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Yeah, I've seen quite a few SMEs now for which this post basically describes the way the company operates.

They put out bad software, slowly, but seem to just about keep on ticking over. Suggestions for improvements are often met with mild positive feedback and a sense of amusement that you think you can actually change the place for the better.
I am currently working on a simple way to share spotify tracks so that anyone can listen to them (and not only spotify users).
The core is finished for a while, but I struggle with the design! Man it's hard to make something look nice
What I mean is that most of intelligence intelligence is a habit cultivated by attitude rather than limited by an inborn capacity. This doesn't mean there isn't a basic shape given by innate aspects (at least for some people), but that most of what we'd call intelligence is developed rather than inborn.
> "Would you consider paying more if he would personally help you fix it by modifying your code?"

He or she, really. Personally, I find the "please fix my code [paste large amount of code here]" questions on StackOverflow to be of little value to the community as a whole. I don't mind answering them, but if I look at my own profile (which is a fairly high ~17k rep) my answers that have been most well received/up-voted are almost universally problems that have been abstracted away from "fix teh code" type questions.

In a way, bounties are already a kind of payment, if you consider reputation to be a currency of sorts (and I would).
That's not a property of the number 1729, that's only a property of the decimal notation for the number; an important distinction. The property is also trivial. Ramanujan's property - that the number is expressible in two different ways as a sum of two cubes, and in fact the smallest number so expressible - is a property of the number. That Ramanujan had different innate abilities from the vast majority of people is about as clear as the midday sun.
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StackOverflow is one of the most helpful community I have come across the Internet and I am an active user. I ask questions at times and try to answer whatever I can. Most of my doubts are answered on SO because someone might have already hit that bump before.

When I answer questions on SO, I never think about earning via my answer because it doesn't make sense. Most people answer on the website for the simple reason of helping someone out. If I don't answer thinking that I won't get anything out of it, then someone else will answer for sure.

I feel that monetizing a part of SO will take away a lot of fun for people like me.
Care to explain what you mean by the lifted foot? Are you talking about pivoting on the heel, and lifting the front part of the foot, during the Susie Q? If so, I've never heard of this being seen as a sign of knowing their stuff or not. I just considered it a variation, some people pivot on the heel, some on the front part.
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It's interesting to compare the HN[0] and Reddit[1] comments for the same article.

The second highest voted comment on Reddit is "this is high levels of bad ass." at 276 points. I guess HN is still far ahead of other communities after all (if you're interested in serious discussion).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330998
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19rzi3/breaking...
As a pro programmer - if I have a problem that I didn't manage to find/google a solution, then it's probably something crazy tough and that only a person in my specific niche can help with. It would probably be too expensive for a service to find such a person & to pay him or her for a reply.

On the other hand, I can imagine novices finding use with this site.
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Seems to lack a license. I'm assuming the intention was to make this open source?

Anyway, great work! Many similarities in the UI to my http://hallojs.org/ editor. I'd love to integrate this with Create.js if you can clarify the license question...
For US citizens it is really hard to get rid of their citizenship. And you pretty much have to pay US taxes as long as you are a citizen no matter where you live (and thus implicitly support the government).
I'm working on a very simple and inane tool that block diagrams my code with cables so I can write programs visually. It doesn't compile or run any of it, it's just a visual tool. It's a mashup of two JQuery libraries: JsPlumb and Jquery TE. I also have an idea for a very large meteor.js/Web Audio API project that I am gradually piecing my way towards with small one-off do-dads like this: http://helpknow.com/portfolio/drumapp/
Reasons behind not providing a free extra limited account to engage your potential future evangelists (ala NewRelic) but only a time limited trial with a required credit card slot?
This might sound like a Godwin, but I guess we're slowly building our own Stasi and need to experience it first before we realize what happened. If it's not too late.
There might be a reason that the original report is from a UK newspaper.
I would be interested to see any research you have seen that points in that direction. I think that people are more restricted by hardware capabilities than you like to imagine.

