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by jncraton 18y ago
I don't personally know why you got downmodded, but karma isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Honestly, it doesn't add anything to the conversation to add meta conversation about people not liking your comment. It happens so
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by jncraton 18y ago
Exactly. Java itself hasn't created what Larry wanted, but the evolution of languages based on the JVM has done it in some ways.
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by jncraton 18y ago
I was just thinking that it would be fun to play Starcraft with some of the people on this site. Do any of you still play? I don't play a lot, but when I do, this is the account I use: Server: ICCup Nick: craton
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by jncraton 18y ago
Not that this site needs to be like Reddit, but it pseudo randomly shows one of the new submissions as a separate first item on the front page. Something like this might be roughly equivalent to putting the newest 5 at the bottom of the fro
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by jncraton 18y ago
His shiny new Clojure powered site is down for me... "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later." http://origamigallery.net/
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by jncraton 18y ago
I think that JungleDisk would be much harder for an average user to install. I haven't used it, but I did just install Zumodrive. I think that linking up with an s3 account is something that an average end user would rather not have to worr
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by jncraton 18y ago
Currently, I am fairly content with jQuery. I honestly don't do a huge amount of low level js work, but could you explain what makes this superior or different from jQuery? It looks good, I'm just not sure that the thing that we need for a
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by jncraton 18y ago
This is a great list which any programmer should be familiar with if they are not already.
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by jncraton 18y ago
Like this? http://wintabber.com/screenshots/ (Windows only)
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by jncraton 18y ago
Perhaps, but I am starting to realize that creating a business isn't the most sure way to get into changing the world. Seth says that it isn't so much about connections, which is true, but at some point it seems like you have to be lucky en
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by jncraton 18y ago
I've played with Dabbleboard a bit in the past, and I think that it is a great tool. I have to admit though, I haven't been following it that closely. How are you planning to make a living off of it? I'm just curious. I'll understand if you
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Ask YC: What web services are you using for election information?
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by jncraton 18y ago
"the netbooks are going to shrink to phone size. [...] And each will cost $99 with a service plan" A netbook the size of a phone is actually quite expensive at the moment. http://www.oqo.com/
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by jncraton 18y ago
This is just an honest question. If you aren't a fan of the political system, why do you affiliate yourself with a political party?
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by jncraton 18y ago
Voting is not statistically meaningless. Voting gives us a good way to judge where the majority of the nation wants to go. Just because your vote doesn't decide the election does not mean that your vote is meaningless. It carries the same w
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by jncraton 18y ago
This doesn't exactly address your question, but HN submissions generally come from other sources of news around the net. These generally drop off over the weekend, so it is only natural that HN traffic does as well. I imagine that there are
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by jncraton 18y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I don't use facebook even though it's free. I don't particularly need gratuitously large social networks made up largely of people I don't really know. Sites like facebook, reddit, and even this one to a muc
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by jncraton 18y ago
I know things are check summed and relatively secure, but for some reason it makes me a little nervous to use p2p technology to upgrade binaries on a live system. It is a really good idea if it can be done well.
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by jncraton 18y ago
It's hard to have an instantiated and filled list with an undefined number of items.
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by jncraton 18y ago
Perhaps, but antiquated probably applies given that he has yahoo listed in his "hot links"
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by jncraton 18y ago
This doesn't seem to mean anything right now, but it is great to see these companies stating what they are about as a group and showing that they care about basic freedoms and not just profits. Although they didn't seem to implement any act
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by jncraton 18y ago
That's an interesting form of publication. I'm more of an RSS man myself.
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by jncraton 18y ago
Agreed. I'm not saying that it's bad that pg has a lot of influence. It's just interesting to me how quick we are to follow him even against the trend of the community, and perhaps our own individual thinking.
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by jncraton 18y ago
I find it interesting that anytime pg posts a comment it gets upvoted like crazy even if it isn't particularly brilliant. Honestly, I agree with him about this subject. I didn't check the market close, and the second largest daily increase
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by jncraton 18y ago
I personally don't mind writing client software. I'm still in school, and I honestly don't have a huge amount of experience, but efficiency is really appealing to me. Web programming is fun when using Django or Rails. The code is beautiful,
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by jncraton 18y ago
We actually used these for a project that we did at my university. We have been doing a lot of research with high altitude balloons and we used these to create a mesh network between the balloons so that we could sync the data and get a mor
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by jncraton 18y ago
For some reason, the link had a trailing backslash. It works better without it: http://www.tekpopuli.com/2008/09/24/100b-internet-idiot-indu...
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by jncraton 18y ago
This is a great video, but I don't think that it qualifies as hacker news. I love humor as much as the next guy, but that isn't what I generally come here for.
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by jncraton 18y ago
I actually learned a lot about coding good PHP by learning Rails. I'm not an expert by any means, but it forces tons of good programming practice on you which can carry over to other languages and frameworks.
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by jncraton 18y ago
I don't have a startup, but I use Gmail for domains on my personal page. I just use postfix and some really basic scripts. Also, you might find these posts helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63836 http://news.ycombinator.com/it

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