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UPDATE: This was probably really stupid of me to do right now, but I've been wanting to change my GitHub name for awhile... and just did... so if anyone would like to checkout the …

I think it really comes down to a matter of preference. This looks interesting to me, and it caught my eye when I saw it on Hacker News much in the same way Meteor did when it came…

Thanks for mentioning Kendo, hadn't heard of it, just checked it out though... kinda pricey :) I think it's pretty awesome that someone developed a free, open-source mobile UI prot…

The awesomeness in my opinion is that a) this took me literally five minutes which means that I had to write absolutely none of my own CSS classes for mobile prototyping, the wonde…

If what you mean is there a CDN for the Ratchet javascript, I don't think so. If you go to the website http://maker.github.com/ratchet/ there is a download link, but my repo just a…

I also recommend for node Guillermo Rauch's Smashing Node.js. Also Javascript the Good Parts by Crockford is the cononical language resource for Javascript, once you've reached you…

I agree that having a job and doing a startup is not giving either of those things a fair chance at succeeding. But also if I had to add one thing, I'd say that most entrepreneurs …

A few observations. One, you haven't written that many pages, in fact you've written very, very few pages save for the preface and the like. This isn't an issue on its own, except …

First off, let me state that I in no way wish to diminish the accomplishments of the authors of RailwayJS in making these comments. I think they've built an inevitable framework gi…

In the past few weeks, I don't know why, but I took a prominent note of how easy application development has become. The fact is that someone probably could learn how to write a we…

An even quicker introduction to the final specification of WebSockets: http://socket.io . P.S. I'm aware that a) this doesn't help anyone not using Node.js on their server (it's no…

I don't even think that was the point. I think the geographic comparison is more a novelty than anything, and I don't even think the author takes a viewpoint in writing his article…

As both a programmer and a poker player I have strong opinions on the subject. In turn: "Math is useful I see a lot of people around telling “I don’t need math”. In poker (and in p…

Investors shouldn't like acqui-hires unless it is an agreed upon goal in the first place. In fact, I guess that investors wouldn't appreciate any misunderstanding of goals on any l…

One observation. I posit that in certain situations, when from the outset a startup sets out to attract a microsegment which is the subset of an existing market that is owned by a …

If you made this as a 'Farmville' style game, I think if I called it 'Startupville' that name would convey ostensibly everything that I would like to see in a game like this, I gua…

The article starts of by saying that a lot is at stake when a company rolls out a new logo. I'd like to point out the Microsoft has, either intentionally or unintentionally, been p…

Last paragraph... hammer, meet nail.

If you're just going to send plain HTML over the wire, why are you going to even bother thinking at the level of abstraction that most developers (well, at least me) tend to think …

I've done customer development on things along these lines and I basically have the following to share with the class: Any app that is at its core assisting people to hack their cu…

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Thanks for the response. A few things: The disclaimer was meant to say that I'm not labeling those as such, just that they seem overused to me. I'm also not looking for a startup i…

Title is pretty self explanatory, but the catch is that the following are NOT acceptable answers: Anything related to the Lean Startup Anything related to Customer Development Anyt…