michael_fine

So, before you start with learning Rails, I recommend learning HTML/CSS. It shouldn't take more than two weeks to get a basic understanding, and by doing that you avoid the huge hassle of building a web app while barely scraping by with the formatting. Also, you might want to drop both learning javascript and vim, because you can build a solid web app without js, and it's very hard to learn multiple dissimilar things at once.

After that, a great resource is http://railsforzombies.com/, and codeschool in general. It's a series of incredibly well made video presentations, which you are then tested on. Once/before you finish that, you should work on actually building an application, maybe following http://railstutorial.org/.

Once you have finished that, you are well on your way to proficiency, and probably have enough understanding of rails to build your application. Some great resources are http://guides.rubyonrails.org/index.html, http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-for-zombies-2, and http://api.rubyonrails.org/.

If you have done that, and you still want to learn more, then I would learn more about javascript, and read The Rails 3 Way:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321601661/zenruby-20.... Finally to learn more about Ruby, read Eloquent Ruby: http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professio....

Once you have done that, you should have a pretty solid grounding in Ruby, Rails, and web development in general.

What I prefer to this is https://github.com/JamieAppleseed/selectToAutocomplete, because of the fuzzy matching. For example, I can type US or UAE, and it will select United States and United Arab Emirates respectively. But both of these are a great step in getting rid of unwieldy and uselessly long lists.

The basic application logic of that, in my opinion, shouldn't take more than a week, and from then on it depends on how much effort you want to spend on design and polish.

Small nitpick: it's typical to have your logo link to the homepage.

how did you choose that?

This is a really misleading title, I thought they were implying that you should use a WYSIWYG editor.

Why not just make it a branching model? Whenever a new user edits a paste it creates a branch off that paste. It allows seamless sharing, without links. Kinda like this: http://srctree.net/

I think the great thing about this is that it's scalable. It's purely a community driven effort - you host dinners at your own location, collaborate with other teams, get mentors. The benefit of nReduce isn't it's selection, like YC, it's the community. So, if this grew to thousands, that would be great, making everyone better off and more successful.

A cool thing you could do with this is adding a javascript function in the file that automatically submits a story when this button is included. That would really elevate it from a link with some styling to something that's really useful.

Nor would it be welcome on HN. It's courtesy not to post about your votes, rather letting them speak for themselves.

On a side note, the use of infographics in situations like this really annoy me. There is no data involved, no visual elements, only six things involved in a two column list. It sacrifices readability on small screens and scrapability by search engines.

This is a nice infographic, but it doesn't explain why they prefer Angel Funding. It's just throwing statistics out there without explaining them.

I wish that they had also shown what hosting they were using. That would have been the most interesting to me.

It's really frustrating how they keep doing this. Their users are begging, literally fighting with the mods over this, and they still don't allow it. If they are opposed to diluting the technical questions there, why don't they just make an programmer opinion stack exchange site?

This reminds me of the founding of Adobe, when Steve Jobs told them what he wanted, as did two other companied, and the refused, saying "We have this business plan, we raised $2.5 million, and this is what we said we're going to do." Thankfully, a man named QT Wiles explained to them that "You guys are nuts. Throw out your business plan. Your customers-or potential customers-are telling you what your business should be. The business plan was only used to get you the money. Why don't you rewrite a business plan that is focused just on providing what your customers want?"

This is the same position. SE needs to focus on what the customers want.

Check this out: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhgma...

Because the information ends up being distributed through email anyway, just via a third party.

I don't see why that would be worth $3 a month. In the vein of http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mai..., why wouldn't you just have one email thread where everyone replies what they did? This seems over-engineered.

Yeah, demand delivery pricing is a good idea as well. I did coffee for a couple reasons: one, because I love coffee. 2: Because aside from laundry, it's the most universal.

Thank you for your feedback. I can understand why you don't want this, and it makes perfect sense for you. With a Starbucks 44km away, you wouldn't want a cold coffee, and we probably couldn't serve you. This is for people who are too busy to make coffee, and/or just want a nice cup of coffee without the hassle, every morning. I appreciate the feedback

EDIT: After all the feedback, I realized I'm wrong. There is no sustainable way of delivering all that coffee at 50 cents a day. So, we've decided to change to $1.50 a day, and ramp up slower. We're starting in the D.C area, but considering moving to the Bay area if demand is significantly creater. Thank you for the help

You're right, this really is just introductory pricing for the MVP. We really need to work out what a sustainable pricing model is, but we decided that we should first work on the MVP. Do you have any suggestions?

So, currently my cofounder and I will be delivering them, but probably will ramp up hiring with increased volume. If we serve 300 people day one, $150 dollars is enough for the gas money and a little profit. But we're still working on pricing, so if you have any ideas, we'd love to hear them.

12.04 fixed my multiple monitors issue, but for a while it took around 2-3 hours of setup to get dual monitors working with my AMD/ATI card.

No. It's not aimless. HN is a place to share links and discuss things that hackers would find interesting. It's a carefully run community, and we try to keep in cordial and respectful, all while being entirely relevant.

Honestly, the easier way of doing this is to just build the MVP. This is what an MVP is designed for, and sometimes you don't even have to build the product. In the Lean Startup, a startup which bought you food from grocery stores and suggested recipes had no actual software. The CEO and CTO did all the work at first

" Simons said he was able to score $50,000 in seed funding from Ulu Ventures and Silicon Valley VC Paul Sherer. "I was aware" of Simons living at AOL, Clint Korver of Ulu Ventures told CNET. "Tenacity and commitment are key attributes of a great entrepreneur. Eric has these in spades as demonstrated by his willingness to do whatever it takes to get his company off the ground."

Coffeescript has it, though it's formally called destructuring: http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#destructuring

Because it's interesting, and people are interested in current events. It's why people pay attention to miners trapped in Chile for example.

Now that you say it, and I think about it more, I guess you're right. It does add features like list comprehension and pattern matching, and the compilation really is ambiguous.

Because it simply compiles down and is executed as Javascript. It doesn't (and can't) change anything but the syntax.

Edit: It does add features like pattern matching and list comprehension, and anything can compile down to js, so I guess it is a separate language.