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motoko
Parsing Miss South Carolina's Statement
vuknje
I don't know if finding meaning in a statement of no meaning is something worth bragging about...
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2007-09-02 02:18:59 UTC
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Neoryder
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
I think as with most things it depends. Envy is closely related to pride , and if envy/pride drives us to create beautiful products to always push outside our comfort zones to make something beautiful/useful then I am all for it., But if with, I daresay most people ,envy drives them to do things beyond what decent people do.IN short figure out how envy affects you. Honestly assess yourself and act accordingly.
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 02:26:49 UTC
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steve
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
With every line of code I write, I stay focused on the day that I will achieve greatness and crush all others. At this rate I'm set to completely burn out in my mid 20's but I can take that risk.
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 02:30:17 UTC
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DanielBMarkham
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
Two issues:1) What motivates you? For some, it's desire. For others, it's fear. Envy is a form of desire. Doing anything with all your soul -- pouring yourself into something -- is your job in life as far as I'm concerned. Pick whatever works for you. Whatever keeps you moving.2) It also depends on what you envy. I envy people that have made a positive difference in people's lives. Other things seem kind of stupid to me, like money and fame. You can inherit money, or trick somebody out of it, so while it's nice, it's more like the scoreboard on a basketball game. You don't play basketball by looking at the scoreboard. Fame is too much a crap shoot. Plus I'd rather have freedom to invent and innovate than having the world watching my every move.
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 02:48:29 UTC
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eusman
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
there are sooo many issues and feelings to handle during a startup to have time for a such destructful emotion like envyness
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 03:11:08 UTC
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randallsquared
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
A coupla times a week. Back around 1999, I was there multiple times a day.
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2007-09-02 03:28:17 UTC
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rrival
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
This is business. Envy is a distraction. Being able to see the paths someone else took to get somewhere shouldn't serve as the primary inspiration or impetus to pursue your ideas. Those paths are more than likely not opportunities for your success. If "some 24 year old kid from illinois just sold his <2 year old video site for more than 1.5b!" gets you past the "wow maybe I could actually do this" hurdle without inflating your ego to the point of forecasting your certain success then it's been a positive thing for your personal progress.Ymmv. Do it, fail, learn, repeat as necessary. Try not to let anecdotal successes inspire visions of grandeur.
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 03:30:41 UTC
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rrival
Parsing Miss South Carolina's Statement
vuknje
I think Kimmel said it best: http://tinyurl.com/2abgv8
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2007-09-02 03:36:55 UTC
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0123456789
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
jamiequint
To quote the article: "I really can't blame them since they were probably told in college that logic and reason are superior to evidence and observation."Albert Einstein was criticized by the physics community for ONLY using "logic and reason" to explain what he was proposing. Don't be hasty and dismiss half the tools we have because YOU find them useless.
Rant from Zed Shaw of Mongrel Fame
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2007-09-02 03:38:21 UTC
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mdakin
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I scan the stories using a once-a-day RSS update but I never bother with the comments.
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2007-09-02 03:51:37 UTC
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s_baar
Is it inevitable that wars will be faught by unsuspecting online gamers?
amichail
They made a movie about this. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/
I believe that it will become increasingly difficult to attract people to a volunteer army. One might imagine the creation of online games that manifest themselves in actual combat (e.g., via drones, robots) without revealing their true nature to the online gamer.
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2007-09-02 03:52:49 UTC
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Kaizyn
Seeking cofounder who can hack and design
cellis
Dear sir, If you are looking for a co-founder who will do the hacking and design work for you, then what do you propose to bring to the table?
see profile
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2007-09-02 04:01:24 UTC
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aaroneous
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I used to read it multiple times a day. Now I read it every few days. News.YC has replaced /. (and Digg too) as my source for interesting articles and relevant commentary.
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2007-09-02 04:19:03 UTC
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rokhayakebe
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
Yes it is. It is actually a gr8 thing. Being envious is nothing but desiring the same thing someone else has. Of course I want what the sergey and Larry have. I certainly want what the zentel guys have. I also want what the anywhere FM guys have. But it is not that I want their product or money, but I want to be where they are. I certainly do not want them not to have what they have. Now that would have been horrible. As long as you want to have the same as the other guy without taking away from his success then it is ok to want it. Actually I would advise you to wake up every morning and tell yourself I am going to build a company that people want just like anywhere.FM and zenter and delicious and flickr and all the other successes did. I can recall PG saying to us being successful mean getting the founders rich
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 04:22:20 UTC
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staunch
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
Work for my entire adult life in forced mediocrity just to keep my head above water or spend a small number of years working super hard to buy my freedom? An easy decision for me.I'd hack even if there was no money in it and I'd run a business to get rich even if I couldn't do it hacking. I happen to be alive in a time when I'm lucky enough to combine the two.Envy may enter into my mind on occasion when I look at others who have achieved what I'm aiming for, but most of the time it's just purely and hugely inspiring.
