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Not at all! If you'd ever followed a shuttle landing, you'd know that a lot has to go just right for the landing to be successful. Specifically, flight controllers will be watching weather conditions at the landing site and along the entire reentry flight path for anything even mildly hazardous. If they decide to go ahead with the first "attempt", then the shuttle begins its deorbit burn around 7:30 AM. If they decide it's too risky, then they skip the first "attempt" and go for the second "attempt" on the next orbit. Typically there are 4 or 5 "attempts" per day, and after 2 or 3 days, if none of the KSC "attempts" were successful, they'll start looking at alternatives like Edwards AFB in California.
The next San Francisco suburb? Austin Texas.
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Vancouver BC is having serious trouble with people whining about real estate prices. My younger sister bought 6 months ago. My older sister bought last month. My parents are buying this month.

The problem with Vancouver is that Vancouverites don't save their money for a down payment.

For example, my parents have worked modest, blue collar jobs all of their lives and moved to Vancouver 2 years ago and are able to purchase. My younger sister is a financial advisor and diligently saved with her husband to purchase a home in their mid twenties. My older sister is at the other end of the spectrum. She's a C-level executive and was able to save and purchase on one income.

The out-of-control prices comment is ridiculous. Work hard, save your money, and it is possible.
Awesome! Thanks a bunch.
Haha! That made me laugh out loud. Couldn't agree more.
What a great hack!

We need more ppl who makes hacks to hardware. Technical stuff can always be hacked by us :)

I love it!
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This is important. In fact, it might be useful to note this definition explicitly.

A calorie is unit of heat... not a unit of nutrition.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

You can say there are calories in wood, particularly in the context of combustion (though it's more common to talk about that sort of thing in terms or BTUs or joules).
Apple II was the first affordable personal computer, with a beautiful design. Released in 1977 whereas the IBM PC was released in 1981, 4 years later, and because of its design the Apple II was manufactured until the early 90s.

Your recollection of history is wrong.

> Windows took over because PCs running DOS were already vastly dominant

You're confused.

Apple II was dominating at the time IBM PC was introduced. The reason why it became such widespread was because the market wasn't saturated by Apple and because the partners of IBM (which had a license to clone IBM PCs) were competing on price ... had it not been for the likes of Compaq, IBM PCs would have gotten nowhere.

> I remember hearing that IBM's hardware division could get MS-DOS/Windows cheaper than they could get IBM OS/2 from their own software division!

OS/2 was a collaborative effort of Microsoft and IBM (later forked by MS to Windows NT). The reason for Windows 3.0 and later 9.x being more successful was because it ran on cheaper computers and OS/2 also had a high price tag.

Both IBM and Microsoft viewed OS/2 as the future, waiting for hardware to catch up.

Also OS/2 3.0 (Warp) released in '94 was full 32-bit with preemptive multitasking and had binary compatibility with Windows 3.x / MS-DOS. If anything it was a failure because IBM had other revenue sources and couldn't commit to it (in '95 I remember seeing commercials for Win 95 on MTV).

Also one could argue that Microsoft was more succesfull because it had better partnerships and favored open-hardware systems, leading to more drivers developed for Windows. You also had to shell out extra money for the the OS/2 SDK AFAIK.

> The same sort of compatibility lock-in doesn't exist in today's mobile space

That's because today customers use phones to make phone calls or for SMS, only occasionally opening a web browser or reading emails. That might change, and when it does people are going to start wishing for binary compatibility.
Without reading the article i can say that the following reasons are not attractive for young developers:

1. They have to read tons of documentation and cant use a 2 lines tutorial
2. They have to know byte compiled languages
3. They have to know lot of internal stuff to use linux the good way

The point is, everything which is hard to understand and cant be learned within 8 hours sucks... thats the way most younger people think about developement because they have no motivation at all to be a part of a long growing environment.

Hate me now ;)
I'd go further than this an say that Microsoft actually became ubiquitous by facilitating an open and compatible hardware ecosystem. One that prevented a monopoly from occurring in the computer hardware market. Without an MSDOS, IBM and probably Apple would have duked it out for dominance with closed boxes full of mutually incompatible hardware. Prices would be a lot higher as the competition amongst hardware (RAM, Hard Drives, motherboards graphics cards, etc) makers would be limited to 'getting the contract from IBM or Apple' as opposed to pleasing consumers and/or a large range of OEMS.

