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This is old and not updated anymore but some good thoughts and interviews with Scott Heiferman, Caterina Fake, and Gina Bianchi (Ning)... http://theglueproject.com/

Somewhere around online is a really good article with Heather Champ from flickr on how they manage their community as well(From SFGate maybe)

Anything from Heather's husband Derek Powazek on community is worth reading as well. Derek and Heather founded JPG Mag together.

Edit: Here is the article with Heather Champ, Nasty as They Wanna Be? Policing Flickr.com - http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-09-29/business/17120099_1_fl...

Another great read about how they built the community at flickr is this A List Apart Article from George Oates: From Little Things, Big Things Grow - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fromlittlethings/
1. The videos are embedded from youtube. They are hand selected.

2. Voice is an interesting idea, will think about it :)

3. This is a very good idea, and definitely something that is being considered.

4. The name doesn't really have any meaning. It was just a good domain that was available.

5. Yes, the design needs a lot of work. I'm looking for a designer now. When there are more people voting then it's a bit clearer how it works, but yeah, it could be improved.

Thanks!
CSS compatibility matrix (IE 5-9)
Home-Mobile-Work I guess? That would explain seeing the link unclicked three times.
It, Watson
If they interviewed one of the scientists whose name was on the paper, wouldn't that count?

Also, it's hard to publish links on the radio.

Finally, I think you missed his point- not all news organizations are going the tabloid route.
I was thinking: What, do I have a copy of it that you want to borrow?
I worked for 3 years at a company with free food.

Our dept was 7 people at it's largest and it had always had a tradition of ordering from one restaurant together. It was a very tedious process to get everyone to agree and hellish for people with dietary restrictions. As for being seen as an outcast if you brought your own food, or didn't eat with the group, yes , the manager tended to read you the riot act if you tried to go out for lunch or brought your own.
US courts do not define new legislation. They only interpret existing laws (there is gray area in how the interpretation impacts those how those laws are upheld). Other rulings are often referenced in a decision, but it is possible to have different courts give conflicting rulings (see, for example, http://www.employerlawreport.com/2009/05/articles/labor-rela...). In that case, it is often up to the Supreme Court to decide (but, as far as I know, that is not required) and, if the legislature doesn't like that interpretation, to modify the laws appropriately.
Your example laws are all against thinking about doing something bad and then doing it. That's a bit different from criminalizing the thought in isolation.
While you can get the benefit of clarity by stepping away from the keyboard for a while, I've found the best return is from test-driven development. TDD forces you to think about what you're trying to achieve before you try to solve the it. The thing I took exception to in the post was:

> 5. Make small change to the code on the off-chance that it might solve the problem

Whether practising TDD or trying to formalise the problem on paper (or in your head), this is not the way to write code. Programming is not a random search problem.

These days, I tend to only step away from the keyboard when I'm losing my bearings for where I am in the big picture. Usually, that's when I'm "making small changes to the code on the off-chance that it might solve the problem"… this means I don't really know what the problem is.
a better way to illustrate it..

one deck of cards..

1 have 28 cards dealt out and ask victim to pick their card

2 Deal out 4 card stacks, cards face up staggered stacked so that victim sees every card. & cards in each stack

3 have victim tell which stack their card is in..

How many more deals before you get their card in the first
card position in a stack?

Answer, counting the first deal its 3 or less..

I used this example in a RealNetworks interview, they really did not get it..
1,2,3) You are right that the front page does not explain any of this. My thoughts right now are to hope that people click through into a video, and then from there that things are hopefully self-explanatory.

