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By day, I'm your typical code monkey. But by night, I'm an aspiring entrepreneur. My dream is to create something brand new that many people will love and enjoy. I have recently started www.happynerdshirts.com in hopes of fulfilling that dream.

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When everything's important, nothing is

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medium.com 9y ago

The Most Common XSS Vulnerability in React.js Applications

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davidwalsh.name 9y ago

Being a Dev Dad

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SEO vs. React: Web Crawlers Are Smarter Than You Think

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medium.com 9y ago

Avoid yarn for packages for now

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www.yelpblog.com 9y ago

Yelp Fusion

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medium.com 9y ago

Webpack 2 Doc Team Needs Help

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blog.this.cm 10y ago

This.com is shutting down

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www.recode.net 10y ago

Timeline of How LinkedIn Shopped Itself to Microsoft, Salesforce and Google

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medium.com 10y ago

29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer

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github.com 10y ago

Jade has been renamed to Pug

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blog.scrapinghub.com 10y ago

Migrate Your Kimono Projects to Portia

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

You're Not in the Valley Anymore

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npm-stat.com 10y ago

Ember's Recent Surge in Downloads

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ashleynolan.co.uk 10y ago

The State of Front-End Tooling

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github.com 11y ago

Backbone and ES6 Classes

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scotch.io 11y ago

The Anatomy of a JSON Web Token

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www.bikinginmpls.com 11y ago

Why i’m done wearing a helmet

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blog.automatic.com 11y ago

Bringing the Car into the Future, Today

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webreflection.blogspot.com 11y ago

Bringing Custom Elements to IE8

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d1u2s20mo6at4b.cloudfront.net 11y ago

Scaling Agile at Spotify (2012) [pdf]

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oli.jp 11y ago

Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors? (2011)

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ericleads.com 11y ago

Stop Using Constructors in JS (2012)

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www.quora.com 11y ago

What are the disadvantages of using Node.js?

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blog.personalcapital.com 11y ago

Why a Six-Figure Salary No Longer Means You’re Rich

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stackoverflow.com 11y ago

How to properly use h1 in HTML5

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paulstovell.com 11y ago

What is reactive programming?

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www.tiobe.com 12y ago

F# moves 38 positions to 14th most popular this year

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fund.happynerdshirts.com 13y ago

Plea to HN: Bootstrap my wife's and my startup, Happy Nerd Shirts

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kaiserthesage.com 13y ago

How I increased my blog’s Search Traffic by 44% in under a month

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I'm curious, what value do you gain from something like the Austin American Statesman? I assume the main goal here of the PR is really to get links back to your site, so a higher value site like Tech Crunch would get you a higher value link back. Or, am I wrong, and the real point here is that something just needs to come up when someone Google's your startup.

Anyone else have trouble figuring out how to determine market size? Do I have to spend thousands of dollars for independent research online or is there another way that I'm just too naive as a developer to be aware of?

Was really hoping someone would share a comment like this, thank you. I feel like I just got completely screwed by Kimono...

Minneapolis, MN | REMOTE (US-only) or ONSITE | Full-Time | Front-End Engineer | Novu

Novu is a web health platform which helps our users to exercise, eat better, get more sleep, etc… basically live longer and better. We’re a fully funded, stable startup, growing extremely fast… already signed major accounts.

I’m the front-end architect and guild lead. I’m looking for 2 passionate front-end engineers who absolutely love javascript and want to be a part of our enthusiastic guild.

Our dev culture has 5 key facets: collaboration, humility, trust, responsibility and learning. Those facets are crucial to us maintaining a great culture and so you’ll need to demonstrate those to show you fit in.

     == About You ==
- Strong background creating SPA’s with Backbone, Ember, React, or Vue.

- Understanding of OO design

- Extra points for Rails and SQL knowledge

- Enjoy working with people you can rely on and learn from, and you bring a lot to the table yourself.

- Willing to leave your ego at the door and are open to learning from those around you.

- Stay up to speed on new technologies and introduce them to your teammates.

     == What We're Offering ==
- Strong salary and incentive compensation

- Seriously incredible health and dental insurance

- Paid technical conference attendance (Fluent two years in a row so far)

- MacBook Pro with 27” Thunderbolt

If you’re interested, shoot me an email at johnathon.sanders(@)novu.com with a link to your github profile (or example project code of how you write), a description of your background, and a description of what currently excites you in the tech community.

Does this one work well on the Surface Pro 3? It's been frustrating with other because either they don't handle the high-density well or they aren't touch compatible...

Would anyone be willing to explain when this is used? I'm a little confused, is this format for patch updates from the client to the server? If so, then I assume it's for NoSQL db's that have deep documents, so that you know what part of the document needs to be updated... do you currently have to send the entire document in a patch? Are there client side model libs that will track object changes and format output in this way for the patch request (the js libs listed on the page look pretty low level)? Or am I misunderstanding this entirely...

The platform support argument is not very persuasive here. The beauty of open source and the community is that when you combine a popular service with common platforms that are likely to be used, it is likely someone in the community will release the needed api. Why not provide some community support for the platforms, but allow the users to release an api where they know their needs better than you do?

On the other hand, the security argument is quite strong. Improperly implemented SSL handshaking, especially when dealing with payment transactions like they do, has the potential to be devastating. But this is where interacting with the community that is making the api's would be key. There's a lot of value to be had when company and community development work together. They could contribute the ssl code themselves to the open source client projects.

Show HN: Shirtloop 14 years ago

After reading the site and clicking the sign up button, it appears that this is for a "one run" job of x shirts. What if I am interested in on demand printing... any plans to support that (for example, printing as I get orders, which could only be a couple shirts at a time)?

Also, I'm concerned about quality of print, with the unknown of who these printers are, how do i know that it's a good quality print? Is there a guarantee?

This is really nice! If a project got accepted into Kickstarter, would it be better to stay with them or use this instead? The benefit of exposure to a large community as a Kickstarter project is pitted against the extra 5% that they take... How do you turn exposure into a monetary value for comparison? Pricing of ads maybe?

It has been a little frustrating being stuck within that default template. At least I've been able to use it to let people in on our status and our story as we're building for launch, but I won't deny that the biggest appeal of putting a Launchrock site up was hoping that it would excite people to spread the news themselves.

Thank you for your honesty though... I am really excited for when we have an actual shop up!

Ah I see, so the incentive value is just too plain... people may not have the hope that they will get a large enough incentive to make it worthwhile. This is something I hadn't considered... I like your suggestions, especially the first one with 50%. We used to have the incentive more competitive, the top 10 people who had the most friends signed up would get a free shirt, but once again that would mean you'd have to think more about your sharing and check back in.

Very good insight!