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Are there any open source alternatives (I'm thinking Ruby/Rails/Sinatra) where I could throw up my own RSS read/sync server onto Heroku or something?

Fairly certain this is called Evernote :)

If I am deploying an application with "deploy" (i.e. non-priviliged), it is ok to also run Unicorn as deploy? Or should it be run as nobody or www-data ?

Not quite sure why you even thanked them for that response. Wasn't worth the electrons it is printed on :)

This.

I don't see why you'd spend hours writing a system utility to close apps on a Mac that provides a perfectly easy to use keyboard shortcut.

Or rock Vagrant. The ability to quickly setup & tear down makes for some quick experimentation.

I have been using Slate since that last post came out on HN (a few months ago?) and am absolutely loving it.

Combined with binding your caps lock key to "hyper", I have a whole suite of customized keyboard shortcuts that are super useful!

A recent version of Slate fixed automatically detecting your screen layout, so whenever I plug/unplug my external monitor it will automatically re-layout my screens.

How does the nginx fit in? Do you install an instance of nginx onto every single box? Or can you elect to use a web server box as your frontend nginx and proxy request back to a set of separate servers running instances of passenger?

To be fair, he could have just been joking....

- Loss aversion - Failure to account for inflation in saving & spending planning - Lifestyle inflation - Failure to understand the power of compound interest - Failure to understand impact of sunk costs on your potential financial outcomes

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There is nothing wrong with Bootstrapping subsequent projects using your last one.

I just believe that there is so little value prop in this (if you are even moderately competent using Google) that I have a hard time seeing it succeed at $10 unless the 37s name pushes it up.

I posted a comment on their blog about this, not sure if it went through though (old IE version here at work...)

I think they WAY overstate the difficulty of setting up a Google Group. I just did it in 2-3 steps.... All of the "settings", "more settings" and "permissions" they describe all work JUST FINE as defaults.

Not only that, it is free....

They talk about filling out a Captcha as "difficult", but I have a hard time seeing how filling out credit card details is any easier

I personally don't think this would have got any attention if it wasn't out of the 37Signals shop.

As a P.S., did you notice how they display the Google Groups signup with form validation errors? ....

Lately I've been wondering if I'm going to learn one of these technologies, why I wouldn't stick with Derby.js . They are using the NPM, and so are way more in touch with teh general Node community.

Meteor is doing their own thing, which over the long haul worries me a bit.

You can also check out the `figaro` gem which provides some pretty handy functionality.

This is an old(ish) article. Any particular reason it is showing up here now ?

Is it kind of strange that given the developer "shortage" that we keep hearing about, all of the posts here have been seeking work? Maybe someone can explain that to me as I don't have ears on the ground in this industry so to speak.

I'm with ya - you just have be slightly crazier than any "normal" entrepreneur :)

While constructive criticism would have been better, that line did jump out at me as being out of place in on the page. (Didn't say much? Has nothing to do with re-inventing email?)

Why is a post about USB sticks on the front page of HN... Don't get it!

I am having all kinds of troubles getting the client_side_validation gem to work nicely with SimpleForm & bootstrap so I may give this a look.

Please - is this really going to move the lever?

How is this on the front page of HN. I have seen far more interesting things on the second page, and I have submitted posts with useful information!

Should I be using Slim in all new projects at this point? Or are there any reasons for sticking with Haml?

Ruhoh is also a viable alternative to Octopress (or Wordpress for that matter). Check out my blog at http://brandonparsons.me for an example of what can be (easily) accomplished with Ruhoh.

Is http://www.tunnelr.com/ the same as any of these external VPN's? I'm not clear on the differences between OpenVPN type stuff and OpenSSH. Is this going to mask my identity online?

Isn't this largely similar to another post that was up here about a week ago?

Thanks! That is a lot of good input :) I'll get to work.

LOL! I do understand that my site topic is "decidedly unsexy" (maybe that should be my tagline!).

Maybe I can create a landing page talking about Retirement Planning meets Bigdata/NoSQL and I'll make it up there :)

Is there a way to permanently dock the toolbar in the Mac version? I had this in the old version.... Now I get floating docks over top of other applications even when Gimp is in the background!