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I don't know of any .NET/Java programmers who say they can't live without IntelliSense. I certainly know I can, and do, frequently. Why, just this morning, I wrote some Java in Emacs. No IntelliSense there.

As far as async I/O, that is a problem. It might get better with the new GC, but proper async I/O would need to use one of the async I/O implementations available (libev/libevent, libaio, etc.).
We've been building our web-based product on Mono and MVC2 for two months and are set to launch in under two weeks.

Initial benchmarks showed that the performance isn't that great compared to the same application running on Windows, but compared to similar applications on rails and django show that performance is comparable, even better than the dynamic frameworks (which is somewhat obvious since it's compiled).

Haven't profiled for memory leaks though.
I posted a comment on the "Open Source" Google blog that was apparently not approved (when I posted, there was 0 comments, and now there are 4 comments, none of them mine). See: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/09/changing-look-...

I pointed out that there is nothing innovative about Stylebot. This idea has existed for years under the name SiteMesh. The difference is where in the software pipeline you are putting the SiteMesh/Stylebot logic. SiteMesh is actually more general, in that it is not tied to Chrome.

I don't understand why my comment was moderated out. It was not offensive, just pointing out the fact that there is no innovation here.
Honestly, this is why I do not ride my bike like I would drive my car. When I'm biking, I'm assuming there's a bounty on my head, so I stay on sidewalks, I wait to cross intersections until there's no cars that can hit me, etc.

Playing by the same rules as everyone else works fine if everyone plays by the same rules - but a lot of drivers don't.
I've never been hit in my 2,000+ miles in saddle, and I attribute this to my refusal to follow the established crosswalk pattern. The left hand turn especially is most dangerous from my own personal observations.

On an side note, what about technology to better defend cyclists? I've seen motorists in the US try to intimidate cyclists off the road. I think some sort of bicycle defense system may very well be appropriate here, and there's room for innovation.

If anyone's interested in working together on making cycling safer, PM me.
Dave: when you're talking about the changing world, your tone smacks of bravado and is refreshingly blunt. But when you're responding to somewhat serious allegations, that same tone comes off as Vicky Pollard. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLd3-cfLlvU)

My humble advice? Have jeans and a suit; know when to wear what.
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I've ridden my bike along that area (route 20) in the past and it's, unfortunately, quite dangerous due to poor road design and poor drivers. Mostly it's a two-lane road which barely has room for a biker and car to be side-by-side with. It's very very busy with lots of traffic and traffic lights. I'm glad the author seems to be OK.

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Whenever I ride, I assume every driver is an idiot. That means they run red lights, speed, don't pay attention b/c of being on a cell phone, etc... Actually that sums up a lot of Massachusetts drivers. ;)

There needs to be some sort of proactive movement in-and-around Boston to increase bicycle safety. Ideally, under cover police on bikes, handing out tickets and pulling licenses whenever they see a motorist doing something dangerous. Make this very visible and public. If cyclists wear cameras on their helmet, hand the video to police to track down bad drivers who cut them off or do other things that are illegal.

Bikes and cars have equal right-of-way on the roads. Most people in this state don't honor that law. It's an attitude problem that has to change.

Of course cyclists must obey laws too. Riding on the wrong side of the road, not obeying road laws, not using hand singles to turn, are all recipes for disaster.

One of the best pieces of advice I've read for cyclists is to always ride predictable. That lessons your chance of being hit by a car.

Definately a problem that needs to be solved.
Honest question: How is this at all relevant here? Why does this matter?

I suspect the answer is, quite sadly, "To people who cheered with Apple, any negative news about Adobe smells good".
Thanks for the heads up. I agree, the Bell Curve was a bit of a crapper, but also the only reference I could come up with off the top of my head.
The Cheater Gets Cheated
I agree with this line of thinking completely for any hiring where the quality of the job is important. Programming? Yes. Nanny for my children? Yes. Washing my car? Shrug.

