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Wouldn't sub-hacker-news threads for non-hackers defeat the purpose of it being part of hacker news in the first place?

Your browser is probably loading in the CSS and/or image assets from it's cache of what Bootstrap v1.4 looked like, thus looking mangled when it runs the 2.0 HTML structure.

A couple of refreshes (does Chrome have Shift + R for forcing reload without cache?) should sort it out.

Looks like their hosting account got suspended. Here's a Google cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...

Ruby isn't an application framework. You're probably thinking of Rails.

Thanks for the replies! Not sure if this changes anything, but here's a little bit more background info.

The business is web-based, but will not be profitable without a large amount of offline business development which the guy in question will be doing. It's also quite a niche business, and as this guy has previously run businesses in the industry he has the contacts/networks in place that stand to get this business off the ground.

Thanks for your input!

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I'm a freelance graphic designer and developer (we do exist!) currently contracting to a US-based design firm as a UI designer in addition to freelance work (and working on my own side-projects). Always interested in talking about more projects though. Hit me up if you want to chat :)

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Second that. Speed is not something I ever even considered to be an issue.

If it were me (which it's not), it's the QR code feature in combination with the existing idea of URL shorteners that I'd be promoting as the differentiating factor — i.e. "Qik.im — Short URLs with QR codes". I think introducing the concept of speed into the copy detracts from what's cool about it.

Nice work!

What becomes possible? The entire internet could effectively get rid of hosting account providers, with each page in every site being contained in a hashify URL, and with each page linking to other pages using other hashify URLs.

Trouble is, there might be a DNS-like system needed to match hashify URLs to more human-readable strings (or a way for existing DNS to resolve to hashify style URLs).

Neat idea.

I think what would work better would be to share some of your own ideas for feedback from others. The best idea(s) will be the ones you get excited enough about to follow through with.

Learning PHP is how I got into web programming, and for that I'll be eternally grateful. Since starting to explore languages like Ruby and Python however, I've been reluctant to use PHP in situations where others are an option, so I'm really glad to hear things are picking up in PHP's development—it can only mean good things for the development community.

When you create something polarizing, usually that's a sign you're onto a good thing.

I wonder how the people who've felt spammed would feel if it were a human GitHub user that had contacted them with the same changes.

I'm guessing this post is a direct response to "Design is Horseshit" (http://yongfook.com/post/14295124427/design-is-horseshit), which was on HN earlier.

It appears that the author of this post has taken the original article and simply replaced 'design' with 'engineering' the whole way through it, thus the unusual characterisation of engineers as "expressive creatures" you point out.

"Winner takes all" implies that many more people will lose out.

Don't get me wrong: I think that gun.io's approach is potentially a great way to get worthwhile stuff done on open source projects, but I'm also slightly sceptical that this might see a 99designs-style model infect people's mindshare more than it already does.

Being based in Australia, I've often felt as though I'm at a massive disadvantage by not being in the centre of a startup hotspot. It feels as though being so far away from "all the action" means I'm less likely to succeed with the things I build, but despite this I've never been deterred from continuing down the track I'm heading on.

I don't know if banding together as a coalition would be much help (happy to be proven wrong), but I do think the author makes a valid point that we—as the other 99% of startups—need do a better job of focusing on being a successful business (especially on a local scale) first before we worry about moving to SF/NYC, TechCrunch headlines, and massive exits.

Nice design! Can I ask where you got that header background image from?

Interesting read—thanks for posting those links!

I think this would be a great project!

Point taken.

FWIW, helping with the mentoring.is page (albeit a small project) is what got me started about this whole topic. I've been talking with a couple of mentors (who are heavily involved in open source themselves) about how I can contribute to some of my favourite projects, and it's definitely something I plan to do as I get free time.

You mean like I did for http://mentoring.is (as discussed here: http://blog.cobychapple.com/blog/2011/09/18/a-distributed-me...)?

I realise it hasn't been popular, and I'm not the biggest fan either, but my point isn't about what's popular amongst open source developers. Also, if developers need to be convinced of the need for good design I think that's a good example of the problem right there.

Did anyone else notice that at 4:16, when Jason does the dictation into Notes, Siri interprets what he says as 'I need to make some videos about the iPhone 4 ASS'?

In his own words: "it figured out exactly what I wanted it to say!"