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CodeReviewer is one of the slowest/buggiest crap developer tools on Earth, largely due to its reliance on windows file sharing. It's often using 40% CPU for no reason, sometimes does not notify on new reviews, goes unresponsive every 2-3 days, etc.

Purely from an FU-money-exit point of view, I suppose SB was successful. But IMO that guy seriously needed a good technical cofounder.
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They discovered a horrible, systemic vulnerability and then patented most of the effective defenses for it. It's pure evil genius.
I also started programming on Windows with VB. However, I eventually found myself bumping against the arbitrary boundaries and limitations that inhere in a proprietary system. Moving first to FOSS technologies on Windows and eventually to a FOSS operating system has been like taking a deep breath after being held underwater for a long time.
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> Unfortunately, there is no way to secure it end to end in its current form

How about supporting public key encryption for SMS?

Oh sorry, I forgot that the government wouldn't like that too much. Everything should be out in the open so that everyone can view it to make it easier for law enforcement (at the same time making it easier for criminals to access the information of 'normal/average' people).
Some "open source" software also charges a fee. It's Free as in speech, not free as in price.
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Something as arcane as DES is not a "natural law". Crypto algorithms aren't pre-existing (show me a naturally occuring physical process that can be described by a crypto alogrithm), they're not obvious to even experts in the field, and people spend a lot of time trying to get them right. That's the very definition of patentable.

[I know DES isn't patented, and there's plenty of good reasons why you don't want a patented crypto algorithm, but I think they certainly qualify.]
A while ago, pg posted an archive of HN comments, specifically so that nobody would have to scrape them. (It was coupled with comments on how the arc server was holding up, IIRC.) I haven't had any luck searching for it, though - there are too many discussions about the ethics of scraping comments, archive file formats, and the like.
"Google Plans to" and "Google filed a patent to" are very different things.
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First of all, thanks for kind words. I'm glad you found this post useful.

I think I should have given more attention to use cases of `delete` before delving into all the details of how it works :) My bad.

I wouldn't say using `delete` is almost always the wrong approach, but it is certainly often misunderstood. There are valid use cases where one needs to delete a property, usually before iterating over an object (and performing some operation on each of the remaining properties), or when using `in` operator to detect property existence. Note that simply assigning `undefined` doesn't delete property — it is still visible during iteration or when inspecting object with `in`/`Object#hasOwnProperty`.

In practice, I immediately think of event abstraction, where `delete` is often useful. In fact, jQuery uses it just for this kind of purpose — http://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/event.js#L15....

In Prototype.js, there are also a couple of places where we use `delete` (such as to delete a property from an object for some special purpose (take care of IE bug) and then iterate over the remaining properties of an object — http://github.com/sstephenson/prototype/blob/master/src/dom/...)

The idea was to explain what can and can not be deleted; that deleting variables is useless (and even not future-compatible), unless those are declared from within eval (very unlikely); that deleting host objects is dangerous.

Everything else — i.e. deleting user-defined object properties — can and should be done in the right context ;)
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I just bought an HP/Compaq TC1100 "slate" form factor tablet computer. It has a removable keyboard and a docking station that are similar to the scheme described in the article. (But without a larger screen, though you can use a larger external monitor on the docking station.) These things have somewhat of a cult following now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Compaq_TC1100

I can see why. This thing is awesome! I can do everything in terms of browsing the web with the pen alone. The handwriting recognition is phenomenal. Also, with the pressure sensitive pen, it's like I have a portable mini Wacom Cintiq, which I plan on using to delve into art and drawing.

The Windows Journal program even seems to be an attempt to implement the "Digital Moleskine" functionality: http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/001600.html

I just love this thing! The design is of the same rounded corners philosophy of the white iBook, but in grey. It feels wonderful. I wonder why more of these things weren't sold?

Implement something like this, but with a few updates and better integration, and it would be killer. For one thing, incorporate GPS and location services. Integrate that into the media player, so you can do searches like: "What was I listening to the last time I was sketching at my favorite coffeehouse?" Or, in a more serious vein, how about, "Give me the notes I made the 1st night of WWDC?"

