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I think Java in the sweet spot between program reliability and developer availability. A developer can prevent most variants of uninteresting errors using Java, yet there are many developers.

Android apps works "in the distance" - developer cannot load REPL and fix it while client is on the phone with technical support. So you need pretty solid language, one that helps fixing bugs before they hit customer. Or, at least, a pretense on that.

More solid languages, like Haskell, Coq and Agda2, just do not have enough developers.

Go is good, at least as good as Java, but it also doesn't have big enough community.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland does this too, though they don't enforce crazy long passwords.
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The problem is that as soon as you are any threat to them, they'll either sue you (they have a ton of e-learning related patents) or buy you. Not sure you want to go into that area.
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if they can keep support costs down, they just might be making reasonable money on the deal. This is pretty close what I charge for my larger accounts (I mean, proportionally. I charge a $4/month per-account fee, then $1/month for every 64MiB of ram) but with my abuse/support costs, removing that $4/month surcharge would kill me. But I can see how someone with better automation and/or lower helpdesk/abuse costs than I have could pull it off.
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I'll second all the bank comments. My own bank is horrible and has no way of escaping from statement view without logging back in (same with print friendly pages).

Of all the others, the one that got me most recently was Skype. Trying to upgrade my account, I spent a good half hour trying to figure out which links did what (some go to help, others to order pages). It's never entirely clear that you are buying what you think you are until you get to final payment page.
> The promo shots of the final working model don't show how you get at the fuse, but I'd be very surprised if it has been overlooked. I suspect it's something to do with the red dots.

Indeed, the red dot is the plug cover. This set of blogspam pictures don't show it, but previous sets (the folding plug first made rounds in mid-2009) showed how the plug works. You can see an "action shot" simulation of the plug in the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6DvjKkGT6s#t=1m46
Personally, I agree that selfish reasons seem more honest. But VPS companies have just as much of a (admittedly pretty weak) claim to wanting to change the world as social networking companies.
I think that Singapore use the same plug.
Perhaps a group could make a Linux distro with the goal of forking, and Plan9ifying, the source of every package they ship. No one would have to use the resulting distro (other than to demo the neat way that the Plan9ified packages integrate so easily with one another) but the original authors/maintainers of the upstream packages could adopt the Plan9ification patches a la carte, gradually increasing Plan9ification across the board. The patches of one package would always be guaranteed to work with the patches from any other, as the resulting combination has to hang together in the demo distro—and, since this would only be an eventual goal of the group, they would also have to make sure that all their patches didn't expect any Plan9ification on any other package's part.
Rijndael is well known cipher which became AES - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard

It is not weekend project in any way.

I think that post you answer meant "weekend project on encryption algorithm animation".
Hotmail, even after its recent Gmaily redesign.

I find all the View options distract my eye from the Actions that I am more often looking for, and I still find it clunky and too time consuming to use easily. I'm only still on there for old contacts who don't have my gmail address.
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Major Chinese banks are about the same. The best part is that the ActiveX controls are optimized for IE6 (seriously) since various security settings in IE7+ prevent them from working.

Yes, the controls for added security only work with lower security settings. We keep around an dusty old Windows XP machine in the house just for using these websites.
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CMS support for short links is an interesting and more healthy idea.
While it was well written, and with best intentions, I don't think there is any real significant "tips" to increase "productivity". All things aside these are just some best practices sprinkled with some examples. This is similar to when your parents tell you to brush your teeth and floss daily.

I haven't been programming a lot but here are some ideas that I've found, in similar vein to the parent article.

1. Watch Bram Moolenaar's talk or read his notes - http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html . Essentially learn how to use your text editor, as that's the thing you're going to be spending a good deal of your time in. In three steps, his suggestion is - Find what you're doing repeatedly, automate it and bind it to a key, make it a habit.

2. use a good version control system. Use a DVCS like git/mercurial/bzr and make lightweight branches for even the tiniest little features. That'll allow you to multitask like crazy! If you start properly using branching, you can write more code quickly and safely and switch between contexts.

3. Make sure your build system is optimal. If you spend too long waiting for builds to take place, maybe you can explore options to make it better.

4. The most important productivity secret imo - ACTUALLY WRITE CODE. Don't think about writing code, don't read blogs about writing code, don't follow twitterers who write code. Most importantly, don't get distracted and idle away when you're trying to write code.

