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No, but that's not what you were claiming, you were claiming that GM (and/or other auto makers) were responsible for the lack of public transport all over the US.

I hadn't heard about these streetcars; so I looked it up. Wikipedia had a fairly comprehensive (for an introduction) article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scanda... . There's a whole section in there debunking the effects of the 'conspiracy', most of which sounds like (as a whole) a much more convincing explanation. Note especially that, according to one author, "nationwide, the ultimate reach of the alleged conspirators extended to only about 10 percent of all transit systems - sixty-odd out of some six hundred - and yet virtually all the other 90 percent also got rid of trolleys (as happened with all the tramcar systems in the British Isles and France)."
Here's a much more comprehensive collection of bit hacks:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
I don't want to start an environmental flame war, but...

Isn't the disposal of inert materials in landfills one of the lease important environmental problems? Yes, if you're cutting down rain forests to make your cups, infusing them with CFCs, or using terrawatts of fossil-fuel-based power, then there are issues to discuss. But if you're just putting paper in a big pile somewhere, there's basically no issue. For all intents and purposes, our space for landfills is unlimited.

Could someone fill me in on any aspect of this I'm not considering?
They're two very different approaches to the same problem. To put it roughly: Backbone emphasizes smart models that can be passed around and observed by views or controllers, and Knockout emphasizes smart views that have bindings and logic written into HTML attributes.

The levels of granularity are also different. With Knockout, any change to the data will update that atomic portion of the view. With Backbone, the default is to be much more coarsely grained. The good baseline approach for getting started is to simply re-render the view when the model changes:

model.bind("change", this.render);

And now, whenever any attribute in the model is updated, the view is redrawn. In most cases, that's all you ever need, but in performance critical cases, you can optimize by listening for changes to specific values, and updating just those portions of the view.

model.bind("change:title", function(model, newTitle) {
titleEl.text(newTitle);
});

It's great to see different approaches to JS Apps start to surface. I wonder how much cross-pollination there's going to be...
A simple right click, and the fact that there's a loading screen, should have tipped you off that no, this is not html 5.
London, UK (no remote working for this one, sorry)

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We also have a project funded by a major TV broadcaster and are looking for 2 people to join us - asap!

* Front-End Developer: html / javascript + Flash [bonus]

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It is a matter of taste (and likely class). There are a lot of people out there who think it looks great. Maybe sites should use Comic Sans if they detect the browser is MSIE 6, and save the "tasteful" fonts for everyone else. Everyone wins!
Polystyrene foam (styrofoam) is an extremely recyclable material. I don't think many people have access to recycling facilities though. Interesting problem!

EDIT:
Another thought: aluminum. It's expensive and highly recyclable. Another benefit is that you have a small army of homeless picking the streets clean of the valuable metal. Can't find a recycling bin? Just toss it in the gutter! It'll find it's way.
If I were a critical systems operator like say, a stock exchange, I would have to have my head examined by a team of head examiners for even considering Windows as an acceptable OS platform.

Honestly, is the reason Microsoft can even get consideration for these projects because there are so many tech executives at major corporations who used to be Microsofties?
'Holy Grail' for employee hiring?
We did it as native app, for now Android.. iPhone to come. We have some cool features. Javascript will be supported in next official release, but for hacker news a preview version with JS - http://www.touchqode.com/downloads/experimental/MobileCodeEd...

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[http://www.touchqode.com/]
I came here to post the same thing, after hearing about these studies on Radiolab's recent episode on falling. If I remember correctly, another theory that they discussed was that after the cat reaches terminal velocity it relaxes its body since it is no longer distressed from the acceleration.

That episode was another great one, I think the whole show is something a lot of HN readers would enjoy. Here's the link to that segment:

http://www.radiolab.org/2010/sep/20/taking-plunge/
Does this come from something you read? I really like this analogy, though I still think focus is really important.
Obligatory MVVM Pattern Wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_ViewModel
This, of course, is a popular interview question, albeit asked with eggs (or bowling balls) instead of cats. Here's a discussion and a solution: http://20bits.com/articles/interview-questions-two-bowling-b.... I think for m balls and N floors, the number of steps is O(N^(1/m)).
We started buddycloud development before Nokia did anything with Trolltech. Having switched to Qt earlier would have helped and mean that we could easily port to the N900 and what I hope nokia see as the future of their platform.

Qt does seem nice and has helped Skype build a client that looks decent on most platforms.

