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How does TikTok search even work? I wish I had the patience to sift through all the garbage of an empty profile. Maybe I'll peak a Twitch stream of it some time to get a better idea.

Reading, writing, and thinking clearly has not always been my strong suit, so yeah xD ; take this with a grain of salt.

Hey dude was wondering how this comment made you feel:

Cloud monitoring is a saturated market.

It's like yeah, it's saturated but it's saturated because the infrastructure is we're hosting it on is still and forever changing. Take some serverless CloudFormation in AWS; there was no good solution for application monitoring until someone specifically started solving for it because no one in their right mind was going to use CloudWatch and none of the other existing monitoring solutions/tools could fit the bill either unless they started from scratch and solved for that specific new infrastructure.

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The Cloud monitoring market might seem saturated but that's because there is no "silver bullet" solution given how much infrastructure has been and continues to change.

I am particularly interested in the last item on his wish-list: Pry on Steroids: Interactive Ruby Development. Does anyone develop this way?

I'll admit that I am new to ruby and coming from Python I immediately fell in love with pry and was wondering if there was anyone out there who utilizes such a work-flow involving some sort of REPL. I have been having a hard-time figuring out a way to do this with pry in rails.

At first my inner neckbeard scoffed and proclaimed why? I looked at the source and realized I don't know jack about CSS3 and how easy something like this is to implement in less than ~150 lines of code was like ramming a sock down my inner neckbeard's throat.

If you have a ton of ideas and they're all, for the most part, general, vague, novel, and abstract, practice prototyping. Make it really dirty, don't over-think it, and keep a closed-mind while in the beginning stages of a project; IOW, don't pre-optimize your project by recursively worrying about other edge cases, write for a single case and get something on the screen.

Given your background, I'd scratch all these "big picture" or "overly ambitious" ideas and return to a domain you're more confident in, pick something (axiom, rule, theorem, etc.) specific, and see if you can express or simulate an example of the "thing" in action.

> "why didn't you spend your unemployment working on a project to flesh out your portfolio?"

Who cares? Generally the last thing I do is try to get practical with my portfolio just to impress some third party; depending on who you are, what field you're interested in, and everything else in your portfolio, the projects you produce will only vary as much as you originally imagined them.

If you're projects aren't interesting to you, are they really worth doing? All this aside, if I were OP I wouldn't be shy about chalking-up this experiment as a "project" since most ad agencies and creative types eat this stuff up.

OT but Anyone actively pumping out stuff for node.js? I just installed it on my slice last week; it took me about an 30-40 minutes to get through the README :| (mostly due to some missing dependencies), flipped through man, and was like wtf I'm doing. . .point being, it seemed like it'd take some serious investment to, first, figure what you're doing, and, second, to produce something interesting.

Coolest application I've seen come out of node.js is http://mrdoob.com/125/Multiuser_Sketchpad_HTML5. I'd be interested in what others are doing in it; let alone, how they got about doing they wanted to do in it.

Yeah, I think YC applicants or founders is statically insignificant, but I think your total user base is just as insignificant as this since it doesn't tell us much about what stories are showing up on the front-page and who is saying what about it. Instead, considering you're still only interested in comments, what if you filtered your user base for anyone that has posted a comment in the last 30 days then extrapolated the proportion of comments posted given a threshold of karma or "days alive" on HN against everyone else in your user base.

I think it's more revealing this way if you are interested in how increased traffic and site participation is effecting this 6% you mentioned above or that "days alive" value; IOW, how is increased traffic and new user participation effecting the rate at which this sample is posting comments?

In the end, I don't think increased traffic is effecting the discussion to the extent that it really matters; I think what really keeps everyone else in check is the frequency at which older members are posting comments.

I agree, but it's probably up to the founders and pg how much information they make public, more so from the founders. It'd be interesting to see someone publish their quarterly earnings akin to what balsamiq did awhile back (http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product//2010/01/03/a-look-back-at...).

This list is a good start, but far from up to date; just see, this (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&...) for YC 10.

http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/09/21/copying-y-combina...

Looks like he wrote a thesis on "seed accelerators" using YC as a model.

This is a test. [http://google.com]s noun.

What kind of desks are you looking into?

