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The rising prevalence of youths who have smart phones makes location sharing apps like this a great tool for parents letting their kids be more independent. That's just one use of this app that I can think of. Several other commenters here have already pointed out great uses: caravans, search and rescue coverage, etc. so I will not try to add on to that. Overall, it's well made and deserves to become a staple tool for live location sharing.

iTerm + `locate`. It rarely fails to find anything. The solution is a bit "out there," but it solves my problems.

This is pretty great! I had no idea so many people "suffered" from things like this.

With some work I got it into a more readable state: http://cl.ly/KZxs. After the first barrage of buzz words and hype I found it really hard to keep reading at all.

That copypasta tastes delicious.

To be honest, I'm having difficulty understanding what I should be seeing when I "pinch," as you say. In Chrome it makes all text/images larger, including the banners. This is standard in Chrome. In Safari 6 I zoom into the page, the actual page, as in the banners disappear. This is standard for Safari 6.

Please elaborate on what exactly should be happening, otherwise it's just people spending 2 minutes discovering functionality in their browser, not your site.

Have you looked at the Code Year track? The last challenge before the start of the Python course and following a flurry of jQuery challenges is a project aimed at demonstrating programming prowess attained up until that point [1]. It seems like the perfect place to start to "build a portfolio" as you say. It's also at a great point in the track since people should be very comfortable with a stack like html/css, js, jQuery.

It's easy for us experienced folk to say "forget that rubbish, build a portfolio" but that argument quickly falls apart in the context of teaching people who have no idea what programming even is and who want to explore it more. As much as I would love to have sat down at the age of 14, looked at a computer, and started pumping out concurrent, distributed Ruby web servers, it doesn't happen that way. You really do have to start from the basics, poking and prodding, until you can actually build anything worthwhile.

[1] http://www.codecademy.com/courses/web-beginner-en-R7w8I/0?cu...

This is a pretty great project! I can't wait to play with it more. The code looks great, too!

The troll is strong in this one.

As well intentioned as I imagine the author to be, there's really nothing here that you couldn't learn from older documentation, as several commentors have pointed out. A more interesting example would have been to calculate running time of some function vs. it's recursive version. Essentially, something besides an extended 'hello world'.

This is already possible using projects like erlectricity(https://github.com/mojombo/erlectricity) and its associated subprojects (https://github.com/mojombo/ernie). I think there is a huge potential with mixing ruby and erlang, as strange bedfellows as they are. I'm excited!

One thing that kind of stuck out was that you were walking with a group of your friends who were drinking in public, and you were high. I don't mean to be crass but you were basically waiting to get picked on in the city. It seems like the cop had thought you were in possession of drugs.

Apart from that, I think that there are a lot of details that are missing that could have shed more light on why you were treated as such. The officers comments, however, are not the kind that I would expect a police man to say.

Well this is pretty neat. Reminds me of the old PSP portals that people used to make for homebrew back in the day. They'd emulate Windows and Ubuntu and everything in between.

I would just open this up full-screen on someone's laptop and watch the magic unfurl. A little more JS and you could have an awesome copy of Lion in the browser.

Right? They're alienating a very large developer community.

I tried to send them an email about ruby support and the typo on their compilers page but their email form doesn't even work. I take this to be way too amateurish and scam-like.

I noticed. It's incredible! Paradigm shifting! I was just about to post it too.

I'm thinking about using clojure. It compiles to Java byte code, though I think my professors would be quite peeved about reading my code :P sounds perfect.

I'll def give the books a try, though I will dread every line I write. (case sensitive file names? 1 class per file?! fack).

that I don't understand either. You can do the same thing on your own machine, just add a user and tmux there, where you have the current code base up and running.

I can see this being useful if you do want to pair-code though I still see pair coding as clunky, especially since only one person will be editing the file at a time anyway.

Obvious causation: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=dolphins%2C+PROTECT+IP

This is getting ridiculous. So it looks like eventually the internet will be colonized and taken over by the government soon enough. Where is our next frontier for freedom of speech, open data, and endless cat videos? The internet is supposed to be free and unhinged.

Aww, c'mon. I was just coding something like this :(. Always beaten to the punch.

This is some delicious copy pasta. It's a great article and a good read but I don't think it needs to constantly be thrust upon HN every few months.

Well, for one the copy needs some work. The list isn't even organized and there's about 3 or 4 different font-sizes/types going on all over the place. I feel like i'm on a 4chan clone than an app. Also I have no idea how to get really started on doing whatever your app does, no immediate call to action button. Keep working

That'd be ace! I just hope that I can keep the size of the file down to a minimum

You all should get the updated version. I made a silly mistake in the initial version which I now realize left the over a little too soon. Grab the new one for added awesomesauce.

This is awesome! I've been waiting for this for a while. Now I don't need to route through PayPal or any other nonsense. Nice and easy, just the way it should be.

Why? So terribly convoluted

so confused.

Me neither. I was trying to file an issue for false positives and got denied due to a false positive error. No wonder these things never get fixed.

I don't see why not. You would have to make your time count whenever you developed you application or project, since you would also probably be working to fund this project. Good luck!