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Kartificialon Ask HN: Does your web app work with javascript off?

Unobtrusive use of Javascript is a very neat one in my opinion. You seperate the content and structure from the presentation layer.

In practice though, many sites main functions depend on JS. I can imagine that for large projects the costs of optimizing the view of your site without JS can become too large.

Kartificialon You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors

Various comments already pointed to problems that could come with a rough error-logging implementation. Because he used AJAX for every error, it creates a (unnecessary) strain on the network/server when in production. Besides this, the usefulness of the data logged may vary heavily. Therefore I suggest you do not log everything, like chrisacky points out. What exactly to log is an interesting resulting question.

I do fancy the idea of logging problems client-side, because they result in users leaving your site but leaving you without a clue what happened.

Kartificialon You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors

Solid approach if you really want to dig in problems occurring client-side in projects that are still in Beta.

I'm not sure whether or not you would want this in a production page.

Kartificialon How Not To Sort By Average Rating

See this example: http://www.derivante.com/2009/09/01/php-content-rating-confi...

However, if you install the stats package for PHP you can use stats_cdf_normal() as well.

Kartificialon The "Hello World" of genetic algorithms

A nice TEDx talk from Guszti Eiben about the possible applications of Evolutionary Algorithms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJX_wAKhg8A

Kartificialon The "Hello World" of genetic algorithms

The power of EAs (Evolutionary Algorithms) is that they are able to escape local optima through random mutation and recombination.

EAs are suitable for finding solutions to complex problems, as long as you state the problem correctly and have a decent fitness function. Besides this, parameter tuning is vital for creating a decent EA. This goes so far that there has been research in tuning parameters for an EA using an EA (creating an EA Inception ;)).

Kartificialon Brian Kernighan's new book: D is for Digital

Perfect gift for my girlfriend :)

Kartificialon Hacker Monthly: best of the Internet, printed out, and it’s turning a profit

I was about to subscribe, the 88$ is reasonable for a nice printed copy. But for the Netherlands (i know, overseas) the shipping is 84$ which really discouraged me.

Great initiative though :)