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At the risk of telling you something you already know:

I was having trouble with Eclipse running painfully slow on my MBP until I discovered it was using the 1.5 JVM. Switched it to 1.6, and now it's bearable.
Reminds me of Smalltalk...
It doesn't 'require' fancy UI elements but that's what makes a decent app good or a good app great. Having lots of fragmented hardware to support (eg multiple resolutions) is a pain.
How wonderfully fatuous.

Kissinger, Arafat, a newly-inaugurated president who justified the wars he was continuing in his acceptance speech, and now a communications medium.

Retire the Peace Prize. They clearly have no idea what to do with it.
I'm intrigued by Heroku (and EY Cloud), but the thing that really freaks me out is how they charge for every little extra thing. I love the idea of a turnkey solution for Rails deployment and cloud scalability, but for me personally I don't think I would do a startup on it because the value proposition is squeezed from both sides.

On the low-end I can get a VPS for $10-$20 month and get a Rails app up and running for a significant number of users with just that modest outlay. I can install SSL and any software I want and have a predictable amount of resources to play with. Yes, there is some sysadmining overhead, but setting up Nginx w/ passenger is like an hour of work once you've been through it a couple times, and similarly a lot of the add-ons that Heroku charges a monthly fee for are just a small one-time time investment. When I'm trying to bootstrap something really small the last thing I want is ramping up a significant recurring cash costs just to run some open source software that is really not hard enough to setup or maintain to justify recurring costs.

On the high-end when I'm using a lot of server resources, I'm paying a growing premium for a given amount of resources. Now don't get me wrong, it's nice to be able to magically adjust for traffic spikes, but if I have a consistently high amount of traffic, once again I'm paying a high recurring cost for actual resources that are a fraction of the cost, especially if I need any add-ons which are not inherently resource-intensive—maybe I'm actually just paying for SaaS of essentially open-source components. Actually I have this problem with EC2 and S3 in general to some extent, though much less so than with Heroku because the markup is lower and I've still got a large degree of control.

The benefit of Heroku is that they maintain an up-to-date and well-tuned Rails stack w/ add-ons on top of EC2. There is definitely value there. But in all cases there is this downside of overhead and flexibility. The clincher for me is that ultimately Heroku may end up not supporting something I need that would be trivial open-source stuff on any UNIX VPS. At that point I will need to migrate off of Heroku and all those supposed sysadmin costs hit me full in the face all at once rather than being amortized over the life of the project. Maybe I'm just turning into a cranky old man (at 31!), but VPS or dedicated servers still seem like a better value considering all risk factors. If I had VC money and was trying to ramp something up really fast I might reconsider.
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I have never used Redis, or any other NoSQL database before, but have always been interested. I actually went through the whole tutorial, and now I feel like I have a better understanding of what all the fuss is about.

That being said, and this is outside the scope of the tutorial, but how are these key/data/NoSQL stores at storing up a large value (think of a TEXT or BLOB column)? Just curious...
When I first saw the photograph of the interns' office, I thought that the article was a joke. I really don't understand how anybody could program productively under those conditions.
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It is classed by the FAA as an ultralight aircraft. Google surely will provide full details, but in brief, that means that you cannot fly it over any inhabited area. No commuting.
Those are both awesome suggestions that I enthusiastically second. Especially the paste-preview thing, that's practically a must-have.
Users don't matter if the product breaks and never gets fixed.
The fundamental economic problem of the legal profession is this: a good lawyer can make a snap judgment that saves a company many millions of dollars. But for whatever reason, people get really ticked off at this kind of conversation:

"So, should we sign this agreement with our supplier, or not?"

"Well, I know the answer, and I'll tell you for five million dollars. Keep in mind that answering this right will save you fifty million dollars."

"Fuck you."

So instead of charging the market price for insight, they charge way, way above the market price for research, high-end secretarial work, etc. This is less efficient in terms of wealth generated per hour, but more efficient in terms of capturing the wealth generated by knowing the law.
Accuracy, perhaps, but Hollywood accuracy--it looks just the way things would have looked in 1944 if orthodontia had by then reached its perfection and the Wehrmacht and Rangers recruited based on looks.

Steven Spielberg has a terrific eye for detail, but I would argue the historic sense and insight of a grade-school kid playing GI in the back yard.
It seems that the OP hasn't noticed that Resource Provider is an, ummm, Provider. With that pattern, MS supplies a default implementation, but you're free to build your own.

Our web site uses a custom Resource Provider, allowing us to store all the translations into a database. And the key to getting the resources back out isn't just the user's language, but also the Customer's identity, so that all the text in the site is completely customizable per customer.

