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In my experience, this has been the case on every discussion site. Slashdot is another prime example of a site where people hit each other over the head with the size of their UINs.

It's a bit childish because being around on the site longer doesn't magically make posts better, I think it's best to be wary of discrimination of new users, otherwise only the morons will stick around. Which is exactly the quality drop people are tring to avoid :)
Good that it works when you're directly on twitter.com, that's essential.

Do you intend on making money from it?
TGP teaches the language, its interpreter and some styles that can be used as building blocks for JS applications.

TDG is a reference for the language, DOM implementations (which is a large portion of the book), tools and many aspects of the JS ecosystem.

The Good Parts is concise and elegant; reading and practising it thoroughly will lead to a sound understanding of what makes JS a uniquely powerful language.

Read both, but if you can only manage one make it TGP.
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Wow, this is really impressive!
I think writing stuff that makes people either think or change their habits. At least that's my experience with my blog.
There isn't much room for half-commitment while on a video call and the interpersonal aspects of the job come to the front. This changes the way one works.

But it isn't quite that novel. Face-to-face interaction we have in the real world can be viewed as high-quality "video communications". Technology is merely making it affordable to do the same at a distance and without losing much of the quality.

So, most of the old etiquette simply migrates to the new medium. For example, if you don't go to work in pyjamas you probably won't take a video call at home while in your pyjamas either.
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It was briefly mentioned in the article, but this is exactly how couchdb shuts down:

On-disk, CouchDB never overwrites committed data or associated structures, ensuring the database file is always in a consistent state. This is a “crash-only” design where the CouchDB server does not go through a shut down process, it’s simply terminated.

http://couchdb.apache.org/docs/overview.html

(Please, no mongodb vs. couchdb wars here)
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+%2B...

There are so many "ask hn"s on learning how to program, please check them out first
It's nice to see people on the other end though.

I moved away from my home city a few months ago and it's nice to be able to chat to my parents via skype with webcams because we don't see each other as often anymore.
Writing JS for a framework is not the same as writing JS from scratch. Satisfying the Closure compiler is not what TGP sets out to do, nor should it.

TGP will give you a sound understanding of the possible techniques you can employ to form a JS application.

A book on Closure will give you a sound understanding of how to use that specific framework.
We were talking in the context of the US where this is absolutely not the case. In the UK the wealth inequality would be less of a big deal than in the US precisely because the UK takes better care of it's poor (with the unfortunate abuse that comes with that).

pg's comments about wealth are correct: me going out and creating something that makes me a billion dollars doesn't take anything away from anyone. But this is provided I'm a one man show and have no team. As soon as it's not "me" but a company, then me having enormous compensation very much does take away from others. The more money I take out of the pot, the less there is for workers, new positions, etc. It wasn't so long ago that top CEO's were making 70k/yr. :)
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Does it occur to anyone that the eastern/western parenting styles can be easily mixed?

When it comes to things like being honest, making good use of time, never give up easily, commitment to hard work, it doesn't hurt to exercise the eastern parenting style to force the kids to form these habits. The kids will thank you later.

When it comes to what the kids should do as hobby/career, the kids should be given a lot of freedom, as one can only do well in stuff that he/she's truly passionate about.
Video chat may never succeed, but video conferencing is live and kicking.
I have been thinking a lot about this problem. If indeed it is a problem.

Google is in the business of serving ads. The vast majority of those spammy sites display google ads. So, there is little incentive for google to change things just yet. Joe public is not complaining, yet. It is only the digerati, and a whole bunch of other webmasters who think their sites should be ranking higher because they are just better, who seem to be up in arms over this.

The interesting thing is that half the spammy do provide content that is 'just good enough' for what most people are looking for. The quickest exit from one of these sites, is via a google ad, so google wins, the site wins, and the advertiser targetting a specific niche wins.

The only problem will be when the advertisisers stop getting the bang for their buck when their ads are displayed on these sites. Until then, Google has little incentive to change.
"grep -c" is great if you know it.

This is a tough criticism, since "wc -l" is great if you know it too. And that, in the rush version, you need to use .lines on the result of .search() in order to get something you can call .size on to get the exact result you want (because it seems you can't just call .size on the result of .search(), I suspect that would just return a count of files where the string appears at least once).

