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The power of Custom Model Binding in ASP.NET MVC
rejected...le sigh

what is the criteria to get in anyways?
I think he means that he has no idea what former perl users have converted to using.
only in the php community would semaphores be considered a dark art
Don't get worked up replying. This appears to be a troll. He didn't apply.
US apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s
"Real world" is an odd concept in college. Python is used A LOT in the real world, including NASA and many fortune 500 companies.

Just because there is still more COBOL code running in the "real world" than there is C# code doesn't mean C# is 'radical'.

Plus HackerNews readers are likely to be less concerned with what people used 5 years ago when they started the projects that are big today (e.g. Java etc.) they're more interested in what people are using _NOW_ to make the projects that will be big tomorrow (e.g. Python)
They're very nice pictures.

I especially appreciate how hard it is to ID all those underwing moths (none of which are very different [1]), because I once prepared a collection full of those for a local elementary school. I think I had a couple of dozen of those, mostly with red on the hindwing. That doesn't narrow things down much.

[1] http://www.moths.ca/catocalinae/index.html
I've used Perl off and on since 97. If that were similar to him how would you display it in the text chart? And it's not meant to be a snarky reply.
Xmonad works so well that I even rejected to work with a second monitor. At least for me its currently faster switching to another desktop using capslock-<0-9> than physically adjusting my eyes to another display.
Nobody suggests they made $65m worth of contributions. They got that amount because it was mutually agreed to reflect something like the value of what they had initiated considered as if it were equity at launch, and adjusted to reflect the capital gains they might have expected to enjoy from holding such a slice of equity. You think $65 million is a ton of money, but given that Facebook was valued at somewhere between $4 and $15 billion at the time, it's peanuts - something in the vicinity of 2%, at most. But nobody would care if it were expressed in percentage terms because it doesn't sound so unreasonable now, does it?

I do not agree that it is extortion and abuse. They made a case that Zuckerberg pulled, as you say, an 'asshole move'; and that he repeatedly misled them into thinking that he was devoting all his technical efforts to their mutual benefit, while they focused on other sorts of business development. I don't know precisely what that involved, but I rather doubt that just because they were not themselves programmers they must have spent the entire period sitting on the couch doing nothing.

Yes, if you want legal peace of mind and defensible security, then the best option is to have NDAs and watertight contracts all around. But if those are a prerequisite for any kind of trust to exist, then our legal system would bear a much greater resemblance to the code-based civil law systems which obtain in most of Europe and South America. As things stand, we give substantial weight to common law, with its emphasis on precedent and judicial independence.

You may dislike common law for its ambiguity and unpredictability - although I suspect you would chafe under the mechanical inflexibility of the alternative when you find yourself waiting a month or longer for the registration of your business to be completed so that you can legally start harvesting people's data for fun and profit. but either way, Zuckerberg started his empire in this country, and if he paid attention in his classes on American government he knew there might be some legal risks in what he was doing.

And when that turned out to be the case, he got over his egotistical reactions and eventually settled for a marginal sum, like a smart person.
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I don't care if it's the most popular website on the planet, it's still just a website in an era of websites. Social networks weren't even close to new when Facebook came out; computers in every home was absurd when Gates and Jobs decided to make it a reality. It's not at all comparable to the change they brought to the world.

Mark's a billionaire, no doubt, but he's just not in that league, not even close. The world before Facebook is hardly different than the world after it; the world before computers were in every home is vastly different than the world after it. This Facebook worship is absurd, if it disappeared tomorrow the world would move on and hardly miss a beat. If every Windows PC disappeared tomorrow the world would basically collapse, business across the globe would grind to a halt.

Linux is a platform, Windows is a platform, Facebook is a toy.
The fact that it is so gratuitous is what makes it great. A lesser director would have allowed the studios to cut it, because it doesn't "move the story forward" or other such BS. Instead he gets to tell us what he thinks of the Winkelvosses and their tiny world, in a way I've never seen before.
Wait, that makes no sense. Why compare a language like PHP with a framework like Rails or Django. Shouldn't you compare CakePHP, Symfony, or Zend, instead of PHP? Or compare PHP against Python and Ruby?
Also, to not waste time pontificating about the future of mankind and to snort the cocaine from the underage girl's stomach.
> Who is more fitting?

There is no Gates of this generation yet. Being a billionaire isn't enough to qualify you for that.
Everything you Know About XHTML Is wrong
Monitor DNS propagation
Ask your professor if he's heard of the Large Hadron Collider. Or YouTube.
But Martin, Enterprise Software IS Boring
Have you tested the page with actual users? You'd probably only need 3 or 4 to get a good feel for how people are using the pages and what users want to know.

