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I get this comments only if I code on the fly when they are present. They see that there is nothing and after some keyboard clicking there is something.
The choice between SproutCore and Cappuccino is largely philosophical (port something that works, or build fresh with new perspective), and based on limited data. The way I see it, either choice is still a choice for a client side web framework, and that's a step in the right direction. For instance, Narwhal/CommonJS/SeedJS came out of these efforts, and benefit all involved.
"You can't compare the loss of human life to ANYTHING else."

I'm not equating animals and humans.

I would be happy if I could get at least one person to start questioning. We don't have enough philosophers nowadays. We have all "picked up" from society that we can treat animals as objects and that violence against animals isn't a big deal. I just wish I would live in a world where people would question deeply these values and assumptions instead of just "picking up" what people around us believe.
> Playing Tetris, memorizing chess openings, or practicing Bach's Goldberg Variations is simply not going to help you become a better programmer. For that, you need to program.

That's leaving out the benefits from practicing general problem solving skills, logical reasoning, analyzing design trade-offs, etc., though. You make it sound like programming is all about remembering where to put the semicolons!

Meditation also seems to have positive cognitive effects, though they probably come from improved focus rather than intelligence.
Jeez dude... Do you really equate human and animal life? I have lots of sympathy with your position in general, and I don't have a good answer for why I don't go vegetarian, but this seems extreme to me.
I think a lot of that is what companies want to do with AD. I doubt MSFT is in the business of deciding what people's password policies should be (apart from picking a sane default).

I do think passwords today fail basic usability tests. Having people remember random long, frequently changing strings of letters and numbers is a recipe for disaster. Its sad that we as an industry haven't thought of something better.
Cool to see Todd's business taking off like this. I worked with him for a while at HubSpot and he was a top-notch guy, definitely deserves some success.
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> Animals in factory farms are subject to a very painful existence before their lives are cut short

Well, as someone with family members in farming - AND a cynic who dislikes causing animals to suffer unnecessarily - for the most part this is utter bullshit. Slaughtering is highly regulated (at least here in the UK) and is designed to cause very little suffering to the animal.
Steller Photography took that shot. It's from iStockPhoto - he (the photog) actually has a whole gallery of shots of her:
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One of my ex girlfriends held views similar (a little more extreme) to the one your expressing.

Ultimately I came to the realisation there is a limit to how much we can care for the animal kingdom on a philosophical level.

Speaking purely as animals the need to hunt/rear/kill is perfectly natural ("if god wanted us to be veggies why does meat taste so damn good"). I realised that, yes, we have to counterbalance that with our increased level of intelligence (i.e. an advantage) and respect our co-inhabitants.

Edit. I'm commenting on the general philisophical views of the gp by the way rather than the specific comments about factory farming. It was not clear this was their emphasis :-)
But there is a limit :)
What they want, though, and what makes the iPhone and the iPad so attractive are high quality apps. They might not care about the financial damage of losing a top notch developer, they sure as hell care when that makes iPhones and iPads less attractive.

I think Apple still believes that they can get away with their App store policies because they still are to some degree the only game in town. It will be interesting to see how they will react to Android. We might see their policies change in some shape or form.
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REST, because of forward and backward compatibility

SOAP is too strongly typed for most startups. Most likely you will be changing your API quite a bit over next few years and with REST for each new version of your API you have option of

1. Create new entry point (new URL)

2. Specify version in the HTTP headers

3. Expand request/response spec with new elements

Because most SOAP libraries implement very strong binding to WSDL schema you will be forced to create new entry point for every version of your service. FedEx learning this hard way right now. They moved their API from REST to SOAP and they have no clue how to update it now without breaking all the developers.
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Why limit it to one generation? Seems pretty universal to me.
I'm talking about the conditions that they are subject to while they are alive as well. As I understand it, many chickens are kept penned in a cage the size of a piece of notebook paper, male baby chicks are ground up alive, etc. I am interested in more accurate information about factory farms, so please share it if you have it.
Early/mid twenties nothing; I'm 28 and have never been out of school! Why? Because I'm interested in research, and the career path for research is school->school->moreschool, until you get your PhD. It's possible to do others, of course, but that's the default one. And PhDs take longer now than they did a generation ago, too (in science/engineering, they averaged 5 years in 1965; 6 in 1975, and 7 in 1985; been holding steady at 7 since). On the plus side, it's a lot easier to do side projects in grad school, and they sometimes spin off into startups; whereas undergrad is much more by-the-book.
> Do you really equate human and animal life?

