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Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | callmeed: As someone whose business primarily consists of Flash-based web sites and development, I was initially disappointed by the initial lack of Flash support and subsequent delays.Now, I couldn't care less. In fact, I'd probably prefer the iPhone didn't have Flash support. For what we do at least, rendering Flash ... |
which functional language to learn? | troels: Ruby, used that way, is quite a functional language. I think you might find a lot of similarities to Scheme, which might make it easier to get in to. I know I did (although reversed .. I learned Scheme first). |
which functional language to learn? | apgwoz: I think this comes up enough that we should have some sort of FAHN: Frequently Ask(ed) Hacker News.That said. Scheme with SICP, or The Little Schemer and then SICP |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | rigwit: I use HN to find the two things that most aggregate sites don't provide.
Thought provoking articles.
Thought provoking comments.Whether it is before I read the article, after, or both; I read the comments on HN. I rarely do that on <Insert Sitename>. |
which functional language to learn? | Stasyan: I learned OCaml first, and then switched to F#. Out of all languages I know (OCaml, Java, C#, C++, Python, VB, Lisp) - IMHO F# is the best one. Learning curve is pretty steep though, once you move past the basics. |
which functional language to learn? | cema: Clojure. It's a lisp on JVM. |
which functional language to learn? | babo: What about clojure? With a Java background it's easier to grasp, has all the modern features and a friendly, supportive community. It's load of fun, you could even use SICP with it. For job opportunities you need a good load of luck with any functional language. With such a close integration with Java you have a ... |
which functional language to learn? | xtho: In consideration of your background, scala would come to mind. There is some dispute about whether it's a functional language, though. |
which functional language to learn? | johnbender: Haskell is a bit into the weeds if you're just starting out. I jumped in with Erlang, as its pretty pragmatic so the tutorials out there tend to focus on getting crap done and not so much theory.Once you've written some code and feel comfortable with FP, then drink the Haskell-aid. |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | csomar: I use it to read stories and also to discuss with mind-like people and share ideas. |
Advice on an Idea | jacquesm: I think that one of the major objections to such a framework would be that it would be difficult to create a reliable system when the components are hosted in so many different places with each of them being a point of failure.I had an idea very similar to yours a while ago (I called it 'softbricks'), but I n... |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | radley: Of course it does. There's a ton of apps and services built upon the Flash framework.But hey. Flash is bad. Rarr. Objective-C good. Woot. |
where are the clones? | quoderat: All hat, no cattle. |
which functional language to learn? | rosejn: Clojure. Without a doubt. It's by far the easiest and most productive Lisp around right now. You get a modern core library with great support for concurrency, and you can use Java libraries with ease. The new Clojure book published by the Pragmatic Programmer guys a pretty good read, and it gets into the im... |
Do you dislike PHP? | donniefitz2: I like PHP. I'm a .Net developer, but I started out with PHP and it's great to go back and use it from time to time. PHP has come a long way in the last 5 years and from what I've seen, the quality of frameworks and applications written with it have evolved a lot as well. |
Why kill duplicate discussions? | TallGuyShort: I agree that there certainly can be new discussion on the same link, but I appreciate seeing links to previous submissions so that I can see the discussion that already occurred there, too. |
Do you dislike PHP? | TallGuyShort: Like all languages, it has it's place. I dislike it when it's used out of it's place, but I quite enjoy it when it's used properly. |
Why kill duplicate discussions? | mbrubeck: The front page is more useful and interesting to me if it doesn't feature the same links over and over again.There should be a statue of limitations, and it seems that in practice duplicates that are months or years old are less likely to be flagged and killed than duplicates that are days or weeks old. |
where are the clones? | tedunangst: http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/source/browse/#svn/t... |
where are the clones? | ErrantX: The guy said he planned to clone another site instead (out of respect for SO). |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | raintrees: I see technical news here frequently before I see it elsewhere, and the comment discussions make the links much more valuable. Many are the times I find myself following suggested links from the comments long after I've digested the original article.I start my day with bbc worldservice, then npr, then hn. ... |
Advice on an Idea | roam: Such frameworks do exist. Spring, amongst others, allows you to do that in the Java world (http://springframework.org/).Edit: because a simple link to the website won't tell you a whole lot about the idea behind it, here's a shot at explaining the basic premise of the core of the Spring framework.Instead of hard ... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | alexgartrell: Above all, Hacker News provides a free education.My path:Google Search for CS schools -> Joel on Software -> other bloggers -> Paul Graham -> Hacker NewsThey don't cover this stuff in Academia |
