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by kluck 11y ago
There was a thread about slow web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9791606 I prefer a static site without JavaScript any time of day! (over a JS bloated webs(h)ite)
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by kluck 11y ago
If I had $100,000 I would select a software idea that really solves a problem and develop it open source. I would be the only developer so would probably need $2000 per month. So I would be able to program roughly 4 years with the money. Of
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by kluck 11y ago
I suggest reading "How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method" by G. Polya und John H. Conway. Note: it's not about mathematics but about general problem solving.
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by kluck 11y ago
I understand you want to be in "control" of how exactly a query is beeing executed (what indices it uses). There is a lot to be said about query optimization but it is not "random". My guess is that most queries can be o
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by kluck 11y ago
To create something that survives me and a couple of decades after my death. Something that brings computer science forward (just one step on the ladder though). How much does it push me? Not much, but enough to get my ass up every other da
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by kluck 11y ago
I recognize this effect with a lot of websites, namely google maps, most fancy/designed web 2.0 startup websites (those that like to display a lot layers using CSS that change their position when scrolling... don't know how this i
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by kluck 11y ago
What is an AMA?
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by kluck 11y ago
iLoo - there goes my iPoo
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by kluck 11y ago
I think there is a tendency to focus on finding an algorithm that determines weither and how many discussions are "the top x". But really this is not the point of discussions. The point is to maximize usefulness for the participan
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by kluck 11y ago
I found this too. This is probably due to the fact that Hacker News is (mainly) for sharing news not discussing topics. The discussion part is not supported well by the mechanics of the site.
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by kluck 11y ago
I think it boils down to this: Hacker News is a "news" site and what I am looking for is a discussion forum where people discuss software development topics.
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by kluck 11y ago
I am not explicitly looking for people but for posts about the mentioned topics with the mentioned focus. So both topics fit.
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by kluck 11y ago
To clarify: - I am looking for a discussion forum, not an aggregator. - By "web-focused" I meant posts about website development technology used on client and/or server side. Some of this technology is still interesting, like
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by kluck 11y ago
My impression may very well be wrong. Maybe the (education of the) people behind are even less relevant. The community I am looking for should focus on professional software development. The occasional "look at this new framework"
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by kluck 11y ago
This sums it up really well.
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by kluck 11y ago
I guess what I meant by "professional" was more people with a formal education in computer science and some years of practical experience. It is just my impression that this is not so much the case here at HN. This being said, I d
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by kluck 11y ago
I like that really much, because it works and is useful!
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Ask HN: Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?
104 points by kluck 11y ago|100 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
1. you advise others not to follow the advice of others (blindly) 2. you give advice to others My advice would rather be: Think.
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by kluck 11y ago
They try to justify their next startup by claiming to have identified the reasons why their previous startup failed. (irony) Actually if they learnt something, they did not fail. Their startup just ceased to exist.
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by kluck 11y ago
> [...] the development of darktable is totally about one's own initiative. This project (as many others) is not about ordering things and getting them delivered. It's about starting things, participating and contributing. It&#
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by kluck 11y ago
I will never give up on Perl. There are just a whole lot of really talented people involved ;)
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by kluck 11y ago
> I have experience with Mongodb (although possible loss of data is alarming) and a lot of experience with MySQL/Postgres. Use PostgreSQL then, because experience is key. Also: more time to work on the hard stuff. > I would like
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by kluck 11y ago
I think you do not have enough intrinsic motivation [1] to start what you crave to do (yet). Seek out for some idea/project that creates this inner motivation and then it will be easy to start. Edit: You wanted a plan of action: try as
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by kluck 11y ago
The criteria for software quality that this is mainly about are reliability and efficiency ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality#Measurement ). I think these are important for all software domains.
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Ask HN: How to develop software that could be run on a spaceship?
4 points by kluck 11y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: How to support Tibet as a Software Developer?
2 points by kluck 11y ago|1 comments
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by kluck 11y ago
In order to find solutions for your problem (redefining the role of the database) you should look at how to analyze your software processes (data flow, dependencies, coupling). Being a good architect, in my opinion, is all about analyzing &
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by kluck 11y ago
I am as well guilty of starting many side projects and working on them in parallel (about 20 currently). I tried various approaches of "managing myself" in order to get some progress on all of them. I tried to limit the number of
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by kluck 11y ago
That it is not a problem of "how fast the browser renders stuff" can be easily demonstrated by this small experiment: just create a website that contains an infinite JS loop (maybe through the use of window.setTimeout() instead of

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