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Use a CPU that does not require a fan. The 1 Mhz 6502 did not need a fan. The ARM, Apple A4, and others processors do not need fans. The problem is the Intel architecture has too many fans.
Surely when you roll out new wireless, you should roll out the fastest stable technology? Wouldn't Japan be held back to some extent by wireless infrastructure that hasn't yet been upgraded?
What you say sounds nice to people who share a certain ideology about capitalism. I'm even (at least sometimes) one of those people. But that won't stop me from pointing out your straw-man here: Whoever said that wealth (in the "making things people want and improving the world and getting compensated for it" sense of the word) creates poverty? It's simply not an argument that you hear very often from anyone, yet it is somehow one of the most dangerous in the world?

(The argument you do see more often is that the wealthy often apply their (proportionately larger) power at the expense of the poor. But that is far too complicated, even if you disagree with it, do dismiss so tritely, and not at all what you are refuting here.)

(( Side thought: It's interesting to wonder if 'poverty' as such even existed prior to the first agricultural revolution. ))
They are not the same thing
"Also, there is a single senator ... who holds the balance of power."

This seems to be a serious design flaw in democracy. One person (or one small party), with the ability to swing the majority vote one way or another, ends up with a disproportionate amount of power.

We see this with the Quebec separatists in Canada, and in the US, with their "independent" senators.
Thanks for pointing it out, forwarding to the designer :)
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There are numerous examples in developing countries/dictatorships/autocracies where wealth is physically taken away from the poor - and where the poor have no recourse because of poor legal systems/governance. However, this article is about a man in Austria who had some type of business not an autocrat stealing oil and brutalizing countrymen (for which hopefully such a man/woman ultimately does feel guilt).

Wealthy countries become wealthy not by harvesting natural resources but by harnessing entrepreneurs and generating ideas. It's why capital overwhelmingly gets invested in developed countries and not developing ones - ie the returns are simply better.
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I don't see how the responses to those questions could be at all helpful whereas a resume (with a portfolio link) could be. I get that he is trying to eschew normal, corporate, hiring techniques but this just comes off sounding silly.
Really, I guess all those other cpus are just as fast and have the same cache and cores too huh?
Really? You're changing your scripting habits based on gaining milliseconds?
Maybe he meant: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhg... ? For me that’s the top hit at http://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+extension+pdf

The greasemonkey script I linked above behaves a bit differently, but also works in Chrome.
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Maybe that is why they are suing now. Couldn't sell anything so they have to justify the business to their investors.
I would hope so too, but in reading the link it sounds like they are only referring to the website. Really sounds like a long shot to me.
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> For Mandarin, this is conversations; for programming, projects

Computer languages are how you translate your project ideas to what a computer/platform can understand, literally it's still a language
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I couldn't agree more. There are some people who I send emails to that are not my friends, nor do I want to socially interact with them, and to assume that because I sent something through gmail to them that they are indeed my friend is a huge issue for me.

I like the concept behind Buzz and think it has potential, but they should not auto-follow people in your contact list by default.
We used mercurial for almost a year before the team rebelled and forced a switch back to SVN. :) It was all of our first experience with a DVCS.

It's not just cherry picking - if you've spread changes across multiple commits, it's much more difficult to manage them. Yes, you can diff cross revisions. But that's more awkward. Worse - if you commit so you can merge in changes from the mainline, all of your changes get lumped together - which may be logically different fixes - and some may even be debugging code that definitely shouldn't end up in the mainline. If you later need to push a subset of your changes, you're in for a world of hurt.

I guess if you get people to use patch queues religiously, you can work around this. But patch queues (in mercurial at least) are definitely rough around the edges, and have their own share of problems.

I'm guessing this process is better in Git. But if I can't deal with the interface, there's no way I'm going to convince the rest of the team to do so.

If people have suggestions on how to deal with this kind of stuff, I'd love to hear people's suggestions. My HN username @ gmail.
This is the best argument I've heard yet that Buzz is more than just another of Google's me-too apps. The article makes a good case that syndication of Buzz content through open standards could make it a powerful competitor to Facebook. I'd be curious to hear other people's opinions on whether this is just hype or seems realistic.
It gets worse. Australia has a preferential voting system where you rank the candidates from first choice to last. It's not too bad a system if there's a small number of candidates, but the senate has dozens.

