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I was once in a feel-good Arab-American lovefest summit where influential Arabs were being shown around NYC and DC at the behest of Karen Hughes and the Bush administration. I was in it for the free food.

They bused an assortment of Iraqis back to their hotel after a day of sightseeing historic places in town. And I stuck around interpreting for one of the artists ..

Long story short. The Iraqis gathered in the hotel lobby where the TV was set to Fox news and, I must say, a day's worth of diplomacy was undone with one hour of the O'Reilly Factor.

I am all for freedom of expression, but Fox News is something I rather keep in the U.S. Fox can broadcast overseas as long as they supply traveling and expat Americans with Canadian-flag backpack badges.

It's just embarrassing, eh.
Tell HN: I'm willing to develop a free iPhone App. What do you need?
I'm about to learn the SDK so instead of doing just a hello world I wanted to do a real application. Is there anything you think is missing, is too expensive in the app store or its usefull but does not exist because it lacks a business model? My intention is to do a real and usefull app, and being the first one I develop I'll publish it for free. You have my 30-point-karma word on it.
or more importantly: workout regularly
I have a job where the office is IRC. Right out of the gate, using chat isn't more efficient. But after a period of adjustment, I would say about a month it becomes natural and just as efficient in most cases as having a face to face conversation.

I would say where it doesn't work well is when you need to discuss a lot of details. I think having meetings occasionally (on the phone or face to face) makes sense. It help gives a broader view on the project. I think Jason is referring more to having meetings every day. Often it simply isn't useful.
From the little I have seen, the show is very American centric, and at many points is arguably xenophobic (isolationist to say the least). It is very strange that this would be shown in Brittan (much less popular).
Christianity IS a mechanism for hegemony among many other things (just like technology is a mechanism for hegemony and other things etc.). I think we generally agree: people will be people and good and bad will be done with or without religion, which was really just an example (so Korea was an example of an example? ok time to end it :P).

"For what it’s worth, I also find packaging aid to desperately poor people with religious ideology to be distasteful/awkward and agree that it is potentially abusive."

This was my main point and we agree :)
1.You’re right but Jobs has shown that he doesn’t think it’s a good idea to mix politics and business: http://gawker.com/505501/apple-crushes-iphone-developers-dre...

2.I would hope not. Say what you will about Fox News it’s no worse than MSNBC on the other side. Unless you truly believe Scott Brown is a “Irresponsible, Homophobic, Racist, Reactionary, Nude Model, Teabagging, Supporter Of Violence Against Women and Against Politicians with whom He Disagrees”. Apple’s fans clearly skew liberal but I’d like to think anyone would be opposed to that kind of hypocrisy.

Edit: I don't mean to be rude but I just don't have the energy to argue with political nonsense. So all those who claim MSNBC is so much better than Fox News are just being ridiculous. One's left wing and one's right wing and the only reason a person would think one is better than the other is if they subscribed to the political agenda of that station.

Citing Joe Scarborough is no different than Fox citing Alan Colmes (no longer on the network but who would still have a job there if he wanted it). And it's just silly to say someone like Olbermann is better or worse than Hannity or O'Reilly.
Dude, internet forums will never be places of quality discourse so long as any random person off the street can post a comment.
They’d lose money on Beck. Let’s be honest, protests don’t work. They never work. Because eventually the protestors get bored and move on to a new cause. Remember not too long ago when the left tried to get the CEO of Whole Foods fired? That’s a chain with a major liberal customer base and even it came to nothing. The only way to enact real change is to have a long term strategy and by putting money in to other Fox shows you’re driving their rates up while Beck’s rates fall. So in the end you’re creating a situation where Beck looks like the weak link and Fox starts to ask themselves if another host could do just as well.

Boycotting the network on the other hand is, I guarantee you, going to drive his rates up. Every talk radio show is going to jump on this bandwagon and conservatives who don’t watch Beck are going to start watching him out of offense. The network’s going to feel under fire and back Beck and which point this protest has guaranteed Beck and job and actually raised his rates.
I for one am glad about this. Glenn Beck is the worst kind of person, stirring up fear for his own personal gain.

This along with google's decision to leave china, have been two great examples of companies doing (at least what I perceive to be) the right thing.
I've been blogging periodically at http://nerdnomad.com. The most interesting posts are probably these two:

http://nerdnomad.com/the-rv-loophole/

http://nerdnomad.com/whats-something-like-that-set-you-back/

I'm revisiting the budget in the next post, as it's been more expensive than I expected in some ways, and less expensive in others. Overall, it evens out and I'm saving a ton over living in Mountain View (though, admittedly, I was living pretty luxe in Mountain View with a 1000 sq ft house a few blocks from downtown). More importantly, every day is a comfort-zone smashing experience, which I'm convinced is good for mind, body and soul.

