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This is so true.

When I dream of 'winning the lottery', I don't dream of laying on sandy beaches. I dream of starting a new start up, knowing that I can have enough FU money to take risks and make it great.
While I laud your transparency, I lament the chilling effect this will have on existing libraries like JQTouch. jQuery Mobile isn't available today but this announcement will make a lot of people sit on their hands waiting to see how things play out in the hope that they won't invest in a dead-end platform.

Oh well, not saying you shouldn't have chosen this path, just pointing out the consequences...
I do nothing illegal so harddrive encryption or anything tin-foily like that is irrelevant. (I do it though as it does not hurt and is so easy, plus if a HDD fails I can discard it without having to bother.)

Cookies are per session. I use Firefox with Tor-Button.

In the worst case there is "someone" who does the things I do. But no-one does connect that to me. You could do complicate analysis and pinpoint my demographic through that but no-one does that.
I stopped reading where it says that lists are "O(n) (although they can average n/2.)"
the mobile ui elements the jquery team is building is the best i've seen so far. they've done a spectacular job there. i hope that as with jquery themeroller, the ui elements for mobile will be customizable.
Come to the Facebook party... IF you can solve the puzzle.
Doesn't the agreement position existing web services like HTML over HTTP in an advantageous position over services yet to be named? And doesn't Google's current revenue stream depend on this?

Since Google dominates current services, it doesn't need to monopolize them, just ensure that anything new coming along has some hurdles to clear.
jQTouch has been out for a couple years at this point - a two month "chill" period before release seems totally appropriate.

Honestly, I don't see the "chill" as being a bad thing in this regard: jQTouch and Sencha Touch are doing mobile web development a great disservice by only supporting the latest-and-greatest WebKit platforms. If we can get developers to actually think about supporting more of the mobile platforms that are actually used then I will consider the project to be a victory.

I discuss this much more in our strategy outline:
http://jquerymobile.com/strategy/
If RMS were your cube mate, the lawyers would run in fear. They might walk around asking these sort of questions once but never again.
I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, just an alliance :)
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Missing from net neutrality blather: Nothing bad is going to happen if it dies
HTML5 Studio shows off fancy HTML5 CSS3 demos with source by Google Chrome team
Yep - they're going to be 100% Themeroller-able. It's going to be a bunch of work on our end but the ability to have a unified, good-looking, UI that works across all platforms is just too enticing to ignore.
Google's problem is not that net neutrality is bad for them, exactly, but that Verizon loathes it. And Google is utterly dependent on Verizon pushing Android. Half of all Android phones are Droids on Verizon, and you can ascribe a lot of that to Verizon's aggressive marketing campaign. In fact, I think you can argue that Android is more Verizon's brand now than Google's. So Google has a lot to lose by antagonizing the linchpin of its mobile strategy.

In addition, now that Android sales have taken off Google isn't an outsider looking in at an industry whose gatekeepers could easily shut them out from mobile search and advertising. They own the #2 platform, and they've got enough pull to ensure that Google gets a piece of the mobile pie - which means that net neutrality isn't worth as much to Google as it was two years ago.

This article is spot-on. Google was enthusiastic about net neutrality when it was essential to their financial success. Now that it has a cost, they're discovering the virtues of compromise... which wouldn't be an issue without the relentless Google PR about how principled they are. As pg said once, the trick with declaring that you're not evil is that people will hold you to it.
This is great news. I have been working on a client project for a company to replicate the iPhone App Store in webkit (enterprisey)

I have basically had to roll out my own framework with the help of jQtouch and jQuery. It's been a struggle to say the least, especially while trying to recreate some of the UI interactions such as the elastic scroll and animated slides.

Looking forward to contributing to this project.
Striking! Not the same company anymore.
Keep notebooks/journals.

Sleep isn't an exact science, so don't expect an exact answer. Some people can live on 6 hours of sleep and be fully alert. Some people need 9. Personally, I fluctuate.

I keep notebooks on subjects I'm learning and use journals to reflect on my overall progress. This self-assessment helps me to not only retain what I learn, but to give me a pulse on my progress: am I in a slow month or am I on fire?

Also, intelligence, is an ephemeral quality. It's really hard to measure due to its elusive nature and the manner in which it manifests differently in people. Perhaps return to some early work or problems you used to enjoy and see if you can still solve them or find new insights in them. That might at least give you some actualization.
I love Consolas, but really if your visitors are not on Vista/Windows 7 it's unlikely they will have it.

