As much as I respect your spirit, you are missing out on so much of the world.
I was you once. I worked, alone, in my little bubble for four of my teenage years. It was great, I learned a large chunk of what makes me a good developer, but a lesson - there are times where productivity should be secondary.
People are the spice of life, they color the world, they give it flavor and texture and reason. The right people make those crushing moments bearable, and gently mock you when you achieve greatness because they knew you when you were nothing more than a laptop and bundles wide-eyed optimism.
There is nothing more liberating than the feeling of having someone know you, really know you, and know them back. It gives you this intuitive ability to look into them and know what they are thinking as if it were a sense, like touch or smell or taste.
People hurt, they snarl and they wound, but the right people are so impossibly worth it. It's just a matter of finding the right people, and that's something a lifetime of happiness, pain, disappointment and kindness will give you.
Don't change, but don't resign yourself to a life of solitude. I'm just a preachy comment on a preachy website you could click a little x on to close in a second, but try to embrace the silly things the world throws at you, set some time aside to stop working and just be.
This looks pretty optimal for a little app I'm building. I've been bolting bits to Sinatra and using it as a half-API-half-template engine for a frontend I built, this looks far cleaner. I'm curious about security though, what's stopping a user from plugging in random data via the console?
1. Even if the users are idiots you shouldn't let them ruin their own application experience.
2. I would never put anything remotely connected to security and user privileges in the same storage accessible by users, so I would have to set up a separate service.
The distinction here is that Hoodie is supposed to free you from dealing with servers, but that is currently limited to scenarios where you have users with uniform access privileges and no concerns about users messing around with their database information. So until they add modules most projects will have to get down and dirty in the end if they want to attach any kind of privileges to users. In both points 1 and 2 you need to have some server side logic beyond Hoodie.
Hoodie can only promise to free you from worrying about the backend by providing one that you can just use.
The sharing module e.g. makes heavy use of server side logic and database security and access control features. The Hoodie frontend just makes it accessible to frontend devs.
I doubt this is censorship, HN has exhibited similar behavior for me in the past when linking to friends' blogs and self-hosted pages, seems to me that it's just a simple bug, no big conspiracy
I think you'd be right on that one, Exec's iOS interface font is Proxima Nova and I used a bit of a dodgy @font-face generator since I don't have a typekit membership
Thanks for the feedback! I've been redesigning the whole Exec UI over the past couple of days, I didn't anticipate an actual redesign being launched a day before mine though so I rushed to get just the homepage up in time.
Love the official redesign, Exec is such an interesting service, it really deserved a solid, clean new design
I'm kicking myself right about now, I played around with slide timing for the best part of 10 minutes to find an ideal pause, in the end I increased it by a third to make sure the slightly-heavier-than-they-should-be images had chance to load before the slide advanced.
I was planning on spending another couple of days optimizing the home page and completing work the rest of the application UI, which was almost complete, but EXEC released their official redesign earlier today so I had to rush it out. Guess that's just the way it goes sometimes
I'm still not entirely sure where Twitter is trying to go with the 'new direction'. I trust they have a cunning and well-reasoned plan, but honestly it feels a lot like getting bored playing a game of Civilization - You kill all your citizens, destroy all your infrastructure, give your money to the Romans, then declare war on everyone.
I think you make a good point, but I think it'd make a lot more sense for Github to facilitate donations to projects rather than adding a bunch of crowdfunding stuff. Id much rather donate cash to a project in development, much in the same way I can donate my time, than 'fund' it.
You're right. Unless the funds invested returns anything against it, this wouldn't be investment but donation. I am more interested in Github to find a way out of Kickstarter to create a whole new revenue stream for them.
I'm not sure I would consider the Kickstarter crowdfunding to be "investing". I think "investor" has a certain level of formality attached to it. Investors usually get some stake or something. Most of the Kickstarters I've seen give t-shirts, stickers, access to early betas, pre-orders, etc. Giving to a Kickstarter project seems barely more than a donation. I just think of it as an incentivised donation. If GitHub was to introduce some such feature, it would probably need to have similar incentives as well (bug fixed, feature added, etc) although straight donation (or tip jar or what every you want to call it) would be possible too.
Worth noting - Chrome auto-translates from 'French' to 'English', turns:
Click anywhere on this page to plant bombs. To blow up other websites, drag and drop this link fontBomb to your favorites bar
into:
Ctheick hasntherewhere on this phasge to pthehasnt bombs. To btheow up other websites, ofrhasg hasnof ofrop this theink fontBomb to thereour fhasvorites bhasr
which, while hilarious, is probably something you want to check out. Other than that, its a fun little hack, nice job!
I was you once. I worked, alone, in my little bubble for four of my teenage years. It was great, I learned a large chunk of what makes me a good developer, but a lesson - there are times where productivity should be secondary.
People are the spice of life, they color the world, they give it flavor and texture and reason. The right people make those crushing moments bearable, and gently mock you when you achieve greatness because they knew you when you were nothing more than a laptop and bundles wide-eyed optimism.
There is nothing more liberating than the feeling of having someone know you, really know you, and know them back. It gives you this intuitive ability to look into them and know what they are thinking as if it were a sense, like touch or smell or taste.
People hurt, they snarl and they wound, but the right people are so impossibly worth it. It's just a matter of finding the right people, and that's something a lifetime of happiness, pain, disappointment and kindness will give you.
Don't change, but don't resign yourself to a life of solitude. I'm just a preachy comment on a preachy website you could click a little x on to close in a second, but try to embrace the silly things the world throws at you, set some time aside to stop working and just be.
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