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one of my hacker friends is quite useless in the kitchen because he can't understand the concept of "roll with it" and reads the recipe like a program

I used to be like this when I was in high school. I was preparing something almost fool-proof (Pasta Roni), and was devastated when I discovered I'd added the milk before directed. I was sure that it was going to crash and burn. When the food turned out just fine (as fine as boxed pasta can be, that is), I learned the valuable lesson that not everything requires engineering precision.
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(I can explain if needed...)

I'd personally be very interested in hearing some details about this, if you have a few moments to write something up (or even paste a few links to some mailing list posts or the like, somewhere that I can do some reading).
I read this, and all I could think of was http://xkcd.com/743
Why Amazon’s Kindle Will Eventually Win the e-Book Wars
VLC uses Sparkle for updates now. I think it was just added in 1.1.0.
Late 30s. Very educated British woman. Didn't ask why they didn't know this.
Skiplists are at a sweet spot, too - simple and easy to remember, but in the same ballpark as red-black trees. (not functional/persistent, though)
No issue here....just a divorce and business as usual for a millionaire!!! Next better ny article.....
Malik writes: In fact, the reading experience on the iPad is so superior to that of the Kindle I often find myself staying up later than usual reading a book.

Or it might be the brighter screen delaying normal sleepiness!
More like how Java feeds people into that popular Smalltalk variant known as Ruby. Sometimes mainstream languages can borrow enough features to pass themselves off as "close enough", but it is also frequently the case that attempts to make this move never really catch on. Twisted tried to pull off this same trick for Python and IMHO it never really managed to make the grade until the enhanced generators and yield statements in recent versions of Python allowed people to write code that was not a complicated mass of callback hell. Node.js might thread the needle, but it seems equally likely that the role played by node.js will be subsumed by a better runtime and javascript will be used to write functions and handlers that execute on the Java or Erlang VMs -- to the users/coders the system will appear the same but they will gain the benefits of a stronger set of concurrency primitives in the runtime.
In my building you push the single call button, get on and press the floor you want to go to and let the elevator do its business (it travels to the lowest floor called then up or vice versa depending on which direction it was just travelling). It's either that or take 16 stories of stairs.
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> we bought a Commodore 64 (in original box) for $25. It

> arrived in good shape. It took us maybe three minutes to

> attach an old TV. We flicked the power switch ... and up

> came a command line. In BASIC.

And the cheaper and easier solution would be type three words into google: basic interpreter javascript

Low and behold: http://www.ngbasic.com/ngbasic/
The ultimate goal for any capitalist worth his pinstripes is not to compete in a free market, it’s to get control over a market. Merge. Acquire. Consolidate. Squeeze. Fewer competitors means less competition.

I'd argue that this is not capitalism he's describing. Capitalism, as Smith described it, involved relatively small businesses competing with each other -- not the quasi-fascism that the author describes.
Why do you need an app for porn? There are plenty of websites that have a HTML interface specifically for the iPhone...or so I've been told...
I would give it a GPL/LGPL/Mozilla/etc license (your choice, GPL is popular) and put it on a public GitHub repository, and then post it here on Hacker News so we can see it :)
I have never heard the term "PayPal Mafia" until this week (3 times). Is this new?
My guess would be that features you see as "OSX taking from Gnome," both Gnome and OSX got from NeXTStep.
Okasaki's _Purely Functional Data Structures_ and CLRS (http://www.google.com/#q=0262032937&fp=1) are a great start.

Also: Learn OCaml. Data structures will make so much sense.
Did anyone notice that Cmd+Z now reopens closed tabs in Safari?
Just thought I'd point it out.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/29/exclusive-android-froyo-t...

Android Froyo onwards, a lot of system apps are going to be downloadable separately, just so that you dont have to wait for your service provider to build an OTA update for you.
I'm not aware of any reason why Froyo won't run perfectly well on that G1 in time - Eclair builds are fairly snappy on it. If JIT is do-able on G1, Froyo may well get more mileage out of this hardware.

Mobile providers won't waste the time to OTA it, of course, and root+image isn't for many people (though things like ROM Manager are making these paths accessible to an awful lot more people than we tend to assume). But I'm not sure how it's 'not true at all'.
No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
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For those who don't know, Aho and Ullman wrote the "dragon book", a classic text on compilers.
I follow key reporters, newsmakers, pundits, blogs, and wire services on Twitter. Sort of a "build your own" linkfarm like DrudgeReport.
Article has many valid points, but pushes them too far, as such articles are prone to do.

1) True, today's kids don't have the fly by the seat of your pants relationship to programming (I distinctly remember a book called "What You can do with 1K", the Sinclair Z-80 had 1K of memory!). However they have other, powerful tools. Consider processing, Alice (http://www.alice.org/), and, of course Scratch, among many others.

