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Good luck, this is a good idea. The problem is not just compensation:

I believe there are tons of talented developers "locked up" in large corporations due to health insurance / health benefits, especially those with kids. Universal health insurance would help start-ups and small business compete with the Facebook's and Google's and also Bank of America's as health care would become an "even playing field".

Currently most small business and start-ups cannot compete with the health care and other benefit cost structures large American firms can achieve.

In fact, lots of corporate roll-ups exist only to reduce benefit costs - think of them as large health insurance providers.
You know, when you can reliably expect Jon Gruber's opinions on a matter to lean pro-Apple -- when he does all sorts of mental gymnastics to make the logic come out right, no matter how absurd it sounds -- well, how is he not regarded as a shill?
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The champagne thing is great. Thank you!
PHP allows me to practice my typing skills, ruby doesn't. As a touch-typing enthusiast, I like to practice typing. The problem with ruby is that it allows me to do the same things that I can do in PHP, but with much less typing. [..] If I could create classes with public getters/setters that easily in my day-job, my fingers would atrophe and I'd get no exercise at all. I want my keyboard smoking after typing out a class definition, and a paltry three lines of ruby fails to satisfy.

This is certainly the best designed troll blog post I've seen but far from the most subtle..
Securely erasing SSDs is easy. The hard part is securely erasing them while still leaving them in a state where they can be reused.

But seriously, given how fast SSD prices are dropping, is there any point reusing them? Just melt them and stop worrying.
Ug, this kind of article brings out the worst in Hacker News. Less like this, please. I can get this on reddit.
When the sarcasm is so clear, you can't call it a "troll".

Real trolling is an art :)
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You're right - I guess that's what I was trying to get at with the lack of subtlety. Or my standards have slipped.. ;-)
LinkedIn blog post that explains the technology stack in some detail:

http://sna-projects.com/blog/2011/02/build-a-distributed-rea...
He's played this one well, I'd imagine 90% of the readers would read the first paragraph and then run to HN/Reddit to lambast such a post.
Does this statement sound stupid only to me?

"We said you can drive a car, not a blue car."
The House example is horrible. In the show rarely does house diagnose an illness thorough intellectual debugging. In most episodes House sits around and insults his team while they run tests and about 5 minutes from the end he out of nowhere has an epiphany (while talking to Wilson most of the time) which often has little to do with what tests the team ran and he solves the case.
The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other country in the world. Health cost inflation is the number one problem with the US health care market. If care were cheaper, coverage would expand and costs would be less of a burden.

In my opinion, the "very minor reforms" you mentioned will probably accelerate health cost inflation by subsidizing more consumption of health care goods and offering no incentive for offsetting conservation. They may ease the symptoms for a time, but they will exacerbate the underlying illness.
If there's only one copy of an article stored on Readability's servers, then I'd say they're a publisher. If they store everyone's articles separately, then they're a service.
Awesome Github 404 page - simple but cool javascript parallax 3d effect
Dropbox plus Mercurial -driven development. Anyone tried that?
Yes, but he is giving this as an example of how to hook programmers into learning Lisp. I'm all on board with the macros, but you have to do better than this as an argument.
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Awesome. I think he could have picked some better criticisms of PHP though -- there's a truckload of them: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-crawling-horrors-of-PHP

It really is the worst of all the in-demand languages these days.
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That book is heavy with ill-defined jargon. I did try following some of its advice. The book helped me understand precisely what I don't like about Buddhism - that the right direction is always to less attachment and striving. I only agree that it's sometimes the right direction.

If you're set on experimenting with this sort of meditation practice, then I suppose you have to put up with a text like this (since it would be hard to find a good teacher as a novice).
I'm all for hating on PHP, but this article really does a lot to help the popular view that Ruby programmers are arrogant language elitists.
You bring up a good point. However, because of its use as a political buzz-word, 'technology' has connotations that go far beyond it's original meaning.
I am a long-time PHP programmer. I have first dabbled with PHP in 2000 when making a Page for my Quake2 gaming clans and i still love it. (yeah boo-hoo)
That said, the syntax and language inconsistencies that are already described in this post (which come from its origin as a website toolkit) are really laughable. However, i got used to it over time. I can still produce results much faster than say with Java.

