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Philip is so right. The Bay area stinks. Every body should move to Texas or to Boston where life is so much better. Real estate prices are way too high. The politics here are way to liberal. The government is way out of touch with what's realistic. The whole state is going to collapse any day underneath its own weight.

</looks through San Jose real estate listings>
Ditto regarding the pet peeve, but I just don't like his attitude - I've repeatedly seen him be combative in completely unnecessary ways. Also, he uses complicated words when simple ones would do.
No. With quantum mechanics being explained wrong.
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Oh, I see what you mean now.

I never intended to say my country is better than your country; in fact I meant to say that wherever you live you were probably exaggerating.
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I must be blind. Where is this link?
>>I actually like language comparisons.

Comparision != Bashing;

(And yes, there is some overlap. Please no long word definition "discussions", either :-)
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You have to have 200 karma for that, you are errr... 200 karma short.
I think their object model is a good example. Introduced OOP in version 4 but they implemented it in a way that was unusable. They put it right in version 5 but that broke older code -- and it was still weird. It was only in the latest release that it became possible that you could get the right class name in a static method of a class that was inherited by another. Everything they do, they do wrong[1] and it takes them years to get it into approximative acceptable shape.

The only thing that saves them is that most php users have no clue of what they are doing, have not training of any sorts, and no nothing but php and maybe perl, vb or whatever.

[1] Okay, I'm exaggerating and the latest iteration is no longer the menace it once used to be.
Great reaction by the company rep! Obviously, 'unbreakable' has its limits (i.e. if you run over it with a tank). I can image the 'hammer a nail with it' part though, unless you use the display for that.
I was thinking along these lines, but not a bot. It would be nice as a helper program while playing to put the mouse over the bet buttons, to set standard cbet amounts and raise sizes, etc.
Firefox, same problem on that page, changing encoding solves it.
<a href="javascript:alert('vulnerability found')">click here</a>

This is working, but I suppose it shouldn't
Is there some way to password protect chat rooms?
You are correct. There are still a plethora of ``things``, which can be reverse engineered. However, most of them, (in my opinion?), are not things which I, or any other normal person, uses daily (cell phone,digital camera, computer, a car key which only needs to be near the car to allow someone to start the car and unlocks the car when the person, or a person touching the person, touches the car, and ect.). I'm not trying to say that people don't use guitar amps daily- I'm trying to say that pretty much anything containing that green circuit board with little black chips and bumpy things all over it- will be next to impossible for a 13 year old kid to figure out. I mean. Of course there is google and the wikipedia, but I mean figure out on his or her own time like you did.
Ranking people has nothing to do with the people themselves. It's supposed to make the company more efficient.
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"Real Programmers (TM)"

Maybe not everybody aspires to being a "real programmer", if that means merely being a tool that other people (MBAs) wield at their fancy. Those unreal programmers might have other desires, like working on beautiful things or in an aesthetically pleasing environment.
I would pick the Kindle. It hits all four of your points and will have the greatest battery life, especially if you don't use the wireless connectivity.
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Doesn't seem to work on Python 2.5.x under WinXP. I get the DLL load failure message "This application has failed to start because python26.dll was not found."

The installer was happy finding Python 2.5.

Oh well, I should probably upgrade to 2.6 anyway ...
>>don't seem to really have a clear direction

What don't you like about the Maemo stuff? Debian in a phone -- what can be wrong with that?!
The bookmarklet loads jQuery, so the websites don't need to have it on.
I disagree. Most natural languages have bugs. These bugs often provide the basis of jokes, but they're bugs.

Ambiguity, verbosity, tongue twistiness, etc in natural language would certainly cause you to steer clear of certain words, but we don't feel the need to reinvent the English language every year, or keep switching to other languages that seem to have less bugs.
By the way, what I built was a simple wrapper for the chat and real-time services offered by drop.io
The topic is very important but the article was really bad. A few no-nonsense links for the interested:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/

http://www.paleonu.com/

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/

http://nephropal.blogspot.com/

I very much like Dr Harris (PaNu blog) position: is not about blindly replicating cavemen lifestile, but studing their metabolism (which is ours) in the light of modern science.
The bookmarklet loads jQuery from Google.
What do you mean? Country citizenship is not voluntary for EU citizens either. Did you mean country residence?
I think you meant the 555 timer, the 444 was an op-amp.
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Unfortunatelly MarkDown both allows HTML and uses regex magic :-).
Site seems broken down (shows me std Drupal help for can't connect to database and points to install.php)

Something went wrong? Slashdot effect?
In short, no.

