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The Complete Stories (of) Franz Kafka, The Corrections by Jonathen Franzen

Adding more polls into my photo poll page @ http://i-am-bored.in/polls/

I submitted the site earlier here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028410, I have some background info there.

I had just finished on this: http://www.goopendb.org - Elastic Lists for movies. Back to work from today ;(

Hi HN, I coded this site up over the Christmas brake and I would like to know what you think of it.

I was greatly impressed with Moritz Stefaner's Nobel Prize winners list when I first saw it and since then I was inspired to build something similar. I finally got around to building a site that allows you to browse information on Movies and Actors in a manner similar to that of the original.

It certainly is not as refined as my original inspiration, but, it is a starting point for me. I hope you like it and find it useful when you need information on an Actor or Movie.

Also, if you are interested in adding/updating the Movie/Actor info, please let me know here. I will e-mail you the admin access details.

Thanks, K7.

A lot of applications that I have worked on (primarily written in PHP) use Exceptions in a fashion similar to what has been shown in the example. And, I have seen places in code where exceptions get thrown when there is no data in a given table instead of returning zero or null. But, the I wouldn't be totally against using Exceptions in the example on that page if the calling method does something very important. I would love other's views on this.

Also, I was able vote multiple times for the same example (went from -3 to 3).

Personal bookmarker and web-history search.

me too!

Great site! I learnt a bit about using the shell in linux about 7 months back (http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=pQZLHo5Df). The site seems to have gone through a redesign since then. I am now going through this series: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=3160030&fr...

The guy who created this site use to work with me and English is not his first language - that should explain the typos. The implementation definitely needs to get better, but, the concept is interesting and works well, and, that's why I posted it to HN.

I wish I could have down-voted this article, all I read is Ballmer bashing.

Excellent article that dwells into release management (or lack of it) in two big open source projects.

'The admin tool for removing entries does not do cascading deletes.' Don't blame MySQL for that....Innodb tables have that feature and MySQL has been supporting InnoDB tables for a while: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/innodb-foreign-key-co...

edit... I was bit too quick looks like it is tightly integrated with web search, I can't just pass an url and get tags for it

this is very interesting! I have been trying to manually tag and categorize my personal bookmark app..this makes it easy and more exciting..Go Yahoo!

WTF!!? How is this going to pan out for the end users? Anyone here has any ideas? How did they come up withe 10 billion euros price tag?

More about PHP 5.3: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/opensource/libraryvi...,

I am using IUI on a site that I developed for personal use (I use the RSS feeds from some of the sites that I frequent and display the news items from them).

IUI is good, but, the only problem that I have been having is that it doesn't retain browsing history after I visit an external link.

There are some other good libraries that can be used for HN. Please have a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/215390/available-iphone-w...

it is surprising that a story about someone moving to a new office makes into the front page of HN! the new office might have all the fancy features, but, there are a few things that annoy me: 1. I don't really care for all those fancy features and if I were considering joining a company those fancy features will be the last thing in my mind before I make a decision. 2. If one still has the urge to know who moved where and what they have got there then they can always find that in other sites (hardly HN stuff IMHO) 3. And the most annoying bit is that this story got to the front page while a lot of other threads that I found interesting and would have helped me become a better Hacker usually get a couple of points and pretty much no discussion at all.

I love HN and the community and still read a lot of interesting stuff here, but, I am beginning to feel that HN is slowly slipping away to be a site that also has a few genuine and invigorating posts/discussions about entrepreneurship and programming.

thank you for the links!

thank you for the links. Please do e-mail your mockup, greatly appreciated.

'And along with the common search data shown by other search engines, you could also display data about the media in the page and even the type of page(flash or html etc)' Can you elaborate? Google does display type of link for a few formats (pdf, doc, ppt, etc..), are you suggesting to recognise more media types or just show the info about the site?

Maybe that kind of info appeals to some people, but, I prefer to read the Blog/About Us section that is available now on most product websites. Not to mention the comments on HN.

possible...

I like the concept and it makes a lot of sense as I open a lot of different file, browse a lot of different sites and do not always remember the name.

I created a bookmark app (very raw), that orders my bookmarks based on the time they were save and it is tremendously useful.(the url for the bookmarker is public and is http://www.trk7.com/install/xxx.php (click on the calendar tab), just in case u want to check)

yeah, sure, otherwise why display that feature?

Well it is good to know that Google is experimenting with Social Search in this way.

I am very enthusiastic about Social search and even built one (with the same commenting, voting features).

Wikia is doing the same, so, nothing new about this for people like me, but, feels great to know that Google is atleast 'experimenting' with social search.

'iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can't be on everyone's phones.'

I dislike the fact that Apple has considerable (compltete?) control over the distribution of an iPhone app and even charges the developer for doing so.Frigging unbelivable!

I had watched V.S. Ramachandran's talk about the Brain on TED as was fascinated and I recently read Dawkins The God Delusion and find it to be very interesting and easy to read.

If the books suggested by you and authored by those two are easy to grasp as their talk/other book, I would definitely buy them.