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Show HN: Marketable for Devise(ninjasandrobots.com)
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Skip Class(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 13y ago
This is a tangent, but the post reminded me of this. I've done quite a bit of cold-emailing to reach new mentors and new clients. One of the things I started doing a couple years ago was to offer buying someone I was cold-emailing a &q
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by nate 13y ago
I sent this to the blog author, but then felt maybe someone else might get something from reading it. My offer stands for everyone here. Most of us are going through or have gone through this same struggle eloquently written in this post. I
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by nate 13y ago
Congrats on getting something out there! One thing I'm always most cautious about this is what do we really know? I can give you some advice about what I think you could do better, but I don't run a restaurant, and those are the c
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No one listens to me(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 13y ago
I hear you. And you are definitely right. It can be intimidating. Those cold calls, I still can't get the nerves out when I've done those. But emails, you don't actually have to feel any rejection :) I have never gotten someo
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by nate 13y ago
Thanks a ton for the comment on this and reading the article! But see, I don't think motivating someone to help you is really that hard. As I mentioned in there, there are so many places where there's oodles of people who'd l
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by nate 13y ago
One thing I'll probably cover in the future is one of the things that have made these cold emails and random meetings successful is simply being clear about what I want. I've made the mistake many times of simply saying "I&#x
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by nate 13y ago
I use Stripe for Draft, and I know I'm losing money. I get emails everyday from people outside the US who can't use a credit card or they don't trust any vendor with their CC. I'm probably going to have to add Paypal too
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Show HN: A nice way of writing Time objects in Ruby - am/pm methods(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 13y ago
Smoke/Carbon Monoxide detectors have been an enormous issue for me. Many of the detectors that use a 9V battery backup have a poorly designed chamber holding the battery. Often the battery doesn't make good contact with the metal
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Does that help?(ninjasandrobots.com)
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What'd you say?(fastcolabs.com)
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"I don’t know anything about making movies." Doing it anyways.(setpixel.com)
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Go Long(ninjasandrobots.com)
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Worse is human(37signals.com)
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A litmus test for your idea(ninjasandrobots.com)
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Lucky(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 13y ago
I love the name! Thanks!
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by nate 13y ago
Thanks for the comment. I might not understand though yet. Tracer bullets does track the elapsed time in between each section. Are you saying it's more useful sometimes to track a cumulative total of the elapsed time for each of these
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by nate 13y ago
That's a good question. I've used ruby-prof before, but for me that requires a cognitive load and steps I don't always want to preform in many situations. This just seems simpler. Install gem, sprinkle tb's in my code, a
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by nate 13y ago
Of course, thank you for checking it out.
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by nate 13y ago
Dave Thomas and Pragmatic also have a tracer bullet analogy. But in that case it's more about "prototype" code being used as a tracer bullet instead of requirements and specifications to figure out what people want. http:&#x
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by nate 13y ago
Awesome to hear! The version I used at the Obama campaign had other bells and whistles like color coding the log entry. I just arbitrarily picked some time I thought was slow, made it read, less slow, made it yellow, others green. That migh
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by nate 13y ago
Thanks for the question! Well, production web transaction traces in New Relic are only available to paying customers - and pay you will :). But also those usually only give you great data about SQL statements or things like this (Applicatio
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Show HN: Rails Performance Help – Tracer Bullets(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 13y ago
One mistake I kept making for a long time is not turning that traffic from HN into repeat visitors. In the old days it was about email newsletters. Today Twitter followers help. I'll often end my blog posts with a simple PS: follow me
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Downward(ninjasandrobots.com)
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How To (Really) Get The Word Out About Your Startup(fastcolabs.com)
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