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Because they have vastly more resources, vastly more externalities and vastly more ability to make measurable change. And because their fiduciary duty is for profit and not a susta…

Rails + mysql, with Sorbet for Ruby type safety React Native for our mobile app Typescript for all JS Hosted on Linode Boring but hella productive and stable, and lots of stability…

SEEKING WORK | British Columbia, Canada | Remote Hi there. I'm an experienced full-stack developer seeking some contract work, either one-off or ongoing. I've built Rails apps for …

Does this exist? As someone in the midst of some major career changes I’ve been wishing for a “career coach” sort of role. Someone to help with both compensation, but also to advic…

Or call what SASS and LESS do global constants.

Here's one of the times: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420303

While I applaud the effort, this seems like a very short-sighted project. Design is not about how things look, it's about how things work to advance a set of goals. And it's very d…

There's a progress bar right under their video. 2140 just now.

I'm really impressed with the gov.uk project and have been following it for quite a while now. We've been taking their lessons and applying them to a small municipal site we're bui…

What richthegeek said. We put it in as a rough helper but didn't want to run the risk of denying something valid. The middle ground seems to work well.

The credit card one is especially important. We run a hosted online ticket system for some of our customers and noticed they were getting a bunch of 'Invalid CC' responses from the…

It would be interesting to have a follow up mechanism to indicate how many requested permissions were actually required by apps. I suspect it would end up around the 50% mark.

Thanks. Should have trusted autocorrect.

What a fantastic comment. You've inspired me to research the evolution of virii, and their place in the world.

That's actually been the opposite of my experience. A year in, my inlaws still thank me for installing Chrome.

>> People try Facebook’s stuff all the time—just look at the adoption rates for their iPhone and iPad apps An otherwise interesting article, but there is no iPad app.

Great info, thank you for the detailed response.

Can you point me towards a barcode scanner for iOS devices?

This is changing as of October 1, when FB will require all apps to be served over SSL. They've been warning devs for months that the change is coming.

That would be a great service. Bonus points for it being relevant beyond the United States.

The author mentions always giving MongoDB its own server. Can anyone shed some light on that?

SQLite all over the place – it's great having a super portable DB format for quick little hits. There's nothing quite like sending a DB as an email attachment.

Do you have an example of something cool done with postmessage? I've never seen that term before.

I can explain part of it: the hash based URLs are completely broken in Canada (and presumably elsewhere). Any link I follow (e.g. gawker.com/#12345) redirects to ca.gawker.com. The…