deniszgonjanin

When you've been gifted with a brain like his, I imagine the most interesting and intoxicating thing in life is to engage with your mind as much as you can.

Except GitHub isn't selling Git hosting. Github is right now a central piece of infrastructure for a huge number of tech companies. Infrastructure-wise, so many pieces connect to GitHub. CI, deployment, bug tracking, releases, etc...

Yes git hosting is commodity, but if you switch away from GitHub you have to switch so many other things as well. That takes time (hence money) and can be very disruptive to your infrastructure.

So unless GitHub starts to suck while someone else comes up with a different awesome solution that solves most of it, GitHub it could be worth way more than $2B.

In a system where social ranking determines opportunity, employment, and all other aspects of life - you better believe social hacking is going to happen.

I had built a couple of Shopify apps early on that ended up generating about ~4k/month, and I ended up selling them for seed money for my next adventure.

It's a nice way to make passive income, but I wouldn't try to make a business out of it. Remember you are still on somebody else's platform, playing by their rules. It's fairly easy to have the rug pulled out from under you, so don't put all your eggs in that basket.

boxkite - http://boxkite.ca/ - Ottawa, Canada - Full Time, non-remote

We work in Open Data. We make data cataloging software for governments. Looking for people enthusiastic about advancing government transparency, enabling civic-minded technology, and in general making public sector software that doesn't suck. If you're Canadian but organizations like Code for America appeal to you, give us a shout.

Most of our work is Open Source.

Two positions:

- Python developer. Web dev skills are a must; great Unix skills and knowledge of Docker are a huge bonus; Data Science skills are nice to have. Not expecting any one candidate to have all of these skills, but you should excel in at least one of the mentioned.

- Designer, web. Bonus if interested being a part of growing the business and taking the lead on creative efforts, helping us establish our branding and marketing.

All ethnicities and genders are strongly encouraged to apply.

Good salary (in Canadian terms) and meaningful equity.

See http://boxkite.ca/careers/ or email contact@boxkite.ca

By that logic, if I know I got a lemon, I should sell it in the first year or two. Otherwise I should keep it. So most of the 1-2 year old cars on the market will be lemons, and no longer a far better deal than buying new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Life is merely the Universe's answer to entropy

As a heavy fig user, it seems compose is really just fig, but rewritten in Go and merged into Docker. It should be kept as a separate project, if modularity and a 'tight core' really is the long term plan for the future of Docker.

He is close to a volcano, and on the edge of a tectonic plate. He could likely extract geothermal energy for heating purposes by merely drilling a few meters into the ground, which would greatly reduce the power load on his plant in the winter. I wonder why he didn't go that route - he must have though of it.

America has always been a land where you could fail, then pick yourself up. You could move west in search of a new beginning and a new identity. You could go bankrupt, then start over, and eventually fail your way to success and a better life. There is no longer a place to hide or run away to. There is no way to re-invent yourself and start over. The foolish crimes of our youths are now a permanent part of who we are. For the rest of our lives and likely eternity.

This is the sad side of the products we are helping to create as engineers at Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc...

Tesla was always a proud Serbian. While he took pride in his American citizenship, he always remained very proud of his heritage. To say he was just American is plain wrong. He was a strong ambassador of Serbian culture in America, even himself translating many 19-th century Serbian works to English.

The balance we're trying to strike with the syntax is for it to be as succinct as possible, while being human readable and as natural as possible. How would you make the syntax better

We're looking for some comments on whether a service like this would be useful to you, and how you would use it. Thanks!

Fake it 'til you make it, kid

I think we should institute a Homesteading Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle) for domains. You can claim a domain as long as you use it for a legitimate purpose instead of just parking on it. There would be details to hash out for sure, but in the end I think we would have a much better system in place.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Ottawa, Canada)

I do a lot of web app work: Python, Django, Express (Node.js).

I work a lot with PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

Great at front-end coding: Javascript, AJAX, Websockets, other HTML5 goodies. (but am not a designer)

I also do quite a bit of Machine Learning as of late. I do know R.

You can find me here: https://github.com/deniszgonjanin

Go watch him code and then decide for yourself if there is such a think as a 100x programmer

"But would you rather be underpaid or overrated?" - Jay-Z

Cool! I've just done something extremely similar for a school project: https://github.com/deniszgonjanin/Automagical

I'll put up a public demo soon. My implementation uses Node, and pulls the page html and css, then lets you edit it. If I can make a couple of unsolicited suggestions:

Right now when you click on a button or a link, it will redirect you to another website. Add a click handler for all elements and then event.preventDefault() so that the link doesn't take you off the page. And second, add a css "outline" style on hover so that the user can see what they're clicking on.

Great work!