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We've not put it into production yet (it's coming in the new version) but are putting it through its paces in staging and it's handling things well so are confident it's ready for our usage.

There are people on the mailing list which are using it for some fairly hefty things.

Usual case of YMMV and as with anything it's worth taking a bit of time to try out the various options and see how they stack up for your usage. A good thing about ES is that it's so quick and easy to get running that trying it out and doing some benchmarking is pretty trivial.
Much of the advice already here is good to help you step up from a sub-1000 LOC program to working on bigger applications; but if you've not been doing any coding since university, then you may find some of it a bit daunting. This is also true if your existing coding experience is in something like C or Java and you wish to work in something a bit more "trendy" like Python, Clojure or Ruby.

I find that writing programs for Project Euler problems (http://projecteuler.net/) is very handy for sharpening the saw, or getting familiar with a new language. Obviously, it won't help you get up to speed with a graphics library or web framework, or anything like that, but it will help get your mind back in good shape to follow everyone else's advice here.
Called FX!32, It was very similar with Rosetta, which came with the Intel Macs. It was viable because the Alpha at the time were really much faster than the Pentiums. On the other hand, low power ARM processors certainly won't be any faster than the competing intels, so that would make an emulation really dog slow.
I installed Ubuntu onto my father's netbook after he started having trouble with malware. I think he barely noticed that it wasn't Windows, and I've had no complaints since. For most purposes the operating system is becoming less important, since many things are now accessed via a web browser. The main product differentiator is how much maintenance you have to do to keep the OS running well, and in that regard Windows is very high maintenance.
what happens though is sometimes good ideas never see the light of day because the dreamer didn't think the idea was grand enough to warrant seeing it through.
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"Yes, actually there aren't so many voxels to take care of. It depends on the world size of course, but at 256x256x48, that's similar to managing a 3k x 1k 2d map in the same way."

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=201
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do window-managers support title-bar on the side ? should be useful i think.
What am I supposed to see?
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So it's running on 64-bit? Why was this worth posting?
See also previous discussion of the third article in the series: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184563
The structural devestation has certainly been significantly less than many other devestations I could name which are happening contemperaneously.

However, I can't speak for the psychological (and other forms) of devestation that may be happening in Ashdod and Sderot. I would like to know more about that.
or… 1,048,576

as on the same page he also says:

"Everything in the game is displayed in a virtual 128x128x64 voxel display, including the menus and player inventory"
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Is Mark of the Beast a common term for this type of bug (triggered by a certain number)? Never heard it before.
not at all, actually. in fact he's doing it quite right. there's a clear synergy. throw in a benzo for anxiety or the ride down and you have yourself a basic stack. add a few grams of vitamin c or a big frozen tube of oj concentrate to nom (tastes fun whee), magnesium, calcium (or the frozen oj with added C and Calcium ;), 5-htp for the day after...
The marketplace is just an app, remember.
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What about openID integration? give the users an option to sign up using their google-id or their facebook-id or any of the other id's the user already has. I would prefer to do that over giving my password to another site.
Actually it hits the 60 second mark pretty easily. I got our family our very first console this Christmas, the XBox Kinect bundle. Our usage is: turn it on, insert disk, play game.

It's really not that hard.
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none being more sinister than Nopuorg

If they think Nopuorg is sinister, why give them a direct link and not even include rel="nofollow" Seems like it would help Nopuorg more than it hurts.

Edit: Have you read Nopuorg's About page? It's ridiculous http://www.nopuorg.com/about

Nopuorg was effectively launched in 1981 when its visionary founder, Mason Andrews, was fetally conceived.

and

Realizing at a young age that he was a Social Media Prodigy, Mason further self-initiated his education by achieving a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Basilisk-Online Preparatory Web-Academy.

Edit 2: Reading more based on ceejayoz's reply I see the whole site is an awful spoof on the daily deals concept. When you try and buy it asks for your SS#. Makes sense now why they link directly to it.

Am I the only one that thinks it's a lame joke?
A complication is that if the effect were real, all our ideas of prior vs. posterior probability would need re-thinking. The hypothesis is that humans can be influenced by posterior events. That includes the experimenters.
I really need a place I can go to without all the distractions of jokes and pics. This is mildly entertaining, but I'm hoping that this type of content won't make its way to this site.