No.
What are you, insinuating?
Sounds like at least some people are keen - I'm happy to organise. I suspect somewhere in the city would be best for everyone?
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I'm not downvoting you for your opinion.

I'm downvoting you because there's absolutely no reason to bring up your opinion on factory farming in this particular thread. In a discussion of factory farming, the harm done to animals, or even a basic food/vegitarianism thread, I would gladly upvote you for sharing from the heart, even as I disagreed with you. But really, this is not the place.
You want your programmers to be terribly self-contradictory?

(from someone that had to read 'Hagakure' last year)
A key line:

"I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. However, when I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there. … You just don’t walk around with an RPG in Iraq, especially three blocks away from a firefight. …"
I was in a similar situation last spring and really didn't find anything that worked. But that was pre-Google Wave. Today, I believe the open-sourced wave reference server (http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/) includes op trans. It's under Apache 2.0 and I doubt it'd take you long to rip out and wrap op trans into something useful for you.

FYI, after failing to find anything last year, I ended up implementing an operational transformation framework from scratch (using standard comet for comm). The literature's good enough that you can make sense of it all. Solo, it took me 2 weeks to implement the algorithm, another 2 weeks to put a callback framework around it to make it useful (like a SAX parser for changes to a shared xml structured document) and one more week to port it to js (original in Java) and add networking. Was a ton of fun and even useful for a couple of projects (shared canvas, text editor, collaborative UML'ing).
I cannot believe this. Google is a very bright company in security, I don't beleive a flaw on SCM's security fence.
> Ultimately I came to the realisation there is a limit to how much we can care for the animal kingdom on a philosophical level.

I agree with you 100%.

I think we probably disagree on where that limit is, and I think we as humans are way overstepping our bounds.

> Speaking purely as animals the need to hunt/rear/kill is perfectly natural

You have a good point, and I would add that factory farming is very far from natural.
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Oh I see your point. Well conditions on facorty farms are.. Worse but not quite like the picture your painting. I don't really agree with the way factory farms operate but regualations are forcing them to improve.

I don't think Im qualified to comment on animals suffering in those conditions. I've never researched it fully.

This isn't really the sort of place for this discussion - in hindsight.
So as soon as they click "Play", it opens a lightbox and hides the rest of the site.
Is there any option to just have the game play within the widget area? I think it'd make for some more seamless integrations into existing sites.
This could be exciting -- I'm interested to see how well and how many external sites start hooking back into Facebook.
The emphasis on functionality reflects the nature of the job. Software is generally like an iceberg in terms of time and complexity. The part you see is supported by a much larger chunk that's generally invisible. When you're starting out, it makes sense to focus on the larger, supporting part.

How important a GUI is depends on the nature of the program. A significant chunk of the world's businesses depend on apps that have no GUI while more or less everything consumer-facing has a GUI.
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School can be a lot of fun, if it's your thing and you approach it properly. For example, I don't regret having taken the time to learn physics.

Those are big ifs, and are equally applicable to learning outside of a formal setting.
Where will you be? San Francisco, San Jose, Marin, East Bay, Fremont, or the mid-Peninsula. It makes a big difference. And what sort of amenities do you require?
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I am a programmer by training, but my first job out of school was an administrator-type under a government grant in one of the ugly parts of government (Health and Human Services). Sadly, there is a huge difference between established bureaucracy and code. People aren't widgets, we are all special cases, we all learn differently, and we all have different things that inspire us. If you think schools actually serve the "smart" student well, then you are not looking at real funding priorities or went to a special case school yourself.

ND has full driver's licenses at 14. An old teacher of mine says it will probably go to 16 since students aren't as mature as they used to be. WTF? That shouldn't be. Teens are running half-million dollar combines at that age. What changed?
I say no where you say yes because school is not a good babysitter. It is perhaps one of the worst babysitters, in fact.
and remember, everyone of those units sold was GSM. No cdma and no EV-DO. I'm not saying it will never happen, but as this GSM-only platform continues to grow, the alternative begins to look less desirable. (and I say this from an area that has EV-DO, but no GSM 3G)
This is only a problem if one assumes labor and wages are a zero-sum game, which I think most people on HN would disagree with.
Just an FYI, in case it wasn't a typo: you mean whet, not wet.
I don't know how true the whole article is, but I definitely get anti-social under stress. Worst part of being a startup founder, if you ask me.
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This was brought up on The Colbert Report's interview of Julian Assange [1]. His response was that they where provided the video under the condition that they'd try to maximize its political impact to the best of their ability. I don't think their strategy was the best way to fullfil that goal (precisely because of the blatant political slant), but that's their stated motivation.

1. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/27071...
Hello been to china multiple times. Worked with/for Chinese people - from intellectuals to the government.

Yes, I can believe something like that could happen.

It could be a way to get back at google for defying them, for example.
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And I found it very easy to set up. However, I needed to use a different .emacs for clojure slime, so I just made a shell script 'ecj' to do the right thing.
My wife and I had a baby girl 5 weeks ago; I never imagined I could feel as much love for someone or something as I feel for her. I easily would give my life for her.

Having just experience my daughter’s birth, the soldier’s description in this article of the young girl in the shot up van and the sound of her cry cut me to the core. I can’t imagine what he is going through and the torment he must feel when that memory flashes through his mind.

The journalists will write, the commentators will comment, and the analysts will analyze. There are so many angles to consider, this point and that point. I realize that. But in the end, all I can think to do is to simply grieve for this situation and for the many others just like it that I am sure exist. I am also profoundly thankful that I was born where I was, and live where I do. Peace is truly priceless.
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They use the same broken software we all do. ssh, written in C. Perforce, written in C. Find a single memory management error in one of those programs, and Google's source code is yours.
Yes, I agree. Indeed, yours is my usual default advice. ;)

One thing I'd note is that I decided to go to grad school just before the web was invented. School is far less tempting today, now that you can listen to many of MIT's best lecturers from your basement via the web.
I suggest you're reading too much into it. The OC said "schools" not "teachers."

My own hate is certainly for the system and for teachers only to the extent that they perpetuate it. (Member of a public employee union and not fighting to have it abolished? Consider yourself hated.)

worked her ass off

The real world has no "A for effort."

interesting lessons (history in particular).

Interesting lessons may or may not be effective at teaching. It is, however, a reasonable conclusion that they would be effectivein keeping the students in one place.
I had a couple of submissions that I thought were pretty reasonable, but disappeared without a trace. I now make it a habit to go through /newest when I visit HN. I view it as a little work to curate a community that I get a lot of value from.
It is. Even in the original PDF, though, Mackey explains that they stop their transparency just short of enabling their competitors.
Which is more likely:
Someone created a truly impressive and convincingly realistic fake iphone which they subsequently "lost" in the hopes that someone would find it and leak/sell it to the media.

OR

Mr. Sewell has a lot of oldish letterhead that he needs to use up?
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Is there anything like HN for American Politics? I know there is Reddit Politics but the place is an intellectual wasteland.
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I never thought I would write this – but, yeah, that’s linkbait.

The article is about the stationary of the letter Gizmodo got from Apple, asking them to give the iPhone back. The stationary seems out of date.
Very interesting discussion. Years ago, I did renovation work and often used the same gambit. Often it was a model of "OK, here is the labour price, here are the material prices, but what you're asking for is something we've never done before and it's impossible to estimate a fair price." Surely my poor estimating skills were on display - but that's not what I was being paid for. Could we do it? Yes. Could we price it out to the penny? No. But we still got the job.

Once in a while it was simply, "Yes, we can do that. No, I don't know how much it's worth. Let's do it and figure it out later." And, with people who had confidence in my work, there was never a problem with this approach. I was often surprised at what people would pay. And as the article mentions, I would never use this approach with someone new or a large enterprise. But with familiars, this always worked out OK for me.

Fascinating to see this model applied to untried, almost purely intellectual work (code).

As with renovations, where you're often busting you're ass against someone with a pickup truck looking for beer money for the weekend. Working with code pits you against every chump with a computer. So how can you differentiate yourself?

Being able to say, "Hey, no problem. I can do that, We'll square up on Monday." is one way. Weekend warriors won't do that.
Here's a little hint that I've been preaching to everyone who complains that fb is unusable (I suspect due to all the farmwars and mafiaville junk): if you click the "hide" button next to the post you can choose to ban the application rather than the person. And this blocks all posts from that application from any friend. You do it once to block out every annoying app you don't care to see and then you only have to add a new one once every couple of weeks as they come out. As a result, my vanilla fb feed is as readable as the lite.fb version.
Well, now that you mention it... http://www.reallifecomics.com/comics/2010/20100420_2439.png
Sure it wouldn't be trivial to be made into a framework, but from what I understand, a framework for "collaboration" seems at least possible since I think this is one of Google Wave's goals.
My wife just got one this week. We talked about the likelihood of a new phone obsoleting hers in a few months but we decided it wasn't a big deal.
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Perl is "very slow" compared to C. That doesn't make it universally a bad idea.