Also PHP has matured alot. I use the symfony framework for all the projects i do and its awesome, i think in some respects its even better than ROR and the upcoming 2.0 version will raise the bar even further. If this awesome framework wouldnt exist i would probably have switched to Python and Django by now, but as things are now i have never really felt the need to.
2005 called; they want their blog post back.
That's a shitty thing to say.
FogBugz with some clients depending on size, timeframe, etc. Nothing other than email with others.
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This looks awesome, but god damn it! My todo list of things to play around with is growing faster than I can get to them.
http://localhost/links.markdown , containing links to sites I often need/want to visit.
I don't see an engineer as someone who has a training or a specialty. I see an engineer as someone who will learn whatever is needed, acquire whatever skill is required, to solve a problem he/she has set their mind to.
True, volunteering isn't usually very effective (except at creating emotional reward), compared to working and donating effectively.
it could be made to work through a FIFO though, I guess? if so I could take a shot at it :)
Quite often there would be only one or two "credit" lines for people using credit cards.
I thought this was common knowledge. He IS regarded as a shill. His analysis is still often pretty good as long as one acknowledges the bias.
In Canada, I pay $60.50 per month (was recently $57) into our Medical Services Plan:

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The West Coast, by the way, is beautiful. Vancouver BC and Seattle WA are practically sibling cities.

Apply for citizenship. We'd love to have you!
It's there now.
The script for the effect is not minified or anything, so it is easy to take a look at. It is simple and works like you would think: they just move around the images based on the mouse position. I just ran into it by accident and thought it was cool. Plus, Star Wars!
John Gruber has been one of the most vocal critics of the App Store, its rules and the inconsistent application thereof.
Bill Ackman, uber hedge fund manager, lost $125 million on Borders. Sounds like his plan was to fund a Borders + B&N merger.

So I suspect Borders tanked because Bill Ackman or some other hedge fund wanted it to tank to get out, cut loses, or some other behind the scences financing deal they had in mind such as sell off the commercial real estate "closed borders stores"

Wonder how many of the Borders stores now become B&N stores? You never know.
I know he was young and didn't think about it but what he should have done is get into Valve network, watch it for 2 weeks, copy some source code to proof it AND after that say:

"Hey Gabe, you know what I love Valve and I love all of you guys. You are all my biggest heroes BUT you know your security systems aren't good. I hacked your system and it was quite easy. For two weeks no-one even noticed it. I DIDN'T steal anything but if you give me a job I will do my best to pretend such security issues and make your system as secure as I can. Would consider giving me a job?

I attached some source code of Half-Life 2 to proof my abilities.

I hope you all best and hope to hear from you back.

Thanks"

I really think that this would bring in the job.
See my post below. I don't think it was just behind the scenes "operations" stuff but mostly had to do with "finance" ... Bill Ackman's hedge fund was involved.
Things you don't have when working with PHP:

http://www.nltk.org/
http://www.scipy.org/
http://www.pygame.org/ :-)

I also worked with Symfony on a project. IMHO it's far, far away from being a match to ROR.

Though at the end of the day, you're most productive with the tools you know.
I think he's just saying develop better debugging skills, the stuff about the good old days is irrelevant.
Indeed... for example, what if 'premium' published content arrives via a Dropbox folder shared to the publisher?
Well, that’s a meaningless distinction. Those technical details don’t change a thing for the user or the business. (Did you know that Dropbox will upload identical files only once?) They are interesting to engineers and developers but no one else.

You can define “publisher” and “service” like that but it would be meaningless and arbitrary.
I'm actually in a similar position - I work for a company by day as a developer, work on ideas for myself by night, but my design skills are fairly lacking and ideally looking for someone that can help out with a 1-2 page landing site to gauge interest in my current project - any suggestions for where or how to look would be great
So the only thing that differentiates it from the thousand-odd online fax services that have been around since the 90s is that it lets you skip the "photoshop my signature onto this image" step?

I'd say this would be a tough business to be in, unless of course you had the schmooze power of YC behind you. Amazing how that can transform a site like this that would otherwise live out its life in a little crack on the 3rd page of Google for "online fax" into a viable business.

(I suppose it also helps if all your competitors stop improving their products in 1998.)
Your interpretation indeed sounds stupid to me.
Really? A few work clients of mine have recently moved towards developing apps for Android (funnily, after having their academia app rejected multiple times by Apple) and from what I've heard it is far easier to train people to write Android apps, they make far more money from ads and that most Android owners will purchase great apps simply because the developer was thoughtful enough to release it on their platform. It may be different in the UK, but to my knowledge they've ceased development on iOS to focus on Android.
This isn't the first instance of Apple as the Thought Police -- what will the yarrow sticks show today in the iChing?
What I learned from this is: Never trust any of your friends or family when you have such important things in your hands.

You know in everyone of us is this little devil and if you have something which is important you can earn something with it (money or even credit in the community) there is a good chance that people will go the devil way.

I even would consider saying I even DON'T trust myself on such important and valued things!
I am tired of the never ceasing language wars. It's true that some languages are more elegant than others, but at the end of the day the only thing that really matters to any person other than the programmer is whether or not they create something inspiring and/or useful.

