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Does using a UNION OR UNION ALL query instead of a join query reduce the implication of jsonb column not having statistics, especially since the postgresql query planner might not use the nested loop join.
If you don't want to use only online tutorials and videos then look at http://training.wizebee.com/rails-course, where you will a have someone teaching you what you need to know.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz Memorial Fund for His Son Ryland(indiegogo.com) https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ezra-zygmuntowicz-memoria... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690794
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Please read this article that talks about a software engineer changing into a managerial role:
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other...
also read the hackernews discussion:
Just like coding is a technical skill to make a software product, the ability to make sushi is a technical skill to make the product he sells called sushi.
So to my mind your story illustrates the fact that Andrew's definition is not wrong.
What you can argue though, is that possessing the skill to make the product one is growth hacking on should not be essential in order to be a growth hacker, though having that skill would be helpful. After-all you can buy an off the shelf software or hire contractors just like the sushi guy can outsource or buy from other restaurants without making the sushi himself.
Thanks for not allowing cancan to die.
It is troubling to hear that digital-ocean takes arbitrary action to shut down servers without giving atleast 24 hours notice.
It is worrisome for me because I am a linode user and only recently created a digital-ocean droplet and after playing with it, I liked their service and was planning to host a new app with them instead of Linode while the existing one's remain with linode.
But now I am not sure?
Can any digital-ocean staff please provide a link that shows your policy for shutting down servers. I need to be sure this high handedness is not actually in your policy.
Honestly, you need to get some self confidence. You need to man up. Being a nice guy in this scenario doesn't help. If the CTO wants to play dirty and ruthless. You must play dirty and ruthless. How did a guy you hire get the guts to tell you he wants to fire you as a co-founder. This means your other co-founder is probably ganging up with him behind your back. You cannot trust both of them. I don't know who owns more percentage of the company betwen you and your co-founder but I want to believe that your CTO is minority stake holder at this point. Don't leave without a thorough fight. The good thing is that you can code no-matter how terrible, you can build a minimum viable product for any future idea you have. Your CEO cannot which is why it is convenient for him to try and co-operate wit the CTO.
Line of action:
1. Start speaking to a lawyer. 2. Transition out of code writing role into product visionary role, so the CTO doesn't see your as someone that reports to him. You played a part in not just formulating the initial idea but in coding a prototype, so in essence you can play the role of product visionary. That is Chief Product Officer.
3. Tell you co-founder you are transitioning into a product visionary role with the title of Chief Product Officer. Read up what this role does.
4. Call for a meeting with just you and your co-founder and test his allegiance. Tell him that if a guy you hired wants to fire you then he can also team up with future investors to fire the CEO, so he is not save in the future. So due to trust issues, you intend to fire your CTO after you get a replacement. Show him a list of possible top people in the open-source world using your technology that you intend to open up communication with as possible replacement for the CTO. Sink it into his head that the CTO is replace-able and that culture fit matters more thank skills as you can get a replacement for skillset easier than getting the person with the right skillset and cultural fit. http://www.bhorowitz.com/programming_your_culture
5. Call a meeting with your CTO and tell him you plan to stop writing code and then tell him you also plan to get a new CTO to replace him because you can't have a guy you hired steal your company. Let him know he is also replace-able as you won't have hired him because of poor culture fit even though he is skillful if you knew about the schemer he is.
6. Now that you have man up to both, call a meeting with the CEO and CTO to address any issues relating to what you discussed with them.
7. Watch the shares during any round of funding, so you are not squeezed out. See the company incorporation details and ensure your name is there and you are not deceived by your other co-founder.
8. CTO's are replace-able, don't don't let someone you hired ask you to leave, so that he can take your shares. He probably overstated his importance behind your back to the CEO and asked for more shares and your co-founder felt that if he gets you out of the way he will get the more shares.
If they were bold and ruthless, you must be bold and ruthless too.
sate your importance to founding the company, idea generation, writing enough code to make the CTO, join since he knew you people were not idea only guys.
Kick that CTO out and henceforth watch your co-founder closely.
Alex and Richard good job. looking at the progress of your competitor's link below, suggest to me that what you are building is needed. http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/19/entelo-the-big-data-recruit... leverage social data to search for and identify great candidates
see an example of using emberjs for only some pages: http://www.ryandao.net/portal/content/emberjs-how-use-ember-...
In addition to the discussion here, you can also follow the discussion on fred's article here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6408318
As already mentioned, there is a startup called yapp: https://www.yapp.us/. I am not affiliated with them but I will suggest you change the name to something else.
Similar article about why emberjs rocks:
Trying telling that to the the Winklevoss twins and see if they agree.
what makes it a lifestyle company with almost a billion in sales annually. Facebook makes just about 4times over that annually at the moment.
Would you call Instagram, Yammer and Youtube that were all acquired for a little over a billion dollars, lifestyle businesses?
Or except you raise venture capital, you a lifestyle business?
Two of the biggest help desk app on the web are running on rails. Salesforce helpdesk app with this as its url http://www.desk.com/ and ofcourse the helpdesk startup http://www.zendesk.com/.
Based on the facts above, I submit to you that there is nothing interesting about the reference to Amy Hoy's charm (and there is nothing in there to depress a rails developer using ubuntu).
