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What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | benofsky: Objective-C and Cocoa, not new but my new favourite development environment. I love the documentation, in my opinion the best documentation of any language.I love the way Apple doesn't care what anyone else thinks about their language and has ridiculously verbose 40 character long method names to make code cl... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | grinnbearit: Currently working through Joe Armstrong's programming erlang. I'm interested in functional programming and concurrent programs and erlang seems to fit really well.I also find Clojure very cool :) |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | ericd: Awesome. I hit the level cap at least 3 times before coming back here. Please make the web version unlimited, I would like to play more and don't want to drag out my phone while I'm at my computer. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | emilis_info: Helma NG (Server-side JavaScript).Easy to get started, fast, stable, the community is helpful and it is easy to read their source code if you get stuck somewhere. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | ra: Cassandra. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | pavlov: XMPP, BOSH and the Strophe library (both the JavaScript and C incarnations).Earlier this year I got tasked with implementing a system which involved multiple mobile clients talking to a rendering server. The mobile devices had a fairly beefy browser (Nokia N900), so the client was clearly suitable to be deliver... |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | maxklein: I could not figure out what was happening in the first minute of playing it, so I closed the page. And I'm not too dumb, so I think about 70% of people will be the same.You need to explain better how the game works. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | csytan: Google Appengine:
Probably _the_ easiest platform to develop a webapp on if you use Python and are okay with its limitations.Tornado:
If you are going to develop on GAE, Tornado is the way to go. It is fast, well written, and only includes the core features needed for a web app.I can't highlight how much easie... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | dantheman: E4X - ECHMAscript for XMLThis is in AS3, used in flex. It's a joy to process xml with it. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | paraschopra: Solr for super-easy full text searching and Memcache for a no-brainer distributed queue |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | ahlatimer: zsh - clearly not new, but I recently switched from bash to it. Spelling correction is very cool, and I like the tab completion a lot more.Rails - again, not new, but I've really enjoyed it. I've built web apps in COBOL (had to at my previous employer), so being able to work with Rails has been a joy in comp... |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | mkyc: Why waste 20 minutes of a professional developer's time, multiplied by the average number of reviewers, with a bonus for bad advice due to inexperience?You know those clients who think programming is easy? Writing and reviewing copy is hard. So is pretending that you're an unbiased fresh-minded user, in a group o... |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | pmichaud: It's interesting that you shut the previous community down. Why didn't you iterate? Force people to provide X feedback for others in order to get Y feedback for yourself? |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | roschdal: Thanks for the reviews from everyone. I'll use this to improve the game soon. |
Lesser known blogging apps? | ique: You want every feature of Wordpress, but you don't want Wordpress. Not once in the last 3 years have I had a plugin that didn't work with a newer version. I haven't had to "reinstall" it even once either. Maybe you just need to choose your plugins more wisely, or if you really care about the quality and security ... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | kylebragger: redis - insanely fast - I've been using for some stuff at Cork'd
mongo - very excited by this one, too. not having to write ALTER TABLE statements is pretty great. |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | Mz: Probably part of the reason your community ended up the way it did is because it is a very common paradigm that there are a few people who are deemed "experts" and the rest are deemed "beggars". I've belonged to a number of lists where a few people were treated like they had all the answers and everyone else acted... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | dchest: Grand Central Dispatch and C blocks. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | JeffJenkins: CouchDB was probably the most interesting since it had iterative map reduce, but I ended up abandoning it for MongoDB because it was much faster.The second best is Mako. A month or two ago I switched from using Django for templating to Mako. Depending on the composition of the pages there was a 2-6x spee... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | ralphc: For my personal projects my main consideration was price, I found fsckvps.com. For $12.95 a month I get 512MB memory, 30GB disk and 400GB transfers a month. |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | nonrecursive: update: google group created: http://groups.google.com/group/writing-feedback |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | ideamonk: Free Yahoo Developer Accelerators from Joyent, they apply same terms and conditions and AUP to free developer accounts as well as their customers - http://is.gd/5uR3IPCSmart Hosting is cheap at 4.95 pounds / month - http://is.gd/5uR4E unmanaged linux vps, pure bliss for the low price. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | sdave: in-house column oriented database,
source code generator for diameter protocol application..
