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Well that's not very social.
Reference? I'm a developer. I never pushed Apps, although I am not against them, either.
This probably will come as a shock to you, but I won't even try out that app. The screenshots look nifty, I love you did it in 48h; also in rails. Normally I really am into new productivity tools and can't wait to check them out.

However, you got it right when you wrote "bacon isn't as popular as we were lead to believe." Honestly, I find it disgusting to read equally much about your 'manly' behaviour - drinking just so much coffee and killing off a lot of cattle to get your weekend fix.

Sorry guys; I'm sure your project is technically great. The popular reaction will assure you of this, so I don't have to.
That's a great point. Are there any 64 bit ARM chips on the horizon? I don't know much about chips, so maybe it's not even possible given the architecture.
Not that it matters given the problem domain, but the Python example code here has a timeable HMAC. Don't use native string compare to check MACs!
Basketball is probably the best export. Baseball is semi-popular, but it has to deal with cricket, which is similar enough but not quite. I'm a huge fan of baseball and its history (Babe Ruth is nickname for an American back then!) but they took it out of the Olympics though maybe World Baseball Classic can make it worthwhile.
Here's an essay on Nenshi's victory written by a friend:

http://raisethehammer.org/article/1205/civic_engagement_and_...
Egg is awesome, it's a fork of magit, so if you're already using that you'll feel right at home
"I feel that there is the danger here of a blind leading the blind effect."

So... exactly like HN comment threads?
"Apple (AAPL), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), and IBM (IBM)"

Those companies all sell hardware. Apple can't say 'lets book those Palo Alto store sales in Bermuda'. Ads served are a total volatile good (their value is the time they spend rendered on a screen infront of a user). Google has a huge advantage because of this (and it also makes the ad trade ideal for money laundering).

To relate this to startups :

If you are a startup and you are accepting foreign money and you are bringing it straight into the US and paying tax on it, then you are doing it wrong. A merchant account in Bermuda is easy to setup and is completely legal. If you are not doing all you can to minimize your tax obligation then you are not doing your job properly.
Sorry for delayed reply. I think so because JavaScript, with its prototype system, dynamic typing and closures, makes various famous language features and their implementations explicit, while other languages may hide their inner workings in the name of simplicity, safety, etc. Thus, by learning JavaScript first, one can bypass the reverence for OOishness espoused by Java or C#, and yet understand them better because "class", "type", "object" in JavaScript understood to be not atomic concepts, but constructable pieces of code. With JavaScript, one starts interacting with inner workings of the language very early in the learning process. Really, in which language one learns about events first? Remember "onClick"? Sure, interaction starts at level 0, but that's great because already the value of events is understood without writing a single "public static main voiid".
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Just designed a website last night that could be pretty cool. I designed it and created the architecture. Need someone with knowledge of databases, search engines and Facebook API. Particularly sorting based on the number of "Likes." Shouldn't be difficult or time consuming for a hacker. If anyone is interested in getting involved and knowing what the idea is, email me: patrickneiler@gmail.com
Who cares. I would rather Google keep the money and buy a startup or two rather than the government spending it to buy another battleship or aircraft carrier.
However, the spike in sales would never have happened if the book hadn't been freely available to start with.

For all the works that have their sales increased by the extra exposure that piracy can sometimes give, how many do you think have their sales reduced by piracy due to, y'know, piracy?
Not really: "However, the agreement[43] provides that if one party breaches the agreement it loses all rights to the other party's technology while the other party receives perpetual rights to all licensed technology."

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/X86-64

http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/operations/ip/802.htm...
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Magit's git-svn support is very solid. I use it daily.
I'm amazed and shocked.

I'm amazed and shocked that kuro5hin.org is still around.
If I started a business and someone in their late 20s is still talking about how they went to Harvard rather than how they've used their time since graduating, I wouldn't hire them. The only thing the degree does is get you an interview you should have got through networking.
I'm a web developer (C# full stack) with 2 years of experience, I have been attracted to ARM development since the moment I studied it in university.

As I'll be mostly in technical functions for some time (3 years?) what should I consider when trying an experience in ARM development? What are the pros and cons career wise and technical challenges relatively to continue to do boring CRUD C# applications?
I don't know exactly which libraries are immature and slow. These were just examples. Whether a language is optimizable for speed is to some degree a theoretical property, so I wouldn't worry too much about speed at this point. It's going to come as Go has everything it takes.
So, free access to a digital version of the comic led more people to buy the physical vesion. What about when the physical version doesn't exist anymore or is more completely substitutable with a digital version?

