metaculus

This is my side project that emerged during my time working in Android instrumentation at Headspin. It is nowhere near usable but I'd like to gauge its potential usefulness and whether I should pick up where I left off. Here is a talk explaining it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p_ZROCzdCMbbaNSnAF2J...

Maybe, but the messages are centralized and can be censored or removed in your scenario. Zmsg, while just a proof of concept, uses encrypted memo field in Zcash transactions. Once the transaction is confirmed, it is part of the blockchain. This can be useful, for example, for political protesters against subversive government.

Thank you for the feedback. The pay-per-click model will be one of the options once we're ready for paying customers and we should adjust it accordingly from users' feedback.

Yes, it will be released by the end of this month.

Probably means power/performance?

Hi HN, my goal with Alphaseek is to make it easy and simple for developers to launch a referral program in their apps and websites as an alternative to other productized offerings in the market that are built for marketers and charging big monthly fees regardless of the referral success of the users. The SDK consists of REST API that keeps track of a product's users and how they refer other users to sign up, generate unique referral links and "invite" codes for them, and increment scores on both sides of a referral. The back end is reward-agnostic and leaves it to the developer. I'm also working on the TypeScript/JavaScript library that wraps the API and makes it easy to integrate with web and React projects and a CLI tool for admin purposes.

I've spent three months on-and-off working on this project and I'm really excited to share it and get feedback from you. I would love to hear your thoughts and answer any questions you may have.

How is it "Performance-oriented"? Is there a special language construct that is exclusively for performance?

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Though it's an opinion piece and I don't agree with all the points, some I do. The readability issue is real when dealing with any code more than a hundred line, and worse the convention seems to encourage using empty lines very sparingly. The shortcomings came out clearer as I've been teaching someone to program in Python. The subtlety of per-scope indentation really confused her. The concept of a "block" is just not visually clear. Not to mention mixing spaces and tabs by accident. That could halt a new programmer for an hour.

Great recap on using waitgroups and channels in goroutines.

It's true that for a beginner in programming it is overwhelming, but it's worth the read for those already with programming skill who's entering the language.

After all, it's just s recommendation, not a command. I don't see a reason to throw a tantrum over it.

Even the President coded in JavaScript. What makes you think people hate it? JavaScript is everywhere and it's leveraging the power to build the web to more people. The language has its flaws and beauty. Once you understand its "everything is an object" you'll see it's inner Zen.

There's absolutely no way you can code and dodging JS.

What I like about Meteor is its community, which is very active and diverse. Most people who use Meteor tend to have a deep fondness and attachment to the framework as opposed to other Javascript frameworks in which IMO are used for the sake of their performant, simplicity, scalability, etc. all the functionalities.

One thing is for sure--Meteor makes Javascript less ugly by letting us write synchronous code. And the "place the code whereever you like" approach really simplifies the coding experience and make it very enjoyable.

I don't see why there should be a specific HTML template for just Django, since the HTML representations are pretty separated from the controller and model, any template should do.

HTML5boilerplate is a great one to start, just because it deals with a lot of cross-browser compatibility issues.

I find the book "Javascript: The Good Parts" a Javascript little bible.