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while I agree with you that no one should rely solely on client-side validation - I don't believe that the OP was implying that (any) one should only use client-side validation.

Client-side validation is purely a means of reducing multiple requests / round-trips IMHO and it doesn't even have to be as reliable as a good server-side solution, but purely cover the basics, and provide quick feedback to the user while at the same time reducing load on the server.

In that case I apologise, I didn't realise that Bullet's offering had something over FreeAgent. My understanding was that they were achieving the same end. Good luck all the same.

There are already people doing this In Edinburgh where I'm based, with far more impressive numbers than 250 users pre-launch, FreeAgent (http://www.freeagent.com) If you think these guys are going well you should check them out. They actually DO have the figures to back up being called "disruptive". I don't mean to be negative with regards Bullet, just that when I read the post I thought wow only 250 and they're "disruptive". The guys at FreeAgent are doing a spectacular job and the funding they received and users they're pulling only serve to confirm it.

Hahaha sign in with Facebook details and no preview or description what so ever - no thanks.

Lawn chair is also a good wrapper for localStorage with plenty different adapters: http://westcoastlogic.com/lawnchair/

I reckon Notch's games[1] would be the perfect fit, for zones like the OP mentions. A place for the "little Coder" to learn ML/AI etc

[1]: Minecraft or 0x10c etc.

This actually looks really good. Congrats on the profit and good luck going forward. Good Article too, (saved for later)

Is it really necessary to have Raphael as a dependency for such a simple widget? Just seems like overkill to me.

I recently did a similar widget for a project of mine, using canvas (I understand SVG has better compatibility than canvas) but either way would be nice if I wanted this widget that I wouldn't have to include Raphael as well.

The one pain point for me in the app, which I installed, is that when I enter/edit a location I want to just drop a pin on the map - ala google maps. And not just be redirected to the native maps app.

Congrats on the 'exit', and on all you learnt from it. Looking at your stats at the bottom of the post, what exactly is meant by 'Fee to License'?

Nice work. I've been looking for something Exactly like this, I'll give it a test run and feedback as much as I can.

Thank you.

I've come across a project before that used GitHub's gist API as a document store for client side apps. Can't for the life of me find it again, Don't suppose anyone else has come across this use and can remember the url (or has it bookmarked)

> The app is written in node so it is incredibly fast, like destroy the internet fast.

haha I actually like that line a lot. Describes exactly how I feel whenever I'm using node.

I'd also made something recently to try solve the same problems. ie working with discussions and threads as apposed to the front page. Check it out here: http://christopherdebeer.github.com/hnCommentWatcher/ check it out if you have a chance.

Seriously how badly are they using the gitHub API, or scraping. Because if I find my profile. (I'm not listed in my area "Edinburgh", even though people with a lower score are.) and on my profile the projects are so severely out of date it's embarrassing.

Update: In my opinion, even though its not for "Hiring", http://coderwall.com does a way better job. Perhaps they should up their game and do what gitHire is doing - but properly.

I used codeschool.com and did the "rails for zombies" course for free, and I'd highly recommend it.

That's the same criticism that gets thrown at CoffeeScript every time its ever being debated. And the answer is always the same, see @dagw reply.

Seems like they have an open call to devs to take the sessions, presumably with a cut for each dev that does it and where they do it. So the quality of the information would ddepend on the dev that bothered to nominate themselves.

Unfortunately this could mean that the quality of the cource is wholy dependant on the dev assigned to you're 4:1 session.

I wonder what the screening process is. But undoubtedly a good business model for raising quick capital, with a high pivot rate, as & when it supports demand.

That sounds really good. Will definitely check it out

Shameless plug: is is my last bookmarklet for HN: http://christopherdebeer.github.com/hnCommentWatcher/

Update: I was a bit let down that you just show the HN page in an iframe, nd dont actually restyle the comments in a user friendly way like in a side bar for the site (which i think would be brilliant)

As much as it seems like common sense as that page would exist on Wikipedia, it had never occurred to me, Brilliant - Thank you.

Nice work, looks useful - if my employers used git that is, sadly I'm stuck on svn (for work)

This looks promising, I've been working with the Emscripten[1] port of eSpeak and porting it to the browser and node.js [2] as a contributor (not author)

[1]: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten

[2]: https://github.com/christopherdebeer/speak.js

I'm curious how best one could participate/contribute to spec drafts like this, seems it's being steered by Google at the moment.

I dont suppose its open source is it? I'd really like to see how you've done it / what you used. Is it on gitHub?

UPDATE: @richthegeek, Thanks much appreciated.

no problem, let me know if there's anything I can improve

you could use grease monkey to do that, or i could figure out how to make chrome/firefox extentions

looks brilliant, pitty about the browser support, but thats to eb expected i suppose.

I'm one of those many people that enjoy/procrastinate-by reading Hacker News. So in a helpless attempt to be productive/efficient I've created hnCommentWatcher. Yet another HN bookmarklet. Currently I swear by @mrspeaker's Hackemup bookmarklet [1], it really is brilliant, but its only for the front page, and I still find it painful to follow the comment threads for each individual post (which I believe is where I get the most use (see: intellectual stimulation) out of Hacker News). So this is my solution.

What it does:

hnCommentWatcher is a bookmarklet that you use on individual posts/threads, which then refreshes the page every so often and indicates which comments are new, and allows you to easily navigate between them, meaning you can open a thread read the comments then come back later and follow the discussion without having to decipher which comments are new and which you've already read.

Other features include, highlighting the original poster of the thread (OP), as well as assigning each user a colour swatch so it's easier to differentiate between them and identify when/where a particular user has contributed.

The bookmarklet i use [1], by @mrspeaker is brilliant and does this as well, check it out, i cant use HN without it now.

[1]: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/04/11/hackernews-bookmarklet/

Penguin's Great Ideas series [1] is a collection of abridged (i think) versions of popular/influential books, or essays by influential writers, the "On Friendship" one by Montaigne is a few of his essays from his Essays [2] Short essays brilliantly eloquent, accessible pragmatic philosophy.

[1]: http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/greatideas...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_%28Montaigne%29

Yes! I've read "How to Live, or A life of Montaigne" and it _is_ brilliant, partly due to Montaigne being brilliant I'd recommend Penguins Great Ideas Book "On Friendship" by Montaigne. And seeing as you mention on of my favorites to, I'll be sure to check out The Checklist Manifesto, thanks.