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fretlessjazz

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About fretlessjazz

Co-founder, VP Engineering @ Dasheroo.com

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    Hey there-- James from Dasheroo here. We're looking into the iOS scrolling issues on our homepage; sorry for the inconvenience!

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    Comment #3478034

    It's pretty smart, actually. They don't want to ruin their SEO.

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    Comment #2313837

    I run Rails and became tired of seeing 404s to standard ASP or PHP software (such as phpmyadmin), so I added this to our Apache conf: RewriteRule \.(asp|aspx|php|jsp)$ - [F,L,NC] R…

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    Austin startup here as well. I actually moved from San Francisco to Austin to launch http://www.ideaffect.com . Also, hey Jason! Still owe you a beer sometime.

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    My first customer came from my own personal network as well. The first customer that did _not_ come from my personal network was a result of posting to app directories such as feed…

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    I'm not a design genius-- but when I saw Gap's new logo I think I knew what they were going for, and imho I doubt it was created haphazardly. The new logo is exemplary of the trans…

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    2 days late; not sure if you'll still get a chance to read this. But, I'll bite. As someone who's hired (good and bad) engineers in both UI/UX and back-end disciplines, my first im…

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    Comment #1644834

    Many engineers are not designers, and should not be judged as such. Constructive criticism is more helpful here than lambasting them for not adhering to your personal standards of …

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    Comment #1559609

    Everyone who tried to convince me that (vim|emacs) is better than (vim|emacs) was wrong

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    Comment #1534315

    CKEditor and TinyMCE have solved a very difficult problem in extremely elegant ways; their developers deserve more respect than wishing their projects death.

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    A big problem is that contentEditable has never been part of an official spec until now (HTML5). My fingers are crossed that we'll see some improvements over the next few years.

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    Without estimating the traffic of the author's site, I still find his argument valid. I've employed many of the tactics he describes and have achieved >15 M/s of dynamic content th…

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    I suggest focusing on something that many (web) programmers don't have, don't think about enough, and are paid a heck of a lot more if they do: How are your design skills? Edit: by…

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    Comment #1428462

    Maybe this is why my wife hates the fact that I snore like a table saw?

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    Comment #1424702

    The recording geek in me absolutely loves that you've managed to insert XLR into a company name. Well done!

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    Thanks for the comments. My competitors (uservoice.com, ideascale.com, and a few others) charge a similar base fee, but they both have a tier-based pricing structure. I'm shooting …

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    Gah! Sorry about that; fixing now.

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    Comment #1360349

    =~ s/y/sp/ ...does anyone else have a tough time getting past that?