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What programming language are you currently learning? | anigbrowl: After Effects Expressions, a js-like scripting language for video graphics. I'm not sure if this qualifies though... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | coconutrandom: Arc (lisp in general) |
What programming language are you currently learning? | DanielBMarkham: F# -- OCAML has got it all: imperative, functional. Plus with F# you've got a huge collection of ready-to-use libraries |
What programming language are you currently learning? | MTayor: Bouncing around between PHP, AS3 and Python/Django. Really need to settle on one for a bit. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | aristus: Javascript. I've "known" it for 10+ years, but now I think is the time to take it seriously. The web stack is getting dumber as a lot of UI and logic moves to JS inside the browser.Databases got dumber in exactly the same way -- do you know or care if your database has good stored procedure support? Eventually... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | Darmani: I'm rewriting a card-game-playing environment written in Java. I originally wanted to use one of the Java implementations of Arc, but the low activity level of the forum (and my difficulty installing Rainbow a while back) makes me uneasy, so I'm learning Clojure. Sorry PG. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | mooism2: I continue to learn Haskell. A possible future side project would be a good fit for trying out functional reactive programming.If I ever find myself wanting to program at a low level again, I can see myself learning D. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | MaysonL: Newspeak, Lisp, Python, Smalltalk, Objective-C. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | giardini: Prolog |
What programming language are you currently learning? | dkarl: I'm learning Scala for the following three reasons (in increasing order of importance.) These just reflect my current needs, not a prescription for other people, and all three revolve around my need to add a practical language to my repertoire to reduce my usage of C++ and Java.3. I decided to learn a language... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | dexen: Lisp, in Pico Lisp flavor. |
Script to collect iTune sales stats? | allenbrunson: might be too late for you to see it, but i'm using this:http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2009/05/04/itunesconnectarchi...had to tweak it a bit for my own situation, but it wasn't too much work. |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | 100k: It sounds like you're a bit burned out on working. You've been doing it for almost a decade already, so no surprise.I recommend traveling until you get tired of it. Explore the world. It's cliche but you do learn a lot about yourself and your culture by visiting others. This can cost incredible amounts of money o... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | lamnk: Stop replying in this thread and make a poll ! |
What programming language are you currently learning? | csomar: - Visual C# (Microsoft Dot Net)- Some CSS, HTML and Jquery- English :) |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | xenophanes: Considering reading some philosophy like Ayn Rand or Karl Popper. It's better to learn about which values and ways of thinking are best early in one's life rather than later. |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | csomar: I read it because I like to read other people stories and like to write my own!If I was you (ok, I live in a different culture):Two years ago, I happened to have the same problem as you: I can't concentrate on one language and one platform (always jump from one to another), trying basic, javascript, html, php a... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | unignorant: Common Lisp -- because it has begun to change the way I think. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | dogan: obj-c |
What programming language are you currently learning? | b0k0n0n: Python, Processing & Java. And HTML, CSS etc.....All of them, really, for pleasure. Python because I want to learn to program, Processing for image processing, Java to bypass CS 101 requirements, and HTML & CSS for web design. |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | dremar: I would second the people saying to live cheaply for some time. In 4-5 years, you could become highly skilled in any one thing that you're passionate about. Often times you miss pursuing certain interests in your early years; simultaneously society forces you around in disagreeable ways. This is a chance to "co... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | DomesticMouse: Scala. Because it's the right combination of fun and pain. =) |