That said, I asked what you meant by 'greater than' because I don't believe that raw intelligence always translates to success at life, whatever that may mean.
How would you react if I tell you I'll only answer if you pay me? (Especially if I know you've paid in the past)
A lot more effort and predicates you already have hosting.
I think if SO suddenly became a pay-for-an-answer website it would quickly die and be replaced with something else that's still free.
Slashdot is ad-plagued and not at all the techie site it once was, IMHO. You used to get the big names in the field discussing their topics on there. Now it's mostly fanboy flamewars.
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> Google+ - also quite good, but one needs to do some work, namely to find the right communities

could you link? I subscribed to some lang/framework/os ones, but didn't find much value there and found it's better to follow people. if you got some it would be nice.
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Absolutely, and also very hard for others to understand it unless they are in the same situation.
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I have sent you an email too :-)

Update: Thanks mate, I received the invite :-)
> reddit - here, you have to subscribe to the right mix of subreddits according to your interests

Can you recommend some subreddits beside /r/programming and the subreddits mentioned in the sidebar of /r/programming)?
I have not found a generic software engineering subreddit (probably without any web development content), which is quite strange.
Working for me (East Midlands, UK).
Depends on how bad I need your solution.

Another question, would you answer a question for money which otherwise you wouldn't have been answering?
It's definitely not the same site it was in 1998, that's for sure. But I've (for whatever reason) been finding myself wandering back over there more and more lately, and I've been surprised to find there's still some good discussion to be had, but - as always - you have to pick around the GNAA stuff and the "In Soviet Russia" stuff or whatever the meme of the day is.

It's really too bad, in a way, that the founders of /. didn't take a more aggressive stance towards eliminating the silly bullshit. That used to be my absolute favorite site on the 'Net, back in the day.
Pretty cool! Reminds me of the UI on medium.com (selecting text on view mode allows sharing and commenting, and on edit mode pops up a floating format toolbar).
I used this library for an internal project for my employer after seeing it on Hacker News

I found it relatively easy to use, but it was a pretty simple thing I was dealing with (one-page registration scheme). Having Coffeescript built in was quite nice, since I find it much easier to deal with.

I don't see it as being better than major CMS-style js libraries like Angular JS (which I started playing with recently), but it was pretty easier to learn for the toy application I was building. Being able to deploy to Heroku through the command line is neat, and the auto-reload on changing the HTML was pretty cool too.

(I'm not in any way affiliated to the person who wrote it, just someone who used it for a small project.)
http://hn4hn4x.herokuapp.com/

I built a tongue in cheek tool to keep track of communities like HN that might be relevant to other interests. However, I'm the only one that has ever used it, and I think all the things I've submitted have already been mentioned here.
Hey - I would like an invite.

I contacted the founder the day it was released, 4 days after and 2 weeks after, all with well thought out emails which I spent some serious time on. Unfortunately he didn't respond to any off them, not even with a simple "fuck off."
yeah, a lot of people did ;) enjoy.

maybe it will result in more discussion around there.
Fixed. :)

Bounties provide a bigger incentive, however it doesn't always work. Do you think that if instead of 50 points of bounty it was replaced with $50, more people would be getting answers for these questions?
Holy cr*p. That's my nightmare as well. The Public transport system has been hacked many times. What is the Electronic Patient, Electronic Passport or Tax system gets hacked? Anyone could take all your information and you're screwed. I think anyone owning any system whatsoever should be FORCED to go public if there system gets hacked. (Especially banks!)
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I'll ask this on the off chance that this was posted by the author; have you considered adding support for importing from and exporting to curl commands?

When you work in a team with non-developer testers they tend to use a GUI REST client like this, while most of the developers will prefer working with curl commands instead.

You don't want to know how many hours have been wasted manually converting these calls back and forth ... especially when somebody converts them incorrectly.
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This is flawed AFAICS. It assumes that because 1.0 is fixed in specification that there are no bugs in the implementation. To return to my original point, these smart guys are on the record stating that's why they didn't do a self-hosting compiler; good enough for me. :-)
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I guess my problem with Facebook predictions is that the majority of them seem to simply be someone writing about their personal experience with Facebook and then extrapolating that out. I honestly think that what blogger X or tech journalist Y thinks about using Facebook is utterly immaterial to the future of Facebook. They've crossed the chasm, it doesn't matter if the technorati think Facebook is "done", they don't need us, and our nerd rage will not affect their future in any way.
Given that people seem not to care that much that government is spying on them to an industrial level, why would the masses care one jot about the bad side of facebook, which is broadly privacy concerns?
I've written up some tips on handling HN feedback on your apps - http://hrishimittal.com/post/45360001796/google-reader-alter...

Discuss here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5831504
Community, not species.

Ok, so I'm snarking a bit, but I always say that resorting to "human nature" in conversation means you've given up on actually finding out.
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As someone with a comment history that could be called combative I (unsurprisingly?) disagree.

