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So you're saying that we shouldn't do things if people threaten us?

Do you really believe that?

A "EVERYBODY USE THE N-WORD DAY" is unlikely to happen -- precisely because no-one would actual kill someone for drawing a cartoon offensive to black people, even if it called them all niggers or something. You see, I did it there but I won't even get any death threats.

Contrast with someone drawing one cartoon and actually being killed, you know, his blood splashed across the ground.

Also, it's one thing some kids never learn at school -- if you can't take a bit of teasing, then you get picked on. If you get picked on, you either: get miserable, get used to being teased, or become the crazy kid, the one even the bullies won't touch, who kicks and bites, and even the teachers despise.

But they're not in school any more, and they need to grow up. Take offence if you want, but threats, violence and murder are a child's solution.
would prevent me from taking on a spur-of-the-moment challenge outside my particular development area that might actually lead to some self-improvement

This sort of thing is why I got a chuckle out of the claim that there would be "enough interesting challenges in [OP's] job." No employer can offer me enough interesting work that I won't find something unrelated I'd like to play with in my spare time, and I'm probably not alone in that.
iPhone app APIs are naturally simpler since the devices are very uniform. BB has to support a range of devices, like android.

Agreed - no openGL, but I don't think that is a big issue. Blackberries are better at business applications, worse at media applications.

Look at mail on the blackberry - it blows iphone mail out of the water. If you have multiple email accounts you are diving into layers of menus to check inboxes on both.
Account 1 -> inbox -> msgs -> back out -> back out -> back out -> Accunt 2 -> inbox -> msgs. Blackberries allow you to use the central queue.

Now look at media on the iphone. It is as great as ipods, enough said. Look at media on the blackberry - it is like a windows 3.1 player.

There are tradeoffs on both iphone and bb platforms.
You can't do this with #define alone. You can pass these "functions" around arbitrarily, and it still works.
Just ask people `if they'd have been happy being brought up by [insert any religion, or lack thereof] parents, the vast majority would say "no"'.
The point is television ads have been incredibly good at generating revenue for 50 years.
Rocket Racing League demos X-racers & augmented reality raceway in the sky
Hiring by Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)
a dick is a dick, regardless of age, race or gender. even jason deserves a break. let's move on, guys.
Nice. A minor glitch is that it sometimes asks you the same thing twice in a row.
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1295462
Why should file uploading require a dedicated application? That has been a standard browser feature since at least Netscape 3.
I just have to say that "Individual Muslims are free to disagree, but not to kill me." is one of the best sentences I've read in some time.

Reminds me of a British group I heard about on NPR a few months ago, I think the name was "British Muslims for Secular Democracy" who hold up protest signs that say "To those who choose to insult The Prophet... Let's agree to disagree."
A candid interview with Obie Fernandez
It's clear that you're trying to solve the problem in a functional way, and not in the way that an alternate paradigm would lend itself to. Indeed, elsewhere you admit

Someone who know C, Java and Python won't be able to use much of their knowledge to learn Haskell. On the other hand, Haskell could be taught as a first programming course. (Like Ocaml was in my case).

I think you're falling prey to the reverse of this problem: your mind is stuck in functional-land, and you need to switch your mode of thinking for success in an OO setting.

The approach to this is clunky in C++, Java, or C#. The normal approach is for the "parent" object to contain a collection of its optional attributes. One would insert new attributes into this collection, and request their values from there later. Another approach you'll see, depending on the needs, is to use generics or templates to package the attribute with sidecar information that indicates whether it's actually "there", as with C# nullable types.

In newer dynamic languages like python (which is an evolution of the OO paradigm), though, this is simplicity itself. Indeed, it's at the heart of dynamic programming, and is what I referred to in my previous post when I criticized the rigidity of C++. In python, one isn't bound by the static definitions of an interface. If you want to add an additional attribute to your object, well, what are waiting for? Just go and add that attribute to it. Later on, use duck typing to handle the presence or absence as necessary.
Net Neutrality laws don't exist now, and cable and broadband providers do not restrict what content customers can access.

