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SEEKING WORK Location: Waterloo, ON Remote: Yes, and preferred Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ryanfunduk Strengths: Ruby (+Rails), JavaScript/ES6/Babel, CoffeeScript, Nod…

True but, in my opinion, inherent to Twitter. Just because some algorithm decides some tweet is 'important' doesn't mean I'll agree :)

Have you considered using a client that doesn't stay scrolled all the way to the top (TweetBot has a toggle for "pin to top" for example)? I would find what you're describing prett…

My first real side-project-turned-business is/was Bugrocket ( https://bugrocket.com , launched March 2011, bug tracking for small dev teams). Subscription-based and grows very slow…

It's this kind of thing that gave us such a quick transition to Amazon and 'PaaS' providers becoming ubiquitous. You can avoid all of these problems and decisions by just giving yo…

I've done the same thing in a few prototype-style apps I've built too. Not only do you not need to store passwords, but you can just ignore a whole area of UX. Enter email to signu…

I think your logic is flawed a bit here. A lot of people absolutely will dismiss suggestions like "keep your IO functions minimal/separate" and "you should test your code" and etc …

Seems to me that the real/only reason for SPJ not to use Comic Sans is that using it distracts people (in general, since he notes that he gets lots of comments about it, I'm not pe…

A good reminder to go and tell your friends/family "Run, don't walk, to backup all of your important data right now." and hand them an external hard drive. 2FA + a password manager…

How about: a time tracker, HN clone/basic forum, simple Google Analytics clone, a password vault/manager (did this one recently, it was a lot of fun, https://github.com/rfunduk/mrp…

Actually you can check if an account is verified! Here's a snippet in Ruby I use to check. It's not perfect, but it catches a lot of cases: # ... def initialize @request = PaypalAd…

When dealing with PayPal, go for an elastic waistband as well :)

Location: GTA-ish, Ontario, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript (CoffeeScript too), Node, jQuery, Backbone.js, AWS and ops experience, …

You can make an API call to check the status of a transaction very easily. When my users are redirected back to my site (thanks page, or similar), I check if their transaction is c…

Is the salary enough to live comfortably on in the area whee the employee lives? Do the co-founders seem like they'd be good people to work with? Does the product/work sound appeal…

Some people might be too curious to leave it alone, as in a few determined explorers won't be deterred, but maybe they'll avoid settling right on top of it at least? Personally my …

Ha good catch! Honestly slashes or dashes would be fine with me though :)

Looks very nice. I've been using timelyapp.com and this seems to cover my use-case similarly but free - yay! A couple points of feedback: - As a person who lives anywhere but the U…

Yea that's fair enough. This is an initial release so I'm sure they are reading these comments and working to improve their site/docs/etc. You're right that it's basically for Back…

A little harsh, don't you think? The link is to a blog post - not a landing page - and it seems to me it can contain whatever the author wanted it to. The post wasn't submitted her…

I wrote a bug tracker called Bugrocket and convinced the owners of my employer to switch us over to it from Bugzilla. After a while of using it and improving it based on real-world…