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I thought I had gotten a ticket. This makes me sad.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--gAC0BE9NrA/UUCiUYUp90I/A...

http://codereview.stackexchange.com/?

If you're on a Mac, it's:

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in

Cool idea! Few things about the website:

* The navbar on https://www.bitspend.net/order.html isn't consistent with the rest of the site. It's missing the "Order Now" link.

* I want to click your logo to go to the home page.

* You're using the Bootstrap default favicon

* Is the business's name Bitspend or BitSpend? Both appear on the site.

* The links on the bottom of the main page don't go anywhere.

* The text in the jumbotron/masthead is misleading. The item isn't shipped directly to the consumer.

* "Unlimit Your Bitcoins" sounds a bit awkward. What about "Unleash Your Bitcoins"?

I learned the command line by using the command line. When I switched to Arch Linux, using bash was inevitable. It took many Google queries and reading many man pages to finally become comfortable in it.

Explosions in the Sky is fantastic for getting things done. I've written some of my best code to their music.

http://open.spotify.com/track/5uWzSBJKqdSKJ3uMrYYUIT is one of my favorite songs by them.

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is my favorite album from them. http://open.spotify.com/album/1JU4XTyTzADBQE1KpM0Wtx

What determined the outcome of your service was the convenience factor. To use it, the user needs to select the information, go to your webpage, and then submit it. It's too much work for the user.

OP's program removes 1/3rd of the steps, making it much easier for the user.

I'd recommend adding an email to your profile so we can contact you.

My bad. I didn't see it on HN previously. I'll make sure to double check next time.

Yeah, I'm having the issue on Chrome 27.0.1425.0 dev on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It's quite annoying.

It might be your machine/browser/os. The same thing happened on my laptop (OSX/Chromium), but it worked fine on my desktop (Arch/Chromium).

I hope you're aware imgur compresses images that you upload to it regardless of whether they were already compressed.

Yes, programming is taught inside of _some_ high schools. A shockingly low amount of high schools actually teach it though. Neither my high school nor other nearby high schools have any sort of computer science curriculum.

I'd recommend that OP have a solid portfolio and get a potential client interested, and then only reveal their age when entering into a contract or doing something where it matters.

Reactions to obnoxious customers is strictly unprofessionally and shouldn't be tolerated. Someone is paying you to do your job. Do it right.

It's all about networking. Take advantage of any connections you have. Meet as many people as you can.

I know IntoVPS lets you burst RAM. I believe the cheapest plan can burst to 1GB.

Well, it's a monetary transaction. The same happens when anything is purchased with a credit card anywhere.

A complete introduction to Git can be found at http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html. I know you mentioned that you're comfortable with Git, but some of the information there may be of some use.

GitHub has a series of help articles, which could be regarded as a manual of sorts. They're at https://help.github.com/

Well, of course you need to give the markdown extension to files which should be rendered as such. How else is Github supposed to know which files are markdown?

Github Pages is strictly for hosting static files. Thus, it's not meant for discussion between users. You're better of renting a VPS and hosting your project's website on it.

Shouldn't web programming come before Python/Java? In the class I'm teaching the students picked up Javascript and HTML/CSS much quicker than Python or Java.

Although I this shouldn't be encouraged, banning their accounts would be limiting sharing. Also, moderation would be a nightmare for GitHub.

Additionally, it's somewhat hypocritical for Gizmodo to be posting this article.