The same could be said of his "epic hack" comment. Everything is an epic hack. Especially Perl.

Devel::Declare is really not that scary.
I'm in the middle of implementing some of the F8 features for launch tomorrow. Some of the features are pretty nifty like the Activity/Recommendations feature.
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> ... is like doing placebo-controlled, double-blind studies to figure out which is the best girlfriend.

Actually maybe you are onto something there.
"parody", which typically involves shorter duration.

Length of the excerpt has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not a use is parody. Length of an excerpt compared to length of the whole work has something to do with whether or not a use is "fair use," and thus permitted without permission.

Similarly, parody is one purpose for adapting a copyrighted work, which is also a test of "fair use," with rather generous legal protection. The book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

http://www.amazon.com/Dave-Barrys-Book-Bad-Songs/dp/08362144...

is an example of use that is fair use even though some of the quotations from some lyrics did NOT receive permission from the copyright holders--as is explicitly noted on the extensive credits page of Dave Barry's book.
I'm not sure the slow start is what's called for here, if CL were so inclined they could permanently make these guys irrelevant in a week or two.
He needs to get married and have a kid.

He doesn't want to because he thinks it's too easy, but he's still a human.
Considering how much negative publicity Gizmodo has received after all this, I'd think they would admit if they made it up by now...
Maybe legal department is the last to get the latest updated stationary.
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I'm sure that's the real deal, I thought it was funny that in a company so design oriented, a VP still uses letterhead from 2005. Usually big companies destroy the old stationery after a branding change.
Yea, also if you come across a traffic-accident then don't stop and watch.

Wonder why that kind of advice never works, not even when printed in italics...
What do you mean how they react to Android? Is Android doing something new tomorrow that they haven't been doing for the past few years? So far Apple hasn't had to react to Google in this regard and I haven't seen anything convincing me that will change.

And to clarify, I would LOVE to see Google/Android gain on Apple if only because it will benefit consumers, but so far I've been extremely disappointed. Regardless of some developer drama Apple continues to blow everyone else out of the water.
It seems the videos were removed automatically. Maybe only now Youtube's software caught that up and the producers forgot to tell that they want to keep the videos.

But that's just a wild guess on how things work there.
Now if it was stationary from the future well then it'd be a real story!
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This is OT, but I am struck by how Smith takes the malleable mind as a given: He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Not that "some men are stupid, and unsuited for greater work", but "lesser work makes stupid men". Quite a contrast w/ contemporary discussion, so fixated on IQ and innate ability.
I think this is the third thread I've run across in the last few minutes where the top voted comment (by a lot) is some witty rejoinder, rather than an actual interesting comment or consideration.

Not saying it should/shouldn't be like that, just making an observation (far be it from me to dictate to the community how it should act), and am surprised to see it on Hacker News.
I'm interested to know what book search the U.S. requested to remove.
Seems to me that without the programmers who went the commercial route (Gates et al), computers wouldn't be as widely used and his impact wouldn't be as big. Or that someone else wouldn't have stepped up in his absence. And statements like those quoted in the article seem just a wee bit overdramatic.
I felt like the whole purpose of this discussion was essentially to point out: teenagers aren't exactly children. Teenagers can be fully functioning adults, they just aren't given the chance to get the necessary experience. (I'm assuming here that the teenager in question is at least 15, I feel like younger than that blurs the line between child and teenager...)

Disclaimer: I'm 17, and this is just how I feel about people equating teenagers to children. Also, sorry if this post came off a bit... over-vehement. ;)
If Apple's 'green' claims are to be taken seriously they can't be throwing out all sorts of paper when they update their logo or font.
Because I'm not used to agreeing with Newt Gingrich. :)
I noticed that the letter says "sent via email" — perhaps this is just a recreation by Gizmodo based on the text of the email...
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wtf - gizmodo seems intent on provoking legal action against them.

edit: better link than article title:
http://gizmodo.com/5520876/the-next-iphone-dissected

Not to promote them, but to draw attention to the degree of technical detail they are making public.
That's also when the paper copy is a hard copy of an email previously sent.