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Denial is a wonderful thing. People said that "Sun was setting" for about a decade. The warnings were ignored and now the entity known as Sun is gone. The world would have been a better place if it survived. RIP.
I'm aware of that. Just because it works for him doesn't mean it's likely to work for anyone else.
"1. Do not put your price on your website. Put a "pricelist request" page, and let your customers fill out a bit of information about themselves."

What? Does that really work? As a developer whenever I encounter something like this I'll immediately leave the website and never come back.
I got my start with Unix on a SPARCstation while interning at British Telecom. I used it to build a website (using C++ and Oracle for the backend - must have been in 1993 or 1994, when the web was still fairly uncommon outside of big companies and academia).

I clearly remember coming home from work and raving to axod about how rad Sun was because they did some fairly high-level graphics operations in hardware (at the time he was doing a lot of VGA programming in x86 assembler, so I think this impressed him).
Adding the date created is on my todo list. This information might not be available for every one, but it would be useful for the ones that do have it.
What features could the iPhone adopt to eliminate its competitors?
Probably the biggest selling point for non-iPhone smartphones is the "background app", but what other features (that exist in other devices) could the iPhone adopt that would remove other devices from consideration?
Once in-game that can change.. I always use the up/down/left/right buttons in the menus for Mario Kart for example. But some games don't have that - and it's annoying in the base of the OS itself.
At this point I'm reasonably sure it's going to take the form of a tablet. But we still don't know what their target use cases will be... I'll throw one out that I haven't yet seen:

The tablet will be the perfect remote for apple tv. Infact, apple tv could become moot as people simply plug a regular PC to their TV (which has now become a glorified monitor). With the ability to move a pointer and type freely, the notion of a set top box is now a thing of the past. You're free to surf the web, watch online tv, use iTunes, use bittorrent, etc... anything you can do on a PC is now available in the living room. What we currently call the desktop/PC is now the main form of video consumption. (I'm looking a few years down the road of course, these changes won't be instant).
Snow Leopard: The "there" operating system.
Wrong wording, sorry.
"As seen on"...
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It really scared me. He and I have a lot in common...

We were born on the same day.

He earned his PhD at Carnegie-Mellon at the same time I earned my MBA down the street at Pitt.

We both made it to California in the 80's.

Neither of us embraced anything Microsoft.

He invented Java and I drank Java.

We still haven't met. Someday, I hope.

fogus, please fix that title.
That's awesome! Do you happen to know if there are any photos floating around? Google Images couldn't find anything for me.
This is actually a very interesting argument. This turns the normal argument on it's head. Usually the thinking was money = speech, and if a company is a legal "person" then restricting contributions is restricting the speech of the company.

However, this is framed from the point of view of a hypothetical person (voter), not the company. In this case, he is arguing that by restricting the speech of the company, we restrict the sources of information for a person (voter).

In other words, it isn't the act of restricting the speech of the company that is unlawful, but the limiting the ability of the voter to hear the speech that is unlawful.
More than 100% increase in sales and you're unconvinced? What kind of numbers would convince you?
I can see how that could be confusing. Linking directly from the list of formats might work. I'll look into it. Thanks.
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Don't assume the behavior demonstrated in the article is an advantage... The study compares words, not people -- particularly, it does not measure the speed of monolingual readers at all.

The article headline is jumping to a conclusion that its body does not support. In fact, the body text is very careful not to claim any sort of advantage; the current headline is not the original one, and seems to have been chosen by someone not quite as careful as the article's author. The subheadline, "Bilingual people process certain words faster than others", is also wonderfully ambiguous.

It is entirely possible that multilingual readers generally read slower, or that there exists a class of "anti-cognate" words that trip up multilingual readers as much as cognates help them.
No, but they are composed entirely of sentient beings.
PuTTY is just an awful piece of software in general: they take all the SSH options, rename them, and rearrange them into a bizarre menu structure with an obtuse session-saving system that reminds me of the horror of HyperTerm.

Install Cygwin, and use OpenSSH from your shell in MinTTY (which uses the PuTTY's terminal emulator implementation, but doesn't fuck up the UI and adds all the missing options).
My wife and I still sleep on an Ikea bed (best mattress we've ever had) and bed frame that we've had for 5 years. Still looks and functions great...

