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When you say you feel the difference, I'm curious if you mean in terms of size or weight or both. I ask because believe it or not the 13.3" MacBook Pro is actually ~0.1 pounds (0.06 kg) lighter than the 12.1" PowerBook G4.

Sources:

13.3" MacBook Pro Tech Specs: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-13inch.html
12.1 PowerBook G4 Tech Specs: http://support.apple.com/kb/sp48
"Minding your own business" may be a loaded phrase there, though. Much of the misery in Africa is a direct result of western exploitation. That includes much misery the proximate cause of which is corrupt leaders. Guess who keeps many of them there.

She has a point that truly letting Africa "take care of itself" may be more effective than any aid. But that statement is not primarily about aid, and withdrawing aid doesn't help with the subjacent problems.
It may be old hat at this point but I'd recommend 'Coders at Work', the interview with jwz goes into more depth.

http://www.codersatwork.com/

I didn't know about the incredibly short Javascript creation story until that book.
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Spolsky compared two rather more similar sites though. This one is a wiki where most of the content is static, served out of cache. Still, I agree that such comparisons are on a very weak footing. A single feature could easily kill any valid comparison.
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> Is the solution to design a laptop that you never turn completely off except in rare circumstances?

Yes, but laptop batteries do not last anywhere near long enough to make this feasible, and the faster the wake time the more power required to stand by.

To get instant response with the memory footprint of a laptop, you absolutely MUST keep the RAM powered or else radically modify the existing technology in ways that haven't been thought of yet, and Apple is not in the inventing-new-hardware business (rather, the apply-existing-hardware-to-new-ideas business)

In other words, it's what we'd like to have, but with current technology it is an unworkable solution (as it would require either massive batteries, slow CPU's or constantly being plugged in)
That's interesting - I only discovered undo within a region last week, and it's been there for 10 years...
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Another feature I'm missing is the possibility to program a limited duration for silent mode. When I'm in a meeting or at a film I often forget to disable silent mode when it is finished. Putting the phone face down is not always an option.
Well, here's Euler14 in Lua for a start: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-09/msg00568.html

But obviously for a proper comparison of the runtimes the benchmarks need to be implemented the 'same way' and not simply yield the 'same result'.
I owe a lot to him. It was a picture of a Mandelbrot on a computer lab wall that inspired me to pursue programming and computer science in the 90s. It was the combination of math and art that was so beautiful to me.

I programmed my first mandelbrot in basic, then in pascal and C.

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Interesting idea. I built http://hckrnews.com/ so that it would be easier to track what is new as well as catch up on what had been posted since my last visit. I'm not sure why I'd visit this instead?
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It's almost like they're innovating & creating new markets.
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The subsidies which destroyed the rice market predate the earthquake. As does the story.

Here's the same sort of story from Al-Jazeera in 2008.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insideusa/2008/07/20...

Here's the same information in a report from 2004:
http://www1.american.edu/TED/haitirice.htm

Here's a copy of a Washington Post article from 2000 (original behind paywall)
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/217.html

The story is getting traction today for the same reason as the one about Sims...journalistic sloppiness.
Are there any plans for the winner to assimilate the loosers, as it wasn't hands-down the best?
I love my MacBook Air, and am dreading the release of a new improved one which I'll be deliberating over buying for months.

That said, a little bit smaller and higher-res screen, 500g lighter, 4GiB of RAM and a 3G modem would be almost irresistible.
He died at 85. He had a long full life and accomplished far, far more than you or I ever will, combined, multiplied by 256. (I'd like to think that's an exaggeration; alas.)

I don't get why humans mourn the death of people who die at >80, and especially people who have lead such illustrious, incredible lives. It should be a time for celebration, of the incredible way in which Mandelbrot has contributed to the sum of Humanity's Greatness. We should literally throw a party in His honor.

Humans die around age 80, with a variance of about 55-105. It's just a fact. For all our claims of progress, we are still hopelessly emotional animals who are influenced by whatever-happens-to-influence-us rather than solely by logic and reason.
It's not sad that he died, he was 85 years old. He gave a lot to the world and had a long (and judging by the last talk of his I attended, happy) life. Pretty good deal if you ask me.
Man, watching those mutas fly around really makes me wish I could personally interface with BWAPI. I've always wished it was possible to manage each unit individually, even in combat.

