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I'm not sure if customers care about the distinction of confusion caused at the initiative of Apple versus that caused at the initiative of the "technology".

Regarding GSM vs CDMA specifically, there is hardly been any type of outcry regarding voice/data on CDMA, even amongst people who move from GSM to CDMA. In fact, I've never herad anyone complain about it. The only real complaint I've heard about CDMA is that you can't use it anywere, except the USA and like three other countries. But no one says, "I can't use voice and data on my phone".

In any case I think we're bickering about a meta issue. I really couldn't care less if Apple goes to Verizon or not. I'm not on Vertizon and I don't want an iPhone. What I do believe is that Apple has a very good understanding of what it means to go to Verizon.
Of course I don't want Oracle to win, but is this really an aggressive move? The "kitchen sink" approach could be aggressive, but in a way it feels like the "DA throwing every charge they can at a suspect" hoping something sticks.

Also, claiming that the Dalik VM is not a Java VM doesn't seem right.
Business guys response to this:

1. Tell the developer to cut whatever corner is necessary

2. Forget that he insisted on cutting corners

3. Complain that the next change is taking to long as well

4. Bring in another Dev as "consultant" to "help" who says "hey this code is crap, and this shouldn't have been done this way"

5. Fire the in-house developer for cutting corners

6. Post on the web how hard it is to find good developers
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Oh, if only. As far as I read that, it is just a handful of delegates, and they are not even really concerned about the treaty itself, but about the secrecy around it.

Anyway, it is perhaps a start. The members of the european parliament now need encouragement to really look at it and vote against it, even if it is fully disclosed.
Nice observation. The inaccuracy is greatest when masses are near, so absorbing close masses limits how near they can get. When I wrote one of these simulators, I had masses zinging off everywhere when they "collided".

Question: does this inaccuracy systemically affect the development of a "solar system" from a "proto disk"? I think, by increasing randomness, it would actually tend to work against it somewhat.

Also, the odd effect of the proto disk expanding after the sun forms is caused (I think) by masses falling into the sun, and thus further away from the rim of the disk. This greater distances reduces the gravitational force on the rim, and so their velocity ("centrifical" force) can carry them away.
From a post from 2007[1]:

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer.
(I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at
page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page
back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134979
You're correct that traditional content is routed through a ton of different companies, and that anyone of them can fail, but using bit.ly is essentially pointless, as it just tacts on another service that must be relied on.

In 10 years when bit.ly is completely dead, 2/3rds of the tweets or other comments on the web will be rendered useless.
> I'd say 99% of Apple's target market were fine without multitasking plus it's a nice battery

I disagree. I think they put up with not having it believing it would come soon, or didn't realize how bad not having it would be (I know that last one describes me).
SHOCKER: Facebook shares your phone # if your setting is to share your phone #
Everyone guessed in the range of 15-20

Were the guesses public? Perhaps it was just the result of anchoring. Or overestimating others' abilities in comparison to one's own abilities (is there a term for this?).

This makes me think that underestimation is more common...

This one experience? And you were only six... not a whole lot of life experience at estimating things.
My "base" early 2008 mac pro is still fast enough that I havent felt a need to upgrade. It really is the first 5+ year PC that I think I have purchased... I think the expense can be justified in those terms...
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Paging Dr Velikovsky...
You can copyright API signatures (classes, methods, functions, etc...). I assumed that was what was at issue. Is it not? If it is are you saying that Apache clean roomed the whole thing so there is no interface compatibility or library similarity?

If that's the case then I agree.
You might be better off in the long run. I have this nagging feeling that JQuery was a light-hearted joke about deprecating loops and local variables that just got out of hand.
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I've seen people new to C struggle with what I think are relatively simple GCC diagnostic messages. I think they're somewhat simple now since I'm used to them and know C.

But pointing out exactly the bit of code that's wrong, and often what you should do about it is - I think - a huge improvement.
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We're not creating another identity for you. There aren't any profiles, it's simply a utility. I agree the messaging could be cleaner and I'll rework some of it when I have time later today, but we dont really need your email or a password for anything so there's little reason to require it other than being the norm.
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This claim is the reason so many developers work their asses off to make something, only to realize that no one wants to buy it. You do customer development before you build the product, not after. Step 1: find need, step 2: find out if people will pay $ for it, step 3: make it.

