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I believe you mean 90 megameters.

Off topic, but I had to make an Android game for my Junior year final project, and I think I used that exact same space ship sprite (it was an Asteroids clone with motion controls).

I tried using Clojure to build my personal website. I love it, and can't wait to see where it goes next. However, the documentation problem is pretty real. Clojure libraries get updated and deprecated really quickly (because the language is so new) and tutorials on the web quickly get out of date. I had a lot of experiences where I would pick up a new library or framework because it was in a tutorial, only to find out that:

-It had been abandoned by its creator in favor of a newer framework.

-The functions used in the tutorial had been deprecated.

These are definitely just growing pains and not something intrinsically bad about Clojure. However, I hope that the next year or two bring more stability and more ease of learning.

One thing that I wish was better tutorialized is LightTable. I understand Chris Granger is a one man IDE developer and that LT is still in development. However, if we could get more tutorials from users like the one that was posted earlier today, that would be fantastic.

Eventually I ran into pedestal.io. Those guys have a great framework. It covers front and back end, and involves Functional Reactive Programming, something I'd never seen before. They have an excellent tutorial that they update in sync with the framework. It's a bit overkill for my personal (mostly static) website, but after taking the time to learn it I feel like I came away with a real new skill.

One last thing that struck me about the Clojure community is how many workhorses there are. Guys like cemerick, technomancy and Chris Granger (the guy behind LightTable) have been working fast to build TONS of stuff, and a lot of it works really well. In particular, Leiningen is awesome and I imagine (I've never not used it) that it makes the process of getting started that much easier.

> But again, that's probably because the FTB subreddit has less overall subscribers (less incentive to post for karma, as there are less potential viewers to reward you)

Hold up, you might be on to something. What if reddit divided karma received by the number of subscribers in the sub where something was posted? They'd need to then multiply it by some constant multiplier or something, there'd be some details to tweak, but that might do a lot to mitigate the problem of subreddits getting crappier as they get more popular.

Yeah, I can't tell how many of these are Webkit clones and how many are really novel approaches. The fact that so many of them actually have enough momentum to have a well designed and unique logo really blows my mind though. It's like there's a whole "world of browsers" I didn't know existed.

HN doesn't have that much content, I never feel overwhelmed. The front-page turnover rate is really slow, to the point that I pretty quickly get my "fix" and then leave. Over the course of a day I might sink an hour into it, 2 if there's something interesting going on. However, I usually read maybe 3 articles per day at most.

>Do you really need to know about some lisp-variant someone implemented in 20 lines of Ruby.

I find the recent "tiny JS app" craze to be kind of cool. It's neat that a language can be so expressive that you can throw together something so complicated in under a kilobyte. I guess I don't need that kind of stuff, but it usually ends with me learning something new and wastes 5 minutes of my day at most.

Man, I learned about Betteridge's Law a week ago, and ever since I've been having some serious Baader-Meinhof. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon

Short selling is a different game. In essence you're betting that the price will go down. Right now the price could go down $500, and you'd make $500. However if the price rose $10,000 you'd lose $10,000.

This is a dumb question, but is Julia named after anyone in particular?

My problem with /r/programming is the front page. If you go below 15th place you'll see a cesspool of posts with interesting looking titles, tons of downvotes and no comments explaining why. I feel like the readers there are too discriminating about what they'll allow, but at the same time nobody feels like submitting anything.

One of mine was "password1". All the hints were things like "usual", "standard" and "the one I use everywhere". Although not unexpected, this is scary: Not only are people using the same password everywhere, they're using THIS password everyone.

Fair enough, maybe it only affects a small number of people. Still, if there's an easy to spot solution (like if the photo and counter are in the same <div> or something) it'd definitely be worth checking out. Especially if you plan on using that feature in the future.

And for the record, I really dug that feature. I often wonder exactly how valuable HN exposure is, it was nice to see a real metric.

This has always bothered me, both on Amazon and the iTunes app store. No lie, when I published my first app, one of the comments was "I'd rate this zero stars if I could." and my first thought was actually "wait, why can't you?"

Overall, I think YouTube was on the ball by switching to a "Thumbs up, Thumbs down" rating system. "Out of five star" rating systems are always sabotaged by the fact that most people think in absolutes: Either something is the bee's knees or it's fried shit on a biscuit. Given that most people vote this way, up/down vote systems are better at giving an honest impression of how people feel about something.

Chrome 30 on OSX Lion

One thing I noticed: The live count of how many people are reading this post is cool. However, every time it updates, it makes the author's picture flash, which started to give me a headache.

I would absolutely do the same. Get one of the apps that downloads WikiVoyage and you have a detailed guidebook for all of Europe (including phrasebooks for every language) that doubles as a camera and flashlight and fits in your pocket.

I'm pretty sure every bar in the US does it. That said I go to bars all the time and rarely open a tab.

It's a bit more of embarrassing if you're the Sass consultant and the client is the one bringing it up. At least, that was what I gathered from the article.

So then how did railroads do... ohhh.

How exactly is it open source?

>After someone builds a hyperloop though, and works out all the kinks, there will be investors for the 2nd one. It's a case of "the second mouse gets the cheese".

Isn't this the exact situation patents were intended to prevent?

Just yesterday I was about to temporarily quit Haskell after slamming my face into Learn You A Haskell's Functor chapter. But after seeing the concept applied (jokes for nerds!) like this, I think I'm going to give it another shot. Thanks!

I was always under the impression that PHP hate comes from design flaws that make it easy to make mistakes, not from it being necessarily slower.

I don't count myself among the enraged, but I understand why some people feel that way.

A tool that is pretty central to a lot of people's work lives was changed in a non-trivial way without warning, without their input, and with no way to go back. For people who are really busy and need email to be something that "just works", I could see how this would be really frustrating.

If you're looking to get coding experience while learning something new, Udacity has a lot of good courses.

If you're looking for an open source project that's welcoming of newcomers, Mozilla is pretty huge and makes it pretty easy to get involved, no matter what language you're experienced in: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction

Either that or just expose the formula for calculating cost.

The plans are too exact to really be "plans". Is anyone thinking "I have exactly 52000 users right now"? I feel like bigger brackets or a sliding scale would be more appropriate.

For all the talk about how "MongoDB totally has SOME use cases", I've never before heard of a use case where it would be unambiguously better to use a document store. Thanks for explaining that so well.

I'm pretty sure they were all caricatures. The ascetic's code uses a Y-Combinator, which (as I learned earlier today on HN!) is overkill even if you program in a functional style (basically FP's answer to OO's AbstractSingletonBeanFactoryStrategy). The librarian's code isn't particularly bad, but if you've never heard of that function, you'll have to look it up. This makes the code a little less readable.

I think the point of the article isn't to compare these different styles, but to deliver a bigger message: Style isn't that important, just write code that works.

You simply lack the imagination ;)

People buy the new sticker packs so that they'll have stickers nobody else has. Other people will start getting these new sticker packs, and thus the "trendsetters" need new sticker packs in order to maintain their uniqueness. LINE is happy to keep releasing new stickers to feed this cycle.

Never fear! The mods will change it back as soon as they catch on.

I'm pretty sure it's just really well recorded. The voice changes in tone to emphasize different words, which isn't a feature in any text-to-speech program I know of.

All that said, every time I read a comment in this thread, I hear it in that voice now.