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Interesting (and provocative) point, but that seems like a stretch that Apple would considering such and indirect action just to put up a roadblock for Android developers, and not a very big roadblock at that.
Right. But they aren't going to have an explanation on how to block FB connect with your firewall, so it's not really a disadvantage of an extension.
It's the same of course, just that people complain a lot about PHP's ... erm ... richness of built-in functions.
I guess that is a case where a "me-too" post is useful: count me as another vote for Magit, even if I haven't even tried any of the others.
Do you know the actual odds, though? I mean, there's low and then there's low.

If evolution on a habitable planet has a 10^-4 chance of happening, then the universe is almost certainly teeming with life. If it's 10^-18, the size of the universe is the difference between believing and doubting the idea. If it's 10^-200, the universe barely helps at all, and you need to start talking about billions upon billions of barren universes and we just happen to live in this one.

Do you know what the number is? Do you know where it lies between 0.9 and 10^-(10^10^10)? Do you know whether the 20 orders of magnitude you get from the stars is overwhelming, decisive, or not even enough to make a dent?
gitsum is an add-on, not a full-featured git mode; so is git-dwim, I believe, although I don't use it personally.

Recent Emacs have git support in VC; I tend to just use that since I tend to do anything other than committing (rebasing, switching branches, merging, pushing, etc.) in a terminal.
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It generates a different version every time you click the button.
It has everything to do with the argument.

He thinks that Google invented or revolutionized webmail, maps, etc... when it is clear to anyone who's been on the internet for more than 8 years that they were only incremental updates.
First off individual computational errors are rarely important.

This is completely wrong. Arithmetic errors (or memory errors) tend not to just mess up insignificant bits. If it occurs on integer data, then your program will probably seg-fault (because integers are usually indices into arrays) and if it occurs in floating point data, you are likely to either produce a tiny value (perhaps making a system singular) or a very large one. If you are solving an aerodynamic problem and compute a pressure of 10^80, then you have might as well have a supernova on the leading edge of your wing. And flipping a minor bit in a structural dynamics simulation could easily be the difference between the building standing and falling.

I would argue that data mining is actually more tolerant of such undetected errors because they are more likely to remain local and may stand out as obviously erroneous. People are unlikely to die as the result of an arithmetic error in data mining.

Second, there is a minimal time constraint,

There is not usually a real-time requirement, though there are exceptions, e.g. http://spie.org/x30406.xml, or search for "real-time PDE-constrained optimization". But by and large, we are willing to wait for restart from a checkpoint rather than sacrifice a huge amount of performance to get continual uptime. If you need guaranteed uptime, then there is no choice but to run everything redundantly, and that still won't allow you to handle a nontrivial network partition gracefully. (It's not a database, but there is something like the CAP Theorem here.)
My gut says first treat it as strictly a service contract.

Equity is a potential bonus, but also a distraction and should not substitute for initial work with people you barely know...structuring the deal right is complex and expensive.

Finally, there may be a good reason that it "has never been done before." Knowing the key players isn't the same as getting them to fall over themselves to pay you.
While MG Siegler is a fan of Apple, he does tend to be fair about Apple products (Android fans might disagree).

Having said that, I think it was predictable that he'd like this product.
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Magit apparently has git-svn support, though I've never used it.
If you like Resque, too:

http://github.com/chrisboulton/php-resque
I think the author has a valid point. 37signals's Highrise is a CRM that we are using--and after using it for several years, we still don't have pagination. We wait for 5000+ deals to load, including lost and won deals, yet something as simple as pagination (or even an archiving feature), which have sent feature requests, still won't be implemented. So instead, we continue to wait 5-6 seconds for our deals page to load.

If anything, Highrise hasn't grown in years. It's now feeling the plateau effect, and we are looking for alternatives to Highrise because it hasn't grown with us.

I agree that "Less is More," but when something as simple as paginating the deals can't be implemented, it makes me wonder why we pay 37signals every month. If it's not going to improving the software and improving workflow, customers will leave to a business that understands its customers. Even Apple, while they don't exactly ask for their customers' input, know what problems their customers face every day. 37signals looks as if they are becoming out of touch with their users.
Jobs wasn't talking at your workplace. So what you talk about with your coworkers is kind of irrelevant.

In the context of an Apple quarterly performance conference call, Flash RAM is arguably the more relevant sense, since so much of Apple's product line uses it and thus it plays a major role in Apple's business.

