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> as someone who has kept track of their skittles color distribution over the course of a year

I mean did you not expect someone ask why? Also, why?

The script-markup mixture used by DoubleDollar or Backbone is really just a necessary quirk to achieve templating functionality. I haven't seen it done better honestly.

Try it, you're refusal to "get past the need to mix markup and code" is restricting you from some pretty helpful functionality if you build JS heavy web apps!

They don't consider it inhumane, because it lies around the general treatment these people will get for the majority of low wage low skill jobs in China. This unrest is good though, as it compliments the already staggering turnover rate Foxconn endures with its employees, and will lead to marginal improvement over time assuming low skill job demand is competitive enough in China.

Who says we're here to learn?

This is due to one of my least favorite traits about reddit: the hivemind criminalizes the rich and powerful by defining them as naturally evil. I don't know how this mindset got started on reddit; I would love to find out. It seems to be their way of justifying being middle/lower class by saying the reason the rich/powerful succeed is due the rich/powerful not having a heart and gaming people of their money.

I think most programmers and engineers have personalities that constantly question their own competency. This is predominantly a good quality as it leads to much more rapid talent development, but it also leads to irrational actions like recreating libraries out of fear that you're "not a real programmer" if you use the work of others.

> Black Hat Independent security consultant Stefan Esser...

Is it correct to be calling him "black hat"?

Although I have taught myself a decent amount, I always just thought that I would wait until I had a proper CS degree. Plus I don't have much free time. I'm working 40+ hours a week for a startup now, learning the environment and what it takes for one to succeed.

Smaller changes, smaller cakes.

I don't like that Coffeescript requires a compiler to create the actual javascript, but that they don't offer a cross-platform solution for this compiler. Yes, you can get the compiler working on Windows with Cygwin, but a better solution would be a windows compatible compiler that didn't make me go through the hassle of setting up Cygwin in the process.

The combination of BeautifulSoup and mechanize also makes tasks incredibly simple.

Can we avoid these types of submissions in the future? This article isn't trying to educate the readers with anything in particular, HTML5 is just a buzz word and by dumping a ton of links about the topic they can drive traffic to their site. Just look at the content: there are two articles about "Drag and Drop with HTML5", a half dozen articles about writing HTML5 that is backwards compatible and cross-browser, and another half dozen articles that are just generically talking about how to create a page with HTML5 from scratch.

I fail to pickup on how the personality in the interview seemed strongly female. Could you give an example?

My main sources of news are:

1) HN for news about technology, startups, and some programming

2) Reddit mainly for entertainment now, maybe a tiny bit of news, psychology articles

3) New Yorker for interesting articles about topics I would never think of learning about.

4) Economist to get a good idea of all important things going on in the world (I don't read them cover to cover, more just skim. Reading a full issue would take almost a day of my time).

5) Ny Times and WSJ rss, mainly just read the headlines and read occasional articles if they catch my eye

As a high schooler, I'm fascinated with a similar paradox that I've observed. In my opinion there are four defining types of students, smart with a strong work ethic, average intelligence with a strong work ethic, smart but prone to procrastination, and average and prone to procrastination. In the schooling system, the order I listed is also the order of highest grades to lowest grades, meaning that these groups are ordered in highest to lowest scholastic value. I don't think this order is relevant outside of school though as people take more targeted jobs that appeal to their interests. This presents a problem as college admittance is based on the hierarchy I listed, meaning that some of the smarter kids will be put on a path that doesn't set them up for an optimal career.

So is there an ideal case for selection sort that isn't shown or does it just suck?

Edit: Never mind they explained:

From the comparions presented here, one might conclude that selection sort should never be used. It does not adapt to the data in any way (notice that the four animations above run in lock step), so its runtime is always quadratic.

However, selection sort has the property of minimizing the number of swaps. In applications where the cost of swapping items is high, selection sort very well may be the algorithm of choice.

Something occupying /r/politics adds no merit to its political status.

The idea is that the MPAA or someone hired a company that executes DDoS attacks against torrent websites. It is in fact a immature retaliation. At the end of the day, even if the RIAA and MPAA are sometimes behind the times, they are enforcing the (American) law on digital rights. People can use all the backwards reasoning they want, but they are still receiving content for free that the distributor wants them to pay for.

Haha I see your logic.

Guy creates ytinstant.com, gets hired by google.

You create App Store Instant, and (hopefully) get hired by apple.

What an awesome blog name...

I hate to say it, but this is what happens when you have a bunch of people, who have no idea what early stage investing is like, and have them invest in an early stage company. It results in:

* the wrong amount of money being given

* extremely high expectations

* 24 / 7 monitoring, with anger if any tiny mistake is made

So...?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE...

Do you really view Israel as the only one in the wrong in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Good design, easy to share with friends.

Very specific demographic, so it will be hard to market to the general public.

Possibly allow people to upload other people's pictures (i.e. celebrities or friends), and then have a best of and worst of wall. I feel the best of / worst of would bring a lot of people in.

Finally, add a database of some sort so users can fill out their clothing, and it will be matched up with a link to where they can buy the clothing from. Lead generation will be key to making a profit off of this.

I also initially read the url as iSwearing...

Alice[1] may interest them. It teaches the very basics of programming without having to put them through the boring initial "Hello world!" experience right off the bat.

[1] http://www.alice.org/

If you don't want to click through all 28 images paste this in your URL bar so you can see them all at once:

EDIT: Ugh, markup broke it so I converted it to charcodes (It's not bad I swear):

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I'd love to give you the reason why I decided just the other day that I want to leave reddit pretty much for good. I have been a fairly active user for the past 2 years or so, both commenting on and submitting content to reddit. When I joined I was fleeing digg's transformation into a 4chan wannabe. Over the past 6-9 months, I've been noticing the same virus, if you will, infecting reddit. The users became more and more meme obsessed, less interested in reading stuff they don't know and more interested in repeating what they already know. I finally looked at the front page the other day and realized there wasn't one article that I viewed had any intellectual value. Yes, I know if I want something specific I can go to individual subreddits, but even most of those has been infected to the point where some users are creating their own academic hideaways on reddit in order to preserve the original reddit intellectualism that once strived (e.g. /r/depthhub).

This is not something reddit can fix, and I fear that reddit will meet the same fate that digg has recently met. Both digg and reddit gained users at a steady pace, then skyrocketed in users and plummeted in intellectual value. On both sites users complained about how the site had changed but no one listened or cared. Eventually, as all the intellectually curious users left, the users that remained realized they are no better than 4chan and began looking for a new home as well. I believe this is an inevitable cycle for all social news websites. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years I am fleeing Hacker News for the same reason.

I'd love to hear what some of the reddit admins think about how reddit has changed over the years, seeing as you all have had a better perspective than anyone else on reddit's evolution.

Good luck monetizing reddit, I will most likely donate some to show my appreciation for all reddit has provided me for the last couple of years.