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RE: Picking your axe

Your wish list is all over the place. It would help to pick one of the goals listed (i.e. Ruby, or Node, or Python) and hone in on that. Once you figure out what language you want to learn, devour everything on the topic from these sources:
* Peepcode tutorials
* Slideshare slideshows
* Youtube videos or other longform tutorials

Get a Hello World example running in your new language, and then see if you can get it wired up to a database. Congrats, now you're up and running...

It's not sexy or new, but the book the Pragmatic Programmer is the bible on how to become a good programmer and not just a hack.

RE: How to build a web app - read Getting Real by 37signals, this will give you a nice high level approach. This is also a great introduction to agile development principles.

"but I never really have an itch to scratch" sounds like you're not brainstorming hard enough. Even in your post there's the seeds of many different itches. Find the most basic thing you trip over every day, and write a tiny tiny software tool to fix that problem.

Last but not least, sounds like you could use some more experience with front-end concepts. I recommend Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm as a great overview.

Technology moves too fast for anybody to keep up, just do your best and always keep learning! Good luck
Over the years my social news time has stayed around constant but has been split like this:

- slashdot

- slashdot < reddit

- slashdot < reddit < hn

- slashdot < reddit < hn

- slashdot < reddit < quora < hn

With quora maybe a contender to overtake hn but probably not. I still check slashdot ever few weeks, reddit every week or so, and quora and hn multiple times per week.

Have other people followed similar trends?
I don't want to remove peoples' names from their comments. Regardless of the number of points, I will likely trust a comment from somebody like grelis.

I do like the idea of dumping any visual notification of karma. The system could keep track for whatever things it needs to (minimum karma to vote, flag, etc), but there is really no reason for the community to know what that karma is.
I second the idea of a controversy indicator - it's a significant piece of information that gets lost whenever the bandwagon jumps on, even with scores displayed.

I mostly see this in the form of low quality or offensive comments that get lots of up-votes from people who agree with the poster's opinion - usually if a good comment gets down-voted because the majority disagrees, someone says "why the down-votes? its' a legitimate point", and it gets boosted back to positive.
You've implied that you believe the number of poor people not working is so high because we skew their motivation toward "couch surfing" through aid programs. I am arguing that many are in fact "working" on something besides a full-time job, and would not be convinced to adopt another lifestyle by minor disincentives in welfare. Aid to the poor is a social program, not an economic widget, and surveying the number of people in the program who are actively seeking self-sufficiency is an utterly worthless metric of its efficacy.
Andrew Chen - when has a consumer Internet product hit product/market fit?
I wonder why this person thinks that we were created in perfection. Even the bible points out this is far from the truth. Just sayin'
I'm having a difficult time voting on this one. In general, I like it better, but there are a few specific cases I've seen where seeing points would have been very valuable, IMO.

I like the idea of removing any visible signs of total karma. If nobody knows how much karma anybody else has (including oneself!), there is no value in trying to game that number.

At that point, trying to make a name for yourself, like tptacek, grelis, or pg have done, is a result of people knowing who you are and the thoughts you've posted before instead of some silly, altogether meaningless number next to your login.
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It like asking - why haven't more successful movie production emerged from San Francisco?

It's just not the place for it.
Tell me more: how do "open hardware" systems work? especially against protecting IP, not allowing another entity of copying a design?

Also, do not forget the public image issue, not just the technical issues. Large organizations, priv or govt, have an additional aspect of work by the image they project. How they are viewed or marketed matters as well. When you start throwing around a soup of abbreviations, people take notice - thru the marketing power. That counts as well - the news made it to the top of google news, though it other recent intrusions had technical&psychological impact as well.

Such intrusions have happened - though now they make it to the top of Google News
Reading through the comments, many people here claim "Without the scores, I can't tell whether the comments are worth reading". People, you are aware, I hope, that the comments are sorted by points in the display? The highest rated comment is shown first. And scores below 1 fade to gray (I think -3 is still readable without copy & paste, and -4 is the last displayed).

Could someone explain how the specific number (rather than just sort order) actually influences their reading of discussions? I'm trying, and failing, to see how that would actually be useful. Honest question here.
Same with ADD/ADHD.
Is mob voting an observed problem with the old way? I seem to recall PG mentioning[1] that overall top comment scores are now /higher/ than before, suggesting that upvoters didn't mob in the old system, but based their votes on the perceived value of the comment vs its current score. Thus, instead of the prevalence of vote mobbing, a more important question is: Do you think a score should be based on a ternary choice between {good comment, indifferent, bad comment} summed over a large (sometimes not-so-large) group of votes, or based on the average of the community's perception of the comment's value on a sliding scale?

