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Cowboy Coding and the Pink Sombrero(bnj.com)
9 points by eatenbyagrue 15y ago|0 comments
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The Anatomy of Email Response Rates (Infographic)(bnj.com)
2 points by eatenbyagrue 15y ago|0 comments
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My Experience in Low Bandwidth America(bnj.com)
2 points by eatenbyagrue 16y ago|0 comments
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by eatenbyagrue 16y ago
FWIW, I have both a free account and a paid account, and have noticed that both have slowed down quite a bit in the last few months. Most likely their business is growing fast and capacity management is complicated (even if you're Google)
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by eatenbyagrue 16y ago
There's a middle ground of knowledge where this is true... but once you power through to the other side, and understand how Rails works, you can pretty much make it do anything.
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by eatenbyagrue 17y ago
It's not completely accurate to say source code is useless. While I agree that it's not particularly useful to steal code with the aim of replicating functionality, security is another thing. All it takes is a few lines of rogue code slippe
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Ask HN: Created my first Ruby Gem. How'd I do?
2 points by eatenbyagrue 17y ago|0 comments
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by eatenbyagrue 17y ago
We use TickSpot.com with a team of 50. Nice UI, good basecamp integration is a plus for us, and has an API for custom stuff.
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by eatenbyagrue 17y ago
cloudsdk.com
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by eatenbyagrue 17y ago
If you are worried about it and don't know the answer, then the answer is yes, you'll be at risk. It is very possible to setup secure hosting using cloud computing services, where you and only you can access the data, however it requires a
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
A lot of this is solved by namespaces in Ruby (Modules.) Unfortunately, developers don't really apply them consistently. A best practice should be to put everything in it's own namespace. Been playing around with .NET MVC and C#, and this i
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
I say that's a big maybe. For all it's strengths, Rails requires more programming skills than PHP... PHP will always be better for the "web designer turned scripter" set, just because it's easier to get results with if you aren't really a p
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Wow. This is now my new console editor. I've always used nano (after pico) for nix editing. Never been worth the trouble to get comfortable on emacs or vi (all my coding is mostly on Windows or MacOS) Having syntax coloring and the simplici
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Start at your planned 'revenue event' and work your way backwards to your expected traffic volumes. For example, if you have a plan to build a site with users and content, and your revenue plan is to sell T-shirts; - What percentage of chec
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Hmm, that seems a little... anachronistic. From my perspective, I figure the many thousands of programming hours that have gone into making your average RDBMS fast and reliable might be worth taking advantage of...
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Great point. We're definitely not a design oriented team... a lot of effort has gone into classification and monitoring, not so much on look. We'll probably be considering upleveling the design next (thanks everyone for the comments)
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Rate my Startup: automated game news classification and monitoring
7 points by eatenbyagrue 18y ago|8 comments
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
This a little ridiculous. Anyone who's seen both a Kindle and an iPhone side by side knows they don't compare. It's pretty hard to imagine someone reading War and Peace on an iPhone, or even the Wall Street journal or something...
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
This is so true. I find it a little shocking that this poster isn't capable of writing with a pen.
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
I second that. The designers I work with have this fetish for low contrast designs that may be super mod and hip, but seem to lower usability to me. In general I agree that black on white might be a little harsh, but when you have squint to
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Generally speaking, it's better for new web apps to be paranoid that no one will care about your app, vs paranoid too many will be.
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
This is a great idea, and has the potential to take off very quickly. One thing you might want to do is seed your site with a bunch of merchandise. Find an interested party with some cheap stuff to unload (like woot.com) and offer to help t
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
I assume you're asking about scalability in terms of pages per second or whatever, but what you should be more worried about is the scalability of your development effort. As other posters have said, speed of the platform is not the issue.
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
From what I've seen, most people really dislike the formatting the most. Plenty of people get the 'track changes' feature in Word, but when you edit a wiki you have to use a markup language. Simple or not, any kind of symbolic representatio
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Probably not that crazy... maybe carders converting stolen cards to cash?
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
- Huge library of high quality components - One of the best available development environments (Visual Studio) - C# is much better for structuring your code base for large teams and long lived projects - If you're really using a database, S
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Not sure it's clear what the point of your website is...
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
Oh man I wish comments were enabled on his post...
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
I use Rails, but would add Django/Python to the "startup" list
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by eatenbyagrue 18y ago
You could probably help transferring an unclaimed fund of $25,000 from which I am in dire need of immediate assistance.

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