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1- If you put any teenagers actions under a microscope, you will find regrettable and petty things. Just because Zuckerberg founded a huge company doesn't mean he necessarily had to be a wise adult at 19 (or whatever age he was). Cut the man some slack for being like every other guy his age (at that time). He doesn't appear to have been the most mature guy at that time, so what? People can grow and change.

2- There's a lot of "trusting" Aaron Sorkin going on with his descriptions of things. Given that he didn't talk to several important people, one has to remember this is just the POV of the guy who has a vested interest in fabricating the greatest possible amount of controversy to push his movie.
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Yeah, one thing the iPhone will always have going for it, is that people on there are much more willing to spend money.
I actually work with bits a lot without knowing what the type is at all: enter templates, exit simplicity. My answer is to use C++ ~static_cast<Type_>(0) or C ~((Type_) 0).
And more HN commentary here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1782661
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I've written a PC operating system, LoseThos, http://www.losethos.com and I'm looking for advice on the next step.

I've had at least 4000 free downloads in the past 3 years, but there is no momentum or buzz. It looks hopeless.

I get lots of hits and downloads when a prominant link is on a site. I'm thinking of advertising, but it seems like blowing money.

Do you think I should seek investors? The fact that there is absoluetly zero buzz, makes me pesimistic. No emails, nothing.
Absolutely. Here's another, more recent one from the upgraded Hubble:
http://www.nickcoleman.org/blog/index.cgi/galaxygrains%21201...
I don't think I've ever met a web developer who thinks they're in control of browser adoption. We're slaves to dumb corporate IT policies and users who don't even understand the concept of a browser, let alone what it would mean to "upgrade" one.
>These aren't the cuddly nerds we made movies about in the 80's. They're very angry that the cheerleader still wants to go out with the quarterback instead of the men (boys) who are running the universe right now.

I'm finding Aaron Sorkin incredibly irritating lately. Jeff Jarvis called it 'revenge on the revenge of the nerds' and this absolutely is. The movie hasn't been released where I live yet, but I've read several interviews with him where he makes statements like this. It's complete nonsense. There is no us and them, no global jocks vs geeks battle being waged here.

If anything the cultural conflict is generational; media and communication is changing faster than some people can understand. And Sorkin is one of those that doesn't. He doesn't understand what facebook is for, why people like it, or what Zuckerberg wants. He claims that facebook is just the backdrop of the story he's telling - and movie maybe good as a movie, but it's a fictionalized account, by somebody who doesn't understand what backdrop was all about.

Disclaimer: I'm historically a fan of Sorkin's movies, and a vocal critic of Facebook's privacy policies.
I know I know, I've done some pretty horrible things with for loops myself. :)

Just fell like it's important to state that one shouldn't use "fun and learning" techniques in a production environment.
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they are still selling them, not massive success it appears
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx
I think you're partially right.

iPhone users shell out more cash than Android users seem to. I think this is partially a function of the maturity of the platform. I'm including iTunes in this, which has been around for nearly a decade. I don't know about other countries but you can buy iTunes credit in every supermarket, petrol station and department store in Australia. That stuff matters. Compare it to the relatively high barrier of Google Checkout.

So yes iPhone users spend more but that's at least in part because Apple makes it easy to spend money in the iTunes ecosystem.

But iOS has one HUGE thing over Android when it comes to games: consistency of hardware. You cannot understate how important this is.

It's not simply a question of different resolutions but Android handsets have different chipsets, CPUs, amounts of memory, OpenGL support and so on.

Another massive advantage iOS has is... the iPod Touch. Lots of these have been sold? 100+ million? Lots of these are portable gaming consoles. This is something no other platform has. Parents don't often buy pre-teens phones but they will buy them iPods.

Windows Phone 7 might be able to replicate this ecosystem in time. They have the Zune and the Xbox (and Xbox Live) ecosystems available. But I believe that Android will either always struggle with this problem or will struggle with it for years, playing second fiddle to iOS as a gaming platform.
How is it pointless? Don't you find a visualization of abstract operations or code useful? How hypocritical.

Besides, the question 'Why does AES work the way it does?' is a completely different topic which should only be touched after the 'How does AES work?'.
On topic of running old OSs in virtualisation, I purchased and installed "VirtualAcorn" and took delivery yesterday. It's RiscOS-in-a-box. I'm running on top of OSX.

