mustardhamsters

We do a little bit of everything! I tried to pick the best tool for each purpose as I was building the early prototypes, and we've segmented the system to make that easy to develop on. We are looking for people comfortable moving around as much of the system as possible.

Hi, I'm Dean, the first software engineer at Glowforge. Our software deals with a fair amount of Rails, but we also have Node and Python micro services for certain processes. The UI is very Javascript heavy. We're also writing our own firmware in C. The cloud software is managed with a set of Docker containers.

I'd never thought of Harold and the Purple Crayon as related to programming. How is that? In perhaps the broadest sense the crayon gives him the power and freedom to create in the same way software might, but that's a pretty big leap.

I do considerable design and photographic work in OS X. I've been on the Mac platform for my entire life, and I have no real reason to switch now. That said, most of my development work is platform independent– it probably wouldn't make that much of a difference if I did it in Linux, maybe a bit more if I did it in Windows. I just have no reason to do so and I'm comfortable with OS X.

This still had a bunch of issues when I tried it: The user I connected with saw many instances of my user because I was trying to connect with Sublime Text, and couldn't give permission to all of them. The system didn't sync well from ST to the browser, but it worked the other way around. At some point we began typing over each other entirely. Screenshot here: http://grab.by/oAgS

Really want to see this working well!

I don't think wanting to stay permanently single makes you broken. I also don't think that you are the sole decider of what makes you a "good" boyfriend or if you need to be a "dramatically better person" to get there.

Do what makes you comfortable and what you think will make you happy and fulfilled in ten, twenty or thirty years. I felt this post made a strong case for thinking of relationships as long-term investments and although it's hard to think on that scale, that may help you with your decision of how to live your life.

Most of my tech support requests come in via email anyway. I send them to supportdetails.com, and they're very happy to send me an email. We have a tech-savvy userbase, so usually they say they liked it so much they'll use it themselves.

Good starting point, but that won't get him trillions of combinations.

Definitely. At first I was thinking "okay, another useless CSS trick" then "wait, just one element?" then "why does this read like I'm watching a video?" then I finally found the play button and just sat back and thought "oh my god".

I had no idea those before and after pseudo elements were so powerful, or that box shadows could be that awesome.

I got a blank recording from this, and then when I tried to send it to you it failed and said the message couldn't be sent anyway.

Some kind of indicator of audio levels is going to be important so users can at least see that it's working properly. Not sure what's up with it not sending, probably an easier fix on your end.

It glosses over it pretty quickly, but it sounds like he was charging a fee for frequency of checks for the classes. Part of the slide presentation shows that the school's policy surrounding their electronic services forbids commercial use or personal gain. Maybe that's part of the problem.

Edit: The conduct timeline makes this pretty cut and dried: http://ucouldfinish.com/conduct/ In the written statement of hearing determination (July 24, 2pm) they say specifically that he's in violation of their code by making unauthorized commercial use of their service. They then go on to talk about server loads, but the primary violation is the commercialization of their service.

:) right back at you, big boy. ;)

I have been fortunate enough that when my bosses come to me and say "we want an iPhone app" I can explain why this is a bad business decision and they listen to me. A native app should not just be a little button for your web content.

I didn't write the copy, but I did do the design. We're proud to be part of this protest. Thanks for your kind words.

What about "503: Service Intentionally Unavailable"?

Edit: Actually, I don't want to change it. I don't think our readers will read three words and skip the explanation. I think much more highly of them than that.

Hi, I'm the guy who made this page. We've been talking about SOPA for weeks, and announced that we were blacking out several days ago. I think that our readership is on top of that, but I might be persuaded to amend the message... I thought it was fairly clear.

We made some deliberate decisions to try to make it look as little as possible like a real error code. I think most people will realize that it's not an actual technical issue, nothing else on our site looks like this and we've given them plenty of warning through posts.

What makes you think this site isn't done well?

I think for $18m they're probably making significantly more than that back. That really is a damned fine website, and you can tell that every piece of it has been double checked and agonized over with the client.

Yeah, I'm aware of the trend. It's probably just me, but no description at all combined with the expectation of me watching a two minute video I can't progress beyond in an obvious way really turns me off. Your site is not the first one I've closed out of when a demo video comes up.

Not a comment specifically on your app, but I found it amazing how quickly I closed out of this when the tutorial video showed up. I hadn't really thought of this before, and it might just be me, but most tutorial videos make me want to leave your site as quickly as possible.

More importantly perhaps, if the crush doesn't know the specific email address I used to submit, how can it find me? It might be good to allow users to connect multiple email addresses to their account to allow for more matches.

I was all down for this, about to find someone to submit to, when I decided I'd take a look at what the crush is going to receive. The wording in the first sentence put me off. I would change "Someone has a crush on you, but is afraid to take the first step..." to "Someone has a crush on you and is wondering if you felt the same way..." or something like that.

The wording there prevented me from using the service.

It's pretty wild, and the inside is confusing with the spiral and all the glass. In fact, it's more impractical than anything, some classes face windows facing the sun and have to wear sunglasses in class.

I mean, it's a very nice building to be inside, but the way it's designed is like how a programmer would design a UI. Kind of fitting as the CS building funded by Microsoft money...