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Clear-coat is an awesome idea! I remember seeing this a while back, but only white was available. My kids are going to love this.

"I can't say it made me the coolest kid in school, but it was fun. Don't worry, I still got chicks because I played trombone and was in advanced math." I enjoyed reading your story…

I think the value here isn't really displaying weather. I believe the author effectively demonstrates an interesting technique that non-native apps can utilize to make them feel mo…

Am I the only one here on HN that finds the whole 37Signals vs HN battle entertaining? DHH makes a direct (sometimes arrogant) comment, HN jumps all over him, Jason "clarifies", an…

How is this better/different than using a recruiting service?

I'm having a difficult time getting past the image that the author wants startups to sit around a campfire and hold hands chanting "we're all in this together". That is not the rea…

I really like what you have done. Having transitioned from a Windows/Visual Studio .NET application development environment to an OS X and Rails development environment within the …

You made me laugh this morning, thank you. Should have added a " " in front to make the snark complete. Adding the smiley face on the end was a nice way to soften the blow.

Trimble has a large office in Westminster, CO, which is just outside of Boulder.

Actually, Trimble's focus is not on consumer GPS, it is on machine control (heavy equipment GPS guidance), survey, and build construction. I'm familiar with the machine control har…

I wouldn't expect much in the way of improvements (read additional functionality) because of the acquisition. Google is a company for the masses, Trimble is sector and market speci…

I have worked with a Trimble distributor for many years, and find this acquisition interesting. Over the last few years Trimble, traditionally a hardware company, has been acquirin…

Congratulations, you are awesome! Not only did you accomplish your goal, but you have tangible evidence of your achievement. Your name is on the cover of three books, and no one ca…

This is a great story. There is a website for the arcade http://www.cainesarcade.com . They are accepting donations for a scholarship fund for Caine and so far has received over $8…

I recently began experiencing and practicing exactly what this post describes. The startup I co-founded began receiving leads and of course not all leads are a good fit for our pro…

I'm trying to find a way to send out nicely formatted email to a single user based on an event or data change. For example, send a reminder when a user's trial period is 10 days fr…

Funny to say you miss "compilation errors", but as someone who works with ASP.NET MVC during the day and RoR at night, I know what you mean.

Two years ago I began developing a large web application and I had to choose a language and stack. Having built applications on .NET and PHP most recently, I knew I could fall back…

There is a "Demos" section on the http://www.oicweave.org/ page with a few working examples.

Interference Studies: http://saveourgps.org/interference-studies.aspx I am by no means an expert on the technical reasons for the interference with GPS, however, I work in the heav…

Similarly, my first exposure to programming was in a high school AP (advanced placement/college credit) class taught by a math teacher. The teacher would give us an assignment and …

More fun than I was expecting. Going in I thought it would be more of a test, but the game aspect made me want to keep playing. I ended up with a 9.3!

You make some good points, but I don't think the approach I describe is wrong, unless like you said, I allowed requests to go on indefinitely. In the scenario you describe, it cert…