2) I agree more with the points about hardware: today's kids have less of a relationship with the hardware, I feel. But there are many cheap and powerful kits (Arduino, Beagle, etc.) that can change that.

3) The WWII techie guys that are mentioned probably lamented in their time that the kids don't understand technical stuff anymore but just do BASIC coding.
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> a call button does not give the system adequate information to take the necessary action; If you press it and you get a lift that's heading down and you want to go up, you just wasted time.

In my building there's only one passenger elevator and the service elevator, you're not wasting time by getting on the elevator regardless of the direction it's presently travelling.

This only becomes a problem when the call button calls multiple elevators to stop. However, this could be resolved simply by having one elevator travel from floor the lobby to the top floor and then perform an express to the ground floor. The other elevator does the exact opposite. You then mark the elevator doors UP and DOWN. If you accidentally get in to the UP elevator instead of the DOWN, you'll still eventually hit the floor you want, it'll just take longer and you'll figure it out sooner or later.

The problem arises from the fact that the elevators are acting erratically, they're jumping from floor to floor on no predetermined pattern. You have to pay attention to the elevator, which is a foolish form of pedestrian transport. I don't have to pay attention to the stairs, I just walk down them. I don't have to pay attention to where the bus is running, I just go to my stop and climb aboard and get off when I want.

It's kind of pitiful that multi-call elevator systems are more complex than even the poorest public transit systems.
Wow! Daring Fireball is indeed an Apple Fanboy!

He advocates the fact the the world's best tech company cannot really solve such a trivial issue like removal of built-in apps and instead suggests a workaround and hide them!! Any programmer could tell you that Apple can build the apps just like any other apps in the AppStore and have them available for free. Guess it is too hard of a problem when you don't want to solve it!!!

http://thecaseagainstapple.blogspot.com/
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Been looking for a good programming font, and was disappointed that the OP was not one, so thanks!
> cocaine is expensive

Is this a joke? Because that's not an accusation to make lightly, IMHO.
There's an article today on Ars Technica/Nobel Intent related to this concept that considers the influence of language on spatial reasoning: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/language-in-spac...

I'd always wondered if maybe thinking in Japanese or German allows Japanese or German people to come up with better solutions to some computing or engineering problems. Thanks for sharing that link.
You answered your own question. Why would you want to stop the elevator for people who have no intention of getting on?
I remember teaching myself some BASIC in late primary / early high school. But I passed on studying it properly because the computer course at high school was notoriously weighted towards masses of work and poor input into the end of school results [1]. So I missed the boat to bigger and better languages (for now at least).

Actually, on reflection that's not entirely true. In the past few years I've found work-related opportunities to teach myself some basic HTML. And iirc, the canonical 'How to become a Hacker' document [2] encourages the use of HTML as just what the OP is asking for - a basic language that teaches kids how things fit together. Sure, it's more complicated than BASIC, but in the Facebook era being the kid at (primary) school who can build his own webpage is perhaps not dissimilar to me being the kid at school who could build games with curse words in them.

No Commodore 64 required.

[1] My state's school system weighed the grades you received in any course against the overall skills of that course cohort when compared to the rest of the state on a standardised test. So I received much higher results from taking Drama (full of very smart kids at my school) than I would have taking IPT (full of average students, and harder workload). No comment on which cohort may now be more successful, but that was the choice at the time.
[2] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
scholar.google, search for the authors names he cites
I'm willing to donate $100 for the bioengineering of laser emitting fireflies. We could bring nature into the 21st century one bug at a time.
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Well, like Engadget mentions, they'd already broken Maps out like that a while back. The entire reason they can do this is because they've kept their first-party apps out of the system level and exposed the functionality they need publicly.

The official Facebook and Twitter apps integrate with system contacts, for example, not because Google integrated them at the system level, but because Google provided an API to allow this with the Android 2.0 release.

One of the things that continually impresses me about Android is the fact that Google took so much care to create a clean architecture that opens up the door to a lot of cool opportunities for any application developer.
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Related point: big corporations _love_ regulation, since they can afford the cost but startups they might otherwise have to compete with cannot.
I understand what the author is trying to convey, but the world has moved on. Given that it has, BASIC has been replaced with other technologies.

Personally, my wife and I take our children education into our own hands and CS has been part of all of there curriculum.