On the Analysis page I'd put some interesting example stocks below the ticker so people that don't know ticker symbols can just click on one. Or just put that box on the frontpage so people don't have to use the extra click to find a box. Or ask people to import OFX data from Google Finance, Yahoo Finance etc.

On the Sample Analysis how about some charts? How's the formula performed over time? What do all of the ratios and analysis mean?

Generally when I'm thinking about a page/design I try to make a list of everything users would want to do from that page, group like items and work backwards.

Yoseph I'm working on a (somewhat) similar project for my senior thesis - usability testing balance sheets. Get in touch with me - my email's kev@inburke.com.
What is a Qwiki anyway?

It's probably not this Quantum Physics Wiki: http://qwiki.stanford.edu/
Yeah, it was Swordfish-esque. And they started so well. Too bad.

I guess the screenwriter just needed a "triumph" moment at that point in the script, something that the audience can share in other than some interns completing a programming assignment.
240GB model offers up to 740MB/sec max read throughput and 720MB/sec maximum write throughput. Of course, blazing fast SSD technology like this also comes at a premium, as you'd expect.
I was trying to see to it that people don't respond to the trolling as if it were a real question. If it was a real question, perhaps the person needs to do some research.
That's awesome. Good on you and your friends for treating a hard working man like a human being. I'm sure it dramatically changed his perspective on all of you as well.
On the other hand there is something decidedly exciting about eating "breakfast pork-katsu curry" at a McDonalds in Japan.
Really? I can understand different people having different pronunciations, but you have two yourself? Based on your mood or something?
Also reminds me of the "Programmer-Archaeologist" career Vinge described. And that humans' software had long used a low-level clock which was thought to commemorate the first moon landing. (A fair guess, but the epoch chosen was actually in January 1970....)
I think this point is similar to that made in Nathan Heller's Slate article - http://www.slate.com/id/2269308/ - that Sorkin believes that Ivy League schools are still controlled by some kind of elite class (if not the WASP elite of old, some kind of new Internet-connected parvenu elite). Similarly, a member of King George the Third's court (jester or not) might assume that the United States was controlled by a landed aristocracy similar to that in England.

The fact that the 18th century British court did not have jesters is tangential at most. Call our theoretical author a macaroni (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 ) if you must.
Many reasons from my PoV.

Recently, I could kick off writing Cocoa apps in PyObjC with very little bit of learning to do. Within a day I feel confident on how to build my app.

I know a few profs who find it easy to train their students in Python and get them productive within a week. Even if its an electronics course. http://pykata.appspot.com/statements/

Besides prototyping/experimenting in Python is much easier. It was zillions of options for whatever you wish to do - webapps, scientific computing, visualization, network apps, interfacing hardware, and what not.
Definitely. GitHub is the de-facto home for rubyists, so it's no surprise to me that it's the most popular language there.
I was thinking about making a witty comment regarding YouTube or Disqus, but at the time I was so dumbfounded by his statement I ended up just smiling and walking away. Surely Python is not a new concept to most people? Software engineering professors? Come on.
Without Autorun enabled, how does code get executed on a usb drive?
and IPython, it's a import part of NumPy/SciPy/MatplotLib family, offers a great many convenience features, such as tab-completion of python functions and a good help system. not to mention the new ZeroMQ messaging design(http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/development/messag...).
Sigh its gone now. From what I can tell, the script managed to hijack a facebook page to insert a link under a fake tab "Photo". If clicked, loaded an iframe, and clicking on that iframe liked the page.
Modern Kitchen Design,Modern Kitchen Designs Ideas
Sometimes referred to as the heart of the home, the kitchen is a place to prepare and cook food and, depending on the size, can be used to eat and entertain guests.
After Sony Ericsson, Samsung leaves Symbian for Android
This is a good proposal. No-one is doing enough to compete with Google in the web app arena. Where, for example, can I find an open-source e-mail client as good as gmail?

As for comments like

The really goofy thing is thinking that a browser is the best platform for application development. It isn't.

That is developer thinking. If you think that, go ask your mum or someone who works in a restaurant what the best platform for applications is. They will not have an opinion (unless they are also a developer.) The only reason not to support the browser is performance, and as the article says, that is just getting better and better.

As to whether it is Fedora's place to compete here - it totally, utterly is. As a provider of free software, no-one said they have to focus on one platform or even only on providing a platform. Again, no-one in the real world cares about platforms.

