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Re: 1: Why I use Vim

Daniel J. Pritchett — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:04:08 -0000

You could definitely argue that frequency of h/l usage is inversely correlated with vim fluency! I use 'em a decent amount all the same. Didn't @r00k or @kytrinyx say that they'll unbind hjkl for a while just to force themselves into mastering the movements like you have?

Re: 1: Why I use Vim

Daniel J. Pritchett — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:35:45 -0000

http://static.tumblr.com/ya...

Re: Elixir vs Ruby Showdown - Phoenix vs Rails

Daniel J. Pritchett — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:18:32 -0000

I'm certain something like gulp watch could handle this. I've spent a bit of time on it already before backing down because I didn't really have a business case to justify completely reinventing the Rails asset pipeline with bower + gulp.

Re: New App Lays Out Mid-South Trail System | Local 24 News | News, Weather and Sports for Memphis & the Mid-South | WATN-TV | LocalMemphis.com

Daniel J. Pritchett — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:41:43 -0000

Great to see this! Don't forget the good work from GiveCamp Memphis to coordinate the hard work and donations required to deliver this app for free on behalf of the Greenways team!

Re: The little things

Daniel J. Pritchett — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:10:02 -0000

But what makes them faster? Glad to see they don't bring any semantic weirdness along with the speed.

Re: Selfishness - Courageous Software

Daniel J. Pritchett — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:42:34 -0000

I agree. Accommodating other people's requests gets to be a really slippery slope that can torpedo your productivity. Treat coworkers and clients with respect, but don't feel obligated to stay in a fundamentally unproductive situation. As a programmer if you realize that you can be twice as productive (and hopefully twice as engaged, fulfilled, compensated) in one situation vs. another then you really owe it to yourself to make it happen. You only get one career.

This is not to say that folks should trade jobs every six months, but they shouldn't be obligated to grin and bear it for years on end in a bad situation either.

Re: RubyTapas

Daniel J. Pritchett — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:40:55 -0000

Hey Avdi, is there any way to avoid using "self." when using getters setters in public instance methods? Say I have a class with an accessible attribute :first_name and then I have a public :full_name=(name) method that parses name and stores part of it to self.first_name. Is there any way (or indeed any reason) to avoid using self.first_name at this juncture?

Thanks!

Re: SIGUSR2 > ant.el: A Code Walkthrough

Daniel J. Pritchett — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:36:00 -0000

Since you're a Clojure hacker I hope you're digging into everything technomancy writes. I first saw locate-dominating-file in Phil's durendal.el a few days ago:

PS - The Meetup jobs page has an empty "current openings" box in Chrome on XP.

Re: How Y Combinator Helped 172 Startups Take Off – With Paul Graham

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:17:40 -0000

Paul founded a failed startup "Artix" before successfully cofounding and selling ViaWeb in the 90s. That seems like the sort of person you say you're interested in. Are you maybe looking for people who are *currently* growing an early-stage startup?

Re: Setting up an internal Facebook might just solve your company’s communications and engagement problems

Daniel J. Pritchett — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:58:34 -0000

If you're specifically asking about the fbOpen platform:

No, Facebook won't have access to your private data if you run your own fbOpen server inhouse. That said, your security team should do a code audit to verify this claim.

Facebook benefits from open sourcing this platform in the same way any company does: Goodwill from the tech community along with a bit of free testing and tech support if anyone tries to use it and identifies problems. Anything that increases Facebook's footprint in the identity/social markets is good for business.

All that said, you should really look at using an off the shelf or pay-per-month Facebook-style solution instead such as Jive or Newsgator.

Good luck!

Re: Digital Marketing Haiku – Always Be Testing

Daniel J. Pritchett — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:47:17 -0000

I like that for two reasons: I love Glengarry Glen Ross and I am only slightly less enamored with continuous process improvement.

Re: Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder on Earth...

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:15:35 -0000

Hard not to notice that Brizzly is using the same "we just hired Ben Darnell!" headshot that the Friendfeed blog used. Odd and clearly deliberate choice, Brizzly.

Re: Running your own vanity OpenID provider is a horrible idea

Daniel J. Pritchett — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:03:03 -0000

This blog uses OpenID delegation now - is that what you're referring to?

Re: What’s With All The Chatter?

