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What web framework(s) do you guys use? | mindaugas: ramaze ! and that means rack -> ruby |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | rociiu: Rails, Django |
CSS vs table based layouts | akd: You don't have to pick just one. On one of my sites I have tables for the navigation elements and CSS for the content elements. Use what works for you. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | cottsak: aspnet mvc. current project - http://ksischool.com |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | booboo: It would be nice if someone would define exactly what a framework is. I mean, we're not all brilliant. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | twotimestwo: Good question. What _does_ constitute a framework? |
What do you when you are forced/asked to design at work? | nostrademons: One approach might be to point out the hourly wage of a good designer. Point out your own hourly wage. Then point out that it takes you 2-3 times longer for lower quality work. If you feel the need to be explicit, do the math for them. Most companies will listen to economic arguments.(Though they may "listen" by laying you off, if they don't have other work for you. Still, it's the same outcome as if you quit, and you get to collect unemployment.)If that doesn't work, bite the bullet and learn some minimal Photoshop. I'm not a designer either. But I've had to "cut" Photoshop mockups on a few occasions (mostly in my own startup, where there was nobody else to do it). Somebody has to perform the translation from graphic to web page, and it's usually easier for web developers to learn a little Photoshop than it is for designers to learn good HTML. |
What do you when you are forced/asked to design at work? | phoreo: Cutting up a comp isn't "design," it's implementation.I have never seen a frontend web development position where slicing comps wasn't a core component of the job description. If the primary languages they listed in the description are HTML, CSS, and JS, then this is probably what they imagined you'd be doing from the beginning.On the other hand, if you a "programmer" proper and the primary languages listed are Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, etc., then I could understand a little frustration. But keep in mind - if you're working in web and doing any frontend work at all, most employers will (rightly) expect that you have these skills.I hope the position you've found works out for you, or that you're able to find something better that you'd prefer.Good luck! |
Is this idea any good? | MaysonL: My pet rock was getting hungry! |
CSS vs table based layouts | phoreo: I seriously find it difficult to believe that this is still a debate on YC. Once you attempt to build a site of a reasonably level of complexity and/or learn how to build a site using clean, valid, semantic markup, you'll never go back - unless horribly messy code and hack piled upon hack are your thing.This isn't about being a web standards zealot. It's about learning to do your job. Look to any of the industry leaders in frontend development - it is simply no longer an issue. Table-based implementations of layouts (and all non-tabular data) are the GOTOs of modern markup. |
What does my Twitter mashup need to get popular in 8 days? | iamdave: Better CSS. |
What does my Twitter mashup need to get popular in 8 days? | tdavis: A less obnoxious design would help. |
What are the best Arduino starter projects? | raamdev: The book "Making Things Talk" (O'Reilly) is a great way to start:http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510510/ |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | zby: Catalyst |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | oscardelben: Ruby on Rails is my primary framework. I've played a lot with Merb, but I'm happy that it will be merged with rails. In the future I want to explore web frameworks written in lisps (cl, scheme or closure) |
Is Hacker News a Waste of Time? | known: I overcame /. addiction by subscribing to its Headlines which arrive every morning in my mailbox. |
What does my Twitter mashup need to get popular in 8 days? | patio11: I find that solving a problem people have is an excellent way to increase uptake of software. |
What does my Twitter mashup need to get popular in 8 days? | bjtitus: Maybe adding some more original content to a better designed page?Not to be rude or anything, but there isn't anything really original. You've just taken two widgets, stuck them on a page with a repeating background, and slapped an ad in the middle.It would have been cooler to use the API and create a more interesting interface. (Maybe tweets falling down in little footballs, although I would find that pretty obnoxious more than useful) |
Is Hacker News a Waste of Time? | tedshroyer: I don't know about everyone, but I have a limited number of hours that I can focus on any single task before I need to take a break. If I didn't have this, then I would find something else to distract me. It is a lot easier for me to pull away from HN than to stop playing chess games online. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | joshdavey: My own php framework: http://github.com/joshdavey/madeam/tree/master |
