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This is super impressive - both the pedigree of the team and the approach you took.

The funny thing is - when I first saw ploy, I didn't take it very seriously since so many of the signals that used to signify quality (decent design, copy, hard technical problems) are easy to fake. Plus the "grow while you sleep" space is crowded with weak players.

I wonder what the new markers of quality will be, which would separate the hand-crafted (to the extent possible) work v/s slop.

Maybe I'm missing something. If I use `git status --short` or `git log --oneline`, I see output similar to your tool's.

I can't tell if this is satire or not.

Have you considered storing it on the blockchain instead, so this way it is immutable and permanent? /s

Electron was originally known as "Atom Shell"!

Having built desktop software - I found doing things cross platform is hard for various reasons.

1. You can't use any specialized features or APIs in one OS unless you implement it in all others.

2. If you use Electron you're basically building a webpage, which can only be taken so far in terms of user experience. While teams like VS Code have pushed the limits, you still can't do what this app is doing.

3. Increased test/QA surface area which becomes difficult - especially supporting Linux - which have relatively fewer users but you still have to properly invest time into supporting it, something startups cannot do.

I really don't see the point of this product, but there are plenty of small to medium teams which are mac only, and it's better to be an interesting niche rather than yet another collaboration and huddle-type software.

Hi! I'm Andy and I have 12 years experience in a wide variety of roles - web applications with a variety of technologies and desktop applications and networking applications with C++.

I have been at my last role for about 5 years and am looking for a change to focus on a Senior Full Stack Engineer role.

    Location: Toronto, ON
    Remote: Yes
    Technologies: Laravel, VueJS, React, Python, Node

Email me at (as42 at fastmail dot com).

Similar JavaScript programming game running in the browser - http://jswarrior.fusioncharts.com/

Me and a friend built this in 2013, built on top of ideas from the original ruby-warrior.

For lightweight use among friends, I found that gogs works much better for me. Has a tiny subset of features but reliably creates/manages repos.

https://gogs.io/

I use https://getgrav.org/ and this is why:

- No DB. Use a flat file layout similar to Jekyll or static site generators.

- Offers dynamic features like redirecting and custom routing when you need it. This isn't possible with a pure static site generator.

- Decent optional panel to write, edit and manage almost all aspects of your site.

- Quite fast once you set it up with good caching.

If anyone's looking for similar functionality for PHP (Database-level time-grouping, time-ranged drilldowns, charts), you can check out http://razorflow.com

(Disclosure: I am the developer of RazorFlow, and am only posting here because I feel it's relevant to this particular story)

Actually, we are working on adding support for TV/Kiosk mode where the components update the data regularly, and you aren't limited to showing only one set of components. The dashboard will slowly and automatically cycle through all different components so even if you have more widgets than your screen can handle, it'll still work better than not being able to work at all.

The main difference is that Dashing is focusing more on current KPIs and Metrics. While we believe that those are crucially important, sometimes they just aren't enough for people who have data that's too much to get condensed down to a single indicator.

Well, maybe you can take a look at another dashboard framework I wrote. It uses PHP, pulls data directly from MySQL and works seamlessly on mobile browsers, tablets. :)

http://razorflow.com

Adding support for Google Analytics and Excel in the next two weeks!

We are going to release a version with PostgreSQL support shortly.

RazorFlow PHP generates SQL code according to the requirements and filters, and must take the differences between the SQL dialects of different vendors into account.

Hi,

I'm from India. I can't get the book shipped here without incurring large delay and shipping costs.

I would be happy to pay full price for a PDF and instant delivery. I'm sure there are more like me

It's a 3-hour hack - built for the purpose of me meeting more hackers in the city.

The code is open source. Feel free to modify and I'll incorporate your changes. https://github.com/ninjagod/apps.ninjagod.com/

I put this up just today morning:

http://apps.ninjagod.com/app/hackersocial/

I have noticed most people have their email addresses publicly displayed (in some human readable form), or have web pages with ways to contact them. In that note, I have been contacted via HN before and have met some people as well. Considering the ultimate purpose of a Private Messaging feature is to allow communication between two willing parties - the existing infrastructure is already there.

Moreover, more influential people who very strictly value their time and privacy (Matt Cutts for instance) might not be comfortable having an open avenue by which anyone can contact them.

More importantly, if you have someone's full name, there's a reasonably high chance you can find a proper way to contact them - provided you are determined enough to do it.