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the world seems to (generally) be resistant to change even if an idea is fantastic/revolutionary.

I would change that to "especially if an idea is fantastic/revolutionary".
Patrick: Have you ever considered creating additional products (e.g., teaching aids like this graphic) aimed at your primary BCC market?

You obviously know how to reach this market, and what kinds of things they need.
This is really impressive. I wonder if the guy will get a job offer - he certainly seems to be a pretty quick coder.
I've had a project under the AGPL for a while now, and it always annoyed me that Google Code wouldn't support the license.

It's good to see them stepping forward to allow the use of these newer licenses on the site.
And clear markers from the prior keystroke.
Interesting what he says about US vs UK PhDs, given that Cambridge has just overtaken Harvard in the world rankings.
Since car accidents are number one cause of child fatality, and since it's on topic, I'd like to remind you people that rearward facing car seats protect better in an accident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sssIsceKd6U&feature=relat...

Also, "Child occupants seated in the center had an injury risk 43% less than children seated in either of the rear outboard positions."

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/121/5/e134...
My understanding is that the name has nothing to do with gender and, instead, has something to do with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator#Y_combin...
Someone looking for a job on the Google Maps team?
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Studies have shown that when people are unable to find personal space, be it on a crowded subway, city street or uber-nerdy ''Con'' of some description, they make their own space. That’s where headphones come in.
Because every country is the best at something (Visualisation)
My favorite is the well-known flame by someone at the MIT AI Lab back in its heyday (early Lisp Machine development time)--I'm pretty sure it was RMS: "I've deleted all your <bleeping> code and also erased all the backups" (paraphrased).
His requirement was writing an application that provided certificate authority services. You could write a crapload of messy wrapper functions that call external programs, or link in a library and avoid adding glue to your app.

The annoying answer is that it's "cleaner", the realistic answer is you don't have to account for as many potential problems you might encounter while executing applications on any given system. The sysadmin in me would use the tool but the programmer in me would use the API. (Oh, and depending on how heavily this application would get used, the API might be significantly faster and reduce load on the server...)
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Gosh, I can feel my perfectionist side in big pain right now.

Adobe could have tried to pull a more subtle way than: "Welcome to lazy town!". So much for all those thinking the UI is important, and that maintaining the look-and-feel of the OS should be very important. :(

I find Adobe's strategy a bit naive (or more accurately only looking at the short-term). If you become the paladin of the lazy developers, you will get plenty of money at first, but you'll get plenty of bad reputation, and that can be really hard to get rid off (just as Microsoft).
> As for the blog post saying that “if they decide something bad’s being going on, they’re going to keep the money”

That's complete nonsense. I'm not aware of paypal never paying out money owed, they just drag their feet about it.

A 6 month holdback is enough to kill a smaller company, so it's bad enough.
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I think everyone wants to know "the secret" when they can't figure out how to do it themselves. "The secret" they are looking for will be specific to their needs. It may not be secret at all, it is just not something they personally know or understand yet. Lots of little stuff adds up overtime and then one day, suddenly, it all gels. Then people start asking you what YOUR secret is.

Also, I would say one of the biggest secrets is learning to deal with yourself: What are you good at? What are you bad at? What is your personal Achilles heel? What is the missing ingredient for this specific project that you have a blind-spot on?....etc.
Or QT...
Many differences here...

1) Apple had a large advantage over Microsoft too... they just wasted it. Those were the dark days of Apple: MacOS 7 was alright but less than brilliant and then they got stuck with the Copland project (the Mac version of project Longhorn). In the meantime Microsoft got Windows 95 out, and had several years to solidify its position.

2) Apple sold expensive computers back in the days. I don't mean the high end like today but actually expensive. The idea was that if there's so much demand we may as well milk the cow for all it's got. If I remember correctly Steve Jobs believed in lowering the price and going for marketshare, whereas Sculley thought better to get as much money as they could out of it. Eventually the latter one. This was another reason that made Apple lose marketshare

3) The customers for iPhones, Android phones or other smartphones are in reality the carriers. And they are very worried of losing their bargaining advantage (plenty of supply from different companies, but only few carriers to buy them). Hence I expect they'll try to avoid having anyone get a large marketshare. They may back Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM and Nokia as it is to their advantage.

Finally a last difference is that Microsoft made a ton of money from their Windows product. Google is making little money from their Android. I am not sure what the implications of this will be, but it may matter a lot.
The concept doesn't translate for maps.

