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strooltz··on Show HN: Convene – Marketplace and management software for event organizers
Thanks! Our primary value prop is end to end management of the back office for running these events. We run close to 200 events/year and have been dogfooding it internally for the past year with our team and it's solved a number of critical issues for us. The bonus is the vendor discovery piece - we currently have a network in NJ/NY/PA of close to 10K vendors (farmers, makers, food purveyors) who work with us so it was an easy way to seed 50% of the marketplace with customers.
strooltz··on I Stopped Using Flashcards and Taught My Kid to Vibe Code
I agree - A family plan would be a no-brainer - my kids love playing with the free tier on ChatGPT but always seem to hit their daily rate limit right in the middle of doing something important.
strooltz··on Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5
Came here to say the same thing. :/
strooltz··on Books on Real Estate Investing?
Check out the Bigger Pockets Real Estate Podcast- imho- it’s one of the best produced podcasts out there and worth listening to even if you have minimal interest in real estate investing.

They are also publishers and their books are great primers depending on where in RE you’re looking learn.

strooltz··on Making Time – The Struggle of Being Busy in Business and Life
Thanks for reading - I appreciate it!

Two comments on this point

1) I did preface that this is a loose framework that I run with and it's not set in stone - if I need more sleep on a particular day, I take it.

2) While all human bodies vary with their sleep needs, I find that I function best between 6 and 7 hours per night. While I can run on less at times, I do need to catch up. I find myself less focused when I start approaching the 8 hour mark.

strooltz··on Ask HN: Where can I buy real software companies?
send me an email (address is in my profile). we have something that might fit what you're looking for...
strooltz··on Co-Working on Vacation: A Desk in Paradise
Definitely check out Hubud in Ubud, Bali. I'm out here for 9 weeks teaching a Rails bootcamp and they have the whole work/lifestyle thing figured out... http://hubud.org
strooltz··on Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
It's not really a side project but I spent today rebuilding the website for our asbury park, nj based coworking space - http://cowerks.com - would love some feedback/copy editing.

disclaimer - it is built on squarespace.

strooltz··on Apple - Think Twice
I bought the Macbook Pro retina back over the summer and was a little upset when a small dead pixel cluster appeared on the display after about a month of use.

I brought it back to the apple store (i did not purchase applecare). I was told that this was happening in about 1 our of every 40 MBP retinas and they happily replaced the display in less than 24 hours.

I'm not implying that my situation is "unique/new/ particularly note-worthy" but it is just as antidotal as yours and ended with a positive outcome.

strooltz··on Referly (YC S12) Launches API: Now Any Site Can Have A Referral Program
when is referly planning on allowing referrers to claim rewards? re: http://cl.ly/image/1E1H381q0p1N
strooltz··on Asbury Agile - A Web & Tech Conference Coming to Asbury Park, NJ
For immediate release

June 29th, 2011

press contact: press [at] asburyagile.com

Asbury Agile is a 1 day, 1 track web and technology conference coming to Asbury Park, NJ this fall. The conference is aimed at the builders and doers in the web community and will be held at the Watermark Lounge on the amazing Asbury Park boardwalk during the week of October 17th, 2011.

Asbury Agile’s focus will be to...

Contribute to the growth of a tech community at the Jersey Shore.

Promote “best practices” in application design, development, & marketing.

Showcase local “doers” and “makers” in the community (NJ, NYC, Philadelphia).

Each talk will revolve around a separate topic falling into the following categories:

User Interface Design & Experience

Client Side Development

Server Side Development

Network Security & Infrastructure

Mobile Development

Social Media Marketing

Search Engine Optimization & Search Engine Marketing

Scaling Your Business

Raising Capital for Your Start-up

We are currently looking for speakers, sponsors, and participants; to get involved, head over to http://asburyagile.com and register with our mailing list.

Press Release - http://cl.ly/1q352A1U093l2S021z1A

Media Kit - http://cl.ly/0Y2H3y3V2e360t2Z3E2M

strooltz··on An eruption from the Sun that happened today
so that's why skype crashed this morning... :P
strooltz··on EBay Inc. Agrees to Acquire Magento
I completely agree. It's painful to develop in and painful to use from a client perspective. I used it for some client projects a few years back and ended up just migrating them to spree after getting tired of client calls every time they attempted to update a product listing.
strooltz··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011)
SEEKING FREELANCER

Remote (close to EST) or on site in NJ.

Looking for a p/t freelance rails developer, and a designer/front end UI/UX person to assist me with new product/service features.