Granted, it's on the extreme end of high-noise/opinion scale, but "Bashing" is a natural component of the many evolutionary pressures exerted on any form of human memetic expression.

It's no different than literary or other forms of artistic criticism.

Be wary of ANY single idea or concrete instance of expression without a robust spectrum of discussion surrounding its merits.
I had a Comcast cable box last year that produced a couple minutes of what sounded like a CB or phone conversation while not "on" several times. Any theories what could cause that or is it time to get a tinfoil hat? I'm not exactly a likely target for eavesdropping.
I get this behavior too (tested on about 20 varied sites)
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I use my Kindle DX (best for PDFs) outside the US all the time. The new DX will also have international access (which can be disbaled). Plug it into a USB, and drag and drop your files.
He might have meant a 444. You can turn an op amp into a oscillator pretty easily: just drive it with some RC circuit.

See p284 of Horowitz and Hill :-)
I had the same problem. I thought I should be in a chat room but couldn't figure out what was going on until I saw the light gray on white stuff at the bottom of the screen.

I like the idea though. It's basically a chat version of Google's SideWiki.

Disclaimer: I wrote a simple group chat myself (http://www.yakeze.com/chat/hackernews/) before I found TinyChat (http://tinychat.com/).
I agree in the aspect that the creator should create an arrow or something after clicking "Chatify" button which points down to the chat and says something like "Pull Up".

Also it would be nice for instead of "Guest182" I could see "You" by default. (I understand I could edit it; however, I'm guessing everyone would then see 'You'.) Also maybe an option to view time/date stamps- and not to view them. Possibly a feature to print chats? Also when you open it you don't have to click in the chat box before typing. (You could just start typing and then hit enter.)

Also you may want to consider a membership service to keep chatrooms longer than a week even if people don't use them. Just a thought.

Well that's my two cents as of now. However, for the review: The App seems nice. Elegant in design, but doesn't seem to work. So overall- it'd be nice in my opinion- if it worked.
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Two questions about it:

* Will they really put all their weight behind it? My guess is that there's an internal struggle between that and Symbian.

* Will they be able to make it as nice as Android? I care about the fact that it's open source and hackable, but what most people are going to worry about is how well it works, and what the application writing process is like. I doubt there are many Debian apps that are all that useful as-is on a phone - maybe in 5 years, but not right now.
It's very good. I've been a very happy owner of both 770 and N810 (the "Internet Tablets" that were the grandparents of N900.
The points are two:
1) directions seems not clear... maemo is gtk+-based, but Nokia bought Trolltech (and qt). This version of maemo is still gtk-based but, they say, "next will be qt-based". Older products are now totally discontinued (no updates, no new version of OS)... It is complicated to trust them
2) iPhoneOS is FUN to program and there is a clear business model and "go to market" strategy for indipendent software developers. Hey, it happens you can actually, and easily, making money with your hobby! That give iPhoneOS the impressive number of apps it have, many of them of high quality (because you can have, and typically have, actual paying customers)... Maemo is Debian, with a VERY small screen, in terms of resolution, no clear way of making some money and a (relatively) boring SDK.
Just to be clear: maemo is WAY better than Symbian (hey, you have to have Windows to develop for symbian, last time I looked upon it) and I would really like (like the other guy) to have a debian-based OS on my phone. And I use a Nokia as my primary PHONE (and I use iphone as a portable internet device).
But it's true (and the article is very well written): the bears are on the door and they have to reinvent themeselves.
btw: give a look to the Ovi Store sometimes... is really depressing (and often gives curious errors).
What do "bugs" have anything to do with it?

Natural languages take a long time to learn, and do not differ considerably in expressiveness or conciseness.

Programming languages take a relatively short time to learn, and there are large and significant differences in expressiveness and conciseness.

For instance, contrast:

sum = foldl (+)

And:

public static int sum(Iterable<int> numbers)
{
int total = 0;
for (int n : numbers)
total += n;
return n;
}

Rarely do you find such pronounced difference in expressiveness between natural languages.
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Debian in a phone? There is a lot that can be wrong about that. Here is a previous discussion. http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=983267
Thanks, I assumed incorrectly that it was called the 444. It was common in hobby kits and I remembered it had 8 legs. Pretty simple to wire up to a 5V source, potentiometer, a few caps, and an LED to get basic blinking lights.