All this time railing against other languages could be spent making awesome things, rather getting the proverbial tape measure out (yet again).
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Gruber says, FTA: "Maybe I'm missing something, but these guys claiming to be surprised and disappointed by Apple's insistence on a 30 percent cut of subscriptions when their own business model is to take a 30 percent cut of subscriptions strikes me as rich. And how can they claim that Readability isn't 'serving up content'? That's exactly what Readability does."

On the one hand you have Apple, who charges 30% for access to a platform. An app developer creates that value by writing something that people want, and then Apple takes 30% to deliver it.

On the other hand you have Readability, who essentially creates a filter for content -- just a little bit beyond applying a stylesheet to the content, as far as the end result goes. The actual mechanics are more involved, but the end-result is the same as if someone were to apply a custom CSS to your article that made it nice and, well, readable. And for this service, they charge $5/mo and spread 70% of your $5 with the producers of the different content which gets made readable.

To say then, that Readability is creating content is ridiculous. They are transforming existing content -- there is no comparison between them and, say, Amazon, who this policy is meant to target. Under Gruber's definition of 'serving up content', the mini Opera browser which delivers pre-rendered images of web pages (on some platforms) is also 'serving up content'.

Hell, VNC clients can easily be construed to be content servers under this rationalization!
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NOTE: I ""SUPER-HATE"" it. But I am helpless. :(
I like cooking but only once or twice in a month. I'm passionate about it but not enough to do it daily. My work and other interests don't let me cook that often. When my taste buds scream for something custom made to my taste I cook my own food.

I cook Indian dishes such as Dal, Rice, Vegetable Curry, Egg Curry, Chicken Curry, Chapati, Pulao, Biryani etc.

Sometimes I like cooking chinese dishes such as noodles.
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This gets into iterated game theory: even though the value of an empty seat is basically zero at takeoff (marginal fuel and cabin crew labor don't add up to a lot), the airline has a long-term incentive not to reduce the price so that the market for that one flight clears, because in the future it doesn't want people waiting for cheap last-minute tickets they expect will again be available.
I didn't even comment on this specific case. I just wanted to point out that, contrary to what you claimed, John Gruber have in fact criticized Apple quite a bit, and especially on the topic of their App Store regulations. To claim that he always agrees with Apple is simply either uninformed, or a lie.
I have the 2wire 3600hgv and it is garbage. Regularly requires a reboot and it will crash immediately if I try to transfer a file over ssh. The last 2wire modem I had from them, before I had U-Verse, would also crash when using ssh.
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``trolling is a art'' ;-)
Trolling or not, I cannot read these "my language is better" posts anymore.
1. Pre-sell DVD sets of a season 2, Kickstarter-style

--- No money moves unless goal is met

--- Donor receives box set if donation is at least $40

2. Upon XYZ pre-sales, commence season production

3. Collect revenue from advertising, as usual, during season run

4. Produce DVD sets of season 2

5. Send a set to all donors

6. Collect a bit more revenue from new, fringe fans who will also buy DVD sets
That's not what's happening here.

iOS is a platform for third-party apps. That's how it's now sold (right on their website: "The world’s largest collection of mobile apps").

That's a lock-in mechanism. Switching between phones with no third-party apps is a lot cheaper that switching between the iPhone and a Blackberry.

They could do this if they wouldn't have allowed any third-party apps at all; if the popularity of the platform for third-party apps wouldn't be one of the reasons iPhones are selling like crazy.

And I also don't get this apologetic behavior from people in regards to Apple's actions. Do you miss the 90s when all you could use and target was Microsoft's OS? Do you miss the whims of Microsoft and the iron grip they had on the industry?

What, do you feel too much freedom of choice now? You think it's unhealthy or something?
Anyone ever use those Ultimate Memory, or GMS(also Phenomenal Memory System)?
Me too. Org mode works very well as a personal bug/task tracker but I don't know how I'd use it for collaborative work.
a plain text TODO file within the repository of each project, together with a plain text TODO file in my dropbox that gets synced everywhere. Works very well.
Perhaps somebody at Sony HQ is reasoning along the lines, ``it's more important to be talked/written about, than it to be only positive news'' -- all this bickering about PS3 keys and Other OS feature created quite a bit of publicity anyway.
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With Dummynet, FreeBSD can simulate any kind of connection you can think of. Latency, packetloss, the whole schmear, available in bootable ISO form.

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/
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The checkbox has been just added few days ago. Before it wasn't optional. Just written the doc http://doc.jsfiddle.net/basic/introduction.html#normalize-cs...