Fedora or Gnome producing an Android competitor, that really is laughable and a bad idea. You did see how Google withdrew the Nexus after the total lack of interest and carrier mistrust? And some Nokia stuff runs Linux - how's that going for them I wonder? Phones are hard and require the kind of UX work and corporate hoop-jumping that open-source totally sucks at.
Let’s be Logical | Socyberty
As a person who uses Ruby as their primary language, I regularly take a look at Python, hoping that something really draws me in - but nothing ever does. Not because I have an issue with Python, but rather because it's just too similar to Ruby (or Ruby too similar to Python, take your pick). I feel that my time would be better spent learning a language that will expand my mind more.
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We've not exposed the "DefaultFileName" property due to time constraints
What does?
By 1776, everything should also get very tiny, as the tax burden was miniscule.
I believe Airbnb is going to host a big one in SF.
Random acts of kindess... evolution at its best.
No license in the UK, but most kids do the cycling proficiency test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_Proficiency_Test
To live forever, break habits
Maybe Zuck did go to see the movie?

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=38848471&fbid=7078...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby

look at the "question tagged" and "Related Tags".
maybe ruby is still focus "too much" on rails, on the other side, python has better overall ecosystem.
This is to software developers what Katrina was to New Orleans: tragic, embarrassing and in many ways preventable.
That is extraordinarily unlikely. I can't think of more than one or two big products that have ever been totally shut down as a result of patent infringement. It simply is not done.
Samsung Galaxy Tab Hits the UK on November 1
Reject here as well.

I think the "What's the coolest thing you've made?" question held the most weight.

Edit: I say this because I felt my response lacked anything significant. I have to say, it is a good motivation to get you working on side projects.
Hopefully! Honestly it was probably 90% his doing as far as making a connection goes; grad student + cs geek does not make for the most outgoing group of people, and it wasn't like we were actively trying to foster understanding between cultures (we were pretty happy to be getting our stuff done and not hassled). But this guy was super friendly and it was basically impossible not to make some small talk in return, and then to want to do something to acknowledge him. So I could perfectly well see it turning out much differently if the other guy was also a shy/reserved sort of person and didn't make the main initial effort.
Practical considerations I would assume: Django dominates the large majority of Python jobs, while Rails dominates the large majority of Ruby jobs out there. PHP has a much more divided split.
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He does start with the assumption that 1/2 the promiscuous players are infected already - which seems like quite an assumption.
Wow. I didn't realize it was that big a risk factor. (I certainly wouldn't want a child care provider smoking around my hypothetical children; that seems like the biggest gain for the lowest loss of liberty.)
For some perspective:

cat /dev/sda | pv > /dev/null

Reads 188MB/s on my new Thinkpad's Samsung SSD
I am amused that Zuckerberg's profile page lists The West Wing as one of the two TV shows he likes.

Ender's Game is the only book, which isn't too surprising.
Changing the world in some massive way like Gates/Jobs did, can you imagine the world today without personal computers? Seriously, Facebook could disappear tomorrow and the world would hardly notice; if PC's disappeared it'd collapse. I don't know what the next earth shattering thing will be, but it ain't Facebook.
Maybe because you're completely off-topic? Like previous commenter noted there are many countries with much more complex "legal codes" than US, yet their healthcare doesn't cost as much.

Though if you have any evidence that cost of US healthcare is so high because it's so over-regulated, then you're free to provide it.
I think there are pretty cheap flights from LAX->SFO. You could also look into Amtrak (which I think only goes to Oakland, which is ~2 hours away from Stanford by BART and Caltrain), but often Amtrak's just about as expensive as flying. If you're really looking for cheap, there's buses like Greyhound, but they're slow and you'll encounter some sketchy people. But I think they've gotten better, and some buses even have WiFi.
Ask HN: I want to start a clothing company.
I can make the website, but don't know where to even begin to get the clothes made well, on the cheap.

I'm male, and want to design male clothes. (Think: t-shirts and tanks.) I would design everything myself (probably with photoshop).

After that - after I get a site up and sketch out my ideas - where do I go? Where can I get the clothes made, for instance?
Yep, it's a description of Sangamon's method for dealing with the nightmare of Boston traffic.
A few hours ago, I was getting ready to post a question on HN that would have been phrased something like this: "Ask HN: I got rejected from Startup School. How can I improve myself to get accepted next year?"

Fortunately, I didn't have to ask this question because, to my surprise, I got accepted. I guess pg+co. saw the hacker spirit in my application.

I'm humbled and incredibly excited to attend this event, meet all of the other hackers there, and learn from people much smarter than me. I can't wait!
I wonder what the age distribution is between applicants and those accepted. Rejected as well. But I'm "old" in YC-years so I didn't expect to get an invite.
It'd be AOL-sanctioned and the intention would be to quickly give readers the impression that the acquisition won't change TC. Of course, by doing this, TC have changed.
Well, imagine there were. He's writing a piece of fiction to convey some point. It doesn't matter that it is a revisionist history.
Web Business and Asset Investment: How to Know when to Let Go Unwanted Sites?
SSD technology is a game changer for data centers. Traditional hard drives generate loads of heat and being able to outfit a whole data center with them reduces cooling significantly which directly affects the bottom line (cooling is the #1 expense for the vast majority of data centers).

