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You are misinterpreting my intent. Perhaps I was not clear, though I thought I was.

What I was saying is that if someone becomes rich through any of those means than it is almost certainly immoral (note the almost) and that it will most likely lead to problems in society. (Again, note I am talking about people beocming rich this way. Using wealth redistribution to say gauruntee a certain minimum income is a much more complicated situation. Having The government step in and take vast amounts of wealth from some people in order to hand it to one or two people specifically to make them rich is almost certainly going to lead to ruin.)

Taxes are necessary. Not good, but necessary, and I have no hesitation paying a reasonable amount of taxes to provide for necessary functions of government. But, if people are being taxed specifically to make some noble rich then it is both immoral and will lead to problems for society.

Wealth redistribution for the purpose of making some wealthy is tantamount to theft, just government authorized. There are some examples of this that have been in the news lately from Afghanistan were public lands are simply handed over to friends of high government officials either completely free or for a pittance.

To summarize and be completly clear: In the context of being done specifically to make a person or small priveleged group wealthy, taxes, wealth redistribution, and theft are effectively the same. This was a pattern that is mostly seen in ancient feudalisms or some modern third world countries. In the case of being done in an attempt to legitimately improve society then taxes, wealth redistribution, and theft are three very different things.
The need to preserving state alone necessitates multitasking. When you quit an app you lose your application state. Checking your email shouldn't require losing your application state.

Apart from preserving state, being able to do things like track where I'm going via GPS AND check my Tweets are things people benefit from.
Hah I've already told davidw about the idea but thanks, I've known him online from other Tcl forums
If you don't want to read through all the explanation of what patents are and why the they are too strict here is the two paragraphs of news:

"America’s Supreme Court is about to issue a ruling which, by all accounts, will make it difficult, if not impossible, to get a patent for a business process. And because most business processes are, at bottom, computer algorithms, the Supreme Court’s judgment could also bar all sorts of software patents in the process. As a result, a lot of patents for online shopping, medical-diagnostic tests and procedures for executing trades on Wall Street could be invalidated.

The roots of the dispute go back more than a decade to two inventors, Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw, who sought to patent a method of hedging weather-related risks in energy prices. The USPTO concluded that the process was too abstract and denied the application. On appeal, the Federal Circuit actually upheld the patent office’s decision—and said, crucially, that the process would be eligible for a patent only if it was “tied to a particular machine or apparatus” or if it “transformed a particular article into a different state or thing”. Failing on both counts, the inventors took their case to the Supreme Court, which has been pondering for the past few months whether the “machine-or-transformation” test is an appropriate standard. It is hard to conclude it is not. "
The same law that defines "Accredited Investor" (Regulation D) also defines the situations in which the investor does not need to be accredited. There are three categories of exemptions:

http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule504.htm

http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule505.htm

http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule506.htm

I encourage everyone on HN to become familiar with these exemptions, because there is rampant misunderstanding of Regulation D. (For example, I have personally been downvoted several times on HN because people mistakenly think that only Accredited Investors can do angel investments.)
And when you switch from your Linux tablet to an Apple tablet that experience will be significantly better.

Your metaphor breaks down because there is no other tablet (worth talking about).
Perhaps. I was trying to think of the right word when I submitted the story; I think some people consider themselves "inventors", some "designers", and some (mostly mathematicians) "discoverers".
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We're a network of community-driven, fan-centric sports news sites, with a passionate audience of around 9 million. It's an interesting and challenging space to be working in, especially given the current transitional period for news media.

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As a consumer of programming, it's all too easy to compare different proposals merely based on price. Why hire a programmer for $125 if there is one who (apparently) can do the work for $65? Many people buying these services are not in a position to judge the difference. So, don't negotiate on price, negotiate on scope of work. I would also second the comment about working for a project price, rather than an hourly rate.
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One of the major benefits of F# is that it is .NET. This allows companies who already have investments in .NET (microsoft technologies) to explore a functional language in a realistic way. I think F# has a good chance of bringing functional programming to the mainstream.
Read the linked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch if you want to find out what monkey patching and duck punching are ^_^.
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There is also the https version on https://syncfu.heroku.com

Well, of course it's on Heroku! :D
For sure. The little buggers are robbing me blind. Somehow they know when I think to myself "the peaches are almost ready, I'll start to harvest them tomorrow".

