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(Or really, any meeting that's more "download of information" than "let's collaborate") It's called All Hands, and we've launched today: https://allhands.app The idea is that inste…

Programmers are inherently encouraged to be lazy, so they'll follow the easiest path assuming you're careful to actively encourage that... if you're not really careful about exactl…

SEEKING WORK | Remote or London, UK Full-stack Rails developer, been using Rails since before v1.0. I've just moved to London and I'm looking for something for ~20 hours per week. …

Are you sure it's not more along the lines of "don't 'play' at it, do it properly?" Perhaps I'm reading too much into it. I guess that's the problem with this sort of vague general…

We have a similar app, Flatmin ( http://flatmin.com ) that's targeted more specifically at shared living situations. We built it a few years ago, and h(ave|ad) big plans to expand …

The source is at https://github.com/kicksend/mailcheck if you want to check it out.

Seems to have been coming for a while ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/05/gowalla-acqhire/ ), but I think they just pulled the trigger judging by this tweet https://twitter.com/maxv…

Obviously it would be nice not to be rude to people who, after all, are working on something that benefits you, if you are prepared to call other people out like this: http://rubyh…

May be slightly off-topic, but I feel a little pain behind my eyes whenever I see the hack-around-namespaces function naming (e.g tt_whatever, for "ThumbTack" presumably). Surely a…

When aggregating stats in this manner (by Day) how do people deal with Time Zones? For instance, if I have one user in, say, NZST, their "Tuesday, 22 February" is still "Monday, 21…

IIRC, this is actually invalid Javascript syntax that Chrome/Firefox/Safari choose to ignore. JSLint picks it up: Error: Problem at line 1 character 22: Extra comma. var x = { foo …

Be careful with this. We've used it on a number of sites, and whilst overall it's beneficial, there are a number of weird things to watch out for. For instance: - Don't add rounded…

I think there's a more succinct explanation of this somewhere, but I think people usually overvalue their own contribution whilst simulataneously undervaluing that of others (see: …

It's very interesting to note the backgrounds of the various people involved in this debate. http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanielwhittemore would lead me to believe Nathaniel is no…