Sorry Eric, but I'm not convinced this is a big deal worth getting the FCC Nipple Slip Police involved in.
This article is 15 years old, and reads like an introduction for windows users, when the author says things like:

Since then, I have successfully ditched DOS and moved on.
0 to application in a day, with Ocsigen/OCaml
The immediate health benefits of organic food might be questionable, but there is little question that the fertiluzer in the runoff is detrimental to coastal areas. The article mentions this.
As Philip Pullman so beautifully said (about Christianity, in his case) nobody has the right to never be offended.

Video here:
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2010/04/philip_pullman...
So what result should I be expecting? I'm getting a correct result on my Sharp EL-506W
Technically, I think that's a dogma, not a mantra. In a way, of course, one of the greatest triumphs of modern civilisation is that we now have so many folks who can afford to be picky about where their vegetables come from. I think that's great! More or less. However, I rather like the notion of getting certain produce all year-round...there's no talking me out of it, frankly.
In case you missed it, here's a decent summary of Saturday's live webcast: http://www.youtube.com/v/0lXfy43L8Og
On Decisiveness - the value of a quick decisions
Mark loves Steve: Ubuntu's Global Menu in 10.10
Sorry, I just can't help but observe the irony in something called head first being described as bottom-up.
Apparently the USB Camera kit dongle supports USB headsets, USB speakers and USB keyboards to some degree too.

You kind of wonder why they didn't just add a USB connector and SD card slot.
That's funny, I tried using the Visitor Pattern very heavily for a while, and ended up deciding it wasn't worth the trouble. Using it made me feel very virtuous and proper for a few years, but I've rarely if ever used it in the decade since, and never regretted not using it.
Never Compromise Quality
It's like people don't know about man pages anymore. Google is the man page... only you may not get your answer on the first try.
Wow, I can't believe this made it to the top of Hacker News. Tranformation to Reddit complete!
Yes I agree with you. I was strictly talking about performance. There are things BlackBerrys do better than the iPhone and there are also things that are simply impossible on the iPhone, due to its locked-down nature.
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I think you raise a pretty decent point, but if some comedian who makes use of "the n-word" were to suddenly start getting death threats, or actual attempts on their life, from some militant group that felt offended by the word's use, then I probably would support an "everybody use the n-word day", purely as a stance against acting out of fear.

But most people avoid that word not out of fear that they'll be murdered, but because they legitimately don't want to cause offense. But if some fringe group started trying to enforce our little social prohibition on the n-word by force and fear, I would expect that lots of people would start to push back -- and anyone who happened to be offended would just have to live with it.

A very similar thing happened with flag-burning. I've seen a lot more flag-burnings (in the U.S., of the U.S. flag) done in protest of laws against flag-burning than I've ever seen them as standalone political statements. The people doing these burnings probably never would have done them except that they're offended by the heavyhanded prohibition.

With the possible exception of the very first one, the people drawing pictures of Muhammad generally aren't doing it to make fun of Islam, they're doing it to take a strong stance against (and mock) those who would use fear to push their morality.

The underlying idea, I think, is to make it very clear to militant groups that they can't get their way via force and fear. The more they try to intimidate, the louder and more offensive the opposition is going to get.
I can't agree more. I'm not against the tablet idea (may be I don't like the iPad, but tablets seems cool to me).

You can make use of both. For example, when I'm contributing to HN, I feel a netbook is better for me. When I'm just reading, then a tablet will probably serve me better.

For writing it depends, if you are typing, a netbook with keyboard is a better option, if you are drawing things and writing (with a pen), a tablet will serve better.
The network would the least of a startups problem challenging google. This has been one of the arguments for net neutrality and it doesn't make sense.

