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binarysoul··on GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to save elephants
fyi the discount code is BYEBYEGD and it's a discount on domain transfers. I just transfered my domain from enom to namecheap. So you don't have to be leaving go daddy to take advantage of this.
binarysoul··on Mobile Boilerplate: a best practice baseline for your mobile Web app
His real html5 boilerplate isn't very useful. it's basically doctype html5 and css reset. It seems to me he's complaining that http://html5boilerplate.com/ doesn't have a better builder UI.

Maybe his blog post is old? checkout http://initializr.com/

binarysoul··on Ask HN: I've been offered 5% stake in a startup. What should I think about?
I always recommend getting some kind of hourly rate, as well as a percentage. That way if the stock ends up worthless, you still got paid something.
binarysoul··on Ask HN: How much is sweat equity worth?
I think most programmers only work for money. Now if there's a combination of equity, and some pay, that's something that warrants discussion.

You might consider trying to get one of your friends to help out for equity. I'm working on a project (unpaid, but ownership of part of it) with some friends at the moment. But we are all ok if it doesn't end up making money.

binarysoul··on Ask HN: Is it safer to register a domain with a swedish registrar?
Safer than what?
binarysoul··on Need RoR Developers
I'm not even sure what NoVA is
binarysoul··on It’s time to stop using Subversion
a simpler solution, use git-svn
binarysoul··on Show HN: Jazzroom, collaborative real-time music hack in Node.js
so I played the bass.. and though the notes are on piano keys, they're wrong (left to right should go up in pitch)

also, if this is jazz, use fingerstyle bass instead of a bow

(note: this is meant as constructive criticism to inspire improvement in the idea, not disparage it)

binarysoul··on The Benefits of Being a Female Software Engineer
I'm interested to know why you think this is a problem?

I, for one, didn't become a teacher because the pay is terrible, I make more annually my first year out of school (programmer) than most highschool teachers make anually.

It had nothing to do with gender, more to do with money.

Also, my mom is a highly advanced math teacher (teaches AP courses, grades AP tests etc), so I think she provides a good rolemodel for women and men who want to be good at math.

binarysoul··on The Benefits of Being a Female Software Engineer
My wife is in medical school, and getting a masters in public health, at the same time. Meanwhile, many of her friends have dropped out of MBA programs, or stopped working full-time to be pregnant / get married / be a home-maker.

However, there are more females in medical school now than males, it's just a matter of time as the older generation retires.

Personally, I think there would be more doctors if it didn't cost $200k+ and 4 years to get a medical degree (compare the opportunity cost vs working as a software engineer for 4 years with only a bachelors).

binarysoul··on The Benefits of Being a Female Software Engineer
Barbie is a computer engineer now.

My wife is in medical school, and there are more females in medical school now than males.

In order to change these kinds of things we need to move on from the past and look forward, and stop worrying about what color toys our children have.

Personally I think we need to overhaul what kind of education is valued. As in, encourage all kids to get STEM degrees, or alternatively become lawyers or doctors. Stop encouraging kids to go to university and major in english or philosophy or... any number of majors that lack hard math / science classes.

If we get kids to major in the right kinds of things in college, I think we can stem the current unemployment recent grads are feeling (nobody is looking to hire a liberal arts psychology major, except restaurants (waiters)).

binarysoul··on South Florida HN Meetup for Miami Tech Week (Wed, 9pm, Ft Laud)
I'm up for it. I'm located in Fort Lauderdale, FL so it's very close by for me.
binarysoul··on Do It Yourself Masters in Financial Engineering
I'd just like to point out that all those amazon product links have his affiliate ID in there... He's getting a cut, keep that in mind
binarysoul··on XBMC now works on Apple TV, iPad and iPhone
apple tv plain works fine with mp4.... but I'm going to try this with mkv files and all other kinds of stuff this weekend
binarysoul··on Verizon iPhone 4
um... I do this too!
binarysoul··on Firefox Extension Development Tutorial
this is way out of date.

However, this link is pretty up to date (3.5) http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/

and very detailed...

binarysoul··on There is no talent
Let me ask, what were you doing at age 4?

IIRC 4 year olds have a lot of free time (to practice etc...)

binarysoul··on Daring Fireball: Viber
Simple fix here.. allow the end user to choose (maybe default to not sending)
binarysoul··on [dead]
you could dynamically generate a lot of this list using http://isitrails.com (a list apart shows not rails)
binarysoul··on I just need a programmer
He just needs a cfd expert, he's already got water
binarysoul··on Ask HN: How did everyone do with Launch an App Month?
I got to a working prototype on my phone.. now all that's left is getting an app icon, splash screen, adding some graphics to the UI. But the app itself already works
binarysoul··on My webapp: Guitar tabs as they should be
you can do the twitter button async as well http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/08/13/the-twitter-but...
binarysoul··on TextMate finally gets an update
Emacs has git integration, have a look on emacs wiki
binarysoul··on Remind HN: November is Launch an App Month
Cool!

I happen to be working on a project to scratch my own itch. It's an iPhone application. I've been teaching myself flamenco guitar, which requires a specialized metronome (for counting the various rhythms).

I'm using titanium appcelerator to build the application, and it's about 50% done now (just UI work now, the functionality is there).

It's essentially a clone of beatvibe http://tivstudio.com/node/1

I am confident I will have this app submitted to the app store by end of november.

Here's the current code if anyone is interested, still very much a work in progress http://github.com/himmel/Flamenco-Metronome

I only started working on this in my off time about a week ago.

binarysoul··on $1,000 to fix open source bugs
the article links back to the hacker news submission, billing it as a "list of bugs." I don't get it.
binarysoul··on Ask HN: What do you drink?
Seconded twinings Earl grey... Tried a few other Earl greys, and they usually don't taste right
binarysoul··on Vim tutorial videos
I think you should edit the title to "some vim screencasts"

That takes the sensationalism out, and would've kept me from clicking (no interest in vim)

binarysoul··on Why teach with Ruby?
I can't really ready your post because of the background. I'd recommend changing it
binarysoul··on Interview With Salvatore Sanfilippo
ie, antirez (Redis Author). I think thats useful information that should be in the title
binarysoul··on [dead]
There's nothing about ruby in this post (do a find on 'ruby', you'll see)
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