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Let's say you're reading the Land Rover (automobile) Wikipage and you want to share the 'Timeline' section with someone.

Here is the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover

If you click this one below, you will be brought straight to the 'Timeline' section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover#Timeline

Just append your URL with the selector for a DOM Element with a unique ID. In this case, the 'Timeline' div has a unique ID of 'Timeline', so I've simply appended that to the URL.

Welcome to 2014 :)

I think that they will do fine. Satoshi has an alleged fortune hidden away in Bitcoin so he was/is in very real danger.

Amazon has nothing to lose from this store.

- They will ride the media wave when a product launches/when they do a stunt like drone delivery and have people waiting outside.

- You can bet they will be testing in-house tracking/advertising by analyzing their customers' actions under their own conditions

- You can bet they will sell at least a small number of their flagship products

Kind of surprising that they didnt already have a brick-and-mortar location.

Great idea.

Are there any websites for finding people like you who are in a position to mentor?

I guess I'll start asking around because I'm in a position where I could really benefit from working on more projects but I'm not skilled enough to take on the responsibility myself.

I cook for a living in NYC/Brooklyn and do catering around the holidays.

1. I cook at home because I love it. I grew up having Sunday dinners with family so the time in the kitchen and at the dinner table means a lot to me. I cook professionally because I enjoy getting beat down into the ground on a regular basis and feeling like a complete idiot. I enjoy the challenge because every event is a new one. Nothing ever goes according to the plan.

2. I only plan ahead when I've invited non-family guests. The rest of the time I decide based on what looks the most fresh/vibrant in the grocery store.

3. Whatever I think will taste good. A lot of Italian/Spanish food.

4. Nope. I truly believe that you should eat healthy, season appropriately, and enjoy every dish as an experience rather than sustenance. If you follow that, you will eat considerably less and be much happier.

5. Yes I have more tips, tricks, and unusual skills than you would probably care to know. From cooking you become very good at unusual skills like pouring liquids.

The restaurant culture has many traditions but we have one in particular that I think sums up the true importance of cooking. Every day we get together as a team and plan/cook a meal for all of the staff to eat before our busiest part of the day begins...

We call it "family meal" and thats exactly what it feels like.

Depends on the reading material

Technical books: Spaced repetition

General story-telling: Re-read chapters/reflect on deeper meanings and try to be "in the moment" while reading.

I think it would be interesting to see how this thing works for long distance running if you could also extend the runners stride another 6 inches or more through special shoes. Assuming that the key to efficiency by this machine is to get the runner in the air for as long as possible and exert the least amount of human energy.

Test the idea until you either find a result (good idea or bad) or you stress your limits (financial/emotional).

Because getting hit with unexpected groups of 6 or more can be brutal on restaurants.

Not one company has asked me to write code on a computer.

Also important to note these are almost all fully funded companies with solid dev teams. I've had great offers that just never worked out due to fit (or rather lack of passion from the dev teams).

I've thrown the offer out there on several occasions but it's always refused or delayed to the point where contact drops. One time the senior engineer told me my offer to come in and code on my own dime was "nonsense" and If I knew better I wouldnt be offering my work for free, because that would hurt the "startup economy".

My faith in the NY Tech Scene is pretty much non-existent to the point I'd rather make hourly wage in manual labor and hack on projects in my own time, as opposed to burning myself out around people like noted above.

--edit-- Which is exactly what I do

I've interviewed with dozens and dozens of startups in NYC. I'm an entry level Front-End Dev with passion for a lot of things I (in hindsight) probably should have gone to college for. For example, my current side-project is a completely client-side image metadata reader/writer that has forced me to learn new things like parsing Binary, Endianness, Meta and a lot of things about organizing JS because I've never built this large of a project completely by myself even though it is very, very small. A weekend project for most of you.

Throughout all of my interviews I've noticed one common trait.

Either I do exceptionally well on the personal questions during the interview, or I do really well on the technical questions. There is no in-between.

Most of my interviews could be broken up into 2 sections. The first section is usually where they open up and try to make things more comfortable. Asking me where I'm from, how long I've been writing code, what kind of side-projects I'm working on, etc...

The second part of the interview is when they try to figure out how much I know. Usually we start off by just talking about technology and this is where they try to figure out if I'm BS'ing my way through things. If you can maintain a fluent conversation about technology; you're good-to-go. After that they will generally try to slip in a few questions, usually about event delegation in Javascript.

The problem for me comes from when we switch from personal questions to technical ones, or vice-versa. I will pass either one with flying colors but I will rarely, if ever, pass both. If that particular day I can't sell my personal story very well, I do very well on the technical questions. If I do well on the personal questions, I do terrible on the technical questions. I believe there is a vast cognitive gap when you go from an emotional conversation talking about significant things in your past (like side-projects, old employers, hometown, etc..) and then jump to such rigid topics like code where there is no emotion, it's purely analytical thinking.

What I would prefer is for a company to pay me $100 to come into the office and work a half day. If I can keep up, I get the job.