"Real" business people are very good at steps 1 & 2. It's not fair to call them "idea people" if they have useful executional skills to make those things happen.
My understanding is that no, you cannot copyright an API.
My main desktop (Win7) is running a 64G Kingston SSD. I love the performance it offers and the silent operation. I'll never go back to a moving disk for my main machine. However, all of my servers will remain as traditional disks because their noise doesn't effect me, they're cost effective, and performance isn't an issue on a 100mb home network.
It's nice reading an article like this once in a while. I like to forget how horrible my life had been. I eventually moved away from the town I grew up in with no money and no prospects just to get away from the violence and constant humiliation. I struggled every day since for everything I have today.

It's good to be reminded of where you came from.
If you hand a government complete power over a critical resource, and you or your peers don't vote for that government, you will regret it.

The historical parallel to oil is not lost on Libya. Before 1850 or so, oil was just a nuisance mineral. When the West developed applications for it, Libya's territory, formerly a desert, was now worth trillions. Oil is now 95% of Libya's exports, and probably 95% of their international power too.

Libya's government evolved to defend and exploit natural resources, and they've historically done very un-democratic things to further that goal. So please, don't hand them the keys to your startup.
This already works though it isn't mentioned anywhere yet:

http://hackerfollow.com/follow.php?add={hn-username}
Compared to what I'm talking about, your site is very attractive. I'm talking about stuff where you built the back-end but the customer hired a terrible designer, or stuff where you were brought in to do maintenance on an existing site that just looks absolutely terrible. Most clients won't care that you wrote great code and cleaned up the existing issues; they'll just see the crappy design.
Sure they can. Hybrids that charge at night, that get cheaper rates to charge when the utility sends a signal, pumped storage, only running hydroelectric during the day, running aluminum smelters at night, thermal storage, or worst case, just not using the extra electricity. There is stuff to build, but we're not going to build all of those nuke plants overnight either.
You weren't alone - I was bullied, as was my close family. Unlike you, it ended earlier but only because the teachers finally realized how bad it had gotten.

I disagree with his idea that those who are bullied needs to learn that they are loved though - I never for a moment had any doubts about my parents feelings for me, but that didn't help me end it. I have even less sympathy for the idea of telling bullies that you love them.

Bullying will stop the day you hit back, they day you show them that you are no longer a safe target - one way or the other (hint it has to show them that _they_ are the small, weak person). Even showing you are under the protection of somebody more powerful (used that trick in kindergarden) will only work for so long.
I think he's talking about how URL shorteners undermine a bit of the effectiveness and utility of REST. All resources should be clear and readable, etc. URL shorteners remove useful information.
This is a common problem in programming books and tutorials, from what I've seen. They all seem to adhere to a false dichotomy, as if there is no choice other than "small steps but no reward for a long time" or "big, huge steps, each with a payoff". This is one of the reasons I believe that more focus on Unix-like command line development early on, with real-world usable functionality as the goal of such development, should be more of a part of general-purpose programming language tutorials.

Learning the "right" way to include command line option handling, and learning how to build filter utilities, should be near the beginning of every major tutorial. These skills provide the student with the basis of a lot of novice-level exploratory programming that would be of real, practical use to the larval programmer.
Eloquent JavaScript is being being published in print form soon as well: http://nostarch.com/ejs.htm
I too do not think you have ADD or depression or any of those things. You are just not really meant for this career. I am in the same boat. It's a bit of a tough pill to take, as this is an exciting space to be in, but if your body and brain are trying to override your will at every step, you're not in the right occupation.

I don't want to get into specific advice, as I don't know you, but don't forget that there are many types of programming. If you are doing web stuff and are super bored, maybe you really should be programming robots or video games. Personally, this didn't work for me. I do like the thought processes in software, and I like typing in code, but I greatly dislike sitting in front of a computer for longer than about 2 hours.

Someone on HN mentioned a couple of self-help books by Barbara Sher. I've found them very useful, they are not flaky or very "self-helpy" just more practical advice about career changing and trying to figure out what I'd rather be doing.

Good luck.
This is why I hate Software patents.

The whole patent system in general is screwed up, but its stuff like this that drives me crazy. Software patents as broad as this can basically kill innovation(which is contradictory to the actual purpose of patents). IANAL, but we can speculate with a patent like this, Facebook could essentially kill foursquare and gowalla with Litigation.
The saddest element of this story, for me, is that so many children internalize their rage and frustration and turn it against themselves. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone that was bullied could turn that anger around and use it to improve themselves, to make a difference in their world and in their community.

I have to wonder how many great ideas were crushed because someone couldn't believe in themselves to see their project from conception to completion.
If we can get the cost per megawatt of capacity low enough, liquid fluoride thorium reactors could even be used for peak power. They can scale their power output up and down pretty rapidly, since they would use Brayton-cycle gas turbines for power conversion, and it's possible to continuously (or very frequently) remove xenon-135, which is a neutron poison and has traditionally made it harder to adjust the power output of nuclear reactors.
The funny part is that he is innovating to increase revenue, but that his "sue everyone" plan will kill off that stream, too.