In that vein, with a pipeline, you can look at each bit independently and reason about it. You can't reason about what .size returns (lines or bytes or whatever) without looking at what is immediately to the left of it (and then you have to know that .lines returns an array and that .size is returning the length of that array). And you have to know that whatever .lines returns actually has a .size method. wc -l always counts lines, no matter what its context is, because it's only ever dealing with text based input, never more complexly structured data like objects or arrays. This may or may not be what you want, but it does lend itself to wider (re)usability.
Communications with friends and family is the ideal application for video chat.
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Photoshop Elements is reasonably priced at £58 on Amazon as of right now. The people you're talking about do not NEED the full $1000 package.
Good list of "firsts", even though you forgot some: first to implement x86-64/AMD64 which Intel copied 2-3 years later, first to implement inter-processor links (HyperTransport), first to ship 12+-core processors (Opteron 6100 series).

As an underdog, a company has no choice but to be the first to implement many features in order to even remotely hope to stay alive. Even then, it's often not sufficient because there may be a lot of inertia, so a small technical advantage may not be enough to convince customers from switching from the market leader to the underdog.
Ahh, I forgot to add the 'solution'.

The 'sex' bit, will be marrying google search results with other sources, and breeding a search ranking algorithm specific to you.

For example, the Facebook 'like' button could turn out to be very useful. Stuff liked by more people gets ranked higher. Since webmasters are already gaming Facebook though, then stuff liked by people who are one or two degrees of separation from you on facebook could count more. Any social network that allows you to indicate some sort of trust in an individual could work.

I bet you though, that if Google did this, the very same people complaining about the bad results now, would be the first to complain about the privacy implications of all this, and how google seems to know so much about us .... sigh
The hearing can be so ignorant and short sighted.

Video chat is already succeeding:
http://www.sorensonvrs.com/
Considering that David Foster Wallace killed himself in September 2008 it's unlikely that he recently made these predictions. The article claims that the thinking comes from Wallace's (critically acclaimed) novel Infinite Jest which you may note was published in 1996 so the ideas date from the last century, not from last year.

Nice write up by Jason Kottke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
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He just "woke up one day"?
I still feel confused: is it only the western european UMTS bubble that makes video calls from mobile seem like old news?

Most 3g operators have marketed (possibly low quality) video calls for a few years in europe, with varying level of success, so there is not a real need to speculate, we could just look at the numbers, no?
This game is outstanding! Wish it was around 15 years ago when I was learning to type in school... It takes too long to get difficult in my opinion.

Final Score: 8102 (Level 42ish) =)
I once watched a brand new K7 burn before my eyes. I had just installed it and wanted to power it up briefly before securing the heat sink and cooler. I had done this many times with Intel chips. Well, the AMD took exactly two seconds to go up in smoke and this broke college student was out a couple of hundred dollars.
I am visiting India surrounded by over a dozen cousins in 5-15 age range. All but a few are hooked to Bump independently(not through me). One evening the kids literally went door to door in our large extended family searching for iPhones to put the app on.

Seeing such crazy adoption, I wanted to see what they really dig about it. So I tried to played a sucker and kept asking them "Bump sucks, why would you even use it?". Their response: "picture sharing is sooo fast; its quicker than even sms; its just awesome" followed by "want me to put it on your iphone?" :)

Pretty cool!
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I don't really know what the deal is with the low development interest in GIMP. I think maybe it's that Photoshop's professional niche... ...use what they're used to; they're hostile to any change from the start.

I don't know about the developers and why more people aren't interested in helping out (though I suspect for a lot of people its a mixture of the difficulties of getting established in a large codebase and the beurocracy involved in a large project), but from a user point-of-view I think GIMP has a few problems.

I've used GIMP exclusively for many years (but I'm not a graphic designer, so my use of image editing software was never terribly heavy) and I used photoshop for the first time last summer. My transition to photoshop was a very pleasant one as, IMHO, photoshop has a much simpler and more productive interface (buttons are easy to access, convenient keyboard shortcuts, interface is not too cluttered); it has a larger range of (more advanced, generally) filters and tools; and it seems a lot faster to me too (definitely when applying filters to a large image. This can be, in my experience, quite slow in GIMP, but in photoshop most filters are almost instantaneus for me).

I can only assume that many other people feel the same and I imagine this may make it less desirable for people to work on GIMP, especially if there is (perceived) resistance from the GIMP developer community for GIMP to move in the direction that newcomers feel it should (eg, does GIMP still have that horrible multi-window interface? Most people dislike it (though since I started using a tiling window manager on windows it actually becomes much more usable!)).

