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- If you remove the boilerplate, you can likely get the Objective-C version down to about 40 lines.[1]

- Can Lua/Wax not use IB? The Objective-C version uses IB to lay the views out, while the Lua version seems to lay it out manually? It does for the main UIWindow, at least.

- The Objective-C and Lua code don't behave the same way. This isn't a 1:1 comparison.

1. Less, if you turn your AppDelegate into a UIApplication subclass (so it is a singleton, and you can not worry about dealloc in there because the app will be gone by the time dealloc is reached).
I am not "HN's Japan Guy."

Perhaps not, but I'd say that you're probably the best writer out of HN's Japanese Guys.

(No offense intended to other HNers from Japan -- I'd say that you're one of the best writers on HN from any location.)
Not unless you repeal the second law of thermodynamics -- the 1.5Gw of heat was already used to generate 0.5Gw of electricity. In general, no thermal power plant can convert much more than about 40% of the input heat into useful work.

See also:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Rankine_cycle
No, because people can't think in 3 dimensional Ven Diagrams.
What's the best way to gets ants out of a laptop?
He graduated in 2008, so he's only ~23, and it's his first conference. I think he did a good job for his inexperience. It takes time to learn to calm down on stage and stay composed.
Do you happen to know whether Godaido Hall in Sendai survived the tsunami?
Very true. I work every day on a system architected (in the loosest send of the word) by one of these types. Now he'd obviously been asleep in CS 101 where they talked about locality and big-O... But wide awake in whatever course teaches Applied Bullshit. He's gone off to another company now... He seems to veer wildly from project to project, saying all the right things and escaping to another role before the steaming pile of crap he's "designed" explodes. Bitter, moi?
Dropbox is the last solution for filesharing.

Once they integrate a way to sync google docs & docs.com then they are done!
I guess the Japanese don't generate 30% of their electricity from nuclear power for fun or because it's a popular choice. It's by necessity -- Japan imports 99% of its oil and has only tiny coal reserves.
I can't do it before work, especially since I am not a morning person. I do all of my best work at night, which is when the company I am employed with doesn't get me ... so really doing projects late at night is a win-win situation for me.
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What is the European view? I have been told time and time again in the German media that Japan is prepared for disasters like this as good as one can be prepared, that they know exactly what to do [0] and that everyone is coping with it without much fuss. I have also seen several maps of the affected regions, showing clearly that not all of Japan is affected. The blog article wasn’t that surprising to me and seemed very much congruent with media reports (at least in Germany).

Still, several thousand people died in the third biggest economic power in the world, that’s obviously going to get a lot of coverage and moms are going to call because that’s how moms are.

[0] Approximate quote from one report I saw: “There’s no student who doesn’t get to take a ride on the earthquake simulator, no kindergartner who doesn’t learn how high tsunami waves can become.”
Actually, I'm not at all.

>It is a methodology, finding a winning product by using an iterative feedback loop of customer, prototype, adoption.

Ok fair enough.

Google: What were gmail, gmaps, gdocs doing in BETA for several years?

Dropbox: You do realize the online course on the lean start-up uses dropbox as an example right? http://www.socrated.com/user_courses/226?content_item_id=168... (you have to click start learning first and then use this link to go directly there)

> I'm not spending time researching the other companies you mentioned but for example I'm pretty certain Dropbox was written without the first three stages, so again can't be classifed as a lean startup.

Which is why I'm shocked your comment is upvoted more than mine...
denyhosts or fail2ban.

Why is this news? just see your /var/log/security
Most of the things mentioned in the comments are co-factors; that is, things often found alongside greatness, but not necessarily the cause of the greatness. They are also often found alongside mediocrity.

I prefer simple tests:

Bad programmer: It can't be done.

Mediocre programmer: It's never been done.

Good programmer: It can be done.

Great programmer: It's done.
I don't know about best -- most frequent commentator definitely.
Yeah, you're right. And it was only "like". "uhm", "uhh", "like", and "basically" can get pretty bad sometimes.
There should certianly be a "you were tagged in these photos, do you want to add them to one of -your- albums" feature.
In my experience, my entire album is built from photos someone else has taken. I'd never considered what their privacy settings are doing to my friends viewing....
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In case it wasn't obvious before: "Anonymous" is Wikileaks.
> wonder why a credible scientist and thinker would choose to take a scientifically unsupportable position.

