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Heh. I just read that article while procrastinating.

He's really spot on though. I don't have a good way to use my laptop on the other side of the room, but I could work in terminal mode, and only switch to my desktop for non-work.

As for the article about the internet killing our brains, I really disagree with a lot of it. I often find that one of the biggest problems of holding my attention is that the subject is simply not interesting.

Often, I'll read an article, even a very deep one, until I realize that it either has no substance, or I come across a big error that needs correcting.

I've read books that were over a thousand pages. Several which were about eight-hundred. The important thing about those books is that they were enjoyable.

The author seemed to dismiss readers who were anti-authoritarian, and anti-expert, regarding literature, as half-baked excuses for our lack of ability to read. This does not apply to me. I don't reject popular or expert approved books because the experts approve them, or because I am unable to read long books. I reject them because I can't force myself to read anything which is uninteresting.

Which I accept may be a problem, but if that is what the author was addressing, then it needs clarification.
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't a site that maps names and e-mail hashes to a homepage URL make it really easy for a spammer to take a list of name/e-mail pairs and find the ones that are in active use?
Ok, so that's less restrictive than you made it sound in your article. I'm not sure you want to kill files or filesystems at all. In fact, all you want is a filesystem that enforces the restriction that files of a given type should always live under a directory that holds only files of that type.

Ok, reasonably interesting. I'm not completely sold, but I can see it has a lot of advantages - it might work! One open question for me: Where do things like zip archives live? They don't seem to have a logical place to be.

You also seem to want to rename "filesystem" to "database". I'm not sure why. A filesystem is already a (specialized) database.
Instead of manually finding interesting people on my niche, I set my criteria and let my program do the dirty work for me. What's wrong with it?

I don't even spam people. I send one link to my site per every 5 witty and inspirational quotes. A few people that I met over there have contributed to my site as guest bloggers.

I am not doing anything evil - just automating something that I would hate to do manually.
Welcome To The New World Police State
Saving a penny -- pirating the Humble Indie Bundle
Good to see that an open platform is leading the way with these "super personal computers" (phones/tablets).

I still love my iphone and pad, but it is nice to know that the market leader isnt some corporation who is bent on defining how the market should move
How about the opposite: browse the Web from within Emacs? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-w3m

[Edit: link to W3M, not the older W3]
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> for the record, i don't think families with two six digit incomes should have children either. they're existence is dependent on the lives of people who do not earn six digit incomes, and so they are guilty of just as much misery in this world.

That's a very odd comment. Two six digit incomes is a family of two engineers (2-5 years into their career) in Silicon Valley. Two $120,000-$150,000 incomes in Silicon Valley means "can afford a single family home, as long as both spouses are employed".

"They're" (I think you meant their) existence is not dependent on the lives of people who do not earn six digit incomes, amongst them are also people (doctors, engineers, scientists) who are making the lives of less fortunate much less miserable.

That also describes my parents and would very likely describe my own family (I've been earning a six digit income since two years out of college), so it's not something extra ordinary.
I don't see why it would really be beneficial - People who want to connect with a remote Emacs session just use ssh + screen or tmux, which is stable and quick to set up. If you really want to implement Emacs-over-the-web, though, familiarity with these might help:

distel - distributed elisp, via integration with Erlang (http://fresh.homeunix.net/~luke/distel/)

TRAMP - remote file editing (See e.g. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode)

Also, there are decent web browsers for Emacs. I like emacs-w3m. (http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/)
I quite often block people for spam who do that
s/should be chided for this/should not be chided for this/
As I understand, if he resigned as PM he would in effect concede the government and it would be up to the Tories to form a minority or coalition government. Instead he is resigning as Labour leader (effective September) so his party can form a coalition government with Lib Dems. Evidently, he is even remaining PM under the new government, but only until a new Labour leader is chosen.
>An inferior phone for a dozen reasons

The iPhone 3GS is an inferior phone for a dozen reasons. In fact it could be called crippled.
And developer tool lock-in: section 3.3.1.
Using DDG as a replacement for Google in the latest two months. I'm impressed. If it's better or not than google for certain types of usage, I'll let other users to decide (but it is better, for my usage). But what is truly impressive is how this guy build a search engine that works in a way that is comparable to Google for the end user, with limited resources.
That is tantamount to suggesting that poor women paid a per-child bounty would have more children to maximize their income: superficially it might sound appealing, but with enough years in higher education we can stop you from thinking such destructive thoughts about socially disadvantaged people.
You're a waste of space. I hope your accounts all get suspended. Witty and inspirational quotes? Wow, I guess your followers should feel blessed to find themselves at the receiving end of your awesome RSS'ed wisdom.

