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Pinterest marketing startup Ahalogy raises $3.1m Series A(techcrunch.com)
4 points by jambo 13y ago|2 comments
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by jambo 13y ago
Not a counter to your comment, just a field report on Cincinnati, since you mentioned Ohio: Supply of ruby developers is lagging demand, with two well-known and growing agile-development companies with a ruby bent ( http://neo.com
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by jambo 13y ago
I previously worked on this project, and most of the devices we handle are not communicating over http. The goal is to manage long-lived TCP/IP connections.
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by jambo 13y ago
That's cheap and hardly warrants a reply. "Mac Air" may not be the trade name of the computer, but it's not ambiguous and has no bearing on the substance of the article.
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by jambo 13y ago
I would love to see other companies follow ThoughtWorks example here.
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ThoughtWorks: US Congress Must Rein in the Surveillance State(thoughtworks.com)
2 points by jambo 13y ago|1 comments
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by jambo 13y ago
You set up and knock down a straw man. No one has suggested they subscribe to a "secret Muslim" conspiracy theory.
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Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked(lavabit.com)
420 points by jambo 13y ago|304 comments
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by jambo 13y ago
I used to run my own XMPP server (OpenFire) and had my DNS SRV records correctly set up so people could chat to me from gmail. I found that one major source of pain was that Google Apps for Domains customers couldn't chat with me. It o
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Cladwell Week 9 — No code to revenue in nine weeks(differential.io)
12 points by jambo 13y ago|9 comments
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Friendly Drones with Carin Meier and Jim Weirich [audio](neo.com)
24 points by jambo 14y ago|0 comments
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by jambo 14y ago
http://www.badstartupidea.com/
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by jambo 14y ago
I agree with you that it speaks volumes about the optimism of the era. That said, Sagan & Druyan gave a great deal of thought to the "message in a bottle": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
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by jambo 14y ago
CinciJS has hosted a couple great talks on backbone recently. Here's the other backbone talk, on performance, from our August meeting: http://blog.cincijs.com/post/28877033821/august-backbone-per... Sadly the audio didn't come out great o
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by jambo 14y ago
With CSS pre-processors like Sass, you can use semantic classes and IDs (instead of, e.g. .span-4) and extend them with the rules you need from the framework. Doing this makes switching frameworks easier, makes your markup more meaningful,
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by jambo 14y ago
Might be worth noting that this post is 8 months old.
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by jambo 14y ago
I'm currently working for a software company in Cincinnati, and few in the tech community here would deny the benefits of SV. But there's a lot happening in Cincinnati, and great, friendly, intelligent people doing interesting things. I wor
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by jambo 14y ago
It's pretty strange to me that the very act of non-lascivious public nudity would be illegal. In more liberal parts of the world(and I would've guessed Portland), this sort of protest is considered protected speech.
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by jambo 14y ago
This is nice if you already know someone & have a rapport, but if that's the case, you can often skip it any way. Though distasteful to some hackers, small talk has a valuable function, and I wouldn't design a feature in a social applic
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by jambo 15y ago
I'm doing a light version of this starting in a few weeks. I've canceled my home internet, but I still have my Nexus S & access from work and cafes. It was motivated in part by the ridiculously poor level of service/price in my area, a
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by jambo 15y ago
One of the problems with Yelp in my city is the "Yelp elite". To bootstrap in my city, Yelp hired a community manager (part of their job is also writing reviews), and enlisted a bunch of people to become "Yelp Elite", earning access to part
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by jambo 15y ago
It's mostly for show. You can't buy anything with it, and you can't elect to use it for visibility (though reputation, which it's a proxy for, can achieve this effect). Others can see it on your user page if they click through from a commen
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by jambo 15y ago
There are actually two groups you don't like: the ones who greet you when you enter the USA are Customs & Border Protection agents. They have a lot of power. The TSA employees are the folks in blue shirts who screen you &/ frisk you
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by jambo 15y ago
Same here. I transfered all of my domains from Network Solutions to them about 10 years ago and have mostly been able to ignore them--I run my own name servers & hosting. More recently, I've been registering domains on namecheap, and th
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by jambo 15y ago
Seth Godin and others pledged money as an incentive for a donor, but revised the offer after learning that the original offer was likely illegal. "He now promises the money to the first person who matches Gupta, regardless of whether that p
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by jambo 15y ago
I spend a bit too much time on HN, as evidenced by the timing of this post, and one of the dangers I've noticed is that I can become so fascinated with the interesting things other hackers are doing that I lose perspective on how valuable &
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Don't Call Yourself a Programmer(kalzumeus.com)
1021 points by jambo 15y ago|267 comments
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by jambo 15y ago
http://pttrns.com/ & http://mobile-patterns.com/ have screen captures of top apps, grouped by pattern, like Activity Feed, Sign In, Empty Data Sets, etc.
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Hyperink (YC): Publishing Startup Offers Short Focused Nonfiction e-Books (publishersweekly.com)
1 points by jambo 15y ago|0 comments
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by jambo 15y ago
Hi: HN doesn't support private messages, and it doesn't show your email address by default. If you want to let people message you, you have to explicitly put your email address in the about field in your profile (here: http://news.ycombina

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