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by nate 14y ago
Thanks for all this. I need to spend some time parsing it. One thing that CohortMe is doing that keeps the thing from being unwieldy is that I only go back 12 periods. So only 12 weeks, or 12 days or 12 months. Not a perfect solution, but i
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by nate 14y ago
Yep, and it's a great tool. But I was in a situation where I already have an app with data that hasn't been using Mixpanel. In fact I've got a bunch of apps like that. And I was irritated that there wasn't an easy way to just use that data
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by nate 14y ago
Yeah, it's great feedback. Noted. I'll start exploring this soon.
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by nate 14y ago
This is tremendous feedback. I'm insanely appreciative of that. Great insight I'll chew on. Want to email me for an invite? nate.kontny gmail.
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by nate 14y ago
Thank you very much! At the moment I'd like to keep it at just a single flat fee: $10 for a review. (It's only $5 right now for people beta testing) No matter what the size. So if you have a short doc you'll get lots of edits, and a long do
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Draft Preview: Uber for writing(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 14y ago
Very true. Thanks for the feedback. I'll see how I can correct that.
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by nate 14y ago
Oh man, really? Sorry about that. It's just been very exciting to work on this. And that Bijan quote came from the very first user test I did on this with a complete stranger. I've had a lot of stumbles on new projects recently, and so that
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by nate 14y ago
Thanks! Well so the inspiration for this came from just trying to get my wife to proof read my blog posts. Even a 600 word post ends up becoming a pain. I'd end up sending her a google doc, or email or whatever. She would end up copying and
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Gamification at Jimmy John’s. An innovative twist on a loyalty program(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 14y ago
Love this guy. He's even got a song about Malcolm Gladwell and the 10,000 hours stuff (that I wrote about a bit ago.)
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by nate 14y ago
Ah yeah, that's a great example. In fact, if I remember right, Gmail has always been a lot more friendly with getting mail out of gmail than services like hotmail and yahoo mail have (doesn't Yahoo still delete inactive account email?). I t
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by nate 14y ago
Zappos is a great example of doing this kind of thing. From anecdotes, it sounds like if you call Zappos to order something that they don't have in stock, they'll help you find a competitor that has it. There's some insurance companies that
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by nate 14y ago
Very true. And vice versa is actually a pretty neat idea. Youngme Moon who I mention in the article has a book called Different which I highly recommend. She's got a bit in there about differentiating yourself by making it insanely easy for
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by nate 14y ago
But I do mention that the idea predates me. I mention that I got it from wanting something out of Famspam.
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by nate 14y ago
Thanks for the comments guys. Actually, that's a big point of what I'm writing here. These ideas just keep getting copied and morphed into something else. It's ok to copy. It's ok to try and make it your own without being petrified someone
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by nate 14y ago
Maybe this link will work better? http://bit.ly/wcLwWe Update: Weird. Why do these links redirect when clicked on from Hacker News to this? http://breakthrufundraising.com/ezzi.html That's not where that bit.ly link points to at all. Up
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Good Poets Borrow, Great Poets Steal...(nancyprager.wordpress.com)
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by nate 14y ago
Thanks Steve, I'll do that. All it does is add an extra option (or two) to the views render method. By default nothing changes. Stuff only gets invoked if someone wants to do: render partial: thing, collection: @things, cache: true
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by nate 14y ago
I'd love for it to be part of standard rails, but don't they usually like to see features like this play themselves out as gems before trying to incorporate them (e.g. turbolinks, cache-digests, etc.). Of course if anyone knows of a better
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by nate 14y ago
Yay! That's awesome. Thanks for that.
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by nate 14y ago
No, but if I'm not mistaken they typically like to see new features shake themselves out as gems. Like turbolinks or cache_digests. Right?
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by nate 14y ago
Oh, thanks for sharing that. This presentation is great and is food for a couple more ideas I think I might be able to pull off for Rails using multi fetching.
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by nate 14y ago
Thanks for answering that. Yep, there's a bit here: https://github.com/n8/multi_fetch_fragments/blob/master/lib/... @collection.each do |item| key = @options[:cache].is_a?(Proc) ? @options[:cache].call(item) : item ex
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by nate 14y ago
I can totally play skeptic :) So like I mentioned in the description it really all depends. If your cache store is already really close to your application like on the same server, you aren't likely to see much gain since fetching from Memc
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by nate 14y ago
Those public links though can get turned off pretty quick right if there's a lot of traffic to that image? Or no?
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by nate 14y ago
Great summary. One problem that tripped me up with http caching in rails was invalidating client http caches when a template changes and you're doing conditional etags based on an object's updated at timestamp. So basically when you do fres
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Personal Development: Lessons from Charles Tillman(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 14y ago
Sorry if I made the timing not clear. It definitely would be hypocritical if I was building this business after I wrote this post. I had no idea these sponsored posts ended up in people's timelines in such a way no one could tell what's rea
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by nate 14y ago
Yeah, I'd like to nuke it, but there's so many things on there that family and friends post that I'd never get anywhere else. The photos of my 2 year old niece. The articles my friends only post there. Years ago I created http://tgethr.com

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