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Great idea! Thank you for putting this together. I’ll have to dig deeper but the first two randomly selected companies had an announcement of their investment and not a formal inve…

Thanks for sharing your insights! I’m curious to learn more about how you ranked the options (Dexadrine ~ Adderall) and how the later options does more harm to your body. Is there …

I've been using one for almost a year now. I was going to splurge on a fancy steelcase one but opted for a GeekDesk (~$1000). My setup includes 2x 27" monitors with an ErgoTron arm…

I have a hard time getting my butt to bed and when I do, my brain is still running a hundred miles a minute. I've been experimenting and here's what works for me. 1. Turn off the T…

I came across Flomio who provides an NFC based IAAS.

Google recently pushed out some new changes to gmail including a new theme. I didn't like the blandness of it and the High Contrast theme didn't jive well either. So I created a CS…

Hey there! I was at a little sandwich shop called Ike's Place in San Francisco today and saw your business card!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitsprout/6819992324/

What tools did you use to convert PHP to obj-c?

Keep in mind that peter's article was from 2006. Drupal has continued to grow and it provides a lot of out of the box functionality. I think there are a lot of alternatives as Vuon…

Thats the ideal combo set up ive been thinking about. I was trying out the 24" rotated but thats wayyy too much screen for me.

Thanks for pointing out the subpixel issue. I didnt even think about that one!

Hi HNists, Im curious to know if anyone can share their experience using a 27" (2560x1440)high res monitor vs 2x24" (1920x1200) monitors. Im a UI designer/developer so im constantl…

Theres a ton of random things to do out here. It depends on what you like but heres a few ideas: If you're a foodie, check out off the grid SF ( http://offthegridsf.com/calendar ).…

Hi HNists! As many of you here, I sit at my desk for extended periods of time so my thinking is that I would combine a daily session of standing and sitting in a good chair. For th…

I just recently shopped for a good chair as well. I've used Aeron chairs before and they're great but I really didn't like the mesh feeling. After digging around, I have decided to…

It all depends on what you're building but Drupal is an awesome CMS framework that you can extend and mold it into whatever you need. We run a small consulting shop and we leverage…

What kind of development do you do?

I'll have to try harder on meeting the early birds. The last few events where I arrived early, most people were hiding their faces behind their laptops, ipad, smartphone, etc.

Hi HN! For the last few years, I've been venturing into the consulting business, I mainly do UX focused web development and have built some mobile apps for my clients. It started a…

Thanks for sharing! We've built a drupal powered site using Varnish as well. With a few tweaks, our initial tests showed ~3000 req/sec! Good stuff!

I've been a smoker for 10+ years and quit cold turkey. I actually tried chantix first and took it for a week and started getting depressed which lead to suicidal thoughts. I should…

I use dojo toolkit for our web app development. In the past, we've evaluated YUI and ext.js too. All are great frameworks but it all depends what you are doing and how comfortable …

Hi! I've been trying to get a forrst invite for a while. Please check us out jay at bitsprout dot net. www.bitsprout.net (new site design coming too) Thanks!

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