But for programming mobile apps, I would be more inclined to try and answer the framework question from a "What can I use on Android or iOS" POV. I see there are some java bindings for Android-land but the project is now abandoned. For iOS-land, I guess it depends on Steve's mood that month.
It's is very difficult for a third party app store to get started on Android. To get a large number of users using it you need to get it pre-installed on phones before they are sold. Many carriers already have plans for their own app stores, however, or already have one like in South Korea. So that makes it even tougher to get deals like that.

Google doesn't allow app stores to be offered via the Google Android Market, so there isn't even a runner up option of having users download it through the channel many of them do have. Non-AT&T Android phones do allow installing from a URL. So conceivably users could get the app store from a URL, but it is even tougher to get users to do that than it is to get them to download from Android Market. They also have to enable the unknown sources option in their settings, which some of them won't do.

Without a large user base, developers won't post their apps to your store. I'm a developer and I've posted a few of my apps to third party stores. I get hardly any downloads compared to Android Market. So it just doesn't make sense for me, as a developer, to go posting my app to all these dead water third party app stores. There are a lot of them too. Hardly a week goes by where I don't get some spam email from a third party app store that scraped the developer emails off the Market listings. So even if I did post to a third party app store, it would be making a choice amongst a large number of them.
If only "savvy users who want to tinker and operate outside a prescribed set of use cases" want to use Android devices, why are Android and iPhone neck-and-neck in sales figures?
Probably the grass is greener on the other side. I felt like you are feeling at the moment, throughout my career. I have successfully managed to move from one environment to the desired one and onto the next desired one as the current one got sour few times and that has not helped. Now, I am taking a few years off to work on whatever I please and not be constrained by restrictions at work place. Even this isn't feeling quite right.
Oh, I understand that we hope (and probably expect) that the fine-structure constant will turn out to be some mathematically well defined number derivable from an underlying theory. But that doesn't mean it's out of place on a list of integers which are interesting for purely mathematical reasons.
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Ah, I see. I don't have an Android phone, so I wasn't aware of the security settings and possibility to install things from a URL, thank you for the information.
This brings to mind a future like Futurama where each person gets implanted with a career chip.
Didn't your very similar submission yesterday get closed? I have to express my concern about threads like this. I do not believe HN is your own personal job board, nor do I care to see many submissions of people's talents looking for work. Sorry for being harsh, but two submissions in two days...
You don't have to, there are widgets you can use where you just select your provider and enter your username, and everything's done.
I do support/sysadmin work for companies and executives.

Android phones, on the whole, lack polish, and often have unexpected behavior.

For example, just yesterday I had a non-technical customer who got a Droid X, with 2.2. Had battery life issues with the phone, and frankly didn't want/need to learn about task management (understandable - do you make the company CEO look at your server's process tables for zombies/runaways?). Plus, the phone had linked a bunch of unrelated contacts between his Exchange and Google accounts, so his contact came up linked to his wife's hairdresser, for whatever reason. That's about par for the course with Android phones.

My take on Android is "great if you're technologically competent and able to deal with issues that come up, not so great otherwise". None of these people are going to run custom ROMs, or take the time/know how to get the crapware off their phones. They're going to be left behind on old versions of the OS as soon as the vendor drops support.

None of these (apart from the unusual contact linkage) are technical objections about Android per say - I have a good friend with a Droid X and he's customized the heck out of it - it looks/works great and has great battery life. He also knows what he's doing. Most people aren't him.

I don't see a good solution to this that would survive carrier intervention...
the "only" in your response is outside the quotation marks. i didn't make that claim.
I suppose it'd be useful, however, most larger companies already have these sorts of systems in place. Perhaps target mid-sized businesses that use smaller hiring departments, perhaps encouraging them to move away from staffing agencies and doing their own hiring?
Does the iPhone provide a way to download files like that? I'm running an older model (3G) so maybe that limitation is gone, but it's something that I find very lacking. Wow, though, being able to comfortably read js libraries - and write small tests, even - on a phone would be fantastic.
Start side project on off time un-related to work.

Zed Shaw has a good discussion of why and good videos on why at his set of blogs:
http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/
"and argument of how big a village needs to be before it can be called a town is irrelevant."

No it's not when the argument for continued economic growth is that that growth will be driven by further urbanization. If the country is already much more urbanized than is held, it becomes relevant.

