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Cliaws - new ruby gem for command line access to s3(blog.teksol.info)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Modal Kombat! A Comparison of 8 different modal lightbox javascript libs(blog.darkcrimson.com)
2 points by rantfoil 19y ago|1 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
This is awesome. Are there other such tutorials out there for ruby?
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How much money should we raise? Two founders, two investors, and guidelines(venturehacks.com)
19 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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The difference between undefined and null in Javascript(saladwithsteve.com)
16 points by rantfoil 19y ago|2 comments
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My First Facebook Thrift App(saladwithsteve.com)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Java Will Never Be A Mobile Platform - Thoughts On Nokia, iPhone, and it’s Murderer(brandonwerner.com)
2 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
I highly recommend Moo cards -- they do small runs for relatively cheap, and let you customize the backs with photos or any design you want! http://www.moo.com/
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Logo Design Basics: The Five Types of Marks(positivespaceblog.com)
2 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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Continue; - the forgotten statement(sitepoint.com)
2 points by rantfoil 19y ago|1 comments
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Step by Step Guide to Getting Started with Merb and ActiveRecord(urbanhonking.com)
1 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
If I had to expand my list, I would include: "Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug Tufte will give you the vocabulary around visual con
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Guess they're due for an update. In general, though, I am a big fan of Sitepoint's easy to read style. A quick look at a what's new in Rails 2.0 will get any rails noob up to speed. I stand by recommending the book, though caution people to
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Wow, at least the other one had some sense of grouping/visual hierarcdhy. This one uses the same colors everywhere, so the user can barely recognize the logical groups on the page! Yikes. Here's a tip -- the squint test. If when looking at
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Great comment, though people should take Jakob Nielsen's site with a grain of salt. He's a bit of a Web 2.0 luddite. I gotta recommend reading "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug. It is the best beginning user experience design book out the
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by rantfoil 19y ago
It's true, writing is a great way to capture thought. The brain just can't hold enough things at one time to fully understand many problem spaces, but a Word doc can be infinitely long.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
"Real artists ship." --Steve Jobs But seriously, from what I've seen, iteration is the best way to give birth to something real and useful into the world. There are just so many scenarios and edge cases that you will never think of until: 1
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by rantfoil 19y ago
The Rails Way is a great reference, but not great for those totally fresh to it. For total beginners, I recommend Sitepoint's Build Your Own Ruby on Rails book -- http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/ Rails Way is great to fill out your
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Wow, that's pretty brutal... I think that an engineer can learn design, however. Certainly a standard CS education doesn't necessarily teach you those skills, but one can definitely develop them over time. It takes a good design sense and a
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Do Real People Really Use Tag Clouds?: Research To Help Separate Web 2.0’s Hits From Hype(digitaldesignblog.com)
6 points by rantfoil 19y ago|4 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
This is good advice. You can definitely tell how good an organization is by the quality of their questions.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
There is nothing stopping you from creating it with or without the validation of YC. You're right that just because it's been done doesn't mean you can't do it better and get it right. Would Yelp exist if they thought -- oh, darn, Citysearc
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Suggestion: If you really want this to work, grab the nearest English major you can find and have them rewrite your content.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Book recommendation: The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar. He's a partner at KPCB, but he warns against taking the "deferred life plan." I am loathe to call any Harvard Business School Press book "life changing" but this is one that do
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Note this is a dupe of an existing thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=161163
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by rantfoil 19y ago
The point about work experience not helping that much is so true... I would have been better off building stuff right off the bat.
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Setting up apache proxy + mongrels, while not impossible, is also not brain-dead easy. Also, in virtual private server scenarios RAM may be a hot commodity (slicehost, for instance) -- so in theory this should help you run more rails sites
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by rantfoil 19y ago
While the startup itself does sound cool, this link is not informative and little more than a dressed-up employment ad. Suggestion - instead post a blog entry or link to a page describing what you're doing and why we absolutely have to join
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Why Microsoft wants Yahoo -- it's losing at paintball(valleywag.com)
2 points by rantfoil 19y ago|0 comments
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by rantfoil 19y ago
Suggestion: Post in the URL field next time.

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