Oh, the humanity! The nerds and their hoarded pseudo-currencies trying to fleece their IT-ignorant neighbors as payback for having to always fix their PC! If the nerds can't find a Greater Fool to dump their pumps, what next?
Never fear, some the nastiest, unmaintainable code I've ever seen is written in Rails. There is a conspiracy of silence among the Rails gurus that is utterly dishonest. Your self-doubt plays into their hands. Just watch, 10 years or less from now, all the mature programmers will confess what utter folly their "Rails Period" was now that they moved on to Programming Language Awesome 4.6
A kickstarter project cannot go under funding goal in the last 24 hours if it has already reached its goal. You can back out if you contribution doesn't bring the project below goal. Part of the anti-trolling rules.
If HN is going to be a nexus of discussion on the FBI and NSA, it needs to understand the "social engineering" programs going on, and take steps to out astroturfing.
Developer Productivity in Rails means having a self-righteous excuse for hard-coding vital, tunable elements of your app and pretending you didn't just do that. A rails app is constantly under "development" because so much of it is just plain hard-coded in place under the guise of MVC and its single model of persistence: Active Record. Down-vote all you want. We've reached the turning point where you hear far more about big companies moving from rails, than switching to it.
It's just fake internet points. "Unfair" presumes there is some sort of intent to engineer fairness at HN when it appears they are just trying ton engineer tailored content. It's best to find a start-up or side project to work on instead of worrying about internet points. But HN is a great place for procrastinating coders.
Or it gets attention plain and simple. No further deep through required from management, that's all it's needed. I guess few here remember when announcing you were going to have a website got attention (see Ktel records http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/23/business/market-place-it-s...)
I think it's ironic that 'Small Numbers' in now #2 with 23 points and 2 comments (well, 3 now). The HN penalty regex isn't fine tuned. Also, ironic, that much of reddit has a financial incentive to promote it. Can I promote real estate and bulletin board stocks if I give it a tech slant?
Personally, I prefer websites that take as a form of payment the riskiest tranches of securitized subprime mortgages or cosmetic surgery loans, while amplifying risk with my fundamental misunderstanding of default swaps.
Seems like we can all just unshield our microwave ovens and fry two birds with one dosage of cancer-inducing electromagnetic waves. Honey, dinner's ready and your phone is charged. Little Alex is vomiting again and his hair is all over my new dress!
It's almost like the management of America's mobile carriers and pharmaceutical companies went to the same business schools, were members of the same fraternities and bribe the same senators or something.
He forgot his template tags: Congrats to the YC! ${YEAR} alumni on {[new round of funding|buy out|accepting bitcoin]}. No one deserves this success more. Sorry your daughter died in ${death} ? "Car accident"
If I'm reading this correctly, the real "hack" was stupid passwords like admin:admin, pos:pos on the POS machines. In which case, we need to hold management more accountable for such lax password policies.