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by walesmd 19y ago
It's hard to learn Ruby on Rails from online tutorials - a downfall I discuss in a pretty popular post on my personal blog. http://www.michaelwales.com/2006/12/ror-education-takes-wrong-approach/
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Jason Calacanis' Mahalo Launches(betaflow.com)
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reCaptcha: Stop Spam, Read Books(betaflow.com)
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by walesmd 19y ago
More info @ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/14/orgoo-the-web-emailim-replacement/
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Email and IM: Web-based and in One Location(orgoo.com)
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by walesmd 19y ago
Save your money - Ubuntu for the win.
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Google Reader: Share Your Favorite Articles via Blog Widget(betaflow.com)
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by walesmd 19y ago
12:00 Pacific - all up
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Digg Community Sends the Mob After Speaker Pelosi(betaflow.com)
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eBay Launches New Services, Not The Ones We Want(betaflow.com)
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by walesmd 19y ago
Not counting votes from direct hits is ridiculous. There goes every user who uses RSS, widgets, or the dozen visualizations from digg themselves - all of which link directly to the story article. digg already throttles people's votes - in a
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by walesmd 19y ago
You have some pretty strict requirements there - I am curious as to why. Is your app really that complex where you require these services or are you planning ahead for scaling issues? Personally, I go with Dreamhost. The price is right, the
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I'm all for seeing a decent login screen as well. It would take - what? - 3 seconds to toss the CSS at the top of that page?
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by walesmd 20y ago
http://www.betaflow.com/ Just shoot me a message via the contact page and it's as good as posted. Will get you added to the Betaflow Codex as well. :D
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Pencil and paper
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Google Remembers Where You've Been(betaflow.com)
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by walesmd 20y ago
Online petitions never work - we really just need all the big names to go up in arms about it. Mike Arrington, Pete Cashmore (who already has), Scoble, etc.
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http://www.colorschemer.com/ is another great resource
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Doesn't flash have an install base of something ridiculous, like 96% of end users? Saying flash reminds you of the plugin wars is pretty off track, the war is over and a winner has been announced.
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I'm a non-applicant, but my response would be: It's completely astonishing the change that occurs in a man the moment his first child is born. Not when his child is born, or after, but as the child is being born - the father actually chan
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I actually see the PHP bashing as dieing down quite a bit, Now that the Ruby on Rails craze is over with (the language is awesome, but I'm glad to see some of the hype go away). I think people are finally understanding that there is room fo
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by walesmd 20y ago
It's a classic meme - been around since the late 90s. You get people interested in the story, reading it, wondering what's going to happen and your life got flipped, turned upside down - and I'd like to take a minute just sit right there, I
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by walesmd 20y ago
I do most of my YCombinator News 'browsing' via Google Reader. After reading an article I often want to come back and read the comments (or add my own), but it's such a pain to have to physically type in the URL, find the article in questio
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Suggestion: Add Y Combinator Comments Link to Feeds
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by walesmd 20y ago
Great article - I am one of those guys who dropped from college because I simply couldn't see myself sitting in class learning about Nostradamus and interpretive theater while I was thinking of the application I was building at home. I have