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Alfa Jango
Company blog · alfajango.com/blog · on HN as JangoStevewebprogramming
Alfa Jango is the company blog at alfajango.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate()”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on freelance graphic design as a portfolio for a web development and design team. The comment says nothing about the writing, so the site's posts are not described.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The awesome site of Alfa Jango, builders of startups, patrons of open source.
Most-linked posts?
- The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate()3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-02-04
- /2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2008-06-16
- Communication in Engineering, Software, and Open-source2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-10-04
What Hacker News says?
For what it's worth, the Huffington Post once did something similar with one of my posts, though it wasn't plagiarism, they basically just took my idea and ran with it. Even then, I'd say my situation was totally fair play. And given the content, it's not entirely inconceivable that they just had the same idea. All of that said, I tweeted them about my article [1] (nothing accusative, just a sort of "hey, check out…
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on “Plagiarism”Submitted If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, You’re Sane as a story · 56 points
HN discussionAlfa Jango | Ann Arbor, MI | Full-time | Onsite | Senior Developer | https://www.alfajango.com/hiring/ We’ve built startups that have gone on to receive venture funding and federal grants, and even be acquired! As a Developer, you will work closely with startups to quickly grow and transition them to viable companies with minimal investment. You will accomplish this by developing and building a successful Minimum Vi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Rails jQuery UJS: Now Interactive (with the $.rails object) as a story · 33 points
HN discussionAlfa Jango | Ann Arbor, MI | Full-time | Onsite | Senior Developer | https://www.alfajango.com/hiring/ We're a CTO and development team for hire for startups. We’ve built startups that have gone on to receive venture funding and federal grants, and even be acquired! As a Developer, you will work closely with startups to quickly grow and transition them to viable companies with minimal investment. You will accomplish…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) as a story · 29 points
HN discussionAnn Arbor / Detroit, MI - Alfa Jango Looking for: * Ruby, JavaScript, Back-end and Full-stack Developer(s) * Project / Operations Manager Full-time, salary with benefits - LOCAL preferred, REMOTE welcome We build startups. We act as CTO and development team for early stage startups. We help everyone from new founders who have an idea, to startups who have already raised money and have paying customers; one of our cl…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)”Submitted How to Combine GZip + CDN for Fastest Page Loads as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI actually wrote a post a while back about Google's search term suggestions [1]. Most interesting fact I found was that Facebook actually has one of the top-ten suggestions for the letter "w" because of people entering "www.facebook.com" into Google so often. [1] http://www.alfajango.com/blog/google-one-letter-suggestions/
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on “Google Instant Search Released”Submitted Performance Tuning for Phusion Passenger (an Introduction) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionAlfa Jango - Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI - Ruby, JavaScript, both front-end and back-end developers - full-time - REMOTE or local We build startups, all day, every day. We are our startups' technical co-founder, acting as their CTO and development team. We help everyone from new founders who have an idea and aren't sure what to do next, to founders who have already raised money, have a product and are looking for a more…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)”Submitted A Recap of Cool Libraries for Ruby as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis seems to be a prime example of the Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule. About 12 years ago, I had built something to do something similar and published how I did it [1]. It was a very simple process, which my younger self called "the meat algorithm", as in, how to get the meat of an article. It was far less code and worked perfectly 95% of the time (though, the average web-page was also a little simpler 12 year…
Comment linking /blog/create-a-printable-format-for-any-webpage-with-ruby-and-nokogiri
on “How does Firefox's Reader View work? (2020)”Submitted Block Depth in Ruby (Exception-handling, Thread-safety & Meta-programming) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionAnn Arbor, MI preferred, remote possible. Senior developer at Alfa Jango ( http://www.alfajango.com ). We build startups. We act as CTO and development team for startups that need it. We also spend a fair amount of time working on our internal and open source projects. We're a small team of 4 looking to grow to a slightly less small team of 5. We use mostly Ruby and JavaScript, but always looking for the best tool f…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)”Submitted Improve Page Load Speed (by 80%) by Improving Component Load Speed as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAnn Arbor, MI, Alfa Jango. We build startups and work on a lot of open-source and internal projects. We act as CTO and development team for hire for early-stage startups, giving guidance, advice, and actually building their startup. We have some pretty cool new projects we're getting ready to release as well. We work primarily with Ruby and JavaScript, but use other things as we see fit. http://www.alfajango.com/hir…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)”Submitted Mini’s Mission Control is Like Adding an ‘Infinite Popups’ Feature to a Webapp as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI maintain a few open source repos on github, including the rails jquery-ujs adapter and several other projects [1], and I've seen the exact responses and behaviors she describes, sometimes from people on my own teams. And it burns me up every time I see it. So much so that I wrote an article on the subject [2]. Quoting from my own article (yeah, I know): > More importantly, to open-source authors: realize that the…
Comment linking /blog/communicating-with-engineers-and-contributing-to-open-source/
on “Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics)”Submitted The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI'll give my experience in case it helps, but I'd start out by giving some advice. If the reason you want to move from a permanent salaried position to contract work is to make more money, don't. If you don't want to read my advice and just want my experience skip to the next section. There's a reason contractors make more money; it's because it's a lot more work. The way I think of salaried employment is that it's…
Comment linking /blog/if-youre-nervous-about-quitting-your-boring-job-youre-sane/
on “Ask HN: How did you move from a salaried job to contracting?”Submitted Show HN: My Weekend Fun Project - Pure-CSS Emoticons as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm an open-source maintainer who doesn't always answer issues and pull-requests right away. It sucks, I'm trying to get better. I can understand the frustration, but these sort of posts (or pleas or whatever you want to call them) always lack any sort of acknowledgement of the possibility that some maintainer's life may be different than yours. > You could always have the courtesy to acknowledge the bug or PR I’ve…
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on “A plea for better open source etiquette”Submitted Rails, Prototype, and JQuery in Harmony as a story · 5 points
HN discussionReminds me of an article I wrote a while back on the "meat algorithm" I had developed and used as part of LeadNuke to create more printable versions of pages. What had surprised me at the time was how simple it was to get just the main content of a page for like 95% of the pages I tried. http://www.alfajango.com/blog/create-a-printable-format-for-...
Comment linking /blog/create-a-printable-format-for-any-webpage-with-ruby-and-nokogiri/
on “Show HN: Automatic web page content extractor for Node.js and the command line”Submitted Our "Meat" Algorithm: an easy way to find the important part of a webpage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionEDIT: Oops, forgot the footnote. [1] http://www.alfajango.com/blog/communicating-with-engineers-a...
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on “Hug an OSS Developer or just don't be a dick ”Submitted Google One-letter Suggestions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI guess I'm a successful bootstrapper by your definition. Revenues vary, but tens of multiples of your definition at this point (am I the only one that still feels weird about divulging this info in public?). I'm a single-founder. The startup is http://www.ratemystudentrental.com , which licenses private-label subscriptions to universities. I also have a consultancy that builds web-based software, and that consultan…
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on “Ask HN: successful, transparent bootstrappers?”Submitted Rails 4: What's New as a story · 3 points
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