Regarding revenue: I have several ideas about this, but no clear well defined strategy. I would love to hear any ideas :)

Thanks!
You just reframed the debate in the light most favorable to your argument. The issue isn't whether there should be lifestyle companies or not. The issue is, for a hacker equally capable of and equally armed by circumstances to starting either a "lifestyle" business or a shoot-the-moon startup, is there a "right" choice?
I bought one of these a while ago, and goes through blister packs like hot butter: http://www.myopenx.com

The downside is that the edges of the opened pack are still sharp usually, but I've yet to see a way around that.
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It [video]
I interviews Matt back in December 2008 for my media blog (which has been totally neglected due to family, work and my fishing blog which actually makes money). http://blog.metaprinter.com/2008/12/metafilter-founder-matt-...

In that interview he specifically states that he tried lots of different approaches for commenting / regulation / non regulation etc.

EDIT:
The most community involvement I get is when i give something away. The The regulars and base community utilize the forums and self moderate, though i need to regularly post content for them to discuss.
> would you put something on your resume as a job if you had built it over the weekend and had only worked on it for a few days

Absolutely! When I interview people, I love finding out what they work on in their spare time. I don't care whether they are "projects", "startups", or whatever. Of course, only include it if it's something impressive that you hacked together in a few days.

My take on it is this: "Projects" are for fun. Projects may become elevated to "startups" only if they make money.
There are plenty of alternatives to Djangy, http://djangozoom.com/ just to name one.

They even mentioned some other alternatives in their final newsletter: http://blog.djangy.com/2011/02/27/final-djangy-newsletter/
"There was the OpenGL/DirectX debate, but even Carmack suggests that without an active SGI pushing it forward that DirectX has eclipsed OpenGL it in terms of capability."

Ironically it's the higher level of DirectX that Carmack praises nowadays, with its very high level tools, development process and general approach. In that regard I've always found OpenGL to be closer to the metal than DX while still being hardware independent, in the sense that C is hardware independent as opposed to assembly. DX always struck me as "more managed" in some way. I'm not a seasoned 3d developer though, and have been mostly hacking stuff around.

"So for a graphics architecture type at ATI(AMD) to get his or her cool feature in production, they have to design it, build it, convince Microsoft to add it to DirectX..."

In that regard OpenGL evolution works a bit more like the recent HTML and CSS history in that chip maker creates a driver which provides current standard OpenGL calls and a bunch of innovative proprietary extensions, readily available right now, just like -webkit-* and -moz-* CSS stuff.
I think it's kevin rose signing an autograph.
It's pothole season here.. That's how we know it's spring!
I think you have it backwards and the judge actually did rule correctly by ruling based on its intended use. A television processes data, stores data, and transmits information, but hacking a TV is not hacking a computer.

If courts don't make this distinction, then the definition of computer becomes meaningless because everything becomes a computer.
My problem with wave’s scrollbars was that whatever code they had to do scrolling was dramatically slower and glitchier than native scrollbars.
The Reddit comparison is critical: I don't understand why I would want to go to your empty site, when Reddit has a full one that is largely identical. So far, the only concrete difference that I see is that you emphasize the list of subreddits.
Please re-read.

"It’s very easy to slip into the mindset of:"

His point is that the procedure that he gives (in particular step 5) is the wrong one.
I agree and refer to my statement of Shaggy's, in my opinion and observation, "demonstrated and consciously limited, yet poignant, understanding of the nature of reality."

I refer to an interview the gave thus: http://www.clownvid.com/etc-2010/2011/3/15/insane-clown-poss... (shameless plug)

In that interview, Violent J (one half of the Insane Clown Posse) verbally pointed out my statement when he is offered a book that, in the interviewer's mind, would answer the question: "Fuckin' magnets, how do they work!?"

They are aware of the scientific observations, and presumably agree to the validity, yet they, for reason of their own merit, justly decide not to indulge.

I would make a selfish request, not to take away from their proven and successful prowess, that they educate themself, if for anything, to spite the haternation. I am in Love with Insane Clown Posse, and would not prove it otherwise.

Holla!
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Fun! Here's an idea for you to consider for getting money out of it:

display the two choices "coming up" and accept person betting either on one or the other. Don't show how many people placed a bet.

