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Jeff Miller

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10 years

PROTIP: Given Heartbleed, be sure that your Chrome is set to check for SSL cert revocations. It's not by default. http://t.co/SjE3k1mQUe

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Little known fact: when @github is down, you can form an orderly queue at their offices in San Francisco and hand deliver pull requests.

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14 years

Some good Textmate tips! => http://bit.ly/aKyiyQ

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10 years

Funny to see most of my consultant-employed friends angry about DHH's keynote and most of my product-employed friends semi-agreeing. :)

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9 years

Is there a good machine learning book that doesn't slam one in the face with tons of math right off the bat? Haven't seen a good one yet!

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8 years

Just turned in my final assignment for my bachelor’s degree. Phew. Finally finished after 13 years of fits and starts.

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11 years

Launching a mailing list for my Rails security eBook: http://t.co/wWcnWoyY Be sure to watch the video. I'm really proud of it. (RT plz?)

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11 years

Ancient OSS developer proverb: The loudest mouths are often the idlest hands.

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13 years

one9 - rails_upgrade-like thing for upgrading from 1.8.7 to 1.9.2: http://bit.ly/e2yupV Awesome!

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12 years

I was a really nice guy until I used Rails. Now I kick puppies on my way to set fire to orphanages as I rant on Hacker News while driving.

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8 years

Phew, passed my final class for my bachelor's. One more minor academic requirement, and I'm clear to graduate in May. 👍

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8 years

YES. FINALLY. TOUCHBAR: JUSTIFIED.

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Jeff Miller

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10 years

My solution to Heartbleed? Just make all your passwords > 64kb. Done.

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9 years

2014 has been the best in some ways but also the worst. @jimweirich , @ezmobius , and now @jamesgolick . Too much.

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12 years

So, Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook is now open source! => Fork and update at will!

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13 years

Holy crap! I made $40,000 with my eBook this year and you can too: http://bit.ly/dFOoRB

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Jeff Miller

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10 years

Did anyone notice how the guy who demo’d Swift today didn’t even TDD his game? What a n00b, amirite?

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Jeff Miller

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14 years

This makes Scala actually interesting to me: http://bit.ly/9YT8W7 Academics boo, hackers yay!! :)

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10 years

I think it might be high time for a rip roarin' @hoedown . Maybe.

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12 years

This is the level of rudeness I've been reduced to by recruiters. My form response to form letter recuiters:

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14 years

If you don't watch any other clip of Colbert @ Congress, watch this one: http://cs.pn/dCH89p He's serious. And what he says matters.

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

Really happy to announce that I've joined @VoxProduct (we build the stuff that powers @voxmediainc ) as a security engineer!

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

☑ Graduate with Bachelor's ☐ Obtain Master's degree ☐ Take over planet using arbitrary pieces of paper documenting academic achievement

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Jeff Miller

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13 years

"Why, no, Google PR hasn't told us what to say? What makes you think that?" http://t.co/Nn16DkJ

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Jeff Miller

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10 years

Having a nuanced opinion is allowed in software. You don't have to hate TDD nor do you have to TDD every single line of code you write.

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8 years

This kind of thinking right here is what gets me raging at fellow Christians.

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14 years

Pay no attention to the code behind the curtain: the tech behind tldr.it -> http://bit.ly/bBv8k9

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8 years

Man, refile is so much easier to work with than other Rails file upload libs. This is what Rails should feel like.

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Jeff Miller

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12 years

If you want to see it without download/compiling/etc, here's a screencast (with epic wub accompaniment): http://t.co/EEZlSXRi

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Jeff Miller

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11 years

Also: can we all agree that the “alcohol culture” at conferences is bad and we should work to at least contain it?

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8 years

Literally 75% or more of the things I see people using React or something similar on could have been built with 80% less code and jQuery.

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12 years

If you always worry about doing things "right" in code, you won't get much done. Conventions, laws, and patterns help us, not rule us.

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9 years

Slack goes down, people venture outside squinting at the sky. The title card for Fallout 5 appears.

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10 years

This is a fantastic read for any tech worker I think (esp. if you work at home and home seems like work): http://t.co/kUR8ae7PCX

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11 years

Considering throwing a conf next year on the intersection of technology and the Christian faith.