He wants to have KISS-branded TVs. Fine. But if nobody listens to KISS, then the brand will be worthless. If he starts suing people who know what is brand is, he'll be tarnishing its reputation. Nobody cares about legally right, they care that he sues 7-year-olds and grandmas. So then the brand is destroyed, and the branded-crap revenue stream falls off, too.

Artists should not run businesses.
As far as I can tell, there is a wide variety in people's interpretation of Sharia. In practice Sharia's introduction has been recently associated with very harsh punishments (amputation, stoning):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia#Contemporary_practice

There are definitely lots of people who choose to view Sharia this way, and invariably this kind of interpretation seems to have prevailed in practical settings. So what makes your view of Sharia the One True Interpretation? Do you even have some references, from the relevant religious authorities, to the effect that these six principles you enumerate are all of Sharia and nothing else?
It doesn't come up because the US mobile phone market is almost completely balkanized: how many handsets are released in GSM and CDMA versions (or even that do both GSM and CDMA)? Hardly any.

Buying a cell phone in the US basically means picking a carrier and then picking a handset. In almost every other country--and certainly those that are GSM based (including all of Europe and Australia)--have handsets that are interchangeable on networks.

Why there aren't cross-technology phones (barring some minor exceptions) is exactly why Apple won't do it either. Particularly because CDMA is a dying technology anyway (at least in the developed world).
a lot of people see .biz as a really spammy-sounding tld. i wouldn't advise any company to use it as their primary domain name.
I wondered about this, too. As far as I understand, that they don't get any payment would only be relevant if they were claiming fair use, since that's one of the criteria.
Oh well - sure. I didn't want to criticize (sp?) the habit at all. Nor did I want to mock anyone's morale or ask for the removal of NSFW tags.

What you just described is just - in my little world - a tiny, little version of the original problem discussed in the thread.

For a part of the world the service vb.ly was not safe for X (work, family, whatever).

For a part of the world (as explained by you) the blog entry and its sexual references/ads/etc are not safe for work.

I wanted to point out the parallels, which seem (mildly) funny to me.

I visited the link at work and I'm sure nobody would ever complain, let alone _think_ about bad consequences for me. Not that I imply that it should be that way or that this is in any way superior to different positions or morale standpoints. It is just - different.

NSFW is in that regard a kind of a lowest common denominator (sp?), tagged on links with good intentions for sure. But using the lowest common point means also that we put a label on something that might be excessive/overly protective to others. I guess I cannot explain my feeling about these similarities in judgement, inparticular around sex/nudity/pornography, any better, sorry.

Short version: I don't question the "NSFW". I want to remind the readers that the reasons why this is necessary in the first place are an interesting thought in light of this discussion.
Where's the proof that this actually shares the phone numbers of people who haven't put it on their Facebook profile? It sounds like a way to store your numbers so they come back if you switch phones. Sharing phone numbers that people haven't chosen to share is too stupid for me to believe.
Damn the <strike>people-who-use-P2P-to-legimately-purchase-music-after-doing-a-taste-test</strike> man!
What you say is true, but disingenuous. It is like saying that British common law is just adherence to the principle that judgments should be made in accordance with principles that were accepted in previous judgments, and it varies widely across different jurisdictions. This is true, but British common law means a lot more than just that.

The same is true of Sharia law. It has a lot of baggage. And it doesn't always read as a Westerner might naively like to read it. In particular when it comes to Sharia law, opposition tends to center on items 2 and 4 on your list.

On #2, Sharia law protects the family, but with different definitions and severity than Western society accepts. Consider the asymmetry between men and women for divorce. Consider the punishments for adultery. Both are widespread in Sharia law, and neither is palatable to Western audiences.

More problematic is item 4. It is not (as it is in the US constitution) the protection of freedom of religion. Instead it is the protection of the Islamic religion. (With limited protections for peoples of the book.) Thus we get anti-blasphemy rules, punishment for converting Muslims to another faith, etc. This is in direct conflict with core precepts of the US Constitution. This is not an accident of interpretation. It is a central feature of having a system of law whose purpose is to support a specific religion.
The music industry should realize that piracy is a good thing. Nobody listens to KISS (or pirates KISS), but because there are no good numbers on piracy, they can blame piracy instead of their own inability to create good music.

If they eliminate piracy, then they'll have nobody to blame but themselves.
I did that with another user, and it turns out he used his username as his secret phrase! (name withheld to protect the guilty). At least now I know who he's interested in!
Indirect revenue does not come in to play here, just as RedHat isn't obliged to pay Linus Torvalds or RMS.

