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cstrouse
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Ask HN: What should I do with the domain "thepriceofprogress.com"?
I bought the domain with the intention of starting a political site but have been thinking that there's probably a better option. Any ideas for what to build on the domain would be…
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Comment #2619520
I started in middle school with TI-BASIC apps on my TI-85 calculator to help me in math and physics classes. Then I moved on to VB .NET a few years later when I got to university. …
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Comment #2619488
So far elance.com has gotten me decent wages that an American would expect; however, freelancer.com and vworker.com have yielded nothing but $5/hr crap jobs and projects where the …
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Comment #2607250
Are you going to make the code available? I love reading other people's sinatra code.
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Comment #2607215
A lot of people heavily borrow from existing site's designs; however, it'll probably hurt your portfolio. If people realize that your designs aren't actually original they may not …
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Comment #2607107
SEEKING WORK - Phoenix, Arizona - Remote Work Yes I like to develop web apps using Rails, Sinatra, and web.py. I'm also into Scala and C# development a bit.
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Comment #2603493
Awesome post. I've always wondered what it would take to fix a mobo these days.
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Comment #2595744
Not sure just how useful this is but it's definitely a cool idea.
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Comment #2591212
I've used elance, freelancer, and v-worker, and a few others without much success. The Aussie companies have retarded policies for allowing you to get your funds out of their accou…
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Comment #2585977
The switch from FF to Camino was because I wanted something based on FF but that behaved like a native OS X application. The switch from Camino to Chrome was mainly due to curiosit…
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Comment #2585969
For me it's the pressure of my peers that will flame and bash me in public on the social networks that keeps me plugging away.
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Comment #2585937
I get link expired errors often too but that is an issue of scale and server reliability rather than usability don't you think?
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Comment #2585931
If you upload it to my server I will help you seed it from two locations. Email me for details.
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Comment #2585918
I ditched Firefox for Camino three years ago and then upgraded to Chrome when I got a new MBP two months ago. I'll never switch back from Chrome. Firefox on the Mac is brutally slo…
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Comment #2585859
If you could include a tournament ladder that requires a paid version of the app it might work.
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Comment #2585815
I can usually implement 1-2 features in code per day (more when programming in Ruby). In most cases I can only get like 25% of a site mocked up in a day (I'm really slow when it co…
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Comment #2585810
Hrmm, maybe I should set something like that up for my next project.
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Comment #2582084
Good content. I'll be back to read more. Keep up the good work.
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Comment #2581457
Other than occasional issues with OpenID not working right for me I don't have any problems with it. I find it perfectly usable.
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Comment #2577338
It's fine I guess for external links but it really bugs me when people use it for links to other pages on their own site.
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Comment #2577333
Works great on Chrome 11.0.696.68 running on OS X 10.6.7. I'll be keeping an eye on this project. Great work.
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Comment #2577294
I think for this type of project Sinatra and MongoDB would work great. I've used this setup to build web services before with great success.