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Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | skmurphy: If you are looking to foster real collaboration (as opposed to copy editing and spell checking) I would use a private wiki to let all parties edit the post (or leave comments). I think a discussion board serves a different purpose, preserving authorship of each contributor and allowing you to have a discussio... |
Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | run4yourlives: You may want to also check out kuro5hin.org. They've been doing a form of what you are talking about via the "edit queue" for quite some time, where members can comment and suggest changes using a different class of comments that reset prior to the article being published.It's a shadow of what the commun... |
Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | mediaman: Why not do this via email? I don't think a lot of people need to be involved. Once or twice a day, a moderator circulates draft articles to the list. Each author can list a publishing deadline, so a reviewer can choose whether or not to start reading the piece based on the time available, and so nobody contri... |
Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | hegemonicon: No suggestions other than I think it's a great idea. |
Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | nate: This seems to have at least a positive reaction from a few folks who'd like to see something accomplished. So to get the ball rolling:http://draftreview.tenderapp.comIt's a private site. If you want to join, email me at nate at inklingmarkets.comTell me if you want to be a reviewer as well.Sound like a good pla... |
Comet in Python--suggestions? | peterbe: Diesel?
http://dieselweb.org/lib/Hurricane?
http://github.com/ericflo/hurricane |
Ask HN:If we are so good at proj management why do 50% of projs get shelved | joubee: My pet hate is lack of change control and a lack of contingency and change budget. Also why don't clients or stakeholders ever want to pay for good documentation? |
Synectics | zeynel1: The link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synectics |
Who makes the best APIs? | tptacek: I like 37signals Basecamp API (not as much Highrise and Campfire), but a standout for me is Wufoo's:http://wufoo.com/docs/api/Really nicely documented. |
Who makes the best APIs? | chaosmachine: Amazon's product advertising API is nice. You can't help but get startup ideas browsing through the documentation. |
Who makes the best APIs? | mullr: It's not a web service, but I always thought Qt had one of the best APIs out there in terms of style, consistency, and documentation. It's worth looking at just from a packaging perspective. |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | stonemetal: Some times I go to the programmer Reddit but 9 times out of ten the page is close enough to identical to HN new that I just check here. |
Who makes the best APIs? | staunch: Just keep it simple..that's the most important thing. Simple POST name/value pairs and JSON output. I don't care if it's technically REST or not. One big long document describing every call and response (makes it easy to search with CTRL-F). Lots of examples. Complete example code. High level libraries that im... |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | babyboy808: Stack Overflow - it might not fall into all of your above categories but I frickin' love that site! :) |
Who makes the best APIs? | hellotoby: The Last.fm API (http://www.last.fm/api/intro) is the best one I've come across.It has the most comprehensive and intuitive documentation of all the APIs I've used. Their format for API documentation should become a standard. |
Who makes the best APIs? | nsfx: Not SOAP :) It's a pain to consume compared to POX (plain old XML) or JSON. |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | Recontemplation: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Hack a day, Yahoo technology page, and techzing for their podcast. |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | bpourriahi: I think HN has their niche covered. |
Who makes the best APIs? | vibhavs: While this doesn't directly answer your question, I've found this to be helpful in the past: The Little Manual of API Design - http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | theschwa: Engadget, Hack a Day, Hacked Gadgets for my hardware news, but it's pretty tough to beat HN. You can always use an RSS reader and sync with all of the blogs that get most often linked to here. |
