codystebbins's comments

Fantastic idea. Beyond the feedback already given I wanted to commend you on the valid use of permissions on Android (just Wi-Fi). Very specific and reasonable for the game.

Great idea. Making it easier for property owners to enforce their contracts is a good thing that should not interfere legal Airbnb usage (I say this as happy Airbnb user).

It is a shame that Airbnb does not provide such a feature, but I see the conflict of interest. They may be able to even charge for such a feature. If it provided features like alerts for illegal listings based on the exact addresses, hands-off customer service on behalf of the property owner to remove the post and contact the poster, and was priced right it might be worthwhile to avoid the hassle.

Thanks for that. I think the US tech worker visa cap is just a nasty form of nationalistic protectionism. I am a US born citizen, but that does not mean that I shouldn't have to compete with someone born internationally. Morally that just seems wrong, and there is evidence to prove it could be economically harmful.

People are concerned with inequality between nations, but policies like this prevent opportunity worldwide and hurt US workers and consumers for the sake of "protecting US workers".

Not sure about mining, but I would assume yes the blockchain is needed.

In order to have a wallet and just use bitcoin no the user does not need to download the whole blockchain depending on the wallet software. There are wallets that use public shared remote servers to access the blockchain that are reputable in the community.

https://electrum.org/

https://multibit.org/

https://darkwallet.unsystem.net/ (don't use yet, alpha)

Another upcoming method to avoid callback hell that is my personal favorite is harmony generators and yield. Reminds me so much of C# async. Two great libraries can handle it today on beta versions of node [1,2]. I have only used suspend. See this gist for comparison https://gist.github.com/codystebbins/a2c354d25ce28879bfe1.

With generators try/catch can be used, avoiding a lot of the redundant error handling. Crabdude's library can avoid the overhead of try/catch [3].

And if developers want static typing, they should check out TypeScript. Works great with node.

[1] https://github.com/jmar777/suspend [2] https://github.com/visionmedia/co [3] https://github.com/CrabDude/trycatch

I think this is cynical and forgets the reality of competition. In this 'big data hiring' future companies still need to compete for talent. Companies which hire on the basis of arbitrary factors like political views, porn habits, family infighting risk losing talent to competitors. There are incentives to find the right factors of a good employee, just like there are today. In fact a lot of these concerns can happen with the human interview process today.

The algorithm to hire people in this future is a competitive asset of a company and they would spend lots of time & money to narrow down the actual important factors. I highly doubt companies would just all settle on the same algorithm given the incentives to compete.

Also if you are concerned about this info impacting employment, just don't post it online. Not much different than today.

Works great for me on Win8.1 x64. Thanks for doing this.

They are reflected quite well in my opinion. Here is a blog post detailing the system they implemented in March 2012 http://blog.uber.com/2012/03/14/clear-and-straight-forward-s.... They also have useful notifications for when surge pricing ends. Not sure what happened in this situation though.

Very true. Most of the people I know working at startups, myself included, had no delusions of becoming Mark Zuckerberg or winning it big. Startups can provide a great quality of life with good benefits for employees and the big pay off can be a very small motivation for some.

It is not just about Google Fiber despite the article title. This article presents regulations that will prevent any real ISP competition, including Gigabit Squared, and is really quite depressing as a Seattle resident. Google Fiber just happens to be a significant national competitor that people know about.

So reading this it seems the primary argument against programming as a professional career is that entry level programming is becoming more accessible to a wider audience.

However I think the author fails to make the argument though that just because some 14 year old can learn JavaScript quickly with a service like codeschool, that means I could hire that kid to replace a senior level programmer with a deep understanding of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, etc. The claim to me states understanding a basic script is all you need to write large scale, complex software. I do not know about everyone else, but I picked up coding pretty quickly and picked up everything else about software over years of patient study so this seems suspect to me.

Software is not just about code, to focus on that makes our job look easy.

I also have some problems with the "credentials = professionalism" argument, but many others in the thread have addressed it.

Doesn't that ignore the increased parsing time of the larger JavaScript library compared to image rendering and the fact that loading & parsing JavaScript blocks page rendering? Seems like the arguments linked only focus on the network.

Except in this case, as the parent mentions, it's not an excuse. Why would you secure a type-ahead API that only has access to employee testing data?

It is by design that if someone finds the API they will be able to use it without authentication and nothing is required on behalf of the "hacker" to access it. Are all users of software hackers under this definition?

I do not believe they are lying in their statement that it was temporarily open and intended to be closed, it makes sense to me why that effort would be put off for test data.

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I just bought this app, and pretty much immediately gave it a five star written review on the app store. I have been desperately searching for a tool that allow me to be able to quickly switch between projects, record irregular intervals of work for a given project, and export that info as some sort of document (CSV preferred). This app meets that need with a great UX, and without all the unnecessary fluff of expense tracking/project management that others seem throw in.