I have some amount of mastery over my text editor, my language, my OS, etc. But none of that compares to the mastery and discipline of sitting down, concentrating and not letting your mind wander too much - something that I am trying to attain, but it's harder than I would like it to be.
> What other serious drawbacks do they have?

They tend to rest on the plug's back, and hurt a lot when you step on them.

> Any other countries use them?

India and South Africa use the so-called Type D plug[0] (also called Type M in its 15A incarnation), which is similar but uses round plugs (type D is actually an older english standard). Some other south-east asian countries also use Type D. The english plug is called "Type G" and used in a number of former colonies and protectorates[1], especially in Africa and the Middle East.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Type...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Type...
I wasted so much time at college playing Elastomania from (I think) a floppy disk. Great fun.
Pretty much any Indian website that I use including:
www.icicibank.com/
www.bangaloreone.gov.in/
www.bookmyshow.com/ (Mainly the payment processing piece)
www.irctc.co.in/ (I challenge anyone to find a website that has 4MM unique visitors/mo. and that has worse usability)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ (Popovers/unders, floating ads. Annoys the crap out of me each time I use it. But I still use it. Go figure)
Just finished transferring all my domain names to NameCheap for that very reason -- I got tired of sifting through tens of pages with links in various font sizes to find that ever-elusive DNS setting ... among other things.
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I thought Flash only uses the GPU for video rendering.

Have you tried it in IE9 or one of the recent builds of FF / Chrome?
Our University recently switched to Moodle, which is an open source competitor.
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Perhaps unrelated, but I've always wondered why http://www.authorize.net/ insists on generously using 1990s-style stock clipart all over their site. Does the picture of the lady with the headset really make their operation that much more trustworthy?

Not to mention, anything with this sort of clipart now automatically looks like spam/domain landing page to my eyes.
Well OK, if your argument really was "Sorkin created a fake caracter that acts really misogynist in order to make a political point about feminism that I disagree with", and not "what was shown in the movie wasn't misogyny, just college boys being equally immature as college girls are!", then I must say I am more than a little surprised, but tone is hard on the web, so I'll give you be benefit of the doubt.
Easy: read the first 7 words of your post.
There were a few solutions which used the online repository address books and shared address books.
So your case is resting on the assumption that JavaScript programs are less reliable than Java programs. That's a pretty bold claim to make in general and particularly for the kind of smallish UI centric code we're talking about.
Adding X languages features to Y language won't make Y language better....

To be more specific, Java has annoyances(this is my own damn opinion) that are carved deeply into the language, you won't get rid of them by adding more features, it would just make the language more bloated.

Adding closures to the language won't fix anything.
It seems to be a decent version 1.

The question is going to be can they bridge the gaps between WP7 and iOS / Android faster than iOS / Android can open new gaps.

What I do like about it from a marketing stand point is that the UI isn't a bunch of icons, they've at least tried to do something different which I think is to be commended.
DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid - essentially chemical compound, not a digital code.

Instead, it can be said that human genome can be represented by a digital code, which has finite number of bits.
>every profile is what/how you want to be perceived now so much how you actually are.

So is every social interaction. We're all obsessed with the matter of authenticity, but every personality is extensively contrived in every social environment. The main difference between online and personal signaling is that our online performances are more scripted and our live performances are more impromptu.
well you can write it as

var f = ((x) => x + 1).Compile();
int b = f.Invoke(42);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion

Mitochondria development occurs when you're running - actually, doing aerobic exercise for long period of time. Mitochondria is responsible for intra cell energy exchange and utilization of "waste".

My trainer told me that professional runners, swimmers and skiers are pretty vulnerable for alcoholism, because mitochondrias greatly help to utilize products of alcohol metabolism. So there is buzz, but no hangover, you can do it over and over again. Until someone becomes physically dependent on alcohol.

You be warned. ;)
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One can also represent any book, any image or any sound with a small number.
This inflation based approach also plays nicely with database indexes.
Change government. Of course government can be bad. It can also be good. If light bulbs started exploding and causing harm government agencies would step in and investigate. Legislation may then have to be passed to prevent the issue from re-occurring. Sometimes industry acts without government intervention and government intervention isn't necessary. Government is, in such cases, the regulator of last resort.

FDA does screw up big time. It's what happens when their efforts at enforcement are hampered. It's what happens when regulatory capture occurs. It's an example of the necessity for a functioning government that looks after the interests of society.
MSDN.

