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utm_source is set to 'HN', so the original poster did include it, or it would say something else.

Man, leave it to HN to turn an article that has _nothing_ to do with a specific technology (notice how the app the author makes an example of isn't even a web app?) into an excuse to soapbox about modern web development.

>Unfortunately your architecture limits us to JS style of development when failed request is ok, user will refresh the page.

On what planet is this "the JS style of development"? SPAs don't want to force the user to refresh the page for no good reason for the exact same reason that you don't want the user to close your app because their token has expired. The idea really isn't significantly different.

What does "en-masse configuration" even mean?

Who the hell does scroll hijacking on mobile?

Absolutely. I also live in an Eastern European country with a large (and growing) IT outsourcing industry, and from my experience here, that statement couldn't be farther from the truth. These companies are some of the best employers in the country, with far above-average benefits, salaries and work conditions. Of course, some are worse than others, but that's true for any industry.

>> I was told "I seem to be senstive about being Indian" out of nowhere.

Jesus. It's amazing to think someone who's worked so long in the tech industry can think like this. If anything, we're the ones who should know best how little race means when you have the skills to get the job done.

Yeah, I uploaded my high school graduation photo and it guessed 27. Guess it weighs facial hair a bit too heavily.

Huh. When I read the title I figured it would be a crowdsourced system where people guessed the age and it just showed you the average.

This is much more interesting.

I'm just happy I wasn't taking a sip of my coffee when I read that title. Is this what passes as tech journalism these days? Did they get Buzzfeed to give them pointers or something?

I wouldn't say it's a 'totally separate effort'. Much of the core CyanogenMod dev team are also Cyanogen Inc. employees.

I assume what you meant to say is that CyanogenMod is entirely separate from Cyanogen Inc.'s commercial product, Cyanogen OS, which has always been true.

I've seen a bunch of companies in my region use this service: https://www.centili.com/

I'm surprised it didn't catch on sooner. It's a genius idea for enabling online payments in places where credit cards, PayPal etc. aren't as commonplace as they could be.

I live in Serbia. Yes, I've known many poor people. By western standards I'm fairly poor myself.

I'm not saying all poor people are poor by their own fault. Far from it, especially given where I live. But it is definitely the case for many, and for some people I've known as well.

Node-sass isn't a JavaScript port of SASS, it's a Node.JS binding for libsass, the native (C) SASS compiler. The first paragraph of the readme tells you as much.

Do developers really care whether a tool is written in JS rather than Ruby, or vice-versa? If you're running *nix it's pretty likely you have Ruby installed out of the box anyway.

There's nothing inherently tying you to Ruby anyhow, anyone could write a SASS parser in JavaScript. It's just that nobody has because there is no need for it.

If I invested my life savings into a company that hasn't turned a profit in five years, that wouldn't make the company or the exchange a scam, it would simply make me an idiot.

Nobody is promising Bitcoin investors a profit because nobody (officially) speaks for Bitcoin to begin with. Anyone investing into BTC and subsequently losing or gaining money is doing it of their own will, not because they were scammed into it.

You're forgetting that many people are poor because they never got proper financial education. They're poor because they can't handle money, not the other way around.

In fact, this demographic is probably the primary target of schemes like this. If you're smart enough to handle your money well, you're smart enough to not fall for stuff like this.

>Unfortunately, the built-in IDE for Unity is MonoDevelop, which has all the problems Xamarin does, You don't have to use Mono though, you can use any editor.

In fact, Visual Studio has first-class support for Unity now, since MS bought the company that made UnityVS and released it as a free VS extension.

I really don't think I could recommend using Unity for a non-game app, though, at least in most cases. It would be a subpar experience for both the developer and the user.

Yeah, a huge part of why I still (mainly) run Windows at home is easy access to Visual Studio. With third party extensions (e.g. ReSharper), and even without them, it's probably the best single IDE I've ever used.

I still use WebStorm + JS for frontend Web work, though. Would you say it's worth the switch to VS and TypeScript (though WebStorm supports TypeScript, too)?

>WAY too much CSS to do something like that. I'm not sure what the fix is though? A JS library to generate the CSS animation with a saner syntax (I realise CSS probably needs all of that stuff to be extendable but it's a massive amount of code for something that should be easier to accomplish IMHO).

The most logical solution would be the way we extend CSS syntax today - preprocessors like LESS and SASS. You don't need to render the valid CSS clientside, you can just compile it into CSS before you deploy it.

Same here, ugh. Looks like programmer art from the early 2000s.

Chrome supports it, but it looks really wonky.

http://i.imgur.com/YB3krUW.png

Well sure, but since when is emoji part of unicode?

Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.