... and then they exploited that ubiquity through illegal monopolistic practices.
See Richard Florida's "Rise of the Creative Class" or sequels for a broad overview of talent concentration.
Major Malfunction had a great class at Black Hat: USA last year, and has been at DefCon/SchmooCon as well showing how insecure these systems are.

Check out http://rfidiot.org/ for some of his research into RFID, mag strip cards and all that jazz. It is all very interesting.
Visible, and amusing example of this: last time I went to FOSDEM, a couple years back, they tried to sell me a KDE t-shirt at the booth. (For those outside of the community, icefox and I think both showed up on the KDE radar about a decade ago.)

Though, with the graph that papachito it got me wondering what "active" means. I've done 9 commits in the last year (whereas I used to do several hundred) and suspect I thusly get counted as "active". It might be more interesting to see things computed as something like people above one standard deviation below the mean...
Perhaps she could find a job in one of the companies who have built successful products matching her ideas. That will give her a chance to see up close how it's done, while building her own skillset. She might meet some new people who she could then team up with to start something of her own.

The other thing of course is to just take a chance and try making something, if she can find someone to work with. She could look into outsourcing the programming.

Generally, it's hard to say anything useful without knowing what her ideas are about.
You don't really need a mentor to start. You just need to dive in and start building something you like. Also, stop being a perfectionist and following tutorials front to back. Google is your mentor.

If you really get stuck, there are mailing lists, IRC chat rooms, message boards out there specific to that topic. Explore them fully, don't be afraid to ask a question. But before you ask, make sure you've made some effort to find an answer.
I agree, but sometimes there are really good reasons to change, or evolve, an API. As with the case of OpenGL and OpenGLES in this very example.

The problem is that JWZ doesn't seem to consider this possibility at all; his seemingly shallow experience with OpenGL is enough for him to assume a position of insight, and his obvious conclusion is that some incompetent buffoon must have been in charge of the API which he does not feel familiar with.

Being great in any field of programming ought to teach you that things are rarely that simple. I simply think that ranting about things which you really aren't that familiar with is a trait that doesn't fit a purported expert in the field — or a purported expert in the field should be able to recognize the things he/she isn't one in.
Here are couple good Stackoverflow threads on the topic:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38210/what-non-programmin...
Try coming to LA and then you'll appreciate SF's transit system! :-/
Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo.
so is it good on top of dollar bills?
Ask HN: Is GitHub showing you "Permission denied (publickey)." too?
I can't seem to push or pull to any of my repositories right now. Is anyone else experiencing this?
hum, isn't living in vatican like home prision for the pope?

I'm pretty sure napoleon wouldn't like him visiting places like he does today.
Spam? We often get similar articles about this sort of thing, and this was one of the few that I thought had useful advice.
Oh, that's cool. Do you (or anyone else) know of anything similar to rubber, but for Fabric?
I didn't really have the choice to reply... I got all of this as a lumped error message. (I'm not used to Eclipse, to be honest, so I may be getting lost in that maze with some simple setting.)
Spandex?
I don't think it's all that important to have one particular mentor that's sort of a formalized relationship. I do think it's important to surround yourself with people - preferably in a face-to-face environment, like a job or coworking situation - that have done this before and have a bunch of experience in development. Observe them carefully - not just the product of their programming, but the process they go through to create it.

I disagree with the poster who says Google is your mentor. Google's great for sticky questions that nobody knows the answer to. But Google will never tell you that you should be asking a question but don't yet know that it's a question worth asking. A lot of things in programming are like that: you'll see someone do it and think "Why didn't I think of doing that?", but the reason you never thought of it is because everyone who does it considers it too obvious to be worth blogging about.
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You can ask your VCs to redo their term sheets and double the amount raised. Take half off the table and you, your children and their children will never want for anything material in their lives, even if Foursquare goes south right afterwards.

He says the Wordpress guys did it but how common is it? I wonder how cashing out before making a successful company affects the chances of getting there.
thats a cloackers wet dream.
I know plenty of 30 year olds that love to change things just for the sake of it
Spinning up servers like this is nice, but if all you want is a vanilla install, Rackspace is definitely the way to go. Their web site is far more user friendly, and they've got a nice iPhone app you can use to spin servers up and down as you like.

Amazon's advantage seems to lie in the far wider variety of machine images available, and in better tools for making custom images.
This is politics very thinly veiled as economics

The line between policy and economics has been thin.