Do you dislike PHP? | mbrubeck: What I like: PHP has a good (and often overlooked/underrated) runtime, with language- and runtime-level support for running each HTTP request in a fairly isolated environment. It has a fairly standardized deployment model and a decent set of standard libraries, especially for common web development tasks. T... |
Do you dislike PHP? | yannis: I like PHP. I also like what the did for the Open Source movement. It is free, with PHP>5.0 provided OOP support and has led the way all along. Without PHP there would have been no Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, my early websites etc..The dislike comes mostly from purists and language evangelists who think the lang... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | drinian: To gain karma. |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | ram1024: the argument on whether it should support it is directly proportional to the amount it would benefit from having it.other phones are moving to incorporate flash 10 support, and will be gaining the robust libraries of already created content as well as newly developed apps and games and entertainment media that... |
which functional language to learn? | wilkes: Haskell:http://learnyouahaskell.com/http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ |
Do you dislike PHP? | jacquesm: I love it and I hate it.I love it because it allows me to very quickly build stuff but I hate the inconsistencies that make it almost a requirement to visit php.net all the time.And then there's a bunch of very ugly bits and pieces that now have to be supported forever due to backwards compatibilty. Strpos an... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | TweedHeads: HN is my newspaper, I read it everyday to be up-to-date in the tech world.I like interesting news, but I don't care if:- gmail is down- somebody got shot at the apple store- the iphone burns my cheeks- yahoo will never recover- payperpost- propaganda- PR submarinesbut above all, I hate FUD |
which functional language to learn? | marcocampos: In my opinion don't learn any LISP, Common LISP or Scheme, it doesn't matter. Why? Fragmentation. It's very hard to write something a bit complex that can run on the various LISP compilers/interpreters without heavy changes. Also, there is a lack of good and up-to-date 3rd party libraries/frameworks which ... |
What's the best (free) log-based analytics package? | jacquesm: maybe you'll find what you're looking for in this list:http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/loganalyzers.shtml |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | anigbrowl: News filtered by people with similar interests to myself. I have never been a full-time coder and no longer wish to be; I'm a bricoleur-type hacker, interested in solutions that solve present problems more than in engineering for the ages (although I greatly respect the latter), even if it does not always in... |
What news sites are your favorites and why? | yan: hacker news / newmogul is pretty much where I find the majority of my news these days. If it's important and relevant enough, it'll probably be here. |
What news sites are your favorites and why? | vaksel: The only original source I read is techcrunch. Everything else I get through links found on technology/programming subreddits, hackernews, and a few forums |
which functional language to learn? | unignorant: I recently asked myself the same question, and I ended up settling on SBCL (Common Lisp).Emacs coupled with SLIME provides the best development environment I have yet experienced. For me, the greatest downside is that the code I end up with is often quite system-specific. |
What news sites are your favorites and why? | brlewis: I use http://friendfeed.com/ for crowdsourced, or more accurately, friendsourced news. |
What news sites are your favorites and why? | mbrubeck: I read a number of "Planet" blog aggregators run by specific organizations or projects or individuals, e.g.:http://planet.gnome.org/http://planet.debian.org/http://planet.mozilla.org/http://planet.intertwingly.net/ (Sam Ruby's personal reading list)They have an interesting mix of code-related news and persona... |
which functional language to learn? | noblethrasher: As I'm sure you know, functional programming is a style and you can use it for any of the languages you mentioned (yes, including Java - objects are a poor man's closure but closure's are a poor man's object) [1]. One thing that might help is to try using functional idioms in the languages you know. Then... |
What news sites are your favorites and why? | frossie: I monitor the World News RSS feed from guardian.co.uk - just to remind myself there is a world out there. They also have a very nice iPhone interface to their website, and the real website is very light on ads.Otherwise it's HN and Ars Technica. |