Spammers like you end up making people judge Twitter as "more spam" and giving it up before they've really tried it properly.

Your followers are probably more likely than normal users to give up Twitter because it's just pointless noise.

Simple utilitarian argument against what you're doing: if 10% of the Twitter population did what you do, Twitter would become mostly useless.

I really hope they write scripts to detect and ban you.
I agree, and so does Microsoft, actually; I had the chance to ask a fellow on the C# team (I don't work for MS but I was there recently) why some things in the BCL weren't made dynamic -- for example, when you call a constructor via reflection, and it passes you an object whose type is indeterminate at compile-time, why doesn't it now return type dynamic instead of type object?

His answer was basically your concern, that they didn't want to get in the habit of exposing dynamic things all over the place, since they felt it was sort of an unexpected thing to be doing in a language like C#. Hopefully third-party library programmers will be equally judicious.
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Joe seems to be one of those hybrid hungry entrepreneur types that happens to have an MBA. I went through the same debate and decided to skip the MBA, but I have friends that went Joe's route and it can clearly work. So in the end, it's more about the person and whether they have the stuff and circumstances than any particular degree - at least imo.
He deserves an honorary doctorate for Chatroulette.

The idea has so many applications such as web site user testing, advertising, video games, education, etc.
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I agree, and I think that a big part of the problem is that most of the folder hierarchy that users have to deal with on normal computers, is dedicated to things that have nothing to do with their work. The user's photo collection, documents, and entire operating system all share the same directory tree. It's true that there are conventions to where certain files are placed, and operating systems often take steps to hide stuff that users shouldn't have to deal with, but these steps are inconsistent and the conventions aren't enforced. While my photo viewer might look in My Documents\Images for photos, my photo editor might look in My Documents\editor workspace. A scanner might use yet another directory entirely. All these programs will drop a user into it's directory of choice, and a user looking for a file that they used elsewhere, will not know that they are in a different directory. Someone not familiar with the file system could easily get disoriented by this.
>No news here.

Is this like "the seven stages of grief" or something?

Yeah, there is big news here, denial-be-damned.

A few short months ago we were all told that there was just so much confusion in Android-land. So many choices and so many versions it was a major turn off for consumers. Instead the one-sized-fits-all iPhone model was the winner (and it was). Now it's "duh...of course Android moves ahead" as if that's the new reality.

>Everyone and their mothers knows that in a month Apple will introduce a new one

The Nexus 2 will be out in a very short while. The Samsung Galaxy S will be out with 3x the GPU power. The Evo 4G of course. And on, and on, and on.

>The point is that if you look at the single device, no-one is even closed to Apple's number.

It was never about a single device. It has never been a single device.
Even if you're not playing in the financial markets yourself, in the end you still pay higher prices for goods and services for every extra middleman in the value chain (from shareholders to suppliers to manufacturers ...) taking his/her cut.
Great article. Amazingly, I didn't realize that my startup was a marketplace until reading this.
"Do we really need to destroy other peoples' way of doing things to feel good about our way of doing things?"

No, but it's a valid concern that if you don't, you'll be stuck programming in it when it becomes popular (Java, Python, PHP, ...).
I would not want to be in the Twitter offices today. Good day to call in sick.
Cool stuff, but as a self proclaimed app whore I can't ever remember thinking I needed something like this.
Typical garbage story trumping up the scourge of the welfare queen. There is basically no data about how prevalent this is, no analysis of the context or the cause. They are just quoting some business owners who say its happening and do some simple math.
@ergo98: The 3GS is indeed crippled, but an objective user would be hard pressed to call it inferior. In the end, to each their own- some folks (including myself) are willing to put up with the limitations of the N1, and some folks are willing to put up with the limitations of an unjailbroken iPhone.
Someone steal this idea: A site with screencasts of people writing software in the editor of their choice. Let people browse videos by editor, programming language, whatever else.
this is roughly the problem that KDE's Nepomuk (and its ontology) is tryin to solve. Though their implementation is a resource hog.
Where are you located? I assume that you'd want a partner that lives in your local area.
Pixar's "Toy Story" Site Doesn't Work On The iPad
I hope Michigan isn't turning into the United Kingdom. We've had this nonsense for decades - you eventually grow a large, multigenerational underclass of welfare abusers kept alive entirely by taxpayers.

