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GoodReader finally just earned its keep.

It was the only way I could get my newly purchased Cooking for Geeks PDF into iBooks. Safari has no Open in iBooks option for PDFs (lame).
Works for me with MacVim:
http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2008/12/making-macvim-work...
Neither does Jabber.org, or YMessenger, or MSN.

You want logs of those chats, use a better client. Or setup your own XMMP server, with which you can talk to GTalk users btw ;)
The thing is, Camera+ frankly isn't that impressive. It has a cute but useless SLR animation but there are better camera apps out there (Hipstamatic, GorilllaCam or just the built-in app). I'm actually disappointed that I bought Camera+ and can't help feeling it's hype (marketing) over functionality.

Having the pretty Lisa (http://mostlylisa.com) as spokesperson can't have hurt either (yeah, I'm cynical like that)
I realize that a DOCSIS cable modem has a ton of bandwidth available to it. Each 6 MHz cable channel can send around 27 Mbps to the subscriber. Upstream is more difficult. If there wasn't any regulation, what is stopping cable and fiber to the home ISPs from just dialing down the Internet portion of your package until the competition can't fit in it any more?
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Missing the obvious point that an asshole programmer can and will have a negative effect on the productivity of everybody else in the company and quite possibly make many of your other good programmers quit.

Missing the second obvious point that if you hire an asshole you end up having to (try to) manage an asshole. Assholes, almost per definition, don't take orders well and at the end of the day it doesn't matter how awesome a programmer he is if he isn't programming on what you need him to program on.
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I was thinking, "Hey, this writing style reminds me of _why! Has _why come out of retirement?" Then I scrolled up to see that it was an archive of his old site.
what does "HTML serialization" mean?
which, I should add, should be a lesson for everyone: marketing > functionality. One which I need a serious lesson in too.

Particularly in the app store where there's no trial periods and customers are accustomed to taking a risk on low-priced apps. The app store just doesn't seem structured to make the "best" apps rise to the top, only the most popular.
> which is almost always entirely freeform, or at least is up to complex and opaque rules that vary by city.

And then, you get different countries. And shit hits the fan hard.
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It's pretty straight-forward. Write a paper, submit it to a journal.

To have a better chance to you need adhere rigorously to the submission guidelines. Experience helps in complying with the various requirements, so visiting a local university and having an informal chat with a late stage PhD candidate or a professor will help. Buy them coffee, or a beer.

I've published from outside academia and it's fairly simple. The real test is whether the paper is worth publishing, and whether it's a good fit for the journal to which it's submitted.
Most of my friends (in Poland) spend monthly less for mortgage than they would on rent. It seams that housing/mortgage market here is very different.
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I'm broke. but I'm a student and am pretty much use to it.

I decided to do a startup (sneffel.com) over the summer instead of finding an internship, I was hoping it'd be profitable by the end of the summer. I tried selling to basic users/consumers with no real customer in mind. I really thought it would work at the time. As you might expect, it didn't happen. Now it all appears obviously silly. In any case, I'm broke. my rent contract ends in a few days, and I need roughly 1000gbp for rent and deposit on a new place. A few friends have been buying me groceries and I've been trying to do freelance work (scriptlance, elance, odesk), but haven't had much luck there either!
6 years and it hasn't really changed.

We have a 4 way browser war, yet no one wants to improve the basic textarea. W T F
> I'm sure I've seen setups with one half on each arm of a chair.

That was what I was going for. Thanks for the info!
> Safari has no Open in iBooks option for PDFs (lame).

If you're talking about Mobile Safari, it very well does (at least in iOS4, once you have iBooks installed.)

If you mean plain-old-Safari—well, Safari itself doesn't offer any help, but you can just drag-and-drop the PDF into your iTunes library once it's downloaded, and it'll appear in the "Books" section.
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You could read the paper itself.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pd...

It's probably behind a paywall for you, though.
The tech echo chamber is getting worse. If people don't trust their sources, that leads to increasingly polarized opinions.
All O'Reilly's books are available cheaper if you have an iPhone (or maybe just iTunes?). Follow the guide here to extract the embedded ePub from one of their iPhone apps, which retail at $1.99 - $4.99. Scroll down to "Extracting an EPUB Pearl".

http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp

btw, TapWorthy is well worth the $4.99.
It was funny, but obviously fake. No one except a sysadmin with access logs* could find out someone played Farmville 19.7 hours a week. It's just that I couldn't bring myself to point that out to people.