He doesn't think it is scientifically unsupportable clearly.
The Future of Apple.
Since about half a year and now as the iPad2 is launching, I question myself: For how long Apple will be able to march on with success?
When might Apple´s decade of decline start and what could be the reasons for that?

A part of the future scenario is of course, that Steve Jobs will hand over his masterpiece to another person. A person, that might not be able to tell the story that Steve Jobs embodies. And connected to that the brand will not be what is it today.

The second part of the scenario is, that the overall penetration with Apple related products will simply get too high someday. Apple is facing what it never wanted to embody: Mainstream. What we currently experience as a holistic matching of a wide ranging product groups, might turn into dislikes of tomorrow.

This would be, what I would call the "microggle" effect, as these other two giants also more and more lost their sexyness by being omnipresent.

Of course, my thoughts are very unfinished, but I would like to know your opinions.
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Brilliant article. I have written to the UK Guardian and Independent encouraging them to syndicate it.
'Moving to open source would save government one to four billion'
Heh. Thanks
> Hmm, if you are in San Francisco and you are in an "apocalyptic event" you are now likely floating in the Pacific ocean.

Er, yeah, no. California isn't going to sink into the ocean and unless you're in the Outer Sunset you're not getting washed out either.
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If you figure this out, give me a call.

I have a solution -- not a product, but a solution -- for a problem people are absolutely desperate for answers on. Only not my answers. I can freakin go to hell or something. And have been explicitly told that there is something inherently wrong with thinking I deserve to make some money off of offering something superior. I don't know what I am going to do next. I have wrestled with it a long time and continue to wrestle with it. But, no, just having a better answer does not, by itself, rake in the dough.
Which would totally explain this new social circle google page http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/search/social
So HN debate is now reduced to fallacy linking?

This is not just from one example this among other things a series of documentaries, friends and my now 37 years.

Of course there are some people who can deal with it but chances are that they are not in love. That is at least my experience feel free to counter with experiences or knowledge about successful open relationships where the people are
Thanks, i literally just threw it up so that i could get the movement going. I will be editing it soon though.
Very cool. What's particularly interesting, I think, is that it's still possible to have a big hit like this in the iOS ecosystem, if you understand that ecosystem very well.
Basically the same system in the UK - except they then leave a copy of the data they found in a bar (if it's top secret) or in a cab (if it's financial)

They then show the evidence that they found child porn in court - and on appeal discover that the child porn came from a senior officer's machine.
"Keep food"...relates mainly to my wife, who doesn't seem to get that there's a link between "not eating" and "being hungry." We'll leave on a four hour trip and she won't think that it might be a good idea to eat before leaving.

Let's just say that it took a while before I made the connection from "wow, we have most of our fights in the car" to two things: my getting annoyed with other drivers and misplacing my aggression, and her getting peckish.

As for shirts, it's the same sort of choice as hiring a housekeeper. The housekeeper time/value is a lot easier, though, as cleaning the house is certainly more onerous than ironing shirts. :-)
Seizing 80 year olds houses because they grandson was caught with weed or seizing the home of a pair of doctors who were giving weed to cancer patients.

Then strangely not applying the same law when the mayor/governer's kids are caught with a joint.
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I so want one of these in my basement for those occasional moments when I'm plotting world domination.
Amazon's Kindle notched nearly half of eReader sales in 2010
Awesome thanks for posting! I'm on it.
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Then when the ten-thousand year earthquake happens, you say thousand-year wasn't enough, it was bad engineering etc. Hindsight.
I likely will not be surprised by whatever they release. I will be genuinely surprised if anything comes of it. This news strikes me in the same way as a headline proclaiming "US Congress is beholden to special interests" or such.

I guess it's good in that we will have something concrete to which one can refer when trying to convince the friends and family to join a credit union.
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In support of your point, a logical analysis that is relevant to why open relationships really don't work if you are talking about serious intimacy and not just screwing around casually:

http://www.novemberwest.com/blog/?p=5

Disclaimer: I wrote it. Yes, it's my site. Whatever.
The facebook integration is worth 0 to me. I want to collaborate on text, not accidentally click my avatar and be taken to my profile page.

