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--I would exclude these: Why Amazon Vine is a Threat Worth Talking About (jonbischke.com) Facebook | Username (facebook.com) MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Th

by jcapote 17y ago

--I would exclude these: Why Amazon Vine is a Threat Worth Talking About (jonbischke.com) Facebook | Username (facebook.com) MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought Does It Matter If The Future Isn't Available In Canada? (techvibes.com) Authors, poets replace reporters at an Israeli newspaper for one day All Hell May Break Loose On Twitter In 2 Hours (techcrunch.com) Heyzap (YC09/USV) looking for a flash contractor. Humans prefer cockiness to expertise (newscientist.com) Should you move your startup to the Valley? (tonywright.com) Atul Gawande: University of Chicago Medical School Commencement Address (newyorker.com) All my games are now free (toucharcade.com) How to find new startup ideas? The answer is in the question. (dashnine.org) More Ways to Sell Out of Your Startup Stock (wsj.com) A post college memorandum (alexjmann.com) The TV industry is where the newspaper industry was five years ago: In denial. (businessinsider.com) The Economics of the HDMI Cable Ripoff (marginalrevolution.com) Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming [scribd] (maps.org) Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website (time.com) --I would include these: Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC The hairy ball theorem Celery: A Distributed Task Queue for Django Linus Torvalds on some good git development practices Offline Processing on Google App Engine [scribd] Why "next-gen games" went gray, brown, and grey. What is RubySpec? Great talk on the Python GIL [video][slides in comments]

CodeMage 17y ago
Hell, yeah! I'm sold. Not only do I hope you build it, I also hope it lasts a long time without declining in quality.
paulgb 17y ago
Where do you draw the line? I see the pattern for most of those (things that directly relate to code), but it seems arbitrary to include The Hairy Ball Theorem but not Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming. I realize the answer is probably "I know it when I see it" - but then, how do you make sure other people know, too?
- zkz 17y ago
  Two comments: - bug here, the reply button wasn't in your message until I refreshed the page - I agree... I think maths is extremely hackish (maybe not a wikipedia link though)
  - Zak 17y ago
    the reply button wasn't in your message until I refreshed the page This is by design: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585507 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585507
    - zkz 17y ago
      Ah thanks
- jcapote 17y ago
  Good question, I thought about those twice when compiling the list. The Hairy Ball theorem however did generate a great discussion on how it applies to game programming, so that's why I added it. As for the LSD article, while interesting, I didn't think that it was enough about code to matter. The key here isn't that we are trying to replace proggit and HN, but merely trying to organize the scope of the posts better (naturally there will be some overlap); So you should be able to still visit those sites for the lighter programming articles.
  - paulgb 17y ago
    Fair enough, but how would a user decide whether a story is on topic? For Hacker News, the one-liner is anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I guess what you have in mind is anything that will foster interesting discussion about programming?
    - jcapote 17y ago
      More or less, anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity about programming
      - swombat 17y ago
        Have you tried proggit? http://reddit.com/r/programming http://reddit.com/r/programming It's pretty tunnel-vision, programming focused.
mynameishere 17y ago
IOW, you would evict the userbase.
quoderat 17y ago
If those stories were excluded, I'd be very uninterested in visiting here. This sort of tunnel-vision is why hackers and engineer types often seem completely out of touch with society -- and not in the good way. It's engineer-itis.
- wooby 17y ago
  I enjoy the engineering tunnel vision that good days on HN provide me. On the bad days, HN, for me, is sort of only the culture and pieces of society that those who don't know much about either are interested in. To learn about people, places, and things I don't know anything about that aren't hacking related - I go outside.
- aswanson 17y ago
  If you don't have engineer-itis, you probably shouldn't come here. If I didn't, I wouldn't. The discussions that veer off of technical tracks (like politics, economics, social issues) are full of so much noise and emotional opinion that they make good stuff harder to find.
sker 17y ago
Count me in. Sometimes I go to dzone for my fix of programming news but they have pretty much zero discussion, which is essential in order to debunk the crappy articles.
invisible 17y ago
I believe greatly that being a "hacker" is more than being a great programmer (although that is an important aspect). It means (as a job title) you can take an idea, transform it into a working business based on programming and profit both monetarily and through experience. Many of those are "learn by others' experience." Others have great tidbits of hackerish potency that, once exposed to, may give you an "ah-ha" moment when you're trying to figure out a problem. Others, even, expose you to new technology or different technology you may be interested in learning or using in a project.

by jcapote 17y ago

CodeMage 17y ago

Hell, yeah! I'm sold. Not only do I hope you build it, I also hope it lasts a long time without declining in quality.

paulgb 17y ago

Where do you draw the line? I see the pattern for most of those (things that directly relate to code), but it seems arbitrary to include The Hairy Ball Theorem but not Use of LSD-25 for Computer Programming. I realize the answer is probably "I know it when I see it" - but then, how do you make sure other people know, too?

zkz 17y ago
Two comments: - bug here, the reply button wasn't in your message until I refreshed the page - I agree... I think maths is extremely hackish (maybe not a wikipedia link though)
- Zak 17y ago
  the reply button wasn't in your message until I refreshed the page This is by design: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585507 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585507
  - zkz 17y ago
    Ah thanks
jcapote 17y ago
Good question, I thought about those twice when compiling the list. The Hairy Ball theorem however did generate a great discussion on how it applies to game programming, so that's why I added it. As for the LSD article, while interesting, I didn't think that it was enough about code to matter. The key here isn't that we are trying to replace proggit and HN, but merely trying to organize the scope of the posts better (naturally there will be some overlap); So you should be able to still visit those sites for the lighter programming articles.
- paulgb 17y ago
  Fair enough, but how would a user decide whether a story is on topic? For Hacker News, the one-liner is anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I guess what you have in mind is anything that will foster interesting discussion about programming?
  - jcapote 17y ago
    More or less, anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity about programming
    - swombat 17y ago
      Have you tried proggit? http://reddit.com/r/programming http://reddit.com/r/programming It's pretty tunnel-vision, programming focused.

mynameishere 17y ago

IOW, you would evict the userbase.

quoderat 17y ago

If those stories were excluded, I'd be very uninterested in visiting here. This sort of tunnel-vision is why hackers and engineer types often seem completely out of touch with society -- and not in the good way. It's engineer-itis.

wooby 17y ago
I enjoy the engineering tunnel vision that good days on HN provide me. On the bad days, HN, for me, is sort of only the culture and pieces of society that those who don't know much about either are interested in. To learn about people, places, and things I don't know anything about that aren't hacking related - I go outside.
aswanson 17y ago
If you don't have engineer-itis, you probably shouldn't come here. If I didn't, I wouldn't. The discussions that veer off of technical tracks (like politics, economics, social issues) are full of so much noise and emotional opinion that they make good stuff harder to find.

sker 17y ago

Count me in. Sometimes I go to dzone for my fix of programming news but they have pretty much zero discussion, which is essential in order to debunk the crappy articles.

invisible 17y ago

I believe greatly that being a "hacker" is more than being a great programmer (although that is an important aspect). It means (as a job title) you can take an idea, transform it into a working business based on programming and profit both monetarily and through experience. Many of those are "learn by others' experience." Others have great tidbits of hackerish potency that, once exposed to, may give you an "ah-ha" moment when you're trying to figure out a problem. Others, even, expose you to new technology or different technology you may be interested in learning or using in a project.