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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 ev…

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 a…

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 "creat…

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 wor…

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 …

"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?