Daniel J. Pritchett — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:55:28 -0000

The wildest part of yesterday's keynote was when @salesforce tweeted "Why is there not a Twitter for the enterprise?"

Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that! Clearly what they meant to say was "We don't want to be left out of the enterprise microblogging market". Benioff is already on record having an interest in buying Yammer back in 2008.

Re: The Link Economy Thrives at BarCamp Memphis

Daniel J. Pritchett — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:36:17 -0000

Nice to meet you at #bcmem! I didn't have too much to add on monetizing hyperlocal blogs but I enjoyed the conversation all the same.

Re: Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is this Facebook cofounder’s enterprise spinoff still coming?

Daniel J. Pritchett — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:07:14 -0000

Via Hutch Carpenter on twitter:
"RT @lehawes Immediate Chatter differentiator is ability to embed its social functionality into existing enterprise apps. A game-changer #e20'

Re: The Daniel J. Pritchett Tumblelog, I don’t know all the ways that the business world...

Daniel J. Pritchett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:50:11 -0000

All problems are people problems. Do you bring together all of the necessary people to solve your current problem or do you write it off as infeasible?

Re: Stephen Yeargin wins first Nashville’s Almost Impossible Crossword Puzzle

Daniel J. Pritchett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:47:21 -0000

Great story and picture, thanks for sharing! I'll keep an eye on the Wave-up from my home in Memphis.

Re: Streams May Impact E-mail, But They Won't Kill It Any Time Soon

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:25:13 -0000

Email isn't dying but it sure is a square peg. I love getting email alerts from the web services I'm using but it's really tough for a team to keep on top of their instituional knowledge base when all of their comms are private by default.

If I can just figure out a way to get folks to work public by default and only go private when necessary then email can be my best friend again.

Re: Emergence and Enterprise 2.0

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:38:40 -0000

Thanks for the writeup! In my experience the emergent value of a community is different for each participant. If you're a power tagger and comfortable refining your searches to find the right content then you'll likely get comfortable much quicker than someone with less patience.

Some people would prefer to come in through the front door and click a few times to see if they can find what they want. If it's not there, they're gone. I imagine having a microblogging internal "librarian" would really help them out at this juncture. I personally love finding stuff on the wiki for people.

Re: We’re in Memphis today for BarCamp

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:01:44 -0000

Nice to meet you on Saturday! I enjoyed the panel and the discussion afterwards. I'll keep an eye out for the Terminal next time I'm in the Birmingham area.

Re: We’re Takin’ This Show On The Road: BarCamp Memphis

Daniel J. Pritchett — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:08:35 -0000

Nice to meet y'all this afternoon! I enjoyed the afternoon discussion with Andre and the others. Thanks for coming to Memphis and sharing with us.

Sorry I didn't have more to add about local blogs and cash flow - it's not my specialty.

Re: Introducing My Own "Stealth" Startup: Paladin Advisors Group

Daniel J. Pritchett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:37:34 -0000

Grats Louis! I think I inferred most of this from your LinkedIn profile but it's still nice to see it out in the open. Best of luck to you and to PAG!

Re: Defrag Speakers Display Skepticism Over Current State of Social Web

Daniel J. Pritchett — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:53:06 -0000

Stowe's quote "people will trade personal productivity for connectedness, and they will accept an interrupt to help somebody in their social connections." is odd. He seems to be suggesting that strengthening social connections won't result in a productivity increase. From a short term "gotta finish this task today" perspective he's right, but in the long term connected employees prove to be more valuable. Those connections don't grow themselves!

Here's a Spigit blog post by Hutch that better explains:
"Employees who do not access the knowledge, perspectives and ideas of others generated lower quality ideas. Their network constraint consistently hurt them in the idea evaluations. But more importantly, look at the quality of scores for those employees with better collaborative networks. Being well-connected to colleagues across the organization resulted in generating high quality ideas."

Re: EA Acquires Facebook Game Maker Playfish For Up to $400 Million

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:40:47 -0000

So far they generate revenue through microtransactions (pay us $1 for a new item or a guaranteed win in your next turn) and through sidebar ads.

There are also merchandising opportunities both ways if you either create a game that people want to buy products for or bring in an existing game from a larger brand in exchange for a fee.