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by mhartl 15y ago
It would democratize the process of actually writing a bill. People could actually vote for/against sections for inclusion. This might be true. Why does everyone seem to assume that it would be a good thing?
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by mhartl 15y ago
You nailed it. Doing the traditional resume-and-interview grind is OK if you're just getting started, but as soon as possible you should be building and using your personal network. If after gaining some experience you need a resume to get
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by mhartl 15y ago
No, I'm being serious. Thinking about your business model is useful, and planning is useful, but the formal practice of writing an official "business plan" (with revenue projections, etc.) is from a bygone era. More than anything, business
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by mhartl 15y ago
It's really just an abuse of language. When the financial press (or, worse, the general press) writes of "profits", they often implicitly mean "short-term profits", but that's not the same thing. In particular, Apple doesn't ignore profit;
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by mhartl 15y ago
business plans can be useful and help the founders solidify their business model, predict costs, etc. I would guess the vast majority of tech entrepreneurs would disagree with the implication that business plans are generally useful.
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by mhartl 15y ago
They can do it because Apple hasn't optimized its organization to maximize profit. Instead, it has made the creation of value for customers its priority. Apple's market cap would suggest that this presents a false dichotomy.
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by mhartl 15y ago
CyanogenMod is not a for-profit business. Maybe they should be.
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by mhartl 15y ago
It's not obvious that the freedom to criticize the government in public is more important than being able to walk anywhere, anytime, day or night, without fear of being robbed. You have the former freedom in San Francisco, but not the latte
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by mhartl 15y ago
The author (Gene Weingarten) won a Pulitzer Prize for this story in 2008. [1] The movie linked in the article is good, but I wish they would release the complete recording. I'd love to see it. [1] http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2008-Feat
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by mhartl 15y ago
app that feels like a web page, not just a single-page JS app I think this is a key point and is one reason that server-side approaches will be relevant for a long time to come. Some applications, such as Gmail and Pivotal Tracker, feel a
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by mhartl 15y ago
I always wonder if such commenters have ever lived in or even visited SV or SF. I liken it to occasional comments I've heard that the Bay Area has a thriving entertainment scene. These people have clearly never lived in LA. Until you've liv
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by mhartl 15y ago
And now they're both headquartered in the Bay Area. I doubt that's a coincidence.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Basically any place with a university and access to the internet is a good enough place for the right founder to build something of quality. This is true, but making a successful startup requires a lot more than building a quality initial
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by mhartl 15y ago
I have every page of Surely You're Joking memorized. Bazinga.
915.
by mhartl 15y ago
I'm getting one, too: This Connection is Untrusted You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.hackerengine.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
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by mhartl 15y ago
It's a quote from "Cargo Cult Science" (p. 313 of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! ): The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. —Richard Feynman
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by mhartl 15y ago
I love the pic with Ashton Kutcher. Most people would say, "Wow, Ron Conway knows Ashton Kutcher?" Whereas anyone plugged into startup culture would say, "Wow, Ashton Kutcher knows Ron Conway?"
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by mhartl 15y ago
Figure 3-6 months. I'm always amazed at how long it takes.
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by mhartl 15y ago
The 2nd edition explicitly uses Capybara instead of Webrat. As long as people pay attention to their Gemfiles, they should be fine.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Thanks for the input. This is very helpful.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Oops, you're right. That's actually a new bug, and has now been fixed. As far as the transition goes, that's a great candidate for a blog post, but it's not as good a fit for a book. Plus, experience shows that starting from scratch often t
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by mhartl 15y ago
What's the developer version? I was thinking about using the less-rails-bootstrap gem.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Any plan on tutorial of RoR in depth? Well, this tutorial already weighs in at more than 500 pages. That's pretty in-depth if you ask me. :-) But producing more advanced content in the future is definitely a possibility.
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by mhartl 15y ago
This draft includes previously unpublished versions of Chapter 10, "User microposts", and Chapter 11, "Following users". The original announcement is here: http://news.railstutorial.org/a-full-draft-of-the-ruby-on-ra... This is a full dra
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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition (full draft)(ruby.railstutorial.org)
268 points by mhartl 15y ago|45 comments
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A full draft of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition, is now available(news.railstutorial.org)
63 points by mhartl 15y ago|1 comments
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by mhartl 15y ago
You make some valid points, but you do yourself a disservice by adding the unnecessary insult "Get stuffed." Please keep the discussion here at HN civil and respectful.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I think the advice is intended for products you build for users, not products you build for clients. The right strategy depends on who your customer is. When you find a ripe market, you'll discover that your customers—i.e., the users—just w
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by mhartl 15y ago
The stock vests over time. Four years isn't the typical time for stock to vest; it's the typical time to be fully vested. Usually it's 1/4 per year for 4 years. Vesting doesn't just protect investors. It also protects cofounders. Suppose
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by mhartl 15y ago
Seconded. Could an admin please change the story title?

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