kyleashipley

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by kyleashipley 11y ago
I don't think that avoiding mixins implies inheritance. The more common pattern, at least in React, is "higher-order" or "wrapper" components where the responsibility for managing the mixin's behavior is moved
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
I didn't downvote, but your comment doesn't add much to the conversation. Are smart watches DOA as a product category? Why? Can we still incorporate lessons from the single-tap model into phone apps? How?
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
Is it possible to have the employee waive his right to a wrongful termination lawsuit? A waiver seems to be a condition of many severance packages, although I'm not sure how enforceable it is. Could thorough and actionable analysis be
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
My guess is that Node is responsible for serving the HTML/CSS/JS that's used by the front-end, and probably providing an isomorphic Ember endpoint down the road. So probably in the realm of knowledge that a front-end dev woul
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
That's probably true, but our goal wasn't to optimize floor space. And that's the problem with most open office layouts -- they're optimizing for the wrong thing. Open offices are not a magical panacea that makes workers
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
From what I've read about Google, they optimized for flexibility in their space. We tried to do the same, although it became difficult when the company grew faster than the office space (at least until we moved again). Not sure this wo
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
I'll play contrarian for a moment: the most productive office I've ever worked in was an open office layout. What worked for us: * Separate clusters by function / noise level -- We didn't put sales people and developers
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
This is almost exactly how I use it as well. I find Twitter to be incredibly valuable, even though I scoffed at it for a couple years before finally signing up. I also know many people who game their main feed by reciprocally following ever
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
As a counterpoint, the Wikipedia definition of startup was coined by Steve Blank sometime in the past ~5 years, so it's not exactly ancient history. I think if we place emphasis on the word "scalable," PG + Blank's defin
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
Appreciate the response and love to hear that you guys tried to make it work. I originally read the quote you pulled as rationalization / post-hoc justification, but I can see how maybe he just didn't elaborate on that bit. (I was
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by kyleashipley 12y ago
Without having the PivotDesk side of the story, I can't help but feel that there's a second, undocumented failure here: the lack of a strong feedback culture. Did the cofounder really not receive any performance feedback until &qu
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by kyleashipley 13y ago
3.2 -> 4 is an order of magnitude easier than 2 -> 3. The upgrade guide is pretty solid, and I imagine it mostly applies for Rails 4.1 as well: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html#u... I spent m
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by kyleashipley 13y ago
Isn't it valuable to Comcast as well in the long run? I know several people who have updated their internet packages to ensure high quality Netflix streaming. I have to imagine Comcast's profits on that upgrade far exceed the deli
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by kyleashipley 13y ago
I don't have a ton of love for LinkedIn, but this is a problem they've taken on and solved to some degree. If I have a second-degree LinkedIn connection, I can request an intro through an intermediary, who has the chance to reject
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by kyleashipley 13y ago
I agree with winslow that the main initial attraction is the novelty of the genre. I got into League of Legends a few years ago before DOTA2 was announced, and I find that it's a bit more beginner-friendly and balanced than DOTA. (DOTA
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by kyleashipley 13y ago
It seems like the music app received some half-baked changes across the board. For example, you can no longer shuffle all music in a particular genre through the app. They added (or maybe always had) an option to shuffle through Siri (&quot
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by kyleashipley 14y ago
Although I've been a hardcore TDD advocate from time to time, I find myself writing fewer and fewer tests in the early stages these days. In the very earliest days of a startup, you can easily hold the entirety of the problem space in your
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by kyleashipley 14y ago
We tried reaching out to some gaming blogs, but didn't get a lot of traction. We learned a lot from the Kickstarter process though (blog post?), so if we do relaunch, we'll be smarter about the media coverage. Keep an eye on our Twitter acc
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by kyleashipley 14y ago
You're totally right. One of my friends helped out with that GIF, and I didn't spot check it closely enough. Thanks for the tip!
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by kyleashipley 14y ago
Man, this would've been useful a few weeks ago! We posted this as a ShowHN recently, but we built http://www.awesomecontroller.com/ as a side-scrolling pixel site. We used Pixen on OSX for pixel art, and it was really simple to get starte