When the choice is done - the part that won takes the bets of those who lost.

If a draw - like "zero", the house takes all the bets and makes a random choice.

"Make money while watching TV" - could be an appealing tagline to some :-)

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edit: creating custom rooms could be a killer feature. Think of how a VJ can be put into the mix above - maybe leave him the %% of micropayments or points from each winning vote, or something like that.

I think this could make it.
Your methods on fixing the click delay are interesting. What was your resulting click time?

I'm not an expert on this but you seem to be using a lot of javascript for your UI when most of it can be done with CSS and applying/removing classes. The JS is fine for desktop browsers but it can be really laggy on mobile (even 3GS). I think that's one of the things about jquery mobile—it uses css where possible. That said, it seemed a little unrefined for me too and I've always left it out.

I did much the same stuff (ui-wise) as you very recently, but used -webkit-animation to do most of the work which means you can also use -webkit-animation-fill-mode <-totally awesome: http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/app...

Also, you should use the 3d versions of translate, scale, rotate like translate3d(x,y,z) because it utilises hardware acceleration (on iOS at least). Makes a massive difference. Put down the javascript stick. :-)
I think this article would be better titled "Want to write some code? Get away from Visual Studio".
Agreed - answer by first calibrating the scale. Or run screaming, if you can afford to blow off the interview.
Great idea.

And very true that there isn't much research here. The bibliography I did for CFP2008 has links to a couple of great research papers by Susan Herring from about 10 years ago but there's not a lot since then -- http://cfp.wikia.com/wiki/Dealing_with_hate_speech%2C_flamin...
+1. I've found that thinking hard and long about most problems before coding them results in less buggy (sometimes even no bugs!) code. I remember my friend telling me that his dad had to stand in line and wait literally days to execute code on a computer (using punch cards) and they had all the time in the world to write the code, but very little to execute it. One mistake during execution and they would have to wait a few days for their turn, delaying the results that they were seeking.

I try to emulate this environment (by not compiling/running code) and trying to tell myself that I really should get a large chunk of thought (followed by relatively bug-free code) down before I let the compiler/interpreter in. This discipline has helped me a lot imho.
Unless I'm missing something, all the methods he's talking about involve looking at web pages in isolation, or, alternatively across the set of all web pages.

To do "template drop out", it would seem productive to look longitudinally across pages on a single site, or in a subdirectory. For instance, almost all pages in Hacker News have the same chrome. Methods used for DNA clustering (such as Hidden Markov Models) could quickly find 'conserved' and 'unconserved' areas of documents.

This touches semantic technology because it links the ability to find nameless statistical patterns with meaningful semantic identifiers, such as domain names.
PICC10: (keynote) Improving the profession of system administration
Why I am Switching from Chrome to FireFox
At the last BigCo I worked at, we would call our HR reps who did phone screens recruiters. We had no outside recruiters.

Otherwise, this "someone is wrong on the Internet" stuff that just takes up space on comment threads on HN has gotten way out of hand.
The sad thing is that the team of developers at the company may have been the most brilliant people you've never worked with. At my last company, we had a very difficult time getting even vaguely qualified people in (I'm no elitist, we're talking folks who literally could not code a for loop). When I looked into the methods used by our internal recruiter to advertise jobs, I was appalled. I can't even imagine how awful his phone screens were.
And that's why I'm glad that nerds are not judges (or that judges are usually not that kind of nerd).
"Step Away From the Computer" or "Hammock-driven Development" by Rich Hickey (author of Clojure): http://clojure.blip.tv/file/4457042/
For anyone interested, there's a service to help you along with this at: www.pearwords.com
FYI: AT&T's DSL bandwidth usage monitoring URL
David Rumelhart Dies at 68 - Created Computer Simulations of Perception
That's a moot point as there is no way short of admission to prove a thought occurred in isolation. Freedom of thought is useless with out freedom of expression. Somethings certainly should be illegal to express but that doesn't make it not thoughtcrime. I'm glad people can't plan my murder with out charge, but lets not pretend it isn't thoughtcrime.
"Since I have spent the better part of my adult life in and around databases i will be the first person to tell you... there is very little you can build without them."

