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by jhund 13y ago
I have documented my strategy for moving from a simple MVP to a maintainable and complex Rails app. Basically I look at factors like how many objects are affected by an operation, and how complex the additional processing is. TL;DR: Use Rai
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by jhund 13y ago
Given that the company relies on word of mouth marketing, the move makes a lot of sense. 'Experiment' is a fantastic name. My only concern is that such a generic term negatively affects findability. E.g., it makes brand monitoring
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A [...] method for automated topic classification(arxiv.org)
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by jhund 13y ago
Two thoughts on this: 1) Strategy is primarily about saying "No" to activities that are not aligned with your goals and values. Here is a great example for saying no in a pretty gutsy way. 2) I have used Basecamp since its launch
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by jhund 13y ago
What the article doesn't mention is to use this effect as a tactic to get going in the morning: Plan your day so that you stop in the middle of an interesting task at the end of the day. I find it's effortless for me to pick it up
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by jhund 13y ago
When scanning the HN titles, I first thought you built a physical kayak that will be used by kayak-couriers (as in bike-couriers).
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Switching my Life(olabini.com)
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by jhund 13y ago
I used to own a B&W enlarger and made prints from my own negatives. I remember the bulb in the enlarger having significantly more power (photons emitted/sec) than a smart phone display has. I wonder by how much this will increase e
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by jhund 13y ago
Very interesting, I didn't notice the word 'Work' until I read the comments about it. I wonder what's going on here, perceptually... Maybe the similarity of the two words "Worst" and "Work" causes our
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by jhund 13y ago
This product is relevant to me in two ways: * I am a programmer and I care about my health * I am a startup founder and I am impressed with the package Joe Kutner provides: A book, a website and a (free) IOS app with lots of resources and f
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The Healthy Programmer(healthyprog.com)
1 points by jhund 13y ago|1 comments
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Are you actually your first customer? Then prove it.(jeffkward.com)
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by jhund 13y ago
One big factor to consider when looking at US vs. Canada is health insurance. I can get my entire family insured for $133CDN/month (base insurance, no extended). I hear that this could be 10x higher in the US. With the base insurance I can
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by jhund 13y ago
Hi there, I live in Comox. Found Victoria too pricey. Working 100% remotely, and have young kids.
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How to change objects in Rails [Flowchart](rails-recipes.clearcove.ca)
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by jhund 14y ago
I'd like to recommend https://intigi.com as an alternative to Google Alerts. I'm one of the co-founders. We started building Intigi 2 years ago because we were frustrated with the limited query abilities of Google Alerts. Intigi is curren
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by jhund 14y ago
I really like this approach. I use something similar for my work, however this has a much nicer API. Often these patterns are treated and discussed as an either/or decision, which I don't agree with. There are many places in an app where th
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StartupPack for developers(startuppack.org)
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by jhund 14y ago
Yes, as far as I can tell, twitter shortens every URL they encounter. I assume that they want their own share of the analytics cake.
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by jhund 14y ago
As far as I can tell, the two primary reasons for using URL shorteners are the ability to a) share long URLs via twitter and b) track clicks on shared links. The downsides to URL shorteners are: a) single point of failure for links. This on
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The End of x86? An Update(fernstrategy.com)
104 points by jhund 14y ago|90 comments
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by jhund 14y ago
I use pretty much the same style for my Ruby work. One thing I do differently is replacing %w(word1 word2 word3) with %w[word1 word2 word3] both result in ["word1", "word2", "word3"] I prefer the bracket delimiters sinc
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by jhund 14y ago
Hi there, good point. I didn't explain myself very well. You can do this with intigi, too. You can filter both at the content and the source level. So you could set up an interest that presents you with results that a) appear in the HN RSS
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by jhund 14y ago
Yes, that's a good start. And if you want to take it a step further, you could use a tool like intigi.com (disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders) which allows you to not only aggregate feeds, but also run Lucene queries on them to filter o
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by jhund 14y ago
We have designed and built intigi.com for this exact purpose: a secret weapon for hackers to consume news. This is how it works: You tell intigi what sources (RSS feeds and twitter accounts) you want to follow. Then you provide intigi with
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by jhund 14y ago
The bigger trend to this story is that information changed from something that was scarce to something that is now abundant. What the German publishers don't seem to understand is that their once so valuable and scarce goods (information an
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Torquebox 2.2.0 released, with jruby 1.7.1(torquebox.org)
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Make your writing easier to understand by re-structuring your sentences. [PDF](unc.edu)
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by jhund 14y ago
Based on this recommendation I read the article and found it extremely insightful. The authors claim that you can re-structure your writing to make it easier to understand without dumbing it down or even removing jargon. Just by following t
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by jhund 14y ago
I don't think this is a threat to buffer. There are two components to the buffer business: 1) the software: this can be copied or re-implemented fairly easily (see this new project). Happens all the time. Almost every product has an open so

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