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mzjs··on Ask HN: What is the best way to get paid for discovering zero day exploits?
https://hackerone.com?
mzjs··on Dragula: Simple drag and drop
The sortable animations are incredibly bad on ipad 2 (ios 7) as well.
mzjs··on Ask HN: Do you struggle to sleep after coding all day?
Read something non-coding-related, on paper, before you go to bed, typically for 1 - 1.5 hours. Almost always works.
mzjs··on Show HN: Nuevo Cloud – High Performance CDN for Small Websites
Just curious, what does this offer that cloudflare's pro plan doesn't?
mzjs··on Ask HN: Family photo sharing service
Google drive? Add all the photos to a folder, set the sharing permission to "anyone with the link" (or your parent's google accounts).
mzjs··on Ask HN: Would it be possible to get feedback on our project?
This is what show HN is for - you should file this post under that.
mzjs··on A man made thousands by hacking Trivia Crack to always guess the correct answer
>>Additionally, it's possible that a fix would make the game run significantly slower.

Why?

mzjs··on Ask HN: Would you ever hire a developer out of a 'coding academy'?
While there's not any reason not to hire people from something like this, don't assume the person is competent just because they went to a coding academy. Assess these candidates the same as you would anybody else.
mzjs··on Ask HN: What's the best way to separate work and personal projects on a Mac?
What's wrong with seperate accounts? Provides the right level of easily switching between projects vs. too hard to switch when distracted.
mzjs··on When Google makes an AI (and they WILL be first), the world will end
(Mostly) agree. Google is out of control, and they'll do anything to sell more ads.

The best solution is simply to not use google products (which aren't that good anyway).

- duckduckgo for search - dropbox, box, etc. for files - openstreetmap for maps - firefox for web browsing (except firefox is about to introduce advertising, too, so I'm not sure about this one.)

This way, your data is decentralized, making it harder to track you. Also, these companies each focus on just one product, meaning their products are better anyway.

mzjs··on Californians OK with Google self-driving cars and ban non-self-driving cars
Google needs to make the cars overly cautious though, because everyone is watching them. One accident, and the whole idea of a self-driving car will be called into question by many people.
mzjs··on Ask HN: How do I get better at CSS?
I'm not sure anyone really expects websites to look good in internet explorer anymore. As long as it's mostly functional, it's fine.
mzjs··on Ask HN: Is it worth competing with Google?
Yes, I think you can compete. Google has a core group of products (search, android,chrome, new products) in which they invest most of their time, and the rest has little or no development occurring. Google news fits this category, so you probably could compete.
mzjs··on Ask HN: Wanted – a D3.js mentor
This sounds like exactly what http://stackoverflow.com was designed for.
mzjs··on Show HN: Recalll – Search Engine for programmers and developers
Great idea, will use.

One thing I'd really like to see is cheat sheets. For example, "regex cheatsheet".

mzjs··on Google Calendar to end SMS notification on June 27th
Probably just a cost issue - sending that many notifications will quickly get expensive.
mzjs··on “It appears that SourceForge took control of the 'GIMP for Windows' account”
Github lets you use any license you want.
mzjs··on Ask HN: Which cloud-based file-service are you using?
Google drive. Performance is terrible (it hogs memory), but the sharing features are great. Also, the storage is cheap.
mzjs··on Ask HN: Novelty vs. Convenience
In my opinion, this wouldn't actually be convenient:

- Many of these (uber, amazon, Wikipedia, PayPal) have nothing in common. Yes, you can mix a bunch of different apps together into one. But how is one complex app better than many simple ones? - While social networks are basically the same in terms of functionality, the communities are different. If you mix together every social network, the community will suffer.

Also, I think people like having different apps for a couple reasons:

- Apps are modular, so you get to choose what you want. With one huge system, you get everything, whether you want it or not. - Apps are easy to conceptualize - "In x app, I do y." It's much harder to understand a giant system (for example, why so many people confuse gmail and google itself).

mzjs··on Show HN: Applebananaderek.com
I don't at all understand this.
mzjs··on Losing it All
There is a persistent short-term mentality though. When the economy is doing well, and people see others taking risks and getting rich, people forget that one day it won't.

Also, popular culture is very focused on the idea of having lots of "stuff", which leads to people spending more than they should.

mzjs··on Bitcointalk Server Compromised
This is an issue with all providers, though. It's not specific to just DO.
mzjs··on Microsoft reportedly plans to acquire BlackBerry
What does blackberry even do? Haven't heard anything about them in several years.
mzjs··on How I Know Twitter Is Doomed: A Deep Dive into Hard Data
(Assuming this isn't sarcasm)

I'm not sure you can extrapolate from one person to hundreds of millions. Also, how much does the writer use twitter? If you never communicate with others on twitter, they'll never communicate with you.

mzjs··on Show HN: My first tiny web service, a simple key/value store
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure there are very many potential use cases. Mostly, I can see using this client-side so that I don't need to set up a back end myself, but if I understand correctly, that's not really possible since you have to keep the API key private.
mzjs··on Can't decide: Web development or iOS development
You don't need a boot camp. There are plenty of good books on these topics, which are fairly inexpensive. Also, stack overflow (for all it is ridiculed) is a great place to ask a question if you are confused about something. Also, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re... is a great way to learn javascript.
mzjs··on Can't decide: Web development or iOS development
Also, once you start getting good at whatever you choose, start contributing to some open-source projects. Code review is a great way to get better, and you can contribute to tools you use, which helps you as well.
mzjs··on Can't decide: Web development or iOS development
This really depends on what you are interested in. Some thoughts about each:

Web design:

- There are a few different parts to this. You can specialize in front-end or back-end (although you should have at least some knowledge of both). - This isn't really much easier than iOS development over the long term, but the barrier to entry is much lower. - Things in this field change really, really fast. Expect to re-learn basically everything you know every 3-4 years. - The core languages (javascript, html, css) are versatile and can be used in many places: the web browser, the server (nosema or similar), or a native app (node-webkit).

iOS development: - You're tied down to a specific platform, which can be a problem if apple changes it's rules or releases an update with bugs. - The barrier to entry is higher, but over the long run it isn't much harder.

(Not that I'm a front-end developer, so this is completely biased)

Really, you should do what you enjoy most. Start learning the basics of each, and see how much you enjoy it. Also, study the codebases of some existing well-documented projects - it's a good way to learn more about the language.