1.) No one has this issue now and I don't see much competition from any other than microsoft. Eventually some one will find a way but isn't going to because of or inspite net neutrality.

2.) Google can't act in an any competitive manner using the network just has microsoft found out it couldn't do with the computer manufactures. As soon as some one thought they were using their network contract to impede competition they would be bust quicker than a "Gizmodo Editor with a 'lost' Prototype"

3.) Google would have more problems going this route and it would cost them a lots of time, money and energy to manage, then add the fact they would be held hostage by the network providers. Contract up? Ok, pay us even more, new service even more. It would be road I think they avoid if not then why not. With the proper network deals and content licenses: youtube could become a new cable company. Google voice a new telephone network...

They could more easily expand beyond search into different revenue steams with these deals if there wasn't big issues with them.
If you haven't read the Go4 patterns book, you don't deserve to call yourself a real software engineer

I read it, hated it, and would never recommend it for a few reasons, but mostly because I already knew Common Lisp when I read it (though I was writing Java full-time in my day job at the time) and so each time I read a new pattern I would think about how it was usually just an ugly hack to work around the poor design of a language like Java.

You might argue that a "real software engineer" will have to use crappy languages at some point and so should know the hacks to compensate. I'd argue that knowledge of a bunch of different languages makes those hacks obvious anyway - so I'd tell people to just spend time learning lots of languages instead of reading the patterns book.
I agree, the radical groups are culprits for embracing violence in the name of a religion that is otherwise all about peace, and the spineless network chiefs are the culprits for taking advantage of this in exchange for higher ratings and chatter.

Net-net, the people that actually care about the religion lose.
Suppose we're talking in person. In the middle of the conversation, I fart. Then I pick my nose and eat it. Finally I reach into my pants and scratch my crotch.

All of these things are harmless to you, but I would not be surprised if you were offended by some of them.

Disgust is cultural.

It's important to recognize that large numbers of people can as a result of their culture be disgusted by things we consider normal. It's unreasonable to say "you shouldn't be disgusted".

The best we can say is that the value of free speech outweighs the value of pandering to various groups' definitions of good taste.
This is interesting - typically I've only come across the term 'information architecture' as it relates to design.

That being said, it's not surprising considering how much leeway for interpretation 'information architecture' has.
That's, by and large, what most district attorneys and police departments do, and that's what's so troubling about this action and the priority it was given.

No one seriously believes that Gawker Media poses a continuing threat to anyone, including Apple. There's also no question about the disposition of the property; it's in Apple's hands. Further, the damage done is questionable. (I don't mean "frivolous." By "questionable," I mean that there's a legitimate dispute as to whether or not anyone suffered legally-recognized damages from the leak, as compared to, say, someone running a counterfeit-iPhone operation.)

In such a situation, most cops and DAs would put the investigation at the bottom of their pile, tell the victim to file a civil lawsuit, and then focus their resources at on-going criminal activity or crimes with substantial damages to the public.

Here, however, REACT raced into action with a particularly aggressive maneuver: a subpoena and unannounced seizure of a journalist's property. That's among the most aggressive actions they could have taken, and the decision-making behind it deserves an explanation.
It would be a wee bit more accurate to say that Android phones fetched more ads on the AdMob network (which is owned by Google) than the iPhone did.
>> so I figure between you and me we have all the bases covered
You both list four personal characteristics. On all four I resemble one of you too so I guess I don't expand the "bases" :)

I also find his points are somewhat offensive. I say somewhat because I have learned that being offended by someones opinions (as opposed to him lashing out on you personally) is not a good thing. They are just that, opinions, ideas. Maybe thought inducing or maybe boring. Offensiveness alone, I think, should only ever be used held the offender when offensiveness was the purpose.
It is interesting that half of your solutions to Winer's pain points involve buying additional products from Apple.

