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Yeah, I got about 6 back out of 30ish.

All of my apps just vanished, including lots of apps that were built for clients. Anyone at Facebook reading this and have any idea who we can contact to try and get this resolved? I can't subscribe to the bug because I'm suddenly not a developer.

It's a hassle. I took a full stack of nootropics daily (a larger stack than what's described here, close to 20 pills / day) for about a year and ultimately just decided it was too much hassle. There are benefits, but laziness overruled. I may actually try this since having it all prepackaged for me is completely worth the difference in cost.

Working at a single place for 10 years and having 0 connections to other companies is not going to put you in a good place to find a job. I imagine they would struggle to find a job regardless of whether or not they quit.

I think it's a sign that I've been programming (predominantly in ruby) too long when I didn't think twice about why 1 && 2 == 2.

Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world.

Keep it classy, HN.

I actually switched to DuckDuckGo because the Chrome team decided to make using a Google a worse experience than using any other search engine in the latest beta client.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=230607

Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo results are way worse than Google from what I can tell so I still end up frequently going back and searching Google for things :(

I'm sad that this comment was posted on a weekend, because I think this is one of the awesomest things I've seen on HN, and not a lot of people are reading HN on Saturday nights and they're going to miss it.

San Francisco, CA: Chute (www.getchute.com/jobs)

We're looking for a front end lead, and a senior backend developer. Our stack is mostly Rails, with a few services written in Node on the backend. Ideal candidate also has some Scala experience as we're starting to look into that direction to replace some of the Node components we have.

Our frontend is being rebuilt using Backbone.js and Marionette.js. Ideally, we'd love someone with experience using these tools (or similar) who also has some familiarity on the backend. You should be just as happy writing code as code reviewing and mentoring other developers.

You can email me directly at ctide at getchute dot com for more info on these roles.

Apples and oranges are in the same aisle in the grocery store. Good enough reason for you, I suppose?

That's why I recommended including how much money the company has raised. Companies with lots of money also have a lot of employees, hence skewing 'market rate' up to something significantly higher than you'll get from any < 10m raised company. It's like (obviously not as extreme, but I'm using hyperbole) comparing salaries for similar roles at non-profits vs. investment banks just because they're both in the same city.

The equity isn't nearly as relevant as how much money the company is raised. It should be no shock to anyone that a job at Google / Facebook / etc. is going to pay significantly more than the equivalent job at a company with a year of runway.

Do it on google docs, and include how much money your company has raised (0-5m, 5-15m, 15m+ is probably sufficient options) and roughly how much equity you have. In a vacuum, this number is meaningless. Comparing what someone makes at Google and what someone makes at a seed funded startup is silly.

What's the difference between what you want to provide and Singly (singly.com)?

Yeah, it'd be awesome if everyone knew about this so we could really drive that rifle number up and make it competitive with other kinds of guns. Think of how many people could be brandishing their own unmarked AK-47 instead of having to resort to killing people with bats! So barbaric!

When I was at Singly working on the locker project, this was actually the absolute perfect solution to how we wanted to store data (it just wasn't available then.) We wanted to store all the raw JSON that was coming down the pipe from various sources (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and wanted it all to be queryable. Also, since each user's data was completely isolated, having a tiny embeddable solution made a lot more sense vs. firing up a MongoDB or something similar for every user.

Did they consider that people tend to not use their facebook account for work accounts?

Anything relating to my job, I use my work email with a password. Anything personal, if I have the option, I use Facebook and don't let it to post to anyone but me.

If this was the case, they'd fix the accounts system. Nothing I do on the web is ever tied to my G+ account because I have 5 different Google accounts and it's a crapshoot which one I'm signed into at any given time. One thing is for sure, though, that I'm never signed into the one that my Google+ account is tied to since you couldn't use Google apps accounts at launch to sign up for G+.

Should be fixed now, thanks!

What version of Chrome are you using? It's definitely unstyled, but it's functional for me in Chrome.

Also, we're hiring!

Looking for a frontend lead and a senior rails developer. My email is in my profile, ping me if you'd like to hear more!

I've worked (or, more often, contracted) at probably 10 startups now between San Francisco and Mountain View. I've never regularly worked more than 50 hours / week at a single company. I've never worked at a startup where there expectation was that people were putting in 10+ hour days every day. That's not to say that they don't exist, because I do know people who have worked at the places like that.

People who works at normal places (and have worked at normal places) don't have any inclination to write blog posts about how not awful their employment is, only people who have bad experiences.

I wonder what these requests for help look like. I idle in a handful of IRC channels devoted to various frameworks and languages. There are a handful of people who get berated, but it's nearly always people who come in and demand answers and are unwilling to do any leg work to describe their problem.

If it's gotten to the point where every single time you ask for help you're being bullied or berated, the common denominator is you. How are you going about asking? What venues are you asking in? What do you do to properly describe your problem? When people ask you to try things do you do it or argue that whatever they're suggesting can't be related?

What's the difference between 10X Management and any other consulting agency? The article seemed to fluff it up a lot, but the fundamentals seemed the same. Just that the developer is a contractor for the agency instead of on salary?

Error handling is node is terrible due to a lack of consistency about errors. Any function can potentially either:

a) throw an exception, which will crash your app

b) emit an error event, which will crash your app if you aren't handling it

c) include the error in the first response of the callback

Domains are a knee jerk reaction to try and remedy this, but it's a pretty gross bandaid. I doubt that Nodejitsu's specific issues here are related to this, but it's one of the main reasons that I've moved away from building things in Node.

If Virgin America doesn't fly somewhere, I try not to go there. That's my solution to this problem.

The more less experienced developers you work with, the more time you spend refactoring the code they write.

This is why every developer (no matter how much experience they have) thinks they're woefully underpaid.

I don't expect people to go searching for treasures, but anything you would do with the phone short of just throwing it into the trash will involve you taking the case off.

I just slid a business card between my phone and the case. If someone's inclined to return it, great, they'll find the card. If they aren't, they aren't perusing all my personal shit.