et. al. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | Pistos2: I use WebbyNode as my main VPS provider, but over the years I've made enough friends on the Net as to be able to get shell accounts on several servers, as well. Add to that a machine at home which is used for less important stuff. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | Keyframe: I have a server at fdcservers and one at theplanet - both "unmetered" 100Mbps, no problems so far (I'm with theplanet for more than 5 years, since ev1) |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | lssndrdn: F#. I work in a primarily Microsoft-based environment, and I wanted to learn a functional language, so F# is a good choice for me - I can actually put it to use at my "day job".jQuery. A great javascript library. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | mark_l_watson: I prepayed for a 3 year reservation for a small Amazon EC2 instance and I am very happy with that decision because I frequently deploy customer projects to AWS, and any experience from my own projects is a big help.I also permanently rent a small VPS from RimuHosting. I like their customer service and th... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | yummyfajitas: Rabbitmq (and AMQP in general). It's just simple, straightforward message passing.My C++ process creates a queue, and binds it to the key "yummyfajitastasks". My python process (a django webapp, in this case) sends messages with the key "yummyfajitastasks". My c++ process receives them, does work, sends m... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | cmelbye: I've loved playing with Heroku and I'm excited to deploy my real project to it once we finish a stable version of it.I've also liked working with Rails, because it has made things like i18n, testing, and implementing new features so much easier.Finally, I've enjoyed using beanstalkd for my message queue. It's ... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | vyrotek: We started using Windows Azure with our latest project. The Message Queueing and Schemaless Storage are very cool. It completely changed my opinion of the 'Cloud'. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | koevet: - Play! Framework - finally something close to Rails productivity for Java developers. And supports Scala too.- Redis - the fastest NoSQL engine around. Easy and elegant.- Solr - Indexing for the masses. If it only had real time search... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | chipsy: Software technology: I spent most of my time implementing my own tools and tech using haXe, Leo, wxPython, SQLite. haXe+Leo is an amazing combination for maintaining code.Not a software technology: http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=prod_axis-49This thing is amazing, especially if you aren't already an exper... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | vlisivka: RackSpace Cloud ($10 per month for 256MB instance w/o traffic). RSC allows me to follow modern administration practice ( http://vlisivka.pp.ua/en/modern_administration ) even at my own private host. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | ronnier: -VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org)-ASP.NET MVC-Visual Studio 2010 |
anyone here moved from academia to corporate? | RiderOfGiraffes: Not sure it will help, but I had two three-year post-doc contracts. During the second I was doing external consultancy, and as my University contract was coming to an end, the company with whom I worked most closely offered me a job, which I took.After many mergers, split offs and other coporate movem... |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | andrewcooke: as everyone else is saying - this is pretty awesome, but you need to have some kind of auto mode running or something that shows people what it does. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | paulgb: Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Streaming. You just write a few lines of python (or your language of choice), upload your data, and it takes care of the rest. |
anyone here moved from academia to corporate? | dmd: I'm in exactly the same boat - finished my PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, now a postdoc, also at Penn, and want out. Funnily enough I'm also looking at things like McKinsey and BCG, but they hire on a yearly basis only - as in, I couldn't even get an interview until September 2010... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | macemoneta: Revisor (see: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=236679).The ability to create custom Linux spins and even full system software thumbdrives make drive failures / system recovery much less impacting. It also makes "ready to go" installations a snap. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | charlesju: Amazon EC2
Engine Yard's Flex
Ruby on Rails
Ruby |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | dyogenez: XMPP and Bosh with Strophe - hit a XMPP server with Javascript instead of a web server. Realtime Javascript Push on an established base (XMPP). Real cool stuff, just need something to use it on.Sinatra - Very fast/easy ruby framework. (Similar to Cherry.py in the Python world).Jquery - Can't imagine using any... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | dlevine: Rails and JQuery. It's amazing how quickly I can build rich, interactive applications. I can do with two or three lines of code what would require 20 just a few years ago.Also, GIT. Best source control hands down. |
Finding hackers with the entrepreneurial virus | nicholasreed: Just get out and start meeting people. The best way to expand your social circle and network with like-minded people is to just start going to as many events as you can. Recently I've been going to different biznik events as well as whatever entrepreneur events happen in Seattle. Most people in the startu... |
anyone here moved from academia to corporate? | losethos: Take a stop watch, stop it, use the hundredths for picking a random word or phrase. Do it with nanoseconds. How can nerves do that? Isn't that, umm..., a little too fast for them? It's probably my superego, huh?Spirit says...
