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In companies, developers are forced to work together -- in good and in bad. This gets stuff done but it also pushes for questionable code quality as personal conflicts remain unresolved and that takes time from doing good work.

In open source world, meaningful contributions only happen when the contributor and the project maintainer connect on a certain level. Nobody wants to work with people they consider jerks if they don't have to. And this is not a fixed set either: differences in opinions can arise and get settled later and a contributor--maintainer connection is respectively broken or (re)established.
Very interesting, if you are familiar with the "Gold Pass" vs "Silver Pass" movie gift cards, there is a tiny subset of your idea built in there. The idea is Silver passes are cheaper than Gold passes, but you can only watch movies that are a bit dated, I think at least 10 days from release date.
It's Apple. They sue people for spreading rumours, what do you expect?
Oh my god what a horrible design, and total lack of usability.
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Women wear uncomfortable and restrictive items of clothing all the time.

For instance, high heels.
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It doesn't scroll, you're not doing it wrong. It's kind of an interesting design idea, but my first instinct is that it's frustrating more than useful. Let me at least scroll using my mouse or my keys in a way similar with other web sites.
I'm so glad I don't play videogames. Too many things in life to do than to waste time with that mess.
If you're going to go down the 'indirectly' profiting route, then where do you want to stop? Does the grocery store where he spends his wages also profit? Does the farmer that they but their food from indirectly profit? Does the chemical company that creates the fertilizer they use indirectly profit?
As far as I know they fined him for pollution or something. He said that he had some clothes and a toothbrush with him because he expected to go to jail for this. But the police set him free on the same day. It would have been different if he had lit the fire on the road though.
The styliest guy in the room is also the simplest. If you do not know what to buy, keep it simple: get 1 pair or Rock and Republick (they always fit), and 1 7 for all mankind, get 2 white shirts and 1 black one from J crew. Pack up on Hanes t-shirts. Add a simple stainless silver watch, you are done. Do not worry about the shoes, just keep them clean, and no square toes.
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His technique creates a psychological reward ("I just deployed my server with my feet, bwahaha this programming gig is fun") for a behavior which he wants to incentivize, believing it to have direct advantages for the business.

I think we're finally coming out of the Stone Age of user psychology and realizing that things like "make the user feel like they've just accomplished something awesome" actually matter. We're not quite there yet on designing our own interfaces. I applaud experiments into this (although the pointy-headed metric monkey in me wonders whether "deploys per day" is a good productivity metric or not -- egads, bad stuff happens when you incentivize poor proxies of performance).
It's a very cheesy book and tedious in parts and overall is rather pretentious. The central metaphor, though, makes a brilliant recommendation for someone who "trusts" HN so much, etc.

But... college freshman.... presumed to be "typical" ... hmm...

Maybe there's a good dictionary in that price range? The "Concise English Oxford" is about $25, though I haven't personally seen it so can't specifically recommend it.

Or, The Fannie Farmer Cookbook? Or something about how to do laundry? Or something about law for tenants in landlord-tenant relations?

Perhaps some artsy fartsy book of erotic photos?

Oh! Got it! In the same vein as "Zen and the Art of...", how about "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character" by Richard Feynman?

p.s., re: "I really enjoyed superfreakenomics and Founders at Work." Which is a good reason to not recommend any books in that vein and to instead suggest books that encourage becoming mature and balanced.
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Google's stated policy is to also reject pornography applications from the Android Market:

"Nudity and Sexually Explicit Material
We don't allow content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material. We also don't allow content that drives traffic to commercial pornography sites."
I tend to agree, but I'm a bit more cynical. These days governments use the word "terrorism" to describe acts against which they would like to retaliate with the backing of their citizens. The term has become a trigger word for prompting a particular reaction from the people. There's nobody to retaliate against here and using the word terrorism in this case would simply water down the trigger effect of the word in the future when the U.S. government wants to prompt a specific response from Americans.
This is a good point. Many people misunderstand the idea of encryption. Essentially, if the data is to be used by the client, the client needs a way to decrypt it, thus the client can copy and do with the content what they wish (no matter how hard you try to prevent this).
Sorry, buddy. Trying to kill people and destroy property doesn't get me to listen to you. I'm not going to read this.
It's Apple. They sue people for inducing trusted people to break their NDAs and publish trade secrets.
Oh please, facebook already had 1/2 the Ivy league signed up and were growing at a fantastic exponential rate before they received an initial investment of 500k in June of 04. A real 'venture' move would have been to fund Zuckerberg _before_ he had a giant user base.
Really? On what terms are you privy to this information that the militias were behind the bombing?

