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With the recent surge in value of basically all cryptocurrencies, I'm skeptical the trend will continue. I've previously invested and exited and am no longer holding any at all. What's your stance? Why do you or don't…

Lots of us are making incremental improvements across various segments of the b2b and b2c markets. There are plenty of interesting and rewarding challenges in that space, and it's what I currently do as well. However,…

I just found out about the strange loop, which looks like an amazing conference, but it's sold out. There are some upcoming Ruby and Rails conferences that are possibilities, but I'm more interested in attending…

We've been dealing with, to me, a large amount of traffic lately on a number of apps and I'm curious to see how it compares. Three recent Rails projects have had to deliver between 15k and 25k sustained requests per…

I was given free reign to develop a reporting system at work, including the OK to open source it. I'll be ready to do so in the next couple of weeks and am going to need to recommend a license to management. Anyone want…

Do hackers outside of the US have an above average lifestyle?

I'm in the middle of writing a new app with Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3, and MongoDB and am looking for some good hosting options. From what I've read, Mongo likes / needs a minimum of two servers for durability, so something…

The company I work for, Vitrue, is looking to hire a few more full time rails hackers in Atlanta for an immediate need. About us: We're a small, profitable, quickly growing company that helps our clients to manage their…

I want to pick up a new skill in a day or two. Whether it be a new programming language, API, or something completely unrelated to technology, I'm open to ideas. What do you suggest?

Lately I've been thinking about launching businesses that aren't anything special in their own right and that don't require some kind of eureka moment to discover the concept. Clearly that's nothing new: people have…

This is an area that I have no knowledge about. The idea of being able to travel around for a year or two to many different locations while running a company appeals to me (and many of you, too, so it seems), but I…

I'm developing in Rails and it seems that Authorize.net will be the easiest way for me to accept credit card payments. What reseller do you recommend? I'm definitely open to other suggestions, but I refuse to do…

This isn't me, personally, but a family member of mine is a lifelong realtor who has found himself unable to sell enough houses to support the way he has lived for the last two decades. Can anyone suggest something else…

Were they disabled, or did a bug crop up?

I'm considering adding OpenID support for my web app and I like clickpass's interface, but I have a concern. If their service is down, can my users still access my site? Worse yet, are all of my users (and my site)…

Some years ago, you used to be able to search it on the Berkeley site linked from this page (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/), but it's gone now. The other site listed requires a login and all of the applets on it seem to…

For those of you who are students as well as entrepreneurs, how do you manage to switch between going to class and taking care of your school obligations in addition to hacking away at your startup? I find it nearly…

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cris2cool :(