KhalPanda

I love reading little stories and tidbits about executive-level coulda-woulda-shoulda moments.

A trend that appears to be synonymous across a lot of markets (electronics, fashion, etc)... just swap that '$' out for a '£' and call it job done!

Why? Because they can.

Most CAPTCHA's nowadays I find unnecessarily complex. Use tricks like timing form completion (<50ms? Bot), hidden fields, etc, before ruining the UX with CAPTCHA.

Then again... does HN really care about UX? Token expiration after x time when browsing through the listings, ancient unresponsive design, etc.

There comes a point where it'll be more cost effective for spammers to just farm out the solving of CAPTCHA's to people in third-world countries. It just depends if there is enough value in spamming HN for them to bother (probably not, given the user-curated-and-rated content model.

I just find Vim so much faster. There is a learning curve (http://www.thejach.com/imgs/vim_learning.jpg), but once you're over that curve, you can't stand regular text-editors anymore! Fewer key-presses and your hands not needing to leave the keyboard (or at least, infrequently) = fast.

I should add, I don't just use Vim, I use the IdeaVIM plugin for PHPStorm and Webstorm, for development zen. :-)

> What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?

...anything other than the task at hand, obviously. :-)

Plus, the United Kingdom aren't eligible for the lottery anyway. So I guess it depends where OP is from.

Just out of curiosity (as a UK resident), how would you plan on moving to the states from a legal standpoint? As far as I'm aware, if you don't have immediate family who are US-citizens, $500k-$1M to invest in a business, marry a US citizen or take employment on a H1-B (not easy), it's not possible?

Your question is well-timed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

Working fine for me, Ubuntu 14.04 / Firefox 29.

I was also nearly put off, but thought I'd give it the benefit of the doubt.

You're dumped straight into the IDE after the form - no email validation or anything, which is something I guess...!

Maybe. I can't think of much I could do with "maybe" $30bn, that I couldn't do with "definite" $3bn though!

- A lifestyle programmer.

I still can't believe they turned down $3bn.

If I see another hipster start-up name that just adds "-(i)fy", "-er" or "-ly" on the end of a noun/verb, I think I'll scream.

Looks good though.

Sorry, you only get 9/10 from me, not enough swearing.

Hey, since you asked, a couple of things that I noticed:

- "Is trial fully functional?" -> "Is the trial fully functional?"

- "it's only $5/month with 14 days trial period." -> "it's only $5/month with a 14 day trial period."

- "install the app on unlimited number of devices." -> "install the app on an unlimited number of devices."

Those are just a few minor ones - it may be worth proof-reading the rest of your copy more thoroughly, given that I noticed those in <30 seconds.

Good luck!

Really? I see job postings here all the time...

Much benefit over coffeescript?

Yeah... or I could continue using Dropbox as I have done for the past couple of years safe in the knowledge that a director's political background has little-to-nothing to do with the day-to-day running of a tech company.

Surely if it was legal to download copyrighted material before, for personal use, then it wasn't... illegal.

So what they've actually done is ban the downloading of copyrighted material, not ban the illegality of downloading copyright material since that's a double-negative.

tl;dr:

- Be female

- Be over 30

- Stay single

- Alienate your family

- Live in Lichenstein

...then you might have a chance of survival. :-)

Well, it didn't take HN/Reddit long to hug that site to death...

Google's cache link doesn't seem to be working. Anyone else got a cache?

Edit: Ah, no, this seems to work now: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.ka...

Chrome, Ubuntu, crap laptop. Snappy load and smooth animations, here...

Excellent effort.

Great, now we just need to kill IE7... and 8, 9, 10, 11, ad infinitum. :-)

> A web and software developer in Africa earns from $10,000 to $20,000 dollars per annum whereas their colleagues in Europe and the US earns at least $100,000 dollars per year.

"at least $100,000 dollars per year"

..."at least $100,000 dollars per year"

Where can I find one of these mythical minimum-100k-salary programming jobs, without having 10+ years of experience and working for a massive tech company?

Source: UK twenty-something.

Front page of HN = OSS promotion complete. :-)

A pretty poor April Fools stunt (I'm hoping that's what it is) IMHO, given that some people probably have/would do this...

Maybe you're right (that that is what he meant)... but all it takes is the criminal to withdraw cash (or have someone do it for him) and that money is long gone.

I was more getting at the fact that the money is probably not retrievable.

What makes you think the bank account's details you have that the (presumably) stolen funds were sent to are those of the actual criminal? It could very easily (and extremely likely) be an account opened under a stolen identity.

I'm afraid it's likely you're going to have to put this one down to experience... You haven't gone into specifics, but your side project sounds like a money-launderer's dream.

But apparently this is all "for the people". :-)