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The need is the same... 'ish. Personally I think Lion will have xcode 4 free (bit like Facetime has been done). Here's the thing tho, compiler bugfixes etc. need you to sign up to the dev. program or, at the moment, buy xcode. This is bad imho and therefore it's worth the effort to give the user of homebrew an option.
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If you ignore the references to Sebastian in JM's post and pay attention only to the subject, it is clear that they're talking about different things.
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>but I think a lot of the modern world is fundamentally anti-excellence.

The world isn't as black-and-white as you're indicating here. People are skeptical of the rich guy because for so long the main way to get rich was to rob people. Some rich people still get rich that way today. Many others don't do anything illegal but they're not nice people and aren't what I would call "excellence" by any stretch.

As for booing stars, I think that's usually jealousy and ignorance. They don't understand why he/she is making that much, how long the stars career can be compared to, say a banker or investor.

Sweden, also, isn't about "anti-excellence" it's about the group over the individual. It may be one's opinion that that's the same thing but we really are all in this together (Note: I don't agree with the Swedish approach, I simply don't dismiss it out of hand).

>I think that's garbage, that ambition should be celebrated, that achievement should be celebrated, etc.

I agree, except in my opinion the ends don't necessarily justify the means. For example, if you make money but do by creating no value, less value than would have been provided otherwise or actual negative value then I don't think that should be celebrated, it should be opposed and discouraged.
The Santa Cruz newspaper claims it will be quite small in the bay area, fortunately:

The warning covers coastal areas between Point Concepcion to the Oregon-Washington border. While the warning does encourage people in low-lying areas to move inland, officials don't expect the wave that hits the California Coast to be much more than a foot.

edit: Though the NYTimes says (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/us/12california.html):

Surges could reach three to seven feet along the California, Oregon and Washington coasts. Southern California is expected to be hit by three-foot waves, the authorities said.
At least put the attribution in the HTML as a comment, no?

This company arbitrarily decides what copyrights to acknowledge and violate?

So I am supposed to host my video with them, but how will I know they will respect my intellectual property?

If you are a good coder, do creative commons licenses not apply? Is this the tip of the iceberg?

Help me out here.
I just wrote a Ruby script that does pretty much the same thing: https://gist.github.com/865841. I used a simple bloom filter for de-duplication. It's a bit overkill. A simple hash on the twitpic_id will probably work just as well if not better.
- We are going to provide binaries for the CC toolchain.

I meant binary packages, not a bootstrap tool chain.

- We can't wait for Lion, nor expect everyone to use Lion.

Xcode3 is still available. Xcode4 is not yet mandatory.

- Headers is a good point

It's an insurmountable obstacle, unless you plan on independently generating your own replacement headers (which is possible, but is going to be a world of pain).

- GCC is not the default /usr/bin/cc for Xcode4

Yes, Apple is investing heavily in moving everything to LLVM/clang in Lion (... and, as such, with Xcode4), but even in Xcode4 the default /usr/bin/gcc and iOS compiler is llvm-gcc4.2, not clang.

Additionally, you'll likely find it more difficult to track clang over GCC, as Apple is less explicitly about matching up their custom branches to actual releases as shipped with Xcode.

- Macports needs Xcode too.

My point was that this demonstrates why working with a vendor as capricious[1] as Apple often requires one to carve out their own niche of stable dependencies, and most of what you've often claimed sets homebrew apart[2] will be gradually worn away as you have to deal with Apple major releases.

That said, I hope MacPorts just starts using their support for binary packaging of ports (port archives).

[1] They're not really capricious, so much as focus on the consumer, and not on developers building large port systems.
[2] I'm reminded of this line-by-line assessment: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=872072
Not big ones -- not even over my shoulders. Just full; we were trying to keep the contents from falling all over.
I don't know about novels, but I do know about a Ph.D. thesis. You start with great ideas, high hopes, and an intention to produce something wonderful.

By the end you're just desperate to get shot of the damn thing and move on. The level of detail, the irrelevant nit-picking, the positioning of the diagrams, the alignment of the text, the wording that jars the senses, chosen to be more correct and more precise, but nevertheless an insult to the lover of decent prose, and so on.

I can imagine that a novel is the same, and to quote transmit101:

> Coding is pretty straight-forward in comparison.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313149)

Yes. Yes it is.

And to reply to beaumartinez who said:

> I find coding elicits the same things
> you've mentioned about composing.

Perhaps, but unless you've experienced both, it's hard to appreciate the sheer intensity. Many people express doubt without themselves having the experience.
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This risk can't be mitigated. One guy wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and bam, 99% of potential customers (everyone who doesn't have a jailbreak, assuming that remains possible) are out of your reach for no real reason. Every developer needs to be aware that Apple bargains like Darth Vader.
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I'm on au and getting mail on my cell phone in random batches; if I force a mail check, it'll give me a few messages, but they don't seem to be pushing e-mail notifications. I guess this is their way of dealing with the flood of mail.

