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Re:Ask HN: Do you Consider Life to be Futile on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:43AM (#7269104)
Life sucks, and then you die.
Re:Ask PG: What are you most excited to see in 2014? on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @07:56AM (#7257847)
Some rich guy
Re:Ask HN: Name ideas for a new project? on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @12:53AM (#7256617)
doesntmatterjustfuckingpicksomething.io
Re:Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:45AM (#7250925)
What kind/brand of modafinil? The indian-online-pharmacy deal doesn't seem too trustworthy to me
You seem to have a particular set of skills
Re:Ask HN: Where do you register your domains? on Friday February 14, 2014 @02:10PM (#7240376)
You're still hellbanned
Re:Ask HN: Where do you register your domains? on Friday February 14, 2014 @11:55AM (#7239475)
necenzurat you've been hellbanned for quite a while
Re:We need less Rails, Node.js, etc. and more systems research on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:13PM (#7236404)
Do us a favor, and stop telling us what to do and do it yourself.
Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @05:40PM (#7221041)
This does not mean they care more than someone posting angry anti-nsa comments on reddit. It ain't gonna change a thing
Stong independent womyn don't read no man's study
Re:Ask HN: I am an intern on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @04:47PM (#7220709)
Are they paying? Then stay until you find another job. Otherwise, just leave now.
Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @04:38PM (#7220642)
You want to fight back? Turn off Google services, MSFT services, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, DDG, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. for a day, that'll raise awareness like never before. But all these companies don't really care, do they? A day's worth of profit is more important.
Re:Ask HN: How to pronounce “doge”? on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:07PM (#7214990)
Dohj
Re:Recruiting: There is no such thing as a developer shortage on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:58PM (#7194564)
> If you gave me a pile of resumes, and told me I had to hire one of the developers in the pile, the first thing I would do is schedule a party and invite all the developers on that list.

Because programmers are very social creatures that would jump on the opportunity to go to a party thrown by some random recruiter. Especially the ones that already work 8-10 hours a day. But you're not looking for programmers, you're looking for brogrammers, aren't you? Carry on then.

Re:Where can I get a data dump of all HN comments? on Monday February 03, 2014 @01:22AM (#7169149)
10/10 would scrape
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014) on Saturday February 01, 2014 @12:02PM (#7162162)
You might want to re-work your post to include more details. Most people don't care about "killing" letting agents either.
Re:Saying goodbye to Octopart-powered HNSearch on Monday January 27, 2014 @03:40PM (#7133054)
Better, but you need to stop ranking by points and switch to a relevance metric. There are two main issues right now: A lost of the posts are really old, and the results are plain bad. Here's some results I get when I search for "Go" again:

1. Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA 2. Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA 3. Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM 4. Right click and save as needs to go away

and so on. You could for example, instead of just maching a single keyword, look at the post contents and comments, and see if that keyword appears multiple times. A discussion about Golang is bound to have more entries of "Go" than "Go Daddy no longer supports SOPA".

Re:Saying goodbye to Octopart-powered HNSearch on Monday January 27, 2014 @10:51AM (#7130907)
I'm sorry to say, but at least right now the new search is absolutely dreadful. Try searching for "Go".
Re:What is really happening in Ukraine on Monday January 27, 2014 @10:45AM (#7130863)
'Murica
Re:This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup on Friday January 24, 2014 @07:07PM (#7119112)
Umm... no.
Re:Renaming Tool on Monday January 20, 2014 @11:37PM (#7093478)
RubyMine does this for Ruby as well, if you're not against not using emacs/vim/needle&hand
Re:Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better on Thursday January 16, 2014 @12:56PM (#7071136)
More like RapTard
Re:Show HN: Coinwell - the easiest way to mine litecoins on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @07:04AM (#7056543)
Oh fuck off!

Ask HN: State of Rails e-commerce?

I'm looking to set up a small web store(on rails) and I've been looking at available solutions. I've found Spree, which seems overkill for my project, ror-ecommerce, which seems to be far from complete, and Piggyback, which hasn't been updated in months. Are any of you using these platforms? What other options do I have for a small-scale store? Am I better off coding it from scratch?

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It depends what you want to do with it, honestly. It's definitely "cool", but I'm not sure about its prospects outside a niche market. I personally wouldn't have spent $1500 on it (and still wouldn't, after playing with it), but my employer got it for me.
Pretty much anyone that signs up gets an invite these days, but if someone's interested, I do have a few invites to send out.

EDIT: Whoops sorry guys apparently they expired a few days ago, but if you sign up on their website, you should get an invite in a week or two.

Re:Ask HN: Any Hackers Love Sports? on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:26PM (#7006665)
Some "hackers" love sports, the pope is catholic and water is wet.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014) on Friday January 03, 2014 @02:29AM (#7004533)
I find you guys requiring a transcript with the intern application distasteful tbh.

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