For some reason they mostly leave the plums alone. So go with the plums.
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this is what i am getting :

C:\Users\Administrator>tracert google.com

通过最多 30 个跃点跟踪
到 google.com [64.233.189.104] 的路由:

1 1 ms 1 ms <1 毫秒 WRT54GL [30.0.0.1]
2 5 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.1
3 46 ms 46 ms 47 ms 119.137.124.1
4 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms 119.145.222.185
5 45 ms 45 ms 45 ms 121.15.179.94
6 51 ms 49 ms 51 ms 119.145.47.34
7 49 ms 114 ms 48 ms 202.97.34.17
8 49 ms 49 ms 49 ms 202.97.60.206
9 49 ms 48 ms 48 ms 202.97.60.30
10 53 ms 52 ms 52 ms 202.97.61.102
11 58 ms 52 ms 51 ms 202.97.62.214
12 53 ms 53 ms 53 ms 209.85.241.56
13 52 ms 61 ms 55 ms 66.249.94.6
14 54 ms 54 ms 55 ms hkg01s01-in-f104.1e100.net [64.233.189.104]
Diversity in languages is more like diversity in open source licenses. The fewer the better. I like being able to exchange ideas with people.
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The author doesn't seem to realize that working out of HEAD at Google might only "scale" so well because of the rigorous code review process. Without, I don't think it would be as possible.
Uh as you admit below, your argument here is mistaken.

Fractals are geometric patterns only. The restaurants are not "self-similar" in any geometric or fractal sense - the napkins don't particularly resemble the steaks. The only thing a good restaurant has a consistent quality. They don't resemble fractals any more than steaks resemble chairs and napkins.
As you can imagine, the process of copyrighting code is somewhat unwieldy.

Just a nit-pick, but in most countries there is no "process" for copyrighting something - you automatically own the copyright as soon as you create a work. What's harder is protecting a copyright.
Mr Rowe was pretty much right on. There is a certain class-ism that seems go along with manual labor. I have heard people call plumbers and carpenters "unskilled labor". That is so much crud, it is unbelievable.
Reading these gives you somewhat of an idea of what it must be like for pg and team to read through YC applications. it's amazing how similar many of them are, which I imagine is part of the reason why YC started doing Requests for Startups.

The number of ways to describe innovation is also a bit amusing:

knocking down the barriers

freaking huge

etc

I wonder if investors are numb to this?
I used to use Tcl (with AOLServer and ACS/OpenACS.) It's not my favorite language by any stretch of the imagination, but I would use it again if there was a compelling reason to do so.
This is when an app is tied up doing something CPU-intensive. There's just plain no way around that one (though the app "should", when possible, be doing its work on another thread so that the UI stays responsive). If there were several more apps in the background all further tying up the CPU, it'd be way worse.
I don't feel as optimistic as the author does; yes, the SCOTUS is currently examining what may turn into a landmark case on the patent system. However, this is a seemingly addled Supreme Court, given some of its recent decisions -- and many of the members are the same ones who didn't buy Larry Lessig's assertion that copyright terms, currently the life of an author + 90 years, is far beyond the constitution's "limited time" requirement.
Interesting, I actually live in LA as well.

Here's the thing with project rates - I'm obsessive with clocking time. I clock everything, every second. Sometimes you bid on a project where you say to yourself "oh yea! I'm getting $300/hr for this" but what happens is as it drags on you try to clock less time to justify the rate and just start guesstimating. In reality if you clock meetings, calls, time responding to emails, documentation, research, project planning etc the rate always ends up being much, much lower. Its not just time coding.

Anyhow not saying that's your situation, but I think a lot of people who claim high rates forget about non-production hours when they make their project quotes.

But having Java and Perl skills are definitely more valuable than just PHP... And yes, having established, stable and valuable clients with big $$ over the long term certainly helps.

My personal big issue was that I deliberately dropped all my clients from pre recession times to work on a startup and then had to find new work in 2009, to my dismay discovering that half my old clients either went out of business or couldn't afford me any longer... Keeping relationships up really matters.
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Correct. App Store apps (including Apple's own) are sent a signal when the user presses the Home button. They then have a small number of seconds to persist whatever state they need to. Some nice apps are like Tweetie: it saves (most of) the current state of the UI so that when you come back, they reopen right where they had been. Apparently iWork for iPad does the same.

Makes one wonder whether the Cocoa Touch frameworks could help with that some...
Thus its importance is inversely proportionate to your reply's score. :)
is a carpenter lower talent then a programmer?

where does a lawyer fit in the talent pool?

is it wrong to define the whole of a person by the job they have?
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See my reply above. Apps get several seconds to save their state. But lots don't save the UI state.
Multi-taksing is no myth. Maybe I can't multitask but while I'm doing something in the foreground I sure as hell want my computer to be multiasking the following in the background;

downloading something(s) in the background, checking on my alarms, grabbing new emails|tweets|im's|sms's|RSS, 5min back in time continuous video/audio record, looking up what I type and search ala Rememberance agent, streaming my GPS location (and one day heartrate, bloodpressure other vital stats) to my server, and many, many more things.

