Jay Nathan - Latest Comments

Re: Using Font Awesome with Rails asset pipeline

wilianto — Tue, 12 May 2015 11:34:19 -0000

Thank you, it works well!

Re: Using Font Awesome with Rails asset pipeline

Евгений Арасланов — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:42:39 -0000

With asset-url will work Heroku B)

Re: Using Font Awesome with Rails asset pipeline

Prasad Surase — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:46:15 -0000

i have placed the fontawesome fonts in vendor/assets/fonts and have referenced them in vendor/assets/stylesheets/font_awesome/font-awesome.css as

src: url('/assets/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=3.2.1'); and
src: url('/assets/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=3.2.1') format('embedded-opentype'), url('/assets/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=3.2.1') format('woff'), url('/assets/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=3.2.1') format('truetype'), url('/assets/fontawesome-webfont.svg#fontawesomeregular?v=3.2.1') format('svg');

the problem is they work fine in dev env but dont get loaded when assets are precompiled and application loaded in prod env. I get error:

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/assets/font_awesome/fontawesome-webfont.svg"). Any suggestions? Also, i have to deploy my application on heroku. I am using rails 4.0.1, ruby 2.1 and bootstrap 3

Re: Using Font Awesome with Rails asset pipeline

smartkrio — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:10:54 -0000

I think yes, because this is just gem)

Re: Using Font Awesome with Rails asset pipeline

Nathan Henderson — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:18:15 -0000

Did this end up working with Heroku?

Re: The Cloud and SaaS: What it means for NGOs

AVD — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:32:06 -0000

Great post! Thanks for beginning to demystify this red hot topic!

Re: Powered by Android: My “smart” fridge

mike — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:58:37 -0000

Totally agree with you, as an early adopter myself I was sure to expect a bliss of wonderful features but at the end or as of lately the AP News app stopped working so to me it seems like Samsung is really not paying attention to their quality of services and or customers. I also own all the other home appliances as I was shopping to retrofit and upgrade the kitchen and so I am happy to say the other dumber hardware like the range and microwave seem to be doing their jobs correctly :)

Re: Unsubscribing

Stacey — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:46:18 -0000

Maybe we should adopt the EU standards of opt-in and make everyone's lives easier.

Re: Do you talk about your problems?

Stacey — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:21:13 -0000

Great Post. I wish more leaders walked the walk, it's not just enough to say it.

Re: Software with an opinion

Jay Nathan — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:48:54 -0000

I would suggest that Google initially did the same thing with search, catering relentlessly to the search user with a clean, one-box search capability. Because they built such a huge business upon the back of search, they were able to create Android which doesn't share the same focus, but exploits a huge market with a "good enough" product.

Re: Software with an opinion

bp001 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:06:39 -0000

This is essentially a description of the iOS v/s Android approach. Apple unabashedly goes after a specific type of customer and relies on a halo effect to attract the general populace. Android is all about choice. Only time will tell which approach will win in the long run

Re: Software with an opinion

Delgado, Gordon — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:58:17 -0000

A case in point: the Gnome desktop.

Re: All ideas respond to work

David Hodge — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:10:45 -0000

Given all the ideas today too, I wonder how many fail due to the lack of the 2nd ingredient. I am betting more than 99%.

Re: Why I built Giftr and What I Learned

Witold Sosnowski — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:32:00 -0000

The problem is not that it's using Facebook. The problem is that you advertise it on Hacker News ;). I don't think readers of THN are good target for this kind of software.

Re: Just ship something

Richard Bucker — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:45:17 -0000

I recently posted "good-enough-is-not-dirty-word" and it basically comes to the same conclusion.

Re: HTML5 is for the web, and the mobile web

James "willia4" Williams — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:45:51 -0000

WebDevs should be aware that the uncanny valley lurks behind every corner (if I can mix what I believe are at least three metaphors into this sentence). When tailoring websites for mobile browsers, I think there's a temptation to try to mimic a native experience for that platform. And that can make websites seem really weird.

My favorite way to read Hacker News on my phone is via a mobie site at http://cheeaun.github.com/h... . This is a lot better than pinching and zooming on the real Hacker News, but the developer went "the extra mile" and included special styling on iOS devices to try to make it look like a UITableView.

But it is *not* a UITableView. It doesn't work right. It doesn't scroll right. Sometimes selecting a "cell" will take you to an article from an adjacent cell. All sorts of stuff like that are just broken.

The "mobile web" is still the web and should be treated as such. Make your website be a website and don't try to mimic things that aren't websites. Your users will thank you!

Re: The most important question I’ve ever been asked

Heidi — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:30:08 -0000

Thanks Nathan!

Re: The most important question I’ve ever been asked

Christian Hyatt — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:29:40 -0000

This is absolutely right. I've never noticed, but I do find myself standing back every once in a while and saying "what do I want to do with my life right now" or in other words "what am I excited about". Well done.

Re: The most important question I’ve ever been asked

Dhodge7 — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:27:31 -0000

Well put my friend.

Re: Solving the Wrong Problem

Jay Nathan — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:56:40 -0000

I couldn't bring myself to hit snooze when the interview woke me this morning!

Re: Solving the Wrong Problem

jbland — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:57:57 -0000

Really great observations. i only caught a portion of the interview, so i'm off to finish listening.

Re: Learning by Rapid Iteration

Gregg Williams — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:27:52 -0000

Jay, I really like your thoughts here. It mirrors my own experience (at 58, learning Spanish--surprisingly hard, but repetition *works*!). What you say about the importance of small failures is consistent with recent findings in neuroscience: failing--the surprise of expecting one result and getting another--causes the production of a chemical inside the brain that has been linked to the creation of new neuronal connections. In other words, without *failing*, learning cannot occur!