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I'm currently a college student. The university I attend is completely free and is one of the best available.

What about people who don't pass the entrance exam? They go to private colleges, paying a value between 0.7 and 2 times the minimum wage. And there are cheaper alternatives.

Additionally, most people in college have part time jobs, making the payment even less problematic.

And this is 3rd world South America.
Self-entitlement is at an all-time high on the Internet.
1. Install an email client of your choice: Outlook, Evolution, Thunderbird, etc.

2. Enable IMAP access in GMail settings https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&shva=1#settings/fwdan...

3. Configure your client https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75726

Done, now I can check my email without ads! I can even (depending on client & configuration) search emails with my platform search tool: Spotlight, Windows Search, etc.
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From the article:
"Its unique feature is that it has been mathematically proven to operate correctly, enabling it to separate trusted from untrusted software, protecting critical services from a failure or a malicious attack, say the scientists"

He may have been basing his reply on this paragraph. If the OS could successfully answer whether any arbitrary program was trusted or untrusted, that this is equivalent to solving the halting problem.
What pushed me into using Adblock is that every so often adds turn out to be security problems. Sure, it is rare and fixed quickly but if they show up in my gmail account, which I use for authentication, I will start looking for another email service.

Anyone know of a great, secure and add free email service?
I don't see any ads yet - I guess they haven't rolled them out?

Can you show me a screenshot?
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From http://searchengineland.com/google-testing-display-ads-in-gm...:

We're always trying out new ad formats and placements in Gmail, and we recently started experimenting with image ads on messages with heavy image content.

Interesting. I wonder what 'image-heavy' is; attached images, or embedded images that get blocked anyway...
Mr. England, your post went on for thousands of words psychoanalyzing the guy and his motives ("abruptly...knee-jerk response...defensive...something to hide....care-free and cavalier...", and so on ad nauseum).

Something about the tone set off my metal detectors, as did the comments by robyn_b here, which reminded me of the way people on 4chan work someone's name into a sentence to make sure that it's the number one hit on Google.

Sure enough, looking into this a little more, it actually isn't as surprising. From your site:

http://postdesk.com/hiring/

PostDesk is looking for fresh new talent in the UK,
Europe, the USA and Canada. We require web developers who
are proficient in PHP and MySQL - and ideally those who
have worked with CMS systems, bulletin board style
software or social networking software....In short, the
start-up will be based around news, discussion and
debate.

Ok, so you run a competing startup in the same space and saw an opportunity to poke a finger in the eye of a rival. Don't you think that merits an up front disclosure in bold font?
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For me it is also a better delivery method. Living in Europe, it takes about 2 weeks for print books to arrive, then I need to go to post office to pick them up, I need to pay for the delivery, etc. It is all so much easier with the ebook. Moreover, I don't even own Kindle, and read my ebooks on the netbook or phone.
The name made me wince a bit when I saw the "trim" part.
Ashamed? No. Out-competed by an advertising free email service - yes.
Yes. They're often called "special variables" or "dynamic variables" in a Lisp context - their value is checked within the current scope, not the (lexical) context in which they were defined.
Do you really print your code?

"Too bad because it looked awesome!"

You will not use it because of the CMD+P problem!?
I just wish it had some smarts for two-column PDFs (easily 90% of what I read). I often resize, read down the left column, then shift to the top, which moves the crop window and confuses GR horribly.
I don't know... With the vast majority of books having the first chapter available for free, I usually end up only buying once I know I'll enjoy reading it.
> Can you cite a reference there?

No, this is not an academic paper.

But I distinctly recall the case being made that 'hotmail' and 'yahoo' mail had interfaces that were considered inferior not because of their technical capabilities but because of being loaded up with advertising and that this was one of googles major plus points. The fact that the advertising was based on the contents of your emails was the flipside of that coin at the time so that's what people based their decision on.

> Some references to these "promises" would be cool also.

Another thing that google promised (and that I distinctly remember) was that they wouldn't do 'paid placements' in the results, they broke that promise and weaseled through the cracks by putting a little background colour on the ads.

(for instance: http://www.google.com/search?q=black+socks
shows an ad for blacksocks.com as the first result for me the first time I hit that search)

> Display ads is still extremely tame and non intrusive. When they start doing popups, popunders, video ads with sound, the underlining of keywords with popup contextual ads, etc... then I'd be up in arms too.

Ok, so we'll wait for a while then we simply draw the line in different places.