My motivation is I have a friend who composes, and is still using a twenty-year-old acorn running the original release of Sibelius on floppy disks. He bought it directly from the Finn's apartment door back in the day. We thought it might be a good idea to get his life's work off this collection of ancient hardware and floppies :)

It has a command-line, but I haven't worked it out yet.
It would be nice if GoDaddy had an option for your account like: "I'm never ever going to buy a shopping cart, or email addresses, or any of that other stuff from you, just take me right to the payment page, please."
The most (and it has ben decades) badass UI of the web is the sun Java website which keeps you from downloading the right sdk/jde/jee/bleh in under 10 minutes !

edit: I'm complaining about their multiple bundles that make no sense at all , at least for me.
I think it's safe to generalize this as:

IEn is the new IE(n-1)
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I really believe this market is ripe for disruption. Like right now.
Web design (and I'm saying that as the owner of one of the worst designed sites in the world) is compromise.

Design, form and function compete for limited space and try to advance towards that goal by picking the perfect mix between conflicting goals. It should look good, it should work and what text you've got should be readable.

But not all websites center around the written word, and user experience is not just reading text on a website.

Hint: Less text is better. So good Web Design is to avoid having the problem that 95% of your web design centers around typography or any other single metric.

It's the total package that matters and typography is but one (minor) element in there. If it isn't just the right font but it is readable you're already 90% there, the remaining 5% may or may not be important to you.

I know great sites that use 'courier' or some other minimalist approach and I know sites that suck that have been designed by the best in the industry, they look great but they're like super nice wrapping on a shitty present.

Strike the right balance, don't worry too much about any one factor, especially not typography. After all, the screens we have are direct descendants from the 8x6 dot matrix fonts of not that long ago, the availability of information is what drove this industry, not the availability of high resolution display for typographical purposes.

We don't call them graphics displays for nothing, pictures still paint a thousand words.
Apple doing it and Spotify doing it are two completely different things, traffic-wise. Assuming that Apple is basing their streaming solution off of Lala's model (not a given, but why else acquire them?), we're talking about giving every iTunes user streaming access to their entire music library, including songs that weren't purchased through iTunes (which would require a serious amount of cloud storage). Spotify reached one million users sometime last year; there are how many millions of iPhones and iPod Touch's out in the world?
Because OpenBSD community isn't arrogant enough for you.
Personally, i'll be more interested in having this kind of data publicly accessible like they do with other dataset on google's publicdata.
Ironically, we just wrote a blog post (http://blog.quplo.com/2010/10/the-payment-provider-shortlist...) about Chargify as it was in our "shortlist" of 3 remaining (subscription) payment providers that don't give European businesses a hard time. Chargify got a pretty good end of the stick, short of a couple of weird things like charging for free users.

But with this pricing change, they're off the list. Sorry. So far it looks like Spreedly will be getting our money.
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=927714

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782236
Oh, I stand corrected then.

I discovered ArXiv over a decade ago, but from early on, it was filled with people of questionable insight, if not sanity, and I began to avoid it. There are some notorious USENET trolls who used it to build their credibility, and it kept me away since.
That design has been around for a while now, I very much like it but I believe that they will find it very hard to have it CE marked. I work as a product designer in the UK and have been involved in the design of a device that plugs directly into a wall socket, the regulations on the design of the UK plug are very stringent and this probably doesn't pass. With that said though I think this is a very good design and would love it if the regulations were changed and this was achievable.
Please read the guidelines, where it says, "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good..." You're currently at 3 points, 15 minutes in.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The perspective you mentioned is well-known to anyone. (At least I hear it more often than I hear from actual feminists.) If people want to spend their time responding to you, they will; there's no need to generate long debate threads.
Don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth and I still love the product, but Google Docs hasn't improved all that much since it launched. I loved Etherpad when it came out, then I was really excited when Google bought Etherpad... but they haven't implemented some of the basic stuff Etherpad had.

Still love GDocs and I'm really hesitant to complain about something I'm getting for free - but I do think they're playing with fire here a little bit if Google actually cares about the online document space. If they don't improve GDocs, someone's going to come take that market share from them, and Etherpad already showed a few easy improvements to make.
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I always assumed that the logo they put on the website was a stunt to lead into a crowd-sourcing competition, but the crowd-sourcing part was real. It's got all that Web 2.0 goodness. The logo they showed with the box with the gradient could hardly have been worse, so it's hard to take seriously, but the crowd-sourcing idea feels like a "me-too" take on following in the footsteps of Skittles or Old Spice, trying to show they're living in the present.

I think they then saw backlash to the crowd-sourcing idea as well, and then realized it was safer to quit while they're ahead.
It seems Google has a problem on their hands. If I undstand it correctly, Android relies on the Harmony implementation of the Java standard library. So Google will now have to carry those libraries forward on their own.

