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> It meant that we weren’t going to have graphical banners on our site.

The topic and timing of this is interesting. I wonder if author posted on this in response to gmail moving towards image ads?:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151563
I would put a clear sheet on roof when snow was forecasted.

Put heat packs in grid format along the sheet.

Attach sring to the break point of heat packs

Once snow is on roof pull strings to activate the heat packs

Once enough snow has melted pull off the clear sheet.
If you think Tumblr's competitors are Posterous and Wordpress, you're missing the point.
M-x butterfly makes the process a bit easier.
> it's not particularly hard to figure out how to allocate resources despite exponential growth.

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/revealing_hidden_assumpti...
For the record, David and I have hung out a few times (not like we're BFFs or anything) but I think really highly of the guy and his character. I'd say he's a visionary and nice guy. I don't think he's trying to be Steve Jobs.
1. Special variables are pretty unique, but I think that's because people designing languages these days don't think they are a good idea. Debug flags seem to be the "killer app", as it were, and I do often wish I could have a special variable in another language for just that reason.

Of course, it's pretty easy to implement that functionality on top of C++ if you really want to. It's a little ugly, but it works.

2. I've never used that before, but it looks really nice. It seems pretty straightforward to implement in any language with full continuations, but such languages are sadly very rare.

3. That's kind of vague. He mentions mutating the state of the lexical closure, which doesn't appear to have any downsides, save potentially making a program harder to reason about and dangerous race conditions (say, with pmap). I'd be all for getting those in more languages.

The other thing he mentions looks like basically a multi-level return, which (while certainly a powerful feature) seems like a great way to break encapsulation. That sounds like one of those features that we might be better off having, but only if most people don't know about it. Fortunately, it's pretty straightforward to implement in terms of continuations (even the limited continuations some JVM languages have based on the throw/catch primitives).
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How many of us actually access gmail via gmail.com anymore? It's an exchange account on my phone, which syncs all of my contacts, and my calendar, and an IMAP account on my desktops. The only time I ever actually sign into gmail.com is when I need to set up a new filter (if I sign up for a new mailing list or something), or if I want to use gmail's search.
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.

There's a huge difference between paid placement and ads--labelled "Ads"--that correspond to search results.
So, that's the source of all those spam emails. I was wondering where they got their inspiration, it also explains some of the more peculiar turns of phrase that keep popping up ('honorable sir' and 'compliments of the season').

If you wanted to train a spam filter you could do a lot worse than to use these as your corpus.
I suppose it reaffirms why Larry is the new CEO. He had business sense all along....
I just checked that. They only let you undo when you delete messages from Inbox, which is trivial because those messages are not deleted but moved to Trash.

When I clicked on "Empty Trash now" all I got was this message: "All messages in the Trash have been deleted forever."
I can see a Cash 4 Gold ad fitting right in there with the carpet bagger ads for buying up land in the South :p
Ruby has at least 1. and 3.

1. "usable global variables" exist in two forms; the rarely used $ sigil, as in $foo (automatically global), and the more commonly used hack of defining attributes and accessors on a class (for which there's standard macrology, cattr_accessor, in Rails).

3. Everything he mentions as properties of Lisp closures is commonly done with Ruby blocks (modifying variables in enclosing scopes; use of "return" in a block to return from the enclosing method).

That leaves the condition system. I'm not aware of another commonly used environment that lets you say, for instance, "if you were about to throw a FileNotFound exception, try doing this instead first". But unlike the other two, I'm not sure that's a feature of Lisp dialects in general, as Common Lisp in particular...
Clearly, we can extrapolate this one e-mail to show a startup in tatters and a founder in steep mental decline.

Or maybe the guy was having a bad day, having to deal with an absurd surge in traffic for months that they have yet to deal with.

Jeez.
>> Gandhi: "Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong"

Gandhi has a romantic allure to people in the west, but the reality is he won because the alternative was much worse.

It was the end of the WW. The British were tired. And there were 100s of 1000s of Indian soldiers, just returned from years of fighting, who were ripe to be recruited by the radical elements in India. This was enough for the Brits to throw in the towel.

>> You break a bad regime by doing better, not by becoming like them.

You must get out and experience the real world. I like how you think, and in an ideal world, this would be the way to go. But the reality is, dictators don't got away quietly; they are driven out by violence and threats of violence.
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>Special variables seems really like a take it or leave it idea. I'm really not convinced that keeping these as explicit arguments of a function are a bad idea. I really like the ability to reason about a function by simply knowing its arguments (including the mplicit self/this).

