xenoterracide

I found this interesting not because of 'obama' but just the inversed statistic... which may give us a cue that IE is going to continue losing market share. What I'd really like to know is what percentage of those were on ff3.

if it's 1.5Ghz or more then you'll have no problems. Unless you are doing a lot at once you can probably get away with 1Ghz and maybe less. Ram is killer and remember this is mobile not your primary coding box.

I like the commentary sometimes. But I can't imagine having much to say about a 1 liner.

to each their own however.

I would get one of the smallest models I could. I'd also make sure it runs linux. use desktops for power that's what they are good at, notebooks should be portable, meaning comfortable to carry around in a bag for a while. Light as you can get.

About the only thing I would invest in is at least 1G of ram, maybe even 2G. laptops tend to ship with slower hard drives so if you start swapping you are really going to have problems. maybe benchmark your average ram usage on the desktop.

I've found that processor speed isn't as important as most people think, go light you'll be fine, this isn't a server.

last note. I regret buying a desktop replacement laptop.

edit: when I say make sure it runs linux I mean make sure that it's hardware is compatible with a linux install. That same hardware will work good with windows, and gives you freedom of choice later. Or you can just get linux now because linux rules.

yes to both, imho. Neither are 'news worthy' if the link it's too is news worthy then that link should be posted not the link to the twitter.

I come here for new and articles on running a business, technology, and to help others.

clicking through to a 1 sentence twitter from my rss readers is not a good use of my time.

I can see the place for something like twitter but I don't think that place is something like hacker news.

I've been modded down for explaining why I've modded someone down... so I've mixed feelings

after seeing a twitter at 11 points I'm not sure I'd agree.

I still like the idea of categorizing things like startup feedback. and ask hn/yc/pg.

11 points? 11 points!!!!

man I'm really thinking about leaving this site. people ask questions on here and sometimes they don't get past 1... (when they are legit) and things like this... get 11!!

the only problem I have is in my head (maybe I'm wrong?) my product idea is to sell to consumers... but in a sense I have to get the publishers on board because it's their product I'm selling... as far as signing them up should I just take emails? more? should I rush order some business cards with the businesses current name? should I try to get a place holder site up somewhere?

out of curiosity what was the idea? and what happened to it?

not the hardest. but making the UI good.

> Perforce

yeah but google code doesn't use perforce either... so it's possible (not saying likely). I tend to agree with the rails thing...

you have an info button in the upper left hand corner. it seems to provide a help dialog, however it doesn't work if I have javascript disabled.

<noscript> html tags will render if a browser doesn't support (or has disabled) javascript. Personally I would put help on a page all by itself, it's less slick but it ensures people can use it.

not sure you read his question. He's asking for help with design, this is a learning project 'till he get's a real job not a business.

the bluish grey on the greyish black doesn't work, you need more contrast.

red on black is tacky... maybe use an image.

not design, but you might want to put some <noscript> tags somewhere telling me somethings (like info which seems to be help) don't work without it.

I'm having trouble spotting ads from content. things seem kinda all over the place... might want to change the groupings justifications and colors...

although I notice that I can play by click on the group of images, which barely make sense to me, it redirects... I don't know why it redirects it should just play, and the controls should be below it.

your nav at the top doesn't stand out, simple is use a gradient of a different color from your background.

just some suggestions, I'm not a graphic designer (I do pencils for art though).

interesting... I think the columns make it hard to read though... kinda poor ui there. otherwise it looks good.

it's not so much as not using it... it's whether I require it. meaning do I spend the time to make the site work without it.

getting the mother more uninvolved could be better (it's all highly circumstantial) I'm in a similar place with my sister. I have no advice, as I haven't found a good solution.

Have links to Poll and Search on the front page, they were painful to find.

I believe this was said about django (and a few other frameworks) when you write a site with django you are writing it in django and not python. well, that was the gist of it anyway. I didn't like django myself, I found it fragile, and I don't want my app to break unless I start dropping tables, or deleting code. a insert into should not break my app.

So now we are once again making heroes of criminals.

... lame

yeah I don't watch those... personally I opened the page and all I can think is... what exactly does this do for me?

you sound like me... maybe we could help support each other... and keep each other going. if you like the idea should me an email xenoterracide@gmail.com.

I think one of the things that makes YC successful is the constant pushing and positive re-reinforcement.

I don't think anything... the algorithm that decides what's on the front page is currently just so so, and no one wants to improve it.

not the first time I've seen math captcha but this is definitely a good way to get people not to sign up.

collection isn't bad, however I'm not sure anyone with that UI of a collection should be telling me about UI...

SQL for Smarties SQL programming style

both are by Joe Celko

well it can be ;) (I joke)

I highly doubt that's what he's saying...