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The majority of start-ups that the author remembers hearing of may be social web oriented, because we are all social animals. If you come up with a clever new Web site that people can use to schmooze with their friends, then lots of people will hear about it and be interested in it, because we all like to schmooze with our friends... but you’ll have a hard time getting anyone to pay for the service directly, because we all have plenty of ways we can schmooze with our friends for nothing.

By contrast, if you come up with a clever new Web site for managing a dental practice, then the only people likely to remember its name will be dentists... but they will pay for something that makes their lives easier, which means that you could turn it into a nice fortune, if not fame.
The article is about the morality of pirating. As the overwhelming majority of piracy occurs within months of release, length of copyright --or even the existence of copyright-- is absolutely irrelevant to this discussion.

Perhaps you should restrict yourself to commenting on articles you did read?
How useful would it be if my reply to your post was firstly, and admission to not having bothered to read it, but then few lines pointing out how complex patent law and the economic effects are, and how neither the article, nor your comment, bother addressing the larger issue?
Vim uses a similar paradigm of leveraging an operating system for editing. But it leverages Unix instead of coming up with its own half-baked OS.

(Disclaimer: I do use Emacs, mostly.)
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And, how can I fix the situation. Yesterday, had a coffee shop say, sorry we make mistakes and that was it. Some companies work to resolve the situation very well. A simple, we can throw that out and make you a new one would have been nice, to which I would have passed but felt better about the service.
I have a copy here at work of "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" by Roger Penrose for this very purpose!
Hmm, the first pictures (that floats right from the text) touches the text. That's a bit ugly. Otherwise, it's a nice and readable design.
Well, I found his comment pretty funny, but I had to google it first to figure out what he was talking about.
The only reason why another person will do what you want, is because they want to do it. Look at their viewpoint as well as your own, when you ask them to do something.

If there is nothing in it for the other person, you're just wasting time, both his and yours.
'Because I want it done!' will only get you a half-hearted effort or worse.
If you really try to make the OO as beautiful as humanly possible, you neither make the member variables public nor do you offer getters and setters. Everything is realized by functions which have a meaning, you really give the class the power to manage itself, not be managed from the outside with getters and setters! If you successfully adopt this thinking pattern then you have so many problems less...
Vimcasts provides excellent, free little screencasts about Vim. (http://vimcasts.org/episodes/archive)

PeepCode also sells two screencasts about Vim that I think are quite good. (http://peepcode.com/products/smash-into-vim-i and http://peepcode.com/products/smash-into-vim-ii) Depending on how long you've been using Vim, you may find them a bit basic (especially the first), but Vim has so many nooks and crannies that you will likely pick up some things anyhow.
Creating bulldogs wasn't very humane.
Nice job on authentication. A question arises for me, though. I can understand the cost of Yubikey and email authentication falls to the user. But how much do you estimate the SMS will cost you as a fixed cost? Back-of-the-envelope calculation would say that the cost shouldn't be onerous, but I don't know how frequently your userbase logs in anew. Have you arranged a bundle or do you pay per message still? Pardon the questions and feel free to ignore them if I am prying. Thanks.
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Is that the full standalone Safari or an embedded Safari within the twitter client? It looks like an embedded browser within the twitter client.

On my iPod touch, if I left my twitter client to go to Safari, I could not come back to exactly where I was in tweetdeck. But I have not tried 4.0 in this regard.
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Coders do two things: Thinking and Typing.. the more you do of one, the less you do of the other
Why should meaning to your life be supplied externally ?

That's a hidden way of arguing there can be no meaning to life without a creator, a feeling that religions the world over have handily exploited.

Meaning can derive from yourself, you can feel good about your own acts within your own reference frame of morality that you have derived from your experience with the world.

There's nothing wrong with that and it is just as satisfying, or even more so than some externally supplied meaning.
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They sell neutered pups only. Artificial scarcity.
To be a king you only need one crown. Magic moments are magic because they are the exception to routine days, not the rule. Coin too many gems and their will be transformed into simple rocks.
It is actually the colour of the Beast Beast.
Just this morning in fact, when I got out of bed.
They do if you're using Fusion Tables:
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Use "0 before put/paste in visual mode to specify register 0, which always contains the last yank.
How many emails do you think he'll get after the kid does write a love-letter to digg about how awesome Jeff Vogel is?
How many from other Indian and Chinese kids, and how many from scammers and dirtbags?

The unfortunate effect of rewarding a request for a freebie online is that it attracts dirtbags who will drown out the voices of the people you actually want to help.

