8-bit_Blaster's comments

I completely agree that there seems to be far too much noise on HN.

That's actually the reason why I haven't bothered checking this website for months, but got curious and decided to come back today to see if things have changed.

The thing that I find most noisy are the "ASK HN" posts. I wish there was a way to filter these out, so I only get news.

C'est la vie

For me Twitter would /never/ replace RSS. In-fact, just the idea of the little RSS icon in my Firefox "Awesome Bar" being replaced with a Twitter icon makes me cringe.

Sure, an online newspaper/blog/magazine can fit their headline and a shortened URL into 140 characters, but there would be no room for a blurb or image, as most newspapers include nowadays in their RSS feed.

One thing that RSS COULD learn from Twitter is to keep the summaries short, please! Some RSS feeds, in particular Smashing Magazine and Six Revisions, put the entire article into the RSS, which isn't cool especially when it's one of those bottomless "100 cool Photoshop brushes" types of articles.

Also, I've found that RSS is great for keeping up with the latest versions of open source software, for most code hosting places like SourceForge offer RSS updates when new program versions are submitted.

The idea of Twitter "killing" RSS seems completely unrealistic to me, especially since Twitter is a company and RSS is an open format... More Twitter hype.

That's a good idea, I want to start doing that! :)

Usually I have a Cappuccino in the morning, then another Cappuccino around 5pm... But the second one makes me a little edgey, so this will be a nice alternative to try out.

...But I have no idea what type of tea to try?!

Pretty cool.

I've never been a fan of these full-JS layouts though, they chug so hard if the browser isn't Chrome!

Personally if I was gonna go for this kind-of JS framework thing I'd use EXT JS... http://extjs.com/products/extjs/

If you don't mind open sourcing your code I'd suggest using Google Code to host your project.

Google Code was my first experience with code repositories and using it with the TortoiseSVN right-clicky GUI software made things that much easier to manage. (I used the Windows XP version of TortoiseSVN.)

Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted TortoiseSVN: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Simple, no command line stuff, and did exactly what I needed it to do. :)

Wow, this is really really strange. What unusual timing with this article!

A friend of mine actually just recently moved back to his hometown after being unable to find work in the Portland area.

I really hope this economic crisis ends because I graduate in six months and the job market back in the U.S. isn't looking too good.

P.S. ...And, just to make things even stranger, I just finished eating some tortillas like five minutes ago, and the poster's username is 'tortilla'! :P

This is pretty amazing, considering that the guy essentially made a mini-symphony out of an Atari 800-XL, a Texas Instruments TI-99, an 8" floppy drive, 3.5" hard drive, and some HP scanners.

Thanks for sharing this, will definitely pass the link along to some of my buddies... Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey, eat your hearts out!

FYI, this feature is only visible in the "Standard" AJAX version of Gmail... The HTML version has no option for importing...

It's too bad this feature does not work on importing from one Gmail account to another Gmail account. A few years ago I [accidently] got onto some e-mail spammers list and have been getting spam mails ever since!

I'd love to be able to migrate all my old Gmail e-mails to a new account (including my RSS feeds and stars from Google Reader). Maybe someday?

The state of the economy isn't the only sadenning factor, but also as a CS/IT graduate you are competing on a worldwide scale against people who are willing to receive much less monetary compensation for their work.

Reminds me of that news article I read a few months ago about IBM asking their current U.S. employees to move to India/Nigeria/Russia in order to keep their jobs...

Here's the article, since I mentioned it... http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/05/news/companies/ibm_jobs/

The following five programs are some of my favorite staples to install on a fresh copy of Windows XP:

1) Notepad++

My favorite free, open source text editor. Gets the job done.

2) Mozilla Sunbird

Sunbird helps me keep track of what I have to do with calendar and to-do list features. Open source!

3) Google Picasa

Whether on Linux or Windows, I have yet to find a photo organizer and image manipulator that is as easy-to-use and feature-packed as Picasa.

4) 7-Zip

When it comes to [un]compression I like this one because it can do 7Z, ZIP, RAR, and GZ. Also open source!

5) KeePass

Great way of keeping track of hundreds of silly passwords and software serial numbers. Open source!