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Offtopic, that sarcastic tone really caught me by surprise - it sounds more like an older New Yorker than a Native American tribal leader.

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Getting my first start up job. I couldn't afford to stay in college. Had zero professional experience in anything related to software. Bought an HTML book and got a photocopy of a JavaScript one, created a demo site on a floppy disk (1998) and showed it at my job interview. Was hired for the lowest rung position, worked my up to Web team lead.

I will always be grateful for my boss for taking a chance on me, which is why all the bullshit, risk-averse "hiring process" discussions always get to me. I try to give people the same break I got, and it's surprising how often it works.

The new AOL.

Of course I agree. Al Qaeda doesn't have the capacity to really threaten world peace except by provoking a shortsighted response, which they did.

But the comparison is meaningless anyway. AQ is not a nation, it's an organization with a certain ideology. It's not comparable to a country, like Israel, which is a collection of various ideologies and worldviews.

Since this is a hacker crowd where data should count for something, consider that the entire Arab-Israeli conflict since 1948 so far caused less than half as many deaths as the current Syrian civil war, let alone the Iran-Iraq War or the Iraq invasion.

So, claiming this nation of 7 million that is smaller in size than Lake Michigan to be "posing a threat to world peace" is pathetic, and frankly says much more about Grass than Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

Are these successful though?

Is there an example of a successful government-planned city anywhere? Best I can think of is Canberra.

Neat idea. Is the "Download Jr" part required, or could it just be included from GH pages of the original repo?

Could make for a very quick & simple way to put up some content online while keeping it looking decent, and users could contribute new themes etc.

They did ship. It's not that rare to see their cars driving around Israel. From what I've heard, owners loved them - less so now, obviously.

I think BP burnt through their money too quickly, and ran out of resources (and investor patience) just as they were starting to get some traction.

Seems to me JavaScript is easier to develop with than Obj-C/Java - one evidence is that they pretty much require a heavy IDE while JS is often developed on glorified text editors.

But even if that's not the case, new devs can get started by using open source software like Wordpress etc and learn to modify it as they go. I don't know of any equivalent in the app space.

1. I'm not sure there's any evidence of Apple loosening its grip the app store because a certain genre is popular on Android (eg Swype)

2. Apps take longer to develop, require more skill & time investment, and (if iOS) have to go through byzantine approval process. This mean longer iterations, less risk taking => slower innovation

3. The higher barrier of entry keeps a lot of people of the type that made the Web interesting from creating apps. Web dev was simple enough to allow non-techies to create some pretty interesting stuff. Most apps feel like they've been created by corporate dev teams or geeky college kids.

4. There's definitely a class of apps which couldn't be implemented as web apps - but that's mostly because the OS provides a limited API to the phone's features, not some inherent weakness of the Web model.

>It is also true that social mobility is less, compared to many other rich countries.

Source?

In the about page there's a list of JS libs - are you using PhoneGap or similar to package it as an iOS app? What was your experience with the audio API?

Truly original, well implemented concept. Neat.

I think it's "every one of us who wants to write native apps for mobile devices"

The mass immigration began only after the USSR collapsed - until then the Soviets denied most Jews from leaving the country, so it wasn't really a rational fear.

> 1. Write a blog post about how horrible PHP is.

For extra bonus, do it on Tumblr, a PHP-powered website.

Yep, because it's impossible that non-US governments are individually idiots, everything is controlled by the NSA.

12 years ago I was backpacking in Australia/NZ with my girlfriend. Upon landing in Auckland we were subjected to about 30 min questioning. From I heard, it was pretty common at the time.

I doubt the NSA had anything to do with it (and it wasn't that big of a deal anyway, if you handled it like an adult).

I'm Israeli, not sure why this should be offensive :) AFAIK most foreigners need a visa, except for EU and few other nations.

got it. thanks!

Anyone has any experience reaching quota limits on Dropbox, GH-Pages etc? Would you feel comfortable hosting a very high traffic site (or even a smaller site that gets Reddited occasionally) there?

First the NSA, now the wife, what's up with people in HN? Are you all planning a coup with your mistresses?

If you're married and your SO can't just ask you for your PIN code - and you will, without even thinking about it, give it to them - you might want to take some time to think hard about your relationship.

Hey kids, check this out! http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/

Got it. Good catch, thanks! We put the site together pretty quickly, so left the images at their original, slower server. I need to move them to gh-pages and check performance again.

Thanks!

I didn't get the part about lazy load - the images are pretty big, but only get loaded when you view them, isn't that what LL is about?

Great lib, I used it for http://nli-labs.net/jerusalem_maps/ and it worked beautifully, easily integrating with some other 3rd party JS libs.

(Source here, in case it's useful for anyone: https://github.com/nli-labs/jerusalem_maps )

Some sleep in the trees: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/nyregion/13trees.html?page...

Must be cooler there than on the ground.. Having lived through a few NYC summers, they can really be the worst. Not only it gets incredibly humid and hot, there's at least one serious rainstorm each week to drench you. I always found summer in NYC is much worse than winter.

Yes, but experience shows it's FB's interest that you share as much of your data as possible. It's not going to change, publicizing your data is its whole business.

Isn't advertising your personal information, relationships and whereabouts the whole point of Facebook? If it's private, don't put it on Facebook.

(1) Well, Chomsky is doing alright.. And I wouldn't say The Nation or the New Yorker have any qualms about criticizing Israel (and they shouldn't).

(2) I agree, the situation is represented in the US in very simplistic terms, by both sides.

(3) IMHO Israel, along with Pakistan and India, took the only respectable option by not signing that treaty. When my wife was doing her MA she'd often tell me how her professors mentioned various UN human rights treaties the US didn't sign and which many dictatorships did sign. It amazed me how her ivy league teachers didn't realize the signature of most nations is meaningless, as they have no intention of committing to it.