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He didn't have a chance to look too closely when he was a vendor at MSFT:

- build.exe is not perl. Perl (and many other tools) have been used to do specific tasks within the build, but build.exe is essentially a makefile driver. You can read documentation on it in the Windows Driver SDK.

- FCIBs (* checked in binaries) were the exception, not the rule. But sometimes, you have something from a third party that you don't have source access to. Even when you're MSFT. Given the security review paranoia now, I would be shocked if any still exist.

- robocopy doesn't fix "bugs" in xcopy; it supports mirroring and checksum validations. Let's put it like we're in third grade again -- robocopy:xcopy::rsync:cp. Robocopy is available via the Windows Server Resource Kit, last I checked five years or so ago.

I'm sure this guy has had a bunch of interesting experiences and has a lot to share, but the lack of any investigation whatsoever of the tools he was using on a daily basis and wildly incorrect statements about them feels like a Fox News Special Report.
On the flip side - why should anyone pay three million dollars for a 30 second commercial during the Super Bowl. Having the ability to post on TechCrunch is the same as having wealth and he wanted to trade some of that wealth for a laptop.
Look on the bright side, one day the last person who likes VB6 will die too.
I understand - and even respect - what you are trying to do.

But I think you're going about it in the exact opposite way, you are starting an 'arms race', which will eventually runaway with voting blocks controlling what gets posted on HN.

That site is called 'Digg' I believe.

The first group of guys that gets away with it will engender the second and the third, after all, if it's ok that you do it why would it not be ok for other groups to do it?

I've seen first hand how effective it is what you are doing but I simply disagree with it, even if it is content that I like.

To pretend that I'm 'making it up' is disingenuous, especially since you - of all people - are most aware that it is very real.

No need to apologize, I'm not made of sugar, I just like to know what rules we're playing by.

Essentially you're saying HN is fair game and you can gang together your votes in order to gain effective control of the site to maintain a certain character, and I would like us all to retain our individuality in order to do exactly the same.

So we disagree - strongly - about the means but definitely not about the goal.

You are trying to create a solution by staging a 'behind the scenes coup' I would like a solution that creates a level playing field for everybody.
Well, as an outsider who doesn't read TechCrunch, I never would have known what he was apoligizing for, unless TechCrunch had made that update on their entry (and "trackbacked" it on Daniel's blog). His apology was pretty nonspecific. Not that I really care one way or the other, but TechCrunch certainly "outed" him there.
This makes it sound like some secret society or something. It's the #startups channel on Freenode, which has been posted here about a bajillion times and has more than 100 people in it, most of them HN regulars.

The Defenders of HN, like much of what's said in the channel is tongue in cheek.

And for the record, and I think this goes for any of the regulars in there, sure, if somebody mentions an article that I like and points it out in there, I'll vote it up. If somebody mentions an article that's crap, I won't. I do the same on HN by subscribing to the RSS feeds (via searchyc) of a handful of HN users that I find consistently post stuff I want to read.
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Quite simply, the difference is that Michael would tell you about it. When you're aware or relationship or bias, you can (somewhat) mentally adjust for it.
Your idea seems solid, and the site looks fairly good, considering only 5 days of work.

That said, I found the UI to be a bit cluttered. In particular, the landing page seems a bit unordered, with variable spacing between the various textual lines, and really, just too much there.

If I were you, I'd go a bit more minimalist on the front page. Just my 2¢. Good luck!
The thing about the XBox and not providing a Linux kit: I thought that there was some sort of import tariff on computers that wasn't on game consoles in the EU or something like that.

Or maybe I've got it the other way around? I can't quite remember, my memory is fuzzy.
Shouldn't that be an event when second to the last speaker dies?
The one left has no one to talk to anyway :(
Thanks! I'm by no means a designer, and purchased the theme on ThemeForest.net so I could have something and just customized it from there.

Hopefully I can afford to hire a designer in the future.

I appreciate your feedback.
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> if we manually have to double-check hundreds of spams each day, what is the point of the filter?

It's faster to scan a list of subject lines and senders than to look at the contents of an email, which is faster than actually deleting it. So verifying that the spam filter sorted your emails correctly is faster than sorting every message yourself.
Actually, a system that provides "assurances to workers" during a downturn might exacerbate the business cycle.

(This is the recalculation theory of business cycles.)

A recession is caused when resources are systematically devoted to suboptimal purposes. For instance, we built too many houses and we just discovered they aren't worth much.

