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Nothing wrong with having some fun now and again.

Not all of our time should belong to others. If it did life would be a dreary experience indeed.
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Saying that a technology scales is (should be?) just shorthand for saying that a technology can be made to scale using only a reasonable amount of effort.
More so, because it's Brainfuck you don't have to worry about people mistaking it for a serious project, so you can concentrate on the educational aspect rather than fine-tuning the performance, fixing every single bug, etc.
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Google, AP reach new deal on licensing rights
No, their biggest problem is having so many countries you can't buy apps in yet. I don't this does more than minor damage to the Android brand.

Companies like Packard Bell and eMachines make nothing but low quality shitty Windows computers for decades and they didn't really damage the Windows brand. Not saying that Windows has a sparkling reputation mind you, but the things that have damaged their brand have been their own fault really. And in the end, everyone still ends up buying a Windows PC because they're everywhere, at every price point and every form factor.
What's also interesting is how the appropriateness of this particular metadiscussion seems to also come in waves. Today this is top of the front page. Tomorrow the same post might be flagged or comments downvoted into oblivion.
He's missing the differentiation between strategy and execution when it comes to games. From what I understand of pool, the strategy isn't overly complicated and, while the execution takes thousands of hours of practice to have the required manual dexterity, it is probably achievable by a good percentage of the population.

However, lets look at something like basketball. The vast majority of the population, no matter how much practice, will never be able to dribble a ball as quick as Kobe Bryant, or jump five a five foot vertical, etc.

Chess, on the other hand, has almost no 'execution' barrier to entry. Most everyone can move pieces around and understand the rules. However, the strategy and mental state one needs to be in takes a lot of both practice and innate ability. I'm sure if you took his experiment of seeing how much people practiced chess, the winner would not be the one who practiced the most.
I'm pretty sure, but not positive, that I did it to myself earlier today: edit the page, add in a new og:app_id pointing to an application that you control. The documentation mentions the object's title and type being durable, and I wasn't able to successfully overwrite those, but you can change the other parameters and then just call the Lint tool on the page again.

(n.b.: If you have something as og:type="article", that apparently causes there to be no OpenGraph node created for the page in spite of what the docs say. That might be a bug. Anyhow, the upshot is that this means that everything tagged as an "article" is safe.)

But I think I remember being able to add an app to my "cause" after it was first liked.
That's one reason why a business must have a competent CIO on the management team.

Sometimes you can let the apparent changes ride, since they are politicing between other senior members of the team; sometimes you can simply say, "No"; and sometimes you must explain the cost of what will be thrown away, how it will affect morale, and how long pivoting the team, re-motivating them, and delivering will cost.

You average CEO, finance, marketing, and sales honchos will not understand these things without an interpretation into their language.
Haha, How the hell do software developers get groupies?
The popup blocker in Chrome (and other browsers) only blocks those popups that would open automatically. Popups that are created as a result of a button click are treated as intentional (from a users perspective) and thus not blocked.
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The point isn't really that athletes don't work their tail off. The point is that, because of the small number of available slots, professional athletes tend to be the intersection of the sets {people who work the hardest} and {people who are the most genetically gifted}.

The fact is, the average person couldn't become a professional athlete no matter how hard they worked. That causes athletes' genetic gifts to overshadow their hard work.
Indeed it is fantastic, But I was more surprised about the powers of self-organization than the limits of it!
I don't believe that winning others is a sustainable source of motivation in the first place.

A true master must learn to love one-upping himself again and again. Otherwise his skills are dependent on continuously finding someone greater to compete against. This becomes harder and harder when he gets better.

Similarly I believe that you can't build a successful business solely based on beating the competition. People talk about competitiveness and competence all the time and I smell false. I think that success is a side-effect of doing what you can't not do.
It'd be an interesting day when forum degeneration can be solved via circular migration around ring of sites vs. Linear migration like today.

"everybody barrel shift!"
sorry, those modules were omitted due to obvious security concerns ;) raw_input() sounds like something reasonable to include, though, since it could simply pop up a text box and ask the user to input a string. please email me if you have other suggestions for how to improve this app. thanks!
That sounds plausible, but it is pretty hard to verify.
I see the goal, but why is an image required to use the app?
One of the major differences between 1.5 and 1.6 is that 1.6 added support for different screen densities. That's pretty major. If you only target 1.6 and above with your app, it's trivial to support different resolutions and screen densities. It looks like it'd be tricky to support 1.5 and be resolution independent. I don't know for sure though.
In the bad old days in the U.S., crazy people, or people deemed crazy, could be kept in a mental institution against their will for years and years. When I hear people decrying deinstitutionalization, I assume they want to return to those bad old days.