The person posing the question failed to specify, allowing Jobs to deflect the question by choosing the meaning most convenient.
Not cool enough to get the public to agree to put lots of funds into.
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I don't believe that they're going to aim to totally replace mice. I think they're going to allow/encourage touching for relevant applications. It doesn't really matter what they say here, they've said that they had no interest in a lot of different things only to implement them a year or two later.
This is an interesting concept. However, I think this article needs to define its target audience better. It seems to be speaking specifically to people doing web hosting (which you may or may not argue includes all of LAMP use-cases).

The idea that we can forgo operating systems because there are APIs to call doesn't make sense if your company heavily invests in infrastructure. Sometimes you need low-level access to hardware to fine-tune performance and scalability because your use-case is not the general use-case, even in a "cloud" environment.
A good approach I've used before is:

- no Friday deployments
- deployments run primarily by a single person should be done early in their work day
- avoid Monday deployments ... people are usually fuzzier on Monday than they are on Tuesday, after having had a day to go through the weekend's email and get their heads back into work.
Good. Computers need dumbing down. The number of times I've solved a relatively common computer problem using what to ordinary computer users would be "deep magic" is pretty high. And often times I wonder "how the hell do ordinary users deal with this sort of thing?"

The answer is that they don't. They get frustrated, they reboot their machine, and if that doesn't work they give up completely and reinstall from scratch or buy a new computer. This is a horrific user experience and it needs to change.

Using a computer for mundane tasks should be ... mundane. And I think the mobile OS (iPhone/android) model fits that use case far better than the existing free for all model of desktop computing.

But what does this mean for hackers and "super users"? Probably not much actually. It probably means that we'll have to make some configuration changes on our systems, or buy different models, or install our own OSes (oh noes!)
" ... leaves yourself open to misinterpretation."

Which, for some, is a golden opportunity.
If you don't mind linking to your thesis I'd love to read it!
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1762210
Given that there have been a few sprouts of Forth talk on HN lately, it's worth mentioning that an application-specific OS (written in an application-specific language) running on bare metal is sort of the quintessential Forth idea. Running it in the cloud, on virtual bare metal, would of course be Forth heresy, but still worth trying.
And the user can add 3rd party repositories.
I also noticed the apparent search-and-replace of "SSD" to "Flash" on Apple.com's macBook Air Promo page.

Interesting perspective on it.
> Flat rate tax on revenue solves all this shell wackiness.

B2B is one problem.

Another is grocery stores and other biz that run on low profit margins but huge turnover.

Google wouldn't much notice a 5% revenue tax while 5% is well over Safeway's profits.
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Which of the above services do you think wouldn't exist if Google avoided less tax?

Easy: how many of the above services are profitable? The more taxes Google is forced to pay, the less they can invest in experimental and long-term projects.
Earth's crust already has a helluva lot in the way of most metals. Until I can dig it out of an asteroid more cheaply than I can dig it out of a hole in the ground, it's not going to help to kickstart the space industry.

As far as rare and valuable materials go, I'm not aware of any which are more common in asteroids than they are on Earth. Most space rocks are just the same few elements over and over again; iron, nickel, silicon, magnesium.
Venus is 0.722 AU from the sun so it revives about twice the energy per m^2 than the earth does. Even if you where to remove the greenhouse gas problem it would be nowhere close to habitable.

If you look at the Day/Night cycle on earth 1 week without sunlight would probably drop Venus into sub zero temperatures. Depending on how much over kill you provided a few months would be plenty of time to cool down to reasonable levels.
No, not really confusing them at all. I know what LLVM is, I used it in the more broader terms in that clang is a subproject of LLVM and wouldn't exist without it.

LLVM in the strictest sense is replacing GCC in that clang is being brought in, along with various other tools that are normally part of GCC.

Also, GCC currently compiles for ARM, what makes LLVM somehow better for generating ARM code than GCC? Your logic here makes absolutely no sense what so ever.
I'm not sure if you're referring to getting a degree, or approaching it in the way that I did. I won't try too hard to convince you that a degree is important, but it introduces you to think about things in different ways than you otherwise would, lets you meet people you wouldn't otherwise meet (girls, networking opportunities, etc), provides opportunities for internships or jobs you wouldn't have otherwise, forces you to live in a place you might not have lived otherwise, etc.

Doing it in the way I did taught me a lot of incredibly valuable lessons -- probably more than I actually learned in class. I really learned time management and how to prioritize. I gained a lot of work experience, which translates into increased skills and income. Perhaps most importantly (although this will sound very cliche..), I realized that I can achieve anything I truly want, even if it seems physically impossible.
"flagship state school". He means your state, "Penn State" was just an example.
"Congrats: you're a Princeton grad. For $60K. You gamed the system: you got the pedigree for just one years' tuition, at a school you probably couldn't have been admission to for undergrad."

