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Actually, my experience is different. This was a year ago, so maybe they've improved, but my detailed bug report was anwered with a dumb question that showed the person had hardly read it, and then when I asked whether they could let me know when a version without this bug was released (the issue was completely blocking Opera support in my system), I was completely ignored.

To their credit, they did eventually fix it.
I don't anything about medicine, but it seems that Gray's Anatomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy) is one of the classic books.

The edition of 1918 is in public domain an available online: http://www.bartleby.com/107/ and the illustrations are simply gorgeous.
I think the interesting unit is the man days used. So it is 36 vs 6.
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The difference between you and them - you say "I could" but they actually did it.
The basic tools are free but why get locked into MS with all it all its licensing, proprietary software/platform/toolset, upgrade, and cost issues.

MS does make some very good products (I use and like VS2008) but the core reason most hackers don’t use them is because they don’t want these aforementioned issues. This becomes more evident the more you scale.

It is no coincidence the top performing web-apps produced so far have not been based on MS software.
I fail to understand how Kasparov made it to the list. He has no following in Russia whatsoever, and not many in the West like his neo-conservative connections.

His inclusion makes the rest of the list somewhat suspect.
Nice!

But the point you mentioned: market research

I would go around trying to find out what people in my surrounding are really craving for in the internet and then try to create that.

But paraschopra, the name matters too. The name should be 'remember-able' or 'recall-able'.
That article is misleading in many ways and essentially it was only built by 2-3 people.

Also, market and user research is important if you want to make a product, but not if you are doing such things primarily for learning & fun.
If the people of a country are in serious danger of being enslaved by an enemy, chances are that many people will voluntarily join the army. An unpopular war of choice, on the other hand, may struggle greatly to raise as many voluntary troops as the government desires, and this is a circumstance where conscription is both most likely and most questionable. In WW2, British men not only "signed up" but were conscripted, but in this case I think you rightly allude to the fact that it was called for under the circumstances; there was a real danger of much greater evils than conscription being visited on the British people if the Nazis were to triumph. But since the thread started with a question about Vietnam, I think it's worth considering the smallness of the possibility of the Vietnamese achieving the enslavement of the American people or anything of the kind at the point in time when conscription was instituted for the prosecution of that war.
It's tough to rate someone in the present time or even in the near future. I think the only way really to determine their relative ranking is to look at history/have the benefit of hindsight - e.g. DaVinci, Newtown, Shakespeare..
Yes, I agree with you. I just chose a domain name I already was owning for a different project. I agree that for serious things name should be recallable.
I like this guy. Successful and humble.

"The three of us invented Intel’s flash memory business...We had to make projections of the revenue we would generate. We were so wrong it’s embarrassing to talk about it. We never envisioned this whole market that has come about with memory in cell phones. We were only looking to replace an existing chip. That’s the way we thought. It was a linear extension. You don’t think about the things that can be created with it."

"I don’t want to come across as some smart ass guy who knew how to do a $1.2 billion start-up. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you are unlucky, like with the Pentium bug."
Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work
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NIH is the right attitude for MS. Microsoft makes a subversion clone. If the clone turns out better than subversion then a lot of .NET developers will use it voluntarily. A lot of businesses will start using it because it has the MS logo on it. Result? Microsoft owns a part of the development tool chain - which makes it harder for people to write software on different platforms. Microsoft wins.

And if the clone is worse? Doesn't really matter. Some people will still use it, version 3.0 may be "good enough", and Microsoft will have a new technology to market. Having new products is a goal by itself - the .Net magazines need fresh content to keep their audience captivated. Even vaporware can be very valuable. Microsoft wins again.

Conclusion: cloning popular products is good business for MS.
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This seems to be a improbably high number. I live in Germany, and here the unemployment rate for CS graduates is among the lowest of any education, with the prognosis still being very good. Do any of you who live in the US or UK have had problems finding a job when you were searching for one?
The article claims that "...a number of intellectuals—including Aitzaz Ahsan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ignatieff, and Amr Khaled—mounted voting drives by promoting the list on their Web sites."