Docs are opensourced (https://github.com/jsfiddle/jsfiddle-docs-alpha)

Please file issues and requests https://github.com/jsfiddle/jsfiddle-docs-alpha/issues
Why imply that there's pain in becoming familiar with Fortran or Pascal? It's one thing to argue that they may not be the best tool to build a web app with, but I'd argue there's a joy in learning about alternative languages.
To clarify: I know there are federal investigative police (but not as powerful as the FBI, right?) so I deliberately used the verb, meaning enforcement. I didn't know there were federal riot police though.
I had a 1000 euro bill for getting 4 wisdom teeth removed by the oral surgeon, in a hospital, where I was out in 30 min (two 15 min procedures). The beauty? I pay 100 euros a month in coverage, with a 175 euro deductable, which I easily went over that year. Oh, and doctor's visits are free.

Welcome to the Netherlands...
(and yes, we have waiting lists, and other issues with healthcare, but atleast it's affordable)
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Aha, Anandtech reviewed another Fusion netbook, the HP dm1z: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4187/hp-dm1z-taking-fusion-on-...
> And then every ISP will demand a cut of every sale that
> happens on the Internet part of their network.

And then Apple will start collecting monthly fee just because you have iDevice.
Does it really matter what they sold it for? If they sell it at a loss what about all the other things that are sold as a loss, daily? Like clearance items, loss leaders, etc.

Here is the facts. I bought a PS3 4 years ago for gaming. It has done that purpose very well, but the games currently coming out are lackluster (except the Drake series). I'm moving on from platform gaming because I'm paying more and getting less, each year.

Sony has gotten all the money out of the PS3 I'm going to give them. If I can keep my $600 shiny, black brick from collecting dust than I should be within my rights to do so.
Yes, Gruber is generally decent (except when it comes to Android, where he seizes every available opportunity to make snide, petty, uninformed remarks).

But everyone else here is talking about this specific case, which, as you suggest, seems startlingly out-of-character for him.
So we should then clarify what the distinction is. I considered Readability to be a typical SaaS app, and now Apple seem to think otherwise.
There's a presentation from ITA (a company that made one of the more known air travel search engines) about this topic, which covers pricing issues in much details:

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
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I don't agree with Apple's move but as far as I know Nintendo gets as percentage of Wii Games/charges for using the Wii Branding, etc.
> Developing weapons technology is making killing easier.

Not universally a bad thing, as it helps in self-defense.

> Developing communications technologies is making communications easier.

Not universally a good thing, as it aids in the commission of crimes and, as we've seen, makes it increasingly easy to commit crimes that are both very hard to prosecute and, due to that, very good excuses for taking down walls that on the whole protect liberty.

> Developing systems that collect personal data is making surveillance easier.

Not universally a bad thing, if it helps stop serious crimes.

I admit to guessing at which statements you expected me to go "Yay!" or "Boo!" at. My point isn't so much that the fault is not in our microchips but in ourselves, but that it's surprisingly difficult to imagine a technology, or even a use for a technology, that really has no potential to be genuinely positive.
Symfony is a labyrinthine nightmare. CodeIgniter and CakePHP are much closer to Rails in usefulness and ease.
Ironic - this newfangled wireshark seems more usable then the old-school tcpdump that I used to use.
Show HN: A RogueLike demo in 17 languages
A minimal "@ moving around a hardcoded map" implemented in a bunch of languages, some by me and some contributed by others. A slightly more interesting riff on the Hello World or 99 Bottles of Beer theme. More languages or improvements on existing ones would be nice :) There's a github repo at:

https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL
I don't feel entitled to demand anything, I was just asking :).
I really like this kind of solution for smaller projects, where a proper bug tracker is excessive overhead. Keep everything in the repo and it's much simpler to maintain.

Do you have a formal-ish system for this? Notice issue -> TODO -> write unit test -> fix issue -> cut + paste to ChangeLog?
For my small projects, plain-text OrgMode file most of the time is sufficient ;). At work I used Redmine, and I find it to be a really nice tool.
To say then, that Readability is creating content is ridiculous. They are transforming existing content -- there is no comparison between them and, say, Amazon...

Amazon isn't creating content either. They are reformatting books into the Kindle format. Which is similar to what Readability does.
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We're writing beta and there API will get more useful
Well I'll be damned! Wow!

It seems obvious now, but I really would never have thought that quantum mechanics would matter here. I'm not sure that this simplifies anything. I wonder what D.E. Shaw research is going to do about it if this pans out? (They're the folks behind ANTON - see http://www.deshawresearch.com/)
Cheers :) Just give it half an hour...
Or lower.
Most doctors these days are salaried employees at a large health care organization. They get higher salaries in the sticks because nobody wants to work there.