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by toast76 15y ago
USING Rails is a breeze. Getting it INSTALLED is the nightmare. One expects a learning curve starting any new language, but I prefer that to start AFTER I've got it installed.
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by toast76 15y ago
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding about what "beginner" means for Rails. I've been a .NET developer for over 10 years. I'm a Rails "beginner". I'd say I'm comfortable with web technology, and yet Rails was an absolute nightma
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by toast76 15y ago
We (BugHerd) have been toying with intercom for a while. The JS seems to be a quick way to get up and running, but we lean fairly heavily on the API. I'd love to see a bit of a roadmap from them actually. We built custom tagging to hook up
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by toast76 15y ago
I meant "not sure I understand why people didn't get their knickers in a twist with railsinstaller" :)
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by toast76 15y ago
This is something that would be personally valuable for me. He could just as easily build this and sell it on the App Store; I'd buy it too. Instead I'll donate so you can get it for free. Who says OSS has to be all about altruism and self-
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by toast76 15y ago
I should've also added "a poor tradesman always blames his tools". Next time!
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How lessons from a tradesman can help out a techie(blog.bugherd.com)
45 points by toast76 15y ago|9 comments
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by toast76 15y ago
I hate these articles. You write an article which claims to tell me why my the cloud isn't right for MY startup, and then conclude " If no one in your team has the experience, or time, to learn devops, then a PaaS solution like Heroku would
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by toast76 15y ago
From an email sent to customers re: their last price increase: Price assurance guarantee. We now understand that it’s impossible to grow your business if you can’t be sure how much Chargify will cost you. Going forward with our new plans, y
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by toast76 15y ago
I hate it when people say "I switch my phone on and it starts instantly". No it doesn't. My iphone takes about a minute to start...of course I never switch it off, so it's not a problem. If you never "turn off" Photoshop or Office, they too
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by toast76 15y ago
I think in terms of "news" I don't think it achieves anything unless the news is inherently local focused. i.e. our own raising of $500k wasn't huge news in the US, but it was a big deal here in Aus. A good example is the current top topic
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by toast76 15y ago
I think it's pretty straight forward. You're being asked to steal. You don't want to steal. So don't. Sometimes standing up for what you believe to be right is a costly stance to take, or at the very least difficult. If the worst case is th
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by toast76 15y ago
Like anything, it is what you make of it. I quit my desk job 4.5 years ago. Worked at home up until last month. In that time I've had two kids (eldest now 3) and every day of their lives so far they've had both parents at home with them. I
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by toast76 15y ago
For all the talk of folks crying out, "bring back adventure games". The simple fact is that many many times more people queue up to buy the latest Call of Duty than will ever buy any adventure game. No different than the movie business. Pub
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by toast76 15y ago
No surprise really; no publisher will support an adventure game. If it's not an FPS/Action/Sports game no one will touch it. It's the reason Schafer started doing "indie" games in the first place.
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by toast76 15y ago
The reason why flash is (was) such a horrible horrible thing for the web is only partially because it was a shitty shitty plugin. The real reason is things like this. Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD.
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by toast76 15y ago
I tried Sunnytrail about 6mths ago. At that time it appeared to be focussed on funnel and cohort analysis (the latter being why I checked it as at the time neither MixPanel nor Kissmetrics had it). So this looks like a bit of a pivot? This
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Why you should work for a startup(vincentbrendel.com)
2 points by toast76 15y ago|0 comments
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by toast76 15y ago
..and they know you know. Yay for democracy!
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by toast76 15y ago
No, actually. These days there are very few non-generic pieces. If we're talking bionicles, then yes. But 99% of pieces in any modern set (branded or otherwise) are generic. The exception is usually things like fighter windshields (if they'
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by toast76 15y ago
I don't get it. You complain that a 5000 piece lego set is movie themed, when the only thing movie themed are the minifigs and the box it came in. As kids every single lego set we had was built into the "model" precisely once, and then dump
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by toast76 15y ago
Unrelated to the article. You want this: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.458148,93.393145
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by toast76 15y ago
AJ has already plugged noosbox, but the other Startmate companies are Chorus http://www.getchorus.com - in this batch at 500 Startups Grabble http://grabbleapp.com - just sold to Walmart IRL Gaming http://www.irlgaming.com/ - not sure
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by toast76 15y ago
You pay too much attention to what your mother told you.
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by toast76 15y ago
Bird game seems to be a little broken....
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by toast76 15y ago
No I didn't :) You can learn "accounting, cleaning, hiring, cleaning, customer service". You can't learn passion about coffee.
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Making mentoring specific(startupsmart.com.au)
1 points by toast76 15y ago|0 comments
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by toast76 15y ago
The coffeeshop fallacy is, in fact, a fallacy. People don't open coffee shops to drink coffee all day any more than someone would open a bar because they want to drink all day. My brother is a wine maker. He is insanely passionate about win
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by toast76 15y ago
This could be exactly what I need to finally get my wife off Facebook....
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by toast76 15y ago
I know this wasn't the question, but why do you need money? You have "some ideas" for "some simple game projects"? That doesn't sound like a startup...that doesn't even sound like a project. Unless you have a very clear vision of exactly wh

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