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One relevant factoid is that going underground is far cheaper in Amsterdam than in many other places. A great part of the city does not have tarmac roads, but rather tiled roads of bricks resting on sand. The surface is easy to drive on and extremely well-maintained.

So when you go out at night it's common to see work crews building new infrastructure by lifting up the bricks and piling them to one side, digging up the sand and working on pipes and conduits, followed by replacement of the sand and the bricks. By 7am or so they have gone, the street looks exactly the same as it did the day before, and the next night they return and do it all over again farther up the street. They make relatively little noise, traffic is largely undisturbed, and the construction crews operate with military-like discipline.

Not a very portable solution, but one that infrastructure planners might do well to consider for long-term development. Very practical people, the Dutch.
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I evaluated both pretty extensively and eventually decided to go with sproutcore.

Cappuccino is in many ways more revolutionary and the SC, as it completely throws out any notion of dealing with HTML and CSS. By completely abstracting the presentation some things become easier, but some things become impossible (for example: they cappuccino devs haven't implemented all of CGGraphics, and that makes some things that are trivial in CSS, like rounding the corners of an image, effectively impossible). With SC you're working with HTML and CSS, though most of the HTML is generated by JS. I found the latter approach more flexible, especially if you can target CSS3-supporting browsers.

Both are based on cocoa, though Cappuccino takes its influences much more seriously. I love cocoa but I'm not terribly enamored with Obj-C syntax, so I don't really see why someone would want to take JS's superior syntax and replace it with Obj-C's, as cappuccino has done. Cappuccino also lacks a data store framework, while SC has a very good one.

Finally, SC uses native browser rendering as much as possible, which should make SC apps faster.

That said, I think Cappuccino has a lot of potential, and 280Atlas, a visual editor for cappuccino apps written in itself shows that. As it matures and the basically non-existent docs improve I think it will become increasingly worthwhile.
I'm from the bottom, so I still feel it for the bottom.

Don't be fooled by the blogs that I rocked;
I'm still, I'm still Jason from the block
Used to have a little, AOL gave me a lot
Mahalo isn't spam and I still know where I came from.
It can also kill them - imperial overstretch.
what I'm worried the most about is that while the big boys play, MSFT will sit and wait and then when everyone is weak enough the Borg will strike back and Evil Empire will reemerge.
I think that's also part of the reason why distortion can sound good - it can add a lot of fake depth to the music.
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Even more important; the speed of the things :)

This is why much of the satellite "intel" you see in films is pretty bunk.
Well, I'm sure therms of employment preclude discussing such things publicly. But it might explain why a fellow on the train was giving me dirty looks the other evening while I was playing with a Nexus one. When he turned to get off I noticed an Apple ID badge hanging from his belt.

Having said that, I saw probably 10 iPhone users in the same carriage, and as yet they have no truly compelling reasons to switch.
I think it is missing one key piece of advice - move to Alaska. After living there for several years I can't count how many people I ran into that were running from something and they never seemed too worried about getting found.
For plans we know will work based on the physics we know now, this is it.

Not really. Physics, as we understand it, and even the technology we know will work now (e.g. ion drives) can get us to other star systems - it's just there isn't much point considering how much time it'd take and how little danger we're in right now. Dr. Pamela Gay covered this in an episode of Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/space-flight/ep-145-interstella...

That said, I always work on the theory that our current understanding of anything is extremely limited. This works on macro and micro scales, from how we understand the Internet right up to physics. What we know about almost anything now compared to 100 years ago is black and white - barring blowing each other to bits or a major catastrophe, there's no reason to believe we won't be ridiculing our pitiful 2010 level of understanding of the universe in 2110.
That's what I thought about OS/2 :)
It's difficult, but I enjoy it so much. So, I had to vote 'no'.
It doesn't have to be businesses. When you learn the truth about anything that is commonly reported, you learn how shallow the reporting on it is. That is true whether you're gaining a deep knowledge of science, politics, a particular celebrity, or anything else you see in the news.

But if you think that reporters in general are bad, wait until you see a "documentary" on it. Hollywood's attitude is, "If we don't know the difference then our audience won't either." It shows.
It's one machine per 100 to 1000 clients. There's many ways to interpret that. On one hand, it's a measure of how much computing Google is doing for clients. On the other, it's an indication of the level of Google's costs per client, and indirectly how much revenue they make from those clients.