For the girls we use Alice http://www.alice.org/kelleher/storytelling/ and for the boys we use Mindstorm http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx , they are as successful, if not more successful at providing a simple yet compelling programming environment that make the children want to embrace them. As well, Flash is a good environment that can give a kid training wheels while they learn ever increasing complexity.
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Thanks, that's the sort of info I'm looking for. I don't want to make the use restrictive but I'd like to prevent someone else from claiming it and then preventing others from using it in the future.
> You assert that the production of cholesterol is not the problem. Since you claim that I am starting from the wrong axiom, what do you believe is the root cause of hypercholesterolemia?

The issue is cardiac mortality. I assert cholesterol is not the cause [1]. I further claim that assuming that it is, and orienting research that way, is equivalent to starting from the wrong axiom.

I don't say you particularly start from the wrong axiom, rather that the general approach does.

Your counter is "Since you claim that I am starting from the wrong axiom, what do you believe is the root cause of hypercholesterolemia?"

This is orthogonal because we are not concerned with cholesterol.

Here is a corrected version of the question I assume you meant to ask.

"what do you believe is the root cause of the current sudden cardiac mortality epidemic?"

Answer: carbohydrate/omega-6 induced Metabolic Syndrome.

If this seems like begging the question [2], I will make it plainer: carbohydrate overfeeding coupled with excessive omega-6 consumption. Our bodily mechanisms necessarily mean it will lead to Syndrome X / Type 2 diabetes / early-onset cardiac mortality.

[2] because Metabolic syndrome is so ill-specified as to really be just a combination of symptoms.

[1] except pathological cases above, say 500mg/dl
I think GPL will be the way to go, and once it's out I'll be happy to share it here.
I don't quite understand. Is the guy saying that if he gets his stamp, then he can marry this particular woman whose parents will pay them a 1 crore dowry, but otherwise he can't marry her? or is he saying that if he gets the stamp they can get the 1 crore dowry, but otherwise, he will still marry the same woman, but her parents will gift them less than a 1 crore dowry? or is he talking in the generic sense that if he has the stamp, then he would be elgible to marry an arbitrary, non-specified woman whose parents would pay a 1 crore dowry?
I have a feeling that it was a pretty picture that was too good to leave out.
It isn't much better without ClearType, either. Inconsolata looks a /lot/ better on linux, so it could be something wrong with the font hinting.
..because butter and mayo help make it healthier?
I've lived in housing for 3 separate Universities in the states.

At all of them, Linux machines were allowed to connect to the network without any fuss, and presumably Macs too. Windows machines were required to install university-provided anti-virus.

There was one little problem where the detection software they were using was checking for SMB support, and I got blocked because my Linux box had something running like that, but I called support and they worked it out.
According to the KB this opts one out "of receiving interest-based ads".

This likely means that this does not stop Apple from collecting the tracking information. They just will not use it to serve you the ads.
I'm not sure why but my body can't tell the difference between my $1000 chair and my $100 chair.

The money isn't the issue to me. Even at $1k that's nothing compared to 5 years of comfort. I just don't notice the damn difference.

http://www.staples.com/Global-Leather-Executive-Chair-Black/...
"If Amazon wants to keep the device around, it will have to transform it from a mere e-book reader to a content consumption device that matches the iPad in its capabilities. Otherwise, like the Nook, it’s already dated."

Well, another avenue would be to keep it as a book reader but make the hardware so simple that it can be given away free with, say, a Amazon Prime membership.

Note that the title is a bit misleading, what he's saying is no that that the kindle device will necessarily win the war, the Kindle store will (because of superior experience and the fact that it's platform agnostic).

As he points out, Amazon's web site is its biggest asset. Even when I buy books from other retailers (I feel bad for Borders) I still first go to Amazon to read the reviews. If Amazon can somehow bring its formidable database of comments more into the picture (or add additional functionality, like ability to place a comment on a certain page) it will be even more unstoppable.
Perhaps not a sexy solution, but asking to be removed from their database can help with legitimate (though annoying) businesses.

Another thing to ask is how do they get your phone number, and is that the same way potential customers would? For example, customers may be overwhelmingly getting your number from your website and business cards, while telemarketers may be pulling it from open online directories. Removing yourself from the directories, where possible, may reduce spam calls without reducing customer enquiry.

Alternatively, route every call through an answering service. Make a public note on your website / cards / marketing and/or the message bank that you will return all calls within 30 mins (or whatever) during business hours. Link the message service to voice-to-text so you get missed calls as emails/sms - respond to customers immediately, ignore the others.

Lastly, a sexier solution that may or may not work (and only if you have more than one phone line). Tell the caller you're transferring them through to the owner who handles the accounts (or whatever) and then just leave them on hold. Eventually they'll hang up, and due to the unprofitable time it takes them to call you they may not call back.
I have one semi-beefy dedicated server. A dual core 4GB. That can handle everything I do easily and it's only $80/mo.
Wow. With those demographics, I might have wondered if some sort of medically-triggered confusion had beset her. I would have expected such a person to have ridden elevators hundreds of times.

