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jhess2991on Tell HN: Call your mom

I had no idea it was mothers day, thanks for reminding me. Haven't called my mom in 4 months, but will give here a call today.

jhess2991on Important BufferBox Update

Billion $ company buys an awesome product -> Billion $ company shuts down the awesome product.

Typical day. Nothing to see here. Move on.

jhess2991on Ask HN: How did you get started with the programming languages you use?

Started with writing bots for a game called Runescape. It was in Java. I had no idea what I was doing, for the most part.

Then I got an iPod and started learning/programming iOS apps in Objective-C.

Then one day I need to write some server code and came across Ruby. I really liked/enjoyed it. More than any other programming language.

And now I have to create a web front-end so I am learning Javascript. So far, it's OK.

jhess2991on Milton Friedman's Bitcoin prediction from 1999 [video]

How is this a prediction of Bitcoin?

jhess2991on Go, or Ruby or ExpressJS for an API?

I am writing an API in Ruby right now, and absolutely loving it. It's quick and simple. I am using Grape framework (rack based) : https://github.com/intridea/grape