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8 years

Today's my anniversary with @JackiMcAnally ! Married 11 awesome years. Looking forward to at least 111 more. #medicaltechnology #thefuture

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11 years

The elusive Triple Ship™. Finally made it happen after a number of Double Ships® previous to this.

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8 years

Can’t wait until the preening stage for Elixir/Phoenix blows over. “Oh you use Rails? Well *I* have transcended to Elixir and Phoenix.”

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Jeff Miller

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12 years

This looks great: http://t.co/G9czX78L

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Jeff Miller

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13 years

For the lazy, fix your RDoc/ri rage: curl -L http://bit.ly/dK4XTl | sh

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11 years

"People are led, things are managed. And you don't want to confuse the two." — @mojombo

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13 years

OMG a post about what I’m doing after Intridea: http://bit.ly/g4nioC

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13 years

This is one of the most mind blowing things I have ever watched: http://bit.ly/fWYQ8K

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Jeff Miller

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9 years

Just explained AOL and dialup internet to one of the girls. “That’s dumb.” “Yes, it is. But it was the 90’s. We had to make do.”

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

25/ So, if you're like me and carry that shame around: let it go. It's not your shame to carry. You'll feel alot better (I do).

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10 years

People say alcohol magnifies the “true you,” but I’m pretty firmly convinced air travel does, too.

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

BTW, if you're in the market for a new bag, Timbuk2 has an insane sale going. As in, their normally $130 messenger bags for $40 insane.

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Jeff Miller

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13 years

The real “The King’s Speech”: http://bit.ly/fpcAzw Listen and see part of the reason Colin Firth won Best Actor.

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Jeff Miller

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10 years

Hey, see if you're vulnerable to Shellshock by curl'ing this script straight into your shell from an unfamiliar host. What could go wrong?

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Jeff Miller

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9 years

Uhhhh... Something seems incongruous about these two tweets. Can't put my finger on it. http://t.co/7AjLQ2ZqEo

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Jeff Miller

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13 years

Slides for my #mongoatl talk: http://slidesha.re/gkFEry

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Jeff Miller

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11 years

As a conf organizer, I get really sad when I see the ridiculous feeding frenzy of people attacking other organizers.

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10 years

@tqbf Nasty but true. Seen more consultant cycles wasted on pointless tests than anything else in my whole career.

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11 years

The Joy of Rails, three eBooks on solving problems in Rails (complexity, testing and security). Pre-order at http://t.co/Xi6GikXCVo (RT me!)

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11 years

Parted ways with GitHub today. Not sure how immediately I’m looking for work, but ping me if you have something interesting! (RT plz?)

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9 years

So who's doing the Kickstarter to make a documentary about @jimweirich , @ezmobius , @jamesgolick , and their impact? Because I'd back that.

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

I thought sriracha was too hot for me. Sriracha is not too hot for me. Sriracha is delicious. #thursdaylearning

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11 years

I like how every HN argument could be ended with the phrase “It’s almost as if different people have different experiences and ideas.”

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Jeff Miller

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10 years

So, is learning Chef right now like trying to learn Rails in 2005? Because everything looks mostly mediocre and totally incomplete.

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8 years

Oh the DNC chair is stepping down. That’s wise! She needs time to pack her office to move into wherever HRC appoints her next year.

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11 years

First time job hunting in a few years. Amazed how many companies still demand on-site. Thought it would have tilted the other way by now!

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8 years

“Users don’t know what they want.” True if you’re inventing new things probably but false if you’re iterating on/changing existing things.

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8 years

Really sad seeing the frustration of these code boot camps grads who can’t find jobs after they graduate or get fired from their first job.

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8 years

LOL'ing at people abandoning impulse purchases because Amazon is down. "I guess this is a sign I don't need that dog shaped vacuum..."

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Jeff Miller

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14 years

New gem: Primadoro, a gem for managing pomodoros - http://bit.ly/ajAf8h

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9 years

OK, my church is cool: http://t.co/UwEqT4YR16 Attorneys and police volunteering to help people expunge their records for a second chance.