A laid off construction worker, auto worker or buggy whip maker may think he can still get his old job back. Generous unemployment insurance allows him to wait around for a long time, hoping to get back a job similar to his old job. However, absent unemployment insurance, he would be forced to take whatever he could get, thereby shortening the recession.

(Note: this doesn't dispute your theory of more conservative investment/spending decisions, it's just another countervailing factor that must enter into the cost/benefit calculation.)
People already form flash mobs without being paid, right? Pay-for-supporters in Ukraine could be the result of adding capitalism to former communist regions' nascent political systems,
Then, since Solo shot first, he was a fine duelist.
This reconciles the argument: he can be a good guy AND shoot first. Solo did not _intend_ to shoot first, but while reposting his instincts made him the fastest.
That's like Star Trek fans arguing over "Trekkie" vs "Trekker"
The 101st request should not be allowed to negatively impact the experience of the other 100 users.

What about the 300th request? I guess it's a matter of opinion, but is it better to provide a mediocre (or worse) quality experience to all 300 users, or to provide a good quality experience to 1/3 of the users and deny the other 2/3 requests?
Then what will happen to our banking system?
We should probably distinguish between two levels of explanation: The religious explanation, and the historic/scientific explanation.

The "foreshadowing"-explanation is a religious explanation. The historic/scientific explanation is that the two versions are from two different oral traditions that have been merged into the same book. Both kind of explanation are interesting, but they are also largely incompatible, and I think it always should be made very clear which perspective one is arguing from.
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1. False:
http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/16/chip-designer-arm-bringing...

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demo...
Maybe they will have have migrated to something other than that by then....one can only hope
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I would go for Mechanical Engineering if I were you.

Do you live in or plan to study in the US? Even if you don't, try contacting the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Shooting_Sports_Founda...) and Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting_Arms_and_Ammunition_Ma...). In Europe, the equivalent of SAAMI is The Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives (C.I.P., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Internationale_Perma...)

I can dig up a German small arms research organization out of my email archives if you're interested.
Annotations on fields are surprisingly powerful
Kindle formatting is a PITA. Why is there no e-book equivalent for FrontPage?
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You'd figure he would convince the interviewer to sign up for DisQus for the interview page?
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The challenge is that by the time you reach the 300th request your system is unusable. In the example mentioned the system starts to experience exponential degradation around the 100th request. One wants to avoid reaching that state of the system where the exponential degradation starts .
There IS a better solution to this than just rejecting the request and it has to do with request queuing.
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Bizarre analogy, with heavy quotes and a movie. Enjoy.
or ... forgetting ... ;)
My school = honorable mention :-(

And this is completely unrelated, but is anyone else annoyed at the choice of languages. Only C++ and Java... sigh.
I have. Less memory usage than before on my apps, but ymmv.
Very true--she could have been making it up. Who's to say you don't know the language when no one else does?
Hmmm, Oracle has claimed that what they're planning on doing with Java is "More! Better! Faster!" (well, the latter is implicit). And it's all been GPLed (except for those bits of the library that are getting replaced, probably have been by now).

I would think it's up to Apple; I'm not aware of any animosity between Oracle and Apple.
> The knowledge of good and bad builds up and refines itself with age through experiences.

It didn't take me 17 years to learn that "hitting people up for bribes is bad." YMMV I guess.
I might be daft, but this article doesn't explain (and seems to assume it's perfectly obvious) why in the world you should use

Arial, sans-serif

instead of:

sans-serif

at the bottom of a stack. If I am on a platform where Arial looks OK, it should already be my default sans-serif font, right? Currently, I have Arial installed, but I've set my default sans-serif font to DejaVu Sans Mono, which (subjectively) looks better on freetype. But most sites force Arial. It seems like a cargo-cult sort of thing.

This problem is worse with monospace fonts (even more subjectively, I am practically allergic to Courier New).
While that bit may seem flippant, I also wonder about dinosaurs and scaling.

They don't seem to have half the supposed skeletal size that they 'should' according to simple scaling.
Glad you are listening. I hope you can fix these issues so everyone's happy.
And for more on limited slip differential:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_slip_differential
Voxound: music player auto-tags your collection
Ah, now I think I remember what I was thinking:

If you force the PRC to establish command and control nodes outside of the country, then you're more likely to know of them ahead of disconnecting the whole country, plus their MO in setting them up and using them, so that finding the inevitable sleeper nodes will be easier.
Shouldn't you be able to buy unemployment insurance privately? (Okay, I know that may be a market for lemons because of the information asymmetries.. And you can't let people starve who haven't bought their insurance.)
I'm not much of a car person, but did limited slip differentials exist at the time this video was made? To me it would seem more odd if an advertisement explained the mechanics behind something that the product it was advertising couldn't do...
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There's an article here (in spanish):

http://www.fayerwayer.com/2010/02/voxound-software-chileno-p...

