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- hayksaakian 14y agoGotta love that stock photography
- zekenie 14y agoWoooah look at that programmer. A tie and a phone from 1492. Very hip.
- christiangenco 14y agoMmmmm. Can we do this without the stock photos. It's very... 90s. Which isn't really jiving with Bootstrap.
- danso 14y agoI like the idea of being connected to a scientist...other kinds of researchers, including journalists, would also have interesting projects to work on, particularly involving overlooked datasets. But yeah, the stock photography should be changed...it's not mediocre, it's just detrimental to the point of discrediting the overall project. Just use icons that can serve as symbols...such as a glass beaker for science.
- johnsndu 14y agoAs someone who's tried to work with scientists in the past, you probably do not want to be connected to them. They don't do Node.js, Coffeescript, Scala or Clojure. They do 1950's FORTRAN, know nothing else, and do not want to know anything else. I got in trouble for being an elitist by suggesting we used Ruby for something. Ha!
- kylemaxwell 14y agoDo you really need to categorize and dismiss all scientists that way? It certainly doesn't jive with my experiences, which only means that there's variance in the population.
- ninjin 14y agoPah, the people I know in bio-informatics use Haskell, I do research on language and use Python, C and Coffeescript. Honestly, science is more diverse than high-performance simulations of the universe...
- gcr 14y agoWhat "scientists" are you talking about? In my group, we use Python and Numpy almost exclusively. Some of us have been pushing for Haskell. Let's flip your statement around a little: "As someone who's tried to work with web designers in the past, you probably do not want to be connected to them. They do 1990s HTML 1.0 and flash, know nothing else, and do not want to know anything else."
- Kerrick 14y agoPrevious discussions: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3971990 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3971990 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3906143 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3906143 - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/tmlb5/meaningful_programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/tmlb5/meaningfu... For those complaining about the stock photography: https://github.com/giving/giving.github.com https://github.com/giving/giving.github.com
- bionsuba 14y agoSeems to be dead, not an update in over two months.
- capex 14y agoI've just put a project proposal there. https://github.com/giving/giving.github.com/issues/12 https://github.com/giving/giving.github.com/issues/12. Hope it is of interest to the community and I can get some help.
- BHSPitMonkey 14y agoI assumed at first due to the URL's appearance that this was an effort put together by GitHub, Inc. Makes me wonder how many other Github Pages sites out there are similarly confusing (or intentionally misleading - it looks like careers.github.com is available, for example).
- nwh 14y agoThere's potential there. You could grab http://ssl.github.com/ http://ssl.github.com/ and you could probably fool a few users with a fake login screen.
- tzaman 14y agoGet rid of the stock images - I didn't even bother reading the page after seeing them.