If you think the stigma against begging will keep people in line, let me congratulate you on your good fortune to date. You clearly have never seen a good thing ruined by dirtbags or met such a dirtbag and heard them crow about how they lied/scammed/cheated their way into a share of someone else's generosity with nary a thought to those crowded out.
I think I'm going to be sick.
Mh, I always use du -sh, are there any reasons (compatibility?) to grep the output instead?
Here's a previous submission of this item, along with its attendant discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114223
Actually, they usually cost around $100 at most shelters. They have to recoup the spay/neuter costs some how.
When I started learning vim I put that up on the wall next to me. It was a big big help.
That reminds me, I've read a very interesting paper on OOHaskell (object-oriented Haskell) a few years ago, you can find it at http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/paper.pdf
And even if what you end up doing was horrible, you will be able to laugh about it later.
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This makes sense for a variety of reasons:
1. Kindergarten is the first formal educational experience most children are exposed to.
2. The more experienced/effective the teacher, the better the foundation the students will develop.
3. The better the foundation, the better prepared they will be at every level later on.

The middle school issue could use more details as to the variables in play there.
Start the standard with happiness, add sophistication as necessary.
In a real world of webs applications and jobs for the net, macros are a dream for another universe. Php people don't dream, they step by step are making what macros can't do: expanding their universe. Joomla! they say.
A puppet (account, domain) to route email through?
Domestication in less than a half century. That's pretty incredible.
Now look at consumption-services markets. Social web tools which aid in the consumption of goods, or which are forms of consumption in their own right, represent absolute costs. And if there’s anything we’ve learnt about absolute costs in the digital world, it’s that people are unwilling to bear them.

Why are people willing to pay for a CarFax?
Can anyone explain why Steve thinks Haskell is 'doing it wrong' when it comes to type systems?
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Would you prefer if someone else had already decided the meaning of you life?
Like any tool, hybridisation can be used for good and for bad.
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Or maybe the lessons that are most important in high school aren't measured effectively on the test. They could be intangibles that are untestable, or the tests could just be flawed.

Of the middle/HS teachers I know, those in nice school districts regard tests as a pain and a distraction, but the ones from poor school districts hate them. Apparently the way the tests are written, your typical black or ESL city-dweller could understand the material extremely well but the questions are very much in white suburban english, and reference cultural context that they're unlikely to understand. Add in a little intimidation and mistrust, and you've got test results that are basically irrelevant to whether the kids know the material.
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Emacs is a better IDE than vim, but vim is a better editor than emacs.

Emacs is far easier to script and plays nicer with other programs so there are more, more useful extensions for working in various languages. On the other hand, I find vim's modal interface faster and easier on my hands than emac's chording interface. viper-mode in emacs might be ideal.
We’re getting close: "Universal credit card in the palm of your hand..."

http://hackaday.com/2009/09/23/universal-cc/
Avid emacs user here.

Ergonomics. There's an emacs key chord for everything, but many of them involve two or three modifier keys.

i.e. search and replace is Alt+Shift+5, indent block is Ctrl+Alt+\

These require some finger contortions. I haven't used vim, but the impression I get is that similar commands in vim are all closer to home row so you don't have to contort your hands as much.
I first heard this from Mark Cuban wayy back in '05. http://blogmaverick.com/2005/05/30/success-and-motivation-yo...
That quote was apparently making fun a friend of his that obsessed about such things where important. Sadly, the original sarcasm seems lost on most people.

Edit: Minor choices may have major impact on your life though random chance. But, most of them don't, and there is no way to know ahead of time (or after the fact) which choice is the right one.
That was my myopic me speaking, he's been spanked and won't be let out for the rest of the day. Thanks for the correction.
Pro-nuclear advocate

as the first post is pro-solar, this one is just the opposite. both posts are nonobjective, there's still quite a lot of religion involved in the discussion.
No, it's pretty much the norm. It's been done several times with dingos to prove the point about how rapidly the 'dog' entered our lives.
Quitting my job and working full-time on my startup was spontaneous and definitely out of my comfort zone. Basically, I had been working at night on my project for a while and an opportunity to get funding landed out of nowhere. Within a few months I found myself discussing the opportunity with my wife (who at the time was pregnant with our 2nd child) and then I quit my day job.

That's where I'm at today. But every day I feel more comfortable being out of my comfort zone... if that makes any sense. There are so many opportunities, experiences and connections that I have developed while working on my startup. My only fear now is going back to that old comfort zone. I'm working hard so I don't have to :)
Well... You have to factor in the cost for the added HA infrastructure when you talk Windows. Patching Linux seldom requires more than a couple seconds for downtime for the system and I can often patch and bring up machines before memcaches and varnishes start expiring. Patching Windows often takes half-an-hour of downtime following another similarly extended period of horrible performance when the patch installer is doing whatever it needs to do, per server.

