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The Anatomy of an Effective Homepage(blog.kissmetrics.com)
2 points by rsobers 15y ago|0 comments
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by rsobers 15y ago
I understand what you're trying to get at, Jason. I too have sympathy for those who legitimately can't get a break no matter how hard they try (war vets, the disabled, etc.). But some of these kids have been given opportunity and are too l
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by rsobers 15y ago
I'm so glad to see the outpouring of users who are downright happy to pay for this service. Ryan: you should add a payment option that lets people pay more than $9 per month. Let us specify the amount. I'd gladly pay more if it meant you
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by rsobers 15y ago
Interesting suggestions. I don't think Leo would sell to Yahoo. After what happened to TechTV, Yahoo is the last place he'd turn. Yahoo already has omg! which dwarfs Sugar Inc. I don't think Jim Lanzone would be afraid of Yahoo "Zucking" an
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by rsobers 15y ago
I don't think the multi-city approach is necessary. It seems to be more of a headache than anything else. Stack Overflow has a big enough following that they could hold a 2 day conference in SF, LA, Boston, or Seattle and it would likely
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by rsobers 15y ago
Pull requests work best since there are other contributors now. Thanks!
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by rsobers 15y ago
I'm definitely not "programming famous." My boss, Joel Spolsky, is though (I work for Fog Creek Software). I don't know Zed personally either. He was a bit skeptical about me doing this at first, but he was ultimately really cool about it
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by rsobers 15y ago
Huh? require is used quite a bit: exercises 12, 25, 43, 47, 48, 50, 52. Some exercises depend on sinatra, some depend on test/unit, some depend on stuff you write yourself.
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by rsobers 15y ago
Ah, I should fix that example. It's totally wrong. Nice catch! In hindsight, I probably should have used "Hello #{name}" style string interpolation in all of the examples since thats the idiomatic way of doing things. I was trying to expos
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by rsobers 15y ago
No particular reason. I'll probably add this at some point since it's pretty helpful.
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by rsobers 15y ago
The point of The Hard Way methodology is to type everything out and understand what you're doing. Having said that, you could clone the git repository, remove the "linenos" option and run the Jekyll site locally.
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by rsobers 15y ago
I started off doing this to teach myself Ruby. I enjoyed the Python version so much and thought it would map pretty well since the languages are fairly similar. After about 15 exercises, I saw that it was actually coming out quite nicely an
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by rsobers 15y ago
Yes, but if you're solo freelancer or student, you can't beat it.
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by rsobers 15y ago
Fog Creek has a product called Kiln, which is like Github, but is based on Mercurial. It's very polished and has lots of great features that focus on private repository management (but has public repos, too). It's free for up to 2 users.
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by rsobers 15y ago
Yup, pretty much spot on, except we have a dishwasher! The caterer is great about not repeating meals very often (we probably go 2-3 weeks before seeing the same thing twice). Most everything is healthy, there's always a vegetarian option,
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by rsobers 16y ago
Wow, that's shockingly low! I'd have guessed at least a few hours a week in answering customer emails.
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by rsobers 16y ago
Here you go: http://jsfiddle.net/derek/Vjxt2/
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by rsobers 16y ago
I agree with replacing "Never edit your videos again" with "Never miss a moment again." On first glance, I understood the purpose of the app. But when I read "Never edit your videos again" I started to question my understanding. Made me t
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by rsobers 16y ago
I'm sorry, but I can't take advice from someone whose twitter handle is @JavaPDF. :)
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by rsobers 16y ago
This is definitely cheating, but there's an important lesson for the professor: if you care about cheating, don't be lazy. Write your own exam questions and change them often. You can tell that this is the most exciting event in this profe
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by rsobers 16y ago
I think you nailed it.
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by rsobers 16y ago
nice clean design, clearly inspired by: http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/Jobs
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by rsobers 16y ago
Is there a rule that says that if you're going to work on a distributed social network you have to be bad at naming things? socknet, really? Also, do we really need a solution that is distributed or would a dropdown box on Facebook that sa
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by rsobers 16y ago
not to mention, taleo is the worst web app for job applications.
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Ask HN: From desktop to webapp - where to begin?
6 points by rsobers 17y ago|1 comments
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by rsobers 18y ago
Okay great - but how do you monetize it now?
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by rsobers 18y ago
Team Foundation Server.