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That feature has been around since 2008, iirc.
Of course, I did think about Redis/Mongo/etc. But the project (a) had deadlines, so I thought I'd go experimental on only half the software stack, (b) seemed very nicely suited to relational data modelling, and (c) allowed me to indulge my infinite love and respect for Postgres (stable! solid! powerful! frugal! fast! free!).

Also, I didn't find a lot of help online with how to do this modus operandi rethink. (Again, no whining implied).
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I never said I could do it better. I don't have Jimmy's pretty face to put on a web site and attract 10 MILLION dollars. I barely make enough to pay rent and work on the few projects I do work on for free.

One thing I can do though is criticize abuses in my profession and hope someone like you, someone who does have influence in the organization, actually gets off their ass and does something about it. Apparently that's not going to happen because you're waiting for me, a powerless outsider, to do your job. Awesome, well thanks for letting me know that's where donations go.

Instead, you're going to hide behind the age old defense of "Well if you don't like it do it yourself!" I'm sort of getting tired of doing that, and don't insult me like I don't attempt fixing things I think are broken. If I had more money I'd totally do more fixing, but best I can do is write a few books and some small bits of software.

Alas, I'm not wealthy and have no control. I could spend the next ten years fixing Wikipedia's broken PHP code and there would still be this stupid notability requirement. You know why?

Because, instead of fixing the technical problem of categorization and search, they created a social solution of notability and bizarre rules. Once they did that there's no putting the Djin back in the oil lamp.
Wikipedia itself had to fight for legitimacy

Sorry, what? If someone told you Wikipedia succeeded in a "fight for legitimacy", you were lied to.

they're just tools of the giant corporate publishers

You don't have to be published by giant corporate publishers to be cited on Wikipedia. You don't have be published by corporate publishers, giant or not. There are an immense number of citations on Wikipedia that fail to meet those criteria, and they can even be the best sources to cite (and not just because of a lack of sources).

Instead, they would need to recognize Lulu (like Amazon and the Library of Congress do) and accept books from there or be shown as complete hypocrites.

No, no; no need to argue here. You already had me sold. Down with nuanced understanding, I say.
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But why did Microsoft fall, too? It sounds like the best possible deal for them?
I do have a feeling that if the first 10 years of wikipedia was represented by your quote, the next 10 years might be represented by mine.

My quote was all-encompassing. The attitude in it eclipses the attitude in your quote.
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Being geeks, our natural reaction is to point out all the flaws in society that allow a commercial "holiday" like this to exist and thrive. But I have an alternate suggestion.

Try buying your girlfriend flowers. Compare your results with last year and see it there's an improvement.

Remember, you're not caving in to consumerism and peer pressure. You're running a controlled experiment.

Good luck!
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I've started to notice that a lot of "nerdy" topics get deleted lately. I can't prove it, but I suspect there's some attempt to cleanse the "white male nerd" out of Wikipedia in order to attract normal people. Again, I can't prove it. If it's true that's about the worst way to crap on the people who donate the most money and do the most work keeping the project going.
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I agree with peer review as a criterion for being a reliable source, and that you need reliable sources for notability.

But the other criteria are silly.

Is Strachey's non-mainstream but very influential GPM notable? It has only one journal article about it, with a paltry 65 Google Scholar cites, and the other articles that mention it are all mostly concerned with something else.
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Don't you make that problem, simply join that's there is enough space for all ;)

Thanks for the tip, I'll correct the sentence. I'm not English, so I don't write it so well
Well obviously it is related to a location style service like Foursquare, Gowalla etc.

Although it seems like you have evolved the idea slightly and focused more on the gaming aspect of location based services whereas, Foursquare etc are starting to focus on deals etc.

Thus I'm assuming its something along the lines of a "game" between friends to be the "king" (or queen) of a venue such as, a party/event they are at etc.
They really don't. $16M to curate 3.5 million articles? That's 38 minutes of work per article from minimum-wage temps. That would cover one pass over the English edition alone, with nothing left to pay for hosting nor all the other languages. No, they would have to raise hundreds of millions or more to stop relying on scarce volunteer editors.
I find it funny that the guy hasn't made a single contribution to Wikipedia. All his edits either directly remove content or nominate it for deletion. Apparently besides the dislike for programming languages, he also hates it when certain scientists have "Dr." next to their names on their Wikipedia articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributi...

