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sunsuon The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

reminds me of the Wizards First rule: "People are stupid...given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything."

sunsuon Ask HN: How many of you built your app on top of a framework and which one

I started working with Django about 6 months ago and have loved it. I had been a long time anti-framework guy, but can't say I have had any huge complaints with Django so far.

I particularly have enjoyed the ORM, although you need to be careful not to get carried away with it. Its easy to create slow queries with it and don't assume it will always get indexes correct.

I have also enjoyed the community around Django. I enjoy being able to search a particular problem and find that someone already has created a Django app to solve it. In my PHP days (RIP) this was possible, but usually ended up being a lot more ugly.

sunsuon Fossil Versus Git

But if I want private repositories at github I have to pay!

sunsuon Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)

Though Unity works as expected (awesome!), there still seems to be some other bugs with VirtualBox integration. A big one for me is that seamless mode doesn't work when running 11.04.

sunsuon Don't distract new programmers with OOP

I couldnt agree more. The first "programs" I ever wrote were BASH scripts. Definitely no OOP distractions there.

sunsuon US manufacturing still tops China’s by nearly 46 percent

Let's hope the US changes it's ways before the Chinese "start buying some of our stuff". When that happens it will mean China has finally developed its own consumer class. At that point, China wont be so dependent on US consumers to buy their goods and there wont be much incentive to hold on to our continuously growing debt.

sunsuon BetaCandy: Idea to Launch in Under 24 Hours

One weekness of this is that it won't work well (at least in the beginning) for startups whose products are focused more towards businesses.

sunsuon Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich

"The hole is too big to plug with cost cutting or economic growth alone."

Say's who? Take a look at the 2011 budget: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html

The biggest pieces of the pie are things we are UNWILLING to cut (not incapable of cutting)! Its time for us to make some difficult decisions about what cuts we should make instead of relying on other peoples' money to solve other peoples' problems.