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Rate my essay, please: On thinking | frederickcook: Thanks to everyone for reading. As @nedwin says below, the quality and quantity of the responses here demonstrate the quality of this community. |
Who's going to PyCon? | bockris: I am and I can't wait.see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076401 |
Getting started with Clojure | darkxanthos: I want to get started in Clojure too. Rich Hickey's talks on InfoQ have been making me feel kind of funny... like when we used to climb the ropes in gym class.But seriously, yeah I'd love to find a project to play with its concurrency features and learn some gui as well. |
Getting started with Clojure | gtani: I haven't done any GUI's in clojure, but i think swing is best doc'd, stuart Sierra series:http://stuartsierra.com/2010/01/03/doto-swing-with-clojure?0...http://stuartsierra.com/2010/01/02/first-steps-with-clojure-...--------------------or SWT:http://berlinbrowndev.blogspot.com/2009/02/doing-it-wrong-fu...http://www.li-am.com/2009/08/button-in-eclipse-swt-clojure.h...http://www.li-am.com/2009/08/swt-is-alive-from-clojure.htmlhttp://www.li-am.com/2009/08/jface-examples-in-clojure.html----------------there's also bits on Qt and JWT, search for them |
Getting started with Clojure | Zak: It's a big help if you have a baseline ability to read Java, as it's likely the example code for libraries you'll want to use is in Java. You don't need to be able to create a baroque class hierarchy yourself as long as you can navigate one well enough to figure out the library calls you need to use.Clojure is a fairly gentile introduction to functional programming, I think. You can do imperative-style things with the reference types, so you don't need to completely learn how to structure the logic of a program. |
Getting started with Clojure | francoisdevlin: I strongly recommend Stuart Halloway's book, Programming Clojure.http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojureMark Volkmann also wrote a pretty good article:http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.htmlStop by the Google group with ANY questions. No question is too silly. We're all dying to help.http://groups.google.com/group/clojureOnce you get the basics down, and you don't mind some shameless self promotion...http://vimeo.com/channels/fulldisclojureSFD |
Getting started with Clojure | anonjon: That's what I did to learn Clojure.The only problem with starting off doing GUI is that you will be in javadoc hell learning swing (or whatever) at the same time as Clojure. But it is nice having GUI essentially baked into the language. |
Getting started with Clojure | jacquesm: I found this comment to be most helpful:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033503 |
What's the difference here? (HP and Apple multitouch) | stcredzero: Really, why is it that this:http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/index.h...caused so much less of a splash than this?http://www.apple.com/ipad/It's a given that Apple is better at marketing. But what else? I can envision doing some serious work on the HP devices. |
a website to make mockups of your site that was on here some time ago. | mbrubeck: Was it http://balsamiq.com/ ? |
a website to make mockups of your site that was on here some time ago. | aditya: http://gomockingbird.comTry http://searchyc.com btw, if you can't find stuff on google :) |
Review App : Build Apps Online, over Google App Engine | jarsj: Can you give a running example of atleast one application built using this ? I tried creating something for a long time but couldn't do much. |
Review App : Build Apps Online, over Google App Engine | krakensden: Very cool, this was something I hoped/expected would happen with App Engine.There's a lot of value (and hopefully some money) in making the answer to "I need a web presence" simple for non-hackers.Some questions:
Why comic sans? It looks goofy.
Why iFreeTools? 'Free' in the name often projects an image of low-quality.
