jbkring

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by jbkring 13y ago
Oakland is like any other city. There are safe neighborhoods and dangerous neighborhoods. Some of the safer ones are: Temescal, Adam's Point, Grand Lake/Cleveland Heights, Piedmont & Rockridge (not technically Oakland).
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by jbkring 13y ago
Agreed. But more than pretentious, it's downright inaccurate. I work in SOMA and live in Grand Lake (Oakland), and I have a shorter commute than most of my San Francisco-dwelling colleagues.
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by jbkring 14y ago
Oops. Important distinction.
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by jbkring 14y ago
Agreed. If the US legalized the production and distribution of all drugs (a la Portugal http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/time-to-end-the-w... ), a good bit of the american money funding these folks could be taxed and redirected t
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by jbkring 14y ago
love the stark contrasting colors in your design. wonder how the login/vote buttons would look if they were flat like the rest of the design. too bad i already have an awesome gf (with a very similar sense of humor), i would definitely use
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by jbkring 14y ago
This is very good feedback. We're actually working on some Machine-Learning technology that takes all of Wikipedia's content, builds a topic model, and applies it to the 10k pieces of content that we've written over the past couple months.
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by jbkring 14y ago
If you go to scripted.com the first thing you'll see is "Standard Blog Post for $49". If you click on that dropdown, you'll see pricing for every format...
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by jbkring 14y ago
It is really important. You are right. In my haste to get this product out the door this morning, I forgot to send the post to our copy-editors. I screwed up. Sorry :( I certainly won't be making that mistake again.
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by jbkring 14y ago
Thanks! Fixed the "check out" issue. I don't see the other problems, but such is the nature of copy-editing your own writing.
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by jbkring 14y ago
Totally agree. Which is why I wrote this post myself. I can only hope that my approach to the pain point felt 'honest', and that the content of my post was HN-worthy. We are absolutely not saying that you should outsource your entire social
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by jbkring 14y ago
Yup. Which is why many of our clients give byline to our writers!
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by jbkring 14y ago
Hey Nate. Agreed, you definitely need a bit of context regarding what exactly Scripted does in order to understand this feature. The assumption was that if someone navigated their way to our weekly offering, they probably did so after grasp
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You don’t have time to maintain your blog(blog.scripted.com)
42 points by jbkring 14y ago|44 comments
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Two Types of Questions(blog.scripted.com)
1 points by jbkring 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbkring 14y ago
Refreshing perspective. I agree wholeheartedly.
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Scrappy Marketing at Dreamforce(blog.scripted.com)
1 points by jbkring 14y ago|0 comments
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Walmart as a Centralized System(blog.scripted.com)
2 points by jbkring 14y ago|0 comments
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by jbkring 14y ago
I think you're underestimating just how many times I rethought my schema and refactored my models :)
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by jbkring 14y ago
Anyone else have a good story about Mongo as a speccing tool (as opposed to a long term solution)?
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Mongo: Mr Right... or Mr Right Now?(blog.scripted.com)
15 points by jbkring 14y ago|12 comments
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by jbkring 14y ago
Look at all these people debating this topic. In the time it took me to read the 20 comments, 9 more were added. Wow. That's user engagement! Now look at the design...
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by jbkring 14y ago
what? an insightful article on techcrunch? oh wait, it's a guest writer. whatup sunil!
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by jbkring 14y ago
Yup, agree wholeheartedly! Will work on that shortly.
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by jbkring 14y ago
Love the redis docs! Redis powers the background queue at Scripted.
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by jbkring 14y ago
thanks! but i have to give credit where credit is due: bootstrap.