An address as entered from left-to-right goes from the very specific to the general. Therefore all the api calls and screen updating you make are completely irrelevant until I type in my city half -way through.
I was amazed how easily Java bytecode can be 'decompiled' back to source. At work we once lost the source for some changes, but still had the binary. I decompiled it and with the exception of about 2 comments (and the change we were looking for), the source was identical to the last version in source control.

It's always made me wary of shipping anything that I'd consider 'secret sauce' (code that solves hard problems) in Java out of concern that our competitors could so easily see exactly how we do it. Similarly, I've been afraid of a competitor or even customer decompiling our stuff and finding either sloppy code or finding security issues.

Yes, I realize all of this is somewhat possible with C/C++ and other languages, and that there are obfuscators, but it is surprisingly easy with Java.
agree, college football would be great.

Also, it might just be my eyes, but the green highlight on the chart when you are selecting a ticket on the left seems hard to see. Maybe make the outline a bit thicker, or change the gray background to green?
Lol... sorry, but that sounds desperation. :D

If that were the case then we already got the Year of Unix on the desktop and the Year of Unix on the smartphone. Yep, I am talking of OS X. Funnily enough Linux people (and others) laughed at the idea that OS X is Unix... it was too far from it.

I think we can agree that Android is not really Linux, at least not what we mean colloquially for it. So no, it won't be the year of the Linux.

But yes it will be the year of FOSS on your mobile. That, I think, is the big novelty. :)
any Facebook/Twiter Instant?

btw, there are lots of good ideas about command line - reverse search as in readline, context help as in Cisco IOS or SoftIce debugger and Zsh of course.
I disagree with that video. The alternative methods for multiplication and long division are fine. For long division, the classical one doesn't even work on harder problems. Listen carefulley, and you'll hear several "because we know two times six equals twelve"; for most, that will not work when dividing by say 4367.

Also, I doubt that price of books is part of this problem. There is one argument that I think is valid: kids get insufficient exercise to master these. Even that need not be a bad thing. I cannot recite the bible, but the time I gained by not even attempting to master that (I think) gave me time to read a zillion other books.
The entire internet gets by on a few hundred CAs. If you are generating so many CAs, you are doing something wrong.

Performance is a misdirected concern, here. Error-handling and reliability are better reasons to use the API over the tool.
site:news.ycombinator.com keyword, keyword, keyword
Google Maps team, at least much of it, is in Bangalore.

Like to relocate to India?
I'm right now hacking on the same idea. How did you do it?

In my case I'm configuring canto(http://codezen.org/canto/) to use crm114. It's not working properly yet, but you have my repo here:
http://gitorious.org/foobarnews
I doubt that, because it would not be free software, and properly not open source.

But the AGPL does make it a requirement that the user can get the source even if the system runs over a network.
[Sorry, I deleted without refreshing to check for replies. Here's the original:]

Aside: I'm curious if there are any OSI approved open source licenses that exclude server use.

I ask, because the current move towards services defeats the purpose of the GPL (of allowing access to the code users depend on.)
It semi does, I was just typing city and country names and enjoying the instant snap to.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/12/palms-third-act.html#commen...

Only 3 OS platforms have survived in PC world. Windows (C#), Mac OS (Objective-C) and Linux (Java). IMHO in mobile space there is also space for 3 OS platforms only.

As a developer I am curious to learn what main development language Nokia has chosen for their platform. Symbian has lame C++ version and crappy IDE. I guess that Meego thing uses C++, right?

BTW that CEO replacement reminds me situation with coach search for Polish football team. We had Dutch for two years. Nothing changed. Players were the same, one naturalized Brazilian wasn't enough.

I'm afraid that little Finland has no enough talented developers to build something competitive to software written by world best developers gathered in SF area and Seattle. And it is so late.

There are rumors that many parts of Symbian code are highly unmaintainable, that they preferred cheap programmers over talented. If these rumors are true then Nokia is really doomed in smartphone market. And they deserve this.
pretty similar case here.
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674804
As of September 11, 2010
Flash is still horrible on My Nexus One.
Sure I can casually watch a South Park episode, but the Nexus One heats up like an original MacBook Pro.

Now I rarely enabled Flash on it.

Until the day when Flash is running without taxing the hardware and battery life, I am using it next to none.
That's one of the bigger paradoxes of the arrival of the internet. It more or less empowered open source, and then by having the browser as a client made it possible for companies to use open source internally and to build services exposed to end users on top of that open source that will never be released as open source.

