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Ask HN: Advise me about my "startup" – pdfcv.com
5 points by medwezys 13y ago|2 comments
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by medwezys 13y ago
AlphaSights. Ruby on Rails developers in LONDON, UK and NY, USA (Remote OK for experienced devs) AlphaSights is at the leading edge of the knowledge revolution. We help our clients get the critical insight and information they need to thriv
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by medwezys 13y ago
AlphaSights is hiring Ruby on Rails developers of all levels in New York and London, UK. AlphaSights is reinventing the way business leaders make decisions; we build the applications that make it possible. London: http://www.alph
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by medwezys 13y ago
I recommend monitoring third-party services automatically all the time, e.g. we do it using https://github.com/alphasights/open_nut . I do agree reporting outages on HN is totally irrelevant
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by medwezys 13y ago
AlphaSights is hiring RUBY ON RAILS developers in LONDON, UK and NEW YORK, US http://www.alphasights.com/positions/ruby-developer-london http://www.alphasights.com/positions/ruby-developer-new-york
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A hidden gem: Google Chrome accounts(coderwall.com)
3 points by medwezys 14y ago|0 comments
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Optimizing for failure(codeme.lt)
1 points by medwezys 14y ago|0 comments
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Extended Paul Irish's DOM-based Routing for CoffeeScript(coderwall.com)
4 points by medwezys 14y ago|0 comments
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by medwezys 14y ago
It does work on OSX, you just need to install elinks (brew install elinks ?)
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by medwezys 14y ago
I don't like merge commits when you can avoid them.
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Learn random facts while pulling code changes(coderwall.com)
53 points by medwezys 14y ago|26 comments
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by medwezys 14y ago
London (Mayfair), UK. AlphaSights is looking for a full-time web developer to join a cool and friendly dev team. We mainly use Ruby & friends, more details: http://www.alphasights.com/ruby Also, we have a nice interactive code challen
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by medwezys 14y ago
I just realized that visible light spectrum, as it is taught in physics classes, is different depending on the language. Of course it is just a gradient and we distinguish 7 colors from it so we could remember the pattern, but those 7 color
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by medwezys 14y ago
That is not always the case. Lots of times I ended up re-implementing rails in Sinatra or so. e.g. Rack -> Brochure -> Sinatra -> RailSinatra (half-ass Rails'ish Sinatra). Things like crsf protection, email sending, asset pipeli
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by medwezys 14y ago
Don't open the page with an iPad. It keeps showing js alerts non-stop and you have to kill safari to fix it :)
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by medwezys 15y ago
It's not very realistic, but my body health status API would be awesome: see what vitamins or minerals does it lack, body temperature, level of cholesterol, blood pressure, levels of hormones. That would allow to create insanely useful and
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by medwezys 15y ago
Central London (MAYFAIR), Rails Developer http://alphasights.com/rubyjob Central London (MAYFAIR), UI Designer / Front End Developer http://alphasights.com/designerjob
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by medwezys 15y ago
My first test was "Look at my horse my horse is amazing" and it worked just fine even though I am not a native english speaker.
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by medwezys 15y ago
When I saw the title I thought it's about Textmate...
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by medwezys 15y ago
I have this one in my bookmarks, probably found it here in HN :) http://under30ceo.com/top-7-websites-to-submit-your-startup-...
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by medwezys 15y ago
Yes, everything is going to happen in 2012.
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by medwezys 16y ago
well if you follow RSS on twitter it is your problem. If you follow people who share links, than it is a way better than RSS, because human filter is applied and you are more likely to get an interesting content.
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by medwezys 16y ago
I unintentionally clicked esc key to fade out at the end of presentation :) It is so fancy that I expected this behavior
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by medwezys 16y ago
Just in case I have checked whether this thread is in the first page of google search for "motherfucker" already. It's not.
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by medwezys 16y ago
Ditto, this one feels like reinventing the wheel when we have the tools you named.
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by medwezys 16y ago
Just yesterday I listened to your story in the pipeline podcast :) Other people, Forrst story is quite interesting, hear it if you like podcasts http://5by5.tv/pipeline/41 ;)
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by medwezys 16y ago
I am a student and I write webapps to learn writing webapps. Imho university fails or even does not even intend to learn real-life web app development: i.e. I haven't heard a thing about automated unit testing, CI or security issues in my E
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by medwezys 16y ago
Pretty neat. I also recently work on something similar. http://pdfcv.com
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by medwezys 16y ago
Sorry for offtopic, but (with all due respect to author and content) why da heck 95'ish buttons in website menu? They are burning my eyeballs and make me feel old.
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by medwezys 16y ago
> We're about 5 years old and are highly profitable and have been for a while. If highly profitable means you all earn enough money to drive the car you want, live in a comfortable house and take your family to holidays once in a while,

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