But what is available today goes way beyond the kits I had when growing up.
Battery life is the most overrated of all laptop specs. How often are you really without an electric outlet? Other than an airplane or the occasional wifi-capable coffee shop (one without outlets, that is), I can't think of anywhere I'd be likely to be using my laptop. It's really rarer that you might assume.
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Except it wasn't :)

I agree, you can do that, but the description was fairly clearly a 555. Besides that an lm444 is a 14 pin dip and a 555 is 8 pins (see comment by yardie).
Lots of cheapo electronics aren't properly RF shielded, and will pick up radio transmissions. I once had a pair of speakers that came with a PC as a "free bonus". Those things could be used as a radio (except for only one station).
A lot of old-school programmers seem to feel the same about software. I've been reading the book "Coders at Work" recently and many of the older generation programmers reminisce about the days where they understood (and many times owned) every single line of code from the hardware up to their applications. Some say that they wouldn't like to be a programmer today because they'd have to accept too much as black-box (OS, frameworks, etc).

I can certainly sympathise with the OP and the older generation of programmers but I can't help feel that it's more a case of standing on the shoulders of giants. If we're to forever tinker (even if it is fun) with basic electronics or low level programming we'd have a hard time making any progress. As painful as it is I find it best to accept that something is black-box and just work with it, warts and all. Having said that, it's really useful to have the source code for the frameworks/libraries you're working with. Delving into it is similar in ways to the tinking the OP speaks about.
Perhaps you should consider channeling that energy into creating your own gadgets. Maybe you could create a gadget that doesn't disappoint.
I like it. Its a good idea.

I like to know about the technical details of it as well.
That I see as the problem, because now a whole bunch of other people will see this and think the same as you and we end up drowning in the stuff. Because of course this sort of stuff appeals to the lowest common denominator and doesn't require any mental effort whatsoever to process it tends to get lots of votes and drown out the more interesting but possible slightly challenging material.
if the history of capitalism proves anything it's that people will pay far more for convenience than anyone ever suspects.
Assuming I did want all those features (wifi, access to web, physical keyboard and wide selection at the bookstore) would it change to the nook?
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If we can change "convenience" to "what they perceive to be convenience"...then sure, totally agreed.
Its a monday morning. Most Hackers would be busy coding to visit HN anyway.
Reminds me of _why's hoodwink.d.
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It seems like Douglas Hofstadter should belong somewhere on this list.
I have a Kindle 2. Though I like everything about it, it has the following issues:-

1) In India, free internet on Kindle does not work. But Wikipedia do work.

2) All the Magazine, Blog subscriptions will be stripped off the Graphics. Amazon is 'Saving' on the bandwidth costs they pay to the country specific Mobile Operators!
It's using standard XMPP, but, really, I just built a wrapper around drop.io's real-time API.
Try middle-clicking a link on that page in Chrome. Tt opens in the same tab (for me at least), but I get normal behavior in IE7.
The i7 is incorrectly reported to be a dual core in the article, it is actually a quad core with hyperthreading, so it looks like it has 8 cores to the os.
Note that Dreamhost recently moved from using mod_php to running PHP as a FastCGI server (per website/account).

So I assume PHP no longer has the performance advantage of integrating closely with Apache.

In fact, since Dreamhost now offers Passenger (AKA mod_rails) as a solution for running Rails and Django) PHP might be at a disadvantage. Especially when paired with a large framework (zend,codeigniter,cake, etc.)
Kindle DX's $490 price tag (compared to Kindle's $260) is intimidating, which brings me to the question: Is it worth spending (almost) double the amount and buying a Kindle DX instead of a Kindle?
Not at all, but I personally put animal rights pretty low on my priority list. Dif'rent strokes for dif'rent folks, I guess.
Why DyDNS buying EveryDNS is a problem for you to use EveryDNS? (I too have a domain hosted on EveryDNS and like to know)
I think the site is basically at a point where either pg gets really strict about fluff/politics/economics or it will continue to slide.
If Futurama is right (which doesn't seem that far fetched). This could be the start of the end of civilization as we know it.
People don't stop being interesting when they get their diplomas. At my last job, one of my coworkers (in his mid 20's) already held local office part-time; another fronted a mildly successful band. The writing quality at school newspapers tends to be really bad, unless you're at a good school (stop by a state university campus and pick up a copy some time).

I agree that not all jobs have interesting people. But the people who are interesting in school tend to stay interesting. In fact, they're more fun to deal with once their goal changes from "Continue getting financial aid / parental aid" to "Do something that pays well."
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> if that means merely being a tool that other people (MBAs) wield at their fancy.