I don't know about Canada, past or present.
Sure: http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
Interesting idea, but the periods and commas in the example price are in the wrong order. Is it going to mis-format something I try to sell as well? Edit: apparently not, it's just a text field in the listing.
I don't understand why users of services like Digg get so indignant about downtime. It's a free diversion.
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"This trend is precisely why I've argued that it's time for the baked-in Android UI to die."

Google seem to be taking the opposite approach to solving this problem. Rumours are that the next major release is set to include significant UI enhancements.

If the UI is good enough, manufacturers won't bother rolling their own. Well that's the theory, but they still need to differentiate somehow...
(my iPad autocorrect is broken as I was testing international software, so forgive the typos i miss.)

Love the stuff cloudant is doing and would love to base my future projects on them, but I can't quite do so yet due to their business model. I really prefer to outsource hosting and focus on code and never have to deal with machine configuration or administration.

My issues with the business model boil down to them tying database requests and storage usage together in their packages at a ratio that probably makes sense for a lot of businesses but won't for my current project.

The current project involves a large amount of disk space that will mostly be idle...as it scales, database requests will go up, hopefully dramatically, but the disc storage will not go up very much at sly percentage wise. A doubling of traffic might result in a 1% increase in data stored.

I'd be buying one of their most expensive plans, way out of our budget right now, just to get the disk space.... Which is forcing me to look at administrating my own machines and oaring .15 a GB/month for storage. Effectively vastly cheaper than cloudant even with triple redundancy.

The other thing I need is the ability to run periodic processes, such a cron jobs, and I'm not sure of a way to do this with couchdb. This has me looking at falling back on appengine.

That's just the feedback of one potential customer, and i am continuing to look at cloudant and other hosted services to see if I can figure out a way to combine them to do what i want. For instance, i could run arbitrary python at a left over dream host account in order to handle the periodic jobs.
If users would actually understand it, it might actually make for interesting behavior. It would raise the price of Likes.
Broken axle? The whole cart has caught fire, the horses have fallen over dead, and the settlers have gone elsewhere. Digg v4 is a ghost town.
Don't you think that their association with YC would protect them to some extent from trickery like this? After all, the collaboration with YC is widely published and it would get significant press as well as close a bunch of doors if he did something like that I would imagine?

All the other 'zucks' notwithstanding there has yet to be a clear cut case of fraud to come out of all this and I can't imagine YC et al would stand by idly if this happened to one of their investments.
Wait, what does your startup do?
think having a huge depth of knowledge is really not that important when teaching introductory topics

Absolutely, and as I said, that levels out the playing field for him a lot. Partially I was misled by the enthusiasm of the HN users here for the lectures; I didn't expect the crowd here to be so excited about high-school material.
> $99 buys you a lot of phone these days

Are you talking about subsidized price? I wouldn't talk about "buying" for $99 in that case, because there are strings attached. If not, please link to solid 2.x Android phones for $99, I could use one.
Do you collect any metrics on user behavior?

For example, it seem to me like downvoting (and particularly the abuse of downvoting) is on the rise. But this is just a gut feeling based on my particular comment history.
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Anatomy, physiology and pharmacy are susceptible to investigation via the scientific method. The economy is not.

Tell that to Esther Duflo, the only rational economist. Unlike just about the entirety of the rest of her field, she actually conducts controlled experiments and gathers data, rather than arguing from a priori assumptions.
It very much depends on what you are doing. How many errors per KLOC can you deal with? A website isn't going to have the same requirements that NASA does. On the one end, try acceptance testing and user testing. Its cheap and fast. On the other end, provably bug free code is difficult (not quite impossible http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/ballista/index.html) but requires better documentation than anyone should ever write.
Cucumber, BDD, and real-time project planning meet node.js
By the age of three, she had all but insisted that we buy her pink clothe..

So are you saying the color pink is genetically programmed?

