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Well, I suppose we're operating with a different definition of "understand", regarding the semantics.

RE: Sawzall, haven't used it, but assuming it's similar to Pig, that's pretty domain specific. You'll probably write different code a year from now than you're writing now, though.
Actually, I think what's happening is that a good number of people are taking my comments as some sort of personal attack, even though they aren't even directed at them specifically.

Like I said: It attacks their world view.

I'm playing the persona of a person that has been around the block a little too well perhaps to make a point. The fact is that there is always somebody more experienced, smarter, better than you are, no matter who you happen to be. Even if you are at the top of your game, changing the subject matter can easily knock you down a few pegs.

I appreciate that what I'm saying may be lost on the youthful part of this audience and may be taken as me saying that I am better than you all because I have a few years on you. Be clear: this isn't what I am saying. I'm no less of an audience to my own comments as anyone else reading them.
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> every entrepreneur thinks their company is the best thing in the world

Nevertheless, it is their company.
Elite runners can take enough out of themselves that the recovery is much longer. Recreational runners--well, I used to be able to do two or three every fall. Hell, I knew a guy who would run one a week. He drove race directors crazy, because he expected the gates open and the tee shirt ready when he got to the line in 5:30 or 6:00.
The key is in the model, and besides general details, the paper doesn't explain much. This paper is a form of marketing if anything.
No kidding. They sold 80% of the consensus prediction of 5 million units. That still puts Apple on track to sell at least 16 million iPads in its first year on the market.

Minimum retail price for an iPad is $500. 16m units X $500 = at least $8 billion gross revenue.

How many companies can take a new product line from $0 to $8+ billion in one year? It may 'disappoint' the analysts in a technical sense, but Apple's shareholders should be doing cartwheels at this news.
"Runner's High" is something I often hear about, but still have trouble fathoming. Whenever I'm running, all I can think about is how boring it is and how I want to stop. (and it's not because I can't do it - I'm in pretty good shape and could probably run 3-5 miles today without having done it in a while).

Any tips on learning to enjoy running?
Is this just a class thing? What does the NASCAR app do that's so objectional except be possibly unwanted by the kind of person who doesn't object to a stocks app.

I'm not in the US, but the fact that no-one even bothers to advance any actual reason for not wanting it beyond it being "NASCAR" leads me to assume it's plain old snobbery.
Applied yesterday. I have a feeling that was a big day for submissions. Hope they get past our video. It was pretty ridiculous.
I think _delirium's point may be that writing longer emails with higher information density may preclude the need for you to receive 100s of work emails per day.
Presumably the OP is suggesting that one's inbox be of zero length, not that you actually delete the message... File emails you wish to retain in a suitable folder - they'll be waiting for you when you need them.
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Credit Scores: How 720 Became the New 680
Well said there.
There is also cl-javascript: http://github.com/akapav/js

The advantage of doing a "language X to CL" translator is that it's going to be much simpler than doing it in another language (the number of features offered by CL is a huge superset of that available in any other language; the only exception is continuations), the result will be faster (the example Ruby translator is faster than Ruby, cl-javascript is faster than SpiderMonkey, etc, mostly due to SBCL being a reasonably good compiler), and you will have access to really good debugging tools (Clozure is really good at this - see http://openmcl.clozure.com/ccl-documentation.html#watched-ob... for example).
This is great, but would be even better with Git integration. To have a visual representation in vim of my git branches would be glorious.
The idea of "one or more" stores distributing these apps seems likely to hurt profit margins for developers. I was intrigued until they mentioned that aspect.
Am I missing something, why does it have to be either Python or Lisp? After all I know, Peter Norvig has embraced Python in addition to Lisp, rather than switched completely as in "no more Lisp". Same goes for everyone else -- some tools are more fit for some tasks than others, especially with corprorate restrictions being a constraint.
Can't wait for a CoffeeScript book.
A middle class that copes by shopping secondhand
No one seems to have restricted their solution to n < N even though they make implict assumptions about the size of n when proposing a solution.
I can understand that, given that effort is finite. When Firefox users were enough to support, it made sense for apps to do so.

We're not trying to be mean, we'd love to support everyone, but when it comes to spending a day trying to find and fix an IE-only bug that affects 2% of your userbase (sure, it might be a bit higher if we didn't have the bug in the first place) or write a feature that will improve the service for 100% of the userbase, the latter takes priority...
Seconded.

Great story, characters, and writing.
So, it's not free? "except for a few bits and pieces" It's either free or it's not. "except" should not enter the vocabulary.
As a developer, I find it hard to care about Opera.

