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Yep. The thing is that just about everything is notable at a local enough level--whether local in the sense of geography or some other community. People who tend towards the deletionist side of the debate tend to try and get around this by falling back on verifiability--but that just, ironically, ends up favoring the sort of things that get printed on dead trees somewhere however obscure. As a result, it's much easier to make a case under Wikipedia rules that some selectman in a small town who is periodically mentioned in the local newspaper is notable than someone who wrote a widely-used piece of software but hasn't been the subject of news stories. (And, of course, there's no consistent practice either. I have to assume that lots of entries about obscure toys, games, and TV shows are largely original research.)
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Aww, I get a 403 Forbidden error. I'd love to see this.
Last time I tried, I could only edit my posts while the other one hadn't answered yet. So: haha, but no.
I'm not entirely sure that 3 ecosystems will work out to the benefit of users. With just two platforms, there's a decent chance that top-selling apps will eventually be ported to both. But with 3 platforms, you'll see a lot more market fragmentation and picking of winners. Witness the Wii/XBox 360/PlayStation 3 mess.

And because Windows 7 Mobile allegedly runs a dodgy version IE 7, we can't make portable applications using HTML 5, either.

So we're really looking at something like 1985, when developers had to pick between DOS, the Apple IIe, the Mac, and the remnants of the 8-bit microcomputer market. In this market, the correct strategy was to support a single platform and hope that it won. Ironically, Microsoft ported Excel to a huge number of operating systems, and they were eaten alive by Lotus. They've never made the mistake of fragmenting their efforts again.
Not funny at all. I have copied everything. I will now make his CLONE. muhaahaaaa!! (and malicious grin ;)
I think the Nokia decision was the right one for Nokia, but the given reasons are BS.

Basically Nokia could have ended the smartphone war by joining with Android. But ironically, that makes them more valuable to Microsoft. This is just the same as Microsoft paying people to build apps for WP7, paying Verizon to use Bing, or paying devs not to release games on PS3 but on a massive, multi-billion dollar scale. It's a bit tragic when the greatest value your company can offer is to be paid to not join the dominant ecosystem in exchange for a cut of a desperate monopolist's war chest, but that's why you need to bring outsiders with no emotional attachment to your products in to do it.

So basically he wanted to "create a challenger" because Microsoft would pay them handsomely to do so. And if it doesn't work out, it's not like Android is going anywhere, so they've got a Plan B. (Though to be honest I think they're currently splitting the company into two pieces, the bit that will wring any remaining revenue from Symbian then close, and the bit that Microsoft will buy once they've sacked anyone Microsoft doesn't need. Microsoft will then try the PlaysForSure -> Zune thing again.)
This is a really key insight:
"They're afraid of breaking something..." is an attitude that Software People never understand but is deeply ingrained in most other people.
"Click around until stuff starts to happen and see what sticks" is never a good UI interaction choice and Frontend Software devs need to test all their designs by running it past their (non-computer savvy) grand moms.
It’s a newspaper article. Those don’t come with citations and never have. To expect them is just crazy.
There's even more to that story. It's true that the wife takes care of the salary and gives a monthly allowance to the husband. But whenever he files expense reports to his employer, he is reimbursed to a separate account that only he has access to and his wife has no insight into.

But he is dependent on her household management to such a degree that one of the main causes for homelessness is men being abandoned by their wifes in late years when the kids have flown out. He is unable to even cook rice, let alone pay the electrical bill or rent. So he ends up in the street, sometimes with his employment intact.

Suffice to say, this is not true for all men, but common enough to be a known order of events.
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I see a lot of people reacting to this the wrong way.

Rather than getting angry at the company for segmenting its market, why not enjoy the fact that you can buy their top-of-the-line product for a fraction of the price? Rather than raise a stink and force them to do something about it, why not stay relatively quiet about it and let those of us in the know profit from it?

I'm still upset that Baush and Lomb got raked over the coals so publicly for packaging the exact same lenses as monthly, weekly, and daily wear at different prices. I would have been perfectly happy to wear my "daily" lenses for a month each, thus saving several hundred dollars a year. Instead, a witch hunt was raised and they were forced to actually develop a flimsy contact lens to sell cheaply.

It's a good thing, and now you know about it. Try not to ruin it for the rest of us.
If average (!) temperatures don’t increase over the next few decades (!), climate change is falsified. Easy as that.
Deletionism isn't a hard drive space issue. All deleted articles remain in the database and can be restored by admins.
You should really read scientific papers and not get your information about climate change from TV shows …
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Much more practical—although less technically interesting—is 中蟒 (pinyin zhōngmǎng) or Chinese Python, which is a translation of a programming language I could actually see people using. It's not as impressive as encoding data types in grammatical gender, though; it consists primarily of translating keywords, method names, &c into Chinese, and Chinese is close enough to English grammatically that none of it seems all that awkward. You can find it at http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/english/english...