What programming language are you currently learning? | noblethrasher: Haxe - compiles to ActionScript, JavaScript, PHP et al. Strongly typed (with type inference) and creates faster code than Adobe's AS3 compiler.F# |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | malloc: I find this discussion of great interest. For those suggestion he goes traveling, taking some time off, what destiny would you recommend?Be specific please.Personally, I can't get satisfied with landscape/water, so its hard to find cool places :D |
What programming language are you currently learning? | tptacek: None. I've got enough of them. What I need to get better at is maths, signal processing, and graphics. Chiming in to reject the idea that we should spend our careers churning through languages. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | jamongkad: A few months ago Python, decided to jump the gun to learn Common Lisp and Scheme. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | mannicken: Ruby, Scheme, C++. C++ I am learning for about six years already, what a fucking complex language :) |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | Kaizyn: If you're in business and finance, then you already know about the miracle of compound interest. Take at least $50K of your money ($75K would be better) and put it into any sort of interest-bearing account - stocks, bonds, government-backed securities, anything that pays a pretty good interest rate without bei... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | tybris: I haven't learned a new language for a while now. Perl/Java/C never fails me and I'd rather learn a new trick than another way of doing an old trick. I am learning about modern large-scale Internet service design, running hadoop clusters, distributed logging solutions, virtualization, ad-hoc radio networks, rad... |
Please rank programming languages by how well they provide OOP support. | SwellJoe: Is Smalltalk the best?Define "best".Is Perl's Moose better than Python's built-in OO?It is more complete. Better? Maybe, maybe not. It's very nice, though.How does CLOS measure up?Measure up to what? Other LISP object systems, or Smalltalk, and Moose, and Python?Where do C++ and Java land on the scale?On ... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | ozsynergy: Baby Language |
Please rank programming languages by how well they provide OOP support. | asimjalis: What's the goal of this ranking? What are you trying to accomplish? |
What programming language are you currently learning? | pearle: Dabbling with Clojure and Haskell at the moment. Also reading some material relating to clisp and Scheme.I can never stick to one thing. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | maxwin: Adobe flex. I am doing some data visualization stuff. I thought about using HTML5 drawing syntax first. But because stupid IE still doesn't support it. I give it up. Adobe flex is perfect for the job for the time being. |
Books on getting rich? | nickfox: Think and Grow Rich
Available for free here (it's no longer under copyright)http://www.4shared.com/file/63815169/6ed4bf95/ThinkandGrowRi... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | phugoid: ARM Assembly.
I want to commune directly with the bare metal.
I want to lose my fear of those hex dumps machines spit out just before they die. |
Please rank programming languages by how well they provide OOP support. | jackdied: emacs or vim? You aren't asking a technical question, you are asking a religious question. |
Books on getting rich? | thisduck: Who here has become rich, you know, by reading these books? |
Books on getting rich? | il: Think and Grow Rich, old as it is, is still the best book on getting rich I've ever read. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | brl: After trying to learn Haskell on and off for a couple of years and miserably failing to be able to write a useful program with it, I'm moving on to Scala which pretty much rules. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | mxyzptlk: Forth, because I'm to impose some creativity enhancing constraints on what I develop my free time. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | zaph0d: Clojure. It's fantastic. http://clojure.org/ |
What programming language are you currently learning? | ilkhd2: C++ = you can never stop learning darn thing, it is still growing. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | antirez: Objective-C and the iPhone API. This is probably the first language I learn just in the process of doing something specific (writing apps for iPhone), and not because I really need to learn it for enhance my programming skills. Still it is an interesting language even if designing it today from scratch could l... |
Please rank programming languages by how well they provide OOP support. | gaius: http://www.jvoegele.com/software/langcomp.html |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | gregf: Hookers and Blow... |
Macbook Pro and Windows XP? | raintrees: I have had success with my clients using BootCamp, Parallels, and a VMware flavor I can't currently remember the name of. Apple does a fairly decent job of creating a "drivers CD" for Windows to use the MB's hardware. |
