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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 ... |
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 ... |
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 i... |
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 int... |
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, th... |
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), n... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 essent... |
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 informatio... |
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 ... |
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 channel... |
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 ... |
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... |
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 Javascrip... |
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... |
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... |
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 l... |
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 res... |
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, s... |
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 searchi... |
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..... |
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 tal... |
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 o... |
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.ycomb... |
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, no... |
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... |
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 do... |
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 go... |
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/scie... |
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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