Couchsurfing.org may be worth a try. They have a website that I used to find other people to hangout with via their "connect with other travelers" feature. I have used it in San Francisco and Bay Area as well as traveling the world such as in Thailand and it worked great for me at that time. It really did work to find and connect with real people and events in person for a given locale. I see now that they are requesting a donation to even use their website now so YMMV.
Whatever happened to Couchsurfing, it ain't good. I log in to my account, and I'm greeted with an option between two ways to send them money. I click "Manage Account" and the options there are "Data Export" and "Deactivate or Delete". Thanks for all the good times, but screw them for behaving like this.
I love this. And I would like to say that I think many of the highest-voted comments have it wrong: I WANT TO PAY for using the app in exchange for good privacy/ethical practices of the app/company making it. I don't even comment here on HN much but I was moved to speak out about your post. (And its the right day to post this, given the protest of so many subreddtits due to their API pricing and terms)
That said, yes you may still get a "network effect" from not enough people registering/using the app. But hey, I applaud the attempt and hopefully it will get some users/traction.
Last question I would have is: how does it compare/contrast/integrate with other, possibly federated, social services such as Mastodon?
Getting people talking about your stuff because they're motivated enough to have a pineapple-on-pizza type of argument over the demo is canny and bigtechs do this deliberately.
"Did anyone notice <demo>? LOL and WTF" is why we're communicating now.
I pay for Curiosity Stream (for about 3 months so far) and am an avid YouTube viewer and I personally have not seen any of the Curiosity Stream content on YouTube so far.
Beats Music is creating a streaming/downloading music solution for people who have a passion for music and who know the only thing as important as the song you’re hearing now is the song that comes next. Our product combines music selection algorithms with human curation to give the best music experience and discoverability possible. We just launched in January 2014 very successfully and have over a million users and growing. We are an offshoot of "Beats By Dre" audio equipment and as such we are very well funded by private non-VC parties, which gives us the freedom to go big in pursuit of the product vision.
We are hiring for engineering and other positions as well. We run at scale and have a complex distributed system with high performance requirements. Some of the tools we use daily include: Node.js, Python, Couchbase, Git, Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android), C# (Windows Phone), MySQL, Backbone.js, Puppet, Linux, Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Azkaban, Jenkins. There are several teams hiring:
- core API team (Node.js)
- web team (Backbone.js, Node.js)
- iOS team (Obj-C)
- Android team
- big data team
- analytics team
- operations and platform engineering team
- Windows Phone
- project management
We value creativity as well as engineering prowess. Many of us are musicians in our spare time. Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) is our Chief Creative Officer. We like to have fun while we solve complex problems with cutting edge tools and techniques. When you write code, it sees high throughput with many concurrent users. We have some other perks too:
- competitive salary (we pay well)
- great health care (Cigna!)
- reimbursed gym membership at UCSF Mission Bay
- new laptop!
- delicious healthful catered lunches 5 days a week
- a modern building of our own in the up-and-coming Dogpatch neighborhood
- a bright airy work space with exposed brick walls and skylights
- free parking in our 2 private parking lots
- free and discounted Beats By Dre gear
- stocked kitchen: beverages, non-candy snacks, fresh fruit, beer
- fun stuff to do: pinball, ping pong, a bar, cool interesting people
- onsite massages
- transportation reimbursement
- open-ended vacation policy (unlimited)
- flexible hours, work from home 1-2 days/week
- company equity
- annual bonuses
- growth and advancement opportunities
Nitpick, but the person(s) who wrote the code are probably not the one(s) who make these sorts of decisions about how the product or service will handle un/subscription. More likely its the product manager(s) or other business person types.
I've been using Inconsolata for the past few months and really liking it. RubyMine does not support it at the moment, but it works great in Terminal, Sublime Text 2, Textmate, etc.
Inconsolata is freely available here: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
Its important to recognize that Backbone is a framework and Knockout is a library. These are very different things! Because of this, comparing Backbone and Knockout side-by-side is inappropriate; kinda like comparing a building with a vehicle.
For the record, Knockout handles way more than just forms. The statement that Knockout doesn't offer much beyond forms is simply false.
After writing code using both, on my next app I will use all of them:
- Backbone for application structure and the client-side model layer functionality. Backbone is good at this.
- Knockout to make handling user-triggered events a breeze, keep data in sync across views and layouts automatically, and to keep my markup and JS code tidy and separate with client-side templating. Knockout is good at this.
- jQuery to interface with "low-level" constructs such as DOM elements. jQuery is good at this.
In this set up, Backbone is the framework, Knockout is just another library being used, and jQuery is just another library being used.
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