Incidentally, Perl also has Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun by the same author; it's the same sort of modification, except with Klingon instead of Latin. That is here: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun
Apparently Indian VC's do not believe in taking risks. It's very rare of them to invest in companies which are not making money.

Thus screwing the whole notion of Venture Capital. Indian VC's act more like a Private Equity Firm than a VC in a traditional sense.
If that is your position (pick founders, not ideas), does this preclude you from picking a future google/microsoft/ etc. except by chance?

I am assuming that the really big hits are a consequence of the right idea, right time, and right people.
>None of the articles I nominated for deletion had any reliable sources to back them up.

Really? The following discussion page says you're a liar. It's sad that despite the majority being for keeping the article, you actually won in the end even though you didn't reply to any questions asking you what exactly you personally consider to be notable. Same goes for the replies that linked to computer magazine articles about the programming language in question, you've completely ignored those. If you think what you're doing is good, then you're delusional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...
Yes... The indignity of being worth less than the owners of Farmville is even worse than being sold to Oracle...
Does the WMF have a blog, mailing list, or some sort of place where technical stuff, or things about how tools interact w/ the community are discussed?

I don't know. That's a good question. It's sort of in everything we do as a subtext, but not as the theme of a blog or mailing list.

I will try to get answers for your questions.
"Nokia was unable to give a firm timeframe on when its first WP7 phone would appear but it is hopeful for a launch before year end."

I find this very telling. As far as I can tell, Google made the first public announcement of the Open Handset Alliance in November 2007 and HTC released the first handset in October 2008.

Nokia and Microsoft who should both have more experience and resources specific to the mobile industry than HTC and Google did in 2007 are "hopeful" to even meet this timescale, let alone beat it.

In a year, Nokia will have even further to catch up. I'll admit I may be underestimating the difficulty of getting a new device to market, but it seems to indicate an aversion to risk-taking which may set Nokia even further back than they need to be.
Sounds like an interesting project. I really don't like the name though.
There's a big difference between CSD ("Criterion for Speedy Deletion") and AfD ("Articles for Deletion") here.

Something like Nemerle is obviously an interesting article and a failure of the AfD process. I've never done a DRV (Deletion Review) before, so I might look through Christopher Monsanto's deletions.

But there ARE good reasons to delete content. I new page patrol on English Wikipedia and see thousands of articles created which are nothing more than:

"asdfasdfasdf tim in year 6 of somesuch high school is teh GAY!!1"

and they should rightly be deleted. Usually they are CSDed within minutes and usually deleted very quickly thereafter.

The CSD process works for this kind of thing. And occasionally things slip past the CSD process and need PROD/PROD BLP/AfD. But I do think the Nemerle deletion was definitely an example of the fallacy of deletionism.
You know what the most depressing thing about this article is for me? I no longer have the option of being an audiophile. :(

I toured professionally as a drummer with a tech metal band and played with a click track every night. I used Ultimate Ears (high-quality earbuds) with ProTools through a rack amp. I had guitar tracks going behind the click track (metronome) for reference and let's put it this way... the reference guitar tracks had to be louder than the actual live amplifiers/PA and the click track had to be even louder than that. On a scale of 1 to 10, relative to the loudness of the vast majority of electronic music players (computers/mp3 players/phones/etc.)... I'd say my click track was at least 17. It hurts my ears just thinking about it now... constant TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK for 30 (sometimes 45) minutes every night for weeks at a time! I don't wish that upon my worst enemy.

If it was another style of music there's no doubt I could have had it turned down to a fraction of what it was... but it was tech metal so it was always loud and heavy and all over the place. Most of the time I'm playing upwards of 300 bpm and the tempo and time signatures were always changing so the click track was necessary. I remember I tried turning it down a few times and it didn't work out so well haha... Bye bye hearing! I miss you.
HN doesn't have to exit at a multiple of $86 million to generate returns for investors and so can afford to be a niche site carefully curated to be uninteresting to the mass market.
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The Nemerle article is up for deletion review (DRV), and there is at least one admin supporting overturning the decision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2...
How about "List of articles which do not mention themselves"?
If I would start over I would do the following:

* have at least 10 customers willing to buy my service when it's done. During the time of development they would commit to spend time with me validating my product hypothesis.