EDIT: I believe there is a large population of folks that don't like ClearType hinted fonts. Consolas looks absolutely horrible unless you have ClearType on and tuned. I can't speak to Consolas on any Linux-based OS as I've never tried it.
Also, key Android people came from Danger which was Java-based.
Look at your submission. Now back to mine. Now back to yours.
Look at your submission. Now back to mine. Now back to yours, now back to mine. Sadly, your submission isn't mine. But if you stopped submitting other things and made this your submission, yours could be mine. Look down, now back up. Where are you? You're on Hacker News, reading the submission your submission could be like. Now this submission is diamonds.
Well with rowing the goal is to generate the greatest sum total of force with your legs over roughly 6:30 at roughly 37 reps per minute. So it's being able to maximize that stat given a fixed amount of muscle weight.
Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer, cpu and all
Except that the proposal for wired networks has giant loopholes, and one can easily interpret this deal as a fig leaf designed to get the issue off the table so that the network providers can create a reality on the ground that makes further legislation impossible.
Ask HN: DNS TTL - Why Not Small?
When setting up my DNS parameters, I usually select my time to live as 86400 seconds. I occasionally regret this decision, when I need to make a change.

I see in another thread, that Posterous sets their DNS TTL at 5 minutes.

So, my question is, why wouldn't I just always use a 5 minute TTL. I assumed it was to be a "good internet citizen", I should leave it long. Is this a valid concern, or can I, with clear conscience, reduce it substantially?
Couple of mundane (non-data-based) suggestions plus a weird one.

Ask your wife about your behavior. (Although this could open up a can of worms (or emotional whuppass) especially since she's probably twice as tired as you are.
Just be regular in your self-awareness. Check in on yourself more frequently. Awareness can access data you could never formalize.

Memorize something that's intricate enough to not to become automatic and repeat it to see how sharp you are at the moment. Each morning I count my stomach crunches with the first 1000 digits of pi. The first couple of hundred do tend to get automatic but I can judge by my ease with the last 700 whether I'm going to have a good brain day or not. (I told you it was weird.)

Congratulations on the new baby.
Along with 8% return, the other big constant in retirement planning is retirement age of 65. Over time, this is going to be seen much more as a variable than a constant. If markets don't perform, retirement age is going to rise pretty dramatically.
Why if you read correctly the page :

"As long as you have not compacted since installing 1.0.0 and triggering the bug, this tool can help you avoid any data loss. Because CouchDB has an append-only file format, the tool is able to recover any data written, even if your server has been restarted since then."

I think it's pretty relaxing imo to know your data are still here.
"rhythm" works pretty well because they're probably going to burn 5 vowels on it right away.
This program is aimed at emotional health, but I think you could work it into a good system to measure mental health as well: http://www.findingoptimism.com/
This is just one example of the missing reality in the tea party/libertarian philosophy. As others have pointed out, it comes down to whether you believe government or corporations are better suited to ensure free speech. On the one hand you ostensibly have democratic voting power to ensure government does what you want (ensure free speech) and on the other you have your wallet to ensure corporations do what you want.

The reality is that the wallet approach breaks down quickly in numerous scenarios. In this particular scenario, effective competition is nearly impossible due to the infrastructure costs associated with network connectivity. If you don't like the behavior of one of the half dozen providers, there is little incentive for any of the others to operate in a way that you do like. With little to no capability to "start your own" 4G provider, the half dozen corporations are under no pressure to ensure your free speech or provide access to free speech.

There are numerous flaws with the power of voting, but none of them compare to the flaw in effective corporate monopolies via massive infrastructure costs.
Net neutrality: No, these are special puppies
What do you wish Google Finance could do?
Well I certainly give you credit for delivering an argument that I haven't heard before, though I don't know how you'd get that out of the proposal. Is HTML over HTTP how you're interpreting the "public internet" bit?
Yeah, I say you have to go out to play good football. Then goals come.
You're right that location changes the income levels quite a bit. I would need much more in California or New York to live as though I felt rich enough.
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Most importantly, congratulations on getting your product up and running, it takes dedication and work. But I also agree with some of the other comments, in that I am not personally inclined to spend time rating things.
"We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administrator community for Solaris." -- I really wonder how.

They really killed the wrong Solaris. If they embraced the GNU userland (as OpenSolaris did) they would have had a much better shot at getting more raised-on-Linux admins and developers to embrace their OS. As it is, the current BSD flavored Solaris tools are so crufty and incompatible it leaves many Linux users with a distinct loathing for the OS.
NDM-1, the multiply-resistant bacteria (in French)
To each his own but to me the screen is much more of an important comparison than the page turn is.
The crux of the matter is that Dalvik is not a JVM. It cannot run Java bytecode. Google supplies a tool to convert Java bytecode to Dalvik bytecode.

