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I didn't think this would necessarily be HN material so I didn't bother submitting it, but apparently someone disagrees with me.

I figured I had to "professionalize" A/Bingo a bit because recently from reading my email I get the impression that it is looking less like the 10% time project from my 10% time project and more like "Oh, effity, if this breaks businesses with employees start losing money." So I did a bit of code cleanup, wrote some tests, and created a versioning plan so that folks depending on it are not totally on their own for evaluating whether a particular commit will break stuff if they pull it in.

Since I had the opportunity I also made some changes to the user experience, such as decreasing the amount of code you have to write even further, and incorporating the Minimum Viable Dashboard.

If you aren't A/B testing yet, I want to change that. Tell me what I need to do to make it happen.
> Or maybe a car isn't a novel concept. It is, after all, the same as walking somewhere. Only slower.

I think this is a case of Driving, you're doing it wrong ;)
"downloading and building everything from source"?

Look, I'm typing this on a MacBook, but that's the most ridiculously outdated Linux cliché in the book.

The App store is just package management, which Linux has had for a while, and which Mac OS X is sadly missing.
Yes, it would help a lot if Java at least had a type inference system like scala does.

A lot of the time and effort that goes into programming is used to make code more compact and readable. That's hard to accomplish in java.
The email address is optional. You do get a summary even if you choose not to provide the email address.
And your rant is relevant to this paper precisely how? As the paper also covers time to implement and memory use it, it doesn't fall into the category you complain about.
In a lot of cases, like the one here, it's because they're publishing for a conference or journal that takes submissions as PDF, not for the web. Then they just put the same PDF on the internet.
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Isn't that a little odd--that your constitutional rights depend on what your neighbors think?

In my opinion, that decision was unprecedented and unconstitutional. Traditionally, your neighbors have the ability to give you more rights (jury nullification), but they don't have the right to take rights away. The Miller Test completely reversed that; now your neighbors can take your rights away for no reason at all. (Would a black defendant be given the same rights as a white defendant? That's why we elect representatives to make laws, rather than letting the neighborhood lynchmob decide what the laws are.)

Having to worry about what your neighbors will think discourages valuable work, acting as a prior restraint on speech. It's too bad you can't appeal Supreme Court rulings, because that one was totally wrong in many, many ways.
Good point, I wanted to have that in there because the constant redundancy of that pattern is a slap in the face to most people who've used dynamic languages or languages with type inference. I've updated the example to avoid reassignment to the same variable.
The evidence for this is sorely lacking. Great multitudes contribute to the open source Gnome, KDE, GIMP and so forth and have for years. The UIs remain lackluster to at best.
I don't think the jury should even matter. They determine the facts of the case, not the law. The fact is, he has what the law disallows. But the reality is, the law is totally illegal.

I would be shocked if he didn't win his first appeal.

(Some other details seem shady. Is receiving books in the mail grounds for the warrant used to search his house? Were the obscene pictures in "plain view"? If this is what I can think of, having never studied law, you'd think someone's whose job it is to think of stuff like this would do better.)
Well, quick response because they realized they screwed it up...
Well, it makes it even more obvious that local standards for obscenity are meaningless. Also that if you must find a common denominator it should probably be the most permissible. All things said and done, I very much like the old principle: "You do not have a right not to be offended".
Very funny... I wonder what other tools have this kind of funny easter egg.
Not much choice when all the official records are "missing" except for one recording it as an accident.

If the reports that 3 rounds were fired are correct, that's some "accident".
The whole article was pretty horrifying, but this sentence in particular stood out for me:

The high court ruled that the ban was too broad, and could cover legitimate speech, including Hollywood productions.

So Hollywood's business interests matter and regular people don't?
You're preaching to the choir :)
(July 2007)
That's right, something I admire about British people is that they created a lot of sports like boxing and football in witch they put rules over something people were already doing so they could control it.

If people want to fight,or compete let them and they will calm, repress them and it will grow and grow. It is in our instinct to fight and compete, so better to do it in a walled garden.

I prefer a person that feels the sexual urge to masturbate with cartoons than with pictures of kids, and with pictures of kids than with real kids, in fact I don't care what a man does in his house with things, I care if they affect real people.
The study becomes a bit meaningless when you read:

"It is an interesting observation that despite the existence
of hash table implementations in both the Java and
the C++ class libraries none of the non-script programmers
used them (but rather implemented a tree solution by hand)"
Why, does he have no eyes? You're using American cultural assumptions where they don't apply :-)
Irony is no fun if it's clearly marked.