I guess that's what turn-by-turn games like Advance Wars are for though.
They need to have a Macbook Air Pro

Ethernet

Better graphics card

I would kill for a 200+dpi screen on a 12 or 13 inch screen

With no optical the machine should be much lighter and the battery last longer. Throw in built in 3g and I'll even splurge for the overnight shipping.

The optical is used so rarely offering a $99 external USB seems like the perfect solution.

Edit: formatting
With MSVC on x86, you can pass /Qlong-double to the compiler for it to "properly size" the long double type :)
Why is this the biggest problem? For every protocol there are broken clients. For example, most XML parsers are broken. That is not a problem of XML, is it?
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I didn't get it at first as well, all i heard was "View" on the phone. Did you try scrolling down a bit to the section - "Events show below as people and phones hit the above URLs," your actions get appended below that like.

{"action":["+XXX-xxx-xxxx","1"]}
{"action":["+XXX-xxx-xxxx","9"]}

BTW - this is damn awesome, thanks open sourcing this.
Random thought: Every human is a fractal, and our age is our level of zoom.
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Is dlp.ww.com taken? If not, I'd like that dlp.ww.com --> http://aperiodic.org.

Thank you so much for this offer!
I use dtrx for this purpose (http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/).
What has he been doing besides looking for a job?

If it's been writing code, building something, then yes you should hire him.

Otherwise, go with your gut - either steer clear or pay per deliverable.
It's worth mentioning that this is in the ubuntu (and debian?) repos. 'sudo apt-get install dtrx'
You can install Windows 7 from a USB flash disk (or external hard drive if you wanted to) with the Windows 7 USB tool. Works great and installs much faster than from a DVD. Even on my desktop, I haven't used disks to install software in forever. Hey, you can even download a trial of Office, Photoshop, or almost any major software, and then activate it with a key from a physical package. Works great.
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Hilarious. But confirms that OpenOffice is a threat to MS.
I submit to you that investment in the bitcoin economy is paid for in other currencies (eg dollars), not in bitcoins. Given that, the strength of the bitcoin economy has nothing to do with the availability of money for investment. And indeed a growth in value for bitcoins should drive investment in bitcoins, which leads to what you've observed.

The dynamics would be opposite were bitcoins the primary currency.
Dear god. It's been 9 years. About ~3,000 random people died. Do you have any idea how many random people have died in the last 9 years? Could we maybe solve car accidents rather than potential terrorist attacks?

I'm sorry for being callous, but damn, let's agree to prioritize...
Hilarious. But confirms that OpenOffice is a threat to MS.
I meant that the bandwidths are available to give the remote DJ enough immersive experience to do his job well.
A couple of hi-def video streams and a high quality sound stream.
I'm not going to develop it, I just noted it might be in the realm of the doable now.
Nassim posted the same news on his facebook page too. I would guess the news is not hoax. I dont think his page is hacked.
even in his old age his thinking was still fresh. he had an unusual clarity of thought and was able to convey his theories even to the layman. the man may be dead but his ideas live on.
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Thanks for the awesome offer!
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My personal experience has been that the graphical shells to gdb just aren't very good - they are prone to crashing, difficult to use (especially the initial setup for a project, and just don't give me enough advantage over good ol' standard gdb to bother. I usually pair that up with a cscope style tool running in another terminal so that I can browse the source code to see what's going on, find function names to set breakpoints on etc. It works pretty well.
GNU tar already automatically detects compression types.

tar -xf file

Will happily extract tar, tgz, tbz and more.
Also, since memoization is just another name for caching, dynamic progamming is actually very widely used.
God, really, I hope this turns out to be right. If our brains are fundamentally different, we (men and women) are doomed to never really understand each other, which I find totally depressing.
> Due to recent changes, App Engine no longer supports mapping your app to a naked domain. If your domain registrar supports URL redirects, you can redirect from http://yourdomain.com to e.g http://www.yourdomain.com or http://appid.yourdomain.com.

http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/general.html#naked_domai...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/817809/how-to-use-google-...

http://blog.notdot.net/2009/12/Naked-domains-on-App-Engine

(For non-commercial use this limitation may be more acceptable, but if you are seriously launching a commercial service, you probably want to freely choose your domain.)
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> It's one button away... as long as you have the same technology on both sides (and then, why are you incurring all this overhead anyway?)

