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http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0618057072
> By default in SVN, everyone is committing to the same - and indeed the master, de-facto, controlling, always perfect - branch. Trunk.

It's worse than that; svn asks you to maintain the trunk/tags/branches directory structure yourself, rather than including them as core concepts in the VCS itself(1). So, someone can commit an update to something under tags/ and svn won't even give out a warning, since it has no idea that tags/* are supposed to be write-once.

1) Looks like they added `svn branch`, sometime after the 1.4.x version I'm actually using.
And of course, no argument is complete with an anecdotal Feynman story.

Two grad students at CalTech were having a discussion about what Feynman's IQ must be. They bandied 180... maybe even to 200. When coincidentally Feynman walks right past them.

One of the students pipes up and meekly asks Feynman, "Professor Feynman, what is your IQ?"

Feynman turns around and responds, "120". The grad students have a look of disbelief. To which Feynman adds, "but its all in Physics".
Skype manages it.
Snow Crash: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0553380958

In the Beginning was the Command Line: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0380815931
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0060929790/
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I can't see it either (I'm in the US)

I'm going to guess that it will take a bit of time to propagate across all Googles servers?
A good point, but I think part of the implied logic here is that if your defenses work, attackers will give up early.
Way to rain on Skype's IPO hype.
1984: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0451524934

Cosmos: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0345331354

Tao Teh Ching: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0877735425
Thank you so much! I have been waiting on this for months now, and I can't believe it's finally here!
Cannot imagine why the comment "Skype manages it" would be killed. It's 1- true, and 2- a good point. If Skype/Ebay can do it, why not Google? If not now, I'd assume it's coming.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0918024765/
As America's hat, Canadians aren't believed to have anything important to say. However, we like to call you every once in a while to tell you how well we're doing. ;)
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1585422096
The US has made the business environment inside of the United States extremely hostile towards tech workers. Of course they face a decline. I am not just talking about general fear of technology. Their tax law and employee rights legislation in general are stacked almost absurdly against tech employees.

Now that the economy is bottoming out, suddenly incentives from countries like Canada are starting to look very nice.
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http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0060554738
I wonder how it will integrate with Google Voice. Unfortunately, I'll probably continue to use Skype because Skype has a working iPhone client.
only till end of this year.
Ask HN: How many times have you failed?
How many times have you failed in Business?
How did you feel?
Did you start again?
How to you get that "I can do anything" spirit?
Can you describe the experience?
Administrative bloat at universities
The clock may go faster, but things take longer (like Disk I/O...)
I was hanging on every word and then he said, "I believe Wave is going to be very important"
There is no reason for someone who has read your first book to buy the Guide, correct? This is a reduced and reformatted field guide that contains no information that isn't in the larger Git book?

(I'm almost finished reading your first book and as someone who is very capable with Subversion it has helped me tremendously with grokking Git. Thanks!)
One thing to note: the blog post says that calls in US and Canada are free at least through the end of the year.

I asked about this during the Q&A (seemed like a pretty big asterisk) and they said they have every intention of keeping it free as long as they can, provided that the margins on international calls cover the expenses for the free US/Canada calls. Fingers crossed.
This moves Google one step closer to the telco's businesses. With all the talk of mobile computing, I'm sure they can do something (use it as a basis for a "Google network", bargaining chip, just make them nervous, ...)
Yeah, Skype does manage it. Did Skype manage it within 24 hours of the initial release of the service? Skype started out as internet only, then US only phone, then international phone. Yeah I expect it is coming, and the fact Skype can do it is a good point.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0553277472

Alain de Botton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_de_Botton#Publications

Essay on Criticism: http://books.google.com/books?id=KFc7AAAAYAAJ&printsec=f...
but Kindle books are DRMed and iTunes music isn't.

...anymore. iTunes books have DRM. iTunes music had DRM for years. DRM is the way you get big media to shift business models. Without DRM they'll happily forgo the new revenue stream and die slowly. So you first concede on the DRM point and restrict content just to begin the transition to the new model. 10 years after Napster major labels finally allow (most of) their music to be sold DRM-free. Print publishers will get there too.
Yup, this is a popular option. Offer a free version to get people in the door then add value added features for users who want to do more with the service.
Well, there is this: Opposites are a tricky concept, not well-defined in most domains. Your implication is that the opposite of last is "first". But doesn't it make at least as much sense to say the opposite of last is "not last"? From a programing/math standpoint, it seems like a strictly better, less arbitrary definition.
Good point, I didn't notice the bit about this video being from last year. My bad.

I also wasn't aware that the Legend was only released this year, I thought it was an older model.

I think it's amazing how many leaps the Android has jumped in this one year.
Why Small Businesses Aren't Hiring: Real estate prices?
This is the first time I've seen a dup in second place on the front page with the original above it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1633368
Ah!