* prepare spec for a _REAL_ mvp.

* clearly _describe_ problem that I'm trying to solve. (now I know that it takes multiple iterations to achieve this - most importantly discussing the problem with your future customers)
You are right, many Phds do get a job in industry, but that does not mean that this is an efficient process.
this is great! mine is my new facebook profile photo :) I smell a viral hit...

updated: also, definitely make an iphone app for this!
Very appropriate day to post this.

In my house, I do most of the cooking, the dishes and the laundry. (The latter is because, being one of these work-at-home laptop-bound types, I'm at home a lot.) My girlfriend tends to vacuum and tidy more. But none of this is because we've established an internal market in our home and relationship. Between the two of us, we do what's right for each other, and it just works out.

This applies just as well to startup co-founders as it does to marriages. You want to find someone whose best interests you want to act in, and who will act in yours. Life's too short to be negotiating about who's going to wash the dishes, or who's going to pick up the mail. When you're emotionally invested in a person, an organization, a project or a cause, you'll do the right thing for it. And that's the kind of person you want to be in any kind of relationship with.
The whole of the deleted article read "Nemerle a statically-typed, high-level programming language targeting the .NET platform. It has Lisp-like metaprogramming capabilities."
I think Nokia wants to be a major player in the WP7 ecosystem rather than a minor player in the Android ecosystem. In an Android/Apple 'duopoly' every hardware maker except Apple has basically the same OS/app offering and Nokia would be playing catch-up against established android offerings - that is very scary to Nokia. The alternative is to partner with Microsoft and aim to be a major player in a 'third way' ecosystem. Really this isn't about how many ecosystems, its about the size of Nokia's slice of the ecosystem they chose. So they're taking the risk that WP7 will become a viable platform over the risk that they'd be a bit player in an Android world.
I think wikipedia (like some other sites I have tried to use) is intentionally obscure; it gives the "Wikipedia is my life" types more control.
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"he also talked up the significant “value transfer” in financial terms that would come Nokia’s way as a result of reduced operating expenses and new revenue streams such as access to Microsoft’s search and advertising capabilities."

Wouldn't these two "value transfers" have occurred with Google? Nokia's operating expenses might have been reduced even further if they'd gone with Android (free) instead of WP7 (which they are paying to use). Wouldn't Nokia have gained access to Google's search and advertising capabilities if they'd gone with Android?

I don't know if Google or Microsoft is better for Nokia, but this article doesn't make it sound like Elop had any convincing reasons for his decision. It sounds like Nokia agreed to give Microsoft money (WP7 fees), but they haven't actually agreed on anything concrete that Microsoft will give Nokia yet?
That's actually an interesting question. Should a topic be presumed notable in the English version of Wikipedia if basically everything specifically written about it was in a Russian magazine?
This still sounds like a technical limitation. A page that gets ten hits a year should not demand as much editorial oversight as one that gets a million. Who cares if a long tail article gets vandalized if no one sees it?

It sounds like a missing UI. Something like the ability to show recent changes sorted by the pages' popularity. Too simple?
Not so much the quality of their R&D, but its lack of focus. Sun was a hardware company and forgot that.
Not carefully choosing co-founder.
I didn't know about this:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/sxsw-mark-zucke/
What do you mean that Game Maker is not programming? It may not be as respectable as something like Java or Python or C, but it's most certainly a programming environment. You can learn about file I/O, event driven systems, data structures (particularly linked lists and trees, using instance ids in place of pointers/references) after you learn the screwy, almost typeless pseudo-C/Pascal mishmash scripting language that's built in. You can also learn a lot about the complexity of programming when you have to debug your code to figure out why things aren't doing what you wanted them to (whether that's because of a typo, unintended effects of the interaction of multiple complex behaviors you wrote, or simply a misunderstanding of language). Not to mention the issues of project management and good design (or lack thereof...)! While it may seem crude, please don't belittle it by saying that it's not "programming".
Another way of looking at that p/e is that it is 17.5 years earnings just to pay back your investment. Let's just call it ten, allowing for growth but also considering some hefty risk discounting, and allowing for the reduction in margin due to competition (mentioned in another comment).

This is a market that is three years old, and massively susceptible to discontinuities - specifically newcomers and legal changes. I postulate that they will avoid paying dividends for at least a decade, perhaps throwing out a mangy 10% stock buyback (after issuing 11% in stock options to employees).

I am inclined to put on even more risk discount. Personally, I'd invest at a p/e of 4, maybe, but keep in mind that I don't really know what they do; so I suppose I will change that to a p/e of 3.2, and let's round it off to 3.
Er, no it isn't. People pay the least amount possible because they're tight.

