jameszhang

Subscriber here. I think paying the $10 a month provides another incentive for me to read. I don't know if I am getting $10 worth of material to read each month, i.e. finishing about half a book every month, but it sure has increased the amount of reading I do since I started using the service.

If you feel uncomfortable with Rails, check out Sinatra[1]. It's my favorite way for prototyping an app and pushing it on Heroku.

http://sinatrarb.com

I work at Wistia. Glad that we made it to the list of good pricing pages!

Have you explicitly entered http://www.facebook.com into the address bar in the past by any chance?

My browser (Chrome) shares screen real estate between its search functionality and address bar. Therefore, if I have searched "facebook" on Google but have not explicitly typed "http://facebook.com" into the address bar, Chrome remembers the "facebook" search as I start to type it out. As a user, the next most obvious action to take is to tab-complete + enter, and voila, there goes the Google search for "facebook".

With just two tweets, DHH single-handedly convinced iA to drop the patents for Syntax Control.

Well done.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/416273904299040768

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/416274154682216448

iA has decided to not pursue the patent on Syntax Control, and attributes decision to DHH.

https://twitter.com/iA/status/416393539182796800

Nice work. I wonder how this art map compares with what the guys over at http://artsy.net/.

I really disagree with this. For your first hire, a full time sysadmin who cannot work on developing the product itself is just as useless as hiring a developer who cannot ship the code.

I think what this article is trying to get at is that your fire hire should be a full-stack engineer who can also play the DevOps role when needed.

Neat idea. I would expect there to be a link to each freelancer's portfolio/personal website before ever considering clicking on "Hire Me".

That's awesome, especially for a help site. My company does the same thing with our documentations.

That's neat, but is something wrong? I get this error on your site: https://cloudup.com/cti8Egu8fQS

Great job, this seems pretty fun. Plus, I'm sure your girlfriend really appreciates it, which is always awesome :)

Just one slight thing I noticed is that the "winsdom_scriptregular" font is quite hard to read.

Great for them; Palantir is definitely a company I respect. I went to their office for an interview about 10 months ago for a job I didn't really want. I didn't get the job and I'm in a better position today, but I have nothing except great things to say about their people and office. During the visit, I learned a decent chunk about how big agencies use software like their's just in a 1-hour demo. They also use their own software to do a lot of humanitarian work.

Honestly, I think this is a very cool challenge. As someone who just went on a Grouper last night in Boston and had a great time, I think I just might participate and submit something. Do you have any limitations on how many people can form a team? Personally, I would pair on this with my roommate. He's the big data guy, and I'm the coder.

This is exciting, congratulations! I just booked my first Homejoy appointment for tomorrow morning--super excited to see the results :)

I agree that this would be really cool, although as a hardcore fantasy player, I use twitter as my number 1 source for game-time decisions. It has the most up-to-date information, which is crucial for making roster changes on gameday.

May I ask what the source of the injury news is for this app? I'm guessing it's ESPN.