In english (by Google Translate):

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...
> In terms of a social policy : governments should cover minimum wages, working conditions and other safety issues. Compensation for unfair dismissal should be capped regardless of salary and paid out of a central fund taken from company income taxes.

I agree in general. But why have minimum wages? The same line of reasoning as the one against rent control applies here.

(As an example, Germany does not have a minimum wage for most industries. It has lots of other `employee protection', that needs to be removed, though.)
I've continued to be perplexed by the lack of other companies copying Google's revolutionary style of data center operations. It makes such a huge difference in Google's capabilities (and their bottom line), yet data center operations outside of Google haven't changed much in a decade.
there's also the fact that phones have relatively limited memory.
I suspect the Dalvik VM runtime memory footprint is much lower than that of the JVM.
Not necessarily (but availability probably depends where in the world you are). You can get a Subaru Impreza with a locking center diff.
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A limited slip differential solves most of this problem, and you don't have to worry about unlocking the diff when you are on dry road. (having a locked diff means the tyres will have to slip over the road when turning. On a dry road they won't slip as much and this can cause significant damage to various components)
If this were merely about technical assistance, you wouldn't have a press release about it.

I read this as a warning to China that the US has taken a Defense Interest in Google (and implicit interest in the other companies affected in the recent attacks). And that further 'incidents' may trigger a National Response. There's simply no other reason to announce the partnership.
I see these situations as people being forced to confront the trade-offs between Equality and Freedom. The prevailing sense in America is that Freedom is the most important value, and that Equality is pretty important too. However, attaining Equality often involves infringing on Freedom and vice-versa. Maximizing economic freedom is one of the core principles of America, which has resulted in amazing wealth and technology, but also means that Equality is inevitably de-emphasized - we have to accept that.

The OP thinks that this is a problem, and that Americans should become more local. However, he fails to realize that America is made up of people who were fed up with staying local. That is why they packed up their bags, left their jobs, friends and family and traveled far to come live here. Why would their offspring be any different?
You could implement this as a service on top of couchdb. The oreilly couchdb book that has just been released shows examples of developing apps using the javascript engine that's inside couchdb. You'd get easy access to some functionality by doing this - tagging, email versioning.
One could still teach someone new.
Everything he said about the Xbox internals and the attitude of the security folks there (which is fantastic) was wrong.

Entertaining. But still wrong.
Eh, I'd support adding them to the banned domains list. Why don't we have another poll?

If not the banned domains list, perhaps pg could nofollow their links for a while?
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Well at least my school won North America.
Depends upon the size of deal. You can do it yourself if it's in low millions
The solution offered is offensive, amounting to randomly allocating power and privilege amongst a given population rather than allowing the best and brightest make their case through personal excellence.

All this supposedly so those that are incapable of succeeding in a meritocracy are not sentenced to the terrible fate of believing themselves worthy of their low station. I don't want to imagine a person so wretched they would prefer to ruin the world rather than understand their position in it as below average. I can think of little more depressing.

Feudalism died for a reason, let's not bring it back.
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Robocopy is available in a stock Windows 7 installation. It may have been in Vista too, but I don't remember for certain. Just FYI...
Assess it for what it's worth. If it's postable, do it. If not, tell them why. That's the polite thing, but you'd be giving free advice, and this approach would hinder your time if it happened a lot.

The company has obviously seen you post a lot to HN. Do they think you're a sucker?

-edit: and if you do, what do you get out of it? You could ask for a favour in return, or tell them to post it themselves and you might just upvote it.
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I know that was a design goal, e.g. the bytecodes after translation from JVM to Dalvik are smaller. I also seem to remember hearing that not all of a JVM's library is supplied with Dalvik.

