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Re:Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:31AM (#33518069)
Seconded. Watching a live performance by Sam really is something else.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @03:09PM (#12638412)
Slightly self-serving as the organiser but Sarah Mei's talk at Brighton Ruby this year was terrific.

http://brightonruby.com/2016/how-we-make-software-a-new-theo...

Re:LessAccounting, the Startup That Challenged QuickBooks, Sold on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:05PM (#11850820)
The Wayback Machine is your friend.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160127001734/http://feinternat...

Third listing.

A really solid, profitable business.

Re:The Rails Doctrine on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:59PM (#10933501)
You're going to love http://deppbot.com.

(Disclaimer, some friends of mine made it)

Re:Unicorns vs. Donkeys: Handy Guide to Distinguishing on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @08:31AM (#10662798)
I'd say _that_ is a hell of an assumption. The travel industry depends hugely on efficient PPC advertising with companies at any serious size.

This has been true of all three travel startups I've worked at. AirBnb may well have great brand recognition but I'd be amazed if they can acquire customers for zero.

Re:Why I wouldn’t use Rails for a new company on Thursday September 17, 2015 @06:10PM (#10236382)
I can definitely accept that Rails is now somewhat old hat.

And agreed that the Rails 2 to 3 jump was (and still is for many codebases) a tricky and difficult path.

However, I'd argue that doing your 'startup' in [Rails/COBOL/PHP/Logo/Java] is probably a decent idea if you have good engineers who can build something stable relatively quickly. Technology is _rarely_ the problem in any given startup.

If scalability and speed is a problem, congratulations, you're a success.

Rails is still good at giving you the tools to build decent CRUD-ish apps pretty fast and deployment is thankfully a solved problem.

Rails is not the new hotness, but it's still great at getting prototypes out the door and can scale you a long way. I think I'm cool with that.

> our front end has gone from Prototype to jQuery to Coffeescript to Angular to React with major productivity improvements each time

Also rewriting your front-end four times doesn't seem that productive.

Re:What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @11:15AM (#9334610)
> Doing a large rebrand is difficult, costly and time-consuming

And also a nice problem to have. Most 'startups' won't get to this stage, so spending time on a logo _is_ a waste.

Re:Will the UK's gas holders be missed? on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:20AM (#8971821)
http://www.wiener-gasometer.at/en/
Re:List of URLs checked by Twitter for its app targeting on Friday November 28, 2014 @05:02AM (#8670362)
Third party Twitter clients.

Tweetbot: https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Twitterrific: https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Twitterfon: https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Echofon: https://gist.github.com/genadyo/295a5e8f0d743f57137f#file-gi...

Am sure there are others.

Re:Rails – The Missing Parts on Monday March 03, 2014 @08:40PM (#7337924)
This. This. This.
Re:Lockdown on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @02:27AM (#5982821)
...and the web.

Sure he didn't do an app for Android (until someone did for him) and is a bit snarky about it as a platform, but the web version of Instapaper existed before the app did and powered the whole thing.

Plus 'The Magazine' has a significant web component (albeit a weird log in).

His preference for iOS seems to be aesthetic and income related, but he's originally (and still) a PHP web guy.

Re:Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr on Monday May 20, 2013 @11:53AM (#5738269)
Not according to him as he was technically an employee, I did some analysis...

http://andycroll.com/2013/05/20/tumblr-founder-shares-and-di...

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