fashioned begannest perceivedst passage reckon baggage since
teaching comparing... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | milestinsley: MongoDB has helped me rethink everything I thought I knew (and disliked) about DB's.Javascript. This year, the full potential (and diversity) of this language has truly revealed itself to me, especially with the maturing of frameworks like Cappuccino (which is a testament to what can be done with JS).Usin... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | hroman: Pylons, i love it because of its flexibility, I can use whatever I want in contrast to other frameworks w/o getting headaches (yes, I'm talking about you, Django).MongoDB and others NoSQL dbs, I don't have words to describe my feelings.Jquery, well, I began to use this framework in November I was a heavy Mootoo... |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | drhodes: For me, at first, the color and size had distinct significance. Instead of changing the size and color of the blocks, how about using one color and tuning down it's saturation, or transparency and keep the size the same. Or just change the size? Did you try this at first, was it too bland visually? Also, I ... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | xenophanes: the ipod touch. it's an awesome device. |
Advice or Resources on Revenue Sharing? | notauser: I have had a lot of experience in white label work from both the technical and commercial side. If you want a call to pick my brains about specifics you would be most welcome - email richard at the domain in my profile.If you can get cash up front. I can't stress how important that is.A common commercial mode... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | va_coder: I've been using Groovy and Grails to introduce dynamically typed, rapid development tech to a mostly Java only shop. In these scenarios Groovy really shines. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | jazzychad: I have no idea how the block elimination logic works once they all start falling, but I don't care. I just want to play over and over. You will soon be earning my 99 cents. Kudos. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | DaniFong: My vote goes to Mathematica, which is probably both the best and worst technology I've used this year. Oy!A more one-sided review goes to Evernote :-) |
anyone here moved from academia to corporate? | DaniFong: Consider applying here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Wills_Neuroscience_Instit...They'll understand that the market is trouble, and Jeff Hawkens (and presumably many of his employees) have had one foot in both doors for a while. |
anyone here moved from academia to corporate? | michaeljung: Many good answers here already.What I can add is that having learned, worked or teached other parts of the corporate environment, say management, accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, public relations, which can be found in the corporate world will make the entry much more easier.Knowing something of th... |
a standard microblogging format? | abraham: Check out http://identi.ca/doc/openmublog |
Why aren't links clickable in the text of a submission? | mixmax: Probably because it would be an easy way to get links back to your site for SEO reasons. Google loves HN. Yes I know all links are nofollow, but I could imagine Google following them anyway. |
Why aren't links clickable in the text of a submission? | bdfh42: The text of a submission should be the title text of the article being submitted. This is unlikely to contain a link. thus the need to supply such functionality is just about zero.Editorialising the title of a submission is not encouraged at HN. |
More types of flagging? | mixmax: Have you considered downvotes for submissions? Maybe with a Karma threshold, so that it'll only be used to get irrelevant submissions off the front page. |
More types of flagging? | tptacek: This idea didn't work for Slashdot at all. |
More types of flagging? | swombat: The comment flags is a great idea - there's a good chance that it would cut down on "why am I being downvoted" types of posts, which would in turn reduce noise.Are you thinking of adding more flags to stories too? |
More types of flagging? | Tichy: I prefer to use my brain for absorbing news here, not for mastering popularity games. With more ranking options, HN would start to look like work. |
More types of flagging? | DanielBMarkham: I think this is a good idea and long overdue.Ideally the system will train new users. It has been difficult in the past for me to figure out exactly what downvotes meant.Over the last few months I'm seeing a rise in ad-hominem attacks. No matter what the subject of the article, technology, startups, his... |
More types of flagging? | m0th87: How about having tags, and then letting the community dynamically decide which ones are standard? I think this would work because the community is fairly observant of the rules. Plus you could shape behavior by suggesting certain tags when the user wants to add a new tag to a submission. On top of covering the ... |
