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Glad to hear that. Steve Yegge's post I hold dearest to my heart are: Dynamic Languages Strike Back, Rhinos and Tigers and Rhino on Rails (for controversial reasons and the guts to do it more than anything else).
Growing pains with a new memory manager. Vista has always been fundamentally solid as long as you had the hardware to match.
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Actually this is the least of worries with HTML. Actually, it's main problem is that it's so widespread, while being far from ideal syntax from marking up content...
Probably. Still, the question was whether it would be worth to buy in case it crashes after the press conference.
I have started commenting some of my HTML end tags so I know which div is ending where. Otherwise it drives me crazy even with auto-indentation in emacs.
I had to listen to the "Gate of Hades" track they link in the story in order to attempt to figure out what an i-dose is. I'm old and I'm not even 25 yet, damn kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1asB1haQM

If they're paying for this, I don't think they're getting their money's worth. Just get some nice sennheiser's, pop in some Court of the Crimson King. and lie back.

Secondly, this news report is far more brilliant than the Fox news report on the "SexBox" , so I'm glad today's high schoolers still know how to push the buttons of their parents and the surrounding community.
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Finding the root cause of failure is essential, especially when you are working with large codebases.

For my biggest running project, I customize about 1GB of source code not written by me. Every bug needs to be chased until one actually understands why it happened otherwise it's too risky to just make a patch that "seems" to fix it.

Plus, in the process you usually learn a new and interesting thing about a previously unknown part of the codebase.

Of course, very few customers actually understand the importance of this and have the budget to allow you this "luxury".

Fixing the bug for most of the servers and leaving a small fraction with the old codebase to investigate the bug some more sound interesting but I couldn't be doing that.
Whatever happened to “La Clojure”? (IntelliJ IDEA’s cojure plugin)
Yeah, that's pretty awful. Probably why it's illegal.
Venezuela has over 500 billion barrels. Saudi Arabia 260 billion
If they succeed in being more clever than the previous, I can live with that. It's the failed attempts that kill the fun ;-)
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I also dislike this move by Motorola. It's like using tamper proof screws and violates the idea from Make: "If you can't open it, you don't own it."

DIY/Makers and anyone else who ends up repairing fancy devices (phones, after market stereo head units, various lab equipment) have constantly fought with this type of thing. It comes in forms of bios that self destruct, glue that's only purpose is to break something internal if a panel is removed, or tamper proof screws on replacement parts.

See the Makers "Bill of Rights" - http://cdn.makezine.com/make/MAKERS_RIGHTS.pdf (pdf). I tend to judge companies on whether or not their products are outright MADE to prevent me from being able to fix it myself. If I can't, I won't buy products from them again. As @meunierc said, "vote with your dollars."
So, in other words, what Walmart, Facebook and Credit Cards have in common is that in each case, many of the end-users don't understand the business model?

Put another way: to what extent is it a "hidden" cost to say that Facebook is ad-supported, or that credit cards charge late fees?

I'm also not sure the criticism of Facebook is fair. What does this paragraph mean, really?

The aggregation of user generated content is a well known maneuver for web businesses. Why fight to generate content when users can do a better job of entertaining themselves. While I believe this is a good idea in theory, the practice of taking the vast majority of that collective value is questionable at best

Facebook is not pretending to generate content, any more than Gmail is. Facebook offers a channel for me to communicate with my friends. My friends and I supply the content, Facebook provides the pipes. I, for one, don't mind that it's ad-supported; if they had a "premium" ad-free version for a small fee, I suppose I'd consider it, depending on the fee, but I can't say it would be a big priority.

I'm also not impressed by the argument about data portability: This is the equivalent of changing mobile service providers but not being able to call your friends.
It's not, really. It's more like the early days of the telephone (or email), where you could only communicate with those friends of yours who were already on the network. Complaining about the lack of portability is more like complaining "I am giving up my mobile phone. Why can't my friends still call me?"
Good tip; I believe Guard Malloc does this for you.
It came out of tonight's London HN meetup post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517201
I wonder if this (vandalism) could be grounds for a class action lawsuit?
Thanks for the pointer to bizbuysell.com! I am going to have hours of fun perusing that one.

Edit: ooooh! Email alerts matching my criteria!
Straight up guys, this feels like the next great social network. Think technical chat roulette, but the people have stored their qualifications and interests so an algorithm can choose who to connect you to (assuming they are logged in to their office hours).
A problem with this discussion is that both "fundamental" and "value" are overloaded. What I am asserting is that the commonsense notion of value is indeed real in this context, just that the market is disconnected from it.

