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Linux will never get all enterprise features of Solaris. That OS, broken into a myriad of distributions, driven by lammers who think they are making smth great while they're not - is it gonna become your OS of choice for a mission critical system?
Where did you see "the end of OpenSolaris"? Is all that FUD made by Linux users who I so happy to blame the competitor? See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/opensolaris...
> Google is winning now, with its even more extremely closed source software known as google search

Google search is not closed source as it is a hosted service. It would be if it was redistributed under closed source license. This is why RMS himself said he uses Google.

> It's just pretending to support OSS. Without actually giving away the crown jewels.

It has not given sources, but Google gave many papers about the technics they use such as map/reduce and compression which enable projects such hadoop, yahoo search and even Bing.
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Yeah, if I were a politician I'd be heading this one off at the pass and banning it before it became popular. The last thing the world needs is another designer pet. Sure, do scientific research but don't release these things on the world.

This can only end badly for everyone involved, the foxes, the owners, children and various native species in the vicinity of the adopting home.
That's the Scheme of musical instruments if I ever saw one. Nice in theory, but problems with practicalities overwhelm any advantage you could possibly gain by using it.
The real weird thing is that RMS is OK with microwaves but could not accept an implanted device that runs proprietary software unless he started developing a free replacement for it.
taken from RMS answers 25 questions from reddit (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1559075):

25. meeiw: What is vim doing better than emacs?

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RMS: Sorry, I have never tried using vim.
I never felt I deserved such a large penitence ;-).

So OP, you're not alone. =P

Can we move emacs vs. vi to somewhere not HN, pretty please?
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Yeah, the "R" is indeed from my college days in the US. :P
Anyone interested in Haskell should get RWH. I forgot about it in my earlier comment, but it's well worth the $ (though there are free versions).
It took a Rudin-based analysis course, much later, for me to appreciate proofs of convergence or epsilon-delta arguments, because my H.S. calc did not have them, and the college diff-eq assumed you knew them already. The shock was painful.

I have yet to take a course that uses the so-called "terse little blue book from hell". (:

Eventually though, you learn what you need to know.

Indeed, although I wonder about people becoming discouraged about being mathematicians simply because they've been misled for so long about what's on the "other side" of college math.
As the original press release mentioned, Contegix is currently providing two servers: build.clojure.org and dev.clojure.org. That's what we needed, so that's what we asked for. :-)

As others have mentioned, Contegix is one of many organizations and individuals supporting Clojure. Nowhere is the excitement around Clojure more visible than in the wide variety and diversity of support coming from the Clojure community.
It should be normal, which is the best part. The latter part of the experiment gets harder since you get more tired, so when it comes to going to bed in the normal 24 hour time, you should fall asleep like normal.
Great. Now find enough people like him to teach every single class.

Obviously brilliant researchers who happen to also love to teach (and are good at it) are the ideal professors that every university should want, but merely wanting people good at all parts of being a professor does not make them exist in large quantities.
it's still there (on my end) http://imgur.com/vamm8, check the mouse postion on the pic.

Feel free to be sponsortive :p http://zemanel.posterous.com/
Silverlight?
http://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=prod_axis-64 is an alternative. There are many others like it if you look around.

I dinked around with a prototype iPhone app for this before the iPad was a twinkle in Jobs' eye. Someone's probably got out an iPad app for this by now.
Actually, "words, lines, paragraphs" also includes statements, function calls, class definitions, and the rest of the "code dom", in a language-specific manner. Not so in nvi (a barebones vi), but definitely in vim.
It's still showing up with the error for me.
>This is why RMS himself said he uses Google.

Where exactly did he say this? He's opposed cloud services from the beginning and designed GPLv3 to attack web apps.

Last I checked, the man scarcely browsed the web.
Resumé criticism/suggestions would be cool.

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I live in Santa Cruz, California and won't be able to move for a year (I'm a student) but I can telecommute. I'm also willing to work below market prices (being a student and all).

I have no concept of what my skill level is when it comes to programming or system administration. Shoot me an e-mail and ask me some questions to determine that for yourself.
> 2. what's the real world impact of the publications? (citations are not real world impact.)

so any suggestions on real world impact? winning a Turing Award?
Better yet: start calling "bugs" defects.