I'm mostly a lurker. I check HN maybe once a day to see what people are thinking about in web tech / entrepreneurship circles. I comment maybe once a month, which is to say I have to think someone's really missing something important, or feel really strongly that something needs to be considered.

The emergent behavior of this is polarized: either strong arguments or technical corrections. Imagine you're having a loud discussion at a conference, with a stream of developers walking by. Who's going to stop and talk to you? I think it'll mostly be:

1. Someone who hears a rare misconception they've figured out the answer to

2. Someone who hears you're talking about a fringe technology they are also passionate about

3. Someone who wants to sell you something

(depending on who you are: 4. someone who recognizes you, and is excited to meet you in person)

If you're commenting on every article, I can maybe see how it would feel like it's "a few bad apples"... but I encourage you to count the number of people you consider "bad apples" -- they probably outnumber the regular commenters 10:1 or more. I think the "bad apples" are just people who don't usually comment, deciding their perspective on whatever is sufficiently valuable to the community that it's worth their time.

("feels important" is of course != "important" -- #include stories about airbnb screwing up)

Which is to say, when you put something on the HN homepage you're going to learn about: a ton of rare misconceptions you accidentally relied on, and a bunch of fringe technologies you should have been using / should have known exist. I think I can see why that might feel like being under Sauron's gaze... I just don't think it's malicious, and don't think those commenters are doing it wrong.
This is really beautiful and an effective advert for blooki.st. Doesn't look like this has appeared on HN before[1] but apparently it's been created by a couple of Slovenian entrepreneurs[2]. So far as I can tell it's all sitting on top of jQuery.

The title's really misleading though, this is more about why bold photos can be nice. I'm undecided on if it detracts from the text or if it's giving you the kind of visual impact you get from imaginative book covers. It would be really interesting to see larger collections on the site, I can see this being a really great way for people to discover authors they're unfamiliar with. A strikingly presented collection of short stories from an established author could serve as a good introduction into their work.

[1]https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.or...
[2]http://readwrite.com/2013/05/07/blookist-blog-book-site-all-...
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People who argue very strongly against government intrusion often seem to ignore the distinction between private and public spaces. I have no problem with any amount of recording equipment in public spaces. Anywhere that a policeman could stand and watch; I see a camera as an efficient aid. I won't let a policeman into my house unless they have a warrant - and not because I have anything to hide, but because upholding the principle is important.
Great question, I wanted to (at least initially) focus on the experience for paying customers, and hone in on creating value for them. Though, I can see how it may very well make sense to do something like a free extra limited account sooner rather than later.

Also, when you signup I pull in your historical data and begin back-crawling immediately. This way you don't have to wait 3 months for the charts, trends, intensity maps, etc.. to fully populate before you take action on the data.
I will make sure that this is added via the tilda mode - to convert to and from curl.
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How does it differ from Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-clien...)?

Seems that both solve the same problem.
It's almost certainly a joke since complaints about the lack of generics in Go probably generate the most heat on the mailing list.

For example here is a recent thread on the list that quickly degenerated into an epic flamewar: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-n.... (Most amusingly the OP's chosen handle is "Sod Almightly", a pretty strong signal that the guy is a troll, although props to Ian Taylor in particular for keeping civil throughout.)
Also worth considering Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-clien...) I particularly like that it allows you to save groups of requests into "Collections" so you can have quick access to all the main API calls from one app.

You can also export these collections and share them with other team members.

This is particularly useful for sanity checking before deploys e.g. just running through each API call to make sure users can login and perform primary actions.
And if it was costing a few tens of dollars, would it be reasonable?
Sure, there could be some mistakes but we find out every time it happens and we make effort to prevent it in the first place. On dating sites where there's no identity, you can go out and be creepy or misbehave all you want and you'll never get caught. We follow up with our members every time they go out to make sure they're having a good time.

If someone abuses the system, it was either intentional or accidental. If it was accidental, we may give them another chance. Dating is tough. But if it was intentional or over the top, then we're either going to refund, ban the other person, or some combination. As long as the experience is good, that's all we care about. If someone was like "he was awkward and I didn't feel comfortable, but I don't think he realized he was doing it" then we'd probably just let it go the first time and say something. I think anything weird that happens ultimately stems from nervousness or inexperience. Some guys (and possibly girls?) just need some instruction and guidance, which is why we also offer the coaching as a free service.
https://news.layervault.com/ Designer News is quite good for design discussion. It's an invite only site though ( I don't have an account so I can't invite - sorry! )
REST is quite new but it has solid foundations that go well beyond what postman achieves today. New features will be added rapidly in the next couple of weeks.
Understood.