So the alternative to numbering every box (and what most people do for the senate), is to just put a "1" in the party of your choice. They then decide who the preferences go to. I'm not kidding.

In the case of Steven Fielding, the 2 major parties both gave him their "preferences" above each other, but neither of the major parties got enough votes to get the seat, so he got it. How many people actually voted for him as their preferred candidate? 56,376
This is Contenture, with an extra barrier to conversion for each micropayment (clicking the Flattr button). It has every issue that makes Contenture a bad idea, squared. See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607937
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FWIW, I haven't come on HN at all today because my account had Buzz when I woke up.
> Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data.

If transparency and openness is what furthers Google's monopolistic goals, I say then let be it! I've been hearing more and more of the "Google will start to control everything" spiel. While that may be, it is also a happy conclusion that Google's wants happen to coincide with what the well-minded developer community desires for the future ahead.
Indeed, after taking a quick look at Buzz, I scrolled down to the bottom of gmail and clicked "turn off buzz". Who needs more of this stuff in their life?
"how did it take 15 years for the Internet to deliver this experience?"

It's simple: nobody did it before because it obviously doesn't work, AND there's a related model that does work and pays.

Go to chatroulette. There are about 20 blokes for every woman. Most of these guys are looking to talk and have (some kind of) sex with women. The rest are probably trying to talk and have sex with other guys.

The way to fix that is to charge the guys and pay the girls, and needless to say that's a successful business model though perhaps a bit saturated by now.
If he cut the first two paragraphs down to the sentence "We're looking for amazing designers" and then added a brief description of why amazing designers would want to work with him it would be a much better ad.
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I'm pretty annoyed that my kids' email accounts suddenly turned into a social networking site - there's a reason I don't let them have Facebook accounts.
Yeah that's interesting, but the second version is still more complicated to assemble and takes more keystrokes, assuming up arrow gives the entire previous command.
I think this comes from Pirate Bay believing their own PR, that their users are not thieves, they merely lack a good way to get money directly to the artists for their works. I just love when people get to dogfood their own PR. This should be good.

Like Ivan says, there is a lot of room for improving payments (take Paypal -- please!) but difficulty of affecting payment is not the number one issue for small content producers. The problem is, ahem, they are trying to sell something to people who do not want to give them the money that they largely don't have. Also, there are a million content producers chasing the same pool of money and many of them get queasy at the notion of actually charging for value.

Looking at the economy stats in the New York Times I do not get the impression that high school students have 15 times more disposable income than a decade ago. However, they are consuming digital content at a multiple far, far above 15x what they were a decade ago. This means that even if you came up with the Magical Payment Intermediary Fairy who could somehow convince them to pay their money for things, each producer would see less and less. Also, the Magical Payment Intermediary Fairy, if she is fair, is going to tell you that by weight the kids seem to be consuming about 90% Brittney Spears and other mass market hits (oh, I'm msorry, you thought people pirated music that was low quality and paid for the artists they wanted to support? Dogfood your PR.) and 10% long tail, of which you are individually entitled to 1/1000th share.

The traditional way to avoid this is to actually charge money to people who have it for things they are willing to buy. If you totally lack in ideas, "Software for grown women" works pretty well and it isn't nearly as fished out as producing anonymous "content" for the usual suspects.
Battery life is a fair optimization. Fan noise is a function of your fans. I have a quad-core i7, and when I max it out with 8 threads (it has HT), it does not make any noise. The stock cooler is nearly silent. My case has 140mm fans (!), and they don't make much noise either. They are even mounted via rubber hangers, so the vibration is not transfered to the case (same goes for the hard drives, although those are quite silent now too).

In addition to this, the computer is on the floor, not right next to my ears. So even if it were louder, it would still not annoy me.

So basically, I think your computer is broken if you can hear the fans. It's either designed wrong, or in the wrong position, or both.
I have increasingly less confidence that democracy can deal with this issue.

Articles and that and others inevitably focus on pornography. Discussions end up going off to a side about whether or not kids or even adults should watch porn and what is going too far. All those things are completely irrelevant because they are talking about what should be filtered.
Ha! That probably came out of a rule in the standard that a pointer may point one past the end of an array. (Bump it any further and your compiler is not required to do anything sensible, iirc.)
I understand you do not wish to use social networking sites. We all get that from the article.

