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Is there any excuse not to know Java? | mtarnovan: There's knowing Java as in having a grasp on the language syntax itself and some parts of it's standard libraries (and of course OOP, as I think most would agree it's a sine qua non for a programmer nowadays), and then there's knowing Java as in JEE and the miriad of associated apis, frameworks and tools. Wh... |
What do you wish you were better at? | Mz: Making money. |
Best eCommerce Platform | weaksauce: Satchmo is coming along well in the Django/Python world. They are currently forking the payment module out of the main program. One of the big benefits of their system is the highly customizable nature of the design and the nature of django's frameworks. Check it out here: www.satchmoproject.com I cannot at... |
What do you wish you were better at? | weaksauce: Making money, overcoming presentation anxiety, selling, art.Edit: If you need help on the regular expressions you might want to pick up the mastering regular expressions book from o'reilly. It's a great book for that: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126/ |
What do you wish you were better at? | yannis: Keeping money. I actually find it easier to make money than keep it in the long run. |
Is there any excuse not to know Java? | mark_l_watson: That is a strong statement, and not true for everyone, so I would vote for it not being necessary to know Java.Until about 3 years ago, I used Common Lisp and Java each roughly 40% in my work (I still think that if you search for "Java consultant" I am the number 1 Google hit :-)However, after I started ... |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | javanix: Never underestimate the power of inertia. |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | jeremymcanally: Well I think the idea is that a mailing list, and by extension, the whole open source project, isn't a one way street. Most people who use open source software contribute in one way or another, whether it's through supporting new users, hacking on the source code, or offering helpful, informed suggesti... |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | wmf: In many cases you can send a message to the list without subscribing, but this isn't well documented.In general I think the problem is just laziness; the people running the project optimize it for themselves (active participants) rather than their users. It doesn't help that the most popular software (Mailman/Pipe... |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | kyro: And here I thought the title of this submission was the opener to a geek-oriented comedy routine. |
What do you wish you were better at? | throw_away: now you've got six problems :) (http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247) |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | jackchristopher: Email has been around for a while. People really like it. Older hackers (Torvalds) seem to in particular. I ignored it too. But I'm realizing the best conversations happen over it.A lot of older internet users generally use lists (or private mail) for discussion. They also tend smarter. Like most scien... |
Handling NoScript on Your Web Site | gelatious: is the noscript tag not good enough? |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | chipsy: Mailing lists work exactly because of your complaint - they force you to stick around longer than you would with a webforum or IRC. If the list is good you'll say "yeah, I want to see what else is going on with this project." If you're purely an end-user it's much more frustrating, of course.My main gripe about... |
Life insurance? | mbrubeck: If you have no dependents then you don't necessarily have a need for life insurance. I never bought life insurance until I was ready to have a child, and I think that was the correct decision for me.If you have any near-term plans to get married or have children, then buying term life insurance now might mak... |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | ephermata: Mailing lists are a way to collect high volume discussions on a topic in a way that can be quickly scanned and searched. I can route everything through GMail or other mail client, then use a single set of tools to manage my conversations and "tasks" that arise from those conversations. In my case, I've set u... |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | ephermata: Oh also, if the project happens to have an IRC channel, those can be excellent places to ask these kinds of one-off questions. Depends on the project of course but instant messaging is pretty good for the quick help kind of thing. |
What do you wish you were better at? | zck: Being confidant in myself or my work. |
Is there any excuse not to know Java? | joeycfan: 'I know Ruby'That's a good excuse. |
Is there any excuse not to know Java? | joeycfan: You are so right about the 'can gain new ways of thinking by learning a new language.'I took an APL course once. I SWEAR I could feel myself growing new brain wiring... |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | blasdel: "Do not use a sensitive password because it will sometimes be mailed to you in cleartext" and "This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your python.org mailing list memberships."Blame GNU Mailman, the absolute worst mailing list daemon ever written: http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailman.html |
