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Whoops, my bad, I didn't thought of the self-hosting. Somehow I thought that the compiler is written in C.

How complicated would it be to link against C++ code from within ooc code?
That's quite a story. Good to see you come out on the other end in one piece and much good luck on your run.
In 2007 I created a WordPress plugin to add some features to one of my sites, and threw it up on my blog as a free download for anyone else that could make use of it.

There were so many downloads, comments, feature and support requests I couldn't keep up. I started from scratch and created a premium version that did more and was better designed, front-end and back, and tossed a link to that on my blog as well.

I sold about $200,000 in licenses to that plugin before selling the rights to it for another $90,000 1.5 years later.
so is Pobox good work? And how is Perl working for them?
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Google Analytics does a good job of providing metrics for one site. But say you have one 'brand' with multiple sites (perhaps it is landing pages across different domains, or different countries, etc.) analysis can get pretty ugly, pretty quickly.

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Right there with you. Practice Fusion, while a popular vendor, will never be able to get at the major providers with their "free" EMR. However, their API is a step in the right direction.

We are working on technology which begins to get at this locked-in data via an API package which would be installed at individual institutions. The technology utilizes HL7 messaging to get at data from the major players (ie. Epic, GE, Cerner). The problem is the main software vendor, Epic, has built their technology up, by erecting proprietary barriers, an API would kill their entire model. Therefore the best way to get at this industry is through the providers, as they are becoming increasingly burden by these proprietary, legacy systems.
> All I ever hear about are Rails and Sinatra.

I got two theories.

First theory.

Ruby allows developers to make really nice DSLs. (Domain Specific Languages) It makes sense to me that there would only be two major frameworks. Rails fills the need for a batteries-included framework and Sinatra is the a light weigh, nothing included framework. Both have expressive enough implementations that the community doesn't build their own frameworks.

Python doesn't make as pretty code for a DSL which makes it more likely to hit pain points in expressing what you want. Then you end up with a fragmented community around these different pain points.

Second theory.

People start using ruby because of rails. If rails is too heavy, they move to sinatra. Most of the people using ruby can't be bothered to write their own framework.

Most people using python learned python before web development. They are more experienced in the language and used to doing their own stuff. They try out different frameworks and if they get disgusted enough with them they create their own.

Disclaimer:

I'm a ruby guy. I used python for two years before learning ruby and then rails. These are only theories. I probably look at ruby more nicely than I should but I tried to be somewhat objective.
> You either need type-checking or you don't.

That's not really correct. In general, nobody needs type checking (it's not like there's any actually done where it would be needed the most), but it's "free" error checking. Always nice to have.

But it is a feature to balance against others.

Anyway, considering how weak the type systems of "industry standard" languages are as opposed to Ada, or MLs, or Haskell, the common type-checking trope is mostly a huge joke.
Five ways to save Condé Nast's Reddit
To be pedantic, most people usually mean "median" (or a robust estimation of the mean without considering outliers) by average, and in samples from a continuous distribution it is necessarily true that ~50% are above/below the median.
Huh? Can you develop your point?
I just wanted to say, thank you for doing this.

It's something I also wanted to do, but was unable to find a group of friends that were willing.
Who cares? Pittsburgh's done a great job in the last decade to work with startup-minded programs like Carnegie Mellon's ETC to build a good foundation to start these ventures. Add that to the great technical talent coming out of Pittsburgh schools and the low cost of living, and it's not a bad start. Lots of other cities would kill to have a vibrant startup culture.

Building the Valley doesn't happen overnight. Having a good startup culture is a great first step to getting the money to follow. It's not easy, it's not a given, but it's a great first step. Not to mention that Pittsburgh's been doing well in the healthcare and finance worlds, too; I wouldn't be surprised if venture capital does start flowing in Pittsburgh in the future.
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They could let everyone in, they don't have to pass everyone. Let the cream rise to the top and let everyone else drop out. As long as the courses were rigorous enough then the degree would maintain it's credibility.
Not too bad, use -linker=g++ and declare your functions extern "C" in the C++ code
I should have quoted more of the parent's post:

> ... so the times when eyes “hurt” are basically only when going from being dark-adapted to suddenly looking at something bright

(emphasis added)

Obviously I realize that pupils adapt, but I read the post to imply that there is no such thing as absolutely too bright.
> I love it when the faithful think that features and price are not competitive.

