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Seems an odd thing to drift into the list as it is quite mature software now, I berated Russ for doing it as I felt it diluted Plan9, I'm glad I was wrong and he didn't listen.

Once you learn rc shell you might find other shells to be bloated, verbose and whitespace fussy. The only complaint I've ever heard was job control, well that's because job contgrol is the kernel's job and it seems that when implementing /proc someone forgot the ctl file.

On Plan9 one does

echo stop|start > /proc/$pidn/ctl

to stop or start a job
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" The fact that you're speaking of a consensus while sharing the opinions of only two people suggests that you have a lot of additional information you're not telling me about"

I hope you don't expect me to make a scientific paper out of a forum comment?

I seem to remember an article claiming a similar thing on HN just a couple of days or weeks ago (by one of the Guru bloggers). They pop up every now and then.

But since you don't seem to consent, I happily withdraw my claim that it is a consensus.

In the end I guess it doesn't really matter how you arrive at your good idea. Maybe some good ideas can be derived from asking customers, others come from other places.
Basing their OSs on Unix is what enables Apple to switch architectures rather easily. Moving OS9 to Intel would be a huge undertaking, much bigger than the 68K to PPC migration of OS7, mostly because the huge performance gap wasn't there. By that time, NeXT's environment had been successfully ported from 68K to SPARC, HP-PA and x86 (I can't remember if MIPS was in the lot too) running over at least three different kernels (Solaris, HP/UX and it's native kernel ported to x86). The PPC port and the resulting OSX was one more in a series of successful ports (and built on work that ported the Mach kernel to PPC that ran under MkLinux - I used it).

Having a clearly defined architecture-neutral API sitting over a portable kernel is the way to go. In fact, it has been the way to go in the Unix world since about the time I was born. ARM is the winning ISA this week, but betting the farm on it being the winning ISA forever is just silly.
Is a sample of the emission available to the public somewhere? Could be fun to see it and try to guess what it means :)
The part you have in quotes is really wrong because he is not saying something like that. Why are you changing what he said? This is really irritating. People use quotes when they want to refer to a statement as it was made.

which is "technical resources to tell whether an executable has been compiled from human-written C code or compile-target C code"
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Humility is the best PR strategy in this kind of situation.
The game called "Portal" is also a great one which is almost completely about exploiting the architecture of your surroundings.
Semi-seriously (as I assume the slides also are), I think the question's actually pretty open, as far as fields and disciplines go. There is a lot of cool stuff still to come in CS, but there's also a pretty big risk that CS will no longer "own" computing to the same extent it has. CS has historically owned everything computer-related, just because nobody else could actually operate and program computers, even when many of the main questions were non-computational ones. For example, why is Pixar-type CG stuff associated with CS, not with film or digital media? Basically, because it required technical savvy that only CS had, even though the ultimate goals were entertainment/aesthetic ones that are more in keeping with the concerns of media practitioners. But will that continue to be true? Already scientific computing is slowly slipping out of the ownership of CS and towards the natural sciences; e.g. bioinformatics is as likely to be centered in a bio department as a CS one these days.

One "failure" scenario (to use "failure" loosely, since it's subjective) is, I think, the math one: CS becomes a narrow discipline of theory-of-computation, systems, and PL type theory, sort of like pure math. To get money, it spends its time teaching intro classes to other majors that the professors don't care about: the way math teaches everyone Intro Calc, CS will teach everyone Intro Java. And all the cool applied stuff, in this scenario, happens in other departments, which in 10 years will all also have computers, and many will know how to program. Not that likely, I don't think, but something to think about.
The only case I generally need a GUI tool is for diff and merge. Meld handles it very well for me on Linux and git supports it by default.
Two counter examples:

1. Mark Pincus was successful 3 out of 4 times he got funding.

2. Jim Clark is the only person in the world to create three billion dollar companies.

What I've read of them suggests that they were exploiting trends, not necessarily scratching itches.
Here is another post by Boris:
http://bmann.ca/what-i-did-tonight

Disclaimer: I've known Boris Mann for a while. He is a stand up guy. It's a crappy situation on all sides.

Missed capital calls happen during downturns. It's shitty for the investor that can't make the call. It's shitty for the VC that is running the fund. It's shitty for startup founders.

On a personal note, my company had a bunch of clients miss invoices in Q4 2009. Cash flow was horrible for that quarter.

