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Equal opportunity, not "equal justice under law". Capitalism favors those who are lucky. It's nothing to do with law.

Edit: who wouldn't reject these things if they weren't benefiting from them (vast majority of people)?

And accept inequality and luck.

I obviously don't think you haven't learned new technologies in 25+ years. It seemed like the claim to ageism was that the kiddies expect you to know the hot, new technology. Requiring knowledge of new technologies for candidates isn't exclusive to veterans. And it's definitely not a requirement of the other 90% of companies that are using older technologies.

Tell me how you've survived in technology without learning new technologies!

I doubt that a lawyer, doctor, or (especially) investor could survive more than a year without constantly investing time in learning about their field.

think you are a useless dinosaur if you don't know what the new hot thing is about.

Welcome to the technology industry.

Almost every ageism post I've read on HN ignores the hundreds of thousands of others jobs that exist outside of [hot SV tech companies] (avg age at FB is 28? no way!), and also don't mention those people who are right of the bell curve and working at companies like that (because their experience actually is valuable).

Some of these posts are real ageism claims, but most are "I'm old, I'm scared, how am I going to survive with a highly valuable skillset?" It's fear mongering. If you're concerned with job security, go find a job with security in government or in some monolithic non-tech company based in Go-Fuck-Yourself, GA. The "Hi, Fellow Kids" hipster-posing BS isn't going to land you a job at Facebook no matter how old you are.

Also, thank you for caring about making a great product rather than caring about making money. There seem to be fewer of you around these days. ;)

Looks great. The majority of the classes I plan to take are on MIT OCW. Are there plans to add it?

Single founders have a very high bus factor, and for any other reason that you decide not to continue supporting the product, there's some insurance for people who invest a lot of time and data in the product as early adopters if the source lives somewhere. I think you should make money for your work. I don't have time to research now, but I'd bet there's a boilerplate license that would protect your work while allowing other developers to contribute and install for personal use only.

In lieu of all of that, I'd like to be able to export my data at a minimum. It sounds like the API would let me do that though.

One small, unrelated suggestion: set up something like UserVoice to take bug reports and other feedback from users. I may have missed an existing feedback channel if it exists.

Thanks for all your hard work on this. It's one of the best products I've used in a while.

I've been playing around with this concept for a couple of years (never having executed) and was expecting to be disappointed but this is very thoughtfully executed. I only wish this was open source :)

I think that's understood

This is complete nonsense.

I couldn't find any details on the qualifications of the person giving feedback.

That's only about $18/hour if you're working full time.

maps.google.com does this exactly with a few extra clicks:

Click "Get directions" button, click the "Add Destination" link, fill in A, B, and C then click the "Did you mean a different..."

It's actually .com, not .org

What's awful is that the update reportedly enables JS even if you had previously disabled it, though I doubt this was intentional.

Chrome's malware warning stopped appearing in the last 5 minutes. Looks like it's fixed.

This removes a major bash painpoint for me. Wicked awesome.

This one might work then: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

It looks like a lot of time and effort went into this. Two humble suggestions:

1) Delete this post and resubmit it at a more advantageous time. See http://hnpickup.appspot.com/

2) Remove a barrier to entry and kill the beta invite.

Yesterday was its 11th anniversary if for no other reason.

Would love paypic if still available - email in profile

FC15

This is what worked for us. Credit to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769972#c5

It's the difference between Ctrl-Tab and Cmd-Tab, no?

It ceases to solve a problem when the user controls sorting.

Javascript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov is another great primer on JS best practices. Above all, if you're not delinting and using strict, you're dead in the water.

"Perl's syntax is as intuitive to beginners as that of another language whose tokens and keywords were randomly-generated" is verbose, but accurate. The structure of Randomo was entirely based on Quorum, with certain tokens and keywords randomized. The study really only speaks to the "intuitiveness" of the most superficial parts of those languages' syntax, which is something that Quorum happens to focus on:

    action z(integer a, integer b,
    integer c) returns number
      number d = 0.0
      number e = 0.0
      integer i = a

      repeat b - a times
        if i mod c = 0 then
          d = d + 1
        end
      else then
        e = e + 1
      end

      i = i + 1
    end