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by dhh 16y ago
The key is that we want companies for this series that are bootstrapped. Companies that didn't take outside funding to run operations, but either put in their own money or didn't go full-time until they were profitable. Shopify is still a g
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by dhh 16y ago
I'd be curious what hand-crafted URLs you feel aren't possible with the new Rails 3 router. We've gone far to allow all kinds of hand-crafted urls. For example, here's an example: get 'something/fun/:id', :to => "controller#action" You
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by dhh 16y ago
It seems you misunderstand how the Rails system works. But let me explain. 1) You can certainly have a paypal_callback method, if you choose. That's talking about the carrier, though, not the action. Presumably that callback means something
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by dhh 16y ago
What an awesome way to advocate for code change. Very pretty. Unfortunately, I also think it's faulty. First, it doesn't actually advocate anything concrete. There's some hand-waving to Sinatra and other Rails features, but nothing concrete
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by dhh 16y ago
Do you know who else didn't use to have a popular blog? 37signals. When Basecamp launched, we had something like 4,000 readers of SvN. Now that's a fair chunk, but certainly not unobtainable.
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by dhh 16y ago
We have a couple of other companies lined up but there's no schedule yet. Hopefully we'll start getting a steady flow of suggestions for companies that fit the profile and do something every couple of weeks.
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by dhh 16y ago
What laughable and superficial conjecture. 1) It's great that the ideas that Rails popularized are being adopted on other platforms. But besides for Django which has a) been out for almost as long as Rails and b) uses a great dynamic langua
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by dhh 16y ago
I think it's awesome that you're excited for Rails 3. I'm incredibly excited for it. Lots of great stuff happening. But. (And that's a big but). I think you might overestimate the philosophical changes that are going on here. Seeing pipe dr
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by dhh 16y ago
This is a very shallow analysis of a fast-moving community, but I can sympathize how it's the easiest way to make yourself content with using the same tools as you did three years ago. If you feel like you're getting stuff done to the best
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by dhh 16y ago
I agree that gem releasing used to be cumbersome, but the new gem creation process is redunkulously simple: 1) Signup at rubygems.org: http://rubygems.org/sign_up 2) gem build my_lib.gemspec 3) gem push my_lib.gem That's it!
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by dhh 16y ago
The talk was Living with Legacy Software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkiCpPeYuI -- from RailsConf EU '08.
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by dhh 16y ago
Which South American country exactly would you move to that is both better governed and less taxed? I don't think the author has visited many SA countries. That's not to say that there are no reasons to move to South America, just that you
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by dhh 16y ago
Do people who force their kids to listen to tech podcasts in the car really exist :)? And why would you not use headphones if listening to a podcast at work?
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by dhh 16y ago
Please keep me out of the clean feed. I'd rather miss out on a few can't-listen-to-the-word-fuck-in-my-headphones-without-trouble-at-work folks and have the original content presented as is. (See potty mouths for more on this: http://www.l
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by dhh 17y ago
What metric are you using to define success? It seems not to be the traditional capitalist one. The score card for Facebook currently says minus $750M. Breaking even or a small profit is not going to change that. Facebook totally COULD be a
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by dhh 17y ago
WTF are you talking about? I pay for plenty of services. In fact, I love paying for good services. Dropbox is a great example. So is Campaign Monitor, Zendesk, and Survey Monkey. Give shit away for free and people will take it for free.
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by dhh 17y ago
a) Facebook is a definitely the odd man out. They made something happen that very, very few other eyeball companies have managed. b) Facebook isn't winning shit for their investors YET. They've allegedly just turned cash flow positive, but
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by dhh 17y ago
We have a whole weblog dedicated to talking about our product and calling out new feature launches: http://productblog.37signals.com/ Most people aren't that interested in just reading an infomercial, though. Lots of people are apparently
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by dhh 17y ago
If we need what we were going to do before we did it. We'll, we'd just do it then and there. Ruby code is simple enough that the process from good idea to implementation is small. That makes road maps meaningless because you can only map wh
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by dhh 17y ago
We removed error_messsages_for because it wrapped up something really simple (iterating over error messages) into a something that seemed magic and hard and was impossible to change. It also violated a core Rails statute of never dictating
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by dhh 17y ago
This is not about calling Jobs out for not adding more features to the iPhone. This is akin to if I had said you couldn't use any other editor than TextMate to program in Rails. Or that you had to run it on OS X server. That would have been
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by dhh 17y ago
So you'd like for the web to be put back in the box and replaced with an AOL Walled Garden of wonder? Freedom can indeed be dangerous, but I'd rather be free to hurt myself than smothered to dead by paternalism.
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by dhh 17y ago
The main speed benefit of SSDs is not throughput, but random access speeds. That's what makes it feel so magically fast. SSD over FW800 still gives you that.
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by dhh 17y ago
Currently, American Crew medium hold/shine. Occasionally, Bubble & Bubble #5. But of course the real secret is in how you apply just the right swirl.
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by dhh 17y ago
That particular post was born out of a frustration with the disbelief about not being for sale and what I consider an infatuation with flipping companies and serial entrepreneurs. I don't think the language is any more colorful than it's al
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by dhh 17y ago
The thinking is work on the best idea that you have right now. Not the best one you haven't even come up with yet. That's not going to be very helpful.
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by dhh 17y ago
Sharing over ideas is how we work on our company. That's how we've always worked on our company. If you're not going to out-spend the competition on advertising, you damn well better have another strategy for getting people interested. For
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by dhh 17y ago
Ponder the possibility that you might be the one who changed. Maybe you read too much blog advice and got tired of it. Too much of anything is bad. We have over a hundred thousand readers at SvN. Some just joined, some has been with us for
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by dhh 17y ago
What's wrong with that paradigm? If you believe that your technology or philosophy is better than the status quo, why wouldn't you argue for that? Why wouldn't you want to convince others to do the same? The progress of the world demands on
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by dhh 17y ago
Oh, make no mistake. I'm in it for the money too. But I think there's more money to be made owning my own company for the next twenty years than there is selling it for 10-15 times today profits (the realistic, going price for profitable so

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