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Helping executives get their lives back through building a TRUE TEAM. Co-author of TRUE TEAM &

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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 months
@Qantas As a platinum one frequent flier, I’d prefer you just focus on, oh, I dunno, in flight safety during the inflight safety video? Why do we need a long video with all this added inapplicable information? Just opens up the door to misunderstanding and people tuning out. Focus on
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
Upgraded to mavricks and need command line tools? Just run `xcode-select --install` from a terminal, saves a lot of browsing #protip
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 months
@stats_feed If you are having a hard time understanding or remembering something, find the words you don’t have full definitions for and look up the definitions using them in sentences until you get them and re-read the text and you’ll understand it. Magic.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
6 months
@Benioff @Austen This is great @Benioff - but this is a very common situation across your accounts teams. As CEO, I have only screamed in frustration twice in the last 3 years - both times while trying to deal with Salesforce accounts billing teams.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
1 year
Railscasts is where I learnt a LOT and where I won my first and only competition :) on top of that, Ryan is by all measures one of the best Rails developers I know and have the pleasure to work with. Railscasts is part of Rails history.
@rbates
Ryan Bates
1 year
I’ve started a dev blog! The first post is RailsCasts Retrospective Part 1: The Fuel.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 months
@Qantas @Qantas thanks for the reply, but the point still stands that safety videos should be there to get people to focus on safety, not anything else. Safe places and the like have nothing to do with knowing where to get your life vest if the plane is going down over water.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
Gotta say, the talks at @rubyconf look deeply technical and interesting! Bummed I couldn't make it. Well done to the team. #RubyConf2022
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
6 months
@TomCruise "THE OTHER DOOR!"
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
3 years
@appexchange Great to be part of the DemoJam for StoreConnect, if you would like more information, please reach out :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 years
I had fun writing this up :)
@reinteractive
reinteractive
7 years
Why is Ruby on Rails still the best choice? Our founder, @lindsaar provides his answer:
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Mikel Lindsaar
12 years
Why we all left PHP… amazing list http://t.co/35tDRYgZ
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@headius @rubyconf Well done @headius on the JRuby 9.4 release! Just updated to add explicit JRuby support for 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 and HEAD. Was passing previously on "jruby" target so not expecting any issues.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
New blog post on how to use GMail SMTP with Mail and ActionMailer 3 http://bit.ly/cR8mpb
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@LinuxSeb Slackware, carefully dd’d onto a new set of 5.25” floppy disks one by one at Uni and then sneaker net back home to install and find the 5th disk was corrupted and wait 5 days to try again.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
6 months
@Benioff @Austen No, had no idea I could do that really, but thats great. I know the bigger the company the harder it is to keep the culture, so instead of complaining, I’ll send you some constructive thoughts. Thank you.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
My 12 tips on the asset pipeline http://t.co/g92PwYlBW1
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@adamliaw We’ll done @adamliaw , you’ve been working your butt off to get this done.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
13 years
Great new post on Rails Engines from our newest developer, Ryan Bigg http://t.co/vcrS11j
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 years
I'm very proud to have founded this company and being able to give back in a meaningful way.
@reinteractive
reinteractive
7 years
Very happy to announce that we just become the 1st Ruby Member of @rubytogether & if you work with Ruby, you should too :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
CCS3 Buttons that rock http://bit.ly/a7457o
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Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
Thank you to everyone out there who contributes to open source software, you are the unsung heros of our modern society.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
Want inline attachments in ActionMailer? Done. http://lindsaar.net/2010/6/7/inline-attachments-for-actionmailer
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 months
@DJSnM @AlaskaAir Just not on a Max :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@newsycombinator The other of the two hard problems is naming things and off by one errors.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
15 years
New blog post on Rails 3.0 Validations http://bit.ly/denxyI
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
8 months
@ValtteriBottas @tiffanycromwell @southaustralia The correct name is the "mall's balls", there is no other name :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
If I was @elonmusk I’d do the CEO poll as well. He’s not stupid. He knows the poll result will be to leave. Then he can step aside as he already plans to do and the story is “twitter has spoken” instead of “abandoning twitter”
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
Nice article from @shoestring_au about our @reinteractive InstallFest initiative! http://t.co/Sj7hfQVWRF
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
10 years
Wow: - free internet wide SSL Certificate Authority. Geotrust, Comodo, et al just had a shot across their bow
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
4 years
is excellent, flexbox finally clicked... thank you @ChanningAllen !