I've also been twatting at http://twitter.com/nerdnomad and flicking at http://flickr.com/photos/nerdnomad

As I mentioned, I'm at Slab City, which is a truly unique American experience. Salvation Mountain is here, along with hundreds of RVers and campers, all squatting on government land and living wholly off the grid and seemingly getting along just fine. I don't think I've ever seen more solar panels in one place; and I've visited the Google campus. I do worry about where some of these folks are putting their wastewater...many of the RVs here have not moved in years, and there are no public restrooms for miles around, nor are there septic hookups. Anyway, obviously Slab City is worth blogging about, so I'll be posting about that soon, as well, along with millions of pictures.
The difference is that NASA uses systems engineers. From their point of view, it is not the "program" which can have bugs, but rather the "system" in its entirety—where "system" consists of the software, the hardware in the field, the hardware in the control center, and all the operations staff paid to perform certain tasks (i.e. execute algorithms—basically additional hardware.) If one part of your system (the software) needs to be rebooted, but another part (the people) is "programmed" to do it autonomously, then the system as a whole has no bugs.

It's sort of the thinking that goes into Erlang programs—rather than, say, thinking out complex GC strategies, you just create little process-sized vessels which grow, overflow, are killed, and then are recreated by other processes. It's not a "bug" that an individual process has died any more than it's a bug when one of the cells in your body dies.
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If it's that easy, it won't be long before we have pics of the first lolcat in space.
The reports look really great, that cannon plunder example report link should be front and center.
That's okay. I lol'd. I was going to say something like "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light." - So I voted you up.
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The CEO of Whole Foods did resign after pressure. See http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/12/26/Mackey-resigns-a...
Glenn Beck is one of those Crazy Mormons. His scaremongering is one of the reasons why groups like the militant christians, i.e. Hutaree, keep their membership growing.
It's a private company, named after him, over which I suspect he has near-total ownership. It's perfectly fair for him to describe it's activities as his own, in the first person.

(And that's even without recourse to the common practice of synecdochally using the leader of an organization to represent the whole.)
The counter is annoying. Maybe choose a better gradient for the button, it looks weird to me. The bright blue title like "Analytics for flash games" is too bright to me. Make the text on the white background bigger. Make the thumbnails clickable to full size images would make this a lot better.
For me, it is important to personally know my coworker. You cannot do that with chat.

If coworkers know each other, there's a degree of comfort to be much more open and honest to each other without taking offense.
1.) It's Fox News, not broadcast Fox and not NewsCorp.

2.) Fox News is the largest cable _news_ station and number two overall, that's still a fraction of viewership of cable in aggregate. The overwhelming number of ppl get their news from broadcast tv. [http://www.mediabistro.com/TVNewser/Ratings/]

3.) Advertisers are incredibly risk averse, since there are plenty of safer choices, they can simply move their dollars and save the trouble.

4.) Lastly, this campaign by colorofchange.org has been going on for quite a long time and it's been effective. It's against Beck specifically and not the Fox Network in total.

5.) Whole foods, the kerfuffle about the Whole Foods Chairman was also resolved, he resigned:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/12/26/Mackey-resigns-a...
Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.

Dr. Peter Venkman: What?

Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?

Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.

Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?

Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
"Think banks have an unfair advantage? Then be a bank. Think corporate radio is keeping your music from being heard? Then make a radio station."

A willingness to oversimplify the world certainly makes it a lot easier to write the kind of motivational drivel that this post aspires towards.
Are you one of those people in marketing? If so, straighten me out because I don't believe you!
It does not seem like a decision that was made with the best financial interests of shareholders at heart.

Unless Fox tried to force them to buy a package, I do not see why they could just avoid advertising on Beck's show.
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I wish it weren't so, but they do have a solid viewership.
I live in New Orleans and when locals listen to music here they clap, (on the 2 and 4), dance and move around. I recently attended a festival in Finland, and folks just sat there, the same thing happened in Virginia. No one moved. It was weird. So... come on down to NOLA, dance, clap and pass a good time. By the way, we are having a Trad Jazz Camp for Adults this summer. Check out www.neworleanstradjazzcamp.com
This is a really good idea. It just so happens that I'm in the market for a motion designer or animator for a TV commercial I want to run.

I didn't know exactly where to search for any talented designers, and eLance, along with some of the job boards, really don't give you much material to review. But I like this setup at first glance, and the quality so far seems to be pretty good.