The 'affero GPL' attempts to cure this:

http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html

(and the current version: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html )

But so far it has not seen widespread acceptance.
Well, it got my house, which is in Spain, albeit after a long list of JS alerts. Nice job! Even if you can't get around the errors, at least don't inform the user via JS alerts, they steal the focus from the search box and hence are indescribably annoying.
Hmm, that seems to be easy enough to get around - just run a compiler that turns the xml into javacode that creates the same gui.

It will properly be faster to run as well.
Well, honestly, if it's the same "works" as AIR for Linux in its current state, then it might be nice demo, nice screen to watch, but that's all. You can try, for example, StatusNet Desktop application (from identi.ca), and it feels like a crap. It's painful to install, not only you need AIR runtime (that's quite understandable), but there's an installator (like with Windows apps) that puts something (actually a lot of something) somewhere to /opt, and then, the application feels very alien, doesn't work well, lock itself all the time, and it isn't even "pretty". After seeing few of them, I can say that at least on Linux, AIR applications are nowhere close to the native applications (or possibly even web ones inside the browser!) in almost any aspect. I wouldn't recommend any of them, neither the environment itself (though better written apps could make some difference).
That's easy to answer : they don't like using their own cash.

The returns are infinite if you don't use any of your own money.
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>> And: hard tests teach better than easier ones.

Yes... but grade inflation, indeed grade obsession, is so established in the US that it is quite a bold anti-establishment proposal to take that road.

I recall giving a quick quiz at a "quantitative literacy" course at a junior college during my US years. I dared to ask for the number of proper subsets of a set with 4 elements. We had gone over the concept of proper set, the formula (and justification) for the cardinality of the power set, and various problems. But not this very kind of problem (say, with a set of 5 elements...).

I almost made the news, in a bad way. I got off the hook by reminding them that we dropped (as usual) their lowest bunch of quizzes, homework was extra credit, etc... Sigh...
I also have aspirations of independence and have concluded that "getting rich" is not The Answer. Some things that are working for me:

For health reasons, I have given up all furniture. I sleep on the floor with zero bedding. I had to get healthier in order to be able to do that. Being cold was really about being sick. It was a gradual process of using less bedding, getting healthier, and generally changing our lifestyle to need fewer things to meet our basic needs.

I have a netbook and a small folding shelf it sits on to keep it off the floor. The little shelf has folding legs, so I can change its position. I also have a prepaid cell phone as the cheapest phone access and have cancelled my landline. No furniture means less housework. It also means fewer bugs in the house. When we first moved to this apartment, there were a lot of bugs. I thought it was just that without furniture they were visible. Over time, with getting healthier and getting the apartment cleaner and reducing our possessions further, we have fewer bugs.

At the moment, we own one deep frying pan. We cook a lot from scratch, but they are simple one dish meals. The medical condition I and my oldest son have is high maintenance. So rearranging our lives so we have less to do in terms of cooking, cleaning, etc is essential in order for us to be healthy and still have time and energy to get a life (which we are basically working on now, after having spent about a decade working on getting well).

We live without a car. That substantially cut our expenses and has turned out to not be as challenging as I expected. Since we don't own furniture, we don't need to haul that much crap home. We regularly buy food and clothes (because clothes gets thrown out routinely around here....long story) and we bought a netbook earlier this summer. But I just don't need the kind of hauling capacity I needed when I lived more conventionally.

I have internet access via my netbook and could also have it via cellphone if I wanted it. I guess the internet access my cell phone would offer would be more limited. I'm reasonably content with the situation at the moment, though there are three people sharing one netbook and the plan is to buy one or two more netbooks when there is money for that and eventually add some (probably handheld) gaming systems.

Anyway, that's all that comes to mind at the moment. Just start reducing your needs now. Have a yard sale. Start living with less stuff. Step by step, you can move towards this and as you make changes it will make other changes possible that you wouldn't have imagined.

Good luck.
"Geocode was not successful for the following reason: ZERO_RESULTS"
Google Chrome 6 is zealous about mixed encrypted/clear pages
I absolutely love everything book-related, and have for a long, long time. But as you say, each book is an item with its own size, shape and weight. Having to pack the thousands of them I have amassed for moving has lead me to finally getting a Kindle.
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I'm not sure how that's relevant but as an aside qgyh2 was a project where a large number of users used the account to post (I haven't got a source and I know it sounds myth-y but it's what I've read).
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Ask HN: Which is the best PHP & MySQL CMS out there?
Which is the best cms out there, based on PHP & MySQL?

