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The "Magic 2.0" series by Scott Meyer is a fun look at a programmer in medieval England with the ability to edit the world around him

Edit: the audiobooks are well done too!

Which will also be a factor of big companies being more willing (or able) to hire junior developers whose entire experience in the language is a boot camp

Check out intercom on github for inter-tab communication. I use it in we apps for many different things. Including log-back-in. One tab gets a session timeout and tells them all to go black asking for a password. Enter it in one tab and they all unlock.

It uses local storage

From the take-down advice from Google:

"After a regular review, we have determined that this app is promoted as a means of carrying out spying or surreptitious tracking of others."

Of others. It's clearly not spying on other people.

You comment made me laugh and 'ahhhhh!' at the same time. It now makes sense. He's totally into Apple and hasn't been elsewhere.

A few of the things he talks about regarding the UI changes are already on Windows, but he talks as if they're a new invention. While he might be talking to a 100% Apple audience, I think it makes him look silly that he doesn't mention they're not Apple-original features.

Eg. windows that are semi translucent with the background blurred came with either Vista or 7. That annoying animated focus circle is in Office 2013.

I'd probably include The Eudaemonic Pie in the list -- depending on how define 'hacker'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

$5 is Fiverr, and $5 on Fiverr gets you rubbish.

In an aquihire, they typically ARE buying the product to get the talent capable of building the product in question.

Let's say you've built some product capable of receiving millions of http connections a minute from thousands of servers and then distributing those to thousands of servers as they request a new batch. But you can't find a market. However this is (was of course) a real-world problem for Twitter.

Suddenly you are a really attractive aquihire. Maybe they'll use your tech, but more likely they value your problem solving experience in their specific problem domain.

That it's a one-time deal sounds like a failure on Stellar's part.

It makes no sense to suggest he donate it to charity. He found a pile of people willing to sell him the goods at a price both they and he were happy with. If something like Stellar is to succeed you can't put limits on the free market and the transactions that are allowed to take place using them.

Just because he didn't use his real name doesn't make the transaction less valid. And just because the task didn't use an identifiable account name doesn't make the transaction less valid.

What you're insisting is that you can't buy something from someone on Craigslist using a fake name and meeting in a place that nobody else can tell where you made the transaction. In other words, 99% of Craiglist transactions.

I thought the same .. though there's no decay but it's nice to see the traced path: http://jsfiddle.net/m5MZe/1/

Want to play with it? Here's a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GBQ44/

Yesterday on Reddit someone posted their pet sweet potato. Today I'll believe anything.

Surely it's not hard to solve this one?

Buy the site. Acquisition style. Now they keep the community, the fan base, the long tail, and the passionate founder.

He gets to work on it full time and they get rid of other peoples ads.

I always wanted to be a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pine!

But they can't find any mentors matching my search. :(

TL;DR: To save y'all from listening to the (interesting) Planet Money podcast:

Back in the early C20 depression the auto makers were the biggest companies in the USA. And they'd force the franchisees to purchase cars or lose their franchise.

So states enacted legislation to ensure the auto makers couldn't close a franchise. Nor could the auto maker grant a second franchise in the same location. And (I think I'm inferring as I can't remember hearing this explicitly) could not open their own dealership that competed with the existing franchise.

So Mall Backup Co takes two copies immediately. One on their local node and one that gets shipped back to base.

As soon as you get home you can access your backup (transparently) from the mall node. Then when the drive gets back to base it does another verification run and instructs the node that it can re-use that space.

> But no, the broadcasters want to be paid for not-providing a signal to those customers. Instead of investing to improve their infrastructure, they want to be paid for not improving it.

This is the best one paragraph summary of the Aereo case I've heard. Certainly makes it absolutely plain why it needs to be allowed to continue.

I'd go further. The jury must convict on all presented charges or none. Throwing 900 charges at someone, as the article says, is a way to force a plea bargain from someone who may well be innocent. (And removing a charge after failing the plea bargain tactic, but before court can't be allowed either.)

