nickpleis

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by nickpleis 16y ago
That's not a lot of warning for folks who are using a product like ZenDesk. The whole point is that a tool like this is embedded into your companies work flows. To leave ZenDesk means that you have to find a new product. Figure out how to m
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by nickpleis 16y ago
For me, it's just gotten to the point that I'm tired of the exercise itself. The current idea seems to be "Do whatever the hell you want", and if enough people get mad "apologize profusely and come out looking like you really care about you
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by nickpleis 17y ago
My experience: I'm a college dropout. I have 96 credit hour and am one class shy of my associates degree. I feel like I did get a lot of value from the liberal arts portion of my education. I was exposed to a lot of different ideas and disc
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by nickpleis 17y ago
I hated math. Absolutely loathed it. I had a terrible algebra teacher (8th grade) that left me a gap I never truly closed until college. However, the 'lights' finally came on in my senior year of high school. I took an experimental trigonom
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by nickpleis 17y ago
I certainly am. I was a fairly quick riser in my career. I started programming at 12, had a commercial game (value-ware CD) published at 17. Wrote a book at 21. I was a lead architect at 24, with a development team of around 30 folks at a f
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by nickpleis 17y ago
Not really more time. When someone wants to force me into a price quote I know that they are trying to monopolize my time with a sales call or the very least a lengthy e-mail chain. That's a lot of time. Meanwhile companies like Fog creek (
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by nickpleis 17y ago
My wife and I still sleep on an Ikea bed (best mattress we've ever had) and bed frame that we've had for 5 years. Still looks and functions great... It was supposed to be a stop-gap as we anticipated moving a bunch of times and didn't want
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by nickpleis 17y ago
You are looking for Denver/Boulder my friend.
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by nickpleis 17y ago
We're a django shop and that's essentially what we do. We already use the django template engine in our javascript/css files (primarily for URL generation, but it's grown to be several other things). We plugged in Sass and it's been great.
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by nickpleis 17y ago
I don't think that's even Yelps primary value proposition. They're much more of a social network than anything else. Their proposition seems to be more around providing a place for people to gain recognition for their taste. This is why the
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by nickpleis 17y ago
You mean the same diagram used on virtually every gas station pump I've ever used?
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by nickpleis 17y ago
I think it's exactly that. I just bought a TV, and being a technical guy it was an incredibly difficult decision. 120hz or 240? LED or standard back-light? Is a name-brand REALLY better than a vizio? The thing is, the difference between the
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by nickpleis 17y ago
I wonder if this takes into account the new micro tech startups? I doubt it. What this is really indicative of is just how bad the credit situation was in early 2009. I know that restaurants and other capital intensive 'start-ups' really su
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by nickpleis 17y ago
Wouldn't it make the click free for the advertiser?
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by nickpleis 17y ago
Of course it's entirely possible that Google did independently arrive at the same innovation. I have no idea how long Google has been working on this, but it was likely quite some time (which is probably why the solicited help from that com