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I had a rude wake up call not too long ago when I realized our entire world is filled with consumerism and that a lot of us (including myself) are guilty of participating.

One problem with this approach is we, developers, have different problems then a majority of the population. That's why a lot of SaaS apps are geared towards developers & their problems. Take this advice one step further, try to identify pain points your non-techy friends constantly have and solve those.

I think you misunderstood, they were saying that overall there was a 40% decrease in hits to websites that use GoSquared's analytics.

"had a huge effect in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared’s real-time tracking"

The whole argument behind this ruling is that at first the suspect talked and then stopped answering questions. Had the suspect not talked in the first place, then the 5th wouldn't have been voided, but since he did, it was.

I love the Ehh messages:

It's not working on my browser! A patch by Bill Gates is imminent. In the meantime, use telnet as your browser.

I think their are valid times when stealth can be important. The most prominent example I know of would be Siri. In the words of Adam Cheyer: I'm convinced that staying in stealth mode was critical to our success.

He goes on to explain why: We were based on some fairly heavy technologies (natural language understanding, conversational dialog, context, local search, plan-based service delegation, PCI-compliant data stores, machine learning), and it took us two years to go from our initial prototype to something ready to deploy and scale. A few weeks after we launched, Steve Jobs called the office and the rest is history. As a startup, we were potentially competing with large companies with lots of resources (e.g. Google, Microsoft), and we needed a good running head start before anyone knew precisely what we were trying to accomplish.

For a more user-facing, social website where getting the right features is important, don't be stealthy, just get it up and iterate (c.f. http://change.org). But if you have a technology that takes some time to get right, being stealthy enables you to have buzz when you emerge and the head-start you need to compete with anyone.

Here's the link: http://www.quora.com/Stealth-Startups/Is-there-a-single-exam...

Their support is absolutely amazing. I opened a ticket to ask a question, submitted it, and before I could navigate away from their website, the ticket had been answered (i.e. within 5 min).

Google, I remember reading they use it internally like crazy.

Any feedback would be very much appreciated!

What would be the advantages of using a custom built load balancer vs. something off the shelf like Nginx?

Stop. I have to breath :)

I remember either Asana, Stripe, or Quora suggesting to build a similar program to help your application when applying. I always thought it was a super cool idea, but never got around to building one.

I'll try and find a link later today.

Sometimes the drawbacks of a framework are more important than the features. Most competing frameworks (i.e. AngularJS, Ember.js, Knockout) keep on par with one another when it comes to features. Their real differences comes out in the drawbacks of how those features were implemented and whether you're willing to deal with those certain drawbacks.

You forgot to add the [citation needed] at the end of that sentence.

I'm getting an 'Error establishing a database connection'. Anyone getting similar problems?

I admit I used it early on (i.e. June) and was trying to build an app with Google Maps. The problem was that I needed to understand Gradle in order to manually edit the build files. I figured I'd tough out eclipse for the next little bit, until the Gradle issues are fixed. Next time I'm fooling around with Android, I might give it another chance.

Low light pollution equals a couple hours out of the city or in the middle of a desert?

Can I ask why Alienware? I always thought they were super overpriced.

Web/Mobile Development

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Win7 in VMware (For IE, Photoshop, and Office). Vagrant for local servers.

Editors: Sublime Text 3 for local and vim for anything remote. Eclipse if Android (only because Android Studio is too buggy to use).

Misc: Git for Source Control and grunt for the tedious stuff.

Whenever I do

An interesting titbit of information from this post is the approx. # of visitors reaching the front page of HN can get you:

"BlinkLink managed to get about 50k pageviews against 17k visitors"

I'm not sure on how much other sources (Reddit, Twitter) contributed to that number though.

My way of looking at it was always

Documentation the Angular Way:

I think the idea is a fairly reasonable one, taxing large enterprises for charging insane support/servicing fees. Their implementation of it sounds really crappy though.

What I don't like about this is that Toptal agreed to the terms.

"Our COO went ahead and said we promise not to show any females in our advertisements"

That reminds me of the saying: "Sitting on two chairs with one ass." You can't make a write up saying how insulting and how much you disagree with LinkedIn's advertising policies only to later agree to their terms. That's like an activist complaining about the way McDonalds treats their cows before ordering a burger. If your employees are offended, stand up for them by telling LinkedIn they can go f* themselves.

I think you'd be able to present a better argument if you can show us the images of the male versions. You claim "our male versions are no different", but I think in such a case you should be absolutely transparent. That way, the whole story is laid out and we can see if the pictures are very similar except for the sex, then yes there is sexism on LinkedIn's part or if the images are obviously different and it's valid for LinkedIn to be suspicious. That way we aren't forced to take your inherently biased word (no offence meant).

I think this whole thing could have been avoided if Toptal had images that were obviously related to engineering. Model portfolio type images (female or male) of employees isn't the best image to use when you're not a modelling agency, but a development agency.

DJ sets of artists like Kaskade or Porter Robinson always work for me. I find the key is to find something that doesn't distract you from the work, but is also nice to listen to when you focus on it. I find it really hard to just work when the room is completely silent.

I have to admit that sometimes I even skip the articles and read the comments because I can usually rely on HN to filter out the BS and make note of the juicy good parts (which I can then go and look at in the article/post).

I don't think Randall does xkcd out of pure altruism. I also don't think he does it just for fun (although I believe that's how he started). I think it's a mixture between the two.

If the comics were exactly the same, I'd probably still enjoy them just as much, no matter the reason Randall does them. I feel that we'd be able to tell by the quality of the work and the dedication that he puts into them if his reasons for doing it were different.

There's not a lot of people in the world that are this dedicated to making other peoples' days just a little bit better.

Thanks Randall.

+1 For being able to admit the 'hippy dippy bullshit'. Sometimes that stuff works best, even thought we hate to say so.

Watching the Kickstarter video, it felt very forced. I get that you are trying to revolutionize programming, but try not to keep telling me that and instead show me. I feel that if you had a screen cast of working on a simple demo application (longer than 10-15 seconds), it would've conveyed the message of how powerful NoFlo really is, much better.

I'm not trying to take away from all the work you've done (it looks like a lot and keep at it). It's just a suggestion on how to really show me the ground breaking-ness of NoFlo.

Yeah, exactly. If I knew that it only stores my location info for 30 minutes, I would have most likely said yes. Without that, temporary could mean anything (hours, days, weeks).