When it comes down to it, there is such a thing as talent. There is also something real called taste. The tragedy is that it's often really difficult for this to be reflected in a market. Perhaps a part of the problem is that talent is actually widespread: there is no distinct rare "superstar" talent, just lots of cute young women with a certain kind of look. Therefore, there is no rarefied taste that can recognize the "superstar."

The valuation of personnel is also greatly complicated by all sorts of other factors. A musician might have amazing chops, but the wrong kind of personality to deal with the rigors of touring or the temptations of stardom.

In essence, there are "model analysts." In the article, they are called tastemakers. They don't publish their conclusions, instead disseminating information at parties. They are not necessarily paid directly for their analysis, but most certainly participate in a reputation market.

The takeaway is not that talent and taste do not exist. They do exist. It's that truly distinct "superstars" and the talent that can recognize them are something of a marketing fiction. I agree that such markets are perpetual bubbles. Because of this fact, they do more harm than good -- they act to cloud information to buyers and reduce access to resources.

Re: Trading -- knowing that certain kinds of markets are always bubbles points to certain trading strategies.
It seems like you're describing flash trading, in which some customers pay to receive market data a split second before everyone else. In particular, this is not the same as co-locating to reduce latency: it's programatically implemented on the exchange side.

Flash trading no longer exists on any major exchange. AFIAK only the relatively minor exchange Direct Edge has them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_order
hm. Being honest, i can't see any other solution for that: you either care about the number of spaces (python-style, haml-style) or care about the parenthesis, or open-closing tags (ruby-style, html-style).

i love haml, and sass, since it's just speeds up development several times, improves readability and eases the whole process.
The rule of thumb for telephony visual designers: every time a new switch or service gets built, a new visual designer gets built too :). Not sure why the down votes, shrug.
You break patents not by writing or hosting software, but by using it. So a safe-harbour patent free cloud in New Zealand could help.
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I used to shy away from haml due to the significant whitespace. This apprehension went away after I forced myself to use it on a few projects, and now I hate working without it, for all the reasons jgc mentions in his article. It's not quite sexps, but it's a huge step up.
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If it's just function calls to the Wordpress code, I still can't see how it can be considered derivative. He also does not distribute Wordpress along with his theme. It's the user's job to put them together. This to me means it's separate and not derivative.

This just exemplifies the viral nature of the GPL and why businesses need to seriously consider using any code that involves the license.

This entire situation is a little hypocritical to me (for HN). Whenever there is an article about the piratebay (or piracy for that matter), there is usually a barrage of comments about how piracy is okay, it helps the content provider (because it's getting more usage), and it doesn't hurt or harm the original author.

Now that it involves the GPL (a person defending their copyright/license ownership..just like the record and movie industries), the majority here are singing a different tune. This just means that it has nothing to do with what's right and wrong, but political ideology.
20% of all small businesses in the US have only one employee. Why wouldn't you consider somebody operating as a contractor or consultant a small business owner? That's precisely what they are, whether they have an office or a storefront, or not.
I have multiple gmail accounts and still only get spam in my inbox about once a week at most and false positives about 2 times a month.
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How about just not buying a Droid X?
For whatever reason they want to serve arbitrary sizes on the fly.

The primary advantage here is that you don't have to coordinate generation of new images just because someone, somewhere requires a specific size in some client of your image system.

Of course, just stick a CDN in front of your on-demand scaling implementation, potentially backed by S3, and you're done.
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The article mentions that it must be fixed at the hardware level by Motorola. I wonder if there is something that can be done to disable this, such as jumping two pins on the main PCB. A steady hand and a small soldering iron can work wonders.
I guess it's widespread because it's simple and quite forgiving.
See, I've never had a false positive... that I know of, anyway.
Okay. We get it. For chrissakes, Motorola itself said "go buy something else if you want to hack Android". What else do you want?
your internet-based API is nowhere near fast enough to compete with legit HFT firms. low to medium frequency with longer holding periods, sure, but real HFT via your broker's API? not gonna happen.
The reason one has that reaction to a woman is the same reason a person look strangely at a rock he has fallen over when he realize it is a diamond:

Because it happens fucking far too seldom.
Kids these days are so good at trolling their parents.
No fuses, but there was a rumor that they would be overwriting mods in the future. (On-air updates.)
I used to repair cameras for a living and Sony point and shoots drove me crazy. We couldn't fix them because there is no real frame or chassis holding it together. Once you take it apart, good luck getting it back together.
I don't think it is going to "shatter" anything. Letting the problem continue, that would "shatter" the reputation.
It's always easier to blame the tool for your failed craft than it is to be a good programmer, isn't it :)

Putting PHP in the "inadequate corner" or trying to convince oneself that it is lacking in features is just an easy excuse.
As the article says: "Raising money doesn't mean you can make money." All to often people confusing raising money with success in the business, even if the business is in the red.
I don't understand why it is inappropriate to label it a startup. By your definition 37signals is not a startup because they made money early on and don't work more than 40 hours per week.