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 04:22:55 UTC
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vlad
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
I was just lying down, thinking about it now and for the past few days. I like the questions about ego that have been posted this week.
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 04:57:39 UTC
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bootload
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
"... Do you still read Slashdot? ..."Started reading in '96, uid of 2774 and I used to read it as much as I read hacknews.yc but stopped after ads started appearing and the sig/noise became unbearable ~ http://slashdot.org/~goon
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2007-09-02 05:05:25 UTC
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joshwa
HackrTrackr now has area based forums for Y Combinator Readers
dottertrotter
Two more feature requests:-- show news.yc karma in the popup and on the forum page-- have an area or a email link for feature requests :)
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2007-09-02 05:11:55 UTC
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sandoh
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I also used to read it a couple times a day. Now I scan it maybe once in a while. They don't break any stories to me anymore, it is always a delayed link to something I already read in reddit / digg yc.
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2007-09-02 05:16:49 UTC
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awt
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
No. Security + Copyright Law = BORING
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2007-09-02 05:56:43 UTC
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staunch
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Daily from around 1997 until 2004 or so, since then maybe a few times a year.
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2007-09-02 05:59:24 UTC
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inklesspen
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Every day, man. Beats the hell out of reddit and digg. Sure, there's a lot of pointless articles there, but at least I don't have to see tracksuitceo articles every day there, either.
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2007-09-02 06:09:15 UTC
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ashu
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
somewhat regularly, with comments having score 5 only.
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2007-09-02 06:12:56 UTC
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awt
Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges
rob
Posession is 9/10ths of the law.
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2007-09-02 06:51:42 UTC
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sbraford
Seeking cofounder who can hack and design
cellis
From poster's profile: "Son of a school teacher got his start designing websites. Dropped out of community college freshman year to pursue clothing venture.Failed, started programming with a "Get it done!" mantra.Made first million when he founded xyz game in 2007 at age 20 with partner from Ycombinator. Sold to xyz media two years later for a whopping $1.9 Billion. Devotes time to improving infrastructure in developing nations, Africa."Seems a bit over the top for y combinator. Hackers are usually very humble people (save bill gates / larry ellison types).
see profile
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2007-09-02 07:00:58 UTC
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michaelneale
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Once a day. Given up on reddit and digg. Now its news.YC and Slashdot. I really need to work out a better way to get "local" news - I feel really out of touch at times.
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2007-09-02 07:10:09 UTC
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cglee
Is envy a good thing?
marrone
Good as in an objective, moral goodness, or good as in may make you more money?If it's the former, then no. If it's the latter, then maybe.Most of us are working on projects that are amoral in nature, therefore, just have fun along the way and don't hurt anyone.
A lot of Web 2.0 news circulates around who is getting bought by whom for how much. A lot of people see this and envision the same success for themselves. A lot of these same people are creating startups. My question is this: is envy a good thing? I mean we are talking about the American Dream after all, the web is the new land of opportunity for many people, and a lot of us look to it as our chance to become rich and successful. But is this envy good or bad? Do we focus too much on getting acquired, rather than starting something you love and possibly being able to make a living off of it? The YC application even asks who you think would be the most likely to acquire you.PG has said many times, that during his Viaweb days all he wanted to do was make something good. What are your thoughts?P.S. This blew me away a few months back. In my Mens Health magazine, the results to a survey on the average guy's fantasy profession: 1. Professional athlete, 2. Movie Star, 3. Internet start-up millionaire, 4. Rock and Roll star, 5. Playboy photographer ... in that order! Yes internet start-up made it ahead of taking pictures of hot naked women all day, and being a rock and roll singer! Oh how the times have changed...
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2007-09-02 08:08:59 UTC
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SwellJoe
Is it inevitable that wars will be faught by unsuspecting online gamers?
amichail
C'mon, how can there be a (figurative) room full of nerds, and none of you have read "Ender's Game"? You guys need to be nerdier. Way nerdier.Your assignment for next week is to play AD&D (2nd generation rules), and I want to see all of you here next week in full Klingon battle dress, or traditional Tolkien Elvin garb, per your preference.
I believe that it will become increasingly difficult to attract people to a volunteer army. One might imagine the creation of online games that manifest themselves in actual combat (e.g., via drones, robots) without revealing their true nature to the online gamer.
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2007-09-02 08:11:19 UTC
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chmike
Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers
chmike
You may also read http://tinyurl.com/2dydfa reporting about a ciberwar against Estonia in April. It gives an idea what a botnet could be used for.
You may also read http://tinyurl.com/2dydfa reporting about a ciberwar against Estonia in April.
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2007-09-02 08:23:45 UTC
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piers
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I get the daily email. Occasionally there are a couple of things that I've missed from the day before, but I agree. It's not as "breaking" as it used to be.