The end result is something that's probably easier to maintain than the "Everybody Else" that the OP references.

Oh, and under "Referencing Translated Text (by using)", I don't get the complaint. You can name your resource anything you want, so it can be just the same as "The text itself" if you want. But in rich, complex systems it's frequently not safe to leave it as such. The text is also dependent on the context in which it's displayed, so two places on your site that have the same text in English may translate as different strings once you factor in the contextual stuff.
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(my April Fool's joke from a few years ago).
It appears to me its more like Google or Bing and I do not understand why it is useful.
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Honestly when you get a couple sentences from someone that is good, the majority of users give you about 2-3 seconds to show them why they shouldn't just close the tab or move to another site.
Quoting Hemingway on a crap detector is like quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger on the dangers of steroids.
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Re point 2. The iPad has a much larger screen then the iPhone so now you will be building apps with custom screens and layouts...

I think the biggest problem with the Android marketplace is that unless you are in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom or United States you cannot actually sell your apps since you cannot set up a Google Checkout account! No such problem with the Apple App store...
the issue i was trying to raise is why the hell are entrepreneurs paying their law firms by the hour. it just rewards inefficiency, overstaffing and padding.
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So, ends first, means second?
Actually, storage is the least problematic part of the default i18n scheme in ASP.NET. It'd be just as easy to dump out .resx files from FairlyLocal instead of .po files.

The thing that needs fixing is how you mark text for translation, since that's the thing that developers won't do if it's painful. In the "Everyone Else" world, you get in the habit of writing _("") everywhere you'd normally write "", and suddenly all your text gets translated automatically.

It's pretty cool.
Looking forward to it, thanks for organizing!
That's the World-Wide Web, not the Internet. The Internet enables email, IM & IRC, online gaming, SSH, online backups, voice & video conferencing, and the World-Wide Web.
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Not even kind of the same thing.
Looks pretty, I guess. But you still haven't said anything of substance here or on your site about why it is better.

What is wrong with other sites? What does your site do better? I put about as much care into my comment as you put into selling your website.
“73primenumbers is a refreshing model of humility in an industry ruled by hype and buzz.”

Worth it for that quote alone. Thanks (:
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What is the reason for it then? Scaling? But you still have to work on those nasty sql queries. Too bad it doesn't support any nosql database.
let me rephrase: what quantitative predictions can I make using the results of this study?
I will be happy to accept the money on behalf of the entire Internet.
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But the idea behind minimum wage (as I understand it) is to ensure a living wage to people who are supporting themselves with the job. If you aren't getting paid anything, then you clearly aren't supporting yourself with the job; you're investing in yourself, just like going to school. That's why I assumed it would be legal to pay people zero but illegal to pay people less than minimum wage.
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I feel like the response has been fairly lukewarm, but to me this is some really nice (dare I say game-changing) stuff. Mindmap + IDE = great. Why? I have written in a variety of languages, and my number one complaint, whether it be with eclipse, textmate, vim, emacs, whatever, is the clumsiness of going from one file to another and then back to the original. Further, outside of actual development, when debugging, I really like to have all the different pieces open at once. This is a nice way for this to happen and is pretty slick with the different gui movement options. I, like other posters, would be really psyched if you could have some kind of MVC opener which would automagically open all the code files using a certain view. That would save a lot of time shuffling, and then save a lot of time by having them all displayed simultaneously. Anyway, I'm probably over reacting, but after years of having to go back to the mouse everytime i need to look at a new file or struggling to figure out in which square i put which file, this is definitely, in my opinion, a step in right direction.
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My impression is that Facebook stole a lot of the potential Twitter thunder. For communicating among your Facebook friends, Facebook status updates are at least as good as Twitter, maybe better. A lot of my friends are on Facebook, more every day; far fewer are also using Twitter.

IMHO Twitter is a tool for following interesting people who aren't close enough to you to be your friend in something like Facebook. But what makes someone interesting on Twitter? Being a celebrity is not it: Most celebrities aren't famous for generating Twitter-type content. They're famous for acting or sprinting or golf or good looks, none of which translates well to Twitter.

Being an important company is not it, either, unless you enjoy reading press releases or are a serious power user.

The people I follow are hackers, writers, artists, and good linkers. People who are otherwise hard to follow via mass media, but are not close enough to be personal friends. It doesn't surprise me that the audience for that is large but not gargantuan, just as it doesn't surprise me to know that the market for novels is an order of magnitude smaller than the market for sitcoms.

