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I love the weekly planner idea. Of all the to-do lists I've looked at, none of them seem to support that critical feature.

Are there any other weekly planner apps like this?

Do you have any details about this? It sounds interesting.

How does a benefit company affect things like funding? Or acquisition if the time comes?

There's a horrible web form on my property management's website. My landlord is awesome, but this part of the process is pretty bad. I'm a student living in a mostly-student apartment place.

After submitting my address, unit number, name, email, and a description of the problem (sidenote: I always have to figure out which way is north and try to describe the bedroom/bathroom with the problem), it tells me "thanks for your feedback".

From what I can tell, the office people completely reword my query (taking out all of the relevant detail like what we've already tried to fix the problem or how the tub is clogged but it takes a while to see). Then they assign it to some maintenance person in their ticketing system. And eventually they come out and fix the issue. Then they leave a printout of the ticket with some scribbled notes (which I assume is legally required).

I'd love to know the status of my maintenance request, especially if I have to or want to be home for it. An email would probably be nice. And informing my roommates on submission (so they know I did) and/or further notifications would be neat too, since I end up having to tell them manually.

What's tilde club?

Looks really interesting. Will this be instant access, or will there be some sort of invite phase?

I can't find any reason to be optimistic after reading this article.

Is there any reason to even consider moving to the Bay Area after graduating? It seems like any other city would be more manageable.

Is there an option to forward all of my mail to my gmail (preferably deleting the copy on pawnmail too)?

This is an interesting idea. I was going to set up an email server on my VPS with just SMTP that auto-forwarded everything to my gmail. But this might be simpler.

Why does vicious competition exist in the mobile payment space? All these solutions only introduce a convenient middleman between the credit card and the physical store.

Is there some sort of profit motive involved here, like fees off every transaction?

If not, I have no idea why mobile carriers and retail stores are jumping in to try to monopolize everything if it's just a convenience.

I'm surprised by the if chain one. I tried it using cremno's gcc.godbolt.org suggestion, and the newest gcc doesn't turn it into a jump table like the author suggests, but clang does.

http://goo.gl/PgqAIs <-- The code

Perhaps it has been taken down due to the shutdown announcement. But I never saw the option before.

This is too bad. I used this for my journal entries, and it really helped me keep track of where my life was headed. I'll have to find an alternative method of journaling now.

Does anyone know anything about the founders or how they tried to make money? I never saw a premium option.

Does this work with only Chrome and not Chromium?

This music is awesome. What genre is it?

As an intern, I don't think this is true. I had an employer express an interest in me because Bootstrap showed that I was passionate about working on projects in my own time (since it isn't taught in schools). They also used it internally.

I'm going to work on a college grade tracker web app because I'm a student and spreadsheets are annoying.

Is the size of the box why you aren't using Amazon fulfillment, or is there some other reason?

What does that forum think of this mattress?

> No company have ever increased the revenue by changing an insignificant detail like a button color. None. Zero. Get over it.

This contradicts the article about A/B testing by Wired, which used the Obama campaign as an example.

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_abtesting

This thread won't devolve into a battle of contrarians.

I think that the stars vs followers update was far from useless. That improvement was absolutely fantastic.

I (and I assume lots of other people) were following repositories because they liked them, the same way someone might bookmark a page because they liked it. But this meant they got every commit and issue update for lots of projects, which was unnecessary clutter.

Github realized this and made a distinction between liking a repository and actively following its every change.

The stars/followers update says a lot about how good Github is at stepping back and looking at the user experience as a whole.

I do want to learn lots of different technologies, including PHP! That's part of the reason I read Hacker News in the first place.

But I'm doubtful of its real-world application these days. Most news I see never mentions it, but Ruby and Python are mentioned near constantly.

I'm sure working at Facebook would be amazing. I mean, it's Facebook. But if I also got internship offers at Google and other high-tech companies, then the language I use at work will factor in.

And PHP doesn't seem nearly as significant as these other languages, so then why take a job where I'll learn and use it in-depth for months when there are other languages?

One thing that turns me off of seriously pursuing a career at Facebook is PHP.

I haven't learned PHP yet (and I'm only in college), but I've heard bad things about its design, and it seems to be overshadowed by Ruby and Python in my programming news sources.

Is PHP a dying language? Even if it is, it makes sense for Facebook to continue using it instead of throwing out all their code.

But it seems like it might be a waste to spend time at Facebook using PHP if the rest of the tech and start-up world has moved on.