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I have yet to actually see Tavern, but I doubt I'll find it all that useful.

What made Forrst so awesome (early on at least) was how easy it was to get feedback on your personal work. The site's guidelines and standards required a lot of upkeep by Kyle (Forrst's founder), but in turn enabled the growth of a community of learners and teachers. As the individuals learned and grew, so did the community.

Unfortunately, keeping those incentives aligned proved to be too difficult to sustain. After Kyle left, Forrst slowly evolved into a platform for experienced designers to simply promote their work. The more inexperienced members stopped receiving feedback because nobody saw their posts, and in turn people stopped even posting unless they had an ulterior motive (e.g. go view my portfolio, or download this freebie and promote my work).

Zurb correctly recognized that the "Dribblification" of Forrst led to its downfall, but Tavern essentially ignores the original problem. The problem wasn't that we needed help answering the big questions (like "are designers too isolated from the consequences of their work"), but that we all wanted help with the small, day-to-day questions (like "how do I improve the layout on this page" or "what color should this be"). The focus wasn't on the industry growth, but on the personal growth.

Of course, the bigger industry questions and trends naturally grew from the sum of the community's posts and responses. Meta-questions were fun when they came up, but they were only popular because there was an existing community there to read them. They certainly weren't the focus of the site, and I'm not convinced they'll be enough to sustain this new version.
Totally agree. I can see how someone would feel like a loser if they have goals and no expectation of achieving them; which would be the case if they had no system. But without goals, how can you design a system?

Clearly both are essential.
What does count as a voting ring?

If I post a link to HN on twitter and people upvote the submission coming from twitter,does it count as a voting ring?
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Here's the part about numerics differing between the VM and dart2js:

> A numeric literal is either a decimal or hexadecimal integer of arbitrary size, or a decimal double [..] In principle, the range of integers supported by a Dart implementations is unlimited. In practice, it is limited by available memory. Implementations may
also be limited by other considerations. For example, implementations may choose to limit the range to facilitate efficient compilation to Javascript. These limitations should be relaxed as soon as technologically feasible.

So in principle Dart has bignums and doubles, but does not specify anything about how "big" the bignums are supposed to be, so a conformant implementation can simply not implement bignums (i.e. they are the size of the integers that fit in doubles).

This technically makes dart2js conformant, even though it in practice has different numeric types than the VM. That's fairly clever from a spec perspective, but worrying from a practical point of view.

Anyone know what the status of bignums in JS is? The spec says this will be fixed when "technologically feasible", but I can't find information about (1) what overhead dart2js currently suffers when it does implement bignums, and (2) when this is expected to become feasible, and how. I know some dart VM people are active in the comments here - is there any public info on those two issues?
Another option is a 2-column layout (for non-mobile devices). The normal front page on the left, with the blast of new articles in the right column. Perhaps for mobile devices the new articles could go under the top stories, with some sort of obvious demarcation between them.
Show, don't tell. Build something and then demo it when you are interviewing. That's how I got a job after teaching myself Python.

My first project: fundmap.vc

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Their findings are just as relevant today, it's just that they're far more relevant for a B2B site than a B2C site.
I really like this idea. Just occasionally throw in some random "new" pages to users and see what gets read / upvoted. I'm sure that most users don't check the "new" page.
The problem is, before your edit, you just made a sarcastic response whose sole function, as far as I can tell, is to belittle the person you were responding to for their lack of awareness of issues like Cryptolocker without attempting to inform them.

This may not be a correct interpretation of your post but it is how it reads to me, above the edit.
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It's not clear; you suddenly have to read 5 times more code, your code no longer makes intent clear. You now have to understand the intent of multiple loops and make sure you're not introducing subtle bugs.

I cannot see a single way in which that is objectively "better".
I like the idea of simply appending a subset of the /new stories to the end of the front page. Make it clear they're brand new (should also be obvious from the low vote count).
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Awesome! Nice to meet someone in similar work.

Do you recall if any major customers (like chains) were using the CVap for prep/cooking, or like KFC was everyone just using it as a holding cabinet?
That beautiful pass to Angel di Maria in the latest match against Switzerland went a long way towards proving that.
Open source is definitely an outlet to show that you know how to code something.
I'm always amazed at the people who can just close their eyes and fall asleep in minutes, even in a sitting position. All of these articles about napping completely neglect the question of how to fall asleep quickly in an unideal environment.

