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Just a guy trying to build something useful.
I don't know anything about jazz or how to create any kind of music, but it's so relaxing to type while listening to these notes. I would love this as an application integrated with the OS, so I can listen it with every keystroke.
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Thank you!
This idea is on my list for quite some time. It's simple and fun. I really don't know why I waited so long to build it.
I'm also planning to add some competitive features, like a leaderboard. But I liked your idea. A duel mode between two or more players sounds really fun!
And I agree it works really well with movies, but it's on the roadmap to expand to tv shows, games, books, bands, songs...
That's the goal!
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Thank you!
The skip button should take you to another random emoji. And maybe it did, but it was the same random emoji as before. I should probably add some code to don't let this happen.
The golden rule is there's no golden rules.
Everything can work, and everything has its advantages and flaws. You just need to know where you're, and have a strategy to succeed based on your business model.
I'm getting the same error.
Although the author of the post obviously did a huge mistake, he is far from being the actual responsible for the problem that follows his mistake. It's the job of the CTO to make sure no one can harm the company main product this way, accidentaly or not.
He could never write code against the production database when developing new features. And if he was doing it, it wasn't his fault, considering he was a junior developer.
And who the hell is so stupid to don't have any recent backup for the database used by a piece of software that provides millions of revenue?
In the end, when you do such a shity job protecting your main product, shit will eventually happens. The author of the post was merely a agent of destiny.
I agree. What I was trying to say is that it doesn't worth to be upset with any misunderstanding about the place you born, wherever it is. Instead, you can correct people, so they have a more realistic view of your country.
But I also believe that any entrepreneur considering to start a company in Europe must research deeply, in a way that he find facts, and not only opinions from people from Internet.
As a brazilian, I completely understand this feeling. A lot of people think Buenos Aires is Brazil's capital, when it's actually Argentina's capital. And small parts of our culture are taken as national main interest, as carnival.
But it's ok to me. In the end, there's no much to do besides correcting people. It's not worth to be upset with this behaviour. People will always generalize and will always state things about places they don't even know with total confidence.
Rails has become extremely popular over the years, but we have to remember that in the end it's a software created by a guy containing his particular beliefs. And this is great! A good web framework need its own set of core beliefs.
I think it's more than possible to start a company as a developer, or even as the only developer. On the beginning, you probably don't have a lot of skype calls to make, or meetings to participate. On this phase, the thing that probably require most of your time is build your product.
And when you finally launch it, if you're lucky, you'll be more busy, but probably you'll also have more money, which will allow you to hire someone to help you. So you'll won't code so much as before, but if you want, you'll still have some time to do it.
The main argument against the article are the fact there's companies managed by developers who still code doing a good service to their customers: Instapaper (as far I know, Marco Arment is the only developer), 37signals (they have a lot of developers, but Jason Fried still codes), RubyMotion, among others.
Maybe this is not the easiest way, but it's definitely possible.
I use Sublime Text 2 as my primary text editor, and I really like PlainTasks plugin (https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks) as a way of keep tracking the things I need to do, things I would like to do, and, most important, things I've already done (just to have some sense of accomplishment).
In a side project with so few hours per week, I think anything more complex than this is overkill.
Nice story.
I believe anyone can learn anything, regardless the age.
And I agree with the author, know how to program is a useful knowledge in a world where computers are everywhere. And it also helps to improve the logical thinking. But I'm not among those who think that everybody must to learn programming.
I share this point of view. If I've learned something after watching Mortal Kombat movie a dozen times is that every man is responsible for his own destiny. We usually blame other people for bad things that happens to us because is more confortable than assuming that even after many years on this planet we still make a lot of mistakes.
To accept the obvious truth is really liberating. It takes away all bad feelings you had for people involved on situations where you've felt the victim. And it also makes you see that if you're responsible for your mistakes, you're also responsible for your success. There's no luck, it's your responsability to make things right.
I agree with @graue, descentralized services are better for their users. At least on theory. But I don't have any problem in using a good service provided by a company. Many things I can't live without were created by a company aiming to gain some money. The main point to me is focus on please your customers. So if a company do this, it will have my money.
Exactly!
That's why I think App.net. is great!
It's hard to have a consumer product with subscriptions as business model, but I think worth the try. This way you treat the people who make you pay the bills with the respect they deserve.
I understand why they're doing this. They need to control the medium where people consume their content, so they'll be able to sell some ads. By the way, Twitter are doing the same. Unfortunately this is one of the few options most social networks companies see to become profitable.
But it's kind of sad that almost nobody is trying to be profitable providing convenience and a smooth experience to their users.
Nice!
Although I like rounded corners and gradients, it's good to provide options for those who don't think the same.
Although I never coded anything on it, RubyMotion is a tool that I really want to be successful. So it's nice to see their user base growing to the point where they have a conference.
I would pay $50 for a Apple version of Netflix, including all iTunes Store catalog.
But generally speaking, I would pay $50 for a high quality entertainment service, or for something that highly improves my productivity at work.
If something provide me a big stream of fun or money, it will have $50 from me, or even more.
First of all, good luck.
I also work on a boring job that drain all my energy, and in some way I envy you. I would like to have your courage. But as my current job is still bearable, I'm working on my own product on the spare time. But I'm working as a software developer only for 3 years, so I don't know if I could do it in your your situation.
I'm using this plugin for a while, and I think it's really great. The only flaw was that it lacked documentation, which is not a problem anymore.
To be honest, my ebook is on initial stage, but I'm actively working on it. If you want to track its progress, here's its repository on GitHub: https://github.com/elomarns/sublime-coding
Anyway you can find a great cheat sheet on the links below:
I'm trying to improve this by writing an ebook about Sublime Text 2. If you're interested, here is the first chapter:
Finally!
Sublime Text 2 is really a wonderful piece of software. I can't live without multiple cursors anymore. Of course it can improve (anything can), but in my opinion is the best text editor available.
"The best solution is not to need money". Best advice on this post.