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Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial ( https://www.railstutorial.org/ ) is a great example of this. It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit…

I've been working on creating a platform for a non profit to get veterans coding ( http://operationcode.org/ ). We're a slack based community and have been rolling out some home gr…

Operation Code ( http://operationcode.org ) Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and buildin…

Operation Code ( http://operationcode.org ) Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and buildin…

Using Firefox/Chrome on a linux box doesn't really compare to getting a dev environment setup. For a rails app it's not a stretch to have to install postgres, rvm, ruby, some compi…

As long as they didn't state you can't use external libs it IS a good solution. Their response lets their team dynamic and environment shine through. They came across an unexpected…

The actual roadmap is here: https://trello.com/b/ZnTQyumQ/slack-platform-roadmap

FYI your page is empty of any content with ghostery enabled.

My team at a recent Startup Weekend did this. RasPI with a PID loop turning a fan on (increase heat)/off (decrease heat). The RasPI fed this into a backend server via websocket. We…

I haven't done much with Phoenix but I think there are a few libraries out there. I think addict is the front runner: https://github.com/trenpixster/addict https://github.com/opend…

Learning a functional language (and way of thinking) was pretty enlightening to me. I've also been looking into learning a bit about machine learning and data science via https://w…

You've got a weird issue with your text/register button: http://imgur.com/zbhpFY3 (FF 39 on a MBP)

LeMons racer? That's the first application I thought of but when are you ever alone on track? You could throw one or two of these in common passing places and combine that feed wit…

I've just started messing with elixir. It's a functional language that runs on the Erlang VM but it's syntax is ruby-ish. I'm a newbie but I've been impressed by the tooling so far…

Is there a compatible browser list? Found it on github: IE10+ Latest Stable: Firefox, Chrome, Safari iOS 6+

If you've got a basic prototype and something you can show people you should be out talking to potential customers seeing if they'll buy it. In talking to a bunch of potential cust…

Not exactly what you're wanting but there was a poll a little while ago asking what people prefer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815512

Why do you think it's too much? I think it could probably be named a bit better but what's the downside to having a ~25 char method name?