KhalPanda

History says 12th February 2015 was officially the day HN turned into reddit. Never forget.

I think this area has huge potential and you could do quite well out of this. Streaming seems to have blown up over the past few months. Looks good!

I'm surprised some form of browser isn't in the top 5 of everyone's lists.

Gmail, Hangouts (Android L SMS integration), Chrome, Sleep Better, reddit is fun.

> ...coming at me faster than I can put it all on paper

So don't. :-)

I don't know if 'paper' was a figure-of-speech to mean 'some recorded format', but if it was, get yourself a cheap Chromebook. I (and I expect most) can type a lot faster than they can write, so that's step one.

Step two is to just work on making your notes as brief and concise whilst still being intelligible to you. Unless whatever somebody is saying is extremely densely packed with critical information, there is a lot of filler you easily can cut out.

For example, if someone read your post to me, all I would write is:

- Tips for efficient/effective notes?

I'd opt (well, I have...) for the cheapest Digital Ocean VPS running Ghost. Works great.

Getting an Nginx error.

It may sound trivial, but the first thing I'd do is ensure your diet is in check and that you're getting enough exercise. Being unhappy in other aspects of your life can really make a crappy job seem even crappier.

A 13-14 hour work day sounds pretty daunting. Could the pressure you're putting on yourself with the startup be making your day job even more unbearable? Your concerns about being beaten to market are understandable, but remember that there's almost definitely as much (if not more) work to be done when you actually get your product to market. It likely won't be a picnic, so making sure you balance your time between work/pleasure now is important.

And one last thing - if people can get away with sleeping or playing games on their phones all day, it sounds like a pretty 'lax' working environment. It sounds like it has the potential to be whatever you make it.

Sorry if I've stated the obvious & good luck!

Because most people are less susceptible to viruses on their phones. The phone environment is typically a lot more "locked down" than a desktop OS.

Not to say that it's not a risk, but it's one most people are happy to take (and largely get away with).

Swedish. :-) (My main new year resolution)

Other than that, most likely taking javascript more seriously. I've never really studied it, just picked it up as I've gone along over the past several years.

> [P.S. random 50 survey participants will get $5 towards caffeine or whatever else you like at Starbucks]

Your submission and responses read as if you already consumed the $250 of caffeine yourself. Can we tone it down a bit? It's 9am. :-)

Submitted my response.

In a few words: It's a full-stack javascript framework.

> The most annoying thing to have happen to me from having my identity public in ~8 years, aside from online criticism, was having someone find my cell phone number on WHOIS and ask for advice at 4 AM in the morning. My advice was to send me an email and schedule a call, like a considerate person.

Out of interest, 4am because they didn't consider timezones, or because they were a true crazy?

Not sure if you're joking or just trolling (or both), given the recent massive announcements surrounding the platform/IDE/etc...

Doesn't "Post Mortem" imply analysis after failure? I'd say he was successful. :-)

As far as I'm aware.

> Currently, it’s read only, but we hope to improve it over time and may later enable access to private per-user data using OAuth.

http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

> I think programmers don't usually have girlfriends, do they ? I mean, do you ? Does it distract you from your work ?

That's just not true, on either count. And work is work - it's absolutely normal for couples to have separate careers. Are bus drivers distracted from their work by their girlfriends?

Unless of course you take your work home with you... but then I think you have other issues. :-)

Just a small suggestion, I'd change '$50' and '$100' to '$50/month' and '$100/month'. There's no mention of it being a recurring charge other than at the bottom of the signup form.

Err... to convey the ['content', 'service', 'message', 'tool', 'function'] of a website as effectively as possible?

Ghost seems very popular.

https://ghost.org/

I think it's a fail in the sense that, I don't (or can't) use it because nobody I know uses it... and many millions of others are in the same boat. They were too late with it in my opinion and the borderline "forced" integration they attempted with YouTube accounts was a poorly executed attempt to counter that.

That said, I do like it a lot as a piece of software. I would definitely (still) use it if it weren't for the lack of network effect.

I'm so sorry to hear that. A very sad and sobering read.

I'm sure a lot of your coworkers and team are contributing, like you said, but it'd be nice to think (if they haven't already) that your actual company would make a reasonable contribution to Nicola and their future child, since it sounds like Steven gave so much to the company (albeit under compensation). I know I would for one of my key and valued employee's, if I were in a position to do so.

To be honest, I'd be hesitant to recommend most "go-to" freelancer sites like oDesk, Freelancer.com, etc. There definitely are genuine skilled and hardworking people on these sites, it's just there are tens of thousands more that aren't.

I would:

- Look to see if any Visual Studio Extensions you [use/like/that are similar to what you have in mind]'s authors are easily tracked down and see if they'd be open to taking on your project.