Just because your particular viewpoint several wikipedia page doesn't mean you have to paste them here.
It's similar in effort required, but this more clearly tells Google to display as target URLs (and send searchers directly to) a site's #!fragment-ed pages, rather than their degraded/simple pages.

(Of course, the site could accept visits to degraded pages, detect AJAX-capable browsers, then redirect the users to the preferred AJAXy URLs... but perhaps they don't even want the non-AJAX URLs to appear in normal use.)
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Ok, that is actually very funny :)

I definitely did not think of this when I asked the question, but if it turns out there is no project "similar to rubber, but for Fabric", I may start one, and I'll most certainly call it "Spandex".
There's Ian Bicking's http://cloudsilverlining.org/ (formerly toppcloud), but it intentionally doesn't use Fabric.
That's pretty darned neat.
Part of that's due to its comparative lack of suburbs, though, so unlike in most major cities, whites actually live in the city instead of the suburbs. For example, Boston is 55% white within the city limits, but Greater Boston is closer to 70% white, which isn't far off of Portland's 78%.

Edit: Actually it looks like Greater Boston is more like 80% white. The state of Massachusetts overall is ~88% white, and the Greater Boston area has about 60-65% of MA's population. Even if we assume every single non-white person in MA lives in the Boston area, they'd make up <20% of the metro-area's population.
I wrote a bit about this a few years ago, before my stroke:

http://stanrogers.blogspot.com/2005/03/girls-math-stuff.html

Warning: the site in general is a personal blog, so don't expect to see much else of interest to anyone.
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Of course. It's not that commit access is my goal, it's that I'd want my work to stand a chance of being integrated into the kernel instead of rejected out of hand, and I've never been sure just how much that happens w/ no-names. If it's horrible code, then yes reject it, but besides esoteric drivers it's always seemed like a bit of an old-boys-club to this outsider.
Sign of a startup bubble?
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> They provided support for the movement which stripped away the regulations that had provided the basis of financial stability in the decades after the Great Depression

This is not the case. The financial system is incredibly complexly regulated, and the regulations are growing each year. They're too complex for lay people to understand. As such, you get a phenomenon called regulatory capture...

You have utterly missed the point. And the rest of your rant just goes farther afield from the article.

Stiglitz claims that there are specific regulations which were responsible for several decades of financial stability in the USA. He further claims that these regulations have been removed. There is, in fact, a great deal of support for both claims.

He does not claim that there are now no regulations. He does not claim that all regulations are good. And it is a safe bet that he has spent more time thinking about regulatory capture than you have.

Now get off of your pedestal, go read what the Nobel laureate has to say, and you just might learn something useful about economics.
It's not just in high tech that you're seeing that either. I work with several nurses that commute in from Houston, Austin and Portland. They make more working 12 hour shifts for 6 days in a row in the Bay area than they can make working a whole month in their home towns.
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It's easy to call the shots from the audience. TechCrunch is judging this by Disney over-romanticized standards - self fulfillment et al.

TechCrunch does not have access to the founders' cockpit view. What if the founders decide the company is about to become stagnated, overrun or just boring? If they can get a good price it's not worth the stay.
The same list made me feel old at 40. :-(
It shouldn't require a redirect to "grow" the context around the fragment, though -- which is kind of the point of progressive enhancement.
You can ask your VCs to redo their term sheets and double
the amount raised. Take half off the table and you, your
children and their children will never want for anything
material in their lives, even if Foursquare goes south right
afterwards.

He should have led off with this, point no. 5. Who cares that "Yahoo kills startups" (even tho PG's still isn't dead), as a founder my goal is to maximize my profit and my well being. I don't give a fuck about Yahoo if I'm getting $20 million out of the deal.
You can also implement them with a setTimeout(0), which gives the browser's event loop a chance to run so that you don't lock up the browser forever. I did something like this with ArcLite, resetting the stack with a setTimeout(0) after ever top-level definition was parsed, so that it didn't take 30 seconds of unresponsive browser for the standard library to load. It occurred to me afterwards that I could've used this to implement continuations, but by then I was pretty much done with Arc development.
If any hn readers go, be sure to hit up the technical bookstore a couple blocks away from the giganto bookstore. It is amazing. There are over a dozen rows of programming books, many with used copies right there beside them. Not just of old books, either. Last time I was there, I picked up a used copy of a book that had been published only four months earlier.
Michael is certainly entitled to his opinion, but it would be rather nice if people stopped criticizing founders for "selling out" instead of "going for it".
Why the obsession with MicroSIM cards?