Examples:

>Raj Reddy ‎ (dr. is so unnecessary)

>Randy Pausch ‎ (dr is unnecessary)

>Benjamin C. Pierce ‎ (Don't need dr.)

and so on
I got the impression that there were two issues at hand:

1) Those who have the power to delete the articles perhaps weren't knowledgeable enough to make a judgement, or for some other reason gave too much weight to his decisions, and the AfD process didn't provide (enough time, a good environment) for reasonable discussion, and so he had more control over the process than he should have. Many seem to believe he was willfully taking advantage of that position.

2) His tone gave the impression that he wasn't taking the situation seriously. I really get the impression that people were upset about his attitude, maybe even more than his actions, but completely failed to articulate that, at least in a civilized and constructive way.

I'm not at all surprised that he was treated as if he was trolling, but I do agree that we should be better than that, and I have that much more respect for those who tried to mediate.
I think this is disingenuous and somewhat mean-spirited.

The idea of deletionism to me is actually contrary to how the internet has developed, and is an anachronism due to the era and principles in which wikipedia was founded. The internet everywhere else outside of wikipedia's curated boundaries are defined by relevance as a filter upon what is assumed to be a limitless pile of results. There is no need to delete anything because being on the last page is equivalent (for everyone else who doesn't care) to not existing.

As such, it is my opinion that wikipedia's problem with deletionism is primarily a social one. Why not just sort pages based on a page-rank type model and curate based on that? (i would hope you guys are already doing that, and i will assume wikipedians are doing that)

Futhermore, i dislike and resent the notion that if something out in the world is wrong, you have to either drop everything and fix it, or stfu. This has always been a pernicious meme in the Open Source Community. There are constraints on people's time and resources. You know it, I know it. To call them names, or impugn their character because of it isn't fair. You 'begging' Zed (or anyone else) to fix wikipedia's problems or acquese to your accusations of being full of hot air is neither fair nor intended to encourage improvements in wikipedia or Zed's behavior.

People should be able to point out things that don't make sense, or aren't fair without being told that they're wrong to point out what they perceive as unjust.

Lastly, don't give into Zed's crazy alpha-male hierarchy dominance thing. Daring him to contribute to wikipedia isn't going to compel him, nor does it make him look like he's backing down. It makes you look like a jerk (even if you think he too is being a jerk).
"several references" is over 50 references
To all of you - I'm used to capitalization (very much since I'm German and we capitalize every Noun), much less though do I know what to capitalize in English (I got so much angry comment in my phase of capitalizing everything i deemed important that I completely converted to an all-lower-case style).

I also know everything about punctuation, having taken two typing courses and one in standardized letter writing.

Despite all that, since I'm using CamelCase a lot and my shift keys have suffered from that so much that I have to press them forcedly, I try to limit their use whereever possible (this location just opted out of it ;).
The donations thing just made me wonder if it could work to have donations per page. That is, you could kind of adopt an article (and get a banner on that article announcing you are the sponsor, perhaps).

Immediate problem would of course be advertising, which would not be desired.

It's just that if I donate now, I feel as if I am supportive of their deletionist policies, which I am not.
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>My definition of wealthy == How long you can maintain your current, preferred lifestyle without working.

I've heard your definition of wealth before, and it's better than most, but you need to factor in risk. For instance, I could stop work tomorrow... I could continue to not work until my employee got burnt out or until my accountant quit. I wouldn't call this wealthy, personally, just 'cause, well, I think that without my help and supervision the risk of him burning out goes up a whole lot. Well, that and if we don't keep growing, the inexorable downward march of prices would eventually catch up to us.

I mean, I could be wrong. I might be holding the guy back. but the point is that I can maintain my current lifestyle without work until a certain event occurs.

