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Is V for Vendetta a sony title?
It's not really. The concept of a derived work does not apply well to countries, but if it did that wouldn't be an example of it. What you're describing sounds more like a Free software web browser that would only communicate with Free web servers, which of course isn't what the GPL says at all.
Constructive criticism:

Changing color when I hover over the "Dive In" button is ok. But why change the color of the entire box when I hover over a non-link text area? That doesn't make sense.

I'd probably reword the text to give more hints about how you empower students.
I own a Nook. I don't know anyone with a Kindle, and one person with an iPad.

I'm a 4th-year Software Engineering student at a pretty Linux-heavy university.
I disagree with your point that "most of the code are hypotheses to be tested by the market". Most "pieces of software" might be, but I contend that most of the code in most software is under-the-hood stuff that objectively either works or doesn't. If it works, it has nothing to do with the market's opinion. On the other hand, if it doesn't work, then regardless of what a good fit the idea of your software might be, it will colour the market's opinion against you.

Using the market to test a hypothesis, and using them to test whether your code works are two different things. The former is a great idea, the latter, not so great. Mixing the two is a bad idea.
I was inspired by forever, so I also created my own management tool:

https://github.com/luxdelux/restarter
I donated, I don't own any Sony hardware anyway, but this is cause I really care about. If Sony were to win it could open a shit storm of similar activity from other manufacturers.
He invented Emacs man, I would stake money on him using it for everything.

I'd be surprised if he even used X. I bet he uses Emacs in a framebuffer VT.
Well, I tried to make my answer as platform-agnostic as possible, but in that case, I'd work on the SEO to drive some serp traffic in, and maybe use those adwords coupons you have lying around to promote a landing page with prominently placed share links. You'll get a lot of mileage out of facebook links.
Why precisely is this Hacker News material?
I remember running into this early on at Quickoffice. I was tasked with essentially re-writing the entire application stack as the existing code was in pretty rough shape.

C++ was mandated by the platform, but I spent a lot of time getting the STL and Boost up and running. The entire thing relied heavily on templates, including some of the more advanced meta-programming techniques. In each case the 'cleverness' was warranted as it greatly reduced the complexity and redundancy of the code.

My boss at the time raised concerns over how maintainable this all was. How we're junior programmers going to be able to work on it? Being all of 22 I naively responded "well, lets just hire people who can handle it."

Interestingly, that's exactly what we did. We were much more thorough in our hiring process precisely because we needed folks who could rise to the level of the code we had written.

It seems to me that people (and companies) tend to rise to the level of the expectations that you set. In this case, making the decision to use LISP means that you're consciously making the decision to hire the caliber of talent that can use lisp. That may be a good thing (it was in the case above for sure).

I suppose it really comes down to making sure that the complexity of the application warrants the use of the more advanced abstraction. A simple web-site for someone selling tractors might warrant a different ("easier") tool than something inherently more complex.
I'm curious if there is any model at all under which bookstores will survive. Presumably, used bookstores can hang on for a while. Perhaps the future is some sort of mix of new and used books, along with a coffee shop and diversified inventory (games, for instance).
Borders dying makes me a bit sad. These four years I've been in university, I've watched our B&N's tech book section shrink and convert to "iPads for Dummies" books, and the manga section go down to a quarter of the previous size. Our Borders does tremendously better on both these sections.

Amazon's cheaper, sure, but I only tend to buy things there when I'm looking for them, while physical stores get me to browse (and allow me to read samples!). Since I got a Nook for Christmas, though, I'm starting to use its samples to browse books from the comfort of my home, which is certainly leading to more money going to B&N.
...in the context of statically-typed purely-functional lambda calculi without recursion.
I would do absolutely nothing. The primary reason I can see you asking this question is that you are looking for justification to take revenge upon your ex. If that is correct, it is better for your own well being to move on.

Even so, the resume has little to do with a hiring decision once getting someone passed the initial bar. Hiring is completely dependent upon the interview and the background check. The resume is not used for much more than a sanity check.
You can't create closed source software for yourself - you have the source code, because you wrote it! But if you distribute that software to someone else, yes he holds that it is morally wrong to deprive them of certain rights, eg. the right to modify it for their own purposes.

Given his apparent stance on non-Free software, I suspect he is not concerned if you choose not to write some. He certainly wouldn't have used it in the first place.
It's late Saturday night in California? :)
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many thinks[sic] like HTML, XML, Networking Protocols, are about strings more than they are about lists.

