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awaage

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About awaage

Co-founder & elegant code enforcer at Retention Science.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #17837276

    Definitely seen this first hand as well, as well as seen change happen! While I agree you should not attempt significant rewrites right away, and spend time to develop your knowled…

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    Retention Science is hiring: Data Scientist & Ruby on Rails Engineer

    Retention Science is looking to hire 1 Data Scientist and 1 Ruby on Rails expert to join our team of 4. We are developing prediction technology and algorithms that help eCommerce c…

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    Comment #2975548

    Here's some ideas we've used for our B2B app incentiBox ( http://www.incentibox.com ): 1. Tried Press Release company that says they will push your articles out to thousands of med…

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    Ask HN: Press Release Distribution Sites

    Does anyone have advice regarding using services such as 24-7pressrelease.com or PRWeb.com to send out press releases? I understand it's not the best, not targeted, etc. But, in te…

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    Comment #2736907

    P90X every night before starting to work late again!

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    Comment #2730633

    We use Chase - also got the $200 promotion for opening checking account. (google this promotion) No complaints yet! I've heard good reviews from ppl about many of the big banks, th…

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    Comment #2721259

    I've used logoloft before - pretty good for not too much $, in my opinion

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    Comment #2721243

    oops! good catch!

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    Comment #2721097

    how about this (example in ruby): def plus_1(x); arr = []; arr[x] = true; return arr.size; end

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    Comment #2708143

    I like dropbox.com - just a video and download button

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    Comment #2697268

    I have the 13", and I would strongly recommend this if you plan to be taking it around a lot. It's the perfect size / weight for me, and I don't think twice about bringing it aroun…

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    Comment #2696914

    I was a big linux user that switched to MBP too a couple years ago. I was very skeptical myself, but I'm very happy with the switch. Besides looking cool, here's some other points …

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    Comment #2687049

    Yes - it really depends on your needs. For example, i have recently done a ruby on rails backend, with backbone.js for frontend app. You can use PHP for backend, with backbone for …

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    Comment #2687007

    If you know some programming, you're kinda where I was when I started learning Javascript. I just jumped in using jQuery, because I wanted to write cross-browser code. Start by loo…

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    Comment #2685952

    At incentiBox, we use mysql for transactional stuff, and MongoDB when we need fast inserts and then need to do data mining / analysis in the future (offline). We find this effectiv…