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I remember seeing a link posted a while back (1 year?) for a blogging platform that included embedded, transcoded video clips. It was very nicely designed. The author opensourced it, from what I remember. Does anyone remember it and can provide a link? Thanks.

A while back (maybe over a year ago?) someone posted an opensource travel blog platform. He had short video clips that were automatically transcoded (I think). I think his name may have been "Justin." I can't seem to remember any more details but I would be great if someone remembers it too.

I'm noticing a lot of overseas jobs, especially in the the Arab Gulf countries (UAE, Qatar, etc.) require it for various project manager roles and, in turn, are paying about $100k a year.

Does anyone have any info on this? Does it carry the same weight in the US?

From recent posts, I'm concluding that Javascript is the next thing I should learn (employability, resilience, usefulness). There are so many resources, however, so I'm not sure where I should begin?

JavaScript: The Good Parts? Online tutorials and "classes?" Opensource Github projects? Other books? Should I learn CoffeeScript "instead" of pure JS?

My goals include learning Node and Angular (should I even go all-in on a framework at this point?) too.

I thoroughly know HTML and CSS and, at the sake of sounding redundant, I'm a beginning novice in Rails.

My hard drive crashed and my optical drive stopped working. I lost some unbacked-up data, and I cracked something on the motherboard while trying to diagnose the problem with the optical drive, resulting in the display not working.

I don't have the funds for a new computer so, as a long-shot, I'm wondering if anyone here has a Macbook that's not in use and lying around that you're willing to sell for a cheap price?

My email is in my profile if anyone can help out.

I've built, and validated the need for, my app but I don't have the funds to grow it; there's a sales component to it and I need to hire some sales reps to scale. The app also requires a sizable upfront expense per major city (population > 100k) that is recouped about 10 days later.

The startup is a b2b play that has a b2c component that I'm working on too.

Are investors likely to invest assuming they like the idea, the initial execution (the building of the app), and the size of the market, with no traction (not yet launched).

Should I start looking for funding now?

I am a VERY novice programmer (some light Rails sites), although I feel that I can learn anything. What's the best way for me to learn how to develop mobile apps on iOS? Which resources would you recommend?

For example, I start off my day with 3 sets of max-rep pushups immediately after waking up. This gets my blood circulating and removes any lingering drowsiness.

I also take a daily fish oil supplement for the myriad benefits (Google it, if you have to).

What do you do?

I found this sort of strange. He mentioned that Andrew Mason is a smart guy, and by definition, smart guys end up figuring out that a bad idea is eventually bad.

But I don't think investors and money money managers know the leaders of their portfolio companies as well as they know the companies themselves.

Would this generally apply to equities investing as well?

He's on now, live, by the way.

Update:

Re: Hipmunk - No money from flight search. The money's in hotel search.

Exciting trends: online rentals (spaces), smartphone/tablet apps.

Show's over.

I don't remember what the title was or what the post was about. It might have had something to do with science journals. There was a comment that linked to a site that listed a bunch of biological journals (I think) related to statistics.