I won't even pretend to understand Sun's ownership of the JVM IP, the licensing agreements it had with JVM implementors, patents etc. But my view from afar is that Google tried to route around all that by using a different VM architecture, but (possibly) exposed its self to a different set of legal vulnerabilities.
the squeak vm will probably be replaced at some point by cog: http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/
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I'm surprised that Fred just didn't ask the etacts guys (https://etacts.com/) for the features he's looking for (or maybe he did and they rejected the requests).

I tried to implement the same thing a few years back, but I got lost in feature creep. Maybe I'll do a quick relaunch to address where I went wrong.
Sorry to say, but "Error establishing a database connection" is only 5 words.
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"Externalized the cost of commercial advertising." That's a very succinct way to put it, thanks.

But I'm not sure how you conclude that that was happening. People who clicked on the affiliate links only paid him off if they made a purchase. If no purchase was made, no money changed hands between any players. Right? An affiliate link is not like an ad.

In fact, even if an affiliate link was like an ad, there's no data on whether the users clicking on the link are poorly targeted, or that the CTR will significantly suffer.
It is true that anything less than net neutrality is not good for Google. But it's even worse for its competitors, especially future competitors.

Once you are at the top, and you got the majority of the market, your best actions (in monetary terms) is to stop entrants.
Also good are nymph, zephyr, and syzygy.
The lower your ttl, the higher the traffic on your dns server. The more the load on the internet in general as other dns servers will have to query your server more often which might be slower because of the extra traffic.

There are reasons for low ttls... like your information changes quite often. I've managed tons of domains where the dns was basically setup and then never really changed. If it was going to change, we knew well in advance so we could do 48+ hours for a ttl.

If you need a low ttl do it, if you don't, be a "good citizen" and use a higher one.
It seemed to me that the loopholes are designed to exactly cut around the services people are already offering, like prioritizing your cable tv over your cable internet, and blocking botnets.
Of course, Oracle's action threatens what we know as Sun's Java.

Indeed, it kills Java ME stone dead. But it was dead a couple of years ago. So no loss there.

However, I'm not clear how this affects Android, since Android is not Java.

When I code Android I 'feel' like I'm coding Java, because the syntax is the same. But I'm not running Java. I know that, and I feel that.

So, if Oracle want to attack Java, or protect its patents, take your pick, I say: knock yourself out. Here in Android world, it's no concern of mine as I'm not using Java.

Attacking Java isn't an attack on Android development. Although that appears to be what Oracle thinks it is doing.
How will it compare to jQTouch and sencha touch in terms of file size? Looking forward to it.
Shorter TTL's just increase traffic between caching nameservers and authoritative nameservers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live#DNS_records). Because of this, some DNS providers set a limit on how low your TTL can go. Others charge for DNS queries over a certain amount.
However it achieves that memory use by targeting J2ME not J2SE which is what Dalvik uses. J2ME is a very limited Java target at much more limited phones and not really something suitable for writing cutting edge apps for the next generation of smartphones.
its using video/vp8 as type for webm videos, that has to be video/webm

http://www.webmproject.org/code/specs/container/#html5_video...
Investors who can't see that suing people who use your technology might reduce the popularity of said technology should probably not be investing in technology. As Warren Buffett says: invest in what you know.
I will always have a soft spot for Solaris because, in the 90s I wrote and maintained threaded server code- Solaris had the most performant and least problematic threading implementation that we ran on at the time. Really though, why would anyone use Solaris now? It doesn't have any real strengths over the now much improved free un*x variants. Most of the 'crown jewels', dtrace, zfs etc are available some place else.
Usually it means using a hardware solution like Intruguard or going through a third party vendor that resells Intruguard and/or other proprietary anti-DDOS technology.

We've opted to use Gigenet, and they're holding the line right now quite well.
Friday the 13th, Part II: Oracle Officially Ends OpenSolaris
I upvoted this just because of its weirdness.
Java is practically dead in the water now. Oracle will be lucky if their database product doesn't get badly damaged.

The best developers at Sun were already leaving, with this ? - if I was a recruiter I'd be outside their offices on monday handing out flyers.

Oracle has committed seppuku. They simply won't be able to hire good developers any more, they've horribly tainted their brand. For the next 3-5 years while the lawsuit goes on they're going to be the SCO of the developer world. No decent developer is going to want to touch them.

Any time one of their developers introduces themselves as "I work as a developer for Oracle" to another developer at a party, conference, meetup etc. what do you think the topic of conversation is going to be ?

Once software development companies are no-longer able to hire the best developers there's only one direction for the company to go in.
My reaction was the opposite. They're not going after people who use their Java implementation or OpenJDK, they're going after the distributors of an alternate implementation of something like Java that is infringing on the patents related to language implementation. Oracle's (formerly Sun's) Java versions, including ME and EE, still look safe.
Yes, but then the y, r, and t are enough to get it immediately -- usually 7 or 8 misses at most in my experience.
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phlegm works fairly well, too.
What I had in mind is close to what the OP says:

Clojure has a number of cool new ideas, but many of them are unproven, and only time will tell whether they are truly valuable.