This is true of nearly all investments. Now, my wealth is certainly more fragile than a stack of T-bills that paid the same small stipend, (and with today's interest rates, you'd need a pretty big stack, even for the small amount of money I live on.) but even in that case, you'd be at the mercy of inflation; you'd have /some/ risk. Unless you used TIPS, in which case, the stack would need to be again larger, and then you are dependent on the government using a cost of living measure that is relevant to your lifestyle.
A note here: Please keep it classy, and focus on sources and why Nemerle is notable. I'm not going to cross-post this on reddit, given the poor behaviour that resulted from the initial post, but I think there's a good opportunity here to rectify a wrong, and I'm sure some HNers would like the chance to help do so.
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I've started using HN on an increasing basis recently, having been lurking for a while having, eventually got round to joining and starting to participate in the discussions.

Although, I do have to agree that there is a great amount of information on here, especially in the Ask HN type threads.
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> Deleting Star Wars articles won't make the contributors suddenly interested in writing articles about Africa instead.

If anything, the opposite happens. Contributors first come for special interests. Once welcomed into the community, they will stick around and their contributions broaden in scope. Was the interest that sparked their involvement Elizabethan drama or Star Wars? Who cares.
There's a discussion at each AfD where anyone can come in and say why a page should or should not be kept. In the end, it is the adminstrator's decision as to whether or not there is a consensus to delete (default is to keep), and there are processes in place for getting the decision overturned.

Chris nominated 8 pages for deletion over a period of 3 days. While it's a spree that's likely hasty, it's by no means a rampage. I believe he was wrong to do as he did, but only a couple pages were deleted, and there's a discussion to have Nemerle restored. He's hardly a one-man wiki-wrecking crew.
Wikipedia deletionism has nothing to do with the lack of paths. Organization is handled by mediawiki's category feature. Name collisions are avoided and similar names collected on disambiguation pages.

"Plan A" is not a new idea, it's exactly what happens to other categories with lots of items that don't deserve their own page.

"Plan B" won't work because part of deletionist policy is to ignore sources published by self-publishing outfits, because "anybody can publish there".

"Plan C" won't solve a goddamn thing. Good luck with "Plan D".

Quit asking for features that already exist.
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Chris has an HN account. It's under his name, and he's posted in this thread. I am not he.
Oh wow, I definitely wasn't trying to start some kind of a "nerd purge" meme! I was just trying to say that there are other wikis besides wikipedia on all kinds of nerdy subjects. Where there aren't any delete wars and contributions are encouraged, and everyone can be happy tralalala. I work at that place, we encourage nerdy things! There's also a pretty long tail that nobody really pays much attention to. :) So maybe part of the reason this blew up so big could be the anxiety that if it's not on wikipedia, then it might as well not exist? I don't really think that's true...
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Don't get me wrong, it's a big problem, I'm just not sure the proposed solution is workable.
* Not having multiple clients lined up (in Round 1 of my company I made this mistake and had to get a "real job" for a while).

* Not starting early and having to pull all-nighters as deadlines approached.

* Not communicating with clients on a daily basis (this also helps to keep you from procrastinating).

* Not starting on your crazy side ideas/weekend projects as soon as possible. The longer they sit on your to-do list, the more they'll bug you but also the less likely they'll get done. If you at least get them to a prototype stage, you won't feel like you missed out even if you decide not to finish them.
Eh, I'm a SysAdmin, so generally speaking, my "bugs" are quite a bit more urgent. Yeah, sometimes you need to drop everything and then go deal with it.

The difference between a reasonable company that can keep good people and an unreasonable company that cycles through burnt-out husks is seen the day after you had to pull an all nighter. At the company you want to work for, you get a day of flex time, and even if you don't take it, you get thanked (and not berated) when you stumble in around 3pm.

My general rule is "If you can't get it done before you sleep, you might as well go to sleep on whatever schedule gives you the most total productivity" This means no sleep deprivation during crunch time, unless you can reasonably stay up long enough to finish. Sleep-deprivation for projects that last more than a day is completely stupid because you trade away all your good hours tomorrow for a few more tired hours tonight.

It's harder than that, too, because sleep isn't the only need. Sure you can go longer without seeing your friends/family or doing whatever it is you do to relax, probably, than you can go without sleep, but most people's performance starts to degrade sharply after a week or so of not having personal time, even if they do get enough sleep. So again, if the crunch time is going to last more than a week, having people do overtime is probably going to net you less total productivity than just having them work optimal hours.

