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For some strange reason, I want to get the him to review the website from this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8440057 and then vice versa....

Tools down and eat lunch outside in the sunshine.

I think wysiwyg editors are also only useful in certain cases - CMSs, blogs, DTPs - the sort of systems where the data entered is the information you will see. There are large categories of applications, however, where the data entered is first aggregated/manipulated before it is useful for any sort of output - in these cases, wysiwyg is just not the way forward.

"This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper"

I think with the amount of coverage this story has gotten, everyone wanted something big to happen. Instead, we just get something mundane in some carefully crafted words that seem designed to give no information whatsoever, while still ensuring nobody can be sued any further. I kind of get the feeling that they are all trying to say "Nothing to see here....move along....cows turn themselves inside out all the time".

Personal anecdote - I had an issue with Visual Studio inverting colours and removing toolbars a few years ago and couldn't fix it even with re-install. I eventually (after going though official channels) emailed Scott and he spent a fair bit of time emailing me back and forth to get all the details of the problem and then put me in touch with a few other people in MS who helped me fix the problem.

Kudos to him, I say!

Michel Thomas is excellent - I learned enough French from his course (having never learned any French before) to have some basic conversations with people I was staying with in France. Nothing groundbreaking or deep, but general basic chit chat about the weather, what to do, where to go, how to get there etc.

a little self indulgence - I built http://clickortre.at with (mostly) AngularJS, inspired by http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

Try http://www.redbeanphp.com/ and http://redbeanphp.com/extra/beancan_server specifically - it's a minimal bit of php with some magic that will probably mean you won't have to get too much into the server side of things with your tutorial.

I work in healthcare. Basically the stuff I do has a direct impact on funding given to vaccinations initiatives, disease prevention and disease management.

Doing this, in my experience, is easy - find an organisation that does meaningful work and go work for them.

maybe he doesn't need/want the money in a "bona-fide" currency?

Go back to university and study more. I would probably start with arts - literature, music and move towards psychology, philosophy, medicine, economics and if time permitted, some languages. I could happily spend my days learning.

I'm of the opinion that your data structure should model your data. If your piece of data is best represented by char or varchar, then use it. I'm not super familiar with Postgres, but among other things, modelling your data correctly helps when another developer has to step in and maintain your app. They can easily get a sense of how the presentation layer should look if you've done so.

From what I can see, they only accept money by bank transfer which means, unless you have an EU based bank account, you'll be paying transfer fees. Pity.

Can't go wrong with a little todo list with angular and firebase.

I recently made a silly little Halloween game http://clickortre.at with angularjs.

This is, quite simply, lovely.

The no change of clothes angle seems to be overshadowing what I think really made their experience - that of no itinerary. That said, I think people mostly over-pack for holidays/travel. I once had all my luggage stolen at the start of a holiday when camping in France. I ended up buying a jumper and a change of underwear and the rest of the holiday went swimingly :)

Okay - this actually looks very good. Almost like Sublime Text in the browser!

What about simply DRY? isn't that what you're aiming for - having code sharable between client and server such that you don't have two pieces of code that do the same thing in two different places?

Interesting read. I really think that the SEO problems faced by SPAs will eventually become a non problem......web crawlers will adapt to the technology that is rendering web pages because indexing is their "product".

That is the mother of all pricing tables. It almost looks like a parody.

The trouble is less that CEOs believe they have a superior tech team, because any set of reasonably smart people working on a problem domain day in, day out will eventually gain a level of expertise in that domain beyond what most people have. The problem is, to believe you have more innate talent than others, rather than accepting that hard work is what makes people good at what they do. Arrogance is an easy trap to fall into though. Creating a truly humble team is the real challenge.

clicky:

http://www.gemshelf.com

Don't know why but I read "be a shit umbrella..." as "don't be a good umbrella" and really had to do a double take on that sentence before I realised what he actually meant.

Are cars too formulaic? There's always a steering wheel. And pedals. A gear lever. And wheels and breaks. And headlights. And......

Are books formulaic? Cover, Title, Author, Chapters, Writing, A beginning, a middle, an end?

formulaic allows us, the users, to easily begin using something new without a learning curve. Personally, I don't want every website to be innovative, requiring me to re-learn or figure out how to do something.

maybe there's an idea for an MVP?

Agreed. Still, I like the concept. Nice work!

I like the idea behind this - it would be sort of automatic version control for writing if you added the ability to view your url history.

What's your tech stack?

A bad workman blames his/her tools. Bad project manager blames his/her process.

I spent it answering the door and handing out candy to the kids who came by.

Wow, did not see this one coming. Congrats to Rob.

I have mixed feelings about it though, I can see that it's a good move for Rob - he really has a knack for production and if he gets to do more of that, it's better for the subscribers, but at the same time, I kind of liked the way tekpub was essentially a one man show.