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It's kind of like giving a free demo, really. It's the same principle. You give someone a taste but limit the experience and allow them to unlock everything for a fee.

The difference here is that the fees are small and many, whereas in the old days it was just a one-time drop of $49.99, or whatever.

This model adapts better to an online, social context because it seems less restrictive, allows participation by everyone, and you can choose how much you want to spend on the experience, and how much of the experience is worth unlocking, and what parts to unlock at what times.

I think that it works well for systems like phone apps, where users just want to try something out before dropping much cash on it.
> What could possibly be more dangerous to the world than a command economic system run on a global scale?
> (One good answer: five evil traders on the 7th floor at Goldman Sachs.)

I didn't get that either. My reading of it was simply to answer the question of what could possibly be more dangerous? I don't think it's referencing any actual event, only pointing out that the western model is vulnerable to top-down destruction as well.

I think it's a bad point.
Neat. Watch out for the Daylight Savings Time change, if it's before April 1st in Japan.
Well, at some point that happens to everyone. I think he bounced back, but was dropped again. "bounce back" doesn't have to be permanent; it's not like Tucker never received momentum, it ran for almost three years, which is longer than a lot of shows on cable news.
I agree, but I think it would be possible to have proportional text aligned properly if you are working above the level of raw text, as in with sexps in paredit.
I have been out of work for all but 2 of the last 16 months. This have given me time to do some experimenting (among other things). One thing I did was to try to find the best dose of caffeine for me. I tried regular coffee, decaff, and coffee and caffeine pills; several times and in different orders. With as close to controlled conditions as one person alone could arrange, I discovered that caffeine has absolutely no effect on me. I could discern absolutely no difference in alertness, learning (read a textbook chapter and did test at end), or reaction time (simple video game). I already knew I didn't react strongly to caffeine, hence the experimenting, but the result was a surprise. Apparently all of the effects I had previously attributed to caffeine had been placebo.
> (http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=3255...)

Looks very interesting but I'm without headphones on my computer in a cafe in Taipei. If you have the briefest of moments, would you care to give a short rundown of some of the more interesting points to you?
I certainly did. "I realize that, by overstating their abilities, the student has probably gotten the best letter out of me they could have gotten" sounded like the sort of social-engineering-unbeknownst-to-the-manipulated at which women are stereotypically adept.
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I struggle with this question when I write. On the one hand, I sometimes feel like I am "repeating myself but with rephrasing". On the other hand, I find that those instances of rephrasing adds content. I often get accused of being excessively long-winded, yet when I shorten things too much, I get wildly misunderstood.

I find that many people don't have the context. I suspect part of it is that I don't see the world the same way most people see it. Shorter remarks rely on shared context to be properly understood. Example: In my teens, I remarked to my father that I was considering "running" (something). I was a role playing gamer considering taking up gamemastering. He assumed I meant jogging for exercise. I didn't bother to try to correct. It seemed futile.
Honestly when I read that I thought the same thing, but just because he isn't 'one of us' doesn't mean his points about UI aren't valid. There's been a lot of good writing done by people who don't know how to terminate in C.
> inability to use any sort of ASCII art

That actually makes me support the idea of using proportional fonts even more.

- If something's that complex you need a diagram to support it, that probably doesn't belong in your code - you should maintain documentation in documentation format, and doc updates shouldn't mean new code revisions. Throw a URL to the documentation in as the comment.

- Diagrams could be illustrated much better with an actual diagram rather than an ASCII visualization of one.
We're going to put this, however equivocated, on women, really? Maybe too many men are arrogant, self-aggrandizing jerks.
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> The russian language has a special term set aside for this kind of round-about linguistic constructionism – "fish language". It's like the English "legalese", but with no relation to lawyers specifically.

You talking about "Канцелярит" (kantceliaryt?). "Канцелярия" means "office". Suffix "ит" here means language or disease. So "канцелярит" means "official language/disease". See http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%... http://zhivoeslovo.ru/content/view/85/143/

"Fish" (рыба) - is template or form: you need just to fill gaps between prewritten sentences. It looks like "fish bones".
Yeah, what an idiot! I mean the stupid billionaire only wrote and produced one of the best and most influential movie series of all time. Lol, what a pathetic loser!

That said, I also loved that review, hilarious.
The same site has an interesting example of reference counting:

http://stoneship.org/journal/2007/c-reference-counting-and-y...
what you wrote may actually be a valid operation if the OS maps critical functions into page 0

Then you'd better not call it NULL. "0 and NULL are the same" was how I first got root on my phone ;)
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There's always something. I find I have some issues because I'm 44 but everyone at work seems to think I am between 35 and 40. I think it gets my behavior misinterpreted. And I have had people say horribly insensitive things in front of me about how forty is just around the corner for them and "how scary is that?!" and similar. (Someone who knew my age, which is why I feel it is insensitive. And it was a pattern of behavior over a period of months, not a stray remark. Still, I suspect this person just doesn't really think of me as "over 40", even though they know I am, and I think that is part of why they blathered on thoughtlessly in front of me about their negative feelings about their own age.)

