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Is there anything similar to Rails Tutorial for a JS MEAN stack?

I also have the second edition and can't praise it enough. I have a computer science degree but never really applied it to actual development as I am a business analyst in my professional life. This book bridged the gap and I quickly became proficient enough in Rails to develop a side project.

Great idea. I don't usually watch Dragons Den but one of the few episodes I watched had this exact thing and they said they were already partnering with Sony and that their tags were in the box of every Sony laptop (I think).

Yeah I guess. I don't regret it but it has cost me money and when I was building it I was naive enough to think that I would make money on it.

www.golfingstat.com

I had never really created anything before and wanted to learn Rails.

Built it and have been paying $10/mo in hosting for the last two years. I use it and have around 30 active users (couple hundred non-active). So I kind of keep it going just because I realize that the 30 people who use it have invested a lot of time entering scores and stuff.

My monetization strategy was to get traffic and rely on Google ads.

I am already finding it a bit slow/boring. If 6 to 9 are that bad then I might end up quiting on it.

I'm also eagerly awaiting the next Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicle book

Me too. The first two were great. Looking forward to the next book in the Mistborn series from Sanderson too.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233649.The_Great_Hunt

Book two of the wheel of time.

Have never read them before...it is a lot of books.

Looks bad on Windows 7 Chrome as well.

why?

Seems completely unnecessary to me.

Hopefully they will open it up to Canada in the process. They left it open by mistake I think for a few days a while ago but now it won't let you Add a Canadian number.

For sure...

Buy the Learn Web Development with Ruby on Rails by Michael Hartl(http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book)

It makes everything make sense. :-)

Same as my work environment. I have to have headphones on most of the time.

A common photograph size

A 6 by 4 inch board of an undetermined length

Kind of takes the fun out of it doesn't it?

The font on that site is what really sucks... :-)

I tried to schedule a wake up for 12:50pm and it said I am getting a call at 12:50am. FML

Smalltalk?

I tried to use NHL box scores to predict NHL outcomes. Seemed like a pretty good opportunity to use machine learning. Ended up only being able to predict at like 54% or something like that which isn't even enough to break even.

What I did find though was that if I looked for games where my estimated accuracy rate was high and the odds were good then I probably could have bet on those games for a profit but they were very rare.

My one complaint with DigitalOcean is that I had a dev server setup and I was snapshoting it and destroying it when not in use then recreating it from the snapshot when I needed it. A few weeks ago they had a failure of some sort and my snapshot was lost.

It took me a fairly long time to setup the dev environment so I was a bit pissed.

I made the same switch.

I had a Linode 512 and switched to a 2x512 Dropplet setup and put my Database on one 512 and my Rails app server on the other.

My stuff runs as quickly if not quicker and I spend $10/mo less. In addition to this I also have a clear scaling path (e.g. If my DB grows I can up it to a 1gb. If my traffic grows I can either move the app server to a 1gb or maybe get a few more 512's and setup a load balancer.)

They are generally easier to kick in if they open inwards. Might be part of the reason.

Just playing devils advocate... the only person who sees my CC statement other than me is my girlfriend. So I don't really care what is on it as long as it isn't causing a domestic problem... :-)

Using your logic that you could use Bitcoin to hide things on your CC statement I am guessing the use case for most people is hiding things from their spouses.

Yeah I am Canadian so neither Coinbase or BitInstant work for me. As far as I can tell my best option is adding a Bitcoin payment site as a "Bill Payee" in my online banking and paying it like a bill. Not exactly mainstream... :-)

Even BitInstant and Coinbase are kind of clunky and require the user to have an understanding of how Bitcoins work. (e.g. understand wallets, etc). That is the nice thing about Paypal...you can either login and pay with your paypal account or use them as a CC processor if you don't have an account.

Until there is an easy mainstream way to fund a bitcoin wallet then I think bitcoin payment gateways are kind of pointless and will struggle to get any real adoption.

brewhaha.org

Should have some sort of indication of where the equipment is located as this may impact whether the user will rent. Personally I wouldn't rent something from the other side of the world.

I shipped something with Bufferbox a few days ago and am waiting for my pickup notification. Hope Google doesn't steal my package... :-)

They should get Walter White to show them how to cook blue meth.