An interesting anecdote: the only provider that ISN'T forwarding/storing my messages properly is Softbank. It worried me until I noticed, but all e-mails I'm trying to send to friends with Softbank phones are just bouncing.
It was felt by most of the population of Japan. And there was actual damage done in Tokyo.
I don't see anything on http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/ about the Japan earthquake. Do you mean they're doing good with that page in general, e.g. with information about the Christchurch earthquake?
My real life is better without two different temperature scales. And I happen to have learned some chemistry.

It's all about what one is used to. Of Fahrenheit I only know that 100 is about body temperature. Above is too hot, below - could be okay. So yeah I prefer Celsius, which happens to be a little less of a boolean scale to me.
It's an insurmountable obstacle, unless you plan on independently generating your own replacement headers (which is possible, but is going to be a world of pain).

How is it unsurmountable? I remember mingw/cygwin doing a similar thing for Windows.
FYI, here is the translated version of the japanese crisis response

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.g...
I find it strange that you and others question whether this article should be on HN - the fact you and others are commenting must mean that the topic grabbed you enough for you to want to read and comment on what people are saying on the subject.

Also the fact that the post has over 300 points and is comfortably the most talked about thing within the community is proof enough that topics like this should be allowed to remain within HN
Hold on -- is it still 2007?
5 is different from 4, because your agents in 5 are located in France. Thus, they must obey French law. Further, they are consuming French services (police, roads, fire), so it makes sense to tax them to pay for such services.

(This isn't getting into the question of whether your taxes are really buying those services (in the US, they are mostly redistributed to other people), but that's a separate matter.)
What's Boolean about either?
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This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
Miyagi is a prefecture. Like a state or province.
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Water freezes at 0 degrees C. At what temperature does water freeze in F?
Great stuff. Well done. Had a good laugh there.
> Since Xcode is no longer free

Turns out Xcode was never actually free: previous major releases were synchronized with OS releases. Xcode 2 came with 10.4, Xcode 3 came with 10.5.

The reason why they were "free" and Xcode 4 is not is... that Xcode 4 has been released "mid-cycle" before Lion landed. Previous Xcode were "paid" through the OS they came with, even if you downloaded them from Apple's website as it was the OS entitling you to the relevant Xcode install.

With that said, where are we so far on Xcode?

* Since Lion has not been released yet, all macbooks but Air come with the standard DVD set which contains an Xcode install

* Xcode 3.2.6 and the iOS 4.3 SDK are still available as free downloads for the Air (or to replace older Xcode installs), just go into the dev center and you are given a link to Xcode 3. You even get a download link for Xcode 3 from the Xcode 4 page: https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/...

I understand that people kind-of freakout (I did originally), but if you actually look at the events with a cool head, and previous devtools-related-events (as well as previous instances of Apple's wonky SOX-related decisions), it seems extremely likely Xcode 4 will go back to "free for everybody" on Lion, it might even be an at-install option (à la OSX Server).

Oh yeah, and there are already binary distributions of OSX compilers: http://llvm.org/releases/download.html has both Clang and LLVM-GCC binaries for OSX.
It was on Japanese TV news almost immediately. We were watching it in the office while we were still shaking.
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My guess is that the correlation is with poverty rather than voting preferences.

As a former Mississippi resident (and one who did not have a passport until the age of 26) I can tell you I personally knew very few people who could afford to travel. The wages in the state may match the low cost of living, but a plane ticket is going to be the same leaving from Jackson Mississippi as it is LAX.

When this was posted on Reddit quite a few people used it as an opportunity to take jabs at how ignorant people in the south are because they did not "want" to see places outside our borders. It's quite difficult to do when a ticket to Europe would equal an entire months salary for many people.
> Here's the thing tho, compiler bugfixes etc. need you to sign up to the dev. program or, at the moment, buy xcode. This is bad imho and therefore it's worth the effort to give the user of homebrew an option.

Xcode 3.2.6 was released at the same time as Xcode 4 and is freely downloadable.
I agree it's a pretty niche application that most technical users wouldn't find a use for. Very interesting suggestion about a voice contact form. I agree it might be really useful for interacting with a less technical user base.

I'll probably make the service completely free if it doesn't see any uptake.
It's not too hard to cobble together open-source headers and autogenerated minimally viable headers for the OS frameworks (this is what the initial non-official iPhone toolchains did).

They'll be very incomplete, however, quite a bit of software will not build correctly, and it will take a significant effort to clean them up.
Interesting, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's very different for different people.