I also plan on downloading the Kindle PC program for this thing.
Shakespeare used the word "punk" in 1623
It doesn't work with Patent Trolls (AKA Non Practicing Entities). What is the team of scary lawyers going to do? Since the trolls don't actually have a business or product, you can't sue them for patents they infringe. And their whole business is litigating patents, so tying them up in court is not exactly a deterrent. The trolls themselves are often lawyers, or just a company that employs lawyers on retainer.
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A friend of mine did hamachi.cc from start to the point where it was acquired by another company with 4 million users. That took 1.5 years. He did everything - the UI design, coding network interface drivers, the server, marketing, support, ecom site and business development. So, yeah, it's doable, and, yeah, the workload is ungodly, and, no, he didn't want a co-founder.
"With a company that produces something and also sues over patents, there is at least the possibility of a countersuit / crosslicense / armed truce."

Unless you're a startup that just wants to make a good product and isn't interested in spending tens of thousands of dollars acquiring patents on software you think shouldn't even be patented in the first place. Then you have no defense. You also don't have the funds for a protracted legal battle, since you're living on investment capital, or are barely profitable.
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As a former CSR cog, this is a great tip. Just call back. Some CSRs are dicks, some think you're a dick, and some just aren't aware of when they can apply credits.

I certainly have no love for BOA, but the one time I was in a similar situation the CSR credited half of my overdraft fees back to me as a "one time courtesy." (Pro-tip: if you're a good customer, they can give you a courtesy credit for just about anything under the sun if you're patient enough to work your way up the food chain.)
Dang. Berlios is what hosts ncurses-ruby, something i use a lot, although they should have created a gem of it.
Photosynthesis will not give us the ability to ingest huge amounts of salt without consequence. ;)
Ask HN: Review my idea
I was thinking of building a website where users can upload a screencast of their workflow / productivity environment and view other user's environments.

For instance, as a web developer, I would send a short screencast of what my typical work environment looks: my Netbeans IDE, my WAMP setup, my web browser with the web developer and firebug addons, etc.

This would be interesting for people looking forward to increase their productivity and see how others in their field are working. In my own experience, I've learned a lot of productivity tips from my co-workers and I think this kind of service could be helpful for home workers who can't take a look at the next cubicle ;)

What does HN think of my idea ? Any suggestion ?
There are still problems.

For example, if USV is typical and 1/3 of venture-backed companies are being attacked by patent trolls, then the premiums for this insurance would have to be extremely high -- enough to cover a third of the cost of defending a typical case.
It only takes about 25% of a company to come from one place for it to seem like "everyone" comes from there, especially if any other individual school is no more than a few percent.
for posterity: I like OP's way better. Eat the $245 charge assuming you can afford it, so you can call them out on their shitty behaviour.

Your bank has all your money (mine does anyway (I'm 22)) so they can treat you right or they can go fuck themselves.
I know I probably don't represent the average user and not to invalidate your point in any way, but I would find it incredibly novel and entertaining to see an outage report describing the issue as an "EPIC DATABASE FAIL!"
How was the ~800% interest rate calculated? $245 / $35.18 = 696% daily interest rate, which annually is ... well, it's incomprehensibly huge.

Anyway, overdraft fees aren't loans, they're fees, so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to think in terms of the APR.

I will agree with this -- that sort of transaction sorting is a terribly nasty business practice.

Will any banks simply deny the charge if you don't have the funds? That's what I'd prefer.
I think defending against internal abuse is always an uphill task. The key thing is to have auditability - store records of who accessed what and when and make sure those records can't be tampered with. The knowledge that that data is being generated acts as a major deterrent (apart from being a forensic tool)
Really fun app! Great for boosting one's ego.

Slight note about the page formatting: My screen resolution is 800x480, and the text by the sliders wraps in a very confusing manner.

It looks like this to me

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choice

A little confusing at first, until I realized that it was wrapping. It's the same for the other slider.