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2007-09-02 08:39:23 UTC
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redsymbol
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I've made several unsuccessful attempts over the years to go more than a few days without reading slashdot :)I still read it almost every day, at least to check what the stories are. For a while, about eight months ago, I found myself going to it less, in favor of the main reddit page. Now that www.reddit.com has... evolved, I start a lot of my free-range browsing time from programming.reddit.com and slashdot (as well as news.yc, suddenly).The firehose is intriguing. Good to see Malda et al. continuing to experiment with novel approaches (and it IS novel - it's not a straight digg/reddit clone, as some opine). Will be interesting to see how that plays out.
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2007-09-02 08:42:11 UTC
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SwellJoe
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I started reading Slashdot when it was Chips and Dips...but I had completely discontinued Slashdot for about two years and reddit took its place. Now that reddit has declined from a "have to read nearly every link on the page" to "maybe two or three articles per day" habit, I find myself going back to slashdot at least once every couple of days.I read news.YC more often than either now...but the volume here is still low enough to where it's not a problem. I drop in more than I need to (I'll come back not really expecting anything new) kind of as a nervous tick while I'm waiting on software to build or virtual machine images to copy (I manage our apt/yum software repositories, and do all of the QC testing, so I twiddle my thumbs more than I'd like).Lately, there's a lot more of that, as may be seen in my ridiculous increase in comment volume this week...I'm kind of embarrassed looking over it now...because I'm in the midst of rolling out a new version of our installer--so lots of testing and packaging. I need to find something more productive to turn into a nervous tick. Blogging, or smoking crack or something.
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2007-09-02 08:51:08 UTC
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prakash
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Haven't read slashdot in years. neither do I read digg. prog.reddit sometimes. YC News everyday.The million $ question is when do I move away from YC News, and when?
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2007-09-02 08:53:39 UTC
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mattmaroon
Seeking cofounder who can hack and design
cellis
So as of right now, your resume is "Son of a school teacher got his start designing websites. Dropped out of community college freshman year to pursue clothing venture.Failed."Impressive. Too bad I'm already involved in a startup, otherwise I'd be down.
see profile
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2007-09-02 09:27:26 UTC
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abarrera
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I read it daily, but it's true it's value has been declining with time. If you read many feeds, you'll keep getting duplicated news with a one day delay in Slashdot. Of course, comment reading is a no-no except you are really, really interested, in which case I only read top score comments from the first page.
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2007-09-02 09:54:39 UTC
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ks
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I get all my news through my RSS reader. If it doesn't have RSS (or Atom) it doesn't exist :-)So I look at the headlines and reads at least one article a day
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2007-09-02 09:57:10 UTC
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Tichy
Is it inevitable that wars will be faught by unsuspecting online gamers?
amichail
And the unsuspecting soldiers play a game in which they have to kill nerds sitting in front of a computer screen? That doesn't sound very exciting.
I believe that it will become increasingly difficult to attract people to a volunteer army. One might imagine the creation of online games that manifest themselves in actual combat (e.g., via drones, robots) without revealing their true nature to the online gamer.
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2007-09-02 10:20:10 UTC
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Tichy
The hidden "F" in your web page
jsjenkins168
Wouldn't it also depend on the layout of the web page, though? It almost reads as if scientists have discovered that people read from left to right, starting from the top and then proceeding to following lines in a vertical movement from the top to the bottom.
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2007-09-02 10:23:15 UTC
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edu
Stevey's Tech News, Issue #1
fad
What about videos showing how people uses iSuck on myTube?Em, wait. Forget about it.
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2007-09-02 10:46:39 UTC
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axod
The hidden "F" in your web page
jsjenkins168
Could also be an cause and effect mixed up - most websites are designed in an F sort of arrangement, with important stuff at the top, and the left side, and some important stuff half way down.Have they been designed like that because that's how users naturally read stuff, or has it just become the 'norm'.
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2007-09-02 10:55:11 UTC
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mkmdragons
Seeking cofounder who can hack and design
cellis
hi how re you saqib is here want to seeking a hacking thnaks can you help me thanks' thankyou very much if you make me reply. [email protected]
see profile
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2007-09-02 11:18:00 UTC
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mhb
How Long Before You Purge? Apparently Never for the Gap
transburgh
Wow. The Gap thinks that its new offerings in other sectors will appeal to an old customer? Is he also astonished that The Gap has spruced up its product offering for the fall?
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2007-09-02 11:39:10 UTC
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pramodbiligiri
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Not as much as I used to. programming.reddit and news.yc have replaced it almost entirely. Whenever I check Slashdot nowadays I feel the stories are too political and trollish. Is it just me or has the comments quality on Slashdot actually declined significantly in the last year or so?
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2007-09-02 12:09:38 UTC
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pg
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I check occasionally but often I find nothing worth clicking on. The range of stories seems narrower now than it was a few years ago. It seems like they reacted to the arrival of digg and reddit by deciding to focus on their core competency, new OS releases.