CSS vs table based layouts | olavk: Here's the deal: CSS was designed to have all the styling and layout power of presentational HTML, and more. Even universally hated features like "blink" were supported, so nobody would have to use presenational HTML ever again.So what whent wrong with tables? The culprit is that the CSS equivalent of tables, the display:table CSS property (defined in CSS 2) has not been implemented in Internet Explorer yet, even though the standard is 12 years old (IE8 will reportedly support it, though).So there is no direct CSS equivalent to the layout properties of tables which works in IE. You can emulate some of the properties using floats, absolute positioning and so on, but be aware that this approach is not the "correct" CSS way. Rather it is a workaround around limitations in IE's implementation of CSS. Using tables for layout is a alternative workaround for the same problem. The approaches have different tradeoffs.The main tradeoff is that HTML-tables are bad for accessibility, while CSS alternatives are often convoluted and hard to maintain. So the choice is basically if you want to cause pain for yourself or for disabled people. Its not hard to understand how this debate turns into more of a moral than a technical discussion.Note that it is not all uses of tables which require workarounds to implement in table-less CSS. Before CSS, tables were used for a wide array of layout tasks like spacing, margins, positioning and so on, which is generally better handled by CSS today. The limitations are specifically when tables are used as dynamically adjusting grids. I wrote a small article to point out the concrete issues: http://olav.dk/articles/tables.htmlBTW - it's a myth that tables render the same across browsers. Table rendering has about the same amount of inconsistencies and browser differences as CSS. The difference is that there is no "right way" to render tables, since table rendering is not specified anywhere. It's all just a chain of reverse-engeneering leading back to the first haphazard table implemtation in Netscape 1.1. With CSS there is at least a spec, and the hope that browsers implentations move incrementally closer to the spec. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | invitro: django, rails, codeigniter so far |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | cookiecaper: Pylons when I use Python - magic sucks, very easy to customize, fast turnaround and not so gargantuan that it takes forever to wrap your head around.CakePHP for PHP. Definitely the best PHP framework out there, in my opinion; fast, good installed base made out of all-star clients (Mozilla, Yale, others), not restrictive or cumbersome. Honestly, though, I try not to use PHP. |
What are the best Arduino starter projects? | markessien: Well, I'm working on something ambitious with the Arduino, and you may be interested in also working on the same project, but maybe as your second project. Anyone who is interested in getting into hardware hacking from a programmer perspective on something that I find pretty cool should send me an email at markessien at gmail com, and I'll send you a notification when I have the stuff online (3-4 weeks). |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | awad: I actually was thinking of the same thing earlier today. It's not just tech; I'm also involved in a fashion start up (if you can call it that) and, while there are general fashion blogs just like there are general technology blogs, there are indeed only a very few sites that most know about and check back day to day.TechCrunch et al have created their own media brands, not exactly mainstream (though MA and company are making more and more mainstream appearances) and not exactly small time blogs. The same applies to whatever fashion blogs exist for the bit that I mentioned earlier. It's not that others are not reporting on things...they are, we just don't hear them because we don't know they exist. That's why we have sites like Hacker News and Reddit, to allow anyone to post anything interesting or newsworthy, but the general public don't exactly know about their existence. For those of us lucky enough to have access to these sites, we are already finding a lot of stuff we might not normally find. What disappoints me sometimes is that I can't get to all the good stuff that gets posted to this site if a lot of posts come successively.Feed readers don't really seem to be the answer, though, at least not for me. Perhaps what we need is a new model. I just have no idea what. |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | Zarathu: Agreed.REVOLUTION TIEM NAO???? |