Q4 2009 was crappy globally. It was extra crappy in Vancouver. A whole bunch of investors had cut deep in 2009 and the deepest cuts had been scheduled for Q4.

Anyone that had money had allocated it for February 2010. The Olympics were in town and everyone was doing their big push for that month.

I don't personally know Jamie of Status.ly but I do know others that were also let go and I do wish them the best.
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I'm quite interested by Steve Blank's stuff on Customer Development.

My personal theory is that you can sometimes build profitable products, without being the customer, but you can't build great ones.

Microsoft and Apple seem to be two excellent examples. Apple's customer is Steve Jobs.
I'd like to see that grouped by country. And another interesting thing, if you click on an item you can see on the right the average time the users needed to check that activity as completed.
That's incorrect, Twitter goes by characters. I actually wrote an app to exploit this loophole:

http://tweetcompressor.com/
I think people are reasonably good at going "It hurts when I do this", but terrible at working out what might fix their problems.

And sometimes they're so used to the way things are now they don't realise there's a problem in the first place.
I kinda wish Boris did the initial reply, as opposed to Danny Robinson and his "why art thou complaining?" comment. This sounds a lot more rational (though probably not as apologetic as I might've liked) than before.
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2

There are more giveaways that may be harder to hide. I suspect most other cross-compilers have similar giveaways. I suspect Apple will use an automated tool to check for them
I'd like to put it a bit differently: you never get what you deserve; you get what you take - and in the south of Africa, they've really been grabbing hands full of AIDS the past two decades.

There's an old saying that fits this metaphorically: "you reap what you sow". Please enjoy your harvest. Let forth finally a smaller generation, of better health.
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Hmm, the general direction of this argument is uncomfortably close to, "gays get the HIV epidemic they deserve" (even for some of the same reasons this article cites).

In both cases we could probably have more rational discussions without that "deserve" word, which involves moral connotations. How about discussing: what kinds of sexual-relationship graphs are more or less conducive to the spreads of which kinds of disease?

I would guess there are actually a lot of factors, and more than unprotected promiscuity. Clearly unprotected promiscuity seems involved: the article's discussion of some recent African experience points that out, and so does the 80s gay bathhouse culture. But there are plenty of promiscuous cultures that appear not to have high HIV prevalence, e.g. college-student bar-pickup and frat culture has very low HIV infection rates, even for people with 30+ partners and regular unprotected sex.
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It all started with Jamie of Status.ly's post. I'm disappointed in lots of the original wording

Has Jamie's original post been reworded? I've only come to it this morning (GMT) but it reads perfectly fine to me. Disappointed sure, a little worried about the future. I dont read it as blaming Bootuplab or having any anger directed at them...

(indeed it reads pretty factually to me; so I am assuming it has been reworded)
Are great products also greatly profitable?

To be honest I am mostly interested in making a profit.

Edit: If you're trying to give Microsoft as an example of a company that fails to make great products because it fails to use them, think again: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/62/microsoft.html It seems more likely that they just suck.
When reputations are at stake and someone got disappointed, it gets hard managing a PR crisis like this. But all Bootuplabs needs to do is stay focused, reach out to good developers and do its best to create valuable companies. People will pay for Jamie's experience if Bootuplabs creates winning startups that sell.
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The last period makes me think about a generation immune to HIV. And about a short story by David Brin, The Giving Plague (www.davidbrin.com/givingplague.htm). Nice reading.
I hope the BCA is forced to bear the costs to Singh. I've been following this story closely and it was setting up to be a real triumph for free reporting and science etc.

Damn the BCA for chickening out of their drubbing early :(
Me too! Who designed it for you? It's so awesome =)
OK, well it might be fast and powerful, but I don't much like how the code looks.
"I seem to remember an article claiming a similar thing on HN just a couple of days or weeks ago (by one of the Guru bloggers). They pop up every now and then."

Thanks!

Is Guru a blogging network of some sort?
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Candy in the possession of a baby is also likely to be covered in drool. Considering its inexpensiveness, why not just buy candy?
In the jailbreak scene, a lot of us abuse the C preprocessor and Objective-C's runtime functions to make method hooking simpler.