Digital distribution is fantastic and is still in the process of changing many industries, but I think that this case likely would not have had the large beneficial effect for the author had it happened in a day when the distributed digital good was just as good/easy as the physical, purchasable one.
I do not disagree with you on any point.
These papers are good: http://larifari.org/writing/

One of the nice things about them is that they come at the problem from many different angles. Part of the reason summarization has not been particularly productized is because for a long time the standard approach has involved focusing on a narrow domain, training a model, etc. That gets the best results for the local problem, and focus is great for a startup, but that approach is prone to over-fitting, and it is not scalable, or extensible. Ultimately, it has held the whole category back. The solution is probably to take a bunch of concepts from related fields and combine them within the constraint of a scalable framework.

That's why I recommend these papers (beyond the fact that they are relatively approachable): you can almost sense that he's feeling different surfaces of the problem, trying to map texture, and find the right formula for a great general solution.
This is no problem for ARM processors since they are bi-endian (as PowerPC).

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Bi-endian_hardware
You guys really do an exceptional job running the site, kudos for that (and yes, that includes the chocolate covered granola bars if you so wish). The community has really evolved into something pretty awesome.
As an Albertan, I am very proud of the exciting candidates we are electing in municipal elections. Hopefully someday we will be able to see the same excitement in provincial politics, where we have had the same party in power since 1971!
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Being able to build something useful that works well is the key skill. You've demonstrated you can do that. I can think of dozens of software applications that are not as nifty as nift.ie. Someone was paid to write most of them.
I think you misread the article. The power difference stated is between the 11' and 13' processors. Atom processors use around 2.5w, which is 4 times less than the 11' processor in the air.

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/specifications....
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Comic industry seems to get it better than other industries.

I can download digital comics through Comixology apps at a fair price and awesome quality which makes it easier and more convenient than downloading poorly scanned and heavy .cbr files from shady websites.

They just need it to release it the day it comes out in print.
"The End of x86?" Really? I think a few x86 processors are being used in some servers somewhere too. Or really in any computer that isn't meant to be carried.

True, there are similar (slower core, lower power) alternatives in the server market (Sun SPARC CMT systesms come to mind), but you didn't mention any of those and they don't have a significant foothold.
But doesn't this example show that people want physical copies. As long as people want an item, there will be a market for it.

Traditional print runs may no longer exist, however, print on demand may continue to grow.

For example, Hacker News magazine uses Magcloud for printing and distribution.

http://www.magcloud.com/

HN folks are among the most tech savvy people, yet there is still a demand for print copies.
They've been more focused on 'Macification' since 10.50 apparently. There's some discussion of this over on the Opera engineer AMA Reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dtbcz/hey_reddit_join_...
if anyones interested these guys created something similar for the node knockout competition.

http://paularmstrong.github.com/nko-jackalope-promo
Yes, AMD's Fusion line (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion) aims to provide SoC functionality.
Also, there are NON-symbiotic organelles as well! Why can't life elsewhere have created such organelles with identical function to mitochondria?
Wow, over 77% of surveyed Git users use Github! What incredible traction! Congrats!
I was just about to write this. I was too considering GAE to play around with a few ideas, but I would much rather deploy on AWS if it's free and without having to work around Google's specs. Great move Amazon.
what happens if I submit someone else's phone number?
Oh, really? :/ I thought it was default on all Android devices, I guess it was just the Samsung I saw... Do you know if it's available on HTC as well?
Aside: with application development becoming so much easier and faster, will it also become much more competitive (which is bad for developers), in comparison with systems/infrastructure development?
Do you have any explanation for this? Thanks.
You think Apple is going to switch to an architecture that breaks VMWare?
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Well it doesn't come with Windows 7 by default either. It's just one of those things that everyone has to install whenever they reinstall windows. I also don't believe it comes with snow leopard either -- maybe the only change was remove the option of installing 3rd party plugins in Safari.
http://tinyurl.com/2bc43be
If you want mountains further---much further---to the west send me email and my brother should be able to suggest some locations.
There are times when I've really, REALLY wanted to be able to give that feedback -- usually when a candidate came in second in a close race and I wanted them to know they did really well, but there's been other times when I thought specific feedback would really help someone (I interview a lot of fresh college graduates) -- but HR has told me every time not to do it, not even if they review the language first.

