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The Best Prototyping Tools… are the ones you already have(revelry.co)
6 points by prehnra 11y ago|0 comments
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The Virtual DOM (ReactJS)(revelry.co)
9 points by prehnra 12y ago|0 comments
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Elasticsearch and Function Score Queries for Custom Recommendations(revelry.co)
3 points by prehnra 12y ago|0 comments
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Making a Rails app without a database(blog.revelry.co)
6 points by prehnra 12y ago|0 comments
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by prehnra 14y ago
Yes please!
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by prehnra 14y ago
It depends I think how much money, how often and in exchange for what. If you are paying out big amounts in exchange for "labor" (e.g. paying freelancers who do work for other users), checks, ACH, and wire are the only serious solutions unf
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by prehnra 14y ago
Blog spam. Here is the direct link to the demo on github: http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/
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by prehnra 14y ago
Address it early with people who need to know (direct team and people who work with this person frequently). Be honest without going into too much detail. If people press for details you can't or don't feel like sharing, tell them you can't
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by prehnra 14y ago
The best blogging platform is the one you'll use. It sounds silly, but what it means is forget about any that take a bunch of time to set up or maintain. I think fully hosted solutions are great because you can spend basically zero time set
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by prehnra 14y ago
My best advice is to find sites you like with similar functionality to what you need and try to find out who did those. Often companies will share who they used. If it is an internal person then he or she might be willing to share inspirat
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by prehnra 14y ago
Basically, it is saying use the twitter model, not the email model. Let people choose what to receive and encourage them to publish everything globally (yes, with private messages if you really need it).
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by prehnra 14y ago
So many problems. If this is for geeks, why would I pay telegram to do what basically any static page cms does? If this is for normals why call it a cms? In either case, why the complex description of what it does? Why does it not tell me w
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by prehnra 14y ago
A) Use something off the shelf. Simple and cheap is best when starting out so that you can focus on finding business. B) Explain exactly why the customer should fill in the email. I don't like bribing the customer with some other unrelated
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by prehnra 14y ago
What the other posters said. I would add that if this is disruptive you could try using a visually hidden field with a special value. If the field gets tampered with, you can flag it as likely spam. This works because the bot just traverses
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by prehnra 14y ago
They seem to have some really generic games and a truly horrific site. Maybe the brogrammer thing helps them get much needed attention, but it doesn't interest me at all.
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by prehnra 14y ago
People tried it and didn't find a reason to stay. It isn't that it is bad, but there are a lot of sites that solve this problem, with established communities. In that situation you really need something to make your solution stand out.
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by prehnra 14y ago
This is probably going to be hard to hear, but the reason why people say nice things in private but don't promote you in public is that there is no risk or cost in saying nice things, but if they endorse you then their reputations are tied
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by prehnra 14y ago
Never work for free. The reasons are many, including: Clients not willing to pay for design will have no respect for you or design. On the other hand, you could get skewed customer experience information. You are undercutting other profess
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by prehnra 14y ago
This is the part that got me: Written in PHP, so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program. Even babies and dogs can contribute
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by prehnra 14y ago
You say you are an average coder. How are you as a writer?
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by prehnra 14y ago
This is in response to another blog post that was floating up hn recently. The title of that other post is the origin of the "fucking janitor" thing. In my opinion it is not worth finding the original by the way. It was pretty shallow analy
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by prehnra 14y ago
Sure. Think about how this works outside of the internet. The fact that we have multiple grocery stores, clothing stores, hardware stores, etc means that someone is copying someone else's idea. There is this mythology in certain corners of
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by prehnra 14y ago
"Evil" is overstating it I think. Murder is evil. Cutting into a business's margins for promotional reasons is just business. And it is totally voluntary for the restaurants-- no one forces them to promote with groupon. This is link bait in
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by prehnra 14y ago
What should you look for? A lawyer. Any smart company has legal counsel. They probably won't be offended if you also have legal representation, especially if you explain that you are trying to protect both sides of the arrangement from any
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by prehnra 14y ago
What percentage of your customers is this? If it is 1% then you probably want to refund them and close the account. If it is 20% then your company is the problem. Or you are missing an opportunity to address a different need.
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by prehnra 14y ago
no. No. NO. Just no.