Their business interests with their engine don't seem to fit with my interests as a developer.
I use Amazon Cloudfront to host assets, and this problem is taken care of for me. I created an S3 container to store all of the files (in this case thousands of images). Then I created a Cloudfront distribution to serve them over a CDN. Cloudfront lets you create multiple CNAMEs per distribution so I created a CNAME for images1.domain.com through images10.domain.com to my distribution. In my app I created a simple hashing algorithm to assign the right subdomain (basically it takes an MD5 of the filename, looks at the second character, converts hex to dec and that is the number of the subdomain). That way any given image gets served from the same subdomain to take advantage of caching. And the bonus is that Cloudfront assigns each of the CNAMEs a different IP address.
Interesting. I just need some type of car analogy for this to make complete sense.
His point was more that during that time, he had an opportunity to practice focus/concentration, and this helped him to reduce distractions throughout the rest of his day. You should be able to practice focusing in any situation where you are doing something rote and physical for more than five minutes, where your mind has a chance to wander towards more exciting or random things. Try it during handwashing dishes, washing your car, mowing the lawn, and other chores that do not require a significant amount of your attention.

Also, please focus on the task at hand when you are driving. :)
That's part of my goal at least. I use emails for things closer to design proposals, roadmaps, whitepaper outlines, etc., which need rationales, examples, etc. Ideally, an email should be something I'd like to archive and refer to in the future, at least until it's been superseded by something more authoritative (like an actual whitepaper). I think of them a little more like technical blog posts directed at specific readers; and it's hard to write a 5-sentence blog post that's worth reading. If it's just a quick ephemeral note or question, I'll use IM or my group's IRC channel.

An exception is emailing people I don't regularly work with, e.g. a professor at a university who I've never met. Those I do try to keep short and to the point, to maximize the likelihood I'll get a reply.
Silence on this question is good enough.
Great question, though ehow is created by user submission and paid article writers not an individual scraping other users content, publishing it, and not linking back IE $100 plagiarism. I do agree though that eHow is PURE junk and nothing but a site to generate ad revenue. I am not sure if they offer users who submit articles any profit sharing but they are being jipped as well. eHow is by the people behind Enom and a few other networks who give Google a ton of dough for advertising.
Yes, your experiences are extremely abnormal. I've used Eclipse extensively (I think since 2002 or so) and apart from the very early days I have never had a corrupted workspace, I have never ever had a problem with inconsistent search results and I can't remember an occurrence of it crashing (unless you count an out of memory, which is just from bad config).
Yes, you're right, peak is very important.
I don't really know how is this better than launching a site and using a Paypal gateway integrated into the site.

I don't really know how will this solve XSS and other security problems the web has.

What problems are these app stores supposed to fix?
The real question seems to be: What is this hypothetical corporation looking for?

If my company wants someone that can come in and start coding from day 1 then yes I want someone that already knows language x well, and can show me samples right now. I am deliberately overlooking your alleged ability to quickly pick up new technologies.

If I am looking for someone to join the company for the long term and I am willing to train, then I might care more about your ability to learn quickly (but you better be ready to prove it...) and little about what you know now.

In the real world, what I am looking for most of the time is in between. I want someone that I can assume will be with the company for a long time so they need to be able to learn and adapt as we change. But I also want someone that can be productive without a huge lead up time so they need to already know something really close to language x if not language x itself.

In short, I normally want some of both and your alleged ability to quickly pick things up is not being overlooking, but it is only one part of the equation and I seriously want you to have something close to language X already.
I usually prefer making it smaller. As much as possible, I try to write the content in the subject, to make it easy for the receiver to decide if it is important enough to reply or not. I do write longer mails when necessary, but I find that the short version suffices in most cases.
O'Donnell asks where Constitution shows separation of church and state
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Applied about 2 weeks ago. Hoping the early application gave us some type of advantage ;) Good luck to all who applied!
Yes, I love lisp - I'm a huge Clojure buff. And that's exactly what makes me think a graphical programming interface could be done well. As languages get more lisp-like, it seems as if they would become more conducive to a graphical programming environment.

I imagine looking at something that looks a lot like lisp - it shows the high-level structure of the code as a tree. But it could allows me to change the level of abstraction I'm viewing on the fly. Also, it could reveal (or hide, at my preference) lots of metadata about the code... is it pure, is it stateful, is it parallel, etc.

In essence, it allows you to look at your code as an n-dimensional entity instead of a 2 dimensional file.

Basically, I'd like to see what happens when you decouple the code from its presentation. Then, you can choose alternate presentations (including plain text!) depending on the task at hand.
Elaborate fake Chevron PR campaign created by subversive ad group
Well, I don't think you can discuss this particular topic without making gross over generalizations and employing some type of bias. We're talking about generations of people after all.