If you want to make it look like you have an open API, while only having to do enough work to expose the way your two predefined systems already communicate, SOAP is the answer.
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cx is a common alias for chmod +x, so another name might be better.
Does anyone have pointers/links to application or research of fractals in the recent past ?

Atleast in network traffic analysis, there seemed to be a lot of buzz about "self-similar" nature of TCP/IP,Ethernet, till around 2005-2006- you can see heavily cited papers on Google scholar.

But,of late -atleast in the past three years- you wouldn't find heavily-cited research/publications on fractals in top conferences. ( I may be wrong, I only did a quick look up)

Has the interest in application of fractals fizzled out in the past few years?
3000 people died, but if you don't think the events changed the world you're delusional. We're talking about two prolonged wars, trillions of dollars, thousands of american lives being lost, countless civilians being injured or killed in war, a loss of civil liberties, hundreds if not more afflicted with illness due to the toxicity of ground zero, questions about our governments ability and willingness to protect against terrorism, possibly hundreds tortured in the name of fighting terrorism, and I could go on.
Holy fuck. He did all of that in 10 days?

Even with a case of Red Bull, a bottle of Adderall, and a heart full of courage, I doubt most of us could come close to that level of productivity. We'd get bogged down in the details. I know I would.
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I guess Coulton's going to have to change the lyrics a little.
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I open up my Macbook and it's instantly on. You don't need to turn it off when you're finished using it - it really doesn't take that much power in standby.

--
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So I'm not sure if I agree with this argument.. And I'm going to link to the ultra-layman's version here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/39/Harry_Potter_and_the_... but why celebrate at someone dying at 85 when we can/should be able to make them live till 170. Or longer.

On a related note -- for anyone who hasn't read "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" -- It's brilliant.
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Indeed. Politicians used 9/11 as a vehicle for all manner of dubious agendas, but in the wider scheme of things there are far more serious threats than terrorism but they're often just not as photogenic or glamorous.
So, I'm not a huge GitHub fan for open source projects. Why? Because while it's a great site and tool (don't get me wrong, I can understand the attraction), GitHub can be a pain in the ass for end users. How so? I don't know how many times I've found some code I wanted to use only to find a dozen or more forks, none of which have been merged back together and a handful of which have patches I'm interested in. It's way, way too easy in GitHub for the community to get lost in the forks. There's no clear mechanism for communication (mailing list, forums, etc.) and not enough pressure to merge code back into a common repository. Sure it democratizes contributions, but it also makes a mess.

There's a real need and advantage to having a canonical, master repository - something users can trust that's been properly vetted, tested and debugged. There's a lot of value in a single place for discussion with public, searchable archives so that users can learn the project history, why decisions were made and, if necessary, ask new questions. There's nothing worse than having to use Google to search blogs for outdated documentation and discussions split across little more than tweets.

GitHub encourages forking but it doesn't necessarily encourage merging. Successful open source projects which a large, invested user base require a bit more structure, stability and developer support than GitHub encourages. It may be a great place to start a project, but at some point, I can see projects graduating to their own infrastructure and a real, organized community.
That's my point. All of that is a consequence of people being so massively upset about this one particular event. And for what? Exactly what you said: for no good reason!

Let us please learn to put things into perspective so that we can avoid the true tragedies which you described:

- two prolonged wars

- trillions(!) of dollars spent

- countless civilians being injured or killed in war

- a loss of civil liberties

- possibly hundreds tortured in the name of fighting terrorism

Those tragedies were not caused by 9/11. They were caused by our perception of how terrible 9/11 was. In reality, the 3,000 lost lives pales in comparison to the bone-chilling list you assembled.
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He means he wishes he believed in Hell, so he could believe patent trolls went there.
I've never heard of that - how do you know it's common?
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As I mentioned in my comment, I think it actually makes the politics worse. There's not a lot of pressure to merge code back into a single master and there's no good place for the network of forks to come together and communicate on how to collaborate.
most acquisitions fail and AOL has pretty disastrous recent experience with Bebo.

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Hi Jacques, if it's not too late any chance of code.ww.com to quietcode.com. It appears to be free.

Thanks heaps
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> There were a lot of us in the run-up to Sept. 11 who had seen warning signs that something devastating might be in the planning stages.