- Look within your own network/circles for someone you know or trust.

- Google.

I'd much rather "headhunt" a freelancer and make up my own mind through seeing how they present themselves online, their past work, etc, without being constrained to a thrown-together proposal on a freelance site to decide.

Good luck!

2560x1440.

My eyes are positioned horizontally in my head, giving a "wide" field of view. So a widescreen monitor always feels more comfortable. Unless anyone has a single, perfectly round eye in the middle of their face, I don't know why you'd want a square monitor. :) That's my opinion, anyway!

This is probably(/definitely!) sensitive information, but I'm always interested to know what impact this sort of thing has on a company's customer base. Customers/potential customers being put off by the malicious email/downtime vs. content of post-mortem and how professionally the incident is handled.

Even a negative incident like this has put BrowserStack in the spotlight for a short time ("no such thing as bad publicity" and all that).

I was wondering about this after seeing the HN thread the other day about 4k screens and how the underlying response seemed to be "nothing is quite there... yet", and whether Apple would have cracked it with their new 5k iMac.

Looks like coldtea/extreme tech are right though.

For a second there I was like "Woah! $112M?". Damn friendly-URL's.

Out of interest, how much data were you backing up? I ask since if I were to go for a cloud-backup, I'd be doing 3-4TB. Thanks.

A backend PHP framework causing browser incompatibility issues. Eh?

Edit: To reply to the naysayers in one fell-swoop - unless CakePHP is identifying the browser from the request header and sending different templates/CSS accordingly (which sounds unlikely, and like a bad idea to me), there's no way for the framework to introduce cross-browser compatibility issues.

Obviously the developer could create issues in the CSS or templates directly, but that's nothing to do with the framework... which is what I was getting at.

It still does. There's just no music in them.

So yes, yes I do.

I actually just took the leap and bought an Acer C720 as my dev machine for when I'm on the move.

Things I was concerned about before buying: - Would it be powerful enough? - Would the screen be too small? - Is the keyboard 'full-size'? - Will I suffer from countless issues by putting Ubuntu on? - Would Ubuntu ruin the battery life?

After about a week, I'm pleased to report that I'm extremely impressed. I went for the non-touch (C720, not C720P - don't see the point for a dev machine) 32GB version at £199 from Amazon.

At first glance, I was a little uncertain about the build quality - when peeling the protective plastic wrapping away from the screen surround, the surround bent outward a fair bit. The lid was a bit stiff and a couple of the edges felt a little rough. That's where my complaints end though.

I installed Ubuntu using ChrUbuntu, so I can still boot into ChromeOS when I just want to do a bit of web browsing (whilst I could do that in Ubuntu, I do [now] also quite like ChromeOS, so I decided to keep it). The installation was straightforward enough.

Here's a quick summary of what I'm using on the machine: - NodeJS - Yeoman (Grunt + Bower) - Jetbrains Webstorm - Git - Mongo

Webstorm is snappy. Even with a fairly large project, I honestly have never found myself thinking "come on, ffs...". It's surreal having something so much smaller yet more powerful than my [granted, 3 year old] 15.6" laptop. The performance is decent, but I guess that's the SSD for you!

Again, I haven't had any issues with the screen. Whilst most people will be more productive with multiple monitors (wouldn't everyone...), the chances are you'll be on the move if you're using this - and for that it's just fine. The screen actually looks pretty good to be honest. Oh, and it has a matte finish, so there's no glare.

The keyboard seems full-size to me. I'm not usually a fan of laptop keyboards, but this one has grown on me. Others have described the keys as being quite mac-esque, which I'd agree with. The keyboard layout is almost standard, bar the caps lock key and function keys (from memory). The top row of keys are still mapped to the usual function keys in Ubuntu, but due to the size of the keys, you lose F9-12 (I think.. from memory). There is also obviously no numpad.

The only bugs I've encountered with ChrUbuntu is it will crash if you suspend, then attempt to resume - could get a bit annoying if you are on the move and frequently starting up/shutting down, since the boot into Ubuntu does take probably 30-40 seconds compared to 5 seconds for ChromeOS. I've not really had time to troubleshoot this yet, there may be a fix. The only other problem was my mongo service getting borked, presumably as an effect of suspending/resuming at a critical stage. shrug.

And lastly, the battery life has proven to be only slightly worse in Ubuntu than ChromeOS, which I'm pleased about. I've had 7 hours remaining whilst working in Webstorm with Node/Mongo/Firefox.

...that turned into a bit of an C720 review, but I say for £200 you can't go wrong! :-) I haven't done any Symfony2 work with it yet, but imagine it would be fine.