michaelkscott

Actually, you can't login any of the Stack Exchange websites with a username and password. The only options are OpenID and an email-based StackExchange login.

And the username can be changed any time, so anyone can change their username (which is effectively a "display name") to 'rm -rf' at any time if they want to, IIRC.

Yeah, this is my favorite thing about stack exchange too.

Upvoted to make up for it.

I was just about to say the title is extremely sensationalist and inappropriate for HN, but the mods beat me to editing it -- like a second after I typed this up.

Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633443

Actual link to the site (Stripe): https://stripe.com/docs/button

Yeah. Someone has asked that in the threads too: http://talk.webplatform.org/forums/index.php/172/why-is-this...

Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618374

I think you meant presentation (as in powerpoint) not spreadsheet (as in excel).

Haha, would love to hear more about his.

Man, that's exactly how I felt. I think we need a tl;dr for this -- it was incredibly frustrating.

If I recall correctly, it was written by github co-founder (defunkt) and powers github. It's pretty solid.

I didn't really understand the use case for this until the last paragraph. Might help others:

...imagine there’s a case where you would like to upload your daily log files to the cloud with a cronjob, then you can mount AzureFS upon startup and let your cronjob just copy the files to the cloud very easily.

Also loving the 'wp-svbtle' at the bottom...

This is an article that was written in 2000 by Joel Spolsky (as another commenter also noted): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

It pretty much describes with different terms what pg here described as a "startup". I think startups have always had that definition (at least since the late 90s) but folks came along and started calling every little thing they own (i.e. their blog, non-profit, life-style business) a startup.

Obviously, a lot of that had to do with how the tech media also entertained that liberal definition of a startup -- and everyone and their mom started jumping on that wagon because it was considered cool.

I think articles like this should be a must-read for anyone wanting to get in the game, seriously.

Disclaimer: I didn't create this app. I saw it on twitter earlier today, and thought it was a nice blogging tool. (I knew I should have just submitted without the www, otherwise the HN dupe checker misses it.)

Here's the other discussion from a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521384

Thanks jrajav

Hmm... didn't realize this was submitted before. Anyway, it looks like it's off the front page. Does that mean this post was flagged?

Wow, really cool. That's probably the easiest way to publish anything -- literally.

The app I submitted (not mine btw) seems to focus more on simplifying already existing platforms i.e. tumblr, posterous. I think both are awesome in unique ways.

Seriously, why wouldn't Apple approve it? Which of their terms will this app violate?

If you were a 3rd party spammer/marketer company, and you thought Tiny Post was gonna be huge, you'd probably jump on it fast and spam the *$^% out of it.

So it's very possible it could be a spammer getting on board early.

MIT is known to be a very open university (i.e. anyone can walk in, use the libraries, sit in for a lecture etc...) So given that nature of it, it would be very unlikely for this event to be limited to a small number of MIT people.

Also, Startup Bootcamp (http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/) is a well known event held at MIT that doesn't require you to be affiliated with the school in any way, so I doubt this would.

Another planet in our solar system? Sure. But even the nearest planet beyond our Solar system is about 11 light years away. And getting there anytime soon is an unfeasible goal according to Physics. Perhaps the Earth would be different 50 to 100 from now, but I wouldn't bet too much on any exciting activity going on outside of our planet.

Well, that page certainly resigned on me. Edit: here's the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

I've seen lots of js projects that have a jQuery dependency for the sole reason of selecting elements.

It's fairly trivial to cook up a simple jQuery like selector but others have already done it: e.g. https://github.com/ryt/Selector

Wow first time seeing this site. A very awesome discovery engine indeed.

I seriously needed this, thanks. Anyone have tips on how to focus?

A lot of reddit-style comments on this post, too.

I seriously love you guys. One of the most awsome services I've seen on HN.

I just downloaded Mediawiki and took a look at the source code. Some of the later added code doesn't seem as bad, but there's an overwhelmingly extreme amount of mingling between the data logic, including the classes and actions, and the html markup. It makes it utterly hard to read understand for someone wanting to contribute. The codebase isn't light either so (correct me if I'm wrong but) I don't think a complete rewrite of the application ever occurred after the first version.

Now if only some of us stopped creating social networks for kitties, and actually contributed our time and hackery into something that actually benefited the world.

Yes, this. It will also make the pages render faster. On the homepage alone there are 30 instances of grayarrow.gif.

This is one of the coolest things on here today. Definitely bookmarked.

No apologies needed :) The term "webapp" was just a bit too general.