How are you making money? Ads? If I make an app, will it have your ads in it? (And can I pay to remove them...) |
Rate my essay, please: On thinking | keefe: Overall, very nice essay. I think you probably could have trimmed it down just a touch more. imho, there are multiple things going on here : reviewing a speech or revising an essay, even just in your head, is actual productive work and should be treated as such and I also tend to do this while occupied with other things like transit or exercise. There's another side too, though - relaxation or recreation. I feel like our mind like our muscles can't always be tensing and growing stronger, but that it also must take time to rest and grow stronger. |
Getting started with Clojure | mark_l_watson: Setting up IntelliJ (version 9, either free open soirce version or commercial version)with the Clojure plugin was a good start for me. I bought Stuart's book (physical book) and the other two Closure books as work in progress PDFs - good references and a help to write idiomatic Clojure code.BTW, IntelliJ free version also works well with the Scala plugin, so you can mix Java+Clojure+Scala in one project. With the commercial version, you can add JRuby to the mix. |
looking for a linux script/app to block my Internet from 10pm-6am? | pasbesoin: I seem to recall that some routers/hubs support schedules. In the personal equipment arena, maybe something that can be flashed with a version of WRT or with Tomato?E.g. (although it appears to be only controlling the wireless radio as opposed to overall connectivity):Precise Radio Scheduling with DD WRThttp://markspizz.net/?p=389Then again, if you have other data (entertainment, Netfix, etc) flowing through the same equipment, this approach may not suit or may need refinement. |
Review App : Build Apps Online, over Google App Engine | teye: Some input on your homepage:Every database application I create is already online. A more descriptive headline would help.Listing each cloud's contents in a vertical list will make them easier to read/digest.It's nice that it's made for App Engine, but that doesn't deserve more prominence than your walk-through link. |
review my startup - Desktop Application Analytics | pwhelan: I don't have the time to take a real look at it yet (at my plain ol desk job). I like the idea, site construction looks good. However, the first thing I noticed is that the "See Through the Darkness" paragraph on the right-hand side. The paragraph goes too low, into the whitespace (I'm using firefox 3). The rest of the front page looks so nice that it stands out.I'll take a look at it some more later. Best of luck. |
Review App : Build Apps Online, over Google App Engine | megamark16: Wow, very similar to the app I'm working on right now (though mine is based on Django). Glad to see that other people are doing the same stuff, hopefully that means it's worthwhile, right? Good luck! |
Review App : Build Apps Online, over Google App Engine | dzenanr: Building a web application without programming is a challenging task. It is relatively easy to support simple domain models that have a few entities. When a domain model starts having relationships, things get more complicated. Will you support relationships in future? Or your business strategy is to start with simple domain models and then redirect users to your custom-made apps? |
How can I improve my email deliverability through Google Apps? | thinkbohemian: Does the problem happen with all email accounts or just some? (microsoft servers such as live.com and hotmail.com notoriously delete and reject valid emails when others do not).Besides spf, make sure that you comply with can-spam guidelines. Ensure that your DNS entries are correct and that the url that you are sending from @example.com resolves to the same ip address as that url example.com. Here is some more info http://postmaster.msn.com/Guidelines.aspx . I had to add sender ID to my dns to get hotmail to accept forwarded messages from my disposable email service http://whyspam.mehttp://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/senderid...get back with some more info, and i'll help you troubleshoot, seeing as how email is my current specialty. |
Review App : Build Apps Online, over Google App Engine | hello_moto: It looks like you took the ideas (CRM, Creator) from your previous employer (Zoho) and put them in Google AppEngine... |
Review my app, Yar Matey | abinoda: I came up with the idea for Yar Matey last fall when applying for housing at UIUC. Many incoming Freshmen peruse Facebook groups looking for roommates in order to avoid being randomly assigned one by the university. I found paging through Facebook discussion boards to be horribly inefficient and envisioned an app that combined Facebook’s omnipresence with focused functionality to aid in searching for roommates.Yar Matey is a pirate-themed site where college students can find potential roommates. Built with Facebook Connect, the user experience is modeled around how students typically look for roommates on Facebook — select your school, fill out an easy survey, then look for roommates.I built the site in about a week. |
Education and Poor | tokenadult: http://www.amazon.com/School-Dead-Penguin-education-specials...http://www.amazon.com/Deschooling-Society-Open-Forum-Illich/...orhttp://www.amazon.com/Economic-Theory-Retrospect-Mark-Blaug/...for a somewhat different perspective. |