Does seem to me though that there is little idealogical or political consistency in what the left and right campaign for.

I'm now wondering if it is the same here in the UK. That, I'll have to give some thought to.
It's hard to believe that the spread of European diseases into South America was the root cause of the Little Ice Age. It would be stunning if it was true.
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Hang on, conservatives for big government? Im sure I remember "big government" being the evil that was being fought off when Obama care was a big deal. Wasn't that conservatives?

Hands up. Im confused!!
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Do consider sending out an announcement mail when you do. As it stands I'm content (but not happy) using another RSS reader. I'm not actively looking, but a good replacement would be wonderful indeed. As such, your reader runs the risk of being forgotten during the wait, which would definitely be a shame.

That said, sending unsolicited mails... you know the dilemma here.
Would you add the ability to export the HTMl code?
I can second MiniHack. I'm using it right now and it works really well. It's also incredibly well-designed.
The War on Terror is taking more and more victims. Chasing this phantom is getting dangerously close to an Orwellian Paradise.

As Terry Jones said, "How do you wage war on an abstract noun, it's like deciding to bomb murder".
As I understand it, he is pointing out that people who really get deep into using the language with a constructive purpose don't complain about such perceived issue. Also a pun against early judges.

He wrote more about this here: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/esmereldas-imag...

EDIT: Well, the answerer of that question was Robert (Griesemer), not Rob (Pike), but I suppose the same applies.
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Depends on bug. I would certainly pay at least 5$.
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Nice sample size you have there. There are many extremely insightful comments on the programming subreddit, and there are also many empty, predictable comments on HN. I bet many people here can guess the top comment on particular threads based solely upon the submission title. (There's a high probability the top comment has the phrase "Am I the only one, or ...")

So is HN ahead of /r/programming? At times, definitely. However, anyone who frequents both will attest to the fact that /r/programming is much better at ignoring linkbait, while HN seems to fall for it on a daily basis.
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I totally love POSTMAN. The collections thingy is really cool.
I'll give REST a shot too, though :).
I think this article describes the majority of jobs out there. Of the 5 places I've worked, only one of them could be described as "functional". I've learned to just deal with it. I put my 8 hours in each day, and then hit the personal projects hard when I come home. I've learned not to rely on my job for anything other than a paycheck.
Although the principal is more or less the same, the available animation packages vary significantly in the way they do things. If you are planning to work professionally, I would consider choosing the package carefully. Maya is probably the most widespread software for VFX, commercial animation and series work. 3DS Max seems to be used most in architectual visualisation and Softimage is very popular with animators and modellers although, a common workflow is to export out of Softimage into Maya for rendering. Cinema 4D is meant to be easy to use and seems to be most commonly used by people who have experience in graphic design /motion graphics and by smaller animation houses.

If you plan to do animation professionally, I would advise against using Blender.
I'd like to have your invitation. Thanks.
Could use a bit of a margin on the bottom of the menu. It tends to sit over the text, either partially or completely which probably isn't really the expected behavior for an edit menu.
Looks cool! Does it support inserting images?
Posting to HN is pure win if you're playing Rejection Therapy: http://rejectiontherapy.com
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There are many Indians making changes across the world and leading global companies at CXO level. I came across few<p>Nikesh Arora (SVP and Chief Business Officer) - Google
Amit Singhal (SVP and Google Fellow) - Google
Vic Gundotra (SVP, Engineering) - Google
Sundar Pichai (SCP, Chrome and Apps) - Google
Anil Dharni (SVP, Studio Operations) - GREE
Deb Roy (Chief Media Scientist) - Twitter
Karan Bilimoria (Founder and Chairman) - Cobra Beer
Suresh Vaswani (President of Services) - Dell
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Shekar Ayyar (SVP - Strategy and Corporate Development) - VMWare
Raghu Raghuram (EVP of Cloud Infrastructure and Management) - VMWare
Vivek Ranadivé (Chairman and CEO) - TIBCO<p>There are many more.. I will keep on updating the list. If you know more Indians at CXO level, please share.
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looks really good, definitely going to try it out in the next couple of weeks