A great many things are a ripoff at any price.
These are just five ideas that Reddit could start implementing to help towards generating more revenue. While this article is geared towards Condé, any site or web app owner could implement them. None of them are very painful to implement and could easily begin to payoff.
>Nonsense. There is a whole vast middle ground between "recommended" and "you should skip it".

They wrap up by saying "Get a 3GS instead". Could they be any clearer?

They are ABSOLUTELY saying skip it. Should anyone listen to them? Of course not. They're whoring for attention, and their credibility testing tech is dubious. They're also the ones who a few short days ago were telling us that the iPhone 4 has no reception problem.

>Consumer Reports is about helping people make educated choices, not some remedial "yes/no" recommendation.

Uh...no. CR "recommended" lists are the yes. Everything else is a no.

You're really desperately trying to colour their statements that couldn't be clearer.
That's what I was trying to say. Maybe, for you, the iPad is a better value than a Sony eReader. A lot of people will agree with you and a lot of people will disagree.
I'm currently working with Health 2.0 to access these technologies. In my opinion the most exciting of these is the challenge issued by Practice Fusion. This is the first time I have seen a vendor begin to open up their system.

As was stated in a previous comment, there are a large variety of applications which would benefit from access to actual medical data, and not require manuel entry. IMHO, this manual entry is why services like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault will never take off.
For that to be true you have to argue that College grades are meaningless (because if you base your judgments on College grades you can let everyone in and judge them based on how they do once they're in). To take your logic a step further you're saying the worth in a degree is based on a person's ability to get into an institution.

So essentially what you're saying is we should judge people in the job market based on their High School performance which, IMHO, is kind of ridiculous.
There's no accounting for "feel" (like taste) but I think this is just some good mutual benefit marketing. They're an iPad design shop providing resources to their peers in exchange for incoming links with iPad in the title. Yeah, there is a link to a lead generation form at the bottom, but it's understated and clearly called out.

I'd have a hard time classifying this page as spam. In fact I bookmarked it for future use.
how does costco fit into your model?
For those who don't know, rdl is referencing the SL-1 accident (involving an Army operated research reactor in Idaho):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

To this day it remains one of the worst reactor accidents, with design and operational mistakes on the scale of Chernobyl. It's enormously fortunate that the reactor was fairly small.
be a sole founder and get 100% equity. then land some paying customers. keep the 100% equity. add features, polish, maybe hire other folks, maybe give away some equity early to bring on a contributing partner with key skills, etc. then this whole "1% is generous" belief and worrying about dilution caused by outside investment rounds simply goes away. does it always make sense? no. but I think it's ideal.
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Sounds more like a competitor to the other eink readers. All I want is a good eink reader anyway. I don't care about videos, touch-screen, internet, 3G...just give me an eink reader with ample memory. I think the Nook wins in that case...
It's one thing to make calling into C easy, but how well do C types fit in with the rest of the system? What about error handling? Memory management? String encoding conventions etc etc? This stuff is all gross in C and inconsistent. I don't see how you're going to paper over all that and make the C libs feel like native, first-class citizens of your world. Just binding to libexpat doesn't mean you have good xml support, for example.
> it's a competitor to PCs and laptops.

iPad sales will eat into sales of both desktop computers and laptops. Not all people need a desktop computer to check e-mail and browse the web. An iPad is cheaper than many desktops and very mobile, which may be a bonus. A lot of people also demand similarly simple uses with mobility. If all you'll do is to check your e-mail and browse the web, the iPad may be the notebook for you.
All the schools have geographical quotas

Sure but not different admissions criteria based on geography. You still have to meet the criteria regardless. Not so for race based preference systems which are well known for relaxing standards to achieve the desired racial balance.

If a particular school is 40% Jewish and those students are all there because they met the admissions criteria then so be it. It's absurd to create an elite admissions policy and then create preference programs for designated races. I'd much rather the standards were lowered until the desired racial balance occurred organically. However, universities seem to want it both ways.
He's right that Hadoop needs to be simpler, easier and faster to use than it is right now. And I don't doubt there is value in being someone who puts a friendlier layer on top of it.