If I made $4 millions I would use that to make another company. No need to worries about investors before a loong time.
Autobiography of an unknown Indian: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/094032282X/

Little Schemer: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0262560992/
Every time I read something about SVN I just thank god I don't have to use it anymore. Just the thought of a merge-heavy workflow in svn gives me the willies.
Wow, that dialpad looks remarkably like the iPhone dialpad.
I'm Split Testing ... Why Haven't I Doubled My Revenue Yet?
Businesses patent things for a variety of reasons; it may be a stupid system but it's more stupid not to participate in it.
The Schopenhauer Cure: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0066214416/

When Nietzsche Wept:
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It's all javascript.
Claiming you have patents (when you don't) is a bit like putting those 50 cent stickers on your basement windows that say "Protected by 24 hour armed emergency response". It's enough to discourage the casual or underfunded challenge.
Leadership: Theory and Practice: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/076192566X/

The Craft of Research: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0226065847/
I'm almost certain there are a lot of other smaller points and non general things that could be added. I would love to append the post with comments from here in a day or two.
Why would an attacker give up? The site may stay online but you are still having to pay thousands of dollars+ in bandwidth costs. It seems like a win-win for the attacker.
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No, Google said the devs could have done more to protect themselves. They used the code Google provided as an example and that code didn't do the job.

Nowhere do they say the system is uncrackable if you do it 'right'. Instead, they say the cracking job can be made more difficult.

And it's a good thing, too, because it's about impossible to create and uncrackable DRM and they'd be lying to say otherwise.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0345409469/
How do you know they've filed a ptent on it? Just saying it on a website doesn't make it true. Also, applications won't show up for at least a year.

That said, you have a year to get your patent in from when you first launched your service, so you should do that.

No wait, what you really need to do is talk to a patent lawyer so he/she can guide you to resolve this. He/she might suggest you patent your original idea, and then later file an additional patent on this idea that is tied back to the original. There is a lot of patent strategy that can help you here, but talking about it publicly is not really one of them.
I have the feeling that that distinction will generally be lost in the titles.
They'll start putting "not canceled" overlays, and then you really won't know what to think.

Seriously, though, it's clever even if it isn't sustainable. They'll just have to remain clever and adapt. "Darwin, shit happens, I Ching, whatever man, we gotta roll with it".
Well, of course it's easier to overfeed on cheap food; you don't run out of money as quickly, and unsurprisingly, the food with the most calories per dollar is also the food that contains the most calories per gram: pure fats and carbohydrates. (Pure alcohol and protein are a bit more expensive, I'll admit, but even pure gluten is pretty cheap.)

Food in the US is much more expensive in the majority of the world. I imagine that in the Netherlands it's even more expensive. Still, home-cooked adequate nutrition in the US costs a great deal less than junk food. McDonald's, Popeye's, and Frito-Lay can't even come close to competing with dried corn, dried beans, dried brown rice, soybean and canola oil, potatoes, squash, onions, collards, carrots, ramen, eggs, multivitamins, oranges, bananas, molasses, oatmeal, and the occasional spinach, lettuce, tomato, and cucumber.

(This was even true when I lived in a poor inner-city black neighborhood in Dayton, where everything in the supermarket cost more, and you couldn't take the carts out into the parking lot. Supermarket prices were a lot cheaper in the rich neighborhoods, and I went to Aldi maybe once a month to stock up on the stuff that was cheap there.)
I wonder how long can Google pretend to care about Apps users. The Gmail/Apps fragmentation is rapidly heading toward unsustainability.
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Because they can't see a site paying thousands of dollars, and they can see a site going down, and they're going to invest their attention in things they can see.

If they were thinking rationally about what they were doing, they'd (a) be demanding money to let up, and (b) breezing right past DNS-based defenses like this.
It's more of a "how to fail at version control", yes - but with a Subversion slant (along the lines of "it can work fine, but the default is bad").

I don't see how that makes this a particularly bad article, though.
So a woman with a college degree who earns $30,000 per year or more ("Career Woman") is more likely to divorce you, cheat on you, or express displeasure at the thought of having children. Wow. Compelling research.

But isn't $30,000 a bit low to lump into the "Career Woman" category?

Do you think these studies controlled for the (obvious?) fact that women below this already-low bar are either 1) trophy wives happy to play their part or 2) going to get punched right in the mouth for any sort of dissent? I grew up around both types and neither got divorced. Most miserable people I knew.

In other news: Stressed people often find it difficult to get along with others, while people at the spa do not.
What I wish I knew before starting a business
Well, I might be biased, but I think there's a place for both books on a bookshelf. :-)

The first book is aimed at getting your started down Git with little or no previous knowledge, the second book serves the same purpose assuming you have a basic grasp of VCS, but it serves a dual role as a reference.

