bjoe_lewis's comments

I have to agree with you. The shiny stuff syndrome is spreading like cancer in the front-end world.

The only way to set this right is: when you create something, don’t sell it as a one size fit for all solution. State the tradeoffs as loud and clear as possible. Guide the users on what point you necessarily need the library and point them to simpler alternatives when needed.

This is something I deeply respect about Dan Abramov. He did this with Redux. Now that he’s in React, I see a lot of this culture in React docs as well these days.

Bottomline: The responsibility is on the creators to stop spreading this shiny stuff syndrome.

+1. Learning C is not about learning a language. It's more about how to think like a computer.

Different generation. Couldn't afford a computer until 2008. Got a celeron clocked at 1.2 Ghz with a 128mb physical memory and 20Gb HDD running a win98. This was when everybody in the neighbourhood was playing Assasin's Creed in their core2duo.

If only my machine ran all those amazing games, I wouldn't have been a coder now ;-)

Anything - simple or complex, can be explained. If you are not able to explain something to a child, then you probably don't know about it well enough.

I tend to like typeform more, for anything form-like. (http://www.typeform.com/)

For more information about the grammer/schema for document operations, which is actually what is transmitted in the /save call of gdocs,

[1] http://wave-protocol.googlecode.com/hg/spec/federation/waves...

[2] http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/ - wave protocol project (initiated by google, now maitained by apache) is the root from where gdocs adopted OT.

I've been working on http://vanitypro.herokuapp.com

The easiest way to announce new stuff and updates to users/customers of webapps.

Something like what Intercom does, but simpler, better and easier.

P.S: What's live now is a working v0.001 MVP. More to come, yet.

That was a nice read.

How exactly did your "felonious history" affect your career?

Just curious, do the world of startups and hackers, actually bias on things like this?

"Avoid HN" can you elaborate?

I was looking for something exactly as this. Say, you want to building a quick-quick app for quick.com, supposedly native. This might actually work.

If only Paul let me vote twice.

> Working at a small firm is very low prestige, unlike here. You want to have a big name you can tell to your prospective father-in-law. There are of course big, reputable outsourcing firms there, but they tend to either be hiring mills with low quality, or expensive enough to negate any labor arbitrage advantages.

+1 for putting it out.

Thanks, for pointing out. Updated with a more sane bullet.

Meanwhile in India,

+ A guy who thinks programming is about taking a course and passing a certification exam, gets hired in iGate as a software engineer along with a bunch of other mechanical engineers

+ An OS class staff thinks real world softwares are created by drawing logic in Rational Rose and clicking 'generate code' button.

+ A guy who's good in cracking maths puzzles because college told them to get good at it, for cracking interviews, gets placement orders from five different software companies.

+ A guy who convinces his staff to build a cross platform app development framework for his final year project gets put off, because the staff wants a 'big' multipage project with a close button on the right top.

+ And finally a bunch of hackers, give shit about the rest of the country and is either trying or helping to build the next big thing in coffee shops and tech startups.

well, honestly and with a guilty tone I write a lot of code, work on projects and do stuff, close to good at github. But, when put to test on my ability with time limits and sneak peeks, I do tend to forget why I'm writing that loop for.

A very simple and useful project. Infact, I built a custom blogging system using gists for my own blog, a couple of months ago! http://joelewis.herokuapp.com

+1. span12 and span6 makes much more sense as a class name, than a col-lg-3 or a col-sm-6. If they are stealing from the foundation, and if differentiating large and small grid was the cause for changing identifiers, then I'm against it. Other than that, I'm liking it already.

29/39 is damn good, it seems. What's yours!

Freshly passed out hacker, pythonista, and Django-ist. Everything fits except, that I'm based out of Chennai. Sorry.

SEEKING WORK - Remote or Local, India and ready to shift if necessary.

I'm a hacker, freshly out of college, but my love with software and programming is pretty dated like 4 years. I love to build software for smartphones, Android currently being my girl. I often flirt with Django based web projects as well.

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