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by ayb 16y ago
If you're just starting out with Ruby I strongly recommend the book "Ruby for Rails" by David A. Black. It teaches you Ruby and shows you how Rubyisms work with Rails.
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by ayb 16y ago
This was on HN earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322401
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by ayb 16y ago
that is running Windows
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by ayb 16y ago
A S-corp owner must take what the IRS deems to be a "reasonable salary" based on the overall profit of the company, and must pay self employment taxes (FICA, Medicare, etc.) on that amount. The IRS does not give out much guidance on the def
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by ayb 16y ago
I agree that he should have some privacy but as the CEO of one of the largest publicly traded companies the state of his health is something investors need to know.
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by ayb 16y ago
I tried to use AirBNB a couple times in NYC but my experience boiled down to (a) people not replying when I contacted them about their property, and (b) people trying to get me to pay them cash directly instead of via AirBNB. Glad to hear t
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by ayb 16y ago
I've been in New York for 3 months and less than half of my calls go through without a problem. Haven't called to complain yet mostly because I don't want to spend an hour on the phone. I swear I'm not crazy either.. :-)
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by ayb 16y ago
Since Apple normally releases new iPhones in June, does this mean the Verizon iPhone 4 will be obsolete in less than 6 months? It will be lame if Verizon has the iPhone 4 and then AT&T gets a new GSM-only iPhone 5 in June.
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by ayb 16y ago
Anyone know if there is anything like this in New York? Either open to all or invite only, pay or free?
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by ayb 16y ago
This sounds fun! I look forward to figuring out where it is :-)
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by ayb 16y ago
As much as I've tried, I really can't get into "test first" development. I find that I make so many tiny changes when I am first working on a new project, and refactor so much, that the tests would really slow me down. But once things get m
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by ayb 16y ago
Gorilla != Guerilla
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by ayb 16y ago
Not sure I trust anything from these folks. They are the ones that said "an unnamed source" said Groupon sold to Google for $2.5B last week. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949584
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by ayb 16y ago
Could they have added any more self promotional links at the bottom?
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by ayb 16y ago
Having lived in London for 2 years (2003-2005) we were very frustrated with parcel delivery. The Royal Mail was pretty good as the doorman at our building held packages for us, but other services such as DHL were hit or miss as they largel
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by ayb 16y ago
Happy to help if I can as well, details in profile..
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by ayb 16y ago
Thought about writing an app to do that. Unfortunately I would not be able to host it on Heroku. :-)
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by ayb 16y ago
We're actively sending pay per click traffic to our online store and it's very easy to spend hundreds of dollars. When our traffic converts it's great but it pains me to think I could be sending traffic to a Heroku 503 error page and have
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by ayb 16y ago
I use Heroku for subscription software services, online retail stores, and phone ordering system for our staff. Right now all of our sites are failing with 503 errors. Our store is down and when one of our employees went to take a phone ord
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by ayb 16y ago
I really dislike having to click "next" 19 times to see a list of 20 items.
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by ayb 16y ago
Do whatever it takes to program every day. Either build a few apps for yourself, work on a new app/business you plan to launch, or try to extend open source projects. The important thing is trying. Like an writer or a painter, the best wa
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by ayb 16y ago
Ultimately Twitter is a business that needs to generate ROI for its investors. The open API gave them plenty of ideas for functionality and "holes" in their system, and Twitter has made it clear that they need to fill those holes. The multi
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by ayb 16y ago
We do a relatively large amount of volume through Paypal, roughly mid to high five figures per month. Have been using them for more than five years and have done about mid to high seven figures with them in that time. Some of that is eBay
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by ayb 16y ago
Railscasts didn't exist when I first started using Rails in the fall of 2005 - they are an invaluable resource and just one of many the author points out. For someone who has not used Ruby before, it will likely take years to go from 0 to R
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by ayb 16y ago
I like the idea of cross browser flexibility built in and I'd like to try this on a Rails app but not quite sure how I would actually use it. Can you combine the columns for the ability to build larger boxes? Or use less than 5 columns on
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by ayb 16y ago
Congrats to them for the exposure! Awesome example of someone taking an idea, bootstrapping it, and running with it. I saw it on HN first :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616154
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by ayb 16y ago
I own a .ly and bought it at http://libyanspider.com/
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by ayb 16y ago
Depending on my mood I listen to hip-hop when I code. I've tried various genres but for some reason hip-hop is working the best for me right now. I will either listen to just one song on auto repeat or a tiny playlist of < 5 songs on s
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by ayb 16y ago
When I took CS101 (Summer 1993) we actually wrote Pascal code on paper for the exams :-)