It looked so amateur. The interface said 'hello world' to me, and then I left within 2 seconds. Put at least some serious effort, and feel you have something of value before getting people to spend time criticizing something for you. I feel a bit insulted, as if being an HN reader puts my time into the value category of someone doing cent-work on Amazon Turk. At the level of work you've put in thus far, keep the round table of 'consultants' to your mother.
I’ve found that between a quarter and half of the students I consider 'hard-core' entrepreneurs/founders (working passionately to found a company,) self-identified as coming from a less than benign upbringing.
he believes that a quarter of people in a group warrants correlation?
If you teach critical thinking, the how of thinking, the how to approach problems, the whys of things known, then knowledge comes easy and remains accessible for life. If you teach many facts, then there is little progress of critical thinking. It's like data without a processor. Data is not so hard to find these days, how to process remains mysticism for many.
the funniest part, more so than ineffective advertisements, is that that which got everyone's panties in a bunch was happiness. down with happiness! heh
The first comment on the page by Krischan is right on:
Space DOES really look like that. If you have the right set of eyes. Hubble and its team just prove this with every picture.
So it does not look like it would look to you naked eye? Nice thing that human eyes are not the standard. Put in some false colours to offset their failure.
when you're really busy it may in the form of things that go out, like sending e-mails, especially if you're not a programmer -- and sometimes when you're really busy, you have sent no e-mails in a while....because you're busy working on something. today i plan to send one e-mail: prototype complete, and published at this url.
I say we make programming languages where you don't have to program.
Seriously, though, if they aren't in the tech world...they are just waiting to be overtaken by us....agriculture? could use better tech.... medicine? could use better tech.... massage therapy? we could add a muscle scanner...
Maybe a place for non-webapp-oriented tech businesses, like biotech and such, would make for a good HN spin-off...or maybe we just need more of those here...
.: no sleep until the machines and we are one ! :.
really, all we need is better tools for working with javascript. the language is fine. the pain is in the lack of quality tools.
aptana is the best ide i know of to write javascript in, and it's decent, but you don't get the documentation you can embed into javascript the way you can with visual studio. however, in visual studio, there is no document outliner to quickly navigate large amounts of javascript like you can in aptana studio. so although i like the documentation add-ons microsoft made for intellisense in visual studio, i write javascript primarily with aptana studio. the intellisense in both is merely ok when compared to intellisense for other languages and ides.
then when debugging, the best tool i know of is firefox with firebug, which we all love because it's just there, but is horrible when it comes to stability as of late.
nothing is wrong with the language; major need, though, for better tools.
in short, david winer works on things in isolation and doesn't care for negative feedback, appreciates his own ideas and pursuing them at full pace. boo hoo.
if you don't like his ideas, don't listen to his ideas. if you don't think an idea of his is worth implementing but you see lots of people implementing it, then make the case for why it's bad.
higher quality regurgitation. i see smashing magazine as a quality filtering aggregation subscription with occasionally good original content, and i see things like a list apart and alertbox as consistent high quality original content.
thing is, some good stuff makes it to the places that can't be relied on to perpetually produce high quality content, and places like smashing help point out where it is.
for me, hacker news is another filter subscription for the internet which also occasionally has great original content right here. i remember seeing some posts here earlier in the week saying this was a social site....maybe for some, but for me it's a high quality subscription to the internet in general, which replaced previous lower quality filters like reddit.
they discovered that people vary in how much and how quickly they share information, and they also discovered that people who share information quickly and most of the time (infectious people), spread memes faster.
they might as well have discovered that water is wet.
i say this in reaction to the information in the article about professional people being surprised at this, and those being surprised that the data shows that people who spread information more so, spread memes faster. that's not a surprise at all.
True story. Remember to add it to your notes.