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Good, do it. Forget your brother and get something working that people can use. I can guarantee you, however, that by doing so, you will learn something. Don't be averse to that.
Courtesy.

More importantly, if I don't want to have someone as my Facebook friend, I have that choice. But I don't have a choice about what policies might be in place at employers my Facebook friends might consider. If you think it through, you begin to see why we have laws related to protecting privacy.
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I agree with you. The reality is that HN suffers from groupthink due to the strong relationship to PG and his anti-Java rants, which I think are entirely misplaced. It's true that people who can code LISP are generally pretty good, whereas Java programmers can be of any kind of quality. That doesn't make every Java programmer stupid nor Java a stupid language.

The smug attitude on HN that anyone who isn't doing scripting or functional programming is some kind of idiot is extremely irritating and childish. Professionals use the right tool for the job, and Java is the right tool for a good number of jobs. I say this as someone who loves LISP and has enjoyed Python coding.
This question is probably premature to ask. B&N hasn't tanked...yet. Their future existence is far from guaranteed.
Aha! Business opportunity: create ad hoc facebook accounts, complete with "friends", games, lolcat photos, and all the rest, for a fee.

Of course it violates the Facebook terms of service. Handing over your password already broke that.
Doesn't this go against the concept of flow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)?
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I suspect the GP is referring to Haskell's ability to use strict evaluation via language features like the ! operator. (though I could be wrong)
What does the volume of books have to do with anything? You seemed to indicate that you didn't think books were available for open source tools, but they do exist. What exactly are you looking for that isn't available?
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Free Software is defined as software released under a license that follows the definition of Free Software ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ).

BSD, MIT and WTFPL are all on the list of officially verified Free Software licenses: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html and are thus "Free Software".

Open Source, similarly, is defined as software released under a license that follows the definition of Open Source Software ( http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd ). The OSI also has a list of approved licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions. Wilbur Wright

Isn't the below an over-optimistic failed prediction?

a few decades hence, energy may be free—just like the unmetered air.... John von Neumann
No one is saying you must do anything. No one is demanding you to release your software under an open or free software license.

I'm simply saying I would like for a culture of learning and sharing to remain strong and vibrant going forward. You're making this into an ideological flame war, without reason. I haven't demanded anything of you or the software you create. I have suggested that a vibrant and thriving open source or free software community is a good thing.

As I mentioned in my first comment, I'm not speaking specifically of the GPL. I happen to like the license, but if you don't, that's fine. I have, nowhere in this conversation, suggested that only the GPL allows the kind of freedom I'm speaking of.

The freedom I am speaking of is about building a culture of being able to look at, learn from, modify, and contribute to, the software I (and others) use. And, nowhere have I suggested that only the GPL makes that possible; though I do think RMS and the FSF (and, yes, the GPL) deserve some credit for building the culture we currently enjoy.
New sales will only matter up to a certain point. Once the market is saturated you can't tell if a new sale is someone newly adopting your platform, or just someone that is moving from one phone to another while remaining on your platform.
free 2 day delivery has won me over

I like it too, but it's not really free. It's $79/year for an Amazon Prime membership.
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I vote for Freedom Software. It has a nice ring to it and it removes the ambiguity.
I didn't say that the comments agreed with me. I said that's what I gathered from the comments, which say that one consumer security tool flagged the site, and one blacklist flagged the site.
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I am not suggesting that we analyze articles looking for conspiracies. I am suggesting that we look for well-defined techniques, the mechanisms used, regardless of the messages' meanings.
Funny, my Borders has comfy chairs, a (crummy) coffee bar and wifi.
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It's hard to quantify, but personally, I never found Borders stores that pleasant, whereas B&N was overall much more appealing to go to.
How is this different to Clean? (a much older Haskell/research variant, see http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean)
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I had a pair of those. They're the best headphones at that price range but I didn't love their sound. The bass was too high and the higher frequencies weren't there. And the pads flaked after a while. They broke after I sat on them by accident. I am rather heavy.
if the term free is ambiguous, why not just call it Freedom Software? I suppose may have the unfortunate side effect of being co-opted by patriotic zealots :)
I don't think he was commenting on his usage of "its" vs. "it's" (which is actually correct), but rather that it's ambiguous which item "it" is referring to -- Ragel or Ry's.
i think rather more fundamental was the years they spent with borders.com basically pointing to amazon.com.
Anyone who's ever taken their car to an independent mechanic (rather than back to the dealer) ought to understand a key end user benefit of free software: you aren't limited by the interests of its creator. I'm confused that nobody seems to get this.
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Creativity requires trust. How many employers are willing to trust their employees to get stuff done without concern with the way they get stuff done? It requires you to trust the process which often doesn't have intermediary stages that you can show progress, answers just arise.
How big is Int64 anyway?
When did facts ever stop an opportunity to hype up a story?