Since you own an Aeron, what is the difference between sizes (i.e. A, B, C keep cropping up)

I hate to admit this, but I think you're right. My Dad was originally going to get me a new chair for my birthday, but when he showed me what he wanted to get me, I reluctantly declined and tried describing to him I don't him or myself to waste more money on another office chair that is only going to cause me more problems. I doubt he's gonna shuck $850, let alone $425, for an office chair, so I guess I'm gonna have some shopping around to do on craigslist. :|

Yeah, I was actually going to stop by later today and see for myself.

But were you still working for $900 month? You had to to make some additional change after you moved out again otherwise, regardless of your financial cushion, you would have fallen back into the same cycle. Did you change jobs? Re-evaluate and improve upon your current (past) skill-set while living w/ your parents? Go back to school?

I concur, maybe invest in learning R first and build a couple prototypes that monitor a market trend and report some sort of result then just start iterating and building applications for investments that interest you.

I've been thinking about implementing something similar except with the opposite sort of sentiment that this project, application, program was poorly optimized, bug-ridden, and could use some improvement.

Easiest way I can describe is take all that crap on all those code snippet sites out there + all the basic features from DCVS + some experienced developers/programmers with some time to kill + somebody that knows what they've written is crap yet functional and is looking for some suggestions.

I got the idea from the simple fact that there are still plenty of people out there writing sub-par code who could never dream of pushing something serious they've written to github or bitbucket. The goal I had in mind was to a create sort of preliminary sandbox for users to push projects/snippets anonymously to a place where others could criticize, make fun of, and explain to them why their code fails. I'm sure the concept could easily attract programmers trolling other programmers, but that's also part of the fun since the community your pushing it for know their code was crap to begin with.

A couple more comparisons I couldn't resist: a DCVS for 4chan or extending pastebin to the point that it has an API and a user community who prefer logging and learning from their failures by contributing to this repository.

http://www.searchreddit.com/

Except I never use it, googling site:reddit.com along with my search terms and possibly inurl:subreddit-keyword gets the job done

This might sound naive and OT but how hard was it to implement a payment gateway for this project? Please consider I am a lowly PHP programmer and am merely curious of how hard this is to implement in RoR.

pg post your current work-space pwease.

EDIT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614454

Related (or why I'm asking): http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/bqcut/ask_rweb_d...

Related submissions: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+intitl...

I've been kicking around a similar idea, but with a stronger emphasis on the user model as a mentor/apprentice experience. It would be certainly harder to implement than what you are describing, which, and correct me if I'm way off here, would be a set of interactive lesson plans presented in a fashion similar to a wiki where the end-user gains experience and credibility given their progression and rank (or karma, points accumulated) for a set of lessons belonging to a particular category or domain of interest. As they gain more credibility for domain they are granted additional permissions for editing or adding content for that domain.

Congratulations guys, you deserve it, and thank you to anybody else out there writing drivers or optimizing software for changes happening in hardware that we all take for granted.

If you think that's wild, check out nativeclient (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/); it makes WebGL and HTML5 look like a quick hack. Not that I am hating on either one, but nativeclient could certainly be the end-all-be-all of disseminating between which applications your desktop is running and which applications is the web running on your desktop.

I agree for the most part. Even Tim Berners-Lee has his regrets formulating the semantics of the URL, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator#Histor...

protocol:TLD/domain/www/path/file.html just makes more sense.

There is a lot of interesting code in here; I took the liberty to beautify the JavaScript here, http://pastebin.com/zVe5a1Fi

This got me so excited I've decided to dedicate my spring break to getting acquainted with HTML5 by learning to us http://processingjs.org

I think HTML5 could quite likely liberate JavaScript from the DOM altogether and provide the necessary foundation for revolutionizing 'the manner' in which we develop the browser as a client-side application on 'some system' while further streamlining the web-server as a means of storage. I mean HTML5 could very well be the solution for writing formidable JavaScript that can do so much more besides molesting the DOM. ;)

I agree; I hate these 'social faux pas' posts for web/graphic designers. I'm also increasingly beginning to hate this model of 'designer playing publisher' and abusing wordpress as a CMS for 'premium content' and buying/selling ad space. 1/10 times you end up with posts like, [insert quantity] things(outbound links) for [something].

The result is usually just a list of outbound links with some useless editorial commentary. Some sites (psdtuts, hongkiat) can pull it off, but others can not, which is easily discernible in how valueless each post is for who ever they're targeting (usually designers).

To be less fair, it can also be used to parse some strictly written XHTML.