railsjedi

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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   I'd highly recommend Fareed Zakaria's "Post American World". Give gives good insight into how America rose to power. WWII helped, but it wasn't the defining moment. It was the huge industrial advances at the end of the 19th century that sha
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   Heh, one of the only reasons I stick to buying index funds is because I don't have the energy to learn what those terms mean.
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   Wow. And it's only Monday. Things are going to get exciting this week. Dow 8-9k.. any predictions? Fortunes are made buying in bear markets. Though I wouldn't suggest its easy to recognize the bottom.
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   Good looking app. Stands out as distinct and memorable. The name is a bit obscure and hard to remember. Might hurt word of mouth (which could be a big deal on campuses). I'd recommend getting rid of the adwords. Highly doubtful that they'll
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   Checked it out. Not quite enough functionality yet Would probably be better to extend: http://github.com/drnic/rails-footnotes
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   Rules #10 and #11 seems especially applicable to my own situation, when jumping from startup idea to startup idea. 130 year old advice seems more powerful for some reason. Hopefully reading it here is the first step to resolving it.
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   The nice thing about a good ui is its universal. Whether the codebase sucks or not, you cant deny when an app looks and feels right on the ui side. It tends to make sense to put most of the effort on frontend usability, especially for web a
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   Thanks for the heads up. Been searching all the news articles for a mention on what technology its built on and couldnt find any references. Doing some digging on the actual site: - The server is litespeed - The actual html on ma.gnolia so
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   by railsjedi 18y ago

   Read it again for the first time. Still, gave me a chance to read through it again. Really well done piece.
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    by railsjedi 18y ago

    Ah, thanks for the note. I'll keep using it. Like what I see so far!
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    by railsjedi 18y ago

    The demo version is pathetically useless. Stops after 5 minutes, and you cant save anything. A 30 day trial would be useful. Most people arent about to drop 80 bucks on an app after only using it for 5 minutes. Any have any alternatives? I'
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    by railsjedi 18y ago

    Check it out on OpenSourceRails http://www.opensourcerails.com/projects/85 YubNub was actually open source before. The real news is that I was able to upgrade it to Rails 2.1, and cleaned up the codebase. Enjoy!
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    by railsjedi 18y ago

    There's really not much here. Reads like a political hit piece, with "anonymous sources" relaying embarrassing quotes from Sergey Bin. I usually expect a lot better from NYTimes.
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    by railsjedi 18y ago

    yup, but that requires effort ;-)
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    by railsjedi 18y ago

    I tried to use WebKit debugging tools since I like Safari and Firebug is the only thing keeping me tied to Firefox. Webkit Debug is ok for dom inspection, but it's horrendously bad for the on the fly CSS modifications that Firebug excels at
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    by railsjedi 18y ago

    Wifi is such a disaster. The horrible wifi hotspot industry is about to be killed off by 3g/4g technologies. And good riddance.