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Some people in the anti-vax crowd believe in doing things like intentionally exposing children to chicken pox

Sorry, maybe I'm missing something here, but what's the precise difference between that and vaccination?
He did not complain about Apple. Read closely. Gruber often criticizes Apple but not in this article.

“extremist, zealot, fanatic and dogmatist”

Justify yourself or shut up.
These are biz noobs. There are good ones too who understand talent and startups. We can make fun of the arrogant noobs, but we'd all benefit if they were just enlightened about the shortage of tech talent, and about the best way to sell their idea and build a team.
Many would also argue that the majority of people that hang out here are not "hackers" but instead "developers that (mostly) know how to get shit done."

In their eyes, hacking is exploiting a weakness in a system to do something the system was not originally intended or designed to do.

But in the end, nobody cares.
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I think Open Source development works a lot better where people implement features/fixes that they themselves want/need, at least for the first few patches. This way, you haven't wasted your time by writing the code to scratch your itch because, even if it is rejected, you can still patch your own version and have the feature you want.
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I've participated in threads like this before. I can't find the quote, but someone once said something to me along the lines of "They disagree with you because it is an insanely stupid position." It got lots of upvotes. So I believe the view here is biased in a pro-vaccine way. Most of the conversations here concerning vaccines don't dispassionately discuss the facts. Instead, they routinely make sweeping negative characterizations of the anti-vax crowd. It's always a pleasure when someone here asks genuinely interested questions concerning my views. But a lot of the replies (to me and to others who are not anti-vax) are basically attacking and dismissive.
I agree I found it ironic that those who 'quit' the site constantly feel the need to ramble about their life changing experiences. Facebook is a great utility and that's it, if you stop using it don't feel the need to share your experience with the world. These posts are uninteresting and usually pretty narcissistic.
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I would guess you aren't a Java programmer because if you were you'd know this not to be true. As much as Java hating is popular, the static typing lends itself incredibly well to automating refactoring, code checking and so on.

Java programmers are dpoiled for choice with IDEs between IntelliJ, Eclipse and Netbans.

My personal favorite IntelliJ does Android (Eclipse is the de facto standard) and is simply an awesome IDE, well worth the cost in an otherwise commoditized market. This is so much the case that many Visual Studio programmers consider Resharper to be a "must have" for VS development. Resharper is a pluton produced by Jetbrains that brings a lot of what IntelliJ IDEA does for Java to C# programmers.

Personally I find VS o be adequate. A lot of things are awkward like integrating and running unit test frameworks and source control integration. This probably springs from VS's single vendor pedigree versus the Java "mixin" ecosystem and philosophy.

That being said the Java IDEs don't do MonoTouch (afaik) so this is definitely a good thing and (IMHO) a noteworthy achievement.
Impressive, but they aren't really thwarting kettling, are they? They inform twitter users of where the police is gathering so protesters can leave/avoid that particular spot.
It is a form of vaccination but many people who are anti-vax are mostly concerned with things like thimersol. That isn't universal. Like any group, there are a wide variety of views within the anti-vax crowd. Some people think that spacing them out is important. Some people think that vaccines are okay as long as they don't have certain additives. Some people think it's not just the additives but the vaccines themselves.
MS is more advanced. It also has a static checker for contracts.
I've miswritten. I submitted this fairly late at night - it's not a text summarizer, it just finds the most valuable sentences of an input text. I have known about MEAD, and have used it for summarization, I just wanted to write one on my own! :D
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In Redis we have a "CONTRIBUTING" file in 2.2 and unstable where this is stated very clearly.
Whilst I commend any attempt to avoid the police kettling we have seen in the UK at recent demonstrations, I have a number of concerns about Sukey which I made to them at launch - and never received a response. I will try and reiterate here:

* I urge nobody to trust a protest tool that is closed. Where is the source? Where is the documentation on its architecture? The official line is:

"It has always been our plan to make the code open source. Security is paramount and we feel it would benefit from being released to the public after each protest."

I'm sorry but retrospective release of source code is simply not good enough. Security software (which this is, essentially) needs to be out in the open from the start. Not after a protest has happened and all data collected. The wider community must be able to audit this software before it can be trusted. No exceptions.

* If the security depends on secrecy before a protest, is it dependant on a random seed? Can this seed be extracted from a binary (IPA, for example)?