Learn Web design and frontend programming | thaumaturgy: Front-end programming is easy these days -- most folks are using jQuery or other similar libraries which insulate you from the problems with implementing complicated effects in various browsers.Web "design" on the other hand is a vague term. Do you mean the graphic design aspects -- layout and graphics in ... |
What's your "setup?" | AdamGibbins: I do everything from a single core 4GB Win7 laptop and a 23" monitor. All my development work takes places by vim'ing on the production server running multiple webservers (one for dev and the other for live/staging). |
What's the deal with mailing lists? | ndc: I don't think the problem is the mailing list style of discussion. Looks like it works fine, even for big projects like the linux kernel. What I find frustrating with mailing list is the archive:* sometimes there is no archives* sometimes the archive is unsearchable, only browsable* for archives with search capabi... |
What do you wish you were better at? | kamme: My personal top 3 is:- getting into shape (it's needed, but I'm starting that tomorrow)- persisting (in everything, 2years ago I was getting in a better shape, but see #1)- live greener (we already use 1/2 of electricity a normal family uses, but I know we could do better)That's it. And the best part is I can do... |
How do you manage phone(s), email(s), IM, TWT, FB, etc. together? | kakooljay: Have a look at Flock - The Social Web Browser [http://www.flock.com/] |
Start-up friendly banks in San Francisco? | aquaphile: Be wary of JPMorgan Chase or Wells Fargo, and I'd outright recommend never banking with Bank of America. I've had business accounts over the years with all of them.If you have a smaller, regional bank or credit union with good capital adequacy, little/no exposure to construction loans (the next "shoe to dro... |
Is there any excuse not to know Java? | drobilla: I "know" Java because I had to do many undergrad projects in it, but I don't advertise the fact that I know Java at all because I actively do not want to work with it. It is a language designed for incompetent replaceable programmers, and I find working with it sort of insulting in a way, and just not enjoya... |
How do you manage phone(s), email(s), IM, TWT, FB, etc. together? | ypk: Google Wave to the rescue? |
Learn Web design and frontend programming | keefe: http://www.w3schools.com/ This site is a good reference for the W3 standards. Flash is currently most easily coded with AS3. Adobe recently redid the flash VM to behave more like a traditional programming language and did away with most of the movie clip timeline stuff, so AS3 is more like just coding. Very nice... |
What do you wish you were better at? | pasbesoin: Keeping fear and anxiety in their place -- not banished, but in perspective. |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | miles: Derek Moeller has built an admirable alternative:http://www.markenomics.com/Thanks to Prakash for letting me know about Derek's site. <s>NM fans</s> (make that everybody) will also be interested in subscribing to Prakash's blog:http://www.cloudknow.com/ |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | dabent: Try http://www.afternoonrally.com/ It's focused on stocks and investing and has videos for news. |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | kapauldo: i've done this on Pikk, what i do is set a cookie as an identifier and then without login, forbid double ip-addressed based voting. upon login, if there is a cookie set, i go and harvest the votes and convert them to the logged in user. so the table Votes has a user id and a cookie user id. hope this helps... |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | jamesbritt: I've seen voting tools that apparently track by IP address. Not infallible, but maybe no worse than using a unique account name, since accounts are typically easy to acquire (unless you are track them by IP address as well :) ) |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | gojomo: Domain newermogul.com is available! |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | tokenadult: I cannot see how that is different than someone throwing a stone at another person just because they do not agree with them.You don't think there is any difference between throwing a rock at someone and reducing their overall vote count by one vote in an electronic voting system? If someone downvotes me, I ... |
What artists do you like? | hop: Banksy is pretty rad - http://j.mp/YTWIu |
What artists do you like? | jon_dahl: I'm especially partial to three bits of classical music.1. 20th century classical. I really love Shostakovich, Stravinksy, Bartok, and others who blended "classical" elements (18th and 19th centuries) with modern ideas. At its best, their music is as rich and enjoyable as Mozart and Beethoven, but unusual and... |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | warp: Do you do anything extra to verify an OpenID account? It's probably easy to set up a bunch of domains with fake openid servers, so I would expect that to be susceptible to abuse too unless you have some extra step to make sure the voter is human. |
What artists do you like? | tjr: I seem to be rather particular about visual art; there's not a lot that I really like. Jacob Lawrence's paintings strike me as interesting.In my home/office I have mostly photographs, and of those mostly photographs that I've taken. Also a rather large portrait of Einstein, some artwork of the Brooklyn Bridge, and... |