HTML and XML structured as trees made from nested lists. Manipulating them as strings is difficult and error-prone. Dealing with them as lists is much cleaner in most cases, even when your language isn't Lisp.
I'd suggest doing at least email-based registration. Email is still the most common form of communication online. Although a lot of people have Twitter accounts, there aren't as many power users as email.
This is a copout. If you are in a competitive space with one of these major players you're basically going to be forced into a buyout on their terms or a lawsuit. That's not bargaining.
Check out shiftb's post for how it went last year. This year we have some interesting ideas pretty much along the same lines you were thinking. Let's see how much we actually get done though.

IMHO the most important goal is to keep everyone productive. For that we'll mostly need git hosting, file-sharing and a collaboration suite.

On top of that I had the idea to buffer up content-pushs (videos, photos, blog-posts) on the local server to be pushed to the web whenever internet becomes available. Like I said, let's see how it goes :)

Of course anyone who's interested in this kind of stuff is more than welcome to help out.
And in that respect, it reflects the current situation in China well.
Seriously though, I found it interesting and am glad it was on Hacker News. Social engineering is engineering, and engineering is Hacker News. You are minimizing the harm and cost in a society by providing a place where people can safely use alcohol. It's far better and cheaper than leaving them to do it on the streets.
He's said elsewhere that "Freedom Software" was an existing trademark.
There is one definite book for Django, and it is very, very good. Why should be there any more?
So the only options if I want to donate are:

* Use Paypal

* Initiate communication (via email)

No thanks.
Journalists in general shouldn't feel the need to be somewhere their safety isn't secure? Really?

I'm certainly glad they do it. That's how we get information and it's also a means of limiting atrocities (notice the targeting of journalists in Egypt, the expulsion of Al Jazeera one of the few news outlets regularly available to Egyptians).

And journalists can't do their job if they're standing on the outside looking in. Being in the mob is not limited to saying "there's a mob here", it's also how you establish and maintain contacts and sources.

Your opinion may be "Very unpopular", but I would also categorize it as myopic and unfortunate.
Going through EFF would be ideal, but I also think Geohot has proven himself to have good intentions over the last few years.
It would also be good to let Sony itself know this. So that when they wonder why their sales went down, they wouldn't pretend to attribute it only to competition and market trends.
I love developing in rails but let's be clear, refactoring ruby is just painful at the moment. Yesterday I decided to rename a model, it took over an hour to get the tests passing again. Ok there's rubymine but it's only partially effective, it misses things like renaming relationships and references in templates. Given the difficulty of static analysis I've been wondering if a refactoring tool might look a little different with a dynamic language. Given that refactorings are effectively replacement patterns perhaps a find/replace workflow tool would be the way to go. The workflow might go something like: specify broad regex which matches all potential changes. View matches and then partition them with further rules like file type and tighter regexes. Once you've grouped the matches provide appropriate replacements. Run tests. Refine if required. Obviously you could follow this workflow using command line tools but the refinement process is difficult because you don't retain any of the context. Having said that it wouldn't be too hard to use existing commands to put something like this together. Looks I've got a project for this afternoon.
>> This is fine.

>But not for RMS since it doesn't address the founding concern of the FSF! You sort of glossed over that. If you write BSD code, and it gets put into OS X, your ability to tinker with your own code in that context is gone.

Well, yes, but no.

Secondly, if Apple were unable to use BSD code then what would happen? They would go completely proprietary, that's what.

The assumption is that we would end up with a completely closed-source printer driver that couldn't be hacked, rather than a mostly closed-source printer driver that couldn't be hacked. Improvement?
There used to be a time when Left-leaning people knew some history. Terrible as the worker conditions might have been at the dawn of the Industrial Age, they were a vast improvement compared to the past.

Equally so, unpleasant as Chinese factories may look to a Westerner, they are an improvement over the past. Have people actually asked those workers if they were willing to quit or had better prospects elsewhere?
I used to hate MS Word with passion. I felt that OOo was the mucch better alternative. After all, it could handle a few hundred pages with images, which MS Word could not.

But, the new file formats changed that.

And with Office 2007, MS rethought the whole UI and made features increadibly discoverabke and visceral. It honestly is a joy to use--and on the Mac, too!

To me, the Ribbon UI represents the next step in desktop UI: No menu bar, easy discoverability of features, direct feedback on most actions, very few breakout windows. OOo feels antique and clunky by comparison. So much so in fact, that I generally prefer to use Google Docs over OOo, just because it looks cleaner. By the way, have a look at [The Story of the Ribbon](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story...), a brilliant talk about how the new Office UI came into being.

But the final nail in OOo's coffin are the templates. Seriously, both Apple Pages and MS Word provide very nice-looking, professional templates that make it hard to make a document look terrible. In contrast, OOo has very basic tmplates that are guaranteed to look boring unless you change them.

