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by e1g 12y ago
You are right that some environments have draconian franchising rules, and force fast-food operators into alternative operating models (i.e. corporate/JV owned outlets). An important distinction for me is that those alternatives are f
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by e1g 12y ago
Your assumption is in line with the underlying principle - money made from collecting licensing and franchisee fees actually is more profitable than money made from selling burgers. This implies that over time large fast food operators sh
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by e1g 12y ago
Google Charts are rendered through SVG, and fortunately you have two options to reliably convert any SVG to PNG. One options is "Batik Rasterizer"[1] - it is a single .jar file, fast, and accurately renders 99% of our cases. The
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by e1g 12y ago
They say each app install costs 30c, 10% of installs are active users, and in June 13% of active users were paying members - so the total customer acquisition cost was $23 for each customer paying $4/mo. They expect the percentage of p
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by e1g 12y ago
That was meant as a point point about supporting IE8. Any recent library should just works on mobiles, but very few work on IE8. That is perfectly understandable, and justifiable, but it's also frustrating because the shiny is just out
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by e1g 12y ago
FusionCharts used Highcharts for rendering for a while, so in a way FC was a superset of HC. The two projects have parted ways last year, and FC has done great work through Raphael since then. I consider FusionCharts to be more feature rich
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by e1g 12y ago
I would recommend Highcharts[1] - a very wide range of great looking charts with minimal effort. Also free for personal/non-commercial use. Unlike D3-based charting libraries, it works on everything from IE8 to mobiles. [1] http:&#x2F
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by e1g 12y ago
Is there a public demo available? This sounds like an interesting tool, but I do not want to signup and add an unknown snippet into production just to get a better understanding of this. I suspect the actual site is supposed to be a demo in
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by e1g 12y ago
Thank you for correcting me. I disagreed after reading the same blog post, but after your explanation I realised I completely missed the baseline performance guarantee. Your math was spot on!
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by e1g 12y ago
The 3,000 IOPS figure for General Purpose SSDs comes with two caveats - it is available only in bursts for up to 30 minutes and it comes out of a capped reserve which is slowly refilled over time based on the size of the drive. In other wor
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by e1g 12y ago
Another alternative to consider is FineUploader which has a mature S3 module[1]. However, FineUploader does require a commercial licence of $80-$500p.a. [1] http://blog.fineuploader.com/2013/08/16/fine-uploade
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by e1g 12y ago
It could be that something within your OSX is not quite right. My primary machine is a 2013 MBA, and I always switch between IntelliJ, couple vmboxes, spotify, 5-10 Chrome tabs, Pages/Numbers, and Skype. Often, I also run VMWare with W
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by e1g 12y ago
Same - I installed HTTPSB as a dec tool, but ended up liking how much control it gives back to me about what is loaded on my pages. There was an initial period of frustration as I had to unblock the bare minimum required to make youtube&#x2
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by e1g 12y ago
The trend "Jabberwocky" comes at a very considerable startup cost, a significant learning curve, and a negative impact productivity (at least during the early days). In return for strict adherence to its philosophy, it promises to
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by e1g 12y ago
"Making Software" [1] has a chapter called "How Effective is Test-Driven Development?" where they do a meta review of 32 clinical studies on TDD pulled from 325 reports. They filtered out reports based on scientific rigo
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by e1g 12y ago
I am another a developer that has never used Backbone (until couple months ago at least). Someone could assume that is because I develop trivial apps, but in reality the opposite is true. Tools such as jQuery and Backbone seem ubiquitous on
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by e1g 12y ago
In Chrome, you could Snippets[1] or Live Editing[2] to monkey-patch Javascript sources inline. No need to copy & modify the content - just edit it within the browser and re-run. Complete with syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and th
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by e1g 12y ago
Another implementation of this pattern is available as a component from the Symfony2 ecosystem[1]. It is flexible, well-tested, and can be easily used standalone either from Github[2] or through composer[3] [1] http://symfony.com
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by e1g 13y ago
The "grownups" reference was snide and dismissive of the great work done by young founders - I should not have used it. For context, I was comparing the origin of Atlassian and Workday. Atlassian was started by two 22 year olds th
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by e1g 13y ago
Workday (NYSE:WDAY) was founded in 2005 and floated in 2012 with the valuation of $4.5B (currently $15B). However the Workday story is different because it was started by grownups and well geared towards enterprise from the start (business
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by e1g 13y ago
>Is it also a webscraper that can pull data out of a page for me? No, Phantom will only recreate the page as it would look like to a human user (i.e. after all javascript is parsed and executed). It will not help you parse or slice the p
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by e1g 13y ago
Not affiliated with the OP or the project, but I threw up a sandbox to play with this at http://awstest123.notesies.com:9001/static/main.html
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by e1g 13y ago
Agreed. Doctrine Migrations[1] is excellent for managing SQL schema differences and migrations across all major RDBMs (MySQL/PGSQL/MSSQL/Oracle/etc). Both upgrading and downgrading is supported, as well as custom scripts
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by e1g 13y ago
An Australian here - there is absolutely no universal basic income in Australia. We have a nurturing social safety net and it provides some minimal payments for those who are experiencing hardship. These payments are temporary and a meant t
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by e1g 13y ago
The new C3.Large is cheaper than M1.Large (and only marginally more expensive than the old M1.Medium), but its CPU performance is roughly twice as good. Swapping over made a notable difference for our web nodes (perhaps 30-40% reduction in
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by e1g 14y ago
Would it be possible to introduce the white-labelling feature on lower priced tiers? This would be perfect for MVPs for rapid iteration, however that area also implies stringent financial constraints. Specifically, I am thinking of how to u
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by e1g 14y ago
Lifted verbatim from the latest newsletter from Steve Pavlina. Nothing explicitly wrong with that as Steve relinquished all claims on his writings, but thought I should mention this if someone wants to find more from the original author.