Check out some of the excerpts that are available on the book's site to get an idea for what it looks like. The idea is that it gives you a quick reference when you're trying to remember how to do a particular task.
"honor among thieves"

also, "fair division": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_division
Wait, what? They use the rest of the world to subsidize their free US/Canada calls? That’s certainly a convincing reason for me (= rest of the world) to never ever use that service.
> "by any important measure, women have had it rougher than men." ... the opposite point of view ... Across history, it's estimated that 80% of women all-time had children, whereas only 40% of men did - the majority of men died without descendents.

Having children generally makes your life rougher. Across history, women have rarely had the choice to opt out of that, while men often have. Furthermore, women have generally borne the brunt of the enormous workload of childraising. The statistic you cite, therefore, supports the point you claim it to undermine.
This.

My experience with non-geeky friends is that they check facebook for messages and interact with friend/family through comments and wall-posts. Some of them get email notifications for these things but they use them as a prompt to go to facebook.com to view and respond. Email is the medium but not the message.
I would never want to retire. This whole series of articles is silly. Let alone that if you're the kind of person that wants to do nothing for the rest of your life there is an even smaller chance of making it in building a startup.
Shouldn't the question be 'do they make money?'
I feel like this question is just not pragmatic. Unless, of course, you're trying to avoid the blame for your actions by saying you have no real choice.

"Oh, it's not my fault I attacked Y because I have no free will!"

If that is the case, good luck. Otherwise, live life how you 'choose' to live it.
That's a good point - this is a prime example of the differences between the GPL and more permissive FOSS licenses.
Why? If the prices are still cheaper than what you would pay otherwise, would you still boycott it? This isn't a novel business concept - airlines do this too with business/first class subsidizing economy - does this mean you don't fly either?
Bad employees rarely quit and good ones are hard to find
For what it's worth, my assessment went down this year (suburban Western Washington state).
The major difference financially between the stock market and real estate seems to stem from the fact that real estate is costly to manage, and doesn't scale, and thus investment banks and major market players are unable to participate in a big way.

My knowledge of the stock market, even if I get a fancy MBA and specialize in finance, still won't be able to compete profitably with institutional investors that have massive pools of capital, inside knowledge, aggregated expertise, and highly optimized trading algorithms. As an individual investor I have no competitive advantage, even if I'm savvier than 99% of other individuals, because all the spread will be grabbed en masse by the big players.

By contrast, the number of non-experts buying and selling real estate, along with its relatively high transaction costs and necessarily local nature, means that even if I were only smarter than, say, 90% of people, I'd be able to do quite well because the spread wouldn't be gobbled up by the 99.999999th percentile financier.

As soon as electronically-managed liquidity is thrown in, and transaction costs become substantially lower for an elite subset, then it becomes much less "worth it" to participate. Thus, even REITs, by their very nature, are going to yield a lower return (pre-fees) than clever, well-managed individual real estate investments.
Agreed. The IP situation in the U.S. sucks, but if you don't play the game, you are going to be burned by the people that do. Getting a patent doesn't make you a patent troll.
I wonder if this portends integrated VOIP calling in Android?
As patio11 mentioned, it is called a "shotgun clause". We share a ski condo with another family and we debated using a shotgun clause to help figure out the sale price when we decide to sell.
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Wonder if it's related to this: http://i.imgur.com/bktYf.png
Put it in your app immediately. You can then claim prior art when they try to sue 5 years down the line when the patent is passed. If it is not passed or doesn't exist then no problem.
> No freezer here (no space for one either) so I can't buy larger quantities.

Can you install a loft bed and put the freezer under the bed? Do you have any space outdoors where you could put a freezer? Have you tried buying dried foods only in bulk?
SEC Makes Ousting Board Members Easier
Non-myths about programming (or, CS is the "least worst" profession)
Same here, looks like they're rolling it out over the next few days:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=74c14d...
I think that your co-founder also has to believe in your idea just as much as you do. Any wishy-washy-ness now will only grow as time goes on.

The list also reminds me of a "what to look for in an employee" article.
Ah, indeed. I failed to pick up on "calls to Canadian phones are free for now" != "available in Canada" during my quick read.
but they know how to run a business and make a livelihood for their employees

I'll grant you that Oracle makes money and I'll gratuitously grant that the Oracle database is a nice product. But Oracle is certainly not in business to keep paying it's employees. It pays it's employees with the expectation that they will make it more money. And if that means firing software developers and hiring lawyers, I'm sure that's great for them. The livelihood of any remaining Java or Solaris developers at Oracle seems rather doubtful at the moment.
> what do you feel like is the alternative to free will? predestination?

