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For anyone using Rails 3 with haml, upgrade haml to 3.0.18...

  bundle update haml

I lost a few hours looking for the issue where form_for was silently failing.

Great support though. Here is a discussion of the issue and resolution.

https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/5493

I advocate for declaring post thumbnails in your theme. It's much cleaner and you don't have to rely on a separate plugin.

I guess I missed something. Can you explain?

I don't agree. Not every developer is an super genius who only solves problems using incredible feats of intelligence.

I learn something new everyday. For a learning experience we launched a new site using only HTML5. That was a fun learning experience, but it wasn't a really hard problem. And yes, it is part of our core mission.

Another example is how our company is always looking at new technologies. The concepts can be challenging and fun to learn for a developer. A couple of the more recent ones we've used are MongoDB, Node.js, PhoneGap... I'm sure there's more. Oh, right... we're building our first Rails 3 site. Now that's fun!

We realize that. I was an employee not too long ago. Every few years I would jump to a new exciting and challenging job. It allowed me to build out a solid skill set enough to start my own company.

I want to hire people that have genuine passion for what they do. If they're passionate about my company, that's just icing on the cake.

I expect that they'll move on. I want it to be on good terms.

True engineers will always want to learn more. My goal is to provide an environment for a massive amount of learning.

We've had a hard time finding quality candidates. In my experience, the Craigslist job board seems to be dying out. Is hotjobs your first stop in the hiring process?

Well said. The absurdity of saying "most New Yorkers couldn’t fry an egg if their lives depended on it" is what set me off. Also, the fact that I'm a living contradiction to nearly all of Antonio's points.

Having lived in the north east my entire life, I completely agree. Although, I built up a resistance to it after a while. It has definitely hurt some relationships in the past.

But, can this attitude be said for lots of cities?

Hey Willy, thanks for covering our internship posting last time. We're now looking for a full-time developer. College graduates are ok, we're willing to train for the right person.

http://www.ad60.com/jobs/

Link to our post in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1558277

Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO) - no telecommuting available

Technologists wanted. Web/Mobile engineers needed to help build out future properties. iPhone, Android knowledge is a big plus, as is optimization skills. (aka Page Speed nerds) Technologies include jQuery, HTML 5, CakePHP, Rails 3.

http://www.ad60.com/jobs/

Mid to senior level is ideal, but the right entry level person will be considered. There's always more to learn.

I completely agree with your point about Slicehost resizing not being a great production strategy.

Our app servers (on Slicehost) were getting hammered yesterday, so I issue a resize (1GB -> 2GB). After about 20 minutes it gets to about 97% and then stalls. In a panic I log into the server and kill all the apache2 instances. I look at the Slicehost console again and it says 40%. It actually started over. By the time it actually restarted with the resized slice it was over an hour later. The traffic was already gone by the time the resize finished.

This is where I hope to be next year. Now back to coding...

haha. that's awesome.

it was a pretty fun project for MTV. they launched a show about it called Head and Body... After a quick googling it seems the show never took off.

Anyone care to translate?

Sounds just like an old marketing campaign of mine that we did about transplanting human heads. Good times.

I would have agreed with you, but now I'm back to the mighty mouse. Two reasons...

1. bluetooth latency issues with older MBP

2. the scrolling is too sensitive to the touch. have you tried Google maps? it's unusable.

Agreed. Two separate concepts. The only link is paying someone for a service. However, I've only spent 5 minutes on the site, and I've already spent $10.

I'm already hooked...

Rapleaf is already making progress with this.

http://www.rapleaf.com/apidoc/person

I've been putting off buying a Drobo (with Network share) for Time Machine backups, but as a new father I need to get it ASAP.

Besides Drobo, anyone have other suggestions?

Ha. Yes. We run a bank review site as part of the same brand. It shouldn't have been a surprise to us, but seeing how angry people can get about their banks is still shocking. They sound like crazy people. Here is a more recent bank review title we've had to pull:

  "Chase are murderers!"

Oh... and nobody leaves an actual comment. 1-star reviews without any information on why it's 1-star. our lowest rating with a comment is 3-stars.

comment noted. we're developing the next version, as well as a more feature rich iPad version. it's a bank finding app. when you're out somewhere and need to find the closest bank to you, you're extremely happy that this app exists.

we think it's the bees knees. but, try it and let me know what you think.

  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bank-tracker/id345667440?mt=8
  http://www.mybanktracker.com/iphone

Funny how life works... I just asked my wife about this the other day. It freaked her out a little bit, but I'm still thinking about doing it.

It took effort to create our _free_ app. We originally believed that having a highly branded app would outweigh the costs of development. One issue we're facing is negative reviews. Out of the thousands of downloads, we've had 25 one star reviews. The people who enjoy our app just aren't prompted to give us a review. We're down to two options.

  1. nag/prompt the satisfied users for a review inside app
  2. price it $4.99

Brooklyn, NY - we're always looking for interns with development, design or marketing backgrounds.

http://www.ad60.com/jobs/

I've purchased Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and XP. I'm finally at peace with that now that I know that part of the money has gone to people really who need it.

Yes. That's also part of the issue. I feel that if I get a good seed round from a reputable investor, I'll have a better funding profile. (I'm PMing you to figure that out... wait how do I PM?)

We're bootstrapped, so I guess our funding profile is... 3 partners, equal equity.

So, go straight to VC? We've spoken to a few seed investors and they really want to work with us, but we've always turned them down due to the amount of investment.

But, they always claim to have great connections.

Could you recommend any VCs that deal with banking or finance?

Still working on http://www.MyBankTracker.com/ and loving it. Released our iPhone app a couple weeks ago, which runs on MongoDB.

2. Our app is "In review" right now. For the first round our app reported back to us that it was active for about 55 seconds.