... just another casualty to propaganda spreading disinformation.
Innovative design. Terrible usability.

It breaks all the functionality you expect on a web page. It isn't clear where the hyperlinks are, mouse scroll doesn't work and I have to learn how to use this specific web page (!)

To get an idea of just what a mess it is, try browsing it with stylesheets disabled. The designers seem to have gone out of their way to create a poor flash-like interface without actually using flash.
The most important thing is that the clothes actually be comfortable. There is nothing less flattering than a person wearing clothes that he'd obviously not be wearing.

This has the following implications:

- If you are overweight, maybe a button down shirt is just going to bunch up and come untucked and look untidy. If so, you'll look better with a quality t-shirt on underneath a suit than with a button down.

- Shoe quality is among the biggest signals of your overall wardrobe quality. Don't skimp on shoes. A high quality pair of shoes will not require much break in and will be extremely comfy.

- All suits (and jackets, and most pants) need tailoring for comfort and appearance. You are slightly asymmetrical and having it tailored by a skilled tailor will make it look 10x better.

- Suits are made to be as comfy as pajamas. There is a reason investment bankers tolerate them. If yours isn't, it's either a lousy suit or it needs to be tailored.

Also,

- Do not have your suit dry cleaned more than once every two years unless something catastrophic happens. Just hang it on a quality hanger after you take it off and let it air out.

- There are probably some types of clothing that just don't look good on you. Figure out what they are and avoid them.
The compilation doesn't have to be on the device. The CLR has always supported ahead of time compilation. What if Microsoft's App Store did the compilation before it was downloaded to your device?
My favorite line came in the comments: "business casual is a trick foisted on Gen X & Y by the baby boomers to make us look like dolts and keep us from taking over their corner offices! Just say no!"
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Sheesh folks. Rather than the jumping on the 'its-abnormal', maybe we could find some innovative uses for this kind of UI?

My first instinct: "oooh, this feels just like Picasa, very smooth scrolling, I could spend an hour flipping through photos like this."
Actual link: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/blog/eric-hammond-depl...
With dozens of mechanisms, interfaces, data structures built on top of it, yes. A database provides advantages a file does not.
He should use this for deploys instead: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/9116/zoom/
Yeah. Every time I visit it gets +1 waste of my time because I always hit it outside the window. Just a matter of time before I tune it out.
Ask HN: Beautiful GUI vs. Total control?
Yea you're mostly all developers of some sort - so are you all Total Control linux types? Are there any of you out there that really long for beautiful GUI over Absolute Power?
I didn't mind the design, and loved the keyboard navigation.
easy to say, not so easy to do. for an american to legally live and work in another country is not trivial unless you have citizenship in that country. trust me, i would have been out of here years ago if it were less complicated.
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Is it time to start seriously considering downtime as something that is not to be avoided, but rather embraced in small, controllable amounts? Hear me out. If you have a server and keep adding software and features to it without rebooting it, how will you know that on the next reboot all the software and features will start up and be functional again? Here, we have a case where a piece of networking equipment had to be replaced. Because the replacement was such a rare occurrence, nobody at the datacenter probably understood the effects of such a replacement.

On the other hand, if equipment is routinely powered down and or unplugged, the technicians working on it will have a better idea of what goes where, which gizmo affects what doodad, etc. It just generally seems like a good idea to do this under controlled conditions rather than unexpected and uncontrollable ones.

I personally would rather have a 95% uptime with close to 5% scheduled downtime than 99% uptime with 1% unscheduled downtime. The former scenario lets me set clear expectations to customers. The latter doesn't. I can't tell them what the hell is going on or when it will get better. It often takes days to find out why it even ended up happening if an explanation is ever discovered.
I tend to agree with you, but the truth is, the creators probably hate it as much as you do. The main perpetrators of draconian DRM systems are the greedy publishers.
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This is true of new MacBooks, I have been told it is not true of all models of Macs.
The students and parents are also presumably fully aware. If on the other hand they were unaware, the student's mistake of opening a webcam program would not reduce culpability.
Convenient? Yes. Morally defensible? Not at all.
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It's a simple equation. If the downtimes cost TC enough to pay for that infrastructure then they should go there.

