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The "Magic 2.0" series by Scott Meyer is a fun look at a programmer in medieval England with the ability to edit the world around him

Edit: the audiobooks are well done too!

Which will also be a factor of big companies being more willing (or able) to hire junior developers whose entire experience in the language is a boot camp

Check out intercom on github for inter-tab communication. I use it in we apps for many different things. Including log-back-in. One tab gets a session timeout and tells them all to go black asking for a password. Enter it in one tab and they all unlock.

It uses local storage

From the take-down advice from Google:

"After a regular review, we have determined that this app is promoted as a means of carrying out spying or surreptitious tracking of others."

Of others. It's clearly not spying on other people.

You comment made me laugh and 'ahhhhh!' at the same time. It now makes sense. He's totally into Apple and hasn't been elsewhere.

A few of the things he talks about regarding the UI changes are already on Windows, but he talks as if they're a new invention. While he might be talking to a 100% Apple audience, I think it makes him look silly that he doesn't mention they're not Apple-original features.

Eg. windows that are semi translucent with the background blurred came with either Vista or 7. That annoying animated focus circle is in Office 2013.

$5 is Fiverr, and $5 on Fiverr gets you rubbish.

In an aquihire, they typically ARE buying the product to get the talent capable of building the product in question.

Let's say you've built some product capable of receiving millions of http connections a minute from thousands of servers and then distributing those to thousands of servers as they request a new batch. But you can't find a market. However this is (was of course) a real-world problem for Twitter.

Suddenly you are a really attractive aquihire. Maybe they'll use your tech, but more likely they value your problem solving experience in their specific problem domain.

That it's a one-time deal sounds like a failure on Stellar's part.

It makes no sense to suggest he donate it to charity. He found a pile of people willing to sell him the goods at a price both they and he were happy with. If something like Stellar is to succeed you can't put limits on the free market and the transactions that are allowed to take place using them.

Just because he didn't use his real name doesn't make the transaction less valid. And just because the task didn't use an identifiable account name doesn't make the transaction less valid.

What you're insisting is that you can't buy something from someone on Craigslist using a fake name and meeting in a place that nobody else can tell where you made the transaction. In other words, 99% of Craiglist transactions.

Yesterday on Reddit someone posted their pet sweet potato. Today I'll believe anything.

Surely it's not hard to solve this one?

Buy the site. Acquisition style. Now they keep the community, the fan base, the long tail, and the passionate founder.

He gets to work on it full time and they get rid of other peoples ads.

I always wanted to be a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pine!

But they can't find any mentors matching my search. :(