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RossM··on New Y Combinator Website
I believe there's a bunch of unreleased code to do with voting rings and other abuse protection.
RossM··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Eventstagram (http://eventstagr.am/) - Full time, London UK - Project Manager

Eventstagram builds real-time Instagram and Twitter slideshows for events of all sizes. We work with a number of notable clients including Ferrari, Nike, Microsoft and The O2 Arena; we're based in one of the most exciting workspaces in London.

We're looking for an experienced, organised project manager to help focus our development team's efforts, keep the clients up-to-date and help plan our long-term development.

Responsibilities:

- Holding daily development meetings, preferably using agile project management, - Managing the task workflow by scheduling in developers and designers to projects, - Account management, - Managing bugs by creating a system for finding, reporting, filtering, reproducing, prioritising and writing up bugs, - Managing feature requests by assessing, scheduling and checking they meet expectations, - Product Management, scoping out new features through an understanding of the market; competition, product positioning and usability.

If interested, you can read more on our blog or drop us an email at info@eventstagr.am

http://blog.eventstagr.am/2014/05/were-hiring-aspirational-p...

RossM··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Eventstagram (http://eventstagr.am/) - Full time, London UK - Project Manager

Eventstagram builds real-time Instagram and Twitter slideshows for events of all sizes. We work with a number of notable clients including Ferrari, Nike, Microsoft and The O2 Arena; we're based in one of the most exciting workspaces in London.

We're looking for an experienced, organised project manager to help focus our development team's efforts, keep the clients up-to-date and help plan our long-term development.

Responsibilities:

- Holding daily development meetings, preferably using agile project management, - Managing the task workflow by scheduling in developers and designers to projects, - Account management, - Managing bugs by creating a system for finding, reporting, filtering, reproducing, prioritising and writing up bugs, - Managing feature requests by assessing, scheduling and checking they meet expectations, - Product Management, scoping out new features through an understanding of the market; competition, product positioning and usability.

If interested, you can read more on our blog or drop us an email at info@eventstagr.am

http://blog.eventstagr.am/2014/05/were-hiring-aspirational-p...

RossM··on Show HN: HTML5 guitar lessons with pitch detection
I've just been watching this IO talk on WebRTC, so it's certainly possible in Chrome and Firefox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMH1vM-dSc0
RossM··on Google I/O 2014
I think I like it better than manically applauding every bullet item.
RossM··on PHP: a fractal of bad design (2012)
Oh, it must be Summer again.
RossM··on Uber app taxi row referred to London's High Court
Sorry, I meant that that the rules should be updated to apply. Of course, while they remain out of date, Uber should be allowed to operate as they do.
RossM··on Uber app taxi row referred to London's High Court
Which in fairness, it should. It calculates a fare depending on time and distance travelled. At the moment you could get around the rules by having the driver count out loud.
RossM··on Ask HN: How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work?
Not quite, I have >500 karma but only see downvote links for comments. I've never come across a post with a negative score.
RossM··on Ask HN: How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work?
From the FAQ:

How is a user's karma calculated?

Roughly, the number of upvotes on their submissions and comments, minus the number of downvotes. (The numbers won't exactly match up, because some votes aren't counted to prevent various types of abuse.)

RossM··on In Canada, find a penny, recycle it
Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't there need to be a minimum-value coin in circulation to facilitate transactions? For example, I go to a shop and buy something for £4.99 and pay with a £5.00 note - do I get any change in return?
RossM··on Facebook launches Nearby Friends
Yeah I think that happened around the time they started sharing data between products. It's hella useful when it comes down to it (and you can be quite restrictive with your location in G+).
RossM··on Facebook launches Nearby Friends
It's still there in Google+, under locations.
RossM··on Ask HN: How do people know they're being talked about on HN?
Mention.com might be worth looking into for that.
RossM··on How to reliably and portably check the OpenSSL version?
Amazon have done something similar with their packages - the vulnerable version 1.01e, package version 37.64 has been upgraded to 1.01e 37.66. I guess it's a version they've patched themselves.

http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/security-bulletins/AL...

RossM··on WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License
I've wondered before - what's the difference between WTFPL and just releasing something into the public domain? The name-change bit seems to relate to the license itself, rather than the licensed work.
RossM··on Hack Isn't PHP
Zend the organisation, is probably what Marco meant when referring to poor stewardship, instead of the OS project Zend Framework.

I like Hack because it explicitly doesn't support[0] a bunch of cruft from PHP. It feels a lot to me like the BC-breaking PHP.next people want - easy to switch to for modern applications, but not hindered by supporting PHP 4 code. Bit early to start pointing fingers at it's future though.

[0]: http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.unsupported.php

RossM··on If you were building a startup today, what would you use?
Results in: http://3v4l.org/koVpq

Reasoning: 0wz++ = 0xa (converted from hex to dec) = 10++ = 11

Not sure why 0wz++ = 0xa, but if you increment strings I'd expect oddities (or some sort of ascii increment).

RossM··on Search on after Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes
Check out http://flightradar24.com - they do exactly that.
RossM··on Give this beer to your browser. Wait. Enjoy
Decoded and formatted: https://gist.github.com/rmasters/9328216
RossM··on Alleged Mt.Gox code leaked on IRC node by Russian Hacker
An argument, since it's Monday and I'm grumpy:

1. As in any language,

2. As in any interpreted language. Yes PHP has the gag operator (@) but it's use is discouraged (and not used in this example),

3. Not in my opinion. The Symfony framework alone has a ton of well used packages[0]. It does look like someone's decided to build their own framework from this example though,

4. Opinion.

[0]: https://packagist.org/search/?q=bundle

RossM··on How I Judge the Quality of Documentation
Wouldn't it be better for someone to share a link (potentially in a different language) and the recipient sees it in their own language?

That said, language prefixes should still exist, for debugging if nothing else.

RossM··on Yanukovych leaks
The BBC reported on this last night - saying something along the lines of there being a 72 hour recovery window (not sure if that means from being thrown into the lake or from being surfaced).

Quite a good report actually, they showed the drying and scanning. Apparently some documents were burned before being thrown into the lake also. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26361455

RossM··on [dead]
It's worth remembering that this board was originally called Startup News. Acquisitions, fundraising is still relevant to that intent at least.
RossM··on Ask HN: What is your development setup?
How are you getting on with that? I do similar stuff, and love the idea of just docking in a tablet rather than a full laptop. I assume battery drops pretty quickly while running VMs?
RossM··on Show HN: Human Headers
Nice idea, there is always humans.txt (which a surprising number of sites have, try google for example).

http://humanstxt.org/

RossM··on Ghost Blogging Software ported to PHP
I think you'd have better luck in making ways of supporting drag-and-drop deployment for your preferred languages. I can't find it now but there was such a tool for Python that allowed you to run Python scripts in the same way as PHP (no app server as such).
RossM··on Github Reliability
The cynic in me says that this has been waiting to be published at an opportune time.
RossM··on King: Our approach to IP
That's my understanding as well. For trademark law to be enforceable you have to have shown that you've acted defensively in the past.
RossM··on Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive
This renaming was triggered by a trademark issue - http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/27/5349830/microsoft-onedrive...
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