Our current stack is: (for all you developers)

Rails 3.0.x

Nginx

Linode VPS w/ S3 & SES

HAML/SASS (and soon coffeescript)

We also use git and capistrano for versioning and deployment

Ideal individuals would be those who have experience in the music industry building services to stream (and scale) content to end users.

Please contact support [at] dblsystems [dot] com with the header "HN DESIGNER", "HN DEVELOPER", "HN UI/UX" or some similar combination so it doesn't get buried.

Be sure to send code/design samples, links to linked in, github, and all the other usuals stuff....

b

strooltz··on 37signals Is Selling Sortfolio. What Happened
Mixergy also has audio versions of their shows - we stream it over the office sound system every morning...

Link for the latest -http://s3.amazonaws.com/Mixergy/Audio/Jason-Fried-(Sortfolio...

strooltz··on How to Beat High Airfares
I just tried the following route - EWR->DES->SFO on 6/10 and returning on 6/18 via the same route back. The price each way was ~$420 (which included 2 layovers).

I priced out EWR->SFO and United/Continental had a direct flight for $369. Maybe I'm the aberration but I think NYT should have done a few more case studies before publishing their results.

strooltz··on Why Everyone Is Talking About Node
I'm confused by the statement that "only one company came out of rails rumble". I freelance for a startup that has a profitable SaaS app that was born at rails rumble 2007.
strooltz··on Octopart (YC W07) helps nearly a half a million people find parts every month
I was wondering what happened to these guys - I was watching a YouTube video this weekend of PG speaking at a conference circa 2008 and he spend a good deal of time talking about Octopart and their business model...
strooltz··on Ask HN: What are you favorite hacking mantras?
kiss - keep it simple stupid...
strooltz··on Ask HN: Where to go in NY to see the startup scene?
Its Across the river, but the Hoboken tech meetup was a great place to have been last night.

There's also a happy hour/party for new work city tomorrow night as well- I'm sure you can find details on meetup.com

strooltz··on New MacBook Pro series
still looking for an "official" statement but i believe that the thunderbolt port may be backwards compatible with minidisplay. i would assume apple would change it's form if it were not, as to prevent users from accidentally plugging in incompatible devices.

[updated] it is backwards compatible - source: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features.html

strooltz··on Verizon iPhone selling mostly to existing iPhone owners?
i don't have the source in front of me at the moment - it was on HN a week or so back - but there were parts orders in china that indicate apple is planning to launch a dual band CDMA/GSM version of iPhone 5...
strooltz··on Securing a Rails App against Firesheep with HTTPS
this is a really great piece of advice. i'll check this out.
strooltz··on Securing a Rails App against Firesheep with HTTPS
I'm implementing a similar solution. My only concern is that the ssl handshake takes an anywhere been 600 and 1000ms - far too long as far as I'm concerning. does anyone have a suggestion to improve this?

My setup 1) Linode $20/mo REE box (will bump up in production) 2) Nginx 3) RoR 3.0.3 4) SSL Through Geotrust. It is a "chained" cert but i don't believe this is the bottleneck.

thanks in advance...

strooltz··on The best Web Framework - what makes Lift different
> I think that the author is coming from the Java world, in

> which case the comparison he likely had in mind is not

> Rails or django, but the plethora of Java web frameworks.

if thats the case i think he's misrepresenting himself with statements like

"the most powerful, most secure web framework available today" and "The best Web Framework".

strooltz··on The best Web Framework - what makes Lift different
Just out of curiosity can you highlight the advantages lift has over other modern frameworks such as rails or django (and maybe some of the php frameworks). Most (or all) of the 7 things ship with rails 3. Stacking them up against one another might yield a better comparison.
strooltz··on Ask HN: Topic Ranking Algorithms (a-la hackernews)
Reddit's method - http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588

HN's method - http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

strooltz··on What you need to know about A/B testing and conversion optimization (audio)
Tech zing is probably one of the best podcasts currently out there. It's a staple in our coworking space.
strooltz··on Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent
thanks for posting this - it works great. just to summarize- here's what you want to check if you're password has been compromised:

1) fire up terminal on your local macbook and enter the above string subbing in your password

2) open the spreadsheet and set the filters to domain - enter your domain name(s) and hit submit

3) If any results are returned then compare the MD5 hash in the result set with the MD5 hash returned from step #. if they're the same, start changing your passwords.

strooltz··on Stack Scripts: Library of Linode Deployment Scripts
stack scripts were the reason i chose to move away from mediatemple and slicehost...
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