Now, all we need to find out is how they got so much traction to begin with, and apply that to our startups/webapps :)

* or someone with a Wakoopa account ;)
With coroutines multithreading is "cooperative". It's your job to release control to the run-loop.

Doing it efficiently is an art and the OS is a lot more efficient than you, even with all the context switching. Going async is premature-optimization in my opinion, especially since with a Java server you can get to a couple thousands of synchronous requests/second easily.

You also missed the point of the fucking article.
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If you're using Safari, you can resize the textarea, search within it, scroll the textarea by mousing over it regardless of present field focus, and use emacs key combos like Ctrl-A, E, K, and Y without any additional software.
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"the lead developer lost his mind" im more interested in that story :)

its just 7 months into building this stuff and its all our first time so i think its par for the course. Certainly excited to launch soon.
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Hey, Chrome lets you expand it with a resizer on the corner. That's something
IIRC the photo messages explicitly mentioned "Spencer" installing software to monitor people's internet usage, and giving "the codes" to "Jenny".
Normally I wouldn't vote up this kind of trash, but I see something interesting here.

"Mainstream culture" collapsed about a decade ago -- did you know that Seinfeld was the last TV show watched regularly by 50% or more of the American population? As the article notes, memes are increasingly where we get our culture. And hoaxes are an integral part of the meme landscape.

Anyone who can find a way to modify the Internet (not the Internet itself, of course, but people's use of the Internet) to better resist the spread of hoaxes could significantly change society. Think not just hoaxes, but outrages like #amazonfail. What a huge social cost (on attention, reputation etc) these things impose. http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/04/the-failure-of-amazonfa...

Now that might not seem like a great startup idea -- users are just having fun spreading links around (or getting outraged), and if you can't even monetize content then how can you monetize crowdsourcing the truth?

But then I noticed that Fox News and other media outlets fell for this hoax. Surely there's a significant monetary cost to that, which provides an opportunity for a business model?

The old Snopes way of doing things isn't working so well any more -- these things spread in minutes, so the fact checking mechanism needs to use channels similar to the ones that the hoaxes themselves do.

One possible idea is a prediction market (that pays out real money). If it is successful, it might become a standard part of media fact checking policy to check the prices there. A news organization probably be willing to actually wager a few thousand dollars -- a fraction of what the story is worth to them. Coming back to this example, that would give a tremendous incentive to one of the many people involved in creating this hoax to make a decent pile of money through the prediction site (anonymously, in fact). In effect, it would be a way for anonymous tipsters to leak out the word (in addition to aggregating third-party analysis and intelligence), except it would be far more streamlined and effective because it's a market.

Anyway, just a thought.
I really like the idea of "proof by wiki" that the author mentions. It had some success with the polymath proof of the Hales-Jewett theorem a while back (https://www.hypios.com/thinking/2010/01/13/massively-collabo...). Along a similar vein, the french group of mathematitions who published together under the pseudonym N. Bourbaki laid down a huge amount of mathematics in the 1930s. Their work became the foundation for much of the rigorous mathematics of the last century.

Of course, no-one ends up with a famous theorem under their name as no one person can claim they proved the theorem. But from the point of view of the mathematics world, it seems like a great idea.
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Exactly. A mediocre programmer may have the ability to become a great programmer, especially if he or she has the people skills that allow him or her to learn quickly, and if your other programmers are willing/able to answer questions and mentor the person.

Nobody becomes a great programmer overnight. The key is to find the people who will grow into the position and then help others do the same.
Whoops, looks like you're right! Then something else must've triggered me into thinking it was fake and I retroactively rationalized it to that.
how does one get started in consulting?
Am I understanding this correctly? The study gave each participant 10 credits and then said they could keep them or give them away and at the end, those credits would be converted into real money.

Uh, why would anyone give away credits? It's a totally zero-sum game. The only way you can 'win' if is someone else is foolish enough to give you their credits.
It's not the memory-usage that bites you when using pthreads.

