swatermasysk

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How to steal customers from your competitors(blog.kickofflabs.com)
8 points by swatermasysk 15y ago|1 comments
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My Favorite Tools for a Simple Development Environment(scottw.com)
1 points by swatermasysk 15y ago|0 comments
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Screw the gimmicks and just love your customers(blog.kickofflabs.com)
7 points by swatermasysk 15y ago|0 comments
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Improving Automated Timezone Detection (ie, 99.9 of your are doing it wrong)(scottw.com)
1 points by swatermasysk 15y ago|0 comments
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
Vimconf is currently running on www.kickofflabs.com (I am a co-founder). The link sharing is a recent feature addition.
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
I love the simplicity of Rbenv. I also love the "it's never good enough" mentality. I have not had any issues with RVM, but that doesn't mean people like Sam shouldn't try to build something better.
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Set a direction for your startup by applying to tech incubators.(blog.kickofflabs.com)
4 points by swatermasysk 15y ago|1 comments
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
Agreed there is a huge opportunity in solving the "eye ball" problem. Unfortunately the days of 1 to 5 cent clicks on Adwords is a thing of the past. I still think there is more we can do to help the organic stuff, but getting started today
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
Thanks. If you have suggestions, please drop us a note at support@kickofflabs.com.
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
> Integrate with Mailchimp? We are certainly going to make it easy to export and import your data. One of the things we have tried to do is minimize the need to use third party services. You are certainly welcome to use something like M
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
If you know someone looking to get up to speed on Git, I highly recommend Git Immersion: http://gitimmersion.com/
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Ask HN: Review My Startup - KickoffLabs.com
17 points by swatermasysk 15y ago|10 comments
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
Verifying scripts work properly under SSL, verifying the experience between other 3rd party services (such as payments), etc. Again, this could all be done on a dedicated test/staging server, but the cost of doing it locally is virtually fr
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by swatermasysk 15y ago
If this was only about code, I would agree with you. However, there is more more to this then verifying it renders. For that, I still need to be able to see it in a browser right in front of me. For me, the two minute setup time for this is
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Running Pow Over SSL(scottw.com)
2 points by swatermasysk 15y ago|5 comments
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
1 million users and zero revenue. Why is this good?
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
Time. Eventually, someone will bring something to market which will reset all of the rules. Like those who came before Facebook, they will ignore it because they are "Facebook".
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
Probably just personal preference, but for me, I like to have the .rvmrc file in source control so that I don't have to think about setting it up. The first time I navigate to the directory the gemset is created. Still a good tip. Thanks.
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
You can use gemsets and bundler together. Gemsets simply allow you to have an isolated environment. If you want to install the gems from multiple projects in the same gemset the choice is yours. Bundler just makes installing each project's
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
Overall it does look nice and kind of feels like a mix of Tumblr and Posterous. Not sure if you asking for advice, so feel free to ignore. IMO, it feels like you are trying to hard to compete on features. For me, a better approach (ie, one
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
I have been coding in .NET since it was introduced. While these are nice improvements for the .NET platform overall, I cringe at how much more code you have to write to do simple things compared to langues like Ruby and Python.
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
Very true. I keep thinking I need to stay off it for a couple of days, but it is a very easy way to learn tons of new things with very little effort. My guess is that in the coming months we will see more third party tools (proxlet) which h
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Nice updates to HAProxy funded by StackOverflow(haproxy.1wt.eu)
2 points by swatermasysk 16y ago|0 comments
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
If they can keep the site up with the extra traffic, it will be a great day to sit back and learn something new.
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
It would be nearly impossible for IE9 to not be simpler than IE8, so I am not giving them too much credit until I actually see something shipped that the masses adopt. Interesting write on the simplicity of IE8 vs. Safari: http://news.ycom
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IE9 can only go up(michaelmonteleone.net)
8 points by swatermasysk 16y ago|2 comments
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
I have been using http://www.bing.com/travel/ (was Farecast before MS acquired it) for a while now and it has easily saved me a couple thousand dollars on airline tickets. Highly recommend it although yapta does look interesting.
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
On one hand, you do need to remember that Godin is not your average writer. He already has a huge following, a very popular blog, and he specializes in creating buzz. Having said that, this is great news and I suspect (like in music) we wil
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
I haven't used it yet, but I have to agree that forcing a team through the same general process would be a very big win.
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by swatermasysk 16y ago
As someone who has been tinkering in Ruby for a couple of months, I can see where the author is coming from. Personally, I tried to spend time on what was stable (Ruby 1.8.7 and Sinatra). This allowed me to focus much more on the language y

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