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Re:Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone? on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:53PM (#31928572)
I used to help run a few vbulletin forums, customising the code and doing admin stuff.

One of those that survive, the forum still exists (https://www.sau.com.au/forums/). It's a very specific, niche, technical forum, where owners of Nissan Skylines socialised, asked technical questions and traded.

Facebook Marketplace/eBay etc cannibalised the trading. This meant sponsors of the forum who helped pay the hosting bills slowly reduced.

Social banter moved to Facebook Groups (often more localised geographically... in its heyday in the late 90's and early 2000's the forum had people from all over the world socialising around the clock)

Which means technical Q&A is the main drawcard now, and is the most active component of the forum outside of the diehard "oldschool crew" who keep the social parts active. I expected reddit to cannibalise the technical Q&A, but it hasn't as forums present a combination of threaded conversation and blog style updates from the OP or groups of contributors.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) on Monday October 09, 2017 @01:24AM (#15431741)
Stratton Finance | Front-end Developer | Full-time + Ongoing Permanent + On-site in Melbourne (AU) | https://www.strattonfinance.com.au

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The role:

We’re looking for an experienced Front-End Developer to complement our team of web and application developers. Our portfolio of websites and web applications are growing at an exponential rate, and require someone to help us deliver internal and consumer facing digital products.

Our stack:

  - React
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Job site:

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Re:Spain planned to 'invade' Australia in the 1790s with 100-vessel ar... on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @07:54PM (#8957340)
The voyage from Spain to England's quite short. For a voyage from South America to Australia across the Pacific, you'd need a few ships purely to carry supplies, plus you'd have to account for a fair amount of losses of ships and men due to bad weather, disease etc.
Re:Spain planned to 'invade' Australia in the 1790s with 100-vessel ar... on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @06:20PM (#8956861)
If this had transpired, maybe our idiot Prime Minister would've made Rafael Nadal a caballero on Australia Day this year.
Re:Elasticsearch – the definitive guide on Friday March 21, 2014 @02:22AM (#7440945)
Congrats @clintongormley!
Re:Redesigning the Save Symbol on Saturday April 06, 2013 @06:36PM (#5505314)
In my concept of the future there will be no "Save", but instead any input/document will be passively cached locally in volatile storage, and archived incrementally on a non-volatile medium... without any active user input. In which case you'd only need an icon for "New", "Open" and "Delete".

If you're talking about representing a change of state (volatile to non-volatile), then borrow from Chemistry where a change from liquid to gas is represented by an arrow up, and a change from liquid to solid is represented by an arrow down. You could use the Unicode character U+21DF, a symbol that's already on every computer. Inversely you could use U+21DE to indicate "Load".

Re:The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:04AM (#5143554)
Those courses are mandatory because the Australian government now correlates generic graduate attributes with funding allocation. This means that all Unis have to show that a percentage of their graduates are competent in, and all graduates have access to courses in ethics, sensitivity, knowledge application, problem solving, and communication. Uni administration forces lecturers to integrate these into their courses, and they then deliver a half arsed rendition to the students.
Re:Apple Will Sell App-Enabled, Color-Changing Light Bulbs on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:12AM (#4711468)
From the conversations going on on Kickstarter the LIFX was a mesh network configuration, whereas with the Hue you'd be connecting a bunch of slaves to a central hub. This could come into play depending on the amount of bulbs you plan to use and where.
Re:Cassandra storage engine for MariaDB/MySQL on Monday October 01, 2012 @05:33AM (#4596010)
More info: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/cassandrase/
Re:Kill Hollywood? Let's fix politics instead: kill lobbying. on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @03:25AM (#3508873)
In Australia we have a government run registry which documents all lobbyists and their activities: http://lobbyists.pmc.gov.au

The closest I could find in the US in a quick search was followthemoney.org and the Senate Office of Public Records site (which maintains an archive of filings as required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act).

Is transparency just a matter of making these isolated pieces of information more easily accessible and transformable/visual... and using an easy call to action to petition or donate to pro-bono lobbyists who serve the public as counteraction to corporate (or even foreign) lobbying.

Re:E-books Are Not That Easy on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @11:38PM (#3427429)
I think of an eBook in the same vein as a web app. While anyone can cobble together a basic website using a WYSIWYG editor, making a good eBook that gives the reader a great experience is like building a fully featured, cross browser compatible, elegantly deprecating website (and all the rest of the best practices and QA that goes with it).

There's a massive disparity in people's minds about the difficulty involved in crafting a great website, and crafting a great eBook... when they're essentially similar in composition and complexity.

Re:Let's update the HN circle on Google Plus (the proper way) on Saturday December 31, 2011 @09:40AM (#3410935)
Nice. You might wanna include a way to remove duplicates based on G+ IDs. Also some way of removing yourself from the list? Maybe use Google accounts to connect too, so you can verify the profile owners and don't have to ask for an email addy?
Re:A crash course in UX on Monday November 21, 2011 @07:39AM (#3260886)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Might be of help

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011) on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @10:35AM (#3182194)
Melbourne, Australia - Full Time - http://www.penguin.com.au

Penguin Books (Australia) is looking for a frontend developer to work on our websites, webapps and mobile apps. We'll reward your awesome client-side programming skills by providing you with books and other literary perks.

Read the details and apply at http://www.seek.com.au/Job/20972554