Libre Office may be a chance to get these things straight. Start with good, professional templates, then overhaul the UI to something more practical. By all means, take inspiration from MS Office and Apple iWork. If they manage this, at least to some degree, this can be a winner. And I will donate money for that cause right now. But my hopes are small...
I did too, yesterday! Can't be happier to see progress on node.js though :)
I'd be tempted to say that automotive just-in-time processes are, if anything, more impressive in terms of the industry integration. There you'll have hundreds of suppliers coordinating so that custom builds roll off the production line in an arbitrary order, with no more stock in hand than there are builds in the system for the next shift or so. I've seen it at work at BMW, and it is frankly terrifying to consider what the supplier contract terms must be like; if any one of them has a screwup as simple as packing their parts onto a transport in the wrong order, it has major cost implications.
Any clues on how Amazon identifies this kind of behavior?
Just donated. I wish there was someone better than Paypal for this; I can't see any good reason why it should take several tries for me to guess my own phone number. "Please enter a valid telephone number" is NOT a helpful error message!
This reminds me of PG's essay on Java, in which he wrote "Java's designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them.".

Ben says that smart people should also work with these languages because non-smart people might have to work with the code. I think that is actually what happens a lot in the industry. Smart people who know Lisp, Ruby, Python, etc. still end up coding in Java because that's the language everybody else knows.

What I don't like about this is that it's basically saying that people can't become good at programming. It's accepting that the majority of professional developpers can't learn to use languages like Lisp correctly or to understand a Lisp program that uses powerful abstractions.

Maybe the ones who really can't are not in the right business ?
Sure, but who writes in scripting languages in this day and age? I'm pretty sure they haven't produced anything of enough value that someone else would want to use their code.
This. I call bullshit as well, apple didn't invent a new market; they used fantastic marketing and took advantage of a gigantic fanboy base.
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Lying is wrong. I'm glad that person is your ex, not your current partner.
C# developer here too. It appears most developers never learn the more advanced bits about javascript. With node.js you really benefit from knowing javascript well. One thing that struck me was how easy it was to identify repeating patterns in my code and refactor them, much more easily than in C#. Good luck, hope you'll have as fun as I have with node!
I had to do a Processing group project course as part of my CS degree.

While it's a nice toolkit for doing very basic visualizations of data, it's a pain in the hole to do anything more advanced than that.

They made us use it to develop a GUI application with text input, buttons, tables, and graphs, in order to visualize some IMDB-style movie ratings data.

Unfortunately it's absolute crap for doing things like that. I basically ended up implementing GTK in it, with widgets rendering to buffers and having a hand-rolled DOM-style event system. I implemented scroll views on my own, and used them to create text input boxes and scrollbars. While I'm personally proud of making it actually work, it was a horrifying experience to do using the really basic tools provided.

The IDE that's included with Processing is also really awful. It can't do indentation correctly, doesn't work at all in tiling window managers, and seems to make people write horrible code. Walking around the labs trying to help people, I found that the vast majority of people's bugs were missing curly braces and things indented wrong simply because of the awfulness of the text editor.

If you want to do anything useful in it, you need to import core.jar into Eclipse (or do it on the command line) and do it in Java. It seems that the processing compiler is really just a small preprocessor over Java that wraps the whole thing in 'public class Main implements PApplet {' and '}' and replaces #FFFFFF with 0xFFFFFF.

I also used processing to make a tetris game (https://github.com/sipefree/setris), which was much easier than doing a GUI application, but I really didn't get any decent drawing performance on non state-of-the-art hardware.

TL;DR it's nice but a pain in the hole.
State sponsored homicide on the installment plan.
It's likely that many people have flagged it as offtopic, which offsets the positive votes. I think it's a fine article, and would be happy to run across it elsewhere, but flagged it in an attempt to keep HN more focussed.

I mean no offense by this, but am getting scared by how many front page articles right now have no specific hacker content. Ironically, I find your self-declared offtopic comment more on topic.
Suicide maybe, but not homicide - they have to get their own alcohol, the center does not provide it.
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You're right, but jquery doesn't handle XML namespaces. Alas I wish it did.
I don't lie but I sell myself, I also don't really create a resume but more of an overview of what I can do and a why / why not. On the other hand as an employer I don't care about previous jobs unless they're exceptional and I want to know what you know and why I should hire you and also why I shouldn't and a few references to chat to, if I need anything else I call the person.
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I've been using Chicken for five years to fulfill contracts for military, biotech and publishing clients.

While I set out at first to disprove the axiom that "Scheme is not commercially viable;" Chicken is now my preferred method of writing performant, robust and literate code.
That's just appalling. In Europe, AFAIK there is usually no such thing as college/university sports--competition-wise, that is (aside of the known the Oxford/Cambridge rowing competition.)

