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Re: Meet President Obama’s former video game guru, now helping shape Seattle’s tech education efforts

MarinaMartin — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:32:02 -0000

Great coverage of a great guy! It was an honor getting to work with Mark in DC and I love that he's now making things better in my backyard here :)

Re: ERROR: value too long for type character varying(255)

MarinaMartin — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:19:34 -0000

You can instead do a migration, which will not cause your data to disappear.

> rails g migration NameOfYourMigration

This will generate a file in /db/migrate. Open this file and make it look like this (change the capitalized words):

class YOURMODELNAME < ActiveRecord::Migration

def change

change_column :YOURTABLE, :COLUMN, :text, :limit => nil

end

Then at the command line do:
> rake db:migrate
and on Heroku
> heroku run rake db:migrate

Re: Walk With Me

MarinaMartin — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:10 -0000

I think you should make the people with high heels walk. It's totally possible to walk many miles in well-fitting shoes :)

Re: Time to Go

MarinaMartin — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:00:15 -0000

Count on it!

Re: Time to Go

MarinaMartin — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:03:13 -0000

I am so very excited to play along at home as you both travel the world! And rest assured that your real friends are not going anywhere, even as we all go everywhere. You've always got a couch and an ice cold Painkiller wherever I am :)

Re: GeekAtSea - The Adventures of a Seattle Wantrepreneur: 3 Lessons From a Coffee Entrepreneur

MarinaMartin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:03:21 -0000

When I lived in Salt Lake City a few years ago, one location of the Smith's grocery chain had a serve-yourself coffee station that worked on the honor system -- you dropped your $1 into the slot. This seemingly-small feature meant I did almost 100% of my shopping at that Smith's, even though it wasn't the closest grocery store (or Smith's!) to my apartment. When they took it away, the whole feel of the store closed. I love John's IOU approach ... but I never carry cash, so I'd be interested in seeing him start taking PayPal (or Square!).

Re: http://bryce.vc/post/3919404272

MarinaMartin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:21:43 -0000

Then call for more candidates in general, not more women candidates. If I was a guy, I would feel like I was not welcome to apply and probably feel like my chances of getting the job are lower because I am not a woman. That's horribly discriminatory.

Re: http://bryce.vc/post/3919404272

MarinaMartin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:04:04 -0000

You really want to hire someone who needs a blog post encouraging them to apply? Give the job to one of the go-getters with the wherewithal to apply the first time around.

I'm so tired of this alleged gender divide. Obviously only one woman was interested and qualified enough to apply. So what? It's not like you got zero applications overall. The original competent folks shouldn't be subject to a diluted applicant pool.

Re: Seattle techie goes to L.A., returns with Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Zaarly

MarinaMartin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:17:09 -0000

Eric, you are awesome. Congratulations and I'm excited to hear more about Zaarly!!

Re: Too Few Women in Tech? Stop Telling People How They Should Feel About It.

MarinaMartin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:11:13 -0000

How strange that not having a technical background would be a disadvantage working in tech!

Re: I’m Leaving TechStars to _____

MarinaMartin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:50:34 -0000

I think you should pick a sort of random thing to find in each place, like I do with my finding a Guinness in every country. Sometimes it's easy and boring (Tokyo) but other times, the Guinness hunt leads to a huge adventure (Athens) or a memorable evening (South Korea).

Since you love photography, perhaps it could be photographing yourself with 3 people in red shirts or a man named Dave in each city, etc. Maybe take photos with entrepreneurs. Something random you'll have to hunt for.

Once you touch down in your first place, just rely on your instinct to determine when to leave and where to go next. Inevitably you'll meet someone going somewhere, or walk past a bus company with a trip that day, etc. and be just fine. I was not part of your travel intervention but I sure would have been had I known about it :)

Just don't over-plan (hard, I know!!!) and you'll have the best time of your life.

Re: http://lolalocal.tumblr.com/post/516732788

MarinaMartin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:57:10 -0000

The way they pack sometimes, those neighbors might have just bought six loaves of bread. I've had way more boxes than that for a reasonably-sized order.

Re: The Name Game

MarinaMartin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:36:29 -0000

Practically everyone I know who's had a baby girl in the last two years named her Teaghan. So, if you want your daughter to be able to find her name easily on a keychain in a gift shop, go with Teaghan. If you want unique, stay far far away from Teaghan.

I like "place" names like Vienna, Madison, etc. or naming a child after a song or a character in a book. I imagine it would be cool to go back and read the book/listen to the song you were named after.

Re: http://www.untitledstartup.com/backstage/desk/question/logo-for-deal-whale

MarinaMartin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:20:13 -0000

Andrew, how can you consider using it just for concepts BETTER? That means he has zero intention of paying a single one of them. At least in the true sense of the contest format one person gets paid.

Re: Untitled Startup | Reformative

MarinaMartin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:07:58 -0000

Or linking to the RSS page of the article, now that I think about it.

Re: Untitled Startup | Reformative

MarinaMartin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:07:23 -0000

I wonder if this could be accomplished by linking to a printable version of a page. Republishing it in any sort of custom way would invite all sorts of copyright lawsuits.

Re: Untitled Startup | Twitmapinerator

MarinaMartin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:05:19 -0000

Also, these 20 places: http://flowingdata.com/2008...

Re: Untitled Startup | Twitmapinerator

MarinaMartin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:04:32 -0000

Wasn't it part of the original Twitter website? It was like building blocks.

Re: Untitled Startup | Tweet 'n Save

MarinaMartin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:02:35 -0000

I like the idea. How do you keep evil bots from re-tweeting the heck out of a message everyday to lower the coupon price / increase the deal?

Re: Untitled Startup | Angry Tweeters

MarinaMartin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:19:29 -0000

I understand the usefulness but I'm not sure it could ever work in practice. No brand is going to want to publicly name haters, because that only makes the brand look worse. If you had brands contribute and disseminate information privately, you run into problems with validating brands (how big do you have to be to qualify? how do you know they're the right representative?).

Re: Untitled Startup | Don't Spoil It

MarinaMartin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:54:41 -0000

Oh god yes. I could block every "social media" and "Twitter" tweet and be a happier person and better human being.

Re: Untitled Startup | Not Another Link-Shortener

MarinaMartin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:25:47 -0000

Okay, stand-alone is better. Otherwise I'd consider sharing a link an implicit endorsement.

Re: Untitled Startup | Not Another Link-Shortener

MarinaMartin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:19:36 -0000

So would the list of links I clicked on be stand-alone, or tweeted through my Twitter account? I'd be afraid I'd forget as I clicked on links and end up tweeting things I didn't mean to; plus, since I don't know if I like content until I actually read it or not, just the act of clicking isn't enough endorsement for me to pass it on.

Re: Untitled Startup | MacroStation: Build-to-Order Twitter-Client

MarinaMartin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:49:28 -0000

So almost like a Wordpress for Twitter? I love it!

Re: Untitled Startup | Excel-lent Twitter App

MarinaMartin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:06:23 -0000

Not really -- and especially not really because that app is marketed towards fooling your boss (I blogged about it last year). What I described is far more useful and dynamic.