Now I'm just waiting for our broadband to inch up to 740MB/sec :)
Amtrak goes to San Jose, but the timing from LA is inconvenient...
It sounds like goggles, and goggling - ie looking. It also means the large number 'googl' 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - vast scale. It's not meaningless, and does relate to their product.

The google brand and message - with its single input box, and 'just search' focus was awesome.

Wesabe is a completely wrong name on so many levels for a financial company. Any decent branding consultant would have told them that.
Wine 1.3.4 Adds New Features, Supports ARM
Should an XHTML document start with a typical <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> header?
I haven't been given an account on the Qwiki beta yet, so I haven't actually played with it. However, any time someone tells me I'm "drowning in data" I get ready for a fight.

Quite simply, we're not drowning in data. Data is the best hope we have to save us from the rise of multiple-choice questions at the college level.

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data...

I'm all for tools that make data easier to find, tame and publish. Yet, spoken word generated by a computer is an incredibly low bandwidth way to learn anything. Those of you with accounts, what am I missing?
Ah, the bitter-sweet comedy of corporate PR.

The sole purpose of these articles is show IE9 casually in screenshots alongside with real browsers, in an attempt to upgrade its public image from "the cancer of the internet" to "just another browser, like all the others".

This is in sharp contrast to regular CSS articles where IE is either not mentioned at all, or only at the very end, in the obligatory "IE hack" paragraph. I have never before seen a CSS article treat IE as "just another browser" like this one.

Dear Microsoft. If you really want to restore some of the developer mindshare that you have lost (if that's even possible after 10 years of IE6) then spare us your smoke & mirrors.

Instead use your resources to exterminate IE6-IE8 from the internet quickly, whatever it takes. As of today these trainwracks still account for ~50% of the traffic and that means we, the developers that you are suddenly trying to be friends with, still have to support them.

It doesn't help us that, according to you, IE9 is suddenly awesome and standards compliant. When we sit down in front of our little text editors then we still have to put all those nasty hacks in. Your image in the web community is going nowhere before that changes. No matter how much money you spend on TV ads and PR blogs.
thanks for education! I thought i.e is "in example"
Yeah, but wearing a transvestite is really uncomfortable.
Rest of the world doesn't need American soldiers. They need American intellectuals to come, live & work in their countries.
I think the spin of applying a specific investment philosophy to stock portfolios is pretty neat.

In the portfolio view (last link): (1) Every company name is elided (ends in ...). That says to me that the column is too small, or needs to be presented differently. (2) Why tempt us with "Show Performance Graph"? Just show it, in miniature, on the page. (3) "Overall" column seems to be useless, it's always "-".

Analysis View: I buy and sell stocks and funds but not too often. So I took up your challenge of "easy to read reports". What does a grade of "A" mean in your system? How many stocks get this grade compared to the total population? I'm not a financial analyst, so some of the jargon on this page was indecipherable to me. DCF, etc. I like the explanation "For every $100 spent, $137.50 of cash is created" (except for the word "create": they are not creating money, only the Fed can do that). When you say: "No earnings power value margin of safety"... I have no idea what that means. Maybe you need to have callouts which explain these things in greater depth, and "show the math". That would be cool. Finally, the stock is "Grade A" but you've given me only 3 reasons to like it, and 4 reasons to dislike it.
As for reflectors; they only work when there is a clear
path from an illumination source to the reflector and back
to your eye. Sometimes that happens, but more often than
not, it doesn't.

Firstly, reflectors are designed to deflect light into as many directions as possible. A small beam in becomes a wide beam out. And they succeed marvelously at that. Secondly, any reflector worn by any cyclist or pedestrian will reflect ample amounts of light from the enormous amount of light car lights send out. Thirdly, experience with plenty of reflector wearing cyclists and runners tells me that you see the reflectors bright and clear, long before you see the actual person. Especially cyclists without lights, of which there are many here, are saved by the reflectors in their pedals. I've yet to encounter the reflector wearing cyclist or runner that I didn't see until I passed him. People I overlook always scare the living shit out of me and it is quite comforting to experimentally verify that that only happens because these people don't take any precautions to protect themselves.

It sounds like you are repeating something you heard sometime just because it fits your argument, instead of actually having knowledge of the subject. Your assertions are completely untrue and on a bit of reflection (pun intended), you would see that, which means we are dealing with a lack of reflection on your part concerning this tidbit of 'knowledge'.
Awesome WM at the moment. Looking at xmonad too though
To an extent, it does work like that on a local level, and it's generally pretty disastrous.

People will vote to lower their car registration fees if you let them, then they'll complain that the roads are falling apart. It's fun to watch if you can step back and simply watch it happening.