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I don't have side projects, instead I spend that free time training for and running triathlons. I can't show as impressive a GitHub as my peers, but I'm sure as hell a lot more healthier and physically active. Whether that means anything to recruiters, who knows.

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Nobody on HN seems to want to address it, so I will. It's pretty obvious: Notch is incredibly wealthy and no longer is interested in programming. Can you blame the guy? Most of us would probably stop programming if we had his never ending flow of income. Minecraft is like milk: It's always selling and he hardly has to think about working anymore. Mojang doesn't even have to update Minecraft, the community drives it. The mobile version has reigned the iOS store for months. It's the holy grail of perpetual passive income we all wish we had that Notch has obtained.

I prefer DIY protein bars with whey powder and ingredients from nutsonline.com.

See 1st recipe: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/diy-protein-bars-healthy-bar...

Surprising that this isn't on the front page of the website with the community most empowered by Ubuntu. Use Ubuntu as your main OS? Run a server using Ubuntu?

Congrats Ubuntu on the world record!

I thought Reddit was fairly pro-Microsoft? I mean, if we're talking Reddit as a whole and not /r/programming. Reddit has a lot of general users who use Windows, especially any gamers, so they take kindly more to Microsoft. I remember articles on Reddit that mocked Bing and most of Reddit seemed to support Microsoft.

> Sure, and most people don't try to memorize things because (again) they think that they can't no matter what technique they use.

Citation? I mean, you're saying "most people" after all. If we're just talking anecdotes here, I've never met anyone who couldn't memorize something with simple repetition technique. When people say they have "poor memory", they are referring to not having eidetic memory. For example: "I don't remember her name! I have terrible memory." Well, it's probably because you only met her once in passing. It's not like you went home, wrote her name on some flash cards and crammed it into your memory. You weren't holding yourself back thinking "I can't remember her name because I have terrible memory!" It's simply that some people have eidetic memory and some don't. You can't learn eidetic memory by "thinking you can" or sheer will. It's developed at early childhood. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory)

> I'm not selling anything. I'm merely passing on my own experiences and those of my friends. If you choose to continue to believe you can't memorize things because of some innate lack of ability, it doesn't affect me at all.

You are overly pedantic. It's just an expression.

Yea, I don't like the article's insinuation that programmers aren't middle-class. Programming is not a upper-class job, like say lawyers or doctors. We are not making that much money. I would definitely say upper-middle-class though.

What I don't understand is why people don't go where the jobs are. Historically if there was a market boom in a certain industry, people then sought out those skills and went for those jobs. I realize programming is computers and computers are a foreign language to a lot of people, especially middle-class people, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to learn if you just take the time to learn it and maybe some classes or training.

I feel like non-techie middle-class people never even consider a programming job, because it requires doctorate level education or something. It's a total misconception. Anyone can learn Ruby in a couple months if they put their mind to it and get a decent job.

I don't live in SF but question about the techie bus stops: Do panhandlers congregate there?

> Most young technology workers order food and supplies online, so she doesn't run into them at the corner store. They keep their noses buried in their smartphones when they walk on the streets and don't volunteer in the community, Flandrich said.

This is true even outside Silicon Valley. A techies community is the Internet. GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, forums, etc. This trend will only get more prolific as the Internet becomes more immerse.

Eh, no mnemonic device? Most people memorize things by simple repetition. If you're implying anyone can have eidetic memory by "removing their limits", I don't buy it. It's something developed at a young age.

I see this reason a lot. Thing is, Bootstrap was never designed for your use case. It was always a framework to get started, meant for developers to build their designs upon.

Think of Bootstrap as a model car kit. Bootstrap 2 was a Porsche that had just enough paint that people ran with it in their showcase, but that was never Bootstrap's intention. You were meant to complete the kit before showing off. Version 3 is a Tesla, but this time no paint.

Trending is popularity over time. Popularity is probably an aggregate of what you just mentioned.

It's your complaint that is ridiculous.

The checkout page should have the lowest friction possible. Coupon boxes make people hunt for them. Anytime a customer leaves your store there's a chance they may not come back. This applies to physical stores too.

> is it easier to tell people to type in www.mysite.com/coupon to their browser or is it easier to tell people to enter COUPON at checkout?

I hear URLs spelled out in radio ads all the time. If this were 1996 you might have a valid point, but not in 2013.

While modern web browsers today may support WebGL, there's far too many computers not using a GPU that supports WebGL. For example, my 5 year old business workstations that run the latest Ubuntu.

On-hover WebGL effects only work if you fallback to a static image (an image of the non-hover state) for browsers that don't support it.

I imagine one reason investors like co-founded start ups is because of the bus factor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

Or boiled down: less dependency on a single person.

I cycle everyday, and as great as it is to be without distractions, in the back of my mind I fear being unprepared if in an emergency or situation where I need a phone. (e.g. a bad wreck)

I guess it goes to show front end design is one of the most controversial topics on HN. On GitHub, Bootstrap has maintained an almost permanent position in the daily top ranked repos.

I think 3rd party restaurant delivery could be disrupted in just about every metropolitan or college town. If your town is host of awesome restaurants but no unified delivery service, then make it happen! (Disrupted might be the wrong word here unless you're trying to do this in the Bay Area; most cities don't have any 3rd party delivery services so you'd be starting something new)

Unrelated: Why are people familiar with Hacker News (e.g. the Docker folks) still using slideshare.net? That site feels like it's stuck around 2005. I thought everyone here knew about http://slid.es by now -- its UX is far superior.