Having said all that, from a user point of view, unless you make a reaosnable amount of money with your photo-editing, it is still hard to justify photoshops high price tag. GIMP being free is definitely a big plus point for it for casual use.
On the other hand, Erik Demaine was homeschooled by a father whose educational philosophy consisted of "the child should pursue his own interests." [1] His furious creativity represents a kind of academic achievement that cannot result from mere drill.

[1] http://www.famoushomeschoolers.net/bio_demaine.html -- Yeah, I know it's an odd site. Early google result, matches what I remember of his story.
If someone would please review ZacharyBurt.com (any one of the 3 most recent entries would be ideal) and tell me how to improve it, that would be very much appreciated..
The "forced fully blown gizmo" is basically a demo for the underlying code and is completely separate to it. Looking at the github repo, there is apparently a new style jQuery UI demo to replace this.

As someone who has built code against it, you would be foolish to dismiss it.
Perhaps that explains why despite the armies of children drilled to play instruments, the Asian music and pop scene remains so atrociously bad.
There were some presentations/talks about the use of Lisp/Scheme in the production of these games.

For example:

http://www.naughtydog.com/docs/Naughty-Dog-GDC08-Adventures-...
Holy crap, is creating A/B tests this easy?
I highly recommend
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No hard feelings, and I wasn't having a go or anything.

I just think your blog links added no direct value to this discussion. I think posting links like that here when they are just forwards to someone else's content looks a lot like self promotion. (And I'm not saying it was in intended that way in your case, just that it often looks like it).

I think you have to be careful to balance self promotion so it doesn't come across too spammy. Especially in places like this where the audience is tech oriented enough to recognise what's going on. I'm just saying that I think the redirection links you posted looked a bit like spam.

Don't get me wrong, posting links on your blog to things you find interesting is great, and I do exactly the same. And linking to your blog when it has original content relevant to a discussion is helpful, but when just referring to the source in a discussion I think it's better to quote the source directly rather than adding a layer of redirection.

Also; what if your site went down, the link would be broken and the valuable content lost. By linking directly there is one less point of failure so the linking is more robust.

Without trying to sound patronising or arrogant in any way; I hope you don't take this as message to stop providing comment or content on discussions here. Rather as a message on it's preferred form. I hope you do continue to contribute when you have good links.

(I did up vote you for providing the links by the way)
Hearing people do not communicate primarily through the visual modality.
There are different forms of communication depending on the type of relationship you have with a person. Using the author's logic, email/texting would be the only form of communication we'd use since it solves the "stress" and "vanity" problem better than even telephones. But that's not the case.

Email/texting with acquaintances. Telephone with friends. And video chat with close friends/family. We use the level of interaction commensurate with the relationship at hand since at the end of the day we still yearn for that real connection with other humans.
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> Maybe that's true to a small extent, but the statistics from Okcupid shows that skin color is a much greater factor.

Dude, you are confusing the effect for the cause.

LOL I don't even know if they have a name for that kind of logical fallacy.
I've used the Chart library for Haskell (http://dockerz.net/twd/HaskellCharts) for handy graphing, but this could be an easy alternative.
Yes. It matters a great deal if you're trying to recover information from underexposed or nearly overexposed regions of an image. Adjusting the levels of an image is something photographers do all the time, and having 14bits per channel allows you to do it without producing a grainy-as-hell image. Throwing away almost half of the information on the initial import is unforgivable and relegates GIMP to being merely a toy.
I had thought that in trying to get out of the cloud I was behaving in an oddball and perhaps even Luddite manner, bucking the apparently rising trendiness of cloud based services. But it's interesting to see that other people are having similar thoughts about reclaiming ownership of their data.

One possible solution might be encryption in the cloud, so that data is encrypted and decrypted by the client. Provided that the encryption was strong enough there would be no technical way that service providers could hand over data, although they certainly could still hand over access logs for traffic analysis and I think this is what's being asked for in the Twitter case.
Never is a strong word. People prefer to talk to each other face-to-face rather than on opposite sides of a wall. For this reason video chat will obviously succeed, once the technical solution is at a level where it is close enough to the real thing. (Obvious current shortcoming: You don't look people in the eye, but slightly below it).

Alternate title: "Why video chat on the iphone4 will not succeed". (Meta: Should I flag the article because of this?)
it true For chines mother one agassi, there are more than thousand Chinese children pushed that much hard that don't make it anywhere.
A good poll may be is what your doing with your life right now in a large way influenced by you frequenting HN?
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> Readers should take care to notice that it is dated summer of last year

and notice the ?repost=true in the url :)
Having only 2 principal developers left which have little time sounds to me like the biggest problem. That's not enough manpower to compete with Photoshop in the long run. One reason for that might be that Gimp already does the stuff most coders need from an image manipulation tool, so maybe there's not enough itches to scratch left to get more talent interested in developing for it.
>It looks like the OP doesn't like CEOs.

