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by jbail 14y ago
That's a fair point, but I can appreciate getting a new version of the main framework out and giving a nod that the add-ons haven't been tested yet. Ship sooner, right?
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by jbail 14y ago
I love bold moves and this is certainly one of them. I just don't think it's going to sell well. Yet. I don't think the average consumer will understand what it does and why it's priced the way it is. I understand what it does and does not
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by jbail 14y ago
So, it is real! It looks awesome, but at $1,299, I don't think it's priced well. That's $100 more than a 13" MacBook. I just don't see that much value in a Chromebook at this point in time.
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by jbail 14y ago
Can you have a short position in a privately held company? I don't think so, but maybe there's a financial vehicle for that.
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by jbail 14y ago
If you are going to base your argument on a one-time security vulnerability in RubyGems, then I'm just going to get out of your way and let you troll on.
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by jbail 14y ago
That's not Bundler's fault. It's the fault of the person who made the versionless Gemfile. There's really no comparison between using Bundler and mucking around with JAR files or Ant scripts in Java. I've even seen Python codebases with a J
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by jbail 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with selling out. I assume Posterous was founded to make a profit at some point and selling out allowed them to do that. I'm actually 100% okay with that. I was merely calling out that "never selling out" is a strange
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by jbail 14y ago
On the one hand, you have street cred for building an awesome product which inspires confidence that your next product will be awesome too. I don't doubt it will be awesome. But on the other hand, you did accept VC funding for Posterous (I'
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by jbail 14y ago
How can anyone believe this will hold true? Especially coming from the founders of Posterous who sold out and then shuttered their service? Was Posterous created to not be sustainable? If so, then Posterous's users were duped from the get g
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by jbail 14y ago
Wordpress. That might sound obvious, but it works and it's easy to setup. I left Posterous after they launched Spaces and went back to hosting my own Wordpress install. I host about 20 low traffic sites on a single Bluehost.com shared serve
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by jbail 14y ago
I just checked out that Kickstarter video. Where does it say it'll be free? In fact, I don't see how it could be, at least in the long term. They are building a web app. It will require ongoing costs to host, support and enhance. I don't th
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by jbail 14y ago
It was curious when AOL bought About.me four days after About.me launched. 4 days. That's insanely fast. Tony Conrad must have friends at AOL. What's curious is buying the company back. Maybe Conrad is returning a favor? In the end, what Ab
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by jbail 14y ago
I haven't bought a Dell PC since 2000. It was a piece of junk. Their support was also junk. I'm curious if this has changed in the past decade. Anyone bought a Dell recently that wants to weigh in? EDIT: Guess not (which isn't too surprisin
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by jbail 14y ago
I barely skimmed the article (I've written myself about responsive design here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-cssqueries/inde... ), but he does mention cross-browser compatibility and respond.js in particular.
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I Wish Planning Poker Were More Like Actual Poker(jeffbail.com)
1 points by jbail 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 14y ago
Now that's what I call a straight shooter with upper management potential.
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by jbail 14y ago
It's pretty hard to read that thread. This is a good lesson in giving people the benefit of the doubt. Always.
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by jbail 14y ago
I live in Denver too and I haven't driven to work in 6 years. Instead of driving myself, I read, listen to music and chill out. I also don't worry about traffic, weather, or really much at all. It's great for drinking after work too. I shar
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by jbail 14y ago
With regards to density, San Jose has a density of 5,256 people per square mile. In contrast, Denver (which has an awesome train/bus system) has a density of 3,698 people per square mile. If low density is why San Jose can't support a decen
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by jbail 14y ago
$10 one time doesn't seem that profitable long term. This product is either supposed to be a loss leader that brings more customers into the 37Signals fold (to use Basecamp, etc) or there are more features and functionality planned for the
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by jbail 14y ago
"Take your time and do it right" is Big Company Thinking You'd be surprised. My experience with Big Companies is that it's done "the wrong way" far more often than at the startups I've worked for. The reasons for this are many, but none o
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by jbail 14y ago
For what it's worth, I like the look of your blog with the Skeleton default --- and it really isn't much different from a design perspective than what Subtle gives you. Your decision to segment your blog onto two URLs is interesting. Won't
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by jbail 14y ago
Supporting a high density display is not just about making images 2x as big. A responsive design, use of icon fonts and careful use of images and you can do it pretty painlessly. Clearly my personal blog is not a bastion of high design, bu
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We No Longer Support IE7. Now What?(jeffbail.com)
2 points by jbail 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 14y ago
The book looks great. Just bought it on Kindle and started reading. It immediately gets down to business. I like that.
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by jbail 14y ago
"HTML5 will never be as capabable as native..." I think its very possible to imagine a world where HTML5 can be just as good as native. It comes down to two things: 1) HTML5 needs more JavaScript APIs to access hardware like camera, conta
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by jbail 14y ago
That gave me chills. I'm constantly impressed by people that have the ability to share their personal life with the world in an honest way that reveals the vulnerabilities we all share as humans. It is so much more refreshing than the oppos
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by jbail 14y ago
Not really. There is a big difference between the posts you're referring to and the privacy concerns inherent in each. The one underhandedly fills in information that the user hasn't explicitly given a site. That's abhorrent. Another offers
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by jbail 14y ago
It sounds like you had held up San Francisco and a startup job as being some sort of perfect ideal. This type of thinking usually results in feeling unhappy later. San Francisco is just one city among many in the world. It may or may not be
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Ask HN: Would you participate in a weeklong Hackathon for 2 hrs each morning?
1 points by jbail 14y ago|1 comments

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