Whom do you admire most? | fogus: My grandfather. You guys have probably never heard of him, but he rocked. |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | danteembermage: New Mogul is my #2 visited site... when nickb remembers to reset the server ;). HN for macroecon/stock trading/fed bashing |
Whom do you admire most? | danteembermage: Mr. Rogers. The guy was amazing on so many levels; there are lots of examples but I'll go with a HN related one. He contributed valuable testimony to the betamax case.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | access_denied: http://moobunny.dreamhosters.comit was better years ago, but still.. |
Whom do you admire most? | abi: Steve Jobs. (1) He has amazing taste. (2) He did it twice. |
Whom do you admire most? | pplante: Billy Mays because he was a brilliant salesman. |
Whom do you admire most? | termie: the unsung heroes who don't make time for brown-nosing and fame-whoring |
Whom do you admire most? | jonnyrotten: Carl Sagan. |
Whom do you admire most? | crystalis: pg, because this is a cult. ;) |
Whom do you admire most? | jmtame: Yukichi Fukuzawa anyone? |
Whom do you admire most? | elbenshira: Jesus, because the world would be a better place if we were more like him. |
Whom do you admire most? | nsoonhui: Albert Einstein. The greatest scientist ever lived. |
Whom do you admire most? | nopassrecover: Thomas Jefferson.A man who saw the world as it could be and did everything he could to get it there. |
Whom do you admire most? | Eliezer: Leo Szilard. Had the idea for fission chain reaction, realized what would happen if Hitler got hold of it, and kept his mouth shut... while browbeating the skeptical Fermi into starting the Manhattan Project, and ghostwriting Einstein's letter to Roosevelt.Right up there with Norman Borlaug and Stanislav Petr... |
Who makes the best APIs? | Barnabas: Twilio's REST API (http://www.twilio.com/docs/api_reference/REST/) is really easy to understand, very sensible. It's practically self-documenting, but it's backed up with thorough documentation and examples. One can get up and running very quickly because of that. They have clearly spent a lot of time getting... |
Whom do you admire most? | FraaJad: Benjamin Franklin. |
Whom do you admire most? | bokonist: Deng Xiaoping. In the pure utilitarian sense, he may have had the greatest positive impact of any person in the 20th century. In a century wracked by war between the ideologies, his philosophy was just the tonic the world needed: "Who cares if the mouse is black or white, as long it catches the mouse". |
Whom do you admire most? | donaq: Joss Whedon.Because damn, Buffy was a brilliant show. |
Whom do you admire most? | ojbyrne: Isaac Newton - Newton's Laws, Theory of Gravity _and_ Calculus.andWilliam Shakespeare - basically invented modern english. |
Who makes the best APIs? | rbritton: Paypal has one of the worst APIs I've ever used. It's a useful model of what to avoid, particularly its multiple formats and its flakey and often outdated sandbox testing servers. |
Whom do you admire most? | MikeCapone: A few off the top of my head (most are self-explanatory):Charles Darwin,
Richard P. Feynman,
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
John Von Neuman,
Paul Erdos,
Alan Turing,
Albert Einstein,
Benjamin Franklin,
Richard Dawkins,
Carl Sagan,
Thomas Jefferson,
Aubrey de Grey,
Eliezer Yudkowsky,
Douglas R. Hofstadt... |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | zjj: Lambda the ultimate forums. |
Whom do you admire most? | uuilly: Winston Churchill. Saved western civilization. |
Whom do you admire most? | slyn: David ChappelleI hate that he has faded so much from the public eye. If you've never seen Dave Chappelle's Block Party get it and watch it, whether you enjoy hip-hop or not. If you've seen that and are otherwise interested his Inside the Actors Studio interview is pretty solid too.He is basically the type of role... |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | kyro: I've been pretty fascinated with the IAmA subreddit lately. |
Whom do you admire most? | yesimahuman: John Carmack. I think I've just always been an Id fan since I grew up with Quake, and I was just blown away the first time I read the Quake 1 source. I have just always dreamed of being a great C hacker like him. And he's doing even more amazing stuff now with Armadillo. |