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465271
So I found Ashkenas full version of class inheritance in coffescript which simulates what I currently do with multiple crockford creates.

In my test case crockford's create is seemingly faster for this, but I'm sure I'm missing something. Someone mind educating me here?

http://jsperf.com/js-inheritance-test
I think you are misunderstanding. The primary purpose of this is to point out that what we would expect to happen with evolution in mind does in fact seem to happen. The data jives with the theory.

Now, the secondary purpose is to provide some amusing snark: Anything that would "design" such a thing would be anything but "intelligent".

The bible really has nothing to do with this.
The communications from RSA were that, based on what they knew, there wasn't a huge reduction is security as long as the PINs chosen where reasonably strong.

I wonder which applies: RSA didn't know how bad the breach really was; RSA lied about how dangerous the breach was and how open their customers were; LCMO configured their system such that weak PINs were allowed; or something else happened.
You could probably surgically test that. My money is on "not much" though. ;)
This looks exciting, but at this point it seems like it's just a mailing list?

The launch page was phrased in a way that makes it sound like as soon as you enter your email, you'll get access to the service.
Why it’s smart for consumer startups to grow first and make money later
CT Scanning fossils (Paleontology)
Makes me want to run google searches on all my passwords, just in case...
No, I like the article and I'm not arguing against it. Just wondering where people get the idea that we were somehow designed to be perfect.

The bible has a lot to do with that since it's a standard upon which (at least for the most part in America) the idea of God is derived from.

Seems like a lot of people don't even know what they don't believe in so they make it up.
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# of upvotes is just a proxy for what people really are looking for. Sometimes I just want to sort by Usefulness, Funniness, Truthiness, Creativeness. Those are the qualities I'm looking for in comments.
I've got a pretty good idea of what you're going through. Email me. My address is in my profile.
Talking of Pastebin abuse, I just received this e-mail:

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I know, irregardless is not even a word!
I have an hour and a half commute each way.
I take the bus for half an hour and ride my bike for about an hour. (or if I feel lazy I'll just take the bus longer)

I feel much better than when I was driving but making a 30 minute commute.
Not only is the bus more interesting, it gives me time to think and read sometimes and even meet girls.
Plus the excercise really gives me a boost for a full day of programming.
Okay redduck666, I summed the most recent week of traffic sent to combinator.com from Google that I had data for, and then I summed a week of traffic sent to combinator.com from Google including 4/11 (while keeping the days aligned). Google sent over 20% more traffic in the most recent week when compared to the week of 4/11. I hope that the longer baseline + the fact that traffic increased--not decreased--is enough to convince you? :)
The account names used on the computers at Apple stores apparently follow a pattern, the script using that pattern creates all of the accounts possible at a store, then using an API available from AOL grabs the current status of that "username", and their user icon, displaying online or offline status.

The actual script doing the fetching and whatnot is very easy to read: http://www.lehnerstudios.com/stuff/applestorechat/applestore...
How are you finding these?
"If anyone else has experienced this ... please let me know."

I discovered the same thing. Alcohol stops the overthinking and lets me get stuff done. It seems that alcohol is a substance that different people react to very differently.
You pay a lawyer $600 an hour to figure that out :)
>> Tell the right people about your site and tell them regularly via great blog entries, insightful tweets, and networking in your site’s category.