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Jeff Miller

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13 years

Good friends are building an awesome real-time filesharing app (it’s seriously really really cool). Check it out here: http://bit.ly/g8POk0

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Jeff Miller

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14 years

http://github.com/pjdavis/identity-map looks pretty darn good.

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Jeff Miller

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13 years

I really want to play with this but can’t pay for it right now: http://impactjs.com/ Maybe later, but it looks awesome.

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

Played with an iPad Pro today. That was a very bad idea. Now I actually want one.

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8 years

IME most of these “Rails is hard to [maintain,scale,extend] arguments” largely come down to people being bad programmers.

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14 years

BTW, if you missed the announcement, MagicRuby is happening Feb 4-5, 2011 in Orlando, FL at Disney World! => http://bit.ly/ckH7BT

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10 years

Does anyone else long for a world where yelling and arguing via the Internet are seen as crass it is to do so in public in “real life”?

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8 years

I’ve seen Snopes called liberal at least four times this week because they won’t confirm something crazy. I’m done with this election.

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10 years

http://t.co/ftR39mFmlP is simple and nice!

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Jeff Miller

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13 years

Wish more companies thought about branding in this way: http://bit.ly/d5RKJn

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Jeff Miller

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11 years

Good examples of what I mean: http://t.co/wKfj5WDGmu and http://t.co/cCzFoKIfyQ

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11 years

Going to try to drop the first bits of http://t.co/Xi6GikXCVo tomorrow night. Pre-sale pricing won’t last much longer, so get in now!

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

If the Internet is any indicator, there are going to be some really upset Christians when they get to Heaven and see who else made it.

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Jeff Miller

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10 years

OMG GUISE SWIFT IS CLOSED SOURCE. GOOD THING THE TOOLS WE WERE USING BEFORE FOR IOS AND MAC WERE TOTES OPEN SOURCE.

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Jeff Miller

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9 years

I basically get to hack on awesome projects and contribute to dev standards and such across the company as part of a new team with @jmeller

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8 years

I don’t think Trump understands how the military works. Or intelligence. Or like…war. Sigh.

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14 years

MagicRuby: The most magical (and FREE) Ruby conference on Earth...now has speakers! => http://bit.ly/gvJE2g

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9 years

OK, that's pretty awesome.

President Obama

@POTUS44

9 years

Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

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10 years

Data point: upgrading to Ruby 2.1 from 2.0 dropped our CI build time about 25%.

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

Not sure what I’m getting at other than if you have a dad that’s awesome, doubly or even triply appreciate him today.

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Jeff Miller

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12 years

I'm really happy to say that nearly 20% of our speakers for MagicRuby are women. w00t!

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12 years

I’m puzzled why Twitter client developers don’t just add a slot to put in your own OAuth app details. Token problem solved.

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12 years

Don't think insane people exist? Start doing consulting.

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12 years

My (unfavorable) thoughts on Bob Martin's keynote at Ruby Midwest: http://t.co/uSdO2hqW

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Jeff Miller

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14 years

New project on Github to automate a Rails 3 upgrade/check your Rails 2 app for things to upgrade: http://github.com/jm/rails-upgrade

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14 years

Everyone in the U.S. should be watching Food Revolution and signing this: http://bit.ly/bhg7fW

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Jeff Miller

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10 years

Full story of how @namejet is scamming me by stealing a domain back from me: RT far and wide, please.

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9 years

If you work with GitHub and JIRA (or just JIRA...) you should get Bee off the App Store. It's a super clean desktop UI for issue trackers.

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

Machine learning in infosec is great for flagging stuff for investigation by a human but I doubt it will ever substitute for human intuition

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Jeff Miller

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8 years

Today's my last day at FireEye. Looking forward to a new adventure soon!

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8 years

Man, flags at half mast mean a lot more when it’s “my city” rather than “those people” or “that city.”

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Jeff Miller

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14 years

If you want to be better at Ruby, you need to come to this: http://bit.ly/dyGqv8

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Jeff Miller

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12 years

@dhh That happens a lot with SaaS products. Apparently, first step is a decent product, second step is hiring a huge team of cold callers.

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Jeff Miller

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7 years

Man, doing my best to avoid purchasing slave labor clothes is hard but I’m sticking to it as much as possible.

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