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by netaustin 15y ago
If he is as successful as Rails, one of the biggest impacts he'll have is the creation of a hundred other frameworks in other languages. Also, the "I don't want no glue" line is a lie. Any such framework to coerce Web Development into a sin
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by netaustin 16y ago
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler helped me make the jump from small systems built for myself to large, sophisticated systems built for others. The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks really helped me learn to t
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by netaustin 16y ago
Drupal also sends plaintext passwords out of the box (at least in Drupal 6), although it does hash the password in the database. One of the first things I do is change the wording of the welcome email.
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by netaustin 16y ago
Get good at every system (software or otherwise) you depend on, and stick with them. Don't take on new systems until it hurts too much not to. For me, this means that I run the same GTD/Pomodoro routine day in and day out using Remember the
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by netaustin 16y ago
I have to laugh, because although I don't think I'd do this, most of my clients are pageview hungry media sites, and they would love this. I'd say within a month one of them will ask me if it's feasible to implement. This reminds me in some
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by netaustin 16y ago
I suspect that a "try now" button would be the death of most products traditionally advertised by a long sales letter.
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by netaustin 16y ago
The long sales letter is the Internet beachhead of the pitch man. Maybe these kinds of sales letters work for some products. But Jeremy knows that he's signaling on Billy Mays (he says so himself), and that people who wouldn't ever buy from
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by netaustin 16y ago
I tend to judge languages solely on their aesthetic utility unless they're designed to make something very difficult possible (e.g. Erlang). And this one isn't any more pleasant to read than Java or C, it just happens to be a little differe
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by netaustin 16y ago
I always wonder, in cases like this, about the role that the underlying technology plays. Wordpress's choice of PHP meant that installation was easy, theming/modification was easy, and it would work on your crappy shared host with FTP acces
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by netaustin 16y ago
Broadening the idea of a CTO from startups to companies with long track records, I've always thought of ideal CTOs as those who can balance risk and stability, growth and retention. They are elastic enough to handle being stretched between
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by netaustin 16y ago
You know, Yelp should cut off its relationship with Opentable and just jump into this business itself and charge either no fee or a nominal fee to restaurants (basic vs. pro). This would solve a big problem for Yelp; if Yelp could save rest
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by netaustin 16y ago
Who knows what he'll work on at Facebook? Maps and Wave are kind of unrelated, conceptually. Facebook could use him for something related to geolocation for Places, or they could want him to lead some inbox/chat integration project. Maybe t
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by netaustin 16y ago
So mock their API with BeautifulSoup or Hpricot :-)
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by netaustin 16y ago
I have long wondered why airlines don't put considerably more pressure on online brokers than they do, and I think this debate is missing their perspective. They would probably agree that airfares on the first page of search results would b
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by netaustin 16y ago
Remember, this survey is more about self-validation than what bosses actually think about their employees. I would theorize that most employees give their boss the benefit of the doubt, since it would be very difficult to get through the
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by netaustin 16y ago
Let's be honest, this is an appeal for work, or maybe a marketing ploy of some sort. As an appeal for work it reads "I can be part of the boys' club." But a product people want? Please. There is not nearly enough Foursquare data in New Orle
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by netaustin 16y ago
I don't know about this. Something about Andrew Horner's reverse job application was amusing; I find this one a bit creepy. I find his demo application to be a disheartening demonstration of an oblivious sort of sexism that's all too preval
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by netaustin 16y ago
I was recently on an interviewing committee which passed on a highly qualified candidate because he seemed too tightly wound and swore a couple of times. We passed on another candidate because his point of view seemed more entrepreneurial t