However, I don't think doing so would be as huge or game-changing as he argues. Any company that has somehow aggregated petabytes of data probably has some reasonably competent developers and admins. Dealing with the inevitable scale-related issues will either burn someone out or make them competent. For these developers, getting Hadoop running now is probably easier than doing whatever else they've been doing to keep aggregating these petabytes of data. I went from knowing little about Hadoop to running relatively complex queries in a matter of hours through Amazon EMR and Hive (a SQL-ish layer on top of Hadoop). Basically, I gzipped and uploaded the data to an S3 bucket, downloaded a client to easily use the EMR API, wrote a simple Hive query derived from examples, and it just worked. All this was much easier than what I've had to do to keep a MySQL cluster or web application running.
The blatantly BS statistics certainly don't add any credibility to the site.

iOS doesn't have 50% market share.. last I saw it hadn't even hit 30%.
Not to crap on the parade or anything but new languages are a dime a dozen and most all offer the same exact paradigms rehashed over and over and over. What I want is a low level easy to verify OOP/chaining functional concurrent language based on term rewriting. Something needs to be done to allow easier proving of programs with a language that is designed for this. I'm working on one.
I'm interested. Email is in profile, let me know what you are thinking.
No, the problem is that in a list of eleven points, you pick one to make a fuss about - alledging that the original poster said them being white was a bad thing.

It was in a list including "two degrees" (good) and "burned out twice in 6 months" (bad). Why do you take away that he said white is bad?

Why do you have an issue with skin colour being mentioned, but not age or gender or which college the degrees were from or how many hours they work or which specific tech they use? Why are you pushing so hard to make a great big racial controversy out it?
You can discount this one if you like because it is a home-brew fix up.

But when the first 10"+ screened Android tablets come out from quality manufacturers, they will give Apple a run for their money. I hear there are a number of such devices being held back for a Fall launch for the Christmas purchasing season.

If I could buy a similarly speced + quality finished tablet to my iPad that ran Android I'd switch in an instant.
You are not being "pedantic". You are being wrong.

There's no reason to assume that commonly mean means median or that there are enough properties to make them equal.

Besides a claim about "most people" without some solid data is poor support for anything.
Appreciate the offer. Unfortunately it's item 100 on a to-do list of 100 atm.
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Seeing OOP implemented in "raw" C is similarly eye opening. As with this example, you have to do a bit of caretaking, but even the most complex structures are built from simple ones that nearly all languages support.

Added: This isn't a particularly simple example, but I just found a good looking PDF on OOP in C that seems worth sharing: http://www.planetpdf.com/codecuts/pdfs/ooc.pdf
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Right, I implied that it had something to do with being a startup because it does. In this specific example.

I'm not saying that 'all startups good, all big company bad' is some sort of globally applicable law and I'm not sure how or why anyone would read that into what I've said.
Poorer countries won't be able to implement it

I have yet to see a country so poor that it doesn't televise its major soccer matches. In fact there's more soccer on TV in poorer countries, as it is relatively cheap television and has a huge audience. Moreover you don't need any technical equipment here, all you need is an extra linesman watching the same replay millions of viewers get to watch.

Introducing replays in soccer is not a technological problem - it could have been done 30 years ago. It's an institutional problem - FIFA doesn't want to. Their arguments are generally weak because they are trying to justify what they don't want to come out and say directly: "We don't want to change the game".

It's not an implementation issue, it's a requirements issue.
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And, of course, Apple relies on the image of a refined taste, so its customers will have the illusion that by having an iPad, they are on the same league as those who get driven around in Maybachs.
I take that to mean the United States and Europe. Python is used extensively in the sciences and financial services on both sides of the pond.
I'm skeptical of Consumer Reports methodology when it is in conflict with experts' predictions and tests. That it also is in conflict with AnandTech's review suggests to me that CR didn't have the expertise to adequaty test this.

Which is not to say the problem doesn't exist. I just don't think they understand it.
Pretty nice, but it went down about 60 seconds after my first view of it.

However, some Dragon Warrior music and a little character walking around would be pretty cool.
hi mjd, i got your book from a used-book bookstore. just wondering if that means that you get any $$ from that, or whether it doesn't benefit you financially?
Surely the test of individual ability is not whether they can participate, but whether they can graduate? Of course, open admissions would result in a lot of washouts after the first semester, but since a good many of these will be self-selected they'll arguably be providing a small subsidy to the more capable students.

(edit: I wonder if rick888's view results from the popularity of 'grading on a curve' - ie, grade as a measure of class ranking, rather than objective ability? In that case, it makes more sense...but then I think GoaC is a bad idea to begin with)

I do find it a bit ironic that this proposal comes from the dean of Berkeley's law school, but doesn't address the question of teaching that subject online. Legal education is thought by many to be at a crossroads right now: the number of nationally accredited schools is increasing, costs are at a record high, but job prospects at a record low. Online instruction is considered anathema by many in the legal educational establishment - ie, schools accredited by the ABA - since it's incompatible with the traditional Case/Socratic method of teaching law (Q & A in class about study assignments rather than lecturing). Many law firms complain that this system is better at producing law school professors than lawyers, and a much-discussed 2007 report from the Carnegie Foundation seems to back up their claims (http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/sites/default/files/public...).