Youtube now has video overlay ads and leaders on some videos, I don't see anything keeping google from doing the same.

I no longer use gmail, I got a few ads that showed just a bit too much insight in to the contents of the email than what I'm comfortable with. I do still have a gmail account because I use it to log in to a bunch of google services but no more gmail for me, I'll take the bit of extra spam that I get as the price to pay for that decision.

And my email client (thunderbird) does not show any advertising at all, keywords or otherwise.
Why not mention

- macros

- compiler macros

- reader macros

What other languages have these? What was done with compiler macros in cl-ppcre is something that doesn't seem possible anywhere else.
Similar to keyboard accessibility, undo is one of those things you should only consider if you don't have any less time consuming features that you should implement.

The easier workaround to the "oops, I didn't mean to do that" problem is to make it harder or awkward to do it in the first place - e.g. turn reset buttons into smaller, less prominent links, don't put delete buttons right next to edit buttons, don't cram unrelated next-step actions together (e.g. "send email" and "add attachment" shouldn't be right beside each other), etc
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The information about transactions in this article is wrong. Read the redis docs he actually points to for an accurate description.

This article should not get upvoted.
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Fair enough. In terms of a business decision though, this will result in increased revenue, and 99.99999% of users won't care. So good on them.
Auto complete only looks in the current buffer for possible completions at the moment.

I'll look into what's going on with the command line handling under Linux.
I'd really like to move to an IDE that understands js code as well as Netbeans does but without the sluggish performance of the editor. I like Sublime Text so far, but I really miss the ability to see out-of-scope variables and catch minor errors.

Anyone know how to accomplish this in Sublime Text ?
WJW, this is very cool. A few comments:

- When you select a file in a project, first it shows some kind of preview and only if you start typing it gets its own tab. Why is that ? Perhaps just keep it simple and always show a tab.

- Can I change the font?

- Creating a new project could be a little be easier to understand (perhaps add "New project from folder")

- The black UI looks great with dark themes, but a gray version would be great for light ones.

- The minimap was a little bit greater on ST1, overlaying it like this turns it into a distraction (unless it would fade away automatically and fade in activated by "hot corners", or something like that).

- Any chance you would think of VC integration, or that isn't a good thing to have in the editor for you?

- Why is this so fast? Can you teach us how to make great looking apps that work on all platforms? :)

Really snappy, "modes" load instantly, great out of the box experience. Congratulations!
congrats to you all. really excited to watch your companies blossom.
most(all?) linux distros ship with atleast a minimal version of python. I guess that's the reason
Every time I here about regular Soap clients failing, it's always in regard to trying to consume a .NET service.

I don't know anything about .NET, but I wonder if there is something profoundly different that is going on behind the scenes, or does it just generate crufty WSDLs? Can anyone shine more light on this?
Not really. The first has to do with how variable scope is managed. The second involves exception handling, and if your language unwinds the stack while looking for a handler, it's usually already too late.

The third has to do with how local variables are managed for functions defined at runtime - while you could rewrite code with macros to pass an implicit closure value array to the function at all points of use, it would be quite a bit less awkward to have it part of the language proper. Heck, it's not that unusual to have C functions that take a void * argument for "userdata"; the function/userdata combination is one way of representing closures when compiling to C.
If you need a professional certificate to practice, such as law, or medicine, then of course college is the only route.

But there are many degrees out there that I see as not very necessary to get. English, Art, History? If you want to be a teacher sure you need these, but you can get by on your self learned skill and knowledge alone.

People just need to make sure they're going to college for the right reasons. Because it will further their career not just delay them from it.
Indian video game in movie theater. Like there aren't enough already from Hollywood.
This article is practically pointless; congratulations on parroting Peter Thiel on this matter.

To be honest, my college experience was pretty easy for me, but I did learn something that I would have never learned by starting a business. That is communication. College is the best place to learn about yourself and become comfortable with talking in social settings.

Also, through college, I met some of the smartest people I know, and I hope that in the future we can build a business. Without school, I would have never had the opportunity to engage with such minds.
Yes. The CTR and revenue for image ads is way above text ads. This is a good move.