Also, accept that humans are imperfect and no code (whether yours or another's) will be defect-free. Fixing is more important than blaming.
If the part in the US can be in either SF or DC, then I'd wager my current place (opower.com) could make that work.

chris at opower dot com if you're interested in details.
I'm late to the party but I have been looking for something exactly like this. To make a tool like this to work, I would need to get the team on board, so I'll probably wait a bit for the initial bugs to get worked out, But we'll be a customer...just do regular email updates so I know when to jump in.
False alarm: Google search still working in China
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to report and correct identical names, you can cick the <edit> button on top of each author's profile page, then you can make changes to his/her hompage, affilication, papers, etc. you can even contribute papers.
On a modern Linux system, Gnu is the command line userland, one compiler (among many, and not the dominant one for work if you're a Java shop), and Emacs. And that's it. Not X, not really Gnome, not KDE at all, not the polish put on by Ubuntu etc, and not most of the OS underpinnings either nowadays (dbus, hal, udev, upstart, dpkg, network-manager...).

Tell me again, why he should get the Gnu/... in front of the kernel name?
I'm looking for a job in Canada (vancouver or toronto preferably) that would sponsor me as 'arranged employment'. I'm pretty great with C++ (4+ years), Lua. My focus has always been on gamedev, 3D rendering.

I've also done professional webdev work with RoR, my Ruby is not ultra idiomatic so I wouldn't say I'm excellent at it, but I can get the job done. Also know my way around Javascript, though I'm really rusty.

I'm from Brazil and living here currently but I want to relocate and have taken all the necessary steps :)

contact at #{HN username}@gmail.com
We're hiring rubyists somewhat nearby at the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC. techresume@dnc.org
I'm aware but consider the $.15 well worth it. I maybe sync with instapaper 6 times a month.

It is really nice to treat the kindle as a stand-alone device. The last thing I want to do is stress about hooking up to my computer just to save some change.

That sounds REALLY lazy, but I have to say, deciding to be lazy in this instance feels great. As long as I remember to click 'Read Later' once and a while I know I'll always have something great to read wherever I am.
I'm based in Boston, MA. Work as a Web Manager for a university in Boston. MS in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, NJ.

I'm mainly into FileMaker / MySQL / PHP since 3 years but mainly dealing with project-management and administration type of stuff these days.

I'm not looking for a full time job as such .. However, I want start work on a education-startup-idea in the near future. I'm willing to take on FileMaker projects on the side.

http://www.pratyk.com
An idea for the future might be to somehow tie in with sites like elance or have your own outsourcing program. It'd be nice to be able to manage the internal projects and outsourced projects in one place.
Agreed, but the order is wrong. The truth is that you will almost certainly buy way more kindle books if you actually have a kindle
If they are going to pay you to write code, it's reasonable for them to ask you for code. It's like asking a cook you want to hire to show you some of his dishes. Makes perfect sense. Obviously, writing free/open source software helps here.
In the term "Digital Rights Management", the "Rights" refer to the rights of the copyright owner, not the rights of a consumer licensee.

It's a lot like "Trusted Computing"- a surface reading might suggest it means the computer is "trustworthy" or dependable to the user, while it actually refers to a "Trusted System" in a security engineering sense.
Why was this downvoted? If every dev got a full night's sleep regularly the productivity gains would be enormous.
RMS opposes software as a service, Google Search is no such thing http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
I'm still not 100% sure, but I think LPEG (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html) fits the bill. Ignore for now that it's a Lua library - there's nothing Lua-specific about its underlying design.

There's a great paper (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/peg.pdf) about it. It's a PEG-based string pattern-matching engine. It can build parse trees out of strings or execute code on portions of them just as easily as it can validate their structure, though in the documentation that's a bit of an afterthought. It's also very fast, and integrates as nicely with Lua as regular expressions do in Perl. It's also just a smallish C library that could be (maybe already has) been ported to Python / Ruby / whatever.
Sigh Just because something is nothing more than a scheme of money redistribution doesn't make it a Ponzi scheme. Loans and insurance, for example, are legitimate and legal schemes of money redistribution. A Ponzi scheme is an act of fraud where a money redistribution scheme masquerades as an investment scheme. A Ponzi scheme involves confidence tricks and mis-representation.

"Social Security" - technically FICA, the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax - is an insurance scheme, principally of OASDI (Old Age Survivorship and Disability Insurance) and Medicare (a health care subsidy for old people). Call it mismanaged or misguided or even "un-American" if you like, but it isn't fraud, and it isn't a Ponzi scheme.
> it's not enough to be a great hacker if you want your code and ideas to flourish.