Quit being limited by your simple single task mind.
ian bicking is a really smart dude. i want him to live in my pocket, so that when i have a python question, I can just shout it into my pocket.
I wonder if this would have any impact on the H.264 patent?

I suspect it would still apply to hardware implementations of the codec.
Yes, but many of the questions raised by the justices were skeptical of patenting abstract ideas. I think the consensus is that Bilski will lose, and the real question is how narrow the Supreme Court's decision will be.
A perl programmer talking about compilers in 2010 doesn't mention Parrot? Parrot has to be the easiest and fastest way to get a compiler up and running these days.
The current term satisfies the letter of the law, even though it seems pretty clear it's not what the founders had in mind. Given that, the deck was stacked against Lessig.
That should be long enough where we have memristor based storage -- all the storage capacity of hard drives with the speeds of super-fast fast RAM.
Apple has publicly stated that more than half of the crash reports they get through the crash reporting tool built in to Mac OS X are due to browser plugins. This is why they implemented a plugin encapsulation system for Safari on Snow Leopard: when a plugin (Flash) goes down, it no longer takes the whole browser with it.

It is entirely unreasonable to assume that there is any statistically significant proportion of those plugin crashes that aren't Flash (well, maybe a few Java crashes...). Apple can't publicly blame Flash with any specificity, because they can't have Flash for OS X get abandoned until their mobile strategy has mostly killed Flash anyways. But they still have the raw data and stack traces. And that data indicates that Flash is by far the most crash-prone app on most Macs.
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AFAIK, this isn't maintained anymore. Check the version numbers for the various Lisps - they all look quite old to me, and the copyright notice at the bottom of the page says 2005.
The grandparent appears to be assuming that all IE users have silverlight, when only 40% of them (about a quarter of all users) have it.

But you in turn forget that there is a similar Java plugin that does the same thing and is installed with Mac OS X by default. All combined I'd say 95% is a fair number so maybe the grandparent was aware of this option and simply didn't mention it explicitly.

Vorbis audio, which is playable in later versions of Flash, must be as close to 100% of desktops as you're ever going to get.
It would be nice if that were true.

But with MP3.com (before they went insane and threw out their business model), there were a lot of quality acts whose material you could buy for very reasonable prices, but it never really got much traction.
Yes, and many of the iPad haters (OK, OK -- "skeptics") wanted them to just make a smaller Mac.

iPhone has been incredibly successful and its users are by and large delighted. People who can't stand computers love their iPhones. Why again is it a bad thing to reuse iPhone OS (and extend it in ways that make sense for a larger form-factor device)?
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The definition of what constitutes copyright violation (changing variable names? functionally similar code with a differing structure?) [...] is hazy.

I was under the impression that this was generally pretty clear-cut. What's relevant is not primarily the content of the works but how they came about, i.e. whether or not one of them is a derived work of the other. Proving that it is or isn't a derived work can be difficult, but I don't think that's a problem with the law itself. (as usual: not a lawyer)

The definition of fair use is arguably hazy though, I agree on that.
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Could not disagree more about lexer generators. Every device we support comes with 1-2 parsers, and we started out thinking that Ruby's built-in regex support made flex unnecessary. Bzzzt. Lexers are fiddley whether you write them in Flex or Ruby, but the Ruby version is harder to write.

We've settled on Ragel for lexers; Craig wrote "ralex", which I don't use or understand but which he insists we're about to open source. So I recommend Ragel. Or Flex. Or anything but just hand-hacking your own tokenizer.
Yeah, although hardware acceleration implementations would be paid-up in the per-unit costs when the hardware ships (at least AFAIK), making it effectively invisible to the end-users and developers. I think this would be sufficient to push H.264 as the HTML5 video standard across the board.
Interesting idea. How did you arrive at the numbers for pricing/payouts? When I look at the price I feel like there is some disconnect from the usual CPC vs CPM. The person displaying the link is getting a click, which is usually paid per action while the advertiser is getting an impression.
Take a look at Redfin trends for San Fran:
http://www.redfin.com/city/17151/CA/San-Francisco

Specifically, # Sold, # For Sale. If I'm reading this right, seems the market peaked in mid-December, has dropped 25% in the past 1.5 months and now inventory is coming back up.
Yeah, that's what I'd like to see.