Macbook Pro and Windows XP? | pmorici: The only thing missing in windows that effects me is you can't use the track pad to do things like two fingers to scroll and two fingers and click for right click. So you basically need a external mouse for windows to be useable. I haven't updated my boot camp drivers in awhile though and never use the windo... |
Books on getting rich? | known: http://isbn.nu/9780375503665 is good. |
Gambling & smoking limited but not entrepreneurship and stock trading? | asimjalis: I assume you are joking. Gambling is a closed system with fixed rules. The expected winnings form a Gaussian bell curve. Entrepreneurship is an open system. You can change the game. The idea of expected profits assumes that profits will follow a bell curve. But in fact they don't. There is really no upper bo... |
Gambling & smoking limited but not entrepreneurship and stock trading? | profquail: I think that if you develop something for a 3rd-party platform without knowing what you're getting into, any negative (i.e. non-profitable) outcome is 100% your fault. I'm certainly not going to ask for my tax dollars to go toward someone that was so excited by greed that they didn't even bother to google ar... |
Gambling & smoking limited but not entrepreneurship and stock trading? | zandorg: I see the difference between gambling and stock trading as this: Gambling has a negative long-term percentage, but stock trading is the opposite: a positive long-term percentage.If you gamble at roulette for long enough with any strategy, you'll lost 2.6%.If you play the stock market for that long, again rando... |
Gambling & smoking limited but not entrepreneurship and stock trading? | SwellJoe: Oh, yes, more government involvement in the tech industry is exactly what we need at this juncture in American history. It's worked so well for automobiles, railroads, health care, and drugs, what could possibly go wrong? |
Gambling & smoking limited but not entrepreneurship and stock trading? | sarvesh: Why not right? You may soon get more than just protecting 3rd party developers when the bill to regulate VC funds is passed. I think it will be big blunder. Nobody who is an entrepreneur has any delusions of safety, we know the risks we are taking. The whole reason that this model has worked so far is because ... |
How would you fix healthcare? | seanx: Look at what every other western country does. They pretty much all have some form of "socialised" medicine aka universal healthcare. In New Zealand, we spend about 1/4 as much per capita on healthcare, yet we live longer and have better stats re child mortality and the like. We are not particularly good eith... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | jlangenauer: Potion, _why's experimental language. It's cool to play with something bleeding edge, though something about the language itself makes it feel like Python. Maybe the use of colons to define functions/blocks. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | cynicalman: Playing with Erlang - I like its approach to errors and parallelization. Plus the idea of a functional language with Prolog-like pattern matching seemed like a cool idea. |
What I must read to be python savvy? | inklesspen: http://diveintopython.org/ is a great book, though it hasn't been updated since Python 2.2. There's a revision currently being written for Python 3.0: http://diveintopython3.org/(I should note that since Python 3.0 made (necessary) backwards-incompatible changes to syntax, most large libraries and framework... |
What I must read to be python savvy? | ojbyrne: I found working through the django tutorial to be a great start. You'll pick up the language naturally along the way. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | Ashishlin: Ruby at the moment |
Is there a hacker news search function? | timf: http://searchyc.comandhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombin... |
What I must read to be python savvy? | bayareaguy: I'd recommend reading the code in the Python standard library. If you're into web stuff in addition to Django I'd say the web.py[1] and Trac[2] sources are worth reading. If you're looking at a larger project, the Mercurial[3] sources are good. Also sign up at Google App Engine[4] and build a few trivial... |
Installing Linux on my router -- OpenWrt, X-Wrt, or Gargoyle? | dulakian: I run OpenWRT on my Linksys 54G v3. The web interface works great, and if you want to get into the internals, you can. I even rolled my own firmware with openvpn on it so I can connect to it from my laptop without worrying about anyone sniffing my traffic. The vpn slows my connection down, since the cpu is... |
Is there a hacker news search function? | Shakescode: Plus... there's a graphic at bottom of news.ycombinator.com to a FireFox extension: http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.html |