What's funny is the one time I got such feedback myself I thought it was because the company I interviewed with did it because they were paranoid I would sue: About 12 years ago I interviewed when I was 4+ months visibly pregnant (and I openly talked about it too -- I don't hide anything), and afterward the person I interviewed with sent me an extremely nice note that they liked me at lot, but they had to go with the more qualified candidate, although if she didn't work out, they'd hire me. I blew the letter off as them being paranoid about getting sued, but a few weeks later I got the call -- the other person didn't work out and I was hired. Go figure.
Microsoft's Bizspark program also has a free MSDN subscription, and anyone who reads Hacker News could easily get into Bizspark. Your entire project does not need to be on Windows to be accepted into Bizspark, just some part that needs, say, the desktop development tools. In fact, the application process does not make much inquiry into just what your project is.
I don't recall hearing any announced, though I wouldn't be surprised at all if it were currently in the works. The A15 mentioned in the article, however, I believe has something in the spirit of x86's PAE that offers an expanded (36 bits or so?) physical address space, for better or for worse (better in that you can address more memory, worse in that it's kind of an ugly hack and not a great long-term solution).
I recall applying to a highly-esteemed British university once, and I was aghast at what a sordid mess it was to apply as an international student (no info wheresoever, and Open Days was announced mere weeks beforehand), not to mention the admission gatekeepers themselves.

I was in the UK once, and met a girl who'd just moved to Bath from Australia with her boyfriend to do her PhD. She got there and found out the position had been cancelled and they had forgotten to tell her.
Wherein Stonebraker misunderstands distributed systems engineering completely.
People may just want physical copies because they don't have iPads yet.
It's possible, but just like the x86-64 transition it won't be pretty.
yes 'tax haven' is a slur invented by the high-tax rich countries to belittle their competing nations who have lower tax rates to attract individuals and corporations.

you never hear Singapore, Dubai or Hong Kong being called 'tax havens' (they are), the word is usually associated with 'Dutch Antillies, Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey' (ie. evil nations who are taking our money)
Personally, I've never found the built in ad blocking lacking. Where it missed anything (which is rare), blocking a specific ad is two clicks or so away. In what ways would you like things improved?
I'm not sure you can generalise: for example Math can be done 100% in French (and is usually taught like that in France, at least up to the undergraduate level). I've no doubt in other languages too. Computer science is a little harder, but also doable. But I would say most people deeply engaged in the field of computer science also know the English terms regardless of their mother tongue.
I always wondered if a deaf or mute person could challenge the same rules that allowed incomprehensible people to lecture.
The tagline from Innovator's Dilemma is that well-managed companies can get into trouble when they are being disrupted. The reason is that it's normally good business to get rid of low-margin products and focus your resources on the ones that make the most money. And then someone takes over the low end and expands into the high end.

But Intel is not falling for that one. They have made the Atom, a slow, cheap, low-power chip that competes directly with ARM. That's likely a wise move, but Intel now has the problem that low-margin chips are still bad business. They have to have their expensive best-in-industry fabs make low-margin Atoms, when they would much, much rather have them make expensive Xeons.

At one point they made a deal to have Atoms manufactured at TSMC, which would have helped a lot with this problem, but apparently that deal didn't work out. Even if it had worked out, the Atom would no longer have the process advantage, and then backwards compatibility would be the only advantage for x86. With Windows becoming less and less relevant, that's a big problem, considering the technical advantages ARM has over x86.

So fundamentally, Intel has a problem that CPUs are becoming commoditized, which means they will either have to take much lower margins or retreat to the high end. Both scenarios are unpleasant for them.
It's a pity that some things in the arc tutorial linked to at the top of the page won't work - e.g. (defop hello req (pr "hello world")
Apple have demonstrated time and again that they are happy to break existing functionality if it suits their aims.
According to them, these new extensions will also have [more?] control over tabs and windows, which plain JS (like their existing Widgets) cannot do.

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getting-started-with-oper...
Thanks, Jason. Appreciate the response and understanding of our frustration.

We have heavily integrated our business app with Highrise, including our Quote to Invoice app with the REST API. We've built reports around the Highrise data. And we love Highrise, for the most part, since it simplifies the sales process. And it's great to track where our sales are at.

But what made us love Highrise was that it was fast. And when we lose that speed, we are reminded of our experience with Salesforce.

The loss in productivity with Salesforce was why we came to 37s in the first place, because you offered us real value in simplifying our sales flow. But right now, we are fiddling with speed, and we understand while you have different priorities, going through our deals nimbly is important to us.
"Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything."

