grageth

I know I'm really late to this discussion, was moving house (yuck). I think this is a great idea, but wonder if you'd benefit from limited scope.

I'd personally focus on the juvenile justice system and perhaps young adults. You need to incorporate education into the program to help people get their GED or equivalent.

I've seen kids go into jail on a Friday for the most silly reason, only to have to wait till Tuesday to even be seen in court. The county I lived in only heard cases Tuesday and Thursday. So Friday meant multi-night lockup. This can be incredibly daunting on a kid. Especially a first time offender. If you guys could create a trust system where kids could be released immediately to parents by using a device with app it could stop some problems before they begin.

Partnership for work is probably the next most critical piece. If you could find companies that, based on your assessment, would be happy to hire people on your program you would be tackling another big problem. If the only way someone can provide for their children is to steal, they're going to do it.

Good luck with this! It's a noble cause and something has to disrupt the judicial system.

You either need to get out more or maybe re-evaluate if software development is for you.

I might just be lucky but I've never really gone more than 3 months where I'm not creating something new birthed from some idea of my own or someone else.

Personally, I love my career choice because I believe I get to create from nothing almost daily. Do I sometimes string together something I've used before? Sure. Are there times I get bored? Sure. But I find that's usually a state of mind and get over it pretty quick, or find some side project to feed my creative and problem-solving side while "going through the motions" that bring in the paycheck.

The way you phrase your statement reminds me of an interview I had with a guy that was constantly quitting jobs because he "Wasn't making a real difference and that's what he wanted in a job". That's a pretty big ask, and if you really feel that way start an organization that will do that. Or better yet. Keep moving that data, those buttons and tweaking those colors, earning money and then contribute to the causes you care about. Because I'm damn sure you'll be earning at least 20% more doing what you're doing now than you would be working for that non-profit. Take that extra cash and some of your free time and donate it.

To be a bit brutal, stop bitching. Life is what you make of it, either find the joy in what you do or go find something else that brings you joy. But don't belittle what people are doing. One of the people out there doing entry-level menial work is building the skills they need to one day build something that will benefit mankind.

Sounds like you're not a programmer who's ever gotten in the zone. Because if I had a Fing 25-min timer around me I'd get nothing done.

Nothing beats coming out of a 3 hour programming blur when you realize you haven't eaten anything and have to pee real bad... but you re-wrote that entire module that everyone hates and thought would take weeks to fix. MIC DROP

So well said. Personally, I can't stand beer. Just give me anything that tastes good on ice and I'm happy. It's so interesting seeing you state the not-really-a-nerd thing. I am a true nerd that was coding at 11 in QBasic, but at the same time I played rugby and partied hard with my friends.

The laughable thing is that I worked with my first female programmer in 1999 and to this day believe she was one of the best programmers I ever worked with. I'm willing to bet she never thought of us as a bunch of "brogrammers". And I worked for a company owned by ultra-conservative Afrikaans South Africans. She was just another programmer like the rest of us that worked hard and got shit done. We all got paid on merit there and I don't think gender ever entered the equation.

But then this wasn't in America and I've come to understand and accept that America is about ceremony over authenticity. I see it in everywhere in the culture. Ceremony and labels. Oooooh American's love their labels. Let me label you and put you in a box, then I understand you, then I know how to treat you in a "politically correct" way. I grew up in South Africa while apartheid was still in effect. I was privileged enough to see it break down and Mandela elected president during high school. Maybe I just kid myself but, personally, I've always just seen each person as an individual and rather got to know them before branding them based on gender, race, religion or what not.

Or maybe the drugs were just good and I loved everyone...

I think that is very different to the "Tech Happy Hour" and what feels like contrived events you see in "open office, culture (or people?) first" tech world. I have found, personally, that I formed more authentic relationships in those "stuffy", "formal" settings. Because you know what. When I go out on a Friday with my work mates, it's because I like them. Not because when I don't I'm viewed as anti-social or stuck up. I'm a lot of fun. Just don't force it down my throat or I'll give you the middle finger and show you just how unfun I can be.

Really Nvidia? Respect is gone. Where is the suit against Apple? Don't they use PowerVR too?

Alright that is freaking nice! Great work! +1 for API. Be nice to be able to send my template (left side of window) and get back the JSON on the right.

Make sure you don't have settings or extensions (from previous installs perhaps) that are changing your user agent. I personally don't like sites checking user agents. I say give me what you got and let me decide of my browser is supported or not.

Hey Boris, curious question here. If you could do an NFS mount to one of these collaborative IDEs so that you could compile on another VM but still get the collaboration of the IDE, would that be a nice compromise?

Here is one reason Nitrous.IO is superior. I could actually run the php file that was created automatically on the box. I cannot do the same on codio.

Another reason is that Nitrous.IO has a desktop client that uses unison to keep files in sync. This means I develop locally using my favourite IDE and I get to preview it instantly on my nitrous.io box, I say instantly but I'm sure there is some latency, but I'm lucky enough to have an internet connection where CTRL-S, ALT-TAB, CTRL-F5 results in my newest code being ready without having to wait.

Sorry but I was hopeful that Codio could live up to it's claim, but the fact I can't even run their default PHP file is pretty sad.

I'm sorry. I pasted all emoji's from the cheat sheet and it crashed...