Instead of turning off buzz you complain about how complicated it is. Who wants to bet me money he didn't spend ten minutes on buzz before deciding it was crap?

Why? Why? Why? Why? ... Why would Google be trying to make you feel guilty? That is so ridiculous- I'm not going to comment any further.

Jesus. Stop complaining. Buzz was invented for me. Maybe for Google too. Not aimed for people, however, like you Mr. Tech writer/author.

I want to rant so much and use ad hominem to its full potential but I won't. I have a feeling I've spent more time writing this post than you did looking at Buzz.
Or he chooses jobs badly.
The whole 'useless use of cat' meme is basically designed to let Randal Schwartz make fun of people. At one point it may have made a difference, and certainly if you have a shell script that is getting called 10,000 times a day it might make sense to optimise it. But for doing stuff from the commandline; weird shell acrobatics is a premature optimisation.
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That sounds fine, but what does it really mean they should do? MySpace grew so large because people logged in every day to stay in touch with their friends. Now they login to Facebook. How do they convince people to start coming back to myspace.com?

They have to be something. A profile you don't care about, and that none of your friends look at, is not going to cut it. It doesn't matter how exciting and party-like their site appears.
This is the first valid complaint I have read. Although I don't agree with your views, I do understand them, and I appreciate the fact that you didn't talk about problems which can be easily fixed by an off button.
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I'm trying to use the best cipher possible for encrypting passwords. (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=762708)

Bcrypt was mentioned in the above article as being good because it's so slow. I have the option of using any of these ciphers (from the lisp Ironclad library): AES DES 3DES Blowfish(bcrypt) Twofish RC5 RC6 Arcfour(RC4). With AES and DES, I can use the following modes: ECB, CBC, OFB, CFB, CFB8, CTR.

Are there any encryption gurus that know the best option?
Maybe duck typing? If it looks like a Brahmin, talks like a Dalit....?
Good point. I start to move my e-mail out of Gmail. Their approach to privacy freaks me out.
1. To find the newest bestest bands of tomorrow...today
2. To find the best parties in town tonight
3. To find insider view of upcoming Hollywood flicks and television.

All huge industries. Each one of them pretty much forced their way into MySpace. And now it seems like their strategy is to kick them out--not outrightly, but by killing the culture.

DO make sure when people post crazy HTML stuff it doesn't include a virus OR hurt the user's proc usage.

DON'T try to kill your creative culture by making it another facebook-like UI.
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Very nice idea. The problem is that if content providers don't subscribe to it, then they don't get it. What should happen is that flattr should allow for us to report who we want to give to even if they don't have a button. Then at the pay time, flattr tells the content providers about themselves and that people want to give them money for their services. And thus marketing to the providers and providers get money even if they didn't know about it.
1 gigabit with relatively low latency would be enough for live jam sessions for serious musicians. I've seen a couple of tele-concerts where the bandwidth between venues was especially set up and I can see some potential there.

Also, multiviewpoint live video feeds, full-size catalog photos for e-commerce (full 12-megapixel photos of the actual product so you can zoom in close enough to see the stitches.).

All this and more.
I remember when Google came out with Gmail and people were up in arms over ads appearing next to your email. Several years on and apparently it is OK to scan my address book and "auto-follow" a bunch of people I have in it.

The only thing I feel about Google Buzz is the violation of trust between me and the company. That is the real disruption.
I don't know if the data you are looking at are proprietary or not, but I would sincerely love if there were published numbers that I could point people to when I tell them what you are telling them right now.
By the reasoning in your link, your suggestion of bash making 'cat' one of the built-in commands is the "cancer that's bloating UNIX."
If people are going to downvote me, I would appreciate knowing why -other than the fact that I believe the author ignorantly wrote and article, and people don't like to hear what I have to say (sometimes).
Your circle of friends solve #1 and #2 better than anything else, and they're on Facebook. I'm not aware of #3 being particularly in demand.