I should take a 20-minute nap every afternoon? Well, how am I supposed to manage that if it would take over an hour for me to fall asleep, assuming I'm able to do that at all?
I expect Debian and its derivatives to offer LibreSSL eventually. There is interest and no good reason not to.

However, I expect Fedora and its derivatives to stick with openssl-fips. Red Hat makes a big deal of FIPS due to selling to customers who are subject to the FIPS bureaucracy. :-(
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Facebook and twitter may simply be the wrong form of login for a business tool.

That's partly why I'm biased towards Google, since they have fairly neutral associations. People don't usually post anything embaressing to google, and so wouldnt be as threatened with a company wanting access to their Google account.

On the other hand, more options are more distractions. Email and password is so simple and well understood that it just works.
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Dlang has scope(exit) that does the same thing as Golang's defer.
Most of these points aren't specific to FBA and apply to all 3rd party sellers on Amazon.

One big advantage of FBA is prime shipping. I usually pick the items wiht prime shipping over other 3rd party options even if it's 20% more expensive.
We've found that allowing social logins on our site (ecommerce) only causes confusion for our customers.

"We can't locate your order under that email address. No, not that username either, keep guessing..."

We have found it's best to either not force customers into account creation at all, or make it super easy (ie. a checkbox "yes" and password prompt on the checkout page only).
Just splice a random /newest entry into a front page on every load.

This gets extra eyes on them and helps float good stories up. Optionally mark them green, just like HN currently marks noob users.
Always the same people giving upvotes to a certain user.
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unicycling next to a steep cliff while juggling chainsaws

Why do I get the feeling I'm going to see that in an XKCD strip sometime soon?
I love watching extreme outliers in play - its one of the main reasons I watch. Guys like Messi, Jordan, Ali are so high above the standard (and often so different) that they elevate the whole sport just by taking part.
You're never going to get a totally straight answer, because things like voting ring detectors rely in practice on obscurity; if you knew the exact details, it would be much easier to game the system.
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"This is not an opinion grounded in any sort of reality"

Since when has that stopped him?
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How useful is that? Someone could drive an hour, dump them all in a mailbox anonymously...
You are missing the late 90s adage: "Where does the 900-pound gorilla sit?" The answer is, of course, "Anywhere it wants to."
Yeah you guys are probably right, after all.

If it demanded cash and suggested visiting your local Citibank Branch or Citibank In Network ATM that clearly would also be an equally random and meaningless data point, totally not trying to make Citibank look bad or anything.
I would replace 'super interesting' with 'Super complex'. It's an example of how you can make the price of a $10-40/mo server complex to the extent that you need to read the blog post numerous times before you understand the construct.

And even then, one still needs to factor in the 'other' costs like I/O or IOPs, disk (persistent/EBS), IPs, internet and inter-region data transfer… before you understand the real cost.

And then you need to compare to other instance types (which soon will cover the full alphabet -- c, cg, cr, g, h, i, m, r, t… ) and then other providers.

You still have several unresolved issue -

1. Are your assumption on usage (cpu, I/O, internet etc) correct? Will they change?
2. How do I compare performance across providers for a given VM specification.
3. Can I get support when I need it?

And I am sure there are others

It certainly means there is room for other players who just make it simple, whether they are infrastructure folk (like DO/Linode etc) or platform plays that make the pricing understandable by the audience they are trying to target (like Heroku/Ninefold)
You're still not showing any data, and I would question your conclusions. Just because it seems like you have a say in politics doesn't mean you actually do. If, for example, public policy has no or little positive correlation with public desires, or the public is extremely disappointed with government (both of which are the case in many polls and studies), I would question the presumption that people really have a voice in politics.
Who is to say those two statements are at odds with one another?

Also, almost every A/B which results in a measurable impact in user response will have done so by positively vs. negatively impacting the users' emotions on the A/B legs of the study.

But more to the point, this is not even a fair characterization of what Facebook did. The made a tweak to their ranking algorithm which they deployed to 1/2500 of their users. Much later they discovered there was a extremely small but measurable impact to those users' engagement, and the types of words they included in their subsequent posts. They actually didn't know at all ahead of time what the effect would be, and in fact the effect they observed was the opposite of the widespread expectation.
I did not propose we rename the submission title, but the language. Also, it was a joke, in reference to that other language that starts with the characters "ECMA" and whose many other confusing multi-meaning names have become notorious.
Right now, it doesn't make sense. You're right. Hover over the S14 text and you should get a tooltip.
It's old but the point about losing your login, say if Facebook deleted your acount, should not be an issue. If you sign up using Facebook, Facebook gives the requestor your email address. All they have to to is reset their password by email and login using the username and passsword.
Yeah, that's one of the master keys.. I have already done a few too., but i am not sure how long I could without professional hands-on experience in contributing even to open source... A breakthrough will surely change the way how i approach and working with the high minded people will teach me a lot, than I do on my own, right...
The problem Go is trying to solve is that of programming at scale (say, a ten-million-line code base that will survive for two decades). The problem it is trying to solve is not how to make it easier to write very small parts of the program. These two are not the same problem. (Problems of scale are not the same problems but more of them. They are different problems.)

