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the problem with trying to find platforms that give more money to contributors is that the big platforms which take more money have more money for marketing. Historically big sites with low payouts have out preformed smaller sites with higher payouts. you need to find a way to both give out more money to contributors but also out advertise the big names to win in this space.

Finding good copy space is such a time consuming part of looking for images and any way to make that easier would be welcome!

I have a BFA in Graphic Design. My program was more print focused but I always made websites where ever I could. I knew HTML and CSS and basic js and a tiny bit of php.

I was beyond lucky to get a design job for a small startup on craigslist doing just design. From there I just wanted to help the startups I was working for move faster. So I learned to do better with HTML, CSS. And then JS and PHP just to help feature development go faster.

Eventually I found the programming interviews much easier then the design interviews. Though to be fair I don't think I was that amazing of a designer.

I got a few jobs doing all front end development and now I do all node / js/ react code.

While I lack any formal programming training what I do have is a really amazing relationship with the UX designers I have worked with. I have a feel for what they want and I care about what they are trying to accomplish. I am also better able to find good middle ground to compromise feature development on.

I think my focus on UX as a developer really helps me put out the best possible features.

While there seems to be many people in this thread with an art background I have found very few in the places I have worked with similar backgrounds.

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If you run the JS in the console you see a "powered by optimum" graphic. which I guess would appear on every website that has jquery loaded from google. Which is a ton of sites.

As far as I can tell this does not work cross protocol from http to https. One of the thing I use postMessage for the most is messaging between those two protocols.

bonus points for referencing the Higgs boson in a post about A/B testing.

I get an Internal Server Error. This is all very meta.

Most SEO people will end up telling you that sub domains endup splitting your page rank up since they are considered different domains. We ended up keeping our different languages under different sub folders. so:

whatever.com/

whatever.com/es/

whatever.com/de/

I don't think I will ever be convince that someone has a better syntax for HTML. Markdown is not bad for writing a quick document. But authoring a whole webpage nothing beats pure html. I'm still on the fence for CoffeeScript as well.

More power to you for trying.

we use snapengage on our site and it's a pretty smooth experience. Very happy with it.

also a good call. my god github is amazing. again good job.

Kinda cool. While covering basic topics I don't know if this really the best guide for beginners. REPL is just not a term a beginner needs to know. Also while the console is awesome It's hard for a beginner to take the knowledge and apply it to something they can immediately do on their own.

the browser crashing problem just shows it's still such a new paradigm that programmers still are not tackling the problem correctly. many libraries are already being written to better handle this problem.

I've never been much a fan of native themes. Also I really like the design of Sublime text.

don't they have till the 2nd? I have a hard time believing they will bother doing anything useful until the last possible second.

I'm a big gui guy and vim has just been too much a pain to learn. Something tells me if you have been using vim for that long there is really no good reason to switch.

I use it and love it. If you ever tried 1.x and have not tried 2.x then you should give it another try. It's worlds better.

donated. easy choice. I uses quirksmode often.

as much as I'm sure it's not a trap it's still a pretty bad practice. In theory your site could also get hacked and people could start collecting new usernames and emails not in the database.

To be honest. With firebug's ability to tell me what line and css files the style on an element is coming from I don't find spending a lot of time on organization to have a ton of benefit.

I had the exact same idea the other day. Good summary. Obviously not the best solution for all sites, but I think smaller sites might benefit from this. I'd love to see a basic plugin/library built around this.

I've always been saddened by some of the vitriol that has come up on hacker news when talking about women. But this seems like a pleasant conversation.

I'd love to hear more about interviews. As a front end dev with a BFA in design I've had surprisingly easy time finding jobs. I'm always interested in hearing about what other experiences people are having.

as a designer this still seems a little convoluted to me. I think jquery did so well because of it's simple interface and I think javascript mvc can also be done simpler then this.

I'm not saying this is bad. Just that I'm not going to jump on this until a simpler option come around. I am also a mvc fan.

and that's why you can turn it off. Not every feature has to cater to every person. I don't get the furor over what just seems like a default setting.

I disagree.

this is a great idea. In my mind their pictures and galleries is really what was one of the first big breaks for Facebook.

My wife is a librarian and I do think there are some points that have been glossed over.

Book are still super important. In fact not everyone can afford to buy books. Esp in large metropolitan area where there is any sort of impoverish population. They can't afford book let alone a kindle.

That neuroscience journal might not have been on the racks but I'll bet there is a good chance it was in one of the online databases that libraries pay good money to have access to. Feel free to check out the prices online and I'll bet most will pass on paying for it your self.

Also illustrated Children's Books are something even parents in Suburbia take advantage of as children go through them quickly and they are very expensive to buy.

That said many libraries hold on to books long past their relevance. And more space and time should be devoted to public events, like video games, and education, like the class my wife teaches "how to sigh up for email" and "learning to use the mouse".