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jsgon Why we're moving away from Ember.js

Have you actually read http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$http or https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/blob/master/backbo... ?

jsgon 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence

I wonder what Eden Full (http://www.odec.ca/projects/2006/full6e2/index.htm) thinks about Aiden's project...

jsgon Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

fixed.

jsgon Review my app - Guestlist: online event registration made simple

Merb with Postgres on the backend, jQuery + jQuery UI on the front, served by Nginx reverse-proxied to Thin. The website is statically generated using Jekyll.

jsgon Awesome BlueprintCSS framework hits 0.7

hmm...samples don't look quite right in safari (left margin disappears)

jsgon An open letter from the founders of Scribd to those of you who didn't get into YC

If you are interested in learning to program, then by all means, find a language that suits you and begin working on problems you want to solve. If you are interested in programming only insofar as it facilitates building your company, attempting to learn to program will be an exercise in frustration. Working out the details of a great idea is difficult enough in and of itself, let alone trying to do so using languages or technologies that you aren't comfortable with.

jsgon Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

undo: none available--this is a design choice

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