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It's interesting, all up, the money making idea. Even though /b/ contains the best and worst of the net, the other boards are quite reasonable (as long a /b/ stays up to keep the trolls from wandering). Is the sites image so bad that advertisers can overlook such an opportunity for targeted ads? (ie. its unlikely anyone would be in the anime board if they weren't quite interested in anime)
This was posted as a comment on the original article. No idea if it’s true or not, but it’s an interesting insight:

As one of the engineers who worked on Kindle, I'd like to point out that most people at Amazon are pretty anti-DRM themselves - it's the PUBLISHERS who insisted on it, and we put in DRM so as to keep THEM happy, because without publishers, there are no books to sell. We knew full well that the device and DRM would be hacked eventually - the hope was that we could just stay ahead of them for long enough to prove the feasibility of selling books in this way to publishers.
That's not an American way!
Why don't they sell it off? Its hard to believe there would be no takers.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484583
What about if I could be mistaken for an arab, and my comment were made from that perspective?
Might be easier to use Javascript for this purpose since it is available practically everywhere. And HTML Canvas support makes writing graphics/games very easy.

See http://billmill.org/static/canvastutorial/index.html for example.
What's that expressed as a percentage of Indians with Internet connections at home?
That's an interesting theory, and it probably explains some of the decisions made by many people I know. Is this a theory you've just heard casually mentioned or has there been actual research on this?
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Electricity does not have damage the climate. Take wind power, or nuclear as examples. Or geothermic stuff.
Dan Ariely gives a more detailed synopsis in his book Predictably Irrational

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006135323X?ie=UTF8&tag=...

Derek Sivers summarizes the book here in case you don't want to buy the book but I certainly recommend having it as a reference

http://sivers.org/book/PredictablyIrrational
The restriction was lifted in 1933, I believe. Some of Jane Stanford's other requirements were 1) free tuition and 2) no summer school, since students should get out and see the real world during the summer. I'm glad they let more women in, although I wish they had left the free tuition requirement in. :)
I guess you should flag exactly similar translations. Though I do not see how you can do this without relying on security by obscurity.
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As much as I hate the commies (wherever they reside), I think the Chinese saved the world from a scam of unheard proportions. To make far-reaching policy decisions based on doctored data and questionable analysis would be criminal. Until there is an open, solid scientific basis for the AGW hypothesis absolutely nothing should be undertaken along the lines of what these people suggest. There are other serious environmental issues (like contamination) which deserve far more attention; they are understood and well documented. AGW at the moment looks like a scam. It is a good thing the Chinese couldn't be bought off or tricked by the fraudsters.
Many Kindle books, especially technical ones, are in the so-called Topaz format with embedded fonts which nobody has been able to reverse-engineer or break DRM for. I don't know if this breakthrough changes that---doesn't seem like it.
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I have written very many games using Python and Pygame. Very nice language (I like the syntax much better than the C-like languages) and tools.

If you're going to do this, there is one very important tip: use psyco. It ( http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ ) magically speeds up all Python execution by about 3-4x. In one of my games ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/slasha/ , still in its early stages) the millisecond per frame count went from 25-300 to 15-80 (drawing the desktop seems to take an unavoidable 7-10 ms).

As for what you learn doing this kind of thing, you use trigonometry a lot, you use the pythagorean theorem a lot, my game here is the way I thought up of the pathfinding algorithm.
for more information on the meetup check this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011911
What's CP?
NFSW

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/CP

Also, CP stands for Christopher Poole. It is quite likely that Christopher Poole is a fake name, chosen becase of the CP meme.
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Great to see this meeting get some shape, thanks guys :)
Where/how can we give some feedback? By editing the wiki?
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> I just saw that i did write "OOP is better than other paradigms" and corrected that.

Good. :) I guess it was mainly that sentence that got me into the wrong mindset. I read through the rest believing that it was along the same lines.

I retract my complaint.
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Well, it is a wiki. That's what I would do.
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Sorry, of course, there is the Talk:Hackersnl for.
I'm not sure what your point is.
Very nice! So many people first started making little games on their computers, it makes sense to teach people this way.
To clarify:

You can use GPL licensed software and sell it. There is nothing preventing you from commercially exploiting GPL licensed software. In fact there are plenty of companies doing so. You just have to include the source.

