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The repercussions of the occasional community shitstorm don't seem to warrant any investment into the scalability of support and remediation mechanisms. If this type of stuff would either drive traffic, interaction or another means of revenue generation, we'd probably see more creativity and better results.

Thanks, Calin. Will look into it.

Thank you, Saurabh. For the position that we're looking for right now, it's really important that you've had some prior React experience.

Thank you. I've received your email. Thankfully there were many highly interested applicants - it'll take me a couple of more days to come back to you.

Kerngedanke | SEEKING FREELANCER |ReactJS Frontend-Developer | remote and onsite (Munich, Germany) | freelance and internship | part-time or full-time We help journalists bring their content to where it matters in ways that matter.

At Kerngedanke, we’re building a SaaS web app for content creators (journalists in particular) to enable them to invest more of their time into researching and creating great content by saving time and effort with adapting their stories to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn et al.

We’re looking for fellow hackers to help us with getting our MVP and the next couple of iterations of our product into the hands of our early adopters (as of now: five media institutions with origins in private and public media, TV, radio and print).

You’re ideally a passionate dev, motivated and passionate about creating great software and have experience with ReactJS development. Experiences with talking to GraphQL backends and TypeScript development are a plus.

If you’re interested: I’d be happy to hear from you. Drop me a note at mustafa.isik@kerngedanke.com or via Twitter @isik_mk

(Btw, this is me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwkWBxBXWc&list=PLegPRS5X7Y.... Our crew and I we're nice people )

Kerngedanke | ReactJS Frontend-Developer | remote and onsite (Munich, Germany) | freelance or as employee | part-time or full-time

We help journalists bring their content to where it matters in ways that matter.

At Kerngedanke, we’re building a SaaS web app for content creators (journalists in particular) to enable them to invest more of their time into researching and creating great content by saving time and effort with adapting their stories to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn et al.

We’re looking for fellow hackers to help us with getting our MVP and the next couple of iterations of our product into the hands of our early adopters (as of now: five media institutions with origins in private and public media, TV, radio and print).

You’re ideally a passionate dev, motivated and passionate about creating great software and have experience with ReactJS development. Experiences with talking to GraphQL backends and TypeScript development are a plus.

If you’re interested: I’d be happy to hear from you. Drop me a note at mustafa.isik@kerngedanke.com or via Twitter @isik_mk

(Btw, this is me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwkWBxBXWc&list=PLegPRS5X7Y... Our crew and I we're nice people )

I don't see how there'd be anything to be criticized about this. IMHO, both of you are being too judgmental.

Like so many other tasks, coding requires a certain amount of knowledge, experience and craftsmanship. Over the years I have come across many developers who don't even know the common best practices of their respective bread & butter language. Even worse, when they don't even suspect that there could be concepts beyond what language syntax and semantics provide for.

As a first step C/C++ developers should have read Scott Meyers' books and Java developers should know Josh Bloch's Effective Java by heart.

WRT to the (ultra-short) post this item links to, IMHO designing everything up front is neither feasible nor possible at all for any but the most trivial projects. That is something that at least the advent of agile methods even within the most conservative corporations should have taught us.

What is lacking in software development are neither the tools nor an atmosphere of less pressure. Much rather it is the sensibility for decent craftsmanship and engineering - and the knowledge of the means on how to acquire such.

Three weeks ago I gave a talk at Google on my real-time shared editing project, which in its first incarnation materializes as a set of eclipse plug-ins.

A couple of posts on Google's Open Source blog and my blog respectively provide a little more insight concerning the event at which I presented the algorithmic details for the first time. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/06/eclipseday-at-... http://codesurgeonblog.com/2008/05/eclipseday-hosted-by-goog...

If you don't care too much for the inner workings but would rather like to see the shared editing in action, I have put together a screencast, available via http://www.vimeo.com/1195398

There is nothing wrong with re-purposing either Twitter or any other service for that matter - as long as it does not involve crazy marketing #$%@#&.

I do like what he says about static vs. dynamic typing.

He sounds very convinced that Scala won't be going anywhere, which to me sounds like an IDE developer not wanting to invest development time for supporting a language he considers tedious to support.

Guess that is just one of the many reasons I am in the "other" camp (read eclipse).

What is it with some people whining about the (supposed) "damage that Twitter has done to the community". Not really bright, IMHO. Nobody is being forced to use twitter and so far no one has apparently come up with an alternative that is viable enough for droves of people to switch. I don't want to play the uncritical Twitter advocate, but I like the concept, the service and this answer to TechCrunch in particular.

I have been using ff ever since the closed beta last fall/winter. Even though I have been careful to not follow too many people (currently 42) in order to not drown in a flurry of feed items, I have missed a feature such as rooms all along.

Being able to organize discussions on a certain topic in a separate feed should help reduce clutter and provide for "time-efficient" reading.