Does the functional style of maps and composition cause problems at scale? I don't have any data. However, I would not begin by assuming that Go's designers were either stupid or ignorant of functional programming idioms.
Can you elaborate a little?

Using OAuth is fine and all... but it's not eliminating the customer from having to sign-in still... ie. they are still typing a username and password, just not into your system.

So what are the benefits (both perceived and actual)?
That’s good info on the user experience side. We might be able to implement something that allows people to just select their location, but then we’d be concerned that people just fake their location.

I guess we’re doing a few things that help with the “Hello World” problem: having an adjustable radius, focusing on conversation threads that you can go back to, and we’re also working on launching at local events and working with event managers.

Would be great to some insights on what worked or didn’t work for you?
I agree. I usually read the (unfiltered) newest page, but sometime this is useful to find a story that was submitted 12 hours ago and only got 2 points. Perhaps the problem is that there are 928 stories submitted in the last 24 hours.
Comparing to VB is like .. Well, I won't even bother
With the risk of repeating myself: https://passwordless.net I think we often overdo the simple things such as authentication.
I wonder how many false positives there are.
Also Google has a B2B product suite, so some people might have already a Google account from their company which they can use.
It strikes me as odd that half the graphs do not have clearly labeled axes. I'd expect all of them to be labeled or none of them -- but some of them? The first one struck me as odd especially since the scales are roughly the same.
US controls root/'.' via ICANN and can theoretically seize anything under the DNS system

Only reason they don't for gTLDs is because of the political fallout
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Are you seeing Serifs for Titles? Should be all san-serif. If so, can you send me a screenshot and browser you're using?
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It's probably better to up vote from the feed. When you click on a link from the feed, you're generally going directly to the article. You hit the browser back button to get back to hackernews; chances are if the article seemed interesting, you would then hit the up vote button. When's the last time you hit the up vote button on a comment page?
Imagine if linked in or something similarly businessish got into that space.

I have a hotmail account I use for all my professional MS related needs that has become my business social sign-on account. In general, there's room for innovation here. Google really screwed the pooch when they decided Plus Circles were an internal organizational tool instead of a public facade.
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> (let's say higher than Typescript)

That little side note there makes no sense at all. The runtime semantics of TypeScript are exactly the same as JavaScript. TypeScript is little more than some ES6 notation (class, =>, etc) plus compile-time type checking.

You could remove all types from a TypeScript file and it'll probably run fine on any existing JS VM that supports ES6.
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> I could board a flight with a flash drive containing $1million dollars in BTC

lol. wat?
I love Zurb but this is dangerous in a not-so-great-for-design sort of way: "Make a statement with your design opinion." Everything is becoming about someone else's opinion as opposed to actually solving a design problem. Honestly, I don't care about Joe Smith's opinion as much as I do about his feedback on the solution.

We should be looking to get to: "Does this effectively communicate the value of Product A. If not, what's unclear for you? Can you give a use case where this solution might fail with a certain group of users?" The feedback I get from a question like that should present objective advice, not a subjective opinion.

Looking at the homepage for Tavern, I see a fairly meaningless question in the example screenshot: "UX designer, UI designer, or Product Designer – do titles really matter?" That's a boatload of navel gazing. Debating professional titles is not a design problem. It's training young designers to wax poetic about their meaning as opposed to teaching them how to improve their craft and help others.

I don't say any of this to be mean or to look down upon the efforts of Zurb. They're a really brilliant group of people. But this is a murky path to head down in respect to turning people into better designers. I really hope the actual product will offer up more meaningful conversation.
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You might look for consulting companies that hire right out of colleges. They love pay you nothing and expecting you to work extra hours to catch up and putting you on projects for big companies that don't ask about resumes. Good stepping stone.
Looks really nice and clean.
The only issue I have is - the margin on the image which makes it look not in line with a set of images from the block above: http://bit.ly/1qh58NC