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empire29
17y ago
point taken - ive removed it. also, this isnt a "business" site -- this is a side project that i was hoping other techy people would find useful. i do appreciate the feedback!
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Good point .. its behind a link because it was an easy place to put it :) I think ill make a search field in the interim that appears in the right sidebar on pages, and look for a more permanent spot in the header for it later.
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17y ago
Thanks - any thoughts on how to rank pro/cons? It seems like it would be a manual process. Is the ranking or pro/cons something you think users could "vote" on? Interesting observations.
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17y ago
I was just trying to be cute which has clearly backfired ;) The site does look a little nicer in Webkit/Mozilla browsers but should work across everything. I'll take it off since it appears to be quite distracting to IE users.
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17y ago
fnid - thanks - anyone else of this opinion? I can see where youre coming from on some of the smaller grey fonts.
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17y ago
eric, thanks - fixed that .. There are still relatively few questions since this is the first real public exposure outside friends/family.
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17y ago
ccollins, Very much appreciate the feedback! - I add the external links to the product incase voters arent quite sure what each product is. For things like the iPad that are "well known" I agree, its extra and may be distracting, but if the
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17y ago
Man .. I knew poking fun at IE would come back to bite me Touche on the date ;)
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I've seen that site before .. I just never have good experience with the psuedo-intelligent recommendation engines. In my experience so much revolved around the particulars of your situation which seem to be very difficult for a computer (a
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17y ago
Thanks - I would like to keep the design as clean (read ad-free) as possible. I plan on monetizing via affiliate links to the products users are asking about, as well as possible intelligent product recommendation which could also be affili
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17y ago
When I started learning Rails i just read through and followed the steps in here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ I ended up buying a couple books, but while being ok, weren't as good at addressing the fundamentals as the guides.rubyonrail