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tedrodenon There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work

It appears that they just took my post from last week and added 500 words: http://ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com/post/2631616173/

tedrodenon News.YC faster (plus new traffic stats)

Ahh! I didn't know that. Thanks!

tedrodenon News.YC faster (plus new traffic stats)

Also, somewhat related to this, does anyone know if newmogul.com runs on the same code or does it just look identical?

tedrodenon Joel Spolsky: Thanks or No Thanks

This is a great article and Joel is a smart guy, but how many times has he written this article? I guess it's new because he put a new anecdote about an actual person, but he's been harping about this for years on his blog. He makes a good point but I wish he'd put new stuff in his Inc column.

(sorry for the rant)

tedrodenon Email SMTP server recommendations?

What about using gmail? I'm using that for a project of mine and it's working pretty well.

You can only send so many with a free account, but I believe you can send a lot more with their apps for domains product (or whatever it's called)... just a thought.

tedrodenon I did it: The postmortem of doing 31 features in 31 days

I generally worked from about 10pm (after tucking the wife in) until 2am. I have a full time job in the R&D lab at the New York Times, so I was super careful not too push it too far.

I found that I can function pretty well on 5-6 hours of sleep.

tedrodenon I did it: The postmortem of doing 31 features in 31 days

Wow! Thanks for the kind words. I decided early on to be as honest as possible about everything with this site.

Sometimes that means my personality shows through in the design and other aspects, other times it means that I rail against youtube for a few paragraphs in the public changelog/blog.

tedrodenon I did it: The postmortem of doing 31 features in 31 days

Agreed. I'm probably not going to do a lightbox, but I need a much smoother way of going from one thing to the next.

tedrodenon I did it: The postmortem of doing 31 features in 31 days

Thanks!

tedrodenon I did it: The postmortem of doing 31 features in 31 days

Yeah, it's definitely a trade off. I'm not sure I agree with the 37 signals way though.

A good example of my issue with them is their highrise product. It took over a year from launch [1] before they had any type of bulk editing [2] features. Simplicity is one thing, but that is a long time for a feature that really should have been there at launch... or close to it.

[1] http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/329-launch-highrise [2] http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/908-tiny-projects-keep-it...

tedrodenon I did it: The postmortem of doing 31 features in 31 days

Ahh yeah. The images can be fun to look at... there is also an image only viewer: http://enjoysthin.gs/explore/images