I just recently discovered the following site, which just makes me sad: http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/?name=papadimitriou

Why are UC-Berkeley and UCLA head coaches earning more than 8 times as much as Christos Papadimitriou? Granted his salary is stellar by comparison, but there are a couple of other well-known UC professors who earn much less. (Richard Karp [of Rabin-Karp fame and Turing-Award winner] gets 166k [14 times less than the UC-Berkeley head-coach].) In addition, the professors from the med-schools seem to do a lot better; even though they are quite out of proportion, at least they're saving lives.

Previously, I supposed these were profitable investments, but when one head coach salaries buys you 14 Dick Karps or 8 Christos Papadimitrious, I really think it doesn't make any sense at all...
FYI if you use elementree, try lxml. It hasx path support, which you'll wonder how you ever did without.
We're not fighting with customers, we fight with banks, and it's not like it's a daily occurrence. And perhaps it's because we don't sell software. You might want to get that "contempt prior to investigation" thing you have checked out, as you have no idea what our return policy is, or what our customer base is like.

Anyway, I am just sharing about the differing experiences we have had with PayPal and with our merchant bank.
Sadly, this is America and there is nothing illegal enough to not be challengeable in court. Seriously, the simple fact that Hotz has to pay up front and Sony has more money makes it possible for Sony to sue Hotz for a hopeless cause. Other countries collect money only after the trials, which effectively allows poor people a fair representation in court if their cause is righteous.
This whole issue is more a problem with the US legal system than it is with Sony. Sad.
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A side question. If we donate, what stops PayPal from randomly "freezing" his account and holding the money hostage, as they have on a number of other occasions for people having a "Donate" link?
So is it buying in bulk or planning ahead that make Tim Cook the greatest COO in history? Because neither seem particularly amazing to me. Is it just the fact that the sums of money involved are quite large? Or is it the subtle undertones of sticking it to the competition so they can't compete fairly that makes this story (and the ones about patents) resonate so strongly with Apple fans?
Sorry, on iPad and accidentally downmodded your useful comment.
Quoting from https://help.riseup.net/policy/social-contract/ :

"We ask that you do not use riseup.net services to advocate any of the following:
Support for capitalism [...]"

So why should I use such a provider that restricts my freedom of speech?
Just guessing, but maybe they simply help people set up distributed systems. Eg. act as an information hub, rather than a technological platform. Don't know if that's the case, but it would make sense if.
May you tell us more about it? (For things you can speak about.)
It's the same Amazon account for Associates and purchases... It's quite simple to match up. You may able to sneak around with different email and mailing addresses, but you still have cookies to deal with.
Wouldn't unix style be uxixstyle?
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Seriously? As an Indian developer who considers himself at least decent, I'm offended by your statement. Of course there are bad developers, maybe more in India than in other places. That doesn't mean good ones don't exist.
Funny thing is, if it were a Facebook login wall, tens of upvotes would have ensued.
If the software doesn't care about ease of configuration, what else doesn't it care about?
So? What if I visit techrights regularly? If you asked me I would tell you that. I go there because it is good site with well researched information, and if you were less pro-mono biased you would recognize that.

I don't know who "gnosis" is, first saw that nick.

Anyways, if you need to attack people and make this kind of nonsense, it means you have no arguments whatsoever, so you just do what rabid Mono pushers always do: character assassination and libeling of every critic, with heavy use of all kind of fallacies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

C ya
Btw. is there some way to ask google "when it is 10am in new york, what time is it in tokyo?".
If I were the government I would definitely operate a site such as riseup (and monitor the communication of the individuals using it). And even if it's not operated by the government, as the servers are based in the US, they are affected by things such as National Security Letters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter).

As an activist I would use something such as TorChat (http://code.google.com/p/torchat/), RetroShare (http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/), or Syndie (http://syndie.i2p2.de/) for communication instead.
TDD can be useful when complemented by an isolation framework, such as Typemock Isolator. It'll save precious time & most importantly for a lean startup - scarce financial resources.
You know, nowadays opening a random one-time email account takes less than 5 minutes. Just go to hotmail and register as oks03wsdjf. You can do that and find out how you can donate.
'These movements' have nothing to do with protest. They change the world by providing (or at the very least, opening the door to) better user experiences over the long term. (See: Darwin, LLVM, WebKit.)

The vast majority of criticisms like this one are based on short term concerns related to a given state-of-play in the market. Concerns like the ones that killed Linux stone dead back in the '90s, web standards in the mid-2000s, and *ndroid.
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