By "PR loss" I assume you mean "geeks moan for an hour or 2 on hacker news" ;)
I've been following this for some time, if you want more information on it this is one of the best blogs out there detailing numbers between paper/e-publishing:

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/
We're not in the same space. PostDesk, as you should be able to see is a site where editorial/opinion pieces such as the one you've just read are posted. Unfortunately you're trying to uncover a conspiracy which isn't there - though I'll gladly answer any further questions you might have...
While I always felt that this was inevitable, I think this went much faster than what I would have anticipated.

I guess the advantages of ebooks (immediate availability, much easier purchase process) have helped to convert people more quickly and made the converts buy more books in general (certainly happened to me).

Now let's hope that this success is seen by other industries too (Console Gaming, Movies) where they would still do everything possible to have you buy physical media.
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> The reason their is a prompt in most games is that their is no universally excepted way to undo something in games. It's become accepted to have a confirmation box.

Honestly, how many actions in a game does it make sense to undo, unless you're playing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time? I'm a big proponent of 'make everything undoable' but you are stretching it way beyond its use here.
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Comparing anything to Kod isn't really fair at this point. It is currently at 0.0.3beta and not feature complete (I hope ;)
Google wants to target more (and better-converting) display advertisements on daily deal subscription emails (ie. Groupon, LivingSocial), which always feature plenty of images and style and are incredibly lucrative.
previous discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2149521
If they are blocking to save resources, then it might be worth noting that startup search engines will not bomb their servers the way Google and Bing can. Are there any published numbers as to how the crawling load varies from startups to Googlebot?
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Give David a break. First of all, he's a very nice guy. Secondly, he's not running a corner greengrocer, he's running a site that's growing supernaturally fast and which has completely, utterly displaced myspace as the place where high school kids share. Tumblr has five MILLION visitors every single day, almost none of whom pay a dime. You can't run a service like that the same way you run an enterprise software company. You can't have a PR team and a customer service department that makes sure everybody gets a nice reply. When they have outages caused by growing pains (something which nobody here begrudges them), they get metric TONS of angry email from thousands of narcissistic users who can't IMAGINE that ANYONE ELSE is suffering from the same outage. You know what? David Karp doesn't like Tumblr being down any more than you do. David Karp didn't bring Tumblr down to piss you off. Self righteous, whiny blog posts demanding that David Karp is not capable of running Tumblr because he responded to an email in a fashion that you don't find sufficiently grovelling are, frankly, ridiculous, and reflect more poorly on the whiners than on Tumblr or David.
Most Bollywood film producers fast forward through stacks of foreign movies regularly to see what to copy. This looks like Matrix times Terminator !
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Remember: Tumblr may not have an export feature, but Posterous has a great import feature.
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William checking in here - the recipient of the e-mail from Mr Karp. So I'm sitting here just waiting for my blog to be deleted...
I understand that Forth has things like reader macros.
The fact that you can use the backticks to run commands on the server itself is well documented both from a Ruby standpoint and a Heroku standpoint (several of their examples in their documentation use this method to execute a variety of commands).

As for using Python, like another poster said it's included in most Linux distros, and Heroku is really just running a Linux distro at the end of the day. I imagine that if you wanted to run a really simple script they wouldn't care, but I wouldn't build my whole app around it, because they can turn it off at any time.
You missed the point. The fact that CMD-P doesn't do what it's supposed to do was a big warning to me.

One of the best things on a Mac is that every application uses standard keyboard shortcuts. For example, CMD-, always opens preferences. I believe that anybody who doesn't follow these conventions is doing it wrong. If the application doesn't print, CMD+P shouldn't do anything in my opinion.
Nice plugin API. There might be enough here to write a vim modality/navigation extension without too much pain.

Community page of existing plugins for Sublime Text 1. Hopefully these get ported to 2: http://sublime-text-community-packages.googlecode.com/svn/tr...

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/api-reference

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-basics

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples

(EDIT: API is for Sublime Text 1 only)
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Make a posting on craigslist for someone to come shovel the snow

Wait for contact from posting

Pick the first reasonable guy

Wait for him to do the work

Pay the guy
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Oh please, get over yourself. David started a company when he was 20.... obvious proof that he's extremely mature for his age, not immature. Let me know when you're running a successful website that zoomed to the top 50 in a couple of years and which serves 5 million people every single day before your 24th birthday. Picking on him for one email instead of his very impressive life's work, and self-righteously proclaiming that you will be boycotting Tumblr because he sent one curt email, is, I'm sorry to say, kinda pathetic.
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"Oracle will support open source procedures and goals as long as they are aligned with Oracle's business interests." Does this sound like a dictatorship? Us programmers like to be free and creative. If Oracle keeps this up I'll likely move to another platform!
> libgio is part of GTK

