Nick Mango

School and career choices, is something I struggled with a lot with when I was growing up. I sucked at being a good student. I hated my teachers. I hated my parents. And I hated being forced to learn, what people thought I should learn. Because of that, I completely shutdown. I didn’t do my homework. I handed in tests, completely blank. I once spent an entire year of english, totally silent,...

Rails Rumble started in 2007, and is a distributed programming competition, where teams of up to 4 people compete over 48 hours, to build the best app they can. Winners receive service prizes from our sponsors, as well as gift cards from Amazon, and the 1st place winner, gets the Rails Rumble belt. The belt is an actual championship belt made by Title Boxing. Last year more than 30 countries...

My 2 cents: This is an evangelists wet dream. Maybe a saleperson's too. I love how simple this idea is. Starting simple is always smart. If this takes off, it could go in so many different directions. Lot of opportunity here. If it doesn't, you spent minimal time putting it out there. I would say there's a few things that probably should be added sooner, rather than later. First, and most...

My 2 cents: I think anyone who buys this, and uses it, is a person that wouldn't lose the remote in the first place. Or if they do lose it often, they would use it at clean up time. Meaning, you're cleaning up your TV room, and you drop it in this stand. But it never goes back in, till you clean up again. So I don't believe this is an organizational tool. I think it's a display tool. A person...

Awesome podcast!

For anyone that doesn't know what a download card is, I can explain. A download card is something you give or sell to a fan, and on it is a url, and a unique code. The fan goes to the url on the card, enters the code, then a download link is exposed. They can then download the digital item. After it's downloaded, and a certain amount of time has passed, we lock that code. Hope that explains it!