Reddit == Herp Derp

Hacker News == Serious Business
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Apart from the well-documented benefits of Ubuntu/Linux over windows, for me there's now a matter of principle: a machine with pre-installed windows is generally stuffed with bloat-ware. I recently bought an Acer Aspire with Windows 7 starter. It was riddled with anti-virus bollox and stuff for ebay, aol, BT etc etc. It's faster just to bung on Ubuntu then bother taking all this stuff off.
It seems like the operation was tactically a great success, but strategically a failure.

The agents seem to have been very well trained and carried out their task very effectively.

There has been serious negative fall-out, though, including the unmasking of a number of important agents, and worsening ties with Dubai and the countries whose passports were forged.
Currently I use webfaction.com for two (nearly dead) projects but I'm considering linode.com or djangy.com for my next one. I've found webfaction to have great support but their RAM/cost ratio isn't so good.
No thanks.

* Vertical height is scarce... unless you're trying to fit two windows side-by-side.

* The nice thing about horizontal tabs is when they fill up the tab bar they just shrink rather than disappearing. You can't really shrink vertical tabs.

* I'd rather have my tabs take up 30px by [screen width] than 200px by [screen height]. This looks very wasteful of space.

* The default state of the browser is a single tab, in which case tons of space would be wasted. In applications where most of the space is usually used (a hierarchical file browser, for example) the vertical orientation makes more sense.
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Having a child is a very pivotal moment in the lives of the parents and the beginning of the life of a child. Birth is really a miracle and it is amazing that nearly all things go smoothly most of the time.
Perhaps it's not too late for you. He's re imagined Robotron as a voxel game. Think of other classic arcade games that could be taken to their roots and reinvented with voxels. Any classic could be interesting: zaxxon, donkey kong, Asteroids...
So, maybe the name doesn't matter so much as long as it's distinct per-market? It's happened long before the internet and probably has nothing to do with trademarks, and more to do with local marketing.

Case in point: "groupon" wouldn't work as well here in AU because "coupons" aren't a big thing. (The concept maybe, the word, no).
While I don't know all the details, it looks as if Groupon has gone about this the wrong way.

auDA have a very clear stance against this kind of squatting (from http://www.auda.org.au/policies/auda-2010-05/);

a. Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure that:

(i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a name [Note 1], trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and

(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name [Note 2]; and

(iii) your domain name has been registered or subsequently used in bad faith.
A trick I use is to make a new tree starting with a google search for the group's name, such as "Web Mail" and putting all the related tabs under it. This woorks because Google puts the search term first as the title.
completely aside from whether $$$ follows

Unfortunately $$$ is required for anything you'd like to do, so whatever you do (even building a non-profit) if you want sustainability you'd better make sure $$$ follows.

As I was telling my mother in law, who's a very religious and charitable person, it's much easier to be generous to the world with other people's money, but when relying on other people for $$$ you can't bitch about how things aren't going your way, so the best way to give is to make $$$ yourself ;)

And if you fail to do that, not only will your dream of world-change shatter, but the people relying on your company/service/product will find themselves in the dust; so it's not only hard but also irresponsible and immature to not worry about $$$.
I've not watched it yet (going to do that shortly whilst grabbing lunch), but I'm really looking forward to watching this particular interview as it strikes me as very much in line with some of the changes in my own thinking in the last few months.

I graduated in Summer 2009, and I immediately wanted to do my own startup. I'd recently built my own new website, which was pretty much all my social networks on a single page. A friend asked me when he could have his, and after that I knew I was onto something. It turned into OnePage (http://myonepage.com) and it is doing well, with thousands of users. The problem? revenue was an afterthought, so to fund it I had to keep doing contract work. I tried doing it part time, and then I tried doing a wave of full-time and then a wave of full-time work on OnePage. We tried applying to incubators, too. After a year and a half, I still know there's huge potential in that space (just look at about.me), but I know I need to sort out my income so I can focus.

So, when the November Startup Sprint popped up, the timing couldn't have been better. I built my second startup called Buffer (http://bufferapp.com) with the sole purpose of getting to ramen profitability and using it to free my time. I built the app in about 7 weeks of evenings and launched with payment options from day 1. Fast forward one month until now, and I've had just over a hundred signups, 3 of which are paying. I have a long way to go, but I think this is the method more people should take.

Some people want the lifestyle business so they can spend less time working and enjoy life more, others want their finances "sorted" so they can hit for the home run. Either way, I think lifestyle business first is almost always a good idea.
Ask HN: Ruby or Python?
I've decided that this year I'm going to learn R as myself and a friend in the BI field are taking on a data-centric project this year.