"Yeah. RISC is good."
My point is that they went from zero apps and zero users to lots in 2-3 years. IMO the argument that Windows backwards compatibility is the only way to get the long tail of tens of thousands of apps has been refuted.
Making money in a digital economy will (eventually) be a matter of linking scarce goods to infinite goods. The infinite item in this case was obviously the graphic novel. While physical copies are one example of a scarce item, they were given value primarily because of the true scarce item, engagement with the author.
Who cares what we think? You've got an idea? Do it. Code it. Hack it. Whatever. With something quick like this, what the worst that could happen? You waste a few hours learning a bit more about coding? Just DO IT.
I love his "better ideas" series of videos: http://www.nenshi.ca/new/policy

I don't know anything about Calgary, but I was fascinated by the detail provided in the videos.
There will always be "oh shit" moments, no matter how much you think there won't. Yeah, you can mitigate alot of them, but things get through. Even using deploys which can be rolled back, frozen dependencies or bundler for us rails folk, shit can and will happen.
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One recalls

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/17/3014462.htm

which may be pertinent. The fundamental truth is still the Tim O'Reily aphorism that the main enemy of most authors isn't piracy but obscurity. There's some sense in which this is a form of freemium pricing -- use a lower-quality (in this case, crappy scanned) version to drive engagement, then use engagement to drive sales of the good, pay version.

There's a decent chance that the actual publishers get this -- near as I can tell, the real problems with understanding this idea come from the top of the multinational media companies that own the publishers.
I've been using Opera since version 4, on Windows. I now use 10.63 under Linux. Years ago, Firefox enticed a little, and nowadays Chrome, but I haven't see anything convincing enough to make me switch away from Opera. It's a solid, polished product.
For me, this adds an upvote. Impressive (although "small") piece of work, and at such an early age
There were a lot of stories in the 2000 time frame, but nothing seems to have been actually done.
I'm sorry, but I'm unable to understand why an existing paying user should in any way, shape, or form expect to participate in a promotion to attract new users to the platform. No matter how you look at it, this is a promotion for new users. Period.

These expectations are analogous to you being a paying member on some platform, and they announce a "30 days free" promotion for new members, and you demanding that you should get to participate in that promotion. Shenanigans.

And just because AWS is pay as you go doesn't make this any different.
It's still the same. You think it's the right thing to do to see everyone else better off and that's great. I'm glad for ya.

I think the better question would be, what about the person that does not want to give their life for others? How will you judge them? As far as I see it, it does no good to give my life for others if I'm not going to be around to enjoy it. There's only one life to live right?
1) It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

2) You should know what you're going to do ahead of time, and you should have done tests beforehand. The after-hours work isn't that complex if you're doing it right.
One of the article's contentions is that the vast majority of users are satisfied with Windows and Microsoft programs as they are right now. Most of those programs are 32-bit.

By extension, if they are satisfied with 32-bit programs and don't feel a need to switch, then they won't miss 64-bit architectures.
I notice in the infographic that physical media has the highest latent demand.
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There are several components:

1. Opera works incredibly faster than Firefox on low-memory machines. I mean faster in application tasks (launch/switch tabs/go back/etc.), not executing JS.

2. Opera is easy for normal people – it has a ton of features like built in mail reader, etc. but they don't get in your way, it is easy to ignore them if you don't need them. Also, you can't accidentally download a ton of useless Opera toolbars.

3. Opera is free, independent, standards-compliant, secure, etc. - a lot of things that we geeks love.

4. A lot of normal people ask some geek they know to set up their new computer - and we remove the bloat that comes with it and install the basic apps (often including Opera, Avast, ImgBurn, 7zip, etc.). Surprisingly I often hear these normal people saying they actually like Opera way more than IE. I thought they would not care.
In your example, does the call:

$worker = new DJWorker($options);
$worker->start();

Actually:
1. block until all jobs stored in the database have been completed
2. simply run a single job and return
3. return immediately and run all the jobs on a separate thread in the background

I'm wondering where in a web application would be the best place to call $worker->start()?
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And just as important--Apple's customers have demonstrated time and again that they will follow wherever Apple leads.
The big point seems to be "Many web applications, including Scout, have customers around the world. There isn’t a perfect time for a deployment."

It is like a road stuck in a permanent rush hour -- if the time of repair has little effect on the users annoyance, then it's a good idea to pick the time to maximize your performance.

Working at night isn't hard in the meaning "I don't know if I can pull that off," but in the "I don't know how well will I pull that off" meaning. Anyone can pull an all-nighter or two, but most people will make more errors in the night than during the day.
More than that, in biological terms yeast is a complex organism.
There are tons of companies who sell shelf companies online. ie. $800 and we ship you a corp registration, a bank account, an office address etc.

For small companies with a single office etc., that is all that an offshore tax structure is.

The point is that when you structure these things, you don't want anybody to notice and you want to be a small target. Being a client of a startup whose intended purpose is to minimize your tax bill is the opposite of remaining unnoticed.
That was awesome......it's an even better response than RTFM!