Anyway, for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_van_der_Riet_Woolley
Yes, and this is how propaganda is designed to propagate (it's like viral marketing).

The Internet can be a vehicle for propagating truth or distortion, and I believe the most effective way of reducing propaganda online is to cut it off at it's source, which right now is primarily the major news networks, and the new Propaganda Project (http://www.propagandaproject.org/) is being designed to do exactly that -- influence our major news networks to remove propaganda from their news programs.
>"I believe everyone should have the freedom to be a developer."

People have that freedom now.

Having the sort access to the source code of a large percentage of the software one uses is not a necessary condition for becoming a software developer nor for learning programming. I suspect that most people first learned programming starting with trivial problems or by typing in examples.
you can't tell if a new sale is someone newly adopting your platform, or just someone that is moving from one phone to another while remaining on your platform

I'm sure Google or Apple can tell, since activating Android or iOS involves linking it with Google or iTunes account.
I don't understand what exactly is the difference between adults and "pre-adults", in the author's opinion. Is it just that "pre-adults" haven't been "domesticated" by women who demand money and care?
My feeling is exactly the opposite. B&N feels generic to me, a larger version of a crappy mall bookstore. Borders always felt more like a real bookstore. Plus: you can search Borders store inventory before actually visiting the store; you can apparently now do this with B&N but the B&N website keeps this quite hidden -- I only know it's there because if you search for "barnes noble store inventory search" it leads you to:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/store.asp?EAN=97...

which is the result page for a PHP book including store inventory search option. I've then been able to manipulate this into a general store inventory search with some success. Completely ridiculous that you cannot find this easily. No, it's beyond ridiculous.

Edit: apparently most -- but not all -- book results pages do have a "pick me up" slot where you can search a local store. Not exactly intuitive, but at least it's there now.
That's one disappointing thing: the closing "sales" give you the same discount you can get with a coupon any day of the week. San Mateo's closing, too; quel dommage.
Come on mate, just use a bit of imagination.
You use the pam_usb module to login locally and an encrypted passkey stored on the same usb thumbdrive for remote SSH connections.
I'm fully expecting this to be a learning process, only I don't want that to be the goal. I'm still deciding whether or not to tell him no, I sort of like the idea of working with him, mostly because he knows a whole lot more than I do for development but I also feel like I'll do a lot better job than he would, and I don't like the idea of founding a company based upon cronyism. Maybe I'll need him in the future but right now I don't think I do
For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to any magazines, but I'll frequently impulse-buy an Economist, Atlantic Monthly, or Scientific American at the airport, or if I find myself near a decent newsstand.
Right, but if that trust was valid then you could likewise count on them not allowing an employer, or any third party.
No, they should not be allowed to even ask. The problem is that when some people are allowed to give up certain rights for a potential advantage in hiring, then it becomes the de facto standard that everyone has to give up that right in order to have a chance. In most industries the employer holds all the card, so that everyone will just go along with it because they feel they must in order to be considered.

You're naive if you think the "market" will correct itself such that these types of invasions of privacy are eliminated. When we're talking about people's livelihood you can't expect them to act in such a way that maximizes their rights. They act in a way that maximizes their livelihood, potentially giving up rights that they otherwise would not have. Government is the only thing able to keep employers from having that power.
Yeah, all the Borders I go to have nice chairs and a decent atmosphere; the only BN that's anywhere near me doesn't have much to sit on and feels like a two-story version of a mall bookstore.
The problem is 20-40% off is still basically the same as ordering from Amazon.
Well, Borders did just file Chapter 11. That's not really "tanking" in the sense of going out of business, but it's tanking in the sense of appear to be on its way down.
Reminds me of the Bill Gates 640kb quote. Gates has denied saying it, but even if he had, it would have been an accurate statement at the time it was supposedly made.
My favorite has always been the one by Wilbur Wright:

