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Vim or Emacs, it doesn't really matter. Users of both will tell you that their editor is best, but if one was really better, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion after so many years.

I personally picked emacs for a number of reasons, you seem to already be familiar with Vim so that might be best for you.

Print out the cheat sheets, and get to work. It's terribly frustrating at first, but you'll be off the sheets in no time. After a month of steady emacs use I could not go back to anything else. I have to use Eclipse at work from time to time and I find the experience maddening; having to use keys like Page Up, Page Down, Home, etc. Emacs lets me do all that and more without ever leaving the home row. I'm sure Vim is the same way.

Pick one, learn it, love it... just don't become a zealot :)
The implication being that great minds are updating their blog?
I've always felt like questioning the pithy sayings everyone takes for granted, but this one seems to hold up, in my experience.

I notice that if I'm tired and distracted and not with it, I trend towards gossipy talk, and when I'm fully engaged and my brain feels like it's firing on all cylinders, I'm talking about some sort of idea. In between, it's mostly talk about things or stuff that needs to be done.
It's the same app. Just don't go where the compass points.
Thanks, man. Very helpful indeed!
Stackexchange site for programmable logic; good idea?
Interesting article - but I think people should note that creating 10% better business and trying to compete with the incubants is a very risky and time consuming game. Much riskier and much more time consuming then anyone could anticipate... Of course - it all depends on the market segment you are trying to conquer.
I feel the same way. My wife and I work downtown and walked down to the Transformers filming at lunch. It's so odd to have outsiders look at Detroit. It's both embarrassing and cathartic.

I'm in AA too. Lived in MI most my life, but moved to AA last year. Any HN meetups? We are looking for another tech-cofounder, applying to YC this month.
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Interesting. I thought my bank's security was lacking, but at least it is impossible to scrape my data off it even if I give you the password. You have to go through the browser's main security certificate thingy to "decode" the RSA key that is then sent to the bank. It's impossible to login without it or get to any sort of data (afaik)
1) If you like Atlas Shrugged, then maybe you will like "For a new liberty" by Murray Rothbard (the founder of anarcho-capitalism movement): http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp

That's a deduction of libertarian principles from non-aggression axiom and application of that principles to current problems.

2) If you are interested in philosophy, then read "History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russel. Unfortunately It's written from the socialists point of view, but if you ignore Russels' left views, it's an excellent introduction to the history of philosophy.
Agree.... the one that doesn't seem like work.. (at least to start with!).
It's worth pointing out that all those discussions about what is the new currency or what not are only even remotely possible in the very advanced, almost-post-scarcity economies that we live in.

If the global economy collapses or a world war erupts, for example, hackers, bankers, public speakers, and other intellectuals like us, may find that the real currency becomes the ability to grow vegetables on a piece of land. Cue virtuoso pianists exchanging their £10k Steinberg concert grand piano for a sack of potatoes.
To me it sounds a bit like "the old rules don't apply."
He wasn't making a comment that the names don't matter - he was trying to rationalize why he gained an interest and appreciation for the deep-knowledge of science - not just how to look up reference material.

Names obviously matter - language and communication matter if we're going to collaborate on anything - but when it comes to science, to make new discoveries, the ability to look something up in a book is useless without the ability to understand how things actually work and fit together... and sometimes, books, and even the majority of people, are actually incorrect...

It's disingenuous to take that Feynman quote out of context and argue that it's an argument against naming... it's certainly not.
Depending on your machine (this obviously doesn't matter much to someone with a beastly dev box), IDEs like Eclipse or Netbeans sometimes can't keep up with typing speed. This isn't a brag about WPM because I'm not that fast. But the code verification and error highlighting sometimes really slows things down which can result in hair-pulling. The best set up I think is something like Eclim - best of both worlds.
No problem. I have a lot of out-of-band contacts with HN'ers, Mahmud is one of them and I meant every word I wrote there. Feel free to drop me a line if you want to, email in my profile, I'd like to understand how I triggered your sarcasm-o-meter so I can avoid doing so in the future.
As silly as it sounds, they really got the "get your user laid" component right.
I get asked that by desktop software people a lot. While the one-time fee wasn't my most brilliant business model move ever, there is no structural problem here. Very, very few of my customers use BCC on a year to year basis. (I have a loyal few dozen, but something like half use it twice or less.) If it became impossible for me to sustain BCC going forward, I'd turn off sales and then gracefully shutdown after six months of notice. If they complain after that, I'll write them a check for their purchase price so that they can use one of my competitors.