Haskell has an equally (arguably better) way of dealing with this but a lot of people find it a bit heavy weight.

When you compare it to OO languages, it becomes and obvious win. Any private data member of an object is an implicit/global variable to all methods of that class. If you have a stack trace in Java where one of those members seems to have an impossible value you have no way of knowing how it got there.

In Lisp this problem doesn't have to exist (ironically, I don't think class members in CLOS can be special, but I'm not certain). If you make your implicit variables special then any time that impossible value comes up and breaks the program you need only look in the stack trace. The culprit must be there because if it wasn't the bad value wouldn't be in effect.

Now, if you've ever programmed with the standard OO languages think about how much time that would have saved you.
Why on earth was this even submitted? To save those the time I just waisted Fred Wilson hasn't received his phone yet. This post is him saying "I've decided to order one and try it out". The only paragraph with actual content in it is below...

"I am totally taken with the idea that the contact book on your mobile device should be the central organizing principal and all the social apps/nets you have should plug into that. So I'm going to give Windows Phone 7 a spin. I'll let you know how it goes."
Meh, it means that the guy sending the email is a bit loony. It doesn't excuse responding in kind. Karp and Tumblr are a big deal. They should set a higher standard for themselves.
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I am trying Alt+Left Mouse in Windows XP but it doesn't seem to work. Is it different under Windows?
USV is an investor in StackOverflow and Tumblr.
"Amazon announced that in the US since the start of the year it had sold 115 e-book downloads for every 100 paperback books, even excluding its downloads of free books." (highlight is mine)
This is the definition of a trolling scientist. I'm willing to bet this will be cracked within 1 year of the software surfacing.
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No.

Posterous has choked every time I've attempted a Tumblr to Posterous import. From outright failure (which could be simply that Tumblr API was inaccessible) to even upon "success" notification, seeing that it only brought in ~300 posts from a total of 20K posts. Perhaps 20K posts is too burdensome a task, but ~300 is a paltry amount.
Personally I have no problem with consuming stuff for entertainment.

I just don't kid myself that consuming a poem through oral tradition in a field without electricity would be somehow more noble/satisfactory.
Can these actually be used in a game?
Actually, they did. http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup.html
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Consider the lessons of France, Russia 1917, and the former British Colonies. Also, the Athenian democracy.

One lesson is: wisdom must be found to bring a country out of a dictatorship into a just land. Another lesson is: untrammeled democracy is but mob rule and leads nowhere.
Then it seems that David had the morale of his team as a priority over some customer who described himself as "Yours Truly Disappointed". Not a bad choice in that context.

William's email was meant to make people feel bad. Look at the first sentence: "I am writing this email to you to express my recent disappointment with Tumblr". Instead of feeling bad, David got irritated. Thats the second best choice (don't let people make you feel bad for building gnarly web infrastructure, ya know?).

The best choice would be to ignore the email and let someone without emotional attachment handle it. Sometimes, though, you can't fight the urge to slap down the Wah-wahs.

The original article, by the way, is just trying to paint David Karp as an arrogant, unlikeable person. There are mounds of unreferenced personal attacks in there.
I go to a university (BYU) with annual tuition of 5k. My wife also attends and is on full-tuition scholarship. I work part time, get Pell Grants, and will graduate in 4 years with zero debt.
Total monthly cost of living (for both of us) is $1200-$1500.

It's not MIT or Stanford, but it's a good school with plenty of opportunities.
Its a key factor of mammalian brain power: preparing for the future.
intersting, more so than most lisp is better articles.

like others here commented #1 sounds meh

#2 sounds awesome

#3 re Python (and intial mention that languages arent written in themselves) just sounds like author is not up to date with modern python.
Well, despite the best of planning emergencies happen. Sometimes these are the best moments to talk about and learn what it means to be proactive and preventative. The question is (and maybe you have an answer to this is) how do you measure and acknowledge good planning, foresight? Hindsight is easy because you have an outcome you can analyze. But foresight, what could have should have or didn't, that's hard to make concrete. I guess if there are other patterns happening in the world (ex. Emergencies) that you could compare to that is a good opportunity to explicitly show workers the contrast between reaction and initiative, and a good example to use in justifying acknowledgement if good planning and preventative measures happened. I feel like some management practice, strategy exists here somewhere. Please enlighten.
Perhaps, but tech geeks and early adopters like us can have a big influence on the swing of the pendulum and whether something is cool and hip, or lame. If more Tumblr fans become ex-Tumblr fans, then your tune might change.
This reminds me of a hobby I've been meaning to start: Collecting autographs of a lot of these famous people in computing (bonus points if it's on an item they created/developed). Seems like it'd make for cool decor in any hacker's room/cubicle/space.
Be careful. I know some people who followed this plan and ended up getting hit by three hurricanes the next year. There are still some intermittent bugs in this code.
I think the average person minds ads much less than the average programmer/technical person. Just my personal experience. An online example would be the constant barrage against advertising on Reddit, which you don't really see in communities with different demographics.
By having the constraint "no cloud" you've eliminated an easy solution: just change variable Temperature to something over 32, and call the Precipitate() function again. Changing Temperature alone will work without the cloud, but will obviously take longer.