Expanding on this. If target release is September 2014. I can't see how there is not functional prototypes that could be released for people paying. Considering the target market, why not release it. I'd be willing to pay for the early access. Not so sure I'd pay for a pre-order.

I REALLY want to believe this isn't vaporware.

I love feature lists where you compare EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND NOTHING YOU DON'T. Cross Platform? Um no... Windows only... I thought I had to be wrong and looked again. Nope, can't find a *nix version anywhere.

The fact that Angular, Ember and Meteor are all missing from this list is inexcusable. How the hell does someone put this shit out?

Just some feedback. I like new shiny things so thought I would check it out. I think you need to take a look at asana (http://asana.com/) and decide if you're just trying to do the same thing they are doing. Because they are doing it REALLY well. - I think the aesthetics are great, but for me personally there is just too much whitespace. - The time for a jot to save is just too long. - The fact the page refreshes on new jots is very distracting and in today's world of Angular/Ember/Backbone you shouldn't be refreshing pages.

Will definitely have another look should you do some updates, but really you have a lot of work to do to bring the app up to par with asana. Because I think that's your direct and already established competition.

My personal favorite task list app is asana. You can actually set your email system up to forward emails to you from specific people directly into asana applications which makes it a great way to handle things.

99% of the time this ends up being a funding issue. It's better than been told the company is broke and you have no job. At least now OP can find something while getting paid.

Honestly, the relationship you have with the company is over. There is no recovering from this. You'd have to work even harder to prove your worth and it's already not being seen. I imagine this is simply a ploy to lower costs. I'm guessing not is all good at the company and they are looking at ways to lower expenses. This may sound bad but I would give them the amount of effort they are paying for. If to you that is 20hrs a week, give them that amount of effort while looking for a new job. Sorry this happened to you, but I've been in positions where this kind of stuff starts. There is simply no way to recover the relationship, even if you end up recovering your salary.

Good luck man, Twilio makes some good stuff. Allowed me to donate a great app to a non-profit that has changed the way they do things and took me all of 10hrs.

Food for thought for all those that praise Bitcoin's resilience. In the regulated stock exchanges around the world there are laws and steep penalties around doing things shady. In the Bitcoin world there are none. The fact that everything is anonymous only adds to the issue. The value of bitcoin is determined by what people are willing to purchase it for. I am no financial expert (not even close), but as a programmer I think to myself, "If I was a bitcoin exchange and wanted bitcoin to recover it's value, I would just write some code that made increasingly higher value trades between an anonymous wallet pool so that all the trades seem legitimate." Noone would know if these trades are real people or in fact simulated between exchanges. Considering how quickly oil companies were to do price fixing until it was made illegal, it doesn't take too much imagination to think that every exchange out there are working together in some way to control the price of bitcoins.

AWESOME! I was running out of reasons to dislike the American health insurance industry.

Appreciate the response. Certainly going to give it a go. I tweeted, but could you point me in the direction of your definition of a request?

So I decided to do some really quick math here. Assuming a 30 day month and 1 request per second average that is 2.5 million requests. I don't know everyone else but I build web apps not web pages and requests to my api alone would exceed that a month. And I'm hosting stuff on $20 linode boxes that handle that just fine, heck a free tier AWS server handles that. No amount of "Ease" can offset that pricing. I'm very curious as to what kinds of apps they envision hosting, or if you're planning on using this what kind of apps are you hosting?

I think you should spend more time looking into NGOs before generalizing. There are some really bad ones out there true. But the majority are filled with amazing people, amazing leadership and do amazing things.

The reality is that as an organization grows bigger they have far higher administration costs. A for profit company grows naturally as their income and reach grows, so higher staffing needs are covered by the growth of the company. NGOs do not have that luxury, they have to get more donations and those donations often have to go to administration costs. What I look for when donating is a transparent organization that details these costs. Some NGOs I've been involved with do separate drives for their administration costs, which means general donations go directly to their work. The great thing is that there are many people that understand that running an organization costs money and are happy to donate to those drives.

I can't agree more. Coming from socialized medicine countries like New Zealand and Australia this is a no-brainer for me. Medicare (which EVERY Australian gets) sets reasonable rates for almost any procedure. They also give Doctors incentive's to charge these set rates. A doctor can charge what they want, but if they do their patients have to pay out of pocket and go to medicare to get compensated. That means less patients choose those doctors. A doctor that charges the scheduled fees is able to "Bulk Bill" that means that the government will transfer payment directly to the doctor (I am not sure how regularly), which means they are likely to have far more patients and really it keeps everything more convenient (No cash on premises, etc.)

On another point, I think that a serious problem is Tort Law. Unfortunately it's such a complicated debate I don't think it could ever be resolved in the US. I personally believe the New Zealand government has this perfect with the ACA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_Compensation_Corporati...). While it is still possible to pursue a civil suit against someone, in the case of a car accident for example. No lawyer is going to do this pro-bono. You have the right to claim medical and loss of work directly from the ACA, therefore the likelihood of a New Zealand judge awarding a large claim would require some serious negligence by the other driver and even then the cost of pursuing that would not be worth the risk. After all, a "normal" person would be satisfied with being medically taken care of and having any loss of income recovered. This will not sit well with those that feel "SOMEONE SHOULD PAY FOR THIS! AND THIS IS THE PAY DAY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR"