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Same reason I might use tippy.js for popup boxes. I know I could make it myself, and make it just as well as the tippy authors have designed it, but why waste my time doing that when I know they've already thought through all of the problems that I can't even expect until I'm already in the thick of it?

My best guess is that it looks like a typo for "keycombo".

Seconded. There's definitely something deeper going on here, and I'm so excited to see it.

The other two posts he linked to here were real interesting as well:

* https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2016/11/this-is-where...

* https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2018/12/hand-drawn-li...

Hey! I want to formally apologize -- the company I heard presenting had a name very, very similar to yours. Definitely was not the same company. Unfortunately it's past the 2 hour mark to delete comments on HN, but consider this my retraction of what I said above. Really sorry about the mix up, and what you have going here seems very impressive. Definitely seems like a fantastic attitude towards workers' health and happiness.

As a developer by trade, it was definitely raising a LOT of red flags for me. I don't blame you for taking it with a grain of salt, though.

The original blog post is a pretty fantastic piece in support of teaching humanities in CS, I'd say!

> Why not cache the compiled methods to make warmup a once-per-version delay? It would be a JIT/precompiled hybrid. Call it gradually compiled.

That's what Bootsnap does, and it now comes standard with Rails. https://github.com/Shopify/bootsnap

"Suddenly Nic Cage grabs you by the arm and throws you into the wall. You hit the ground hard and scream." made me laugh out loud

I know a ton of people who use Cash App's card for that. Seems like it works well for them. (I don't use it personally)

I wouldn't really call APL/J/K "lost" (or "dead", or "useless", or...). There's an active community on Reddit and there's a pretty active circle of APL'ers on Twitter. It wasn't ever a super mainstream language, but it's definitely not lost its appeal -- maybe even as a fun hobbyists' language.

For memorizing lines? Chew a piece of gum. I've found that it takes the emphasis away from my location in my mind and places some emphasis and connection with the feeling of chewing gum. For extra points, alternate different flavors for different sets of things to memorize.

This is an awesome project. I have 2 questions:

* Did every OS treat clicking in the blank space above and below the scroll bar the same, like this website seems to suggest?

And,

* Why'd early versions of Apple's OS have the buttons on the bottom? What was the rationale & why'd they give in and move them to the top? I kind of like the bottom buttons.

> My understanding was that you would vet open source contributors so they can support their own stuff. So looking at GitHub, commits, etc

Ideally, this is the plan.

Right now, the system works on a black and white "I was satisfied with this answer"/"I wasn't satisfied with this answer". If too many users note that they were continually unsatisfied with a particular answerer's answers, then I'm planning on handling that issue myself.

Lyfevest seems more geared towards enterprises, and the subscription will have to be EXPENSIVE to justify all-you-can-post questions. I don't think that's friendly to hobbyists and students -- which both groups that I want Immutable Coffee to be open for.

I think that there's a large way that Immutable Coffee differs from Stack Overflow, and that's in the fact that Immutable Coffee is:

* Private (answers don't circulate around the internet! that's important because of how quickly answers on stack overflow become invalidated)

and * Immediate & one-on-one (waiting for answers/responses in a comment chain on Stack Overflow is a super frustrating experience!)

And thank you! Lots of love for Tuscon. Bear down!

I've been doing it manually: looking at resumes, code samples, and asking sample questions to judge for myself. Not sure there's any automated way to do that that will work any better.

Definitely wouldn't mind adding analytics as a topic on the website.

And how do you suggest we pay devs to make the best free software they can make?

Payment process definitely isn't streamlined right now (the button to cash out just sends me an email), but I am planning on paying through a 1099, if that makes things any easier.

Getting into a position like that requires an incredible amount of luck. It's very much a "right time, right place, right project" sort of ordeal. It just isn't reality for the majority of developers.

+1 to that -- that seems like a really cool project!

I definitely like the model that's used by the Python foundation and the like -- respecting Freedom, but making profit through consultancy. That was what kind of inspired me to make Immutable Coffee.

Never seen CodeFund before, but I love what y'all are offering. I'll be in contact.

Sorry about that! Wasn't the first time I've heard this suggestion -- I'll definitely look into supporting this.

Not sure I understand what you're saying -- are you suggesting that Immutable Coffee should expand the topics that it's currently offering? Ideally, I'd like to, but we currently just don't have the manpower to do that.

Might not be a bad idea to form a nonprofit -- thanks for this!! This is my first business venture so I was doing things very much "by the books" in the way of establishing everything.

As far as Immutable Coffee being a Stack Overflow replacement, I don't think that's accurate. Stack Overflow is already saturated enough that I don't think that there's any need for another website to exist for posterity's sake. Being able to google questions and answers doesn't feel like a very important goal, especially considering how quickly answers get invalidated with how fast programming moves anyway.

As far as it being a side-gig for open source developers, I think that's an accurate assessment -- unfortunately. I did try very hard to do something that sets this site apart from traditional freelancing, and that's in the quick pace which a developer can answer questions. It doesn't take much time at all to log onto IC and really quickly claim a few questions and start helping people, in contrast with how long it takes to set up traditional freelance gigs.

Thanks for believing in the mission! I have a few other ideas that are in the works with regards to this as well, that I'm just as excited to show HN.