michaelkscott

Pro tip: avoid hardware, stick to software. Just kidding.

The title should say "Student falsely IDed by Reddit and 4chan"...

Maybe they had Xamarin in mind when they asked you that: http://xamarin.com/monotouch

Congrats to Joel and team. I remember reading your post [1] on HN from a couple of weeks ago about how you guys barely had 100 signups the first month. You've come a long way since then and totally deserve the success you're seeing. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387168

Don't you think people should accept both positive and negetive feedback.

Nice project. The spider was a bit unexpected though. I had to jolt back a bit. I then pulled it out of the web and it died. Phew. (:

That gave me a good chuckle. Well played.

A little too much, you see.

Wow. Very impressive site.

I wonder what it would look like if the stack was filled with one dollar bills rather than 100s. I'm sure the visualization would be quite mind boggling.

I agree with mgrassotti's sentiments.

No matter how good or technically important the person may be, if they're not someone you can casually grab coffee with, it's gonna be really tough to work with them. Since you're at a small startup, this rings even more true. That person is probably not fit for your place (culturally).

+1 for his site, really funny.

That's pretty awesome man. I wonder how many 360 flips you pulled off on the way ;)

Since you love programming, and by extension problem solving, think of the whole situation as a problem to solve. You are having a hard time trying to convince your parents that what you're doing is worthwhile -- to you, it's even more important than the other things you do because you're more passionate about it. There are a few things you could do here (some of them you just have to accept because you have no control).

1. You could work hard on your project, do everything in the power available to you to make it successful and prove them wrong. Possible, but just takes a lot more work and determination than you may think.

2. Fake it and please them. Let them always see you playing guitar or doing something they'd like to see you do. Still keep working hard at school, but in three years you could start doing the things you love. Also, you're still very young so there's a lot of time. And you'll definitely learn a lot in three years.

3. This is actually not as bad as you may think but you can just do what they say and you'll still be out in three years. You could always work on the stuff you want then. Don't automatically discount this idea.

These are just off the top of my head. I'm sure if you think about it pragmatically you'll come up with some good ideas to take the weight off your head. Take it easy.

Clickable:

http://tinmark.com/

http://pinboard.in/

http://delicious.com

http://evernote.com

http://historio.us

http://diigo.com

Flagged because there isn't a disclaimer. For anyone reading, if you have many tabs open don't try it. It'll (as suggested by the name) crash your browser.

Chiming in here to say that I moved all my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap, too. Fantastic service so far.

Super cool. Didn't even know this existed.

It's a huge turnoff.

There are lots that are good.

MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, UCLA, UCSD, Cal Poly, and hundreds more.

This.

Maybe a little OT but:

Can you be considered an "ist" by having just a BS degree. That is, physicist, computer scientist, etc...

If no, what is the requirement? Masters or PhD?

Can an experienced JavaScript developer provide some constructive reasons as to why that code might be problematic? (e.g. Is it the eval?)

Might be a good learning opportunity for others, too.

Since you're an individual do you only pay $5/mo as 1 user? Also, do you have multiple accounts as one user or how exactly are you setting that up?

Watched the video but I honestly can't tell if he's trolling or not ;)

Well, for one thing, it feels a lot better to share an 'exploit' publicly than to tell the developers privately.

Especially when it's something like FB. And it sure can boost one's self esteem even by teeny-tiny bit.

That said, I doubt OP waited even 3 minutes before deciding FB is not responding early enough not to post ;)

Yes. Can someone reading from Stripe please provide the CoffeeScript version? I'm really interested in checking it out.

Seconded. How are you going to be posting it?

If you have a car, drive to a different coffee shop or café everyday (like Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, Peet's, whatever) and work from there. Spend a few hours there and in the process, try to meet some new people. Talk to them about anything and I guarantee you'll find some way to connect.

In the weekends, there are lots of places (especially if you live in a decently populated city) where people go to to spend time with other people. If you find one of these places (just google it, basically), there's almost always musicians (e.g. Jazz Saxophonists) playing some laid-back music, and tons of people having a great time. Merely being present in a place like that is enough to make you not feel lonely. Your situation might differ but I doubt it would hurt to try these and some of the other ideas other HNers presented.

It would be nice if some of these plugins at least provided a decent demo. Even on their github page or something. Maybe jQuery should make that a requirement.