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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.

True story. Remember to add it to your notes.

that sure was a lot of clicking and looking to get to '1.5% of the total US electricity usage'.

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?

best part, this link: http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/design_quotes.html

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.

i didn't know that about nitrous oxide; thus, upvoted. drugs are fascinating; as long as there's new facts involved.

oh i know the answer to this one: no.

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.

that and other resources.

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.

i couldn't bring myself to stick null pointers here and there for the convenience of syntax :P

i see a lot about code being written for humans, but i'm not onboard with it. elegance in how it executes is #1, and elegance of maintenance is #2.

This is bull. The idea of karma is an illusion too. The man who stabs you in the gut and laughs, is a buddha. mu.

burn out?

Paul Graham is a little bit late to really shock us all with this headline on such an obvious topic. - a result from the visual map of "Paul Graham"

...so i went back to the first blog post to figure out what this guys vendetta is: http://eyeonwiner.org/page/44

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.

flagged for idiocy and what dchest posted above.

what is this grid technology, and can i supply processing horsepower and get paid?

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.

i believe that the key is no to not be in excess, to truly be minimalistic about it, and not a slave to impulse.

here in california, we often expend more energy in our daily routines, rest less, and use up more mental energy doing all our problem solving and anxieties and such, than would be the case if we were practicing mindfulness most of the day, instead of feeding into our concerns (attachments) to the various things we do. during mindfulness and zazen, the mind goes into a different mode, which is in many ways, rejuvenating in itself, but this is not the case with how we - or at least i - approach problems at work.

comprehending why a practice is done, and then being true to your comprehensions is where it is at, and it is not in mimicking the implementations/practices of others.

i take back my statement. it seems this network is using opendns and maybe someone is changing things up between, but why your blog? i don't get it.

nslookup blog.jedwhite.com 208.67.222.222 (opendns) => 208.67.219.132

found a discussion of people mentioning this ip as a problem: http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1320

nslookup blog.jedwhite.com 64.102.255.44 (ns2.cisco.com) => 74.125.77.121 (what it should be)

looks like an opendns issue, prob same with the other person who couldnt' connect.

mr. jedwhite: unless for some reason an intermediary system is distorting this...your domain (blog.jedwhite.com) is resolving to 192.168.31.15 (a private address), and therefore, is not accessible to us. k, tnx.

"Neighborhood searches." I implemented it in my own hackerish way for myself, and does a good job. Unless my search is really out there, I go to my personalized search engine before I go to google...that's saying a lot.

I think it would benefit other people, but I do not have any interest in creating a business around it and since it's a search related technology, it would probably attract lots of traffic if it's any good - and then I'd have to figure out how to afford it/monetize it.

Here's how my implementation works and then some ideas how to take it further:

In my app you add 'buckets' but better named 'neighborhoods' and one is 'Design', another 'Om Philosophies', another 'Business' and another named 'Design Assets'.

Let's say I'm looking for new icons/inspirations of minimal dark design. Normally I'd either google search (lots of misses), or try to think of one of the design sites that post a lot of them and do a "site:" search in it...but now I go to this app and go to Design Assets and search there. Then many links appear underneath like 'smashing magazine' 'six apart' etc; places that have inspiration/asset posts that are generally pretty good. Each of those links is a link to google with my keywords plus the "site:" tag added.

I toyed with google custom searches, but it wasn't as convenient.

My business 'neighborhood' has hacker news, serial entrepeneur, seth godin, personalmba and a bunch of others.

The benefit here is that I don't have to search the entire web (Google/DuckDuckGo). I'm searching a 'pre-selected neighborhood of places that have already proved value to me'.

It'd be neat if I could share the ones I have made with other people, or if my friend who is a molecular biologist could make me a neighborhood for searching on bio stuff. It'd be cool if I could browse some publicly shared ones, but mainly, get the ones my friends have; and even cooler yet, if we can have collaborative neighborhoods where any of us can add sites.

Of course the step after this would be to do the searches yourself (instead of linking to google), so there'd be less clicks but hehe, I don't know if you want to get into it that far...the duck duck go people thought it was worthwhile making new search engines, I don't know though....

I hear searches are the one area of online content where it's easy to make money on advertisement (since people are searching), even if you were just a meta that linked into google in specific ways, perhaps you can monetize that way.

I haven't thought out the business/monetization/complexity of making a search engine ..because my version works for me...saves me lots of time, and I like it. I think other people would like it too, but to share it with them I'd need to put it up on a site, make it so you can't edit it so easily, have not it not be one global list of neighborhoods but instead user-selected ones, maintain that site, figure out where to host it, and frankly, I don't care that much, because I got what I needed...and somewhere in my head I think google/duckduckgo/someone will do this, or something like this...where you can create subsections of the web of your own making, based on your own criteria, and constrain your searches to them, and not just one site like the "site:" filter as is, but neighborhoods of sites.....eventually someone will do this....

...and you can be that eventually, if it sounds worth it to you. i'd prob use it, unless your registration/privacy/other aspects sucked.

freakin tweakers. amphetamines may help you energetically do a bunch of mindless tasks, but when it comes to hacking - insight, intuition, and the ability to notice patterns as you go are all very important. these are also the things that diminish with the use of amphetamines.

see: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/12/brain_performance_dru... and http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/07/the_neuroscience_of_i... and then google around for more...

do more research before messing with your brain like this. there's enough brain-dead yet hyper drones coming out of the younger generations as is.

that illustration cracked me up. i don't use twitter but i'm guessing that it's better than what they have on their app's error 500 message. maybe they should buy it.

Or use PersonalBrain: http://www.thebrain.com/

[correction] how sad, but true.

I don't know about communists, but I do know of some Anarchists, and this article I found that talks about it mentions "a large number of [people]." There were perhaps communists with them, it gives that impression; I'd be surprised if they were all anarchists.

Palmer and his assistant, John Edgar Hoover, found no evidence of a proposed revolution but large number of these suspects were held without trial for a long time. The vast majority were eventually released but Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Mollie Steimer, and 245 other people, were deported to Russia.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcommunist.htm

Like someone in another comment mentioned, there's the modern day issues (Guantanamo), but I don't think it should matter much which country it happens in - the point is, our government isn't a white knight either. In the declaration of independence the words read that all men have such unalienable rights by God (not because of where they are born), and so it is hypocritical for the same political justification and claim of truth to alienate these rights when it is elsewhere.

That said, I am arguing for things that I don't think matter - I do this for clarity. I guess there's also no reason to go into why it doesn't matter here.

hey, hey...don't pick on india, they're still emerging - they'll make it through this php problem. we still have a lot of people using php here...the thing's contagious.