bjclark

>> After all, everyone around the tech forums just want you to launch early because they want to see if you have a good idea that's not flushed out enough yet so they can copy it quickly and build it out faster and better than you. Only the competition are reading these threads - your customers are out in the world.

What? Really? You think people say to launch early because they want to copy you?

You can say what you want about DHH, but he's 100% correct here.

Inbelieve meebo offers a widget that does just what you want.

Meet people. Lots and lots of people. And find a co-founder.

Redis is almost perfect for a queue because of it's lists and atomic operations. And, most of all, because it's persistent. It's amazing how many queues aren't persistent.

I'm glad someone finally did this, it could be a great solution. I'm looking forward to digging into this.

I'm one of the developers from Chargify. Are you in our private beta? Can I help you with anything?

Most of the "backup services" (jungledisk, mozy, etc.) do either free or really cheap "personal" backup, but have expensive "business" plans.

RubyMine is free for "Open Source".

The more and more I learn about Kanban and Kaizen, the more right on it feels.

Hey, that's the company I work for.

This is great an all, but it's too bad they didn't just decide to do away with gems and everyone switch to rip.

But since they didn't, I'm glad they have decided to effectively move hosting to S3 (which is essentially what this change is about). There seems to be a tangible difference between the old hosting speed and s3's bandwidth (especially for people hosting their apps on EC2).

Well, they released it to some more users, but I'm not sure you can say they "began the rollout". Atleast that's not how one of their dev puts it. http://twitter.com/nk/status/4900447414

I thought google just bought dropbox.com? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=857101

"A single finger manipulates items inside of an application. <insert finger painting>"

Ding. Ding. Ding. We have #fail.

It's pretty cool and all, but this isn't going to change anyone's life. The best idea here is just putting a big touch pad on the desktop in front of your monitor.

This is possibly the sleaziest way to describe what most people would describe as a great paper prototyping session. Everyone should be doing this, it's super easy, you don't even need to photoshop anything, just draw out your interface on paper or use balsamiq.

Would have anything changed if he hadn't been shady about it? No, except he wouldn't have come off soundingly like a d-bag.

There's no point at which you could be distracted. You write a test, you make it pass. You don't do anything until it passes. As soon as it passes, you write another test. If I want to take a break, I make a test pass, then write the next one, and take the break.

When I sit back down, I know exactly where I was: making the test pass.

What would I be surprised about? I know the conversation on the mailing list that spawned it. I've met the guy. It's satire.

I lived in Nob Hill for a year and it's a great area, except that walking to SOMA you might go through a couple pretty rough blocks and walking home you go up some of the steepest hills in SF.

First I write a test.

Then I write just enough code to make that test past.

Then I refactor my code so that it meets the 4 rules of simplicity.

Then I write another test.

He's not trying to sound profound. It is satire.

I can't stand Quicksilver. I've found it to be a giant memory leak (routinely using 500mb - 1gig of ram!), and will randomly freak out and try to re-index my whole disk causing it to thrash and slow everything down.

Spotlight seems to do all I need and I haven't even noticed it's indexing since upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Also, if you spend most of your day in Terminal and a code editor, what bonus do you get from Quicksilver? I don't really launch that many programs.

In other words, just because you might get 10000000000gigs of "free" inbound, doesn't mean you can actually get that much inbound out of the pipe.

Hire a reputable company, not a random guy. Hire someone that has a portfolio, references, contracts, an office, a business phone number, an address, etc.

Oh, and be prepared to actually pay an appropriate amount of money. You do get what you pay for.

It seems like no one ever asks for enough money. Last week there was a woman on that had invested $100k of her own money into the business and was asking for $50k more. It seems like if she would have asked for $500k or $2mil, or something like that, they would have taken her seriously, but they weren't interested in $50k.

I actually think this is pretty cool. I know I tend to jump from cnn.com to bbc.co.uk to espn.com to velonews.com so it would be cool to have a quick way to do this.

My entry is http://twitabrew.com

I'd like to start a group for "Startup Types". Interested?

>> Does it get no love because it's commercial and (probably) expensive?

Yes.

I found this article to be interesting, however completely un-useful. No one actually uses P-Store and I'm not sure why anyone would start?!? Why not just use BerkleyDB? I believe it has ruby bindings.

I don't know that being schemaless is fundamentally different. Instead of thinking that key/value stores are schemaless, I think of them as having a single rigid schema: key and value. The data you stick into a k/v db will still have essentially, a schema, you just end up writing your application to be flexible to data inconsistency.

The comparison to dynamic vs static typing doesn't hold much water.

Can you explain how meta-programming relates to this topic at all?

No, you're not. This point is made in the article.