I mean, observing something general like being more cooperative versus more competitive could lend credence to the idea that some behaviors are genetically predisposed. Observing her say she wants to be like Barbie would lend credence to her watching and understanding more Barbie commercials than you imagine.
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As someone who was previously a reddit guy (although I found out about HN via irc), I'll do my best to make sure that I don't contribute to the change. I came to HN because I liked the culture and the discussion here; changing that culture and discussion would defeat the purpose of coming here. Thanks to all you HN oldtimers (in internet-years) for creating and contributing to what HN is today (and hopefully will be for years to come).
Indeed, though the worst trend I see is emotional comments getting voted up more. Maybe I'm seeing the past more warmly than it was, but it seems like clear, logical, consistent, coherent comments got voted up and emotional based comments stayed around 1 or got voted down. It seems like a lot of emotional reactions are getting voted up even when they're not coherent, consistent, and logical - which seems a bad trend.
It is indeed a bug: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10448
I certainly wouldn't expect that kind of side effect at all, but maybe it's because I'm used to having a greater degree of control over who gets a claim on a slice of my attention. For me "like" is not a binary concept -- either you like it or you don't. I might like something enough to put it in my bookmarks, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll want to recommend it to all of my friends or subscribe to its RSS feed. If signaling that I like something will automatically imply "subscribing" to it, then I'd like to be informed about it beforehand.
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I couldn't find any warning that practising doing it wrong counts against you. Thinking back to when I was ten years old and we practised sums in school I would get nine out of ten of while many in the class would get four out of ten.

We diverged and I went on to study mathematics at Cambridge, but I'm left with a question about the origin of the divergence. At ten years old I wasn't putting in extra hours on arithmetic. On the other hand, if you only get four out of ten there is probably a reason, such as not understanding carrying. When you add up, with carries stuck in at random as you hope for the best, you both get half marks, and you practise doing it wrong. What is the value of an hour of practising doing it wrong? 1/2? 0? -1? -2?
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I find myself writing comments fairly often, but end up pausing before I hit the reply button to re-read what I'm replying to and to think if my comment is actually contributing to the discussion. A good percentage of the time, I just end up closing the window.

I may have good intentions to begin with, but if what I say reads as being one of the three points you wrote, there's no point in having other people argue against my invalid or ignorant claim. It just leads to semantical flame wars.
Which one sounds more concrete:

"For our design brief I came up with ten design elements that fit with the message we're trying to sub-communicate on our website, and found five examples of each element used on various sites across the web."

or

"I spent three hours talking to my computer."

The point is if it sounds that nebulous it's probably because you don't understand what they're actually doing. To someone who doesn't understand what coders do, coding sounds just as nebulous as 'business stuff'.

Now it's possible that the business person isn't actually doing anything, but then again it's just as possible that the coder isn't actually doing anything either.
How did he know what guns and swords are?

Excatly. I am very wary of the whole "we were gender neutral with our kids and then the girl wanted a pink dress SO PINK MUST BE HARD-WIRED!" argument. I am pretty sure if we took a human child to a planet where boys wore pastels and girls wore primary colours and that is what the shops had, that is what the characters on TV advertised, that is what the kids in the playground wore - the girl wouldn't turn around and say "You know what someone should invent? A pink dress!".

You only have to look at historical non-western cultures - if you look at some of the African Tribes, men and women dress in bright primary colours. In India, gold, green and red dominate. If you look at historical Japanese kimonos, you see black and red and purple and gold and so on.

So, if pink for girls is cultural, and you didn't promote it to your kids, somebody else did. And they are passing all sorts of other messages too. You can't raise a kid in a box.
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I suppose it's for the same reason that buildings are attributed to architects, and symphonies to composers, rather than to builders and musicians.
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In this case the overclockers are the third party board manufacturers that are trying to get an advantage over their competitors

I don't think so; most GeForce cards appear to use stock clocks and Nvidia reference PCBs and coolers.
I start with the number of hours it would take me to create something if I was continuously in the flow, motivated and inspired. Then I multiply by π. The results are surprisingly accurate.
Winning is a requirement of competition. (School systems take note). From competition comes the very best of the human species; often along with the very worst.

To say that winning is an illusion is to miss this larger reality. Individual wins are irrelevant in most cases, because they are only symptoms of a much more profound and important behavior. Ironically, winning is the most important thing in the world to the human species.