However, since software doesn't rot and the BCC monthly server fees are mouse droppings even when it is going gangbusters, I could probably arrange for someone to support it for my entire natural life and beyond.
Events that tie into the greater scope of those ideas may also be worth sharing and commenting on; however discussing people per se is probably best left to gossip blogs.

Nice thought, but 179 degrees away from natural human tendencies. For the most part, people want to talk about other people, see pictures of other people, and be with other people.

Even here at Hacker News...

Last week, there were 2 or 3 gossip threads with hundreds of upvotes and on the front page for several days (Angelgate, New York vs. Chicago, Facebook). At the same time, there were quite a few excellent threads about useful ideas and techniques that I had to bookmark because they were gone so fast.

There's a difference between what should work and what does work and we're all guilty.
Making Use of an Example of a Thesis
Developing a thesis for a research project can be a tough task. An example of a thesis will come in use in this instance. A thesis cannot be formulated at once. It will take considerable time and effort. With the help of the example, students will be able to develop a good thesis.
Which version? FWIW, I'm running the latest forum build (0.8.107) under Windows 7 and it periodically purges its cache as expected.
I agree 100% with the human tendencies argument, but I feel that the guideline still stands. Your blog may end up being less popular because of it, but I'd argue that its content will be far more valuable to society.
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er...not true.

take a look at (start from the last post): http://www.rudis.net/category/topic/dbcc

that was a problem a while ago. they've cleaned up their client quite a bit.
This is the reason why I've developed a dislike for IDEs

What you say is correct, an IDE is just a text editor with a bunch of features tacked on, but those features lead to the environment becoming hungry for resources after every keyboard command you type.

It doesn't surprise me to find Eclipse using 1GB of RAM after a few hours of development.

My main development machine right now is a Macbook laptop, so I have limited resources in terms of RAM (2GB) and processor (2GHZ) and hate to see programs becoming greedy
Back in my day, we had to use our eyes to find girls. And it was usually dark.
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But when you work on an idea you came up with yourself, your life is not like that. There is no enemy...

Wrong. The enemy is "everyone else". "They're not using my idea, so they're doing it wrong and I'll kick their asses." I imagine that anyone who ever invented something new must have thought this at some point.
Yes. Somehow that survived three rereads. Thanks for the correction!
Coincidentally I'm reading "Coders at Work" right now and it somewhat inspired me to write this post!
I use textmate + shell. Once you get rid of all the crap in textmate - bundles, auto insertion of closing brackets etc, it's actually a usable editor.

The main thing is just to get good at using the shell. Grep, awk, etc etc With all the tools at the cmdline, you can do anything.
I use Coda on the mac. Not really an IDE but still combines what I need into the environment.
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One reason I don't use an IDE is the overhead in starting it up. I want a text editor to open now.
I use ninite all the time (it's brilliant!), but only ever for initial installation. Does it handle updating apps?
Anything by Hesse will change how you think! "Demian" is also a must read.
Has anyone noticed the rank difference between General and Specialist in any modern Military force?
> "I think that some languages (like Java and C#) really require an IDE to be effective"

I've never understood that statement (I've programmed Java for 10 years, using a text editor). I think I'm effective.
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If you're just starting out, pick the one you can finish. Most people never follow through, and it's a pretty basic lesson to learn.

Once you got that down, pick ones that excite you.

Later on, you'll think about stuff like potential market opportunity. And whether people actually want what you've Built. But I think it's important to learn HOW to build first. If you can finish things, you're already well ahead of the pack.
Reading first and second Dune trilogy would give you a lot of what you are asking for.

Also I would recommend reading Alamut from Vladimir Bartol.

For more serious works - I would offer Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy.
This. Detroit isn't a painting, it is an ongoing tragedy with many kids playing roles. When I was in my late teens, we used to go to parties and art shows in these abandoned buildings, even in that Packard plant.

Once Gil Hill (commissioner of Beverly Hills cop fame) and the police broke in our party with guns drawn. Before ticketing us (95% white kids from the suburbs) he berated us, and told us not to dance in his city. It was a very colorful tirade. He was in the wrong, but I now know where his anger was coming from. To us, Detroit was a cool industrial wasteland scene to party in. To him, it was a dysfunctional place where people struggle to live.
It isn't about the size on disk or in memory or about the CPU cycles. It's about the complexity of using it. With millions of menus, commands and configuration options modern IDEs are hard to use. The complexity in menus, toolbars and panels is a distraction and uses up valuable screen space.