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
Final step of booking a flight on @qantas , submit button doesn't work due to some javascript error, can't proceed, get annoyed, then open the console; `document.find_elements_by_name('ESDA')[0].submit();` sorted & I can get on with my life.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
1 year
I often get asked how we measure developer productivity at my companies. We use Features Delivered.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
RT @GregBrodick : 10 Random CSS Tricks You Might Want to Know About... http://ow.ly/2Yftg
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
What I define as fun during my holiday :) 18:51 $ gem push mail-2.8.0.rc2.gem ... Pushing gem to ... ... Successfully registered gem: mail (2.8.0.rc2)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
6 years
@elketeaches @reinteractive Hey @elketeaches thanks so much for your kind words! We've worked really hard to achieve a sustainable work, life balance :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
1 year
Ruby has staying power, why? Because it is the only language that optimises for developer happiness and probably the simplest to stand up your average (and exceptional) business application with Rails. It’s the core product for my two SaaS companies ( @MetaPulse and
@dpaola2
Dave Paola
1 year
"The most in-demand skill was Ruby on Rails, with engineers skilled in this framework and scripting language receiving 1.64x more interview requests compared to the marketplace average. Ruby on Rails bumped Go from first place in 2022’s report to fourth this year."
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Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
As an open source maintainer there is nothing better than receiving a documentation PR - thank you to all that do it and @kaphorst for this one :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
New blog post, Rails 3 edge with JQuery, RSpec and Cucumber walk through http://bit.ly/chmeKA
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Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 months
@dhh @tobi If only there was a right hand drive version :(
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
Cool… Ruby on Rails Oceania Sydney Meetup group has just reached 206 members :) http://t.co/9QnYALM6XX #rorosyd
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@drnic @JakCharlton It's only parsing HTML @drnic , surely you could just handle it with a regexp :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
13 years
If you watch one keynote this year, watch this on Real Software Engineering http://t.co/NhnnjfJ by @glv
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
12 years
Really using ed… heh, heh, heh… $ ed help ? h Invalid command suffix ? ? ^C ? exit ? quit ? ^Z $ killall ed $ vi http://t.co/F5UAED6R
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
10 years
@pin_payments YAY! respond_to blocks for the win :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
12 years
BING = BING is not Google ? :)
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Mikel Lindsaar
15 years
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
New blog post "Renaming a controller and redirection in Rails 3" http://bit.ly/aRXrBf
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
1 year
The thing you want to push the MOST as a CEO or Founder is PURPOSE. Why your team are doing what they do is way more important than day to day targets and goals and management. Get the purpose understood and let your team get on with it :) #ceo #team #management #KeepGrowing
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
Rails CAN scale! http://bit.ly/998Ver - we already knew that, but this is a turbo boost!
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
8 years
This is so freaking awesome. I didn’t dream when we started the Installfest that we’d reach 1,000 people!
@reinteractive
reinteractive
8 years
We're about to hit our 1,000th #railsinstallfest attendee!Everyone at the big event gets a @CodeSchool voucher!!RSVP
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 months
So, serious question, how is it people on flights still think it’s ok to play videos with no headphones and jank up the volume to make sure they can hear it?
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Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@elonmusk just market twitter blue as $8 + 30% platform fee and price it at $11.43 per month if purchased through the app or $8 for a web only version. Problem solved.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
15 years
New blog post - routing with Rails 3 http://bit.ly/9nGcR2
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
13 years
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Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@headius @rubyconf All green on all releases, thanks @headius and the team for the amazing work.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 months
@spastorino @nzkoz @josevalim @fxn What a bunch of just awesome people :)
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Mikel Lindsaar
8 months
@vkcirtap @smartereveryday @smartereveryday this is the only answer that matters :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
Oh the irony, Senate enquiry into the NBN has the video link fail, audio only due to bandwidth issues... <sigh> #nbn
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
1 year
Good morning New York! About to head down to @Salesforce WorldTour with the @StoreConnectHQ team to run our sponsor booth 158! #WorldTour #KeepGrowing
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
How much will my web application cost? My answer to the question I get asked the most: http://t.co/3TMoAaulgK
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
9 years
The No Office Bottom Line #sydneystorms #RemoteWork
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@stevelikesyou @marketanner another awesome one is Khao Plah in Chatswood…. Best Thai I have had in Sydney, the green curry chicken and pork ribs are incredible :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
4 months
@rophilogene @heroku @Qovery_ Definitely part of it :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
8 months
@wycats @heroku Hey @wycats as a large Heroku user via @StoreConnectHQ , this makes me very happy. We should catch up next time I am I SF.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@bigjsl Exactly this.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
10 years
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Mikel Lindsaar
10 years
OSX Yosemite feeling sluggish on MacBook Air? PRAM reset fixed mine.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
9 months
@keithpitt @buildkite Looks awesome @keithpitt - props to your events team in putting this together, that's a metric crap ton of work there! Many do not appreciate how much behind the scenes it takes to string that all together!