Great app though!
Mechanical inventions are what patents were most obviously designed to deal with. There are still plenty of these being made today; they just don't make the waves they used to, because the new ones are mostly used in industrial settings.
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As a software guy, I recommend the book "Bebop to the Boolean Boogie":

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1856175073

...to people who want to demystify current generation electronics.

What we have now is not as simple as an early telephone, but it still might be in the realm of understanding.
I don't like the part of not paying the offshore team. Sure, fire them if you want to, but pay up on billable hours.

On the other hand, since there is no legal recourse in some other countries, keeping some offshore teams on dev servers with no access to production systems may make sense. But, I tend to work with the same people in Russia, India, Brazil, and Vietnam over the years, and we develop a high level of mutual trust.
> They take up several orders of magnitude more memory than lightweight threads.

Premature optimization; when a 1st grader can count to the number of processes you need for large scale web application optimizing it any more is a waste of time and effort.

> You'll find that treating a web application like it's just a bunch of web pages leads to many problems down the road.

Really? I find it refreshingly helpful. Instead of your large application being a large application, it actually just a series of very small applications. If a page crashes, it's pretty much no harm at all. If your whole application crashes, you're screwed. You want to add some functionality, just add it on.

> Finally, "I definitely don't need to know about this abstraction because my favorite language doesn't have it" is dangerous thinking.

"Oooh shiny" is also dangerous thinking. Is it really better to waste your time using up as many threads as possible or actually solving real problems for a few hundred processes?

Sidebar: Why is always you, Jonathan Rockway? Just how many posts do you make on Hacker news in a day? :)
This is consistent policy across most major banks from my similar experience. The local branch where you opened the account has the power to reverse this, but the national call center does not. On the other hand, you definitely will cause a stir with this web page and I'm interested to see how that plays out.
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Sometimes that doesn't work.

I called Bank of America on the phone about something similar. They processed a credit card payment (to themselves!) which sent me slightly into the red before my paycheck on the same day. This was the second time this occurred. The first time, a decent CSR returned the fee. The second time, I was denied.

Instead of calling again for another CSR, I decided to just go to a physical bank to talk with a manager. She said that the case was "already decided" and there was nothing she could do about it. She said she would have fixed it if only I hadn't talked to a rep on the phone first.

I immediately withdrew all of my money and closed the account, thinking that maybe she'd fix things before I got through with that. Apparently, she really couldn't do anything. Now I'm with Wachovia. I had been with BofA for 10+ years before closing the account. Things are fine with Wachovia so far but I expect that, eventually, they'll end in similar fashion.

I also learned during this whole process that they'll send you an alert AFTER you go into the red but not before an automatically scheduled payment is set to go through that would put you in the red. That would have been nice since I could have delayed paying the credit card account until I was sure that the paycheck would be processed. Of course, such an easy-to-implement system would reduce the late fees they rake in. My new bank has the same set-up.
it can't be too productive spending your time watching other people be productive..
Shakespeare died in 1616.

He did use it in 1604 in Measure for Measure, according to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punk. In the same link, it was Samuel Butler who used the term in 1623.
This is not my site, though it well could be. If Wells doesn’t change some of this soon, they’re going to lose customers in droves. While many may argue that it can afford to lose customers who carry very low balances, those customers are also the source of their very large fee revenue. It’s the long tail - 80% of customers with a low balance paying fees to maintain accounts that pay for the technology innovation, maintenance and new products enjoyed by the 20% of customers enjoying free or low-fee accounts. Wells Fargo (like all banks) cannot afford to rely on traditional investment carry at today’s interest rates. If they drive these customers away, they’ll find themselves quickly in the same boat as all the other major banks.

Which, by the way, might not be so bad: http://moveyourmoney.info/
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The thing about mechanical inventions that made patenting important was that there was often a lot of hidden knowledge in their design.

If we take the familiar example of the ICE, simple dimensions like the bore and stroke of the cylinder aren't arbitrarily chosen. Altering the ratio of the bore and stroke changes the revving characteristics of the engine (a somewhat larger bore than stroke will cause the engine to have a higher rev limit, for example), and increasing the size of the bore requires disproportionately heavier cylinder heads (because cylinder heads have to have some depth and lateral reinforcement).