What I don't quite get is why Google isn't just using V8 to power Android apps. Also, why isn't Android apps development more like writing Chrome extensions?

The main attraction of Java on Android is that so many people know Java. However, a lot of poeple know JavaScript as well, particularly those involved in client side programming. So replacing Java with JavaScript on Android seems like a no-brainer to me. (The threading model might be an issue)

Replacing Java with Go would be more interesting to me personally, but it's a stretch as very few people speak that language yet.
> Please read the guidelines

You've been here 170 days? Well, welcome, but it's fairly standard practice to add a quick edit to let people know you're looking for discussion instead of trying to stir up trouble after attempting to write a thoughtful-yet-controversial comment. It shows you're looking to have discussion instead of just get a rise out of people.

> The perspective you mentioned is well-known to anyone. (At least I hear it more often than I hear from actual feminists.) If people want to spend their time responding to you, they will; there's no need to generate long debate threads.

Except the author of the article that was just posted, you mean? That's what I was commenting on. And anyways, discussion on a discussion site seems like a good thing, and not something to be discouraged.
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> I don't know about other countries but you can buy iTunes credit in every supermarket, petrol station and department store in Australia.

Very easy to find in western europe as well.

> Another massive advantage iOS has is... the iPod Touch. Lots of these have been sold? 100+ million?

That's total iOS devices (120 millions, announced by Apple in early september). Asymco[0]'s estimates are 45.2 million iPod Touch sold as of early september.

But yes, it is a very good point and one Gruber has wondered about a few times so far: neither Android nor WP7 have an equivalent of the Touch so far, and it is a major force for sales.

http://www.asymco.com/2010/09/03/ipod-touch-made-up-37-7-per...
Plan 9 is actually a great little OS, it is where linux could be if it wanted to badly enough.

Instead we're stuck with early 70's technology. Which is good enough, but it could be so much better if not for a bunch of NIH and ego.

No disrespect to the kernel devs, they're doing a great job. But longer term I wish there was some more real innovation instead of just a slightly better (and free) mousetrap.

For another interesting take on OSes look at QnX.
Bah, I of course meant "the new IE6".
"It is from the mind that all happiness comes, just as it is the mind that causes the experience of suffering."

It seems a pretty obvious statement, but it took me 24 years to really became aware. Now I know how important is to meditate on a daily basis.
Finally a Perl-using company on HN: http://www.slideshare.net/notolab/dena-loves-perl
(I think you'd need to timestamp each vote for an improved decay function.)

Well, somewhat. You'd need a timestamped sufficient statistic, but not necessarily each vote.

Consider ACO. Given +1:

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>There is no us and them, no global jocks vs geeks battle being waged here.

And you think the Engineers vs. sales is really all that different? I mean, being as we are adults now we can largely avoid oneanother, but as far as I can tell, the style vs. substance battle continues apace.
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I'm guessing that he's talking about Barclays in the UK. There the only one's i know who do this.
I think it's from The West Wing episode "Guns Not Butter":

http://www.tvloop.com/the-west-wing/show/quotes/joshua-lyman...
No, not really. The most complex math AES uses is operations in the finite field GF(256). Given that addition in a power-of-2 finite field is simply XOR, I expect any good programmer to be able to get AES.
I was one of the people who downvoted you (though it looks like the crowd is back on your side again), so here's an explanation:

First and mostly unrelated to your post: I have big issues with the Social Network's accuracy in its storytelling. Besides all the things that were completely made up, it's very telling that Sorkin in the OP states that the voiceover from the Facemash sequence was completely factual, with only minor things removed from Zuckerberg's blog posts. In fact, if you track down the original blog posts on Scribd, you'll find that Sorkin inserted several of the most offensive sentences, such as the crack about the Erica character's bra size, and also including the sentence "Do you think that's because all BU girls are bitches?", which Sorkin seems to be attributing as a quote in the OP but were not in the blog posts. So when I talk about Zuckerberg's misogyny, I'm talking about the misogyny of the character named Mark Zuckerberg that Aaron Sorkin made up for the movie, not Zuckerberg himself, as I'm convinced the two are mostly unrelated.

So all that said, the stuff movie-Zuckerberg does in the Facemash scene is blatantly and unambiguously misogynistic. He blogs about his ex-girlfriends bra size, he calls her and all other girls attending BU a bitch, and creates a site allowing you to publicly compare the hotness of various women using pictures obtained without their permission. These acts demean women, portray them as just sexual objects, and are essentially misogynistic.