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2007-09-02 13:11:43 UTC
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pg
The hidden "F" in your web page
jsjenkins168
This is a clearly a linkjack site, but I can't find the original source. Can anyone else?
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2007-09-02 13:19:44 UTC
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cwilbur
Is it OK to copy terms of service/privacy policy from another site?
picnichouse
If your lawyer okays it, then it's fine. If you don't have a lawyer, why are you asking us? Ask your lawyer.Honestly, the questin is like asking "Is it okay to copy code from another project?" And the answer is the same: if it works the way you want it to work, and you won't get in trouble for using it, then go for it. The way to determine if it works the way you want it to work is to consult a lawyer. Don't think of legalese as if it were just marketing BS; think of it as an odd programming language for the legal system. When you need Python code written or evaluated, you become or hire a Python programmer; when you need legalese written or evalauted, you become or hire a lawyer. It's as simple as that.
What do you think? I see it done all over the place...
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2007-09-02 13:41:19 UTC
49,427
47,549
cwilbur
You have a 1 in 20 chance of being chosen by YC. Pretty good odds!
palish
Bzzzt. Bad use of statistics, because it's not a matter of chance. The ideas that fit best with YC's ideas of what a Y Combinator startup should look like and look like they have the best shot at succeeding win.This is not a matter of chance. If your idea lines up perfectly with YC's vision, you get in, no matter how many other people apply. If your idea is completely unworkable for YC's goals (such as: you have a single founder, you're planning to run the startup indefinitely rather than sell it ), you may as well not apply, because even if there are 25 slots and 20 applicants you'll probably be rejected.
If we assume there will be 500 applications and that YC will be accepting 25 of them then that's a 1 in 20 chance.Throw in the fact some applications, maybe as many as half, are broken (thirteen year old founders, clones of existing ideas, etc) and you've got a great shot.Anyone that still has cold feet, get in there and apply!
4
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2007-09-02 13:55:59 UTC
49,433
49,266
Tichy
Parsing Miss South Carolina's Statement
vuknje
Understanding women: the final frontier for AI research?
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3
17
2007-09-02 14:31:19 UTC
49,434
49,331
rams
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
My slashdot visits have become rather infrequent over the last couple of years.To be honest neither reddit nor news.yc still get the kind of quality comments/analysis that a lot of the slashdotter comments >= 3 provide. programming.reddit.com is better. Add to that humour - there used to be a couple of sites that collected humorous comments from slashdot. You can't build a community overnight - it takes years; something that most people don't want to hear. I know for a fact that a lot of older hackers hang out on slashdot - that could account for the more insightful comments and great sense of humour. The trick is to experiment with the filters.
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4
11
2007-09-02 14:34:11 UTC
49,437
49,435
abrown
Don't break the chain - bug/feature request
abrown
Another nitpick...When you are logged in and go to the add-to-blog page, the js script statement points to Brett's chain instead of the currently logged in user.Oh, and why don't you jump on the facebook app bandwagon. Could generate more publicity, and who does not like publicity...A couple weeks in and I am still using the app every day.Andy
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0
1
2007-09-02 14:51:39 UTC
49,438
48,417
redrory
Is it time for profile pictures in Hacker News?
blored
/agree
I've been working out recently and I want to show off my biceps to all the cute girls reading Hacker News.Additionally, it would be nice to put a face to people's idiotic comments.
4
10
2007-09-02 15:05:31 UTC
49,439
49,331
ryanpc
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Yes. The commentary on /. tends to have an infinitely higher quality than found elsewhere (particularly digg.) Digg and Reddit are great for breaking news, but when I'm looking for an interesting (quality) discussion /. can rarely be beat.
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11
2007-09-02 15:14:46 UTC
49,441
49,440
jsjenkins168
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
I've had good experiences with MediaWiki also. It is very extensible because it is so widely adopted. I would suggest checking to see if someone has already implemented a feature to MediaWiki similar that you suggest, since you are already familiar with it.
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
2
15
2007-09-02 15:25:57 UTC
49,442
49,440
davidw
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
It depends, I guess.I wrote my own, because I wanted 1) something in Ruby on Rails, 2) wasn't happy with Instiki, and in any case, 3) wanted something that I know very well. It's available here, and is free software:http://dedawiki.dedasys.com
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
10
15
2007-09-02 15:34:49 UTC
49,445
49,440
pg
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
We use http://versionate.com
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
6
15
2007-09-02 16:06:03 UTC
49,446
49,416
joshwa
Interesting visualisations of complex data
Tichy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk
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0
17
2007-09-02 16:10:24 UTC
49,447
49,443
nostrademons
What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
ratsbane
A, E, J, F, K, D, B, H, I, C, L, G
What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy workingB) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're usingC) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environmentsD) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.E) EnthusiasmF) CuriosityG) EducationH) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocateI) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?J) History of completing thingsK) Communicates wellL) Polite(not listed in any order)
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16
2007-09-02 16:26:28 UTC
49,449
49,331
mynameishere
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Never did. Whenever I looked at it, it just felt like a bunch of Microsoft-haters resentful of the fact that they still lived in their mom's house.
