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aidscholar··on True Link (YC S13) To Help The Elderly Avoid Scammers With Pre-Paid Visa Cards
Bit confused with the difference between this versus something like an Amex pre-paid card. Why would someone use True Link over one of the existing pre-paid card options? A web interface?
aidscholar··on Tell HN: The front page of Hacker News has been deindexed from Google
Sounds like overaggressive spam detection.
aidscholar··on Authority
Really like the landing page design. Is the design available for use as part of Authority?
aidscholar··on How I built up the courage to quit a promising career with a six-figure salary
While an interesting story - I'm not a fan of the guest blog post pitching a "coaching program" + squeeze page.
aidscholar··on YC without being in YC
Can someone explain the mantra "Do stuff that doesn't scale"? Is this another way to say focus on the hard stuff? Then scale later?
aidscholar··on DevBootCamp: Learn Ruby on Rails in 9 Weeks
Anyone know if there is something similar for people who can't attend during work hours (but willing to put in a full shift after work/weekends)?
aidscholar··on What’s the ROI on Cool?
The font on that page makes it so hard to read. Instant bounce.
aidscholar··on Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products
I really don't want a big black bar on top of my gmail.
aidscholar··on Equation: How Much Money Do Spammers Rake In?
I hate how the article doesn't mention any numbers / metrics except for the final dollar value.
aidscholar··on Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags
Any linkable images of the nametags? Just curious to see how they look.
aidscholar··on Show HN: Condensr.com, Yelp Snippet Summarization
Link to the paper summary for the sentiment analysis used in this app: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rbg/code/content_structure/index...
aidscholar··on Startup idea for you: Modern e-commerce isn't enough
milo?
aidscholar··on Ask HN: Opportunities for Structured Data?
Yeah - Vast really does pets. http://www.vast.com/pets

Do you really think there's still an opportunity in Travel given ITA/Google?

aidscholar··on Ask HN: Opportunities for Structured Data?
It's hard even to measure the quantitative stuff now. For example, how do you perform a query like "find me 10 colleges in the west coast, that offer both a CS bachelors degree and masters, ordered by average entry SAT score"?
aidscholar··on Diapers.com will leave larger shoes to fill than Zappos
Are there any other retail categories with the same type of regular repeat purchase?
aidscholar··on Ask YC/HN: What's a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve?
Isn't this covered by Indeed/Simplyhired?
aidscholar··on Ask HN: VPS - Where should I go?
I'm happy with linode. Decent prices, good service.
aidscholar··on Rails 3.0 Beta Release
These guides are being updated for Rails 3:

http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html

aidscholar··on New Wordpress Default Theme for 2010 In Development
For some reason it reminds me of the Thesis theme. Maybe the choice in fonts?
aidscholar··on Ask HN: Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships)
I'm curious but how are you determining database size? What do you feel is an adequate size?
aidscholar··on Peter Shankman HARO: The Email Newsletter That Grosses $1+ Mil A Year
what's the link for the interview with thriller?
aidscholar··on Ask HN: Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships)
Clickable: http://aidscholar.com/
aidscholar··on Google Chrome OS will have no native apps, data will be stored in the cloud.
Time for a world of warcraft web app.
aidscholar··on Ask HN: Learning 2 Hack - For the very first time. With a deadline.
I'm down for this. Email in profile.
aidscholar··on Ask HN: Learning 2 Hack - For the very first time. With a deadline.
These two are both good intros to Ruby: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
aidscholar··on SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on their site. Try it
It's Tynt Tracer: http://tracer.tynt.com/
aidscholar··on Customer Development: My First Steps
So this is my first stab at going through the customer development process.
aidscholar··on Ask HN: Learning RoR, Books & Tutorials?
I found the Ruby on Rails guides (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/) combined with the Rails API (http://api.rubyonrails.org/) to be really helpful.

I started with the Agile Web Development Book with Rails (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-...), but eventually just switched to the guides, api, and google.

aidscholar··on Pulsating App Store hyperwall at WWDC
Off topic, but this makes me want to see a matrix view of twitter updates/profile pics.
aidscholar··on Bing challenges Google
At least Bing/MS is still trying to compete in the search game, Yahoo has pretty much given up.
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