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Re:Rails is still cool on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @05:31AM (#3423561)
Following the rant of: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-12-30-active-record-... And the not very classy reply of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3418601

I think this article provide a nice explanation on why rails best practices are not that bad for the use cases it was designed for. It also suggests to move away from them, evolving an app architecture when it becomes more complex.

Re:Dress.me: Because Guys Hate to Shop on Monday March 21, 2011 @10:28AM (#2349798)
I would love to use it :)

Social Network for Developers

Hello, I'm working on a rough idea I have but I would like to collect suggestions from fellow hackers because that's the target audience for that. The basic idea is to have a mashup profile page that contains twitter account, latest blog entries, interets, github and mercurial accounts and so on. On top of that some social networks functionalities (e.g. followers, messaging, status updates)....

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (hacking)? on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @09:32AM (#1571023)
I'm working on a little social network for developers http://www.superdevs.com I'm not sure in what direction I want to go yet though :(

Top Start-up books

What are the book that a novice should read before/during his first web start-up attempt? I bought 4 steps to epiphany. What do you think about that book?

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