I might actually find who I'm looking for through this service.
Try watching the chair adjustment how-to videos: http://www.hermanmiller.com/Products/Aeron-Chairs
It's a signature linguistic quirk that Apple has used in hardware documentation as far back as I can recall. Anyone know when it dates to? It's got to be pretty old if it was used concurrently with the "Welcome to Macintosh" onscreen message in pre-OSX operating systems.
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I know I'm going to get voted down, but ...

Saying "I know I'm going to get voted down" and not being a complete troll: best way to ensure that you don't get voted down?
I am curious to hear about more experiences (positive and negative) using flippa.com
If you're young and you're depressed by the phrase "It's all about who you know", I really encourage you follow this quick, life-changing script: email two or three people in your town that can help you, and offer to buy them lunch so you can pick their brain. It's very easy to meet people, and you don't have to be fake, politic, or even very outgoing.
I would second Reality Dysfunction. The series is very well written, and takes some interesting ideas on technology, genetics and human modification and pushes them through to interesting endpoints. Well thumbed copies are on my bookshelf.
MSNBC's morning show is led by Joe Scarborough, former republican congressman.

MSNBC has never devoted an entire week of airtime to promoting liberal rallies.

It's entirely different, and your kind of "split the difference, he said she said" attempt at objectivity just hides the truth. The truth is not necessarily the average between two idiots.
Glenn Beck primarily speaks out against progressivism and he believes that the United States is spending itself into oblivion. I, for one, completely agree with him.

If we are lucky, one day we will all be able to make ipods for China. :)
He resigned as Chairman, not CEO. From your link: "Whole Foods, along with many other companies with combined CEO/chairman roles, has been targeted by corporate governance activists for several years now seeking a separation of these roles."
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i think the design overall looks pretty solid. agree somewhat on the counter, cool at first, but annoying if you are reading the text on the page. small note, home page link (logo) is broken if you navigate to the register tab and want to go back home (unless you were doing that on purpose). Like the underlying concept as well. good job
No but you would have to pay fees if you produced kids with cancer.
It sounds great but can't they get rid of the ugly meters too?

In NYC, there's a box on the block instead. Haven't used one in a while but I think you get a printed receipt. You probably don't even need a box. Everyone can just go to a web page and see the status for the block, including the meter person. Next, RFID in car talks to parking spot? :-)
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The reddit thread contained many direct links to photos, and compressed archives of several thousand photos. Some of the archives contained NSFW photos of girls of very questionable age. Reddit and 4chan may be different sites, but there is a significant cross over of users (both literally, and in the "type of users" sense).
> 2.I would hope not. Say what you will about Fox News it’s no worse than MSNBC on the other side.

Ah, a "Pox on both their houses" argument. Actually, you're right, but not in the way you'd think. MSNBC was instrumental in "manufacturing permission" for the Iraq war. It also cut a backroom deal with Newscorp to not report on each other's dirty laundry (GE's Iran dealings, Fox News O'Reilly scandals). Back in the day (1998-2004) MSNBC was in some respects a Fox-lite. When Bush and the Republican's reputation crashed they jumped off that bandwagon and started bolstering left-wing talkers.

Beyond that there really is no comparison. Does the MSNBC of today lean left? Sure. But is it a major communication organ of the political Left-wing of the US the same way Fox is for the right? Not even close.
Whoa there. You're not even mentioning that he gives an example for each of these. Besides, he himself is an example of this; as he says, instead of complaining about music distribution, he started a distributor.

Is it not the case that our minds often like to tell us bleak stories that turn out to be far removed from reality? So maybe, reality doesn't necessarily need to be as complex as our minds might try to make it?
Please, MSNBC is definitely biased, but... You are falsely equating the FoxNews and MSNBC. Further, FoxNews is run by Roger Ailes ... which says an awful lot -- just read his descriptions of FoxNews.

MSNBC...
1.) Morning Joe in the morning is 3 hours of conservative programming every morning.

2.) Olbermann and Matthews are over the top, but nowhere near Hannity and Beck.

3.) Maddow's an excellent interviewer and actually allows her opponents to answer questions and engage in substantive dialogue -- unlike anyone else on FoxNews or MSNBC. Maddow is progressive/liberal whatever the folks call themselves; however, she is critical of Democrats and Republicans both all the time from her ideological positions -- not just by party like Fox hosts, anchors etc.. tend to do.
He resigned as Chairman of the Board but he's still a board member and is still CEO of the company. That's not being pushed out that's being smart enough to realize it would be better to put another face on the company because of a controversy.
You are not your job! You can stimulate your mind and learn (and that includes outside of IT too). If you can't get passionate to do that now - you might want to think of how you will cope with challenges as they crop up. Even dream jobs can turn into treadmills after a couple of months.
Right, better to recognize and bitch about the complications of accomplishing than taking an abstract cue and running with it. Far more productive.
Whats so bad about zones?
It's clear that they are no virtualization. As you said it's a middleground, more capable as jails but not virtual, which is fine if you don't need it?
Granted, not everything works this way. Far from everything. But it's a start, right? You can't change the system overnight, but you can change how you view the system in an instant. Maybe your new approach will fail. With a big and complicated enough proverbial stick, it's nearly assured.