What artists do you like? | unalone: I'm not much of an art person, but I love Duchamp. Just saw his exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art a few weeks ago. I'm also an enormous Pollock fan.Smaller artists include Leonid Afremov, Rob Gonsalves, and David Lanham. With the exception of Gonsalves it's nothing particularly brilliant, but I enjoy i... |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | iamelgringo: I'll be releasing one in the next few weeks. A while back, I decided to not use the HN software, so I rolled my own. I could use some alpha testers. So, if you're interested, ping me at iamelgringo at google's email service, or just reply to this comment, and I'll email you when I launch. |
What artists do you like? | rabidgnat: I'm a big fan of Knuth. I haven't purchased any of his Art yet, but I do have an Amazon gift certificate in reserve... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | kyro: Voting is probably the easiest way to quickly express your (dis/ap)proval with little effort, especially when the comment is so obviously insightful or stupid.Your analogy is a bit extreme, and I wouldn't mind people knowing whom I up/downvoted. |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | genieyclo: An example of a site that doesn't require you to login to vote that's widely used is PollDaddy.Sadly, it's extremely easy to game it. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=913966 |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | warp: Most people, I believe, downvote because they do not agree with someone's opinion.If they do, they're doing it wrong. Downvote someone for not contributing to the discussion. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | bendotc: I always find opinions like these to be illuminating whenever people claim that people don't care about karma, as it's obviously just a silly number in some computer running this website. As it turns out, some people find losing just 1 point to be indistinguishable from throwing a rock at the person.For what i... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | mooism2: Downvoting is there to bury spam, swearing, bad behaviour, objectively false information, etc.Some people downvote to bury opinions they disagree with, which isn't good, I agree. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | jrockway: Ask the submitter: Why don't you get a blog?Edit: OK, I will answer the question. People downmod to get people to convince themselves to go away. Imagine I don't like your viewpoint, and you place value on imaginary points I can take from you. I take those points, you get upset, and you stop posting stuff ... |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | snokleby: At http://tagdef.com I let users both add content and vote without login in. It uses IP-addresses for keeping track of votes.This has all the flaws that other people here have pointed out (multiple users behind same IP etc), but I feel that the advantage of being easy to use is greater than these disadvantage... |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | chrischen: Allow people to vote as many times as they want (allow them to click as many times). Normalize voting patterns based on items of known qualities, and account for the fact that people know you'll do this. Then let people click as many times as they want and you just might get accurate results if done right.Bt... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | RiderOfGiraffes: If someone posts something that is negative, detracts from the discussion, or is generally of negative value, the way to provide feedback is to downmod. If there is value to be had from doing so, a followup comment is indicated.Many people downmod simply because they disagree, and I think that's wrong... |
What artists do you like? | gstar: I normally like individual paintings rather than artists. I do like Rothko though - so nice and blobby.For objects though, I especially like Le Corbusier.I gravitate toward modernism a bit, and I kinda think it was the last interesting art movement that captured the public's imagination. Something about the sp... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | robotrout: "What if we knew who downvoted whom, what would be the result?"I love that idea, but extend it also to upvoting, and use it to create a killer social network and/or dating site.If you and I love the same ideas and hate the same ideas, than we should meet. We may not enrich each others worldview, but that's ... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | iamelgringo: The possibility of downvotes creates an element of risk in posting a comment. Without that element of risk the only deterrent to trolling or violating community standards is deleting or banning by the moderators. Moderating a site like this is an awful lot of work. The down vote arrow allows the communi... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | chrischen: I completely agree. And I suggested that the down vote be removed and replaced with something like a flag. Flagging would be reserved for inappropriate comments. Upvoting can be used to sort and rank the "better" comments.Frankly if you disagree with a comment, reply, don't down vote. |
What artists do you like? | mdakin: Paul Klee. I believe his name is pronounced "clay." Check out "Twittering Machine" and "Ancient Sound" in particular. Without thinking too much about it I'd say I like his work because it tends to feel childlike and joyful to me.And obviously "Twittering Machine" has a new relevance today given the recent em... |