Changing the date to something in range Summer will also work.

Reduce the value of Latitude, but you may have to port your system to different hardware.

Easy.
You're "one of the leading providers of financial data" and you won't say who you are?
Its not about standards. If this guy was at your doorstep whining like that, what would you do? I would get irritated and lash out also.

Its about implementing strategy for that.

"And this right here folks is why a startup is so extraordinarily stressful, why PR agencies exist, and why a squeaky wheel gets the grease." - Ramanujan http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151989
Different target, same problem (but without the undo function that Chrome has):

Windows System Menu. Alt-Space.

Very useful for those of us who use our keyboard shortcuts in preference to pointing devices where possible, but with a bone-headed bit of shortcut choice.

Alt-Space-X maximises a window.
Alt-Space-C closes a window.

The Windows convention is for apps without unsaved changes to quit without confirmation (another silliness IMHO) so a slight finger-slip when trying to maximise a window can close your window and potentially your whole app without confirmation. Very frustrating.
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I want to create a campaign where users would submit videos on "why they blog". It would be a 30s video MAX. The idea is to get them to sign up at our site which is blog focused. We would then take these video's and create a compilation video that will get our site's message across.

The winner would get an iPad or something similar (and yes we would actually give it to them, and we would chose the winner). Here are our main issues:

1) Nobody knows about us (yet)
2) Win an iPAD sounds kind of phony
3) I'm not sure what cost effective mediums we would use to get the contest going.

Obviously, we would post the contest on twitter, youtube and facebook.

Our budget is about 5-8k on this (including the purchase of the iPad). If I had 100k, I would put out ads on all of the major blogs and that would surely generate traffic.

I'm looking for feedback on what you think the best way to do this is, and the best way to reach the masses.
The author needs to know more about databases before claiming something is the AK-47 of the subject. It kinds of reminds me of those guys who think they are gurus just because they know some rarely used Linux commands, while in fact they don't have good understanding of OS. :)
easy for the right person who knows what they are doing
Do you think you could flesh this out a little more or link to some good examples of what this looks like in practice?
The guy sent an honest and respectful email asking for help...I don't think his email was unreasonable. What was unreasonable was the "go away" line in David's response. That is simply juvenile and more importantly, completely unnecessary.
Not sure how far you can practically get with that -- I've seen some rather steep roofs have a lot of snow build up. It's generally accepted around here that roofs have to be shoveled (or otherwise cleared off).
> if music recommendation is not what you want

Grooveshark is not very good at that. You should know what you want to hear before you go there.
I've been extremely impressed by the strides that Al-Jazeera has made to becoming a globally recognized source for International news.
"and constantly surprised at how ugly and inelegant the text editing world seems on the nix side."

Elegance of the editor, how it looks? Who cares?! You can make excuses about how emacs/vim are inelegant to rationalize your laziness (I know, I was there for years before taking the plunge.) emacs/vim are always the first to get programming modes for new languages. That should tell you something. People implementing programming languages are using vim/emacs. Why use something less? These are the tools of the trade and they are free. Print out a couple cheat sheets. Put them up around your workstation, and stop whining!
and ohh there will be more to follow for the right candidate
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I got passed the libpng error by installing libpng12 from AUR. Now when I run ./sublime_text I get these errors: http://pastebin.com/NYWSaPSe
It's strange because running "python PackageSetup.py" doesn't produce the same errors. My PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH are both correct. Using python 2.7.1 on arch.
The problem is if they can be considered to have party goals that are compatible with democratic society. If the goal of the opposition is to destruct the mechanisms by which they are to come to the power, should they be allowed to participate.
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I'll be curious to collect programming-related queries where we're not returning Stack Overflow or some other site that we should. Computer science and programming queries are easy for engineers to assess and say "Ah, here's something we need to do better on."
Well, the transition isn't over yet. Amazon is comparing their own sales of paperbacks to their sales of Kindle books. But Amazon's share of the ebook market is a lot larger than their share of the paperback market. The industry as a whole is still selling substantially more paperbacks than ebooks. Or at least they were, as of fourth quarter last year.
As someone who has been trading stocks recently, this statement is quite accurate. There is the phenomenon that a positive momentum position suddenly becomes 'hot' and people want it; at that point, it's now obvious, and generally too late.
Ah, but you must remember, mass is conserved. Your water does not disappear into the air... well, a little bit of it does but not enough to matter... it remains where it melted and starts acting like a liquid. So what does it do? It runs down things. Until it drops back below freezing. Which it will. Your gutters rapidly fill with ice, and the water is now all over the siding (which really doesn't like ice that well), all over your sidewalk, all over your car... it's much less of a solution than you might like.