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11
2007-09-02 16:35:35 UTC
49,452
49,440
vikramls
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
I prefer moinmoin - python-based, no need for a database and with per-page access control. http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
4
15
2007-09-02 16:49:48 UTC
49,453
49,440
pc
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
MediaWiki is incredibly well thought-out and tested, and is pretty easy to extend. Most of the alternatives become unmanageable as the number of articles grows beyond a few thousand.
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
8
15
2007-09-02 16:55:20 UTC
49,455
49,440
zain
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
One of the most important things you should consider, even above feature list, is your users' familiarity to the wiki software. Almost everyone is at least familiar with mediawiki's reading interface (if not basic editing) because of wikipedia, so if you're starting a wiki that is going to have any appreciable amount of users, mediawiki is almost a no-brainer.
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
3
15
2007-09-02 17:02:49 UTC
49,459
49,443
kleine2
What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
ratsbane
It's too hard to follow the order that someone types. Is there a more user friendly way to present this information?
What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy workingB) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're usingC) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environmentsD) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.E) EnthusiasmF) CuriosityG) EducationH) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocateI) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?J) History of completing thingsK) Communicates wellL) Polite(not listed in any order)
5
16
2007-09-02 17:24:38 UTC
49,460
49,444
mattculbreth
What is the best approach to web app development in Python without a RDBMS?
dood
What kind of app are you building?I don't think you'll find a pre-packaged framework out there that works without a DB. I guess if I were doing this I'd use memcached and then I'd write to a shared file system somewhere for the writes.We use Pylons and SQLAlchemy/Elixir/PostgreSQL though and we're very pleased.
Having read a couple threads [1] on dropping the RDBMS in favor of keeping data in RAM and logging to disk, I'm wondering what is a good setup for a typical Python web app.There seem to be a number of options; memcached, BDB, ZopeDB, metakit, serialising into sqlite...Any ideas?1. [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605], [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098]
4
8
2007-09-02 17:26:50 UTC
49,461
49,440
joshwa
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
5
15
2007-09-02 17:38:56 UTC
49,462
49,239
tipjoy
Original Macintosh User Manual (everything needed an explanation)
nickb
The conventional wisdom is that no one reads help (online or otherwise). I'm wondering, would people read a manual if it looked more like this one? Have manuals gone out of fashion, and perhaps come back in style again... or are they something which never worked and never will?Another interesting issue around help -- people often think that if something is really well designed, users won't ever need to get help. That's true for the most part, however there are important exceptions. When your product enables users to do something which they've never been able to do before, you can't expect that they won't need some help understanding what it is. Groundbreaking stuff will probably require some explanation. The original mac is a good example.
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17
2007-09-02 17:41:52 UTC
49,465
49,387
wmf
Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers
chmike
Of course, the nodes in an actual supercomputer can send data to each other faster than 384 kbps.
You may also read http://tinyurl.com/2dydfa reporting about a ciberwar against Estonia in April.
0
3
2007-09-02 17:54:20 UTC
49,470
49,444
jey
What is the best approach to web app development in Python without a RDBMS?
dood
Depends, what are your requirements or what does your program do?RDBMSes are popular because they're easy and they perform decently for most answers to the previous question. And it may be that an RDBMS is the best answer for your application.
Having read a couple threads [1] on dropping the RDBMS in favor of keeping data in RAM and logging to disk, I'm wondering what is a good setup for a typical Python web app.There seem to be a number of options; memcached, BDB, ZopeDB, metakit, serialising into sqlite...Any ideas?1. [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605], [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098]
1
8
2007-09-02 18:06:30 UTC
49,473
49,440
DocSavage
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
MediaWiki is the most used/supported wiki app. It has plenty of extensions. It's weak if you need wiki silos that require separate authorization. (There are extensions for controlling access, but it's added security and they have to patch holes where you can see data that should be protected.)I like the simplicity and DB-free nature of DokuWiki. Because wiki pages are simple text files, you can easily add wiki pages through some scripts and backup/syncing is as easy as it gets. The plugin architecture is good. Uploads go a namespaced upload area, so it's easy to embed and share uploaded files between wiki pages.MoinMoin is an OK wiki with the advantage that it's python. It's fairly easy to create wiki farms with MoinMoin, and you can add "macros" so pushing a button will get you a wiki page from different templates. Sections in a wiki page (delimited by headers) aren't independently editable, unlike the two PHP wikis above. User uploads are through page-specific attachments, unlike the more global space for file uploads in DokuWiki. You can have an ACL per page, but I like the Authorization system in DokuWiki better because it allows ACLs for entire namespaces.All of the above are easily skinned. For example, in DokuWiki, we can change from my lab website skin (http://taylorlab.stanford.edu) to the default skin (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) using a drop-down menu.