It's almost government-scale infrastructure. It's approaching the point where Google is running a machine per street. I wouldn't be surprised if a government made a grab for the local section of this infrastructure in some country within the next couple of decades, whether it's to control their citizens, or to wrest control from the corporation on behalf of their citizens.
How did I know that this was going to be over the ridiculous button-shuffle on the window decorators: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186958

Ubuntu is the only Linux distro in the position to be able to make bold design decisions, but unfortunately the people they have making those decisions are just as mediocre as the rest of the clowns, if not worse.

The few times they've exercised this have been fuckups, like the focus-stealing cpu-churning auto-update popup, and now this childish theme nonsense.
The app was a mix of yui2 (widgets) and jq (selectors). Yui3 has both.
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It's not like Adobe has some kill switch for Flash apps or can deny them new versions of Flash or anything.

If they were putting something that competed with Apple/AT&T in the App Store, that would be one thing because Apple could find (or invent) some TOS violation and then flip a switch and delete it from all the iPhones everywhere.

But Adobe can't do much to kill a Flash app they don't like. I guess they could add some "if domain = crocodoc.com {crash()}" type line to a Flash update, but it would be hard to do in a way where they wouldn't get caught, and that would be a horrible anti-trust case for them.

Besides, for a very long time, Crocodoc won't be taking appreciable market share. Plus I don't see Crocodoc as much of an Acrobat competitor. Acrobat is for creating and editing PDFs; Crocodoc is for marking them up with edits. I doubt very many people that actually need Acrobat could get away with just using Crocodoc.
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Stay the hell away from angel groups. Only deal with individual angels investors.

Angel groups almost universally consist of large numbers small time "investors" who don't really have the net worth to invest on their own. They take months and months to make a decision, and will invest a smaller amount, at a lower valuation than any individual angel.

I've yet to meet a single serious angel investor who's had anything positive to say about angel groups.
Already posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1205609
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"Like most internships, these roles are unpaid."

Apparently he hasn't read Joel on Software:
"I need to clarify something about internships in computer science and software development. In this day and age, in this country, it is totally expected that these are paid internships, and the salaries are usually pretty competitive."
I love it! Forget just checking in, give the people a reason to buy another round. The internet is such an enabler.
Ah meritocracy; nice in theory, in practice it generally falls apart pretty quickly. (been there, tried it a couple of times)

Anyway; the problem is there is a claimed meritocracy around Ubuntu but it's a bit of a facade. A friend who is a beta tester (and very active bug poster) says it's a bit of an old boys crowd in reality. (not that it's necessarily bad thing; but I hate these sham organisations everyone builds to make it look prettier)
What about single celled life? In a division one call seems to get renewed while another seems to age, you say. What if this animal is doing something similar?
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Very encouraging. I tried to "print to PDF" a sample doc I had been plying with, but it just reported some unnamed error.

Assuming that sort of stuff gets fixed and polished up, this site solves a few real problems for me.
Ever better and better cancer treatment combined with ever better and better lab grown organs could make for an interesting (and expensive!) future.
It's my understanding that certain turtles don't exhibit telomere shortening, and are effectively 'immortal' as well in that they don't age.
Ask HN: Durable  Earphones Wanted
I go through ear buds like crazy. I don't even listen to music that much so I'm not looking for crazy good quality, but I do frequently listen to podcasts and I live in a dorm room. The thing is I fall asleep with them in my ears so I need a pair that is very durable. Something long lasting.

Any recommendations?

Edit: Maybe these still need to be invented?
From what I know, Andrey (the poster) is pretty neutral on TD, maybe even a proponent. He's saying you should have an interface in mind when you start to write unit tests. Sometimes you can do that before writing code. Other times, exploring with a REPL first is better.
Here's another thing that needs to stop: Asking people for their first name + surname.

Not every culture has the concept of a surname. If you need to ask people for their names just do so via one one text field.
It's like everything distasteful about the Apache Foundation, but amplified a few orders of magnitude. Not surprising since the same corporate goons (IBM) are at the helm, except that this time around they're the founders and original contributors, not just filling a vacuum capitalizing on an existing project.
> I would have all the time if I wanted, but I don't, because I want to enjoy playing music - not to have it as yet another burden to bear.

You’ve completely swapped cause and effect.
Yet, code on. Why? Because we love it.

Eh, I can find other fun things to do. The sales guy makes a sale and takes a commission because you can't reuse the guy's sales effort. It's not like sales guy produces something after the sale that generates other sales.

Yes he collect valuable information, etc, but still every sale need effort by the sales guy.

Write a piece of code and... it lives for ever.
So we should charge even MORE! Yes, IF we all agreed to, we could.