What artists do you like? | marcusbooster: I enjoy the Bauhaus school - Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, etc.Art has obviously moved on, but their writings and work are still interesting, especially if you're into digital art and design with it's inherent "Modernist" grid. And the formalism appeals to the computer geek in me. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | anigbrowl: I don't think that most people downmod for just disagreement, but rather for stupidity, noise, trolling. Sure, some people vote a comment down to express disagreement, but their votes are often cancelled out. And it's not so unusual to see two HN'ers having an argument and both gaining karma from it if their... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | auston: I vote (up|down) to manipulate the way a thread is displayed. |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | auston: Does anyone know what happened to nickb? |
What artists do you like? | m0th87: I'm a huge fan of impressionism (Van Gogh, Monet), but that's like saying you like puppies.A little more off the beaten path is Zdzislaw Beksinski:
http://coilhouse.net/2007/12/the-beautiful-nightmares-of-zdz...His artwork haunts me, even years after being exposed to it. The fact that he uses wood as a canvas m... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | jlees: It's just behavioural reinforcement. Upvote the positive but on the few occasions someone acts out of line with the spirit of the community, there's got to be a way to deal with them. Imagine a troll running rampant on HN with no downvoting; it'd be hard to get them to stop, since there is no consequence for the... |
What artists do you like? | aristus: Rodin, Noguchi, Sargent, and Muchas. Diego Rivera for his colors. I suppose this makes me backward, but I enjoy pictures of recognizable human beings engaging in recognizable activities. Also, pretty females. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | scott_s: My downmodding protocol (I rarely downvote): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361390 |
What artists do you like? | detcader: Graffiti in general is underrated. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | brtzsnr: I usually downvote intentional bad or wrong answers (of course, I don't think others opinion are wrong answers). It's more to inform the poster that he/she generated 'noise'. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | prabodh: Can HN experiment with this...show the users who have downvoted one particular comment or ..make the commenter name invisible until you up/down vote a comment in a particular thread... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | camccann: There's an interesting argument in favor of downvoting here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/For context, the author is someone who posts on HN and was (at the time) trying to launch a new community. |
What artists do you like? | swannodette: Sol Lewitt, http://images.google.com/images?q=sol+lewitt
for the illogical followed to a logical endVittore Carpaccio, http://images.google.com/images?q=painting+vittore+carpaccio...
...Agnes Martin, http://images.google.com/images?q=agnes+martin
for the pursuit of perfectionEmma Kunz, http://images.google... |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | bestes: I've found openID to be far more painful. I decided that I just can't risk making my Google account more powerful in case it gets suspended (for whatever reason, valid or not). So, what a pain to research how to make it work, what implications there will be, etc. I was very excited to try Stack Overflow's softw... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | BigZaphod: Your assumption that downvotes occur mostly as a result of disagreement may be flawed. (I don't know myself, obviously, but it's not how I personally tend to use the feature.)The rest of your question/opinion is based on your perceived truth of your initial assumption. I think we cannot proceed with any of t... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | frou: On a similar topic, the primary use of "ignore lists" on forums appears to be the opportunity to smugly announce that someone has been added to yours. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | basdog22: The worst part is downvoting someone without expressing why you did it. For example :This is spam. Downvoted.Most of the time people seem to just don't care about how someone else feels when gets downvoted. In the case of an article this gets more frustrating because there was effort to do it, document it and... |
What artists do you like? | brianmckenzie: I like Gerhard Richter, and well-done graffiti. Also some of the stuff coming out of the Leipzig school, Mattias Weischer et al. |