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions."
Sorry to dissapoint. :p I'll report back in a few years.
I really think the impact of having a Starbucks in every Barnes and Noble is huge.
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Flow != creativity. A flow state is an immersion in the task at hand, where your self-consciousness melts away and you just get it done. Creativity doesn't necessarily involve that same sort of ego death, and involves dreaming of things, not necessarily accomplishing them.
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no it doesn't. 'Flow' works well when you already know what are you going to do, and that particular task is not too easy, but not too hard (something that doesn't require your maximum cognitive effort).

The article is talking about on how to start tacking solving problems. People that are easily distracted seem to come up with more creative solutions. Which makes sense.

Also, the studies cited have a selection bias. They studied very smart college students (at Harvard), which means these kids, even though had attention problems, they were successful enough to get there, which means they are high functioning ADD/ADHD. (they manage to get some productivity out of them. And the extra creativity gives them an edge).

The article also mentions that they didn't measure all those kids with ADD/ADHD that were never able to finish high school, or get into college.

ADD/ADHD can be crippling, but for very smart people that manage it (or find way to become productive), it might be actually be beneficial to their creativity and give them and edge.

One comment that you hear from people that start taking Ritalin due to adult ADD, is that while they are a lot less distract-able and are able to perform and complete a lot more tasks, they feel less creative, and more a bit like robots.
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Hey, there you go. I noticed some great additions to the Inspector.

I'm pretty sure that the reason I can't come up with the differences is that the change is so gradual. I know Chrome has been improving, it's just not a dramatic change like FF 1 to 2 or IE 6 to 7. But Chrome 4 to 9 doesn't even seem like a dramatic change. if they were using normal versioning, I don't even know if it would be time for Chrome 2.0 yet.
How? Less harmful activity, LESS tax revenue.
My take on this, which generally isn't shared by most, is that the 'pre-fab' design techniques you see are absolutely gold when you're starting out.

Short sentences to communicate your mission/purpose. Spartan designs that focus on diving in and easing the call to action as much as possible. Big fonts, soft gradients. These are the tools of the 'pre-fab' layout.

When you're starting out, I firmly believe that you should ship first, and more importantly, that you only have, at best, a 'good idea' of how users are going to interact with your application.

As you get more users and get more feedback, then your UI/UX needs to evolve to meet with common use cases, or to cover use cases you hadn't thought of, or to keep up with demand. I strongly believe that you can't predict this going in, unless you have already built a very similar product for a very similar demographic, or unless you already have existing users.

You're 100% right in that the pre-fab design ideals don't leave much room for branding, but there definitely IS room for branding. Of the sites using these common design patterns, there are definitely ones that stick out moreso than others, due to superior branding. You can use the space that's left to reinforce brand without beating somebody over the head with it, and more importantly, without breaking ease of use.

In my humble opinion, THAT is the real challenge.
There's always Finntroll, who do most of their vocals in Swedish.
It's hard to know the tone and context of the statement in its era. Perhaps it was simply a philosophical statement about God's intentions; perhaps it was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek; perhaps it was mis-translated.
>"I prefer my software to remain open no matter who works on it or distributes it. So, I use GPL."

There are other licenses which will insure that your software remains free and open. GPL requires that mine become free and open as well...and that's fine in so far as it goes.

Structurally, however, the copyleft movement only works so long as there is a system of copyright protections, powerful institutions for enforcing them, and the threat of severe sanctions for violating them. In other words, the copyleft movement is built on the same foundation as its antithesis. Both copyright and copyleft depend on the author's right to restrict future use.
MS Office lost me when they rolled out the "ribbon" UI. I never understood it, and still have to hunt around for ten minutes any time I want to do something that's not visible.

Granted, this is because I've never been much of an Office user. But over the years I came to know where pretty much all the features were in the "classic" Office menus. When MS threw that out and put in a radically different UI, I decided that my minimal word processing needs did not justify the pain of re-learning the app.
So, given a hypothetical scenario in which two equally qualified candidates are in consideration for a job, do you also think one candidate shouldn't be allowed to offer their Facebook login to the employer to settle any concerns they might have?
Ask HN: If you were going to walk across the US, what apps would you use?
Just a curious question. What apps would you use to socialize with others along your trip?