But OPEC could charge $10000 per barrel of oil, yet someone always breaks the deal and starts selling oil cheaper and the price stabilizes a lot lower.

So imagine all of us get together and form a world wide union and then some guy writes software for less then we agreed!

That's why sales guys take a percentage and software guys don't.

Well that's not entirely true, if you are partner in a software consulting company you share in the profits.

And a sales guy could quit being a sales guy and work a steady and easier job with no bonus but a simple pay-check. He could spend more time with his family.

I guess what I'm saying is, quit whining.
I'm a developer with crocodoc. Yes, all annotations you make in crocodoc will show up in Acrobat Reader, Foxit, etc.

More detail: Sticky Notes and highlight comments are saved as native PDF comments. All other annotation types (highlights, strikeouts, and drawings) are drawn in to the PDF file.
Its fine. Downloaded the pdf. Its straightforward. Good examples. The topic of graphs is so interesting. Its more fun, as you read, to think about how this can describe real world networks like facebook friends, traffic patterns on a gmap, internet routers, world trade patterns.
Exactly! What other check-in app wants to make you buy rounds for your buddies.
> Yup, the iplog is a PDF file holding XML. The foundation is trying to move from an HTML based iplog to an XML based format. So we generated our iplog in XML, using code I wrote in JGit to mine the Git revision history. Someone told the legal team at the Eclipse Foundation that you can’t edit a PDF, so they “freeze” the iplog by putting its contents in PDF. But they don’t have an XSL to format it in human readable text, so we get this instead.

It's even worse than that! The PDF is titled "Microsoft Word - Document29" and has headings duplicating the name of the tag for each type: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.eclipse.org/eg...
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"Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."

--Joel Spolsky, Strategy Letter V

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

Google is trying its damnedest to commoditize the smart phone business. It would love for Apple, HTC, and everyone else to go down the same road PC manufacturers went down and cut their own throats competing on price. Only instead of taxing the manufacturers with a fat fee for each copy of Android, they will make their money owning the advertising and search business.
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Yes, you are correct on your definition. But arguing that the rich get taxed at a higher percentage by inflation than do the poor is silly. If the poor have no savings at all, then you are correct in they have nothing to lose but incorrect in that this equates to a progressive tax. That's like saying that a man with no money has a lower tax rate. He has no taxes at all. By your definition ALL taxes are progressive, but of course that's not true.

Many poor people do save, and inflation causes what they save to lose value at exactly the same rate as the money saved by the rich. If anything, by your definition, inflation is a regressive tax, meaning that the poor are taxed more than the rich. The rich tend to be good at profiting from inflation, as you noted.
Yes; that stuck out for me too. In our experience, angel groups are a complete waste of time.
crocodoc developer here. This generally depends on the complexity and number of pages in the PDF. If your PDF has a lot of images, graphics, etc or has a lot of pages (more than 60-80) or some combination thereof, Flash becomes...shall we say, unhappy.

Feel free to contact myself or crocodoc support about the issue and we'll take a look at it.
> So how do you write a test for a case you couldn't foresee?

TDD is a design technique, not a testing technique.
I'm going to have to ask you to use the phrase "why some people hate you." RIght or wrong, why would I get up in the morning and hat a guy who I have never met and has so far not done me a bad turn?

Because he admires himself? What is this, Sunday morning church moralizing about the SIn of Pride? This is Hacker News! We pride ourselves on our hacking prowess and startup-fu!! If you want a sin to rail against, it's false modesty.

Jason may be wrong about how smart he is. That's just being wrong about something. It's no more reprehensible than my being wrong about thinking I could raise a son and found a company at the same time (Paul, you were right about my chances even if I have no regrets about my choice).
You can do hashes in the CL reader? How? I don't recall being able to, from back when I was trying out CL.

It's probably bad you can express cyclic graphs. That means you'll have to watch for denial-of-service attacks phrased as cyclic data.

Programmable reader isn't the point. That gets you back into defining your own syntax. The point is to have a standard.
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I didn't mean to imply that all people hate him. I just meant that there are (many) people that hate him. I would have said "why everyone hates you" if that's what I meant. But I can see why it would sound like that's what I meant.
Yes - I actually was trying to work through the stuff above and it didn't quite 'click'. I'm also looking at 'other' frameworks that achieve the same thing...

Thanks for the update tho!
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking.

Did they like ... just evolve or something? You'd think they'd have spiked before now and reached equilibrium.
Fair enough. And it seems from reading HN you may be right, although I suspect it has more to do with certain choices than with certain words. But looking at my own life I'm in no position to moralize about business ethics, I used to work in sales...
Here's another one: clear this article from your internet history.
Let incorporate all sort of exotic technologies that's emerging out of material science as well!
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Thought experiment: what's the open-source analogue to market pressure that would force Canonical to reverse course?

