ZenJosh

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.

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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?

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

Hey Karen!

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.

My general rule for relative dates is:

Timestamp (00:00am/pm) within 1 day Day of the week (Monday-Sunday) within 1 week Full date (00/00/0000) everywhere else

I also make sure I provide a way to view the full date (eg Saturday 1st December 2012 at 1:27am) somewhere in a 'more details' modal or pane.

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.

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!

Sorry, yes, thats what I meant. My bad!

True, but the option to disable filtering remains with the customer, which is pretty important. And, from what I gather from the video, unblocking is between the content owner and TalkTalk, not the user. That said, it'd be a good idea to build some kind of request portal for users to request a website be unblocked too.

I was gearing up for a rant about how this hurts the open internet, but after watching the video, it seems fairly well reasoned.

I guess it all pivots around how effective the review panel is at unblocking access to sites that have been miscategorised and how easy it is to enable and disable the filtering.

Fixed. Try now.

This. Exactly

Its a combination of all of the little things added together. Worrying about coursework deadlines, conflicts between subjects, modular testing "You dont realize it now, but this test could be the difference between a good life and a wasted life". Its not that there is too much hard work, quite the opposite, its all the little things that count towards the feeling of being "overworked".

I was suggesting in the op that we eliminate at least a few of the little things so that students dont feel overworked, giving them time to think hard about a single issue, rather than barely thinking about multiple.

I think you're spot on there, better schools take fewer GCSEs, thus (Im assuming) producing a higher caliber of student not necessarily in terms of qualifications, but in terms of depth of knowledge and culture

Yes, I did. Students with upwards of twenty GCSEs are not all that uncommon anymore

I was in the terminal at the time and broke my workflow to reply, I was still in 'sudo' mindset not 'pseudo' mindset -- Sorry, I just realized I misread the entire comment and assumed it hostile, my bad!

The story was written as a quick response to an email on a list, not an article for the front page of hackernews. Please excuse the obvious errors (of which I am sure there are quite a few)

Some context: First, I most definitely do not think I'm God's gift to man. Ive seen kids with skills leagues ahead of my own who are true masters, my skills in comparison are basic.

Before I started the assessment, I asked for the mark scheme to make sure my project hit the criteria for a passing grade. We weren't asked to build in powerpoint, but most opted to do so for lack of a better option. I asked if it would be a good idea to build an iPhone app for the assessment and the teacher of my class said "Sure if you can, give it a shot". I have no idea when the teacher became aware that the project would fail but at no point was a concern raised with me until final marking.

I didn't build a complex project 'just to be different', I instead thought "Well here's an opportunity to learn to do something I didn't know how to do before". Id been developing web things for a while but hadn't dipped into native code up until that point