A lot of companies specializing in offering reviewing/editorial/typography services to authors (for a fixed fee?) who are otherwise selling their books directly to the public via digital platforms like Amazon and Apple's iBooks.
"REBOL is pretty weird"
She, not it.
I hope it doesn't take a decade for the publishing industry to come to the same conclusion as the music business and ditch DRM. There's no way that I'm going to spend $15 on a book that can only be read using a specific device and depends on the manufacturer maintaining an authentication server in perpetuity.
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Since you're already creating subdomains for users, you might want to consider adding wildcard DNS beneath those domains so you can take advantage of the DNS prefetching that is all the rage in browsers and email clients these days. For example, say I obtain qjz.praux.com on your site. If I send a link to my resume to someone at IBM using ibm.qjz.praux.com, DNS prefetching might trigger a lookup. If you monitor this and make the reports available to me for my subdomain, I'll know that someone has at least read my email. If they click on the link and you make the web stats available to me for my subdomain, I'll know that someone visited my resume online (you'll need to do some virtual host wildcarding on your web server). The wildcard DNS allows me to create ad hoc subdomains for all my tracking needs.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis would tell you differently. The very ideas that you can hope to have depend on the language you use to interpret the world. Lose a language, lose a perspective.

This is also one of the things 1984 is about.
I appreciate what you're doing. But I don't appreciate you sending me an email culled from my listing here.
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It worked for me with chromium-bin-5.0.308.0_p37385 on 64-bit Gentoo.

The one thing I had to do (besides launching it as 'chromium-bin --no-sandbox --enable-webgl', as you mentioned) was to create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 .
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He's not targeting a VM or a runtime, is he? His compiler looks more like a code generator, a la yacc.
Depends how high the license fees are. Something like $10 on a budget graphics card or low-end cellphone would be very significant.
Good programmers are capable of learning new platforms/languages. Many of them do it just because they want to learn something new.
Chicken and egg problem - because of the high barrier to angel investing, you are right that most investments are probably larger. But would they necessarily be so high, if more people were legal (especially hackers who could be good contributors/selectors)?
I honestly wouldn't care if they did, to a reasonable extent. The problem with bad on-time performance isn't that it takes me an extra 1-2 hours to get somewhere. It's that it makes my itinerary unpredictable; for instance, I miss connections.

This isn't just a customer "perception" issue.
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"F# code can even be compiled in an OCaml compiler, often without modification."

I think you have that backwards. The #light syntax preferred by F# is not compatible with ocaml. ocaml and the non light syntax are about the same though.
One word of advice I'd also like to offer - the pickier you are about the TYPE of project you take the less you're going to make. If there's competition for the project the client can get away with paying less.

If you can suck up doing boring backend work for pharmaceutical companies you can ask for much better $$ than working with a seed-level social media startup or a popular blog. There's a tradeoff where your ego lies - in high rates vs putting sexy names in your client roster...
The bandwidth and latency differences between on-chip memory and off-chip memory are multiple orders of magnitude. Graphene improvement over silicon is only about 1 order of magnitude, so it will not eliminate the von Neumann bottleneck alone.
This seems very similar to the Venture hacks Angel List, which has recently relaunched.

http://venturehacks.com/angellist

Several angels have tweeted about the list, as it's a good way to report what they're interested in, who they want you to go through (Or if they prefer direct contact), what types of communities they support, etc.
I thought the same thing -- if this is such a big deal, did they try to preserve the language by having someone else learn it? I would have liked it if they at least commented on this; maybe there's a good reason they weren't able to.
Once e-books are widespread enough, your favorite author could go solo, sell for less, and still make more money. And you'd get the book you want.
Maybe a good YC candidate? :)
People who make $250,000 or more a year can afford a tax hike.
A problem with MP3.com, though, was that the store itself didn't get much traction.. so getting traction as an artist within that store was hard going.

The iPhone App Store (and eventually the iBookstore) already has traction and if you're in there, it's a lot easier to convince people to buy. If you need to sell your customers on the store and your book, you're screwed.
Very enlightening!
Well the CaPerl project he mentions just translates perl5 with his special keywords to standard perl5 code, I think. Who knows what he's doing here.
No matter what the decision is, there is an army of patent lawyers whose livelihoods depend on the existing system. They will fight the only way they know how (filling lots of lawsuits) for years before business practices change.
http://www.inkling.com/ is doing stuff like this for textbook authors and publishers.

But, yeah, totally. It's not just all about typography, editing, etc, but the interaction design too. There are lots of opportunities to pioneer here, even down to producing individual book apps for the regular app store (so iPhone users can read too, or for better interfaces).
You can already do this, but with subwebs instead of subdomains.. e.g. qjz.praux.com/ibm/ .. Simply tag the content into the "ibm" view and it will show up at /ibm/ .. ibm.qjz.praux.com is a completely separate resume-eligible host name.. that someone else could use for their own resume.