It seems like the childish / teenaged measuring stick he talked about regarding revenue or employee size. Like it isn't a real business/startup if you don't work 70+ hours per week and earn no money quickly.
Reminds me of this "binaural beats" new-age thing.
i prefer something that doesnt include sig. whitespace. s-exps are my preference ( even if they are without parenthesis ).

things i really like:

clojure's basic html creation.
seaside's basic html creation.
I'm not even talking about investors. I'm talking about how to price an apple. Do you think there's a better way to price it than by the free market?

Note that I'm not advocating getting rid of regulation -- I think that's very important, since most businesses don't correctly price in externalities, a la BP and the 2008 crash. To answer your question, though, he point I'm making is that no one knows the true value of an asset. That's why we have markets: to help us price them. Unless we have a better mechanism for pricing assets (anything, not just stocks), we should take the market price as close to fair.
Hackers have been online tastemakers to some extent, but not so much in the hardware realm. This is why the companies don't care. I wonder why this is the case?
I find it useful to have the name in the ending tag. It lets you know which block ends where, easily, when you have a deep structure. Eg:

</a>

</li>

</ul>

</tr>

</td>

</tbody>

</table>
I wouldn't go so far as to say 'overrun', but I'm certainly seeing a lot more spam recently (last 3 months or so) than before.
So, is this a) a marketing campaign for snake-oil, b) fear-mongering or c) both as it makes money anyways?
The commercial sector to produce some products with longevity and ease of repair as features.
I've owned the same company for 10 years where I've sold software to cattle ranchers and horse owners in almost 60 countries.

My company started out as lifestyle business. Then after I got my MBA I was ready to build it to sell so I could become a serial entrepreneur. After my wife and I had our son 2 years ago, I realized having a moderately passive income stream that gave us more time for family was what we were looking for all along.

It reminds me of the old story "The MBA and the Mexican Fisherman" and I was both... well sort of... an MBA and a Texas Rancher. http://www.keepingitrural.com/mba-mexican-fisherman
This reminds me of the scene in Go, when fake drugs are sold to a bunch of kids. At least I think it was Go.

"Do you feel it? It's reaaaaaally mellow... you gotta really focus"
These April Fools jokes are getting more clever -- the date says July 15!

Before we know it, things like eating and sex will be "the same as" doing drugs, because people enjoy it. Oh, and the same with your morning coffee.

Let's all eat bread and water, frown, reproduce via test tubes, work for the man, and vote Republican!
In Defense of Difference
So someone finally found a way to market Binaural beats as something cool instead of something for nerdy hippies?

Still, good for a laugh, I guess. 10 points for every teenager that can freak out their parents with this.
Unless their business revolves around serving arbitrarily sized versions of user images, they're probably doing that wrong too. The "solved" way to deal with this is to generate all the sizes your app will need and store them on the CDN. Resizing images is pretty much the most expensive thing you do in a run-of-the-mill web app. Best to do it once and be done with it, especially now that cloud storage is so cheap.

And speaking of cheap, Cloudfront is as close to free as S3 itself. It will roughly double your S3 bill, leaving you paying a grand total of $8.04 per month for your image hosting on a ~1,000,000 unique/month site. Remember the 90's when that would run you $400/month? It's so cheap that it's not worth calculating. Just flip on Cloudfront, configure your CNAME and get on with your life.
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I just hope the future is not in that font..
They should just offer a generic case/bumper or $10 rebate towards the sale of a range of cases with proof of purchase. Brand image restored, the world continues spinning.
They don't. The commenter made a huge generalization.
I'm like Chris. I get really emotional and passionate when I argue. ...and that's when I end up sticking my foot in my mouth.

A mentor sat me down and told me, "Look, don't let your emotions drive your logic. Choose when to be mad. So that when you're mad, people will see you're making a point by choosing to be mad."

Matt is a PR agency dream. He calm, cool, and collected. He is a frickin pro in this exchange and it's hard to side with Chris when he sounds like a buffoon.
It would seem possible to write a Lisp library that does exactly what you described; albeit indirectly. The library would interpret Lisp data structures and return well-formed XHTML. Think Haml, only Lisp. If someone were interested in doing this, they should definitely have a look at Haml though. There are some interesting methods for telling the Haml interpreter how you want the content handled. Built-in support for escaping characters, expansion/non-expansion, etc is really nice.