Chances are the downtimes don't cost them nearly enough to cover that.
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yeah Compete is just crazy+depressing.

For Mibbit it shows a downward trend for the last 12 months:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/mibbit.com/

However, the actual data, and the quantcast version is an upward trend, with traffic doubling:

http://www.quantcast.com/mibbit.com

Maybe compete have got some issue with all their estimations that means everyones site has dropped over the last year. I don't trust anything from compete though.

Quantified is definitely the way to go as long as you don't mind having the exact stats out there for all to see.
Somewhat ironic that I cannot use the site in Mobile Safari.
it's really, really hard to do that ...if you're doing it for the first time.

It's also worth considering how hard it is to cold-start a large site ...if your architecture is flawed.
A startup that tried something like this: http://hikkup.com/
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Awesome! To able scroll with the mouse wheel you need go through the whole menu, figure out that the "switch" is about scrolling, swear quite a lot and switch it. Revelation(!) <-- as you see I don't need a sarcastic font, I can just type it and in this context it's plain sarcastic .

Reinventing usability FTW! (and yes still sarcastic...)
Why do you think it's so difficult?
exactly my thoughts :)
I am so sad that Kathy Sierra blogs no more :(
This is related, I think:
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/0...
You're probably right there. But if I'm going to buy a legit copy I'm basically rewarding the publishers for their perfidy.
Anyone want to dare venture an opinion why women place such stock in judging men by their shoes?

As a guy, I enjoy dressing nicely when I can except it irks me people care so much about (men's) shoes. I don't get why they matter so much - they're on our feet near the floor out of sight mostly and serve an impt functional purpose to cushion and protect the foot.

And it angers me our society makes it fashionable for women to hurt themselves with really painfully uncomfortable shoes.
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I don't think this is a relevant statistic. Sparkfun makes money by selling items, not page views. There might not even be much correlation between page views and sales: If only 1% of their page views are actually people buying things, you could have double the actual sales or half as many and only move total page views by <= 1%.
interesting article, but faster is only useful when everything works.

I'd much rather a real concentrated effort on getting rid of the constant errors that popup on facebook. "Oops! something went wrong", "chat not available at this time", etc.
Oh, those program listings in computing magazines - I remember that! But it wasn't just magazines, you could buy books with programs listed in them.
I don't know how many books I had at home with listings for games in them. As I had a computer that wasn't a big hit like the Apple (I had a Compucolor 2), it was the only way I had of getting new games onto my computer. The books used to come with listings for games that would cover 2-5 pages, with different variations for different computers. So, for example, there would be a listing for the Apple ][, a listing for the ZX81, a listing for the C64, and so on. Looking at those listings and figuring out what I needed to change to make the game work on my system was a big aid for learning to program - at least it was for me.

I also remember one book that had just one game in it, a text adventure game. It was called Haunted House, or something like that. Anyway, the book explained in loving detail how everything functioned, and suggested modifications that you could try to develop on your own. I think that book all by itself probably did more for teaching me... I was going to say how to program, but it wasn't exactly that, it was more how to think like a computer, because frankly the coding style of that book was dreadful. But it did help me grok arrays and variables and strings and parsing and all that good stuff.

These days it is just so much harder for kids to get into computers. For starters, I was able to write games (or at least type in the program for games) that weren't too far removed from the quality of commercial games. That just isn't true in today's world. And of course, as has been mentioned about 50 million times on HN, it is much harder to get to a programming environment on today's computers. Back then the computer booted into a BASIC interpreter, but there is no modern system that does something similar.

Anyway, that link certainly brought back some good memories!
Moral defensibility is irrelevant from my perspective.

See, I'd like to give game creators my money. Games represent great value and I generally enjoy the prospect of well made sequels. I'm happy to pay, as long as they're not asking me to do extra work.

All the game creators have to do to get my money is make it easy for me to give it to them. This means:

a) Not selling me a broken (and that's what this DRM is) copy of the game forcing me to waste an hour or more of my time procuring a working copy from pirate sites.

b) Not requiring me to sign up for some lousy custom online content network when I've already got Steam and it just works.

