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I honestly, didn't even notice the horizontal scrollbar.

Random placement to avoid "from memory" selection.. Nice.

Or maybe just another way to confuse the hell out of web users.

What the hell does it do?

Browse Hacker News daily and remind yourself how little you actually know.

Wow. That is painful to watch. Too much work went into that.

No doubt. Not to mention the visual and audio feedback you get when information is sent/received. I feel like there is a real advantage to watching bright colored bytes buzz by me while I explore data.

Very nice design.

Looks like pitchfork improved their security a bit. I remember they used to just have an XMPP player, where the XML behind it just had an additional node titled security. It's contents said something to the effect of.. "Don't download these files!". Or something like that.

Pfft.. Minority Report? Make me an interface like the one in Hackers.

I'm sure it's a matter of scope.

With regards to the interface I have to vouch for Windows.. I have a Zune HD. I love it. The UI is anything but limiting and amazingly intuitive.

My girlfriend would ask "How do I do XXX" and before I could remember how I would accomplish the objective, she had explored her way to the solution.

Obviously a phone will have more strenuous requirements, but the interface I'm using on the Zune seems like it may be the exact outlandish interface that changes the way we think about buttons, and menus for interactive portable devices.

I'm not sure what "old school PHP" is, since I'm only 3 years in the industry. But what I can tell you, is that when I learned OOP - first in AS3, and then in PHP - I was able to pick up other languages MUCH quicker.

I'm not entirely certain, but I can't think of a single disadvantage to learning OOP. I'd actually be interested to know if there where some.

I'd also add.. Learning PHP as a first language slowed me down a bit when exploring other languages. PHP is very forgiving. If you're just learning to learn.. Maybe you should consider starting with a language that's much more strict; Python or Perl in my case. This way you focus on the concepts instead of the practices. PHP is one of those.. "more than one way to skin a cat" languages. Or at least more than most (from my experience).

Quote: Consumers don't like to customize.

Quote: Because it would be so simple for Google to create a "Normal email view" for people like me.

So, Google should make it customizable.. ?

If this is adopted widely hosting costs will drop off considerably, no?

I actually did write a script to do this as an exercise in learning Python. I didn't realize there was a game at the time.

I read this a while ago:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001076.html

I still decided to go with the 2x24's. In the end though, it may have been a waste. Afterwards I introduced myself to Ubuntu and the virtual desktop features really separated my work well enough that I probably didn't need the extra monitor anymore.

A couple months later and I'm now on a 17" Macbook Pro. With Spaces configured to my liking I don't miss the additional monitor at all.

It took me a moment to find the "Sign Up" button/link. I checked in some of the usual places.. At the top of the page near the "Sign In/Have an account?" link, the main navigation, and in the actual slide show to no avail. I eventually found it and felt stupid for not seeing it earlier.

Of course. No doubt.

I'm not sure I understand your comparison. What is the difference between finding content I want to spend time consuming, and finding content another way (via some content filtering process), which has every intention of limiting the content to what you "want" to consume.

I agree. The problem is definitely a matter of related vs. unrelated content. My suggestion (or babble) was more so just pointing out how easily we could implement a "source content filtering" logic into an already existing interface.. If we felt that was the best way to go about it.

As much as I hate to say it, It seems like this is something that could be easily accomplished by piggybacking off of Twitter.

Just drop the link, some tags, and misc attributes along with a short description.. Is it much more complicated than that?

That sounds like a great interface. But it doesn't stop you from having to do all of the filtering/categorizing. Maybe if after having done all of that work on your end, there would be a nice way to share that with followers.

Search clearly isn't the answer. Can you create a search term that encompasses all of your interests? I hope not.

Surely filtering the "fire hose" with the query "programming news" will not yield satisfactory results.