I'm still trying to figure out what causes people to perceive me as younger than I am. I find it baffling. But it has happened on the Internet too. So I suspect it is in part behavior-related, not just a looks thing.
Brian Williams is bad for news.

Remember his coming out party? Hurricane Kartina? Remember when he said he didn't know how he would answer his daughters questions about why the government was so racist? I wonder what he ever figured out...
>Your uncle now has the much easier job of cleaning out the meters, rather than running around all day. And maybe someone gets a skilled-labor job as a parking meter repairman?

But there are fewer jobs available in this situation in aggregate. This is a problem with several criticisms of automation that I have seen in liberal and libertarian circles - they claim that automation does not decrease the number of workers since workers are needed to deal with the automation. Apparently they are totally innumerate, since while new jobs are created servicing the automation, the total number of jobs is significantly reduced.
The US has a less than perfect record on the issue as well, with obscenity laws and the like.

To be fair, these laws have been consistently struck down by the Supreme Court.

That doesn't stop the government from continually passing similar laws and prosecuting people, however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America_v._Ext...

The real problem here is not with obscenity, though, but the concept of plea bargains. How many people will end up in prison because of unconstitutional laws before someone stands up against the oppressive regime?
And all companies have employees who like money. Not that I have studied this in any detail, but my recollection of the cold war is that most spies turned out to be corrupt US (or UK, etc) nationals, not russian employees.
Thanks, that's a good explanation. I need to work on my wording.
Why? This seems to be a common sentiment, but it's definitely possible to find a mate without crossing the line from "taking some initiative and dressing nicely" to "self-aggrandizing jerk". I and many of my male friends do have girlfriends; many of my female friends have boyfriends. To the best of my knowledge, no-one behaved like a jerk.

Which doesn't even imply "your" strategy isn't more succesful, however you want to define that, but it's definitely not the only way.
Janitors with access to the source code repository? I thought Google's code was reasonably clean anyway :)
>In high school, popularity is correlated with several factors

Most notably it is NOT associated with intelligence, competence, or quality. As pg noted in his nerds essay, it is mostly correlated with having nothing better to do with their time.

So I guess your point is that SourceSafe is better than Vault, but you should use Vault to be a cool, non-nerd?
That misses the point. Yes, the world would be nicer without jerks, but "let my (female) students do well in the world" is a far more realistic goal than getting rid of all the jerks.

The author makes the point that selectively being a jerk can be effective, and that women might be more succesful if they obtained this ability.
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"I'm shocked by the amount of anti-China bias on HN"

I think any bias that exists is not so much anti China as anti authoritarianism, anti-democracy, anti-suppression-of-freedom-of-speech, anti-bunch-of-thugs-killing-people-for-having-a-different-opinion etc.

I doubt it is really China specific. It is just that the present Chinese government is a nasty ruthless authoritarian dictatorship. The same arguments would be raised here against, say North Korea or Saudi Arabia in other circumstances.

People here seemed to be biased towards democracy, rule of law(even with occasional lapses), freedom of expression(even with an occasional lapse or imperfection) etc etc. Not sure it is a bad bias to have.
Apple has great design skills, but they're still in the desktop era. There's still no compelling online version of iWork, iTunes has been eaten by Spotify in mindshare in Europe, the iPhone still requires syncing. I don't think Google wants or needs any of those pre-internet products.
There are good heuristics for checking whether spaces are being used for indentation. You can look at where they appear in the line, for one thing, and whether they're in clumps of two or more for another. In those cases it would be simple enough to make them align perfectly with the characters above/below them.

Of course, you'd have to decide which to do - above or below. There are reasonable heuristics for that, but they're probably more complicated and less accurate.

The nice thing about doing it this way is that it degrades perfectly when the code is viewed in fixed-width (which is good for tools and other developers).
It doesn't miss the point at all. This is a zero-sum game.

That is, men being SAJ more than women is problematic because it means they will get more attention. If men reduced their level of SAJ-hood to equal that of women, then men would have no advantage over women. There would still be winners and losers, but they would be female and male in equal proportion (according to this theory).
It's hard to keep code within the 80 char per line limit of PEP8 without using fixed-width.
In fact, it reduces it greatly. Female SAJ are "bitches" and will passed over for the quiet, sweet blonde sitting in the back.
I don't know what experience the author of this matrix has in programming, but Infinite Loop's API's have a noticeably higher degree of engineering than any other API / toolchain I've used.
It has. Common prefix(es) + common (Latin) root(s) + common suffix(es).
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Maybe for a fortress program
http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/wiki/Integ... my brain will allow proportional fonts, but for anything else it is actually wired in such a convoluted way by now that it expects monospace!
The classic disproof of the Dvorak superiority to qwerty is "The Fable of the Keys", here http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html , which was also the lead chapter in the authors' book "Losers, Winners, and Microsoft", a general attack on network (or lock-in) effects.
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Obviously women want men that are good to them. But they also want high quality mates (which tend to be jerks, because they can afford to be, the same way they prettiest women tend to be bitches, because they can afford to be). They're also more likely to dump a guy that's way too nice because he seems desperate, which means she could probably do better.