What do you want to be able to customize? | robg: Data portability of my submissions and saved for easier slicing and dicing off-line. |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | froo: I think you're missing the point - the reason why Arrington/TechCrunch became popular was because Michael worked his ass off to make sure that he broke tech news in his niche. He paid his dues and now he's reaping the rewards from it.There are a lot of other bloggers who do "me too" reporting it seems, who essentially regurgitate everything they read off other sites.I'm all for competition, I welcome the day when someone takes Arrington down a few notches - but unless people are prepared to spend the time to do the hard work, then they get absolutely no sympathy from me when they're not getting the audience that they would have liked.You may not like the man, but you have to at least respect that he works harder than most, which is why he's at the top of the heap.Thats my 2 cents. |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | patio11: I think that my customers do not read TechCrunch and, accordingly, I don't think too much about them more than that. |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | TomOfTTB: Honestly this might not be a popular opinion but if I’m being honest I have to say the "revolution bloggers tried to start" was always a croc. It dismissed the fact that big news sources got where they were for a reason. That reason was that they were, at least at one time, the best at delivering information that people want.That’s how the world works. You don’t have people checking 1,000 blogs for their news. Eventually a few of those 1,000 establish themselves as the best and they become the center of things.Now there is a natural turn over where big sites stop being the best source for news and new sites take their place. In that process blogging did make a difference by lowering the barrier to entry. Michael Arrington started out as one guy reporting on what he found interesting and became the "blog of record" which would never have been possible in old media.But that doesn’t change the fact that there will always be a hierarchy and every hierarchy needs someone at the top. |
Review my site - thefabulicious.com | reg4c: Hey, I like the concept. Here are a few suggestions:The landing should have some kind of description about what the page is about.Reduce the space between the header and the main content.Do not underline the Buy it and Originator links and align them to the right.Reduce the space for the suggested links. What I mean is make the column of the product shown wider and the suggestions narrower.Those are all minor things. You really should put a brief description about what you do. Other then that I like it. |
Is Hacker News a Waste of Time? | reg4c: Yes, but its awesome so your point is moot. |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | hs: probably because it's human nature to look for new thingsthose who blog every day naturally tend to have more followersit used to be individual bloggers; however the trend is increasingly toward groups of bloggersmaybe the ultimate is site like reddit / hn (you can think the OP as a mini blog with a link) |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | robedw: If using PHP Kohana, Really, really good php framework. Release cycles are a bit crazy and some of the lead devs are uppity but all in all it's good. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | whalliburton: Weblockshttp://common-lisp.net/project/cl-weblocks/ |
Anybody Using Mono for Web Apps? | euroclydon: I'm even more curious now, since this post
[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447166]
doesn't even mention mono. |
What does my Twitter mashup need to get popular in 8 days? | izak30: Just a note, if you don't want a letter from the NFL; Take _your_ mentions of 'super bowl' off. They've even cracked down on some local bars and such that advertise 'watch the super bowl here' to make them say 'watch the big game here'.It's ridiculous I know, but just passing it on. |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | friism: I don't want to discredit Mr. Arringtons efforts (which do look positively herculean), but many months ago, with posts becoming increasingly scandalous in their wording I unsubscribed from the TC feed and haven't looked back. If the stories are important enough, they generally percolate up through other channels I follow (like HN) and usually in less hyperbolic guises. |
Anybody Using Mono for Web Apps? | izak30: What's the particular benefit to writing .NET for a non-windows environment? (other than say, wasabi or something like that) |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | dmoney: Does their success prevent other bloggers from blogging? You can't prevent the popular from being popular, but you determine the center of your own blogosphere by choosing whom you pay attention to. |
What does my Twitter mashup need to get popular in 8 days? | izak30: Send it to sports center/ESPN. Send it to Sports Illustrated. Send it to your local papers, AP, etc. It's not that this is a bad idea, poorly implemented, or poorly designed, it's fine. It just has limited audience and lifespan. Slap some ads on it and get it out there. |
Anyone feel the need for personalized filter on submissions? | euroclydon: Do you use the RSS feed? I just subscribed in Google Reader, and while I find the UI un-pleasurable, I think filtering at the feed level would be pretty easy, supposing there is some type of customizable feed reader out there.At the least, PG could make another feed for the "new" view. |
Any open source alternative to element selection on a webpage within a page? | euroclydon: Is something like this what you are talking about: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ |
What does my Twitter mashup need to get popular in 8 days? | dmoney: I don't follow football, so I don't know about getting popular. But if you want to hold onto the popularity you might want to generalize it, allowing someone to watch any two search terms, while keeping a landing page pre-filled with the football teams.I would move the ad to the right, putting the two content columns closer together. It's distracting. Replacing it with AdSense might be a good idea, as you've got a lot of text to allow automated targeting of ads. |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | pingswept: You're trapped in too small a social circle. I suspect that less than 5% of my friends and coworkers have heard of Techcrunch or Scoble, and I work at an engineering firm. Globally, their fame is dwarfed by that of washed-up American 80's pop stars (e.g. Hall and Oates).Admittedly, if you want news about web startups that will soon fail, they're hard to avoid, but there is no shortage of other people to pay attention to. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | bdittmer: Grails (http://www.grails.org). A rails inspired Groovy framework that uses big boy frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, etc.) under the hood. |
Anyone feel the need for personalized filter on submissions? | cperciva: I'd love to be able to set my own filters, but I would be filtering by submitter, not by domain. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | apinstein: I wrote my own for php, http://phocoa.com.After I learned to write Cocoa apps for the mac, I realized I needed a similar framework for web development, so I wrote phocoa.PHP as a language is kinda bumming me out since I've learned about new techniques like functional programming, closures, etc from Javascript and playing with Ruby.If PHP 5.3 doesn't seem like it's on the right path, I may switch to another language... |
large system monitoring | gsiener: Would love to hear as well, as I'm thinking about how to do the same on a much smaller scale. Nagios/SNMP seems like a good infrastructure to build on. |
What are the best Arduino starter projects? | nick5768: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/I would also suggest browsing the rest of her site as it is a treasure trove of information related to electronics. |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | jaxn: I use Rails for my bigger project, but I kinda like Google's webapp (the default on AppEngine). It is enough, and I assume it works the best of any framework on AppEngine.One of my projects is a location-based role-playing game for mobile phones that we will be launching soon. The entire game engine is hosted on AppEngine and uses the webapp framework. |
Any open source alternative to element selection on a webpage within a page? | Scriptor: I know exactly what you're talking about and have done a similar thing in one of my own projects. Basically, you need an iframe to contain the HTML, and fetch the actual page through the server. If you load the page directly though the iframe, Javascript will not be able to manipulate its contents.I've posted a Pastie of the Javascript code here: http://pastie.org/369649. It does use jQuery though. The w variable points to the window object of the external page that's loaded, so you can pass it around to other functions. Note that 'pageframe' is the ID of the iframe element.As for the server side code, I used Django, with Python's urllib2 to load the page and BeautifulSoup to turn relative urls into absolute urls. If you end up using BeautifulSoup, note that even though it's supposed to handle invalid HTML, there are some pages that still won't work because Python's HTMLParser library isn't robust enough. |
Anyone feel the need for personalized filter on submissions? | brk: I like this suggestion (for whatever that is worth).There are one or two submitters that I am 99% sure have their tinfoil hat folding instructions memorized and do not submit things that I personally find interesting.Additionally, there are several mindless attention whoring sites that seem to post a three-layer linked synopsis of what is, to me, a non-interesting story.Being able to apply some high-level filters might allow people to see the items they are interested in better. It would also allow you to filter out submissions from sites that you read directly.At the same time, there is something very unique to the approach here, and as valueless as some of the items I mentioned are to ME, they don't really get in my way. |
What kind of text analysis/processing system do you need? | mattdennewitz: a reuters-like named entity extraction tool that lets me define my own entity definitions to be extracted from the content i supply |
Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging? | cabalamat: It isn't. |
large system monitoring | damir: monit & munin are of great help to me. |
large system monitoring | patrickg-zill: What kind of monitoring are you looking for?Generally what is out there is eithera) long term graphing and trend analysis (that lets you determine that you will need more disk space in 3 months) orb) watching for a service to go down, in which case you send an email or SMS. |
