JohnnyFlash

I was thinking exactly this!

The problem with doing something like this is that the site owner will probably take it down within 24 hours.

However... if the site owner cannot see it. Well well well.. could be up for days.

Typically the first person to view the page will be the owner. They want to check everything looks alright. Would be interesting to see the results of something like this.

This would be so much more awesome if you could assign the class to a container div. Then on each page reload it would randomly add content - be it paragraphs, headers, imgs, lists, tables etc.

This would be a fantastic tool for testing templates against a wide variety of random content. When making a template for clients to use you can never be too sure what they are going to add so you do your best to style everything. Getting random content on each page load would really solidify this testing.

Adding a class to individual elements... I don't find this too useful.

When I grew up my dad wanted me to be a business man. When my kid grows up I want him to be a patent troll.

When I was young the money was in innovation. Now the money is in stifling it.

I agree though. Tedious describes this perfectly.

This happened to me 2 weeks ago. I put it down and walked away waiting to get reinspired. I am starting to get hankerings to pick it up and power through but not enough to go again quite yet. I know when motivation strikes I am 50% complete and I am a relatively short distance to the finish line.

I doubt it.. I brought this up on Skype forum and the thread was deleted 5 minutes later...

EDIT: I queried the deletion with a moderater. Was informed it had been moved to the forums admin area to be discussed at their next meeting. He said he agreed it looks like a serious problem so they are aware.

Really scary.

I wanted to see if i could find someone. Went onto twitch.tv. Picked a random stream. Got email. Looked up Skype id from email. Searched for skype id which gave me the IP and the small town where they currently reside.

Its worrying how easy this makes it to find someone.

This isn't really Yelp's fault. Sites like this always have fake reviews mingled in with those that are real. The solution?

Assume people with a 4-5 star review are competent. GET MULTIPLE QUOTES. Doesn't matter if they have 5*, if you feel something is off with them they you avoid.

You also will find out when a quote is too cheap/too expensive and reduce your risk to getting conned.

Don't blame the internets or Yelp. Blame youself for not doing due diligence.

Make 10B in 8 months and single handedly pull Ireland out of recession... wow...

Its almost funny until you read how despite needing funding he expects investors to pay for hotel and presumably travel so he can pitch. You then have the NDA on top of that.

I wonder what the idea is... probably something new and down to earth. Like a thimble with an edge so people with short / no fingernails can open a can of drink and avoid potential injury. I would buy that!

We had a post the other day about how important a name is. Here is another example of the name not being important. I mean what has "team treehouse" got to do with learning or web development?

To the article I am glad to see them get funding. I use the service and think its great.

I think a 4 day work week can definitely work, especially with motivation and guarding against burn out. Main issue is that the rest of the world works 5 days a week which in many sectors can create problems.

In my social circle of non-tech people everyone uses their phones for texting and calls. Thats about it. Most have smart phones, a few play games or use their phone as an mp3 player. That really is about it.

I only use texting, calls and google maps for when i am lost. Tablets i understand but this "mobile revolution" I don't understand. I find using the web / webby apps is painful on mobiles due to poor internet speeds.

Many of my friends still don't get twitter, let alone checking in at various locations.

I would agree that Google and Facebook need to get on top of mobile but from where i am at least there isn't a massive hurry.

The prices on his website are rediculous.

thesearchservice.com - 2 million!

You don't even get searchservice.com with this domain. Simarly .org and .net are not even registered meaning after buying this you could be facing competition from similar names.

I find squatters are the bane of the internet. My little brother had a small gaming message board where he and his friends would prepare for games. No seo value.. long domain name. Parents credit card expired and we didn't notice. Domain name expired briefly. Tried to register it again as soon as we noticed. Someone else pinched it. Offered to sell it back to us for $1000. It has been for sale for the past 2 years with no interest..

The squatter has got nothing from it. My kid brother lost his domain name.. I think the majority of squatters are scum tbh.

The only reason I haven't brought a Windows Phone is because I am stuck in a contract at the moment. Once that expires I WAS going to get one.

I am not sure any more. I have an iPad and I am used to free system updates. I expect to get IOS updates until it becomes impractical for the specifications of my device to run the next IOS version. Basically, I expect IOS updates for 3-4 years.

I expected the same with my Android phone. Alas.. that didn't happen. I got one update after a year and am still on some outdated version of Android. This is why I won't be getting another Android device.

I figured Windows Phone would be more like the iPad where you get updates for a couple of years. I thought that the cash cow was the app store, not the OS so keeping everyone that can be on the same version of the OS would be very beneficial.

In short.. if WP7 users get left behind it would really put me off getting a Windows Phone 8 phone. What is the point when I will almost certainly be abandoned by the next update.

I don't post any personal information with my JohnnyFlash alias. I like my privacy :)

Thanks for the warning though.

My company is going to ignore the law until someone pull's us up on it. This law will severely restrict our ability to analyse how users are interacting with our product. This law will compromise our ability to further improve our product and disadvantage us against foreign competitors.

Our company doesn't track users off the site, we anonymise data so it cannot be tracked back to an individual... as far as we are concerned the law shouldn't apply to how we make use of cookies.

The fine is up to £500k. Realistically.. the fine for a small company is more likely to a few thousand. It would be better to pay a few k a month in fines than lose 90% of our user data. If we implement this we might as well stop developing our product.

I won't be using this.

Google already have my emails, my search history, a chunk of my documents, a chunk of my appointments. Now they can access the files on my computer? I think not!

The trouble is that the guidelines aren't black and white. They are somewhat grey. This means that 2 reviews will rarely result in the same action.