We don't know yet what will become the dominant concurrent programming style(s). For all the talk about the multicore future, nothing has yet emerged that's compellingly better than traditional approaches. Or maybe it has and it just hasn't made its way through the noise into general consciousness; I don't know. Clojure's approach here strikes me as a sort of experimental groping: add several different new concurrency primitives and see what sticks. That aspect seems quite different from the improvements Clojure offers that came from years of experience programming Common Lisp and a resultingly deep intuition about what constructs would make it more comfortable.

Perhaps Clojure has hit the concurrency jackpot and come up with a better way of writing parallel programs. That would be significant. It would even be significant if it offered a better way of writing a particular class of parallel programs. So far, though, I haven't seen convincing evidence of that. I'm more excited about Clojure being an incremental improvement over Common Lisp that is winning over a new audience of hackers.
I like textmate, I still use it for some tasks, but it have all sorts of spinning beach ball of nothing happens when working with large files or projects that have a large number of files.
Here's a disturbing tale of this scenario playing out: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/7/751100/-How-I-los...
"Uh, what? The software industry is a lot older than that. The largest companies today by revenue....of the 10 listed, 2 have been selling software since the 50s (in the case of Accenture admittedly as part of another company), 1 in the 60s, and 3 in the 70s. So over half are over 30 years old."

No, it isn't. A lot of companies that sell software now sold other things before they sold software. And of the companies listed on that wikipedia, page, only IBM, EDS, Lockheed Martin, CSC, Capgemini and SAP existed before the 1980s. Nearly all of those did other things before entering software.

In any case, the exception makes the rule: virtually nobody was a professional coder before the early 1980s. Of the few who were, many retired rich and young after two of the largest technology booms in world history. They don't make good examples of career longevity, for what should be obvious reasons.
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The botnet controller could be extorting websites directly... wire $5000 to my paypal account or your website will go down. Anyone from Posterous care to confirm/deny in this case?
We use a simple Scrum model at our web development startup. I say "simple" because we don't stick to every little detail you've read about Scrum, we just use the major concepts, which are largely based on common sense in the first place. It's worked out well for us and our clients.
Exactly correct. Google can afford to stand up to the Chinese government, but not Verizon. This should tell us something about what we've allowed the wireless "market" to come to.
What I wonder is, long term, how does Oracle's willingness to pursue lawsuits like this affect the adoption of other JVM languages like Scala, Clojure, Jython, etc.

If you were contemplating starting a new project using Clojure, for instance, would this lawsuit give you pause? I think I would worry about it, at least a little.
Did OpenSolaris use GNU userland? Or are you confusing the official branch with on of the forks? BSD isn't dead, and is different but not in bad ways. Don't bad mouth something (BSD) because you don't use it.

Companies are much less likely to embrace GNU anything, GNU just doesn't fly that way. BSD license is much more permissive, and therefore much more attractive to companies.
There's also a popular misunderstanding as to why people can walk. It's not your legs that cause you to be able to walk. It's an evolutionary artifact.
The initial designs look outstanding: http://jquerymobile.com/designs/
I dunno, there was already a stereotype (maybe even of stigma) of working at Oracle. I've always held the notion that they cared more about selling their products than developing them.

It's not like super talented hackers were beating down the door to work there already (with maybe the exception of their core database team).
Linux IS SysV-based, though
Revenue or profit? I don't want to sound like a hater, but revenue is meaningless - it's fairly easy to buy lots of things people want, sell them very cheaply, and make a loss (but turn over a lot of revenue).

I'm guessing Mr Owens did actually make profit (I haven't read his experience in detail), but just wanted to point out the flaw in the title of this post - revenue is ego. Profit is what matters.
Besides what jresig has already said, it's okay for there to be many answers to the same question. It's just like having two open source rendering engines, at least, Mozilla, and Webkit, that don't cannibalize one another. I don't think two approaches to mobile using jQuery will cannibalize one another.
What makes people think Google is capable of delivering a well-versed argument in a charismatic manner?
I've been thinking an openJDK fork would be inevitable ever since the Sun acquisiton was announced. The one upside to this announcement is it may just accelerate the fork by making Oracle's hostility to free software more obvious. The community should be able to get the JVM moving forward again.
If you're thinking of trying the sex ratios thing, I strongly suggest controlling for age, and preferably social class.
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Suing people who use your technology without licensing it is typically a net positive. Hence it needs to be pointed out why that isn't the case here.
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