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Go deeper into both the original site and the competitors; they didn't just steal the front page.

Here's my question: Why is the stock down 5% on an announcement that beats estimates, and is a record for the company, along with positive guidance. I do not understand the markets as much as I thought I did.

So many datepickers out there ... and while choice is nice, why do so few of them include time (which is a pretty common use-case)?

There's no reason; its a personal choice.

I use a Mac for development because its closer to our production environment then a PC would be, and because, for me personally, using *nix on the desktop is painful.

If you prefer to work on Ubuntu, then more power to you. If it didn't bother me, I'd do the same as it would be even closer dev <-> production.

This is a very poorly written survey; you post on Hacker News and you make it very difficult for someone who does 100% technical hires (not unusual for this board) to fill out your survey. I just left one abandoned.

If you're looking for information on non-technical position hiring, this is probably not the place to gather it.

Recommending AGAINST a strong password manager is pretty awful. Why wouldn't you want a solution that would let you use unique, strong passwords on each site you use?

The idea that you could do so (unique, strong passwords per site) without a password manager is ludicrous.

Retargeting adverts might not be bad -- most ad networks can serve ads to those who have already been to your site, which can draw them back

This is a very nice tool, although it should really have "include upfront amortization cost" checked by default, otherwise the "75% savings" for a 1-year heavy reserve is very misleading.

I'd previously done the same on a spreadsheet but its nice to have this tool instead.

Building a form isn't a challenge. Its trivial. Most developers have stock CSS and validation they reuse from project to project, customizing as necessary.

Services like wufoo and formstack are for non-technical users, not developers.

Every university visual communications program (graphic design) teaches grids ... for a reason.

    * http://departments.risd.edu/registrar/web/1112cat.pdf (a number of classes focus on grid systems. this is one of the most respected design programs in the country)
    * http://graphicdesigntheory.net/Images/DT/Armstrong_GDTsyllabus.pdf
    * http://pacificgraphicdesign.wordpress.com/courses/graphic-design-ii-2/graphic-design-ii-syllabus/

Okay, but c'mon its pretty funny for this site to pretend like Amazon did a post-mortem investigation and write up for them.

I understand thinness in a laptop being important - I take my laptop everywhere, and I appreciate when apple makes my 15" more easily carried about.

But where is the benefit to a thinner desktop? Does it give off less heat? Does the thinness otherwise benefit it somehow? Its 8 lbs lighter - great, but I don't think I've moved my desktop iMac since I've set it up, other then to clean under it.

its a more or else empty page on Chrome / OSX

Interesting, at amazon's regular prices that works out to about $12/month in services they are giving away (assuming 3 year reserved servers), but they'd have to cram 34 clients on to a server. But now you're splitting 26 EC2 compute units 34 ways ... thats less processor power then a Micro.

This thing is trash; speed reading involves learning to take in groups of words at once, not reading words one at a time. Perhaps the authors may want to learn about speed reading before attempting to write an app that promotes the skill.

The desktop app allows you to manage a few settings or buy more space; it doesn't allow you to store files without going to the cloud drive website. You also can't simply put things in a local folder, like dropbox.

It feels like amazon is both late to the party and underdressed at this point. The only place it competes is price -- its about half the price of dropbox unless you count the referral space @ dropbox then its not quite half.

In my opinion, the lack of features isn't worth dealing with to save a few dollars. I'm interested to see how fast they make it more dropbox-like, and if they go that direction at all.

You missed a paragraph tag. And 'inspect element' in Chrome shows you the source.

Reading code is almost always (much) harder then writing it. Learning you way around the existing code base, and refactoring it if necessary is (almost) always a better option then rewriting it.

In a rewrite you'll find your self relearning about edge cases already solved, you'll lose features and business requirements you didn't even know about. You'll end up with a more maintainable (for you) but worse product in most cases.

Going forward you should have good documentation for key things regarding your system. If its not part of someone's job now, you should explain to your boss(es) why it needs to be someone's job in the future. Documentation is not time poorly spent.

I'm the total opposite of a server guy, but I think your tests may be in some way flawed. At work we have a site that got high traffic for a few months on a dedicated box @ softlayer -- and it keeled over, unable to handle the outgoing data.

Moving the site to a EC2 large completely removed the problem.

I realize this is completely anecdotal without much detail (well I know the softlayer box runs about $200 a month, so it can't be their worst thing) but it does make me wonder.

j3 is right -- developing web apps, 95% of the time, is a trade and not something that requires a four year CS degree. I've taken several people from scratch and taught them enough to be useful to me over a 4-5 month period; years later some of them are holding down very highly paid web development jobs.

The PDFs on this page: http://www.fontshop.com/education/ will get you started ...

Most of them are pretty good. "Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips" are some rules that you can apply to what you're doing almost immediately and see improvements, but really -- read them all.

Try the Code Review StackExchange - this is hardly the right place for your post.

Maybe its a way for them to get small coding projects done for free :) Seems odd a company like facebook would use this to screen.

If someone can't figure out what it is in the first 30 seconds, they move on -- and that's being generous. The truth is probably more like 8 seconds.

And in 30 seconds I have no clue what your project is, does, or what problem it solves.

Oh and your README isn't IN the README. Seriously?!

Hope you're prepared for the lawsuit from Apple over your logo :)

so ... you're using cancer to make a profit? This has got to be the most disgusting thing I've seen in a long time.

This sort of poll teeters on the edge of meaninglessness: you're only considering income and location.

Experience and type of work matter, as does actual ability - and good luck polling on that. Company size is also a factor (actual ability seems to affect pay less as the company gets larger, in my experience).

sort(@array) Done.

When's the last time you had to write a sort? Especially if you work in a scripting language like Ruby, Perl, or PHP -- I developed and now maintain three products that bring in my annual salary x8 or so ... and I couldn't write a sort from scratch.

A good developer will Just Get Things Done. Thats a much more valuable skill then having memorized how to write an insertion sort.

at a glance it doesn't seem interesting to me. Trying to think analytically I'd say it just, in a boring way, tells me what it will do, not what it will do for me.

Which car would you buy:

* (a) The new Zappino is slick, good-looking, and modern.

* (b) The new Zappino: Women will find you irrestible and Men will be jealous.

Your landing page is (a).

Edit: as an added note, I was so un-thrilled by your landing page that I just noticed there's more information to be had, on my third look.