I think some of Winer's complaints are a bit silly, but I also think there is a very good case to be made that a netbook is significantly more useful per dollar than an iPad. Most people who pay $300-$400 for a netbook will never need to spend another cent on hardware or software for it.
I learn something wonderful almost every day on HN.

I just tried this, and it seems just ~. works fine (no newline needed).
How long can you go without saying "I want"?
Let me express it better: I think we need a mercantile and political infrastructure-- such "classes", if you will. However, I think the ultimate power should be held by a scholarly class, which should generally use it lightly so long as society remains in a morally acceptable state.

Right now, for example, if an entrepreneur makes a deal with a VC, the founders pay the VC's legal fees. This is a domination ritual designed to humiliate the founders, of a "lesser caste" than the business high priests. This is wrong. The founders, being the creative force, should be setting most of the terms. This world of the "Golden Rule"-- those with the gold make the rules-- needs to shot to pieces and rebuilt in another form, where those with talent and creativity make the rules.

Ultimately, power should be held only by a scholarly set of people who are aware of (and intellectually competent enough to defend against) power's inherent tendency toward abuse and evil.
The case has lots and lots of media attention.

And it may be just me, but the whole thing seems to be a pretty easy case:
The California law regarding lost items is pretty clear. If you think it's stolen, you have to report it.

The website shows a story admitting to buying the prototype for $5000 and showing lots of pictures holding it, disassembling, etc.
They know who owned it, and you're not going to pay $5000 for something that you're not completely sure of.
The full post is here--I would read the entire thing not just these 300 words quoted above.

http://calacanis.com/2010/04/27/red-jackson-gen-y-loyalty/

Now, the entire piece is over 3k words. It's a commitment, I know. Most people in the world, and sadly commenters in HN of late, seem to follow a pattern of "skim and flame." (i.e. read for 90 seconds, grab a quote out of context and write a flame).

If there are folks who want to ask me questions about the overall theme I'm willing to discuss/debate/take my lashings. All I ask is that:

a) you read the whole thing, wait 60 seconds and then write some questions.
b) submit questions in #/bullet format and try to keep them on the shorter side so I can get to as many of you as possible.

Side note: The Gen Y folks on Hacker News are, in general, the 1/3rd that kick ass. The 1/3rd that I created TechCrunch50, This Week in Startups and Open Angel Forum for. The folks who are doin' work and damage on the daily.

best @jason
George Carlin is always deserving of an upvote.
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Mark Jeffrey our CTO did not quit Mahalo. He wanted a new challenge and he became CEO of a company we partnered on called ThisWeekIn.com.

He is in the Mahalo building every day and helps us with hiring. So, another example of loyalty.
Granted, investing the time in something that involves physical workout might have a better PE. It's just that I really enjoy a casual game of Carcassonne every now and then. But it is difficult to find interesting opponents, and there might not be that much left to learn for me. So I was thinking maybe learning another, more common game might be more interesting in the long run. Plus, with Poker there really is the hint of the thought that if I enjoy playing, why not earn some money on the side. Admittedly, I don't really expect to get into money earning territory, but who knows.

Go would also be interesting.
On rare occasion, Google does give me a man page, but more often than not, someone has answered my bone-head question in simple terms in a forum somewhere.
The question is the difference in public response at the two cases. Just FYI for the ESLs and reading-comprehension-impaired.
Well said. It is unfortunate that a radical element can cause ill-will toward the larger body of moderate people. If I can't speak for anyone else, but if I were faced with "we prefer not to have a physical depiction of him" I would absolutely respect that, and find people who cross that line to just be obnoxious and mean-spirited.

If the message is "If you draw the prophet you'll die, just as these other artists died" then it suddenly becomes meaningful social commentary about tolerance and speech in a free society and also becomes fodder for (cheap) humor like what they do on South Park. Seriously, people still watch South Park?

In any case, it's very, very wrong that there are people in this world who consider being obnoxious and mean-spirited a capital crime.
Does "intentionally offending Christians" taste just as bad to you?

