shanelja

Just as an anecdote regarding your statements of feeling inadequacy as a developer: When I was 16 it took me a year to complete the relatively simple w3schools tutorials, it was only once I started building things that my knowledge really started to grow. 5 years later and I work as a developer for a BAFTA award winning company building applications I really believe in. We learn differently under different conditions, try applying your knowledge on a project instead of just doing the tutorial.

I don't understand why you would include curl in your listing? There are plenty of legitimate uses for it, for example as part of my work I recently used it on a data processing server to trigger post creation of Wordpress posts via the xmlrpc server which is built in to Wordpress.

That overlay is one of the most annoying features I've ever seen on a website before.

The game which I play (Runescape) actively supports and advocates streaming of it's gameplay as a way to increase user numbers through popularity.

Because part of listening to music is that I listen to music which I like, which means Rise Against, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, et al.

I don't think I've ever had the need for 30 tabs; the magic of the internet is that if I ever need to see a specific website, I can just type in a URL.

I agree.

I play an MMORPG called Runescape which has millions of players, I've been playing it since I was 12 and now I'm 21. I stream on Twitch once every few days and frequently have 1,000+ people watching me, subscribing, following and most importably putting eyeballs on Twitch's adverts (which is one of the largest concurrent none-featured community.)

If this happens I lose my anonymity (because Google+) which protects my account details from being stolen. If this happens I lose the ability to stream while playing music in the background, my followers even have the ability to request songs during the stream using an automated service, where does this leave me with regards to copyright then?

Even worse than this though is that if this happens, Google will in some way fundamentally change a service which I and my followers love to use - a service which they don't understand.

I speak for myself as a well known member of this community: If Google buys Twitch, Twitch will die.

This video basically (and very explosively) explains the current thinking of Twitch users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loeFYdbvrZM (turn down your sound)

Instead of spending your time bashing PHP, why not encourage people to write "PHP the right way"?

http://www.phptherightway.com/

I currently work at Studio Skylab and it's a great place to be which is really looking to expand. Bonus points if you know how to work a fancy pants coffee machine!

There is an account named whoishiring who creates these posts.

We are using Node as a backend to multipart uploader interfacing with the Amazon S3 architecture. Our application is built in Symfony2, but we found that Node was much easier for writing parallel upload scripts in. Took less than 3 days and works perfectly every time, no regrets there.

Did you even read the comment?

It's not about helping black people or women or Chinese people or men, it's about helping everyone.

I spun up my first unmanaged server this morning on digitalocean and found the experience difficult (having next to no sysadmin experience) but now I've got it all set up it's fast and powerful.

I love the work these guys are doing and can't wait to see more from them.

A slightly late reply on my part, but when I went on the page initially, the link wasn't there. :)

Just a warning, flickering light near the bottom. No idea how epilepsy works but best to be safe...

On an irrelevant note, this is an example of a perfect GitHub repo README. I'm bored silly of README's which only include a download link and nothing else, this is what people should be going for, code examples, what it does, etc.

Is it just me who gets annoyed when he goes to a github page and all there is there is a download link with no explanation?

This is a move to shame those who watch pornography, that you have to ring someone up and say "Yeah, I'm trying to jack off here but for some reason pornhub won't load... Yeah... Uh... I'd like you to remove the porn filter please?"

It never stops loading for me, I'm assuming the wildcard character forces it to search and return all HN articles?

Hey, good detective work. :) Thanks for that, should probably have gone further in!

Is this an attempt to have them all shut down? The police don't care if you're an exit node or a child pornographer, if you start transmitting that stuff you're going to have a bad time.

Ugh. Only 2 in the UK, neither of them close to me; how disappointing.

I don't see why me recording calls for use in a criminal trial would be illegal, when the NSA or GCHQ doing it against me is perfectly fine.

SPOILER:

Use the gas on the tree outside the house with the woman, climb up it, tickle her with the feather and take the shiny thing she's holding to win the game.

The death of Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand was a major catalyst for the first World War, quite often these small events (when compared to the scale of a war) can be the little pushes which finally tip a country over the edge.

Fantastic! Now when he's served the first 60 years of his service, medical science will have advanced to the point where we can pay to elongate his life (as a basic human right) so he can serve out the remainder of his sentence, at which point he will leave prison and die near instantly as he can't afford medical care.

I couldn't agree more.

We should all be egalitarian: characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people, rather than feminist: defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.

It tends to be used as a way to describe what is considered the most privileged group of people by certain rights activists groups (and also a few bigots, as with every group, there are bad eggs.) White people are considered more privileged than say, black people, because of studies showing that more black people tend to be brought up in poverty or that Mexican people tend to be brought up in worse neighbourhoods. (These are generalizations which I don't support by the way, I'm describing an external viewpoint, not my own.)

It's a term commonly used by feminists and transgender people to describe straight white males.

This entire article is an exercise in idiocy, full of loaded comments. This is what actually happens:

Man tells woman she is attractive ... Another woman interprets this as sexism

It might be an inappropriate time to say it, but this is rudeness, not sexism. How often is it that you are talking to someone, anyone, they comment on how attractive you are and you are sorely offended? Never? Because I know from my personal experiences (as a highly privileged cis male of course) that I love being complimented.

If we are to interpret every single unrequested compliment as sexism that feminists will soon find that they are unable to find a boyfriend.

If you want an example of sexism, then here is one, from the very fingers of the feminist news reporter herself: "that she looks like a woman but acts like a man." Why should any woman need to act like a man? In this day and age do we still believe in these traditional gender roles, that only a man can be effective in a leadership position?

And then some victim blaming: "Mayer didn't [...] [goad] the "dirty old man" with some low-cut top or skimpy outfit [...] But, of course, you weren't even wondering that, were you?" No, as a matter of fact, I wasn't. That comment was an unnecessary attempt to read the mind of the reader. At no point did I assume that this respected member of her community would be sat in her shareholders meeting wearing a bikini or a v-neck down to her stomach.

Propaganda, the lot of it.