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That first one was submitted to /r/programming by a user who has a really bad history of incessantly spamming his/her own blog and nothing else. The user has 2 comments in 4 years, and only 2 submissions which are not self promotion (one of which is yours).

I couldn't find a trace of the other two, though looking at your account (or what I think is your account) I am seeing a slew of filtered posts, some of which are on topic, some of which are not. I just approved a couple of your most recent on-topic posts, however I can tell you that you will need to keep a good ratio between your own site(s) and other good content for the spam filter to go easy on you. It filters really heavily against people who submit the same domain a large part of the time, and we (moderators) tend to stick to that as well.

I will comment on your other points in a little while.

EDIT: Okay, now for the rest.

I think the warm fuzzy memories you have of proggit are akin to the warm fuzzy memories a lot of people have of reddit as a whole 3 or 4 years ago. But with a larger userbase comes a lot of noise and idiocy. In my opinion, /r/programming was one of the first subreddits to take real action against quality decay. There was a period of time, after the heyday, but while /r/programming was still a default, when rage comics and advice animals were rampant. Maybe not quite as rampant as the rest of the site, but it was pretty bad. There were lots of people who were not programmers submitting and commenting, so lots of stuff ended up being off topic.

I think the quality has improved immensely since then, and I think this is in part due to strict moderation and the disabling of self posts. I will allow that it certainly isn't as great as reddit as a whole was in its heyday, but it's getting better.

There's not much we can do about the comments. We can't moderate comments for stupidity (because that would be pretty messed up). The only thing I've ever moderated comments for is spam and personal info.

A reboot, unless it's in the form of a different sub, is probably not going to happen, but I'd certainly be interested in hearing any ideas for improving the subreddit in its current form.

Would you care to elaborate on this? Are you referring more to the removal of posts that have made it through the filter, or the lack of approval of posts that are stuck in the filter?

I think we do a pretty good job. No choice is as clear cut as people would like it to be (especially when it is their own content on the line). I've heard feedback from people who think we do an amazing job at moderating, keeping the ever-growing cesspool from leaking into the sacred realm of /r/programming, and I've heard feedback from people who think we're the devil, and that we're censoring the will of the people, and somebody call the ACLU right now!!!

But any community is going to get feedback from those two extremes. That's just how people react to moderation. The fact that there seems to be pretty equal feedback from both extremes tells me that we must either be doing something right, or everything completely wrong.

You shouldn't have to use incognito, unless you've got the "don't show stories that I've liked" preference checked.

This one was legitimately in the spam filter, however if it had not been, one of us probably would have taken it down for being off topic.

EDIT: Right now that submission has 5 points, from people who must have clicked through on the blog post, and one comment complaining about how it's not about programming, also from someone who must have clicked through from the post.

FWIW, it's currently in /r/programming's spam filter, and it won't be coming out because it's not about programming. Sorry to be all stackoverflow about it, but that's how we operate.

The source article appears to have been modified to imply that it will not be exclusive to Netflix.

EDIT: Other sources seem to be indicating that it will indeed be exclusive.

The question I'm really trying to get at is whether it's good or bad to be an X for Y company, or at least for people to think of you that way.

Do you think it's important to differentiate your product in such a way that it can't be described as X for Y? I suppose there are arguments for either case.

If you can be described as X for Y, then you can make the argument that "it worked for the Z industry".

However if you can't be easily summed up as X for Y, you can claim that this is something completely new that's never been done before. And people like that...I think? I don't know, I'm rather new to this. What do you think?

I love this sketch. I'll never get over Devil's Deuce Interactive. On a related note, I just found this:

http://www.angeldump.com/

Whatever the cause, you've got to admit, that is an awesome "down for maintenance" page.

But what happens if you get "poached" by the company you currently work for? Is the idea that the company will contact you non-anonymously?

Not to mention that the best torrent sites tend not to advertise at all, and are able to stay afloat solely on user donations. This could be a key point on this whole issue. If regular people are able to organize to create, share, and distribute content between each other more efficiently and, most of all, cheaper than corporations can do it, is this really a viable business strategy anymore?

EDIT: I don't think it will be very long (less than 15 years) before the content industries are dwindling, and regular people band together to replace it. It's already happening at a small scale.