What news sites are your favorites and why? | _giu: I like to read Heise Online (http://www.heise.de). I have to mention that Heise Online is written in german and an english version exists at http://www.heise.de/english/. But the official english version of Heise Online is called The H (which belongs to Heise Media UK Ltd.): http://www.h-online.com/ .I especially... |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | mgenzel: It's not about whether Flash is good or bad; or whether at some point in the future it's going to be outmoded. It's about the _fact_ that there are plenty of websites out there that do use Flash right now, and it would be, I don't know, kind of nice to be able to use them. |
Best 'Unknown' Tech/Web blogs | newsio: Redeye VC: http://redeye.firstround.com/Jetplane Journal: http://www.jetplanejournal.com/Emergent Chaos: http://www.emergentchaos.com/ |
Why kill duplicate discussions? | ScottWhigham: Merged - yes. That makes sense. Is that not what is being done already? |
What I must read to be python savvy? | nailer: I'd start with a problem you could solve in something you know, and write it in Python, researching as you go. I always find tutorials with non-practical problems much less effective than actually implementing something myself. |
which functional language to learn? | troels: One more thing that you may or may not know is that functional programming languages are a kind of fuzzy concept. There are at least two different categories (well, probably it's more a continuum, but ..), being functional programming languages vs. function-level programming languages. (Note: Someone please cor... |
Does the iPhone still need Flash support? | illumen: Apple has many competitive products to Adobe. Of course they're not going to try and help Adobe.It's also why they aren't supporting an open video tag. They have competitive products to it. |
Do you dislike PHP? | sordidarray: PHP's sigils are superfluous. Perl (from which PHP derives their use) utilizes sigils with respect to typing in order to denote scalar variables ($), arrays (@) and hashes (%). What does PHP use the $ sigil for? Everything but references (&). Why? Because.PHP's standard library is extremely disorganized. W... |
which functional language to learn? | Tangurena: I work for a "microsoft shop." This means that if there is an MS and a non-MS choice of technology, we'll always take the MS one. Consequently, F# is the only possible choice for a functional language at work. |
Do you dislike PHP? | bigiain: I think a lot of the "Man I hate PHP" sentiment is really directed at the corpus of programs written in PHP rather than the language itself. I think it's popularity and accessibility to novice programmers has left PHP with a legacy of badly thought out and unmaintainable code in production that may even be wo... |
Why would someone want to borrow my site? | Tangurena: I have 2 suspicions:1 - That the users don't realize they need to subscribe and talked to "a friend" who said something like "we link to [your_site]" and that they're doing it on the sly/cheap.2 - That the folks linking may be wanting to pass themselves off as the author of your site and that's why they're l... |
What kind of fresh ideas does advertising need? | jacquesm: Try to advertise without annoying your users and to stay completely out of the way until the ad is relevant.Sharpshooting instead of carpetbombing.And I just might not block you then... |
What kind of fresh ideas does advertising need? | apowell: I question some of your underlying assumptions. Are you sure that consumers aren't compelled by advertising?Is the decline of advertising really a result of declining effectiveness of advertising, or is it a symptom of the broader economic climate?Ads are not ignored as widely as people like to believe. Many... |
What news sites are your favorites and why? | sirfrancisbacon: Hacker News and Reddit for everything, pretty much; I enjoy reddit's programming section. |
What kind of fresh ideas does advertising need? | JacobAldridge: For me, the big shift is a contextual one. Advertising has always seemed to come from a 'Take' mentality - 'we are advertising XYZ so we can take money from you'.Product Specials (Sales) as a marketing tool, and then specials (and, now affiliate links etc) through advertising, helped garner attention. Th... |
What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? | teilo: To me, Hacker News is a more relevant and civilized place than Slashdot. People are nicer here. |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | knieveltech: Irritating:
- inane tweets: I dont care what you had for lunch- tweeting constantly: I don't want to scroll down to get through your most recent thicket of tweets.- Constant retweeting: If you don't have anything of your own worth tweeting why are you on twitter?- stupid #tweets (contests, followfriday, et... |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | aberman: 3,000 #moonfruit tweets in a row.Tweets about how many followers you have (i.e. just reached 8,000 followers) |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | tdavis: I'd say about 95% of the tweets I receive annoy me. Anything automated (I just did X at Y.com), location information (I don't give a fuck where you are right now), requests for RT, unnecessary high volume from a specific user...Basically, unless you're tweeting something hilarious, an incredibly important piece... |