This, is the one big important step separating $0 per month and $2k per month.
Also of interest: Pam Samuelson, UC Berkeley law school professor, EFF and EPIC Board Member, ACM legal commentator speaking at Stanford on the Google Book Decision (video):
http://ee380.stanfor.edu/permlinks/pam.html
Absolutely. I'm like edge17 in that the new books I have piled up call out to me like sirens, but I have a series of books that are absolutely "comfort reading" and help me out in times that aren't so great. I know their twists, turns and surprises, but that just makes them old friends.
It always helps to have a side project, keeps you edges sharp. At the same time try having weekend projects, pick up a tech, see videos on youtube, read stuff from HN. Email me on my gmail id: iamsidd.
This is great, thanks. I've been lamenting about how bad Netflix instant selection is. This list brings some evidence to the contrary. Netflix should have done something like this...it takes me too long to find a decent movie using their UI.
Yup thats right, plus it will paying off when you need to figure out what changes you made say a week ago. Github is a hosting site for git code repo. Email me on gmail id: iamsidd if you need more help or specific clarification.
I know it's democratic and all, but I'm not sure a simple poll is likely to produce the best result. What if you asked whether people would like inline images, emoticons and HTML messages, and 80% said yes?
I agree. The total time in a commute doesn't really mean as much as the method of transportation (for me at least). I find myself usually very exhausted after a long car ride (45min+), but usually pretty refreshed after a long bus ride (45min+) because I can zone out and just relax while riding a bus. I think it also plays into psychology a little bit -- when I drive, I feel like it's almost like a "me against the world" type of situation where I usually begin to dislike every other driver on the road. When I'm riding public transportation it feels more like I'm sharing time with other people or something. I don't really know... It just feels a lot more calm.
my time on the train is some of my favorite time. if i had to commute by car, i'd hate it, though
Yeah we're still rolling out beta invites. Sorry for the disappointment! You'll have one soon enough though, don't worry :)
Please wait 5 minutes and try again. Sometimes it gets throttled. We're using MailChimp.
Production inspires new ideas
I'll second the Anatomy of an Epidemic recommendation, it's really quite an amazing book. The comment below by the "pharmacist" is odd in that he hasn't read the book and knows nothing about it even though it is a major work. In particular, it has around 1080 citations in the notes at the end, most of which are to medical journal articles.
The Heist Knocks Off Angry Birds As Apple App Store’s Top Paid App
WARNING - don't click on the tinypic link in the comments

[Edit: not sure if the pic's fake or not, but it's a photo of the top halves of two corpses]
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What's that Bible thing you speak of? Does it contain any more gems of wisdom, possibly about dinosaurs? Or its' recurrent laryngeal nerve? I'm in great anticipation of your reply.
As of now, there are none outstanding that I know of.
It worked when I tried it with Power Rangers.
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This has been fixed and the post updated.
I think I am reminded by a previous blog post on HN about asking to be a mentor and its pretty relevant. http://blog.momentor.com/dont-ask-someone-to-be-your-mentor
jruby big yes and they're aware of it and this fix.
rubinius small yes, possibly a maybe (haven't investigated properly).
Content owners restrict it, for example if a movie is about to be shown on television it will disappear from NetFlix's instant streaming service a week or two beforehand and re-appear a month or so afterwards.
Vivek Wadha: "You learn little by writing code."
Showing comment scores after down votes have turned off would allow this I think. Seems like a good compromise.
A bureaucracy doesn't have to make a profit. There is no incentive to use technology to make anything redundant.
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Sure, start here, and just keep reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents...
pg said earlier he wouldn't necessarily follow the results of the poll. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595783
I commute on the caltrain for 1 hour in each direction. However, I get online as soon as I get on the train and time seems to fly. I'm often amazed by how fast it feels.
I use straight nginx on Fanboy Adblock (which gets hundreds of SSL connections per minute), no need for Apache.
JQuery TokenInput Plugin 
Those that like Cocoa's NSTokenField or Flow's (getflow.com) FancyTokenField and FancyCompleter effects will find this very useful.
Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)
haha, I bet netflix has more of those...

If you make me a JSON function like this I'll do it ;)

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=be88edc0c37f8565d9...
Great idea. Done.
Unless you subscribe to the concept of case sensitivity, that is.
suggestion, put the store town name first, so i can keyboard complete. nobody's gonna type in store numbers to find them.
The Coffeescript ? operator is certainly quite handy. I suppose it's explicit nature is what helps, as information on the error you're trying to mask is built into the syntax. With @ in PHP however, you simply don't know what it's trying to stop, and what undesirable affects it may cause, which I think is the main objection to it.
A very simple change would be to only display comment scores once you have voted on a comment yourself. I'd hope this would encourage more voting and dissuade group-think.
I know! drives me nuts.
What about technical podcasts? If you're into Java, I'd recomment the Javaposse. I am sure there is a podcast for your line of work/passion. For a non specialized IT-Podcast I like to listen to Buzz out loud. They produce about 30 minutes every workday.
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Bernarda who was in jail at the Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 156 is seen as having a mental disorder, the attitude of Bernarda increasingly out of control, in addition to fighting with other inmates Bernarda tries to bribe a police jail.
I think it could be used on everything. If it has an URL you can "smood it".
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I'm sure I can't be the only one who's not seriously bothered by commute. I value my time as much as the next guy, but when I'm stuck behind the wheel I listen to podcast or crank up some MP3s, and when I'm on a train I read.
IE9 does not support the History API, nor does the current platform preview of IE10. Microsoft have quite a bit of time to get features into IE10 and I really hope the History API is one of them.

I there was a bug tracking this for IE9 but it got closed. Not sure if there's one for IE10.