It was supposed to be a stop-gap as we anticipated moving a bunch of times and didn't want to ruin expensive furniture. Now that we've settled it still works great.
I think we've seen enough Oracle acquisitions to have a pretty good idea what will happen next. Oracle will absorb the good parts, the rest will be tossed into the bay.
My thought too.
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It seems to be checking the referrer (probably to avoid hotlinking). Copy and paste the link.
And flimsy as hell. I don't even trust setting a full beer on those tables, but for $8, they're cheaper than a set of beer coasters.
See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/#performance-retrosp... for a discussion of why.
Seeing a Twitter #Hashtag Spread
Actually, given that it's a log of what you have read, I'm going to assume it is pronounced red-it.
It's not necessarily a feature, but I think if they had a separate part of the app store that let developers upload their apps and have them available immediately, with no review, you'd see even faster growth than you're seeing now. I'd gladly pay hundreds of dollars a year for them to offer me this "service" if it means I can make a change to an app and my customers can have it immediately, or I can upload a new app and have my customers download it as soon as it's there. I don't charge for the main app I'm building now because it's meant as a tool for customers who use a Web-based service that they're already paying for. If Apple still wants to make money from me directly instead of people paying for the app, I'm totally fine with that, within reason.

There's still a huge benefit to having apps in the App Store because it means customers have access to them easily from their devices without synching. If Apple wants to charge for this different type of developer license, I'd be first in line to pay for it.
What I admire most about T61 is that they created an online community that is amazingly passionate. Case in point: several people have created new HN accounts just to comment on this thread.
Knowing that he's going to be telling everyone what he's doing is probably good motivation to do well, so he doesn't embarrass himself.

Actual time spent on this is probably not worth worrying about. If he's like most people, procrastination and mistaken decisions will likely sap far more time from him than anything else ever will.
I find the new site to be one of the most beautiful, and innovative sites I have yet to seen. Unfortunately they gave up a site with fantastic usability, and many users are up in arms about this. So up in arms they're spreading the word about how much they detest the new layout which is having the effect of bringing in record number of listeners.

The entire scenario is extremely interesting.
It depends on the amount of competition in the area. There are developer tools where you have 2-3 companies and they all do this.
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OK, that really sucked. Please don't do it again.

Gosling is ALIVE!
Not only that but I believe that Java just fragmented. we will see IBM Java, Oracle Java, Apache Java and JBoss Java.
From a certain perspective no one speaks a "language," everyone speaks a dialect of a language. My mother language is Greek but I speak the Cypriot dialect. Mainland Greeks have great difficulty understanding Cypriots talking but not the other way round. This is very true of Afrikaans too. It is easier for an Afrikaner to understand Dutch but not the other way round. But you probably right I should have called it a language.
I always walk away from "request price" sites. Somewhere online is a site that respects my time enough to tell me what they charge without demanding my personal info, and I'll search a bit and find there instead.
AT&T does this for the B&N Nook. However, like mentioned before, this won't be a low-bandwidth device, whatever it is...
I put a 50" plasma tv on one for a few days before I could get around to getting a better stand. Now it serves as a cheap coffee table and has been loaded to capacity with beer bottles several times.
I think they're surprisingly robust for an $8 piece of new furniture.
A breakthrough for the Times? Possibly.
Perhaps you should try this release before talking, since it's meant to adress the very points you're 'desperate' about..
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>learning a second language in school has enough ancillary benefits to make it mandatory

Would you include in this those who can't use a first language to any reasonable degree. Or those who already have the main language of the country (English say) as their second language? I'm generally against mandatory subjects in education as it tends not to reflect the vast differences in experience and background, motivation and ability of the students.
What serious issues? This article does not evidence any serious issues with the overall global warming theory. It was just one report of many produced by a large body that overestimated the effects of global warming.

Climate change denialists use provide misleading reports all the time but they never admit their mistakes.
I think it's funny that he referenced Domino's pizza CEO as an example of a lame MBA. Because just within the last week he resigned to coach college football at Michigan. Bizarre.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4797284
Scott Adams turned into Andy Rooney.
I don't mind. Karma (even on HN) is just a number on a webpage :-P

Unfortunately, it is not just a number on HN.

A recent article here revealed a hidden algorithm that makes your votes useless if you drop under the global average karma/comment.

Thus it is more likely that populist opinions have comments shown higher while yours is likely rendered less visible by being grayed out.
We already have that though... Now Oracle even has two: Sun's and BEA's. The only thing that was keeping it together was the JCP and the test suite. I'm not sure what is going to come out of that. Whatever it is, I wouldn't put any money on the process getting any better or faster.

Perhaps we'll start to see more things like Dalvik. It's like Java the language, but not Java(tm).
Hmm, yes, I understand why the Unladen Swallow developers, and to a certain extent Google, would want to do that. It just seems to me that the community would benefit more by waiting a little.

By the developers' own admission, LLVM's JIT infrastructure is immature and integrating it with Python uncovered lots of issues. Sure, clang has pretty good community support, but that doesn't mean that the Python integration - or even the JIT stuff - is equally well-supported. And the Python community doesn't contain many LLVM experts, I'd wager.
Not to forget that you both eat salt.
The author of this post has nailed this on the head. Without viewable lists the discovery part of thesixtyone seems to be lost.