Emphasis mine.
Entirely true, and it's great news. But we have to be careful -- there's a pretty limited supply of this stuff, and we don't want to waste it.
A a few more gigabytes of memory allocated, consequent swapping and slow processing
I'm very glad opera will finally support extensions. Hopefully it will provide a better interface for tackling ad blocking than the built in blacklist feature or doing it elsewhere(proxy,dns,etc.).
I think the largest hurdle for ARM to get over is the preponderance of Windows installations with kernels only complied for x86. Linux and OS X (Mach) already run on ARM, and I think that possibly the NT kernel runs on ARM (Windows phone 7 is ARM, right?) I have trouble seeing Microsoft port over Windows proper to ARM until there's a really strong market for it. That being said, perhaps low power consumption ARM devices will provide that market. Perhaps this is another reason that Apple has their own ARM chip - to be at the forefront of the ARM revolution, displacing MSFT?
What do you use for the street address for cards like that? The verification systems I've seen are big on checking street addresses to credit cards.
It's curious that you mention college freshmen because GMail saves Universities boatloads of money in infrastructure costs.
This is a good quote to choose from the OP, because it gets at something I think people fundamentally misunderstand about Apple: they make products that _they_ want to use. The "consumer" they target in a "consumer computer" is themselves!

So while their Mac offerings certainly vary in terms of size and performance, they all must pass this test. The _worst_ Apple computer should still be one that they would be happy to use. To write software, to make music, to make spreadsheets, to enjoy movies.

This is why they've never compromised on keyboard size.

So to think that the Mac App Store is some sort of move towards draconian control misses the entire point. It's not control they want, but a trusted directory of Mac apps that don't crash or behave maliciously. Even a power user shouldn't have to waste their time on bad software (unless they want to).

We should all value our time so highly.
I wish the full article were freely available, but there are some studies such as this one that suggest that the situation is not quite so cut-and-dry:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...

The basic result is that the belief that foreigners are hard to understand leads students to perceive them as poor lecturers. For example, if you play the same recorded lecture to a group of students, their perception of how easy it was to understand is affected by whether you project an image of a Caucasian or Indian/Chinese 'lecturer' at the front of the room.
Has this person every complained about GameStop, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or other retail outlets selling shrinkwrap software?

I doubt it. They've been 'bypassing the web' since before there was a web (well, not GameStop), but I guess it's only a problem if Apple does it.
Honestly, does anyone use Opera?
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I disagree. I don't really think the volume of trivia is much different, just the utility and technicality of it.
I rarely see programmers agree on anything. We're very argumentative.

I've worked with people who insist their code is object oriented because it's written in Java, even though it's all classes full of static methods with no instance variables. I wouldn't call that object oriented, but they would.

So yes, the term is becoming meaningless. The concepts are being ignored. That doesn't make them invalid, it just means we have more educating to do.
Apple talks a lot about "the open web" but consistently pushes Apps.

But when Apple was pushing the open web, developers were pushing apps.
Is there a difference between an SSD and a "Flash Chip"?

I think the confusion is around the fact that the old Macbook had "SSD" http://web.archive.org/web/20080725015206/www.apple.com/macb...

and the new one has "Flash Chip" http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html
Even if you where to remove the greenhouse gas problem it would be nowhere close to habitable.

Per unit surface area, how much less sunlight do you get at Earth's poles than at Earth's equator? That's too hard for me to figure out off the top of my head (taking the seasons into account), but I'm pretty sure it's at least a factor of two. So I think a planet with an Earthlike atmosphere in a Venusian orbit would be habitable in the polar regions.
I often ask for feedback during the interview.

If I'm interested in a position, I'll typically ask the hiring manager what reservations or concerns she may have about hiring me. Factual errors aside I make it a point not to debate those concerns at the time (and I make it clear up front that I'm not going to try to talk them out of their concerns), but I've found:

A) You typically get fairly honest answers this way (in part because the question catches the interviewer off-guard, which is generally a good way to get an honest response).

B) The feedback is useful for adapting your presentation and pitch at another firm.

and

C) If you get the job this is very useful information to have. It tells you what your new boss views as important and what skills she thinks you are lacking, often with a candor you won't get if you ask the same question on your first day on the job.