So the end result is that a woman might date the high quality male even though he's a jerk and dump the nice guy, simply because she's looking for quality.
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AFAIK Japan doesn't have DST.
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We'll be looking to see if there are any simple changes we can make to the codec installation experience when mp3's are played the first time, but no major changes from how it works in Ubuntu 9.10.

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No one said anything about learned.

And yes, behavioral tendencies which are biologically based tend to have broad effects. Testosterone encourages men to be aggressive in all things. On average, it must turn out better for them.

But there is a direct effect on getting a recommendation letter on mating success. Women like successful men.
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> be proficient to expert in a list of technologies which I quite literally cannot fit on a single page in 8 pt font

Are you? Is it even possible to be? Those requirements sound unrealistically high, so either you're a supergenius, you're exaggerating, or your company lists insane requirements and then doesn't actually require them.
I was in a software engineering class, and we divided into 4 groups, one of which was the front-end stuff. We had 4 leaders, and the one female leader chose to lead the front-end group. Then all of the females in the class grouped under the female manager.
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But if you're trying to photograph people (street photography, events), they're a lot more relaxed seeing a compact camera than an SLR.
Well I guess I'll be the only one saying it: this entire article reeks of male geek condescension. I didn't know Clay Shirky was a feminist-apologist but I certainly grow tired of messages like this delivered from male bloggers about how women need to change, to do this or that or the other. This is a thin rewrite of a post that appeared I believe here on HN a few weeks back; only that post was actually written by a woman. These outside-looking-in pieces that male bloggers do are almost always a bad idea.
"but Infinite Loop's API's have a noticeably higher degree of engineering than any other API / toolchain I've used."

Any specific examples?
I switched to a proportional font by mistake when I started using acme as my primary editor. A few months later I realized what had happened and tested how things looked in fixed width. Turns out I like proportional better.

A big difference was probably the fact that the codebase I was editing used tabs for indenting and had non-ascii art indenting rules (basically just indent the next line).
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I like my Kindle when I'm at home on the couch, but my iPhone is my main reading device, winning out because the form factor makes it so convenient to carry around. Web access is a bonus too.
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I could be way off here, but you sound very young. I remember believing the world worked this way when I was about 19. Get towards thirty and my, how the tables turn. Now, practically everyone I know (including me) is in a happy, stable, long-term relationship. Nobody I know fits that description. Of the ones that aren't, their main complaint is that they can't find a nice, down-to-earth mate. The very few people I am still in touch with who remain as superficial as you describe, are miserable.

The alpha-male / hot bitch thing works okay when everyone is looking for a one-night stand. When you get a little older and thoughts turn to finding someone to spend the rest of your life with, that sort of behavior just seems idiotic.
Design documents and complex diagrams don't belong in code, but a simple ASCII diagram right there in the code to illustrate how the transformation tree is created:

- is always within easy reach of the eye.

- is harder to forget about when changing the code.

- doesn't require you to download, install, register and fire up Visio Community Edition 2008 to add a new FileLogger node to the illustration of the data transformation tree.
True. I suppose that I would consider it a good thing, taking as a given that 1) a smaller global population is important in the long run, and 2) eventually we will find a way to allow most people to live without having to work 40 hours a week.
It isn't necessarily a difference between father-son and father-daughter; more likely it's because Luke was using the Force unconsciously in his flying and shooting even before Obi-wan starting training him, while Leia never showed any signs of Force use during any of the movies.
I think one of the flaws with the points system is this:

A comment that has been down-voted 50 times and up-voted 55 times is not the same as a comment that has been up-voted 5 times. Up-vote and down-vote are not opposites. They are just two flavors of passion; the opposite of up-vote and down-vote is indifference. If a comment is only getting up or down votes, it's a pretty good chance that the person is saying something insightful or everyone likes or there's something wrong with their delivery, or it's a universally unpopular idea.

Also, some people say you shouldn't use points to censor an unpopular idea, but not everyone is doing that. It only takes a few people going around doing that to make the community start to suck. Here's a rage-quit by a guy feeling that he was being censored:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054044

There should be a way for that guy to see that nobody agrees with him without feeling like he's losing something personal. And people do take their points personally.

The ideas of "I agree" and "I disagree" are conflated with the idea of "I think this is a good discussion". Perhaps if you have a back and forth going on, you can show people's votes without affecting karma. The discussion itself might be interesting even if one person is playing devils advocate.
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It's actually 79 chars ;-)

"Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters."
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The documentation is generally excellent.

At the very least, this demonstrates both respect and sympathy for other engineers who need to use an API. Often, it also correlates to a well engineered product underneath.
It also opens-up design options. If it never has to fly in Earth atmosphere, it doesn't have to be aerodynamic.
The benefit is that the people freed up can do other things, can contribute to the economy in other ways.
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