This is clearly false, as both irony and sarcasm are usually delimited by both changes in speech and nonverbal cues. The better you know each other, the fewer of such cues are necessary, but especially among 'new' people, you'd better make sure they get you are being sarcastic/ironic, lest they get a completely wrong impression of you. The lack of cues and subsequent misunderstandings is exactly the problem with speech on the internet and is exactly why things like italics exist: to be able to shift emphasis like you'd do with speech or nonverbal cues.
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
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True. Most of the time I end up making a very thing wrapper over the original API, just for the sake of brevity. I honestly thought that's what I was meant to do: the API should be optimized for power, and the local wrapper for usability in the local context.

But it's also a matter of style. I just wrote a function the other day to do the equivalent of:

Map m = makeMap( "key1", "value1",
"key2", "value2",
"key3", "value3" );

It's perfectly ok to write something like this in java using varargs, but because of ... I don't really know, habituation I guess, it took me learning Clojure to actually think of writing it.
That's the Moscow State University in the photo's background. Suddenly I feel so warm!
I moved to hostgator, does that redeem me?
There's a word for such things: catharsis.
OK fair enough. Maybe a swipe that triggers payment for that month. Crunch is month to month. So they don't necessary have a contract. I just want to avoid the whole hassle.
Best chat roulette screen shots: http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-24-best-chat-roulette-s...

I kind of liked the jolly nazi&israeli couple doing thumbs up. :-)
Dan was not a charter member. But I think you're right about "lull period." Yes I understand the whole 80/20 usage scenario.

My point is just that it's price discrimination that doesn't work. Soda at a supermarket vs. restaurant works because of location. This is just a bluff on the gym's part.
yes thx
I'm this "someone". Why?

Because I believe your "If you aren't A/B testing yet, I want to change that." is beneficial for significant part of HN'ers.
How's that for the ultimate give up?
And you think the average people think it is OK to destroy the life of one person just because he downloaded-imported cartoons?

I don't think so.

I consider this material "obscene", I don't like it, but this man has the right to have it. This man has no made a huge painting in a public, then law can be used because it affects the society.
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In before obvious, mundane OfficeSpace/Superman 3 joke that I don't want some reddit commenter getting karma for.
You are right on the target - the puritans corrupted the American soul so badly with that people are ashamed of their capacity to create joy. This extends even to people who violently denounce the evils of Christianity.

And to top it of, they made it against the law not to hide your capability for love.
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both irony and sarcasm are usually delimited by both changes in speech and nonverbal cues

You've obviously never been to England.
I completely agree with the point you are making about accessors, but something I don't agree with is the way you made your point:

> In Perl, I can just say:

Moose is an OOP framework built on top of Perl, comparing it to out-of-the-box Java code is quite misleading and I'm not sure what point it proves? It's like saying MVC in PHP is verbose compared to Django or Rails rather than Python or Ruby. Using MooseX::Declare is even more misleading. Does that even work on Windows yet?
yeah, yeah... couldn't resist
I actually think it's fairly simple.

You pay ex 20USD a month.

If you click on one page that entire month the owner of the page will get 20USD

If you click on 10 different blogs then the 20$ is split between those 10 blogs
These attempts to deny the obvious are so futile. The lack of object literals, list comprehensions, parameter default values, keyword parameters, generators (yield), first class functions, property syntax, type inference, macros, etc clearly make Java exceptionally verbose.

The author's argument seems to be that Java the language cannot possibly be criticised for being verbose as the verboseness of the language clearly pales in comparison to its outrageously verbose APIs. Not a good line of defense in my view.
It has done long run damage to the Buzz product though. First thing my girlfriend asked me when logging into her gmail account this morning was "how do I turn off this Buzz thing". She didn't know what it was, only that there was a lot of 'buzz' on the web about how you should turn it off. I have a hard time imagining a scenario where all these people who've turned it off will somehow change their mind and turn it back on.
Our tool wasn't a startup, it was a little app I wrote in a short while to learn how to work with comet servers. I don't subscribe to the "giving up is cowardice" line of thought. We had nothing really new to offer the world and I had a bigger, more important project to focus on.