I would argue the Kama Sutra is both historical and educational and not sexually explicit at all. Perhaps a celebration of human bodies even, I don't know.

It seems though that Apple particularly feel that its customers require a squeaky clean filter to assess everything they access.

For cloned and low quality app's this is great! Restricting porn... I guess it is a good thing. Kid's can browse the app store. However this grey area between what is clean and what isn't is something they have never mastered.

It is really sad to see Google following this path of over-censorship..

I work till 5pm. Have done for about 2 years now. Whats happened?

1) I haven't burned out 2) I have retained good relationships with my family and friends 3) I enjoy evenings out

Previously I worked all hours. If my partner had let me I would have brought the computer to bed and typed into the night. I burned out and jeopardised my relationship.

I get that there are times when you need to work longer. When you have a deadline or something really needs to be done. However.. if this is every day for a long period of time then you are probably doing something wrong.

I can see the problem with people claiming to be or acting like sponsors of the event. If you pony up the money to sponsor the event you should see the benefit.

However, clamping down on someone saying. "London 2012 Parking".. what is wrong with that? Its fact. Person is providing parking for people attending the 2012 event..

I don't get it either. The top of site should surely have.. "Typeli is a... "

When is this being rolled out? Everything looks the same to me. A skim of the article doesn't appear to say.

Adding: <?date('Y-m-d')?>

Would whiff...

Either short tags would be disabled and cause an error. Or nothing would happen.

<?php echo date('Y-m-d')?> -- Would be most preferable.

<?=date('Y-m-d')?> -- Won't work on half of webservers.

PHP is simple but most PHP servers are terrible. Part of my job is to ensure the smooth installation of proprietary software on around 1000 servers a year. This is the painful part of PHP development. If the client is paying less than $5/mo for hosting then I often run into problems with misconfigured servers, common features being disabled.. hell.. shit not working! Why isn't it working? I don't know. There are no errors. There is nothing logged... yet for some reason the session only lasts 7 seconds before disappearing.. yay!

I love PHP because it is simple and just works... I really dislike 80% of shared hosting providers who cause all sorts of problems with what should be a simple cross platform application.

I would have thought Instagram would have been popular no matter what they used. People liked the product and functionality. They don't give two hoots about what is powering it.

I'm fairly happy as a PHP developer. It pay's the bills... there are times when I am presented with a mess which makes me want to shoot myself in the face. However I am sure such messes can easily be created in other languages. PHP has a history of Spaghetti code and when I was learning it mashing mysql, php and html into the same file was 'the way to do it'.

Today though PHP development revolves much more about OOP frameworks like Symfony and a good application structure.

The thing that bugs me most is inconsistency in core functions. Is it functionname or function_name. Is it ($needle, $haystack) or ($haystack, $needle). However, it is a minor annoyance negated by a decent IDE.

You should have finished the paragraph

>> (Update: While YouTube was originally written in PHP, it migrated to Python fairly early on, per Matt Cutts and Guido van Rossum.)

Erm... OK... use something else then.

Fortunately there are many options when it comes to web development. You don't like PHP? Avoid it! Do not use it! Use Ruby or something.

I used to get cranky about Facebook. Now I don't use at all.. what do I feel about Facebook now? Nothing. No point getting your pants in a twist about something that doesn't need to a part of your life.

I don't get it.. so anyone with the priv.ly extension installed can view the content? Priv.ly is also open source?

So.. if say 10% of Facebook users started using Priv.ly.. wouldn't Facebook just put their own implementation directly into their site? This would give Facebook access to your content as well as make your content available in the Facebook mobile app's.

Sure, it abstracts away your content but if it can be viewed anonymously it doesn't protect it or prevent twitter etc from reading it.

When I started I could just about make a website but hell, it was what I wanted to do.

I did 2 things. Firstly I went on the freelancer job boards and picked up some of the worst jobs going with the most hard to please clients. I think my average wage was like $3/hr for the first handful of projects. However.. soon enough I starting getting 10 star ratings which opened up better jobs. Also I started to get a portfolio from these jobs which gave me credibility. It was a miserable time but I wouldn't have to got to where I have any other way.

The second thing I did was found a framework which was semi-popular and just camped the forum. I learned everything I could about it. I read every thread. I only answered questions. If I had a question I would join IRC under an alias. I didn't want to look nooby.

I would take notes on frequent questions. I was soon known as someone who always had the right answer. I would then usually be the first to respond on the job board for the framework. I would link to my forum profile and reputation. Some of those jobs paid really well and there was very little competition to get them.

I currently make 36k a year from a job I picked up on the forum. The post for the job was titled 'Developer Required'. The message was 'Urgent, please PM name, portfolio and email address'. Turned out well.

Ultimately though to succeed you need to stick with what you are doing. You may find the job terrible but if it leads to a great portfolio piece at the end then you should be doing it. Its rarely about where you are now, its about where what you are currently doing will lead you.

If you an idea or expertise to do something like this I don't know why you need to wait for Y Combinator to pick you up before you get started.

Making something profitable from day 1 is difficult but profitable from day 30 is less so. Yes the profit may just about buy your team a round of coffee's but at least you got off your mark. Your ball is rolling.

Waiting for seed funding before building your product seems somewhat counter-intuitive to me.

If someone viewed my Facebook profile, based on my lack of usage they could only come to the conclusion I am a person with few friends and no interests.

Seems like a silly way to learn more about people.

Seems like a good match. The first 1/4 of Jobs autobiography read a bit like "Dude Wheres my Car"