I dislike linking to the Daily Mail, with its salacious "little Englander" tone, but this story is played out all over our country: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1272512/20-000-benef... - Allowing basic "personality disorders" and similar as grounds for people to claim welfare for decades is the way to ruin. It not only costs us money as a country, but people who don't work for long periods become demotivated and are unlikely to be productive again - that must suck for them as much as for us.
I think it ultimately depends on your personal working style. Some advantages to vim are:

+ it's simple UI (all text-based)

+ it's lightweight

+ it is modal (which can be easier if you're a touch typist)

+ you never have to use the mouse (just like what lukeqsee said)

+ lots of plugins exist to enhance the functionality

Hope this helps!
I've often wondered how much influence one really gains doing the follow/unfollow method. I mean, I suspect most of these types are just "social media coaches" following other "social media coaches". I suspect most accounts that have roughly the same number of followers and following above 500 are like this. I'd be interested in seeing a CTR for links published like this (though, not so interested that I'd do this scummy thing). Really if you're following over a thousand people, are you really paying attention to any?
>some folks (including myself) are willing to put up with the limitations of the N1

Which limitations would those be?

>but an objective user would be hard pressed to call it inferior

It is absolutely inferior in at least a dozen ways. It is superior in a variety of other ways (polish), however I am simply using the same phrasing that you used relative to the N1.
There was a coalition formed without election during WWII, as an election could not easily have been held. It worked quite well, perhaps partly because nobody wanted to be the one who exacerbated the crisis, and partly the gravity of the situation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_Government_1940%E2%80...
I think you are suggesting that there's something less worthwhile about wealth made via liquidity creation than other forms of wealth.

On that theme - would you say that it is more noble to be a mechanic than programmer, and more noble to be a farmer than a mechanic?
My 2 cents (erm, pence?) is that Brown stepping down is paving the way for the Lib Dems and Labour to announce a coalition in the very near term.

I'm sure all of the heavily publicised talks with the Tories was just the Lib Dems flexing some muscle as they were conducting their talks with Labour.
Huh? I was talking about things like having a 'images' or 'photos' store where all photos can live. If you want to create a program that uses the photos, there can be a standard 'photo search' dialog rather than a 'file' dialog. This way all programs can access this store, and we can have dialogs that are tailored to the type of data that is being presented to the user. We could even make it possible for the user to search content if you had a 'docs' dialog that encompassed things like PDFs, text files, Word documents, etc.

This would make it a lot easier if say, you had a 'project management' app (not in the 'supervisor' usage of the term). Say you were creating a collection of documents for a particular project and you wanted various types of documents like photos, PDFs, etc (maybe you're doing research for something). If you were trying to pull together some of these documents from existing sources (i.e. documents you already have) you could use the lightweight search facilities of a 'docs dialog' to search the content of the PDF that you're looking for rather than trying to put all sorts of context into the filename and/or directory structure.
Looking only at the price they charge consumers doesn't give an accurate picture of their pricing strategy. Most estimates I've seen peg the average total revenue Apple makes per iPhone hardware sale at about $600, most of this paid to Apple by AT&T. Once that's taken into account, the iPhone probably has one of the highest revenues per unit on the market.

So their strategy is really to make a product that everyone wants, and to use that popularity to get phone companies to sell a high-margin niche product at mass market prices.
Why Venture Capitalists Rarely Say "No"
I read the title and I thought of Perl 6.

Apart from that, the article is lacking substance.
Nothing serious or too time consuming. More in line with "every piece of software can be made better."

Here's what's done: The data model is built, online forms to enter the data, reporting, an easy to administer setup system and accept new clients, easy integration with paypal subscription. It's a multi-tenant system, so we can have lots of companies sign up and it's fairly easy to add new customers. It can also be packaged as a "behind the firewall" system. It's also built on a flexible platform in case the clients want to add fields or modify the application to suit their needs. There's a rest-like interface for integration into existing information systems the clients may already be using. Tons of security setups for multiple groups and who which information they can view or enter. It works on mobile devices so client reps can enter data while out on the road. Lots of pharmaceutical sales people will love this capability.

What still needs to be done is setting up the brochure site to sell the product. Create a blog and start adding content to get people involved. I've bought a great domain name that will help with SEO. There's also some aesthetic stuff like gradients and moving form fields around, but this can be done with drag and drop.

It's ready now to do a demo for clients. My thought is put up a brochure site where potential customers can sign up for a webinar and we can walk them through the site and how it works. It's not very complicated really.

More work from the business side would be finding the decision makers and approaching them. Someone with a Rolodex would be very beneficial to the team.

I suspect the SaaS could sell for between $2,000 and $5,000 a month. Behind the firewall systems on the order of $50,000 + maintenance fees.
Been thinking of adding a setting to add a small dashed line in between results. I wonder what you think about this? If you have firebug installed, search for something then add 1px dashed #AAAAAA to .cr1 & .cr1d.
Can you name a major market where the majority of users own the same exact product? People like different cars, different appliances, different houses, etc. How do you expect the phones to be different?
Becoming pretty obvious? I thought it was really obvious almost 3 months ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129465
Jailbroken iPad hack support Magic Mouse
I agree but there is no reason for him to be found "guilty" of anything. Arrested, prosecuted, and acquitted is what should have happened to the extreme.
Reasonable and more knowledgeable people may disagree, and many do (eg, Warren Buffet).