I mean... are you saying that Stallman's code and ideas haven't flourished? Everyone who uses the internet in a day is participating in Stallman's vision.
I'm trying to cancel this account and the guy doing it doesn't have a clue how to close an account. I will NEVER use the planet for anything and I will rail against how incompetent they are.

I got suckered one way or another.
Why would the performance of recursion not be very context-dependent? I would expect it to be extremely context dependent depending on how much memory is being put on the stack, cache hits and misses, and so forth. I can easily imagine optimizing performance for an unrealistic micro-benchmark that would actually hurt overall recursion performance. If there are any famous last words in optimization it's that something isn't very context-dependent, no?
Get a Google Reader account.

Get an Instapaper account.

Get a Dropbox account.

Get a Tumblr account, at your own risk.

Try Google Chrome.
Assuming you aren't only mocking: when you're lost in a problem so complex that you don't even know where to start, you can focus your efforts (ie. narrow the scope) by trying to express your concern as a specific question (just one; trying to answer many questions simultaneously is a source of complexity and perplexity). Sounds simple, but this can take a surprising amount of work. It doesn't actually have to be a question - it can be a task, provided it's specific - but the question form really seems to help, perhaps by emphasizing that there's something you don't know, and that that's OK.

A question is usually about how to do something to something - ie. the stress is on a verb. It helps to understand what that really means by defining what it is about - ie. the nouns. Defining the nouns is usually pretty straightforward, and often reveals what it is that has made the problem difficult to think about. For me, the nouns are often an
input data structure (eg. a grammar + constraints), and an output data structure (eg. another grammar, or a particular function with certain qualities).

I tend towards being anti-functional programming, but I have to admit this is pretty much a declarative, mathematical, functional approach. It even feels functional, in that you end up creating new "variables" for new states (ie. immutable not variable), and although there's an explosion of names, things become very clear to express when you have a convenient and precise name for everything (ie. every noun).
Yeah, I agree. But I think the branding of Ubuntu as this "immaculately-conceived" OS is what annoys a lot of folks who know a bit about linux.

I think a simple mention on their front page would be enough.
I think financial industry programmers are at the leading edge of this phenomenon (much like quants were the leading edge of programmers being paid for value rather than for hours), because they're the programmers who can most easily demonstrate that their code directly made a company millions. They're not the end of it by a long shot.

Take A/B testing, analytics, conversion optimization, etc. If you are good at these, you can generate several million dollars of value over the course of a week. If you can credibly offer the prospect of results like that, some companies will pay you very well indeed.
He must know his philosophy on selling is fundamentally flawed though. The high-budget computer game question (which he side stepped) is a good one. Why would you spend millions of dollars on a software product if you could only count on selling the first copy?
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Posterous is hiring frontend and backend engineers, Rails preferred but not required -- http://posterous.com/jobs

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Congrats on launching! I would append this css (for the footer)

#top-footer .footer-logo {left:-21px;}
#top-footer h3 {background:none;padding-left:0;}

There is no reason to use bullets (dots) when you use inline lists (#top-footer h3). #top-footer .footer-logo is not aligned with the paragraph below it.
Microsoft Academic Search already supports H-index and G-index for authors.

for example:
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/508835.aspx
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Tons of good information on that page. Scroll down to the bottom and check out some of the "See Also" links.
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You're right, these are the names I frequently heard for them growing up (fishing community) and what I hear from my boss (fisher/farmer growing up), but I've heard completely different names for some of them from people who've worked in forestry and things.
i'm glad you built this, however, i would appreciate it if your app integrated with a todolist of my choice (and then used an open api to swap data freely). it's bad for productivity to use email and todolist in the same place.

thanks.
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Select all, paste whatever happens to be in the clipboard, save to disk.

That's a disastrous series of commands.
Awesome. I didn't even know we had one of these.
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Dead people can't use free software. Nothing you've cited comes anywhere near matching or exceeding the good the Gates Foundation as done with its global health initiatives.
Thanks to everyone who put this together. This probably sounds silly, but Perl was the first programming language I ever did anything "real" with (it was my second language, after Microsoft QuickBASIC), and no matter how many other languages I try I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Perl. So it's great to see a real release for Perl 6 which, as it matures, I think will prove itself as the best mainstream dynamic imperative language out there.

EDIT: In particular, I think macros and stm will be killer features with respect to other languages, once they're implemented in Rakudo.
This is awesome. There's also a great virtual panel on some of the most popular Node.js projects on GitHub. Here's the link: http://www.infoq.com/articles/nodejs-frameworks
Great article and always good to hear more from Patrick. I still find it incredibly humorous that one of the more influential startup stories on HN is a "simple" Bingo Card Creator. Patrick continually shows that there is no such thing as "simple" when you're striving to be successful.