And yes, for the short period I had a nanny for my son, she was paid very well (well above "market"). And now that my dad is watching my son full time, I pay him even more. I don't understand the people who balk at paying $100 a week for childcare. Yes, it's expensive (although a lot cheaper than a nanny, by the way), but it's your child! Geez...
IBM's done worse before. In the late 90's my father was part of a first round of IBM layoffs -- in which they cut 6000 jobs... in Dutchess County, New York.

That was the <i>first round</i> of layoffs. Another few thousand got cut a year so later.

And I don't know how many they cut outside of Dutchess County...
reader added it for me, lets see if it can track changes
So let me get this straight. Some developer/guy spends 5 minutes trying to theme a WordPress website for himself and decides to write an article bitching about it instead of actually reading some documentation or the thousands of Google results from countless other developers who have done the same and much more? The first commenter pretty much sums up how much this guy knows about WP themeing (hint: nothing).

This almost happens to me all the time but I know better. I spend 10 minutes with a new program, decide it's batshit crazy but instead of posting a lame article I have the wisdom and experience to stop and tell myself "I'm just a noob" and will probably embarrass myself.
Finally, HN for eyes > 30. http://i.imgur.com/5qKu3.png
You're right, the application process does have a large variation. However, anecdotal evidence (from my colleagues and me) suggests that if you're not from India or China, you should get it in about 1.5 - 2 years from application.
Dell Quietly Announces 7″ Android Tablet
It's definitely been done before [1] but I think that it is a good app to start and then iterate with features while you're learning android.
[1] http://androidforums.com/application-requests/25519-airline-...
"But unlike Oracle, Davis and the Raiders have not had a winning season for awhile – not since my Baltimore Ravens flattened their hopes and the shoulder of quarterback Rich Gannon after a vicious pancake tackle by Tony Siragusa on the way to a Ravens’ Super Bowl winning season in 2001."

The Raiders were 11-5 the next year (2002) and went to the Super Bowl.
Also, you cant middle click and open up a bunch of headlines in new pages. Hard to read, awkwardly arranged... I hope Google makes this better, even if its just in a standard blog format.

Edit: right clicking on text auto opens the page - this is weird.
If the goal is speed, I'm not sure I'd use the case-insensitive modifier for tag names. However, this does make jQuery more compatible with (older/poorly written/auto generated) HTML which is probably an overall benefit for most use cases.
I'd recommend studying English around 4-5AM rather than working on whatever the hell else you've got going on.
Now that you've done some basic programming in C++ and Java, you are in a little bit better position to figure out what kind of programming you want to be doing.

The C family is a language used in corporations for programming applications that we use all the time. Objective C is what it used on iPhone/iPad/iWhatever applications. C is also big in the video game industry.

Java is also used by corporations to develop applications, but it is also used to develop web sites. If you want to use java to build websites there are tons of choices to make about what to learn. Here are some words to research: Tomcat, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Ibatis, GWT. Java is a very heavy weight language, but probably the most commonly used today.

C# is Microsofts answer to Java. Also used in the corporate world, not as popular as java.

Then there are the web programming language: PHP, Ruby, Python. PHP is strictly web programming, while Ruby and Python are used for other things as well. Ruby has a web stack known as Rails, commonly referred to as Ruby on Rails. Python has a web stack known as Django.

If you are programming in C or java, and not on the web then you will be spending lots of time looking at text. If you are programming for the web, you will also need to learn HTML, CSS, and javascript, as well as a javascript library like jQuery and you will be spending lots of your time looking at the browser and lining things up.

You will also probably need to learn SQL at some point, though that can wait if you are programming for the web (Web developer) and probably cannot wait if you are programming off the web.