This is false about Noam Chomsky: there were no "voting drives" on chomsky.info or zcommunications.org, where Chomsky has a blog. Chomsky has never paid any attention to the Foreign Policy vote. I wonder what possible motive Foreign Policy has for making this false claim.
The author is clueless about RMS:

>is Richard Stallman seriously suggesting that it’s right to illegally obtain copyrighted software?

Software is recored knowledge. Human progress means always building on top of somebody's knowledge. "Ownership" of knowledge is immoral and takes away human freedom. 'Copyrighted software' has no more rights to exist than 'copyrighted math'.
rms should stick to software. He'd make a lousy district attorney.

Of all the evil Microsoft did to the world, "prosecuting" them for writing propietary software is an unwinnable argument. Instead of presenting arguments against illegal monopolistic practices he chooses the one thing Microsoft did that most people agree with: creating IP. And by arguing against IP, he disqualifies himself from attacking Microsoft's biggest crimes: hijacking others' IP.

The U.S. government couldn't get Al Capone on any of the big stuff, so they went after tax evasion to put him away. At least that was also a crime.
What is the answer to the second question?

int i[10]; <- allocates memory for 10 integers

&i <- pointer to the first element in the array (i.e. i[0]).

correct or not?
The author should list M$ also
> So if you think Microsoft's particular flavor of source control is redundant, you'll really hate Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper.

ugh i hate analogies. Ryan's main point --which this article didn't address (he talks shipping)-- was that software builds (should build) on previous software. Can dr pepper do that? This analogy is supposed to say there are subtle differences between the products, but that's irrelevant to the original point.

>

>There's simply no reason for MSTest to exist except to satisfy some bizarre corporate directive that Microsoft never ship open source code in their products.

Both you authors could do with an econ class. MS spends tons of money to reinvent subversion because they want to lock you in, thus getting more money to spend reinventing something else to lock you in. This has worked for them so far & it will continue to work in the foreseeable future.
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What, no Steven Hawking?
If you're not making money (or at least planning to make money), it's not a startup. It's a hobby.
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I agree with you on the point you are making. For example Hezbollah in Lebanon gains much of their power from their charity work - and uses that power for terrorist actions. BUT I don't think you can equate BillG with the mafia, villians, or terrorists. So in this instance, RMS is WAY off base, and winning himself no favors. In fact he just looks like a whiner.
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OK, here's one example. I have an app that receives email, processes it, and sends it back. I need to get all its attachments, do work on them and build a new message. In Python parsing an email is:

import email

msg = email.message_from_string(sys.stdin.read())

How easy is that? The subject is msg["Subject"]. Iterating over the MIME parts is 2 lines of code. I could build all the scaffolding very quickly, and concentrate on the problems I needed to solve. Maybe this is just as easy in LISP - if you already know where to get all the bits, and I don't, and I'm not good enough to write a production-grade RFC822 handler in a day.

I like LISP a lot and am trying to use it where I can, but at the end of the day, I have to get stuff out the door as quickly as I can...
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No, the issue for Stallman is for the software to be open and stay open. There are many places where the GPL put limitations on what YOU CAN DO with the software. His whole "rights for the people" is a side effect of "rights for the software". By free he means the SOFTWARE is free, not the people using it are free to do what they want. There is a reason the BSD people complain like hell about GNU and the GPL. In my view, the BSD is 'free' software i.e. you can do what you want with it, and the GPL is 'shared' or 'collective' software i.e. you can change it, but you have to share all your changes.
Geez. No.

int i[10]; does allocate memory for 10 integers (on the stack)

So i has the type int•. A pointer to a value: an array. A pointer to a value is the same thing as a pointer to the first value in the array. That's why you can use ++i, increment the pointer, and it will point to the second value in the array (++i => •i == i[1])

So &i is, wait for it, a int••, that is, a pointer to an array. So if you have an array of arrays, then you need to dereference twice. E.g. argv. It's a char••, so an array of strings which is an array of arrays of characters.
The fact that the two coexist does not constitute a valid argument for how things should be, in a better world. There are many less-than-ideal things that coexist together with superior alternatives. For example there are countries where women are required to cover their entire face in public, but the fact that they coexist with secularly governed nations does not validate theocracy as not being oppressive. Similarly we have two ways of doing things coexisting with free and proprietary, and the world would be a better place if one of the alternatives was simply not present.