* Sukey has one of the worst pages on "security" I have ever read (see http://sukey.org/security). To paraphrase:

"The team members involved on the security side are a mix of commercial information security experts and computer nerd under/post graduates who love nothing better than a complex algorithm."

That scares me. Complex algorithms are not normally conducive to secure applications. I want to hear about cryptographers - not computer nerds. I want to know what crypto implementations you are using.

Continuing:

"One of our key team members has technical commercial data security patents in his name and has provided information security consultancy to IBM, Lockheed Martin, and to the NHS."

Let's have a citation then please. Who is this expert and what (where?) are the granted patents?

"Your data is safe with Sukey."

Okay, prove it.

* How can we prove the application distributed on the App Store matches that which we (hopefully, in future) have the source for? Is there a mechanism for which we could compare checksums - if the provisioning certificates were also published? This needs to be considered. There is more to trust than merely publishing a source tree.

Let me finally restate my original point: I commend the effort (and I was once involved in a similar application). However, these are serious concerns that need to be addressed.
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What about Varnish?
Indeed. I don't expect to be an avid reader but I wouldn't mind the opportunity. I'm with Gruber - this is doomed.
I think many people conflate BisDev and Sales too much. Most people in tech have an idea of a Sales guy: the ultimate closer, knows everyone, eats rejection for breakfast. A great sales guy is one of the best assets in a tech startup. That being said, a BizDev person normally is thinking strategically about the company's position as a whole. He is gaining deep knowledge in new verticals and identifying the right companies to target. It's usually a big picture type person. I think the best in this position truly understand the tech involved in the company.
Seems pretty unlikely, though would be awesome. One of the major problems Jobs has insisted on abstracting away from the consumer is battery management. Time spent loading is time spent loading, but Jobs wont stand for customers being confused between their battery being broken and just having a lot of background content downloading without them noticing.
Another person familiar with the case said the incidents were, for a computer network, the equivalent of someone sneaking into a house and walking around but—apparently, so far—not taking or tampering with anything.

That's a really scary way of putting it, because if they're inside the house they can already take anything they want. I hope it's more like they jumped a fence and walked around the house peering through the windows.
Sane, Pretty, Smart. So hard to find all three in a woman these days. People who do crap like this have to be handled with care, engage them and it can lead to murder.

Gavin De Becker spent his entire career (30 years ) dealing with this kind of thing, protecting clients/celebrities from all kinds of psychos.
"The Gift of Fear".
https://www.gavindebecker.com/resources/books_by_gavin_de_be...
This app fails to show something, anything, within the first ten seconds, and the problem is that it can't download issues overnight? No, the problem is that it fails to show something in the first ten seconds.

This argument is a false dichotomy, suggesting that the only two options are download things overnight or wait a huge amount of time to show something. Other apps show something in the first ten seconds, so clearly there are more than two options possible here, and given that iOS doesn't allow overnight downloading, the criticism here is that the developers failed to choose the best option of those available.

Arguing that Apple should allow overnight downloading is interesting, but not related to what these developers should do.
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Would your startup consider using a service that provides Launch Pages, Beta Testing, and Feature Rollouts? We are working on a product that is meant to handle all aspects of product launches and feature rollouts. The product would be free for startups until they reach a significant (ie,
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Strong statement there. How many IDE's have you tried? You should qualify your statement a bit. Maybe it's the best one _you've_ tried, or you could even argue it's the best IDE for C# / .NET (which I'm not sure is true either, but I haven't tried the alternatives).
> And that's exactly what it does.

No, that's not exactly what it does. It starts showing something in 80 seconds, and still downloads. He doesn't say it doesn't download things in the background. He excplicitly says it does that. What he's saying is the implementation is poor. You misread it.
> Why is that?

I don't know. You're asking the wrong person. =)
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Two keys over on the keyboard, potentially just one if you hit F and the software or the human corrected wrongly. Should have been caught after being made, though.
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I never once claimed that Gruber has never had a bad word to say about Apple. I follow his blog, and I agree with you that he's as impartial as I am about the things Apple either produce or endorse. What I do claim however is that in recent debates over open web standards, he has fought Apple's case without so much as an acknowledgment of the opposing arguments.

As for the "extremist...." remark, I wasn't insinuating that Gruber was any of these things. I was trying to appeal to the sensibility of someone who thinks "Hey, you are doubly wrong, congratulations!" is somehow a more constructive response than my initial comment. I've clearly failed in this regard.
Vaccination is a form of making them sick to protect them. It gives basically limited case of the disease so the body recognizes it and creates anti-bodies.