Also, hasn't Java ME stagnated? I.e. it's stuck in at Java 1.3 (which Oracle has promised to address).
Just like with biological species, the moment when the last (or even last few members) die is just a symbolic event, most of the diversity is lost much earlier. (It is a small subset of language/folklore/traditions/etc. one person can keep in their head, just as one individual carries just a small part of the genetic diversity of the species).
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Yep, I'm the person who posted that message to the misc@openbsd list. I've been a very avid silent reader (non-member) of HN over the last year or so... until today. Wow. I made the front page of HN. Hopefully next time it will be for my technical acumen rather than my vivid sense of humor.
He means taking the source code for the compiler and running it through the compiler, then taking the same source code and running it through the resulting compiler, etc. Same source, new binaries every time.
At the very least the unobtrusive javascript helpers. It's easy to imagine that all web frameworks will come to a kind of protocol modeled on the efforts of the rails core team here. This will mean that you can use any JS framework ( Prototype, jQuery, Moo, Google Closure, Ext ) and simply add a few lines of shim code that correctly reworks the tags to their AJAX equivalents when it encounters the correct data- tags. It's a brilliant abstraction.
Currently, the lowest rates of unemployment are in flyover country. The Dakotas, Wyoming, Oklahoma...
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I think this isn't unique to Ukraine - its commonly done in most of the democratic world. Its rather rare only in the richest countries.
I like the idea, getting the audio only off videos could be really useful.

However, I agree with unignorant, the UI needs work. When you get more tracks it could become hard to browse.

Plus, have fun when you start getting hit by DMCA notices every day!!
That's a good point -- to avoid confusing people, I should mention that my explanations above are sort of the mirror image of how most physicists would think about this situation. I was trying to be careful to say "appears to be" instead of "is" to leave this interpretive door open :)

As you say, the most common interpretation is that time itself slows down as you enter a gravity well, leaving all the physical constants the same (since their locally measured values will appear the same to you).

But if you look at things from an imaginary "absolute" viewpoint outside of spacetime, you could think of spacetime itself as a sort of fluid that's denser in regions of high gravity. Light travels more slowly in this denser fluid, and since epsilon zero is inversely proportional to the square of the speed of light, you could interpret it as being larger where gravity is higher.

I guess you can tell that fluid dynamics was always easier for me than differential geometry -- whenever I see a system of nonlinear partial differential equations (like general relativity), it's just easier for me to think of them this way.
I agree with you 100% that the linked article sucks awfully.

Your proposed study, however, is so riddled with confounding factors that to call it a proof is nonsense. The man the article talks about does have lots of papers giving evidence for his views, and you should indeed read them if you're interested.

However, neither the study you propose nor any other study would constitute proof (of what? it's unclear what we're even discussing a proof of).

All I'm trying to say is, this is about human affairs, not physics, and we're not about to start finding proofs of human affairs.
Ask HN: improving your design skills?
I regularly get negative comments about the looks of my sites, and I want to do something about it.

The problem is: most of them look just fine to me. It's not like code where I can see what looks bad and then work towards something that looks better. For that matter, it's not even like a drawing where I can tell whether it looks how I want it. I like the simple/spare/plain look. However... that doesn't seem to match what a lot of the rest of the world wants, so any advice from hackers who have made progress in that direction?
That was the softest interview I've seen in a long time. Only questions missing were: What's your favorite color? and Which is better: kittens or puppies?
See, I have a different view on this. I am not faulting the intern at all, it is really the company that wanted the write-up. If you are going to bribe someone at TechCrunch, who do you contact: Mike A. or an intern?

I think the intern's response was a good start to what is going to be some time before his reputation is back to normal, but I think we need to see who this company was and blame fault there.
Perhaps you could add a radio stream like Pandora where you can select your preferred genres and have it randomly pick tracks. Once the library grows it would be good way to keep older uploads from being buried.

You're going to get a LOT of copyright infringing uploads, so be sure to cover your ass and put a few safeguards in place.
Sigil?
Adobe InDesign?(http://www.adobe.com/devnet/digitalpublishing/)
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First it was bush as satan now twitter with terrorism? Everyone wants state control of the internet but the people who actually run the internet know it is difficult to have an international network under state control.
This is dire. Threat of censorship itself is bad, but the fact that Chavez feels a need for it is even worse.
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it's because Google's data center are geared for one single purpose: crunching massive amounts of data. They can get away with just one hardware platform, fine-tweak it, then design the racks.

Most other companies (99% of the web companies) other there have different needs. For instance, Facebook needs one hardware platform fine-tweaked for the cache, another one for pics and video storage, another one for chat, plus mysql etc.

It's the same for your regular web2.0 company, they want different kinds of servers, so they will ask data centers specific hardware and different server formats. It's therefore very hard, if not impossible, for a data center to copy Google's design, since they have to host so many kind of hardware.