Some people are actually offended when I tell them "you get what you pay for" - particularly for services rather than products. There's this weird consumer fantasy land where you get top quality for fire sale prices.
"If you want an article about every Pokémon and not just Pikachu you should start your own Pokémon wiki. That’s Wikipedia’s official party line. Well, at least the party line of the Deletionists (who seem to be winning)."

This is exactly why I, like Zed, am sitting here wondering why precisely you think _I_ should donate so "deletionists" can have their own private party with their own stupidly applied overgeneralised rules? Maybe someone should start a wiki listing these other non-wikipedia-wikis, so I could go to some of them to donate instead.
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At some point the answer has to be no.

Unless it's someone's sacred cow. Then the answer is moo.

This story is overblown at this point. The Senate will come up with it's version. The reconciled bill and the resulting votes will be the critical issue. The bottom line is that it will be painful to someone. Social services and research will have to take some hits, as will defense per President Obama's budget proposal.
The car post was written by someone else. It seems to have been quite a long time ago that he was deep in debt. I don't know what other post you have in mind, but quite a lot of the stuff on his blog is written by other people. According to http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/12/03/free-at-last-sa... (written in 2007) his only debt at that point was his mortgage.

So I've no idea what state his finances are in now, but it doesn't sound to me like he's desperately short of money.

(I had a quick look at other stuff on his blog, and I'd guess he has at least a few tens of thousands of dollars in cash. There's a post from April 2008 saying that he's got $5k in his "emergency fund" and aims to make it $10k by the end of that year, for instance.)
Eh, you know that AIR is Flash + Webkit, right?
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Need some recommendations for managed VPS hosting for someone who is n00b in linux administration.

Something like linode 512 but managed.
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I don’t think you should do anything and hell is going to freeze over before I defend deletionists beyond pointing out the argument they are actually making.
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Yes. I'm in Old Town Pasadena but it's hard to justify that rate. There's enough coffeeshops around here, and it's unclear whether the space has a "community" or if it's just freelancers.

What's your email? I'm interested in setting up some sort of part-time thing, especially if there's a few others around.
Linode is great. Even if you don't use them (you should), their docs are definitely worth looking at, as they have tutorials on most of the setup and config stuff you'll want to do.
In en.wikipedia it is not.
But in some others, like fi.wikipedia, it is.
That's why he's actually a good candidate for being an editor. He is probably the personality type I like to call "football referee". Sticks to the rules even if he thinks they are unfair.

I think such people are indeed very necessary for the world to function (or we'd only have corruption and worse) and there's no reason to be annoyed about them.

Or to put it another way: Don't hate the player. Hate the game.

(But: Exceptions do apply.)
Slightly off topic. But mundane tasks like dish washing help you unwind. I enjoy dish washing, pressing clothes or cutting vegetables at home because all those activities give me a lot of quite time without needing much effort from brain. The activity becomes even more enjoyable if I am taking a break from a programming task.
Very, very cool! Here's the viral touch you're missing: a gallery, or at least photo sharing. When I hit the tweet button at the bottom, it should allow others to see the photo I just laser-eyesed (laserized, ha, get it?) and encourage to laser-eyes one of their own. Let's see it happen :)
> My friends give their wives all their money.

Isn't this how things are done in a normal relation? I mean not necessarily giving the money to your wife, but having both yours and your wife's money in the same pool.
Weird article. Long tail of products is definitely here to stay with the internet. Weird things, out of print books, fancy japanese pens I can't get at the office supply store, movies that were never released in the states, ingredients to strange ethnic dishes, repair parts for my antique whazzit, it's all on the internet. A lot of the small places have things cheaper than amazon too if you look around enough. Or save time and go with amazon.
Thats coz most people just do copy cats of US ideas in India
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They did it out of the goodness of their hearts, because it is better for the world if there isn't a duopoly? Yeah right...
Fun app, thanks! :)
but for some reason when I tried to save the image, it crashed my chrome and the second time I am able to save it but still it slowed down chrome.
haha cool! I love it.

Hey, i didn't notice the Facebook connect thing. You should center it above the pic.

Also, you could load the profile pic by default to save the user a step.

It would be cool to allow me to pick from a list of my friends and give'em laserey.es.

...and throw an ad on there, dude!!
> all my programs were imperative styled, not OOP

Nitpicking here, but I'm quite sure OOP and imperative programming are orthogonal concepts. Clojure is a mostly functional OO language, while Java is a mostly imperative OO language.