It's the N:M problem ... how to map N threads on M cores. The OS kernel does time-slicing if N > M, and this bites you because context-switching between threads is costly, and the more threads you have, the more context-switching the kernel needs to make.

On the other hand, with a server on top of the JVM you can get to a couple of thousands reqs/second without async I/O. The app I'm working on right now reaches ~ 2000 reqs/second.

Even if some web app does 500 requests / second, who needs more than that? Google? Twitter? Most apps don't.

Of course, in the context of Rails ... performance has always been shitty, and I can't blame people for searching silver bullets. Unfortunately people in general lose sight of the general context ... platforms need proper pthreads integration without a retarded GIL.
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Related article from Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/new-school-program...
Ctrl + K is emacs? As far as I am aware it is available to every program on Unix through readline. See this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key#Examples
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I just went from "full time deployed contractor wage" to "use up vacation time, regular wage", and in a couple months, will go to no income. I should have 2 years of savings and no debt (finally!), but it's still scary. Every single dollar spent is less runway.

If I don't have income from my startup by next fall, I'll probably be doing consulting or getting a job, or at least seriously looking for one.
I have a feeling you won't be able to update Chrome's Flash player - they use a separate internal one.
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As a layperson who only understands these concepts at a very high level, I'm still fascinated trying to follow along. Just the idea of the insane bodies of work being casually thrown around in these discussions is staggering.
Same here in England. If you have the deposit and plan to stay for a few years, then buying makes economic sense.

Plus, owning your own home, even if there's a mortgage outstanding, feels very different to renting. Certainly for the English, home-ownership is a cultural value.
Actually its the other way around. Git branches with rebase and amend for commits are like mercurial patch queues on steroids.

At Astrails we used mercurial for a couple of years with quite an elaborate workflow involving shared patch queues which were in their own mercurial repository.

Once we switched to git I tried for a while to force similar workflow on git. I investigated stgit, quilt etc to try to use patch queues with it. Nothing quite worked so we kept just using the regular git with topic branches and once I learned all the 'magic' git stuff like "commit --amend" and "rebase -i" I realized I no longer needed patch queues. Actually the workflow become much more streamlined and easy to follow.
I've seen this guide to consulting several times on HN.
http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
Oh right! I read that as "the cocks" and wondered WTF she was on about.
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I watched Cosmos on DVD, great series.
Right now its about £400 per month difference
(I live in South East UK)
"I think most charities are an utter waste" ... More or less of a waste than how our taxes are spent? While there are some awful charities out there, there are plenty who offer detailed oversight of how donations are spent. Those tend to call themselves NGOs however, and whether you support them or not is often a matter of political alignment.
There are a lot of holes in almost every article in mass media publications, as they must necessarily summarize. Whether you notice the holes or not probably depends on how well the article confirms or contradicts your biases, giving you an emotional payoff to finding the holes - or avoiding finding them.
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Just as a pedantipoint, there were several Bourbaki groups, their work started in the mid 30s and extended significantly beyond that.

http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/NicolasBourbaki.html
I don't know the history of mathematical theories, but in physics it has often been the case that something took years (or decades) for people to wrap their heads around as they were poking at the edges of understanding. But as they continued to do so, new ideas and concepts emerged which made a better mental framework for understanding them. Hence, for example, the work-energy theorem can now be proved by a high school senior, but in the day there was big debate over the factor of 1/2 in the term for kinetic energy.

So it may be with mathematics. Things like Fermat's Last Theorem and P != NP may be difficult to grasp simply within our current frameworks, but new ideas may give rise to new frameworks that makes them more digestible.

If you can just get it proved somehow then you can proceed with confidence towards these new ideas.
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Yeah they are... They give away much more money through taxation (which the article/study doesn't seem to consider. For instance, asking 'If you earned $500 000 a year and lost 40% of it through tax, how much additional wealth should you give away voluntarily,' is different from asking 'what percentage of your income should you keep/lose?' Perhaps one believes all people should keep the same portion of their income, and answered that lower income people should give more to charity in order to compensate for their lower taxation. The study misses this and the article concludes 'rich people think poor people should give more.' It's also an easy explanation for why even when hypothetically adopting a different income bracket, their attitudes 'changed').
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I think we have evidence that this URL breaks the duplication tester. I submitted this exact URL before you:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594283

but the detector didn't.
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Best case where owning is way better than renting for me: ski boots.