(I'm not saying this argument is true or not, I don't know; someone about brought up a good point of much smaller plot sizes in rural areas. Either way, it's valid to question the assumptions of the mainstream claims that China's growth will continue as it has in the past).

"and given that the portion of the economy that's centrally planned is shrinking every year, I think one can even make an argument of putting on a few basis points of growth simply from the gov't playing a smaller role in the economy than before."

That's not what I understand from observers and commentators. What I hear/read, guo jin, min tui (the state advances, the private sector retreats) is the current trend, and Chinese central leaderships wants to weather the crisis with more central control (as they need to, in order to be able to direct banks to loan out money, set growth targets for SOE's etc.) I'm interested to hear about your point of view as a local though, do you feel the grip of the state on the economic is loosening?
Yeah, that's a better one, with more actual hacks. Most of the "hacks" in the original post weren't really hacks, but the way embedded programmers set and toggle bits every day.
That makes as much sense as blaming US developers for Accenture failing at the LSE and claiming that Asian programmers are the best because they made the LSE work.

Accenture developed .NET software for the LSE and a company in Sri Lanka made the new LSE software for Linux
How to Take On a Passion Project When You Have a Job
The problem with -(i)ous is that many people assume it's a latin word and type "historius", omitting the "o". The proper formation would indeed be historious, but what's proper has nothing to do with what people find easy.

I have half a mind to just rename the service to historius and use historius.com for it, although my inner grammar Nazi won't let me. Having historious.com (along with historius.com, of course) would be ideal.
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This whole discussion about fragmentation is a tempest in a teapot.

The fact is, people are buying lots of Android handsets. If you've used the Android Market, you'll know that there are lots of apps. The apps in Market may not be as nice or as many as those in the App Store, but it's enough to sell lots and lots of phones.

If you're writing mobile software right now, you should be targeting both iOS and Android (and probably BlackBerry) if you want to get your application in front of as many eyes as you feasibly can.
Well, actually, for a while there were some applications available in Windows x86 and Windows Alpha (DEC) versions. Now we have x86 and x64 versions, which is not all that different when you think about it.
I doubt they could fix architectural issues that permeated from the very beginning after the fact.
Live life with a child-like imagination no matter how old you are. Just don't be child-ish.
The server-side software I write works on any Linux server, be it Red Hat or Debian-based, and web-pages are served properly on any desktop, including Linux (minus desktops with IE6, for which I don't pay enough attention).

> the lack of quality control in desktop Linux distros seems mostly attributable to the fragmentation

I'm counting ~ 185 words in your reply, and you still haven't defined the "fragmentation" you're talking about, just some random rumble about lack of QA.

The only thing Linux does differently (compared to alternatives) is a lack of binary backwards compatibility, but this is by choice since most software for Linux comes with source-code and can be recompiled. The other major gripe is that you've got multiple APIs you can choose to target (be it graphics, sound, UI) ... but every major distribution has compiled packages for everything that you can pull as dependencies.

Case in point, XMMS, an ancient Winamp clone written with GTK+ ver.1 can still be made to work on every Linux distribution available.

I cannot say the same thing about OS X, which breaks backwards compatibility more often than Linux (like once every 2 or 3 versions).
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Maybe a Facebook engineer will make "Google disconnect" now?
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The biggest problem in hiring seems to be finding good people. That might be a more important problem to tackle if you want to improve hiring.
And, Here's a draft of Bitwise Tricks and Techniques, by Knuth.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/fasc1a.ps.gz
"Everyone else purchased the iOS product" seems to imply it.
The most shocking discovery yet about how the banks hid their toxic mortgages.
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What book is it? You can't just mention a book that has Forth, Lisp, AND Prolog and not give the title. :)

PAIP and a couple others have Lisp and Prolog, LOL has Lisp and Forth, HOPL 2 has all three (but separately), but it doesn't sound like any of those.
I wonder why they don't come up with a cheap, washable cup that the customers 'borrow' for the duration of drinking coffee. You buy a coffee for 3 bucks, you get the cup for a dollar, and you get a dollar back when you return the cup. They wash the cup and use it again. It would be like getting it 'for here', but you give some collateral against the price of the cup, and can leave.

There are enough Starbucks within the US that returning the cup wouldn't be much of a hassle (might even be good for repeat business).
Side project. A bonus is that you can develop a parallel resume in something that you don't do at work (which is usually the case). Think of it like diversifying your tech portfolio.