I am looking for:

1) relative stability ( can't afford to experiment for this part now)

2) very good online/published support

3) ease of starting (for a guy new to CMS but is comfortable with using PHP/MySQL, though not an expert)

4) capable

5) flexible (in terms of how easily the standard templates can be hacked, modified, etc)
Despite being an RSS and Twitter junkie, I nearly always visit HN directly (ditto for Reddit) and end up visiting nearly all of the front page items in the course of a day except those I know I won't find interesting from the title alone (right now, for example, the Django release news). I typically visit between 1 and 10 times a day. More if I'm involved in an ongoing discussion.

A few times a week I'll visit /new. This isn't enough but I find it too fast and furious, especially with showdead on. I'd be more likely to visit /new all the time if it only showed posts from users with >100 karma, say.
I only typed in my house number and 2/3 of my road and got the QUERY_LIMIT, but the result was correct with no City or State. I do live on a road with a very unique name though.
I usually look for titles that catch my interest

Note to both posters and content creators: titles matter a lot, please write good, descriptive and ideally non-salacious ones :-)
Adding a quarter second gap between new searches would probably avoid this.
Is the "scroll up to zoom out" behaviour intended? Usually it's the other way.
That's not how you learn programming.
Too much of this and we will see apps that are based on the lowest common denominator of all platforms. Developers will get lazy and you will get iOS apps that don't do anything when you rotate the screen, have tiny icons/graphics. Desktop apps with no keyboard shortcuts (wait...isn't that Adobe Air already?), menus, hover events, the list goes on.

A neat tech demo, but in reality hardly anything developed in this manner is going to be able to compete with anything native on the platform, and the resulting time saved will be revenue wasted.
Cool, I've just started using Django so it's good to see it's still being developed.
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That was exactly what happened to me when I tried to get Amazon to stop shipping me those "you might also be interested in", which I am not.
It learns what I like and don't like by doing Bayesian filtering on the client-side.

As a fellow geek, I like this idea but I've checked out similar systems over the years and found I could never fully get on board.. why? Because I ended up checking the source anyway to make sure I didn't miss anything that I might find interesting but that the filter filtered out anyway.

I can trust filtering for e-mail, since it wipes out non-content (usually). But filtering out content I "might not like" is tricky - I learn more about the world by being exposed to things I don't (initially) appreciate so I like to see a little noise in the mix. HN provides a sort of filtered noise that strikes just the right balance for me.
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Do you actually use the commas? If so, does it make a difference? In my experience it doesn't, but you might know more about Google searches than me.
I typed in my home address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it put me in Long Beach, California.

I think you're on to something.
There can certainly be some dark times. Sometimes when reading PhD comics I didn't know whether to laugh or cry! Do I regret doing a PhD? Not for a moment: on balance my PhD and postdoc years were fantastic. Although part of my happyness is because I was lucky enough to be in good places and do moderately well. As with going into anything, people should get a balance of views and then decide what's best for them.
I agree, though Reddit can come very close if you customize the Reddits you're subscribed to. If you want to get a high SNR, you can unsubscribe from "reddit.com", images, WTF, and things like that, and pick up programming, technology, math, and so on.
I recommend the anonymous comment starting:
It's unfair to characterize a UK PhD as "a good US Master's thesis"...
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/09/so-you-want-to-go-to-...
— it's pretty fair and accurate.
This is a really amazing piece of software, especially when you couple it with Sunflow rendering. You can get absolutely stunning 3D visuals whether or not you're at all artistic. All you need to do is define a few short rules, and you often end up with amazing emergent structures based on those rules.

Sometimes you'll find that a 3-6 line eisenscript gives you the most amazing structure. Recursive structures are often the best. You can find lots of great stuff on the flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/structuresynth/

Even I can make cool/beautiful stuff, so can you: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehsanul_g3/
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Have you tried ihackernews.com?
Well, I'm sad to see that Switzerland took over France. I thought I was addicted to news medias, but apparently that's not enough !
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Amazingly cool! Is there anything similar for audio?
If news is pot then HN is heroin.

So many interesting topics, so much stuff to learn, so many smart people.

Actual 'use' of HN? I've found a number of people here that I would not hesitate to call friends, a much larger number of acquaintances and a few people that I work with, one on a day-to-day basis.

If I have a question that matters to me I don't hesitate to post asn "Ask HN", and for the most part they are answered in a way that is both enlightening and of a different caliber than what I'd get from other sources.