Unless you have some other method to achieve the best of the human species, I'd be careful how much hatred you direct towards competition by discounting winning.
Hey, this is pretty cool!
But could you perhaps put an indicator around your character so that you can instantly see which character is yours ?
Other than that, nice job xD
Release. Iterate. Repeat.

But at a pretty hefty cost. Definitely wasn't ready for prime-time, but it's here and they're going to be pretty busy over the next month or so re-integrating v3 philosophy and stabilizing the new back end.
Wow. Just checked out the new site. (I actually like the new design) ~80 of the links right now are link back to reddit.com.

Crazy. No wonder reddit was slow as hell the whole day today.
The problem with rewrites is that most people don't appreciate how difficult they are or know that there are special skills required to execute them.

When done correctly rewrites can be wonderful things, but more often than not they are failures. Most software projects, rewrite or no, are mis-budgeted and mis-scheduled, rewrites are harder, more expensive, and take longer than the average green-field project, and so are proportionately less successful.
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So assume it's that your comment fell into the "noise" category and work harder on producing "signal" next time. We don't need to have a discussion every time someone felt that some post did not contribute sufficiently to the discussion.
Hm. Seems I'm not offering enough incentive for more people to care about reviewing my stuff. Maybe if there were an actual playable game involved that people could try out?
The concept itself is actually a good one; it's just named wrong. Had they called it "follow" or "subscribe", or even the old name "become a fan", it would have been much clearer.
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I asked this in the other thread already, but let me ask again.

So as startup founders, what do you guys think is the right move here? Do you do what your users want, or stand your ground and do what you think is best for the company??
It's missing an ethernet port. Is there something similar, but with one 100Mb port ?
Oh, I see what you are getting at. You are right - an image is unnecessary currently, but we have features implemented that do image analysis that will be available in our next release.
Does this all mean that HN is becoming bad? I don't think so. It just means that we have guidelines we care about because they made HN a place we all like.

Exactly. I actually haven't noticed any egregious infractions in the comments or stories, just thought it might be a good idea to point them out for those who might not be aware the guidelines even exist.
I'm pretty sure I know the specific SEO that broke Google's guidelines and paid for links that pass PageRank, which led to this site not ranking as highly. But I'll leave it to the gift basket company to see if they want to call out which SEO it was that got them into trouble.
when I first saw this, I was thinking to myself "great, someone threw PDB into a web app" and was going to write it off until I saw that on every step of the way, you actually also visually output the contents of all the variables. In PDB, you have to manually know what's there and explicitly type in the command to inspect it. People learning how to program don't know where all the knobs are, much less which one to push.

There's power to such simplicity, and I immediately forwarded it to people I know are new learning programming in Python right now. Good stuff, keep it up!
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Khan Academy is awesome and I hope more people take notice of what he is doing.
Right on, swombat.

Last year, upon Iteration 27 of this same subject, I threw something like this together in jest:

Quality of HN Comments Over Time
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I must have been on to something because so many didn't realize it was a joke. What fun that was. All I have to do is shift the x axis every n months: some things never change.

Original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926604
>This comes with the territory of having an open-source OS.

Huh? If Dell shipped a PC with an old version of Ubuntu, would anyone really have a problem getting up to date? If Dell hasn't added anything compelling to Android, what is stopping people from getting the latest vanilla version from someplace besides Dell?

I thought the openness and freedom from restrictions were supposed to be the strong points of Android. If you don't like one fork, can't you just load another?

Maybe I've missed something big. (I'm not an Android user and don't claim to be an expert) I am puzzled that a forum with so many developers has most acting like users are helpless in this matter. What's the dang deal??

Hopefully most phones aren't stale out of the box, but without updates all would become that way. Other than seeming old already, isn't the Dell really like the rest?
Strangely, I was writing some CSS the other day and thought 'why doesn't something like this exist'.

Glad to see you've produced a working version.

Perhaps the business model should be, free for simple use, but chargeable for more complex sites / designs.
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..and another one falls to second system syndrome.
aside from this one, i never read the comments. i'm just here for the links not the community editorialization of them. but my faith in "communities" has dwindled over the years through my continued participation over the years in this thing called "the interwebs". as the japanese would say, ganbatte kudasai. keep up the good work/do your best.

in other words, please do not ruin this nice little community with your own baggage.
Work 4 hrs. a night and 20 hrs a weekend on it for 6 months while keeping your job. It would be a big time sacrifice, but so would actually starting something with seed money.
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