While IE's market share is decreasing, I believe it will be a long time before > 90% of users are not on IE 6-9.
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The Welcome to Las Vegas sign is great example of the benefits that come from something not having copyright. Instead it becomes ubiquitous and justly famous because people can include it in an infinite variety of interpretations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Fabulous_Las_Vegas_s...
Sounds like you need a change.....

Come down under and restart
www.arclight.com.au

Check out the job post and link back to this post...
http://arclightrecruitment.theresumator.com/apply/UcxdWd/Sof...

Someone will make contact.
I already noticed some of the locations are wrong:"West County" store is in Des Peres, Missouri, not Iowa.
You trust an unknown number of users of unknown quality that could decrease or increase by an unknown amount of unknown users of unknown quality at any time.
Looks cool, can't wait to get an invite. I signed up as a mentor. Hope to teach about Ruby on Rails and CSS.
"There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen, where people would literally try to score points off one another, and users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two people fighting."

This problem arises from two features: comment scores and arbitrarily deeply nested threads. Considering how valuable comment scores are, it seems worth trying to remove the other feature instead. (Perhaps by preventing replies until after a delay, which increases with the depth of the thread.)
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Thanks for the tip, I removed the link from that comment. It was a gruesome picture indeed, fake or not.
Where do we put them?.....as they must work?

I think these questions could be answered if we truly spent enough ressources on them. We can scale up as opposed to horizontally. Food could be produced in labs and have more nutrients and taste better.
Actually the details are irrelevant. The entire premise can be disregarded out of hand. That anybody bothers to address specifics such as this post, or matters of dogma/biblical interpretation is more to make it relatable than relevant.

Because it's not relevant. The entire epistemic concept of a "Creator" who is supernatural is nonsensical, and without any superior merit to any other meaningless hypothesis.
It seems to me to be rather disingenuous to state that the entirety of startups is writing code or that the code writing itself is to be the source of all of the learning. The major education in a startup is the fact that you are forced to, through whatever methods necessary (be it copious research, learning from somebody who knows better, randomly stumbling upon an answer, what have you) learn more or less everything relevant to the startup, from business skills to people skills to infrastructure to, yes, code itself.

Maybe this is insufficient as an alternative education (I'd really love to see some numbers for that but, then again, wouldn't we all?), but it's silly to bring it down to "writing code".
If you want to understand better how things work "when you type a URL in and hit enter", you're better off toying around with a LAMP stack and cutting your teeth on PHP.

PHP gets a really bad wrap because it's not a Good Language (TM) and lacks many features that CS nerds consider essential but it's a fantastic tool for learning about web development and building web applications (many of the best web applications in the world including Facebook, Wufoo and Mailchimp are all written, at least in part, in PHP).

PHP is also a very easy language to get freelance work in which pays the bills - and since so many people who use it are completely incompetent you can quite easily differentiate yourself. Beware, though: you'll spend a lot of time fixing other people's horrible code but the good news if you can do that effectively you can usually charge quite well for it (ie. when people get to the point where they decide they've "outgrown" their shitty PHP developer they usually have reasonable revenues and are ready to pay an expert some decent cash to fix the various problems).

Also, get a good grounding in relational database design. Learn how to draw an ERD (entity relationship diagram) and how to write SQL. Although all the cool kids will tell you that you need some "NoSQL" solution to be "web scale" designing your system with a solid data model simplifies development and maintenance considerably.

Overall, I think you're better off doing some freelancing. If nothing else, this will give you exposure to many of the problems faced by real businesses and people every day - there are no shortages of itches to scratch when you're dealing with the "Fortune 5,000,000" - just ask 37signals.com ;)
I don't think the phones are that similar. Certainly they're not similar enough to cause confusion for anyone under 40. I have seen the comparison and the Galaxy, while it obviously took some hints from the iPhone (as did all subsequent smartphones), has a distinct feel and shape. I know the difference immediately between and iPhone and a Galaxy.
We are in the same boat, I'm learning ruby now on my own. I am an clerk at a bank doing work I dont love. I know a bit of php. We can be study partners and work on a project together to learn. Email me brizdigital@gmail.com if you are interested
>Lots of people have complained that without comment scores it's harder to pick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now you have to judge a comment for itself.

I say it's worse, because now I have to judge a comment for itself.

On subjects I don't know, this is of course difficult.
Ah, I meant "than nginx". The weird thing is that I read it again after the comment. I can't edit it now, unfortunately...
God is widely regarded as perfect.

Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

That certainly sounds like we should be perfect in body. Unless you want to argue that the Fall rerouted the vagus nerve.