The size and weight of the cylinder heads, combined with the stroke effect the strength and dimensions required of the connecting rods and the crankshaft, so on and so forth.

Basically, a lot of mechanical "inventions" are big physics and engineering puzzles where the mere dimensions of each part was worked out through a lot of equation crunching (and probably a lot of plain old tinkering and testing as well). So for someone to just go and copy someone else's design, well that's kind of a big deal.
That was a great story :-)

I am just a 'pure techie' and could never pull off something like this, but I enjoyed the experience vicariously. (All I can do is code ;-)

Off topic: SGI made such great boxes; I got to use their highest end reality engines on three occasions, complements of SAIC, Nintendo, and Disney.
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That was the joke :)
Well, it doesn't sound bad, until you rephrase it to how it will actually be implemented:

How about allowing the contents of the hash column in the database as the password?

It only takes one incompetent engineer to sometimes store the raw password in the database, and it takes two to make that work to log in somewhere (presumably an easy defense is to only allow "verbatim logins" using something the same length as a hash).
This is probably a little better comparison of CPU performance between the difference platforms and a couple others: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
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On the short time it isn't but on the long term it can be. I've spent a few hours reading on version control a few years ago and I've been more productive since then ;)
Are you sure you've sufficiently obfuscated private details? I'd black out anything you don't want public in that image.

Edit: I just opened this account for the purpose of posting this message using the 'new account' link on the login page. Yet the account shows as being 451 days old with a comment from that date, and karma to boot. What gives? A bug, or a (weird) feature?
It'd be sweet if the recordings were of people actually creating something well known. For example, if you could say "here's a screencast of how the Twitter prototype was built".

In a similar vein, I remember an Etherpad recording of PG writing an essay. At the time, it was one of the coolest things I've seen, and would love to see more famous writings composed in such manner.
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true, but Measure for Measure was first printed in 1623...
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The fundamental problem with patents is that it rewards the first person to file a patent, disregarding the possibility that two people can synchronously, or asynchronously come to the same idea independently of each other.

I guess the "American" (assuming you're in America) course of action is to speak to your senator to push for reform and help evolve our government. If that fails, ditch the government altogether and either start or move to another country.
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ING Direct does. I know you can simply ask other banks and they will disable the ability to overdraw your account.

These fees are just to get some money from the people that are too lazy / ignorant to read the fine print.
I think what you are saying is good advice, but don't think it is necessarily co-extensive with what I'm suggesting.

For example, say you're targeting teachers. Keeping a laser focus on what teachers want is important. However, I think you need to put extra focus on making their first five minutes absolutely amazing. (And their first 30 seconds. And their first 5 seconds.) My reason for this is simple: almost all apps are going to leak an amazing number of their customers between first and second use. I don't have my report in front of me at the moment, but I think something like 40% of BCC users never complete their first bingo card and never log in again. Essentially none of these people buy the software. On the other hand, roughly 2.4% of trialers convert, or roughly 4% of users who succeed in their first interaction with the app. Increasing my bottom line by 5% requires converting 5% more of that second group -- which, let me tell you, is hard freaking work -- or, in the alternative, improving the first run experience of three out of every 40 users who fail to complete Task #1.

It is really hard to optimize your entire application, user experience, value proposition, etc to get +5% conversion. However, polishing your first five minutes until it freaking shines is not nearly as difficult. Do you present people with a blank page currently? Spend an hour and put something on it. I will put money on that helping. Does it take a critical mass of friends/input/lions slain to get fun? Do the work for them. Fake it if necessary.

And, yeah, instrument everything. Can I plug Mixpanel here? plug Every time I think "You know I should really build more instrumentation into my app..." I remember "Oh, wait, it takes a twentieth of the time to just throw it on Mixpanel -- no visualization code or complicated controls to refine the data range required, praise be."
I think the point is that Nokia is splitting developer attention between two incompatible platforms, rather than choosing one and getting it on as many devices as possible.
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