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I'm curious to see how this will monetize. The founders of Gravatar often shared anecdotes in meetups how Gravatar was painful despite being big as there was no money in avatars.

This is unfortunate. I was about to implement MixPanel on my startups site (it already laced in our development code), but their API being down completely locks our application ... actually shipping MixPanel in production not looking so hot right now.

EDIT: As others have voiced my issue was that it was taking up to 30 seconds for requests to timeout disrupting various things in my JS code (it is a Backbone app) -- it didn't actually "lock" it. I was using the JS API.

Awesome. I was just about this make this yesterday when I found myself customize optimizley/guiders to work with Bootstrap skins :D

How does Bridge compare to Meteor?

In the typical hacker news fashion we see waves of posts that criticize the simplicity of a puzzle.

I don't know why people are so fussy these days. Just think about this test like a FizzBuzz test. It's primary goal is really to weed out the beginners, not to find rockstars.

Just appreciate it for what it was intended to be, a simple filter. Sheesh.

"PayPal.com gets a new landing page" is more like it.

What is with all the hate? Meebo tried, tried again, they failed, so they exited.

1. Meebo Messenger was great, but was not pulling in nearly enough revenue

2. Meebo tried to pivot to an advertising bar for more revenue with no luck

Understand that Google probably didn't buy Meebo with the intent of shutting its services. Meebo was most likely already failing (hence the 70MM overall raise and 100MM exit), and would have had to shut down anyway. However the founders were, luckily, able to exit the company first.

Meebo was great at its peak, but Google didn't kill Meebo. It was already dead.

It's too bad many of the toughest problems in companies are more typically on the integration level, which requires domain knowledge and context of the project itself. To solve these problems don't require brains, but time and communication.

I feel this service is targeted toward people who have simple one-off "puzzle" problems ie. write me a quick recommendation algorithm for a data structure of this format.

I'd be interested in seeing some case studies to see what exactly are the types of problems you are solving. "Small programming task" is a bit too vague for me.

Well, Chatroulette validated the idea that people are naturally curious to meet other random people, but the execution was poor.

To me Airtime seems like Chatroulette done right -- user authentication, tools to interact with eachother, harder to post nudies... Now to see if it catches on...

Strategic exit I'm guessing. I think they have been struggling to find a core product for a while now. The meebo bar was essentially a pivot after popularity of meebo messenger started to decline.

I own a similar app called Yoink that does the same thing. Any reason why I should migrate to Dragondrop/does DND do some things better?

I'm curious if they integrated Sencha touch with it too. Personally I use Backbone to layout structure, but still integrate it with Ext for specific components.

Anyone know the technology used for the client? Sencha? Perhaps another library?

Is this 3 backend engineers? Was there another team that maintained the app and django app?

FYI when you go here it messes up your Adblock and turns it on for all sites. To fix it go to adblock settings and remove the last entry from the Filter List tab.

SHIFT and CTROL go UP and DOWN an octave respectively.

Thoughts on now.js? Why now.js instead of dnode?

Exactly. Chrome has gone from 10-17 in a year but it still "Chrome", not Chrome 17.

Stop versioning Firefox so rapidly and people will come back. Firefox 5 - Firefox 11 in 1 year. Come on Mozilla... switch back to minor version numbers. I don't think they realize how this perception negatively effects the regular consumer.

One of the smartest moves from this game is that after you see what someone has drawn for you, it automatically forces you to draw back to them.

1. Check drawing

2. See drawing

3. Get forced to pick word (no options to reply later)

4. Draw for them

5. Repeat

So if you ever want to see what anyone drew for you, you're pretty much forced to draw back thus a neverending cycle.

You guys should stream this meetup so us east-coasters can watch too.

Making a short video should be essential for something like this.

In reply to the edit -- would be cool if someone could extend this to ExtJS as well just for the heck of it.

Programming Pearls is also an amazing gem you should read as early in your career as possible. If you end up heading into software, also check out The Mythical Man Month. Although dated, the lessons are timeless.

Steal in that context is a powerful word as it blatantly suggests he already accused all customers of being a thief of some sort. Not only that, he is trying to guilt people into buying his product with the follow up sentence, "why would you steal from a vet".

He is doing it wrong.

I stopped using Firefox after the 3.x period. I personally believe 3.x series was the best Firefox, and that going forward it has only been downhill. On the consumer level, I think their biggest mistake was giving each release a new major number (4,5,6,7,8,9) when only minor things were changing. We went from Firefox 4 to Firefox 10 in less than a year. Why would a consumer like so much implied change so fast?

Might defeat the purpose but you should add top comments as well. Part of the fun of browsing is the added contextual humor :)

Does anyone know why LESS was picked over SASS for Bootstrap?

This reminds me of a US company I worked with that outsourced some of their service layer work to a company with heavy European influence. As a result, API methods also had the spelling of certain words eg. getColour() or getFavourites(). Good times.

dumb question but is there literally a theme called "new theme" or are you just talking about the new default sublimetext theme?