With 20/20 hindsight, yes. Intelligence services are constantly going through massive amounts of information trying to pick out credible threats. When they eventually miss one, sure, it looks obvious in retrospect. But I bet there's dozens of "kill the evil Westerners" speeches happening in third world countries around the world right now. And then when there's a military raid or drone attack on someone who gives such a speech, people get outraged. It's a no gratitude, no-win business for the intelligence services, who actually seem to be doing a pretty outstanding job that's really difficult and important.
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Argh - sorry - I meant to upvote this from 1 and clicked down to 0 instead! :o( Wish there was a way to undo that click, given how small the arrows are...
Does anyone have any data/estimates on dollars spent per lives saved for various different bad-things? (I could google it myself, but I'm burnt out googling http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781941)
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The song is free on Coulton's website:

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Mandelbrot%20Set
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Hey. Thanks for the opportunity. I'm stuck without a domain for my artist profile.

some1else.ww.com -> s1e-ww.appspot.com (currently just a music player)

Thanks!
rob.ww.com -> robryancoding.com
seems to be something there, not sure whats classed as abandoned
otherwise just robryan.ww.com
Thanks!
I use a large whiteboard and lots of post-it pad. Write the tasks on the post-it and stick it on the whiteboard. Rearrange it accordingly. Anytime I want to work on things, I just take a post-it with me and work on it on my laptop.
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Oh, certainly. And people living until 85/100 has become common only recently (relatively speaking).

I'm merely mourning the emotional complex of otherwise-logical humans. I happened to have a frustrating week due to coworkers being unwilling to think about logical benefits of proposed solutions, letting their emotions overwhelm their judgement. "Schedule feature requests? Schedules cause pain, anguish, and suffering; also monsters will materialize and devour your soul. Your whole soul. Scheduling is out of the question. P.S. I assigned you a bug to get done before tomorrow evening (seriously). Drop your multi-week project and work on that, now. Don't worry, I cleared it with the lead programmer."

So when I read the top comment of the top article on HN, and realized it was negatively charged with emotion, I suppose I got a little cynical. :)
If you have SEO, do a slow transition. Don't just put a 301 in place and assume it'll work. I did a transition once and then all the links dropped out of Google, and it cost, I don't know how much, but a lot of lost revenue. Re-write any SEO pages on the new site with different language (but the same keyword density and basic idea), change as many backlinks as you can, and have the old site's pages link to the new site at first. Once the new site is ranking on the frontpage, then maybe put a 301 in place and that should get you close to the top of where you were at. I'm all for fast action, but not on this particular score. Transition slowly. Good luck.
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I've never had to use SOAP so I may be off here but isn't the above "just" a matter of bad implementations and not necessarily SOAP itself ? It sounds like blaming HTML/CSS/Javascript because there are crappy browsers that don't follow the standards.
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Surely you are not suggesting the Taliban represents the ideal implementation (the norm) of Islam?

The full quote is from the penultimate paragraph (which, btw, is referring to a New York Times article from November 23, 2001)...

The New York Times piece on Mullah Omar’s car also noted that during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the Hilux and its larger sibling the Landcruiser “provided ideal platforms for intimidation and enforcement.” The Taliban rode around “ready to leap down and beat women for showing a glimpse of ankle or to lock a man in a shipping container for three weeks until his beard grew to the approved length. Or, most dismal, to drag an accused adulterer or blasphemer to the soccer stadium for execution.”

Given that this story was recently submitted, it can be gathered that the tattoos observed by David Kilcullen were not from Taliban fighters in 2001.

The article does not indicate any of the tattooed insurgent fighters are Taliban, or even Muslim.

My original point being, every religion has various tenets which are followed/obeyed in different degrees by various members of said religion. Some call them "sects" or "denominations".
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Guess we'll have to use vegetable oil.
Ask HN: spin off domain exchange idea
I saw the list of domain names people are offering to exchange. There were a couple gems, but mostly low quality stuff I wouldn't expect to sell for much in the market (no offense to those posting).

What did interest me was Jason's offer to partner up with good domain names. Jason certainly brings a lot more star power than most people but he's got a small set of domains.

What would people say about partnering up with 'real' domain investors? I am talking the guys who buy and sell domains for a living.

I am not sure what the interest would be from others in the domain industry but as a domain investor, I would love opportunities to partner with the most talented developers and give access to some premium names. I watch many others in my business trying to develop on their own, it's a huge challenge and most don't have technical skills.

Would HN be interested in such an opportunity? What sort of legal arrangements/structure to the deals would you think are reasonable/expect?