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by dhh 16y ago
I think providing Facebook/Twitter logins for other social media sites make a lot of sense. Want to login to post on Yelp? Done. Want to checkin at 4sq? Gotcha. But using those services to check into the applications running your business?
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by dhh 16y ago
The key problem didn't come from people NOT using OpenID, but from the people who did. Supporting OpenID is a nightmare. You have different relaying services that go up and down (OpenID's answer is: "use more than one" - ha!), various level
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by dhh 16y ago
The visual representation of something is integrally linked with how it works. Thinking of that as just something graphic designers do to make it pretty is in my opinion the crux of the disagreement here. I don't think that this division sh
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by dhh 16y ago
I'm sure people thought like that when agriculture got automated and didn't need as many people any more. Higher productivity shifts people from industry to industry. There's often a lag between the death of one industry and the rise of ano
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by dhh 16y ago
Making the connection from "how should it work" to "how should it look" is half the magic pudding of a good designer. Relegating that to "it mostly just helps aesthetics" to me signifies someone who doesn't understand that connection.
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by dhh 16y ago
I mean designing the experience. How does it work, what goes where, what's important, etc. The "how does it look" is further down the line from there but still integrally connected. I find that the best product designers are people who can
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by dhh 16y ago
You might expect that, but my sense from the real world is that it is not true. I consider myself pretty good at this stuff and I'm still humbled by the insights of our designers.
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by dhh 16y ago
In my humble opinion, it's much more important to have a stellar product designer (decide how the thing works, then how it looks) than it is to have a stellar programmer. The slight problem is that programmers generally have an easier time
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by dhh 16y ago
When you have the might to dictate an entire industry, you have a different set of responsibilities.
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by dhh 16y ago
You wouldn't believe the millions we bring in on free web articles. Or, I should say forecasted millions. They don't make any real money right now, but I'm sure we'll make it up on bulk!
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by dhh 16y ago
Good pitch, I haven't personally found this to be true with the goals I've shared with other people. I get much more fired up to prove that I'm actually going to do it once it's out there. But obviously the science shows that might not be t
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by dhh 16y ago
That's just extra spice on top. I fucking hate it when people I don't know assumes it okay to make up a nickname for me.
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by dhh 16y ago
I'm in. Email me at david at 37signals.com with the details and we'll go from there. In fact, I think this would be a great little business. Allow people to place long-term bets with money on the line on predefined, objective results. Then
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by dhh 16y ago
I like the basic concept and would definitely put money on it. But making internet bets in comments on HN seems unlikely to pan out in the future. You ready to escrow that $10K?
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by dhh 16y ago
Apparently it wasn't obvious from the "New York smells" point that it was a joke. So let me spell it out: It was a joke (even if it's actually, technically true. Many parts of New York really do smell from all that trash on the street!).
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by dhh 16y ago
Also, Sharepost currently has 3 positions for sale at valuations between 33 and 44 billion. The total outstanding shares for sale represent 0.001% at 44B. That's pretty close to the 0.000000001% that put our $100B valuation on paper: http:
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by dhh 16y ago
2. The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets. 3. Again, these premiums are based on outstanding
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by dhh 16y ago
1. Thanks for the word correction, updated. 2. Publicly traded companies have instant liquidity on many more shares, which makes using "last share sold" an meaningful metric. 3. When only 3% of the money a company is supposedly worth has be
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by dhh 16y ago
If there's a scoreboard for the assignment of blame, I would put it 98% on acquirer and 2% on "acquireree". It's hard to fault someone for taking a $20M exit too harshly, but it's quite easy to fault a share-holder backed corporation that s
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by dhh 16y ago
We've designated a release charity for people to show their appreciation of Rails 3. If you're going to use it, please help us bring clean water to 5,000 people with Charity:Water. You can donate on http://mycharitywater.org/rails3
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by dhh 16y ago
I want to nuke that entire installation from orbit. It's the only way to be sure that it's gone.
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by dhh 16y ago
Fixed the issue. The weblog is a prime example of cobbler's shoes. I think it's running Rails 0.5 on a machine that hasn't been updated in 6 years.
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by dhh 16y ago
Active Support 3 offers piece meal inclusion. You can grab it all at once or bit by bit as you please.
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by dhh 16y ago
Rails 3 is now done cooking from a feature perspective. That's why this release is a release candidate, not a beta or alpha. Rails 3 is the way to go for new projects.
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by dhh 16y ago
Heh, if only it was that easy to get a release of Rails to happen! I'd use that more often myself. This release happened because we have a candidate that's close enough to release that we wanted to get it out.
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by dhh 16y ago
Because we're not going to change the interface to make the internals faster. And we might as well spend the time that the RC is out there looking for bugs to make things faster as well.
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by dhh 16y ago
This guy reminds me of Stephen Fowler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIDaRY82fU
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by dhh 16y ago
Here's why: We needed it for ourselves and we thought others might find it useful. That, btw, is the same motivation we've had to release every single piece of software we've ever done. Also, tadalist is the #1 google result for "todo list"
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by dhh 16y ago
The odds of making a $17-50MM exit is higher than what? Turning a $1M/yr profit over 5 years? I think not. If the process was so "repeatable and the methods so trainable", the world would be flush with quick flip, sell-out millionaires. It
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by dhh 16y ago
No investment money was spent funding operations. That's the criteria we're using for this series.

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