I come from a web background myself, and would say the easiest place to start, if you want to program for the web, would probably be Ruby on Rails. Learn Rails before learning Ruby. This is an excellent resource:

http://railstutorial.org/

Hope this helps some!
How a solid team has helped Chris Dixon build and invest in web startups
The article is hyperbolic. The price came down at market open in one huge 20% gap. The rest of the day it's crawled up a fair amount in retracement, even going against the overall market direction - not to it's original level, but easily a 1-2% trade if you got in early and held through the day.
And later - I'm not sure what I was actually reading about for half the article:

"But unlike Oracle, Davis and the Raiders have not had a winning season for awhile – not since my Baltimore Ravens flattened their hopes and the shoulder of quarterback Rich Gannon after a vicious pancake tackle by Tony Siragusa on the way to a Ravens’ Super Bowl winning season in 2001."
It's not so much GreaseMonkey as a front-end for user-styles. Great one though.

P.s.: Sadly, there's still no front-end to GreaseMonkey (Other than the archaic Platypus perhaps?)
Infographic: CDOs’ Interlocking Ownership
You probably want to do a hair more input validation. It told me that peanutbutterbomb wasn't available, but that peanutbutterbomb.com was. The first is obviously not even a domain name, and the error should reflect that. Users might get confused that the .com, .org, .net, .whatever domains are all already taken.

The interface is slick.
I was riding on the sidewalk in San Francisco along a pretty busy road once. If I was around anyone, I was slowing to a crawl. One guy -- a total stranger (no one else was around) -- stepped right in front of me, stopping me to tell me that riding on the sidewalk is illegal and then giving me an impromptu lecture, something about a woman being killed or seriously injured by a cyclist while crossing the Golden Gate bridge. (I later crossed the Golden Gate bridge... one side was clearly for pedestrians with the other side clearly for cyclists, so that left me somewhat confused.)

When I got home, I confirmed that biking on the sidewalk in San Francisco is in fact illegal. While I highly doubt it would be enforced for someone who was riding as I was (at a pretty slow-to-normal pace, and slowing to a crawl when around pedestrians), it's still frustrating to see how bicycle-unfriendly even the decent biking cities in the US are.
Get off the sidewalk. No matter what good you think you are doing, you are wrong. This only encourages people to ignore bicycles because they think "see bikes should be on the sidewalk".

Further, more injuries occur to cyclists on sidewalks than on roads. The sidewalk is narrow, so you have less escape route. Cars do not expect you on the sidewalk, so exit parking lots and driveways into you. Pedestrians, kids playing, and other hazards also appear without warning. Sidewalks are usually poorly maintained providing even more hazards.
I doubt I'd work at a startup that didn't require using Linux!
Facebook has puzzles page. Facebook may hire you, if you can solve their puzzles. I don't work at Facebook and am posting it from their website.

http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php

Just a thought, if you are learning to program anyway, why not try to solve FB puzzles. You may have the job by the time you are done learning.

I did worked at Singapore Airlines and was building Crew Management And Rostering System for pilots. To maintain international flying license, pilots have to fly each and every country once a year and they also have to get retrained in different emergency landing scenarios. As a Pilot, you may know so many problems pilots face due to such stressful environment. You may be able to build meaningful application which can help ease those problems.
I have previously been using "plain clothes" extension for this task. This looks much better.

Edit: I take it back, it's not a simple click for every website.
CMD and +

:-D

http://i10.fastpic.ru/big/2010/0922/ee/f0510cd34ff0dc9ee6616...

I do appreciate the margins though.
I think a lot of the academic discounts are an attempt to get lock-in and thus maximize profits over time.

If a budding artist gets used to Creative Suite (because it's cheap for them), or a new coder gets a cheap Mac, or a mechanic student gets a discount on SnapOn tools, all of those have a likely impact on their future purchases.
100'000 people playing simultaneously adds up to say about 10'000 requests per second. Farmville-like games are not exactly rocket science - most of those requests should be processed sub-50ms total cpu-actual-usage time. that's 200 requests/s per server. Which adds up to 50 servers. Let's double that to account for db load too, and we're still an order of magnitude away from 1000 servers.
Why does it ask me for 1MB of disk space? It behaviour resembles yesterday's "impossible to eradicate" cookies (http://samy.pl/evercookie/).

(full disclosure: MacOSX 10.6.4 and Safari 5.0.2)
True, but you can still fuck up stuff without being DOA-178B (or whatever). My flight planning assistance SaaS example wouldn't be safety critical, I assume.

