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i'm confused too. Why are captchas bad? captchas are absolutely neccessary to fight automatic signups by bots. Are you saying just let the bots win?

wow, that's amazing. thank you.

i'm not sure the answer to your question, but it made me LOL. I completely agree.

pretty good job! my only comment is to make more standard options to select from a list vs. typing in any value.

this thing is a mobile app waiting to happen. everyone has trouble with the four: passive destructive, active destructive, passive constructive, and active constructive

if the author is reading this, please follow up here and let us know what happens to you from a legal perspective for having violated the NDA.

can someone explain? is this secret?

i submitted this same url but I made the title:

“Juliet. On her balcony.”

i think the author of this post should watch 'House of Cards' on netflix. Human interactions (politics) are always based on being able to say things to others in private.

really well done and funny. i like this power.

Not all that familiar with Freelancer but, if I was running a for profit business, I would feel free to experiment with pricing. If I wanted to raise my fee from $25 to $50 I think the serious reason would be, I want my business to be profitable. Sometimes when you first price something you are just kind of guessing what the correct price is. If you pick a number too low sure your customer might like it, but it may not be good long term for the business. So you have to iterate on price.

best part of that google spreadsheet was the chat. You meet the coolest people there.

wow, makes so much sense

for years I tried to add various chemicals to my body to find a solution. it seemed obvious that I just needed to get the right drug at the right doseage and that would solve the problem. but the solution was exactly in the opposite direction. I didn't need to ADD things into my body to fix my brain, I needed to PREVENT certain things from entering my blood stream. diet is everything. food is medicine. food is so messed up in our society. to eat a healthy diet that will actually allow your brain to work and not get panic attacks requires EXTREME dedication and will power. AND on top of all that, you need to be social with your friends, family and co-workers and not make your special diet ruin the fun. Super challenging, but as I get older I find it's easier and easier to really carefully monitor each and every bit of food I put into my mouth. I won't bore you with the details but you probably already know, too much sugar, too many carbs, these things matter, a lot. Stop trying to fix big problems with band-aids when you've got to get to the source of the poison in your blood stream.

yes! Uber needs to win!

I meant, a common human question is "if there is a caring God, how can there be so much suffering in the world?" And maybe the answer is, human pain means nothing to him the same way computer generated rock pain means nothing to us.

after thinking about this one for a while, it occurred to me that this really helps illustrate the point of 'Life May Be A Computer Simulation'. Take this world creation a step further, and rather than teaching a computer how to create rocks, each one slightly different, imagine creating humans, each one slightly different. If you think about 'God' as just some alien programmer dude, it helps make so much sense of the world. How can a caring God let so many terrible things happen to us humans? Well, how much empathy do you feel about each rock in this program? When you click refresh, and create a whole new world, do you stop and think about all the exist rocks you are 'killing'? If we are living in a computer simulation, perhaps our creator doesn't even realize we are sentient?

stuff like this makes me remember why I love programming

Sometimes honest feedback from a stranger is just what the doctor ordered. I have no agenda here, this is just my honest opinion. This is a business with no market demand. Have you put up some static landing pages with a big call to action button and see how many people will actually enter a credit card? i.e. before you invest in this business, build a "fake" site that looks real enough, and buy a small amount of traffic into the site with google ad words and see what % of people actually want to pay for this service. (The people that actually do enter their credit card get a nice email saying, thanks, this service coming soon. And some are a little mad they were tricked, but small price to pay for this info.) I suspect the conversion will be very very low. My boss would never let me pay for this service. He'd say, just figure it out yourself or wait for the free answer on SO.

I agree. Very tough road to climb to usurp SO reign on this area. Feels like you are trying to solve a problem SO has already solved.

my kid wasn't special needs, but I sure felt the need to leave work at 5 on the dot and get home to help. Kids (any kid) takes SO much work they are incompatible with our 24/7 work culture.

"Its chief executive, Obama, indulges himself in luxury almost every day, squandering hundred millions of dollars on his foreign trip in disregard of his people's wretched life." really powerful stuff. Made me think about it from their perspective.

this was recommend to me via a medium email as the #1 top story to read all week! So I read it. It was good. Definitely worthy of hacker news front page.

parents and non-parents are such different creatures my wife and I call them vampires and non-vampires. it's hard being the only vampire working with a bunch of humans!

that's a really good point I didn't think of.

ha, very simple but needed feature.

I did high school in 3 years by taking all the required classes for senior year as electives in junior year. Then I went every summer in college to finish my CS degree (pitt.edu) in 3 years as well. I was 19 when I graduated. Never even considered grad school for a second. Was so excited to get into the work force.

Stephen Ramsay how did you find this article and be the first to post it on hacker news? This is _the_ most appropriate hacker news story there ever was.

I just mean, we can't possible do our jobs without it. A big part of my company is sales, so even us Engineers need to be on linkedin with filled out profiles to make the company look legit. Also, all the sales people need to ask us for introduction to people we know. When a sales person here is trying to reach company X, they see an engineer knows another engineer there and boom - the connection is made. Trying to not be on linkedin here would be like swimming upstream.

this seems crazy to me. how can any professional working today not use linkedin? When we get new employees into our office from the non-tech world and they don't have a linkedin profile, they are slightly mocked - like, let with the times buddy.