They improved it a bit with somewhat recently added layouts with less scripts, navigation trees, iframes and whatnot, but it's still unusable without Google (or Dukgo -> !msdn) for me.
That's not a trivial exercise. The philosophy behind plan 9 is radically different from some of the ways things are done in Linux, and it would take a great effort to get this even close to production grade.

Plan 9 is structurally very different from Unix under the hood, it is in many ways a better unix but backwards compatibility was not what they had in mind when they designed it.

Unix is said to have 'everything is a file' as its mantra, plan 9 shows what 'everything is a file' really means.
Sure. The act of running creates waste, typically in the form of dead blood cells and lactic acid. It's natural, but if the muscle cells are ill-prepared to properly dispose of the waste it can create inefficiencies in the form of poorer performance.

It's important as a runner that you have a solid "highway system" of muscle fibers that can handle the waste throughput of your regimen. The most popular way competitve runners achieve this is by running lots of slow* comfortable base miles over several months. Increasing mileage 10% a week will break the cells down, while planned rest allows the body to regenerate 'heartier' cells capable of handling greater and greater loads. In the most relatable sense that burn you feel when you work out will start happening later and later; In physiological terms you've "increased your lactic threshold." The advantages of building an aerobic base transcend the muscle highway concept and seem to have really solid implications for cardiovascular health. Just something to think about.

*slow is relative and implies that you're running about 2 minutes off your tempo pace. A little huffing/puffing is okay, but it should feel natural to hold a conversation. Maintaining this slow pace - even when you feel you could run faster - is the hardest part of base building and therefore that piece which seems to pay the best dividends (for those who are disciplined).
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Hi, I agree with you that these points are basic, but at times we forget the very basic stuff and miss out things there..

Totally agree with your 4th point. Unless you actually write code, nothing will help you..
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There's a reason I mentioned object inter-access times. To properly size storage you need to know your query distribution.

"It has 16GBs of RAM and handles around 5000 GBs worth of DBs. Due to a good RDBMS and intelligent caching and use of statistics, that server has a cache-hit ratio of 98%."

This may be your query distribution but it plainly is not everyone's.

"No amount of internet-argument can convince me that this goal is anything besides a pure waste of money."

If Jim Gray's published work doesn't convince you there's not really much left to discuss.
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From one of the replies in the thread:

You could have pointed out that the entire source tree is smaller than the gcc manual.
I was already doing the http server stuff (with apache instead, though) so dnsmasq finishes that off nicely. Thanks!

I'm a little worried that our VPN will interfere with it, but we'll see.
Brilliant design, but ganging up unfused plugs like that spells 'fire'.

It's like plugging in a cascade of extension cords.

I don't like the mobile pieces either, they are:

- structurally fragile

- likely to break off and decrease safety

- in the case of the contacts a source of contact resistance
which causes energy to be lost as well as an
increased fire risk

- if they are 'wired' a spot where the wiring will break
because of fatigue issues

Good industrial design takes in to account the function and safety issues as well.

Electrical plugs are a source of some amusement in Europe, in spite of being a 'union' we are not even capable of designing a plug that satisfies everybody and for some this has become symbolic of the dissent in the various states against EU conformity.

Have a look here how crazy the situation is:

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

If we can't even design a common AC plug that everybody will actually adopt that's food for thought.
Everyone want improvement, it's the change they fear
And then what?

Most people seem fixated on the problem of getting visas into the country. That's not the US governments problem. Their problem is once you're here you won't leave. This is how people get caught up. An immigrant comes in on a tourist visa, stays, decides to get a low paying job and now is stuck because clearing immigration means you won't be allowed to come back ever again.

So you get one of these visas, deadline comes and you've got nothing. So you stick around and become one of the millions of illegal immigrants. Deportation is a long, expensive process and the US taxpayer would rather not have to do it at all since it's very dirty work.
You only think that because of sites like this one. URLs are very certainly for people.
What would you ask an all powerful alien?
Blog post: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/the-cosmic-distance...
Link to logos?
I was listening until I got to:

"the 2009 version of the Walmart logo, and anything, ever done in Powerpoint."

... While I admit Walmart's logo isn't exciting or compelling, it's far from 'bad'. And determining that anything ever done with a certain piece of software is 'bad' is so obviously wrong that I don't know where to begin.