Whom do you admire most? | smhinsey: Richard Feynman, because he showed me through his writing that we all, no matter our backgrounds, can be enthralled by the mysteries that surround us. |
Who makes the best APIs? | babyshake: Take a look at Friendfeed's API V2 (http://friendfeed.com/api/documentation). Not only does it use very intuitive RESTful architecture, but it also has very awesome documentation and libraries.Of course, now that they're with Facebook the developer support will likely not be as good, but the API is great as ... |
Whom do you admire most? | netsp: Literary: george orwell
douglas adams
leonard cohen |
Who makes the best APIs? | white_eskimo: I suggest taking your time when you implement the first version of your API. Nothing is worst than developing based on a rushed v1 API, which later gets modified without you knowing. No one wants to be caught calling a deprecated function that then gets removed.Furthermore, try to keep all of your API lib... |
Whom do you admire most? | eam: John Resig. |
Who makes the best APIs? | jasonkester: Amazon has the most useful APIs out there. Don't copy them though.So many small companies put out giant behemoth APIs with crazy security hoops because that's what Amazon does and Amazon's stuff is really cool. As a result, nobody outside the dev team can figure out how to authenticate, so nobody actuall... |
Whom do you admire most? | platshaw: Ian MacKaye - he lives his life completely on his own terms; maintains a purity about what he is doing; is able to see straight through roadblocks; and creates great music. I want to be an entrepreneur like Ian is a musician. |
Whom do you admire most? | jjs: I admire the amazing people I know, the ones who make me think, if I try just a little harder, I can be like them. |
Whom do you admire most? | nsfx: Henry Rollins.Creative, productive, knowledgeable, and funny. |
Whom do you admire most? | fuzzmeister: Elon Musk, a man who tries to change the world through his businesses. |
Whom do you admire most? | byrneseyeview: Benjamin Graham, Claude Hopkins. Both wandered into fields full of failed artists and wild gamblers, and turned them into something closer to a science. The Intelligent Investor and Scientific Advertising are the only two books I know of that can give the same person the same epiphany twice. |
Whom do you admire most? | jobenjo: Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes).He created an epic masterpiece, never sold out, and left at the top of his game. He achieved fame without being drawn into celebrity, and his ideas have permeated our culture in a deep and wonderful way. |
Who makes the best APIs? | elviejo: My favorite is Flickr APIhttp://www.flickr.com/services/api/Provides a lot of functionality.
Basically anything you can do on the website you can do through the API.
The names of the calls are intuitive.
Provides different formats.And most importantly has libraries available for different languages that will... |
Whom do you admire most? | pfedor: I admire Carl Djerassi. He created the first oral contraceptive and made a lot of money off of it, and then as a chemistry professor he did first-class research in organic chemistry for many years (according to my dad who is a chemistry professor, Djerassi's contribution can totally be considered Nobel-prize-w... |
Whom do you admire most? | dylanz: Bill Mollison. Hilarious, Intelligent, and a Revolutionary (in my mind). |
Whom do you admire most? | maxharris: Ayn Rand, for her development of Aristotelian philosophy (normative ethics, hierarchical nature of knowledge, theory of concept formation) |
Whom do you admire most? | theashworld: Gandhi. For being fearless _and_ inspiring an entire country to be fearless without a single weapon in hand. Think about it, it's nothing short of a miracle. |
Whom do you admire most? | sdave: My Dad. because of the person he is & i want to be.
Steve Wozniak.because of the engineer he is & i want to be. |
Who makes the best APIs? | qeorge: I think Twitter's is great, and digg's isn't half bad either.On the other side of the coin, Google's GData APIs (e.g., Calendar, YouTube), Paypal and Facebook are cumbersome IMHO. |
Whom do you admire most? | rv77ax: homer simpsons.