A blog? Twitter? Facebook page? Quora? Instagram? None of these? Just some? Others?

: )
Their Ann Arbor store has been a dump for months at a time as they reorganized and relocated books. Seems like a third of the store is just paper goods--cards and wrapping paper crap. 5 miles from HQ and they still couldn't figure it out.
That thread is dead.
No, I don't think this is reddit, which I why I asked the question.
I remember reading that bookstores don't actually pay in advance for their inventory, they pay only when a book is scanned and sold.

So, it's unsurprising that the discounts on many of the books won't get too large, as they are likely not even the property of the company.
And yet their new flagship store on Lohr Road by Best Buy is pretty gorgeous, well staffed, and well laid out. Just gotta get in the car and drive, unfortunately.
The analogy is actually directed more to the "slow down people's engagement on the site" part of the sentence. The part about people opening anonymous account is a fantasy that presumes that people care. We've been spammed through email for years now, yet only few people can be bothered to open a dedicated account just for the purpose of signing up to various services.
I *hate* the amazon start page
Right, one state won't make a big difference in global CO2 emissions, but the point is to lead by example. There are a lot of people / political entities sitting on the fence right now, because it is unknown what the cost would be for these projects, or even if they're feasible and would work as intended. If they are shown to work in one place, and at an affordable cost, they would be a much easier sell to everyone else.
Not really scientific but a good quote ;- ) : No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett
My gut reaction is to say no they should not. However, if hypothetically there were some question that came up that could only be resolved by checking their facebook account, then I think it can be allowed in that instance. The difference is there being (some equivalent of) "probable cause" to even question something that could be resolved through such a check.
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I thought it might save some people the frustration of filling out the form 15 times like I did, wondering what I might have done wrong.

I didn't troubleshoot the problem, I just got it working in Firefox and got on with my life.
Oh, I took the parent to mean that injecting messages into the stream of the suspended apps is sleazy.
You do lose the ability to make money off of software licenses when you include a stipulation that every recipient is free to redistribute your software's source as far and as much as possible at a price not exceeding the cost of the reproduction and distribution of the code, and that he is free to resell binaries of said software at any price. As we see with RHEL, if you try to do so, something like CentOS will come in and spoil the party.

There are times when this kind of sharing is good, but I believe if we were interested less in economic zealotry and more interested in individual freedom to control the software that runs on one's computer, we'd see a lot more people distributing source code. That would ultimately produce a net increase in freedom for computer users, even if the rules say you can only share modifications with people that have a rightful license.

Those that want to license under a copyleft are by all means free to do so, but we shouldn't exclude people that would be willing to distribute source code so that their users can control the program themselves, but who are not willing to switch to a support or subscription based business model. You can't make much significant money selling GPL'd software, you only make money by selling support contracts to BigCo. And that model is not applicable to everyone, even if it works out OK for database systems and Linux distributions.

Whether it's simple to copy or not, it's not simple to implement or design, and implementers and designers should be compensated even if their work can be reproduced at minimal cost after its initial production and release. A car's physical properties that make it much more difficult to copy have nothing to do with whether the hoods should be opened or shut, and whether rightful owners should be free to tinker around inside.
I have a strict NO XML policy in any codebase that I control.

It's not because I think that XML necessarily always kills babies, it's because I think that XML has never once been the best choice. "Does everything well enough, but I don't need to learn or develop a new technology" is not a valid reason to use it and there are plenty of valid reasons not to use it.

That said, XML has killed every baby I've ever exposed to it.
I enjoyed following this person's trip: http://imjustwalkin.com/

He setup a blog prior to leaving and made many posts every day. I think they also setup some web script that let him ping his location to his website whenever he wanted. It was very easy to track him.

Why would you need Quora? Instagram could be neat.

Depends what your reasons for walking across the country are. If it is to escape the pressures of every day business life, then I'm not sure you'd want all that much technology.
Nicely unbiased. Not sure about the title, though, since the article is (quite rightly) more about why not to use XML.
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