Proof, order of operations and functional languages | ajuc: I've tried version with 3 arguments (x,y,z) and 2 functions (+,/), and these two aproaches are not equivalent. For example:/(x,+(y,z)) has no equivalent expression that can be made from x f1 y f2 z if you permutate arguments or substitute functions (f1=/ f2 = +) or (f2=+ f1=/) because / binds stronger than +. |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | Jem: #moonfruit, #spymaster, #yetanotherbloodycontestCarrying out an entire conversation - a few tweets back and forth is fine but when you're racking up 30-40 in a row it's irritating. |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | satyajit: I once had David Pogue on my twitter, becuase I reallly loved his talk at EG conference. But took him off in about 2 weeks. I just hated his rate of tweets. It wasn't all that inane tweets (lunch dinner)... but c'mon.. go easy man! |
What's wrong with note taking applications? | hboon: I use Steven Frank's W2 wiki. It's a basic Wiki, supports Markdown, in PHP. Meant for the iPhone, but I use it on my Mac too.Doesn't support mind maps, lists, etc of course.http://code.google.com/p/w2wiki/ |
What's wrong with note taking applications? | pclark: I just use OmniOutliner Pro. |
What's wrong with note taking applications? | ScottWhigham: The problem with them for me is that they are on the web. If it's not a desktop app in which I store my data in files local on my machine, I'm not interested. I use OneNote today and am very happy with the note-taking aspect. It has no todo list or mind-mapping management so I have other apps for those. |
What sort of tweets annoy you? | lastkarrde: People who tweet what they eat. I don't mind the occasional 'those berries were nice' but some people go over the top. The exception to this rule is if they post a picture (twitpic) with it. You could analyze "eat", "lunch", "dinner" keywords.People who RT everything someone says. For example I follow sever... |
What would you do with fedexr.com? | yan: I think they have a very valid complaint. |
What would you do with fedexr.com? | brk: It depends...What are you doing with the domain?It looks like you registered it two years ago and haven't done anything with it.Barring any use of the domain that shows it is clearly NOT intended to infringe on their trademark, I don't think you have much of a case. |
What do you think of this startup idea? | brk: I like this idea alot, it's something I could use.Would be particularly interesting if you could tie it in to other inputs... IE: when the weather is bad outside (and you're likely to be stuck indoors) it would suggest something you can do to break up the day (pushups for example). If the weather was really nice,... |
Did we get past the "point one" micron barrier in chip fabrication? How? | tocomment: Well it looks like Intel is coming out with 32nm chips soon which is .032 microns. I guess we beat that barrier by a lot? I wonder how. Mr. Kaku seemed to think it would be very difficult in 1997 (http://www.amazon.com/Visions-Michio-Kaku/dp/0385484984) |
What do you think of this startup idea? | tyn: I'm sure you could take a grant from telecom providers. |
What do you think of this startup idea? | izak30: Friends challenge you to quizes on facebook... why not 25 pushups. Not only make it a stats analysis, but make it a game, offer rewards for activities, let your friends (or trainer) put a bounty on certain activities. |
What do you think of this startup idea? | callmeed: I like the idea ... I'll probably get lambasted for this, but I think it's something that would work well built on top of Twitter. That would make it easy to keep tabs on your family/friends, plus it might have more potential to get viral.My thinking is that it would work well with a game/challenge aspect to ... |
What do you think of this startup idea? | wheels: This sounds somewhat similar to Pushup Fu, except theirs is competitive:http://www.gymfu.com/ |
Drupal or Joomla? | bgnm2000: Drupal is about 1000x more extendable than joomla.I used to solely develop sites in joomla, moved to drupal, and will be moving to RoR.The freedom drupal allows is like night and day over joomla. |
What skunkworks project are you working on? | mbrubeck: I'm have a skunkworks port of part of my company's software to a different hardware platform. In addition to being fun, and interesting for performance comparisons, it's also a useful discipline for keeping the code portable. |
What do you think of this startup idea? | sidmitra: I think this would have been a good addition if you were able to merge/interface this into some existing todo/task management platforms.... for example push tasks to Remember the Milk or Google tasks when they have an API.It would have been wonderful addition to "I want sandy", (although not sure if they alre... |
What do you think of this startup idea? | pstinnett: I like this idea. This really reminds me of the whole sort of "social" aspect of traditional games that we're seeing (I'm seeing it mostly on iPhone games but I'm sure it's happening on Xbox Live and PSN). Specifically I'm talking about "Achievements". In traditional games it might be "Finish the first 5 lev... |
Please (re)review my startup - CrowdMind.com | richesh: Clickable Links:http://alpha.crowdmind.comhttp://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/55_What_Is_The_Best_Fitn...http://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/65_What_Is_The_Best_Ipho...http://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/70_When_Should_You_Seek_...http://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/69_What_Is_The_Best_Webs... |
What do you think of this startup idea? | cmos: I've been thinking about something similar. There are a number of different items that help make up what I would consider to be a 'good day'. (this will vary from person to person)1. Exercise - Did I run or bike?2. Food - Did I eat healthy and moderate amounts?3. Budget - Did I not spend too much money?4. Perso... |