The line about financial incentive is very disputable as it is all about personal preferences. I personally prefer emacs over eclipse (emacs just rules), gimp over photoshop (photoshop is bloated, doesn't run in Linux as far as I know, and I know how to use Gimp better), Inkscape is awesome, Flash sucks big time, and Windows is needless to say, horrible.

Free OS took 20 years? No I think freedom at the level of the OS was the original way of doing things, from the very beginning. It's the proprietary software that got in the way making it difficult for modern free OSes to catch up by constantly setting hurdles by requiring free software to reverse engineer things that needed to be compatible.
I'm not sure I follow your logic? ComputerGuru hasn't suggested that the Gates Foundation exonerates Bill Gates in anyway, just that its hypocritical of Stallman to use FUD.
I agree with much of your position, however:

> Some people say Ubuntu is finally a usable desktop OS for average Joe. Even if that's true, it took how many decades for free operating systems to reach that mark? They're at least 20 years behind in crossing the line...

Let's look at those 20 years up to the release of XP--would you consider (any flavor of) DOS usable for the average Joe? What about Win95/98, with its dll issues and where simply browsing the internet would blue-screen a computer?

Fact is, by todays standards, it took Microsoft ~20 years to have something suitable for the average Joe.

Additionally, ironically, Free Software is the main advantage Ubuntu has over something like XP/Vista regarding usability for the average. Having a centralized index of freely available software, all of which is downloaded/installed/patched on a regular basis using a unified interface is huge.

(not that a payment system is wholly incompatible with a centralized software repository, but it certainly would be difficult to unify proprietary software due in no small part to the wide variety of DRM implementations)
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It's actually a little bit more about hackers than I'd originally thought. It's interesting to see new technologies applied to old professions, and the picture of the cow with the GPS attached to its head is pretty funny.
It should be higher, because deaths tend to happen faster than acquisitions.
Maybe I misread his post then.
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I would recommend reading the full text of Jobs' speech, linked to by kirubakaran. It is very thought provoking.
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You spelled CodeIgniter wrong twice in your blog. I thought that was kind of funny since you decided to choose that framework out of the three possibilities you mentioned.
It's not improbable at all. When I graduated (2002), I knew a few people who had a lot of trouble finding a job. They got killed on interviews with questions like "have you done any programming outside of class?", "what is the complexity of insert on a vector?" and "what is your preferred unix shell?" (note: resume had unix skills).

Eventually, they would up getting either non-computer related jobs or being hired by clueless PHBs. There are some BAD programmers out there. 10% would not surprise me.
It's a nice thought, but it'd be a waste of trees and I doubt Google would do that. If they did only, say, a couple trucks' worth that way, that'd leave enough digital that Viacom could ignore the paper. Nice thought, though.
Ask HN: How do you find domain names that don't suck and are still available?
For me, finding a good domain for my application is always the hardest part, at the moment I have 2 or 3 sitting on subdomains of my main site, waiting for something decent to be found.

A friend showed my makewords.com the other day which came up with some strong candidates, but they'd all gone (despite the fact makewords thought they hadn't)

How do you find your domain names?
I'd suggest you first read Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran. He explores some pretty amazing quirks about the human brain.

Then, if you're still interested, read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. It's a pretty good overview of biological principles and true evolution.
code ought to be open because it is the best situation for all parties involved

He usually emphasizes that it's the best situation for users, and as far as I can tell never mentions software makers in this context.

What he says essentially is software must evolve like an academic discipline. In academia, everything is open and accessible for everyone, so that you can take any one's work, improve it and share your improvement with others in the same manner. That's the way academia worked for centuries, and in fact it worked that way in all political systems.

Note that Stallman is not pushing Computer Science as an academic discipline - not at all. Instead, he says all software must be free as in academia, as I understand it, and there is a reason for that, he says: proprietary software "divides" us like no other product or service we may buy. (Well, you'd add music, video and all kinds of copyable goods to the list of things that "divide" us, but notice that they became cheaply copyable thanks to computers and software.)

