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Why did the page's source contain profanity, as pointed out by another poster (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971423)? (The profanity has since been removed.)
If your target audience is non-programmers, then make the URL something I can e-mail my mom without having to answer awkward questions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a straight-forward moan about how HN is going to hell in a handcart. If you don't care about the HN community, or you object to meta, stop reading. Still here? OK. When I make a comment on HN I'm about anal about seeing the response it gets. I care about whether things are perceived to be useful. I want to be useful, and helpful, and generally make things better. Really, I do. I take time to give feedback, an…
I'm signed up recently though I«ve been reading HN for quite a while. I can't tell how the community was before, but this is a fact: When i signed up a few days ago, there was some "read this first" pages presented to me outlining the proper way to comment and so on. In it, was clearly stated that massive communities will become stupid even if they were once a place where topics were discussed in an intelligent way.…
Nothing to see here, move along.
The only thing I'm worried about is giving away so many passwords to one service. How are these stored?
https://github.com/thedjpetersen/Jeeves
Hopefully I will get a weekend and I will have the opportunity to make it a little bit more complete.
Really like this - huge range of possible applications. One question though: what, if anything, does ifttt do to detect/prevent infinite loops? If I create a task to copy new photos added to flickr to instragram, and another task to copy new photos added to instagram to flickr, what happens?
Hi, obviously infinite loops will become an issue we will have to deal with as the service grows. Especially if we start running tasks at a much faster clip and not just every 15 minutes.