Settlers Of Catan For iPad? | jasonlbaptiste: this is a really smart idea. |
iPad can run my existing apps, so what about app distribution rights? | allenbrunson: Why would this be a problem? If your app costs a certain amount, Apple gives you your 70 percent cut when anybody buys it, regardless of what device it runs on.So the fact that iPhone apps will now run on the iPad as well seems like a good thing for developers. |
iPad can run my existing apps, so what about app distribution rights? | jacquesm: This is a similar issue to Journalists writing stuff they retained copyright on and then saw re-used for other media.Personally, if I were an iPhone developer (which I'm not) I wouldn't have much a problem with it, and I'd do my best to release an iPad version with some extra bells and whistles that only works on the iPad, then give users that buy both a discount.Everybody wins like that. |
Why should programmers/developers should blog? | yan: "definite must"? If I find a successful developer, for some value of successful, that doesn't blog, would that prove your friend wrong?You need to decide what your goals are. Are you striving to optimize your career for followers/notoriety? Than yeah, having a blogging/twitter/social media presence is a must. If you're striving to optimize your life for maximum profits and earnings, than having an online presence can help, but is probably not a must. If you're striving to become a great developer/programmer and are doing it for the love of the craft, then spending time blogging/twittering/etc will probably get in your way. |
Why should programmers/developers should blog? | audidude: keep a journal. whether or not you post that online is up to you. |
iPad can run my existing apps, so what about app distribution rights? | jmount: The deal has always been the iTunes store APP runs on all devices synced to the iTunes account. So a single user can already be running it on a flotilla of iPhones and iPod Touches. |
Why should programmers/developers should blog? | tom_pinckney: If you're interested in building consumer products, using popular consumer products like Twitter is a must. It's just sort of expected that you have this background when you go talk to other consumer internet people. Plus your products will be better if you're inspired by all the other interesting things other people are already building. |
Why should programmers/developers should blog? | bootload: "... if you (aka myself) plan on having any part in tech (I'm studying CS) that you should blog ..."Thinking about things isn't enough. Putting ideas into words lets you develop new ideas. Making something and writing about tells others about your new ideas. There is also another reason: you get to define yourself online. Nature might "abhor a vacuum" but google doesn't care. [0] It will associate something to a search term against your name. Better it be something you have written.[0] Idomatic use of the phrase "horror vacui" described by aristotle ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_thermodynamics |
If the iPad succeeds, what will this do to business applications? | noodle: most heavy lifting business applications are complex, and built with efficiency of the user in mind. it is difficult to reduce a very complex system down into a simple UI without killing efficiency. i've tried. (or maybe the software i work on is just way too complex). so, most business apps do their best to make a good UI, and then throw a manual at users and say "learn the system". |
Education and Poor | subud: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/ |
Why should programmers/developers should blog? | anonjon: It is a definite must if you want to be a really famous developer.I think if you want to be a really great developer you should write code. |
Education and Poor | digamber_kamat: thank you guys. your help has been invaluable. |
Why should programmers/developers should blog? | samaparicio: The #1 reason for blogging for a programmer should be altruism, since there is so much that programmers learn from blogs.If you only read books, then don't blog.If you ever saved time or got a tip or some code from a blog, then you owe the rest of the programmer community.I think that's the right spirit. |
So how many of you know for REBOL? | mahmud: I wrote web scrappers in Rebol before I moved to Perl and LWP. A nify little thing, I shelf it along with Factor as impressive little languages I will probably not use again. |
So how many of you know for REBOL? | vorador: After using free languages for so many years, I can't switch back to a proprietary one. |
Good books for starting functional programming? | gtani: Freely available content books:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088594 |
Rate our project: Tweetz.tv, Televize your Twitter | axod: It'd be nice if you could view the public stream without signing in to twitter.edit: also I haven't logged in and checked yet, but it'd be neat if you have a trending videos, hot videos, over a few time periods, etc. Maybe by category also if you get the youtube metadata, so [view hot videos in the "news" category in the last day]. Definitely tie into the youtube gdata API if you haven't already. |