You might find this less attractive for your (commercial) goals and needs, but I find it quite attractive and important to have access to the source and the possibility to alter or enhance the software I use, while preventing freeloading (not quite true with GPL, see services as a loophole, AGPL is actually even better at preventing freeloading) to a certain degree.
Too many generalisations and over-simplification. A single swallow does not make a spring.

As an aside, this concept of Asian Intellectualism to me has always sounded hollow. My experience has been that Asian students especially Indian students tend to favour learning-by-rote over critical thinking which requires large amounts of time spent memorising things versus understanding them. The school and university exams in India tend to emphasise that as well.
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- dynamic languages: ruby/rails/merb/sinatra,, python/django/twisted/tornado, groovy/grails (nobody mentioned scala very much)

- FP, erlang, clojure, F#, haskell;

- noSQL: KV store, doc-oriented db, ..

- message queues and brokers: AMQP, rabbitMQ, XMPP,

- javascript/ browser capabilities: jquery, node.js, BOSH, other libs

- hosting, deploy, VCS: VPS, EC2, git,
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Sound Pretty biased to the management side of the story. If Ted & and mark were equally intelligent/smart, and knowing that ted worked hard to do better than his collegues , Soon he would have been the "go to member of his team". and mark would remain the networking guy.

Felt this article assumes Mark is double smart. i.e he can network, see & improve what other departments are doing & be the "go to member" of the team.
If it were in a movie you'd say 'no way', but to see it in real life... I'd hate to be that guard, being pepper-sprayed is not nice, but otherwise this 'heist' has me with ambiguous feelings towards the robber.
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Michael Crichton also got conned into believing in spoon bending. http://www.michaelcrichton.net/qa-travels.html

I have been to one of Jack Houck's spoon bending parties (which Crichton talks about), and as a result I just can't take anything he says seriously anymore. Anyone who goes to such a party with an open mind will have to conclude it's a load of baloney. Only those who really really want to believe in that crap will come out thinking there is something to it.
I though it had something to do with planes...
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Having a web framework in Objective-C will probably bring a new meaning to code verbosity.
If object-orientation means X then why don't people just call it X?

If object-orientation is polymorphism then how come many polymorphic languages aren't object-oriented?

At the very most, object-orientation is a particular mechanism for achieving a particular kind of polymorphism (namely ad-hoc object-based polymorphism). At most. Given the vagueness of the term, it could not even be that.
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Why interesting?. just curious.
Thanks. I was being dense. I assumed it was Copyright Protection.
It shouldn't just irk you as an Indian, it irks me as a dutch person as well.

If a service finds people from a certain country good enough to be 'minions' how come it finds them not good enough to be 'bosses' ?

This is actually a really nice opportunity to give amazon a run for their money and to set up a competing service that operates world-wide on both the give and the take side.
Seems to be a very good book. I would love to help translate it into Portuguese so kids around me could make use of it.

If there's still time, I would suggest not using the box image for variables. I prefer label tags because the box analogy assumes certain objects fit in certain boxes and is, thus, typed (unlike Python, where objects have types and names are just names). Also, an object can be contained in a single box while any number of labels can be attached to any object.
There is not a single great movie in your 2005 list. In fact Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

As for the 1980s, this was indeed a much better decade than the current one. The 70s were even better, much better than the 40s.

> is it really surprising that there were a handful of good movies among them?

Not good movies, great movies.
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Part of it (I'm also a dropout, not very successful though, I can pay my bills but thats about it) is the fact that very many social interactions congregate on "what education do you have"? It's a social status thing that people measure other people on in my group of people atleast. Most of the people I socialize with are either doctors, dentists or have a liberal arts degree.

I'm on of the only few with a technical education and I always have a hard time explaning that "yes I did go to college" (I'm from Sweden so it's called University but its not the same as in US), "but I did not graduate".

Their eyes flicker, and I'm instantly degraded to that basement guy with big computer screens they know so well from highschool.

