Awesome idea! This would benefit greatly from a "starter deck" of stock pictures collected from knowyourmeme or possibly less reputable but fresher sources.
Yeah, I got news.ycombinator.com stuck on "new", refreshing it from time to time, about once or twice a day. Since the front page stories make it to @newsycombinator on Twitter, I only check that page when I have more free time than I can handle, or when it feels like a story might have interesting comments.
The number of times I got hired to pick up after you because your technical debt technically bankrupted the company and you got fired. My only hope is that innocent new coders reading your piece will not feel "inspired" by your little bracelet waving, but instead learn how to get good at her craft. That's the real reason it takes you 5 days of "procrastination". What you need is not to "just get it done", is to learn and gain experience before you tackle something out of your league, so that you don't leave other people picking up the pieces. Please.
I get the same feeling as you. I only recently discovered HN and at first I was put off by the large amount of noise. After sticking with it for a while, I now get a better feeling for what's worth reading and what doesn't deserve a second glance. Like you say though, I'm sure somewhere, well guarded from the unwashed masses, there's an utopian community of smart people having smart conversation, much like how RoG describes the early HN to have been.
That's very very interesting. I'm also curious if something like this already exists or is being actively worked on. I'm pretty sure most big recipe sites like allrecipes.com must allow you to make your own recipes, but the spin is centered more on the site itself. What you suggest would be more of a platform than a destination site, say the way wordpress.com compares to techcrunch.com (for lack of a better analogy).
I wouldn't really call it a mouse, but it's a good idea to decouple the cursor on a touch-screen from the point of finger contact, for visibility reasons. Somehow, I don't seem to have this problem with the iPhone, it clicks the right links almost all the time, but it used to drive me nuts on Android. Maybe the screen is physically more precise on the iPhone, but this is definitely solving a pain point for Android devices. The gesture system is just the icing on the cake, it makes interaction so much smoother.
Hi Tekahera, how would you explain that to your grandma?. We decided to go colloquial and massive. Its a bet but certainly has arguments to say its a multitouch mouse.
I think the point is precisely to take design entirely out of the picture when you're teaching a new comer about programming. The fact that you have these problems and you can write executable recipes to solve them is already more than a mindful, everything else only confuses.
Reminds me of my AP Computer Sci class in high school a decade ago.
There were five people in the class, two of them being my brother and I. Two of the three left had zero prior programming experience. I could only sympathize with them as we rushed through the "syllabus" learning about everything from pointers to classes to inheritances.
Suffice to say they were completely lost and dreaded the class as much as math. I wasn't particularly good at math and could not imagine seeing programming as "math" because of how much fun I was having with VB/ASP(yes, you can chuckle) at home. I don't even want to think what perception of programming the two people left with.
I recently finished college with communications degree, make a decent wage doing programming and haven't needed to even think of the word "inheritance." Of course there are many great uses for it.
But to assume everyone should learn about it is to assume that everyone wants to be a genius programmer at google. There is so much gray in between the curriculum just ignores.
I still get a chuckle out of it, too. Then again, how else do you end up in a debate class full of basketball players who are gonna win the NCAAA Championship later in the semester?
Wow, that's a pretty presumptuous article. The OP somehow confuses "extroverted adventure seeker" with "awake". Maybe we're arguing semantics here, but in my experience these are some of the least awake people I know. In my conception, to be awake involves a lot of meditation, enough in fact that it affects your demeanor in ways that can make you come across as reserved, not really there, and even "asleep" to those with bubblier personalities.
Quite contrary to the OP, in my experience the true inner state of a person is one of the hardest things you can tease out, and it's very very easy to be mistaken. To claim that it's fairly easy to distinguished awakened people by way of some light questioning, well, that just seems to me rather hasty, if not even silly.
Wow, your reply is not one I was expecting. I am in fact quite introvert myself and I was certainly not implying that extroverted adventure seekers are what I call 'awake'. If anything, I'd say that introvert/extrovert has little to do with it. I've met some awake extroverts and some awake introverts, but not many. And when you travel you're bound to find (and speak to) more extrovert people than introvert people. I'm sorry I made you think of extroverts, because that's definitely not what I mean by being 'awake'.
Hey, don't worry about it, that's just how it came through to me, most likely because of my own experience in thinking about these things. I often noticed how extremely excited my brother gets about traveling and how he tends to evaluate people predominantly on criteria related to it. From there I noticed how other travelers have a tendency to overdo the traveling thing as well. When I read your examples and how quickly and carelessly you labeled these people, you came across as someone like that too. Maybe it was a you-had-to-be-there kind of thing, but when you dismiss people like the first 2 japanese guys as not awake simply because of their attitude to traveling... well, I don't grok that.