I stopped getting annual flu vaccines as an adult. Frequent vaccines are very common for people with cystic fibrosis (which is what I have). People with CF get sicker and sicker until they die. It is a slow, torturous gruesome thing. For me, it became apparent that drugs and vaccines were causing me harm and contributing to my decline. I worked hard to get off the drugs and I stopped getting vaccines. I am drug free. The hole in my lung has closed. I am getting my life back. Doctors told me "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game."

For me, there came a point where I had a clear choice between the certain path of doom and the risky path of maybe getting better. I was so miserable, death would have been a welcome alternative to the future ahead of me. I felt it was win/win: Either do something really stupid and die quickly or gradually get better. Both options held more appeal for me than what doctors and all the world were promising me.

I can't recall the last time I had a cold. And I routinely nip infection in the bud when exposed to a sick person at work, without having to rely on antibiotics and other conventional drugs. So while I understand your skepticism and don't really expect to win you over, I'm not going to be won over by your view either.
The registrars rules said you had to pick a 3rd level domain (x.co.ng) - did they change this, or did Microsoft just get extra special treatment?
To those downmodding, do you have a better solution? Should we simply wait for accidental contact (most likely with no doctors present) to wipe out everyone?
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As a programmer who has way more things to do than I have time for...

I think this is a perfectly fair response. Good patches take me about 10 seconds to merge, and bad patches take me 20+ minutes, because I have to (1) understand what they're supposed to accomplish, (2) write unit tests, and (3) rewrite the code. In a case like that, it's usually a waste of everybody's time.

In general, when I start contributing to a new project, I begin with a bug fix, and include both unit tests and a detailed commit message. Then I plan on rewriting it at least once, because the upstream project has perfectly valid constraints that I don't understand.
I agree. I feel that an app that has had Apple's good name attached to it should have at least went through better testing, perhaps even by Apple themselves. The suggestion that Gruber makes about the app having a page that slowly populates with content over time is great. I hope the developers consider something along those lines.
>I have no exprience with github and won't be caught dead using it.

...because?
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I'd be willing to guess that for the amount of money microsoft probably payed they got special treatment.
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Hello everyone, this is my first post to this site. Usally I just read, but I answers! I've taking a week vacation from work to learn how to code. I'm sure this will take time and won't happen over night, but I've had serval web ideas that have been started by companys and plenty more that haven't. So I figured instead of trying to find a tech, I could teach myself and get to work. I love tech and web but never went to school. Its my dream to see my ideas infront of me rather just in my head. They're all I think about 24/7. Every thought is on paper. The only problem is getting it on the web.
So far I understand how HTML, CSS, and Javascript work together. My problem is, "Where do I start?" I"ve been reading for months. Books, Twitter, HN, W3schools,and random sites. I feel as if I'm reading the same thing over and over. Or like I need a mentor or partner with expereince. I have my first domain name, but no web host. I understand having a scope of work, NDA, business plan, etc.. But when it comes to the code " What do I do first?" Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the HTML is what I want the site to say or read, the CSS is the way I want the site to look, and the Script is how I want the site to act or interact. Is that right? Can someone please recommend books that I can read or sites I can visit? I feel lost and don't know what steps to take or what should be done first second ... Programs I have are Dreamweaver, Notepad++, Photoshop. After reading and studing, I started a habit of reading every sites page source. I can understand most of it and see how some sites are the same, but I need to write my own.Also, are generators useful? Thanks for your help
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Ok, while we are at it here is my beef:

1. technical cofounders - they just want to play around. You tell them the users are satisfied with the current search engine,that we need to make it easier for people to enter info in so that app can be more useful. Crickets. Nothing happens. Hey look, we tried out 3 new search engine. Thanks.

I am sick of tech folks that don't want to do what needs to be done because it is not sexy.

2. non-tech folks. Networking is fine. But you need to hustle that means try out lots of ideas to try to get "top of the mind" awareness from "your ideal customer profile". This means lots of grunt work. Think of ideas and execute them. But noooo. It's all about people you know, some of it is. Sure.
Noooo. It' all about perception. Come on, some of it has to be that our product actually does something useful for them.
Bottomline: depending on the product are we in "demand harvest" or "demand generation" mode. No we are in "perception" mode so we can be bought out. Our customer is the company buying us. Screw the users. Their stupidity for doing business with us.

