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More types of flagging? | richardw: How about letting those with big karma attach tags to their downvote? Others could agree by downvoting the tag. This allows a slightly more organic approach where the best tags emerge over time. Maybe anyone over (lower) karma can propose a tag but the tag only applies if a few agree on it. |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | DenisM: I like the one that leads to better conversions. Which one is that? I don't know. You shouldn't be asking us. |
Do you have a "favorite" entrepreneur? Who? | nailer: I love Larry and Sergei for being able to deliver on Netscape's dream of making the web the platform, and the OS irrelevant.I also like 280North for creating an open platform that allows control-centric, rather than document centric, layouts for web apps. |
Do you have a "favorite" entrepreneur? Who? | manbearpig: Most Admired:
Bill Gates - he's the only one I can think of who's truly top-notch from both a technical and a business standpointWho I wish I were:
Steve Chen and Chad Hurley - they went from idea to $1.65 billion in a year-and-a-half |
More types of flagging? | ErrantX: One bug I did notice (slightly off topic but this seems an appropriate place) is that people can work around the cool off delay for replying by clicking the "link" button on a comment. This has given me a textbox and let me reply to the comment way before the cool off. |
Any long-term wager sites? | DanielStraight: He should set up a cron job to read Flickr's home page from his machine and send emails with the reply. If you stop getting emails, he lost. If the emails show that Flickr is out, you lost. |
SQL query has me scratching my head... | ScottWhigham: Why is this Ask HN? |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | ahemphill: Frankly, both logos suffer because the concept is not particularly inspired (and has been overdone in the design world, IMHO). That said, the new version does very much one-up the other in execution, though the letterspacing toward the end has been compromised because of the attached letterforms. This throws off the balance significantly. A place to start remedying that issue would be the diagonal stroke on the N, which could certainly stand to be heavier. |
More types of flagging? | iamelgringo: I somehow get the sense that the quality of the discussion has correlates with how long an article lives on the front page. A year or two ago, articles could hang on the front page for a day or two. Now, the volume of new articles pushes interesting discussions like this one off the front page within hours. I pretty rarely visit page 2.I used to spend 30-35 minutes writing and editing a comment. It doesn't seem worth it any more when the article is going to drop off the front page in 8 - 12 hours. When I thought people might read it for a day or to, it felt like it was worth the investment.It seems like the current speed of article churn has increased the pace of HN, and has inadvertently encouraged shorter, shoot from the hip type comments rather than encourage slower more thoughtful discussion. |
iPhone/mobile devs: Please help me by filling out this quick survey... | klizmic: I'm posting this under a new account, but I've been around HN for a couple years now...I just wanted to get a feel for how developers are approaching the choice between native iPhone apps and mobile web apps.If you could help out, the survey shouldn't take more than just a couple of minutes max.Thanks! |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | bhousel: Lower one fits your site better. Top one looks religious/Christian. (I don't mean it as a criticism, that was just my initial impression). |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | rlpb: I think the bottom one would look much better on a dead-tree letterhead, and this is what makes it look professional even if you aren't ever going to do this. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | w3matter: Redis -- with Ohm. Really great. Build a bunch of sites with it. A nice replacement for ActiveRecord in many use-cases.
