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Useful Rails Resources(johnfgibb.com)
8 points by Johngibb 16y ago|7 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Incidentally, I think readability attempts to get the whole article onto one page via js.
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by Johngibb 16y ago
I remember the days of clear.gif! (or blank.gif, spacer.gif, etc...)
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Really, I'd say this is really accurate. Any further questions grew organically from answers to the questions in this video. For us, they made a big point of knowing that our market really existed, even though no company was targeting it ye
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Could you really have provided these answers back when you were at the interview stage of getting funding? These all seem accurate in hindsight, but the kind of things you never would have known up front... Edit: This isn't meant to be crit
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by Johngibb 16y ago
As much as this comment nosedived at the end, I have to agree that his typos and misspellings detracted from the article for me. A basic proofread would have prevented this from feeling like it wasn't too well thought out...
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by Johngibb 16y ago
This is a disingenuous comparison. AngelList is a community, while Google Finance is merely an aggregator of many other communities.
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by Johngibb 16y ago
For this reason, I wrote a chrome extension that shows more of the subdomain on hacker news: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/amenlkcfjlmchdpo...
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Very cool, but I'm not sure creating a site that looks JUST like a flash site is really the right direction... ;)
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by Johngibb 16y ago
New York is also an attractive enough city that there may be a decent amount of successful startup founders moving there out of preference for the city.
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by Johngibb 16y ago
I feel like in the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that this is pg's wife's book. I second the recommendation, however ;)
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by Johngibb 16y ago
We launched Rewordious a few weeks ago, do you think you could add us? http://www.rewordio.us
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Let's plan one here. I'll start by suggesting a time: 8pm tonight. Anyone interested in coming?
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Ask HN: SF startup meet up / happy hour tonight
6 points by Johngibb 16y ago|2 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
From everything I've read, WP7 is really good. However, I think that it's a huge fault of Microsoft that it just hasn't been marketed well. I've wanted to try one... I go to Best Buy, and all they have is one non-functional demo unit (the k
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Kind of off topic, but today's XKCD is super relevant here: http://xkcd.com/859/
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Ask HN: Is this a monad?
1 points by Johngibb 16y ago|1 comments
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A Science Based Technique for Seasoning Cast Iron(sherylcanter.com)
8 points by Johngibb 16y ago|0 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ycombinator+company+list
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Guess not :(
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Ask HN: Any hackers in Berkeley?
1 points by Johngibb 16y ago|1 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
I would shy away from doing this. The bank has no obligation to uphold the post-date that you write. I once sent in a post-dated rent check that was dependent on a deposit clearing, and the landlord (accidentally) brought it in earlier and
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by Johngibb 16y ago
This is fixed. [physics]book will now work. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by Johngibb 16y ago
This was because there was no space between [physics] and book. I'm working on a fix to handle that case right now, but if you enter "[physics] book" you'll see the results you were looking for. Hope this helps! - John (technical cofounder)
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Here's How to Ditch Your AT&T iPhone and Switch to a Verizon iPhone for Free(lifehacker.com)
1 points by Johngibb 16y ago|0 comments
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Today's Pro Tip: Don't buy a Costco Membership(richpalmer.org)
3 points by Johngibb 16y ago|0 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
How do you accomplish this? Something like greasemonkey? Or a chrome plugin?
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Tell HN: Startup Idea - Github + Heroku for Open Source Webapps
3 points by Johngibb 16y ago|0 comments
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by Johngibb 16y ago
How does the scalability offered by Heroku compare to this? Does Heroku let you interface with RDS if you outgrow their db offerings?
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by Johngibb 16y ago
Well written post, and I agree that C# has come a long way. It's one of my favorite languages now!

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