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Re: Weekly reader question: How can TSF serve the startup community better?

TobyM — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:15:48 -0000

I like the non-link-bait headlines. Don't go to the dark side! If this becomes your true full-time job, I imagine it will be hard to avoid that tactic to bring traffic. Genuine, down-to-earth startup coverage and commentary is why I read TSF.

Re: 5 Criteria to Compare Data Marketplaces

TobyM — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:24:30 -0000

Junar is another data marketplace worth checking out.

Re: Love, hate, & tmux

TobyM — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:04:19 -0000

That does not yank to the *system* pasteboard.

Re: Love, hate, & tmux

TobyM — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:23:57 -0000

In vim, you can copy to the system clipboard/pasteboard by visually selecting a range and hitting Ctrl-C.

Re: Disrupt Startup Textingly Raises Seed Money, Lands A Deal With The NJ Nets

TobyM — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:50:17 -0000

Congrats Dave

Re: MongoDB: Twitter Stream as Input Data

TobyM — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:37:23 -0000

Presumably this won't work (verbatim) after Aug 31 with basic auth is switched off

Re: Bank of America (Formerely CountryWide)

TobyM — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:44:35 -0000

I agree with this -- you can get in touch with a branch president/exec more often than you would expect (given the abysmal state of first-level customer support).

Re: Beanstalk, a Simple and Fast Queueing Backend

TobyM — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:27:01 -0000

What do the "work" numbers mean? I would expect that jobs/second for working should completely dependent on the jobs to be processed, while enqueueing should be O(1).

Re: http://thechangelog.com/post/484388968

TobyM — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:12:23 -0000

Isn't this just "gem -dr httparty", plus number of downloads scraped from rubygems.org? Seems confusing to introduce another gem command that just duplicates existing functionality.

Re: Graph Databases

TobyM — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:31:01 -0000

Thanks for the "further reading" links

Re: Product Demo Videos

TobyM — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:44:04 -0000

Agreed, these videos need to be short, because they force me to consume the message at a predetermined pace which is out of my control. I can't quickly scan a video the way I can a blog post, so a product demo video represents a bigger time investment. 2-5 minutes doesn't sound like much, but I consistently pass up video options unless I'm very interested or it was recommended to me.

Re: DONE DEAL: eBay Settles Skype Lawsuit, Founders Return

TobyM — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:12:32 -0000

won=own

Re: Sexy Forms in Rails

TobyM — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:47:19 -0000

No problem - thanks for the link

Re: Sexy Forms in Rails

TobyM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:23:54 -0000

The plugin post apparently doesn't exist. The page doesn't load and nothing shows up in the list of August 2008 posts.