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ad  ·  4292 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  ·  4292 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  ·  4299 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thank sounds_sound for the new badge.

I like the new design decisions!

The site is looking better every day. :)

ad  ·  4324 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  ·  4328 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  ·  4328 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Minimalist Design - What Microsoft Could've Been

I think it says a lot about a company and its' goals when a single artist can come up with a more compelling marketing scheme than the 200B company could.

Although I could be prejudiced in the matter, as I am currently typing this from Xubuntu 13.04.

ad  ·  4331 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  ·  4333 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  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The End of Courtship?

This article comes off as if a teenage girl, just out and into the dating scene, realizes that the world isn't made up of:

>Dinner at a romantic new bistro

To be honest, I don't see the downfall of hanging out with somebody because you're furthering the relationship. You also get one big advantage in hanging out with his friends: You see him as a normal person, in a normal social setting. Normal. Not feeling pressured to perform a dazzling act to some random girl he asked out in a romantic bistro, which in itself is sending messages that a women might perceive as creepy/needy.

If you honestly have some sort of issue with hanging out with someone for a few hours, and want to go spend money on food, and perhaps talk for 30 minutes, tell the person that. How in fucking hell is he supposed to know what you do and don't want to do? Thinking something isn't the same as telling someone something. Perhaps if this article was based on the fact that guys flat out refuse to go on "legitimate" dates, then I'd be fine with this view point, but it's not. I, as a man, would be perfectly fine doing either. It even says this:

>“I don’t like to take girls out. I like to have them join in on what I’m doing — going to an event, a concert.”

Going to an event or concert is a date. It's going out to do something with her, no? Even if it's being done with or without her, you're still doing:

1. Buying her a ticket to come

2. Spending time together

So I can't really see the reason to complain. While it may not be the most intimate way of communicating, it's still communication. I'd even argue that it's better, since dinner and a movie isn't an accurate depiction of your entire life. Hanging out, talking, watching TV, etc, all combined, are.

God this article is dumb. If a woman honestly wants something out a relationship, don't fuck the person, say something.

ad  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Welcome to hubski!

Wonderfully written - Thanks for the contribution. Truth be told, I, a lurker of six months,(and an account-haver of a month or so,) learned a thing or two from this.

Followed. :D

ad  ·  4346 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your vision of the future?

Where most/all people have a decent understanding of the Universe - from QM and GR to Dual Booting your Laptop. Where people no longer identify people based on race, and all assumptions made with race, but on what a person actually is, and judge them fairly in a worldly context, rather than an isolated one. A place where Science and Mathematics are both as easy to learn and accessible as History, Literature. Where people are happy and outgoing, but not happy based on other peoples measurement of happy, and not a place where outgoing necessarily means overly social/involved. A place where Science news competes for headlines and news times across the world with sports and politics. A place where Hubski has subhubs so I can call them subhubs, and not have to search a tag to find posts like this one.

The last one I hold more dear than the others, though.

ad  ·  4347 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  ·  4347 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  ·  4347 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Petition: Make the Metric System the Standard, Instead of the Imperial

I doubt this will happen, to be honest. Just "making" our new system of measurement the Metric system would really do much; sure, schools would now teach it, but anybody past 5th grade isn't gonna re-learn the entire way Americans measure stuff just so they can satisfy somebodies need for everything to be standardized.

So, with the next generation of kids learning this, it's at least 20 years until a respectable portion of the population is out in the work force and actually doing things. Then, comes the issue of the older generations not changing. I imagine that companies will stick with the old ways rather than teach the entire work force of America a new system of measurement. While in some companies this would be easy and manageable, I doubt such a thing would be possible in much larger companies such as UPS or FedEx, where measurement and weight are key to running a profitable business.

Now, after all of that, this next generation is still using the old ways because the older generations don't want to change. So, you'd have to wait until my generation(born in the 1990s) to all be dead or out the work force for this stuff to truly change.

I also don't personally like this idea, so take what I say with a grain of sand, but why exactly would the US change its metrics system when we're the most powerful nation on the planet? Kneeling to others ideas is fine and all, but I simply don't understand the European position of "the US HAS to change." I dislike the fact that they assume their system of measurement is inherently better than ours.

About all I had to say.

ad  ·  4352 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  ·  4353 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.