Rate our project: Tweetz.tv, Televize your Twitter | aditya: Reading the headline, I thought it would make people read out your tweets on TV.It's nice but the public stream is pretty much like http://www.youtube.com/videos?s=pop - right? I'm not sure how this is better? and my private stream was kinda empty so perhaps its just me not being your target audience, or my friends not being into video enough! |
Embedded Systems? | cperciva: What sort of embedded systems are you interested in? There are "embedded systems" which consist of standard server hardware with some preinstalled software (aka. "server appliances"); there are "embedded systems" which consist of low power boards running general purpose operating systems (e.g., cheap home routers); there are "embedded systems" which run specialized operating systems (e.g., the Martian rovers, running a commercially-available RTOS); and there are "embedded systems" which don't run what you'd recognize as an OS at all (e.g., your car, your TV, my blood glucose tester, etc). |
Embedded Systems? | mru: I would recommend getting a Beagleboard[1] or a Hawkboard[2], both low-cost single-board systems with somewhat differing capabilities.[1] http://beagleboard.org/
[2] http://hawkboard.org/ |
Embedded Systems? | ax0n: A startup I worked for in 2006 was ostensibly building embedded systems for their server farm. Granted: We were talking about x86 boxes, but they would boot from 32MB of flash. Hundreds of them, we built. In our case, we were running a custom-packaged version of OpenBSD.A few suggestions: Play with small, embeddable OSes on commodity hardware: uCLinux or even TinyCore/PuppyLinux, make a tiny BSD derivative to start out with.Mostly, the startup was using 1U Rackmount servers that booted from USB "thumb" drives, but we also built a few bookPCs for other purposes. Our SMS/TXT Gateway systems were using Soekris Engineering systems. Those are neat (if pricey) x86 "Embedded" systems. And they're very well executed and great for taking the next step into tinkering with Embedded systems. Someone mentioned Beagleboard as well. I haven't ever used one, but some folks in the hackerspace nearby have been tinkering with them a lot, and that also seems like a good way to go, and more cost effective than Soekris stuff.Pick up some Fonera routers or old wrt54g stuff to play with. Most of these are MIPS or Atheros System-on-chip.Another one of my favorites is old HP Jornada clamshells. They run WinCE by default on ARMv4x hardware, but you can get a bootloader that you can run from Compact Flash which will load a smallish Linux distro up. http://jlime.com/ - for example.Once you're more comfortable with using the embedded operating systems, you can figure out how to cross-compile for these platforms. You will rarely write code and compile it directly on the target environment. From there, you've pretty much got it figured out.As cperciva said, everything from Mr. Coffee and your TV, to your car and modern oscilloscopes are powered by embedded systems. Many of these run proprietary firmware on common microcontrollers, so they don't really have an operating system as such. I'd recommend getting into microcontroller programming next. Or, heck, get into microcontroller programming while messing with some of the easier and higher-level embedded toys. I'd start with the Arduino or Propeller platform. Both are great for learning the ropes. |
Embedded Systems? | macemoneta: Head over to http://makezine.com/ for lots of projects to get started. Many are based on the Arduino, which you can pick up for under $30 USD:http://www.makershed.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=43It's probably the easiest and lowest cost way to get your hands dirty. |
Google Goes Popular? | sounddust: Are you using Google Scholar for this research? http://scholar.google.com/ |
Embedded Systems? | brk: If you are comfortable with C, I would recommend you look at PICs mostly.The BAISC Stamp series, or the Arduino's are too get started with as well, but they may be too simplistic and the core of the chip is too removed from direct access to really be "fun" if you want to explore true embedded systems (IMO).The PIC has many variants and has been popular for a long time. So, you can find lots of good references online for interfacing to Ethernet chipsets, GPS chips, gyros, etc.You would probably want to also pick up a "EE 101" type book. To do anything of purpose with an embedded system you generally end up interfacing to external hardware. So, the likes of pullup and pulldown resistors, transistors, op-amps, diodes, RC (resistor/capacitor) circuits and so on become regular components. |
Google Goes Popular? | icey: I wonder if this might have something to do with it:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082209 |