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
1
15
2007-09-02 18:14:41 UTC
49,474
49,440
jamesbritt
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
I'm a fan of DokuWiki. Easy to install, no database (so easy to write grep-like tools to do fun things with text file content), fairly decent permissions scheme.
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
7
15
2007-09-02 18:17:42 UTC
49,475
49,383
joe
Stevey's Tech News, Issue #1
fad
I'm glad Steve doesn't take himself too seriously.
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24
2007-09-02 18:17:47 UTC
49,476
49,266
jey
Parsing Miss South Carolina's Statement
vuknje
She sounds like a talking Markov chain.
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4
17
2007-09-02 18:19:46 UTC
49,478
49,464
wmf
Notes on CouchDB, a distributed document DB in Erlang
DocSavage
Yikes, where to start."Databases store data to disk. Thats all what 90% of us use them for. They are essentially elaborate hash tables backed by a disk drive."Sure, if you don't need indices or transactions."a disk failure is still a major disaster. Even if you have backups, even if you have replication, there will be downtime and manual labor while a new master server is established."If you use a dual-port, dual-controller RAID 10 with hot spares, you'll never even notice a disk failure. (No wonder the SmugMug people are so smug.) But I admit replication is a great solution for people who consider their time to be a sunk cost."Databases never put your 10-20 commodity server boxes with all their spare disk space to use."At least this is true (for now). Given that Web 2.0ers apparently don't care about most database features anyway, maybe HBase will solve this problem.
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0
17
2007-09-02 18:20:41 UTC
49,480
49,440
nablaone
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
9
15
2007-09-02 18:23:34 UTC
49,482
49,444
mxh
What is the best approach to web app development in Python without a RDBMS?
dood
Twisted is an interesting framework, though a little lower-level than others. I think you could build a self-contained, in-memory solution around it, as DBs aren't particularly central to its operation.
Having read a couple threads [1] on dropping the RDBMS in favor of keeping data in RAM and logging to disk, I'm wondering what is a good setup for a typical Python web app.There seem to be a number of options; memcached, BDB, ZopeDB, metakit, serialising into sqlite...Any ideas?1. [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605], [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098]
5
8
2007-09-02 18:28:31 UTC
49,487
49,443
pg
What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
ratsbane
If you want a cofounder for a startup: sanity, trustworthiness, determination, general intelligence, hacking skills, and ability to do things you're bad at.
What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy workingB) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're usingC) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environmentsD) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.E) EnthusiasmF) CuriosityG) EducationH) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocateI) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?J) History of completing thingsK) Communicates wellL) Polite(not listed in any order)
0
16
2007-09-02 18:51:10 UTC
49,491
49,443
superhelix
What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
ratsbane
The critical two attributes in a successful partner without question are raw brainpower and an unwavering determination to succeed. Everything else is gravy.
What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy workingB) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're usingC) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environmentsD) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.E) EnthusiasmF) CuriosityG) EducationH) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocateI) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?J) History of completing thingsK) Communicates wellL) Polite(not listed in any order)
7
16
2007-09-02 19:18:20 UTC
49,495
49,444
codeslinger
What is the best approach to web app development in Python without a RDBMS?
dood
It sounds to me like the closest thing to what you want is a library for Object Prevalence <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_prevalence>. There is one that I know of for Python called Pypersyst <http://pypersyst.org/>. There is also an IBM DeveloperWorks article about this library by one of the authors, as well <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pypers.html>. Hope that helps :)
Having read a couple threads [1] on dropping the RDBMS in favor of keeping data in RAM and logging to disk, I'm wondering what is a good setup for a typical Python web app.There seem to be a number of options; memcached, BDB, ZopeDB, metakit, serialising into sqlite...Any ideas?1. [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605], [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098]
2
8
2007-09-02 19:27:41 UTC
49,497
49,464
rms
Notes on CouchDB, a distributed document DB in Erlang
DocSavage
http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/the_woz.html
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1
17
2007-09-02 19:37:58 UTC
49,500
49,488
epi0Bauqu
IP address - locality resolution suggestions
gregp
http://www.maxmind.com
does anyone have any recommendations for IP address to locality resolution?
2
16
2007-09-02 19:41:41 UTC
49,501
49,443
epi0Bauqu
What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
ratsbane
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startups/team.html
What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy workingB) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're usingC) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environmentsD) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.E) EnthusiasmF) CuriosityG) EducationH) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocateI) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?J) History of completing thingsK) Communicates wellL) Polite(not listed in any order)
2
16
2007-09-02 19:45:12 UTC
49,503
49,443
mdakin
What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
ratsbane
Creativity [1] is another very important characteristic to have on the team. And luckily you can detect the most creative people within minutes of talking to them about hard problems. [1] n. the use of the imagination or original ideas (O.A.D.)
