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Hi HN. I've been working with two fantastic entrepreneurs to help launch The Art Commission. The founders aren't HN readers so I thought I would share this with you. The Art Commis…

People throw out the word feminist without actually thinking about what it means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism - What does this have to do with feminism? The site doesn't …

I think in any potential business venture the team is so critical that I'd go out to people I know to help, even for early prototyping. Admittedly I might not be your target demogr…

Interesting idea but I would have a huge aversion to giving anyone equity who I haven't had some experience working with in the past or I don't see as having a long term role in my…

Do you think rails or backbone was a mistake, or both? I'm a huge fan of backbone and would urge you to stick with it. It pays off!

Interesting, I'll look into it!

Here is my thought process... Regardless of how you feel about PHP, I've spent enough time with it that I can make it work and write good code, quickly. I do want to switch to anot…

As a PHP developer I've been waiting for the web-dev group to jump on board with Python 3 before I make the switch. I'm hoping it will be sooner rather than later.

It looks like there's a built-in css editor (look in the lower right) so you can do something like this pretty easily: .btn {color: red;}

This is kind of disheartening. I found it on the front page and saved it so that I could read the discussion later. I've gone through the same thought process while evaluating job …

I might be wrong but hasn't the Kindle been offering a free internet access to browse its store and even some online content for a while now?

That's a reasonable complaint, but maybe it means we need better lightweight libraries with well thought out interfaces or better library management like deweller suggested in the …

I don't think there's any disagreement about using the right tool for the job. What I took from the original MicroPHP Manifesto is that the solution is not to have a ton of hammers…

link to our launchrock page: http://launch.foodwithafriend.com/

My sister just graduated from college. She's working for a print design company but is more interested in the web. I'll be seeing her over the holidays and want to teach her how to…

My sister is a designer, but interested in learning how to code. I'll be seeing her over the holidays and I thought the best way to teach her the more technical side of the web wou…

It's great to see that there are other Wesleyan tech entrepreneurs out there. I moved to Madison, Wisconsin after graduating from Wes, so I didn't realize there was such a big Wesl…

Two weeks ago one of my co-workers (HN name: coreyloose) participated in build madison ( http://http://www.buildmadison.org/ ) a hackathon in Madison, WI. For our project we built …