I think the verdict is in on hideous MySpace profiles: not very many people cared about them at all, and almost no one cared enough to stick around on MySpace for them.
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I do have this on a pretty crappy host at the moment, as I didn't expect to get much traffic (it also got picked up ReadWriteWeb today). I'm using CakePHP, which is great for rapid development but does unfortunately have some overhead, so I turned on caching, which entails changing one setting, and the homepage is then served almost as a static html file (there's still a few lines of PHP in there). It helps a little, and I didn't see any reason not to do it. Really appreciate your supportive attitude, though :)
Your link seems quite conclusive.

Allow me to prompt you to searchyc.com for posts by cperciva and tptacek, and to explain your need a bit more.
It takes 10 seconds to unfollow, or 1 second to turn off buzz. I'd say it's just a convenient default for the rest of us..
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Except it violates copyright law when it's an original work that the site is hiding behind a paywall which has been copied into the public on Buzz. So, they could get forceful about it if it starts becoming a common problem.

Interestingly enough, Google has a relatively manual process for DMCA complaints with Buzz: http://www.google.com/buzz_dmca.html No forms or automated replies, which is their norm in other areas of the company.
I wish I could up vote you million times.

Wake up, sheeple!
I understand what people mean when they are calling China 'young.' My comment was a bit of a snarky commentary on how China seems to pull out this "we're a 3000-year-old country" line whenever someone criticizes them. Such a response is of laughable logic since the government -- which is what most people are criticizing -- is far younger than 3000 years.

(I keep saying 3000 years, because I'm pretty sure the number I've seen used on multiple occasions is 3000, not 5000. I'm not sure from what point in time -- other than the obvious '3000 years' -- they are calling the start of this period to which they are referring, though.)
Fair enough. I stereotyped old people- based off of lots of experience helping older fellows. I'll delete what I said for it is wrong.
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The last version seemed to be fairly well-received, but it wasn't satisfied with it, yet. Since I last posted about it, I've made a few changes. The most obvious would be the interface. I'm not sure if anyone who commented on my previous thread has seen the new interface, but it's much easier on the eyes.

Most of the changes are on the backend, but are ones I'm sure a lot of you would appreciate. I've added a proper admin panel, so adding new streams is a snap. (Feel free to request some!) I've also made the playlists generate with titles, so they won't show up in your media player as a list of ugly IP addresses and hostnames. They also use CRLF now, instead of just LF.

You may also login (link is under the logo) using your Google account and your selections will be saved for you, then restored on your next visit.

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Yeah. And I did work for someone like this.

My theory is that small business owners are upset that the whole "owning my own business" wasn't as great as their imagination suggested beforehand. It turns out that being "the owner" doesn't make you rich, and it doesn't give you a lot of free time. You have to work harder than the "average joe", and you don't get much out of it except for the comfort of knowing you are in total control of everything. This tends to make people bitter, because "it's not fair".

One other thing I've noticed is that owners of small companies expect you to care about the company as much as they do. I personally find this to be quite irrational (and this apparently annoyed the owner of the last company I worked for).
I think this is more a "commoditize the complement" thing.

Chris Dixon had a good post on this recently:
http://cdixon.org/2009/12/30/whats-strategic-for-google/

Friendfeeds are complements to doing things online - it's better for Google to have a whole lot of competitors in that space then just Facebook and Twitter.
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Which of my views do you disagree with? Prior to yesterday, GMail was an entirely appropriate way for a child to communicate with family and school friends, as far as I can tell. Now it's far too easy for that child to inadvertently reveal personal information to the entire Internet.
Not having actually downvoted you I'd say it's because the tone of your comment comes across as rather angry and personal.

Picking apart arguments based on their content seems to get a better reception than attacking their author.
The whole 'useless use of cat' meme is basically designed to let Randal Schwartz make fun of people.

So true.

My requirement for a shell command is that it be reasonably easy to assemble, return something resembling the correct answer, and that it run in a reasonable amount of time.

If your requirements are more strict than those, it's time to write a real program.
As with most of these things I think it's pretty hard to say whether it's worthwhile until it's been out in the wild for a while. Many people looked at Twitter and thought it was useless initially ("140 characters? Ha!") and that wasn't an accurate prediction.
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Nowadays 1-3 years for senior management seems to be about the norm. 5 months is definitely on the low side, though.