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
9 months
@Molson_Hart Awesome work @Molson_Hart !!! Well done. TV is far more damaging than we are all lead to believe
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@bigjsl @Adobe @acccgovau Got on the phone, got angry and they provided a "once off courtesy credit" because the small print says your "monthly plan" is an "annual committment" so actually it's not a monthly plan, it's an annual plan paid monthly.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
9 years
That point where you fix a broken build with 1 line of JS and then write a 117 line feature spec to prove it now works
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
⌘-⇧-⌥-V == paste without formatting (plain text) anywhere in Mac OSX…. I've found my true love
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@rbates Fat mixins are bad. Useful mixins should have a clearly defined purpose and be small and named well. Large mixins that just collect methods is a smell of a missing parent class.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
11 years
Amazing service from @useTito and @pin_payments - If you are looking for event ticketing or CC payments, look no further!
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
13 years
@drnic use "tcpdump -ni en1" if you want to look for web traffic, "tcpdump -ni en1 port 80", man tcpdump is your friend
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
Just found out Google SketchUp has an embedded Ruby API - win! http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@rbates Not really planning on investing in anything else to be honest, the platform still works, and I still see your tweets :)
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
@bigjsl @Adobe @acccgovau By the way, long time no speak since we plotted out an ISP profitability in a spreadsheet in an office in Adelaide back in those good old days.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
10 years
Let's support the annual Ruby survey, go and fill it out: http://t.co/egnkgEUmfX Only takes a couple of minutes.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
6 months
@Qantas Good thinking Qantas
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
13 years
@engineyard : Just in time for Memorial Day... Simple DNS for AppCloud! http://t.co/NpvJODe” @drnic demo'd this to me, seriously cool tool
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
13 years
Just saw something AWESOME, Github finder by http://t.co/uptYUMR by Alex Le ( @alexnhatle ) /cc @mojombo
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Mikel Lindsaar
6 months
@Rainmaker1973
Massimo
6 months
When you're too hungry [📹 ersingunduzcakestudio]
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
8 months
@andrewjgrimm Good question, it was a lot of work to do and keep running by reinteractive. We did it for many many years. I'd say just general online resources, youtube, blogs etc.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
10 years
Dear internet, please put tabular data in, oh I don't know, table elements. Makes selecting & highlighting data possible. kthx.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
This… getting your head around the scale of this puts all our petty problems of humanity into perspective…
@AJamesMcCarthy
Andrew McCarthy
2 years
2 months ago, I live-tweeted an incredible event. The sun blasted a stream of plasma hundreds of thousands of miles into space. Here's a 4k image of my capture from that event, revealing all the solar details. I formatted it like this so you could use it as a desktop wallpaper.
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Mikel Lindsaar
2 years
From a purely business view, this makes sense. If you are in a car headed for a cliff, you have to turn the wheel drastically or slam on the brakes. Doing what was being done previously is just a road to driving off the cliff
@TheSonOfWalkley
TheSonOfWalkley
2 years
Key moment in this twitter space with @elonmusk - in this clip he explains the current financial situation at @twitter and the reason for his actions lately.
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Mikel Lindsaar
4 months
Hey there @Qantas - unable to sign in to with my FF login details, says "We are unable to process this request currently. Please try again later" any idea on resolution time line?
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
14 years
Transcript of his great RubyConf talk by Ruby's resident philosopher - Paul Campbell http://pabcas.com/feeling/my-rubyconf-talk @paulca
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
9 years
Hey @stevelikesyou , http://t.co/nCpdN974iH - Brisket Cooker Prototype at Harvard.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
12 years
People buy confidence. Confidence is built by oozing competence and professionalism in everything you do.
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@lindsaar
Mikel Lindsaar
7 months
Big business has created a playing field within which only they can win. SMBs need to lean into their #CustomerCommerce super power and build relationships. More expensive, but defensible.
@ejayodonnell
Ejay ODonnell
7 months
Amazon Prime has ruined customer expectations. Not every business can turn orders in 12 minutes and deliver same day. You can put every detail in product description, policy pages, emails, etc… and customers still don’t read it. Hope that changes in 2024. A man can dream…
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Mikel Lindsaar
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Mikel Lindsaar
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"use strict"; in Javascript is a great idea, http://t.co/ecNAVrLG2I Catches a lot of common Javascript errors
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