While I will gladly compete when I feel that there is a potential for becoming better than the competitor (like I'm doing right now with my current startup), I can't bring myself to do something that offers nothing new and attempt to "out-market" the competition.
Read the story again, but this time without your myopic web startup goggles on. Because, really, those seem to have caused you to truly spectacularly misread what is essentially a story about loneliness as yet another piece of entrepeneurial feel good fluff.
Somewhat similar to Bruce Sterling's Viridian design movement http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008_11_01_archive.html
Prima facie, the key feature of the Adam seems to be that it's much more Open than the iPad. That sounds awesome! Plain Ubuntu + touchscreen + whatever I can do == wow.
I would wager that Kafka has never been used for that because his work tends to concern itself with failure rather than with success.

But I agree with you. More business types should read his work, if only to develop a more realistic outlook on life. The sky is not the limit, petty bureaucrats in the castle you're never, ever going to be allowed into for no discernable reason at all are.
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But I am still happy to read it again. I think we need to constantly remind ourselves with advice like this. I am going to print this essay now and give copies to my wife and kids.
It's a trivial factual error. RTFA before making conspiracist comments.
How is it relevant to the community?
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Thanks for your advice. I never saw it this way.

Maybe I didn't give enough details in my original post. This was a little hack that I thought would be cool, and would help me learn how to write comet-based apps (which it did). When Omegle came out, was a little annoyed but since our project was a few days of work, I put the code away and focused on my main project. I didn't even hear of omegle again after then until a few weeks after that.

But still, my current project is chasing a first mover with a few months' head start and it's nice to get reaffirmation that we don't need to be first movers to get ahead.

P.S. If you're interested, here are slides from a presentation we gave in our local startup interaction session:
http://www.slideshare.net/guest3cff7f/connr
I'm going to have a look at this in a few weeks. I only knew about Vanity so I'm glad I came across this post.

Does A/Bingo also auto-select an alternative if there is a 95% reliability that it's better?
Find the few things that matter, and drop the others. This approach might apply to many areas of life.
What if site like the Wall Street Journal adopted it instead of their current paywalls?

Well, one obvious consequence they'd make less money than they're charging currently. That dooms the ability of this service to get any marquee publishers (the ones who can independently charge for content) on board, and will probably kill it just like it kiled Contenture.
I'm well aware of the things you describe :-)

And I was specifically talking about the Western European nobility between, say, 1000 - 1300 AD, a period when there were no outsiders invading Western Europe and it was the nobility itself that posed the greatest threat to the lives of "commoners".

I do, by the way, take issue with your description of the Muslims as a threat - that was true only between around 650 - 750 or so, until Charles Martel stopped their expansion at the battle of Poitiers, and it was true again for Romanians and Hungarians in the sixteenth century when the Turkish empire started to expand westward, but between those times (a period commonly known as "The Middle Ages" ;-) ) it was Western Europeans that were threatening muslims by travelling to Palestine in a misguided attempt to "liberate" the "Holy Land" from the "Infidel".
Sure - my comment was not a negative. The date should be in the post title though, when it's something so old (hah, 3 years old? that's ancient! What the internet does to us, eh...)
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Just register a new account on youtube.
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"I think humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model of what's around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally exhausting."

On a related note , Steve Jobs has no furniture.
Haha ... if only there was an extension that aggregated everything, right? You'd be able to turn that six to just one. :D
CO2 is not a pollutant, and is like 10% of all atmospheric greenhouse gases. The science is weak and involves people overstating their arguments by claiming to understand complex cycles of systems that they have minuscule amounts of data about. If you have 100 years of data for 1000 year cycle how can you claim to know what's going on?

People concerned about climate change, should be researching crops that can grow in warmer temperatures and other risk mitigating fields. Energy research will of course continue, and we need better climate satellites so that we can understand what's going on. But, the massive boondoggle that targets individuals is a waste of resources. Instead target small areas that can have a big effect - cement production, iron & steel production, and energy generation.

The "pro-pollution" argument is that there are many competing causes for us to spend our time and resources on. People are dying today from relatively simple problems that can be significantly alleviated with less effort than what's being wasted on trying to convince individuals to change their behavior.
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This is great. I came to the same conclusion some time ago. Of course, I never articulated it so elequently.

Anyway, anytime I bring new stuff into my house I take the same amount of stuff and put it in a box. About four times a year I call the Salvation Army and they pick up the box.