And some marketing people - are a waste of space. Everything is outsourced. They are glorified yes men to the CEO. Sales repeatedly asks for collateral. Screwed it I will make my own.

I agree that we need to target strategic customers. They are the hubs that will virally promote our products. Nope. We need customers with big names so the companies that are thinking of buying us will think we own the space.

My background: EE, stats, sales, sys admin, dba, programmer. And I agree the hardest one to learn was graphics and design.
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Jim handles the day to day stuff (sales) while Michael focuses on the big picture stuff (bizdev). I think I get it now...
I am flabbergasted by the tech savvy of the ex-girlfriend (of course) but also of the mom who immediately knew to contact webmasters to have the image removed from their servers and also to hit it from the copyright angle, too (a law professor perhaps?). However, I don't quite get it when she declares "My minor son's ex-girlfriend took a copyrighted picture of him (we own copyright)", the article mentions it was a professionally taken photo, so the photographer (or studio) owns the copyright in this case.

"Hell hat no fury" is very old, but the girl's revenge is so cool!
Why on earth should I care about your experience? I'm not trying to be rude - really, how can you expect your subjective experience to be of any use to me or anyone else? Human cognition and memory are fraught with a multitude of common fallacies and biases. Such as post hoc ergo propter hoc - just because a symptom went away when you did treatment A, doesn't mean treatment A caused anything to happen.

This all being the case, we have with scientific methods in order to overcome these annoying biases. None of which are perfect, of course, but they are vastly preferable to, "trust me! it seemed to work for me!"

All of which is to say: show me the evidence. "I got better!" is not convincing.

Cultural practices: Which cultures? When? Was there any evidence that certain diseases were present but did not spread as quickly as in other societies?

Also: let's not move the goalposts. You're absolutely correct that diet and lifestyle have an effect on heart disease risk, and to a lesser extent on cancer (besides the obvious, like smoking), but those are not infectious diseases. And I'm sure there's a protective effect to diet and lifestyle on the capacity of the immune system, but is it anywhere near as effective as vaccination?
Oh, you mean SAAS. I thought you were talking about SAS, as in http://www.sas.com/
It might be meaningless for Verizon, but useful for Apple, and those with a stake in iPhone sales, such as iPhone app developers.
Yup, Josh has a history of dumb. I mean, who would invest their time in making an online bookmarking service when browsers had bookmarking capability? Yeah, like that would ever allow you to cash in...

I (like yourself) don't see myself having any interest in this startup--but I'm not the market. I see you are new here (if your account isn't a throw away), but amidst all the down voting you are getting, let me welcome you to HN and say don't build any animosity over getting down voted by the community. It's only because you didn't write a valid argument and instead slapped "dumb" on someone. I believe you have a good argument in you and are probably quite intelligent. I look forward to seeing you contribute on HN in your more capable capacity.
One weekness of this is that it won't work well (at least in the beginning) for startups whose products are focused more towards businesses.
changed to eliminate confusion... thanks
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Dr. Andrew Wakefield should be in prison for fraud. Why isn't he?
> Being successful in one technical field does not make you a medical expert

Doesn't that hold for every one of us as well?
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I don't think I got this. Are police in the UK really on twitter and tweeting about their operations??
There are a lot of "positions" we're not going to be able to have an evenhanded conversation about. Positions that seem to have the effect of killing kids are probably among them.
Whether vaccines do or don't have certain effects is definitely science, and not a matter of subjective opinion, so I agree on that. But the proposal "vaccines should be mandatory for all children" depends on non-scientific views as well, such as your views on when state compulsion is justifiable. I'm not sure if that's "relativism", but it seems hard to escape having philosophical argument somewhere in there.
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Didn't I used to be able to report HN submits as spam?
There's also this post from patio11 that, amongst other things, describes what he does to use nginx + wordpress.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/08/22/using-wordpress-and-rail...
Yes and they were monitoring twitter to find out of the direction of protests in order to "kettle".
How much profit did it make? Some numbers would be helpful.
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Sane, Handsome, Smart. So hard to find all three in a man these days.
So when is Google going to start building the framework that gets us to Type I? ;)
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Yeah but compare the groups you saw there to some random groups you'd see in a mall here. There's a pretty big difference.