I know very well that my life in very many aspects would be other peoples envy. I organize my days myself, I pay my own salary and I can divulge on whatever project I choose.

However, many people equate a steady paycheck with safety and responsibility. Two keywords that are atleast here in Europe quickly becoming very hot.
I'd say that Encapsulation was the primary property of OOP - taking a bunch of variables and functions and wrapping them up together.

Polymorphism is probably second, with interface implementation being more useful than inheritance a lot of the time.

Polymorphism would come third.
I would have liked to attend but I will not be in the country in that period (25-31 dec)
Hi there - article author here. ;)

> I don't like idea that you should keep inconvenience in place to keep of idiots. Idiots won't succeed anyway but inconveniences harm professionals and novices.

I think you've misunderstood - the argument is not to keep inconvenience in, it's to avoid taking things out which aren't actually a problem in practice.

As you rightly said, "human languages are geared towards interactive communication not towards describing problems and solutions precisely". Therefore any attempt to turn a programming language into English is not going to address the real difficulties of programming - specifying the problem and solution in enough detail, modelling the desired system in your head, avoiding/considering/handling edge-cases, etc.

All it's going to do is to make the experience of programming fractionally easier for people with effectively zero programming skills, and hence give them unwarranted self-confidence.

It's like making a bike easier to ride by gluing the rider to the seat - sure it's technically "harder to fall off", but the problem isn't usually the rider falling off the seat - it's the whole bike falling over, taking the rider with it.

Likewise, the hard part of programming isn't remembering precise and finicky syntax - it's making sure your own thinking is precise and finicky enough that you can accurately express it in such a finicky, precise language.

I'm not arguing in favour of long function names (I'm not entirely sure how you got that from my post) - I'm arguing against people who think that by changing "print('Hi there');" to "print 'Hi there'" they've somehow solved the problem of "programming being hard to do".
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Mhhm, the meeting will be held somewhere around 25-31 jan not december...
The Chinese leadership, like the leadership of every country, is a band of old men. Old men who know they won't be around to see the worst consequences of global warming, but consider that they might well be around long enough to hang from lampposts should the gravy train of economic growth shudder to a halt.
I think you underestimate the cultural influence of 4Chan.

- The Times, the UK's largest and most well known conservative newspaper, now has a regular column on 'lolpets'

- Oprah dedicated an entire show to the 'rainbow parties' hoax

- 4Chan have raised awareness of Scientology beliefs with protests that have been memorable, interesting and fun enough to be covered wherever Tom Cruise goes.
What you really mean here is that humans are complex and adaptable and have a theory of mind, whereas computers aren't and don't.

This, however, is not a fault. I work in web development, and I see every single day confusion and problems caused by a mismatch between what someone asked for and what someone else understood they wanted.

When you're writing computer code you should specify exactly what you want - architects don't design a house by drawing four walls and a roof and some rough, to-the-nearest-metre dimensions on the back of an envelope, because then houses would fall down and kill people.

We shouldn't design software this way for the same reasons.

The main problem is that people are lazy, and think in generalities. That's fine for socialising, but many things in life require precision (especially in our increasingly-complex society)... and lazy people used to relying on implication and inference find it a great effort to be as precise as is required.

The solution is not for programming languages to guess what people want based off their imperfect, imprecise and un-thought-through requests - it's for people to learn to request what they actually want, instead of asking computers to essentially "do some stuff with a thing".

It's not a question of success of communication - it's a question of imprecise requirements, lossy communication methods and inescapable rules of information theory.
This is true - doing is undoubtedly the best way to learn.

What I meant was that you shouldn't do something for money, or to be put into production before you know what you're doing. ;)
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Interesting page lay-out. I bet the lay-out artists at Wired have monitors with more than 800 pixels vertically. On my 1024x1280 rotated screen, the image is huge, but the page works. It won't fit whole on my notebook (1280x800) built-in LCD and usability on such screens is seriously hampered.
"Rifle-oriented programming": http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2009/8/12/rifle-oriented-prog...