Yes.

I mean it more an a question for introspection, because it's been a long time since I've actually been offended by anything.

Thanks for framing the question this way. I hadn't really considered it until you did.
China has been ruled by scholarly elites for about 1000 years. Is that what you're looking for?
Once upon a time, obsession with bodily purity was a right-wing complex. In recent years, that obsession has been taken over by the left.
Crushing what?

I can't see how they're even playing the same game.

One is a former portal struggling to reinvent itself. Perhaps with moderate success when compared to the Goorilla. But still with a noteworthy standing in a wide range of areas; Flickr, delicious, YUI, Messenger, Mail.

The other is a spam link farm, run by a CEO suffering from a strong case of delusions of grandeur. A single "product" that google could shutdown in a blink tomorrow.

So. The gnat crushing the elephant, really?
If someone were to try something controversial and probably causing a lot of headaches, say building a simple webapp which is nothing more than a blank canvas exhorting the user to draw Mohammed, what's a good way to prepare? Are some webhosts less likely to capitulate on incendiary 1st amendment issues than others?
Did Draper and Woz write viruses?

Anyway, that's not what I meant. He seems to suggest that nobody writes viruses anymore, while I seem them running rampant.
Oh, I wasn't dissing the Google method. I'm just saying that if people bothered to read the whole manpage for some application just once, they'd know of the "cool" features they might need, instead of waiting until someone posts it on HN or reddit.
People don't read documentation. I clicked on this thing thinking "No, it's can't just be about the ~ escape, right? There's some content here.... Right?"

I lost. It's a blog post about a documented feature. Tune in next week for the "-j" option to tar!
If I just come out and say it can we move along to more newsworthy items?

Because Apple has lots of money and political influence.

Justice is politics and politics is money. Its ugly when it shows up so explicitly, but it should be no surprise.
Posted more than a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397996

(The URLs look identical... I wonder how this made it through the dupe filter?)
My point is that even if the Dell isn't an exact match feature for feature, I can get 2.5 of them for the same price as one Macbook Pro.

But just for fun, I picked a different Dell laptop, with a quad core i7, 1920x1080 15.6" screen, wireless N + WiMAX card, Windows 7 Ultimate, and it's still only $1584.
It exists; http://www.jetlev-flyer.com/
Pozit.com — A design process retrospective
1. Admob is Google.
2. This is AD traffic.
3. != news
quoting from the manpage:

"The escape character is only recognized at the beginning of a line."

so you'll generally need that newline to allow the escape to be detected, even though it's not technically part of the sequence.
It's possible the cartoonist is backing off, but it seems more likely that her art was misinterpreted as the organization of grassroots movement or something. She just clarified that it was just a cartoon. She didn't take it down or anything. I don't see that as fearful.
My prediction is that we will be in the same situation with iPhone vs Andriod that we are now with Mac vs Windows in 5-7 years. Andriod will be the cheaper but less polished product sold to the masses, while the iPhone will be a more upscale, more expensive product for the people with discriminating taste. Right now there is a lot of innovation going on in the mobile market, but the reality is that soon some features will become standard or even (gasp!) interoperable. At that point rapid "breadth-first" innovation will stop and we'll be looking at a competition of who has the nicer screen or longer battery life or faster processor, etc., and not at all at how apps are distributed, or multitasking is done.

P.S.: In 100 years works like "cell phone" and "app" will be SAT words : ).
12345679 * 9 * x where x is a single digit gives you nine copies of x.
Neither page really tells you anything.
As someone who doesn't know much about the ad business nor Android phones: do we expect that most of those ad requests came from Android browsers or from Android apps? Do iPhone apps often use AdMob ads?
The complaint is that if the law is the law then every case should be handled the exact same. Regardless of who it is. A phone is a phone 3 daughters is 3 daughters. It should not matter whose phone or whose daughters.

They are simply showing how bad/corrupt/failed the current law system is.