Gen X'ers will see the world the way we see it. It may be ridiculous, but keep in mind that we've lived through both yours and our own experiences, when you have not. That doesn't mean we're right, but it does mean we have a lot more data to work with.

Of course, there is a tendency to imply "walk 6 miles to school uphill in snowstorms" with our memories, which I acknowledge.

The particular challenges of Generation X are well documented. The fact that these aren't also attributed to Millennials tells you pretty much all you need to know: The environment has changed.

It's not a good/bad thing, it's just a thing.

Finally, I put this forward: We wouldn't have had this discussion had this been written in 1990. He would have been dismissed as delusional.
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Good timing.

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I noticed upon clicking that link that Twitter has broken my back button functionality. I get redirected to the Twitter home page, and subsequent clicking of the back button takes me back to pg's status.
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Reposting from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790843

Why you should care about Opera:

1. More minimal interface than Chrome. New-tab Speed-dial can be a solid background [or image] with no extra cruft. Unlike Chrome which adds bookmarks, recently closed, help links etc.

2. Equivalent performance to Chrome including JavaScript.

3. Firefox-isms while offering chrome performance. Aka Pop-in sidebars for downloads and history rather than new tabs.

5. CTRL-Tabbing is similar to operating system alt-tabbing. You don't even need a tab bar occupying screen real estate.

6. Password manager light-up button is a superior user experience to saved password autocomplete in Chrome and Firefox.

7. Right click mouse gestures. [and fully navigable keyboard only]

Also, it has a very good Firefox style "Awesome Bar" that can even search inside the text of pages in your history.
lol. This is the coolest thing I've ever done.

...and it was completely unintended. :-)
Findings from the 2009 survey: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/findings-from-the-web-des...
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Looks like you have an older version of Vim. Gundo requires 7.3's new undotree() function. MacVim definitely has a snapshot with 7.3, so grabbing that should fix things.
For those Europeans, there was still the option of turning it into a round trip. Granted, it was probably an expensive and arduous option, and required a ship in port ready and willing to take you, but it was there.

Right now, a one-way trip to Mars really is a one-way trip. That is, until we can put enough provisions up there to get a ship back out of that gravity well.

And keep the occupants alive long enough to get back here.
They currently have startups for which things would have to go horribly wrong for them to not exit at $100M+ (Dropbox, AirBnB). Its unreasonable to expect an exit that large in the time that YC has been around. That would be an extreme outlier (think YouTube).
Here's a better site for checking out some demos: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

This vis library looks really interesting to me because of its flexibility. My main concern is that it's based on SVG. I wonder how easily it could be modified to be canvas based instead. The only reason I say that is because canvas seems to be getting a lot of attention from browser vendors while SVG is languishing...
The stock swap scenario is a hedge. It allows founders to potentially realize some upside even if their company does not succeed. I think this could be a useful tool to help founders effectively mitigate some of the risk they take on.

That said, there is the danger that allowing founders to hedge there risk in this fashion would make them less motivated to make their own company succeed.
After they have received an investment it is not their company, but a company that belongs to both them and their investors. Indeed, unless those investors are individuals, they have a fiduciary responsibility to act when the company is being mismanaged.
Competition improves products. If anything, I'd think that it'd be better for developers.
The thing with Mars is, once you're on the surface, you can manufacture fuel for the return trip in-situ. Dr Robert Zubrin covers this in his Mars Direct mission blueprint.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

And you get oxygen to breathe for free! The Mars Direct plan calls for the initial deployment of an unmanned mission to set up a fuel station on the surface - then unmanned missions to cache supplies there - and only when you have enough stuff pre-deployed for the return trip and/or a permanent presence, send humans.

The moon may be closer, but until you have a working fusion reactor, there's not much you can usefully do there in terms of resource extraction.
You make a great point about recovery time. Many people incorrectly assume that if you finish your workout hurting then it was a good workout. The problem is that as you get better it becomes much harder to hurt and it becomes a recovery management challenge. What people seem to have anecdotally found is that more workouts which can be recovered from in a day or two are much better than the giant ones that leave you hobbling for a week. I think this becomes even more important where there are skills involved beyond only strength (like MA).
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Uh? I don't know about vim, but emacs doesn't even get syntax highlight right for most languages.

It's a great text editor, and I appreciate it as such, but it understands way too little of programming languages other than Lisp to deserve being called an IDE.
My opinion is that the compensation burden on the state is regularly offset by the distribution of grant funds.

