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Amazing project! Everything seems really well put together. I really like the humor and the Q&A format. Do you mind if I borrow it for v2 of a project I'm relea

Amazing project! Everything seems really well put together. I really like the humor and the Q&A format. Do you mind if I borrow it for v2 of a project I'm releasing soon? Also, there is not a single negative comment here. That's a HN record. Congratulations!

mholt 12y ago
It's not a CSV library, right? :) Go for it. And yeah, I've been surprised! I hadn't anticipated so many comments about the web site, since the feature is a Javascript library. It's like going to a movie for the previews. Definitely grateful for the feedback, though. It's great that quirks that are being constructively reported so they can be fixed.
- Kluny 12y ago
  It's really great, usually people around here will tear into any detail of your site that they don't like or find unconventional.
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- javajosh 12y ago
  > I hadn't anticipated so many comments about the web site... Well, first, I think you need to accept the fact that you made a truly stand-out website, with a useful innovation (the Q&A format with code examples) that people are going to copy (and to good effec). But second, the comments about the web 'preview' is the GCD of HN - Haskell, .Net, and Python programmers might still take a peak at a JavaScript library web page, even if they won't use it immediately. Third, and this is most important, it would be significantly better if you published Papa Parse to the NPM registry, because then "real" javascript programmers can add it to their existing project with a simple "npm install papaparse --save". Publishing is trivial (install npm, run 'npm init', set values, then 'npm publish').
  - benaiah 12y ago
    s/GCD/LCD Greatest common multiple, lowest common denominator
    - javajosh 12y ago
      I meant GCD. The LCD between people on HN is arguably their personhood - but that's not useful, since it's true for every online community. The GCD of HN, on the other hand, has to do with a shared love of problem solving, particularly in fair contests. The website of a library, as opposed to the library itself, is an expression of "a solution", which we can all enjoy (and comment on), even if we don't use it in our work. Therefore website exposition speaks to the GCD of HN members.
    - coev 12y ago
      I was wondering why he was comparing JS to Grand Central Dispatch myself.
  - mholt 12y ago
    Thank you! And you're right about the audience and their interests. That makes sense. I'd love to package this thing up for NPM. But I'm not a Node.js developer, so I haven't tried running this in Node. I'll see what I can do though to make that happen.
    - girvo 12y ago
      Interestingly, a lot of people are putting up non-node.js libraries on NPM (front-end stuff), which Bower, Browserify, and others take advantage of. So don't be shy, just document that it's for front end (though I have a feeling it'll probably do just fine in node anyway, the lack of dependencies makes it easy)

mholt 12y ago

It's not a CSV library, right? :) Go for it. And yeah, I've been surprised! I hadn't anticipated so many comments about the web site, since the feature is a Javascript library. It's like going to a movie for the previews. Definitely grateful for the feedback, though. It's great that quirks that are being constructively reported so they can be fixed.

Kluny 12y ago
It's really great, usually people around here will tear into any detail of your site that they don't like or find unconventional.
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javajosh 12y ago
> I hadn't anticipated so many comments about the web site... Well, first, I think you need to accept the fact that you made a truly stand-out website, with a useful innovation (the Q&A format with code examples) that people are going to copy (and to good effec). But second, the comments about the web 'preview' is the GCD of HN - Haskell, .Net, and Python programmers might still take a peak at a JavaScript library web page, even if they won't use it immediately. Third, and this is most important, it would be significantly better if you published Papa Parse to the NPM registry, because then "real" javascript programmers can add it to their existing project with a simple "npm install papaparse --save". Publishing is trivial (install npm, run 'npm init', set values, then 'npm publish').
- benaiah 12y ago
  s/GCD/LCD Greatest common multiple, lowest common denominator
  - javajosh 12y ago
    I meant GCD. The LCD between people on HN is arguably their personhood - but that's not useful, since it's true for every online community. The GCD of HN, on the other hand, has to do with a shared love of problem solving, particularly in fair contests. The website of a library, as opposed to the library itself, is an expression of "a solution", which we can all enjoy (and comment on), even if we don't use it in our work. Therefore website exposition speaks to the GCD of HN members.
  - coev 12y ago
    I was wondering why he was comparing JS to Grand Central Dispatch myself.
- mholt 12y ago
  Thank you! And you're right about the audience and their interests. That makes sense. I'd love to package this thing up for NPM. But I'm not a Node.js developer, so I haven't tried running this in Node. I'll see what I can do though to make that happen.
  - girvo 12y ago
    Interestingly, a lot of people are putting up non-node.js libraries on NPM (front-end stuff), which Bower, Browserify, and others take advantage of. So don't be shy, just document that it's for front end (though I have a feeling it'll probably do just fine in node anyway, the lack of dependencies makes it easy)