It also doesn't surprise me that the Twitter audience skews older. Isn't catering to kids what the rest of the media is for?
It may not be motivational, but god it does train you to love and cling to those tiny tiny little victories.
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http://www.delishbits.com/languages/c# shows same as http://www.delishbits.com/languages/c
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That's just URL encodings. Try http://www.delishbits.com/languages/c%23

(foo.com/c# is parsed as an anchor)
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I think the definition of "mainstream" audience, in the first paragraph is the beginning of the problem.

If we continually redefine the "mainstream" audience to lower and lower common denominators, as the people who don't know and care about the technology they use, why should they ever care to use linux?

One of the biggest powers of free software is it's ability to teach people about computers and how technology works, lets start from there.
Without screenshots / explanation / some more content, you're not very informative... (edit: I know it's emacs, but without explanations it's like saying C-x M-c M-butterflies)
Right, but there's no guarantee that the OpenGL renderer will be exposed to the Windows games.
Most people just use Facebook to do what they might with a Twitter account. I would say comments, likes, and above all it being built into something that they already have is what gets people to actually use it.
DARPA then?
Cut the shenanigans and just nominate TBL! He actually deserves it. He hasn't sought out peace, as another commented suggested the prize should focus on, but indirectly, he's caused a lot of peace through communication.
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>* Concurrency? (Scrivano et al.)

This would be nice!
This is spam. See user's previously dead'd submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112868
Specifically Squeak... I wonder if it is built with Squeak?
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Doh, you're right. I actually mapped nearly the same route (I live in upper Haight) and I saw it didn't use the Wiggle, but didn't realize it was because the route was downhill.

I wonder if it's based on special cases (like the mapped bike routes) or terrain.

Anyway, that's great.
make the url /c-sharp rather than /c#, or check the location.href to see if there is a # in it. Hardly anyone is going to remember that # is %23
This is exciting for our site, as our users want ways to see bike paths more clearly as well as better auto-routing along those bike paths. Driving directions crosses nasty highways, walking directions ends up routing over gravel and the like, so hopefully their biking directions is the 'just right' medium.

I am really surprised they didn't leverage the OSM data for bike routes. They used a group I had never heard of (though the group sounds pretty cool -- railways to bikepaths!). I wonder if they'll expand/revise using the OSM dataset.
Proven? Really? Who proved this? What were their methods?
Full disclosure: I currently although not for long work on the Google Affiliate Network which pretty much does exactly that. Most affiliates host the ad themselves.
A list (for instance) is not a monad. A list plus appropriately defined unit_list and bind_list together form a tuple which is a monad. That's the 'is a' sense of monads.

When you refer to a list itself, it's easier to think of it as having the adjective "monaded" since unit and bind are defined even if you don't usually carry them around with you. A list is a monad/has the properties of a monad because the appropriate definitions of unit and bind both can exist and are written.
Every time I read about one of these things, it scares the crap out of me as a user and as a programmer. As a user, I always worry that zero day exploits are like cockroaches: if you see one, it's likely there are thousands more you can't see. As a programmer, I worry that the sum of all the micro-decisions I have made on a project will cause some horrid security flaw that I didn't anticipate.
Terrain view isn't high enough resolution. I just want a heat map showing "hot spots".
Emacs ism

First split the screen horizontally, then split the current panel vertically.

Not the same thing, at all.
The title is a misnomer. You don't quadruple your wealth by going somewhere else, you just cut your burn rate by a 3/4. Moving to another country to eat up your savings is a very short term strategy - a lot of fun perhaps, but short term all the same.

A more useful discussion would be how to move to another country and run your web based business, or to become ramen profitable in a country where the ramen is pretty cheap.
Interesting article. I like the concept of a supply-side labor market. A few thoughts:

Planned-economy socialism has severe and often fatal imperfections, but it's still better than our corporate oligarchy/ochlocracy, which retains the worst of both worlds between capitalism and socialism. I'd honestly rather live in the world of Scott Adams, where society has the balls to do something about health and energy, than in this doomed, perennially grid-locked corporate mess we've got going on now. We're so hogtied by the legal equivalent of bad legacy code, and our leadership is so gutless, that we can't even get universal healthcare passed.

The optimal solution is somewhere in the middle between the planned economy and free-market capitalism. You need government to prevent corporations from casting a shadow, and to correct for market failures such as widespread unemployment and high housing costs, and to fund public goods that aren't profitable (infrastructure, research) in the short term, and otherwise stay out.
I sort of like orthogonalscalators, because it's huge and people seem happy to abuse "orthogonal". Plus, it brings strange things to mind when you mention that there are two or three of them in parallel...
I used the college kids example not as a "twitter is meant for younger people" example. It's the fact that college campuses are usually good predictors of technologies and apps that are gaining mainstream popularity. Ironically Facebook is growing heavily in the older segment, which is making the "Facebook stealing twitters thunder" even more important.