What's bizarre about your post is that you didn't dispute any of those things. Instead, you presented an argument than women and men are equally petty and immature, and then an argument for how the feminist movement has led to an over-interrogation of male sexist behavior while ignoring similarly problematic female behavior. You can make those arguments, but the fact that you did so in reply to the paragraph you quoted strongly implies that you believe that the actions portrayed in the movie were not sexism and not misogynistic. You seem to be characterizing the things movie-Zuckerberg did as just "a bunch of 20 year olds drinking too much and jockeying for attention and being to mean to each other", as if those were the reasons why people saw movie-Zuckerberg as misogynistic.

I agree that feminists are often too quick to see male sexism in places were it isn't there, but that doesn't mean that male sexism doesn't exist. It's one thing to think that feminists go too far, and another thing to go on a rant about the excesses of feminism when confronted with a (fictional) example of actual sexism. The things movie-Zuckerberg did were sexist, and if you disagree with that, and it seems like you do, I'm honestly a little disturbed.
I wonder if Microsoft has to support Win XP forever in the eyes of the author.

I don't know of a single reason why you shouldn't switch from xp to seven aside from evil corporate policies.
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I do find myself getting frustrated with some of the search results. However, there is really no other option. 'Up and coming' search engines like DDG are good, but only for certain search types.
I have a condition that requires me to take a pill 3 times a day for life. If I miss a couple, I get a crazy episode of fever/stomach pain.

The past month has sucked for me. I've had over 5 such episodes. The main cause has been my missed pills. I've tried all kinds of solutions over the years. Pill alarms; carrying the pill on me at all times; carrying the pill i my wallet etc. Nothing really seem to do it.

So last night around 4am, as I lay on bed recovering, and I had an idea: I am on my iPhone almost constantly, almost as much as my laptop.

Why not hack together an iPhone Pill Box? Soon as I got this idea, I got up and went through a few pens until I found one that serve as the pill holder. Then I used permanent glue to stick it to my iPhone case. Done!
I love the way HN looks and feels.
> I'm talking about the misogyny of the character named Mark Zuckerberg that Aaron Sorkin made up for the movie, not Zuckerberg himself, as I'm convinced the two are mostly unrelated. So all that said, the stuff movie-Zuckerberg does in the Facemash scene is blatantly and unambiguously misogynistic.

You and I both know it's a fictional character, but Sorkin is acting like it's not:

"These women--whether it's the girls who are happy to take their clothes off and dance for the boys or Eduardo's psycho-girlfriend are real. I mean REALLY real."

> What's bizarre about your post is that you didn't dispute any of those things. Instead, you presented an argument than women and men are equally petty and immature,

Yes. In the real world, yes. But Sorkin's pretending his movie isn't fiction. That's the problem - he's saying it's really real, I'm saying his movie and righteous indignation doesn't reflect reality very well.
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No need. They'll probably take the main idea, polish it and then patent it.
Ok, so that makes my "AFAIK" statement incorrect, but that doesn't affect the point nor explain the down votes.
Interesting. What other serious drawbacks do they have? Any other countries use them?
This is all true, but it doesn't explain why they have to be shaped like a caltrops.

I wish someone would come up with a design which doesn't hurt so much when you accidentally tread on one.
+1 On consistency of hardware, I know a few mobile devs that were around pre-iPhone and they rejoiced over the ease of development. Previously they were testing on 10, 20, 30+ handsets.
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The all-time worst I've ever experienced is Korea Exchange Bank.

It only works in MSIE. You have to install a panoply of ActiveX controls. You have to install a "keyboard security" device driver (ha!).

Then, for an actual transaction involving funds transfer, it's a long-winded, 15-20 step process requiring so many layers of authentication that the typical person keeps an unsecured document around detailing what to enter on each step.

I'd kill for plain old HTTPS.
As for the Apple Store question, I was interested to see recently that buying Apple kit through Amazon is cheaper than buying through Apple.
It's got no data quality checks, so you need to use it with caution, but something like http://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/recent is a really nice tool for High Energy Physics (you can see quite a few of the first results from the LHC there, for example, without paying any journal subs.)

But it's a much better academic tool than a commercial one, and I would not be surprised that a lot of cranks put stuff up there and claim respectability by association, especially in theory or mathematics.
This image of the first prototype shows that the need for an individual fuse has been designed for:

http://www.minkyu.co.uk/Site/Product/Entries/2009/4/20_Foldi...

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.