For me, coding comes very naturally indeed. Next, writing, then music, and finally visual art which I find next-to impossible to master. :-)

And when I say "naturally", I have no doubt that there is a direct correlation between what comes most "naturally" to me, and what I've spent the most time over the years practicing.
I think you want something like http://rudix.org
"The scientific community adopted Kelvin instead Rankine, and that pretty much sealed the deal for Celsius. Today’s familiar units such as joules and the calorie (the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water by 1˚C) assume we’re working with Celsius-sized degrees."

http://www.ericpinder.com/html/celsius.html
My childhood friend is in Waikiki..I don't think I have any nails left to bite.
So the fundamental problem is that Illinois has passed a law which a large number of their citizens feel is unjust and which they break whenever they have the opportunity?

Seems like out of control politicians are the real problem here.
"A random temperature scale is better than another random temperature scale because I'm used to it."
Death toll is now being reported at over 400, mostly from the tsunami. Words don't exist to express the sorrow of their families...
While they compressed some events and characters nothing was made up. The 'Battle of the Baron of the Beef' (Where Clive Sinclair started a brawl with Chris Curry) is a real event (and one well known to people in the Cambridge IT industry).

Look out for a guest appearance by Sophie Wilson (previously Roger Wilson) as the barmaid.
Ok, I'm not even going to bother commenting...
This is stupid and not worthy of Hacker news. And a stupid graph with a "FFFFUUUU"-style clutter in it wont make me go "lol!" and change my mind either.

Go away. Keep this to reddit please?
The fact the epicenter was 200 km offshore is why the shaking wasn't too destructive. The Great Hanshin earthquake was only 20km from Kobe. The distance from the epicenter is often overlooked by the media.

PGV (peak ground velocity) is a more accurate way to estimate the strain put on infrastructure.
This shakemap shows the preliminary recordings: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake...
Diamondhead Reef in Hawaii just completely emptied, it's barren of water, nothing in sight.
There are the air raid sirens. They use them all the time: for typhoons, for missing persons. Oh, and for earthquakes.
Then states will likely raise the in-state and out of state tax to high levels, and provide rebates/subsidies to in-state businesses only.

Best not to go down that road.
Simply put, yes
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Thanks. It was an honest request for clarification, not a challenge of your point.
I guess. Having next to no experience of using Fahrenheit, I'm happy to take other peoples' word when it comes to day-to-day usefulness.

It seems to me, though, that the relative merits pale into insignificance compared to the potential benefits of picking a standard, doesn't much matter which one, and being able to forget about converting between the two.
Disclaimer: I'm going to assume this really happened, even though it's coming from a slightly suspicious looking Blogspot address, the description itself looks believable.

The surprising thing here is not the obvious injustice or the callousness of the Twitter team. Rather, it's that people think they somehow have a right to use Twitter's services and accounts like they were their property. The same goes for people who build businesses on Facebook and every other monolithic site. I think users need to understand that they are on someone else's turf, and they are subject to whatever the company decides to do. There is no reasonable expectation of fairness, or of free speech for that matter.

That's why building a business on Twitter is foolish. I hear it's done successfully all the time, yet people have to understand this is a very shaky foundation. We're not even Twitter's customers. Advertisers are Twitter's customers. Nobody should be surprised about this, in fact it's a miracle "outrageous" stories don't happen more often.
Single best quote from article: "But if consumers see them [data caps] simply as tools to squeeze more cash from customers (as they did in the Time Warner trials), then low caps will probably bring out Congressional resistance once again."

Which, usually, is the actual reason for data caps. To generate artificial scarcity in a market where there is essentially no scarcity, and thereby recreate a cash cow.
This always bugged me too. Fahrenheit is more than double the precision of Celsius. The thermodynamic properties of water just aren't important enough in daily life to make sacrificing that precision seem worth it.

Similarly, measuring things in feet is more precise and easier to me than measuring in meters. Tenth of meters is awkward, and decimeters are just never used colloquially. 5 feet tall vs. 6 feet or 1.5 vs 1.8 meters? Yuck.
Yes and:

- horses are better than cars;

- the telegraph is better than the phone;

- fixed line phones are better than cell phones;

- bulletin boards are better than the Internet;

- dialup is better than broadband;

- black and white TV is better than colour;

- standard def is better than hi def;

- windows 3.1 is better than Windows 7;

- and so on.
Japan is the highest ranked hashtag on Instagram after quake and tsunami
It's mostly for post-event support, I'd expect it to be updated today with a list of resources for Japan.
For weather, which I find more natural depends somewhat on the climate. In Denmark, the celsius system seems quite natural, even as an American. Freezing being at 0 C is a reasonable reference point; below it is cold, above it is okay, >10C above it is warm, >20C above it is grilling on the beach. I find it a bit less natural in Greece, though admittedly it may be different if I had grown up there. The main awkwardness is that I find myself mentioning specific temperatures more often; it seems that the colloquial equivalent for an expression like "low 70s" is "around 22".