The market system isn't a democracy either, except in one sense - money votes. But when the product is free, and the infrastructure for automatic updates and upgrades from a single vendor is baked in, how do users express their preferences?
I think it depends on what you're validating. If you are trying to validate a name, you had better get it right! For example, my Visa still says Reginald Braithwaite-Lee, but I might register on your site as Reg Braithwaite. Did I misspell my name or is that what's on my Visa? Is the hyphen a typo?

OTOH, some things seem to be more certain, like rules about check sums. I like the approach suggested by many folks: Use JS to validate on the client, and put up a "Are you really, really sure?" message for things that seem unusual like a single name or a funny character.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_14710378?nc...

The original story, with an interesting video if you have a spare half hour. Steve Jobs and Arnold Schwarznegger team up with a democratic senator from San Jose to support legislation which will mandate active gathering of donor information, and the creation a live kidney registry, the first in the US.

If you live in California, this is a truly bipartisan issue you can feel proud to support, whatever your politics. Contacting my local senator to ask they do the same took only 5 minutes.
The same way users express disapproval of paid programs: use another product. (Debian, Fedora, etc.)
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A bit late on this comment, but to reply to you all, I'm not saying Perforce is insecure, just that it's not more secure. And yes, stupidity/ignorance/laziness are the root causes of most hacks.
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Don't forget the most important toes of all: China.
Correct: angel groups and the author are a waste of precious time.
I'm going to guess that Apple is in the weaker (or at least more vulnerable) position, given that it was the first to resort to lawsuits. I'm not sure they really have an effective counter to Google entering the smartphone market.
The API should take as input the same structure it gives in responses.

Ideally you would get different kinds of responses for the same resource by using the Accept header, so that browsers get text/html but your app gets application/xml or whatever you asked for. Unfortunately everyone seems to be following Rails' lead of just appending extensions onto the end of URLs — if you're lucky they'll use HATEOAS, but they usually just expect you to concatenate strings on your end using foreknowledge.
Well, Brubeck is to Rubalcaba as Mozart is to Mahler, and for many of the same reasons.
It will be interesting to see how the different ISPs want to differentiate their offerings to private customers and local businesses.
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[Disclaimer: I do not work for IBM, I do work for Rackspace, I have been in "the corporate world" for over a decade, I have used Eclipse as a developer and I'm currently helping get a project going around cloud deployment through the IDE]

The structure isn't just to make people's lives difficult. Is it going to be the perfect process for everything? -> probably not. Will it help keep the end user experience and quality high on the project? -> probably so.

Working at a place like IBM doesn't mean you want to "do evil" just like working for a small startup doesn't mean you're automagically out to only "do good". Take a real look at the amount of quality stuff IBM contributes to the OSS community: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource

Another example, take a look at where your Linux kernel is coming from: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10288910-16.html -- More help from IBM.
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Is this better than Google GWT?

Could one build something with the same graphics and responsiveness like Googles "Speed Tracer" plugin which is way cool?

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/speedtracer/
This form of immortality displeases me. I'd rather not turn back into a fetus for the sake of immortality.
"I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil." http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockford...
Hardy a good old boys club. I would suggest actual examples rather than a 'my friend says' vague statement.

As someone with direct Ubuntu development experience, the majority of packages (ie what they refer to as universe) are generally maintained by community members with very few ties to each other other than IRC interaction.

It is likely one of the easiest projects to get involved with because not only is it not a selective club, but they actively run training classes on how people can get involved.
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Timeless piece: Founder Pie Calculator.

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%2...
The OP's complaints seem to be about process that doesn't add anything to the end quality of the product. Compulsory auto-generated change logs within source files? That sure sounds like clueless box-ticking bureaucracy, unless I'm missing something.
It's just intelligent-sounding enough that a foolish person might on it's suggestions. Bad thing.
I'm glad you mentioned the logo. Some other people mentioned it was nice, now I know they were just pulling my leg. What makes you think it is a nice site?
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I'm pretty sure that was meant to be humorous.
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Sony MDR-7506 for about $100. I have over a decade's experience as a professional sound engineer, score in the 98th percentile in clinical audiology tests, and use >$2000 microphones. All other headphones are junk.

Also, noise-cancelling headphones are a tool of the devil. Consumer earbuds were invented by one of his minions. If you own a pair, sell them or better yet throw them away.