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I'm was in Munich on Monday and in Jena for the rest of the week coming from the Philadelphia area. In general, people speak English very well. I know a little bit of German and try to speak it as much as possible, but people pick up right away I'm not good at it and they start speaking English. I would imagine you'll have no issues at the HN meetup like someone else said, it's an English speaking community.
Re:Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @10:09AM (#2466636)
Yes it's a great tool, but this isn't exactly "news". Just Google rubular site:news.ycombinator.com

Has anyone attended a monthly "Hackathon"?

I'm ramping up my startup more and more and as a sole founder, I would like to network (I use that term loosely, it's more hang out) with other people in a similar situation. I've seen a few meetups in the Philly area for hackathons where it's billed as people coming together to hack on their startups...which sounds exactly like what I was looking to do.Can anyone speak from experience what to...

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Re:Scrumblr: Agile Sprintboard Using Node.js + Websockets on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:45PM (#2310695)
Think I found a new full screen app for my secondary monitor.
Re:Ask HN: How did you got your job recently? on Monday March 07, 2011 @09:08AM (#2297114)
If anyone has gone through a recruiter, can you comment here on your experience with them? Was it a cold call (you or them) or did you already know that particular recruiter?
Re:Show HN: Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio on Friday March 04, 2011 @03:53PM (#2289744)
It's clean, concise, and to the point. Great layout and everyone looks really polished. I look forward to your tricks and shortcuts write up.