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Are you familiar with Carp [1]?

[1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

The "Developing Leadership" podcast [1] by Jason Werner (ex Github CTO) and Eiso Kant (founder Athenian) just did a three-part podcast series where this was also discussed. Can recommend.

[1] https://developingleadership.co

I'm using Waltr[0] for this, works great.

[0] https://softorino.com/w2

A lot of businesses are still forcing its employees to use IE.

Would buy it! Just picking up Erlang and loving it so far. Would love to learn more on performance as well.

The book is only 10 bucks if you buy the Kindle version on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Interstellar-Kip-Thorne-ebook/...

iPhone app is coming soon! We developed it as an universal app, only need to redesign some of the screens.

This was how I installed it (Mac):

  1) Install latest version of Rust found here: http://www.rust-lang.org
  2) git clone --recursive git@github.com:rust-lang/cargo.git
  3) make
  4) make install (could be that sudo is needed for you)

And here is the announcement from Yehuda Katz:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010569...

Or, another alternative is Cap'n Proto [1] from the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2. It smooths some of the bumps of protocol buffers.

[1] http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/

In my opinion, Django's CBV's are polarizing [..] I feel like inheritance is a poor way of modeling views and reusing code.

I share your opinion on CBV. Personally I like the old function-based views because everything happens in that little block of code and I know exactly the order in which something happens. CBV quickly get me lost in the chain of method calls across classes.

I love my Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Arch Linux. I think I have a pretty optimized work environment thanks to the following software: Emacs (Editor, Email, IRC, Org-mode), XMonad (Window manager) and Conkeror (Browser).

You can find all my dotfiles online: https://github.com/wunki/wunki-dotfiles

The power of Haskell is that it acknowledges the fact that it's a messy world and deals with it with the help of Monads.

You could turn it around and say that non-haskell programs live in an ivory tower and ignore the messy world below :)

Great work. Could you elaborate why you didn't pick the route of using one of the mentioned libraries, Clang or Acute?

I just released a open-source package which enables you to create a Django centric stack on Vagrant with the help of Salt. It was indeed very easy to write. You can check it out here:

https://github.com/wunki/django-salted

Friends of mine are solving this exact problem by supplying a platform where 3D printer owners can earn some money by letting others use their printer. Check them out at 3D Hubs [1].

[1] http://www.3dhubs.com/

No! It's of no interest to the sender when somebody has read their message. When building our invitation application we also had a feature that showed when somebody opened your invitation. But we quickly noticed that it was annoying because when you knew the sender would be notified, you wouldn't open the invitation to read it if you weren't sure you had the time to respond. It's the same with WhatsApp, the "social" pressure to respond because the other person knows you have read the message.

Yes, cold emails, keeping it short and personal. Also a lot of contact was made through Twitter.

Dutch we contacted in Dutch, others in English. Not tried to contact anyone in Asia yet, but I can recommend Brazil. Think that's also a good market.

Yes, mostly outside of the US. We got picked up by majority of the Dutch blogs (we are a dutch company) and some German blogs. We also found that when you are on a blog, other blogs tend to read those and then they contact you.

We also tried connecting with old media, but there was almost no spin off from that.

I would pick a framework Django (Python) and or Ruby on Rails (Ruby). Not because they are better, but because there is lots of documentation and howto's and and it's relative easy to get something on the screen. That keeps you motivated and you will pick up on the language along the way.

We bought our lottery ticket last week. After releasing our app we got picked up by some big blogs but when the buzz died down, we immediately saw a dip in sales. We don't have a budget for marketing but we did notice that when your app is of a sufficient quality and you tell passionately about it, reviewers are willing to write about you.

It's a roller coaster ride, but nothing beats seeing people enjoy your product.. America watch out, next week we will targeting you with our marketing :)

Plug: www.invyapp.com

Thank you for the feedback. We will definitely use it to improve our homepage.

No, to respond to an invitation you don't need to signup. You get an unique link in your e-mail which opens your personal invite. We will make this more clear on the site.

Thank you! Will pass the compliment on to our designer @wdeb. An extra screenshot of the web app. is not a bad idea, putting it on the list.

Yes, we have thought really hard about this. We tried to get Google ads on the "invite" page for non-iphone users but were rejected multiple times because of a "lack of content". Because we are bootstrapping, we need to make money from the beginning, so that's why we choose to make it a payed app. on the app. store. We will see how it goes and maybe change our monetization plan along the way.

Heard you and agree. Changed the title of the submission to avoid any confusion.

We bootstrapped this little app. with a three-person team. I'm really anxious and nervous to hear what the HN crowd thinks of it. Here are some promo code's to try it out:

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  HF7EREA7XTW7
  KNFJXELEAKW4
  33YXN6HKYR64
  NKWM7RMXWMWX

I switched two Dvorak two years ago and forced myself to touch type by buying a blank keyboard (HHKB2). The beginning was very frustrating, but it has payed of!

Thank you for your work and persistence Colin! I love using FreeBSD for my servers because of the consistency and great minds behind it. I love it so much that I have written a few posts how to setup a FreeBSD server [1].

Currently there are some other options for hosting your "virtual" FreeBSD server. Some good ones are RootBSD [2] (US), Brightbox [3] (UK) and TransIP [4] (NL). Quality wise that are equally good. I'm currently using TransIP because I'm located in the Netherlands.

Interesting to note is that the above providers make use of KVM virtualization technology. Phoronix did an interesting benchmark comparing Xen, Virtualbox and KVM. It showed that KVM was the winner on compute and disk performance [5]. Would be interesting to find out how FreeBSD performance on Amazon's XEN layer.

[1] https://www.wunki.org/ [2] https://www.rootbsd.net/ [3] http://brightbox.com/ [4] https://www.transip.nl/ [5] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubunt...