KiwiCoder

Cosmetic? Visual Studio fixes layout problems in a few keystrokes but it can't fix, say, poorly named variables.

The problem is that coding style goes deeper, it goes right down to the abstraction.

This is slick, nice work. Is there IP-based localisation happening? I ask because when I fed http://snapmobl.com into your engine it came back with German content instead of the English I was first looking at.

Apparently the twist is designy.

It may be a cultural thing but I rarely find this style of poster motivating. More often I find it demotivating that an employer or co-worker has the gall (or perhaps naivete) to expect to influence my personal motivation through an arbitrary aphorism pinned to the wall. I enjoy witty and insightful as much as the next person but would not wish to work at a place where truisms decorate the halls. I'd rather have scenery and nice paintings, thanks all the same.

It's definitely not for want of trying. Every other week sees a new recruitment site pop up.

The recruiting system we have is very well entrenched.

I note that when we go through this process as passive participants we further entrench the established norm.

> We spent the next 24 hours getting as many people as possible to view and interact with the experiment

OP - could you elaborate on how you got these 803 unique visitors within 24 hours?

There are many sites like this, here's a list I started: http://appworthy.co/alternatives

I've been playing with a similar idea - http://appworthy.co

One thing I've done on my site is abandon passwords. Authentication is by email (if you can receive a link you can "sign in" once with it - thereafter cookies).

This avoids the need to ask for permission (to tweet for me? really?) up front. Users can start reading and posting without giving up anything but their email.

This is not a new idea, but I think it works well to minimise barriers for potential contributors.

> As an employer of several people in their early 40s: they're not particularly distinctive looking.

I can't tell, is this humour?

The article is titled 'How To Think'. It might be more aptly titled 'How To Think About Failure' (in a way that shows failures are opportunities for self improvement while success teaches us little).

Coincidentally the BBC ran a series this week 'The Value of Failure.' http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xl7ff

The series is well worth a listen - 5 x 15 minutes.

Top of HN, many content-free "nice!" comments, and posted by a new user. Has HN been gamed here?

On the other hand, my comment was going to be "where's the tab completion?" so I guess my own comment counts as content-free.

Might as well add; nice job!

I wonder, can this trace be automated?

Here is a chart showing market value of "Gox BTC" - I'll be watching this as the announcement is made.

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitcoinbuilder/GOXBTC

If it wasn't already too late I would nominate myself on exactly this platform. Unfortunately I suspect the people who would vote for a laissez-faire candidate have already gone elsewhere, or are sufficiently disillusioned that they visit only infrequently.

The better part of this quote is the sentiment that follows;

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

If I had to point to one thing it would be "the day".

* It's clearly going to take more than a day to achieve a positive outcome in a system that was established over many decades

* What happens when "the day" ends?

* Since the action is framed as "the day", this is how the media will report on it - including outcomes of the day. These outcomes, whatever they are, will be packaged with the day and thus more easily dismissed than, say, "the movement" (which continues to grow) or "the tide" (that is turning) or "the big cleanup" (which must be repeated regularly)

Perl on Windows;

   perl -e "$_=`mode`;/ns:\s+(\d+)/;print '='x$1"

That tweet was from March 2013. I was at the time making the point that such terms are ridiculous.

Indeed, the word "passionate" with reference to programming is going the same way as "free" has gone for marketing; over-used and misrepresented to the point of being meaningless.

On the plus side, it means that the class of employers who advertise their vacancies in this fashion become easier to identify and avoid. Or exploit.

Your last sentence feels unfinished.

At the end of the day, reasoning is an art, and an art worth your learning. The question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? [0]

[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/683/pg683.html

From the BBC article referenced by boingboing - "He said TV crime dramas illustrated the value of monitoring mobile data."

From the boingboing article - "David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance"

On the off-chance this is a serious question;

As a developer, I want to know if my ideas are going to fly, so when a post for a non-existent product hits HN front page I know there's at least some interest.

As a prospective user I want a chance to influence development. When a post hits front-page I get a chance to check out the idea before it is set in stone.

As a HN reader I want to see what others are thinking about and doing. It's inspiring.

perspective

This seems arbitrary. What's your source?

The terms are nearly interchangeable[0] but programmer is more widely used[1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer (see first sentence)

[1] http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=coder&...

Dr. Knuth doesn't do email quite like you might expect.

"My goal is to do this communication efficiently, in batch mode --- like, one day every three months."

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

OK, so Dr. Knuth is alive and well, and reporting a bug. Is there more to this that I'm not seeing?

Ignoring the dubious points of this article (30%, MacBook Air) I think a vital question being overlooked is whether a newly promoted manager actually wants to continue coding. Some will, some won't.