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Personally, I haven't received spam (with Gmail) in years. My university outlook account still receives a lot though.

I love articles like this! They're a very fun exercise in what you /really/ need to have a programming language. Here's another one: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/

It's in JavaScript for those who prefer JS over Ruby (although for the purposes of the exercise the language choice doesn't matter much).

Thanks for the info!

What team were you on? It looks like you had an awesome time! I'm interning at Facebook Seattle next Fall, and I'm trying to figure out which team(s) to try to join.

For how long and how often would you recommend we 'stop eating once in a while'? Or do you have resources that recommend what would be a beneficial amount of fasting?

Just wondering what steps I could take to be healthier, as I've never even considered fasting in the past. Thanks!

I'm very impressed with the number of products and services supported so far. It has everything from bookmarks to location history. It even lets you choose the format for some products, and Drive in particular has some nice options. I'm glad to see Google opening this tool up.

There's actually a useful Zapier script that already does this [0]. I remember reading about it on Mike Knoop's (Zapier cofounder) blog [1]. I haven't tried it out but you should be able to hook it up to any of the alert services that Zapier integrates with. (Which is a lot!)

[0] https://zapier.com/zapbook/webhook/rss/8249/hacker-news-ment...

[1] http://mikeknoop.com/my-zaps/

Oops! Thanks for letting us know.

Hi! I'm working with Shane (home_brewer) on HomeBrewster as well, and we've submitted it as a Show HN to get some feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6726421

Zapier (YC S12) did something similar to determine demand for their initial product. I heard Bryan Helmig (co-founder) give a great talk on the subject, and it seemed to work very well for them:

https://zapier.com/blog/anatomy-of-sale-or-how-andrew-warner...

http://bryanhelmig.com/bootstrapping-an-idea-the-paid-beta/

Udacity CS101 [1] also goes through the basics of building a web crawler. It's a lot more lightweight (no backend, etc), but it's a fun overview and can be completed pretty quickly.

[1]: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101

That's a really good point. I just use hangouts for personal communication, but as a company chat system it does seem pretty necessary to know someone's status. Hopefully it'll be added soon!

Honestly, I've had the opposite experience. The lack of online status certainly hasn't been missed, as I've been using hangouts to completely replace SMS. It's way more convenient. With the Chrome extension, I have all of my messages without ever having to have a certain website or even Chrome open. Maybe I've gotten really lucky, but I haven't run into any of those other problems. The only feature I'm waiting/hoping for is for it to be seamlessly integrated with SMS.

Here's a link to the VerbalExpressions organization that contains implementations of a similar DSL for various languages: https://github.com/verbalexpressions

Another contributor commented - it looks like it supports more Vim commands and is being actively maintained, unlike Vintage.

It was down for me, here's the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Als.pw...

Wow, he/she does seem to be quite disinterested. That's disappointing. It would be really useful to know..

Ah, I love vim mode for Sublime. As the end user, what will be different about this package? Better support for commands?

Additionally, is there a page that lists how much progress has been made? Is the support at least at the same level of Vintage's yet?

Robert Metcalfe recently did a reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1erq51/youre_probably_...

I'm very glad to see that this answer hasn't been closed as not constructive! It seems like most popular questions like this are, even though they're incredibly useful and insightful.

I was leaning toward learning Ember, but this post makes me really curious about Angular. In particular, the ease of testing has my interest piqued. Is testing as simple/easy with Ember? I know that unlike Angular, Ember doesn't have DI as a core feature. Either way, I should probably just flip a coin and start learning!

I have a somewhat related question: How do you best present yourself at a career fair?

I did pretty well last year by being friendly and trying to show my passion for programming. This year, I'll be attending the Reflections | Projections Conference [0], and the companies I'll hopefully be talking to are on a completely different tier. What's the best way to make a lasting, memorable impression, especially if my school isn't particularly impressive? Do I mention my prior internships or side projects? Something else?

Thanks for any advice!

[0] http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2013/

I think this may be the site you were referring to: http://www.tldrlegal.com/compare

I was looking up OSS licenses the other day and happened upon it.

Edit: It looks like sandyarmstrong also posted it below.

I gave it a shot! [0] Hopefully everything looks okay. The hardest part was finding an issue. Thanks again for your advice!

[0] https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/11193

Thank you! I'll be sure to try and start taking my first steps :)

Thanks! I'll definitely check out the guides and try to get started!

Congratulations! That's truly awesome. Any tips for a novice developer who would love to start contributing?

I seem to have a similar issue. I have to set 10 or so alarms to wake up for class in the morning. I feel very sorry for my poor roommate, but I don't know any other way to wake up. Luckily, I'll have my own room next year.

In fact, when I'm on break I tend to gravitate to a very weird sleep schedule where I stay up until about 7am and sleep until 3-5pm.

It seems to stem from the fact that when I go to bed at night around 11pm/midnight, I'm never tired. I just seem to be pulled toward staying up late and sleeping throughout the day. This used to keep me from getting much sleep at all, and it was drastically affecting my day to day mood and life. Melatonin has become a life-saver in this respect, but I worry about if it has any side effects or if I depend on it too much. It does allow me to be tired and fall asleep when I want to, which is WAY nicer than the alternative. I used to just lie in bed for hours before falling asleep. I wasn't on my phone or reading or doing anything productive with this time. I was just agonizingly waiting to get some sleep.

That's awesome to hear! I'm taking the Coursera class now, and it's been great so far. It just started a couple weeks ago, so it definitely isn't too late to join! https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

If you want to experiment with some filters like this in real time with your webcam, I made a simple page to do this: http://mizzouacm.github.io/javascript-workshop/

You can fill in the filter function to see the effects in real time. You can also get screenshots by clicking the filtered video. It's pretty fun to see what interesting filters you can come up with.

I can't take credit for the idea; I got it from the wonderful Hackers At Berkeley workshop[1]. I am starting a similar club at my university and wanted to do the same kind of workshop. I rewrote the demo because I wanted it to be real time, and I also just wanted the fun of implementing it myself :)

[1] Blog about workshop: http://blog.hackersatberkeley.com/?p=97 Demo: http://introjs.hackersatberkeley.com/

If you want to experiment with some filters like this in real time, I made a simple page to work with your webcam like this: http://mizzouacm.github.io/javascript-workshop/

You can fill in the filter function to see the effects in real time. You can also get screenshots by clicking the filtered video. It's pretty fun to see what interesting filters you can come up with, and I'm hoping to host an intro to javascript workshop utilizing the demo.

I can't take credit for the idea; I got it from the wonderful Hackers At Berkeley workshop[1]. I am starting a similar club at my university and wanted to do the same kind of workshop. I rewrote the demo because I wanted it to be real time, and I also just wanted the fun of implementing it myself :)

[1] Blog about workshop: http://blog.hackersatberkeley.com/?p=97 Demo: http://introjs.hackersatberkeley.com/