I don't get the benefit .. the only 'pro' I can think of (spaces in domain names) would be better answered by allowing a space-to-double-hyphen transcoding so

hxxp://food in chicago.com/ encodes to hxxp://food--in--chicago.com

Pros: * Domains can now have spaces

Cons: * Domains are now case sensitive * You visit a domain and it isn't reversible * The google-juice assigned to domain names is gone

I think the author has a point .. however we're all conditioned now to the standard-ish font size on the web. We all sit at a distance from the screen optimised for a particular size - and as most sites are about the same we zoom in or our a little. Changing that is just jarring.

The number of characters per line is, however, important. I tend to either resize my browser to narrow sites like HN or use the 'Instapaper Text' button to totally transform the page.

One things missing in this article is talk about line-height. The longer the line of text and the longer the paragraph, the more line-height you need. The white gap between the two lines helps the eye to find the next line as it quickly scans back to the start.

Many news sites still use a small line-height reminiscent of newspapers where whitespace is expensive. I think the designers think it gives the feel of 'real' news.

TL;DR: lines around 70 - 80 characters are good. But more important is sufficient line-height to scan back to the start of the next line instantly.

I'm surprised Disney didn't throw all their weight behind the Doyle estate here. Under this precedent, all attributes of Mickey Mouse created in 1928 (his first appearance) appear to become public domain in 4 years time, giving you, me, and my uncle Bob the right to publish Mickey Mouse stories.

It sounds, to me, like they should have created a centralised spec for talking to these external system. Then created teams to build the interfaces between that spec, and the external systems.

So for healthcare.gov to talk to Hospital Insurance Inc. it would actually talk to the Health Insurance Inc shim and THAT would talk to the third party.

Now you have a small(er) definable project that a team can deliver and that can be tested. 100 shims later and healthcare.gov can talk to anything because they all (appear to) use the same interface.

Stopped reading and watching "The News". What a waste of time. If there's something important, someone will tell me about it.

I've done similar, but without any need for Raportive (though I guess my method would have a higher error rate and not work for MEGA corps).

You want to get Bob Smith's email at example.com, but you don't know it? Simply find as many @example.com addresses as you can find then use name dictionaries to guess the address format.

For example, if you find njones@example.com, pjohnson@example.com, ffitzgerald@example.com and jane.doe@example.com we can quicky deduce that example.com uses <firstinitial><surname> as their email template. The Jane Doe address doesn't fit with every other address we found so we can ignore it.

Now send an email to bsmith@example.com and you're most likely talking to Bob Smith.

They certainly don't. My suggestions were more in line with creating a successful site.

While I understand the philosophy of the 'slow web', I can't see it creating successful websites that depend (at some level) on return customers.

The other option for traction would be search engine traffic, and that isn't (likely) to happen with ask.io. (A third traffic option is direct referrals, but they'll be specific to a week: hey everyone, send my wife a card: ask.io! .. and thus wont create return traffic)

The slow web is better for disseminating unchanging information - like a dictionary or encyclopedia - that's needed on-demand.

I'd be interested in OP's thoughts on his Slow Web philosophy and creating traction with ask.io.

Lovely idea. There's too much snark in the world. Any project aimed at making the world a better place is awesome.

Here's some immediate feedback that might (or might not!) help:

* One per week seems too long and people wont ever come back. More than one at a time seems too much. How about making it like Groupon etc and have an 'ask of the day' and then 'side asks' for things you'll never front-page, but are interesting?

* I'd love to see the Groupon idea stretched. Add an "I did this" button (or an "I'm doing this" that posts a follow up email asking if you've done it 24 hours later)

* Needs a button to 'share this ask on Facebook/Twitter/...'. Same after someone has 'done this'.

* I'd post a card if it looked like people were posting cards.

* As naff as it sounds, "Needs more gamification"

0-4.999 includes zero so I figure that's the 'Zero. Just zero. No comment. Just plain old nothing'

Came here to admit the same failing. I can't believe even Windows 1.01 can beat me at Reversi.

I think teaching a kitten to read your credit card and arrange it's kibble into a binary representation would be easier than using the POSTBillPay website.

So this project is a proof-of-concept for CoinJar's Checkout API? I think doing a consumer approachable project to demonstrate something that's invisible like a new checkout system is a great idea!