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Turkish users want their reviews to be seen. This sounds narcissistic to us, but for a lot of people being asked for their opinion of a product is a big deal. Rather than condemning the users, we should look for ways to improve the UX of the Google Play Store.

There could be cultural factors at play here as well. When I was growing up in Turkey, every so often there would be a fad that picked obscure artefacts of American culture and turned them into articles of social prestige. Cheesy American soap operas, songs and actors would suddenly and inexplicably become national sensations that everyone had to know. I assume something similar is going on with the Android Play Store reviews. Having your review on the frontpage of an app had become a point of pride, so much so that users are subverting the system to get there.

It depends on what your motivations are. If the team is such a hold up for you that you have to ask the internet's opinion, then you already know this is not the right fit for you. Move on. There are other startups in hotter industries with a team you can enjoy working with.

Is there a similar project to make Feynman Lecture on Computation easily available? I've been trying to find a decent digital copy for the longest time.

Unfortunately, Git isn't a good way to collaborate on massive csv files for two reasons a) git stores changes at the file level, rather than row level, b) for massive datasets, you quickly run into file size limits. That's why I am looking forward to dat[1], a collaborative DVCS that's going to blow Git off the water for this kind of tasks, even if it achieves only half of its objectives.

[1] https://github.com/maxogden/dat

Nice story, but my Starbucks barista often gets my name wrong. If being friendly was their intention, rather than matching orders and drinks, they certainly haven't gotten the memo.

Are you saying that as a hypothesis? Is there a link you can point us to where the code is inserted multiple times?

Is anyone else from NYC interested in organizing this with me?

Please let me know.

How about you just share from the account you created to join the team the folders that are shared with you by other team members with your personal Dropbox account? Now your Dropbox client will sync the shared team folders as well.

On the downside, the size of the shared directories would probably push the size limit of your account, so it's not a perfect solution.

Mirror? I can't read download.gz files.

Thanks for this. How would I use it in Rails? Any tips for integration?

The simple interface of Vagrant is intentional. It is built on the Rack spec, which uses middleware that builds on top of each other. There is a talk called "Rack Middleware as General Purpose Abstraction" where John Bender, the lead developer on Vagrant project, explains why he chose to use that interface. You might want to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcNaiP5tea0

I had a lot of fun at ecommerce hackathon. I've thought about what makes for a great hackathon, and, credit where credit is due, it comes down to the organizer. Alex organizes the best hackathons I've ever been to in NYC, and I've been to them all. Photo hack days last year were several notches above everything else, and now that Alex is at Dwolla, we're seeing the same thing in ecommerce themed hackathons. Great job, Alex!

I was at this hackathon. Sure, if you micromanage every single aspect of the event, you're going to achieve what you set out, but getting people to hack together over a weekend does not create a culture in which men and women can collaborate and work together after the event is over.

Specifically, as a guy, I found some of the marketing material distributed at the event pretty offputting. Most of the stuff was color-coded, either pink or blue, and that was the first weird thing. Why would you reinforce the traditional gender roles like this if you are truly trying to change them?

Second, I didn't keep the materials, but as I recall there was one that was making the suggestion that "every fairy tale starts this way." Well, maybe, but that suggestion is not really welcome in a professional setting. I wonder if that's the right approach to encourage guys to start taking women seriously in the work setting.

Bottomline, the motivation of the event is commendable, and I am all for adding more women to the technology sector, but adding sex into the promotion of a hackathon, and so badly, will not get us there.

I've gone to a few GrubWithUs events and found them terriby shallow, boring and exhausting. Throwing together a bunch of strangers at random and hoping that something sticks is a very bad strategy for making friends.

I'd rather go to a Meetup where at least I can have a chance to learn something with people who care about something other than food. Being stuck at a table with the same haphazard group of people for hours? No thanks.

Base64 decryption only works for the first part of the hash, though. The second part after the slash is still garbled. :/

Rich will be talking about this library at the next Clojure NYC meetup. If anyone is in the neighborhood, feel free to drop by.

http://www.meetup.com/Clojure-NYC/events/56212552/

I second this. In this day and age, when ebook sales have surpassed hard cover sales, it's beyond ridiculous to publish a new book without a digital version, and, oh, only in hard cover format. That makes me doubt Steve Blank's judgment, more so than anything he writes.

The only plugin available explicitly states (on the Settings page, after you install and avtiavate it) that it doesn't upload directly to S3. It has to upload to your server first.

edit: actually, I think the upload to S3 button is different from upload media button. That's why I didn't see it.

does anyone know where the meetup is going to be? there was no address in the email or the website.

The position she was applying for was not a programmer job; it was a community manager position, and doesn't involve any programming apparently. So your arguments, while valid, are besides the point.

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Does this support MongoDB?