shane_armstrong

Understood, my apologies :) I shall keep my enthusiasm to a lower tone from now on, thank you :)

Ahhh, no sorry, I have been reading for a long time, I only signed up last night to post and I found it rather addictive, if you need proof of my existence I can point you to an MSN, a twitter and a facebook, as well as a hosted website bearing my name :)

I am not associated in anyway whatsoever, this is not some kind of hype building, I just really like the project and would love to help it to grow and hopefully improve.

Not down for me, must be a local DNS solving or connection issue. Either that or it is client side, refresh your cookies/cache.

Okay, 2 minutes of use and I'm addicted.

Please add logins and comments and I will be your first sign up.

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Public response:

Most people I show say the same thing:

"god i hope they develop some kind of social side to it logins with comments and fixes for top ranked code you know, accuracy and symantics etc would be so good"

"Would be amazing if i could comment"

On another note, one friend said:

"it would be great for crowd sourcing optimisation"

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Updates:

Update: 10 minutes of use and I'm addicted.

Update: 15 minutes of use and I'm addicted, I've tweeted, my girlfriend has re-tweeted and I've liked. This site seriously needs some kind of social side to it - potential is not being fulfilled.

Update: Friends have seen my like and started liking.

Update: Lobbed towards Hexxeh, hopefully we can get a tweet from him or a blog post.

Update: So far a handful of friends have checked it out, hopefully a few uniques coming over and staying.

Just wanted to say that the bug I reported with the site has now been fixed on windows Chrome, as well as the layour issue with the change of font you made.

Good look with your site :)

http://i48.tinypic.com/17eh3p.png

That is the view on my screen, a quick analysis of your page source shows that the container has a fixed width of 700px, but that the computed style is returning a total of 702px for all the contents of the spans.

This may be because your font size is forcing the containers to expand ever so slightly, try a 0.9em size compared to your general font size to see if this fixes the issue.

12.0.742.112 And you are most welcome, also, your top links "blog" anchor seems to be miss-placed.

The original one is better, but the font for your links is extremely malformed in my Chrome for some reason.

Except from that I prefer it, it is less conforming and therefore will stick in my mind for longer, I actually read some of the text on your site, which is more than I usually did.

Tell your client the marketing team suggested that design so that they have a reason to be paid and that any marketing team is actually useless in most cases. Paying someone to tell you your own opinion is a bad method of outsourcing.

It would require a lot of development time I think and I really think it's a great idea, especially to get there (in the public eye anyway) first, but I am only 2 months or so away from finishing a project my team is working on, seeing how quickly ideas expire on the internet it will be taken or obsolete by the time I have the free time.

I think that an IDE makes it simpler to use, but that quickly writing accurate code is a better choice.

I personally use notepad when using my FTP or more often my cpanel light text editor. I haven't had too many issues thus far and have certainly never thought "if only this was easier, or I had some annoying code completion popping up and forcing me to use three arrows and an enter key to accept that one instead of just writing out the last 3 letters of this function."

And aswell as klr, I think this sounds trolly, but really, the time taken to download, install and learn an IDE could just be spent improving the code in notepad instead.

As someone who has used IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox and Chrome I can't help but think that this is all irrelevant, IE is failing, slow and ugly.

MS can try to redeem it but the damage has already been done, companies and home users are switching over to chrome and FF, either for speed or plug-ins.

In my personal opinion, Chrome usage will rise, Google will use it to push their google+ service and this will either succeed or push "purists" who prefer non-conformity or hate to be forced in to viewing the same adverts again and again for a service they don't want to use to swap to FF.

Regardless of the future war between FF and Chrome, Microsoft are too slow moving and get left behind, they are not innovative enough in the modern day ,although so.cl looks to be a promising addition to the social networks we already have and will hopefully improve the accuracy of searches made on bing through its use.

I and many others will continue to use Chrome, until Mozilla come up with some amazing new functionality, IE will drop users till it dies (lets face it, most of the users only use it because they either got it with the computer and don't know there are other browsers or because their corporation has had it for years and refuses to change. Don't forget that military organizations who had plugins made for IE6 which aren't forward compatible refuse to move, I have direct experience of asking one of my British special forces friends from high school why exactly he was browsing in IE6) and then the internet will rejoice, for microsofts clunky browser will no longer be dragging back W3C innovations with it's lack of inter-release support.

Anyway, that was extremely longwinded and biased.

LT;DR: IE is dying, long live Chrome and Firefox.

I would also more than happily pay for hacker news, but since it's free and user submitted I think it is a different case.

Perhaps there should be a general news site where the users submit the news articles themselves, it would probably be faster than the ACTUAL news companies who have to send out a reported, as opposed to a civilian on the streets witnessing it happen.

(Of course, then the news corporations would leech off the site.)

Agreed with crntaylor, it seems like some form of status sharing application but I don't really have a clue.