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I agree, it seems poor sportsmanship on the part of Codewars. I mean they could have a special leaderboard for those who "hack" the game in one way or another. It seems in the best interest of the software itself, but also of the community, to foster this kind of creativity.

I love when CEOs talk about how they set aside dedicated time for this, Jason Fried comes to mind.

Power inbalance man, that's the point.

I saw him speak at a fireside chat here in Berlin, and was struck by his overall juvenile attitude and idiocy. Given that that was his "shtick" I guess he was just hiding in plain sight. But I'm surprised that his poor judgement is such a shock to people when it's evident from his performances in public.

The person every kid wanted to be in the 70s was Jimi Hendrix. The person every kid wants to be in 2017 is Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerburg. The zeitgeist has moved on.

I'm really hoping that in the next 5 or 10 years that "clean meat" or meat created from animal cells becomes a viable alternative. This is the future, and with it we will drive costs down and food safety up.

The "Is group chat making you sweat" is using a verb form "continuous aspect" which not all languages have. It's more of a feeling of being in the middle of the situation, where "Does group chat make you sweat" is being asked before or after the activity. It's more of a subtle, stylistic choice though and the title could have been named with either of these sentences.

And don't underestimate the cost that comes with a) having to justify your quirky Coffeescript codebase to potential hires and b) not getting the hires you want because they won't work in Coffeescript. This was my main motivation for leaving it behind, even though I prefer the Coffeescript syntax over ES*.

I'm not buying it either. I think some people are trying to inflate the perceived value of the bootcamps.

Yeah, the senior titles for people with 1 or 1.5 years out of bootcamp don't make any sense at all, and cast doubt on the validity of the data. Come on, we've all worked with smart people that are a year or two in to being a developer, and you can't label them "senior" no matter how smart they are.

Is it possible that someone from one or more bootcamps is fluffing the data, knowing that it will get posted on HN?

Yeah, this didn't make sense to me. It's the most important real-estate on the page, and not only is he humble-bragging, but he's instilling some doubt into his commitment to the project. "And to be honest I still do ask myself that sometimes.."

It's also so informal and personal that it made me think that what followed was going to be kind of a blog entry, or a simple and static announcement page, not what was actually a pretty compelling product walkthrough.

But then at the end I scrolled back to the top, and was like, was this actually effective? It doesn't read like marketing speech, and I did end up reading the entire page. Maybe they know something that I don't? But it still seems so misplaced among all of the obvious craftsmanship that went into the rest of the page.

What did this statement mean: "It’s very difficult for American startups to relocate post-Trump."

Not to be too contrarian, but I'm a 45 year old developer whose (basically) only code that is currently in production is what I've made in the last year. Code is generally eventually thrown away, whether it's garbage or not.

Yeah, whenever new hires complain about the lack of completeness or correctness of documentation, I'm like: that's a great place for you to start. It also seems to be a great signal of the attitude of the new hire, because the people who kind of groan at that task usually end up having problems.. but that's another topic altogether.

I love all of your advice, but I would start straight-away with writing tests. Not only is it low risk, it is the best way to start understanding the code base, and gives you an avenue through which you can start introducing small refactorings. The other important thing is that developers LOVE to have outside help with testing and a pair of fresh eyes to look at the test-suite through.

In 1981 I'm not sure that it was so obvious that computers would take over the world, definitely not to the general public. For context, I was 10 years old at the time, and was the only kid in my school that owned a computer, a TI-99 that used a cassette drive as storage. It was so left-of-field to own a computer, that I remember not even really talking about it to my friends in school, because they had no context for why anyone would want such a strange device.

I agree that it's a great idea, are there competitors?

But just a little feedback on the tagline, the "10x" sounds a bit amateurish, since it's not backed by any data and just sounds like over-hyped marketing speak. "Find the Right API and Connect Faster" is much cleaner and more professional. I would also invest in some design help. But overall, good job!

This seems like the likely answer. Of course an unchecked algorithm would come to this conclusion, the key being that the algorithm is acting "without supervision". But it seems like negligence to not be supervising these algorithms.

Is it feasible to attend the CCC as a non-German with only a basic grasp of the language? I've always had the impression that it was very German-language oriented, but seeing the amount of English in this thread has me reconsidering.

What formatting did they remove, the indentation?

Again, I said there is nothing wrong with taking a break. To me working on developer tooling is taking a break. Maybe to you it isn't, so going to someone's desk for a chat would work for you, or going to play ping-pong in the lounge.

My one and only point is that lying to your employer, to set yourself up so that you can somehow get through your low-points, means you are either in the wrong job or in the wrong profession. Be a professional and do your honest best, that's all.

As I said in my comments, it's not about not being at 100% capacity all of the time. No-one is, but there are honest ways to communicate that.

What's crazy to me is strategically lying to your employers IN ADVANCE, to set yourself up to not do any work. Especially given that you are posting it under your name.

I wouldn't post anything on HN that I wouldn't want my boss to see, and frankly if I was your boss I wouldn't be that happy that:

"I just tend to bullshit my way through a work week.."

"..build interfaces that look like I'm doing the work when in fact I'm not."

"Sometimes I'll allot a week for something, not do anything on it, and then complete it all a day before it's due"

"it helps to get good at bullshitting"

Honestly, you don't sound professional. To me it's one thing to say, hey I'm burned out and I need to take a half day today. Or hey, I'm burned out, what if I worked on developer tooling for a few days to recharge my batteries.

But lying during meetings and distorting what you are working on are fireable offences, and even if you feel comfortable being that shameless and unethical on your own accord, why the heck would you give advice to someone else to do the same?

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I'm bewildered by this post.

Come on, this is just a blatant PR piece. Lot's of people do lots of things to fund their struggling startups, but very few get a full article plus advertising photos on the BBC. Well done guys, kudos, but come on there is no story here.

Of course this is the only common-sense answer, I'm amazed I had to scroll this far down to find it.

Seems like the opposite of anarchy :)

SVG is such a superior format for icons, it scales perfectly, is very efficient size-wise. The only annoyance is getting them inline so that they can be styled with CSS.

The monetization made off of Youtube should offset all of that and then some.

Thanks for the advice brudgers, I agree with everything you said. The tricky thing regarding the last point is that this is not a co-founder and I haven't heard the topic of equity shares among non-co-founders or even non-employees discussed much before. But you are right to just do what is right by people, and the rest will work itself out.

I'm glad this is a priority for you guys Sid, the one thing keeping me from using Gitlab is that it doesn't feel as snappy as Github. But as a point of reference, I'm also a guy that won't use Atom because it doesn't feel as snappy as Sublime. For some of us, speed comes first.