Rental ski boots are instruments of torture as far as I am concerned.
What's wrong with Passenger (mod_rails)? There's not really a difference to mod_php in terms of deployment, especially if you're not altering the software.
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This revealed that whether high status was inherited or earned made no difference--so the idea that it is the self-made who are especially selfish does not work.

It's likely that their parents or grandparents were "self-made" and also passed on their selfishness.
Actually, that's Webkit. Been in Safari for looooong before Chrome.
It's concerning when a laymen does not understand what a jpg is.
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There's definitely something missing from the description of the experiment. It sounds like the first half of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game. The second half—informing the player that their hypothetical "anonymous partner" would get to decide whether both, or neither, of them got the money—provides the incentive for the player to cooperate. Selfishness could then be gauged by how often players still choose "unfair" splits despite the chance of rejection.

If this is what the experiment was, though, I would question their methodology a bit; an important part of the Ultimatum game is that both partners have to think of one another as human—and therefore capable of irrationality. The partner anonymity in their experimental set-up creates (mental) distance between the partners, which encourages a more rational cost-benefit analysis, vs. the immediate "I should punish you for giving me such a bad deal" reaction you have to a real person. If the players realize this, they will benefit by acting more selfishly, because they can rely on their partner to not see them as "human enough" to be worth punishing.
Anyone have any experience with Cooking for Geeks?
Agreed. However, if you are not sure that every single bit of code in your application produces valid HTML then you are much safer with the text/html MIME type. As for the SGML vs XHTML debate, I'd rather not get into that since the whole thing got a bit religious at this point.
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Actually, when I heard their idea, my thought was 'Wow, I could write that. It'd take a long time, but I could do it. Wish I'd thought of it first.'

With enough work, it would be as easy to set up (or easier) than any other blog. The connections to other diaspora instances would be as easy as logging into OpenID... Just visit their page, put in your URL, request a link, and wait for the other person to grant it. It could also be done the other way with putting their link into your blog, and having the backend take care of it. I'm sure there are other ways, too.

So yeah, it could work. Not in that short amount of time, but it could work.
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I like the idea, although I don't think it will stop this kind of thing spreading. I think most people suspected it was a fake, but still spread the story because it was a funny story. Its a bit like a modern version of "Two guys walk into a bar..." jokes. Everyone knows two guys didn't really walk into a bar.

Even if a meme is obviously not true, many Media outlets would still be prepared to report it as a "looks what's causing a stir on the internet" story. Although, having a slight possibility of it being true does give them some "journalistic cover".
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Aha, understood. I hadn't appreciated that, and hence thought that when you said "the OP" you meant me rather than yummyfajitas. Sorry for getting confused.
Well, I'd say Cooking for Geeks, but I'm a little biased. ;)

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The first 4 or so chapters—about half the book—is available as free preview online, I think on both amazon.com and O'Reilly.

Feel free the shot me any questions...

-Jeff (jeff at cookingforgeeks.com)
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Thanks, the latter definition is what I knew, but I'm not aware of people creating dedicated landing pages for each of their ad campaigns, so I wasn't sure what the term meant. Thanks again!
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I’ve long been interested in learning about early-stage technology companies: what they produce, where their ideas come from, how they grow, and what they’ve learned along the way. But most tech news sites don’t dig very deep, generally giving these companies a few paragraphs and perhaps a couple of screen shots. So I’ve started doing it myself and I’ll be publishing new articles five days per week.

Check it out: http://foundernotes.com/

Consider this a version one, a minimum viable product. I’m sure it can be improved and I’m curious to learn exactly how. Post your feedback here or get in touch with me directly (my contact information is posted at the bottom of each article).

Thanks.
But that isn't really an issue if you want to accept open ids on your site - it is actually a good thing, because the more providers there are the easier it is to find on that has your customers.
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the twitter account could be a throwaway account and generally lesser risk of anybody getting too many personal details.. facebook, not so much ..
I think there's huge opportunity around these academic/teaching collaboration tools. Your site looks sweet. Why hasn't it worked out?
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