While learning, I've been getting more and more curious about learning a language that lets you develop something interactive (a la website, web app etc.). Considering that I've got no prior programming ability, what would be a better option - Python or Ruby? Which is easier to get into?

* Apologies if this is a dupe, which most likely it is, but the search results don't factor for the fact that I'm a n00b: http://www.google.co.za/#hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=647&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+ruby+on+rails+or+python&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=2bdf121f4ce8a359

Thanks
I run OSX...love it. I ran Haiku in a vm yesterday and was thinking..."what if Apple had went with Be". Haiku is fast!
This app-specific myopia drives me nuts. As other commentators have noted, the right place for the tab functionality is in the window manager. The effort would be better spent working with desktop vendors to support a cross-platform and cross-application tiling and tabbing API.
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Well you can certainly submit your own and bring some diversity
Not only that but you have a world of C++ developers that would have been able to develop for a BeOS type iPod/iPhone/iPad and not ObjC.
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There is no advertising because it is the print version. The normal page is a 7 page article with enough ads.
Apparently subnormal is the new name for denormal numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormal_number
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986883

...making great progress with the newly re-branded his "innie" and his/hers "outie" models. Since I'm bootstrapping (at the moment) my target markets are individual consumers, though the long-term roadmap calls for FDA Pharmaco-Therapeutic classification and Class II medical device approval by year 3.

What if I told you that this product sits at the forefront of a $15bn industry. Is that something you might be interested in?
Where can you buy an iPhone 3G for US$99?? The best prices I can see are around $350: http://www.google.com/products?q=iphone+3g

Or perhaps you are talking about the subsidised price with a contact, which would be pretty disingenuous.
The whole site reads like a spoof. Try and buy the daily deal. I think Groupon's joking around with that link.
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A constrained view frustrum might be a deliberate game choice.
I am fairly sure that it is a prank site by one of the groupon founders.
wget http://webdesignledger.com/tips/web-design-trends-in-2011

They "iframed" http://www.romancortes.com/ficheros/meninas.html and Roman fooled them (see 4. Happy Hotlinking).
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Slow down, there pal.

They are meant to be transmitted instantly, as opposed to requiring a pony to transport a physical copy. Nothing in the requirements for email says that the content itself is of an "instant" variety.

I have written emails that took the better part of a day to compose.
You can't really compare Python to RoR, as one's a language, the other is a framework.

It's either Ruby <-> Python, or RoR <-> one of the python frameworks (probably Django).

Pesonally, I'd go with Python & Django, because I found the Django docs far easier to understand, and less of a pain to set up.

Whenever I tried to follow any of the Rails guides, I was advised to throw out everything Ruby my distribution made and compile from source - no thanks. With Django, I could get started with what was immediately available, no compiling neccessary.

That, and I found python to be easier to understand than ruby.
Surely "Hey, I use Linux now and it's great!" stories belong on reddit. /r/linux is => that way.
someone set up us the bomb?

edit: I know, I know, but I couldn't resist ;)
It looks to me like the low resolution is an aesthetic choice. I've seen many far higher resolution voxel engines 15 years ago running at speed, including one written by a guy at my old school aged 17.
> A quality office suite was not free.

I'm holding my nose as I type this, but for the vast majority of non-power users, OpenOffice is more than adequate.
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All we can do is continue flagging.
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Let me know when it can survive javascript being turned off...
Couldn't the same argument be made for the United States and its single currency? I don't think anyone is arguing that this would be better for the US.
No you don't.

You made this post to feel pompous and self important. There is almost nothing serious or business related about reading hacker news (although in general it is good, rewarding, and fun to stay up to date). It is entertainment, albeit entertainment related to your passion. Don't confuse reading blogs about technology, or interacting with people who build technology with actually building technology. There is a reason PG has a noprocrast feature.

Developer mailing lists for your compiler and core libraries = Serious business

Journal articles on new algorithms related to your project = Serious business

User forums for your product = Serious business

Internal wiki's and product management = Serious business

Hacker News != Serious business
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I was using ubuntu on my desktop for a year and a half, and it is most definitely a capable system - these days I just don't think windows on the desktop is an option for the serious hacker - unix tools are just too damn useful, too many open source projects assume you're on a unix, and the various crufty elements of windows are just too painful to bear, no doubt a result of their (quite justifiable given their market) obsession with backwards compatibility.

Having said that, linux does have rough edges - for example, I apt-get'd bugzilla the other day, only to realise I didn't need it on that particular box. apt-remove'ing resulted in the setup asking for the (non-existent) db password, then refusing to continue when I didn't supply it.

