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Does anyone have a link to a Newtonian Fluid for comparison?

FarmVille players are real, ordinary, normal people. If you want to develop software that impacts real people, target the FarmVille audience and ignore readers of Hacker News, Tech…

It sounds like you made 100k from contracting in six months. If that is the case, the fastest way to a million is to continue contracting.

SvN, Getting Real, and Rework are an indirect marketing campaign for Basecamp. Sensationalized, aggressive, and confrontational articles attract more readers and more Basecamp sign…

> If it’s a mass market “trend” that’s all over the news, it’s too late If someone thinks it is a good idea, you are too late. - Yvon Chouinard

It is MySQL running on Amazon. I like it because you can scale a hot database up or down.

They are assumed to be spammy. My strategy for adopting the new api was to move the userbase from an existing app to a new one. Fb deleted the new app in the middle of the migratio…

If you have a rails app, use heroku and rds. How long has the app been growing? If you grow too fast FB will delete it without warning.

> Have you had much experience finding quality developers who can see the BIG VISION... The ones I know have their own companies. You are going to have to compete with developers w…

Here is a possible low-budget, low-risk approach to executing: Crack open a ruby on rails book and learn enough tech to build the prototype. You will likely have questions along th…

You will only have legal problems if your product is successful. Until then Large Company won't notice you. I say finish the project and try and develop a business around it. You a…

You are in an ideal position. A co-founder, business plan, or investor will distract you from finishing your project or will interfere with your vision. Finish the product and rele…

Cut them some slack. Managing user generated content is a difficult task. I hope they resolve these issues and bring us one step closer to using the internet to improve democracy.

Does standing in one place for a long period of time have a negative impact on blood circulation in your feet and legs, not to mention stress your heart? I've heard surgeons have c…

I realize I'm late posting this, but I'm a solid Rails hacker and would like to join / form a team for this hackathon. I just moved to the city and think this would be a good chanc…

Cool idea, but I think the data is skewed by population density, for example, the map shows Juarez as being more touristy than the Grand Canyon. A better approach might be to map t…

1. Idea 2. Sketch interfaces on paper 3. Code html/css interfaces in Rails 4. Extract DB schema from interface 5. Create models in Rails 6. Connect models to the interface with con…

I did something similar when naming my first company (davcro). I was inspired by Adidas, which was derived from the three letter prefixes of the founder's first and last name: Adol…

> Really, it's the height of hubris to think that we can engineer something that works as well as what untold generations has evolved. At best photosynthesis have an efficiency of …

My hobbies are running for fitness and fishing for calm.

I've been a Facebook developer since 2007. Facebook does not share private without your consent. At f8 FB released a new authentication flow that is more restrictive for developers…

Said change occurred in December 2009. Why did it take people six months to start complaining? Since then Facebook has made it more difficult for 3rd party developers to access dat…

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Did those people grant your app permission to read their stream? This would be really messed up if they did.