Please rank programming languages by how well they provide OOP support. | jrockway: CLOS is probably the best, if you ignore the fact that built-in types aren't actually objects. (They can pretend to be, but aren't. You also can't make built-in functions generic, which is quite annoying.)Moose is a close second, and provides a lot of sugar that I really wish I had in CLOS. Roles are prett... |
Age preferences for grad school? | robg: If you can afford it, why not? You'll learn a bunch of cool stuff, have time to think about what you want to build, and meet interesting people. Grad school for me, was the first time where age didn't seem important. We just worked on fun stuff and socialized as little or as much as we wanted.The only real con is... |
Proof, order of operations and functional languages | vii: Clearly these things are quite different.For example, w - x * y + z is w - (x * y) + zThere is no way to write this as someFunc(w, someFunc2(x, someFunc3(y, z)) where the someFuncs are one of *,+,-,/ -- you would have to use someFunc(w,someFunc3(someFunc2(x,y),z)).Unless you mean that the x,y,w,z can be freely per... |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | CyberFonic: If only wxPython were to be available for Python v3.1 then I would choose that. Because it isn't yet, I prefer v2.6 and use "from future import ...."If you don't choose to use any libraries that require v2.6 or older right now, then I'd encourage the choice of v3.1. I'm hoping all libraries will run with ... |
Proof, order of operations and functional languages | ajuc: w sf x sf2 y sf3 z
is equivalent to
sf3(sf2(sf(w,x),y),z)
assuming left to right evaluation (and equal priorities of operations).Trees of operations: w sf x sf2 y sf3 z
w-sf1-sf2-sf3
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x y z
sf(w,sf2(x,sf3(y,z)))
sf1-sf2-sf3-z
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w x y
You can permutate w,x,... |
How to startup doing desktop apps | cperciva: Most of the discussion here is about web startups, but not all -- tarsnap couldn't happen without the internet, but is distinctly not a web startup. |
Macbook Pro and Windows XP? | HalcyonMuse: My only problem with Windows is that my fans go nuts when I'm using it rather than scaling properly like they're supposed to in OS X. However, my Macbook Pro is a version from back in 2007.I can two-finger scroll and two-finger right click just fine in Windows... but I don't boot Windows often. Maybe it's ... |
How to startup doing desktop apps | patio11: The Business of Software boards over here has a community which is largely focused on that. http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?bizPotential self-interest note: I am a moderator.You'll occasionally see interesting stuff around here, too. More than a few of us sell things you can download. We have one chap na... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | ErrantX: Because people here generally seem interested in the same things as me.Or more importantly: everyone here seems to go "oooh shiny" at the same things as me :) |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | trickjarrett: HN is a highly focused & highly intelligent community that shares links and information on topics which interest me. Usually surrounding technology, science, entrepreneurship and the Internet. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | uptown: My route to Hacker News was:Slashdot -> Digg -> Hacker NewsBasically each of those stopped serving my purpose as they got cluttered with what I'd basically describe as irrelevant nonsense. Hacker News has managed to present content that is unique, fresh, interesting, mature, and useful to anybody that's more i... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | edw519: Believe it or not, I'm more interested in the people here than the content.Sure, content is important, should be high quality, and needs to be somewhat restricted to what interests us. But AFAIC, the purpose of the content is to build the community. Almost any article I find here I can find somewhere else. B... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | mixmax: There's very little crap here, both in the comments and the links.Crap is my personal distaste in news, namely celebrity obsession, fluff, non-informative articles, time-wasters, fashion trends and the like.I love the occasional article on 14'th. century Venice and biology as much as the ones related to hacking... |
How to startup doing desktop apps | ScottWhigham: I don't really see why there would be, in your mind, any difference? If you sell desktop apps and will sell them on the web, then you too are a "web startup" in many minds. Even if you put that aside, I don't get how it matters that you aren't a web startup. I think of HN as more of a tech startup resourc... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | kristiandupont: To a certain degree, HN is a source of procrastination to me - which it is really bad for because almost every link requires a substantial amount of time to consume. I still go to Reddit to click on a few [pic] links every now and then, but HN is much more inspirering.
