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he just said on the stream he "likes HN but doesn't hang out on HN because there's too many nerds"

yes precisely and people who use tech buzzwords like ecosystem

A big part of the appeal for IRC to me is the not so low barrier to entry with tools like irrsi

Sports scores, statistics, etc are always high in demand for scraping and great to get people interested when learning scraping techniques.

I was just displeased as you were I'm sure to find out that a billionaire used smiley faces too

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/53358dd4ecad04e75a8...

yes, there were some truly tasteless tshirts in that list but when you click on any link prefaced with 4chan, you have to assume the worst.

i have to admit, reading this post to eventually come across a t-shirt with a pair of pants on it really made my day though

where does one fall in their list of choices if they are doing backend/server side code?

http://i.imgur.com/h20L66f.jpg

there seems to be no clear choice for that

nice catch.

so is this site just piggybacking and creating custom portfolio's through motif?

this reminds a lot of investing in real-life ideas at Motif (https://www.motifinvesting.com/motifs#catalog=our)

and by plain HTML, you mean plain Python installed and configured on your server/local

I'm not being facetious, but this "yet another static site generator" joins the list with 230+ other generators.

(see http://staticsitegenerators.net/)

Why do we need another one?

They had 19 billion reasons to partner with Facebook

I wonder if Linus ever reads Hacker News.....

This will be a much needed and welcome addition to ECMA 6.

If you're interested in a bit more of a comprehensive overview, Nicholas Zakas previously wrote an excellent article on arrow functions :

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/09/10/understanding-ecmas...

I love that the example site being built in your tutorial is a fantasy football app, great choice.

Looking forward to the player draft functionality with socket.io

view the source for her snake game you'll see it's actually not that unlikely: http://jenniferdewalt.com/js/snake_game.js

following a few tutorials after a google search for "create snake game canvas javascript", it actually seems very likely:

http://css-tricks.com/learn-canvas-snake-game/

http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/html5-game-tutorial-mak...

I'd like to mention the font ProggyClean. After trying several fonts, this was the winner for me.

SEEKING WORK - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Remote or on-site.

I'm a full-stack web application developer in the BC lower mainland. I do contract agency work as well as my own client work. Always looking for new opportunities to work with new people and improve my skillset. Technologies I'm most comfortable with:

  - HTML5/CSS/Javascript - Very fluent with Backbone.js 
     and single page app architectures 
  - PHP5+/CakePHP/Laravel Frameworks
  - Python: Django
  - Mysql, mongodb, redis
  - Linux, Debian

Great list. What criteria are you using to sort this list?

I think it would be helpful to show the date of last development activity for each framework, be it a most recent github commit or release date of latest version. Some of the frameworks haven't been updated in over 3 years and it would be nice to distinguish these quickly.

"it runs Linux".....a specialized version of Gentoo to be exact.

How do you address that somebody could take on 5 bugs that take 5 minutes to fix versus the guy who takes the 1 bug that takes 5 hours to fix?

so will users who pay the $50/year still see ads on their inbox page?

oops, this was supposed to be in reply to the ask HN developer laptop thread

Dell just announced a 13.3" laptop with developers in mind:

http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx

This looks like a really great machine.

The only bad thing I see about Twitter Bootstrap, due to it's success, is that seems to be used everywhere and so many startup projects all look the same.

Do they all look different to people who aren't designers/devs? I don't know, but as a developer, when I see a new project I have become oblivious to the design and find it challenging sometimes to see past the "just another app built with twitter bootstrap" to find the application's true value

looks like a single var pattern inside an immediately invoked function expression to me. works well and great for readability

you'd be even hard pressed to find a well upvoted and accepted answer on stackoverflow that suggested to do this type of implementation

also like something that was posted on HN not long ago, a company from Ontario, Canada who built software to do this but the name of their app eludes me.

it's worth mentioning that a samsung galaxy s3 on jellybean (4.1) is A LOT faster than the the s3 running on 4.03 tested here.

Unfortunately, this seems to be about the norm for first editions of the Smashing library.