After a bit of googling round and trial-and-error I found a solution (sudo apt-get remove bugzilla3 rather that bugzilla). Had the same issue with virtualbox for a while too, equally irritating.

Also, there are the issues that don't quite work nicely like closing the lid killing the whole system, on 2 different laptops.

Having said that, I still adore linux; it's the Millennium Falcon of operating systems and despite the (sometimes quite fun for hackers actually) various fixes and cludges you have to apply, very capable. Having tried various flavours of linux every year or so for the past 10 years, I do think the latest ubuntus are miles, MILES ahead of what came before them, and considerably fewer cludges required than in the past - if things keep on developing at this rate we might actually have a very real windows competitor.

I mostly use OS X now (though still do some stuff in ubuntu) as I want an OS that gets out of my way and looks pretty doing it, while retaining the various unix tools I desire (thanks macports!), and that would probably be the system I recommend to a hacker with cash to spend, however linux is genuinely a great option to go for too.

/rambling a bit...
This is probably why the old 8- and 16-bit games seem to have so much more compelling gameplay than ultra-realistic modern games. Well, that or we are just cranky oldtimers.
"A direct port to Javascript is also available."

Did you happen to notice where this is?
So far I've spoken to a copuple of different devs who, when I asked what they thought of Amazon setting the price, said "well there's a field for me to enter 'list price', so what are you talking about?"

Are a lot of people going to miss that detail and assume that the list price they set is what it will be sold for?
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If only he had taken Groupon equity; he'd be a multi-millionaire. Does anyone know if the owner of the groupon.com domain had such an offer?
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Software has become hardware?
Edited. Thanks
It might have been bad PR but you can bet they've never stopped testing.
What problem does Mac exactly solve?
I think Python is a more beginner friendly language. I have started my programming studies with both Python and Ruby and dropped Ruby on the way to concentrate on Python. Some say Ruby suits their thought processes better, but my brain works well with Python code. I don't think there is too much difference between them from a beginner's perspective. I think you should just start studying both of them and drop the one which feels clumsier. I, myself gathered much benefit from this particular approach.

Besides the more languages you know, the easier it gets to learn new languages.

I advise http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ for beginning Ruby and http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index for Python.
The problem is that these people are allowed to vote and hold office.
Yes I am having a problem w/ 4 gigs of memory, running minimal numbers of applications with swapping and slowness. Every year I reinstall Mac OS X and it gets better for a bit, then it starts to come back and I do some maintenance and it gets somewhat better and repeat til around the 12-15 month mark when I have to reinstall again.
This isn't an extension of that; you're reselling the connection. It might be a different story if you convinced everyone to open up their router, but you're selling access.
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If anyone is interested in further reading I can recommend "The Other Side of Deception" by former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky. (Note that this is the sequel to "By Way of Deception" by the same author, it is more informational and matter-of-fact than the first book.)
It is in the SVN. README documents the usage.

http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/source/browse/#svn%2...
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i like it.

and i like the idea too :)

feature request: a few more monospaced fonts for us coder types
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I couldn't care less what other projects require. If I am excited enough about contributing to them then I will do so regardless of the barrier.
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Yeah, that's one of the major selling points (for me) for Mac OS X - It's Unix that can also run Photoshop.
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If you're installing linux, why not just re-install windows? A fresh windows install == no third party bloatware. My biggest problem with windows is the lack of a proper shell (without install cygwin)
I recently upgraded my MBP 5,1 from a WDC Black to an OCZ Vertex 2E and I'm really impressed. My XBench stats aren't as high as other people with the same drive, but I'm more than happy w/ it.
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Ah, my mistake, I didn't notice the difference in name spelling. It was indeed John Harrop, not Jon Harrop, who appeared to vanish from Clojure after the licensing discussion. I should have made my point without reference to individuals.
Also note that you can get the best of both worlds with a battery backed RAM cache contained in a SAN storage backend, such that the storage subsystem can be extremely low latency and yet "guarantee" that what it has accepted will get persisted to a disk for durability. (Predictably, this isn't cheap, but it's very effective.)

Your DB host tells the SAN to write this block, the SAN ingests the write to local RAM and reports "got it" to the DB server in sub-millisecond. The SAN will then dump that data to actual underlying discs over the next (hand-wavy) short timeframe, but from the DB's perspective, it got a durable fsync in under a millisecond.
I agree, I only switch to excel from time to time to use its add-ons. I think there are better and easier to use presentation software for the non-power users online.
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