I don't have a problem with people using whatever they want, though. In scientific and engineering work I'd stick to C, but I don't see great benefits from consistency in daily life; it's not hard to approximately convert in your head. The way I usually do it is to start at an approximate reference point suitable for the climate, like 0 C/30 F or 20 C/70 F, and then have the F temperature be twice as far from the reference point as the C temperature. None of those numbers are quite right, of course, but it's easy in my head to say that 5 C = 40 F or 80 F = 25 C, which are 1-2 degrees off but close enough for discussing the weather.
I was scheduled to go there tomorrow with my little girl.

So now you know the full extent of the disaster.
The only thing I know about Fahrenheit is that -40C == -40F.

Furthermore, Good case for Fahrenheit being more intuitive. The same points can be made for Celcius though, so the whole point is moot.
The argument that scientific relevancy is not relevant in the choice of measuring unit is somewhat...ironic?

I do however agree that this doesn't deserve discussion and falls into the category of "someone with too much time on their hands and nothing useful to do with it"
Boolean in the sense of: Is X Fahrenheit warmer or colder than the average body temperature?
The finer granularity Fahrenheit makes especially no sense for everyday life. With C I know my cutoff temperature to wear a sweater is 22°. It's 21°? Already noticeably colder.
With F you'd had to think about a lot more numbers. (69°? 70? 71?) The resolution is too high.
I've started using Celsius in my everyday life. As an American, it's not the easiest thing to do, but I'm used to that from my use of the 24-hour clock and the metric system (even my car is in km/h). I prefer Celsius because it seems much less arbitrary. (A physicist-friend is trying to get me to switch to Kelvin, but absolute-zero has no implication on whether or not I should wear a coat when I leave my house.)

Fellow developers: please allow me to use the measurement system I choose to use. In my transition, I realized how much we take this stuff for granted and assume everyone does things the way we do it ourselves. It doesn't take much work to give people a toggle b/t Fahrenheit and Celsius, 12/24-hour clock, or English/Metric.
Growing up in Canada, in the generation I did, we tend to use both.... though metric is official.

For winter temperatures, we tend to work in C.

0 is freezing - it's convenient. We'll say it's +5 or +10 or -5 out... we know we're talking about C.

Occasionally I'll catch my parents, or even me, saying "It's like 90 degrees out" - we're talking F obviously - only used for pool heater and hot days... because 100F is damn hot.

As to better.... in that all measurement systems are provably equal, the metric one is the world accepted standard, so just go with it already, jeeze...
This also happens a lot with code as well. I am sure each person here has at least a few abandoned software projects that they either couldn't finish, didn't want to finish, or at some point later regret not finishing.

I would like to hear those stories, it would be interesting.

One of mine is I built a web based blogging application in 2002/03 which was supposed to kick MovableType's ass. I had beta testers with great product feedback, but just simply got distracted with another project, thought blogging would never be that popular, and just abandoned it. I even let the domains expire (one of the hosting domains was bloguser.com). I wrote a lot of code for that project, including Javascript in the text editor so you could select and make text bold etc.

The other was discovering the original IE 5.0 xmlhttprequest while working on a corporate intranet role (this was in 99-00 IIRC). I remember thinking 'this is awesome, literally every desktop app is going to be written as a web app, I should totally quit my job and setup a company to do web email, web word processor, etc. with fancy javascript'. I spent a lot of hobby time playing with it, writing prototype code, showing my old boss, etc. but then thought it wouldn't get far because it only worked on IE - and at the time most of the web community frowned on IE and I wanted to be one of the cool kids.
The cost or otherwise of xcode is irrelevant. This is about repackaging apple's distributions of various tools for our convenience. As others have said the $5 is simply a push to do something that probably should have been done before.

In light of this I am personally in favor of simply taking the binary pkgs out of the xcode dmg, in pursuit of maximum compatibility and minimum duping, and general adherence to homebrew's stated project goals.

However this would obviously require some research as to the specific licensing issues involved, and some dialog with apple. If it turns out to be OK, then the whole thing would be pretty trivial.

If it doesn't pan out, then look at messier options like using different builds, making your own headers (yuck) etc.
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Except the wave was 8,85 kilometers high the movie...
Serialization, marshaling, pickling...whatever your favorite terminology, that's all a nib is: archived object instances. If you don't have a mental model for that then you've got bigger problems than interface builder.
Xcode 3 works fine so yeah I agree. We'll point people there.
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