It is not part of the GTK version on RHEL5 (1.2.10). This might be a difficult problem. RHEL5 is full of old packages. I wouldn't worry too much about it, a lot of government and military facilities use it but everyone else moved on. RHEL6 is out but it will be some time before it makes it through the red tape of approvals.
MySpace didn't have these issues though - nor did Twitter (to this extent). It's also a relatively straight forward blogging platform though - it's not particularly hard to figure out how to allocate resources despite exponential growth. The fact is - responding to issues in such a manner might not affect the outlook of Tumblr immediately - but the fact that he does respond to emails like this might be a representation of his overall attitude towards running the site - one which might contribute to the ultimate downfall of the service.
What he describes in the condition system is also available in many implementations of Exceptions. Everything he describes has been available in Smalltalk for longer than a decade.
Yeah: English books + paying in "weak" dollars + no VAT tax + no waiting around for the Italian postal system is a huge win over any other method of getting books.

I still prefer real books, and if I lived somewhere with a good book store (like Powell's, or even Smith Family in Eugene), I'm not sure I'd use the Kindle quite so much.
As was mentioned in the last Lisp macros thread, Forth's defining words. All of the flow control constructs and any words that use a unique syntax are defined through this mechanism.
Why so condescending? Joel made a perfectly valid point, and while _you_ might be thinking of something specific while writing your answer, many of us here don't have that context. I just spent the last few minutes trying to understand the last paragraph, and I'm still confused.

I thought it was an accepted axiom that no "perfect" specs can be written in natural language: sure, you can _try_ to with a great deal of effort, but you can never get the same guarantees that a mathematically-based technique can give you. And the separation between the spec and the "proof" bothers me: what is the point of a spec if, after building a product, you can't verify you built it right? I would consider such specs as incomplete.
"If the artefacts are still safely ensconced in a not yet rediscovered cave then they're relatively safe."

His point is that if a colony of insects happened into that cave a month after they were "safely ensconced" 500 years ago, then they wouldn't be there for us to find. Basically you're falling for survivorship bias.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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I'm not sure if this is 'Operate as if in a vacuum' so much as 'Challenge assumptions', especially if you are entering a competitive market.

Challenge the format, the value, the technology, and the ability of users (both searchers and advertisers) to learn and adjust when the technology delivers more value.

It was a ballsy move. Any number of 'hypothetical' scenarios could have seen it fail massively. Of course, we know that it didn't - and even if it may in your business, there's still good reason to challenge the assumptions you and everyone else are making.
I heard from an article that I read recently that he wasn't, in fact, a nice guy.

Maybe you had different experiences with him, but now most people who have read about him just think he's some 24-year-old punk trying to be Steve Jobs. That's just how this stuff works.

Startup, LLC and HugeCorp, Inc. alike can't afford bad PR like this. It was an incredibly stupid move on David's part and he should patch this up as quickly as possible.
Bubbie, you don't know what you're talking about. Do you really think that Tumblr isn't aware of it's flaws? Are you seriously claiming that David is denying that they had a few outages? Very, very few mass services grew as quickly as Tumblr without a lot of outages. Ebay had them, Yahoo had them, Twitter had them. The idea that David is sitting in a room like Mubarak, denying the flaws and refusing to work on them, is so utterly preposterous that I don't even know where to begin, but I'll say this: I know David, and it's not true, and he's working on the flaws, and he's working on them night and day, and he's utterly the least arrogant person I've ever met, and genuinely nice, too.
From one of the comments on the post:

A quick search on Google shows Zferral has less than 40 customers (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Azferral.com+%22powered...). Where are they getting the cash for the acquisition from? Is there something I'm missing?
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At my company we have decided to implement a continuous quality improvement plan, which basically means every year for at least one month we focus on the big picture for each operational group we have. It's a bit like painting the golden gate bridge, by the time you have finished in one direction it's time to start over again in the other direction.
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My company is launching a big set of equity data APIs and we're looking for some users to try it out. I'm the product manager, so if you're interested, shoot me an email (email in profile) and we can work something out. There are not enough finance start-ups given how much innovation can be brought to bear in the market. I hope our data APIs can help stir up ideas.

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Does it support two dimensional copy & paste? ( this is usually done with pressing the left alt key on other editors ).
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