Every couple of months one of my friends insists that she's "quitting Instagram" because of how often things go wrong on the platform. Several times a month she gets logged into someone else's account with full read/write/update access and I believe even gets access to their Facebook. Between the above, the 4+ accounts she's has deleted for no reason, and the bugginess of often having a blank UI, it's becoming harder and harder to enjoy browsing on Instagram.

Just finished "Eloquent Ruby"

I usually re-read chapters of Crockford's "Javascript: The Good Parts" until I find another book to get into.

I'm not the OP but I really appreciate your answer. Thank you for taking the time.

What is the "right" amount of time/effort to put into a "job-application" project like this?

Because of the amount of real money invested, I would (somewhat jokingly) say that securing Bitcoins is a business more valuable than Bitcoin itself.

I don't think you're in a mental state to rationalize any discussions so I won't bother writing much at this point in time.

That being said, I feel your pain but you need to move on. It can't really be the same city it was 12 years ago so do you even enjoy what it has become?

Start looking for another job that will make you happier.

The title should be "Let's not 'invest' in apps like Yo"

For a programmer this is only a win-win scenario. The founder gets experience, funds, exposure, and something whimsical to hack on for awhile. The people in return get this insane idea plastered all over the news only to hopefully inspire a couple hundred kids to get into programming with their chance to strike it rich.

If you hope for anything, why don't you hope that all investors in this idea take a huge loss and do their part in stabilizing tech valuations.

How do you handle contracts?

Assuming each client has their own terms, and you have your own... Have you found any tricks to reaching a quick agreement that maintains your freedom?

I don't think this is what you're talking about but one of the ways of killing mosquitos is to lace a gallon of water with a chemical that attracts adults and kills them along with any eggs. In practice, this would basically target only females.

After a quick search I found this link leading to a page of Intellectual Venture's

http://www.intellectualventures.com/inventions-patents/our-i...

It's pretty cool but unfortunately looks tied to IV. My first guess might be to avoid any criticism that by killing ALL mosquitos, they're harming the ecosystem. I guess that's wishful thinking for a company that I kind of despise even being on their website.

Or if you wanted to be John D Rockefeller, rather than Henry Ford.

Hello,

Beautiful work.

What is that dot you have over the images that references a product info modal. Where did that concept come from? Did you make it?

Sorry for being a bit off-topic but I'm fascinated by Elon's boldness in claiming that hydrogen fuel-cell tech is a dead end for automakers even though they are doubling down in it's investment.

I would love to be knowledgeable enough to have a reasonable opinion on this topic. Could anybody recommend reading material where I could learn about some of what Elon is doing, what automakers are doing and what the pros vs cons are of both without getting too intimidated by the science behind it?

Dash has been one of the most amazing tools to improve my day-to-day workflow. It's incredible.

I love to travel and specifically I love to travel to places that dont have wifi. Often times I take fly fishing trips to Montana, or shorter trips to the Smokey Mountains and during these times I need to be able to work an entire day without internet and Dash is the only reason I can do this effectively.

Dash + Alfred + Sublime are probably my most used tools in any given day (aside from Spotify which is rarely ever turned off)

#1 hack for good design = K.I.S,S

Just out of curiosity...

What are some of the sensible, low-hanging fruit you have in mind?

Great job!

Was this your wife's first app?

If so, will she be making more? Assuming that this closely resembles what you do for a living, does she have a different perspective on what you do now that she's been in the trenches?

No, but far more than 100 people have come to me with bad ideas.

Whenever someone comes to me with a great idea I kindly refer them 4 articles for studying.

Learn HTML, CSS, JS, and Michael Hartls book on Rails.

80% of them will give up when they realize I'm not going to do the work for them. 19% will spend a week on codecadamy before giving up. The final 1% are so motivated that it is no longer relevant what they do in life. They will be successful. Period.

I don't think this is what you're talking about but I've been working on this Google Doc for a little over 6 months and i've titled it "working remote".

The concept is simple...

It's all the information I need to be able to work effectively from anywhere in the world. Internet or not. I plan on cleaning it up one of these days and posting it to Github or something but essentially it covers some of these topics...

Hardware : Best hardware for traveling. From most efficient machines, to best travel HDD for size/cost, backpacks, roll-up solar panels for emergency charging, etc...

Software : A massive offline collection of documentation. All searchable through an interface like Dash, (also with alot of Stack Overflow material), offline dev environments (like localstorage for assets), etc

Various Tips : Like how Starbucks doesnt turn their wifi off at night. So when I take fly fishing trips through the appalachian trail I can usually drive to the nearest town and find a Starbucks to push the code I wrote that day.

* You should figure out what you want to do, or what you want out of this experience, and then figure out how you'll do it. If I were you, I would pick my top 2 cities or startups and then do everything I could to find work there.

It's a very fine line that is impossible to define for anything other than a machine.

Help from anonymous strangers can save lives. The flip side is that the potential for harm is greater than the aid of a professional or friend.

It's so tightly coupled to the scenario (nature vs nurture) that efforts to argue are probably futile.