It's different to design a HA cluster that can sustain a minutes-long usage peak (due to a node going down for maintenance) than one that can sustain an hour-long outage of one of the nodes.

It all depends, in the end, on how the applications are designed to run - they are the ones that will decide how many servers you can take down at once. In any case, the shorter they are down, the better.

Consider a site with 3 front-facing web servers that are affected by a 0-day. If a server can be patched in 2 minutes, it will result in 6 minutes of 150% load on the servers not being maintained. If the patch takes an hour, you will have 3 hours of 150% workload. The internet user may not see the downtime, but you have to factor in the higher load. The best solution could be to use 4 or 5 servers instead of 3, but that would also increase your vulnerability window.
Clearly the story is not about being Smart. More in the lines of: you can get a dog job if you learn to bark. But then don't complain if you are not a dog, don't ask for meat and eat the bones that a dog eat.
I don't believe the conclusion that excellent teachers should be paid 320k per child can follow from the premises in the article. You don't pay for the full value something adds. Otherwise, by definition, you might as well just not buy it and be in the same position. You pay what the market will bear, which for publicly-funded teachers is what we pay them now.
> Dogs have been bred for many thousands of generations

Dogs have been bred for many purposes: to be attractive, to be aggressive, to herd, to hunt. These foxes have been bred exclusively for tameness. The starting stock were semi-domesticated fur foxes. These foxes are far from wild animals.
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I'm looking for a new contract in or near London, working with Ruby on Rails or Java. I expect I'm not alone on HN in this respect, so hopefully this thread can help a few of us out here, and not just Java/Rails people.

I use the usual UK job web sites to find new contracts, but a few opportunities don't end up on these web sites, as some companies avoid using agencies who often seem to be the only ones posting on JobServe and friends.

If you know of any Java or Rails or other current I.T. contract opportunities in/around London, please comment with details so I and other job seeking HNers can apply.

Thanks in advance for your help - Eliot
holding the home button for a second pulls up a sort of task switcher of open/recent apps - once I discovered this a few weeks ago on my Droid Incredible, I've been using it nonstop
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. Here is a brief summary of the key points so far:

1. Have an energizing, challenging, job description (basically an inspiring mission) where creating great software is valued as an asset.

2. Flexibility about IDEs, coding tools, etc.

3. Mangers who understand and value software.
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GoF wrote about the Strategy Pattern (and the rest of them) in 1994, so I'm pretty sure Java (first public release in 1995) was the least of their concerns at the time. And believe it or not, there are times when languages with closures are not an option.
A little bit of cloth and stuffing with no ego, no cares in the world aside from customer satisfaction, and the patience of Job. He handles the CS because if I had to I'd have been driving stark-raving mad years ago.
Sort of mostly right. You can't artificially inseminate with an embryo though, only semen.

What was interesting about the experiment is that while they only selected for tameness, a lot of the characteristics you see in modern dogs arose. For instance, piebald fur, curly fur, curly tails, floppy ears, shortened snout, etc. Basically what was happening was that by selecting for tameness, they were both selecting for a lengthier juvenile period and more paedomorphic traits.

So this answered the question of how humans managed to select for traits in domesticated dogs that don't appear in wolves. How do you select for piebald color if it isn't present in the initial gene pool? Or a curly tail? Well, those variations are a consequence of domestication.

For instance, only in domesticated animals do you see that characteristic white forehead star, and they made that discovery of what was happening from these animals. As an animal grows, cells containing melanin migrate throughout the body. But if you length the juvenile period and make them move more slowly, some die before they reach their final destination. The white star on the forehead, seen in these foxes as well as horses, cows, and others, is because the melanin containing cells reach there last, and they don't quite make it.
Persistent trumps all.
That's interesting. What if social sites focused on being better tools and less on being time wasting entertainment? I think it would be a good bet that there are productivity apps yet to be made -- ones based on the social graph which can be ad supported or freemium based.
The Linux advantage really starts to show when you enter the dozen+ server range. Licenses add up quickly and planning gets more and more complicated.