Top talent attracts research funding that the state can't otherwise provide and guarantees future generations of doctors and scientists are trained using the most advanced technique and technology.
Flight delays cost $32.9 billion, passengers foot half the bill
You know nothing of his situation and yet are willing to cast aspersions on his character. Before you go tarring a whole generation with the "entitled" label perhaps a little context from the generation that lacks humility might be in order.

Friends of mine are in the same position as this guy. They recently graduated with good degrees from a decent university with no allusions that finding a job was going to be anything but difficult. Rather than feel like they're owed a job the ones I know have spent hours _every_ day applying for jobs for the past (up to) 2 years with no success. Most of the time they get no reply from these companies (fair enough), but the few times they do get an interview someone else with more experience gets the job.

This is clearly a frustrating position to be in. They feel like they've done everything that was expected of them. They went to university and graduated with a good degree. Now they see their friends who left school and started working immediately progressing in their careers and can't help but feel like they should have done the same.

All the while this goes on people from other generations who have jobs harp on about how it's a disgrace that there are so many people on social welfare and these people could find a job if they wanted.

When my friends get asked what they do and they reply that they're unemployed they're treated like plague monkeys. They're villified by members of the media and politicians looking for votes. Still they perservere. Far from feel a sense of entitlement these people feel despair. You think they don't know that they're "not fucking special" as you so eloquently put it?

If after two years of applying for jobs without an end in sight he feels like venting a little bit of frustration at the attitudes of recruiters towards people like him that's not the worst thing in the world. If his situation is even half as bad as some of my friends' I wouldn't dare condescend to him by calling him entitled, far from it.

It's not often I get angry after reading a comment on HN.
Mozilla's proposed Open Web App ecosystem is competing with Google's Chrome Web Store. Both seem to provide basically the same functionality: a dashboard of web applications for your web browser, and a store to discover new web applications.

I think perhaps it would be better Google Chrome and Mozilla had a compatible app dashboard for the browser, a standard interface to add applications to these browser dashboards, and competing, but compatible, web stores for web applications.
I didn't think this through all the way, but something seems fishy about that article:

... if the exhaust velocity can be made to vary so that at each instant it is equal and opposite to the vehicle velocity then the absolute minimum energy usage is achieved. When this is achieved, the exhaust stops in space [1] and has no kinetic energy; and the propulsive efficiency is 100%

This argument is not Galilean invariant, which makes it seem highly dubious to me. There is no "stopping in space"; what absolute inertial frame defines what "stopped" means?
Just want to point out that there's a difference between "pain" and "discomfort".

Pain is your body saying "I'm injured. If you don't stop now, expect things to become worse, potentially causing permanent damage." No athlete I'm aware of pushes through pain unless they expect to retire immediately after, or go into surgery. Runners who do this tend to get knocked out of the sport. Good runners recognize pain for what it is and stop immediately.

Discomfort is different. This is what the article is talking about. Running through cramps. Throwing up but still not stopping. Feeling tired but still pushing ahead. Leg muscles sore but still holding pace.

Of course you need to be careful about discomfort too. It could be a sign that you're severely dehydrated, or have too few electrolytes in your body. This is mostly an issue for distances greater than a marathon, however.
I haven't yet seen anyone show how it benefits to customer.
University of Denver.
Your time is up, publishers. Book piracy is about to arrive on a massive scale
Definitely option 1. You want to make it as easy as possible for someone to start using your service.
15% IE on friendbinder (half are IE8). The user base is fairly early adoptor. Pretty much everything works in IE except some of the rounded corners.

If your site doesn't work in IE, then you will show fewer IE users as a result.
Some quick links

- Back in June, we announced 10K paying customers (6 months post launch)[1]. If you're looking for some 'big names', eBay, Dell, Fujitsu and HP are going to be using the Azure Appliance [2]. This is of course apart from internal teams like the Bing Twitter stuff. There's a neat Pivot visualization of case studies and partners here [3]

- Review - I'm not sure what you're looking for. Searching for 'Windows Azure review' brings up a lot of hits. I've written a book on it and so have others. There are tons of blogs dedicated to it (azurejournal.com for example). What exactly are you looking for?

My intent with this isn't to sound like some marketing droid.:)

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-passes-the-100...
[2] http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/07/microsoft_cloud_com...
[3] http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/evidence/
> What problems are these app stores supposed to fix?

You've completely missed the point. The feature isn't an app store. It's browser based applications you can download and install on your computer, and run locally. The browser is merely the engine the runs the application. They'll probably remove the chrome, and instead of acting like a browser and a web page, it will merely be the application.
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Some Europeans had the option. Many had a literal one way trip (no money / resources or the whole go-to-new-world-or-go-to-jail thing).