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by ashleyw 18y ago
day = 15 case day when 1 then puts "All the rage!" when 2 then puts "Worst product e-v-e-r" when 3..(1.0/0) then puts "...uhhh...nil, but Ruby still loves cuil, even if others dont!" end
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Wow, seriously, somebody asked me to do this too! They also offered me 50% of the business in return for codeing it - I refused. (and no, it didn't turn out to be eBay itself :P) All these wannabe entrepreneurs, I know I should applaud them
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Seems amazingly biased to me...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
What are, for me as a user, and for "rich media content" developers, the advantages of Silverlight over Flash? Programming languages (just stick to interpreted, 'web' languages for this example), all do practically the same thing, but they
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Personally, a Macbook Pro. I want a laptop to be fast to boot, reliable and nice to work on. Technically OSX is what does all this, but you asked which laptop you should buy, and you either get a Windows Vista or OSX machine. (not to mentio
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by ashleyw 18y ago
As somebody who is pretty new (a few months), I would have to say HN is THE BEST community I know of. It actually blows my mind that the site is 100% public, most sites get trolls (or even just douche bags) no matter what, but all that is r
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by ashleyw 18y ago
It isn't just rugs, its everything sold by independent merchants...food/drink, cigarettes, clothes, jewelery, if its got a price tag on it you can generally half it...
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Turkey is nice, been a few times. You really need to become immune from this kind of thing, or at least play them at their own game. If they say 100 euros, you say 20 and agree on 40. Seriously - they are there to rip you off and would sell
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I thought that, and that Balsamiq Mockups looked way too simple to be useful - but it isn't! I rebuilt the basic look of google maps in less than 5 mins... The beauty of it IMO is it makes you think about the layout of the app/site, not the
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I hope by broadening the target market (to any entrepreneur), it doesn't loose focus and become unrelated to its actual target market - web entrepreneurs.
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I really don't see the point of it. Its like horoscopes, and its basing all startups as a neutral idea with the same success rate - Facebook is the same as Techcrunch which is the same as Twitter, even though they are completely different i
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Its today, in 1hr 20min from now. :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Sounds fun, some cool facts here: http://www.spacex.com/falcon1.php It makes me wonder how you deal with something like this. If something like this happened in Russia (or "somewhere"), and somehow the US didn't know about it, they would
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Its very sneaky on how it works... For example, it adds "This answer is only available to paid users" where real answers are meant to be - but if you check right at the bottom of the page, the answers are there....for search engines to see,
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Damn didn't sign up for the beta....looks good though, cant wait for it to go live!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Its a title I expected Arrington to actually use, I was surprised his real title was kinda bland.
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Ruby 1.9, massive boost in threading preformance(tonyspencer.com)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Weird, I've searched python once or twice (never really used it) in the past, and don't get a Wikipedia article first, I get http://www.python.org , then the whole page is filled with python (programming) results. I've never really thought
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I agree, but I also think using a framework is just as good in the long run... You basically have hundreds if not thousands of people working on your project with you, fixing bugs, making it faster, more stable, and adding under the hood fe
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Totally, and if you use Textmate (for ruby), the theme used in Railscasts is the ultimate theme if you ask me: http://railscasts.com/about Looks amazing with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Maybe, but its a very well known online brand name, its only going to keep growing. Though as it grows it has less and less tech stuff and more and more mainstream content, but I guess from the standpoint of investors that is only a good th
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I did some tests on XP a few years ago, to see how bad it was. I ran no anti-virus, no firewall, no anti-spyware, nothing. Used the system carefully for over 4 months with no problems. Web browsing, web development and bittorrent. Normal st
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I'm pretty new to rails (well, 3 months?), but when I saw this post last night, it was the first time I had said "Wow, that makes sense!" to a new feature. The old way was horrible, it felt like a hack!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Contact Amazon/eBay, I'm sure they will help you guys out. If you loose, they are next with even less to stand on. Giving you free legal support could help them later down the line!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Maybe, but why spend the time creating something if you can buy it, have one less competitor (wasn't it planning on using other services too?), and get some very talented engineers too? Normally, yes its lazy - but in cases like this its ju
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I'm sorry - but is this a joke? Out of the 11 items they brought, $4873.92 overall, 8 of them, $4136.94, seems like totally unessential. I was expecting something where the bulk of the costs consisted of salaries for X days/weeks of work. B
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Google has been like this for a long time. And its one of their biggest assets in my opinion! Microsoft needs to keep a good focus. But Google and Yahoo? I don't think so. Obviously they shouldn't do something really unexpected, but if they
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by ashleyw 18y ago
It really depends how low priced it is. SSDs are probably the future, but they don't have enough of an advantage for me to care to pay more than a standard hard drive - which in fact likely has more storage anyway! Bring me a SSD which is t
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Wish I'd taken a screenshot now. It was basically a semi-transparent box in the top left of the screen which showed you the query as well as which DB served the data (for me they came from db007, and the friend data from some shards), and t
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I agree. Its not hard to get into web programming. Use a framework (CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, etc.) and learn the associated language as you go a long. I do have a programming history, but I learnt the basics of ruby and rails in a weekend! ;

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