Favorite bit from the article:
"Prior to running a business I ran a WoW guild. It was rather substantially more work and more drama than running a business, for dramatically worse loot."
Lariat loop/knot is an extremely simple knot that can have a ton of uses. Not to mention it's the knot for making a lasso but works well for stringing a bow. I've even seen it used to string up a shower curtain before (non jamming knot) while camping.
"Many governments have switched to Gnu/Linux and are saving billions of dollars each year for the last ten years such as Brazil"

It's funny how you can make the argument about money that "would have been spent". Many open source zealots (and Stallman himself) talk about how the software industry can't equate piracy to dollars people would have spent. Why should this be any different?

Software licenses are also a very small part of the entire cost. The biggest costs are support (this is how most open source companies make their money).

Even if governments had saved as much money as you want us to believe, I seriously doubt it would go into healthcare, education, and employment.

"Do you think Google could have been done without Gnu/Linux when they needed to install thousands of servers and didn't have yet the money to pay licenses?"

There are other variants of unix that have even less restrictive licenses. BSD comes to mind. Gnu/Linux was a means to an end.

"It's all free/open source software, a way bigger revolution than the PC which was a boring work machine before for most people."

Most users don't use a variant of linux on their desktop. Microsoft brought computers in every home and made computers "interesting".

"Well, think and try to calculate again. Gates' done way less."

Gates has proof that he has helped the poor with billions of dollars. Stallman has possibilities and no direct proof of anything.
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:-) I'll celebrate when these two lines cross:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=qtp,+selenium

Until then, we've got work to do!
I read all three of the paragraphs in the "article". Note that my original response was in the context of azanar's comment, about the economics of doing what is suggested in the OP.
This makes me a little sad, maybe I even pity RMS. He is the most vigorous defender of a great cause but has also sacrificed his life for that cause.

Some people say he softened up over the years, but sometimes it appears to me as if he were just growing wary. In another interview that was on HN a while back he said something along the lines of "It is not great, but this is the life I have chosen for me and I have to live it this way".

Am I the only one who feels that way? Maybe it's just because I'm listening to the Schindler's List theme ...
1. Yes
2. Scheme is a better-established standard. Nice macro system.
3. Easy Java integration and totally lispy...not 100% Schemey because you can't do continuation capture.
4. It's way faster than PHP4. I haven't benchmarked it in years, because performance hasn't been an issue.
"Free software have nothing to do much with capitalism."

So why does the GPL make it so difficult to make any kind of money. Many of the supporters are also against any and all forms of commercial software.

"What he disagree with is what he called combat.(Or what I least remember from reading one of his essay) Rather than improve over your competitors and sell great stuff to customers, you seek to annihilate your competitors by unethical means and gain control over your customers."

His answer to this is to force everybody to the same level (IE: as soon as a company improves their software, all competitors should get those improvements).
This is an extreme example of why you don't screw people over, even if you lack empathy.

Nobody likes to be screwed over, but most people take it in exchange for other perks (job security, for one). But people have a screw threshold, and if you cross it, this is what happens.

Now, this is not the main reason not be a jackass -- on the other side of the spectrum, you usually get much in return for being nice (if only for just differentiating yourself from everyone else) -- but that's another story.
A market for trading perception of value should be regulated to increments of days or weeks, not minutes.

The current structure for valuating securities does absolutely no good for our society. Not that it's overly evil or anything, it's just pointless, a massive waste of time and money, and is a cancer on our economic system. It's got to be a thrilling thing to code for though.
Fundamental attribution error - rebooting in the middle of a presentation is not an inherent property in Windows. You could have configured Windows Update to not do that. (I'm guessing it was "do it x minutes after bootup", or similar).

Especially in a discussion mentioning Linux, configuring a piece of software to behave how you want should be a basic sort of thing to do.

The efficiency gains are enormous

It was so much more efficient the other day when I had to cobble together a bash script to poll MySQL to show running queries, then realise it wasn't running fast enough, switch on query logging, find a reference telling me SIGHUP doesn't cause MySQL to reload config files, restart the database, run some tests, disable the logging, restar the database again. I was so pleased I couldn't just open SQL Server Profiler/Tracer and see live database activity in a couple of mouse clicks and no restarts.

The efficiency gains are arguable and situation (and person) dependent.
actually "niggardly" and "niggle" have related etymology, neither related to the n-bomb.