Embedded Systems? | follower: I'd also recommend taking a look at the Arduino (http://arduino.cc/).The main reasons I got started with it is that you can start learning "at the top" with the "Arduino language" (really a C/C++ subset with some pre-processing) and you don't have to re-start from scratch as you make your way as far down as bare-assembly level (if you really want to go down that far) because the underlying tool chain (gcc) is the same (and also, open source/free software if that's important to you).Because the project has aimed at non-technical users from the start the forums are very friendly to people just starting out.If at some point you want to get away from the higher level interface the Arduino environment provides, you can keep using all the same hardware so you don't have to throw away your hardware investment.You also have a choice in expenditure, from the official boards through the lower-priced "clones", then the non-USB runtime boards to the bare chip on a breadboard.The Arduino environment doesn't have integrated debugging outside of serial console and LEDs but in general that's not too much of a hindrance--if you really want it you can look at some of the other tools for the AVR chips.There's plenty of third-party library support for attaching different devices/sensors.Once you reach the limit of what you can do with an Arduino you can look at some of the other chips in the AVR family or some of the semi-compatible ARM-based boards. |
Your favorite guide/learn-to | gtani: look up whytheluckystiff's ruby tut's, the sine qua non for some of "brilliant!" (and "huh?" for othershttp://whymirror.github.com/ |
Embedded Systems? | olefoo: Hitachi makes a NAS head under the name SimpleTech, it's got ethernet and two USB ports and has fully open source software.It runs on a little startech ARM SOC and once you get a cross compilation toolchain set up, it's easy to run stuff on it by loading from a usb drive.http://www.simpletech.com/products/storage/simplenet/simplen...I can remember having laptops less powerful than these units, so they are roomy and fast by the standards of most embedded developers. But for prototyping stuff they are excellent. |
What tools do you use for Web Development? | Paton: Design: Photoshop CS3Code: Aptana StudioFTP: FileZillaI just downloaded Stylizer... going to try it out. |
What tools do you use for Web Development? | chaosmachine: All the usual suspects, plus Komodo and XAMMP. |
Rate our project: Tweetz.tv, Televize your Twitter | domodomo: Not sure if you are looking for this kind of feedback, but UI critique: I kept trying to click the light blue text, thinking it was a link. In fact, my assumption was finally validated, but only at the very bottom 'sign in with your Twitter' link.I also agree, you should just stick the public stream (or an abbreviated version of it) on the front page, there should be no steps required to get a taste of how things works. At the very least, a screenshot of how it looks on the front page...need something to entice me to log in.Once I logged in though, yes I dig it. I like that you can retweet from within the interface. The UI is simple and works quite well, push that out to the front page! |
Is there an app that creates network graphics... | zeynel1: http://magazine.wsj.com/features/the-big-interview/desiree-r... |
Google Goes Popular? | vitobcn: When I was a student I used CiteSeer all the time, but I guess it depends on the area of your research.http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ |
Google Goes Popular? | byrneseyeview: Add filetype:pdf to your query. |
Is there an app that creates network graphics... | hsuresh: Check out prefuse.org and processing.org. Both are excellent libraries to create such visualizations. Not sure if you are looking for something else. |
What tools do you use for Web Development? | csmeder: Ruby on Rails/JavaScript/CSS- JQuery- VIM- git- Gimp- Xara Extreme |
What tools do you use for Web Development? | carbon8: A lot of different stuff, but the things I depend on the most for actual work and direct OSS offshoots:Snow Leopard, Ubuntu server & VMs, XP VM (using VirtualBox)Ruby, Haskell, Python, JavascriptTextMate, vimgit, gitx, git gui, vcpromptbashhomebrewpostgresql, pgadminrvmjquerysass, compassgemcutter, githublinodechefgoogle appsphotoshop, illustratorFirefox w/ firebug, firecookie, firequery, firerainbow, the web developer toolbar, cookie culler, user agent switcher, live http headers; webkit nightly dev tools; iPhone simulator from the iPhone SDK |
Is there an app that creates network graphics... | gtani: http://graphexploration.cond.org/contains terms you want to google:"exploratory data analysis and visualization tool for graphs and networks."---------------http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/11/social-network-...http://www.foaf-project.org/original-intro |
Review my app - LeagueSmart.com | bpick: Looks decent, though obviously it puts the onus on whoever is doing the score-keeping to get notes and stats the the coach who would then put them up there.What would be incredibly cool is if you created player accounts (for free) where they could sign in, look at their schedule and their stats.Then the players who want accounts/stats would jump all over their coach to make sure he signed up.The league view could use a redesign but overall I'd say this was a beyond decent app. Way to go! |
5th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas | Scott_MacGregor: Genetics Research:Pedigree Analysis: A Family Tree of Traitshttp://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_...Materials and Equipment: Paper
Pen
Access to a photocopier (optional) |
Rate our project: Tweetz.tv, Televize your Twitter | mvalente: Pretty similar to what some of us did nearly 2 years ago:http://projects.mvalente.eu/TwitTV/-- MV |
