The "Magic 2.0" series by Scott Meyer is a fun look at a programmer in medieval England with the ability to edit the world around him

Edit: the audiobooks are well done too!

Which will also be a factor of big companies being more willing (or able) to hire junior developers whose entire experience in the language is a boot camp

Check out intercom on github for inter-tab communication. I use it in we apps for many different things. Including log-back-in. One tab gets a session timeout and tells them all to go black asking for a password. Enter it in one tab and they all unlock.

It uses local storage

From the take-down advice from Google:

"After a regular review, we have determined that this app is promoted as a means of carrying out spying or surreptitious tracking of others."

Of others. It's clearly not spying on other people.

It's clearly intended for spying on the person using the device, who may not be the person who owns the device. The obvious example is the use case espoused by the application: you are a business who loans business phones to your staff, or you are a parent wanting to keep tabs on your child, so you install this software, turn on the option to not show in the status bar, and get reports of all activity from the person actually using that corporate phone.

The intended use case is actually a bit stranger: users are intended to install this on their own phone to report their behavior to one or more "accountability partners" so that they will be publicly shamed if they view undesirable material, e.g. pornography.

You comment made me laugh and 'ahhhhh!' at the same time. It now makes sense. He's totally into Apple and hasn't been elsewhere.

A few of the things he talks about regarding the UI changes are already on Windows, but he talks as if they're a new invention. While he might be talking to a 100% Apple audience, I think it makes him look silly that he doesn't mention they're not Apple-original features.

Eg. windows that are semi translucent with the background blurred came with either Vista or 7. That annoying animated focus circle is in Office 2013.

John Siracusa is certainly aware of Windows, at least visually. The only reason for you to suggest pointing out any little thing that's not "Apple-original" is out of some sort of pointless OS defensiveness. Aero Glass was a simple blurred translucency, while the translucency in Yosemite is a more complex filter and has two content modes, behind-window and within-window. But I don't see what comparing the two accomplishes, honestly.

Pretty sure he actually talked about this in regards to Vista specifically on the latest episode of ATP

I think making an assumption that Siracusa doesn't know what's happening in the world of other OS', or hasn't been elsewhere, might be a bit off.

I'd probably include The Eudaemonic Pie in the list -- depending on how define 'hacker'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

$5 is Fiverr, and $5 on Fiverr gets you rubbish.

In an aquihire, they typically ARE buying the product to get the talent capable of building the product in question.

Let's say you've built some product capable of receiving millions of http connections a minute from thousands of servers and then distributing those to thousands of servers as they request a new batch. But you can't find a market. However this is (was of course) a real-world problem for Twitter.

Suddenly you are a really attractive aquihire. Maybe they'll use your tech, but more likely they value your problem solving experience in their specific problem domain.

It makes no sense to suggest he donate it to charity. He found a pile of people willing to sell him the goods at a price both they and he were happy with. If something like Stellar is to succeed you can't put limits on the free market and the transactions that are allowed to take place using them.

Just because he didn't use his real name doesn't make the transaction less valid. And just because the task didn't use an identifiable account name doesn't make the transaction less valid.

What you're insisting is that you can't buy something from someone on Craigslist using a fake name and meeting in a place that nobody else can tell where you made the transaction. In other words, 99% of Craiglist transactions.

I think most people are aware you're only allowed one Facebook account thus the fact that it's a one-time deal is implied.

I also think most of the turks probably thought it a good trade: $1-2 USD for 5000 funny money. I imagine most turks, like most people, aren't familiar with cryptocurrencies and the only way they will ever hear of Stellar again is if it becomes so commonplace that the giveaways are long a thing of the past.

Compared to the rates that the other MT tasks pay, I think they made out pretty good.

That it's a one-time deal sounds like a failure on Stellar's part.

I thought the same .. though there's no decay but it's nice to see the traced path: http://jsfiddle.net/m5MZe/1/