Now ready to redo some BIG sites that we have using just Redis.It has transformed my thinking about data (i'm a postgres guy), and just made Rails more fun now. The sites I did are also blazing fast. |
Where are the decent elearning platforms? | jasonlbaptiste: talk to markbao founder of classleaf.com |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | qw: The new one is much better. Clear and crisp. The top one looks like someone played around with Photoshop. Reminds me of the beginning of the web when it was popular to render 3D logos. |
Why did you choose Ubuntu? | TallGuyShort: I used to use Ubuntu, and at the time it was because of the community - it creates the next best thing to commerical support, IMO, and it's completely free. I also found Ubuntu to be an all-around very easy to administer and robust system. I've since switched to a BSD, as it seems like Ubuntu might start going downhill soon. I had all sorts of problems with the most recent release, and I think they've lost their edge. |
Where are the decent elearning platforms? | strooltz: I wouldn't say it's nice but moodle is an option... haven't used it in several years so I'm not sure as to the current state of the project... |
Do you have a "favorite" entrepreneur? Who? | dpatru: I like Sam Walton because he increased the spending power of a lot of Americans by making retail more efficient. I like that he aligned his business with his customers' interest. His business did well in proportion as it made his customers' better off. |
Why did you choose Ubuntu? | gengstrand: Well, I choose Ubuntu as a desktop environment because it runs all the software that I want for free and most of the software is easier to install than Windows which is not free. My perception is that Ubuntu is more stable and responsive than Vista and the GUI is just as slick. |
Why did you choose Ubuntu? | otto: I'm a Debian guy, but I gladly put Ubuntu on family/friends computers.The big plus on Debian/Ubuntu for me is the package manager. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | noonespecial: Who chooses the charity? Inheritance is just one subset of the what happens to my money when I die? question. Maybe I'd like to give it to a charity, maybe my children. Do I have that right or should some of it be confiscated and used for something I likely wouldn't approve of explicitly? If so, how much?We've just chosen the default case to be one's surviving relatives, in order of closeness, if a will doesn't specify otherwise.Perhaps we should just change the default? Or raise the taxes? Making "inheritance illegal" doesn't really have a practical meaning. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | _pius: What exactly is the rationale behind such an unfair concept?What's unfair about it? |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | btilly: I was all set for an interesting discussion on inheritance vs composition in OO design, and instead I got this?Ah well, I'll answer the question posed. To me the only reason to reward different people differently is to create incentives to motivate people to produce more. Inheriting great wealth takes people who likely have the ability to produce and robs them of the incentive. Therefore I find myself in complete agreement with Warren Buffett that a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | ionfish: Given all the discussions here recently about the unintended side-effects of changing incentive structures, it's worth bearing in mind that providing for one's children (including after one's own death) is an important—perhaps the important—incentive to attain material wealth. Take it away and you may find you have taken away much of the reason people work in the first place. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | russell: My SO has serious medical problems. Shouldnt I be able to leave her the house and some means of support. Most inheritances are fairly modest. Taking them away would only hurt the majority with little benefit to anyone. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | hga: Question 1: Is it your money, or the state's?Question 2: Do you like the ideas of the family farm and family small business?Question 3: What about life insurance for families? |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | jamesbritt: "in the interest of fairness."How exactly is "fairness" defined? I see that word used in discussions of social matters ("fair-trade coffee", "fair wages", "fair share of taxes") and it's assumed that everyone is just going to have the same idea of "fair" (or not bothering analyzing what the word is supposed to mean in the given context), and think, hey, *fair", who could be against that? People use it, but no one defines it.It's like asking someone if they like good food or good movies without making clear whose taste is deciding things.The only interesting argument I've seen that argued against inheritance asserted that once a person was dead they were no longer able to make any claim on the money, nor was there any person from whom that money could be taken; there's no owner; they simply not exist. Decisions made about property while still alive had no bearing; when you're dead, you're out of the picture. (It seems to avoid the whole issue of "fairness", too.)What wasn't explained to me was how one goes from that idea to it being OK then for the State to come and just take the wealth left behind. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | ddemchuk: If you don't like capitalism, move somewhere that doesn't use it as their economical system so life can be more "fair". You might not like that kids get their parent's wealth without technically earning it, but that's the nature of the game. Want the same wealth? Go earn it. That's the beauty of capitalism. The same reason that wealth was created in the first place is why you can also get it. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | tjr: It's not unfair to give an inheritance to your children; it's unfair not to. But I can't make everyone else do what I think is right. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | steveitis: 1. Why would you say it is 'unfair' of me to be able to decide who gets the benefit of my lifes work when I pass on?That's the rational. I earned it, so I decide who gets it. Usually my kids. YMMV from country to country, and state to state yadda.2. Why not mind your own business. I worked for it, and I'll decide what to do with it. If you'd like to decide the fate of vast wealth, than go earn vast wealth.3. You could even have a system that prevents people from whinging about how unfair life is on the internet whilst some people don't even have benefit of a decent soapbox, but it wouldn't make much sense either. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | grellas: In English history, the ages-ago method of bequeathing one's estate consisted of the "fee-tail" system - that is, property was passed (or "entailed") by lineal descent in a way that allowed the testator to control it for generations to come (for example, "I bequeath Blackacre to the eldest surviving male from x line, provided that he does not marry a non-Aryan wife and, if he does, then to the next male heir in succession and, should so-and-so (or anyone in his line) die without male issue, then Blackacre shall revert to the oldest surviving male in y line.") This is the world of Pride and Prejudice.Now that was a system that cried out for reform and it was reformed, in time, to the point where legislatures abolished the fee-tail system in favor of a "fee simple" system - meaning that, once property was transferred, the transferee had the full bundle of rights relating to its disposition, including the power to alienate it during that person's lifetime and the power generally to bequeath it to whomever that person desired.In the midst of this, the law injected value judgments of varying types, one of which was to favor children, meaning that if someone died intestate (without a will), the law set up default categories by which the decedent's property would pass, and this routinely favored spouse first and then direct lineal descendants, i.e., children. Indeed, even if a testator (person with a will) intended to disinherit children, he had to follow prescribed forms for doing so or the law would presume that he intended to leave appropriate shares to all children.This is the legacy we have in the United States from the English common law tradition. It is based fundamentally on the idea of private property and on laws promoting what we today call the "nuclear family." And this is, by and large, the way the law has continued to this day, though the idea of "family" has broadened somewhat.In theory, none of this needs to be as it is. If the state reigned supreme in people's lives, and if private property were regarded as an evil, then confiscatory policies could be enacted as desired. Of course, if one's estate were to be routinely confiscated upon one's death, then the equivalent of the modern "gift tax" proscription would also need to be in place, preventing a living person from making inter vivos transfers to his children as a way of circumventing the ultimate confiscation that society deemed to be fair. This would mean that the idea of "private property" would become largely illusory. No one would own property as such. Rather, each person would have a lease of sorts on property during one's lifetime, with a reversionary interest held by the government.Since such a system would ultimately lead to widespread government confiscation, it would not long leave us with a free society but rather one in which we each would be required to seek permission from the sovereign state to use "its" resources as its bureaucrats and regulators deemed just.The modern estate tax doesn't do this because, even while it seeks to promote the idea of busting up large estates at a person's death in the name of fairness, it comes nowhere close to doing this. The vast majority of average middle class people have always fallen under the minimum threshold such that the tax has not applied to them and, if it has, it has applied in a comparatively innocuous way - that is, it has imposed a tax on some portion of the estate such that the heirs still retained the larger portion. For extremely wealthy people, a system of foundations has been established by which the heirs can effectively control the family fortune even as it bypasses the normal estate-tax mechanism.Thus, the question becomes, is the fee-simple form of property ownership, with its system of vesting the full powers of ownership and disposition in the hands of private individuals largely free from the authority of the state, a system in need of reform in the same way that, say, the old fee-tail system cried out for reform?This is ultimately a question of the values a society seeks to reflect, with a state-run society of individuals largely beholden to the government for major elements of their subsistence versus a society grounded in individual rights, as best summed up in the Declaration of Independence, who are free to engage in "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" free of the influence of the state. "Fairness" in this context in a purely subjective term rooted in one set of values or the other.It took centuries to move from a system of medieval serfdom to a system of fee-tail to a private property system of fee-simple ownership. I doubt that we would want to throw the modern system of property ownership away without some pretty careful thought and not without careful consideration of what has happened (or one might say the horrors of what has happened) in societies that do not respect private property ownership. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | jganetsk: I thought this was a question about programming.And yes, I think inheritance in programming should be illegal. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | roundsquare: Here are a few reasons I disagree with you. Let me know what you think.1) The point of gathering wealth is to somehow make yourself happier. Without this, wealth is meaningless. One of the things that make many parents happy is the knowledge that their kids will be well off. If you take that away, you are removing one method of achieving happiness through wealth.Now, as a society, we do eliminate methods of gaining happiness through wealth. E.g. we don't allow you (legally anyway) to use your money to hire an assassin. There are other, less glamorous limits as well, such as limits on what you can buy in the stock market, etc... Each of these limits has a reason (or should anyway, if it doesn't, we should get rid of the limit) that relates to harming society. You seem to be saying that the money could be better used in other ways by the government. Although I question if the current incarnation of government would do so (in any country) I'll grant the premise for now, but still disagree.I disagree because not only is making one's kids well off one way to gain happiness through wealth, it is a hugely significant way for many parents. If you want to change the inheritance laws, society needs to weaken the connection between parents and children, something which I don't believe would be a good thing.2) You seem to think of inheritance as money. Its not just money. Inheritance is also property and rights (and other things? I'm not sure). With your system, after a few generations the government would own everything. Sure, we could find a way to have the government disperse these properties and rights, but this would be a very cumbersome system that would need to be frequently implemented and its unlikely to produce fair results. For example, lets say we do an auction when each person dies. How would people place bids? How can we make sure everyone is allowed to place bids? How can we make sure the rich don't use this to pick up things at way under market/reasonable value because they happen to be awake during the bidding process? Etc... You can probably create a system that solves the questions I asked, but it would be cumbersome and difficult to manage.The problem is even worse with rights. Lets say I own some long term debt... i.e. I have the legal right to receive cash from a someone periodically over the next 20 (say) years. Now, if I die... who gets the rights to that cash? You want to auction that off as well? Who even knows I have that right? I may have it written down, but it may just be an informal contract with someone. This can be a problem even now, but with wills, people will want to write it down for the sake of their children.3) In reality, I don't accept your premise that a governing body would do a better job with the inheritance. We see now that so many government programs are a waste (even though many are a success. I'm not being anti-government here). Do we really want to trust some body to use this money? This leaves so much room for error. Also, there are individual/family needs that won't be taken into account. The sick significant other is a big one (mentioned by @russell) and I'm sure there are more.4) Think of how weird the situation is. Say you save up for your kid to go to private school or college. If you stay alive during that period your kid gets through it without debt. But, if someone hits you with a car, suddenly your kid will need to get loans? That doesn't make any sense. To reconcile this, either you need to do what you said and limit what kids can get while the parents are alive, or allow inheritance.Lets say we go with option 1 (limiting what kids can get while alive) and say the private school is a religious school. Now, the parents are sending their kids there because they want to instill certain values. So now, we are limiting the parents rights to instill these values? This is not something that should happen in a free society.Just some thoughts... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | rlpb: Should giving gifts be illegal?> What exactly is the rationale behind such an unfair concept?What's the difference (in real terms) between giving a gift before you die and giving a gift after you die?> ...limits how much money parents can give to their childrenWhy are you singling out parents giving money to their children? If we want the freedom to give gifts to whoever we please, we also must accept that most people will want to give gifts to their children.There is also the obvious evolutionary benefit if you consider the "selfish gene" (Dawkins). |
Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter? | alanthonyc: This sounds interesting. It's been a while, but the compiler I built for a project class I in college was the most satisfying thing I've ever built.What language are you thinking of implementing? |
How best to collaborate with designers? | mun411: There is great article by Neil Patel on how to hire a Good Designer.hope you might find this helpfulhttp://www.quicksprout.com/2009/12/02/how-to-hire-a-good-des... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | julien: PubSubHubbub : Bringing an end to the stupid feed polling we're tried to fight for years (see SUP from Friendfeed, AtomStreams... etc). |
Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter? | MaysonL: Take a look at OMeta and Factor. |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | smiler: Can I ask a non-technical question about analysing the real-time web...What's the business benefit? I don't think enough happens 'real time' for it to make much of a difference - reading a few blogs, news websites, digg / reddit & trending topics on twitter is enough to catch up on what happened in the world in a day.Has anyone actually thought of anything that could make this useful? |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | fleitz: Hadoop is designed as a batch processing framework not a real-time analysis framework. If your analysis functions are idempotent with regard to future data in the time domain simply compute summaries for each "block" down to the resolution supported for that age of data such that your summaries fit in memory. Save ALL the data to hadoop in case you need to replay it later. The answer to your question depends very much on whether you can summarize your data in the time domain. eg. if computing an average store block summaries as the average AND the number of items so that future summaries can be easily integrated. There is no one answer that will solve any possible analysis function, you'll need to optimize your system around the analysis function you want to perform and perhaps have a few different systems purpose built for different types of analysis. |
Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter? | bdfh42: I have had a go at writing both a small interpreter and a small compiler. I found both exercises intellectually rewarding and will probably come back to this at some time in the future.I used the .NET platform and the IL assembler language as my output so I suppose I kept some distance from the "metal" but otherwise explored the challenges.I was reminded of the sheer pleasure of this activity When I recently re-read Douglas Crockford's chapter in the "Beautiful Code" book. In it he describes a short but elegant interpreter written in Javascript. |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | jey: What's the objective? We need to decide on what we want "analyze" to mean before we can evaluate/debate the merits of different techniques. |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | physcab: Although I haven't really delved into it that much, HBase (and other "NoSQL" databases) supposedly address the latency and structured data points. I brought up HBase as opposed to Cassandra or Redis because HBase sits on top of HDFS and has a Hadoop/MapReduce API. |
Social Nets - Can I have my data back please? | aj: That is actually a cool idea. As an extension or a greasemonkey script, it might actually work quite well |
Social Nets - Can I have my data back please? | brk: What problem are you solving with this? It seems like you are adding a lot of overhead and needless data to a simple system. |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | ig1: Have a look at what the financial industry use, they've been tackling high volume low-latency realtime data feed analysis problems for the last couple of decades. Time series databases (such as kx/kdb) are popular as are propriety in-memory databases (often based on something like BerkleyDB). |
Where are the decent elearning platforms? | camwest: We are a small startup working on a video based learning platform http://woople.com/. It is currently in a private beta and we are hoping to have a more public marketing website/launch by June 2010. It is definitely not the traditional LMS though.LMS is a crutch a lot of organizations use to avoid having to truly train and educate their employees and instead stick them in front of a machine. If you are looking for merely compliance training, woople definitely isn't the right tool. That said, feel free to reach out to me: cameron (at) woople.com, I'd love to see the format of your courseware and determine if it would make sense to work together. |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | dabent: Clickable: http://www.elograde.com/ |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | icey: Is there any way to try this out without registering?If not, do you have a demo account we could use? |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | icey: I'm looking at it now, but I'm not sure what some of these things mean. Your photo priority is 2 and you have 9 credits.
What does photo priority mean? What can I do with the credits?What is your target audience for this? The verbiage is very technical across all of the pages, and I couldn't see anyone who wasn't technical really understand what's going on.The voting functionality works all the ways I would expect it to - the buttons at the bottom of the photos or clicking on the photo I liked best both worked. The keyboard interface was a nice touch. It's clear that you've spent a lot of time thinking about how the voting would work.I did have some problems with the navigation. It didn't feel very well considered, and I didn't like having to go back to the front page in order to get back to the main menu options. It would have been nice to have a navigation bar somewhere that would let me jump to all of the major sections. |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | jacquesm: http://likebetter.com/ |
Review my app - Wallet Garden | tdoggette: It won't load. |
Review my app - Wallet Garden | DanielStraight: How does this beat emailing the information to yourself? |
Make one prediction for 2010. | cperciva: Jupiter will start fusing Hydrogen, resulting in the warming of its moons and the melting of Europa's ice. |
Make one prediction for 2010. | Femur: -Personal income tax rates in the US will be increased.-Google will strike some sort of a deal with Hulu or Boxee.-The price of oil will hit $100+ again.-Chrome OS will be a huge hit. |
Please review my webapp for Twitter over IM | anigbrowl: I like it, it was easy to sign up and worked first time (and I'm not a big twitter fan). It's good that you solicit ideas in your forum...but take some time out to do some graphic design so it doesn't look like a student project. |
Anyone have experience with Fat Free CRM? | jmonegro: No, but you can always get it up and running for free on Heroku to try it out. |
Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships) | aidscholar: Clickable: http://aidscholar.com/ |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jason_g: Another vote for Linode. |
Productivity Is Lacking | nostrademons: You've just done a lot of work, and it's Christmas vacation. Give yourself a break.I really enjoy programming too, but that doesn't mean I want to spend every waking moment doing it (okay, I guess I do spend most waking moments doing it ;-)). When I don't feel like doing anything, I don't, and I try not to stress out about it. I occasionally fail, but it's good to remind myself that not everything has to be something productive.Otherwise, you're heading down the road to burnout. Disinterest in your projects is a sign that your brain needs a rest...give it one. |
Review my FB App. | hajrice: Clickable link: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=371323550620 |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | mattdennewitz: django, git, celeryd, mongodb, redis, tornado, appengine, superfeedr, phsb, and opencalais come to mind |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | chrisgoodrich: The consumer and business smart phone markets are converging.What is the difference between a "business smart phone" and a "consumer smart phone" anymore? Smart phone's used to be inherently business focused due to their higher cost and complexity, but the iPhone and Android have brought smart phones to consumers.Thus I don't believe we have a "business smart phone" market any longer; instead we have a "smart phone" market. |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | cjoh: RIMM will see its market share eroded by Google, Apple, and Microsoft over the next 5 years. So will Microsoft. I think Microsoft, in the next 5 years, will need to buy RIMM to stay in the mobile sector. |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | mcotton: There is a great utility called "LittleSnitch" that is a must have for the mac. It alerts you of all outgoing TCP connections. It lets you know what programs are calling home. |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | kierank: RIM still have the killer-app for business mobile phones, which is simple corporate email integration, sorted with relative ease. |
Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships) | paraschopra: Great design. One suggestion: make it very clear if it finds scholarships internationally or is it just restricted to US?Looks like it is limited to US only. Plus your database size looks small at the moment.But it is great start and a genuine problem you have solved. |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | bbgm: When I joined my group pretty much everyone was either using a blackberry (the majority) or Windows Mobile phones. Today the majority are iPhones. Thats for a group that has grown a lot since then too, so one could easily argue that the other manufacturers (at least Apple) are making inroads into the business phone market without the need to make dedicated devices. |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | Shamiq: Knox for encrypted volumes. That, and don't put anything on it you wouldn't be okay with losing... |
Productivity Is Lacking | teuobk: Would you be interested in an "accountabilibudy" (with apologies to South Park)? I'm finding myself in a bit of a productivity rut at the moment, too, and perhaps some sort of ongoing dialogue would be mutually beneficial. Interested? |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | makecheck: Use the Keychain Access utility (/Applications/Utilities) to store things that are really important, and use applications that are aware of the Keychain. This encrypts only a small amount of data, yet the system prompts you when an application tries to access it without permission.I haven't really given FileVault a fair shot, but after I heard years ago that (the first version of) it had a bug that could make user data unrecoverable, I wasn't eager to try it. |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | colonelxc: Filevault is okay for protecting your data from being stolen when your laptop is. It only encrypts your home directory, so you have no assurance about the integrity of the rest of your system. If you're only worried about getting your laptop stolen, not a big deal. On the other hand, if you're super paranoid that someone came in and tainted your system when you were away from your computer for 10 minutes, maybe you want a different solution.Of course, usual advice applies (strong passwords, including the master password if you set it) |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | roundsquare: Because blackberry's integrate well with outlook. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | gtani: loose summary:- dynamic languages: ruby/rails/merb/sinatra,, python/django/twisted/tornado, groovy/grails (nobody mentioned scala very much)- FP, erlang, clojure, F#, haskell;- noSQL: KV store, doc-oriented db, ..- message queues and brokers: AMQP, rabbitMQ, XMPP,- javascript/ browser capabilities: jquery, node.js, BOSH, other libs- hosting, deploy, VCS: VPS, EC2, git, |
What programming font do you use and why? | j_baker: I use anonymous pro: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.htmlAdmittedly, I use it because it's pretty. Hence why I started a question to find out more about what makes a good programming font. |
What programming font do you use and why? | sidmitra: Consolas at 10pt. |
What programming font do you use and why? | nailer: Any sans-serif monospaced font with good 'eye' and 'el' / 'zero' and 'oh' distinction.- Microsoft's Consolas is generally quite good on Windows- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono on Linux- Whatever OS X comes with by default (yaay, no need to change anything)are all good. |
