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It makes me happy and sentimental to see this post show up on hackernews. I was a contributor to the Ronja project in my teens. Karel (`clock`) taught me so much about open source …

Ethereum EIP-999 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843991 and https://github.com/5chdn/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md ) is exactly that, a discussion of patching Ethereum …

We have had some success with hiring out of General Assembly. Last summer we hired 3 interns out of GA who each first started off with a simple throwaway project and then proceeded…

Your second example though exists in exact the same way in python and ruby. Some people prefer to hunt for missing comma's and brackets, others for spaces. I think that's a matter …

I think you don't get the humour behind it. They're making glowing plants because, come on, who doesn't like to have a glowing plant?! I know some of the guys behind it. And making…

I can agree with what you're saying though I want to share an anecdote from Moscow where there is pretty much no regulation and pricing varies by car company. Instead of having a m…

We built this in less than 24hours at angelhack. It's using mechanical turk to present real humans both versions and ask them to answer the question asked by selecting one of the i…

What most people don't know about this clock design is, that the Swiss Railways are licensing it to a watch manufacturer who sells them in retail. The watch with the exact same des…

I think the focus is not enough, though I have to say it also took me some time to get used to the pink. We could actually make that into a pretty easy setting... Maybe I'll do it …

That's pretty cool. How have you worked around issues such as breaking keyboard shortcuts for Gmail? Why do you like this approach better than what vimium does? that was already to…

The problem is, that this only works because it's so completely different from all the other ads and because of that reason escapes some of the banner blindness. We've had similar …

You mention product managers here, while I certainly agree with you that this isn't a technical job per se, most job ads mention a CS-related degree as a requirement. I'm always lo…

I agree with you. Though I would still say, the average consumer doesn't need a tablet. The UPS guy could use a tablet, you could use a tablet for grocery shopping at the super mar…

I think it is a very valid point. A tablet makes sense for the medical application but they have been around for years on the consumer side and nobody really used them. Why not? Su…

One of the success stories of this business model is probably cyberduck ( http://cyberduck.ch ) I have heard from friends that the guy makes decent money with his "donation"-busine…

I just tried out the service. As someone who isn't a full time coder it's great to have someone with years of experience on the back to share some tricks with me. Plus I regularly …

It looks more like you're asking from a providers point of view... I'm usually a buyer so I'll tell you about my experiences as a buyer: I've been working with numerous freelancers…

Same combination here. The Economist is without doubt one of the most interesting magazines and even though I usually agree very much with them, it's not boring at all. Big plus: t…

Check this out: http://github.com/atebits/SimFinger I have used SimFinger and SnapzPro to record the screencast. I didn't have access to Adobe Premiere, so I used Keynote to add th…

Most of you miss the point. I grew up in Switzerland and have a U.S. passport because my father is american. I know countless other people who have U.S. passports but haven't been …

Django useses this Approach: app/ ---- models.py ---- views.py ---- urls.py ---- admin.py etc. etc. I think it does indeed make more sense. Though the difference is not that big ex…