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cyborgon Send Money to Friends in Messenger

Snapcash. Send money that disappears after a few seconds.

It says at the bottom that you're hiring, but no way to discover what for.

cyborgon Developer Auction out of beta; accepting developers from all backgrounds in US

I had an extremely bad experience with Developer Auction. Ultimately using the site got me fired from my job and the team at Developer Auction was extremely non-responsive/uncaring about it all. Matt Miszewski in particular was extremely callous.

cyborgon Grunt.js

I'm an avid noder - and this is not common knowledge for me - but in fact great news!

cyborgon Why Ageism in Startups is BS

"I don't see the connection between the title and the graph."

My thought was that startups target younger devs as they believe that they'll be more 'liberal' engineers. I think the graph shows that to be false.

edit: well I don't think the graph shows anything - but it suggests that age and liberalism are not correlated. Many people have suggested that the survey is flawed - and that Yegge's original post is biased against conservatives.

cyborgon Why Ageism in Startups is BS

My thought is that startups tend to target 'liberal' developers so they can iterate fast and innovate rapidly. It's the 'fuck it ship it' kinda attitude.

cyborgon Why Ageism in Startups is BS

Agreed. The questions (well they aren't actually questions - they're beliefs that you agree or disagree with) come from Steve Yegge's recent post on SWE: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSK...

cyborgon Steve Yegge - Programming Politically Part 2

Also see http://sweaxis.org and http://sweaxis.org/stats/age

cyborgon "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem

I'm the shirtless guy in the top-left photo. I feel pretty bummed that something we did to parody the ridiculous 'brogrammer' movement was used in this context : (

cyborgon Ask HN: Where to sell my awesome domain?

Flippa.

cyborgon Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

I forked this https://github.com/mkrecny/BrowserQuest - added a static file server on branch static and dependency management via package.json. Main annoyance now is that they don't include the audio assets in the github repo : / Great fun game though.

cyborgon Download any SoundCloud song

Also should be noted that a subset of songs have a download url

cyborgon Show HN: Bored last night. 3 hour project: Your Most Followed Followers

Great work, one problem:

How influential someone is should be a function of #followers and #following - not just #followers. A high #followers/#following is what really indicates influence.

Most of my top 10 were people (or biz accts) that had followed 60k people and hence have a lot of followers.

Edit: Just noticed the VIP factor, which does exactly what I'm suggesting.