Just a warning of what to avoid...
I'm primarily a .NET developer on Linux. While I'm comfortable with other languages, and am quite proficient at using vim & and a little emacs - it simply makes no sense to not use an IDE for Java or C#.

These are tools built around the language and the workflow, and thus have been extremely tailored to ensure that productivity is high. While you can type the code out in any editor, and maybe even get CTAGS based completion and jump-to-type support, I haven't seen as tight an experience as MonoDevelop or Netbeans (or VS, but I don't know that very well).

There exists a tradeoff - you won't get the extensibility of Emacs or the efficiency of vi (they have vi-modes but it doesn't come close). Ultimately, when it comes to simply getting the idea from your head into the code, IDEs do help a lot.
Good thinking! There may be many more like that actually. Mountain climbers ? Para jumpers ?
Completely agree on riding like you're a target. I ride according to the law and also as if I'm invisible to drivers. That paranoia has definitely kept me out of an accident several times.

One thing though - and it may seem counter-intuitive - is that riding on sidewalks is considerably more dangerous. I believe a 1985(?) study showed that it was roughly twice as dangerous, and another study (1998?) also showed an increase in risk. Granted there are always exceptions, but on average you're better off on the road.
Unfortunately, as long as the result arrives quickly, many users won't know or care. As request/response time goes down via faster processing/faster networking, there will be more room for more redirects, if desired. It is a problem, and it may be a hell, but if users accept it, it will happen.
I like the idea.
Couple of nits:
1. The TOS link refers back to the FAQ.
2. Why not allow search by title?
3. Also it would be nice if the stack of books were pictures of actual books with cover sleeves in it.
4. I know it sounds elementary, but add a picture of how an ISBN looks like.
This exists to demonstrate to the shareholders and other interested parties that they are innovating or creating new products.

Google must be perceived as growing roughly 25% per year in order to maintain their current stock price.

RSS/Atom feed may not seem practical to some of you but I highly doubt you're the intended audience for this page.
If the ISBN is entered with dashes, it is not fetching the data i guess. It says renter ISBN in the next page.

May be you would want to escape the characters in the input field or use better regex checking. (not allowing anything but ISBNs). I just googled for ISBN regex and there were many decent resources.

Also, many notable flaws with the design. The contact page/add book page/your info page overflows the base wrapper.
If I'm reading this correctly, USPS doesn't want your electronic device to be activated:

"Cells or batteries properly installed in equipment must be protected from damage and short circuit, and equipment or devices containing cells or batteries must include an effective means of preventing accidental activation."

Source: http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/601.htm#wp1065521
Maybe yes, maybe no. It's his fun version of the CV which is really innovative and creative though.
Maybe it's not so much bicycle unfriendly as pedestrian friendly, although other people in this thread have noted that sidewalks are more dangerous than roads for cyclists. It is hard for cyclists - treading that line between pedestrians and automobiles without a truly dedicated place to operate usually.
True. Although each new process is a new thread of execution right?
Thanks for the feedback. I'm thinking I will push a change pretty soon so that when someone doesn't enter a tld, it will go ahead and check .com, .net, and .org.

While watching people use the site, this seems to be my biggest UI bug.
1. They're still being written...this is an MVP.
4. You'll find that if you click 'what's an ISBN'.
It's enforced in DC, although I suspect it's partly because of the absurd numbers of bike messengers who would use sidewalks as obstacle courses. On the other hand, I think riding in the road in DC is relatively safe because there are so many bike messengers. Most drivers learn to drive cautiously when sharing the road with cyclists who are fast, aggressive, and potentially dangerous if cut off.
Here is the HN custom CSS from http://stylebot.me/examples.html:

http://gist.github.com/587613
Remember to multiply that by 4/3 to account for a 3 month vacation.
I have no numbers in front of me, but I'm sure cost of living for over-65 is greater than for under-25, if only in terms of health care costs.
It's subtly worse than that however: the 22 year old can roll that experience into their resume and make themselves more attractive to future, traditional employers. Talk to any out-of-worker 60 year old, and you'll hear tales of woe about ageism and "too experienced".
Oh, come on. WordPress could have started providing a decent API eons ago. They don't care. Or they fundamentally don't see there's anything wrong with spaghetti code and inconsistent API's.