If you run a small group of machines and you know what you are doing, Windows could be just fine for you. The worst that can happen is you succeed and need to migrate your software to another platform.

edit: actually the worst that could happen is that you hit a technical problem the closed nature of Windows prevents you from solving and you have to port before you become profitable.
I would have thought that large public school systems have so much beuocracry and standards when it comes to buying things that the teacher decide it's not worth the hassle of getting their employer to pay, and just pay for it themselves.
I wonder why Google chose Java in the first place, instead of a Python runtime...
The market might even bear less than what we pay now - due to teachers unions, we can't find out.
"Do you really believe name recognition is the only reason Apache is the most popular web server?"

I think that that's a huge component of it. I know that I've been in a number of shops where they deployed Apache, not because it was the best tool for the job, but because it was the only tool of which the admins knew, and they didn't know where else to look.

I no opinions about Varnish vs Squid, but I will point out that I had no idea what Varnish was until I read this article, but I've known what Squid was for a while, so they're not competing on equal terms.
You kind of need the menus. A lot of modes rely on them outright, and even if they don't you still don't want to memorize a new set of keybindings for a mode that you'll only ever use once. The toolbar, though, isn't much besides a waste of screen real estate.
Yeah, more wear and tear on the 3G chips, so Apple had to put extra-enforced chips in there.
I have an Incredible and have used an Evo in person - I haven't seen the X yet. I would say go check out the size of the Evo/X in person and see if that size of a phone is too big... it was for me. The pixel density of the Evo screen was also lacking a bit, and I understand the Droid X is similar in resolution and screen size. I hear the X has the best battery life of the three though.
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Saving.

That is the most liberating thing I have ever read in my entire life.
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All dogs are still (technically, I'd hate to think of the logistics in some cases) interbreedable, no speciation has occurred over all those thousands of generations.

Dogs and wolves can still interbreed and the resulting offspring is fertile. So, technically, dogs are 'tame wolves'.

These foxes are much closer to their wild roots, it's great they've been bred for tameness (a much better trait to select for than beauty or some other peripheral trait, which might come at a cost, because beauty is subjective and you can easily get side-effects when selecting for it) but even so I'd be pretty careful. Until there are 1000's of these animals out there that have been subjected to all kinds of situations you'll be in uncharted territory, no matter what the breeding was initially for.

Another risk is that if these become more popular that less experienced money oriented breeders will try to get in on the market and will re-introduce bad traits because it's more profitable to use all animals as breeding stock in stead of the ones with the more desirable trait.

This sort of thing has come close to destroying the reputation of quite a few dog breeds.
The literal or ironic interpretation? Or maybe a little of both?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(poem)

Personally I've always appreciated it in it's literal interpretation. Maybe this is why I could never truly appreciate poetry.
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For me, having tried to use Vim in the past, the pain point is never the editing itself. It's the fact that I need visual step-through debugging, adding breakpoints and watch points, and intuitive navigation through a large file hierarchy including lots of imported files, HTML templates, config files, performing ad hoc database investigation queries, uploading files to a server, and whatever else, along with ability to jump to classes and function definitions and intelligent auto-complete and popping up parameters and catching my variable name typos and so forth.

There's a fundamental disconnect between me and the programmers who say "the only real choices are Vim and Emacs", and I'm fully willing to consider that I'm doing it all wrong, but I wonder if there's anything out there that could convince me that living on the home row in a modal editor can work me through the entire job of being a programmer and maintainer, as opposed to editing and entering text in a single or very few files.
I get the general gist of the article - Recruiters/Head Hunters are a drain on the industry, and their fees are ridiculous.

One thing the author should know is that recruiter commissions are highly negotiable. What started as "1/3rd of first years salary, paid on day 1 regardless of whether the employee works out or not" can easily be negotiated into "We'll pay you a flat rate of $10K after a 6 month probationary period where we determine if the employee is a good fit or not."

Recruiters do have a large database of resumes, but more often than not I suppose people are using LinkedIn to find jobs, so recruiters are becoming irrelevant. If you're having a hard time finding someone with the right experience though, a good recruiter can come in handy. It's just hard to find a recruiter that actually knows the industry and isn't a trained monkey that rattles off acronyms.
I also don't like this about the Kindle, but I must admit I am intrigued since I installed the Kindle Android app and found a lot of classics for free. So it might be worth getting just for the free books alone. (Obviously you should be able to "share" the free books).
I think this could be a good example for making a program that creates jokes for programmers. In essence, substitute words

Goverment => Java
Privacy => Private Method
Public Alarm => ...
Over 300 words and you pick on the smudging part. I think the main point of the Kindle versus iPad argument is twofold: 1) the e-ink is remarkably better to read and 2) the battery life allows for more reading than the iPad allows.

I have the nook and I cannot see myself without it. eBooks are great for people who want a device to read books on.