Review my app - LeagueSmart.com | Vindexus: Really well laid and easy to understand. Your landing page was great for showing me exactly what it was and what the features were.One bit of confusion was the "View Demo" link on the Pricing. Because it said "View" AND had a picture of a TV next to it, I was expecting a view to pop. I got confused and actually clicked it a couple of times before I realized a demo was being show for me to use. Suggestion: change text to "Try Live Demo" or "Try the Demo" or "Try Demo" and maybe change the icon. Mouse cursor?I see you have an FAQ page, awesome. May I humbly suggest you use my http://breezyfaq.com app to power it? It has some really nice features.Anyway, great stuff. I wonder if you could easily branch into video game leagues? Those are notorious for being unorganized. |
What tools do you use for Web Development? | steveplace: http://searchyc.com/ask+hn+tools |
Google Goes Popular? | olalonde: Wikipedia is noncommercial. |
Google Goes Popular? | litewulf: I'm kind of curious: hypothetically imagine Google had super crazy search personalization... and knew when you were interested in scientific sources in a field versus just the wikipedia article. Would you be happier because your searches are great, or freaked out because you feel your privacy is being invaded. |
Google Goes Popular? | wooster: Google search has been almost useless for me since they dropped implicit AND for implicit OR.As in, the query [random trie] is now (random OR trie). The query [+random +trie] returns much better results (random AND trie).I've seriously been considering starting a search engine just to get back to a ~2002 era Google level of usability. |
Dynamic DNS Hosting | ecyrb: http://www.dyndns.com/My Linksys router is configured to automatically update my dyndns info. |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | dangrossman: I learned a lot about machine learning in AI courses the past year and a half in college, and really wanted to apply it somewhere outside of the classroom. This was a one-day project app, so it's really functionally simple. It looks at your Twitter follower and following list, computes the difference, decides if each of those people is "spam" or "ham", then recommends which you are safe to follow and which you should block. Since the API calls can take a while, it does it all with a background worker and e-mails you when the results are ready, rather than doing the work synchronously while you wait at a browser.The hard part was getting ready for it. I decided to do a very basic spam filter for Twitter, one which looked only at the profile information, and not the text of anyone's tweets, since that'd require too many API calls without special access beyond even a whitelisted API account. I wrote some scripts that would use Twitter's search API to find tweets directed at @spam for a week and a half. It took that long because looking at old tweets would yield accounts Twitter had already suspended, meaning I couldn't get any info about them through the API. I had to get the reports while they were fresh and download the profile info of known spammers to build a training corpus. For the "ham" examples I used the following lists of trusted friends with various interests.I used that corpus to build and prune a decision tree, which tested to around 99% precision/recall accuracy with 2000 ham and 2000 spam examples. Then I manually rewrote the tree as simple conditionals in PHP to create the classifier for the website.Note: I'm about to hit my rate limit (on a whitelisted account, so 20k calls) in only half an hour... |
Settlers Of Catan For iPad? | banane: Hey we're working on it now! At She's Geeky Mountain View. Stacie & Anna. Cheers. |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | aditya: Just one question: why not use Twitter OAuth? |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | Vindexus: I was able to submit the form without entering an email. You should add some form validation. |
Review my app - LeagueSmart.com | ddemchuk: Just some design points:The right side of your screenshot on the homepage has a sheer edge, kind of awkward because you show the left edge in the browser. Probably should balance that out because I thought the image was cut off.If I wasn't paying attention I would try and login to check my Basecamp projects when landing on your site...I know they have an attractive minimalist style, but just be careful... |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | timmorgan: I love the background. I think you do a decent job of explaining what's about to happen.My only suggestion: perhaps you could tell me how many are in the queue ahead of me, and estimate time till arrival? |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | ujjwalg: I really like the idea. I think if you provide some interesting statistics as example can make it viral. For example: how many spammy followers aplusk, techcrunch, mashable etc. have. How many of them are common to all etc., etc. This might get you a follow up article on techcrunch or the likes too. :) |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | dschobel: very cool. you need to register @followham though and add it to the "do you want to tweet about about this?" message rather than "follow ham" as it currently is so we can refer directly to you to spread the site. |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | arikfr: Here's an idea - instead of emailing the report, post it on Twitter: "@arikfr 152 of your followers look spammy, while another 3334 look follow-worthy! http://www.followham.com/show.php?username=arikfrThis way you gain two things -
