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If you had a blog or other place to post your list, I would be interested in reading it.

The oil industry is filled with examples of people not "knowing" exactly what they were doing. Choosing to drill in a given location often included the possibility that there was actually no oil/gas to be had...that the well would end up being a "dry hole."

"...cheaper...to just move to a better school district..."

Unless, of course, you're stuck underwater in a house that you'd lose lots of money on if you sold it.

Used it here - http://www.eastofcleveland.com/flashcards/notereading.php

Don't discount PHP yet; the CodeIgniter community is great (http://codeigniter.com/forums/)

You mean like this?

http://www.eastofcleveland.com/misc/hn2009sal.php

Edit: I guess I'm cheating, in that it doesn't "automatically" update...but just visit that, and keep hitting F5.

I noticed you're asking your users to enter a vimeo URL by hand. I know that during signup it's impractical to bounce the user over to vimeo to authenticate, but once the user is signed up do you give them the option of picking the video from their albums instead of entering a URL?

These work great for keeping your pants cuff out of the chainrings:

http://www.amazon.com/Pant-Cuff-Clips-Bike-Bicycle/dp/B000MM...

Pretty cool. I liked the sound of some of my pet projects.

I just showed this to a co-worker. He asked, "How about the reverse? What's the URL for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?"

taxes

oh, I thought this was an "Ask HN"

What if the use of your computing resources were limited to only one mutation/tests? I.e., something that would slow your page load down a few milliseconds, then no more?

More a note to myself than anything: check out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112543

Oh, there are already many discussion/tutorial sites about yo-yoing. I don't intend to replace them, but to offer something they don't: a single place to coherently store pictures of, and more importantly, data about, your yoyo collection. Most of the message boards allow photo uploads, and you can always write descriptions in the posts, but that data is scattered.

I have thought some about montization (mostly in the context of "If this thing grows, how will I pay for hosting beyond my own personal/hobby threshold?"), and have two ideas:

1) fremium - subscriptions for the "serious" collector (more data fields, etc.)

2) ads from yoyo manufacturers/organizations (there aren't many, hence I don't think AdSense would really draw much revenue; plus, I actually have a few contacts at Duncan)

If I had to pick one of those, I'd rather pick #2 - I can't imagine this site, as I currently plan to build it, would add enough value to justify subscriptions.

Anyway, if you want to pick it up again, I recommend: - http://www.theyo.com/yoyo/ and http://www.theyostore.com/ - http://www.yo-yoing.com/news/ - http://www.yoyonation.com - http://yoyowiki.org

Looks interesting, and in the price range for a hobby site. Thanks!

I'm curious; is this (http://timdorr.com/archives/2005/12/pgf-the-ease-of.php) the micro-framework of which you speak?

"Code [is] written to be executed by a computer."

Maybe. It also is to express the author's understanding, description and specification of the problem domain and problem solution to other humans. After all, most code will be compiled. The compiled output is what the computer executes, and there can be many high-level input languages that (theoretically) compile to the same machine code.

PHP (cleverly hidden within the CodeIgniter framework).

EDIT: Doh! It's too late at night, and I didn't catch what you meant in the title. My startup is bootstrapped, not YC-funded.

My personal pet peeve:

    s/independant/independent/g

Working the day job (in-house dev. at Nationwide Insurance).

In process of incorporating an LLC with a businesss partner; our first project will deal with web widgets...should be live (selling from day 1) by the end of the summer.

Fun recent project was a thing I threw together "in a weekend" to make finding things from nearby cities on craigslist easier. Prototype at: http://didyoucry.com/clshop/

And re-roofing a section of my house. (Oh the pain of having to use muscles for "real work" after years of cubicle dwelling.)

"...having an iPhone means never having to be bored..."

Well, get a good one, learn a few "modern" tricks, and you can say the same thing about...the yo-yo!

cf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-jl0RlGLU , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYyNY55oM0c , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUuAIuw4LRY

nb: watch out on some of the music w/those vids

How do you know he wasn't a shill planted in the audience by the festival's promoters?

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For making web sites/apps, CodeIgniter (PHP framework) made the server-side fun again. Same for jQuery on the front-end. Especially with CI, I feel like I can get into a good groove and get lots done.

Of course, I'm probably biased: at my day job they've chosen Java for web develoment. (The "approved" libraries/frameworks are not only years behind, but onerous.) So, in my spare time, almost anything that's not-Java is fun.

See also http://www.firstdaycottage.com/Main.html . A friend of mine built one (http://www.firstdaycottage.com/pictures/completed/Completed0...).

"Most of the application is in the minds of the developers. Take away his source and ask a developer to re-write an application and you are guaranteed to get a better program."

Well, not always. What about the edge cases the developer has long since forgotten? Unless you've also got a good test suite that covers those cases, you're exposing yourself to the risk of missing those edge cases in a sans-source re-write.

Acme::Magpie

Update: the Mojolicious docs are pretty thin at the moment, but a series of blog posts (one is http://www.simplicate.ca/blog/2008/12/using-mojolicious-with...) will give me enough tips to get going.

Right idea. However, if you're using MySQL, the docs recommend against that: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/encryption-functions....

Use a different hashing function, probably bcrypt. (Note to self: go back and check some of my old code that did/does exactly what you describe...doh!)

Have you looked for jobs at nearby universities? UC, MU, etc.?

Well, any insurance company that doesn't have a combined ratio (CR) less than 100 is not making money.

Example: a CR of 92 means that for every dollar of premium, the company has to spend 92 cents, leaving 8 cents of profit. A CR of 102 means that the company has to spend $1.02 for every dollar taken in.

How much spent depends, in general, on operating expenses and claims paid. Limiting how much you spend can only get you so far; hence the rest of an insurers profit comes from investments.

(And where does the money for investing come from? Collected premiums!)

Sing it. Then play the notes that match what you're singing.