I know very little about Lisp, so this type of thing might already exist.
What is the "this" you're referring to? If "this" is the Kansas local news, then I'm pretty sure "this" is otherwise harmless fifty-year-olds who don't know what the fuck all this crazy shit on the Internet is.
Hooray, time to carve out some time and brew a second cup!
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I guess I'm the only one who saw Matt as the obnoxious one in that conversation? He kept putting words in Chris' mouth, playing slap-fight, and making snarky statements like, "Oh, I'll be sure to consult you in the future before I say anything." And the worst was when he said that "literally the whole legal community except for one guy in Florida" agrees with his interpretation of the GPL. That's just ignorant and irresponsible. About as bad as citing three clearly biased pro-GPL organizations as your sources for why you're right.

Look, I agree that Chris probably overstated his position in the WP community. It probably wasn't the smartest thing to call himself one of the top 3 most influential people in WP. However, I feel that his reasons for not wanting to go GPL are legitimate and for some reason Matt can't seem to understand that Chris is making a stand on principle here, not just revenue. I also understand his frustration. He's getting pounded left and right, sometimes with vicious personal attacks, mainly based on Matt's specious arguments. He's fed up, he's tired of the talk, and he wants Matt/WP to take action if they really care that much about it.

As far as I am concerned, if they really believe Chris is in violation of the license, WP can and should take action to try to shut down Chris if he doesn't comply, including legal action. They are fully within their rights to do that. But please, don't just sit back and spew half-truths and try to tear down the guy's reputation. As the old saying goes, if you're going to talk the talk, you should walk the walk.
"People" don't hate lifestyle businesses. "Investors" (both VC and angel) hate them, and it's for the obvious reasons: if an entrepreneur doesn't take outside funding, and doesn't shoot for a big exit in 5-7 years, then there's no opportunity for a VC to profit.

The early-stage investment community controls the dialog about entrepreneurship, and they're not entirely unbiased.
I only get false positives for mailing lists shortly after they have received spam.
Client services never end. After I shut it down and moved to LA to focus full-time on a video game startup -- I still had lingering client work and it's a distraction when you're completely absorbed, and creative work is very draining mentally. Programming and designing are not dissimilar in that regard.

Before I moved, I was working on a second business building customizable home theater projection screens but we got stiff armed by our supplier after building a better product on their frame and pissing off their other dealers. I was too inexperienced at the time to know how to handle it.
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It's not just women. You are just as shocked when the good looking jock type at the front of the booth with the expensive haircut knows anything about the product other than the price and his commission.

It's all a pattern recognition excercise.
At an American or Japanese company, attractive young women on the stand are statistically likely to be at worst hired booth babes and at best someone from marketing. In a european company they are likely to have PhDs in engineering.

Similarly the guys in the fancy suits with the $100 haircuts are going to be sales.

What you are looking for is the scruffy guy at the back climbing behind the PCs checking the cables. If he is in a black T-shirt with a roll of duct tape he works for the show organizers. If he is in a company T-shirt with glasses he is the one techy they sent along.
> and find IRC a little cold.

Are there any HN IRC channels? It'd be great to actually get to know some HN people.
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A 'wave' you say... hrm I tried clicking the link. The UI is too complex to comprehend :(
Wikipedia strikes again
> I am... extremely visual/verbal
> I thought to myself, "I'm really smart - this class is shit!" And proceeded to nag everyone to answer my questions about my visual diagrams, until I got it.

Amen. I start everything with a pen, and draw pictures of boxes, cogs, and conveyor belts with little boxes on them.

When I get a traceback, I know exactly how a message has flowed through my app and where it stopped. I can also explain my program to non technical audiences and they get it.

When I was learning OOo, all the horrible jargon discouraged me so much until I realized that the basic concept is just things with actions.

The more I learn about something, the simpler it gets, and the more I realize how badly written most computer books are. A happy exception is the 'Head First' books by Kathy Sierra.
One that sticks out to me are the early 00's palm devices. Driver support dropped off after 6 MONTHS, copious glue in weird places (covering traces and connectors) and they'd yell at you if you called their tech lines (for unopened, warranty covered devices). Treo's weren't any better either. Ugh.

Needless, they lost a couple hundred devices sold because of that.
Hey, Hiro, you want to try some Snow Crash?

(I'm a little ashamed to make this reference, but it seemed apposite)
Exactly. When I think of lifestyle businesses, the examples that come to mind are dentist offices, hair salons, and family restaurants. Usually the customers personally know the owner, and the business thrives because of it, but it's impossible to scale.
Will it be embedded in keyboard by default?
This is real; it actually works. This is safe as long as you're not epileptic, because you can stop listening and the "trip" ends pretty much immediately. I did it all the time in high school, and I still do, even though I wouldn't touch illegal drugs with a 10-foot pole at this point in my life (too much to lose).

Go to 2:09. The iPod says 4:20 PM. Coincidence?