I was/am a big fan of the site but this new UI has kind of sucked the wind out of it for me. I feel like thesixtyone is now an extremely unintuitive web-based version of iTunes that I have absolutely no control over. Or, even worse, a weird music centered web screensaver.

The interface is definitely slick and would have made a great alternate means of using the site but as the sole method of getting around it might be a bit too cumbersome. I suppose, as with all things, people will get used to this and simmer down... at least I hope so for the sake of the folks behind the site.
If it were the way you think they should be, why would you be asking yourself that? Unless your last place was confusing and you're still confused from that.
Or like lots of people who are/were new to programing an exiting, creative and forward thinking framework to allow anyone to learn and create functional web apps inspired them to learn and to create when they were not programming before.
It would only be anti-competitive if they made it difficult for users to choose a 3rd party solution, or made it difficult for 3rd parties to achieve the same levels of integration. Just including a "good" feature isn't anti-competive on its own right.
http://www.jewelryluv.com/WebObjects/Jewelry.woa/Contents/We...

Bing images (where I found that) and Bing maps have been a great resource for me. Google is still empirically top for web search, though.
Kennedy also had this to say...
"The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy."

Forgive me if I don't take his arguments too seriously if he believes that individuals are not affected by seeing quantities of money they do not have access to sway decisions that directly affect them.
I am an Indian, not sure about the relegious part.
Karma at least in India/Hindu culture is tossed around more freely than in the west. Mostly associated to negative incidents.
"I had a flat tire, its my karma", "Someone got kicked out of a job, he is reaping his karma".

You rarely would say "He has accumulated lot of good karma by doing good, I better see what he has to say".
On HN, its a different story.
What ever happened to the Save MySQL petition started by Monty? I guess MariaDB will start gaining some traction in the near future.
So you will spend more time searching for a different site, because on this site it takes time to fill out the form? How does this make sense?
If you want to raise your kids bilingually one way is for you to only speak to them say in Norwegian and your wife to speak to them only in English. It is a very interesting subject especially fro an evolutionary point of view - what's happening to you when you speak to your friends is normal it happens to all my friends an myself. You can imagine if your friends and you and your families were isolated say in Island for 200 years your descendants would have been speaking a new language composed of Norwegian, French and English.
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Yes, please fix that title.
i see , i clicked on Which star trek series is the best? and saw purchase something on amazon, which i thought was like a referral link, and thought it was an ad/referral link/selling something
I hadn't heard about the company you work for. I will be checking it out shortly.
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> If you are drawing the conclusion that there isn't evidence for AGW you are either denying evidence or ignorant of it.

You know what I'm waiting for? "The average temperature and standard deviation of these 50 regions are X and Y. We expect them to increase by A and B over the next five years. If that didn't happen in at least 35 regions, that would cast doubt on our model." I'm looking for falsifiable claims, and not seeing any. This instills doubt.

As for what I think after looking at most of the mainstream accessible things on climate? The Earth seems to be getting slowly warmer, that's been happening since before the Industrial Revolution, and probably isn't a bad thing. Pollution is a bad thing, but not because it's going to bring on catastrophic amounts of global warming.

> This is _all you have_.

No. The burden of proof is on the people who are making the claims of catastrophe and calls for trillions of dollars. The argument is not settled, and the burden is on them. The general culture of "global warming is a big deal, so we need to sell it any way possible" is a bad thing.

> Classic political/conversational trick. "Btw I am actually a member of group _____, so I can say with authority." It's bullshit, of course. No one cares if you are a conservationist, and it doesn't affect your correctness in any way.

It does matter. Three reasons:

1. I believe there's local solutions to improve Earth's ecosystem, including managing nitrogen cycles, precipitation cycles, reforesting, irrigating, and increasing soil quality, and the (relatively small) amounts of warming can be managed that way.

2. Improving local ecosystems seems to give a much better bang for your buck than some set of global regulations managed by bureaucracy.

3. I wanted to preemptively let you know that I wasn't on Big Oil's payroll, or something like that.

Environment - good thing. Improving the environment - good thing. Catastrophic amounts of global warming? Unproven at best, strongly looking like false.
TPB is ideological, lampooning fear mongering politicians and media titans with brilliant satire.
Decent presentation. Didn't know they deployed (deplew?) so often, but makes sense. Staying ahead of the game is kind of why they are successful (as is true for nearly any web app, as switching is so easy).