But once you've taken the step of removing the arbitrary obstacles from your path, only the real ones remain. Which may sound a little depressing, but hey, once you're this far, why stop?
Video summary:

Jason Fried is one of the co-founders of the software as a service company 37 Signals and gives a good pep talk in this video that is sure to resonate with anyone that works in a typical office with more than a handful of employees in it.

He believes the modern workplace is “optimized for interruptions and interruptions are the enemy of work.” Work is like sleep in that we can’t immediately fall asleep and we can’t immediately get work done. There is a period of ramp up time before real work starts but there are so many distractions in the office that it makes it nearly impossible to stay in the flow of doing real work.

Jason plugs a few of 37 Signals software tools such as Campfire which allow employees to work with each other and communicate in an efficient manner without interrupting each others work flow. He also gives a few good jabs at managers who make a job out of interrupting the employees rather than just letting them work.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/29/why-you-cant-work-at-work/
Just finished reading Lila, the sequel.

Describes a very interesting conceptual framework, with a division between intellect, biology and society.

Highly recommended.
wow, i love this. actually, i always found it amazing what people can do in 512b/4kb/32kb, it's awesome!
For better or worse, Fox (ergo, Fox News) is shown just about everywhere, dude. Fox News is shown in Australia as one of the channels included with Foxtel pay TV. I had to go to Papua New Guinea for work last month, turned on the TV at the hotel in Port Moresby and there it was too.

For the English speaking countries at least, I have always assumed that there was a core audience agreeable to the views portrayed by Fox News, hence why it is shown. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.
This is an overly simplistic take on what I was getting at.

For example, it could be said that proprietary software increases the "positive freedom" of proprietary software developers. So then what's wrong with them releasing proprietary software? Isn't that what they should do, if it works best for them---makes them the most money or whatever, and thus increases their "positive freedom"?

One of the big problems with RMS is that he just throws out terms like "freedom" without stating what he means, giving a moral justification, and showing how they can be applied correctly.
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Hate the game, not the player? ;) Seems to make sense, just take the better side of a trade. Think the market's going to crash? Short it. Might be trickier to buy CDS if you don't believe in the mortgage market, but apparently someone did that!
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"Speaks out against progressivism. . ."?

Are you saying that he's bringing to light some caustic force within our country called "progressivism?" I can imagine a lot of ignorant people mumbling and nodding their heads in agreement, with images evoked of an unearthed cancerous network which is eating the country from its foundation. A cancer which has always been here, and has been causing the degradation of everything American. And this problem must be stopped. The solution is simple: anything "progressive" must be regressed, stomped out, and turned to ash, lest we sully our stupid, hardassed, values.

Puhlease. Glen Beck's message is absolutely atrocious and dangerous, and I cannot believe someone on HN would "completely" agree with him.

Seriously, "progressivism?" Let's go back in time and shoot the founding fathers.
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It's basically this sort of article, published a few times a month, interspersed with low-level Windows technical articles.
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"fair & balanced" -LOL

i wonder why i'm getting downvoted...we all know that each news outlet has their own angle on the way our country is going. if you don't believe that, then you sadly have your blinders on. see things for what they are folks
Please define how 'progressivism' equals 'spending into oblivion'. Does that include the 2 wars the U.S. has been waging for the last 7 years?
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Though the point caries, out of nerdiness, I'll point out that most lines are in fact legal:

int some_func(int, SomeComplexObject&);

Perfectly legal function declaration. You can omit variable names in the signature.

{
...
}

That defines a scope, which is also fine and occasionally used so that variable names can be recycled with other types later on.

int a = 1;

You claim this is redundant; I'm not sure why

if (b = 0) {

If there was a variable in scope named b, this would be legal (the one from above isn't), though probably not what's intended since it would always be false as it will contain the value assigned to b. This syntax is however sometimes used for things like:

if((location = find_something()) != -1) {

All of that said, if somebody claimed "years of C++ experience" and didn't immediately notice loads of errors in this in about 2 microseconds, they're either a horrible programmer or a liar, and in either case you don't want to remotely consider hiring them.
Yes, of course. But that's not a watermark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark
Is it just me, or does he not really say anything?
A read-only (invitation) forum with quality discussion would be fine too. I've heard the vast majority of forum users are lurkers anyway.