i know, i know, his totally a jerk, but i wish i could spend just one day with him. |
Whom do you admire most? | davidw: The guys who did the moon landings. What an amazing display of engineering and courage. |
Who makes the best APIs? | ivankirigin: A good test is how easy it is to get started. If you can just make a call to curl to get started, awesome.If things change without warning, that is bad.If the site is down often, that is bad.While users are awesome, and it is great to have a developer community, depending too much on them to do your QA is ... |
Whom do you admire most? | derwiki: Craig Newmark for being truly a nerd, yet having an enormous impact on society. He spoke at my undergrad commencement (also his alma mater), and what really hit me from his speech was, wow, you WERE an engineering nerd just like all the rest of us.He inspires me because through his great success, he's remained... |
Whom do you admire most? | spectre: Edmund Hillary. For using his fame only to help people, and always being humble. |
Whom do you admire most? | r11t: Fravia for creating http://searchlores.org/ and inspiring me and I bet countless other seekers/hackers/reverse engineers. His website has articles on everything from "reality cracking" to searching the deeper web. His recent death saddened me deeply but I hope that his website will hopefully taken over by someone... |
Whom do you admire most? | keeptrying: Richard Feynman. For his boundless curiosity and his ability to convey that love of finding things out and making things to others. |
Who makes the best APIs? | roder: Take a look at Webmachine http://bitbucket.org/justin/webmachine/.If you're writing a RESTful API try using webmachine. At the very least, you'll feel like you're writing the best API ever.*NOTE: I have no relation to webmachine, just really impressed with the elegance how it is written and the API's it help pr... |
Whom do you admire most? | ajju: Feynman, Einstein, Jiddu Krishnamoorthy, Sardar Patel, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin.. |
Who makes the best APIs? | kogir: I really admire the Sun Kenai (Cloud) API:http://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/HelloCloudIt's a delightfully clean RESTful JSON API. |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | mahmud: The military. |
Whom do you admire most? | chrischen: Albert Einstein - for being different and being the smartest person who ever lived. |
Whom do you admire most? | hop: Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Carnegie, Phil Knight, Steve Fosset...The founders - Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Washington - the world owes them a debt of gratitude.Ernest Shackleton, Pat Tillman, Chuck Darwin, (politics aside)Barack Obama, Samuel Clemens, Einstein, Micheal Jordan, Bob Dylan, The Beat... |
Whom do you admire most? | bayareaguy: The folks who've lead the development and improvement of Unix over the years: dmr, bwk, jkh, tdr, cgd, ... |
Whom do you admire most? | xor_: Donald Knuth needs no introductions. |
What HN-like sites do you visit? | fatbat: Off the top of my head, dzone.com |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | panic: Google. :D |
Whom do you admire most? | maxklein: Arnold Schwarzenneger. The dedication required to make it as an immigrant from nothing to the stage he currently is at is nothing short of amazing. |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | matt-kantor: The US government.We're making progress, but there's a long way to go. |
Whom do you admire most? | bootload: people like "shooter" who stay positive & contribute even in the face of adversity ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868325 & http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867623 |
Whom do you admire most? | ismarc: Immanuel Kant, if nothing more than realizing he was wrong and spending over 10 years trying to discover what may be right. |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | codexon: AT&TI'm sure they have plenty of data from their cooperation with the NSA. |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | sachinag: In the UK, postcodes - unlike US ZIP codes, they're not freeRetail product data - books, movies, music, games, electronics, etc: you can kinda do this through affiliate programs, but it's not greatDrug companies - studies can be killed if the data looks bad; we should be able to see every study, completed or ... |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | Janteh: IMDB! With a powerful API please. |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | brg: Amazon. One can see sales trends of every book, cd, dvd, clothing, and electronics store across the world. This would be amazing. |
Whom do you admire most? | gritzko: Carl Gustaf Emil von Mannerheim; the guy who rocked |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | rickdangerous1: The IT industry is ahead of the curve on this one. Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail have been opening their data for days now... |
Whom do you admire most? | brg: In the 20th Century, John VonNeumann. He was a hacker through and through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann |
Whom do you admire most? | covercash: Dean Kamen. So much more than the Segway. |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | joez: Mint.What do people invest in? How do they spend their money? How do they lose their money? I'd love to see the kinds of insights that could be gleamed from it. Of course the data will have caveats but I could see reports like: 90% of mint users who own apple stock also buy apple product or maybe 90% of users who... |
Whom do you admire most? | tjmc: Burt Rutan - the Ruth/Gretzky/Bradman of aviation engineering |
Who makes the best APIs? | scottjackson: Twitter -- it's a popular service, and there are libraries for most of the languages I've tried to write Twitter-related applications in.Tumblr -- it's simple, it's clean, it returns a Tumblelog as XML over an HTTP request. You can also write posts over HTTP as well. |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | fretlessjazz: Real Estate, hands down. The MLS should be more open. |
Javascript best practices? | mahmut64: miea stanescu home adress |
What company/industry would you like to see open their data? | JacobAldridge: Insurance companies. I'd love to know how they weight different variables when determining the cost of policy (applies for health, car, home etc). If I install $100 worth of deadlocks, will that save me $5 / year or $50 / year on my policy? What other variables aren't I even thinking of improving? |
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