What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy workingB) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're usingC) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environmentsD) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.E) EnthusiasmF) CuriosityG) EducationH) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocateI) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?J) History of completing thingsK) Communicates wellL) Polite(not listed in any order)
6
16
2007-09-02 19:55:38 UTC
49,507
49,444
Hexayurt
What is the best approach to web app development in Python without a RDBMS?
dood
http://itamarst.org/software/cog/Cog is the Checkpointed Object Graph object database, providing semi-transparent persistence for large sets of interrelated Python objects. It handles automatic loading of objects on reference, and saving of modified objects back to disk. Reference counting is used to automatically remove no longer referenced objects from storage, and objects will be automatically be attached to the database if a persistent object references them.======I looked this package over a few years ago, and I think it got an awful lot of things right... but not enough.It's worth examining the design if you want to understand the intricacies of non-RDBMS approaches. A lot of thought went into it.
Having read a couple threads [1] on dropping the RDBMS in favor of keeping data in RAM and logging to disk, I'm wondering what is a good setup for a typical Python web app.There seem to be a number of options; memcached, BDB, ZopeDB, metakit, serialising into sqlite...Any ideas?1. [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605], [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098]
0
8
2007-09-02 20:20:46 UTC
49,510
49,246
andreyf
The Jessica Alba sexy walk story was a plant by a PR firm
jyrzyk
I thought the "team of Cambridge mathematicians" that it took to conduct research on hip to waist ratios was a dead giveaway, no?
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18
2007-09-02 20:31:34 UTC
49,511
49,425
chaostheory
A Tool to Organize Our Many Organizers - From Pakistan
robg
From the looks of the screencast, the tool is truly awesome. There's only one problem. I've waiting for this site to open up for at least 2-3 years now.... I almost forgot about this site until this article came about...
null
0
11
2007-09-02 20:32:22 UTC
49,512
49,488
ztaylor
IP address - locality resolution suggestions
gregp
maxmind is great and affordable
does anyone have any recommendations for IP address to locality resolution?
8
16
2007-09-02 20:32:22 UTC
49,513
49,440
nirs
Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
MoinMoin is extensible and modular system. You can replace almost any part of the system by installing a plugin. It is the best system for a typical wiki hosted on your server, if you like to extend and customize the system, and you happen to like Python.A wiki page can use any markup supported by the system parsers. MoinMoin comes with its own markup, rst, plain text and docbook parsers. Parsers for other markups created by the community are in http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ParserMarket. You add your own parser that know how to parse the text and how to drive the formatter, which create the html. Parsers are also used for syntax highlighting. Moin comes with cplusplus, CSV, irc, java, pascal and python. Formatter can create any output you like - the default create html, and the system provides other formatters for xml, docbook and plain text. You can add your own formatter if needed. Any page can be formatted in any exiting format, for example http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/?action=format&mimetype=t....To create custom applications, you usually add both action and macro plugins. Macro is a plugin that execute when a page is rendered and return output. Action is a plugin that handle request to urls like /wiki/pagename?action=foo. Most of MoinMoin UI is implemented in terms of actions and marcos, so for example, if you want to have a different RecentChanges - you can simply install a modified RecentChanges macro in your wiki. You can find lot of actions and macros in http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ActionMarket and http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MacroMarket.Formatted pages are compiled to Python bytecode, and literally executed when a page is visited. Static macros run when a page is compiled, and their output is compiled into the page. Dynamic macro are executed during page runtime, and are used to provide user, time or namespace dependent data.MoinMoin let you have acl for entire wiki, evaluated before and after page acl. You can have a default acl applied to pages without acl, or page specific acl. See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnAccessControlLists. For greater control, you can use your own security policy object, implementing any security scheme you like. See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/SecurityPolicy.MoinMoin UI can be changed by a theme plugin. A theme is responsible for creating the stuff before an after a page or action content. You can provide multiple themes for single wiki, or your own customized theme. MoinMoin uses plain Python as "template" language - you can easily change the behavior by overriding few methods. See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnThemes. There are many themes created by the community in http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ThemeMarket.MoinMoin support Wiki-RPC 1 and 2 http://www.jspwiki.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WikiRPCInterface2. You can also add xmlrpc plugin to extend the system as you like.MoinMoin can be deployed on any platform, either using plain CGI (slow), standalone or twisted Python server (e.g. behind Apache), or using FastCGI (recommended) or mod_python (more tricky).There is a GUI editor - modified FCKEditor, which may be easier for common users, but it has issues.Search is very powerful, supporting Google style modifiers, booleans and regular expressions. However, search become slow on big wikis. For typical wiki it is just fine. For bigger wikis it is painfully slow. See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnSearching. There is an experimental index search engine using Lupy. The next version will have a better search using http://www.xapian.org/.MoinMoin has great Unicode support - anything can be unicode: page content, page names, group names, user names and even passwords. User names can also contain spaces, so users can register with their real name.MoinMoin has the best Right to Left support. You can define a language and direction for whole wiki, single page, sections within a page, or words within a paragraph. Other systems either does not support this, or have partial support using raw html.