Example: http://wiki.github.com/rpetrich/CaptainHook/
No, I just meant one of the famous (on HN) bloggers.
Be aware that region free DVD drives don't work with Windows 7 - at least, they don't play DVD movies, but they do work with data DVDs - unless you're using VLC.

Some drives have firmwares available which tell the OS that they only support a single region - the region that's on the DVD, which resets upon every disc entry.

A bit of a PITA, since region locking isn't really a copy protection mechanism; DVDShrink or similar still work.
Lots of those around.

A better question would be "How do potential cofounders date?" ie, how do you do small things to try to figure out if you're going to be good working together?

Solve that one and you're on to something big.
From the BCA's official statement [http://www.chiropractic-uk.co.uk/gfx/uploads/textbox/Singh/B...]:

[...] the BCA has taken the view that it should withdraw to avoid further legal costs being incurred by either side.

A realisation that did not strike them until the prospect of an embarassing loss.
This seems to be very heavily skewed towards US.

Also something wrong with average completion times:

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To be fair in the past the west took advantage of Africa, often saying it was for their own good. So look at the current plight with a bit of history and it makes sense why they don't trust the west.

No one certainly deserves to have an epidemic.
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I seem to recall research indicating that strict monogamy is associated with higher incidence of HIV than more sexually liberated societies. The reason seems to be that in strict societies, in the absence of casual sexual encounters, many males frequent prostitutes, who become hyper-connected vectors of disease. With more casual sexual encounters, the graph is less connected.

And in polygamous cultures, there's a lack of women to go around, so there should be a similar dynamic re prostitution.

Of course, it's not all this simple - there are lots of factors at work.
Not signing up either, just wanted to leave a tip of the hat to the memory of Robert A. Heinlein, a great propounder of the "Pay It Forward" idea (cf. http://www.heinleinsociety.org/ ). Philip K. Dick, a much different writer, had personal reasons to appreciate him.

Incidentally, Heinlein wrote up some good hacks in his books - including the waterbed (I seem to remember it could not be patented later when they came around to making them).
I would like one, but i never win any contests - especially the lottery ones :(
It's not quite as good as rationality winning hard, but still, it's not bad - and yes, the BCA should bear Singh's costs. And a change to British libel law would be nice, too.
> People use quotes when they want to refer to a statement as it was made.

Apologies, you're right. That was not the intention of the quoted bit, it was meant as a statement of what this piece makes me feel like. If I 'quote' a statement online I use the > mark (like above), I don't know of a typographical convention that would convey what I tried to do here other than using quotes.

Suggestions ?
I wonder

a) will this be reflected in a bump for Opera when Windows using iPhone owners are presented with the EU browser choice ballot

b) will the popularity of Opera lead to it being promoted by Apple's own "genius" algorithm based on what people similar to you have downloaded (or do we suspect that they tweak the results by hand in order to "improve the platform")
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Mine Macbook is a US model so it's missing 12/13 and there is no region crack for the DVD drive so it's permanently stuck on region 1.

Can't speak for the MacBook, but all of the Macs I've owned can change region 5(?) times before being permanently locked. Just pointing it out in case you haven't even tried, though I'm assuming you've probably used up the 5 or there's some other factor.
"college-student bar-pickup and frat culture has very low HIV infection rates, even for people with 30+ partners and regular unprotected sex"

Citation needed. I seriously doubt a major group of people can keep low infection rates with 30+ partners and regular unprotected sex. The only rational explanation would be regular HIV tests plus stopping on positive result - seems implausible.
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Whoo, whoo there, Ben Moskowitz, jump off your stampeding horse. Stop counting beans and pennies and go get some "hands-on" with these things before you talk.
If this was their goal, they could just mandate a specific C compiler. You can originally write in Scheme, translate it to C with Chicken and use whatever C compiler you want to compile the result. There would be no affect on any platform-switching plans Apple might have.
I am trying to do that,

They may use them internally, but I think a lot of their work is focussed on external users.
Seems to scale pretty well for Google.
Yeah, apparently it takes 9 years (avg) to fall in love but it takes only 8 years to get married.
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I must say, just like his scummy partner Danny and his "we're disappointed in your, well, factual account of us dicking you" nonsense, I do really like Boris' little legal threats: "I read another round of comments that said that we should be commenting in public at all. I kind of know how to use these tools, and engaging where the discussion is taking place seems to be the right thing to do. Our instinctive response is not to call in the lawyers [emphasis mine]… because, you know, we're actually entrepreneurs / startup guys ourselves." BootupLabs definitely brings the class.