Though I suppose if spent most of your life in a rural area, and only rode elevators occasionally with strangers, you might continue with such an initial misunderstanding indefinitely.
Be careful with "as far as I know" -- since you haven't been running any virus detection software, you could well be infected. Of course, the risk of undetected infection for technically advanced users doesn't go down when antivirus software is installed, as advanced users know how to avoid the common or visible viruses.
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I think the primary missing piece is the national drive to get to Mars. The moon-landing worked so well (and used an enormous portion of GDP, even as the US ramped up action in Vietnam) because the country was unquestionably committed to landing on the moon. Part of that, of course, was JFK's charisma in selling it, and his legacy post-Dallas. I don't get that there's the same commitment to Mars.

Now, if it were a global commitment (likely NATO, maybe some Chinese involvement, but we'd call it global) then it could work. But that's a discussion for a President and international community in good times - when Greece is going bankrupt and 10% of the US is unemployed, few at home, in Europe or internationally are going to jump behind a Mars vision.
Hard to believe he consumes twice in a month what my wife and I do in a year.
The thing is, 5-10% of their shared assets works out to over a hundred million dollars [1] if you include the slices of his companies that she's asking for. So while she couches her request in reasonable language she's actually asking for (IMHO) an unreasonable amount of wealth given she didn't create it in the first place.

[1] Which is over forty times the lifetime earnings of the average American simply for marrying well.
Same thing here. Seems e isn't letting me disable cleartype either.
I'd really just rather have GTK work nicely on a mac, actually.
This is actually could be a decent optimization if there is only 1 elevator shaft and not a lot of floors- something that bugged me about my old apartment.

In my 3 floor apartment, if you're on the 2nd floor with the down button pressed and someone gets out on your floor while the elevator is heading up, you could have gotten in while the car is stopped and avoided the stop on the way down. However, the call wouldn't cancel until the elevator was actually on the way down and it would stop a 2nd time.
I'd like to point out that a BASIC interpreter sufficient for his needs could be written with fewer LOC than the article.

I learned on BASIC myself, but it's just so tedious. If I had to guide kids on programming today, I'd look at scheme or smalltalk. Probably the latter first.
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I thought the same thing, but remembered the elevator in my grandmother's building: since there are only 6 floors without much traffic, once you are in the elevator, it's all yours for your travel to another floor. The elevator can be "busy" and you can call it to your floor only when the current travel is over. You get in, you press the floor you're going to, and only then does it take new requests.

So, one button works in that particular configuration. It's not absolutely efficient, but the traffic is low enough that it's not, in practice, very inefficient.
I like the proposal of a city attorney I knew in a small, central coastal town of California, US: For every law passed, that legislator must remove two older laws.
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In response to that quote, I'm sure the iPad is in many respects a great eBook reader. But I like to read on the go, particularly outside in the sun, so for me the iPad can't compare to my Kindle's battery life and e-ink display, not to mention its free 3G access for those few times that I need it.

But I know not everyone's use is the same, and the iPad must rock for books with pictures and maps and such.
Perhaps nowadays kids progress: HTML -> JavaScript -> PHP?

What is missing from programming languages nowadays is a really easy way to do graphics and games. But at least HTML and JS give you fast feedback, where each line you write has a visual result. (And yes, HTML is not a programming language, but it is a great starting point.)

What I miss are the books and magazines with code listings, which I patiently typed in. :)
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point #3 isnt exactly correct. On most Otis elevators the direction you call the lift with mandates an operation. If opposing sequence of requests occur, the lift doors will close and then re-open. You'll notice the directional light above will switch upon the doors reopening. The only way to prevent this is to hit the manual reset (commonly pressing two 'secret' buttons at the same time).

When working in hotels, I use to request an elevator going down with passengers, jump inside, perform a manual reset and force everyone to ride up with me.
Interesting. I am open if you are considering collaboration which will give one additional man month to finish the project. I am familiar with C, C++ and Python.
I agree. PHP is sort of what BASIC was for me.

As for books, are you referring to something like this? http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ I LOVED this book.
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given she didn't create it in the first place.

simply for marrying well.

You make me fucking sick.

What right do you have to make judgments on how their relationship affected his success? What the fuck right do you have to spew that horseshit and claim she was of no value?

You fucking disgust me.
He is talking in the generic sense. A person who wants to get 'paid' would marry any gal whose family can cough up that much money.
FWIW, to do this you press 'door close' + 'desired floor'. this can also bypass other requests (not just change direction).