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ropikuon Poll: When did you start programming in your free time?

Around 8 with Pascal

ropikuon How moving to Amazon Cloudfront increased our App Store conversion by 250%

Can you provide more info ? I'm interested in what CDNs do you think are better ?

ropikuon Vim: revisited

Same for me. Maybe now I can scrap that and build my own vimrc but having a set of useful plugins really helped me.

ropikuon [dead]

I had the same question. I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMa1w2TX1f8

ropikuon Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

It doesn't look like it supports multiple accounts unlike the web app

ropikuon Twilio launches in Europe

Great when it will have SMS support.

Since most of the people I know have unlimited SMS it opens the possibility to many services. Including "extending" Siri.

ropikuon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

I forgot to say we're also looking for interns. We had 2 this year and I started as an intern last year.

ropikuon Raphaël 2.0 is available

Check out the presentation at JSConf EU about the new release: http://raphaeljs.com/jsconfeu/

ropikuon Git 1.7.7 released

Link to the release notes: https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelN...

ropikuon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

FreeAgent (Edinburgh, UK), a startup making accounting easy and fun. We've just moved to a new office in central Edinburgh.

We're looking for developers to join a team of smart, friendly people who value the work/life balance.

Ruby/Rails Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Senior Platform Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/senior-platform...

Ruby/Rails Support Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Email us at jobs@freeagentcentral.com. We're also open to remote working for exceptional candidates (there's a couple of us who are spread throughout the UK).

ropikuon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

FreeAgent (Edinburgh, UK), intrepid developers of online accounting happiness

We're looking for developers to join a team of smart, friendly people who dig that work/life balance.

Ruby/Rails Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Senior Platform Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/senior-platform...

Accounting Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/accounting-engi...

Ruby/Rails Support Engineer http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs/rubyrails-engin...

Email us at jobs@freeagentcentral.com. We're also open to remote working for exceptional candidates (there's a couple of us who are spread throughout the UK).

ropikuon Spotify launches in the US

Here's some more invites: ftmp68XgaXYwmBS7 bbbqsYPhWZ9Zrk4s fCnwmdMS9NRWDLHA aVJqbgCMMxR4LUgs cMusg9KWkeqzV7Fq

ropikuon Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup

I think payment is still an issue with startups. Hopefully that changed but last year I interviewed with a couple of startups (some of them on this list) for summer internships and possibly remote work and was offered £1k/month in London.

ropikuon Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup

My colleagues on placement (between year 2-3 of uni) get around £40k/year at investment banks.

ropikuon Startups Open Sourced: Stories to inspire and educate

Can we get ePub format please ?

ropikuon It's grim up north for UK startups, but things are changing

Manchester

ropikuon DropQuest 2011

Solve the anagrams

ropikuon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition)

Edinburgh, UK

We need more experienced Ruby on Rails engineers to join the FreeAgent team. We're a growing startup building an online accounting software (and believe me, it can still be fun).

The team is excellent and super friendly and it's just a pure joy to work for them.

Ideally we're looking for people to work full-time with the team in our Edinburgh office, but we would consider a remote working arrangement for exceptional candidates.

More info: http://www.freeagentcentral.com/company/jobs

ropikuon Daring Fireball: Apple's Pricing Advantage

Possible but in the UK there's a £100 premium and it's available on all carriers

ropikuon Ask HN: Creating an internship program

From my experience this summer, many startups don't advertise internships but they were positive when I emailed them. It's worth trying.

ropikuon Rails 3.0 final coming

It's on the blog now: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done

ropikuon Why the US keeps minting coins people hate and won't use

I knew that scottish pounds aren't legal tender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling...

Bus driver in England did not accept my £5 scottish note.

ropikuon Ask HN: Who is Hiring?

I'm currently an intern for them and I must say it's an awesome place to work.

ropikuon PR: Apple releases Safari 5 (Since It Has Been Wiped From PRNewswire)

I really like that it works with articles spread over multiple pages. Tried it on NYTimes and Ars Technica.

ropikuon PR: Apple releases Safari 5 (Since It Has Been Wiped From PRNewswire)

Panic demoed a Safari extension: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/06/coda-notes-previe/

ropikuon Poll: What database does your startup use?

TokyoCabinet/Tyrant

ropikuon Sunflower: (clojure) extract story text from HTML markup tree

I also found a ruby port: http://github.com/iterationlabs/ruby-readability

ropikuon Ask HN: From what countries do people use HN beside USA?

Moved to Manchester for the University

ropikuon Example of Subliminal Advertising

I was surprised too. You can view the video on Channel 4 website: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown-mind-control... (hopefully that's the one linked).

ropikuon Do you need a co-founder? (Google Docs list)

I am surprised that many tech founders are looking for tech instead of business