1. More users will try the service (giving away Twitter username is easier than giving away email address).
2. More chances that people will RT this messages and spread the word about the service.And as @dschobel mentioned - you should register @followham. |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | jacquesm: I did.Python is a great little language but even after multiple thousands of lines it still looks like the guardrails on the highway are missing, I never knew I was so addicted to curly braces.I also find it very hard to switch from the one to the other and back again after sticking to one of the two for a while.My 'preferred' language/framework for more complicated stuff actually does not seem to exist. I can list a whole series of problems with just about any development stack out there at the moment, at least the ones that I've used.For quick and dirty stuff (throwaway sites or quick tests or prototypes) I still prefer PHP, but mostly because I can rely on a framework that I wrote years ago that makes it very easy to throw something together. It's far from perfect but it's the devil that I know best.I've made three sites in python/django, it works but the ORM is very limiting and I keep hearing that forms are hell (but I rolled my own forms, so that wasn't a big deal).I wished there was a clear winner amongst all these technologies, everybody seems to have built just enough to satisfy their particular itch.Next on the list of stuff to try is werkzeug, another python framework. |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | cellis: I've had some previous exposure to python, but nothing mission critical. I just switched from php to python about 3 weeks ago in order to deploy apps on the Google App Engine. My deepest language experience is in frontend Actionscript 3, so Python feels very similar to that in that you have imports, packages, and modules. I do still find myself typing ";" on rare occasions to end lines.Here are a few things that I got tripped up by:- I was searching for a substr? function. there is none; instead you do things like str[0:1]- Dont Count on autocompletion (at least not in eclipse). I was hoping I could duck type things like i had done in php Eclipse and get object info autocompleted. This is not possible, so you have to keep a lot more info about objects in your head. Perhaps one way around this is to try keep all your classes in one module.- Test with IDLE. I was used to testing php code by whipping up a single page and browsing to localhost. With appengine, and possibly your web server, this isn't justifiable when Python ships with a pretty cool cmd IDE.hth! |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | wooster: Immediately left the site because the background was taking forever to load. The other thing that made me leave was the requirement of an e-mail address. |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | mattdw: I started using Python about 5 years ago, but still used PHP for my main dev for a couple of years. PHP gradually got more and more painful to go back to, though, the more Python I wrote, and eventually I ditched PHP for all but mostly-static 3-page sites. I'm a fulltime web programmer, and we now do all our work in Django.(That said, I'm using more and more Clojure for my personal stuff.) |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | jfornear: I like the concept, but I worry about the accuracy for a feat like this. For my results (@jfornear), about 1 in 5 of the recommended follow backs would be considered spam by a human. There were about 26 accounts without pictures that were recommended follow backs, and all 26 were spam or dead accounts.I'm actually working with the Twitter API right now myself and have been meaning to filter out accounts that don't bother to upload their own picture. That might be something you could think about.All (and only) default images are stored on http://s.twimg.com, I think. |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | udfalkso: It'll take a couple of weeks to get very comfortable in the language itself, and a little longer to get used to a web framework like Django.Once you do this, you'll be very annoyed every time you need to go back to using php. This change will be practical and eye opening for you. Enjoy. |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | araneae: 2 of the 5 "ham" users were ones I knew irl and really should be following. Thanks Follow Ham! :D |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | josch: i just got the report. i.e., http://twitter.com/1000free is considered ham by your app, looks like spam to me. maybe a feedback button would be appropriate (mark as spam/ham.) |
Embedded Systems? | JunkDNA: I highly suggest the "beginning embedded electronics" tutorials over at sparkfun (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorials.php), just to get yourself up to speed. I have no experience with any kind of hardware hacking (never even had one EE course in college) and I really thought they were great. The nice thing is that arduino (http://www.arduino.cc/) makes it easy to get started, and then you can build more advanced stuff from there. |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | sli: More of a story than anything. I'm not sure if this is typical for someone going from PHP to Python, but it might give you an idea of what to expect if you end up becoming a Python convert.I went from PHP-Nuke, to pure PHP, to Python, to handwritten Python site engines, to Google App Engine, and now finally hunkering down and getting Django under my belt, for real this time.And that's my first tip: GAE makes a great stepping stone to Django (and even includes a sizable chunk of Django).I have a very bad taste in my mouth from prior experience with Joomla, but I found Drupal to be very easy to use. But once I made the decision to finally learn a real framework, Python and