After reading the above article, one could argue that if the definition of object oriented programming is flexible enough, clojure fits it. But we hit a philosophical problem. If clojure is object oriented because it can do all the stuff that oo languages can do, then oop becomes a meaningless metaphor, just a name for a set of common sense ideas. Oop NEEDS to be defined in terms of traditional object systems(with classes and methods and stuff like that) in order to make sense as a paradigm. If you define oop as "a general metaphor in which everything is an object and objects interact with each other via message passing" you can implement it in a variety of ways, all of which would be object oriented.

Simply put, if you don't have the concrete mechanics, the name you had for the result doesn't make sense anymore. Wow, i knew oop was a vaguely defined term, but i didn't know just how fragile its definition was until i started writing this comment.
For me, it's refreshing to see someone acknowledge that:

* His company is the second best. Not 'the best', not 'aiming to be the best', but the second best, no spin.

* The Asian culture of success at all times prevents the kinds of great success associated with higher risk (and therefore occasional loss).
Culturally the Chinese seem to care a lot more about their children, you can see this in their ruling class by how many well connected sons are running various enterprises. And culturally I see no reason they'd buy into the West's Malthusian tradition, which goes back to 200 AD (sic).

So as noted, they (or their staff) can read the IPCC reports, read the ClimateGate emails and code, etc. etc. and do what's right for their country.

Heck, they're not watermelons, e.g. green on outside, red on the inside. They're unabashedly red all the way through, they don't need environmentalism as a stealth path to "socialism", they've got their own version of the real thing!
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And the distraction of MS continues.... Microsoft really needs some focus. Their incessant desire to go after every single area of the consumer space (no matter the cost) is a massive drag on their ability to execute. Contrast that with a company like Oracle, who as far as I know makes zero consumer-facing products. Likewise, both Google and Apple are just not competitive with MS in the corporate space. Nibbling around the edges? Sure. But serious competition? Not really. Google's mail hosting is probably the only spot where MS faces genuine competition from google, but they are at a disadvantage there because IT shops (especially ones in places where privacy is paramount like healthcare) are very reluctant to let all that email go outside their walls.

What MS really needs, is to make Windows Server so compelling that even a unix guy like me looks at it and says, "You know, that would be way better than putting my stuff on Linux". That's a tall order, but it's possible (at least with the non-religious side of the Linux user base).
So was the Senate during the Clinton Administration when they preemptively voted down Kyoto with 97 against.
The Chinese are acting pragmatically/rationally and in their own short term self interest. If all nations do the same catastrophic climate change is unavoidable, this is the Tragedy of the commons [1]. The negotiations are about setting aside individual nations self interests in order to avoid disaster.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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Actually, many people think of the Rhodes as tainted (because it includes an athletic component) and rate the Marshall Scholarship more highly. (If we're ranking go-to-England scholarships, at least...)
For HN folks that haven't played with HTC's Sense UI - their proprietary Android home screen app, widgets, theme, and apps - it's a significantly different experience from stock Android. The relationship between HTC and Google is far better than, say, Motorola and Google.

It's simple things - normal Android doesn't have an indication to show which home screen you're on. Or emphasize the 'Phone' as being more than just a single app. Or show photos for your contacts. Or realize that a white globe with blue dots doesn't constitute a globe for most humans.

Google make technically good software, but they need someone like HTC to show them how people use phones.
If it's such a big issue, why not implement it yourself? Then you and a whole whack of other people can switch from XP to Ubuntu!
Must have missed the non-jungle parts. Not saying horses are impossible, but it was just so cliched...

As for the high tech race: ironically, the world was kind of created by such a high tech race - Cameron and his team :-)
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Culturally the Chinese seem to care a lot more about their children, you can see this in their ruling class by how many well connected sons are running various enterprises

There's a word for that: nepotism.
You make some very good points, the only thing I'd add is that for the Chinese leadership choosing between the two extremes is easy. Millions dead due to a nasty environment?

They're living that now and can deal with it a lot easier than they could deal with the hundreds of millions who'd die if they did what the goo-goos in the West asked them to do.
This might be a good place to mention my project again:

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It's not nearly as comprehensive as Invent with Python, but it also attempts to deal with the challenge of giving a low 'barrier to entry' to learning Python.