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
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forgotmylastone
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Yes, but only in the following way: sorted by highest score, -2 funny modifier, and with a plugin to allow thread collapsing.
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palish
What is the best approach to web app development in Python without a RDBMS?
dood
You might want to ask yourself, "Why am I choosing to not use an RDBMS?"If the answer is "because I know it will save time" or "because I'd like to explore the possibility", more power to you. I wholeheartedly encourage it.If the answer is anything else then you should just use one, because that path will save you time (possibly a lot of time).Check out Rails. The ORM is so well done that it feels like you aren't using a database at all.
Having read a couple threads [1] on dropping the RDBMS in favor of keeping data in RAM and logging to disk, I'm wondering what is a good setup for a typical Python web app.There seem to be a number of options; memcached, BDB, ZopeDB, metakit, serialising into sqlite...Any ideas?1. [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605], [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098]
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2007-09-02 20:59:16 UTC
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Alex3917
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
It's still my homepage out of loyalty but I rarely actually read it. How messed up is that?
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danteembermage
The Good Side of the 'Terror Futures' Idea (Yes, There is One)
amichail
An interesting and related situation is when large blockholders in corporations simultaneously hold significant short interests in derivatives of their company shares. This is espescially useful when a value destroying acquisition is on the table. If the blockholder also owns a significant portion of the target, they can use their block to force the acquistion, profiting from the gain in the target and the loss for the acquirer.
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2007-09-02 21:14:47 UTC
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trekker7
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
Absolutely. I still find a lot of interesting things there, and the comments are really great. I especially like the comment tags (informative, funny, etc.).
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2007-09-02 21:26:16 UTC
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nmeyer
What qualities are important in choosing someone to hire or finding a partner to work with
ratsbane
Nunchuck skills.
What order would you put these traits in? Anything else to look for?(Of course, also realizing that your potential employee or partner should be evaluating you in the same way.)A) Compatible personality - someone with whom you enjoy workingB) Deep knowledge in whatever platform you're usingC) Broad knowledge in a computing topics; familiarity with other languages and platforms; experience solving problems in diverse computing environmentsD) Subject matter expert in the domain you're working on - accounting, medicine, education, industry, public relations, etc.E) EnthusiasmF) CuriosityG) EducationH) Logistics - person lives near you or is willing and able to relocateI) Stability - can the candidate live with his or her means during tough times?J) History of completing thingsK) Communicates wellL) Polite(not listed in any order)
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steve
IP address - locality resolution suggestions
gregp
http://www.hostip.info/Good if you're not completely sure of how much geolocation will do for you or you don't want to spend a fortune.
does anyone have any recommendations for IP address to locality resolution?
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2007-09-02 21:44:52 UTC
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jamescoops
Online communities, who's got it right?
yubrew
http://www.urban75.com
Everyone knows about the rise and fall of Slashdot, Digg, reddit. There are so many ways that _might_ work...Are there any examples of lasting communities that still produce high quality posts? SomethingAwful comes to mind.
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2007-09-02 21:50:06 UTC
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steve
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
I stopped for a while when reddit was at its peak, but now I'm back to slashdot every once in a while.
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tuukkah
Check out Screenify, a little application I wrote so I can browse reddit and Digg in screenshots.
zackcoburn
I have to say I don't see why you want to do that - "browse in screenshots".
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2007-09-02 21:57:03 UTC
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henning
Do you still read Slashdot?
kashif
no.gave up on reddit, too, which now consists mostly of iran conspiracy theories.
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2007-09-02 22:00:23 UTC
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tuukkah
Can one of you create a web based email aggregator?
rokhayakebe
This would seem a simple feature for any existing web mail service to get a larger share of the customer. As long as all of your providers support IMAP you can even do it yourself with something like OfflineIMAP.
I have several email accounts with several providers . Can one of you guys cr8 something really nice and simple to use so i can have one interface to manage my emails. I know some startup has done it, but if i cannot remember their name that is not a good sign. Thanks in advance
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gscott
Can one of you create a web based email aggregator?
rokhayakebe
OfficeZilla.com allows you to setup multiple pop accounts and get them all in one place, but wait till the end of this month to sign up as I have a bunch of improvements on the way, the mail module is a bit dated right now.
I have several email accounts with several providers . Can one of you guys cr8 something really nice and simple to use so i can have one interface to manage my emails. I know some startup has done it, but if i cannot remember their name that is not a good sign. Thanks in advance
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Best Wiki Software?
ivankirigin
I rate http://groupswiki.com - nice simple UI.
I'm interested in starting a wiki. There are lots of free and open-source wiki platforms to choose from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_softwareI've used MediaWiki in the past, which worked as expected. Any experience, insight, or preferences?I'd like to easily add embedded flash applications. Ideally they would be user uploaded, i.e. a use modifies a page by uploading and adding a flash application as an example of what that page is discussing.
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