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ad  ·  4295 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: What's the last thing you've made?

I made a shitty, low quality Python Fibonacci sequencer with a semi-awful tkinter GUI that I truly believe made Satan turn over in his lava bed.

I deleted it immediately and have decided Javascript is the way for me. :P

ad  ·  4295 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube

One of the many perks of using *nix is that beautiful sudo command. <3

ad  ·  4327 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An open letter to the hubski admins.

It's odd to think that we're only a community of 5000. On Reddit I rarely feel the impression(other than when the god damn servers go down) that there are literally ~100,000 people browsing along with myself. I think it has to do with:

1. Tighter community.

2. Active Users. I'm not sure I've seen a more active community for its' size. Of course, that might be a little bit more easy for me to see, considering the site is based around power users.

ad  ·  4331 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How worried should I be about Japan and China?

No - Both would have to much to lose, image wise, and economically for China, were it to get excessive, and Japan can't even wage a proper war, as per Article 9 of their constitution.

ad  ·  4334 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Which programming language should I learn so I can build something like this?

This is actually jQuery, I think, not Javascript, but I could be wrong.(Semi-hard to differentiate them, considering I've never used jQuery.)

But, I'd suggest that you head over to any of these links:

CodeAcademy - Do the JavaScript, Web Developement, and jQuery courses they have. I also suggest Python for backend stuff, but that's just me.

CSSDeck - This is a wonderful place to see tutorials on things. They even have a few courses(though not yet complete) that I've found to be OK.

Udacity WebDev course - A Reddit co-founder teaches this. Very good.

A bit of other advice: /r/Learnprogramming and the subsequent programming language subreddits are superb resources, no matter your opinion of Reddit. They're all filled with kind, knowledgeable people, who are more than willing to give a newbie some help.

Good luck! I've got a semi-decent repository of links for stuff like this, so just reply back if you need anymore.

ad  ·  4336 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Opening an account in a new tab gives an unformatted, ugly page.

An easy thing to find out, but if mk doesn't know, I'd just like to inform. :)

ad  ·  4350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How many of you use Coursera?

CodeAcademy would be a good place to look if you were considering anything related to CompSci. :D

ad  ·  4350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ray Lewis announces retirement at the season

That's a shame. Ray Lewis was one of the few players that I could watch any time, any where, and expect at least one spot of the highlight reel from him.

And yes, he'll be a first ballot HOF-er. :P

ad  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I've got some questions - Somebody coming from the Reddit communiy

Only if somebody else chooses one for you. If I could have posted something to #technology, and #linux, I would've done it.

ad  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I've got some questions - Somebody coming from the Reddit communiy

1. Rework the controls menu. Everything feels squished together and frankly, a tad bit ugly. The default dark theme looks especially bad for it.

2. Add some information for the three things below my name. I've been able to work out the guy walking thingie to be my follows, but the two sun-esque things are still a mystery to me.

3. While I do like the pound character organization, such as #technology, and I also like the fact that it links to all posts with that hashtag when I type it in, some sort of formal organization is needed for me to really want to use this site. Subhubs are a must in my opinion. Every single online forum I've ever used in the past 8 years has had a formal structure to it.

4. I like the follow mechanism, but I feel that it doesn't stack up to the idea of a subhub because even if I subscribe to 100 people, people who have similar interests and post regularly, I will never have the same amount of content from a subhub with 1000s of subscribers, interested in all the same topic. Linux posts? Bam, follow one subhub instead of 15 people, and I don't have to worry about it. I realize that you can "follow" a hashtag, which is a feature I like and am currently utilizing, but I feel as if that could be easily abused. Somebody could just make an outrageous title, like "Apple stock tumbles, company goes bankrupt" and link it to some NSFW/NSFL content.

And a true idea here:

The hashtag, eg, #Technology could be a "blanket" of sorts for subhubs. So #technology could include places like /h/Technologynews, /h/programming, /h/buildapc, /h/linux, /h/android, etc. When you decided to go to the #technology link, it would show intermixed posts from all of those subhubs.

Thanks for reading.