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by nicholaides 16y ago
Actually, insertion order preservation is a 1.9 feature: > Hashes enumerate their values in the order that the corresponding keys were inserted. from http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html
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http://news.ycombinator.com/offers
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There are types of users you want to attract: buyers and sellers/submitters. It seems like the home page is geared towards the sellers, which makes sense because you need to get a bunch of photos for it to be useful to buyers. The one thing
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Clickable: http://stockyoo.com
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by nicholaides 16y ago
Senior year, I took a intro Psych course where the final was online. The questions were multiple choice, chosen from a large pool. The test was setup in such a way that we could re-take the exam as many times as we want and students would r
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Hey, that's great news!
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Wow, this is really, really cool, and it looks like it will make operating a phone bank really easy. Congrats on putting it together so quickly! It took me a while to figure out what it does and what I can do with it, and I'm still not tota
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He's right on the money. The documentation is horrible. The 1 app I wrote that used the Facebook APIs convinced me never to do so again. Even the simplest things required hours and hours of effort, mostly by trial and error, just to figure
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Heroku has Node.js support. http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/4/28/node_js_support_ex...
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by nicholaides 16y ago
We're using Basecamp, and slowly transitioning to Open Atrium ( http://openatrium.com/ ). My business partner does Drupal development, which OA is written in, so it's nice fit and easy for him to customize.
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Yeah, and instead of getting an office, work from a co-working space. You get many of the benefits: everyone is in the same place, space to meet, whiteboards to brainstorm. On top of that, you get to be around a bunch of smart people who wi
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* CSS Sprites are unweildy. I believe there are a few tools out there to make this easier, but nothing seems to make it dead simple. * Support: when a user has a problem I have to ask them for their browser, OS, etc. There are a few sites t
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> It's not that I thought they were of no value, it's that the £££ they wanted from me was too much for what I thought I'd get. Care to elaborate?
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BTW, my group members were the ones to convince me to post this on HN for feedback, rather than working on the fun stuff like coding.
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Ask HN: Who keeps you accountable and on track with your startup?
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Hey, this is great. Following just a few of these people on twitter overwhelms my feed, but It's nice to see their tweets in one place when I feel like browsing good comedy. I tried the voting, but I didn't enjoy it. First, I had already se