More types of flagging? | thorax: The only oddity for a feature like that is that it's a bit like "judging" their comment.I don't know how to explain it, but I'd almost rather the flag options be worded as "Sorry, this comment seems: uncivil" or "Sorry, this comment seems: off-topic" to lighten it a bit. If they were a friend in real life, I'd ... |
More types of flagging? | philwelch: If you're going to have flagging options on comments for uncivil or frivolous comments, you should probably raise the moderation floor to -1 or 0, because it doesn't seem fair to let people be downvoted below that point for disagreement alone. |
Favorite encrypted VPN provider? | pasbesoin: Get one that pushes everything over SSL / TLS / port 443. Other protocols / ports are often blocked in random and public settings. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | michaeljung: Certainly Google App Engine(Phyton). It is nice to have a small free version for experiments and own projects. Great way to get your hands dirty. AWS/Amazon has to do its homework and open up a sandbox type of platform where you can put your small project of your own at no cost, and opt-in that others can ... |
More types of flagging? | scorxn: If public meta-commenting is the issue, and assuming the comment isn't an outright troll, it'd be nice to know who took issue with it, and be able to ask why privately. Hence, civil discourse as though we're face-to-face. Anonymous one-word stamps are no more sensitive than unexplained downvotes, and will give ... |
Advice or Resources on Revenue Sharing? | credo: One point to consider is whether this will be a one-off deal or whether this will be a good business model for your company.If you think that you'd like to work on getting more white label deals, I think that it will be worth it for you to spend a lot of times/resources on implementing this white-label deal. OTH... |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | fauigerzigerk: Hey, I love it! Brilliant game! It's simple but there's still something to figure out because you have to anticipate the cascading effects of squares getting eliminated.The explanation isn't good, but playing it reveals how it works anyway. |
More types of flagging? | gojomo: The number one kind of alternate flag I'd like is 'review headline' rather than 'kill'. There are many stories that would be OK, if they didn't have a misleading headline. |
More types of flagging? | gojomo: For handling individual comments, I think the better system would be to have two-dimensional comment rating. One dimension, upvote/downvote, is "valuable contribution/not-valuable contribution". A second dimension, agree/disagree, allows expressing support or dissent without the connotation of reward/censure th... |
More types of flagging? | pavs: For the love of everything that is good, please either block techcrunch (very unlikely to happen) or put a hard cap on how many stories can be submitted within 24 hours from one domain (I suggest 2).Sometimes reading HN feels like reading TC rss feed. If I want to read every single story from TC I would have subs... |
More types of flagging? | jmonegro: Replacing downvotes with a flagging system or similar might be a good idea: I've been noticing that people tend to downvote other users not because their comments are "uncivil" or "frivolous", but because they express an opinion different from theirs.I've seen many perfectly-civilized comments being downvoted... |
Lesser known blogging apps? | phinze: I recently found myself in a similar position, and found Jekyll ("a blog aware, static site generator") to meet my needs perfectly. Jekyll rejects the implicit assumption of most blogging software: that the solution requires a dynamic platform.When you approach the problem with that in mind, what you end up wi... |
More types of flagging? | maxklein: I think you should add this as an option, and only for the karmarific users. This way, less than 10% of the site would actually use this, and since these are likely to be the oldest and community invested users, the flagging would always lag behind the movement of the site userbase, leading to a stabilizing f... |
Favorite encrypted VPN provider? | jjguy: I pay $8/mo for a VPS and run OpenVPN [1]. There's a nicely-done OS X client [2], and OpenVPN will run on whatever port/protocol combination you need. You also get the benefit of a shell account on your own little corner of the internet, a lightweight server to toy with and full ssh access to play all sorts ... |
More types of flagging? | whyme: How about allowing the primary post to have extra settings that affects what can/can't happen: Example: Min karma to post: 1000, Min Civility to post: -100 points.This way if the community sees a mob problem, the community can tweak the settings accordingly.
