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Ha, I live right in that highlighted area. Used to live on Miracle Mile where these new apartments have popped up. It really does change the vibe of the neighborhood. They’re modern and shiney and don’t fit in at all. If they made the apts look like spanish revival places I think they would get more buy in from the neighborhood.

Because the inventor of the web helped make it.

My fiancé said something interesting - that the results mirror Americans appetite for violence, and shyness about pornography

Just CS6 apps on my machine, and still going strong!

Agreed. A bit of silence is fine while you're listening to a response.

I spoke with an HVAC guy over the weekend about just this topic. He said about 4 yrs ago, the state of CA required all new construction to have ducting that goes to and from, each room in a house. So when Jr. goes off to college, you can close the door and not send cool air to his room. I think he said it's something like 30% more efficient? But don't quote me on that.

If anyone is interested in visual design as it applies to the web, I have a free email course on the subject here: designbynumbers.io

Deal! Hopefully I won't eat my words. It just screams 'prank' to me but we'll see : )

It sure seems real but my $100 offer still stands! Anyone?

I'm 100% convinced this is a joke. The costs to do this are astronomical. I'll bet anyone $100 that within 6 months from today, this will be revealed to be a prank. Most likely a Nathan for You skit.

Sweet, thanks for making this!

Great design is much less subjective than people think. A good creative director will be able to look at a portfolio and recognize quality, much like a tech lead can look at someone's code and see if it's good.

Most forums decline in quality over time as new ppl join. It's why many ppl here lament the HN of several years ago. I think that was the reason for keeping it invite only.

Sorry those designers were dicks to you, we're not all like that.

If they can prove it, this is super shady on Uber's part. Reminds me of Michael Bolton's money making scheme in Office Space.

Only the AP choose to not attend out of solidarity? Shame on ABC, CBS, and the rest.

I think more than anything it was just to voice ppl's emotions.

I did not, good idea!

I see, so as long as the code can be looked at, it can be circumvented?

Why don't more publishers try to detect the ad blockers with stuff like this? https://github.com/sitexw/FuckAdBlock

And then they could throw up a page that says "Sorry, AdBlock must be disabled to view this content"

I'd be willing to bet they discovered during polling just how much people love Tesla and their hand was forced.

This sounds awfully similar to being a highly sensitive person. I.E. covering your ears when a siren goes by, being exhausted after being around too many people, being aware of subtleties in your environment.

I encourage anyone who identifies with the above to take this HSP quiz: http://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/

Can I come over to your house and play?

Sure, I think there's a couple ways you could go:

Maybe you play off Japanese cartoons, with characters like this: http://drbl.in/bTYf

Or maybe you could have loud and over the top illustrations of the candy like this, but 10 times louder http://drbl.in/kgdq

Since your product is candy, I would go for the playful/quirky/over-the-top aspects of Japanese culture. Lots of fun color and illustrations. As opposed to the traditional, serious, craft focused parts of the culture.

I still love this idea Bemmu. One suggestion - I think you should invest in design and copywriting for the homepage. What you're selling is an emotional experience but it isn't being presented that way.

To Americans like me, Japan is mysterious and fun. I actually don't WANT to see what the box looks like. If you play up the mystery more, it becomes less of a transaction and more of a emotional experience which will help justify your higher price.

Congrats on the good year!

"Each successive quarter will involve a 3 day weekend to be held in various startup cities including Austin, LA, Portland, NYC, Salt Lake City, Chicago among others."

So are distributed teams frowned upon?

Mine too. Here was a case where they repeatedly looked the other way when the evidence didn't serve their narrative.

To me it's the first example of link-bait style reporting in print journalism.

I'll bite :) Try http://mojaveapp.com It's something me and two other devs have been building.

Sounds like early days to me. Using Excel makes sense if you're a startup still figuring out what best practices are for fulfillment.

Fab was good to me on all fronts.

As someone who sold on Fab in the past, I wish them the best. They always treated their vendors well and their operations team was top notch. Hopefully they'll figure it out.

Keith Schofield did a fun little music video about this a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rt_3_bQVJU