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The mobile nature of the app necessitates it. I imagine this will be optional once they release native apps.

The service is more general than that. From the pitch above you'll note that it intends to allow people to ask specific questions about a location, not just to signal where you mig…

"Closures in particular are a very powerful tool in async/multi-threaded environments, but in the stateless/sync environment of a web application environment, they collapse down to…

On second look I have to concede that I could be under-rating their authority. To be fair major investors will often sit on boards, but there's no need for me to make further conje…

You should be careful in thinking that you have to choose. In fact, regardless of what you do with .NET, I think it's a good idea to learn about the *nix environment and some langu…

Do you know if they lab test pre-release? With the amount of traffic their apps receive it would be quick and easy to achieve statistically meaningful data with a simple A/B test o…

> After undergrad I thought I could take on the world … Only now can I safely say that I can do the job that is required. Given that history, would it not be wise to complete a PhD…

Thanks for the heads up. That is quite convenient, unfortunately I'm now using vimium. I'm reminded that in my vimperator days gmail wasn't a problem because the vi key bindings ju…

This is actually a huge pain for me. I should have mentioned that another thing that can get you more intimate with vim keyboard shortcuts is trying out one of the vim browser plug…

I'm curious, do you keep this around to this day? I never thought to do this when I started, but it might have been a good idea. In similar vein I would say: If your fingers aren't…

Two very general suggestions, pretty obvious, but hopefully of some help. 1. The really obvious: You find yourself wanting to do something that is taking too many keystrokes. Think…

I think most Rails developers would agree with you there, which is why we're still seeing interesting gems that make our work easier coming out every day. There is a real commitmen…

You're confusing Hashrocket, the web development company, with United Directories, the company being charged. The people being charged are essentially initial investors. Pointing a…