I would propose that the alternative is manipulation, and the most extreme form of manipulation is predestination. Less extreme forms are environmental manipulation, our bacterial collective, and so forth.

Was it predestined by God or by some initial atomic movement or potential energy? We do not have evidence either way, but it is fair to point out the possibilities. I have my personal belief, which is compatible with both and leaves space for the truth. I see the topic of free will orthogonal to the topic of gods.

We have to be careful here; there are religious beliefs that we humans were granted free will by God. Within that context, if we learn conclusively that free will does not exist, then there was no gift, and it is a blow towards God, although not necessarily disproving God. After all, if we are capable of deceit, isn't it possible that God is also capable of deceit? So what we think we understand from Him might only be what He wants us to see. We also may not be capable of understanding His reasons. In the same vein, HE may simply be a purely creative force with no reasoning other than to make a bunch of stuff and let what sticks stick.

So I think we can erode belief systems -- and our minds are generally frail enough to sway -- but it will be pretty difficult to disprove a god. On the other hand, opportunity may arise where a god can be proven. Perhaps He did reveal himself (several times), and time gave us an easy excuse to forget and deny, to beg for fresh evidence. Today, what could God possibly do that we cannot do that would conclusively prove His existence? And why should He bother?
3 ways Facebook could fight spam
Like many people here, I keep Gmail open all day long -- so this feature goes a long way towards making Gmail a complete communications platform. Combined with browser plugins like Rapportive, the utility of Gmail just keeps increasing.
There it is. Also: this "research" is irrelevant; the one-income, stay-at-home parent model is probably dead forever. Throughout much of the middle class, a single income simply isn't viable. Which, from a social science perspective, makes you wonder about any statistics they may home come up with: did they control for all the other socio/econo/cultural stuff that's conflated with this? A single income is more likely to be viable in rural areas, where competition, social mores, and lack of mobility disadvantage divorce inherently.
Only if their network is more stable and call quality is equally good or better, and they hopefully offer an API... and expand it outside the US... and to Apps domains.... Skype has such momentum, and with partners like VoSky allowing corporations to tie Skype to their PBXes, it's going to take more than an integrated client to shake the tree.
I think the only employee whose pay Larry Ellison is worried about is ... Larry Ellison.
And this one was the 3rd one I saw on the front page. arrrrrrrgh.
Hackintosh. And no, not to my knowledge.
Returning the Kindle is probably fine if you're in the US, but for us in Europe it would be an expensive experiment. I doubt I'd get a customs & VAT refund, plus the postage is probably steep, too. I still don't get why they only sell it from amazon.com, not amazon.*. I might be able to eBay it off, assuming it's possible to sever the tie to my amazon account.
Look at it this way. When I fly business or first class I'd be subsidizing for those who can't afford a normal flight cost.

I don't think it would be right to claim whole of US can't afford paying for GMail calls while the entire world outside it can pay more to keep it free for Americans.
If anyone wants to give that world government a try, count me in as a citizen. Borders are so 1999
Linux may never be a factor on the desktop, but I think Ubuntu has a good chance.

Wait. Isn't Ubuntu just a Linux distro? Well, that depends on how you look at it.

Is FreeBSD a factor on the desktop? OS X is based on FreeBSD, but no one thinks of FreeBSD as "a competitor to windows", or "a user friendly OS".

Of course, Ubuntu to Linux is not really like OS X is to FreeBSD. Ubuntu didn't invent a new desktop, it's based on Debian and it uses GNOME (or Xfce or KDE). But there's still a point to make here.

While the open source community as a whole might fail at designing a great desktop experience, this limitation doesn't necessarily apply to Ubuntu. The design efforts there are lead by Canonical, and it's not horribly fragmented. It has so far produced some pretty decent results. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD as examples.

The desktop as a whole is not quite there yet, but it does stand a good chance, and it's already making a lot of strides.
15 Years of Windows 95
>So, can every brand be Seth Godin?

>The answer is "maybe."

The example of Cory Doctorow building an audience (and hence a market) for his books by giving them away seems to support this optimism. What hasn't changed and likely won't change is that you still need to be good at what you do.
I don't know, it seems like a lot of trouble to work around a problem caused by the medium (facebook).
vs standard courier/messenger service? or are you asking about removing the dispatch service from the equation?
Why is this being posted on HN? Flagged.
I don't know what the setup is here at work, but it worked for me and I am in Canada....
Well.. I'm in Quebec, Canada and just tried it. Works for me.

Unless they plan to remove support for Canada at a later time...
It can also be interpreted to mean that international call from US will be charged. As long as these calls make up for the cost US-US and US-Canada calls would remain free.

It is not that rest of the world that will subsidize. It is the international callers who'll.