A good lawyer might make that link, but that won't entitle them to a share of that particular pie.

And you'd still have to prove that increased use.
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First off, I would just point out that a tremendous amount of literature has been written about Anarchistic theory. Probably a lot more than we have time left in our lives to completely read. You can't just handwave the system away with "yea, but there are bad people!". This has obviously been covered at length.

If you're going to refer me to the existing literature, please at least make a specific reference. There's been just as much (if not more) philosophy written about why a government is necessary.

What the theory lacks is real world large scale testing which will obviously be extremely difficult to do.

Somalia's been trying it out for years. The results don't look promising.

Your Syrian/Lebanon examples don't strictly apply because those are other countries. Invade the US and see how passive people are.

If you invaded the US, I think Syrians would be quite passive about it indeed.

In a government-less world there is no more "country". Potentially people would form other kinds of groups and not care about people outside of their group, but if they are ignorant enough to do that then they wont be intelligent enough to have an Anarchist system at all, Genghis Khan or no.

People have always formed groups and not cared about people outside of their group. That's how humans work. If anarchism doesn't expect humans to work that way, then anarchism is a bad system for humans.

You're assuming I'm dismissing anarchism without considering the arguments for it or anything. Actually, I'm dismissing it after a lot of consideration, partially about anarchism and partially about idealistic, theoretical political philosophies in general.
Does this not apply to all ccTLDs though? My understanding was that the majority of ccTLDs are controlled in a way that they are able to easily "reclaim" any domain they want at any time without breaking any "rules"...
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Can we not solve this problem by storing energy in the longer term?

It's true some 'burst' capacity is important, but can you not get a lot closer to 'average load' than the baseline by using the energy?
Pumping water into a reservoir at night, and getting the power back with a small hydro plant during the day comes to mind. We smooth out an even worse problem with wind and solar, which is spiky AND out of sync with demand sometimes. I believe flywheels are used to store energy in the short term sometimes. You did mention 'really big batteries', implying that we would need too many, but we aren't limited to chemical forms of energy storage.

I think this is a solved problem, or at least a fairly solvable problem, and nuke plants can provide not only the 'baseline' but close to the bulk average needs for power. We can decouple the power generation and the need for "something adjustable" and benefit.
You can certainly copyright APIs. The Win32 API is copyrighted, for example. Although I did note while just looking this up that there is a disclaimer that the copyright allows others to still use it, if they don't also use the code. No citations are ever given though. I suspect that this has simply become standard practice and never tested in a court of law.

Could it be the case that Oracle is about to actually test this?
Ask HN: How should I setup the domain name architecture of my web app?
So I have the marketing site URL, but once someone signs up - and starts using the app - they won't be on the marketing site anymore, rather the actual app itself.

Basecamp has a variety of domains that you can choose to make your name from. Campaign monitor has createsend.com, where you get <your company>.createsend.com.

Kevin Hale (of Wufoo fame) has said that if he could go back he would not do subdomains in a web app again - http://particletree.com/notebook/subdomains-development-sucks/

Do ou guys have any feedback as to what I should do, and how I should separate my marketing site from the actual app itself?

Also just some general thoughts/tips/best practices?

The web app is written in rails.
Incidentally, comments like that are why it's so irritating to try to have discussions of thorium on Reddit. Of the people who post in those threads, a significant fraction are just there to make WoW references.
I'll agree with you here. I bought my wife a Mac Pro the same time I built myself a PC. I paid about 1/3 for the PC and it feels really dated. Her Mac Pro, meanwhile, is still incredibly fast. It plays SC2 on max settings without slogging while my PC slogs on Medium (and enough Marines running around).
My first suggestion would be bloodwork. If you are deficient in certain minerals, it can really screw with your energy levels. As the adage goes, you can't improve what you can't measure. Start with a baseline, to make sure there isn't any particular deficiency you are fighting against.

After that, it's all about balance. I use the iPhone app 'Lose It', which tells me my percentage of calories from fat, protein, carbs and alcohol. It also provides a companion website which shows you graphs of your intake, weight, etc... I find having my dietary data available has been the single biggest improvement in my ability to manage my weight. Though in my case, I've been desperately trying to loose weight. I have lost, and kept off 35lbs over the past year. (No, I have no connection to Lose It, just a very satisfied user).
you never load a large program like gimp? The speed difference is huge when loading up gimp on a rpm drive vs ssd. It's also pretty big when doing something like a "select count(*)" over a huge un-indexed table.