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I don't think there's much I could do in providing food & shelter, but I do have a rather ok-ish MacBook collecting Dust (Model 2007). Would that help?

xelnyq 15y ago
fellow poor rails programmer from poland here. i can take it if its a burden :]
- jeffrey_w 15y ago
  If op has no use for it. I've been wanting to give this macbook away to someone who's in dire need (e.g. broken, stolen, etc.) and is unable to buy a new one due to not having any money. If that's you, or anyone for that matter, I'll be happy to send it your way.
  - lobo_tuerto 15y ago
    You can send it his way, I`m in no need of a new computer. I think whoever accepts my offer will have some equipment to work on.
    - xelnyq 15y ago
      to be true a computer would be very nice, my last macbook broke down completely 1 year ago, and ive got only this very old amd pc right now. I'm not an expert of ruby on rails in any way, im still learning to become a developer. If you need any more details please send me an email to xelnyq[at]gmail. thanks
  - msinghai 15y ago
    Hi there! Can you please give it to me? I want to start developing iOS stuff but don't have money. ( btw, I'm 15.)
    - philh 15y ago
      Just to check, are you aware that you need to pay $99/year to actually put stuff that you've made onto an iDevice? It's a lot cheaper than a Macbook, so I'm not saying you're not worthy or anything. It would just be a shame if you get a mac and can't use it for what you intended.
      - msinghai 15y ago
        Yes. I'm already a developer. I got it when I made an app for a local company on their machines.
jeffrey_w 15y ago
I've made a new post about this. Please see here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3008136 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3008136
gtklocker 15y ago
I'm in desperate need of a laptop to do my development on. I do algorithms in C and C++ for the next International Olympiad in Informatics and my laptop (an el-cheapo ~220EUR I bought 4 years before) is completely broken down, The keys merely work, the screen is touchpad doesn't really work as well. Linux won't work on this thing so I have to use Windows XP and putty to do my job and this sucks. I need to speed up the development process and get up an running with a machine that will always work. I'm not asking directly for your machine, it's just that I'd like to have it, and by that I mean that it would certainly help me but I'm pretty sure people out there need it more deeply. What I do is here: https://github.com/karantias/training https://github.com/karantias/training --gtklocker

xelnyq 15y ago

fellow poor rails programmer from poland here. i can take it if its a burden :]

jeffrey_w 15y ago
If op has no use for it. I've been wanting to give this macbook away to someone who's in dire need (e.g. broken, stolen, etc.) and is unable to buy a new one due to not having any money. If that's you, or anyone for that matter, I'll be happy to send it your way.
- lobo_tuerto 15y ago
  You can send it his way, I`m in no need of a new computer. I think whoever accepts my offer will have some equipment to work on.
  - xelnyq 15y ago
    to be true a computer would be very nice, my last macbook broke down completely 1 year ago, and ive got only this very old amd pc right now. I'm not an expert of ruby on rails in any way, im still learning to become a developer. If you need any more details please send me an email to xelnyq[at]gmail. thanks
- msinghai 15y ago
  Hi there! Can you please give it to me? I want to start developing iOS stuff but don't have money. ( btw, I'm 15.)
  - philh 15y ago
    Just to check, are you aware that you need to pay $99/year to actually put stuff that you've made onto an iDevice? It's a lot cheaper than a Macbook, so I'm not saying you're not worthy or anything. It would just be a shame if you get a mac and can't use it for what you intended.
    - msinghai 15y ago
      Yes. I'm already a developer. I got it when I made an app for a local company on their machines.

jeffrey_w 15y ago

I've made a new post about this. Please see here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3008136 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3008136

gtklocker 15y ago

I'm in desperate need of a laptop to do my development on. I do algorithms in C and C++ for the next International Olympiad in Informatics and my laptop (an el-cheapo ~220EUR I bought 4 years before) is completely broken down, The keys merely work, the screen is touchpad doesn't really work as well. Linux won't work on this thing so I have to use Windows XP and putty to do my job and this sucks. I need to speed up the development process and get up an running with a machine that will always work. I'm not asking directly for your machine, it's just that I'd like to have it, and by that I mean that it would certainly help me but I'm pretty sure people out there need it more deeply. What I do is here: https://github.com/karantias/training https://github.com/karantias/training --gtklocker