magicarp

Think about who runs this website

Google has done a lot of work in this area: https://federated.withgoogle.com/

Was Coursera contacted before this was published?

This is super cool, and surprising to see since last week I implemented something similar in ClojureScript. Mazes are awesome.

http://jeffcarp.github.io/maze/

Code: https://github.com/jeffcarp/maze/blob/gh-pages/maze.cljs

A few weeks ago I was fooling around implementing algorithms from that page and Prim's Algorithm looked really cool, so I implemented a version with randomized colors on my homepage: http://jeff.is/

> because you're not doing it in Boston or SF

...or NY!

If they don't compensate security researchers enough, the incentive to find security holes goes away. People do this for a living.

Looks beautiful, but why isn't it free?

nic.io or dnsimple.com

Silicon Valley or Wall Street?

This answer on Quora may be relevant:

https://www.quora.com/Uber-1/How-can-Uber-survive-driverless...

That wouldn't exclude JRuby though

Wouldn't those apps just be App.net clients? If you're limited only to what types of media App.net provides, how can you make an innovative app?

I don't want transparency into the NSA, I want no NSA. They've lied to us before on what they collect, why should we trust a PR site they put up?

Awesome, if you're open to talk some time I'd love to learn more about your way of doing things.

That's crazy, I've been developing something very similar for personal use: http://rcrd.org/

FizzBuzz isn't software engineering, it's CS101.

I think you meant TSA

In the case of the recent NSA spying revelations, those "conspiracy nuts" turned out to be correct.

I was in your position for about a year until bit the bullet and uninstalled Sublime Text from my machine forced myself to use vim exclusively. It was an arduous and painful 2 weeks, but it got better and paid off in the long run.

"so simple X can do it" always comes off as condescending to me

Not sure if this falls in the "news" part of Hacker News...

Does this need the overhead of being a fully-fledged Rails application? What about making it a Sinatra app?

> I'm brand new to the software industry and while I know nothing about software...

Then why are you giving advice on how to run software companies?

You can set up New Relic, whose monitoring will ping the site frequently enough that it won't idle, or if that's not an option you can set up a cron job yourself to do the same thing.

Never seen gore on Facebook, was it by your friends or shared?

April fools!

Hilarious. As a bay area quarter-lifer I can say pretty much all of these are spot-on.

Who in their right mind would want a cosmetic skull replacement?

Hasn't this been on the HN frontpage recently?