Just submitted "How to Take On a Passion Project When You Have a Job"

http://www.good.is/post/working-better-how-to-take-on-a-pass...
I use and love jsanywhere but it is desperately in need of key shortcuts! switching key layouts every time I need ;(){}[]+-= is a killer.
Excuse me, I went to upvote this, missed, and downvoted it instead. Sorry.
It's an interesting space: hiring's a big challenge for a lot of companies, there's clearly opportunities for improving it, and there's already a lot of money being spent here so people may well be willing to pay for software that improves the process.

A couple of questions:

- what would this add to a dirt simple solution like internal blog pages with the process and job description, and then a blog thread for each applicant going through the interview process?

- who's your target market? tech startups, retail, recruiting firms, ... ?

- what are the limitations of existing recruiting software?
Well, if we were recycling all our current paper based waste then less rain forests would have to be cut down to keep up with demand.

Have been thinking about advertising catalogues you get in the mail and phone books as well today, both products that use a lot of paper for marginal benefit these days.
There is a vast amount of discontent in the Etsy community, and this has been the case as long as I've been involved (2006). The complaints of their customers apply to nearly every area of the company and are well-founded.
I'm wondering if this resonates with anyone in the HN community. I see a lot of people here with high levels of autonomy.
Maybe use tattoos as an analogy instead.
I've been mulling to do one as well, another idea is arrow keys to move the cursor about instead of trying to touch where you want it.
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I agree completely. How much talent would be wasted because people believed someone who told them they couldn't do something? Does Steve Blank think institutional knowledge, business savvy, world experience, etc. count for nothing? There are other ways to achieve your goals besides being willing to kip up on someone's sofa.
Also works in SQL Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176122.aspx Sweet!
I certainly agree that science can offer a more useful, factual and inclusive set of guide lines than any faith.

Consider for example homosexuality which is in general considered a sin by religions. Well science can tell us that in reality it does no 'harm' to society or the individuals concerned.

This can be used as a basis for policy in government and morality within society.

Now consider slavery which many religion's texts consider acceptable. Science can tell us that it does a great deal of harm to the individual concerned, their close relatives and less but not insignificant harm to the host and parasitic societies. Again this can be used to form policy and wider morality.

It doesn't mean that it will always be 'right' but it does mean we will be able to make changes to our moral landscape by learning from past mistakes and studying the data that led to past moral decisions. We will also be able to challenge other peoples morals using data and not ad-hominems etc.

At the moment as a species we struggle with:

- the false notion that morality is absolute: it never changes and can never change.

- lack of data about how past absurd moral decisions were made (for example no gays, but slaves are a go)
Another alternative worth checking out is JSConsole:

Browser: http://jsconsole.com/
iOS: http://jsconsole.com/app/
Source Code: http://github.com/remy/jsconsole
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This article is superb in response to the question and also to helping non-business people understand how their disciplines apply to business/business decisionmaking
I wouldn't say that. Look at Mint.com. I have a feeling that "Financly" wouldn't have done quite as well.
Or make it compulsory to bring your own cup, which they also sell in store if you don't yet have a suitable one.
This would be great but given the competitive nature of the industry would only work in certain locations where people are more environmentally conscious.
same here - single founder but intend to find another co founder - hopefully soon:) your email is invisible, btw..
The canonical case is Ray Kroc, who took over and ran a small company called McDonalds at age 52:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc
Very cool. I may have missed this but is there a way to share the links? It doesn't seem like I can add multiple recipient email addresses and the links only seem to work for my google account as far as I can tell. I guess I'd have to change the recipient to an inbox that forwards to multiple people?
The claim is this'll save $50M by consolidating existing contracts and shifting some stuff to the cloud.

It'll be interesting to see if it goes better than Google's deal with LA, which has run into all kinds of problems.
Remote admin web app for an multi-server "Enterprise" system. Unfortunately the client-side uses ExtJS, which makes me sad.
"While thinking about this on a plane to England, my mind makes the natural leap from my motley collection of python functions to turning down acquisition offers from Amazon and being invited to talk at Davos."

haha happens all the time, who else suffers from this?
And how does that differ from Windows Mobile? I helped a person running Windows Mobile 6.5 with battery issues. Turned out he kept opening applications and not closing them. The exact same problem, but on a different system.

Now I'd argue Windows Mobile is crap, but this kind of stuff is par for the course. And it really has nothing to do with fragmentation which is what this article (and thus this discussion) is about.
Looks sweet though.