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Personally, I'd rather have a few extra mm of thickness and batteries that are not glued to a keyboard. Efforts could be made to keep this tech more repairable.

What about for say a small non-profit that isn't tech-savvy that will have at most 10 pages of content?

I could see where this could really be an issue if there was a lot of content or integration with the website being made. And I suppose too preserving old URLs (if that's something the client cares about)

How does Weebly compare to other options like Squarespace? I'm currently researching these kinds of services so this couldn't come at a better time.

That's likely out of scope for node.js. I'd recommend checking out leveldb: https://www.npmjs.com/package/level

That HR barrier is really difficult to understand. There are so many libraries and frameworks these days, and companies are looking for a person with particular experience in a particular combination of things. It doesn't seem to matter if you know similar tech and are willing to switch over.

I wonder how much good talent is never even looked at because of this.

From their description I'm guessing Northeast Minneapolis. It is an old blue-collar area currently being revived, and has quite a few older 3-story houses.

A lot of the old warehouse buildings have been gutted and renovated, turned into office spaces, breweries, lofts, restaurants, and coffee shops. Its also considered the arts district of Minneapolis.

I think the crime used to be worse than it currently is, but I'm not certain of that. I started working in the area a few years ago, and I haven't witnessed anything unpleasant. It feels quite safe here.

If you go across the river to North Minneapolis, you'll run into a rougher neighborhood with bars on windows and stuff like that. But even then I've heard things are improving over there too.

Unfortunately btsync.com is a service offering of the bt sync software. Check out http://www.getsync.com/

Add to that list "Business Intelligence" developer/analyst, although that term is gradually changing into something about analytics and data science, which are demanding degrees in statistics.

The reality is that a lot of "Business Intelligence" work is writing SQL & reports for business types that don't know how to write SQL or don't want to learn.

It means writing a lot of reports, but its a good way to get exposed to a business and yet still be involved with light development. There's room to grow too if you want to learn more about data warehouse design, ETL processes, OLAP cubes, etc etc.

I dropped Dropbox (except for when I have to use it at work).

The tipping point for me was Condoleezza Rice. But there were other issues that were building up. It was consistently eating my laptop battery, and on my desktop with traditional hard drives, it would take forever to start up and finish indexing files.

I replaced Dropbox with a mix of things. My documents went to Google Drive. I converted my old windows desktop into a xubuntu linux home server type thing, and installed BT Sync for the other files I had to sync.

I also do plenty of other things with my home server. Really wish I set one up sooner.

I don't see how that's anti-competitive.

Isn't that just... competitive?

If you'd rather work with a SQL database, here's a module that attempts to put NPM into a Postgres database: https://www.npmjs.org/package/npm-postgres-mashup

No you are not. In fact Gruber's podcast yesterday talked about that very thing. They thought it might be called iPhone "pro" because anything else meaning bigger just doesn't sound like Apple.

Overall this whole event was odd. It was more Apple reacting to trends rather than setting them...

You should check out the zed editor. Its something you can run locally (stand-alone or chrome app) and has a remote code component.

I've used these cloud IDEs, but haven't like any of the text editors they supply. Zed is amazing compliment to these services.

http://zedapp.org/features/edit-remote-files/

Hi HN

I told myself I'd submit this to get HN's feedback on this side project when I finished it... but I kind of ran out of steam/passion to finish all the lessons and promote the site.

The primary audience for this was going to be business analysts and other semi-technical people that would get some value out of knowing how to write report-style queries in SQL. So I was only going to focus on SQL SELECT statements.

Once the app was "finished" and it came time to write the content, I had several realizations:

  - Teaching is hard  
  - I should have wrote the content/lessons first  
  - The lesson viewer could have been done differently  
  - SQL lessons should really have an interesting database to go with it  
  - I had a lot more fun experimenting/rewriting the app than finishing it  

But I'm curious - was I heading in the right direction? Is it worth finishing the content?

You're assuming that whoever sees the dog has the time to sit and wait and observe. What if they were to assume that you were making a quick stop but you actually weren't, didn't notify anyone, and your dog dies.

Would you regret not being notified?

So does this mean we might see some c# based packages on npm?

Reading this post got me trying to figure out some cool uses for it, but I don't really know enough c# to have any idea where this might come in handy. Offloading cpu intensive work into multiple threads seems useful though...

I'm not entirely sure about this, but it seemed like Grunt was more for front-end developers that haven't quite jumped into Node.js yet (or had no intention to).

I've noticed some culture differences between front-end and back-end javascripters.

Ignoring Modern UI does not make Modern UI completely disappear. Nor does it change the fact that Microsoft thought this was a good idea. Poor usability is poor usability. Microsoft messed this one up, and it will impact them and a lot of peoples perceptions of the future of Windows.

Isn't using a keyboard an alternative navigation? Basically you're bypassing the UI presented on the screen with shortcuts. It's not a very strong argument for Windows 8 working well, but maybe the opposite.

And to bring it full circle, the WSJ employed a former The Verge writer (that had left The Verge for ABC).

I'm actually excited to see where the WSJ tech section goes.

I also keep running into this. I spent several years working in the "business intelligence" field. This essentially involved me using a reporting tool of some kind and writing SQL for business people that didn't know how. I never got to do any actual analysis like I wanted because I was too backlogged with report requests from the less technical.

I think SQL is something every business analyst should know how to write. It's an extremely powerful tool.

The animal as people logic doesn't hold up. With this reasoning what do we do about animals that hunt and kill other animals for food. Are they behaving immorally because they must kill to survive?

I woke up this Thanksgiving with a bunch of email notifications from Paypal that my account had been hacked and taken over. I (also shame on me) tend to reuse some of my passwords, and figured someone got into my Paypal account using my adobe credentials, not even being sure if I had created an account with adobe for anything in the past.

I checked my email address on this site and it didn't find any pwnage.

I'm relieved my email address isn't in any of these leaks, but also now concerned about whatever it was that let someone into my paypal account so easily...

Do revolving doors decide when you get to leave or do you?

With such a low unlocked price, I wouldn't be surprised if this hits a subsidized price of $0.

I had LASIK done and had the halos, but they are now gone 1.5 years later. I also had bad dry eye in the morning for a while - that's also gone.

Wasn't that kind of supposed to be the point of Android though? Granted some work is involved with getting Android onto various hardware, but one of the reasons cyanogen exists is because the OEMs started going way to far with their android customization.

Somebody not actually working at work could be due to many different factors. Yes one could be that they are lazy and half-assing their job, but it also could be that they just aren't motivated. Maybe they don't feel connected with their job. Ideally, an employee is motivated to to a good job for reasons other than its a daily grind and its what they have to do.

The HR industry terms this "Employee Engagement." If I had to guess, Fog Creek has quite a few "disengaged" employees.

I haven't been to the Hacker News homepage for a long time since using hckrnews. Its such a nice way to get a quick overview of the day.

I don't know if I really like the idea of no-string-attached basic income. Wouldn't an alternative like a guaranteed public service job that then pays you with basic income be better?

At least we'd be making society a better place while guaranteeing an income of some kind.