thebrokencube's comments

I think most of us realize that the petitions are pointless (though then again, it takes like 3 seconds to sign it so enough people do it), but how would you suggest we fix this problem? Because although this is legal, pretty much everyone can sense that there's something fishy about it and needs to be changed.

> Search Plus Your World and Google+ are, like every Google product, works in progress.

I don't understand why so many people don't get this, and especially here on HN of all places (maybe I'm missing something, I dunno). Isn't that how startup products work? Release early, release often? Maybe Google isn't specifically saying this, but it seriously seems like that's the road they take for the majority of their products.

It depends on the game. The e-sports community is making headways, with things such as the "starcraft bars" and stuff. It's not the same, but there is effort being made in the field.

Ethan Marcotte's book (http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design) is pretty good. Not too long, and yet goes over a lot of theory and examples on how to achieve a responsive design.

Okay, I know this is going to sound really stupid/silly, but /r/seduction (http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction) has some interesting ideas on becoming more confident and stuff. Yea it's primarily focused on the whole 'pickup game' or whatever, but I think a lot of the things they talk about could help getting over any anxiety. Like one thing being to talk to everyone you can, like if you were in line waiting to checkout, in an elevator with random people, etc, the theory being that the more you do this the less awkward and nervous you'll feel about the whole experience. I've been trying to do this more lately (my anxiety is pretty bad) and i'm already finding it a bit easier to just strike up a conversation with people.

> The new positions for hjkl actually feel _more_ natural to me

I completely agree with this sentiment. Everyone I know who uses dvorak+vim has a lot of remaps (so it matches the qwerty stuff) but to be honest, I don't find it necessary, and I really like jk being just there as those are the directional ones I use most (for moving left/right I use stuff like w, b, etc.)

This is really cool; I'm going to have to try this, thank you!

My problem with this is that a lot of programmers/hackers/etc. are pretty good at interacting with each other, but maybe not quite as proficient at interacting with the rest of the populace.

Like for example when you're in the middle of working and someone comes to talk to you, maybe you're just so focused on the problem that you don't realize they're there or you don't want to draw your attention away from the problem, and then that person sees it as disrespect and signs of social awkwardness, while you're just trying to get your job done.

Or if you're in the middle of trying to solve a problem and you ask someone bluntly for something (because you're so focused on the problem) and they take it the wrong way.

I'm not saying that a complete lack of social skills is good either; just maybe that the target of these social skills is the manager, or the sales people, etc. and not the people you're doing all the work with.

Oh wow that's pretty cool. I used to work on a lot of BigCommerce stores, and while they have an enterprise version which bigger companies can buy (http://www.interspire.com/customers/), I had never heard of GSI Commerce, who seems to have taken the cake for that market.

I think he also was trying to make the point that the more popular the language is, the more resources there are to reference when you get stuck.

BigCommerce, Shopify, Volusion are probably the closest to 'Wordpress for retail', but they seem to be mostly focused towards small businesses. Not that big businesses can't use them, but yea.

In a lot of cases the stuff is habitual, at which point you get extremely irritated that people keep screwing up and all the time you're the one who has to clean up the mess. Yea sometimes stuff happens, and I don't think most people have a problem with helping out. But so many times it makes people feel used, which (at least IMO) is why people have this sentiment.

Webfaction (http://www.webfaction.com) is a pretty good hosting company. They're developer-focused as you can pretty much use whatever stack you want (and if it's not on their list there's probably a way to get it to work anyways, they'll work with you). They have great service and, at least in my opinion, are one of the most hacker-friendly hosting companies out there (at least for personal use).

Another good tool (especially if you're a Vim fan) is ViEmu: http://www.viemu.com/ . I remember using it a few years ago and it brought over a lot of the functionality that vim users have grown to appreciate. I had a really good experience with the developer as well; he cares and has created a very good addon that I don't think I could live without if I was forced to use Visual Studio.

EDIT: So the story, just in case anyone is interested, is this. I was doing an internship at a small healthcare company in the IT department and was writing a web app in asp.net mvc. I downloaded the ViEmu trial and had been running it for about a month and was loving it. But then my trial was about to expire and I only had like 3 weeks left at the company. I made a random one-off comment about how I wished I had just an extra week or two on my trial as this was pretty much the only time I would be using VS. The developer emailed me with an extended trial key and was extremely helpful throughout the entire process.

Wholeheartedly agree, GoDaddy's site is atrocious to use.

Wait, you'd get to teach Ruby to kids? I'll be honest, all of the things for the program sound really awesome, but this is by far the most appealing point for me. I remember hearing a saying/quote which went along the lines of "if you can't explain something to someone else, then you don't really know the material", and I tend to agree with this sentiment for the most part.

I think this is a great opportunity you guys are providing for the community, and I look forward to applying to the program.

That's a pretty interesting point of view, one I never even considered. One can only hope.

Maybe, but it's a little silly that they can't take a second to listen to what you said.

I think this makes a lot of sense. Like, if you work at a web design shop and your website doesn't look good, you're doing it wrong IMO.

I felt pretty jerked around at my last job, and stood my ground.

I was pretty much forced to quit 2 weeks later. Of course there were some other issues, but the point being, some people don't really like you standing your ground and would rather you be a yes-man.