Please (re)review my startup - CrowdMind.com | ErrantX: Mousing off the "rate" buttons in the good bad columns doesnt hide the options again. No biggie - it just looks a bit odd when moving the mouse around.(I wouldnt use the site, not my thing, so usability comments are all I can contribute :)) |
Social Media Developer Skills | brianm: Short n' Snarky1) Technical skills are all the same as web dev in general.2) Building product.3) You are at the right place.Seriously, from a pure dev perspective, it is just web dev. The biggest difference comes in on the product design side -- breaking from 1:M to M:N as a central aspect of the product is sur... |
Review My App (Simple Group Chat) | rdvm: Hmm - apparently links in the summary aren't automatically created. Here's the referrer link example again:http://www.yakeze.com/chat/ |
What do you think of this startup idea? | Tichy: I have created a related twitter bot a while ago: http://twitter.com/officeworkoutIt twitters a random exercise for screen workers every 30 minutes. |
Please (re)review my startup - CrowdMind.com | cl3m: remind me of http://www.hunch.com/ |
What do you think of this startup idea? | jdoe: I just take a card from the Hopper deck:
http://thehopperdeck.com/Anyway, I like the SMS part - it makes it accessible for people with old mobile phones and it's very simple, too. Maybe if a competitive factor is built in, it's a win. |
Review My App (Simple Group Chat) | ErrantX: clicky link: http://www.yakeze.com/chat/> puts people into the same room based on the HTTP referrerThat's a cool feature! Unique as you say.It's a teeeeny bit slow for me but it could be this machine (it wont play youtube vids w/o locking up anything else) |
What do you think of this startup idea? | Arun2009: I actually keep a blog to keep track of my fitness related activities - I call it the Nutrex (Nutrition and Exercise) Log.It may be useful to have an SMS app for heavy mobile users, but it wouldn't be very valuable to me. |
Drupal or Joomla? | _giu: my partner set up Joomla for the Seminar Paper we wrote last year. don't know why he did that since later in the project we had to code, but after using it for a day or two I immediately asked him to set up Trac. it just was a pain viewed from the usability point. so, my advice is to stay away from Joomla if it's... |
What do you think of this startup idea? | apgwoz: In someways http://www.fitbit.com/ is similar, with the pro that it'd be harder to cheat for some "healthy tasks," though not impossible. |
Please (re)review my startup - CrowdMind.com | spoiledtechie: You should prolly update your copyright... |
Drupal or Joomla? | troels: Both systems have gone through a transition from an amateur cms/portal system, which has matured over time. Drupal has come a lot further in this process that Joomla has, which means that today it's closer to be a general purpose framework. It still holds some of its heritage, so you'll probably find it somewhe... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | BobbyH: If you take "hours spent doing something" as your yardstick, your girlfriend seems to your lowest priority (behind your startup and French lessons). Before you ask whether you should choose between your girlfriend or your startup, maybe you should choose between your girlfriend and your French lessons. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | lexx12: Get a life :) |
Startup vs Girlfriend | TallGuyShort: What's the point of being rich if you don't have someone to share it with? Money alone isn't going to make you feel successful or happy. If you think this girl might make you happy, I'd take her over the start up. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | uptown: You're asking a group of strangers whether it's okay to leave your girlfriend. That tells me that you should place your priority on your startup. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | TrevorJ: People are more valuable than things (money). Open communication is key. People never want to feel like they are the second most important thing in your life. Putting her first doesn't mean you have to give up on your other dreams, but you have to be mindful of what you are communicating through your actions.... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | dexen: Off the top of my head, several well known successful startup entrepreneurs ended up having serious relationship once they achieved some considerable level of success or even semi-retired.On one hand, you can't readily tell with that little data if not having a close girlfriend directly correlates with greater c... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | jm4: The harsh truth is this girl probably won't be around forever. She probably has a legitimate complaint, but it also sounds like you're doing what's most important to you right now. When you're in the right relationship you should feel like your partner is supportive and feel like you can be a better person than yo... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | vaksel: do you see yourself marrying her? if yes, this question might have some merit. If no, enjoy the ride until she leaves you.personally I side with finishing the startup. If it was a wife, sure might have been a valid question, since her leaving you = you getting screwed financially or having some problems with cu... |
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