If MS Paint can produce beautiful art, Powerpoint presentations can have good graphic design.

I realize that these were likely jokes, but you lose your audience when you go too far. They stop having confidence in the entire rest of your presentation. At this point, I have to suspect every sentence is a joke.
I believe Google are potentially missing a trick.
If they are developing an automated car that requires little to no human interference then surely the design would be completely different if all cars on the road were automated.

The biggest hurdle appears to be human error. 'What about drunk drivers who drive on to your side of the road etc'. My question is, what if all cars are automated? Zero drunk drivers, minimal risk of encountering unpredictable driving behaviour, much easier and safer to implement.

It will get to a point, during our lifetime, where humans controlling a car are limited to private race tracks. Speeding, drink drivers, poor driving ability, insurance premiums, all of these will push automation to the forefront in no time at all.
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Wow, this is fascinating. ngmoco was founded only two years ago and it's already being sold for $400M. I wonder how it would have turned out if they didn't get iFunded.
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How do you pay your bills then?
This thing comes up every 6-12 months on HN. Vaporware, from the looks of it.

Wake me up when it actually gets implemented and becomes available for real.
I created the Super Google Reader Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/khbjahpecnkenngk...) specifically for viewing the HN feed in Google Reader. It allows full feed readable content or iframing of feed entries. Settings are per feed or folder and are transparently built into Google Reader. Readable content functionality is based on Arc90 Lab's readability code (http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/).

I'm also looking for feedback and feature requests.
Cosmos predates the deep field image by about 20 years... but it really captures the essence of the show pretty well.
This Slate article claims that Facemash had pictures of men and women:

http://www.slate.com/id/2269250/

It seems that most of the specific evidence Sorkin cites is fictional. If Slate is correct, the site was egalitarian. If the transcripts of Zuckerberg's blog are believable (Google them if you want; they're not hard to find), then Sorkin wrote most of the inflammatory material.

It is interesting that people who don't know the story very well still zero in on the fictional details Sorking added as the most upsetting. In a way, it must vindicate Zuckerberg. Unfortunate that those readily-identifiable details are so memorable.
They should just switch their infrastructure to the "Euro"-plug as soon as they can, like the rest of Europe already uses since ages. Not only is the "Euro"-plug by far the most solid, durable and safest plug, but it will help the Brits and the rest of Europe to be in-sync with eachother on the consumer electronics compatiblity front. Now that the UK has already taken the step to 230V like the rest of Europe, they should complete the rest of the move.
Malaysian Airlines website. I was trying to buy a return ticket to Hong Kong. I entered my credit card details, clicked next and received an email saying I've bought the ticket..... to Kuala Lumpur. It's probably that I entered the wrong destination but, for a plane ticket, why is there no confirmation page!? I called them up and they said it'll cost $150 to fix it.
That's IMHO a good thing - you can easily filter out somebody who says "C/C++/C#" - I wouldn't want to work in that kind of place.
Thanks yeah I was thinking along the same lines, how is this risk best mitigated? By requiring that the analytics provider has had the code pen tested and testing it ourselves?

I don't undertand your second point - what do you mean scrape everything on the page with the analytics code? Doesn't the code, script, zero pixel image simply provide the analytics solution with the tracking data? What is the security risk there?
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Something to point to every time some European starts lecturing about the metric system or A paper sizes. Overcoming existing standards is damn hard, and it’s not just laziness or stupidity which prevents systemic standard changes.
> The philosophy behind plan 9 is radically different from some of the ways things are done in Linux, and it would take a great effort to get this even close to production grade.

So it's not just "NIH and ego", it's the fact that people are loath to abandon working software for benefits that probably seem somewhat abstract?

The "crossing the chasm" approach is to find a niche where your product can win and then go from there. Taking on Linux head-on is just not going to be a winning proposition.
It doesn't really matter. Adapters are cheap. (And I recently moved from the continent to Europe.)
That the universe, apparently, is nonlocal.

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

(This article is quite complex; there was a superb article in Scientific American that described Bell's experiments and conclusions simply and clearly; it's here:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=was-einstei...

but unfortunately it's behind a paywall).
I don't think that would work. How would the compiler know the type of x and the return type of the lambda expression?
Years ago I tried a kneeling chair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneeling_chair). It was quite pleasant, although I've never spent an extended period of time with one.
Hasn't the Zuck been dating the same girl since just before or just after he started building the whole thing?