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too many ads on that page.

Feel the same way, now it's a site for trashy info products instead of actual useful software on sale.

Probably the margin is higher selling to people who want to know "the easy way" of starting a startup.

Look at Alexa ranks for them. Their traffic remains strong. I still scan the headlines for every article and I assume other people do the same.

Some things they mention should be done at every tech company:

1. Give employees free lunch 2. Give every employee an iphone 3. Github for code review

Now they will have both, so I would say they are pretty smart.

They have tons of readership, and a lot of VCs browse the site.

PR is a just a method to drive traffic and hype for your startup.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

-Calvin Coolidge

I think because of the simplicity and approachability of Rails, almost anyone can pick it up and build a functioning website.

Rails is a niche that has a low barrier to entry. I doubt you can write an article that says: High frequency trading is a ghetto.

Rails is still a ghetto. Out of most programmers, Rails is the one with people with the least amount of CS degrees.

While there might be great rail programmers who know there CS basics. A lot don't

Another key is people should be held accountable. A lot of people structure their teams with loose accountability, it becomes detrimental to everyone.

Name those schools

I feel companies with tech cofounder often reward their programmers and workers far better than ones founded by business founders.

This is really terrible for them. A large part of your compensation is stocks, and to lose that suddenly while others cash our must be extremely frustrating. Each person should be able to cash out a percentage of their stock to be fair.

More challenging colleges teach you far more than you can teach yourselves.

A top 5 computer science school churns out a much more capable and knowledgeable computer science major who is both well versed in theory and knows how computers actually works down to the bytes.

Kudos to the writer, his ability to hustle is strong. There is more than one kind of talent.

Not surprised about the police beating someone during a raid.

It's very hard to prove and they could always justify it as pacifying resistance. Which may or may not be present.

CS weeds out the bad programmers so they never graduate. If you can pass Stanford's CS program you are probably pretty smart.

Just read this in one sitting. In many ways, it parallels an entrepreneur's journey from other stories I read, except at the end the rainbow, there is only graduation.

I'm glad I'm not an academic

One key point is that YC is a great brand in the tech community. If you are a YC graduate, your have the credibility of it behind you as if someone was a Harvard grad. Doing stuff like this erodes the brand for an trivial amount of money.

Work was done here, and if they weren't a YC company and some other guy, it is less likely that a designer would work for them without some kind of written agreement.

Agree that trigger might be better.

But in this case both runs firebase the same

You can use firebase in any browser or html5 setting. You can also do the same with phonegap and firebase. I fail to see the extra value added by trigger.io here.

I'm not sure PR guys at a gaming conference are Don Juans. He might be going for this: http://www.masterfile.com/stock-photography/image/400-047792...

Yes, theoretically they should all act professionally and give reporters equal attention regardless of gender. But I find that in reality human nature dictates behavior more than guidelines.

I could be totally wrong. Perhaps what the author assumes is an assumption of incompetence based on sexism is actually additional attention due to attraction.

If I was a PR guy hanging out all day with guys playing games in a booth near me, and a girl showed up, the thought of "offering advice" to her would seem appealing.

Just applying simple human logic here.

Unfortunately, the market dynamic is that there are lot more startups looking for funding that VCs looking for startups to fund.

The reverse rejection does not work in this case.

Congrats on getting on the front page of HN -Ray

Congrats to them, they deserve it for a great product.

I've ran through the demos and have been waiting my invite to set in for a while now.

I saw a lot of these infographics on graphic river. http://graphicriver.net/item/elements-of-infographics-with-a...

I hope you paid the correct license for these things.

Did somebody spend too much time trying to be meta-funny?

you should some how incorporate hipster into the search site's name.

Used spine for half a year now, and I never had to use those things.

All you need to know are, init, create, save, find.

Having tried to use both, Spine is far more intuitive since it doesn't split a model into collections and model. This is more similar to server based mvc framework like rails and django.

Backbone is more famous though, I don't know why.

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