madrobby

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by madrobby 11y ago
Hey, I'm Thomas, the author of the article. I do agree with your observations pretty much entirely. I'm mostly talking about the "throw a component, library or jQuery plugin at everything" sort of mentality. That just yi
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by madrobby 12y ago
Ohai, I've been hell-banned and don't know why. I guess as someone successfully running a software business _and_ being a well-known open source person I have to place in a forum for people who want to run successful internet busi
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by madrobby 12y ago
I've made $60k in a year with a highly topical 60-page ebook (PDF only) that I wrote in about a week, mainly by promoting to a mailing list with only a few thousand people on it. As Nathan says, you need to set a price. Plus, tell peop
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by madrobby 13y ago
The related posts section has some posts with stories and examples.
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by madrobby 13y ago
(I'm the author of the article) I replace my main computer (MacBook Pro) every 1-2 years with a maxed out top of the line model. I keep the one I had before around as a backup in case my laptop breaks or gets stolen. Yes, it doesn&#x27
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by madrobby 13y ago
This is why `request.xhr?` exists. It will be false when the action is called with JSONP.
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HTTP headers that actually reflect users' needs(mir.aculo.us)
6 points by madrobby 13y ago|0 comments
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by madrobby 14y ago
I'm the co-founder of a successful SaaS ( http://letsfreckle.com/ ) and would easily have paid $300 for the spreadsheet alone. I wish I had had the spreadsheet back when we started. Garrett seriously got your back on the finances of a boots
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by madrobby 14y ago
I can see how my comment could be taken this way. It's not want I wanted to express. I wanted to state, as a disclaimer, that I'm the author of the post. As for answering the comment, it's really more of an ad hominem so that's why I wrote
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by madrobby 14y ago
It's marketed as a silver bullet. Here are some snippets from the ember.js Homepage: "Write dramatically less code", "Don't waste time", "Ember.js is built for productivity".
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by madrobby 14y ago
I'm Thomas Fuchs. That's interesting. How many apps have you developed?
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by madrobby 14y ago
But maybe there IS a Silver Bullet[1], veemjeem! [1] Fred Brooks, "There Is No Silver Bullet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
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by madrobby 14y ago
I, for one, think it's delightful that more people are getting to understand the vagaries of product development from an investment standpoint. The more people experience the pain, hopefully the less broken things will become.
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by madrobby 14y ago
This is advice for non-fiction ebooks. :) The most important thing really is to learn how to do marketing right. It's not that hard at all and will yield great results.
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by madrobby 14y ago
I don't have a general download link, when you buy it I'll send out an email with a personal download link that will expire in a week or so, and can only be used 5 times. Of course you can just write to my support email box and I'll send yo
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by madrobby 14y ago
It's very relevant because you pull stuff out of your ass while I'm actually doing this (successfully). With "anecdotes" you mean repeatable strategies that work every time for me and for other book authors we know?
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by madrobby 14y ago
No—I've had the experience that it doesn't work for the types of technical books we (my wife and I) write. Or we're just really better at email/twitter/blog marketing. :) But it's definitely a good option for many types of books.
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by madrobby 14y ago
Are you an author who is successfully publishing books?
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by madrobby 14y ago
You can't get around this. People will pirate it and they do. However, those who pirate it wouldn't pay money anyway so there's no loss. And because it's literally two clicks to buy it with PayPal, it's easier to buy it on my site than to t
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by madrobby 14y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the author of the book and blog post. I've been asked on Twitter about student discounts, short answer is don't do it. Long answer: if you have a book specifically targeting students, price it so they can afford it, otherwis
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Rules to sell thousands of copies of your ebook(mir.aculo.us)
30 points by madrobby 14y ago|21 comments
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by madrobby 14y ago
Larger image dimensions don't mean larger file sizes, see http://mir.aculo.us/2012/08/06/high-resolution-images-and-fi... for an explanation.
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by madrobby 14y ago
Of course, exceptions prove the rule. Sometimes CSS and HTML are not good enough and you'll have to resort to use JavaScript. But you shouldn't make it the default go-to.
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by madrobby 14y ago
I'm slightly disappointed that it's implemented in more than 140 bytes. Keep on being awesome. :)
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by madrobby 14y ago
@NathanBowers on twitter suggested looking into http://convertico.org/Multi_Image_to_one_icon/
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by madrobby 14y ago
Media resolution is relative, as people zoom in on mobile phones all the time. For stuff like photos, just supply a larger resolution JPEG that has lower quality. This will look great when smaller and when zoomed in, while keeping the file
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by madrobby 14y ago
Good to know that depending on the author of an article, some stories don't get flagged and disappear from the front page of hacker news.
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by madrobby 14y ago
In addition I'd say that the interpreter is broken and should be fixed to be faster. "with" is not deprecated.
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by madrobby 14y ago
I wouldn't use "with" in most situations, but I like it in the testing code and for some DSLs, as it makes things more readable (again, personal style). I think that once you start optimizing performance problems you need to 1) measure thin
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by madrobby 14y ago
#1 has nothing to do with size optimization, it's purely stylistic and about having to write less code. See also http://blog.izs.me/post/3393190720/how-this-works

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