So, what's wrong with his point in principle?
Gray's Anatomy is a textbook, and probably isn't a great casual read.

It's fascinating if you're already interested in biology and the human body, though.
You're right, that is interesting--yet another reason to get Xen up and running...
I agree. When I started studying in 1998, the bubble was still growing and many of my co-students were only in CS for the money they thought they were going to make (and were they disappointed when we graduated!).

Some of the commentators in that article argue that CS degrees should be more relevant to the business world. I disagree - too many universities have already hobbled CS degrees to make them (apparently) more relevant to the business world. This leads the wrong people into CS and under-prepares the good students.

It's interesting that they mentioned medicine. Med students learn about a lot more than most of them will ever face in their careers. So medicine is hard and it takes a lot of work. But we expect this, because we expect them to have an integrated view of the body in order to diagnose us correctly.

So why do we settle on CS degrees that are patchworks of business communications, XML and web design?

My (not so humble) opinion: do justice to CS and push the standard up. Graduates from such degrees will be able to handle whatever you throw at them.
On this note I don't have any doubt in my mind that Mr. Rockway could do it.
Be creative, be flexible, be willing to seek out help from people more creative than yourself. If all that fails, spend money...

The past couple of years has made things a bit easier though. Drop a vowel or two, check out international domain registrations, etc.
I see the current problems with the financial markets have already had much impact on CS/software hire, especially in London. I hope this is not a return to the bad days of UK CS job prospects, circa 2001-2002, after the internet bubble burst and 9/11.

Back then even very proficient students at leading universities had hard time finding jobs. These were people who did programming outside of uni courses, had good summer work experiences, built multi-threaded distributed desktop apps as well as web apps, and were actual 'problem solvers' with good skills in mathematic modeling and algorithm design and architectural design skills. However there was simply no market, regardless of how good they were.

Now, it seems as courses get diluted it really only harms all parties concerned and I often think the best thing someone with good A-levels should do is go directly into industry or in a startup/SME atleast before going to uni.
From our experience, this has been correct. It may be better said that a lot of time with one user walking through and testing the UX of a site is worth more than several shorter tests with more people. If you start multiplying that deep dive with fewer users, you'll quickly see the major UX fixes that are needed.

Additionally, the most obvious UX fixes are the ones that will greatly improve your site anyway. As more UX fixes that are suggested, you'll find that they are a product of differentiated user preferences than needed UX fixes. That's not a UX fix. It's having certain parts of your site customizable in look and feel.
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My friend introduced me to DevGuard, which is a hosted SVN/Trac service that works pretty well and costs very little.

But I wouldn't call them "analogous to github", quite. Github has social features that DevGuard doesn't even try to approximate.

I'm not sure github's social features (e.g. easy cloning and clone tracking, with ability to accept pushed changes from other users) are particularly easy to build in the SVN world. Better to just use git.
Finally, a sign that some of Brin's 'no privacy for anyone' really does apply to the powerful, as well.
Nope. (Runs like a charm on 64-bit Intels though.)
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> There is lots of free software and lots of for-pay software and some intersection of the two, and the world seems fairly happy with this situation.

Noone was arguing that closed source isn't profitable. "Proprietary software exists" isn't an argument for it's existence & many are unhappy about it.

>

>Often times closed-source software pioneers an approach, makes an initial profit, and proves a demand which open source efforts then methodically fill.

I hope you're not saying OSS isn't innovative.
Actually, I tried the website, typed in Ferrari, and was able to surf easily through 10 interesting articles linked from Google news.

I like it. I think it's really nicely done.
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I was comparing patriotism to slavery, not the draft per-se. The concept of feeling duty for "one's country" seems very weird when you look at it with some detachment. In a very literal sense, my loyalties end at my family, let alone my town, county, country, planet, or whatever.

In any case, modern wars are far less clear. In terms of this specific post, no-one from Vietnam was getting ready to invade or enslave the US or Europe. It could be argued Vietnam was a necessary show of force to demonstrate that the West wouldn't allow the USSR to mark its mark all around the world, but it'd be a tenuous argument at best.