michaelmartin

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by michaelmartin 9y ago
Hadn't seen the union approach in #2 before, I like that a lot. The 2 named properties are intuitive to other developers reading it, but now we also get compile-time safety that the combinations they use are valid. Thanks! For anyone e
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by michaelmartin 11y ago
It's the inconsistency. 1 + "2" (12) does a string concatenation. 1 - "2" (-1) does math. That said, whilst JS is loosely typed and won't fall over when you do this, I'd just see it as bad form to find cod
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by michaelmartin 12y ago
I don't know your specific metrics, but one way to consider it is to forget about money for a minute. If you were to use one of those metrics to judge how successful your users were, which would it be? Intercom.io is a brilliant exampl
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by michaelmartin 12y ago
ES6 introduces the 'let' keyword which gives you block scope: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... Browser compatibility isn't too bad, but no Safari support it
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by michaelmartin 12y ago
I hope it's an April Fools still, but here it is on Github: https://github.com/apache/subversion
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Given the histories of these 2 writers, I'd have hoped for a bit more substance in such an important post for them. They don't mention anything specific about the new site, and given how many other good tech sites there are, the v
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
It's worth considering how poorly handled the communications were here. No blog posts, no responses to the forum thread that mostly started all of this [1], nor the story that hit HN's front page [2]. Just Twitter. Which is someth
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
I quite like Alex McCaw's http://monocle.io/ - It's quite similar in topic to HN, but with less of the news/gossip/drama stories. It also moves a lot slower, so if you miss a few days, it's fine. Ju
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
I just don't store credit card details in my browser. Auto-complete for emails is extremely handy and I use that all the time, but does purchasing things online really need to be any easier? I don't mind reaching for my wallet the
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Surely there was a better way to handle this? 1.1 million users in 8 hours on an un-official version? That's brilliant enthusiasm, which Blackberry don't often get these days. Simply shutting that down and telling them to register
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Wise up! ;) (Y's up)
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Haha, fair enough, I stand corrected then. Well played.
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
The analogy at the top of this needs a little work. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) wasn't in the Social Network (Jesse Eisenberg) Both great movies though :)
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Perfectly framed letter, it's interesting that he doesn't make mention of a single negative point or competitor. All very reassuring instead, and it reads like he has just been given the reins essentially and won't be rocking
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
$100 per month isn't bad for the inevitable crisis when you really will need a good sysadmin's help. For me, the biggest reason for paying for managed services like Heroku etc. is avoiding that risk. This sort of thing would make me far hap
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
I can see what Wade is saying here, but I don't agree with the conclusion. "So when you begin a startup, make sure to think long term. Will you still want to do this if a family member gets sick? Will you want to do this if you have kids? W
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
This seems like it does just about everything under the sun (Basecamp, helpdesk, invoices etc. all in one app?) That could be very handy of course, but it's a lot for someone to make the change to. I think rather than doing more and more, y
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
http://www.kashflow.com/ is another great one, especially if you happen to be in the UK. I'd also second the vote for Xero. Haven't actually used it yet, but always looked impressive from the sidelines at least.
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Like other readers have said, the real step forward in this area would be chip and pin. That raises a potentially more interesting question though, how do you transfer a country the size of the US from swiping to the chip and pin? Even here
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
hotels.com - Huge catalogue, fast to use, good photos, and TripAdvisor rating right there on the page. They also do great cashback on Quidco regularly, and have their own loyalty program, so it's usually a great deal to go through them.
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Absolutely agreed here, this is just going to give an edge to companies outside the US. Worse still, it's going to hit small businesses worse because they will simply have no choice but to pay it. The mega corps have their accounting down t
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
The script looks looks great, but mostly I just want to say it rocks to see a library with this much work put into quality documentation already. Gives me a heck of a lot more trust for the script and reason to try it out.
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Pricing in the UK is even worse; £210 per year for one app, or £560 per year for the suite. An expense that could have been done without... It's one thing to charge this amount for an app that you use every day, but a lot of these are thing
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Love it, reminds me of "If PHP Were British" ( http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ ) Wouldn't mind a few more substitutions in the language, but it seems like most of the work went into making a really nice landing page. G
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
Really like the mention of audio/video integration coming soon. Likely not the market they really had in mind, but this could be an awesome extension to forums. Definitely an upgrade on the standard chatbox so many are still stuck with, and
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BBC Open Sources its Toolkit for Developing Cross-Platform TV Applications(fmtvp.github.com)
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
I love the progress bar along the top (Forces you to keep it short, and stops everyone wondering when it ends). But when you're on the last slide, the bar isn't fully colored. I know it's a tiny thing, but it's strangely annoying seeing a p
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by michaelmartin 13y ago
It's cool to see more libraries appearing for this effect. I think it's really nice on the responsive demo at least. It does beg some questions about using it in non-touch scenarios though. The experience with a mouse isn't the best right n
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
Wow. Just over a month ago they were posting their "Week 1 In Review," that was a fast acquisition! This one is actually quite exciting I think though. They already have the product, but they need to scale like crazy. A company like Dropbox
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by michaelmartin 14y ago
I agree, but you need to be careful with the distinction between the paid and the ad-free versions. Is it just removing ads? Or is it a premium product? e.g. Gmail has no ads when you buy a Google apps account, but you pay $50 for it becaus

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