Curating HN content regarding parenting would be a worthwhile effort because of posts like this. I've been pleasantly surprised with HN's willingness to share thoughts on the subject.
Here is a good start: http://www.google.com/search?q=parenting%20site:news.ycombin...
You are an extremely valuable contributor to HN. Reposting your HN comments is great way to start blogging. I think you will eventually feel the urge to post original content once you see how rewarding blogging can be.
1-I would leave comments on. You never know when someone might have an extremely valuable tidbit to share.
From the peHUB post[0] cited in the article:
>Arrington declined to say if he had been contacted by law enforcement officials.
Could law enforcement force Arrington's silence if he was contacted directly? Or can we expect another post by him titled, "So the FBI walked into my office..."?
>The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
What a beautiful thought for the entrepreneur in all of us.
Well damn, maybe I'll do one. Hell I'd get together with people in SF or wherever for free and show them how to do stuff. It'd be an awesome bad ass way for me to get feedback on what needs to happen to make Mongrel2 awesome.
i second that. not just mongrel2, even ruby, jazz guitar, etc.
i think being able to get feedback from someone like zed allows one to QUICKLY and EFFICIENTLY get to the meat and heart of ideas and concepts. whereas in my experience with other instructors you're sometimes wondering in the back of your mind whether the person actually knows what they are talking about.
it's similar to being able to study directly with a zen master. except in this case it's not zen, it's zed.
I'm also new to web development (I have no where near 4 years of experience). Do you understand object oriented programming enough to explain it to a programming newbie? If not, you need to take a class. No amount of Railscasts/Peepcode vids/Rails books will teach you OOP, and yet Ruby and Rails require a working knowledge of it. I know PHP is an OOP lang, but you may not have used it that way.
After someone convinces me that spending a few months slaving over editing and promotion is more fun than writing software, better paying than consulting, more helpful than teaching language lessons, more impressive to a Ms. Right than time at the gym, etc.
Much like taking investment, it would be flattering but not get me anything I really want right now.
I've always really enjoyed reading your posts on HN. I saw that you were quoted in The Register with some identifying information, and I finally put 2 and 2 together and realized that you were the author of some of my favorite posts over at TMF too. Those were some hilarious stories. I hope you find the time in the future to share some more of them over there, but can completely understand what a time sink it is to write material for an audience of strangers on the interwebs. On behalf of those strangers, I would like to say that it was much appreciated while it lasted. Thanks for all of the laughs and knowledge that you've shared.
I am not going to claim that it is either of those, except possibility impressive to Ms Right, depending on who she is.
But it will help you get consulting gigs if you can say you wrote a book about X, where X is somewhat related to the consulting.
Whether that is worth it to you, is obviously something you would have to decided. I would by any book about how to run a small software company, organic seo, ab testing with rails or similar you write and I do believe many other here would too.
Obviously it depends on you. But I think having a book published gives you:
1) Warm glowy feeling + bragging rights.
2) A lot more "longevity" than just a blog.
3) It makes the world a slightly better place (and makes some people really happy).
I say 3) because I love reading, love collecting (good) books, and having more good books to read is always better. I read a ton of blogs and read HN every day, but books are still the best media for serious works, and I'm sure my book collection will be my pride and joy many years in the future, long after I've forgotten half the blogs I read now.
All of that is really just my way of saying, please spend the time. I'd love to have your book in my library!
A. I'm not sure I believe this. I have bought three or four books which were compiled from blogs. They all felt really dated within a couple of years. I read each of them zero to one time and then sold them off; after all, the material is there online if I need to refer to it again. And sometimes the online version even gets refreshed.
B. Books only have more "longevity" than blogs if you are a librarian, or at least an amateur librarian. You must keep them around on your shelf for a long time, dust them off, carry them from place to place. It pains me to say this, as a former book collector and the son of two book collectors, but in the networked era print book archiving is like collecting and preserving fine art: A vital activity for a handful of professionals, but a niche hobby for everyone else. Especially for content that was born in digital form.
C. Books don't collect links. Except possibly to (e.g.) Amazon, which helps Amazon's SEO but contributes nothing to your own. It might be the height of irony for Patrick to publish a dead-trees book which advises you to publish everything on your own web site where it can attract inbound links.
I know they get a bad rap around here, but... this really is the use-case for traditional publishers. You package the posts into a book, they do the rest (if they like it).
I know that this was said in jest (and I think patrick has no interest in dead-treeing his blog), but I would LOVE a pre-compiled mobi version of his greatest hits to take on the road for my kindle...
We have to disagree on the importance of this latest feature then.
Folder sharing: User A gives read or read/write access on one of their email folders to user B. I don't think I've ever used a mail service which doesn't support this simple long standing feature of email.
Delegation: User A delegates permission to user B to organise events in their Calendar, or to send mail on their behalf.
Delegation is very useful for people with secretaries or PAs. Folder sharing is very useful for people working in teams or all kinds.
I have absolutely no desire to give anyone else access to my email, and I'd hazard a guess that this is the case for many other users as well. I do want the ability to send mail as another person (I have some 10-odd email accounts), but Gmail already handles that.
While this new feature may not be useful for corporate users, that doesn't mean it's not useful for users in general.
I have absolutely no desire to send mail as another person, and I'd hazard a guess that this is the case for many other users as well. I do want the ability so share mail folders with other people, and GMail doesn't handle that.
While this new feature may be useful for some users, that doesn't mean it's useful for users in general.
What fraction of users actually want folder sharing?
I've personally been using email since 1992, and I've never once used such a feature, nor has anyone asked me to use it. This is despite my having worked on a fair number of very productive teams.
Now I don't know how you personally use it. But I'm fairly sure that if I looked at your desired workflow using it, I could find another that was equally effective that didn't use it. Better yet, my alternative would be much more convenient for any software developers who don't happen to be working in a Windows environment.
> "What fraction of users actually want folder sharing?"
How on Earth would I know that?
We use folder sharing extensively at the University I work at. We have a folder structure which is shared by all staff which we call the Archive. People move email into the Archive which is owned by their role and which needs to be kept and shared with others. So you've never used folder sharing? I can show you several thousand people who have...
The ACL extension for IMAP looks as though it came out about 13 years ago!
> "Now I don't know how you personally use it. But I'm fairly sure that if I looked at your desired workflow using it, I could find another that was equally effective that didn't use it."
You know you could find a better workflow than the one I'm using, even though you don't know what I'm doing? magic.
> "Better yet, my alternative would be much more convenient for any software developers who don't happen to be working in a Windows environment."
The above makes no sense whatsoever and proves you completely missed the point. This isn't a Windows feature. I'm using it from Thunderbird on an OSX box right now, connecting to Dovecot IMAP server on a Linux box. Courier IMAP also supports it, as does Exchange and CommuniGate Pro, Cyrus and most open source webmail applications and email clients...
GMail doesn't support the IMAP ACL extension, nor does the webmail interface support any sort of sharing. That is a severe limitation.