IDEs are not optimized for the common case. For example adding an interface to your project in visual studio takes the same steps as adding a "ADO.NET Self-Tracing Entity Generator": right click on the project in the solution explorer, choose Add, choose New Item, choose Interface, click Add. At every step in this process you have to choose from a list of about 10 options. So by choosing something else when you're given these options you can probably reach about 10000 different end results. Surely adding an interface is what you want more than 1 out of 10000 times, so why bury it under so many steps?
> Purely technical, please :)

Technically, C# is the language. Only live things can be good or evil. Microsoft is the Evil company, and C# is their language.

For example, A-bomb, technically, is a big nuclear bomb. It is good thing in our hands and evil thing in their hands.
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Karl Popper's 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'.

From the outside Popper's book looks as just a simple attack on Plato, Hegel and Marx, however at it's core is one of the greatest defenses of democracy, liberalism, and rational thought ever written. As you read it, you'll find even though the failed political and economic philosophies of Hegel, Marx, and Plato have very few followers in modern politics today. The methodologies they used, to "discover" their philosophies, still remain and are utterly rampant across the whole political spectrum.

I hope you enjoy Popper as I did when I first read him. The book was like an inflection point for me, before it I was someone else, after it I was changed forever. Only great books can do something like that and this is one of them.
Forget Gravity. Lift Is The New Currency.

Why should we forget fundamentals just because the models are constantly changing?

Just like an airplane can defy gravity for a while, so can a business without revenue. But sooner or later, both must return to earth.
Have you MET the rest of humanity? :-) Of course they really care that little. Their primary password is their pet's name or "password1".

Seriously, though-- I know plenty of really smart geeks who used mint. AFAIK, they signed up MILLIONS of users and had exactly zero confirmed (or suspected?) security breaches.

People care a lot more about their immediate needs and desires than potential risks. How many people eat well and exercise? If you ask "how do these sites stay in business?", I assume you're also confused as to why most people are dangerously fat? And why people ride motorcycles when the fatality rate for doing so is about 3x that of cars?
There has to be a word better than "Essentials" for Microsoft to use in this branding context. Because all I can think about is how, if these things are what Microsoft considers "essential", are they not included in the base install.
IDE's are a nuisance, but what's a bigger problem is your typical framework that will include a few hundred classes and a few thousand methods and properties.

Keeping that all in your head is a serious effort, especially if you don't work on the same project all the time.

I try very hard to stay away from IDEs and environments that require one to function, but 'modern' looking websites and applications more or less require the use of such frameworks.

So I find myself using the documentation probably more frequently than I really need to, in order to simply look up the names of stuff and I probably am not using the frameworks to their fullest potential because I can only memorize a subsection of them.

Even a 'lightweight' framework can easily come to 100 classes.

So, my toolset: vi + my memory, but it's tough going.
Great minds talk about remarkable people, actually. Or more accurately, great minds talk about people important to them, whether they be a role model, family member, etc.
There's a fine line between being honest about what you like and don't like, and then voicing an expectation that a certain workplace has certain negative properties.

In other words, there's probably a million other thing you also don't like, why are you bringing up micromanagement?
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Summary: "Companies such as Facebook should worry more about staying relevant than making a profit".
This sounds a lot like those "new economy" screeds in Wired back in the dotcom days.
Amusingly, helium is a fossil gas. (It's extracted from the top of natural gas reservoirs.) Once we run out, there won't be any more, and the only way to make more is through nuclear transmutation, or extraterrestrial mining. No matter how you look at it, filling balloons with helium and giving them to children is going to be too expensive in the near-ish future.

Also, attaching an iPhone to a weather balloon seems like an expensive and roundabout method to destroy a phone, if the parachute fails, or if it hits water hard enough to break the seal on the instrumentation capsule.
It's always fascinating to read up about the history of languages. Another fascinating story is about how Javascript came into existence - it's a video by Douglas Crockford.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507
> I'm curious -- why do you care how many megabytes or CPU cycles some random tool on your computer uses?

Because those megabytes need to load from disk, and those CPU cycles need to cycle. Eclipse has some cool features, but if I have an aversion to loading the thing because it takes literally 5 minutes then I need a better tool. Leaving it always open isn't an option because of all the RAM it uses. I don't want another computer right now either.
Who's the author? His about page brings up nothing.
What about combining the first and the last - wrap an idea in a discussion about people? Like in the book Sophies World: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_World
The thing that discourages me about financial regulation is that it's going to be a huge, unreadable bill, written mostly by lobbyists, which disproportionately burdens small businesses and outlaws anything innovative, thereby eliminating competition and reinforcing the corporate oligarchy that exists.

So is deregulation the answer?

Well, no. When deregulation gets done, the bills are written mostly by lobbyists. The big corporations identify a few of their pain points and we happily eliminate those regulations, but we never worry about the things that are most burdensome to small businesses or the regulations that prohibit new companies from starting up at all. So deregulation tends to strengthen existing companies and reinforce the corporate oligarchy that already exists.

