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I'm the organizer of this conference. The stage is very flexible and has many opportunities for trap doors etc. It's honestly just a little creaky. We've seen other benefits like f…

Thanks egiva!

You're wrong. This is something that my wife and I have spent the last 2.5 years trying to build. An inclusive event where everyone feels welcome to participate. The post was made …

I lifted it from a tweet describing the article from a third party but, you're right.

I'll go ahead an disagree here from Madison, WI as well. In fact, there are no less than three cool startups within a block and a half (Murfie.com, ContextClothing.com, Asthmapolis…

You're wrong. Your event sounds like a great event and is likely to be interesting to HN readers. That's fantastic! Make a post and have it voted up. The issue I see is that your c…

We did do our homework and took inspiration from your blog post about putting on, either Future Ruby or Ruby Fringe, I forget which at the moment. I appreciate your concern and poi…

It's just as fine of a line that you have to walk with a product. We had more we wanted to do but, do we need more? At the end of the day we, as a conference, _need_ to get people …

To be fair you've ordered those as a developer. Non-programmer types are more likely to invert that list: 1. Finding customers 2. Building the product Where finding the customers i…

There may well be similar apps but, we didn't find anything in the amount of time it took to bootstrap a new rails app. Something we have discussed is to do just what you say and p…

Brilliant. Similar to another comment when I first got my Prius I played with along with the metrics and still do occasionally. But, I felt like I unlocked all the rewards. Separat…

> To me, pair programming is the only way to work. Could've softened that up a bit, sure. I completely agree that not every problem is a nail for the hammer of pair programming. We…