kennystone

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by kennystone 14y ago
The demo video is really impressive. Most websites have terrible search functionality, and google's offering is pretty sucky too. This market is absolutely huge.
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by kennystone 15y ago
> On the vendor side, working with ZeroCater means regular business for a number of food service operators... In exchange for volume discounts, ZeroCater provides a steady stream of orders for a number of local businesses. This is so co
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by kennystone 15y ago
Great post. Backbone made all of my code faster and simpler to maintain, too, and perhaps more importantly - easier to think about.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Manufacturing defects, bad roads, poor signage - Government has optimized these pretty well.
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by kennystone 15y ago
You're missing it dude. Columbus' conclusion was wrong when he started, but he had the right instincts to start sailing. This is what PG is saying - you don't know the future, so start sailing in an interesting direction and maybe you'll
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by kennystone 15y ago
>> This is a very good point but I don't think that offsets the downsides. The downsides of out of date documents are 1% of the total cost of construction. A project may have 1-3% margin for a GC, so this is an enormous number. Y
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by kennystone 15y ago
Our approach is as practical as it can be - the actual builders need drawings and the drawings are usually delivered in PDF. We've found very few of our customers get the DWG files themselves, and even if they do, they are easily exported
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by kennystone 15y ago
Thanks - among our first 20+ companies, all our users have iPads. We haven't seen any Android tablets in the field, actually.
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by kennystone 15y ago
iPad is the dominant tablet platform (phones might have been different). We may do Android eventually - our backend is written to support web and iOS already.
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by kennystone 15y ago
This is a great idea. Certainly your employees cost more than $25/hr.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Not the good kind of innovation. Some nerds won an argument about HTTP semantics. Rails used to understand the importance of convention. This just seems silly and meaningless, change just for change.
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by kennystone 15y ago
The DB Query test is pretty interesting, actually. It draws results into a much closer range, and shows that your bottleneck for WebApp/DB style apps will probably be your database.
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by kennystone 15y ago
When you make a product that needs mass consumer adoption, celebrity could easily matter. Consumer apps are extremely competitive and the most difficult to succeed in. Use your valuable skills to solve a real problem for people with real
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by kennystone 15y ago
"They decided to go for-profit and allow anti-competitive behavior and destructive (but high-paying) new "customers" to suck all the life out of each day's trading with algorithmic codes." This has nothing to do with why Facebook didn't wan
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by kennystone 15y ago
Nah, just the startups looking to become absolutely huge (most shouldn't).
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by kennystone 15y ago
He answers "yes" for 98% of companies, which seems to be a reasonable guess, if not too low of a percentage.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Most people won't understand it is 'go daddy' hijacking the process and may get frustrated by delays. One guy in this thread thought it was a name cheap problem, for example.
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by kennystone 15y ago
An arduino board with an intro book might be a good gift for beginner programmers. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596155520.do It's incredibly difficult to learn to program if you are doing it just for the sake of learning. Most peo
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by kennystone 15y ago
RIM has pretty deep enterprise integration compared to everyone else. Presumably they could leverage a lot of their existing software (on the backend - push, mail, messaging, etc) plus some great Android apps?
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by kennystone 15y ago
Seems like a decent executive would have started a division running Android with Blackberry customizations a while back.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Invoke dynamic means less of a need for C-Extensions, which is probably one of the largest sources of pain for JRuby compatibility. The JVM is better at running plain old ruby code now, so there's less need to go outside of it with C or Ja
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by kennystone 15y ago
"Compared to JRuby on Java 6, JRuby on Java 7 without invokedynamic is around 25% faster, and JRuby with invokedynamic is nearly 3 times faster." JRuby already is as fast or faster than MRI, and a 3X increase in performance is absolutely hu
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by kennystone 15y ago
It's a whopping $29.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Yeah, but far more people will never learn vim because of the learning curve.
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by kennystone 15y ago
It's a great feature, isn't it? Apple's products automatically connect your devices to each other, and once they have authenticated, are allowed to easily sync and transfer files.
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by kennystone 15y ago
I enjoyed seeing your debugging process and picked up a few tricks.
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by kennystone 15y ago
It's a humorous article. TC knows their crowd, and they are poking fun at everyone - themselves for not caring about a huge deal, their audience for also not caring, enterprise software for being boring.
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by kennystone 15y ago
Absolutely a rip-off, but Zendesk was stupid to comment on it.
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by kennystone 15y ago
The docs are ok, but example code and tutorials are lacking. Peepcode showed me the way, but it's not free.
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by kennystone 15y ago
If the number is right, $80m is not a ton of money for people who have already had big exits and took $20m in VC to start this company.

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