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My friend, two things can be true at the same time. The religious right can have a strategy to end abortion for their own reasons and the 14th amendment can be an essential right that must be protected.

This is not a religious argument. The 14th amendment prohibits the states from depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The first question is when does a fetus become a person. I don’t know the answer to that for absolute certainty and pretty sure everyone else commenting on this does not either. If we can agree that no single person can identify when a fetus becomes a person, keeping in mind lots of people think they know everything about all things. The ultimate question that needs be answered is what number of people need to agree when life begins? Only one person decides when life begin i.e. the mother, nine i.e. the Supreme Court, or thousands i.e. we the people vote on it. I would argue we in U.S. tend lean more towards the more significant the issue the more people are required for consensus.

Love the reference!

I Am Near is a platform that allows any type of digital content to be associated to a particular context where context is the intersection of who, when, and where. The first URL is the landing page the other URLs are test accounts that bypass authentication. For some reason the test URLs can be a bit touchy, ripping them out tonight, if you get a blank page just refresh.

Landing Page URL. http://www.iamnear.com/

Test account URLs not authentication required. http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-john-doe http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-jane-doe http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-bobby-doe http://www.iamnear.com/?#access_token=test-sarah-doe

FYI The best way to understand I Am Near is create a post with one of the test accounts, otherwise there is nothing to view.

I don't have a problem with the $3M, shrimp on a tread mill, or $3M for shrimp on a tread mill. The problem I have is I still don't know what this guy was trying to discover even after I read the article. If your going to ask tax payers for $3M do us all a favor and spend a couple of hundred explaining in layman's terms why!

Hay! Don’t be a hater. The most important thing is he delivered it on time. Who cares if you can’t use it? That’s secondary.

This blog almost immediately reminded me of grandma’s speech to Gil in the movie Parenthood. “…that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited and so thrilled all together. some didn’t like it. they went on the merry-go-round. that just goes around… nothing… I like the roller-coaster. you get more out of it”. Yes, there is a giant mess around building applications for today’s users! But that is where is the fun, excitement, and innovation is coming from. If you require safe, secure, and boring I’m sure there is bank somewhere in the world that need a good COBOL developer.

Question for mgrunin. In your opinion did CoinBase make things right? If not, why? If so then can well just drop this!

Take it EASY everyone! They made a mistake, took responsibility for the error, resolved the issue, and compensated the user for his inconvenience. Good for them!

I think this is an amusing idea; however the truth is most people are not meant to be programmers. For those of you in the industry think back to your first couple of programming classes and the people who could not grasp the idea of a FOR LOOP. There was a small group of people who could do it and larger group that just couldn’t. It’s not personal, I was never meant to play basketball it is what it is.

I plan on putting the sfjslib.js in Github in about a week, but not the source code for "I Am Near".

Yes, you are correct that is how it works. I’m still in development and have about three major bugs I still need to work out, plan on doing that this weekend. And performance is bit slow due to I have not minified the JavaScript yet, also a weekend project. The goal of “I Am Near” is to associate content and services to specific geographic locations. Currently content and services can take the form of full blown applications, embeddable widgets, or SOAP/RESTful web services. The basic premise is that a user’s experience should change depending on where they are. For example if a user goes to http://www.mcdonalds.com in their home they would be presented with general information about McDonalds and listings of the closest locations. If a user is in the same shopping mall at lunch time they would be presented with specials and deals to help entice them to go to the McDonalds 50 yards away. If they are in an actual McDonalds they would have the ability to order their lunch and even pay for it using their smart phone/mobile device. The HTML5 geolocation API gives you the latitude and longitude but often that is meaningless. As a developer I would much rather be given information such as “user is in Old Town Scottsdale” or “user is in Store #2345” than “user is at 33.26552, -111.89116”. Fundamentally that is the problem “I Am Near” is trying to solve. If you get chance please play with it. Right now it’s just me so any additional developer input is greatly appreciated.

Code may not rust overtime but it does become harder to maintain and more importantly harder to find quality innovative people willing to work on it. I would guess that very few of the people making a pro argument for Joel Spolsky’s article would be willing to support 1970’s COBOL banking software for a living.

This is why I love Hacker News!

I'm working on a geofencing platform that allows content and services to be associated with a specific geographic location.

www.iamnear.com

Really geared for developers so any developer feedback would be greatly appreciated. :-) If you do decide to check it out please use a desktop first. Mobile version is for testing geofences.

Cool! But as useful as a lava lamp.

Don't get worked up over this. Today is April 1st remember!