large system monitoring | axod: cacti is pretty useful for graphing, just pings snmpd on each server, and can do cool custom stuff |
large system monitoring | pj: While working as a web developer at a Fortune 500, we had these same sort of issues. Web sites would go down and we'd get a call from someone trying to use it. This was 10 years ago...To learn about and fix these problems before the customer, some interns built a scheduled web site poller that would check the response for error codes and timeouts, push the status to a database and send an email to subscribers.They built it, knowing very little about programming or anything, in just a few weeks and reduced our customer calls dramatically. We were aware of the problem and resolved it reducing customer complaints substantially!Anyway, that kind of thing is very easy to build, just go do it. Monitor at the application level for failures, most errors at the infrastructure level bubble up anyway so you can catch them at the end point.Now, if you want to do scalability projections or monitoring of non-web apps, this won't help... |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | SwellJoe: It'll pass. It did for me, anyway. For about two or three months, I was here all the time. I was clicking "override" on the procrastination page five or ten times a day. But, it came from being unfocused about my work--I didn't have a clear, and exciting, vision of where I was going or how to get there, so I was putting off doing anything.I did two things:1. Started working on music again (which always excites me, but I had to give myself permission to take time off for something fun--I was wasting that time dicking around on the Internet, anyway, so I might as well have something to show for that time).2. Sat down one day and figured out the overarching vision for my company and my development for the next week, month, and three months (don't think too far ahead--it causes paralysis because the job looks too big). This triggered several great ideas for big visible improvements in the product that don't cost me much time or effort or money (outsourcing brain-dead tasks to cheap labor, for example--for our website builder, for example, I just got 50 new Open Source templates added for $149...this would have taken two or three full days of my time, on a task that would make me nauseous with its tediousness, but for the guy who did it, it was easily a couple of weeks normal wages). Some of these ideas expanded my productivity dramatically, because it takes the work off of my plate almost entirely, but it still gets done.What I'm saying is that if spending your time here is satisfying your accomplishment receptors better than your own work, then you're probably doing your own work wrong. You're treating the symptom rather than the disease.Oh, and leave yourself something unfinished at the end of each day (this is old hat for GTD people, but I never really paid attention to any of that stuff). It actually works if you have something to do each day instead of going to HN first, you'll probably find you just keep doing things rather than reading random crap on the Internet. |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | pavelludiq: Like i care what people on the internet think. I am a pretty shameless person, so this is a bad idea IN MY CASE. Maybe it will help other people, i don't know.The problem is more fundamental than that, procrastination seems to be a big problem with a lot of people here on HN, including me. I've been searching for answers and ways of countering it, i have thought a lot about the causes and effects.My conclusion is that it is not HN that is the problem, procrastination is deeper that that, HN doesn't have anything unique that makes it addictive, there are many activities that are addictive in the same way, and a lot of them are offline, so its not an internet problem. Its a human problem. I have found that i am more productive without internet though, but not that much, it just takes me longer to find distractions. |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | tonystubblebine: I just edited my /etc/hosts to point this and most other procrastination sites at localhost. The work day is for working. Now I have only two options at my desk, either stare blankly or figure out the next task and do it. I unblock it once a week or so to keep current. |
Is Hacker News a Waste of Time? | pasbesoin: "Info porn"I can't find how I came across the term -- I think it was via a link on HN, maybe even in turn from this thread. My apology to whomever I may be shortchanging from appropriate credit for the reference.The term, and its definition here:http://tools-for-thought.com/2009/01/05/curbing-info-porn-wi...capture a lot of my concern.Just using the term in my own head is helping me to re-evaluate my behavior in this regard. |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | xenophanes: this is silly. to quote richard feynman, what do you care what other people think? |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | rw: The problem for me is that stories are so time-sensitive. For example, there are a lot of good stories that never get to the front page, and if I want to see them, I have to continually refresh the "new" page. I hate that, but it's something I find myself doing. |
