jpdevereaux

Raspberry Pi blimp?

You can find some cool stuff via tag filtering - e.g. https://pinboard.in/t:nodejs/t:distributed/

I'm not sure why they get upvoted either, but I get why they're written. The real point of this article is the second-to-last paragraph, where he says (paraphrased) "check out my startup website that I didn't even use Bootstrap to make."

Ehh when integrating with the Dropbox API you're given a choice of "full Dropbox" or "app folder", the latter option creates a folder in your Dropbox which is all your app can access. For an app like this "full Dropbox" is probably more useful (so that you can edit existing files), but in O'Reilly's case it seems they should have chosen "app folder".

While I'd like to agree, I'd also like to see something beyond anecdotal evidence on this. It'd give me a great excuse next time someone wants a Facebook login and a Twitter login and a Pinterest login [sic] on the same site.

Not sure this is a proper use of "Show HN"...

I like this idea a lot, I think I'll try it myself. You already have some well dug marketing channels though, as made evident by your book sales - any advice for the rest of us? Better yet, any interest in making this a community challenge?

The nootropics community would find this very interesting. I wonder what the process of NGF isolation entails (or if she published anything about the process).

His point about the commissioned artist vs. the self-motivated artist is very interesting to me as a freelance developer. I often feel bored/discouraged doing projects for hire, yet when building something for myself I'll dedicate 18-hour days to it - even if it's basically the same project. A similar psychology is likely what caused me to excel as a self-taught hacker but fail as a student.

On a similar note, with all the hubbub about how worthwhile college is, it seems that curiosity and self motivation are some powerful deciding factors. Perhaps the current standard of going straight to college after high school is not the right way to go about it.

As a customer you could choose to opt out, but from a business standpoint it's not so easy.

Very good point, it seems like a perverse reverse incentive. However I don't think that the earnings of a given field speak to its "value" - as I'm sure any teacher would agree.

Seems like the strategy is 1) do some standard business that makes a standard amount of money, 2) convince people you can make money, being "transparent" by offering a bunch of upward-trending income graphs, 3) write a book about how you did step 1, 4) rinse and repeat.

To me it'd be most interesting to learn about step 2, or "how to build a community willing to pay you to follow in your footsteps". I've tried it before but couldn't find the right balance between helpful and sales-y.

This "income ceiling" you mention brings up a potentially interesting idea - why not scale the cost of college according to the expected value of your major? I know that in a broader sense this happens already, as "better" schools tend to be more expensive, but perhaps (to use a cliché example) an English degree and a CS degree shouldn't cost the same.

Shrimp is the first thing that comes to mind. Never seen shit-free shrimp labels.

That's a lovely capitalist way to think about it, but it won't do much. Foods labeled non-GMO or non-hormonally-enhanced or whatever are only labeled so to target their market: the sorts of people who already care.

This is the most elegantly concise summary I've seen of the topic.

It also reminds me of a humorous video from the MySpace era about what was called the "MySpace angle" — people use the best possible view of themselves for their profile picture, which potentially means obscuring some less desirable aspects. This can easily be extended to any other aspect of today's digital self-presentation.

Absolutely. The people who'd get up in arms about the whole thing likely weren't users in the first place. I told a non-HN-reading, Instagram-using friend (i.e. an average American college student) about the ToS fiasco the other day; said friend frankly did not care a bit, and wondered why anyone would.

But also consider that many if not most of those users were already on Facebook.

I really like the idea of a portable web server - with a WiFi dongle (better yet, a 3/4G dongle) and dynamic DNS it should be possible to carry the a piece of the internet in one's pocket!

1) How to play the piano 2) How to make VSTs 3) How to sell software (potentially as a service)

We're all out of news today in the UK so let's talk about the weather... in America.

You too! Sorry if my above absurdism comes off as offensive.

Fair enough. I for one enjoy expressing anti-television sentiments, with and without company.

How is anyone supposed to enjoy the holidays with their families if they aren't consuming media?

How about charging users to forcibly become friends with someone who has rejected them? It could even be a recurring monthly fee to renew the friendship.

Sounds great. Maybe a general "suggested resources" section for a given level or challenge. Or perhaps you don't need to point to specific resources, but mention the concepts involved, such as minimax for Tic Tac Toe.

Here's another idea that might help noobs such as myself: have a "tutorial level" or something to that effect, which guides new players through challenges by teaching them the concepts along the way. That'd encourage more people to get involved (you might be scaring some away with how challenging the very first challenges are) and also give people a sense of how to continue with the rest of the levels.

Your post formatting is a little iffy. But I'll bite.

I've played on HackerRank a bit and one thing that held me back from solving some of the challenges was not knowing what I needed to know. If you're going through various courses to come up with the questions, why not link back to those courses so we can learn and then try our hand?

Fight elitism by getting rid of the elitists. A successful startup is not fueled by egos, but by hard work, dedication, and cooperation. It's perfectly normal to feel good about yourself if you've done (and continue to do) those things, but those who do not tend to become elitist.

I try to keep myself true to two simple rules: no single file over 500 lines, and no single folder with more than 50 files. Obviously this ends up varying by project, but overall it discourages the monolith design pattern that I've seen so many times when picking up other code bases.