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721.
by swanson 15y ago
You should get an email with a link - it took a couple minutes for me to get mine. Then my link didn't work but Joanna was very helpful over email - if you are having trouble just drop her a line.
722.
by swanson 15y ago
You could run it through Calibre, looks like most of it should convert cleanly (not tons of diagrams/graphics).
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by swanson 15y ago
You should add the link to the Next Lesson at the bottom of the page (or have use a fixed layout as you scroll down). I got to the end of Chapter 0 and was ready to move on, but I couldn't find the Go To Next Chapter button without looking
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by swanson 15y ago
I bought it - but why do you need my billing address/phone number for an ebook. I was glad to see the PayPal option, but I was slightly put off by giving you all that info. I can see wanting my name for doing a watermark and my email so you
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by swanson 15y ago
You guys should consider a Heroku add-on with a small free plan (if you aren't already). SendGrid has one (200/day free) and they would be the first place I'd go if I needed a mail API because I have used them seamlessly for small projects
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Web Development Kata - Tweet Viewer(swanson.github.com)
3 points by swanson 15y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 15y ago
TechZing - http://techzinglive.com/ Back To Work - http://5by5.tv/b2w ~3 hrs of content that is consistently released weekly
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Intrapreneurship: Applying the Lean Startup to building internal tools(swanson.github.com)
5 points by swanson 15y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 15y ago
Why is a competition targeted at students taking place on Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday? Seems like you'd have to miss a good chunk of class to go full throttle on this.
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by swanson 15y ago
This sounds pretty groan-worthy - I'd be much happier to see more shows like Bloomberg's TechStars reality show or a software-focused Dragon's Den/Shark Tank than "The Real Silicon Valley Young Professionals".
731.
by swanson 15y ago
I put technical books into two camps: reference books and prose. Reference books are like the "Python, the Definitive Guide" or "Web Development with Rails" and contain lots of code samples and snippets. Prose books are like Pragmatic Prog
732.
by swanson 15y ago
Be careful about the As Seen On YC link - my first impression was that you were in a YC class and it's really you submitting your own post to hackernews. Seems a bit sketchy to me... I actually like the old design better. It has more charac
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by swanson 15y ago
I've used http://hackatopia.com/ before when I've been up to Chicago for hackathons. I like that Hacker League is more centered on each developer and the projects they've built. I'd be interested to see if this can get any traction beyond
734.
by swanson 15y ago
If anyone is interested in more about the Luck Surface Area concept, I believe it was first mentioned on Jason's podcast TechZing. Ep 59: http://techzinglive.com/page/295/techzing-59-jasonism at the 65minute mark
735.
by swanson 15y ago
The idea of 'luck surface area' is that by making an effort or putting something out there can increase your odds of having a chance encounter with a positive benefit to yourself. Jason is giving an example about how a blog post he wrote en
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by swanson 15y ago
This is pretty slick - its got the same feel as jsFiddle. Working this into the Flask docs (which are already excellent) would be interesting. Or doing one of the guided tutorials like http://mongly.com/geo/index .
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by swanson 15y ago
It's just for authentication because you generate your own ep.io apps (I think that's what it's doing at least). If you look at the requested permissions, you will see that it doesn't need to read or write any of your data.
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by swanson 15y ago
Got excited for new content on Netflix Instant -- then read further and saw it wasn't taking effect until 2013...I am now less excited.
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by swanson 15y ago
Justin mentioned the logo is by Scott Jackon ( http://www.iamscotty.com/blog/ ) when he talked about this on techzing - I really like it. The design is a bit too much like GeckoBoard I think and it's currently not pulling in any tweets, but
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by swanson 15y ago
Also I forget I wrote these posts: http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/05/16/podcast-roundup-ii... http://swanson.github.com/blog/2010/10/28/podcast-roundup.ht... It's got reviews for all the podcasts I've listened to in the past year.
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by swanson 15y ago
I listen almost exclusively to TechZing and 5by5's Back to Work[1] these days. Maybe mix in a Changelog[2] episode if I'm interested in the project being covered. Back to Work isn't really tech or programming related, but both hosts do have
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by swanson 15y ago
Maybe - I think that the border around the lists is clear enough separation. I agree about the horizontal scrolling, that is why we have multiple queues per column on the whiteboard. If you have lists with only 2-3 items in them at a time (
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by swanson 15y ago
Any plans for adding multiple lists per column (two at 50% height, etc)? That would be the only thing I can do on our current Kanban board that I couldn't do on Trello. I really like the app though, it's like a distilled, get out of the way
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by swanson 15y ago
Is it currently down or not working? When I go to http://disrupt.flickmunk.com/ all I see is a white screen with some times listed across the screen. http://i.imgur.com/hqWmq.png - Using chrome13 Edit: maybe I need to be in SF for any t
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by swanson 15y ago
He is on master and probably just pulled/fetched the latest revisions. He has some work on a local feature branch. * The first command switches over to that feature branch. * The second command rebases off of master, which basically rewinds
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by swanson 15y ago
Some neat tricks, though I don't know how practical "Checkout a branch, rebase and merge to master" is - I find myself having to do manual mergetool stuff when I rebase off master enough that the one-liner would fail too often to be helpful
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by swanson 15y ago
Obligatory link to git-tfs: https://github.com/spraints/git-tfs
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by swanson 15y ago
Maybe I don't get it, but what is the practical use-case for this? Infinite arrays of numbers - maybe useful for math or statistical applications, but are people using javascript for this over things like MATLAB, R, etc? I can't think of an
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by swanson 15y ago
These kind of posts always leave me with a mix of inspiration and discouragement. It is awesome to read about someone like you (local developer, similar learning style, beginner entrepreneur) who actually builds something. There is a lot to
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by swanson 15y ago
I wonder if this model could work with Amazon affiliates program - ensure that the bookstore gets a cut from people ordering books on the Amazon terminal. Maybe Amazon would subsidize this kind of store, instead of the publishers, to captur

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