siong1987

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Show HN: Too busy for online dating? Try Wednesday Night(wednesdaynight.me)
72 points by siong1987 13y ago|50 comments
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Show HN: Hacker Nation Pilot [video](hackernation.tv)
11 points by siong1987 13y ago|7 comments
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by siong1987 13y ago
Since this project depends on webruby and webruby uses emscripten, it could get close to 2x native performance in browser(only firefox nightly) because of the awesome asm.js support. I am a big supporter of asm.js after reading John Resig's
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by siong1987 13y ago
That's less than 1 request/second. Rails should be fine even without caching.
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Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘With Friends’(techcrunch.com)
22 points by siong1987 13y ago|23 comments
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by siong1987 13y ago
We are aware of that. Our matchmaker will get more information from the user if it is necessary.
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by siong1987 13y ago
Hi anonymoushn, we don't reveal your FB information to anyone publicly, only the matchmaker who is assigned to you will be able to look at your FB information. Obviously, those information are used to help our matchmaker make better match f
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Getting Ahead: A Letter to Myself(20bits.com)
1 points by siong1987 13y ago|0 comments
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by siong1987 13y ago
Weird. Now, I have to manually configure my database.yml in order to make it work on Heroku. Btw, I upgraded from 4.0.0.beta1 to 4.0.0.rc1. 4.0.0.beta1 works fine on Heroku but I keep running into ActiveRecord problem after upgrading to 4
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by siong1987 13y ago
Do you use PostgreSQL with your app on Heroku? I seem to run into problem with it: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby/pull/93
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by siong1987 13y ago
PCH International comes pretty close. They even have an accelerator program[1] to help hardware startups to manufacture their products in China. I usually don't like to comment on rumors. I heard that some people from Amazon are already w
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by siong1987 13y ago
Yup. Only username. It works like Twitter. You will only get notification if someone mentions you like @tehwebguy
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Show HN: HNMention: Email notification when someone mentions you on Hacker News(hnmention.com)
5 points by siong1987 13y ago|4 comments
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by siong1987 13y ago
There's one more thing that obviates the need for traction: social proof. If Marc Andreessen is investing in your round, the round will get done, it doesn't matter what your product, traction, team or technology look like.
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by siong1987 13y ago
Most developers think that their apps belong to the "something so interesting and cool that you must share it with everyone" category, I am sure you think that your app belongs to that category too. The problem is that how many apps actuall
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Prologue: Iron Man 2(motionographer.com)
2 points by siong1987 14y ago|0 comments
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by siong1987 14y ago
I actually prefer the Medium's implementation of sidebar annotations/comments. For example: https://medium.com/design-ux/926eb80d64e3 At least, the content isn't blocked when the annotations/comments are activated.
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by siong1987 14y ago
You don't have to worry about scaling it to hundreds of millions revenue a year if you are not running a startup. In this case, it seems like the OP isn't running Sendy as a startup. He is working on Sendy as a lifestyle business which is
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by siong1987 14y ago
Dashing[1] from Shopify is pretty cool. Check out the demo[2] too. 1: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ 2: http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample
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by siong1987 14y ago
Since we are on the question of visibility of Heroku dyno, what is the amount of CPU power each dyno has? What about 2Xdyno?
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Show HN: jQuery.Feedback widget(github.com)
11 points by siong1987 14y ago|0 comments
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by siong1987 14y ago
Why not? It is always good to make some profit from the amount of work you put in, no?
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Growing Tomatoes(joehewitt.com)
160 points by siong1987 14y ago|81 comments
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by siong1987 14y ago
How about creating a thread just for April Fool's pranks? link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5471242
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by siong1987 14y ago
From Google, * Google Nose: https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/help.html * Gmail Blue: https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/promos/blue/index.... Edit: Gmail Tap removed.
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Show HN: April Fool's Pranks
103 points by siong1987 14y ago|74 comments
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by siong1987 14y ago
That's weird. http://www.cupidwithfriends.com is running rails 4 and been on heroku for the past week. Our Gemfile: source 'https://rubygems.org' ruby '1.9.3' # Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails
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Managing People(quirkey.com)
4 points by siong1987 14y ago|0 comments
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by siong1987 14y ago
Same here. Was working on a rails 4 project last weekend for fun. Ended contributing a few patches here and there.
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by siong1987 14y ago
For those who wonder how to build a Todo app in different javascript frameworks, you should definitely check out TodoMVC: http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/

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