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It wasn't clear to me how fully supported this is. Lots of people have had issues with this, see the comments: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for...

Agree, but iSSH is also crammed with helpful features like public key authentication. Prompt is going to have to match those to become a favorite of the hacker crowd.

If you're reasonably strong in mathematics, you can learn to code basic concepts pretty quickly. Unfortunately, there's not shortcut to learning to code _well_. But that's okay - at a super early stage, being able to assemble a prototype that will never go live could still be very valuable.

That said, I'm not sure learning to code is the best use of your time. Given how murky health care is, an inside knowledge of the industry should be immensely valuable to a startup, especially when it comes to demonstrating formidability and landing early biz dev relationships. You might be better off working on on the ins and outs of daily business, inbound marketing and fundraising, so that you can support your team while they build whatever it is you set out to build.

If I could fork your code and get it working with environment variables, would you be interested in pulling that in? (Not sure if you made a deliberate decision to avoid that).

MiddleManagement works great for my needs, but if these libraries serve the same use case(s), I'd rather converge towards one library than have things spread out.

One other thing you may want to add is a retry loop for the heroku API calls. Every now and then, the heroku gem will throw a RestClient::ServiceUnavailable: 503 Service Unavailable exception. In the worst case, I'm not sure if this is best handled in the gem or at the application layer; however it's definitely worth retrying a couple times if you can avoid the blowup completely. I got some feedback from the Boston.rb group on handling this if you're interested: http://groups.google.com/group/boston-rubygroup/browse_threa...

Nice work, glad to see heroku API gems getting some love.

I wrote a similar gem back in January and have had good luck with it: https://github.com/freerobby/middle_management

It's fully configurable via environment variables, so you can make changes without redeploying. It also lets you specify a minimum number of workers (even if there are zero jobs) so that you don't have to wait for workers to spin up if you don't want to.

No.

Yeah, and McDonalds is just a last name, right?

Broadness in itself is not a reason to deny a trademark. "Christmas Tree Shops" is hardly distinctive. "McDonalds" is a last name. These trademarks are recognized because brands were successfully and identifiably built around them. I think the same can be said about the app store - ask any "normal" who he thinks of when he hears the phrase "App Store." Hint: it's not Google or Amazon.

The OP does realize that "Windows" is recognized as a valid trademark, yes?

You're definitely right about Boston having an active startup community with lots of smart folks.

Personally I don't feel we have a "startup curse," but it is definitely something that others talk about. It's generally in reference to the fact that despite having all the things that you've mentioned, we're yet to have a company exit or grow on par with the most successful San Francisco startups.

The whole NBA League Pass system is flawed and broken in so many ways. Expanding on what you've written up:

1) It's bogus that I need to buy a subscription twice to watch it on my iPhone and my laptop. I'll pay a small fee for an iOS app but it's ludicrous to make me pay double licensing fees.

2) Why in the world would you build an iOS app oriented towards video and not build an iPad version?

3) Why are they burdening users with choices like "do you want to see seven teams or all teams?" This doesn't bother me as a user but it drives me crazy as a designer. They're making the signup flow gratuitously complicated. It's a bizarre segmentation that forces users to think unnecessarily.

4) The black hat UX like auto-renewal and email-to-cancel is irritating and makes me mistrust the service.

What if one cofounder is more valuable than another?

As stated after that sentence, I'd definitely recommend a USB mic to anybody recording at home. When you're on the go and need a built-in mic, the bar is pretty low.

Apogee has a good reputation in the music industry, and this is a product where manufacturing quality matters a great deal. Unlike HDMI cables, the 1/4" adapter must perform analog-digital conversion. This is a lossy, signal-altering process, so you want to use the highest quality converter available.

Good point - it happened mostly when shuffling things around so that would make sense.

Sorry about that, there's a direct download link at the top you can use if the HTML5 player isn't working for you.

Sorry, had to restart the web server just as this was crawling up the front page. Bad timing but should be fixed for good now.

Yeah, I mean I prefer creating virtual instruments on the screen with the touch interface as opposed to using a mouse and/or keyboard. Definitely agree that MIDI keyboards are preferable to on-screen keyboards, but I do a lot of songwriting on-the-go so it's not always practical for me.

Wow, thank you. Elliott is a musical idol of mine so this is one of the nicest compliments I could receive.

Two points:

1) I was referring to portable all-in-one units like the Boss Micro BR, Tascam field recorders, etc. Maybe I should have been more explicit about this.

2) Ableton is great for recording and processing, but for creating virtual instruments without external hardware, I'd prefer the iPad interface.

I turned off the sound on the homepage. Most of the feedback we get from normals concerning the popups is very positive - I'd definitely recommend it at as a customer development tool.

Thanks, lots of good stuff in here.

When you send us a receipt, we store it, create an account for you, and send you a welcome email with all the info you need to upload more receipts and view them online.

Sorry you feel our tooltips are a gimmick - we used them because we felt it was the best way to convey the most information without crowding the screen with excessive copy.

The goal is to provide a lower-friction product and compete on ease of use. E.g. no special formats to follow, no pesky emails reminding you to update certain things - just upload and go (we're not quite there yet). In some cases that means we won't be a replacement for a service like expensify, and that's fine with us.

I think that's true for some folks, but not others. Lots of normals still buy expensive TVs at Best Buy, WalMart, etc. and get a paper receipt. Thanks for checking it out.

We have a special iOS-friendly template for most of the pages on the site. Or do you mean you want the option to skip that template?

Thanks.

Great feedback, thanks. We're struggling with trying to cram too much info onto one page. Will try to focus on a simple, single statement like that above all else.

PaperPhobic is a cloud-based receipt organization system. No signup is required, you can email photos of your receipts (or e-receipts) to receipts@paperphobic.com. We also have a free iPhone app you can use.

Notable paid features include transcription of price/date/description/categories, and super-quick expense/reimbursement report generation.

We are not the first to enter this space, but we feel we can compete on ease of use for the receipt uploader.

Would greatly appreciate feedback on the service and product. Thanks!

I don't understand what this is.