Basically, for the market to work better we need to increase competition, but Congress will never have any incentive to encourage increased competition. That proposition would pit the lobbying dollars of every existing company in an industry against the interests of companies that haven't been formed yet.
The article didn't say exactly how they handle gender-ambiguous names, such as "Kelly." Here's one way:

Using the local census (which knows genders and names), estimate the probability that Kelly is female (in the local area), then weight each "Kelly" check-in by that estimated probability. The final weighted sum for a place is then an estimated expected number of ladies.
Do you mean ground floor? If you mean the middle floor then the answer is the same as the answer in the article?
Sigh.

Ok, Mr. Social Darwinist. Keep taking your medium-weak correlative effect and calling it a "fact".

On correlative effects. NFC winning the super bowl leads to an increase of the stock market the following year, with a predictive power of 80%, or .8 by your notation: http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/superbowl.asp. Obviously this has weaker causal power than genetic inheritance, which likely has some. But the numbers don't bear that out. Any presumption that rich parents means smart kid is exactly that.

If you're treating a weak correlative effect as a fact, you're the one engaging in the wrong side of the "is-ought" argument, and you're doing it to invoke "ought" on a particularly noxious view, to boot.
"Successful businesses often reinvent themselves for greater success in ways completely unanticipated beforehand."

Thank you, thank you, thank you for not using the "pivot" buzzword.
Some thoughts:

- Domain/name sounds somewhat awkward, which is not good for a place to get news.

- favicon looks rough.

- The front page is unfortunately a wreck, UI/UE-wise.

-- Don't use scrollover/hover to highlight part of main page name like some exciting link when it is just a link back to the main page.

-- Remove "Top Technology Memes". You don't need it.

-- Reduce unimportant UI elements by removing the icon next to where the link goes to and the site where the link goes to above each headline.

-- Story title on one line, text on the next. Don't start text on the headline line.

-- Text should probably not be in black because it is competing with the headline being blue and standing out. Pick one or the other to stand out if you must have both. I think the headline by itself is enough.

-- Get rid of the myriad of links to all the sites it came from under the headline and text.

What you have left unfortunately is a lackluster list of headlines, but basically- that is the gist of what you are providing currently. If you are trying to be google news, have categories, etc.

Why not pull content into the page dynamically via Ajax pushing the headlines down as soon as they come in?

Think about this: what is the feature (not content) that will distinguish you from every other site like this on the web?
It's more likely in that scenario that Steinbergs and Stradivarii would be burnt for warmth.
Perhaps people have faith in the disaster recovery routes their credit card / banks provide, whether it's well grounded or not.

What I want to know is why can't these financial institutions provide a read only username/password for users?
In vim use :make to run make in the current directory. You can browse through errors using :cn and :cp ("quickfix"). Finally use :!program to run your program. You could fairly easily map keys to do these.
I remember back in the 90s when they said "content is king".

Cash is king, always was, always will be. Otherwise it's not business.
Perhaps it is natural for an engineer to get irked when the press describes a thousand dollars worth of latex and helium, which only did 30km, and had no orbital velocity at all, as a "spacecraft".

It was a "spacecraft" in the same way a cameraphone is a "workstation", or BASIC is a production language.
I don't have any kindle books I can try it with but what if you open the book file in a hex editor? Or use a grep of the directory full of binary file's contents to locate the book? Are they encrypted?
If you like Feynman, definitely read James Gleick's biography of him, Genius.

I actually didn't like Gleick's other books very much, but Genius is beautiful. I went from thinking I'd major in English to majoring in Physics after reading it back in high school.

And for general sheer amazingness, I always tell people to read Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. It's like reading Shakespeare; the first 50 pages will take a while, but then you'll get used to the style and realize it's the coolest thing you've ever read.
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I believe they will stream it on Justin.tv.

I created a Meetup everywhere event for those who didn't get accepted to organize local groups to watch and discuss: http://www.meetup.com/startupschool
It won't need a global collapse for all but a tiny handful of startups that consider revenue irrelevant to run out of funding before turning a profit. "Relevance" is only a means to currency, whether it's coming from your user base or the perceived future value of your user base.

There are worse things than being an "irrelevant" behemoth that generates wads of cash and uses it to buy more innovative companies that don't too.
Reminds me of the part in "On The Road" where Sal is at a party with Rawlins and others.. quoting from the book: "Suddenly, there was a great inrush of youngsters from the opera, who just grabbed girls and kissed them without proper come-ons. Teenagers, drunk, disheveled, and excited, they ruined our party."