That's it. If they're willing to make it easy for me to support them, then great, here's some cash. If they aren't, well, frankly, I don't care enough about the morality of the situation to jump through hoops for them.
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The network equipment should have redundancy so that one of the redundant pair can be rebooted without causing any downtime. Recovery from failure should be tested, but that doesn't mean that failure should cause downtime.
Lets not forget multiple Rackspace outages that took out TechCrunch (and other high profile sites) over the last year before they moved to WP.com
Yeah, I may get around to considering some of these things someday if I make any money. Broke-ass entrepreneurs rolling their own out of pure cash need not apply. Most clothes I have are left over from high school or first year of college and suit just fine.
Yes, but this site isn't for browsing photos.
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The arguments have been laid out elsewhere, so let me summarize:

1. The memory requirements are massive
2. The chosen approach is substantially more complex than CPython
3. The claimed performance improvements have not been demonstrated

But much worse than all of these, it shows that the future of Python 3 is in the hands of Google managers, not an independent project leader.
How sad, one guy has guts to spend his life and others can't even keep a letter online.
There were some comments on the blog asking about tucking in your shirt without a belt. I believe it's okay if you do not have belt loops. My brother has an old suit from the 80s which has no belt loops and as long as the shirt is tapered it looks good.

Of course you have to walk like you intended to wear a suit from the 80s.
Sounds like a personal single-purpose version of Rypple (http://rypple.com/)
Until you say no, you are a slave to every request that comes your way. Much better to be selective and stick to your strengths - excelling at everything you do.

PS: Why is always a valid question.
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Is it really a trade secret when the SDK can be bought for $99? It's stupid that's what it is.
Unrelated but just have a look at the comments in that post. It is hilarious because almost every comment says the site has become slow. Engineers measures load time their own way; users experience load time their own way.
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Definitely worth looking at - will spend my weekend on that, but so far not sure if(and where?) this thing can find own niche in popular deployment architectures.
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Any takes on how this compares to, for instance, Squid?
There go my dreams of high-resolution smut-based iPad riches ... not.I don't like the principle but I understand why they are doing it. With a more efficient approval process in place they now can afford to raise the bar & clean up the AppStore. They have to please the masses.

There's an interesting cultural component in all of this: Apple is operating globally but they are navigating with a distinctly North-American Compass. My guess is if it were a European company running this, they wouldn't give up this highly profitable 18+ niche. And I shudder to think what a Japanese AppStore would look like ;-)
No ref to apache hece, but might be of interest:

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It seems the personal computer democratisation really started with graphical interfaces. Casual users don't have time to learn how to use command line, let alone programming.
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Signed up to have a play around, and was happy because for once I managed to get the "dan" username. Hooray!

Then I realized my profile was at failin.gs/profile/dan. And they automatically picked up my gravatar. Yikes.

Deleted the account and rejoined with something more obscure....
Possibly the unhealthy thing about this is the anonymity, and it might not be very successful either, because of human nature.

I think most people are subject to being categorised one of two ways.

CATEGORY 1 (Confident Achievers): Largely oblivious to their own flaws (This won't easily help them because they'll challenge the answers). If the truth does break in it can be very painful for this type of person.

CATEGORY 2 (Reflective Thinkers): All too aware of their own flaws (And this won't help them; it will only make them feel more insecure).

I'd have to admit to being in the second category, and wouldn't for a second believe it's superior to the first (just different).

Which category are you, or are there more categories?
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> Back then the computer booted into a BASIC interpreter, but there is no modern system that does something similar.

javascript+canvas. It's there, the missing piece is probably the text editor + run instructions.
"Since when did surveillance == pornography?"

Since the camera was issued to accompany the student throughout their daily life: bedroom, changing the diaper of a toddler they are babysitting, bathroom, etc.
Did Descartes really die of _cold_?
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So does Foxconn have only one client: Apple ? Why aren't any of the other companies singled out so much ? Oh -- Apple looks better in the article title and people might read it then.

I can't imagine any other company that isn't either trying or wishing they could keep their secrets as well as Apple. It's a controlling manager's wet dream.
This all feels ... overwhelming.

And the point about fit is nice but I am not fit. I, like many, perhaps most americans am overweight. clothes are made for normal, maybe slender and fit people and it just seems like fatties need not apply.

as a result, i hate going clothes shopping. in fact, i haven't done so in many years. it just feels like it is for the physically elite and i feel like i'm back in middle school getting stared at. this is my own problem but it doesn't change it.