Kilimanjaro

I like this one, everything in one place:

http://georgenava.appspot.com/demo/hn/index.html

* Mockup, nothing works.

So you need a war to unite the country?

How about the 'War On Corruption'™?

While I applaud creative thinking, I want to say no, thanks.

I hate scrolling to be honest, I lose concentration when everything moves and kind of makes me dizzy.

I like some ways I've seen on the ipad to paginate info without scrolling. No, I hate the pagination effect.

So, in essence, no scrolling, no visual distraction, just show me a page on the screen, then the next, then the next.

Like a magazine.

It is your business, as web designer, to fit content in a page and auto adjust it to my resolution, without breaking the intended relation between text and images, and without distracting me.

Like a book.

"Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style."

Donald Knuth

Tell me how you enter a QR code on a touch screen. At least the url you can enter, QR code fails, as your argument 'entering them on a touch screen is harder'.

That problem is pertinent to both, so QR codes are still worse than urls.

Your argument is invalid.

Now, if you mean reading the QR code or URL on any device, let me tell you that QR codes are dots, if you misread a dot you fuck up the meaning. So OCR engines can EASILY read a URL and the same rule applies, if they miss a dot, they may confuse an I for an L or a 1, but still easier than a QR code, because 26 letters an 10 numbers are easier to configure in an OCR engine than irregular dots on a square.

URLs win.

I rest my case, your honor.

2001:0db8:85a3:0042:1000:8a2e:0370:7334

That's the internet of things.

  |2001:0db8|
  |85a3:0042|
  |1000:8a2e|
  |0370:7334|

Or that, if you like squares.

URLs killed QR codes. Get over it.

Easier to read, easier to share, easier to remember.

Mark Shuttleworth. I've seen your balls, and they are big and brassy!

I've been a google supporter for years, until they do something ugly to you, and now that love is gone. Fuck you google, if you don't listen to your users you're doomed to extinction.

You stole my hard earned money in adsense for over a couple of years. All of a sudden you decided to close my account for activity fraud. I swear to god I never clicked a damn ad. My stats show no abnormal visits (analytics from google) just a steady flow of a hundred visitors a day, just ten cents a day in adsense.

But you stole it without any explanation, just that you can't give any info to protect your algorithms and your sponsors.

Well fuck you, then who protects the user?

You stole just $100 from me, but I hope you lose it all. I'll do all I can to see you on your knees.

Fuck you google.

We will never achieve artificial intelligence unless we create a program that can differentiate good from evil, pleasure from pain, positive from negative.

The basic building blocks of life.

If we continue making faster and faster machines at calculating formulas and storing knowledge we will have just that, a giant calculator.

Please, if you want to go postal, don't aim at our kids, aim at the politicians.

Drain your frustrations with those who destroy our future, not those who will build it.

I always wanted to ask these questions to a knowledgeable group of people:

- What if there was a worldwide law about minimum wage at $7/hr?

- How would world economies react?

- Would it end poverty? destroy economies? ignite wars?

- Who is responsible for not existing such a law?

Interesting links?

nReduce is missing a great opportunity.

Competition is always good for the consumer.

'under unusual circumstances'

Hmm...

If I was a language designer looking for a change, I'd go to Yosemite and apply as park ranger. That would be a change.

But dropbox?

Why Guido left? That's the question.

We are!

And at $999. But looks like Dell doesn't like our money.

We are an interstellar malfunction.

I like that.

After the bitcoin debacle, it went from $30+ to $3- and I knew if it were to rebound to that same price again, that would be the perfect time to buy.

Three dollars, now I regret it.

Exactly, that's my point. Not meant to demerit your great work.

The admin/crud stuff, moderation panel, account management, etc, that's what django was developed for. Great choice.

If you ask me to start Disqus from scratch again, I'd probably use django too, for the admin part, but for the API I'd go commando, closer to the metal, without framework at all. No need to load a 100MB routing/modeling/templating monster just to perform an invisible API call.

Highly optimized plain python scripts would work better.

Sometimes frameworks are more like handcuffs. Just sometimes.

What is a distributed commenting system? An HTML script tag to load a static file that will ping an api that will serve you comments.

What is django? A framework with strong routing, OR-mapping, templates and admin modules.

You need none to build it. Your main concern shouldn't be a coding framework, but load balancing, caching, failover control, more sysadmin stuff than code.

Any language could do. Framework? not needed.

Now, for the backend system to control that monster, then yes, you may use django.

So, use django for complex apps that need routing, data management and UI presentation, plus a powerful admin module.

* I am a python/django developer.

Using django for a distributed commenting system?

Hammer and screws.

I rather spend $10B in producing ten million TVs and selling them at 50% profit.

Jobs would agree.

To use Javascript you don't need a license. Javascript object literals are part of Javascript, ergo, you don't need a license. Json, which is the string representation of a javascript object literal for transmission and storage, doesn't need a license either.

I can do whatever the fuck I want with JSON and nobody can touch me.

Look, I can even use it for EVIL if I want!

So sue me.

A true genius doesn't want fame, fortune, awards, he doesn't want to stretch hands, hell, he doesn't even want to sign autographs. All he want is peace, out of the spotlight, in absolute and maddening silence, to keep doing what he does best.

To think.

Mr. Doob is god. Yes he is. I admire everything he does.

If anybody should be making a million bucks a year for playing with code, that should be him.

Kevin Rose returns to Digg!

* crickets *

Commander Taco returns to Slashdot!

* more crickets *

There are some things that can't be undone.

Toys, toys, toys!

It's all about toys!

I want to see iPhone controlled toy tanks with cameras and laser sensors, so me and my brother can kill each other without moving away from our desks.

I want to see usb telescopes, microscopes, thermometers, stethoscopes so my kids can play scientists.

I want to see more e-toys so kids grow more interested in technology.

Easier for digg to come back to my bookmarks than techcrunch.

That means never.