Not at all, it's a needed and valuable position to be sure. And I have no problem with them being the highest paid person in the company, even by several times. I just think the vast majority are ridiculously over paid.

>But, the OP also seems to be making the mistake of implying CEOs == the rich.

No, I was singling this group out as a big source of inequality. Larry and Sergei are founders. Their wealth (initially) didn't negatively impact anyone else. Michael Jordan made his money directly from advertising which means he was paid what companies thought was fair [1]. Politicians get rich from corruption and gaming the system. The difference between them and overpaid CEO's is that what they do is obviously illegal or at least immoral. Lots of people herald overpaid CEO's as something to aspire to.

[1] This is different from a typical mid to large size company CEO who's pay is decided by a board (i.e. often totally shielded from any market forces). The board will mostly be composed of people who are themselves CEO's of companies for which this CEO is a board member...
> On the flipside however, it is undeniable that asians outperform westerners.

Look around your office and name 5 things invented in the Asia.
No you shouldn't flag the article because of this. The iPhone 4 is what triggered Kottke's post but the point he's making is more general.
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I certainly hope not, for exactly the reasons you post.

But I know the world doesn't give a hoot about what I want and that ignoring the future is very, very dangerous.
I find it novel that the stereotype of the person who will benefit least from this transition is also the stereotype of the person who will comment on HN.
I am also facing same problem
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Perhaps, but even if your critical business data is encrypted in the cloud the servers will still be keeping access logs which can be handed over for traffic analysis. As far as I'm aware this is what's being asked for in the recent Twitter case.
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I, hand on my heart, swear that, as a programmer, I don't think GIMP's UI makes a jot of sense.

A week away from GIMP to mess with Photoshop had me converted after the first couple of days, sadly. Photoshop is both a blessing and a curse for OSS.

(A blessing that it's a nice shiny target. A curse in that the target is half-way to the moon.)
This is beautiful through and through but you are missing a favicon. You might already be aware of this, just thought I'd let you know.
The official advice (in the UK at least) is that up to four or five cups of coffee a day is fine. This was according to leaflets in my doctor's waiting room produced by the coffee growers association or some group like that. I showed my doctor one of the leaflets and he went to the waiting room and removed them all.

He advised me to ditch coffee, which resolved what was otherwise going to be a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome (which is a diagnosis of exclusion of a disease that not everybody agrees even exists). If you're feeling tired, try giving up any drugs that affect how awake you are.

(And go to a doctor. Plenty of engineers don't eat right as well as not sleeping right, anaemia feels absolutely terrible but is so easy to diagnose and treat)
as far as gimps usefulness to profesionals the movie version fork cinepaint, is good enough for making Harry Potter and other movies I question authors knowledge of / authority to speak for artistic professionals.
Recently I watched a girl using sign language with another person via Facetime and I though to myself "This shit is what technology is about." So, screw this. Even if it doesn't succeed with everyone and everywhere it makes some people's lives a lot easier.
Amazing. Are you going to blog about your experience building it? It'd be great to here some details. Plus it gives it a human story thats just might get some great press.
"You browser doesn't have Flash, Silverlight, Gears, BrowserPlus or HTML5 support."

My browser has <input type="file"> support but it's being completely ignored. I hope whoever wrote this markup will study progressive enhancement, because ugly is better than unusable.
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I think he's assuming that it will be some day. Giving the insane stuff going on the US lately I think that's probably a valid assumption.
At least in the context of the US (which was the topic of the article):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American#Education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Race_6_figure_household_an...
It's clear that vsingh claims that you need to fulfill the lower levels to reach the higher ones for the first time.
For a long time AMD were the "indie" manufacturer in the microprocessor world - and prior to about '06 had vastly superior chips. I hung out on a forum dedicated to hardware at about that time, and the paradigm shift that Intel's Core 2 chip caused was insane.

Within literally weeks AMD was old news and Intel was king (this was after a couple of years of outright dislike of Intel as the "big corporate").

AMD beat Intel to 1GHz, X64(proper) and Multi-core(proper). But Intel produced a brilliant and quality line of chips in Core 2, which has left AMD basically floundering for nearly 4 years now.

I think that's fine. In a few years, with luck, AMD will produce a killer chip that leaves Intel scrabbling. Such competition is good :)