The thing is, humans have limits. there's only so many hours in a row someone can usefully work. There is no point in paying someone to sit in the seat if they are burnt out. You might as well pay them to be home doing something else, becoming not-burnt-out so they can then get something done for you the next day.
Well so far you've just thrown out proclamations without any references backing what you say. I mean, you're some random dude on a forum who's basically repeated what I've said and went "WRONG!". How insightful.
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From the tone of his posts I can already tell he's a smug little b. A cynic would think that he's doing all this deletionism so that when his own pet project FRENETIC is done, it'll be easier to distinguish from other languages.
A subset? Doesn't seem so. Also doesn't seem to have anything on CoffeeScript.
Except that this happens over and over again.

Wikipedia's policies piss everyone off in turn, but it is in turn. The fact that each new community isn't aware of wikipedia's ludicrous policies isn't their fault, since they've had no cause to wrestle with the problems or nuances.

The fact that wikipedians are tired of the debate doesn't mean that they're right, it means that they've done a bad job communicating the problem, dealing with the consequences, and are frankly out of touch with the majority of wikipedia's readers (who outside of a subset of wikipedians thinks deletionism is a good idea?).

The fact that people defending wikipedia on these issues always treat the aggrieved fans/community with such contempt really is part of the problem.
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I wonder if they have a choice in the matter.
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Any time I find two groups of people arguing and waring over a boolean definition of themselves I can usually find a third option. I also know that they'll never adopt the third option because fighting and winning stupid wars like this makes people feel powerful.
I don't get it. What's this? Catch-22 at Wikipedia?
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I'm guessing the implication is the wives employ browbeating.
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An application or a set of resources?
It is frankly easier to get a fake article by the editors than a real one. The editors generally do not check articles for accuracy or quality (beyond what a high-schooler with a dictionary could do) — they just fastidiously apply a checklist of rules.

Also, I think it would be easier to get editors if being an editor were more about making the site good and less about dealing with the head cases who currently edit the site. (Nothing personal intended against any individual editors who may be reading — it's just a general reflection of how things look to people who have casually attempted to try editing.)
you are talking of the Samsung Linux Platform [this is not Bada nor Android ], to be launched in 2011. It uses 2.6.32-es Linux, X Window System, Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), GTK keretrendszer, Gstreamer etc.

Applications are C/C++ UI is GTK/EFL. Has multitasking and Debian package management.

http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2011/02/samsung-is-backing-...

http://www.oss.kr/?module=file&act=procFileDownload&...

now let us wonder about the non-goog customers of canonical, with Unity, the need to ditch X11, ditch Gnome3 …fresh release of GTK3.
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While I don't trust the government to pick the right things to slash, I am pretty sure there is a lot of bullshit research going on that could easily be slashed. It's probably not effective to not put any constraints on science research at all - there has to be some correcting factor like competition.
> The idea of deletionism ...

Perhaps it sounded like I was defending deletionism, but I meant to do the opposite. I was trying to say we lack the appropriate tools and policies. This is a huge problem. Zed is right to be exercised, even enraged about it.

As someone who thinks about this problem all day, and who works with people who think about this problem all day, I resent the implication that I'm part of a deletionist conspiracy. This is the polar opposite of what everybody at the WMF that I know is trying to do.

However, as I pointed out, there also are constraints on what the central organization can do (or ought to do). We need more people willing to fight these negative tendencies in the community, to set new norms and policies.

I understand that Zed and others may feel it's a bit weird to give money to the WMF because of the good parts of Wikipedia, but then for the WMF not to take responsibility for the bad. It's a strange relationship, for sure -- really the WMF just keeps the lights on, and maintains the software, and the community writes the encyclopedia. The community, for its part, doesn't want to be taken over by some central administration either. But the WMF can allocate resources. (My feeling is you'll see more and more resources allocated specifically to combat these usability and community interaction problems.)

In the meantime, I don't feel bad for calling attention to the ways that others can help out.

> Lastly, don't give into Zed's crazy alpha-male hierarchy dominance thing.

You're right. I got angry and did not represent my point well. I apologize to HN.
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Cool so whats the regex to erase all the previous comments?