robwgibbons

This is probably one of the most innovative ideas I've seen in a while.

I don't use CoffeeScript, among other reasons, because honestly it's just another syntax to learn and remember. Despite what people say, it's not "just JavaScript." I write JavaScript everyday, as well as CSS, HTML, Python and PHP. Adding one more syntax layer to the stack, with its due postitives, also comes with its own costs. As for speed, I utilize tab completion in my editor and make advanced use of keyboard shortcuts, which makes my writing/editing more than "fast enough."

YouTube is actually written mostly in Python.

What is Blue Systems? No information on their website or online.

This is about as readable as the ternary operator, which is to say not readable

I haven't had time yet to account for lots of different cases. I plan to spend more time learning the API (which is why I built it in the first place!)

I still need to implement disambiguation and error handling but it's a pretty cool beta. Also, please feel free to suggest enhancements, I would love to build this out a bit more.

Not pure HTML. Includes CSS and JavaScript.

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While I agree it's a good wake-up call to people inadvertently sharing more than they'd like with the public, I don't think it matters so much that the data was already public, so much as the way the app puts that data to use.

Most other location-based services have some sort of unique value proposition or special utility using the location data, or are targeted to a specific genre or use-case.

Girls Around Me, although you could claim it has its own "use case," does nothing more than show you everyone who's checked in near you, with no qualifier other than the fact that they're female.

This, to me, is an inherently creepy service and an aggregation aimed strictly at hormonal males, with the dangerous side-effect of exposing females who may or may not be smart enough to defend themselves.

Sure hope not.

If you have any understanding at all of Apple's business model, this comes off as almost naive. As right as it is, at the end of the day this is a pipe dream.

Every single thing Apple does, every move, every dollar spent, is to maintain their control. Opening up their database would give away their control.

In other words, allowing third-party app storefronts is exactly why they wouldn't do this.

I frankly can't help but think fuck this guy.

He makes some valid points about closed innovation (the number of browsers we have to support means the open web must necessarily evolve less rapidly) but overall his attitude is just total shit.

I can't tell if he's being a jackass for April Fool's or is honestly just throwing in the towel on a short-term call to make more money. Fuck the rest of us. Go join Apple and let the open ecosystems die.

Don't break my JavaScript with your Internet

I use a tmux session on my server, so all I need is to log in from any computer and bring the session back up

100 is not a sample set. It is a joke.

None of these are Backbone.js

##things = terribly unoriginal name

I am guessing this is due to the fucked up Indian spying policies

MobileMe is dead. Go to me.com/move to transition your account to iCloud and avoid this headache.

Geany

Impossible to understand. Interesting implementation though, kudos

At first I thought, "Yeah, but who the hell would want to write web apps in C???" Then I thought, "Oh yeah, people who want high-scalability at the cost of readability."

And then I realized, "Oh my god, it's Node.js all over again!"

But seriously, looks cool.

And "like"

What makes this guy think this wasn't all in the pipeline for years?

Great idea. Interesting (and obvious in retrospect) note about the main flaw in paid dating sites: the more successful you are, the faster you lose your clients.

The ROMs tab doesn't do anything for me

I was half expecting to see Dart powering this sucker. Looks like a lot of fun.

Genius. Pure genius. Effective and funny as hell too.

I literally came back here just to say this. I love the concept but it's almost unplayable with the dragging after every shot.

Make it follow the cursor!

Just build something. The easiest way to learn is to do. In fact I personally find fixing other people's bugs to be a terrible idea for someone wanting to learn how to build things and learn more about the general field of software development. It's a quick way to burn someone out, or make them lose interest in the whole thing before they're even started.

Choose an idea, preferably something personally useful to you (don't spend too much time on this part because ultimately it's the process itself that matters) then build it. You'll need to pick a language/framework and build something with it, so go with whatever you're most familiar with, or pick something you're interested in learning.

In the process of building something, not only will you learn the general foundations but you will inevitably create your own bugs and rabbit-holes you'll need to learn to fix anyway.

At that point I would say it's a good idea to start contributing to open source projects, fixing bugs, extending features, etc. But not before you've reached some low-hanging fruit and built some self-confidence in building new software.