The only reason they are abandoning PHP4 because it has become so rare they can't test against it anymore, not because they want to improve anything. Remember this crap: http://ma.tt/2007/07/on-php/ ?

Which is typical for WordPress: one of the most successful companies to be built on PHP, and all they do is bitch about it and use their influence on a part of the community to hold it back instead of contributing, like Facebook, Digg and such.
Computers show how wind could have parted Red Sea
Personally, I'm yearning for a sort of "black box" recorder that would just always record video and GPS as well as any information from the vehicle (signals, brakes, etc.)

I guess you could make one in software and have it run on a smartphone in a special mounting bracket somewhere. You could even have it interface with a bluetooth headset/helmet for any audio annotation you want to make (e.g. "that guy in the Mustang is driving really aggressively")

I have had two (thankfully minor) accidents on my Vespa, neither of which were my fault. Having video of the guy making an illegal left turn in front of me could have made the ordeal with the insurance companies less painful. Maybe.
How much you make on ads depends on your site, your audience, and all that.

Looking at quite a few sites, I see results that are counterintuitive: for instance, you can make more money running ads on a Chevy forum than you can on a Cadillac forum.

You might think that Caddy owners have more money than Chevy owners, however, it turns out that Chevy owners like to trick out their cars with aftermarket parts and Caddy owners (even poor owners of 20-year old Cadillacs) like to have OEM everything... Most of the ad spend is on aftermarket parts... GM isn't going to spend money on caddy forums because the people on Caddy forums know more about GM's products and GM's product plans than the people who make the ads.

I think it's also about supply and demand. Even though people spend a lot on cars, car products and car services, my experience is that there are a lot of topics that pay better than cars. The trouble is that there are too many car sites out there already, so the spend gets diluted Every gearhead and his brother has a web site about cars.

You've got to watch out for "otaku topics" like Anime. Unfortunately, anime fans are weirdos (the kind of ~guys~ who dress up like a purple-haired princess for Halloween) who don't spend a lot of money on stuff, and particularly don't spend a lot on anime because they download it all off bittorrent long before commercial dubbers start negotiating for the rights. 2/3 of the people who like anime already have a website or a livejournal or deviantart page about it, so talk about dilution... Christ, you can't pay for the storage and bandwidth costs for your images...
And what are this so-called thousands of Google results from countless other developers who have done the same and much more? Dirty workarounds that shouldn't be necessary if WordPress had been made properly in the first place. That's only what the author says: although WordPress rocks to propel blogs, it's far from being made of good code.
You can export all your custom styles into a JSON file for import. Also, you can copy a site's custom CSS created using Stylebot.

Currently, there is no repository for sharing designs. In the future, definitely!

Maybe also a page featuring all the best styles from around the web and provide their CSS.
Excel is the world's most popular functional programming language. To bad it's only of zeroth order.
I was hoping I would get a "bing!" sound when I pressed J. Sad panda.
Anyone else think this is a sad use of both human and computing resources? Technically interesting, yes, but all of that for playing freaking farmville?
Getbookd - Looking for some early feedback
Looking for some early feedback on a site that I built in the last couple of weeks :) .

Needless to say some things will probably break and some things will not be perfect. I greatly appreciate your constructive feedback and I am looking forward to getting your opinion on getbookd!

GetBookd: http://www.getbookd.com/
I don't want to hijack the intent of this submission too much, but I am really curious about a question burning on my mind. I can't help but notice the sheer number of WordPress mentions on HN and other sites lately, and while a paranoid part of me wonders if this is something of a marketing blitz, I want to try to get an unbiased opinion:

Is WordPress the way to go these days for blogging?

How does it compare to Blogger? What other reasonable options are there, and how do they compare?

Edit: And how does it compare to posterous?