Any open source alternative to element selection on a webpage within a page? | Fenn: You want crowbar + solvent:
http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Crowbar
http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/SolventBasically from an opensource MIT project to do very close to what you're trying to do.Alternately, you could contact YC startup http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/ for advice perhaps (which does EXACTLY what you're talking about). |
large system monitoring | bayareaguy: Ganglia http://ganglia.info is pretty easy to setup and is good for charting simple machine statistics. |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | psyklic: I'd rest most of the blame with the people, not the site (no offense) -- if you become "addicted" to this site, you'll probably become "addicted" to other sites too. |
large system monitoring | cjwaters: We have lots of people who use Paglo to monitor data center infrastructures. In fact we use Paglo extensively to monitor itself. The best thing is that it is easy to feed in custom data into Paglo and trend that alongside other information about the infrastructure. For example, I watch the side of queues in our messaging system together with the load averages, memory and bandwidth usage of key servers.We also use monit to monitor and restart processes under Linux. It is great for handling a couple of services which leak memory and need to be restarted periodically. |
Anyone feel the need for personalized filter on submissions? | bayareaguy: If we're talking about HN (news.arc), I'd prefer gravity control based on site and submitter in the form of a simple list of patterns and weights I could set in my profile. That way unpopular things that interest me would stay in my view longer and popular stuff I don't care about would vanish sooner. |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | gruseom: It's my fault for not being clearer, but you guys missed the point of the post. I'm not asking for advice about procrastination issues (I have some, but they're not that bad) and the general subject has been done to death already.The point is that given that a lot of people have this problem (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446924), here's a suggestion of something new to try.Of the comments that do address the specific proposal (of shame-based noprocrast), there have been two objections. (1) Some people say they're not influenced by anybody else's opinion, or shouldn't be. I call that self-deception. (2) Others say it would be better to just stop procrastinating. Of course it would. That's like prescribing "sleep" for insomnia.I still think it's a cool idea that would make for a fun experiment.Edit: by the way, while I've facetiously emphasized the shame aspect, I don't think that's all there is to it. Lots of people have noticed that if you make a public commitment to do something, you're more likely to follow through. There's a lot of experimental data on that too. |
programming and science related podcasts? | jjames: Programming Related podcasts that I keep up with:Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/Rails Envy: http://www.railsenvy.com/podcastThis Week in Django: http://thisweekindjango.com/FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/FLOSS |
programming and science related podcasts? | paulgb: Not hacking related, but I found the More or Less podcast quite interesting. It's by the author of The Undercover Economist, and focuses on the same issues as the book.http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/moreorless/It's off the air for a few months, but you can still access some back-episodes (unfortunately, not all of them).Edit: for software, I use rhythmbox. |
programming and science related podcasts? | dsims: A good compilation of programming podcasts at StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644/what-good-technology...I enjoy Geek Speak for basic tech news discussion: http://geekspeak.org/This American Life is not science or tech, but I love it: http://www.thisamericanlife.org |
programming and science related podcasts? | rubing: check out the phoneloser's podcast it's really cool. the leader RCPB is crazy. they say he's the one who killed jon benet ramsey. he hijacks phone networks and stuff, he's kind of like a kevin mitnick. |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | sgk284: "noprocast" in the settings has been wonderful for me. The only thing I'd change is add -1 karma when you click override :) |
programming and science related podcasts? | ivey: Skeptic's Guide to the Universe: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ |
programming and science related podcasts? | anthonyrubin: Radiolab:http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/ |
Proposal for Managing the Addictiveness of This Site | quellhorst: How about a top losers list... users who are using the site the most every day. |
