tzaman

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by tzaman 14y ago
You are right - I'm not that familiar with the US scene, being from Slovenia (EU). My last hackaton was Copenhagen Startup Weekend, which I think is a similar event, since I "had" to code A LOT :) The good thing the emphasis was not on me
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by tzaman 14y ago
You have a point, but doing it every once in a while doesn't hurt (I do it once or twice per year), since it's a great way to meet new people (and opportunities)
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by tzaman 14y ago
What a load of crap. All these CEOs are guilty for low stock values? I doubt. Cisco, for example makes top notch networking gear, and it's only so much they can achieve there - I've had my Linksys routers for years now and I doubt I'll have
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by tzaman 14y ago
You should really invest in a better microphone - presenting a product with sub-par audio drives people away.
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Ask HN: How to overcome self criticism with UI design
1 points by tzaman 14y ago|1 comments
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by tzaman 14y ago
Not true. I'm not from the States either (Slovenia, to be exact) and I was working as a waiter/barman back in the student days. At the end of each month I earned more from tips than salary. Why? Because I always went the extra mile to satis
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by tzaman 14y ago
You should let her know what you feel, talk about it and together decide what to do next. You only have a problem if the feeling is not mutual. My wife is also my employee and we had no problems whatsoever.
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by tzaman 14y ago
I did exactly the same thing after 14 days of having the ZAGG invisibleSHIELD on the iPhone. It just felt too unnatural . Instead, I bought Speck Pixelskin HD which offers all the protection I need. Not for the screen, true, but the bumper
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by tzaman 14y ago
I'd offer them some kind of premium features and/or discounts later down the product (time)line.
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by tzaman 14y ago
Very useful, I wasn't aware of the library. Will try it right away!
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by tzaman 14y ago
The difference between small business and a startup is that small businesses scale linearly while startups scale exponentially. And organic growth is usually more linear-ish. The investment makes in exponential.
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by tzaman 14y ago
No.
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by tzaman 14y ago
Okay, to build something like 42floors you need the following knowledge (guesstimating): - HTML5 - CSS3 - Javascript - basics of image manipulation - some kind of backend language (PHP, Python, Ruby, Node.js,...) - some kind of database eng
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by tzaman 14y ago
If you're in it alone, I'd say 3 - 5 years.
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by tzaman 14y ago
Apart from his anal attitude, he has a point. But truth be told, general web applications are usually not that CPU intensive. If you build one using node, you can still use something like http://fabricengine.com
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by tzaman 14y ago
There is nothing new about the idea, I've seen this in numerous sci-fi movies, most notable one being Avatar.
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by tzaman 14y ago
Yeah but let's compare two relatively popular solutions for authentication in each frameworks: Rails has devise, Node.js has passportjs. They both support numerous 'strategies' (local, facebook twitter, openid...). They also both support th
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by tzaman 14y ago
Now show me a couple of sites/applications that have at least 100k users and rely solely (ok, mostly) on node.js
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by tzaman 14y ago
It's not a black/white situation here. Being the boss, I know sometimes (most of the time, to be honest) we need to stick to proven and tested stuff, as economic times are not the prettiest and clients that would pay for the extra mile don'
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by tzaman 14y ago
Prove it: What is node equivalent of: "rails g resource User email:string password:string"? AFAIK there is none. At least not one that would take care of migrations, validation, security, logic and views. And if I want to use postgres? Sure
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by tzaman 14y ago
Don't use Node if you have a lot of CRUD, because you'll still have to do a lot of stuff manually. Node's ecosystem is relatively young which means you'll have to do a lot of manual labor (as opposed to something like rails and mature, prod
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by tzaman 14y ago
I'm not in US - screenshot please?
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by tzaman 14y ago
It doesn't help because you are not clear what mistakes caused the UX to change.
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by tzaman 15y ago
Well one of the points of kickstarter (the way I see it) is that backers (even those who pledge $5) get something in return. Obviously with an airplane this would not be the case. No backer would get anything apart from their name printed s
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by tzaman 15y ago
Protip: You should really explain on the front page what the app is all about. I don't want to go to hassle of registering when I see absolutely no benefits in me doing so.
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by tzaman 15y ago
20 years from now: - what could be: "You remember Yahoo? The search giant that failed to innovate and got run by more adaptive companies?" "Yeah, it was a fun ride, while it lasted." - what will be: "You remember Yahoo? The search giant tha
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by tzaman 15y ago
An expensive toy that prints more toys :) Regarding the site, these guys should educate themselves on asset concatenation (44 javascript files in head tag). Can't help myself :)
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by tzaman 15y ago
> ROR resources are far and few Not really, ROR community is very active, there's millions of gems that do what you need, and there's plenty of websites that teach ROR (railcasts.com, ruby-toolbox.com,...), you can find help on IRC almo
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by tzaman 15y ago
I have many clients whom I set up Google Analytics for. The don't have a clue how to use it. Even after several courses. Go ahead and do some (non web-savvy) user testing on that and prove me wrong.
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by tzaman 15y ago
Not very useful

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