What programming font do you use and why? | seegate: I just read this article: http://nickgravgaard.com/cgi-bin/elastictabstopsnews/blosxom...He compares proportional fonts with monospaced fonts for programming, and after looking at his screenshots I think I'm going to have to try it for myself. |
What programming font do you use and why? | dthakur: I love CodingFontTobi (http://www.proggyfonts.com/). It's all over my system (Visual Studio, vim, cmd/cygwin etc). |
What programming font do you use and why? | grayrest: Monaco at 11pton windowsDroid Sans Mono at 11pt with a dotted 0:http://www.cosmix.org/software/ |
What programming font do you use and why? | nek4life: Here's a pretty nice list of programming fonts.http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/I like DejaVu sans and Monaco |
What programming font do you use and why? | andrewcooke: schumacher clean. fixed width. easy to read. and the "a" looks like an "a" should. |
Better duplicate identification | brk: Makes sense to me. It also seems that a good part of the dupes come from the fact that the full URL is used as the identifier. And often times that URL has a lot of referrer garbage and similar data in it. It would seem there could be some logic to try and pare URLs down somewhat in the comparator code. |
Productivity Is Lacking | mschy: Momentum is key. Find a way to get yourself starting doing something (e.g. sign up for those language or dance classes or what not), and continuing is comparatively easy. |
What programming font do you use and why? | keefe: eclipse default because I don't particularly care |
Better duplicate identification | riffer: It should also help supplement the spam filtering. Taking a quick look at /noobstories, a bunch of these would die solely from this. Which should in turn make the /newest page somewhat better, which can only be a good thing. |
What programming font do you use and why? | adamzochowski: For code and console I love pixel fonts, so:
Terminal 6px (included with all Windows)
Envy Code A 7px
http://damieng.com/creative/typography/envy-code-aI can't stand blurry fonts for code (especially since, at small sizes, text looks a blotch of blur). So, if I want small fonts (such as 6pixels by 8pixels) it better be pixel crystal clear hand tweaked. A font can do anti-aliasing or LCD based sub-pixeling, but that is more towards book reading / open office, than coding. |
Better duplicate identification | Tichy: Maybe a good way to identify duplicates could be a comparison of word frequencies (or frequencies of 3 word sentences or something like that)? Perhaps that way one could eliminate the "layout" and identify the core text.I would like to create a library for that, if I could find the time :-/ Maybe then sites like HN would have an easier time to include the functionality.Not sure if counting frequencies would be enough to identify the duplicates that have been filtered through translation. Interesting stuff. |
Better duplicate identification | pierrefar: The NYT, Huff Post, and others do LOTS of experiments with title and click through rate measurements. It is very likely that a submitted page will have a different title later. |
What programming font do you use and why? | c_allison: I use Proggy Clean (Slashed Zero) 12pt from:
http://www.proggyfonts.com/ |
What programming font do you use and why? | artagnon0: Emacs23 XFT default. They're very pretty as it is imho. |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | pwim: android's integration with Google Apps makes it attractive to businesses already using Google Apps. |
What programming font do you use and why? | geeksam: TextMate is currently set to Inconsolata at 15pt. Comparing screenshots of that vs. Monaco 13, it looks like the anti-aliasing adds a lot of bulk to the characters in Monaco -- Inconsolata's characters seem a little clearer to me.But thanks for the link, seegate -- maybe I'll try a proportional font for a few days and see what I think. (= |
Better duplicate identification | andreyf: Are dups that big of a problem? |
Better duplicate identification | sp332: Maybe borrow a feature from Stack Overflow, which presents similar-sounding stories before posting? Some client-side JS which pulls the page, heuristically picks some "interesting" words, and runs them through search.yc? |
How do I regain my attention span? | lani: fitness : a daily session of deep-breathing-and-sweat-inducing muscle-paining excercise for 30 minutes is my recommendation |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | yan: My list is pretty small:* The Economist - great bathroom reading, good analysis of issues.* Scientific American's Mind - I love reading about neuroscience and psychology experiments* Rolling Stone - I bought tickets to a concert once and they started sending it to me for free. Eh sometimes interesting.* Rock and Ice* Climbing - I climb, so they are relevant. |
What programming font do you use and why? | parbo: DejaVu Sans Mono for me. It looks great and it's freely available for all platforms I use. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | mrduncan: Inc and Fast Company at the moment. They are usually a mixed bag of good and not so good. For the price though ($12/year) they're tough to beat for decent on-the-go reading. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | epall: I really enjoy IEEE Spectrum, although it's not worth the price of professional membership to me now that I'm losing my student status. It's pretty deeply technical, but not way off into academic land, and it gives me a great read on where the EE industry is at. Things like crazy new semiconductor technologies or batteries that will enable whole new categories of electronics show up in Spectrum all the time. The future of technology is notoriously hard to predict, but Spectrum at least provides an overview of what might be coming.The best part? It's available online: http://spectrum.ieee.org/ |
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