Have a homepage with 10 most recent posts
- Post can have many comments
- Only users can comment
- Users must be logged in to comment
- Only you (an admin) can log in and make posts. Or anyone else with credential.
- Use SSL to encrypt your login.
Extra credit:
- Posts can have tags. Harder than you think.
- Comments can have comments. This is harder than you think.
Extra extra credit:
- Implement it once using an SQL database. SQLite/MySQL/Postgres will be fine.
- Implement it using a NoSQL database. MongoDB will probably be the simplest.
Maybe it's a business idea: email for geeks. I'd use it. :)
I doubt anyone at Apple thought it would be a good idea to push tools onto people that would then get those people sued. So most likely, Steve is in the process of releasing the Kraken, telling it to head straight for Lodsys HQ.
By Monday, Lodsys should be a smoldering heap, sunk to the bottom of the ocean by the all-powerful leviathan.
And there shall be much rejoicing.
As an aside, I started to write a thoughtful comment but this stuff is so inane that it really just requires Apple to apply some ass-kicking-fu and make this crap go away.
For example: Amazon was a rising star during the late-90s tech bubble, and it's still around today. And it's very much a player in the tech space. How many of us use AWS?
Google has a solid business platform and has definitely made it by all measures.
Netflix is another example. Good product, has upset the industry, sky's the limit type stuff.
Could all of these golden companies fail? Absolutely. For example, look at Microsoft right now - they are still innovating in some spaces, but really struggling in others. Will they go the way of IBM? (Hey, I hope so, but let's not start dreaming now).
Then there's Facebook and Twitter - arguably the stars of the current tech bubble. Are they worth what people say they are? Really depends on what happens over the next few years. Both are definitely becoming platforms that people do all kinds of interesting things on. But at the same time, people could get tired of social networking. (That's my personal bias shining through).
So...it's a bubble for some and not for others.
Even Miles Davis thought he was a bit boring because all he (John) wanted to do was practice. :)
It would encourage admins to be wise and for others to respect their wisdom.
But look at it in a positive light - the comments on HN could never be classified in the same - or even near the same - bucket that comments on sites like YouTube and Yahoo! News.
A good friend of mine started programming in the 1980s and was a heavy user of IDMS at the beginning of their career. As relational systems got more popular (read: Oracle showed up) network databases seemed to end up forgotten.These days, there's a renewed focus on the limitations of relational database systems - or rather, there's a focus on their limitations for web-based applications. NoSQL...
For web folks, RFC 2616 could/should be considered required reading. I'm wondering which RFCs gave you the most "a-ha" moments and why?And, which RFCs do you think everyone should read and why?
Hi HN, I have a friend who is starting to blog and who blogs from many different blogging engines. Keeping track of passwords/email/accounts/etc. is turning into the usual headache.My question: do any of you know of a good "aggregator" that they could log into? I.e. log into one place and see all the different blogs that they work on across twitter/wordpress/blogspot and so on.Anybody? YC idea? :)
zsh is a little snappier than bash and offers some neat options which are not present in bash (at least not out of the box AFAIK - e.g. spellcheck).
From my experience, zsh targets power users (and people who really don't like to type). For most people sticking with bash is probably leaving well enough alone.
From my POV it's not a religious issue, though in just a short while of using zsh I find it more productive than bash.
Don't post, don't publish, don't comment. Simple as that.
Some time ago another person made a comment about pearls and some sort of livestock. Throwing...things...in places?
I got out of school a few years ago, and I'll tell you that my sophomore year was hellish, too. Nothing seemed to make sense and I felt very distraught.
It's good that you're exercising, keep it up. That will help you from sinking in too deep.
It does sound like you're at a real crossroads. You're seeing the limitations of what your parents handed down to you, but it's hard to know what to do instead.
I'm not Indian, but I know how you feel about family pressure...it's one of the most miserable things to be going through. I won't say "tell your family to get lost", because that's pretty hard for most of us to do. But, I can tell you from my own experience that it IS possible to love your family very much without living up to all their expectations. At times, it may look and feel like you're breaking hearts - and you may be - but it's well worth it in the end. That's been my experience.
It's easy for me to wax poetic about things you may not read, so feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat. It's this username at a well-known mail service provided by Google. :)
Be optimistic - always be positive! If you feel that good things are about to happen to you, they will.