I'm sure you can come up a good algorithm to maintain... |
How do you pitch a skunk-works project once the proof of concept works? | etm117: Unfortunately, every company has different politics that affects the answer to your question. Without knowing the politics of your company no one can properly answer. And even if we did, it would still probably be a "gut feeling" type of answer. So with that said...The way I would do it at my company (which ... |
How do you pitch a skunk-works project once the proof of concept works? | ratsbane: If in testing the system you used any data which may be interpreted as belonging to the company then be very, very careful. Hopefully you haven't, but if you have then you might want to delete all traces of that data before presenting it.If you're a contractor be very careful to document that you did none of... |
More types of flagging? | ScottWhigham: I'm likely to be of the lowest caste here but I think a single flag works for me. I tried to think of others and the only two logical ones I could think of were "Spam" and "Duplicate" for posts. I support you could flag comments but again I see two options: "Spam" or "Offensive".In any case - that is to s... |
More types of flagging? | mrlebowski: Should down voting some one also negatively affect the down voter's karma? It will help restrict the number of down votes anyone will give.. |
More types of flagging? | mhb: Maybe this is the place to ask why, relatively frequently, there are comments which seem perfectly reasonable and inoffensive, that are dead. |
Books for writing a data-intensive Python webapp using CouchDB? | janl: Check this for CouchDB: http://books.couchdb.org/relax/ |
Please review Wordey - Remembrance dictionary | kalendae: really really loved the super simple interface. got what it did instantly and love the idea also. but i am not able to update my email, i keep putting it in but it's still 'none'.also i am personally not really trying to increase my vocabulary, can i use it to help like memorize/internalize just general idea... |
How do you pitch a skunk-works project once the proof of concept works? | SandB0x: Zed shaw talks at length about (roughly) this kind of thing in his talk "The ACL is Dead". Tbe video is at:http://blog.cusec.net/2009/01/05/zed-shaw-the-acl-is-dead-cu...And there are summaries in the comments here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420650I wrote a few internal tools to automate various bits... |
More types of flagging? | gregwebs: I would like to be able flag a story as not a primary source/not the best source and give an alternative. Not sure if this will help the dicussions, but I think that a discussion tends to only get as good relative to the story. Often times the most helpful comments are ones which give alternative sources, so ... |
More types of flagging? | wglb: I would favor the addition of a rude/inappropriate/trollish vote that would be anonymous in addition to the current upvote/downvote. Perhaps those are three buttons that are downvotes in that category.This would add a useful dimension to the feedback.I find myself using the up/down arrow largely for "contributes... |
More types of flagging? | breck: > Yeah, I've noticed a decline in the tone of comments too. The site seems to be getting nastier. I occasionally find myself thinking lately that I just don't want to be here anymore.Could the community help monitor the general tone of the site? It seems like keeping things civil is a hard task for you and the t... |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | glen: One was created by a friend with design skills. The other was created by a design professional with a portfolio of work for some pretty big companies (Chase, Polo etc.). |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | cmelbye: I like the lower one. The top one is too glossy/web 2.0. The bottom one is minimalist and stylish. |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | waterlesscloud: I like the 3 dot one. Better conveys the idea of "for everyone". Cleaner too. |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | aaronbrethorst: new one. much better. it's friendly. the old looks like it's filling up with water. too web 2.0'ish. |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | thejash: New (lower) one is way better. Does anyone like the other one? |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | onoj: I don't know about "professional" and depending on your ideal customer it is hard to say which is better for representing you but I think the new logo is a better "design". When looking at logos I think the following is important:
1) Are you proud of being represented by the logo
2) Who are you trying to appeal t... |
More types of flagging? | gruseom: I hadn't noticed the site getting nastier (and since everyone seems to agree that it has, I'm now regretting a recent nasty comment!)Regarding flags on comments (not stories), I suspect it might have more of an impact to add just one new type rather than several at once. That would send a clear message about w... |
How do you pitch a skunk-works project once the proof of concept works? | ramanujan: The fact that you are asking these questions indicates that the company you are working at is probably not a good place for innovation.You might think about quitting and spinning it out yourself. |
Do you have a "favorite" entrepreneur? Who? | breckinloggins: Mark Cuban. Grew up in my area, started a cool website in the 90's, got paid way too much for it, and then was smart enough to get his money out of that sector and buy a basketball team.... because he thought it would be fun and he could do it better. |
More types of flagging? | prakash: How about giving more people moderation access for a short time period, and then aggressively flagging/deleting a whole bunch of articles/comments. |
More types of flagging? | coffeemug: Gamedev.net has one of the most civil and informative forums on the internet. At some point they had a pretty mean spirited community too, and the owners pulled the site into one of the best sites on the internet. I spent a lot of time on these forums, and I think there are three main things that contribute ... |
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