What artists do you like? | movix: The vast majority of preferred artists mentioned here, are from the early half of the last century. Does this say something about HN'ers understanding and awareness of contemporary art?It's a curious contrast with how most people reading HN are working at the absolute cutting edge of 21st century technology. Cur... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | ax0n: I've never seen an option to downvote. It could be because I don't have enough "points" in this game (130 as of the time I'm posting this) or it may be because I haven't been around long enough. Once, I did try to downvote something by kludging the "dir" variable. I was told I couldn't make that vote. What param... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | DanielBMarkham: I like to scan the newcomments page to see if there is anything worth commenting on.Doing that, I noticed a long-time poster making the point that the community has changed and asking if anybody else has noticed it. So I said yes, it has changed, and quite a bit.The reward for my comment was several dow... |
What artists do you like? | kingkawn: Kandinsky, Casper David Friedrich, Robert Bordo, and Beyonce Knowles. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | shrughes: I downvote the following kinds of comments:- comments that have a high excitement to information ratio, such as brief comments that include profanity or attitude, and of course garbage one-liner humor comments. But not good one-line comments (such as the best comeback of all time), and usually not the kind t... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | quellhorst: I like how when you flag on craigslist you have to say why. If multiple people flag, the post is removed. |
What artists do you like? | anigbrowl: Istvan Sandorfi. http://www.fosaw.com/ Autechre. http://www.autechre.info/ Peter Greenaway. http://www.petergreenaway.info/ Edit: like the OP I could list many more; I could also ruminate for a long time on what common factors combine to create a particular artistic sensibility...but I won't. I believe all ... |
What artists do you like? | warfangle: Big fan of Geiger and, more recently, Paul Booth. Historical preferences tend towards the dada and surreal - Dali, of course, is a favorite. |
What artists do you like? | edw519: I love the magic that happened when Jackson Pollock combined Hopi Indian sand painting techniques with brush/canvas to harness the power of gravity:http://www.monroegallery.com/showcase/images/MH_JacksonPollo...If you ever go to MOMA in NYC, make sure you start on the 6th floor and work your way down...http://e... |
What artists do you like? | bayareaguy: I've always been fascinated by the art and architecture of Eugene Tsui.http://images.google.com/images?q=Eugene+Tsuihttp://www.tdrinc.com/ |
What artists do you like? | mechanical_fish: A local museum in Salem had a Joseph Cornell exhibit a few years back.http://www.pem.org/sites/cornell/I really liked his work.My taste in art ranges all over the place. I like a fair amount of modern stuff. I like a fair bit of expressionist and surrealist art, although some of it gets a bit too silly... |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | dageroth: You can use a fingerprint which consist of geolocation and Useragent. If you use javascript you can enhance the fingerprint with further data like screen resolution etc. It's not perfect, since some computers might generate the same fingerprint, e.g. corporate networks where everyone uses the same system, but... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | 10ren: I've noticed that sometimes interesting answers get downvoted, and irrelevant/badly thought-out answers get upvoted. So I don't take downvotes so seriously now.
However, there's a backlash: if I get a bunch of upvotes, I'll now think that it's probably just a bunch of those idiot voters. Which in a way is a goo... |
What artists do you like? | stuartjmoore: Dieter Rams. |
What artists do you like? | corey: Bryan Larsen: http://www.cordair.com/larsen/ |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | marze: This all brings to mind Churchill's quote (paraphrased):"Democracy is the worst form of government, with the exception of all other forms of government." |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | araneae: I downvote people who downvoted me before I could downvote. Karma's a bitch. |
What artists do you like? | jackchristopher: Peter Paul Rubens. He showed with paintings how things are supposed to be done. His painting are an avalanche of skill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens |
What artists do you like? | steveplace: My father-in-law does photography of New Orleans, and he's got a gallery on Royal Street, so I surprisingly know a lot about contemporary art, due to the discounts I get in NoLa.I am a big fan of Ricker, Erte, and Deyber. Most especially Deyber, it's smartass art, see it here: http://martinlawrence.com/deyb... |
What artists do you like? | fuzzmeister: Edward Hopper - seeing his paintings in person at the MFA (including, of course, Nighthawks) was quite an experience. |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | rantfoil: Recommended: slinkset.com as a social news platform for superior uptime. (disclosure: It's one of our sites.) |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | dotBen: OK, I'll bite and say it......no you can't make a credible voting or rating system without a login.It's too easy to game the system to create repeat votes via cookie burning, ip rotation, etc (see the other responses).Forcing someone to be logged in and then only allowing one vote per poll helps keep all but th... |
Alternatives to New Mogul? | falsestprophet: Hey NewMogul enthusiasts,I missed you, so I made a substitute: http://moniedinterests.com.Please stop by. |
What artists do you like? | rayb0t: James B. Hunt http://jamesbhunt.com/ |
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