Before buying something new, I have to think about what old stuff is going in the box. Normally it isn't hard. On Christmas, when I get a lot of new stuff, it can be a challange. The worst is when someone gives me something I will never use and I have to put it right in the box, which seems ungrateful. Other than that, the box is liberating and putting stuff in it feels great.
I have never seen a dead high level language. Right now I am writting a toy scheme language with it: http://github.com/pmarin/Muddy-Scheme. Python has a Tcl interpreter built in its standart library for Tk, so Python is also dead?
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And yet when I got back I didn't discard so much as a box of it. Throw away a perfectly good rotary telephone? I might need that one day.

Sounds like INTP tendency:

Because the present is inextricably linked to a sense of the past, INTPs tend to hoard items which help solidify the connection to the past. They find it very difficult to let go of anything they have collected (or indeed created) and which may have a nostalgic meaning.

above from http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html
If the market will decide it then business will voluntary adopt these policies so that they can take advantage of the world market. If that is the case then there is no reason for the US to have a policy on this matter. The only reason for the US to force companies to do it is because they know that the world doesn't care.
Build a sane framework on top of Java, and you can use that for comparisons.

MooseX::Declare has always worked on Windows. If you can compile Perl, you can compile Devel::Declare.

Regardless, MooseX::Declare does not change the verbosity of the code:

use MooseX::Declare;
class Foo {
has 'bar' => ( is => 'ro' );
}

package Foo;
use Moose;
has 'bar' => (is => 'ro');

The MX::D version is one line longer :P.
It may just be me, but interfacing with Java in Clojure is still pretty verbose when compared to regular clojure code. I think you at least have to grant the author that API verbosity is a factor.
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Except books—but books are different.

I suspect most people have their own personal caveat to this essay. Mine isn't books (I usually give good books to friends after reading them, and bad books to ebay). My own caveat would be raw materials for building or repairing things (electrical components, nuts and bolts, tools, etc).
> The more people use a network, the more valuable it becomes; the more valuable it becomes, the more people use it

the more useless it becomes.
This post has quite possibly the worst name ever. I mean really: who cares whose fault Java's verbosity is? I think it obscures the author's true intent: to show that Java could be made much less verbose given a less verbose standard library.

Note: I'm not necessarily saying that I agree with the author.
No, it does not.

Vanity and A/Bingo have some fundamentally different takes on the problem. This is totally fine -- there are a lot of good ways to do A/B testing just like there are a lot of good ways to parse an HTML document. Use whichever fits your needs.

I'm happy to answer specific implementation questions, but the bumper sticker version is "In general, Vanity wants to be your one-stop measurement shop. A/Bingo wants to make A/B testing so easy you do it automatically, every single time."
I can relate to the point about how traveling realigns your ideas about stuff. I've been traveling around South America for the last 5 months with exactly one change of clothes. The general rule for long trips like this is that if you haven't used one of your possessions in 3 days, then you shouldn't have it along.

I find that I take this concept with me back to civilization. I'll get back to my storage locker and not find anything that I want to take out. "This isn't the shirt that I wear.", and "I already have enough socks" (meaning 4).

Back home in England, I can think of exactly two possessions that I've accumulated in the 3 years since I've been living there with my girlfriend: a 22" monitor to connect to the laptop, and a really nice Italian espresso machine. Both get used every day, so evidently they meet my criteria for "stuff you're allowed to have along."
Can you also give us a test case?
Bad programmers create real verbosity. Language choice is largely irrelevant to that.

And by verbosity I mean real verbosity. Not the ill advised measure of 'lines of code' or 'tokens'.

A good programmer can write extremely concise well written Java.

Don't waste too much time on this sort of fluff, or chasing the next 'hot' language. Spend it learning how to become a better programmer.

I'd say the main reason Java is wrongly associated with verbosity is two things - It's widely used in corporate environments, where people are taught to do things inefficiently and in the most number of lines possible, and secondly, the use of IDEs, leading to lots of verbose automatically generated crappy code.
Is there even a word in japanese for "obscene"?
Eh, no biggie, a few pages of gotchas. If we were talking about PHP, I could write a few volumes.
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A proof that automatic translation just isn't there yet...

Seriously though: "waqarjani" seems to be a spam account. Is there a way to 'flag' a user?
There is no question that it is nicer being a sheep than building space-ships and inventing new stuff.

But the price it costs to avoid most of the dread and deep valleys is that you will never see the view from the top of a mountain.

As for me, for now I remain content watching people do amazing things, but I strongly suspect that will soon change.