Another overlooked demographic of the twitter userbase is the urban segment. A ton of rappers use the service, hence bringing more fans. Go look at most of the hashtag trends on search.twitter ie- #whyursingle. Almost all of the responses are from an urban/black audience. I think there's some X Factor there, as it could turn twitter into something more mainstream. I don't know.
You'll see the same kind of ratio for almost any forum or website that people sign up for. I've been on a number of forums on which the median number of posts is one, and they're pretty lively, so this statistic doesn't mean much to me.
I use ZBrush to create displacement maps using HD geometry, which doesn't use actual polygons in the classic sense. A lot of the ultra high poly models you see on the turntables and such use the same technique. You can easily make a mesh well over a billion polys that doesn't impact the system. http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/HD_Geometry

I doubt they'd have anything anywhere near ZBrush's flexibility and depth.
Yes. If you wander, by definition you'll always have a difficult time learning any language. Whereas if you're able to focus -- perhaps by writing an app that you find compelling, perhaps by simple willpower -- then you'll actually master whatever language you're attempting, which will naturally lead you to learning more difficult concepts.
I realize it's a parody, I'm just struggling to figure out what its purpose is, or why it's funny.
Very cool. This is closer to how I envision my ideal IDE.
The only compelling case for Twitter I've found so far are announcements from local merchants/organizations.

I follow some restaurants in my city, and it is useful for keeping tabs on specials and other happenings around me, but it's almost entirely useless for personal communication - Facebook does it better with more existing adoption.
The Pareto principle should apply to Twitter, as it does to many other things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Why should I do that? The faulty link is on the site under http://www.delishbits.com/explore
Facebook and local advertising is going to fuck shit up big time. Once local merchants know they can target: women 24-32 who are single like wine and live within 10 miles of your town. Yeah, that's going to be big.

I agree though, Twitter has an interesting case for local merchants.
2 things

1. /Way/ too much mouse-action for coding in my opinion

2. I saw no mention of the best killer feature I can see for this, which is allowing refactoring and restructuring of code by extract bubbles, moving them around, popping bubbles... I've been wanting to perform refactorings in a visible fashion for quite some time now.
Multiple resolutions is not a problem, it is just pathetic excuse of Apple fanbois. Just wait, until Apple comes with iPhone using higher res, then of course it will be best thing since sliced bread and Apple will be first with such a novel concept.
I like this idea. Interactivity was on my mind while I was implementing the current version. There's lots of ways to improve the actual teaching process it offers, and it's something I'm interested in continuing to develop.
Not to mention that the hardware available to the iPad is probably going to be considerably better than the hardware on an iPhone.

All those iPhone developers who previously only had to worry about the iPhone and iPod touch now have a third to add to the mix. And as more versions of each get released the landscape gets worse and worse. Android may have come out of the gate with a more difficult landscape but the App Store will not always be immune either.
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I think using c-sharp is a good idea. Makes it easier to find in search engines too.
Acknowledged and appreciated. Thanks to both posters.
Nice parody on the whole "let's make a webapp to help people track their todo lists".
Finally reply to all the comments. And I would have the last word. Ha.
I see how useful it could be, but I wonder if it would be good for me. So far I've tried to run in exactly the opposite direction:

1. not using mouse at all

2. concentrating on what needs to be done to what object... not where

I'm a heavy Vim user, so I'm relying on ctags / incremental searching / positions stack for a lot of work. This goes exactly the other way - click your way through to the point you want to get to.

On the other hand, I'd probably prefer to fix bugs in this environment instead of in Vim, because it gives a lot more context and freedom. It looks good for... let's say "exploratory programming".

Maybe it's time to think 2 different IDEs - for "writing code" and for "modifying code"?
In your criticism you've missed an important factor. The former sentence is better writing.

I also struggle with this when I write, but I try to catch myself and avoid going down that slippery slope. You can spend the time trying to make each of your statements precise so that no one can challenge it like you've challenged this one. Alternatively, you could choose to put something strongly, trusting your audience to see your point and find your readers are more engaged and eager to discuss your ideas.
Maybe I'm being a bit naive here, but... if you can't trust your lawyers, shouldn't you find some new lawyers?

I would hope that a lawyer interested in a long and mutually profitable relationship with a client would forgo the potential short-term profits he could reap by padding his bills.
Wow, I've been dreaming of being able to do exactly this for a long time, but I didn't think I'd ever see it implemented.