programming and science related podcasts? | petercooper: I wasn't really all that interested in astronomy, but I was hassled over and over to listen to http://www.astronomycast.com/And.. I'm won over. Each show is on a different topic (many just physics/quantum related, not "astronomy" per se) and they're a joy to listen to. I've definitely had a quality of life improvement since subscribing to this one.. and I even know what variable stars, weak and strong nuclear forces, and ion engine are! :) |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | sidonei: I use cherrypy + SQL objects + Cheetah, cause that way i choose what components i want to handle all the general components of a webb app(http reqest/respose, ORM and templating) Also i know exactly how things happen so that makes me feel comfortable ... ie as you guys call it less magic :) |
programming and science related podcasts? | matt1: Not a podcast, but something you should absolutely listen to if you haven't already:Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything
http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076...It's by far the most entertaining, enjoyable, and well written science text I've ever read/listened to. You can download it on iTunes -- go with the unabridged. I listened to the abridged one first and liked it so much I downloaded and listened to the unabridged one... twice. And then proceeded to listen to four of his other non-science books.Get on the Bill Bryson train. You won't be disappointed. |
Who wants an intern? | vaksel: You taught classes at MIT, but are a freshman? Is that the MIT, or something like Montana Institute of Technology? |
programming and science related podcasts? | dionidium: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/The easiest way to browse the archives is on its Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Time_(BBC_Radio_4) |
Who wants an intern? | amackera: You have been busy! |
What web framework(s) do you guys use? | jpcx01: Merb. For me it has all the benefits of both Django and Rails, and is ultra clean and hackable. |
Who wants an intern? | frisco: You list Tippingpoint Labs and Held Media Group as "current"--why wouldn't you work there, espcially if you're founder-level at the latter? Surely a serious internship would ask you to step away from your responsibilities at both of those places. |
What security software/configurations do you use? | drRoflol: For five (I think) years I've used nothing but ZoneAlarm, no antivirus, no spyware-removal-tools. And - as far as I know - I've never had a single virus/trojan. Being a geek surfing the net is something i do every day, and a lot of it, but my belief is that as long as you're carefull, you're OK. |
Who wants an intern? | CaptainMorgan: I just wanted to mention that I thought you certainly have an unorthodox resume.. not something that visually caught my eye when I first saw it, but as I read it I grew to like it. For this reason, I think you'll get to talk with some folks for some interesting positions..Best of luck with your summer goals! |
programming and science related podcasts? | swapspace: 3rding Astronomy cast.
This Week in Science: http://www.twis.org |
programming and science related podcasts? | cnu: StackOverflow podcast - http://blog.stackoverflow.com by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. |
How do you monitor your services? | brianr: Nagios and Cacti. |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | awt: Write something in one of those languages. If you can show people something you've done, you've pretty much got it made. |
Good Hacker Cities | csuper: Portland, OR - meets all your criteria except maybe cost of living. Though that really depends on your standards. But the public transit is top notch, it is also a great place if you like to commute by bicycle. Check it out... |
Afraid I've dug myself into a hole | rubing: there's a lot of languages and applications out there. you should spend your spare time researching and investigating. |
Good Hacker Cities | sachinag: Chicago has all that. But I wouldn't try to do a startup here - the angel/VC/legal/accounting support structure is atrocious. |
programming and science related podcasts? | someperson: I agree Astronomy Cast is awesome.365 Days of Astronomy is worth a look (10min podcast everyday of 2009, the international year of astronomy)
http://365daysofastronomy.org/Great podcast about Psychology
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htmStarstuff is also pretty good
http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff/Planetary Radio (Planetary Society podcast) is great
http://www.planetary.org/radio/Science Talk (Scientific American) is pretty decent
http://www.sciam.com/podcast/podcasts.cfm?type=science-talk |
Good Hacker Cities | ajkirwin: Philadelphia :D |
How do you monitor your services? | RobGR: I used nagios (still do) but I found it frustrating and complecated to set up.I started writing little one-off perl scripts that send an email for the alert.However, managing and monitoring the email folders is tedious and taking up too much time. |
How do you monitor your services? | babul: xymon/hobbit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon)The name change was due to trademark issues (http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/11/msg00123.html) ...not sure Gandalf would aprrove, but it keeps lawyers happy. |
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