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charlietranon Slowly, Slowly: Growing From Side-Project to Funded Startup

good advice, and congrats on 500 startups! one small mistake: in the last paragraph, "excepted" should be "accepted".

charlietranon How we got a Y Combinator interview but blew it

Great post. Kudos for having the resolve to follow through on execution and knowing when to move on. Best of luck on your other project!

charlietranon Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)

Ah, so I misunderstood that todo, but the issue still remains that scroll position is remembered when going to a new page.

charlietranon Turbolinks for Rails (like pjax)

Tried this out and noticed that it maintains scroll position between pageloads (scroll halfway down a page, click a link, new page loads halfway scrolled down). Figured it was a bug, but then saw this item in the readme's To Do section: "Remember scroll position when using back button".

Is it a widely accepted convention to maintain scroll position between PJAX page loads? When a large portion of the page content is changing, one might expect the page to scroll back to the top.

charlietranon Show HN: Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly

Solid landing page and probably a neat service, but my good impression of your company deteriorated when I saw an image scroll by with "go fuck yourself" at 0:38 in your demo video. I'm all for lowbrow net humor, but its place is not within an otherwise professional looking site.

charlietranon Daring Fireball: iPad (3)

CineXPlayer is a good one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cinexplayer-best-way-to-enjoy...