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It actually is mentioned in the post towards the bottom, though it's not in the main table. Coinigy is more of an all-in-one trading platform than it is a strict portfolio tracker, but it does look nice from my quick look. Feel free to fork the list and send a PR if you've spent some time with it and I'd be happy to get it added.

Amen.

Ha! My Redis instance just fell over :) Things should be back to normal now. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Seems like if you just search for 'Virginia' Google Places will plop you down in a rural part of the states where there aren't any banks within the default 5 mile radius. If you expand that search area a bit (or select a city) you'll see more options.

Thanks for taking a look!

Hi, one of the developers here. This is just a little side project I built with a financial analyst friend. Uses government data from the FDIC / FFIEC / NCUA and an open algorithm Bob developed to rank banks based on local impact. Clearly more we could do here but wanted to release an easy to use tool that could help people find and promote community banks. Response has been good so far, just won a social innovation challenge grant. Your feedback and thoughts (improvements, issues, etc) all very welcome. tia.

Yeah they're just kicking off now. Looking forward to reading more myself. Thought it was a good "first post" to outline the ambitions / purpose of the journey.

Not wholly surprised here. As a side note, I wish it was easier to move coins out of mtgox. They require "verification" to even transfer coins to another BTC address at this point, which means sending them proof of identity and proof of address. I'm not against identifying myself but given their absolutely abysmal security record and repeated demonstrations of incompetence, I'm loathe to send them anything even remotely sensitive. which leaves me in a bad position where I'm stuck with coins I can't even access...

Ugh. Local wallets, people. Local wallets.

The problem is that by the time things start getting shabby you all too often find out that the manufacturer is no longer making it any more.

Very relevant article from the opposite sex pov from awhile back: http://blog.timoni.org/post/24619757935/why-i-wear-the-same-...

Really made me rethink what was in my own closet and what was worth owning (and nice obligatory hat tip to William Gibson). As with most things, less is more.

100% agree. Single best angular resource on the web. Especially w/r/t his isolate scope explanations.

great, but... no one is discussing the moving clouds in the crayon drawn header graphic.

Thanks for those links. Very useful resources. Looking forward to digging in this weekend, though I'm a little bummed that I can't easily slap this on a rooted older (3.x) android phone for testing :D.

Great overview, thanks!

I'm worried about the same things that you are worried about. They are legitimate concerns, and they need to be addressed. No one is saying they are unimportant. This legislation is a vehicle for addressing them. This is also why I personally believe that the extra protections found in the Senate version of the bill actually make it more relevant than the loosely-worded HR2930.

No one is saying that regulation isn't important. And I didn't blindly throw my support into this without doing my research. I don't want to see individuals get into things they don't understand, but I do want people (who are properly educated and who understand the risks) to be able to make up their own minds, support their neighbors, and help bring new ideas to life.

Agree that it's largely apples and oranges. I think the poster was more calling attention to the fact that SOPA showed a lot of people that their voices do matter, and can affect change in government. So in that way, at least, they're related.

Fraud is certainly a concern, and the reason that the laws were introduced in the 1930s in the first place. But the S.1791 bill has provisions for dealing with this through (relatively) strict individual investing limits and reputation via crowdfunding intermediaries. A balance needs to be struck between protecting "less sophisticated" investors and giving those of us who want the opportunity the chance to get involved, help support entrepreneurs, and create jobs (on main street and in silicon valley). There's still a lot to be hashed out of course, but this would be a step in the right direction.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the people who worked to put the petition together.

Simple/BankSimple, maybe :p.

It's too bad that government / regulatory boundaries can't be overcome as easily :(. But when they can be overcome, the solutions are all that much more valuable and defensible.

Stripe is an awesome example of a company that addressed a tangible frustration / real need instead of a desire or a higher-level "want". I've noticed that companies that provide "Internet plumbing" often fall into this category:

* SendGrid (bulk email sending)

* Twilio (easy to use telephony / sms)

* Zencoder (video encoding)

* MailChimp (mailing list management)

What others can you think of? Would love to see a list here :).

Surprised that it's taken this long for the accelerator / incubator model to be adapted to hardware developers and makers. Makes a ton of sense. Really looking forward to seeing this first batch. The dual china-us angle makes it interesting, too (the team behind this also runs Chinaccelerator, and one of their startups recently won Techcrunch Disrupt Beijing).

Yes, as mentioned on the site, the whole idea behind this is to publish the results. Otherwise there's no value! Can't blame you one bit :).

Another option is http://github.com/jeffrafter/simple_admin

Was originally a modified (ahem, simplified) version of ActiveAdmin, but has grown quite a bit since then.

When assembling the data set, anything that was clearly 404'ing or unresponsive was pruned out (one or two might have slipped by, do let us know if that's the case). Fresh data is of course harder to gauge.

Frankly, I was surprised -- and impressed -- that the number was this high. Great stuff.

Loren created YARD, which is easily the best Ruby documentation generator out there. His attention to detail and concern for release management is pretty much unparalleled within this community. He's also a recipient of a Ruby Hero award.

Full disclosure: Loren and I have collaborated on projects before. We co-authored the current version of rubydoc.info, the online doc host for Ruby gem and Github projects. So yes, I'm biased, but I've also seen the quality of his work first-hand.

<insert joke about natural selection>

A few that I swear by:

github http://github.com for source control and wikis

sendgrid http://sendgrid.com or Amazon SES for email

mogotest http://mogotest.com for browser testing

recurly http://recurly.com for managing recurring payments

tender http://tenderapp.com for support / help desk

linode http://linode.com for hosting or Amazon EC2

mocksup http://mocksup.com for quick and easy mockups

clicky http://getclicky.com for analytics

zerigo http://www.zerigo.com for dns and monitoring

AWS http://aws.amazon.com S3, EC2, and everything else :)

I bought my wife an Optimus-T for Christmas and, though it may not be as fast as my Nexus-S, it's a solid, well-built little phone that does everything she needs and a lot more. In fact, I tend to think the build quality is higher than the Samsung. I loathe contracts so we just paid list price for the phones (the Optimus-T seemed like a bargain at 240) and we're on a contract-less family plan with T-Mo.

This is really the beginning of the low-cost Android revolution. With more users able to jump into the pool without having to sign up for a ridiculous contract, it'll make what might have otherwise seemed superfluous (Android instead of a "dumb" smart phone) accessible to just about everyone, which is going to be a Very Good Thing for us app developers. The market is going to expand dramatically in the coming year.

Agree. I thought the exact same thing when I read the article. And then proceeded to be voted down in the comments for posting about it. It's a conspiracy! :)

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and we'll be glad to have you :)

Hey, I'm one of the RR organizers. We've been toying with the idea of running a language/framework-agnostic competition too, but in the meantime RR itself allows use of any Rack-based Ruby web framework.

You really want to make judging code a part of an innovation competition? I know some have gone that route. But personally, I can't think of a more subjective thing.

Most commercially viable web applications find their success through execution of their idea and connecting with an end user audience. So it seems, to me, like the best way to judge their likelihood of success in the "real world" is by reviewing the end product rather than the integrity of the code.

If they didn't write tests, if their authorization code is full of holes, if there are XSS vulnerabilities everywhere -- end users are going to find these. They're also going to comment on them, and these comments will affect other ratings and overall public opinion.

I'm a developer myself and of course I have my opinions about the 'right way' to write code. But judging from that perspective isn't part of the contest for a reason. Not that it's wrong, it's just not the perspective that we're approaching it from.