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by swanson 5mo ago
I tried making this joke to the author when the book was released ("I purchased the book, but the link just took me to an empty page") and, unfortunately, they didn't get it and tried to give me customer support
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by swanson 11mo ago
I guess I'm not quite understanding why you need six staging servers provisioned at $500 a pop? And if you need that because you have a large team...what percentage of your engineering spend is $3000 vs $100k+/yr salaries? Especia
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by swanson 11mo ago
it made my day to see this comment, i was the original creator, awesome to see people still using it!
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by swanson 3y ago
RE "neutered inspector": you can inspect the element and click ".cls" to toggle off classes: https://i.imgur.com/ig2SQw3.png RE "you can't chain selectors": you can stack modifiers like `d
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by swanson 4y ago
I got really into daily fantasy at the height of the boom: you make a fantasy football lineup and enter it into paid contests. For big leagues like the NFL you can potentially win millions of dollars (but there are tons and tons of players
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by swanson 4y ago
I used OR-Tools via the Python bindings a few years ago. It was nice to work with once I got setup but it was a pain to get it installed (both locally and when deploying to a cloud server). I would have liked some kind of API that I could c
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The Startup CEO’s Guide to Customer Success and Onboarding(arrows.to)
108 points by swanson 5y ago|21 comments
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by swanson 5y ago
I think the article would be better if you were to include even a basic template instead of just adding the <strong> tag. Right now, my first impression would be "why not just wrap the content in <strong> in JS instead of m
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by swanson 6y ago
It is great to see more options for non-accredited investors. There are plenty of software-type folks in low-cost of living states that don't meet the net-worth / salary bar but are well off financially and understand the risks.
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by swanson 6y ago
This is neat. You might consider making a twitter / instagram bot version. I like the Word of the Daily and would be nice to mix that into my twitter feed vs getting an email or viewing the page.
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by swanson 6y ago
And getting FDA approval is not the finish line. It's just the start of the roll-out. Now employ teams of reps to get the drug covered by every commercial insurance company and all Medicare/Medicaid parties so that patients have a
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by swanson 6y ago
I really hated SmartTVs and would actively avoid them, but I recently got one of the Roku branded TVs and it's actually quite good. Roku has always been great for me in terms of software updates, availability of streaming services, and
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by swanson 6y ago
I share some of the same issues, I have found that ERB templates work better than HAML for lots of data attributes. Basecamp seems to use liberal newlines / spacing when creating html tags (like one line per attribute) so that might he
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by swanson 6y ago
They are both JS frameworks, but they are fundamentally different approaches. React (and React-rails) moves rendering / state / logic clientside. You can use tools like react-rails to more easily pass data from your Rails controll
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All software advice is wrong(mdswanson.com)
1 points by swanson 6y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 6y ago
I've had great success with the Turbolinks + Stimulus approach. There are a couple of common patterns that you'll reach for, namely, lazy loading content (basically a <div> with a URL attribute that you have Stimulus load vi
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by swanson 6y ago
- Helped push for a shift in invoicing hourly to daily/weekly and then to "flat-rate for the whole team every month" - Organized a professional development group to promote book clubs, meetups, etc within the company - Helped
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by swanson 6y ago
None of this stuff matters at this point. Start writing content.
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by swanson 6y ago
Rory Sutherland - Alchemy Ole Peters work on ergodocity Paul Skallas / "Lindy Table" on Twitter
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by swanson 6y ago
Taleb doesnt live in NYC anymore
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by swanson 6y ago
Reminds me of the great "Nathan for You" episode where Nathan creates his own film festival so that he can award his own movie a judge's prize.
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by swanson 6y ago
> most people are overweight, so health is unimportant I would say, yes, health is unimportant to the average person because of their actions. I don't think that's good or fair, but it is the current state of the world. If you
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by swanson 6y ago
It's commendable to strive to improve. I agree that 95% of projects are a mess. I don't think there is value in writing good commit messages in those environments, even if it is easy. If you're going to spend 30 minutes writi
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by swanson 6y ago
That's fine. I think your opinion is the majority opinion (at least online). It just does not match my own experiences of reality. You can and should value practices based on your context. But I will be the asshole and ask if writing g
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by swanson 6y ago
I've worked for 10 years across 20 different commercial codebases. None of this stuff about writing good commit messages really matters. No one reads old commits. The "truth" is what the current code is doing and it doesn&#x2
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by swanson 6y ago
For what it's worth, I canceled/deleted my account this morning. Took me about 30 seconds to do thanks to this link and about 2 hours later I got an email that it was deleted. No government ID required.
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by swanson 6y ago
Yeah I didn't do it "domain-first" but love the idea. Still own the domain: noextrapoints.com, seems good for a football related site. Just bought "streamerjobs.com" for $13 inspired by your post. Maybe a job board
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by swanson 6y ago
I love this article just because so many commenters hate it. I really like the super niche side-projects -- I ran an analytics site for minor league football, built with a couple of Ruby scripts and a free Netlify plan. Was featured on ESPN
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by swanson 6y ago
Bots that use stolen cards to make purchases (or use legitimate SaaS apps as a vector to test if a card number if valid) Stripe "tracks" user data that they run through some fancy ML thing to try to detect if the person is a bot o
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Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releases(boringrails.com)
2 points by swanson 6y ago|0 comments

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