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by nthj 12y ago
You'd think Rackspace's CEO would have at least heard of mail merge, over "Dear Rackspace Customer."
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by nthj 12y ago
> Many small companies don't have a large wage bill (outside SV), and don't have lots of devs or a sysadmin, instead they tend to have devs who do the sysadmin too. It's exactly those kinds of companies that Heroku is aime
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by nthj 12y ago
I've sent Heroku tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars in business by referring clients over the years. The fact that they've spent 78¢ in AWS fees for my hobby apps causes me to lose approximately 0 seconds of sleep at n
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by nthj 12y ago
This is because our society has conflated education with acquiring skills which can be used to create value. What do we tell our young people? “Get good grades, so you can go to college, get a degree, and get a good job.” Now, don't ge
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by nthj 12y ago
It's my understanding banks also charge a transaction fee (may be flat per-transaction rather than a percentage.) (Source: I work for an online ticketing company, so we deal with these types of things.)
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by nthj 12y ago
“Tell me about the coolest thing you ever built.”
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by nthj 12y ago
A 1-person operation can do things that don't scale. When you read PG's story about Viaweb, their small operation played in their favor, because their customers would call up, and PG would solve their problem while they were on th
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by nthj 12y ago
The number of small businesses who (1) are not currently using Square and (2) are happy using $EXISTING_POS_SYSTEM and won't be convinced to use Square anytime soon and (3) would make significantly larger amounts of cash being offered
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by nthj 12y ago
I was the lead instructor for MakerSquare's first cohort, and I've also taught shorter, on-site courses for clients like Comcast (Lord forgive me), Huffington Post, and LinkedIn. I'm also exclusively self-taught, no CS degree
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by nthj 12y ago
I know Google, Facebook, Apple, and others have been visibly increasing their presence in Austin. Apple was putting up offices across the street from my old apartment complex, and the scuttlebutt was they were adding 4,000-some-odd-employee
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by nthj 12y ago
Does the fact that a burglar used a crowbar vs. entered silently via a copied key play into how easy it is to deal with your homeowners insurance provider? (Genuinely curious, and couldn't find anything via a brief Google search.)
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by nthj 12y ago
> The problem is that this method disproportionately hurts people who don't have the time or energy to effectively hold two jobs (one full-time position at their day job and one as an independent developer or open-source contributor
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by nthj 12y ago
This strategy deftly sidesteps three potential problems: * Oh great, I forgot to sync my password list on my MacBook before I left the house with only my iPhone * Oh great, my MacBook got stolen and my backups are all corrupted * Oh great,
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by nthj 12y ago
You could easily increase security by adding another rule that only you know to the seed. For example, if I am generating a password for nthj@example.com, I could have a rule that I always append the first four letters of the domain name to
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by nthj 12y ago
Ah! That explains the small strips of duct tape—tear it lengthwise to double your available tape.
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by nthj 12y ago
This is statement I take most exception to in the article. Here [1] is a ten-year-old Mercedes on Craiglist for $15K. You can run perfectly serviceable cars like a 2003 Civic for $5-7K. Even if you immediately sock away $2K into a savings a
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by nthj 12y ago
> But in practice, as an employer, I don't see a practical interest from my perspective I'd venture that may be because you view programmers as interchangeable cogs. Rather, for one developer, a project may take two 16-hour wee
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by nthj 12y ago
This is really cool. Have you guys considered Heroku integration? One-click generation + deployment could be a really slick MVP tool (although I worry about how it would affect client expectations were they to ever find out about it. :)
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by nthj 12y ago
I'm a developer for Ticketbud, and we let our event organizers upload high-res background images on their event pages. If Splashbase had an API, I'd be keen to work it into our interface. https://tbkmf.ticketbud.com&#x2
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by nthj 12y ago
Tech skills are like retirement funds: compound interest is your friend. A dollar invested now, at the beginning of your career, is worth more than a dollar invested later on. Right now, you want to be pushing to gain skill as quickly as po
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by nthj 12y ago
I currently just use regular Rails migrations for this. In fact, I've executed each of the examples you provided using database migrations. You mentioned not wanting to use the console or a one-off script, but why would I want to switc
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by nthj 12y ago
> Just because your phone thinks it has too-poor signal to connect a call doesn't necessarily mean that it is truly isolated and can't be a room bug. And/or recording audio to send home later.
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by nthj 12y ago
> A minor payment dispute could then hold up an investment round or M&A transaction, and that's completely out of proportion to the issue you're trying to address. For any good client, an investment round or M&A transac
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by nthj 12y ago
There is no substitute for simply reading the source code of the framework or library you want to know. You can go at your own speed, however fast or slow that may be. You know the code you are reading is always accurate and never out of da
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by nthj 12y ago
> But if instead Walmart were selling guns preloaded without warning the customers that there were bullets already in the guns, I would argue that Walmart would be at least some percentage at fault when some percentage of their customers
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by nthj 12y ago
While this is a really clever idea, and I'm really sorry to hear about your computer, I can't help but wonder if you would have a greater impact by, say, designing an online social media campaign to convince thousands of people to
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by nthj 12y ago
Conversations would be very tedious if we did not permit ourselves to rely on conventions.
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by nthj 12y ago
> Am I only the only one that doesn't find 'All tests in 4 minutes, all model tests in 80 seconds' very impressive? It sounds like a really long time to me. I don't really mind if a given branch is marked red on Circl
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by nthj 12y ago
Generally, I agree with you, and yes, you described exactly how you want to run a business long-term, but when your wife is in and out of the hospital and you were just served an eviction notice, $3,600 now is way better than $4,000 in 2 mo
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by nthj 12y ago
> You will also want to note that not getting paid on time is actually quite common in freelancing. Really, really common. I've started offering 10% discounts for payment upfront—even some of the larger, "corporate" clien

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