Seems that he just decided to entirely ignore systems programming, embedded device development, firmware development, etc.

This statement is in dire need of a qualifier.
May I suggest to use this prompt for git users[1]. I use it daily and I am really happy with it.

[1]: http://sebastiancelis.com/2009/11/16/zsh-prompt-git-users/
Both usages are perfectly fine.

It is unlikely that I'll convince you with any argument here, so I'll just recommend that you check out a reference on English usage. My favorite is Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage.

P.S. Clojure is great and I am enjoying this book so far.

Edit: Aha, I saw in a later response of yours that you're already aware that both usages are considered fine and just have a strong personal opinion. Carry on.
I reread the article. You're probably right (he talks about getting "called back for an in-person interview).

I swear to god I'm not commenting out of someone-is-wrong-on-the-Internet-ism. There are developers out there that really believe that what recruiters think about them matters, and recruiters really do prey on that.

As an employer, I also have an irrational distaste for recruiters. They are the worst cold-call inside salespeople ever; it is impossible to get them off the phone.
Another firefox wish:
And have the tabs pointing upwards above the address bar instead of under the bar so that you save screen estate.
For the record I just want to point out that this post is yet-another trojan horse style advert for Hirelite.

They seem to be publishing a load of these: a few linkbaity lines of otherwise meaningless anecdote, followed by a pitch about their business.

Did no one notice that the post isn't attributed to anyone - that makes the my part of "my worst phone screen" kind of bunk. They also carefully link terms like "rock star" to other similarly linkbaity posts which makes me conclude it's all just carefully crafted BS content.

Hirelite are not doing anything wrong as they are free to do what they like on their blog. But I'm surprised that the HN community is adding and voting on these with less discern than I would have otherwise expected.

Edit: turns out HN community isn't adding these, just voting on them, see child comment below...
That was a really interesting talk--thanks for the link!

Something that initially confused me was that Eich's use of the term "prototypal" (a pattern for implementing class-based inheritance) was different from Douglas Crockford's use of it (an alternative to class-based inheritance - http://javascript.crockford.com/prototypal.html).

In case anyone else finds this useful, here's how I sorted it out:

- "class-based" & "prototype-based" inheritance (Crockford refers to them as "classical" & "prototypal" inheritance). Different styles of instantiating objects.

- "closure pattern" & "prototypal pattern" (aka "prototypal inheritance" in this context). Different techniques for implementing class-based inheritance.
> dunno if real World Haskell is a fire hydrant;

We certainly tried (and it ended up being 3x bigger than we planned): http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/
Not to dismiss your point completely, but bulging batteries are usually always replaced free of charge, even at Nokia. Secondly, water based damages aren't covered at Apple either (there are moisture sensors which tell this). Apple has also made some unhappy customers in the northern hemisphere caused by voided warranty when products are used below freezing point.
kind of fun, you need to somehow generate interaction .. by a gaming/voting system so its like a game.

oh, yeah.. analyze the chatlogs.. just discussing the whole thing in-chat ;)
By that definition, Quora is still a project, I guess?
The next generation of SproutCore documentation
Your collection of HTML, CSS, and server-side scripts thrown onto an Apache server is not a website!
Almost never, does a successful company get created from a single idea, where a developer simply refines that idea until its perfect. So as an entrepreneur, you have to think beyond revenue and user base sometimes. What value do you place on the things you've learned through your projects and how that knowledge can be beneficial to future projects.

Think about this: the hard drive cooling system used today was developed by an owner of a lawn mowing business that utilized the air flow principle of his mowers. He had a problem and used knowledge form his life experience to solve it.

