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by hopeless 14y ago
Actually, it's terrible and nothing like the Buffer email. This one is impersonal and it's all me, me, me... all about the project and the company, not the customer. And "I think you signed up a couple weeks ago now..." sounds bizarrely v
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by hopeless 14y ago
There are obviously legal technicalities but just in terms of humanely treating your users — don't assume they've agreed to something they haven't read.
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by hopeless 14y ago
I think this is really interesting and important. We (web developers, entrepreneurs) can't expect to just slap a "Terms of Service" link in tiny grey font at the bottom of every page and expect that to be legally binding. We can't expect ag
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by hopeless 14y ago
You are not your customers! If is irrelevant what you would pay or how much value you would get from the service. If a good tour helps to retain just one subscription customer a month, that easily justifies x10 the $3 price.
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by hopeless 14y ago
I'm loving the features that Stripe are throwing out (and I'm not even a customer <insert obligatory call to come to Ireland>). I imagine there's huge scope for using OAuth to open up the data for hosted metrics, dashboards or other
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by hopeless 14y ago
Superb work! I just got prompted today to update my firmware and declined, wondering when I would be able to update it again.
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by hopeless 14y ago
When will Google submit it? I suspect Google will let Apple (and us users) stew in this for a while. Just long enough so everyone feels the pain but not long enough for them to forget Google Maps Personally, StreetView down every little sin
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by hopeless 14y ago
Look at it the other way: requiring a credit card up-front gets you less unqualified tyre-kickers so the people who do sign up are probably far more motivated by the pain you're solving, and so are much more likely to become a paying custom
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by hopeless 14y ago
A few week ago I discovered Postgres Schemas (worst named feature ever -- nothing to do with SQL schema definitions). Basically, schemas allow you to have multiple databases within a single database. So, you only need to manage (or host/pay
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by hopeless 14y ago
That's what I was going to say: it's not a mortal danger but we should not ignore the fact that plenty of people have committed suicide after the battling depression brought on by a failed/failing business.
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by hopeless 14y ago
Although I've just started out, my client came to me because I started a Ruby user group in our area. My name is still attached to "Ruby Cork" even though the group fizzled out 2years ago. Now I'm working with Rails full-time again, I'll be
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by hopeless 14y ago
I find it somewhat suspicious that the original Pixate kickstarter was for ¢200,000 but they cancelled that 6 days prior to the deadline, with only ~$21k raised [1]. Now they're back with a new kickstarter for $25,000 (which they've passed)
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by hopeless 14y ago
As an admin, having the ability to masquerade as a particular user is invaluable for debugging & support.
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by hopeless 14y ago
I recently watched this video which is mostly about Postgres but also pokes some fun at MySQL's weirdness. I didn't realise how scary MySQL can be http://vimeo.com/m/43536445
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by hopeless 14y ago
It doesn't just apply to startup advice. I've stopped reading articles or watching screencasts which, although interesting, is not immediately actionable. Instead, I'll bookmark it so I feel that I can get back to it when needed and I move
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by hopeless 14y ago
There's a long history of other professions providing their own equipment: barbers buy their own scissors, chefs buy their own knives and builders/plumbers/electricians are often required to buy some equipment themselves. I'm not saying I a
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by hopeless 14y ago
There seems to be a growing backlash against sitting and I for one am not going to stand for it! Actually, just kidding but couldn't resist. I'm leaving my job (in part) because I can feel the negative effects of sitting for 8hrs a day + ~
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by hopeless 14y ago
Well, most companies aren't going to pay for a standing desk (and we're forbidden from using our own equipment). There's also the cultural thing: if I was standing I'd be able to see across the whole floor of cubicles which not only makes m
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by hopeless 14y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if Ulster Bank have reached the event horizon beyond which they don't have the computing power to recover from this.
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by hopeless 14y ago
Why can't we use img tags?
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by hopeless 14y ago
Just an update: Ulster Bank should be back to normal "next week": http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0626/break... That's a two week outage. Is this sort of thing common in other countries?
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by hopeless 14y ago
This has also been affecting customers of Ulster Bank in Ireland. The biggest problem appears to be catching up on the backlog of transactions: "The bank processed more than 110,000 transactions with a value of €500 million over the weekend
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by hopeless 14y ago
As an introduction, I like it. It's reasonably non-technical and generally errs on the right side of practicality vs theory
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by hopeless 14y ago
Of course, everyone knows the sexy primes are the 35/1.4, 50/1.4, 85/1.4 and 135/2.8 Sorry but photographic prime lenses beat mathematical prime numbers!
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by hopeless 14y ago
Richard Branson tweeted this earlier: "Learning by doing: doesn't that sound fantastic? That’s why I’m investing in @Codecademy http://t.co/V62rcoWK
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by hopeless 14y ago
It's funny how we still have that reaction to robots, when 30years ago it was assumed that we'd all have them living in our homes by now!
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by hopeless 14y ago
Amy generally doesn't advise leaving your day job either (disclosure: I've been through her 30x500 course). Having said that, I'm in a similar situation (sole bread winner, 2 kids) and I'll probably be handing in my notice this week too. It
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by hopeless 14y ago
Totally agree. I've been using a Logitech Trackman trackball for about 10years now. During the periods when I wasn't using it I'd get wrist.forearm pain and bursitis on the wrist (I have plates there from a car accident). Stretching is stil
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by hopeless 14y ago
I like Prompt as an SSH client but I'm quite happy with Textastic for code editing: http://www.textasticapp.com
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by hopeless 14y ago
Wait. Does twitter have a reputation system running, even just in the background? That sounds like a very interesting direction for them (and, I secretly hope, a solution to the prevalent spam problem) Or is this just a side-project?

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