As far as I am concerned, Amy Hoy's app did not get the kind of traction they envisaged simple. Hence they shut it down.
I am sure that both jitbit's app and Amy Hoy's were not as big customer wise as that form Zendesk and Salesforce. I am sure their traffic numbers wasn't anything near what zendesk and desk.com does.
Good job. As make more videos, will you be using ember-data or pure ajax like discourse did.
@agwa, many thanks for the response.
Thanks for this comment. Where can one get blocks of fax numbers. You mentioned CLEC's get block of phone numbers, is there a similar system for allocating blocks of fax numbers. For instance HelloFax usually assign Fax numbers to customers based on area code. Where do they get the fax numbers from?
Many thanks.
It is good you clarified this here as it wasn't clear to me and though I had before now settled on using spreedly-core, due to my not understanding that bit, I quickly began thinking I may need to evaluate other options all again. But no need with this explanation.
Why don't you paste the exact explanation/examples that you have given here in the pop-up that comes up when we mouse over 'pay as you go' in your new pricing page.
Great job.
Cashing out is not thesame as not caring. Didn't Steve Job cash out when Apple fired him, but when he returned, he still cared enough to do awesome things. Why would you want the CEO of a public or big company to be worrying about his personal finance instead of the business. There is a reason why even hired CEO's are well compensated.
Except if you have a good reason for wanting to learn Python, I will say as a rubyist you should learn a functional programming language like clojure or scala if you don't know them already. This is because both Python and Ruby are OO and similar in alot of ways.
Nobody wins by just using programming language Y or framework X. Product, features, design, execution etc is what make you wins. Facebook won in social-networking using php, some other social networks were build in Java and failed. Amazon won using Perl. Instagram used python/django and got acquired for a billion. Yammer used ruby/ rails and was acquired for 1.2 billion.
In reality most companies are polyglot using different languages, tools and frameworks for different features in their stack.
I am personally tied of unnecessary rants. There is no perfect programming language or framework.
Abandon the notion that there's a "right framework," and just choose one and get hacking.
Joy is relative. What gives one person Joy might not give another joy. There just might be people who derive joy using frameworks to deliver business value who might not find joy in coding just for coding sake. For some programming is there hobby and doubles as work, so they derive joy in coding for coding sake. For other's coding is just a means to an end in their work and they have other hobbies.
So every man to what gives him joy and no need to worry about those using Api's and framework to deliver value and pay bills.
I really think people should leave ruswick to himself. He seems to live a life of not seeing anything good in others work. So people should not bother responding to him. Read his blog and you would see some negativity about app.net, branch
Another reason why you shouldn't respond to him, is that rather than take people's thought onboard that his negativity is unfounded in this instance, since Patrick did thesame when earning $1000, he is rather seeing it as never say anything negative about Patio11 on HN, which is not the thrust of people's response to him. See his tweet on that http://twitter.com/DanRuswick/status/285136357037326336.
People that want to hate will see reason to hate. People that want to be bitter with whatever positive post others make or whatever success they experience, will find a reason to do and would justify it, just as ruswick is doing.
It is okay to criticize patio11 or anyone if you are not blinded by pessimism and jealousy.
....but what HN used to be was a group of people who were hackers first with interests in stories about other startups, new technology, implementing technology etc.
Stories about other startup you listed. So what's wrong with stories of how this startups made money. You mentioned implementing new technology. But any technology or opensource software not actively used in money making ventures starts to lag and eventually dies.
Why are we being hypocritical.
I think this comment by Brandon Burns made on Fred's blog puts things in their proper context.
I feel like a point is still being missed: mobile is a channel, not a product strategy.
Instagram worked mobile first because you use it to take pictures, which you do on your phone. You also use your phone to order a taxi, and to connect with friends when out — Uber and Foursquare.
Google still has more activity on the desktop than mobile; why? Because people don't like executing intensive searches on a small screen. Viral content driven platforms do better on desktop; why? People look at and share content mostly while goofing off at work, on the computer on their desk.
Your product defines how you execute it, not the channel.
Chase user behavior, not press headlines that say "X sector is growing!"
Think like an experience designer, not like a VC.
My 1cent feedback.
So basically you built your own in house orm or alternative to orm using what you call repository objects . well done if it makes you win and makes your life easier.
Does it really matter whether you are using orm or repository objects provided you app is providing business value. Unfortunately, technology alone does not make an app win. So to my mind it doesn't matter whether you use a framework or not. It doesn't matter whether you use ORM or not. Just demonstrate business value to your would be customer.
I think a blog post focusing on the business value of your app will be better than any blog post on ORM bashing or rails bashing. How does anyone's use of ORM stop them from paying for your product. If it doesnt then don't alienate anyone from your customer base by trying to make what they are comfortable using to look bad. I think Stripe is using ruby but without any framework or orm but that is not the basis of their marketing communication.
If you can have a series of blog post on how to use the metrics you provide to make businesses look like consultant in the eyes of their customer, it might do you more good on the road to traction.
I believe in all the causes you have mentioned but please stop polluting this feed.
You get people to contribute to good causes by being able to influence them and not nag or harass or bully them.
Please get this book and read them because not all talk = influence:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robe...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/...
I believe in what you profess but you are going about it the wrong way and even me who believe in your course find you annoying.