This is innovation, as entrepreneurs, this is what we do. So keep exploring because one day you will have an idea, and in an instant all you have explored in the past could be the technology of the future.
Musical sweet spot for 3D sound
lol i did not decide to ignore any of the things mentioned here ... simply put, I was saying that I tie most things back into databases both in programming and within my mind, I often think in relation to databases and how they can interact with each other.

my apologies for not expressing well enough that they do not do much all on their own or really even exist for that matter without several other factors. However my lack of recognition in the post was not a reflection of my understanding. sorry if it seemed that way
Would love to see this ported to coffeescript.
I have a personal project I've been working on for years, mostly in pen and paper.

Every once in a while I'll get motivated and start coding it up. I'll start to think "I didn't think I could do it that way when planning it on paper, but I can't remember the reason...I'll just see what happens."

A few hours later I get to the "oh yeah..." part.

Funny thing is, that works both ways. Sometimes no matter how much you plan, if you just start coding you get the positive "Oh yeah!" moments that wouldn't have happened on paper.
I think it's pretty safe to say that Adobe code bases have more or less earned themselves a special line item in the security concerns list at this point.
I've only used oLark, but I've been happy with them.
List mysteriously leaves out "gratuitous headshot of author"
Nope, but I did work at several small papers and one mid-size paper. They all had pretty much the same working environment :)
Perhaps better titled get away from the IDE. Every IDE has exactly the same capacity that he's ranting against.

This is a rant against write, run, debug, repeat, not visual studio.

Even Notepad++ has run in it.
Yeah my Dad has told me similar stories. In fact, I'm finding a similar thing now when I'm using the university supercomputer. I don't have to submit using punched cards anymore (thank goodness) but I do have to submit jobs to the batch queue and give them an estimated time the job will take to complete. This impacts the scheduling of the jobs, so if I submit a job and say it'll take 12 hours to run, then it is unlikely to start for a while. This gives me another reason to check the code very carefully, or I wait overnight and find that my code crashed after 2 seconds with a silly error!
Please don't be held back by your own fear of failure! At the risk of looking like a totally shameless selfpromoter, I spoke about a related lesson that's just as valuable: no one gives a damn about your startup/idea/thing - except maybe your mom - so you've gotta expect to convince everyone that it's worth their time; that means making something really compelling and always hustling to improve it & build an audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdDGVhqMuWI
Exactly :-) (It so happens that I was using Eclipse anyway...)
I didn't expect this to be honest, but it is (includes things that IE9 can't do). This is my new bible for IE CSS compatibility!
Oh, and by the way you might be interested to learn that the person who submitted this post to HN is the founder of Hirelite.

He is also responsible for submitting all of the Hirelite posts that have appeared onto HN, which perhaps proves these submissions are purely for self-promotion rather than curated content for the benefit of the HN community:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nathanh

I just want to call this out because it feels to me as though HackerNews is getting played here.
china town

.asia ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.asia
Forgetting that there is a ton of popular flash content on the web? Outside the developer community, people don't care about how the content they're interested in is delivered, they just want access. It isn't hard to criticize the implementation of flash on mobiles, but there are obviously strong arguments for including it on a platform. It's clearly a LOT more than an 'extra checkbox'.
>I think game companies can optimize for high-end PCs for the same reason that car companies can make high-end models

Will be interesting to see how Battlefield 3 sells compared to Black Ops. CoD has looked good at times but has never blown me away graphically. However it mints money from the general market. Battlefield and the Frostbite engine look several years ahead of the CoD engine. What will the sales look like?

>High-end PC GPUs are ten times better than console GPUs, so why don't PC games look ten times better?

Curious, would love to hear Valves thoughts on this too. Several Source based are critically considered the best of the best, but again the graphics have only looked good at times yet Valve is printing money.
really? didn't read the article too well I guess? Quora has two founders who left jobs at facebook and dedicated themselves to it ... how would that fit the definition of a project in this article exactly?