If he and his partner had just been up front and said, you know, one of our investors failed to show up with cash as promised and the whole situation is a nightmare that we feel awful about, it would have put a very different spin on events. Along with, say, giving the startups they left hanging in the wind some support to get home and restart / transition their lives to the next thing. Instead, giving them a couple days to find a job in Canada? Fucking awesome. Entrepreneurs would do well to note how these people treat folks; I've never heard stories of YC acting like this.
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I'd sure like one. Cool Idea.
The thing is that most of the times, people read comments and then the article. So, I think it would be best if you are going to comment on a certain aspect to just include the original peace and then comment on it.

Other than that I am not aware of a more conventional way.
Successful innovators usally knows that genius is 1% inspiration or creativity and 99% transpiration - hard work to implement the idea or several ideas until the successful idea and it's implementation is found.
I could see someone smart investing a small amount purely for bizdev/dealflow.
Rather heart-warmingly Google returns dozens of requests from people to contribute to his defence fund, but he has stated he will bear the costs himself:

http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/3...

"The reason that I have been able to fight this case is that I have the financial resources to do so. Three international bestsellers have provided a very comfortable cushion for trouble indirectly caused by 'Trick or Treatment?'. If I lose, then it will be a major financial blow, but my wife and I will be able to cope. Hence, I have asked myself if supporters should donate money to a more need cause, one that this will also help the cause of free speech and science journalism. I currently have two suggestions [...]"
I'd like to think that most people ballsy enough to start a startup in the first place will take it as lessons learned and still see Vancouver as a great opportunity. I know I would, if given the opportunity. I'd just be a little more careful now, having read about Statusly's ups and downs.
The Vatican and their anti birth control stance should also receive a fair share of the blame. Matter of fact, I think the pope should be charged with crimes against humanity for this stance.
Howevern in practice that is both annoying and won't do much of anything to protect you from chargebacks, unless you have some way to prove later that the card was signed.

The signature area on my card has worn off, and I have re-signed it several times including with permanent marker, but my signature won't stick. Any retailers giving me hassle about it annoy me for no good reason and are less likely to receive my business in the future.
It's the weirdest thing ever. To try to control what software runs on your computer is already way out of bounds, to try to limit the tools that can be used to produce software is simply nuts. Developers are a platforms best friends, it's the applications that will make or break it once the 'novelty' factor wears off.
Hopefully the additional attention this case has brought to Simon's work will translate into an increase in revenue from his books -- furthering the "cushioning" effect.
On the other hand, it will make Winer happy.
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I like accelerators for two reasons:
1) Having a same-time-founded cohort of companies. Moral support, entertainment, and when ~80% of them fail, you can pick and choose assets (great developers) having great visibility into them.

2) I like the idea of accelerators for people with $0 and just out of college or high school, or who need structure. If I could give 5% of my company to give an accelerator a win (both in money upside and reputation), I'd do it, especially if I were in a third-tier city like Vancouver which deserves a second tier startup population.
Ermm, what the Church actually says is "no sex outside marriage". Blame the Church for many things, but the spread of STDs says more about your own prejudices than anything else.
Lucky.
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Anyone getting any new data from Weather radar webservers about HAARP projects ?
Not quite. After 30s of googling:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7967173.stm

It said the Pope's recent comments that condoms exacerbated the problem of HIV/Aids were wildly inaccurate and could have devastating consequences.

The Pope had said the "cruel epidemic" should be tackled through abstinence and fidelity rather than condom use.
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Also, a script/Unix-one-liner to download everything and wrap in a zip/tarball for leisurely offline reading (e-readers/pads/etc.)

Selling PDF optional ;-) (yeah, I know - just curious about the number of pages.)

Thanks, of course, curating this is a lot of work.

P.S. the PDF joke was partly because of the Wikipedia repackagers; they seem to be resting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1183986
If this sort of war against quackery is of interest to you, I recommend the Australian site 'The Millenium Project' http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/.

Check the site for why it's spelled that way.
No, the alternative is that we stop making excuses for what we're doing and demand that the people who make our junk are paid a living wage. Yes, really.
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Agreed.
This chap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Eady needs sorting also...
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