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i like it a lot. did you use your site to get feedback?

how do you know he isn't putting any of his own money in as well?

[Android, Fitness App] I wish there was a really decent app to easily create work-outs. I like the approach of gainfitness.com, but unfortunately they only have an iphone version. Overall I think the fitness category on android has room for a couple of more apps who don't suck.

I don't know how to react, but at least I want to say this: the name and the layout remind me a little too much about http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects

I'm not sure what to say, I mean, it's a free web, you can do whatever you want, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste, especially because i know that you knew about prtfl.io

gmq is probably talking about opening psd files in your Ubuntu file browser by right clicking them and selecting "open with Photoshop". That's not possible with the method i'm describing in the article. But it's something that's bugging me too and I'm working on a solution. I haven't quite figured it out yet though.

the steps for arch would be almost identical. the desktop entry specification is a standard that is used by arch as well:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Entries

how much it integrates depends on what desktop environment you are using. gnome and kde are using the same desktop files as far as I know. So it should work. Haven't tested it though.

You could also use unity with arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unity

just stumbled upon this through their yearly report (http://mailchimp.com/2012, discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060552) and thought I'd share this, since it is one of the funniest and inspiring talks I'v seen. Should easily be in every aspiring entrepreneurs must see list of talks.

charging for support, or donations are two other options that I can think of

true, but the idea coming out of the idea finding process that you describe in your post would have been slightly more awesome.

...but only slightly, and i'm still eager to read follow-ups on this experiment!

That's why the idea he seems to be settling on is exactly that: a problem that he has. (quote from the post: "It solves a problem I have, so I want someone to build this software.") Not only coming up with a problem is easier when you have it yourself, but also execution, making key decisions and keeping up the motivation will be easier.

as the OP I'm obviously biased, but I feel so too. At the same time it looks like more people seemed to be against it though. I would still like to hear pg thoughts on this...

i don't know what you are supposed to put in a "Career Objective" section, but when it comes to the first section of your resume (or the thing to start with), i like to think that the most interesting thing you can put there is a short description of the path that let you where you are today. Sort of what I did here:

http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/about

maybe you can _afterwards_ follow up with a section about where you want to go from there.

please note that I just tell you what I personally think is interesting, not what is industry standard. But then again, whenever I write a resume and don't care about standards, I just listen to my gut feeling. If anything, it's something that makes you stand out...

You probably meant it slightly differently, but improvements that make things worse are per definition not improvements.

I get that people don't want HN to get worse than it is. But i don't get why people think open sourcing it would result in that.

I trust PG would be the kind of project lead who only accepts pull requests that would actually improve the site.

And I trust the community has a lot of smart people who would come up with solutions that would actually improve this site.

i agree the site is simple and effective as it is. but it's not perfect. there is always something that can be improved. this probably doesn't include adding social share buttons and 2KB of new JavaScript every week. Like you said. And I agree, so would many people, so would pg, and this would also be the conclusion of an open feature discussion and wouldn't result in a successful pull request.

but think about it from a different perspective: there is a feature that many people agree would make the site better. e.g. a new job board for non-YC-companies, like discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993571. lets assume that after openly discussing the problem, pg and the majority of the community agrees upon a solution. now lets assume that there are more features like this, and that pg hasn't the time to implement them all. wouldn't it be nice if the community could help out?

thanks, but to clarify: I'm not proposing to open source it for the purpose of looking at the code or forking my own HN-version.

instead i'm proposing that building _this_ site becomes an community effort, with open feature discussions and people committing code to the HN code base.

there is an army of people who deeply care about HN, and are very skilled to help out. i think it would be smart to use that asset.

i'm not a treehouse user, and while i hear awesome stories about their company (like having a 4-day work week, or getting funding although they don't plan an "exit"), I don't know anything about the quality of their lessons...

but I do know two free resources for learning rails, and having used both of them I can wholeheartedly recommend them:

https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

after completing these two you will be able to build your own web app, and go from there. afterward it's not so much about learning rails in general. it's more about coming across a very specific problem that you encounter while building your app, in which case google is your friend.

i really don't want to bad mouth treehouse, but i feel like there are enough free resources out there to get you started. especially for rails. on the other hand, paying 25$ dollars a month, might keep you committed.

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i think the neighborhood guide airbnb did about san francisco is really well done. might be helpful: https://www.airbnb.com/locations/san-francisco

there is a way around that. just install the new relic addon, and configure it to check your sites availability once every minute.(on a production site you want that anyway to get alerts if the app is down, and might need a restart)

like Donito said, it only needs to wake up if there hasn't been a request in over an hour -> which will never happen with the new relic addon, because it sends a request every minute.