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Are you implying that startups not featured on these sites have a better chance of making it longer?

Yeah absolutely. It's got to be important to find a way to control quality with in-app purchases, I just think the two proposed solutions target in-app purchases in general, not poor experiences.

Both of the proposed solutions are against the goals of the a store so I suspect it's highly unlikely they'd ever be considered. #1 lowers the amount of downloads of a free app simply because it contains in-app purchases and #2 lowers revenue by reminding consumers how much they've spent and convincing them not to spend. Absolutely ridiculous.

Edit: I just wanted to add that I think the two proposed solutions target in-app purchases in general, rather than just hidden or dishonest in-app purchases. A good solution would be one that doesn't affect positive uses of in-app purchases but does combat negative uses.

I honestly don't understand people's opinion around this. I'm not trying to refute your comment, just understand and see if I missed something. As far as I have read, Google complies with NSA letters (which seems to be required by law, although perhaps not a favorable one) and PRISM is said to give the NSA additional direct access (but I haven't seen any indication of this being proved or confirmed to be known to the companies involved). Has there been some information proving Google and other companies are actually working with the NSA or is it simply based on the idea that you think it might be likely and they'd deny it either way (if they confirm it, they work with the NSA and if they deny it, they work with the NSA).

I'm not suggesting blindly trusting any company or person but do we have actual knowledge in this subject I missed or simply opinions?

I think your explanation is too generic to get good advice. You should expand on what you want to do if possible.

I think the best way I can explain it is that this feels the same as contacting a caterer and saying "I have an event with people, what should I serve?" Any good answer would require knowing the type of event, the venue, dietary requirements, number of people, budget etc. Same with you task, but we need to know more about skills, specific functionality, goals, etc.

The actual answer, in my opinion, is that hosting, software stack and secure storage of data aren't a big concern at this point. You have an idea. Turn that into a plan including all the features you think you need to launch a first version of your app. Remove 50% of the features. Remove another 50%. Talk to potential customers. When you have a solid plan, then you can start worrying about how to make it happen. Then build it using whatever software stack you know best.

I just took a look at this and ordered on Grubhub after looking through 5-6 restaurants. I really like the choices Grubhub gives you, more flexibility over a dish. This looks nice too but I'd really like to see some more customization options.

Sure, it would be hard, there's some projects that might be able to help out however, e.g. https://github.com/pa7/nude.js. It's not an easy problem to solve but it's possible. You could also start the service with 2-5 of 1123581321's example or just 2-4 and wait to see what your customers request.

"Save Github" is a ridiculous title, I don't think Github is anywhere close to having a problem. They've also got a lot of really smart employees and I don't know what to contribute that they wouldn't already think of. Web services have outages. Github's outages are not significant to me in any way.

Worth noting that with a modification like that, it looks like it actually gives extra space for landing, not less. So that piece probably isn't a factor at all.

There's no way $2000 even factored into Google's decision of who to link to.

Like dsymonds mentioned in reply to the parent comment, 20% time is still alive and well.

The bug you referenced is from over a year ago and in fact the feature is no longer deprecated. The documentation page [1] used to highlight the deprecated status but has recently been updated and any mentions of deprecation have been removed.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/share...

Your Facebook button says "Like", but it's a share. There's no liking involved.

Doesn't look like it. See the about page, I think that's a pretty good indicator he intends to host it (although might be open to selling a license).

Why isn't this project open-source?

Ultimately I'd like DevDocs to provide me with some income so I can keep improving it over the long-term. Until I figure out how to do that I've decided to keep the project closed-source. If you have comments or ideas about this I'd love to hear them.

I just had LASIK a few weeks ago and the experience was great. I was told I could go back to work the next day. After surgery (4pm), I was asked to keep my eyes closed as much as possible for the rest of the night. At my 9am appointment the next morning, they already tested me as having 20/15 vision. I didn't experience any discomfort looking at my screen (for probably about 7-8 total hours over the day).

As far as I understand, PRK has little bit longer recovery, maybe 3-5 days, as it's a slightly different procedure (carving your cornea directly instead of cutting a flap, doing the work and putting it back). I'm not a doctor so I can't speak to exactly what's recommended with both or what to expect but my LASIK experience was great and I was told I could go back to work the next day.

I think Ink/Filepicker is pretty awesome and I set up a demo recently of a user submitted gallery in under an an hour. The one thing I don't like is that the Image URLs are supplied only as filepicker.io/api/(your-image). It makes sense when processing images to crop etc but if I store URLs in my application, I want to store them with the real URL, not get locked in to Ink/Filepicker. I can't find anything in their documentation that allows that. It's the only thing really preventing me from fully integrating with one of my projects right now.

I agree completely. Generating traffic / gaining users is different in a lot businesses (to be extreme, you wouldn't try to sell a $50k/mo B2B subscription via banner ads on a porn site).

You're very lucky in the HN is an intelligent community that will most likely spend the time to point out where you can improve and what you're doing wrong with experience in a huge range of businesses. What they can't do is distill that information down so simply that it applies to all businesses.

It's a good site and with the popularity of Ruby/Rails, I think it could be very popular.

The biggest problem right now is that there's little incentive to actually pay you, so it's essentially a directory. You're already telling me these developers are pre-approved, so I can assume they're pretty good. As they have personal websites and Github profiles links on most users, what's to prevent me from just going through and finding some I like, then reaching out to them to discuss?

If you want to make money, you may need to change the method a bit. Charge of access or make it hard to contact users on your own or have an explicit policy against this like Elance. $100 isn't much to people looking for Rails devs but there has to be at least $100 of perceived value in your service.

If you can't compete on price, you better be a genius marketer or have some sort of wild value add. Ask yourself from the perspective of your customers, why would someone choose you over other options? If your price is more, why would the choose to pay your price?

I also used Garlic.js (http://garlicjs.org/) in a project. Also requires jQuery or Zepto but I was really pleased with it. Pretty lightweight.

As a programmer, you're probably a lot better at understanding what a search is/does and how to pick good keywords or which keywords you can swap and refine to get better results. Most of the general population isn't there in my opinion (just based on what I've seen around other people trying to search thing). The general population doesn't use site: to restrict results, - to remove a word or even " to search for an exact phrase.

I think those are the people who could benefit more from a more context-knowledgeable search, and I think that's still a huge majority of people.

They're paying people to wear glass? Do you have a source for that?

Yeah, sure. My email is in my profile, not sure what your email is but if you send me a message, I can give you more info on who I am and we can talk details.

On Android, it's accessed much the same way as Siri and so is truly "Google Now" on that platform. On iOS, you made have to launch an app but I don't think it would make sense to change the name to "Google Very Fast" or similar. Perhaps the name also refers to the speed of getting information when you're already in the app.

Well then that's even more than double, it's from free to paid.

I'm pretty sure it did not say recording in the original title.

My first impression was that Play related to the framework or just meaning something games related and that accordion meant the UI element e.g. http://jqueryui.com/accordion/. I think the title is fine, but I wasn't expecting music at first either.

Yeah, it lacks an actual metric and a way to measure it but I'm curious which way we evaluate ourselves. E.g. do we have more than 50% of people who feel like everyone else is better or does everyone thing they're top tier.

I don't think he's implying that every employee votes on every decision, just that decisions aren't made by a single person.

Really nice. I'd remove the hover effect from the disabled button style though. You want to communicate with the user that the item is not activated and having a hover just makes it a light colored button.