I think you read stuff in my writing that I didn't put there.
Why aren't programmers more pragmatic? I like lisp better than any other language but if there is a better solution in another language then I will try to either learn it or use it. Why can't programmers see that languages are tools to be used and not fight if one tool is used over the other. You don't necessarily see this with other craftspeople when they create things. I don't see people arguing over hammers and if you did it sounds really stupid.
Maybe it's because I've mostly read the ones about flying?
I saw 3000 visits on my post this morning, I thought, wow, lots of spambots last night. But then I notice it was posted here. Fixed the spelling mistake, I usually check for that but sometimes one slips. English is not my primary language. Thanks for your comments.
Not sure why you got voted down for that, Rob, the sysadmin chose just that moment to reboot the box and you caught it before the db was up again, so it definitely was down for a moment.

It's funny, I rarely submit stuff from my own site to HN, of course that coincides with switching the server to a different phase.
How about Sony PRS-600? I'm in the same situation as you (thinking about buying an ebook reader in a non-US country), and the Sony seems to be one of the few valid alternatives to Kindle. It doesn't have that ugly keyboard and unnecessary wifi/3g connections. Regardless, with Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) even blog reading should be possible.
I often work at home and love to move around between different places. Not having to carry the power adapter is a real plus for me.

Plus, anyway I've got a mac and the magafe connector that keeps falling out mean that even next to a power outlet I still need battery life.
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I think laptop makers are going in the right direction with long battery life. I have an Acer Aspire Timeline ( http://www.acer.com/timeline/ ) and I usually get 8.30 - 9hrs of life just browsing. I love the battery life and it has completely changed how I work with a laptop.
I just spun the thought further. When would be a situation where you wouldn't care about the language? If somebody hired you to do something, in the language of their choosing. I don't see another possibility?
I see the first part I suppose, but the second...really? The solution to that problem isn't better battery life, it's a better power cord.
Ideally I'd start off my day by picking up nothing but my notebook and walking out the door.

The ability to go and sit down anywhere and work is a huge feature, particularly if the thing can handle that kind of battery life at full screen brightness (sometimes I like to spend my entire morning or afternoon working in the park).

I suppose the larger point is that people's work habits are different, and one man's superfeature may be another man's meh.
Let's see: It's not impossible to find outlets on my university's campus but it's pretty hard. And if I find one it's inconveniently placed. I don't much like sitting on the floor in some of the busier areas. So that's one place were long battery life is an advantage. All of the regional and very few (but still some) of the high speed trains in Germany also don't have power outlets. Another place.

Add in that hunting for outlets isn't that much fun - so yeah, I can imagine that there are quite a few people out there who would value long battery life.
I will definitely take those into consideration. I'll adding message explaining how to use the chat window. I'll also extend the duration of the chatroom to a month.
> From September 2002 to November 6th 2009, he had been employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer.

Some might say "PHP developer"
Natural languages solve these things with 'jargons', which are effectively DSLs.

I isn't rare at all to come across words in one language that require a full sentence in another.

Fingerspitzengefuehl in German is a nice example.

It requires a full page of explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl

And it still misses some nuance of the German that I can't quite 'place my finger on'.
Because this isn't the first free DNS hosting service that DynDNS has bought, and in every case in the past they've rapidly migrated to a non-free service.

Given that running EveryDNS as a free service directly competes with their own 'dynamic dns free, static dns pay-for' model, it's unreasonable to believe that they'll be willing or able to continue EveryDNS as a free service while utilising the same resources as their DynDNS products.

To clarify, if I was already using EveryDNS, I'd probably at least consider that I have a little time before I need to jump ship. But switching TO EveryDNS, given that it's future as a free service is now very much in doubt (IMO), would be foolish I believe.
he sure does wish that :

"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. "

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I don’t have a paper to show you, some great insight into how von Neumann architecture is totally lame.

If it weren't for the von Neumann architecture the author wouldn't have pretty code to look at. I suppose he could write a post about the arty setting of switches and attachment of patch leads on his personal ENIAC.

It seems to me that the requirements for the existence of code meant to program a computer (and look pretty) are a memory to store the code and an automatic method of retrieving, and carrying out, the instructions in the code. That sounds a lot like the von Neumann architecture.

Also, I don't follow the analogy to pre- and post- relativistic physics. There was a shift in the intuition and the models used, but the object of study didn't change. Physics stayed the same. Electrons didn't change their behavior because we came up with new models for them. Similarly, in computer science, a shift in intuition and models doesn't change the nature of computation. The travelling salesman problem is still NP-complete.