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jreilly | 15 years ago | on: What's it like to be non-technical and own a company?

Never worked with them but I believe SproutBox out of Bloomington, IN does just this.

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: New Puzzle Challenges Math Skills

It is also important to note as it states in the article that order does not matter in these operations. Clearly it does not matter in addition or multiplication but say two boxes are outlined with "3-" the contents of the two boxes could be 4,1 or 1,4 in either order.

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Question about Heroku

Let's say i have categories that have many products but many products fit into several categories. Or I have a games with several players but players can play in several games?

Am I wrong to you has_and_belongs_to_many without using has_many :through?

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Question about Heroku

I appreciate the feedback. I knew it wouldn't be trivial if it hadn't been implemented but you are exactly right that I was looking for something similar to the list an IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse used to give me of available methods when I programmed in java.

Anyways thanks for the response and I guess I will have to truly learn ruby.

First Note on Rails: has_and_belongs_to_many is painfully long to type.

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites

Anyone know of a similar library in rails that works well?

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites

I am basically trying to track prices of certain products easily so I do not have to worry about doing it by hand and checking myself every once in a while.

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites

Thanks for the input. I am currently learning rails so also wondering if there are any libraries that will make this significantly easier

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: BitTorrent co-founder to launch incubator for tech entrepreneurs

does anyone know when this new incubator is supposed to open its doors and any idea of a name?

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any Hackers in Middle America?

Let me know if a Indy HN meetup ever forms. I will definitely be up for it. Right now I live right downtown and work up in Carmel.

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any Hackers in Middle America?

My entire life before college was spent in a suburb of Boston. I loved it but wanted to try something new for a year to get some basis for comparison. Frankly, I didn't know how much I liked it until I left. I am sure at some point I will be heading back to stay.

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any Hackers in Middle America?

At this point I think he has something like 8 companies that he is founder of that he is hasn't sold. I can't argue with the terribly smart part but as I have had very minimal interaction with him I am reserving my opinion for a little farther down the line. Even if what you say is true it has been clear to me that he is willing to give a lot of responsibility to those who show promise so I am going to see what his companies may have to offer in Indiana. It is true that there are not enough hours in the day for him to focus completely on all the companies which is why I have not had much interaction with him yet. Do let me know though if you see any interesting startups in the area or want to bounce some ideas around.

jreilly | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any Hackers in Middle America?

Brushfire, good to hear that I am not the only one. I graduated from Duke this May and moved to Indy because I knew a bunch of people here and it is so cheap. I had no idea what I wanted to do but figure I would try it out for a year. Pretty miserable.

Funny that you should mention ChaCha because when I got here the most intriguing opportunities I could find were with Scott Jones' companies (founder of ChaCha). I recently started working for SAJE and GalaxiaLighting.com, two of his newer companies, but am holding my judgment until I am there a little longer. I have a feeling I may be on my way out of here when my lease runs up next summer unless something changes. Scott is a serial entrepreneur who is trying to bring the spirit to Indiana through his companies and foundations but progress seems to be slow.