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by jayroh 11y ago
This is an excellent write-up and a great use-case for what S3+Lambda can do. As AWS offerings go, I believe Lambda has a tremendous upside and will be growing significantly over the next few years. I've been throwing a lot of my own
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by jayroh 11y ago
A former coworker did a write-up and an interview with one of his former clients and I think it sheds a lot of light on how this can work - https://robots.thoughtbot.com/a-client-project-two-years-lat...
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by jayroh 11y ago
Re #2 - fully outsourcing development. I've seen this done successfully and as a matter of fact I was on the team that built the first MVP. I'm sure it's the exception and not the rule but it can be done if the team that&#x27
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by jayroh 12y ago
A wholehearted +1 to this. Brennan's courses and newsletter have done quite a bit in opening me up to how to properly run a solo consulting business. He provides a huge amount of good information.
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by jayroh 12y ago
They certainly didn't have to get the support for 2.2.0 out on Christmas morning, but they (actually, Terence) did. https://twitter.com/hone02/status/548131759762968576 Although with Matz an employee I'm
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by jayroh 12y ago
To the people who maintain the tools and platforms around these large version updates - thank you. rvm, ruby-build, homebrew, heroku - you're all truly generous for having everything ready for us almost immediately (on Christmas mornin
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by jayroh 12y ago
I ran into this a few days ago when I was searching for a common background job / queue interface: https://github.com/dwbutler/multi_worker Haven't tried it yet but looks promising.
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by jayroh 13y ago
Anywhere up and down the services chain (from solo freelancer to large consultancy) should do this. There's a cost to vetting potential clients and service providers in the form of time. The sooner you can tell whether everyone is on t
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by jayroh 13y ago
There are arguable shades of gray in those examples but the JSON one and this one: > X says - Lets make those by copy-pasting - and later we will think about making it generic ... are pretty ill-informed. That just reeks of sloppy and la
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by jayroh 13y ago
If you present it as a commodity, they will treat it as such. "A website" is a thing. "A tailored solution to help your business do X" is not.
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by jayroh 14y ago
This works really quite well - great work, airblade! For reference, this is what I placed in my vimrc to get things how I like them: highlight clear signcolumn let g:gitgutter_enabled = 0 nmap <leader>gu :GitGutterToggle&#60
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by jayroh 14y ago
I think the space is growing, especially in the rails world where it's been stagnating for so long. There's discourse, forem and I've even just released my own at http://www.thredded.com (source at http://github.com/jayroh/thredded ) It'
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by jayroh 14y ago
Keymaster has stagnated a bit, that's correct, but it's still a pretty quality piece of work. I'm using it for my own keyboard shortcut (jquery) plugin here : http://joeloliveira.com/chaves.js/demo/defaults.html The goal of my plugin isn'
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by jayroh 15y ago
I understand his position completely and I can get behind his message - tone down the alco-centric messaging. That could have been a single tweet and not this long diatribe. What I don't understand is the patronizing hyperbole. The bit that
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by jayroh 15y ago
Guys, I think a lot of you are missing the point. The purpose of this, I believe, is somewhat akin to climbing Mt Everest. It's there, he wanted to see if he could do it. He did it. Comparing this to flash, or arguing why it doesn't work i
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by jayroh 15y ago
And I, just now, walked into my home office after a trip to my doctor for a check-up ... a check-up I'd been putting off for 2 years or so. The timing is impeccable with what happened yesterday in mr. Jobs' passing. Health and your persona
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by jayroh 15y ago
Anyone else noticing that Github is becoming synonymous with "Git" - like kleenex is to tissues and xerox is to copying machines? Crag do you mean GITHUB, the website and service, overall, or just GIT the version control system?
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by jayroh 16y ago
Because I'm guessing there might be others thinking the same question, I'll go ahead and ask - How is this different from something like rsync?
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by jayroh 16y ago
Between modernizr and the google font loading engine it's pretty easy to handle the FOUT issue. It's a pain in the ass, but manageable after a little tinkering.
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by jayroh 16y ago
I've contemplated this measure a few times but the fear of legal repercussions is a little too overwhelming to go through with it. At the same time - I feel sympathy for this designer and don't blame them. One overwhelming gesture of disre
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by jayroh 16y ago
Overall this is one of the best top-down looks at the "roles" front-end developers can fit into. However, the point I'm so apt to obsess over is that people (who hire) can't get it that these differences exist ... so I'm compelled to enc
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by jayroh 16y ago
According to his bio on scvngr - "Seth Priebatsch was born in Boston, MA at the age of 7." ( http://www.scvngr.com/about/team ) How can you hold someone to conventional standards when they're born at the age of 7?! He's got a lot of catc
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Ask HN: How do you deal with deadbeat clients?
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by jayroh 16y ago
The timing of this question couldn't be better because I think I know something that might help give you perspective. Go out to the library, or borders, barnes and nobles (or digitally) and buy this book - http://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Thr
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by jayroh 16y ago
The question now is - how difficult is it to replace a regular hd in this generation of Macbooks? In my 3yr old laptop it was a manageable, although a bit stressful, to pull out the hd and replace with an SSD.
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by jayroh 16y ago
Excellent blog post. I think you could replace Apple and Adobe with a good number of arbitrary products or companies (or political parties) and it would still make perfect sense. When emotional attachment is introduced, all sorts of reaso
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by jayroh 17y ago
His article is all well and good, and I don't blame him for the case of shaudenfreude - but all this talk means nothing until verizon or google actually do something. It's been all talk and no walk from top to bottom. Palm Pre? Supposedly
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by jayroh 17y ago
Before submitting my own comment re:the lack of line-height on this site I searched for "line-height" in the comments because I know Hacker News so damn well. Forchrissakes people how does anyone think this is even approaching readable!?
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by jayroh 17y ago
Same. For Slicehost this is pretty much a given ... why waste your resources on processing and storing email when you can offload it to google?
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by jayroh 18y ago
someone explain this to me a little better. Is this a web-app for people to pose questions because they're too wishy-washy to weigh their options themselves? If that's truly what it is then: 1 - I don't get how this is "HUGE". 2 - Must be

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