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Feel free to shoot me an email (on profile) and I can share details / connect you with some involved. I'm an Australian who has been in Canada since 2009. The current iteration of …

I went through a similar thing in my first few trips to the Bay area, and ultimately decided to not move there for the same reasons. I've found subsequent trips to be much easier. …

Link is down. Cached page at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ybdWn7-...

tl;dr: most feedback on twitter ads assume it is intent driven (i.e. google adwords), when in most cases it is not. IMO, it's the root of many social companies struggle to monetize…

The 4 and 7 has been an ongoing debate among marketing academics, it seems. I recall the "right" answer alternating course by course through school, pending the professors interest…

On top of this, once the coding starts, too many languages focus on command / effect (note: not cause / effect). This is arguably fine for basic looping and data structures. The pr…

Thanks for organizing, Dave.

I think you make some valid points, and as somebody who self-taught, I get the pain. That being said, I also agree with the common sentiment here "help yourself a little first". If…

I found the SEE (free Stanford) courses to be best: http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

I'm unsure this is true anymore. If you know how to play B2B (the same lies true for B2C), it's entirely plausible to get the first 1-5 deals pre-build (I did). If you consider tha…

I'm unsure the perception of B2B among VC's is as bad as commonly thought. My last startup was pure B2B, and during our valley runs I found most potential partners / vc's / workers…

Thanks Yoseph

Hi, just to address, there are two options I'm working on at this point: 1) App-less (just changed your contact settings); and 2) I am tinkering with some local app stuff for the f…

Good call. Would love to see it integrated.

Perhaps I mis-spoke above. An issue can be associated with multiple tickets, just as a ticket can be associated with multiple issues. The latter is not beefed as much in the code, …

Appreciate the feedback. Will see how often this is reported. The fading is also handled in the main JS file, so you can disable it there.

I'll admit there is not much logic here. Was not needed for my use case. Feel free to contribute it, though!

Sure. You create a support e-mail. Customers send to this e-mail, and tickets are auto-created.

Hi. I may flesh it out, but I've also opened up the software. If you have extension ideas, please feel free to fork / contribute. You can flip me an e-mail (my first name @ my HN u…

Thanks. It's easy to keep things simple when you are building for my use case, which was rather basic. That being said, I see the value of tagging. Perhaps a future addition.

Demo is up (loaded with some of my testing data, so no real guarantees): www.ticketdesk.co alex@ticketdesk.co 123456 I've disabled much of the cron / emailing.

For my use case it's fine. If the software was going to be commercial, this module would be the first to need beefing. I've toyed with re-running delayed jobs, but this setup has w…

Fair. I've got an EC2 instance booting up right now.