kurrent

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

he just said on the stream he "likes HN but doesn't hang out on HN because there's too many nerds"

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

yes precisely and people who use tech buzzwords like ecosystem

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

A big part of the appeal for IRC to me is the not so low barrier to entry with tools like irrsi

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

Sports scores, statistics, etc are always high in demand for scraping and great to get people interested when learning scraping techniques.

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

I was just displeased as you were I'm sure to find out that a billionaire used smiley faces too

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/53358dd4ecad04e75a8...

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

yes, there were some truly tasteless tshirts in that list but when you click on any link prefaced with 4chan, you have to assume the worst.

i have to admit, reading this post to eventually come across a t-shirt with a pair of pants on it really made my day though

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

where does one fall in their list of choices if they are doing backend/server side code?

http://i.imgur.com/h20L66f.jpg

there seems to be no clear choice for that

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

nice catch.

so is this site just piggybacking and creating custom portfolio's through motif?

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

this reminds a lot of investing in real-life ideas at Motif (https://www.motifinvesting.com/motifs#catalog=our)

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

and by plain HTML, you mean plain Python installed and configured on your server/local

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

I'm not being facetious, but this "yet another static site generator" joins the list with 230+ other generators.

(see http://staticsitegenerators.net/)

Why do we need another one?

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

They had 19 billion reasons to partner with Facebook

kurrent

12 anni fadiscuss

I wonder if Linus ever reads Hacker News.....

kurrent

13 anni fadiscuss

This will be a much needed and welcome addition to ECMA 6.

If you're interested in a bit more of a comprehensive overview, Nicholas Zakas previously wrote an excellent article on arrow functions :

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/09/10/understanding-ecmas...

kurrent

13 anni fadiscuss

I love that the example site being built in your tutorial is a fantasy football app, great choice.

Looking forward to the player draft functionality with socket.io

kurrent

13 anni fadiscuss

view the source for her snake game you'll see it's actually not that unlikely: http://jenniferdewalt.com/js/snake_game.js

following a few tutorials after a google search for "create snake game canvas javascript", it actually seems very likely:

http://css-tricks.com/learn-canvas-snake-game/

http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/html5-game-tutorial-mak...

kurrent

13 anni fadiscuss

I'd like to mention the font ProggyClean. After trying several fonts, this was the winner for me.

kurrent

13 anni fadiscuss

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kurrent

13 anni fadiscuss

Great list. What criteria are you using to sort this list?

I think it would be helpful to show the date of last development activity for each framework, be it a most recent github commit or release date of latest version. Some of the frameworks haven't been updated in over 3 years and it would be nice to distinguish these quickly.

kurrent

14 anni fadiscuss

"it runs Linux".....a specialized version of Gentoo to be exact.

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