I work too darn hard, sir.

"You accessed the very heart of the system of an international business of massive size, so this was not just fiddling about in the business records of some tiny business of no great importance," he said.

How small does a company have to be, where it's ok for someone to "fiddle about" in their business records?

I made https://jobpoacher.com/ so you can send all of the shitty recruiters (and good ones) to an anonymous email address.

This was the weekend hack I posted yesterday! Pretty amazing reponse for an MVP. Over 2000 posts so far

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557805 Jwhois: Creation date: 31 Jan 2012 06:42:00

It has a lot more upvotes than other posts above it, per hour, and it dropped something like 15 spots instantly.

It could be buggy too. The "Ask HN" section is chronically messed up, showing low-karma posts from days/weeks ago when there are active, high-karma posts being pushed a few pages under.

Or it could be some over-eager powerful flagger :)

Yeah it has 127 karma and it was just on the front page, I don't think flagging has that much weight

Depends on who does the flagging, I think. Some flags are, like, an instant 10-spot demote. Some kick it from the 'news' section of the site completely (but still visible in 'newest').

I suspect there's a 'small flag', too, that doesn't drop the post's ranking unless enough small flags are accumulated.

It's all a bit blackboxy :)

I can already see it cluttering up. Thanks, I'll add that shortly!

I was going to suggest this, as well as a way to browse by category. Employers probably don't want to look for "iOS developer" and "iOS programmer" and "iOS engineer", so some kind of automatic way to combine these seems useful.

Also, filtering by salary.

Overall though, love the idea.

I think it's just part of our society's bias in favor of motor vehicles, to assume that any damage with a vehicle involved is an "accident".

I have been on a bicycle when someone deliberately tried to run me off the road for "fun".

The only criminal case ever in the whole state of Texas, where it was actually assumed that a driver deliberately tried to run a bicyclist off the road, and it was no "accident", was when some guy happened to do it to Lance Armstrong. In every other case, it was legally assumed to be an accident.

Sorry, I don't know what "Backbone" is. I see links to New Relic and Pivotal Labs, but no links to anything called "Backbone".

I guess this blog post was maybe not meant for purely technical people, but it would be nice to understand what "Backbone" is, and exactly why it would solve their problems.

Here's a link: http://backbonejs.org/

Perhaps more importantly, here are some examples of what sites are doing with it: http://backbonejs.org/#examples

Not sure why you got down-voted.

It's entirely possible that you don't get the same search results on Google as I do if we're logged in because of what Google 'remembers' as our browsing habits and interests.

Backbone.js Fundamentals: https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals

Backbone.js

I hate to be That Asshole, but https://www.google.com/search?q=backbone

The first link is to a javascript library widely known in the web development community.

I actually did a google search for https://www.google.com/search?q=backbone+web

Which gave me the first hit of www.backbonemedia.com/

In fact, backbone.js is no where on the first page for that search.

That's amazing it comes up first for "backbone". I did actually find that link eventually, and try out the "example" todo list, but that gave me no information about how this would fix a garbage collection problem. Does anyone know how it fixed their GC problem?

The article was confusing a bit confusing about the Garbage Collection so I'll try to explain.

1. Dispora is slow, why?

2. Requests take a long time on the server, why?

3. Most of the time is spent in ruby doing processing.

4. Why is ruby slow?

5. Ruby is slow because of the garbage collector.

6. How can we get around this ruby being slow problem?

7. Reduce calls to server side by writing replacing server side calls with javascript rendering of templates and whatnot.

It fixed their garbage collection problem by reducing the amount of server-side processing they had to do (and hence, reducing the amount of garbage that required collection). Rather than send completely rendered HTML to the browser, they're using javascript in the browser to turn the data coming from the server into the rendered page.

Ha. Well, that's why I'm the asshole. ;)

you would only be an asshole if you linked it like so: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backbone

For a lot of purposes I have switched to Wikipedia. Automated web search simply isn't the right tool these days for many of the niches in which Google got its foothold in the '90s.

"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." -- Oscar Wilde

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call the work displayed here art, but I do agree that it can be admired on it's own merits.

Defining art is difficult; but something created to be admired on it's own merits is certainly a candidate. I'm comfortable calling recreational hacks art.