Django made the work... almost trivial. Looking at the code for Drupal modules now makes me wonder why I let myself do all of that extra work that Django doesn't require.I'm with jacquesm, I still use PHP from time to time for minor things, simply because there are a good amount of hosting providers that don't offer Django. But I think my experience with Python has made me a better PHP programmer. However that works. However I've never really had issues with forms, at least not with GAE, but it IS a little wonky. self.request.get('form_field_name') |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | mantas: I tried. But indentation was waaaay too hard. I ended up in Ruby world... |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | stevenwei: I've made the switch from PHP to Python and don't really want to look back. Python is generally much better thought out from an object oriented perspective.Package and module imports are a lot saner in Python. I'm glad I'm no longer messing with require_once, autoloaders, and all sorts of functions polluting the global namespace.Python having first class functions and classes makes a whole lot more sense to me. PHP's call_user_func_array and passing around string names of classes and functions for callbacks is just so ugly.In terms of web framework experience I was using Symfony in PHP and switched to Django for Python. I liked both, but I've found that Django is easier to use. I'm not a big fan of Django's templating language though compared to Symfony (which was just straight PHP). |
Review my search tool | tyrelb: Rather than just another search tool, why not add some basic "AI" into the mix:eg: searching "restaurant near Vancouver, BC" would use Yelp, "Facebook" would use google, and so on. |
Review my search tool | dylanz: It didn't return any results, regardless of what I entered :) |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | ionrock: The biggest difference that stuck out in switching was the way PHP was effectively like markup language, while Python usually involves its own web server. This can be a difficult transition because instead of thinking in terms of requests to specific files, you have the option to handle all requests however you'd like. It allows for more flexibility, but you usually have a more difficult time with deployment since things like static files are better served with a traditional web server. Likewise, things like different applications need a little more thought than simply uploading a file. That said, there is a wealth of great libraries and the standard library that help not only provide functionality, but help promote better code. |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | rcoder: I'm currently working on a team that switched from PHP to Python+Django for web application development a little over a year ago. Since I've been writing Python code longer than PHP (8 years vs. 6 or so), I can't really speak personally about what the transition is like, but I can tell you about what I've observed and heard from other members of the team.In general, the Python language and tools tend to steer you in the direction of writing cleaner, better-structured code. Working with Django also gives you access to a lot of decent 3rd-party applications that you can integrate into your project, and the Python stdlib absolutely dominates PHP in terms of scope, quality, and consistency. Having the bytecode compiler and libraries that provide better data structure and algorithm in app servers also opens up the door to a whole bunch of performance optimizations that are difficult to accomplish with PHP.That's not to say that the Pythonic way is always better, of course. PHP encourages a very iterative approach to development -- at a basic level, you're creating a static page, then incrementally adding dynamic behavior until it does what you need. Python apps tend to put the code front-and-center, and output HTML (or JSON, or XML, or whatever) as a last step in the process. In the long term, that's usually a Good Thing, but it can make the prototyping and learning processes longer for some people. |
Anyone went from PHP to Python? | nir: As far as syntax, it's about as easy to pick up as it gets. ( http://diveintopython.org/ )Web dev wise, it helps if you had some experience with PHP frameworks (though most of them are modeled more on Rails rather than Django or other Python frameworks). Also, the libraries aren't built in as in PHP and documentation isn't as good as PHP's (I'm not aware of any language that has online docs as good as PHP's. Django has great docs, though).I recommend starting with Google App Engine. It basically takes care of the deployment for you, which is often a sore point in many environments. It's free and includes a basic framework that resembles web.py with bits of Django. In fact it's worth picking up Python even just for the sake of making use of GAE. |
Review my search tool | deconigo: it sucks |
Review my search tool | andrewljohnson: It's an interesting experiment, but there are a lot of search aggregators out there, and they aren't very useful or profitable. If this is a business idea, I urge you to look elsewhere. If this is an exercise in programming, bravo.Definitely have it display some results after I search though - the search paradigm is enter text, click go, get results. You just can't break that by adding another click, or you'll confuse everyone. |
Review My (Twitter) App: Follow Ham | teuobk: I like the idea, and I like the simplicity of the interface, but I was disappointed by the results. Most of my results were classified as "not spam," but a cursory inspection suggests that at least 70% were actually spam. Conversely, one of the three accounts marked as spam was definitely not spam.As an example, here's one of the accounts that was marked as "not spam": @PhatApples (NSFW!) |
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