EDIT/PS: I'm trying to think how I'd react to this sitting on the other side of the desk. I've done a lot of interviews but I don't think anyone has ever asked me this question. I certainly give vague non-answers when I'm rejecting a candidate after the fact (typically something like "we've found someone who is a better match...") but if I was asked in the interview I'd probably give an honest answer but it would be focused around the work instead of the candidate, which probably makes it easier to deliver.
Surely we can draw a distinction between chatroulette and facelette in terms of originality.
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I most commonly use gitsum which is fast and easy and, in combination with Emacs' diff-mode, lets me edit my pending commits all to hell. (In my experience few other people like doing this.)

gitsum is really only good for committing, of course. When I want to do other Git operations I most commonly just go to the command line. If I have to do them from inside Emacs I've found Magit to be usable, DVC as well (though I haven't needed it in my latest Emacs install; I only have Magit currently).
My iPhone 4 has totally killed my digital camera
I believe they only have 3% desktop market share, but it's definitely the most used mobile browser: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-200909-...
Optical media is pretty annoying. This makes perfect sense provided the subscriber has fast enough network connection available.
Dear [person whose name I don't know],
You have a right to reject (and automatically request a new response) for any half-assed or incompetent responses.

That said: I receive a lot of positive feedback on the service and in the instances when someone contacts me with a bad experience, I take care of them. I'm a little surprised to see such a pointed comment about FBA on Hacker News. If you used the service and had a poor experience, I wish you would have given me a chance to do something to make it right with you.
Doesn't it just depend on what is printed on your degree? You put whatever that says on your resume, simple enough.
If you go through all the trouble to adapt to living in space for travel between the planets, why bother landing? Colonize the asteroids and short period comets, which are full of resources and much easier to access. No landing vehicles and ascent rockets are required. The gravity is so low that a spacecraft optimized for interplanetary travel can dock with them, or loiter nearby and transfer people & goods with space tugs.

Of course, it's a matter of preference. Many would still prefer to live on a planet. A dispersed civilization that includes the small bodies would be even more resilient to any one collision. More eyes out among the asteroids would also increase the chances of spotting potential collisions.
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None of my friends, PC or Mac, have ever had to ask how to install an application.

I can say the same thing (that no one has asked for help to install an app) but then again my PC friends have fifty browsers toolbars and five AV software packages installed and my Mac friends are running apps directly from disk images. An app store isn't for me, but it definitely fits a need.
Also the php PECL gearman driver (http://pecl.php.net/package/gearman) works well with the C-based gearmand server (http://gearman.org/). We do some asynchronous image processing with PHP gearman workers, and it's been a very stable solution for us.
Alternatives to sexist and lying Godaddy?
I do not support godaddy and their use of women as well as their use of seemingly unintelligent guys with no programming experience using their site and striking it rich without effort. That is just wrong. I just heard of iWantMyName.com, which made me realize there must be better registrars that are nearly as cheap as godaddy. So does anyone have any that they like?
As a counterpoint to your perspective, which frankly smells a lot like trolling itself, Max went out of his way to help me by passing on some very useful things he has learned on the app store.
Technically, it should be. They're using W3C Widget specifications, an open standard, to do extensions.

EDIT: But I don't think they're compatible out of the box, unfortunately.
We use it internally at one of my client sites. Until recently, it was the only browser fast enough to keep up with the realtime portfolio screens. Chrome and others are finally catching up, but Opera still performs the fastest with what we throw at it.
Ah, but now we have to discuss the definition of smart: I think there's a distinct type of intelligence involved in not being a weird, smelly loser. In fact, the vast majority of people are at least moderately smart in this regard.
I think the point they're trying to make is that people are able to live on the amount of water in the Sahara, so lunar colonisation is therefore feasible from the water front.
Oh who cares, really. It just forces the user to go out and download the latest version if they really want Flash, which means Apple won't take the blame for buyers getting machines with outdated security-compromised versions of Flash.
Of course, even if he speaks in full sentences, there's no way of knowing, since among five or six quotes from the man only one ("It takes me 45 seconds to say my name") is a full sentence.
The discussion over at golang-nuts, the official mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr...
From an economic perspective, that's an argument in favor of Google. When private companies miscalculate or mismanage, their products and investments don't make profits and fail, thus freeing up resources for better uses. When government programs are poorly run, they go over budget and often use that as a justification for asking for MORE money. There is no incentive to be efficient or diligent when someone else foots the bill.
Is ARM's power advantage really that significant for devices larger than the smart phone / tablet form factor? If an Atom-based CPU consumes ~2-3 extra watts but offers marginally better performance and (more importantly) compatibility with an enormous base of existing applications, that doesn't seem like a very compelling argument for switching.