I agree with you though - I genera... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | futuremint: HN has a good combination of content selection and comments. I've honestly never seen such high quality commenting on articles. I generally find about half of the links on the front-page interesting, and the comments are always lucid. If the link is garbage, somebody always points out the errors in the li... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | TallGuyShort: I think something that's more important to me than HN being an intelligent community, is that it's a respectful community. People have polite (and intelligent) discussions (about topics that interest me) - that's become rare on the Internet. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | cjg: I wouldn't expect hacker news articles to be restriced to technology or startups or even news. I would expect them to be aimed at a deeper understanding of a topic. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | mmphosis: Enthusiasm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubWq-27184U |
What programming language are you currently learning? | bantic: erlang. because somehow my install of ejabberd failed and I don't know the first thing about how to troubleshoot it. plus I want to learn more about languages that are good with parallelization. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | HeyLaughingBoy: Odds are, I will never do a software-only startup. I'm an embedded systems guy and at the least I'll have to release electronic hardware as well. But for me HN is business from a different perspective. I get to see things from a primarily web-app, data-driven perspective. And while a lot of the business... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | tokenadult: I came here from the link on pg's site, repeatedly. For a long time I just lurked. I started posting comments (for which I had to register) after I started noticing comment threads on which I had something to say. I like the start-up culture here, the most. What I also like is the general intellectual curio... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | jacquesm: It's not what it is, it is what it isn't:- political news
- sports news
- 'entertainment' news
- and so on...There are plenty of places that have all that HN has and more, it's the lack of the 'more' that makes HN a good place to hang out.edit:And of course the people here... there seems to be on the whole le... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | mdasen: Generally speaking, there's a level of respect here that you just don't find on the internet. Cooler heads tend to prevail, people value replies that explain rather than criticize even if the original poster was simply wrong, and with rare exception we don't tend to re-post the same thing over and over every c... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | narag: I come here to learn what interesting people think and how. The links are also very entertaining (too much) but I like most to read the comments. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | sree_nair: No Junk (in bold). Useful/Interesting articles. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | jlees: The closest match of people with the same interests as me - spanning both tech stuff, brainiac stuff, and business stuff - that I've yet to find on the Internets. |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | cpr: The iPhone never did need Flash support.Flash is used for delivering ads (no thanks) and video (already covered by special-casing sites like YouTube). Flash is used for silly game sites, and we've got enough games on the iPhone (thank you very much (said by someone who has a non-game app (http://grafly.com) that's... |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | geuis: I don't think rehashing the flash argument in terms of "it's a proprietary technology" is necessary. I'm writing this comment from my iPhone. I can't remember any time in the last 2 years I have needed Flash on this thing for something mission critical. If anything, I am annoyed by the numerous warnings from var... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | akamaka: Among the reasons others have already mentioned, I also regularly google through old HN articles for advice on which tools are the best.Searches like "hosting provider" or "server monitoring" will bring up lots of useful comments from the folks in the trenches.Edit: Another reason: positivy toward success. In... |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | poppysan: I think users would love to have the option to access millions more apps/sites/content.Flash is indeed searchable, and indexed since flashplayer 9. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | alex_c: At its best, it's a window into how the world works. Most of the Internet tells you what is happening - HN is one of the few places online which dives into the why. This is mostly restricted to the intersection of tech and business, but that's fine. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | swombat: I'm a compulsive arguer. I love to pit my ideas against reality. HN gives me the opportunity to argue with intelligent, thoughtful, articulate people on a large scale.To an extent, this is what I do on my blog too. But it's a lot cheaper to write a comment like this one than to write a whole blog post.As a sta... |
which functional language to learn? | michael_dorfman: I'd suggest Scheme, just because the SICP videos make learning it easy and fun (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...). And, once you get the functional concepts, Haskell and/or Erlang should be relatively easy. |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | antirez: What I love of the iPhone not supporting it (and in one year of using the iPhone every day I never needed flash) is that it is a good argument against flash, to be used with people not understanding the other, more sensible, arguments against flash. So: We can't use flash! Otherwise we have a problem with iPho... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | sqs: I'm the person who made and posted "Hacker Hacker News." I didn't intend to say that science, math, and programming are really what this site's about, or even that they are better than anything else. I wasn't trying to make a statement, just a Web site. I can see how the name would imply that, though, but you all ... |
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