The basics are:

no fingerpointing
understand each other
automate automate automate every little thing
automate automate automate every big thing
profile the results
Yep, they could probably be sued under this. Here's the reason why they haven't: they're targeting totally different markets. "Real" engineers would never use a Cupcake CNC to make test parts, as the resolution is so low. So they're not really a threat to their business.
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Ok... maybe he's right, but I'm suspicious about his methods. He's writing about his tools that they're "going for between $200 and $500.", then "This technique raised my sales from about $400 a month to $900 a month" and then that it raised the sales to $1500.

So basically he went from ~1.3 to ~2.6 then to ~4.3 sales a month. If he really measured the response, he should take the samples from at least one year (otherwise it would be season-dependant). He made changes in 2 steps - that means at least 2 years. So to me it looks like either:

- he improved the software over that time, his tools got more recognition among developers, standard business growth occurred, or

- he did nothing about his business or software, crisis and other events affecting sales didn't happen, world has been a controlled environment for a couple of years and 4 sales per month are statistically significant...

- or... Am I missing some option?
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Shiploads of cash are intended to skew the view of the folks involved (whether as a bribe or as a form of handcuff, same as employment), or folks would not spend the cash.

But then following this decision to a logical extreme is equally jarring; I wonder when corporations will get the right to vote.
I sympathize - as a Chinese who is often critical of other Chinese, I've been called a traitor more times than I can remember. I've also been told that I was "no longer" Chinese, because I refused to side with "my people".
Wow, thanks for this. That's a great implementation of the same feature. You even get suggestions for your search terms - something Firefox doesn't do unless you use the dedicated search field.
There is a (somewhat hidden) point 2a) in there: interesting people don't work on dull problems.

You should create a tight-knit team of highly competent people in an environment that favors productivity. This will attract the best people. Then share the profits with them (i.e. pay them well) to make sure they stay.

Of course, this may be easier said than done, and ignores the fact that not all work is interesting.
Not very convinced either. Could be a 1000 other reasons why sales increased.
Right, Cypriot Greek is a dialect, similarly the German dialects spoken in Austria.

Afrikaans actually has an ISO-639 language code.
First time i've come across a decent design article myself, personally.

I really liked it. It was focused, and articulated very well.
The interesting thing is that nothing you name is expensive (relative to your salary).

Do you have a theory why employers don't take you up on your offer? (I understand there must not be too many, given your "I'd take...")
This thread is funny and depressing at the same time. So a guy found a way to improve his sales be significant number. Tons of people respond with "yeah, but it wouldn't work for me - I hate it". How is this even relevant? Clearly you are not his target audience. He has data to back up his approach, while you have a precious little of an opinion.

It's not about you, it's about customers.
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Life? Maybe not. Livelihood? I'm sure it does for some.
>The argument that native english speakers shouldn't bother learning other languages because everyone else is learning english is common

I'd say that the main argument in Britain is this. That so many lack basic English skills. Thus, any advance in English language abilities that can be gained is going to outweigh any minute slither of ability a pupil might manage to get in some language they never use outside the classroom.

I studied French in High School (from 11) but had already a smattering from family holidays and so realised it was useful and found it fun to some extent. Then age 13 I did a year of Russian (as I was top set for French) which was great as it was a non-European culture and uses cyrillic alphabet. German would however have been more use to me and would have given me exchange trip opportunities.

My problem is that I now live in Wales. The Welsh have this perverse notion that to be properly Welsh you must speak Welsh language; also by self-selection the Welsh language schools cream off a lot of more able pupils making them aspirational for the middle-classes. Welsh medium schools appear to get more funding too. All pupils from 4-16 years have to learn Welsh language in school. Knowing some people who've been through the system confirms for me that this is a complete waste. I have no problem with choosing Welsh for study in high school but forcing those - even with little to no English ability (a lot of Urdu and Bengali first language speakers live in my city) to learn a language that is only _spoken_ by 20% of people in this country...

Gah, I'm ranting. It makes me cross.

tl;dr the Welsh are hobbling their children for reasons of misplaced nationalism with a language only just brought back from the brink of death.
No, that also doesn't work. Even going to the actual website doesn't work.
I ran into a guy with a similar idea in Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa. He had started out doing the standard Township Tour, where you go visit the slum and take pictures of yourself standing next to poor people. Naturally, it didn't work out so well for him. Until, that is, an Australian convinced him to modify the tour into...

"Township Pub Crawl"

So now, he takes you into the township at night, and quickly gets several beers into you at a few of the local government-issue-shack-turned-bar. Before you know it, you're arm-in-arm with the local Reggae band doing their Bob Marley covers on a beat up $5 casio toy keyboard, talking with toothless moms and holding their babies, and generally having the time of your life.

He's booked solid every night.