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Ask HN: Your favorite resources for learning Rails
3 points by bsmith 15y ago|2 comments
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by bsmith 15y ago
I completely agree. In the same vein, Scoutmob allows merchants to offer their customers "return perks" for visiting their store a second time, and I think this has been a very effective strategy for them business-wise.
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Groupon Closes the Redemption Loop With Loyalty Rewards(techcrunch.com)
17 points by bsmith 15y ago|16 comments
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by bsmith 15y ago
Assuming he didn't study mechanical engineering either, the fact that he's still alive proves he's good enough at self-teaching to figure that one out well enough. (Hell, he didn't even wear safety glasses.) Given that, I bet he wouldn't be
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CometD 2.4.0 Benchmarks: WebSocket 75x Faster Than Plain HTTP(webtide.intalio.com)
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Paul Graham Invents a ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Pledge to Shame Patent Trolls(betabeat.com)
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24 Hours of Reality(climaterealityproject.org)
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Screenshots of Old Google, Old Twitter, and more… [History of the Web](techhamlet.com)
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Thief robs car. She uses Craigslist, dating site, MySpace to track him down.(salon.com)
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by bsmith 15y ago
Now getting a 500: Express 500 Error: notConnected at [object Object].executeCommand (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongodb/db.js:708:41) at Collection.findOne (/home/node/local/lib/node_modules/mongodb/lib/mongodb
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Bit Literacy: The Elements of Style for the digital age.(bitliteracy.com)
1 points by bsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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REST for the Rest of Us(quoderat.megginson.com)
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162 Arrested at White House for Tar Sands Pipeline Protest(tarsandsaction.org)
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Tracking Twitter Traffic Just Got Way Easier(thenextweb.com)
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William Shatner Gets Booted From Google+(techcrunch.com)
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Play Tetris With the New TechCrunch Logo(techcrunch.com)
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Turntable.fm Raises $7.5 Million in Investment Capital(rollingstone.com)
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by bsmith 15y ago
Pre-ordered. It's time to dilute all the Seth Godin on my bookshelf a little bit.
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Fix Bad Habits: Insights from a 7-Year Obsession(the99percent.com)
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REST for the rest of us(quoderat.megginson.com)
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by bsmith 15y ago
Overall I think this is a decently cohesive and useful bit of advice. However, I sense a bit of a disconnect between point 5 (Website) and point 7 (Financial Projections); if you don't even have a product out to users, how do you have any g
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Watch an idea gain traction in 3 minutes(sivers.org)
5 points by bsmith 15y ago|1 comments
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Mozilla Launches An Incubator Program For The Open Web(techcrunch.com)
3 points by bsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by bsmith 15y ago
"Advertising in this space is completely non-economical..." Interesting, because I see ads for them on an almost daily basis, yet I barely travel. Maybe they just recently figured this out? Nonetheless, I love the product—I use it for what
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The 10,000 Year Clock(10000yearclock.net)
2 points by bsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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So you've got an awesome idea for a website?(twentytwowords.com)
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by bsmith 15y ago
Anyone know of any startups doing anything big with calendars of late? I feel like they could handily outpace Google Calendar, which has rolled out very few updates over the past few years. I still use Google Calendar because it's the best
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by bsmith 15y ago
I recently applied to a PHP dev position. I told the CEO that if hired I would still be working on a side project or two...didn't get the job. Obviously not the kind of place I want to be working, anyway.
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by bsmith 16y ago
I really would like to see a built-in PDF viewer–that's one of my favorite features in Chrome because it keeps the download folder clean and lets me reference several PDFs/pages without leaving the window.