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Bye. As a long time reader/poster (2007FEB22) I'm used to the upswing in trolls, stupid comments and general whiny readers.
The lack of transparency is why Hackernews isn't worth my time. It's no longer a fun place to be. You can read about why below (moderator creating throw-away account to justify title change).
Funny enough, I quit reading/posting/commenting on slashdot back in 2006/07 for similar reasons.
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Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p
"... This is well known. This "news" is very old ..."
Old? How long has RaspberryPi been released, this year? It's one thing to have a chip that will do this, quite another to have the chip on a usable system that you can program for $35 setup.
Either way, it's not old news for me. That's why I posted it.
next day
"... Even if you're amazed by it, you could have at least found an article about results ..."
Not sure what you mean about 'results'? Could you find one for me and post it?
"... Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading ... Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. ..." ~ ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(so is this a moderator post commenting back? - notice a title change & this comment on a new account. If so, moderator, stop being so snarky)
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According to slashdot, google has started answering questions typed into the search bar. So I decided to give it a try. It may be wise not to trust their answers yet, as this puzzling answer shows.
A comparison of 10 Social News Websites.
Confronto 10 maggiori reti sociali di notizie della rete. Nel confronto abbiamo scelto Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, Newsvine, Fark, Dzone e Sphinn.
This time on my four year old laptop.
Editing a remote file with a local editor; Beryl Settings Manager; slashdot in FireFox; gimp. That's what is displayed on each screen.
See the blog post for more info: LinuxWorld 2006
This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you use this photo, please list the photo credit as "Scott Beale / Laughing Squid" and link the credit to laughingsquid.com.
Daniel and Mark spent some time after the game putting the site in a cache location and sending out notices on digg.com and slashdot, among others.
Notice the popularity shift in mid-April and the growing difference in traffic/reach today?
We're all still fascinated by the popularity of Digg, especially over Slashdot
This is the item page for my new blog design. I took design elements from digg, slashdot, orderedlist.com/, tango and mashed them up into this one.
Unlike my previous blog, there are no boxes with hard borders. There is a noticable difference in layout for the main page than the item pages as well. Primarily the location of the page elements which is at the bottom on the item page and on the right for the main page.
I will only use one font family throughout the page elements that I control. The order of it is: Segoe UI (Windows Vista font), Tahoma, sans-serif. Most of my readership is on windows (according to Google Analytics) and on Firefox, so I will adjust things to fit that platform/browser combination as well.
Like my previous blog, the fonts are all relatively sized and the content area will always fit the screen. I will still use standard HTML markup to handle
The colors I chose are "Pantone Coolgray 2 M" as the general tone, and "#003366" to match the blogger navigation. The colors were chosen so they would hopefully wash out more of the page elements so people can focus more on the content.
The template is organized to fit the usage of a lone blogger in the log (so I have removed all the things that may make it give the notion of multiple bloggers.
In the "Links to this post" I didn't bother with the "Create link" because that section is automatically populated according to
help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42533
As a filler, there is some adsense on the right side of the page. Probably going to make it a skyscraper to push the bottom navigation down. I don't make much money from it anyway, but every little bit helps.
The bottom navigation has its own search so the user does not need to go all the way up to perform a site search. It has the archive, and RSS feed of the recent posts in the blog and a list of popular tags on the blog.
Some changes in the final version are:
* The text layout is a bit off (i don't think I want it that tight or that small).
* the main area would be shifted a bit to the right.
* bullets will be added
* The gradients are too big
* the bottom part will be filled in.
* I may add another color to the palette
* I need to add a "post new comment" link
There's a point of convergence in the Jan 2006 Alexa Traffic Rankings of Digg.com, Slashdot.org and del.icio.us. Remember that each of them originated at different points in time, notable by the diverse traffic rankings at the start of 2005. Have we reached a saturation point in the number of social web users? Read on...
PMOG (bud.com) lets you drop mines on websites that can blow up other PMOG users. Poor electricsheepcompany.com. Thanks to Christian for the awesome PMOG pun! :)
cw: needs more mines
cw: dude slashdot is a dangerous place
suttree: cw you're singlehandedly making the web a very dangerous place :D
cw: it's just as berners-lee imagined it: click, scroll down, watch out for that mine, oh dayum game over
cw: if i get caught i blame you, as creator
cw: though as they say, "pmog doesn't mine people ... i do"
justin: 161 mines
justin: and counting
See the blog post for more info: LinuxWorld 2006
This photo is licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you use this photo, please list the photo credit as "Scott Beale / Laughing Squid" and link the credit to laughingsquid.com.