$100 fine for every 99 cents they steal? I don't think the bank robbers' union would support that.

I think you (and the author) give the average user too much credit. To most people on HN, it's probably pretty obvious that downloading applications directly from sketchy sources is a good way to have your device become infected by malware, but the average user might not realize this. They might not even realize that a source is sketchy.

This is anecdotal, but after about the 10th time reinstalling my parents OS, I finally discovered that the root of all their malware-related problems stemmed from the fact that they were downloading music using Limewire. It hadn't crossed their minds that perhaps this was not a very good idea.

I'm sure they genuinely believed that their computer was repeatedly being infected "through no fault of their own".

>The second difference is the Stirling engine is more efficient then the gasoline driven engine.

Gotta proofread this stuff.

Anyway, I was thinking recently about how a stirling engine could be powered by solar energy, and discovered that this is actually done. From wikipedia:

>Placed at the focus of a parabolic mirror, a Stirling engine can convert solar energy to electricity with an efficiency better than non-concentrated photovoltaic cells, and comparable to Concentrated Photo Voltaics.

That's cool, and I'm startled that it isn't mentioned at all on this kickstarter page, especially considering the first paragraph of the pitch.

>...but by far the best way to avoid malware infestation is to use a little common sense...

Also, people should stop wearing seatbelts, and just start driving better.

>Welcome Hacker News Reader!

>You should subscribe to my blog via email below...

Hello Maneesh. You have just guaranteed that I will never visit your blog again.

It's a miracle!

Eh, whatever. I was mostly just trying to cover up any personally identifiable information.

Yeah, I guess green usernames indicate new (green) users, because konakid and cal8food were both created about the same time this was posted.

Is it just me, or does this not work at all? I'm on the latest version of Chrome for Windows.

Also did you create two accounts right when you posted this to comment on it and say it's awesome?

EDIT: I figured out why it seemed like it didn't work at all:

http://i.imgur.com/CmsZG.png

>You (99% percent of us) would not drop the F-bomb in the presence of a new boss, for example, unless you had very good reason to think it was ok.

A company I interned for had an employee who allegedly dropped an F-Bomb or two during his interview. His nickname was F-Bomb. No joke.

When someone chooses to swear for emphasis or for the shock value, he is not trying to win over the people who might be offended, or who might take it as a sign of disrespect. He is trying to win over the people who buy into his personality, in spite of the people who may be offended. The whole reason he's saying "fuck" is because it will offend some people.

F-Bomb probably didn't want to work for a boss who would be offended at someone saying "fuck". Who would?

I haven't read a whole lot about your guys' operation, in fact I didn't even know the content was user submitted, but I'm wondering how you're moderating content for quality. I ask because as I was checking out the site last night, I was noticing typos and grammatical errors here and there. There are also technical downfalls, which are probably not as easy to fix.

If anything, a lazy way to get information on this would be to 'robustify' the feedback tool. If I notice a typo, or a bug, am I happy? No, not really. But I'm not confused either. The feedback tool should also act as a quality assurance tool IMHO.

Sweeeet! Will you be mentioning something on twitter when this goes live? Or do you have a mailing list to which I can surrender my e-mail address?

That's pretty shameful. I wouldn't really consider this a clone so much as a shameless ripoff with no attribution whatsoever. How does this kind of stuff make it through the approval process? I suppose the process is more to cover Apple's own ass than to protect developers.

I think you can view it in segments here without an account: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221185/Video_Steve_J...

I'm not sure if it's the whole thing or not.

There's a list of theaters in the linked source article:

http://moviecitynews.com/2011/11/steve-jobs-the-lost-intervi...

The Landmark site also has specific showtimes per-theater:

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=...

It looks like the author was talking about this: http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/

I'm not sure why he/she didn't just link straight to that page. I also have to vouch for bitbucket's awesomeness though. Their tools might not be quite as fancy as the competitors, but they're slowly improving.

Also, Atlassian's academic license is hard to beat: http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/bitbucket-academic-l...

You basically get their most expensive plan for free if you're a student. They do the same thing for nonprofits I believe.

Woah. Did you happen to look out into the street from the location in that first link you posted? Trippy stuff.