Hmm, based on the fact that every recent Node.js demo I've seen recently without exception has had pervasive XSS attacks, perhaps the Node.js community should build themselves some safer HTML generation and handling libraries stat, and crown them as "the way to do HTML".
Not that there's anything even remotely unique about Node.js on that front.
Can't speak for HN but chat, like video comments, seems to prove difficult for many communities. Such features can be added but whether people use them or they fall into non-stop trollery is anyone's guess.
#startups on irc.freenode.net is reasonably active though and would usually appreciate a discussion on topics coming up on HN :-)
Sounds like a good idea. However the upvote would have to have a time limit, like upvoted in the last 24 hours. Otherwise powerful arguments will own the top 10 forever :) Essentially, it would look like ASK HN, live.
Yes, but not well. I'm using a commit-style approach to synchronize clients, so the document is never sent as a whole. I might be wrong, but I don't think couch can do that on its own. Even so, it gives me an extra layer of control, which I like. I considered making a CouchApp, but I didn't want to feel restricted.
I'm not that familiar with CouchDB-only apps but it seems to me that with node you get access to any number of other libs/technologies you may need. What if you want to aggregate a twitter feed? Connect to MongoDB for logging? Memcache? Do some image generation/processing? Websockets? Etc.
I was thinking of dividing categories. I could divide by projects or by team members name. it would allow me to see what everybody is up to in one look.
Ah I'll think about that. I'm planning on having cookie-based history, with a drop-down at the top, so you can switch between recent lists easily. But I have yet to figure out how/if I'm going to have usernames and the like.
Using the dividing categories, if people put their names as categories, you could see each other's todolist without needing a username mechanism.
I am not a big fan of having to switch from one list to another. Tadalist does that, and it makes the application useless.
Maybe you can simply allow to see several lists at the same time in the same page. People would name their lists by projects or by people and they could see it all in one page.