You do know that Buffet has a $5 billion investment with Goldman Sachs? Of course he would defend them.
I work remotely with people on different continents, so I think they don't need to be local. Probably isn't going to be a local person because I live in a rural area with few technical/business people anyway.

I use gotomeeting / phone and skype to work remotely with people.
It's reasonable cause to investigate him, sure. To arrest and convict him for terrorism? Absolutely not. Freedom of speech is generally seen as essential to being considered free. Being able to be convicted for an offhand remark in an unofficial situation is a complete violation of that freedom.
Maybe he's not really a usability guru, but rather a lack-of-usability guru.
His comment was idiotic and he's sounding like a smug dynamic language weenie. It pulls the "mandated by management" straw man, groups C# and Java together and treats them the same (which is strong evidence that the parent doesn't have a clue about what he's talking about) and did I mention it's got that classic dynamic language weenie smell?

The image that got conjured in my mind when reading that post was one of a teenage girl on the phone going, "C#? What. everrrr."

"I really see no reason to even consider C# or .NET."

This looks like an exhibition of the classic blub fallacy.
There are east coast (below Boston) hackers--draw us out
I use vim over other editors because I feel vim is a good tool. I know it's a good tool because it gets out of my way and lets me interact with text without having to trick an editor into doing it, which is how I felt with editors like Notepad++ and others like it.

It took me a while to get to this point, but I feel the investment was worth it. Just take a week and force yourself to use nothing but vim (and try learning as many features as you can) and see if it jives with how you think. If it doesn't, try emacs.

edit: Best way to see the power of vim is to watch someone edit text who's proficient with it; some people are so good with it you'd be convinced they mmap()'ed the file to their head and are just interacting with it in real time.
Thx for the detailed constructive criticism. On 1, I disagree with the premise that you can't improve UI. It's a subjective thing but I strongly believe a non-negligible % of people would prefer a different UI.

That being said, wrt to fonts and sizes, I wonder if you like any arrangement after tweaking the settings? http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html

On 2, I get way more positive feedback on this than negative, perhaps 10/1, though I do agree there are issues around the edges.
Ask HN: Did you exploit the twitter follow bug?
I tried it for a bit and since it was working made some of the celebs like @aplusk & @oprah follow me. Did you do something like that as well?
OK, at least that explains why you did it. Thanks.
I can think of a major market: operating systems.

Phones aren't like cars, they are more like computers (and becoming more so).
+ it's much more dynamic with integration of compiler than any other editor (I know) and supports even integration plugins for gdb

+ it will help you prevent mistypings during other actions (thanks to insert mode) and sometimes I think it even helps to write better code.
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They must be lumping internal IT tasks in with operations or else they have some competency issues that seem to call into question much of their other "brave new company" agitprop.
Yes, he did. Right now the working poor often face huge effective marginal tax rates, because lots of benefits go immediately to zero if you make too much. The solution is to gradually phase out benefits so that you're always clearly better off earning more.
One idea is to use LinkedIn and find sales & business development people (perhaps preferably with an entrepreneurial background) in the health care device/pharmaceutical industry. Then craft a nice, persuasive email and try to pitch them your idea. You'll probably have to pay for LinkedIn's premium service though, but if you can find a good, trust-worthy partner, it might be worth it.

Part B of that idea is to look for a LinkedIn group within that industry, join it, and look around for potential business partners that way.

A second idea is to try this new service called http://founderdating.com/ , though it's only in a few cities right now and doesn't seem to be running all that often.

I'd recommend trying to get at least 3 people who are interested & willing to help, then interviewing each and checking their references.

Just my $0.02. Good luck!
we can stop you from thinking such destructive thoughts about socially disadvantaged people.

And that is tantamount to suggesting that higher education brainwashes people into thinking abuse of the system is nonexistent, and everyone on the system is a legitimate citizen using it responsibly.

I'm not trying to demonize either side of the equation, but abuse does in fact happen, and it's just as disasterous/dangerous to act like it's not happening than acknowledge it with (possibly) inflated arguments that women are getting pregnant just to prolong their access to public resources like unemployment and welfare.
this guy must be the worst interviewer ever. sometimes, he seems to be so bored...

interesting insights, tho.
Empirically, people seem to love or hate the name, i.e. it generates an emotional response. When I talk to "normals" this love/hate ratio is very high. I understand though that you've taken issue with the name right from the beginning. This is not the first time you've shared this viewpoint :)
doesnot work..its already fixed~
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