Right now, you end up doing doing a whole lot of browsing and context switching when filtering news, technical posts, tech talks from among "funny" YouTube videos shared or "liked" by your contacts.

Btw, my ff account http://friendfeed.com/codesurgeon and a room I just set up http://friendfeed.com/rooms/electronic-gaming - feel free to join in.

The gist of what he is saying for people he'd most likely want to reach but can't for the very same reason he's adressing with his lengthy post: When reading a long, carefully arranged cohesive body of (text)work, it does not help to be distracted. With ubiquitous access to seemingly useful resources, it is very easy to give into such and deviate from the intended reading material. Book publishers don't seem to get this when devising their solutions for the declining book readership problem.

Another note by me: Good writing is very similar to good programming/programming language design/engineering: a system/text does not get better by adding more to it, but when you can't remove anything from it anymore without changing your intent/its purpose.

Petzold could have done with a shorter post ;)

> Combing from someone whose last two laptop purchases were 17 inch screens, this might not mean much.

I'd buy a second laptop as light and easy to take along as the Macbook Air is. With WLAN HotSpots popping up everywhere I roam, I don't mind the missing wireless connectivity too much.

It's just the availabe combo of slow harddrives that is killing the device for me :'( According to ArsTechnica's "No Spin" review, not even the SSD option saves you from frequent idling.

link to the review: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbook-air-ssd-revi...

No hard feelings and thanks for the clarification.

I think Python is a slick language and tool and its Benevolent Dictator for Life is a knowledgeable and nice person. I ran into him while interning at Google (worked on the same team and almost did a project related to one of his).

I guess what I don't like is that devs of all kinds of backgrounds have been downplaying Java ever since its inception and in my view not always rightfully so.

My (admittedly subjective) impression is that this has been happening beyond the usual "religious programming language wars".

Developers writing native code are still complaining about Java's (supposedly) terrible performance, admin-focused scripters for lack of immediacy and web-focused coders for being bloated and not supportive of "agile procedure". I'd just like to point out that this language has become the "working man's language" and with it spans a wide variety of domains and features an incredibly large community. Perf-wise, I doubt that there is currently another language VM that has been better studied, optimized and supported than the JVM (Azul, anyone?).

Of course, the truth is that Java is a tool like every other language and has its proper uses and domains where I'd also pick a different weapon of choice.

I like the post and the replies. Hacker News seems to be a really good forum for inquiries of this nature.

But what on earth is "Damaged by Java" supposed to convey? I guess you find Python with Django to suit your particular needs better than Java, no reason to play down the latter though.

I don't really mind that I can't interconnect all of my webservices/online personas, i.e. in the sense of all n services being connected with the remaining (n-1). This does not seem to make a lot of sense for most of those.

What I would like to be able to do is interact with the services via a central location such as ff - not just consume/aggregate.

Along those lines, the ff team has included a "feedback channel" (i.e. easy replying) for twitter which serves the purpose very well. If they'd do the same for comments on flickr, disqus, youtube (you get the idea) accounts, I'd be even happier. Their service would allow for some sort of two-way centralized communication that would save me from touring all of the respective sites for even the most mundane tasks.

In general, I agree with you on openness and standards but can't say that I'd be currently missing them WRT this domain/application.

Self-proclaimed "technologist"-journos, especially those focusing on social networking and "Web 2.x" coverage, don't seem to have any sort of expectation towards the quality of their own reporting.

So this InformationWeek dude initially tries out friendfeed for a very short time and does not like it. He does so again a second time, investing "more time" and all of a sudden sees more of a light. The time he invested the second time around turns out to be a day. Even though he writes it is "too early to pass judgement", the one day experience seems to be enough to serve as foundation for an article.

Doesn't anybody strive a little more for something more conclusive?

Btw, I like and use friendfeed (http://friendfeed.com/codesurgeon) a lot. I just wonder what kind of deep insights some reporters get from a day's usage and interaction.

What is the motivation for Joel Spolsky's post? Sympathy for MS Office file formats? Reads like a manifesto for never ever changing/cleaning up the file formats because it took a thousand man-years to come up with the current incarnation. He is even going so far as to defend the office file formats' complexity and resulting maintainability hell by saying that portability was not an issue fifteen+ years ago - well, it is now. His suggestions for file format conversion solutions are OK, but doesn't it occur to him, that developers don't want to be locked-in to having to shell out money for MS APIs forever? Ties in well with Bruce Schneier's latest post on vendor lock-in http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/lockin.html

I agree with the title of this post, but don't really get what the referenced post is supposed to do in order to help. I think the topic is really interesting and I'd like to know what other hacks are listening to.

I posted "Coding In Flow - Does Music Get You Higher?" on my blog in 2006 on the very same topic listing my favorite music for certain development tasks.

http://codesurgeonblog.com/2006/08/coding-in-flow-does-music...