See the "Roblimo's Words of Wisdom" video
A brief discussion on humanity's two oldest forms of recreation, as told by Robin Miller, aka Roblimo. Robin is a former Vietnam vet and NYC taxi driver; he's also the editor of Slashdot. -andyThis video was originally shared on blip.tv by andycarvin with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
Worn-out? Weathered? Well, perhaps not when this was shot, but this machine was called the "Bokks" and was an early attempt at connecting your television (and stereo) to the internet for content streaming. The company, Hårdvarubolaget, disappeared in the dot com-crash. And you haven't seen one of these in stores, have you?
To be fair, it did get some attention in its day. Here's a link to a Slashdot article, published just a few weeks after I took this photo. slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/01/1919221
www.geocaching.com/about/history.aspx
"The Creation of Groundspeak
After the increased traffic from Slashdot, Irish realized that the ongoing management of the web site would quickly grow out of the lone computer on his home DSL line. So in late 2000, he partnered with Elias Alvord and Bryan Roth, two coworkers at Sunrise Identity, to start a new company called Groundspeak Inc. (originally "Grounded Inc."). With the proceeds from sales of 144 geocaching t-shirts, they moved the machines into a hosted environment in downtown Seattle. The founders continued to work for Sunrise Identity while managing the new company and the web site in their off hours."
This shirt is not from the original batch of shirts. Groundspeak produced this design for a couple years before we discontinued them.
Scott Collins contributes to my lunch being taken (against my will) from another table, by distracting me from that nefarious act.
"... So, when someone, anonymously, says something like this: “I’m sure I’m not the only programmer that can sniff out a fake nerd.” – Edward Case And tries to oust me call me out as that fake nerd. Well. Ya. You’ve got a lot to learn about people on Hacker News. Generally, we know our shit. ..."
Of the posts that I dislike, ad-hominem criticism, the singling individuals are the least helpful, especially when posted by an anonymous coward. I can't tell if this is valid criticism or a rant from a random programmer trolling because the source plays the man, not the problem.
A more helpful article might have been discussing the natural tension between entrepreneurs and programmers. Startup founders are usually the union of both, but I've noticed ideas pitched from programmers (as opposed to entrepreneurs/founders) tend to downplay the importance of everything else related to the business. Startups aren't just code. There are a multitude of conflicting issues that need attention. There might be some valid criticisms, but that's all they are. Don't beat yourself up over a random post on a bulletin board from a an anonymous source from a tabloid.
[0] Edward Case, "Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant"
www.betabeat.com/2011/09/19/why-80-percent-of-web-project...
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As featured on Slashdot, this Google Maps mashup is a game reminiscent of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego." Check this out.
Lights out, everything shut down.
I took these photos in response to a story on Slashdot called "A Bill of Lights" in which the author wished to get manufacturers to tone down the LED insanity. It struck a chord with me, so I decided to photograph my desk with the lights on and the lights off.
Text to foo
This is a quick rant on my search for a component I need to convert plain text that allows readable markup, when parsed produces strict pdf, text, html, LaTex, xml, DocBook etc. It tool must work with python and be under active development.
Reading this article ....
Busted link. You can find the article (jimt) at: perlmonks.org/?node_id=572402
You can tell perlmonks is an old forum. If built now if would probably have a cooler url something along the lines of *perlmonks.org/monk/jimt/572402* which is much easier to write and locate.
It's funny that even as a freelancer I get the Mondays. (I also still love Fridays. Love 'em.) Today was kind of boring, except that the graffiti story I told you about a few days ago made it to Slashdot. That was pretty cool. But other than that, not a lot happened during the day. To spice things up, I wrote a really weird Twitter story, which took the form it did largely because this morning at the gym the words "there were no competing attractions" appeared in the book I was reading, and I liked them and wanted to use them.
(Yes, I read at the gym.)
In the evening, Mahler and friends. Here's the last illicit photo I took at Symphony Hall.
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www.geocaching.com/about/history.aspx
"The Creation of Groundspeak
After the increased traffic from Slashdot, Irish realized that the ongoing management of the web site would quickly grow out of the lone computer on his home DSL line. So in late 2000, he partnered with Elias Alvord and Bryan Roth, two coworkers at Sunrise Identity, to start a new company called Groundspeak Inc. (originally "Grounded Inc."). With the proceeds from sales of 144 geocaching t-shirts, they moved the machines into a hosted environment in downtown Seattle. The founders continued to work for Sunrise Identity while managing the new company and the web site in their off hours."
This shirt is not from the original batch of shirts. Groundspeak produced this design for a couple years before we discontinued them.