I live with a moderately steep driveway facing onto a moderately steep and short road, with me having to go uphill to get out of it (dead end otherwise), and I have to admit I've entertained the idea of melting my driveway off in a similar manner, but only because I'm a bit darkly amused by icing the entire rest of the road so nobody below me can get out, even with four wheel drive. I suspect local law enforcement would find a reason to fine me, though, and they'd be very right.
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>You need to go abroad, do your research, make demos, make it work, then bring it back to Japan and say 'Look what we're doing abroad!' ".

I don't find that so awful. At least they look at what works abroad. That's better than changing all the time and being blind to everything outside your own borders.
"お世話になります has never been so true"

Translation, please?
At least you own your books and can sell or pass them to others. Not so for eBook licences 'purchased' from Amazon:
http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/comment/2011/the-dummy%E2%80...
If we're being pedantic, they use magazines, not clips :)
It is a warning where instead of the word "cancel" they use "undo".
Mark Suster has really great info on his blog - though it might be a little more geared towards startups seeking funding: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/

A post here on HN from a month or so ago pointed to this blog for a number of great resources: http://www.mattmazur.com/2010/12/17-startup-blogs-to-make-yo...

Another: http://tappen.posterous.com/nice-summary-stanleytang-256-mus...

Don't forget to keep reading this site - you'll learn much, just try to not get addicted to it!

Finally, start attending startup events - they come in many shapes and sizes and depending on your location you may have more or less to choose from. Checkout startupweekend.org to see if they have any events coming to a city near you.
Been watching live reports from the best source I can find: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ for about 30 minutes now.
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Exactly, as well, the book market is the combination of hardcover + paperback, so the comparison is lacking in that feature as well.
What's the best way to get these to you (after this article has dropped off the front page)?
Will this mean that you will need a tiny army to check everyone? I'm just curious at how you would be able to handle say 2000 people trying to be a tutor? Qualifications are also easy to be fraudulent.

On a side note, I hope you don't take my questions the wrong way! I'm just curious. And personally, I'd love to enroll myself as a tutor.
Ha ha.... Undo repartition. At what point should users be responsible for their own clickings?
Maybe for you. For me it's about mobile computing tasks that have nothing to do with my contacts.
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This one works great:

https://github.com/rsms/Go.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes

Maybe it should be included by default
>We have more freedoms

Such as?
Flagged. If you want the feedback of the community you have to at least have the backbone to post a damn URL. Advertising spam like this with some unbounded claim to email so we can "work something out" is an abuse of this system, IMO. Post a link or don't ask for help.
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As a front-end jockey, one feature of TextMate that I wound up using a lot in CSS is the native OS X color picker. Anyone know if this can be implemented with the current plugin architecture? I wouldn't have a clue where to start, but if I was nudged w/ the reinforcement that its possible, I'd take a crack at it.
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Smalltalk has restartable exceptions, but they're not as nice as CL's condition system.
> You must get out and experience the real world.

I'll bet you that I've seen more of 'the real world' than you have, from communist Poland before the wall fell to Colombia, and plenty of other places both in times of relative quiet and in times of unrest, living there, not holidaying.

If I count the countries that I've visited I come to 22 countries on 3 continents, I've probably spent more time outside of the country that I was born in than in it.

Unrestrained calls for violence and torture are simply stupid and will actually decrease the chances of success, violence is best applied with restraint by a steady hand and a clear mind pursuing concrete goals.

Gandhi played his cars very smart making the British look like murderers of innocents while at the same time showing a way out with their hide intact.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.
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