Of course, Boalt Hall (Berkeley's law school) regularly scores in the top 10 national rankings, and its graduates are correspondingly well-positioned for career success, so the dean has no economic incentive to mess with success as regards his own department. I don't mean to cast any negative aspersions here; I was just surprised to see him advancing the argument for distance learning in any context.

(Disclosure: I'm planning to study law, but don't have a strong pro or con feeling about any particular instruction method)
7" is such a ridiculous screen size. It's too big to fit in your pocket, too small to be a compelling tablet.

You'd be much better off with an iPod Touch than this thing. It's faster, runs the latest software, has a proper touch screen, fits in your pocket, and is overall is a much higher quality of software and hardware.

I really wish there was an iPod Touch equivalent Android device, but so far there isn't. And there won't be an iPad equivalent until Google develops a proper tablet OS, with its own tablet UI guidelines and SDKs to make it happen (rumored to be Android 3.0). But that obviously won't prevent manufacturers from rushing out devices before the OS is ready. Buyer beware.
The rules changed recently so some tablets should be able to get the store, although I think they still require a camera.
No, author is http://www.drewwilson.com/, it's Titan.
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Both of these are great :)
This was on Reddit a few months ago. I started running the blade against my arm before and after a shave and not only have I prolonged the life of the blade, but it's actually sharper than a new blade. It really has saved me a ton of money on razor purchases and I feel like I'm sticking it to the man a little also. I'm still using the same blade for over 3 months now.
Again?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376655

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1370134

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360285

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390 <<<-- This one has the comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360285

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1370134

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376655

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383943

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385999

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1388904

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389955

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390588

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397443

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408731

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410992

There are probably more.
Python tends to raise errors for type mismatches, which forces you to do the work to avoid them or handle them. PHP usually does something nonsensical instead, which probably screws you over--but you don't necessarily notice unless you are independently sanity-checking its results.
Nice to see that OpenLayers can be put to such bizarre uses too :-)
Good article, short and to the point. I especially find the last one intriguing, rightfully pointing out that Reddit may be one of the few sites to store things that a user doesn't like, and it may be quite the competitive advantage opposed to other social sites that are trying targeted ads.
I guess they're implying that Mono ins't a money maker at Novell? Mono is great and all, but maintaining an entire development platform, along with IDE and and myriad of docs, strictly for internal use may be a bit too much for a company of their size.
That was my thought when I saw it done too... The PDF I linked to at the bottom of the article shows a full implementation in C which is pretty awesome. If I remember correctly it's only a couple of hundred lines long.

At the moment I am in the process of writing a VM which provides basic functions tailor-made for implementing a language this way. Should be interesting to see how it turns out...
I would say it started with translucent iMacs, that caught them up and got riding the hipster wave until now.
True in this specific case; not true in general:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privity_of_contract#Exceptions

Also notice that this doesn't include prominent examples from labor law (company A that hires someone who will knowingly break a non-compete agreement they held with company B can be held liable even though company A wasn't a party to the contract (c.f. the MSFT/GOOG executive hiring war)).
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Same here, but I value the ability to hack and coerce the things I own when I decide to do with them things their makers would not approve.
1.) Where did I accuse Israel of Genocide?
2.) I said Israel kills palestinians. Feel free to argue with me that it's a war so it's fair, or that it's neccesary. Don't tell me I wasn't truthfully saying what does happen, unless the entire world's press, and the Israeli goverment, have all lied about the fact that Israeli soldiers DO kill palestinians.
I think reddit users would be hesitant to allow their beloved website to start selling data about them. One of the things that drives reddit is the anonymity, why would they want to give that up?

Also, I don't think the author understands the extent to which reddit ads are targeted. Most redittors I know have it whitelisted on adblock and actively click ads because they find them intriguing.
I get just as close a shave from my braun foil as wet shaving. There is no compromise. Electric shaving is much cheaper. I replace the foil and cartridge every six months.

I'm convinced few people ever figure out how to correctly use an electric foil razor. They just use it wrong and think electric shaving is second tier. They don't get that you have to press pretty hard and work in tight clockwise and counterclockwise circles over everything a couple times.
Well I'm sold.
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