can see myself ordering a few of these for my sales people, what
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Your best bet for survival with this is to connect it to facebook and give your users some sort of points/leveling system to use. That way, there's at least something to earn (even if it doesn't go to anything) and you can rely on the alrea
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Create a handful of super specific and efficient web apps that have a low monthly fee to use and have a good potential for a user base. Target internet marketing or SEO type apps that help automate things if you want a niche suggestion. Use
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Why was this downvoted other than the fact that he suggested pursuing a PHP certification? His answer was perfectly relevant and doesn't seem to serve any self interest that I can tell...
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
No matter how high up you go in a company, you're always ultimately building out someone else's ideas. My happiness has a direct connection with seeing my own ideas come to fruition. The full process of coming up with an idea, planning and
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Reptilian? What about human society isn't violent? Violence is (generally) illegal and because of that, it's taboo. Allowing people to do something that is taboo without threat of repercussion sells. Allowing someone to say, race each other
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Build a startup that creates revenue for both yourself and your clients. Employ people, get your clients more capital to employ people themselves because of what you can do for them, and help reinvigorate America's economy. In a capitalist
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Trust me, it's a biggggg market with a lot of room for improvement. Working on it :-)
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Well I had actually played with using Sugar initially, and while Sugar is nice, it was a little too robust in some areas and lacking in others for our needs. We have a certain sales model that is basically "hit and run" (We move quickly fro
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
Launching a digital marketing startup. I've had the opportunity to fully immerse myself in the CodeIgniter framework and I love it. I have used it to build a custom CRM and also an internal tool that will allow us to launch new micro sites
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by ddemchuk 17y ago
It appears the author has the wrong idea that a good idea demands exclusive success...if that were the case, I would imagine most of us would be millionaires. You can't complain about something being hard to execute on and then bitch becaus

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