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Hi all. I'm the (actual) owner of that gem. As already hypothesized in the comments I'm pretty sure this was a simple account hijack. The kickball user likely cracked an old passwo…

Sorry I meant to lump that in under the soft skills section. It was not meant to be an exhaustive list, there would be far more than 5 items :-)

There could have certainly been some of that but it didn't feel like it in the context (which I realize I didn't provide). I read the question as sincere but admit there's a chance…

Apologies in advance for the length (8 minutes). I've tried to whittle it down but it's a year of anguish for me. :-)

IMO, and as you mentioned, your best bet in those early days is to rely on your network and have that insanely compelling vision with which to sell them on. I think you need a cert…

Absolutely agree with these points!

I got burned by this on Heroku recently as well but to a much lesser extent $$$-wise. My app typically runs on 1 dyno because it's basically not supported anymore. At some point I …

I'm getting the same thing. Tried redownloading/reinstalling and no love. Had to 'killall Cloud' to even get the thing out of my menubar...

And yet every other device they make (basically) has one...

No GPS???

I wonder how much of that also has to do with people that simply chose the wrong line of work? Back when I was in school it was coming towards the peak of the dot com bubble and I …

I guess from that viewpoint it's moderately interesting but as a phone it's really not much to get excited about compared to other modern Android phones like the Droid. Bah... I wa…

I really do not understand what all the fuss was about. It's just another HTC Android phone. What does Google really even have to do with it (any more than all the other Android ph…

The right way is to use my site, http://www.launchly.com . I created launchly for this specific reason as a result of not being able to get good "additional rounds" of feedback her…

Am I missing something or hasn't this already been done by others like Twittermass?

I used 99designs.

My site uses 960.gs but not for EVERYTHING. Also not sure how creative the use is but here ya go - http://www.launchly.com

Other options include ShrinkTheWeb ( http://www.shrinktheweb.com ) and PageGlimpse ( http://www.pageglimpse.com )