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There are plenty of great frameworks for single-pages applications (Angular, Ember, Backbone, ...) that each offer their own interpretations on how to develop. Take Ember for examp…

If you work with a particular technology than start a blog and start getting your name out there on things like Stackoverflow and Github. Once you start engaging in the community y…

Pivotal Tracker

I've noticed this trend now where you are first asked for your username or email first, then the page reloads with the password box separately. This is really annoying if you use a…

Most of the replies here focus on the gaming experience. What about for entertainment (don't mean porn)? I'm unfamiliar with the Vive/Oculus ecosystem but is there not a huge oppor…

I signed up and verified for a current account with Number26 today. They're a EU (in 6 countries) online-only, mobile-first bank: - https://number26.eu I have to say I'm very impre…

I use Postbox but I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has used both Postbox and Airmail to see if they prefer one over the other?

Regarding your P.S., there has been a huge controversy here in Ireland regarding the move to Lisbon since it was announced. Paddy Cosgrave has blamed everyone under the sun for the…

VR and machine learning

- Radio Diaries - Radiolab - Freakonomics - Invisibilia - Love + Radio - Criminal - Serial - Meanwhile in the Future - TED Radio Hour - Tim Ferriss Show - The Truth - Mystery Show …

I live in Europe. When working for clients in The States I charge in USD. This means I have to up my rate to take the exchange rate etc. into account. I've been considering changin…

I really wanted to pick up a Pebble Time when they publicly launched. I was so disappointed to see that they were charging €250 (~$280) in Europe while only $199 in The States. Now…

Gin. Like people, laptops also behave stupidly after drinking gin.

Promotional quiz games where there are two buttons wired up to the RPi which is serving a web-based game, tweet-powered devices (RPi listens to the Twitter stream and activates a p…

I use RPis for bespoke installations for clients. One of the problems has been offering an easy way to make adjustments to the apps the RPi is running without a keyboard/mouse/moni…

I'm a programmer who want to start a business (app or service). I have a potential partner to work with. I want to bootstrap. What books should I read?

MacDown. Stay away from Mou. Very sketchy author. He did an Indiegogo campaign after essentially abandoning the project and failing to sell it and hasn't updated in 6 months after …

I'm a developer that has been tasked with helping an online e-commerce client make their first permanent tech-hire (in an existing non-technical team of 4). This person will have b…

How does insurance work with this? What if my driver is robbed, gets in a crash or decides to pocket my stuff? Do Uber insure the contents or the retailer (or neither)?

Yes, this seems to happen to all of my chargers. So far I've had to fix 4 (all on the magsafe end). I used self amalgamating tape[0] on two of them and it's worked really well (alb…

Yes, this seems to happen to all of my chargers. So far I've had to fix 4 (all on the magsafe end). I used self amalgamating tape[0] on two of them and it's worked really well (alb…

I'm a freelance web developer. I primarily develop locally using Sublime Text 3 but I'd love to change this and be able to develop entirely remotely on a VPS. I've tried a couple o…

I'm a freelance web developer and I'm planning on putting together a general purpose web development contract for future projects. I was hoping to get a feeling of what I should be…

I'm a recovering freelancer that recently picked up "Start Small, Stay Small"* from a thread here on HN and it really resonated with me. I have been freelancing very informally ove…