Nobody uses them, and I can't see any real benefit over the already-tiny SIM cards.

If this is true, it's going to really annoy international users.
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Hmmm... Arrington having a very strong opinion about Foursquare selling to Yahoo. Too bad he didn't back it up with more facts and references instead of those few shallow examples of people selling to Yahoo and being unhappy with it afterwards.
I said "replicate your app", not "write 5000 lines of code".
"making Google's engineering problems into the Internets' engineering problems" -- indeed, and more specifically, saying that because Google can't/won't embed a JS engine in their crawler, publishers should embed one in their webserver. For which they suggest you use Java or, alternatively, Java.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198924
That's not necessarily true. Investor psychology shifts the demand curve for the company's stock - if large numbers of investors made decisions based on reasons other than profitability, then they'd demand more shares of "good" companies and fewer shares of "evil" companies. Some of that price difference would get arbitraged away by amoral opportunists just looking to make a buck, but the equilibrium price is less than the "evil" companies would get otherwise.

We see some of this effect in actual stock market data, today, where "sinful" companies like Altria or defense contractors tend to trade at lower P/E ratios than "good" companies like Google or Merck. Of course, this means that sinful companies tend to pay higher dividend yields, and evil investors end up with more money in their pocket. This is the price of not being evil.
Not exactly ground breaking. This is standard functionality of most card readers/encoders. You can do the same with your credit/debit card with the same results. The information on the mag stripe is not encrypted and just plain text.
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You're certainly right that there's nothing groundbreaking here; tons of people have done similar things. I just thought it was interesting to clone it onto a random metrocard. However, the data is encrypted, you just don't need to care about the encryption when you're doing a bit-for-bit clone.
Articles on this topic are always depressing. They only ever talk about brain implants to treat epilepsy or help recovering stroke victims.

What about the rest of us?

Yes, obviously, the state of the art described here is still too invasive to be used on uninjured brains. Is it too much to ask, though, for these guys to say "commercial applications are at least 20 years away"?

By omitting that one little line, the authors are suggesting that it's never going to happen because nobody is thinking about it.
Yes...because there were no market crashes or recessions under the gold standard.

What is it about adherents of Austrian economics that so many of them seem to think nobody else has ever sat down and thought seriously about economics? I'm reminded of those people who show up at my door occasionally trying to tell me about their awesome religion.

Look, people, I have listened to you ideas and given them due consideration and I just do not believe your damn theories. I am sorry to put it so brutally, but the Austrians are just as annoying and patronising as the Marxists. Both groups depend on hand-waving instead of math, are unable to handle abstraction, and cling to a naive understanding of how economies work - Marxists believe in a lump of labor fallacy, and Austrians believe in a lump of capital fallacy which is just the other side of the same coin.

Furthermore, both are predicated on the idea of a steady state, some kind of economic nirvana which would come into being if only everyone would adopt these (supposedly) fabulous economic ideals - which is why neither Marxists nor Austrians can point to any economies where their theories are applied with great success. They excuse by explaining that the existing system is corrupt and their theory will only work if everyone joins in with it. In the meantime, all problems are the result of filthy bankers.

We don't need more regulation, we need to tear the whole mess down. Politicians have proven repeatedly that they can not be trusted with the ability to print money that you're required by law to take.

Riiiight. But gold coins exert some mystical field which results in perfect morality...and when they don't, it's because the mendacious parties are not true scotsmen. It's magical thinking. Get over it.
As if there were not enough signs already )
I don't think that's what Arrington is doing here at all.

He's criticizing them for selling out to Yahoo.

The point is not that "selling out" is bad, it's that you need to sell to someone who is committed to continuing the project in a meaningful way, and who has something to bring to the table besides money.

Speaking as a founder who has cashed out, I can tell you that the choice of buyer matters immensely, and that there are more important things in life than the amount of money in your pocket.
I'll be honest. I find these things retarded. It'd be like sailing across the Bering Strait and announcing that'd you'd crossed the Pacific.

Something thrown together in 48 hours is not a startup; it's a website. It might be able to turn into a startup over time, and I think that would be a far more interesting statistic: how many of these "startups" are doing anything after 3 months?