I think the facebook integration is a waste of your development time. If you keep it, keep it only for the easy population of pic+email+username. Also, get rid of login if the pad is truly open to everyone. I'll keep using one of those other etherpad instances, since there's not much facebook integration gives me over a stock instance.

Apologies if I was a bit harsh.
Don't get me wrong, I admire the hell out of this. But when you think about it, it's kind of sad that our civilization literally took until 2011 to get this far.
World domination is such an ugly term. I prefer to call it world optimization.
That is not new. It has been around for a while now.
What's your point? How many cops get speeding tickets? Did you know that technically, it's just as illegal for them to casually run red lights in their squad cars as it is for you to? Shall we do away with red lights?

My point isn't that asset forfeiture is invariably defensible. It is obviously abused. My point is that it's being built up into a bogeyman. This perspective, perversely, robs people of their ability to defend themselves against it.
That may be, but it's the rare equity negotiation I enter into where the party with "the idea" understands that they're not going to get majority ownership.
Thank you for the feedback. I completely understand your judgment on the grammar and I'll try to improve it.

Also I agree the "Share Photos - Be Creative - Be Inspired!" doesn't tell you much so I'll see what else I can come up with.

Thanks again and I hope you come back again soon when the sites open :)
Try an interactive shell!

http://probablyinteractive.com/2010/8/20/ios-interactive-con...

I'm planning on trying it out whenever I get time.
The $100K is revenue, not profits. There are a lot of payouts that come out of the $100K.
It's very simple, it's affiliate marketing 101.

Take a App creators, b Advertising partners, x End-users sign up, y Users complete reward levels

Get as much x to provide value for a which convinces b to pay you to cover y.

b > y = PROFIT

The trick is x, only a network effect creates the rare times b is ever over y.
Projects inherently involve disagreements.

This post seems to be written in the most diplomatic language possible.

I've only looked at and used a few of the standards of Freedesktop.org but they certainly seemed problematic.
Thank you for the reply. I agree once its open the rest of the site can get the feedback needed although right now I'm looking for marketing suggestions etc.

I'm glad you seem to enjoy the sites idea and we welcome you back anytime :)
I suggest you avoid 1and1, and host your site with someone besides your registrar (so that if your hosting account has problems, you'll still be able to point your domain somewhere else. Obviously if your registrar goes down, that's a moot point.).
I meant that it's your friend when you are saving money. Go ahead and play with different numbers in one of those 401(k) calculators.[1] Basically, you deposit the interest from previous years' deposits with your current year. In just a few years, you're depositing quite a bit.

It's an enemy when you borrow money, say with a credit card. Just the opposite of saving, you borrow the previous interest every month. You're paying interest on interest. If you have trouble disciplining yourself, get and use a charge card (such as most traditional American Express cards) that forces you to pay off the balance each month.

[1] This is the first Google hit, no affiliation or endorsement: http://www.money-zine.com/Calculators/Retirement-Calculators...
It is to be expected that a pseudo-organization concocted (or shall I say "arisen") to combat a government which is itself magnificently designed to quickly and thoroughly shut down any organization formed in its opposition, that such a resisting force might have a hard-to-understand structure, purely out of necessity.

Basically, there's a virtual firehose of disgruntled people, and then there are a few (a "few" in this context meaning a few hundred) smart people who facilitate their efforts to do damage to the system they collectively revile. For example, I doubt that the creators of LOIC have ever used it themselves. Assange used to break into systems himself, but these days he just makes it easier for other people who break into systems to report what they find.

In the case of Wikileaks, these facilitators are at least themselves organized, lead by Julian Assange. In the case of Anonymous, they are less organized, spread across lots of random IRC channels, wikis, and imageboards, so that even the people running the show don't know who is running the show.

Such a system would, of course, collapse immediately, if there weren't a constant, massive influx of disgruntled people with Internet connections and plenty of free time to read through bugtraq archives and free online hacking guides, and the recklessness necessary to not care if you get caught (notice how various arrests haven't stopped anyone). Those who don't get caught, they eventually start teaching other people, providing kids who wander into lcirc asking "how does I hacked BoA" with the information necessary to make it happen. Recall that the hack that took down HBGary wasn't technically astounding; it was a combination of HBGary's total incompetence and Anon's willingness to try shit until it worked.

So, could this be Wikileaks operating under the banner of Anonymous, and is Wikileaks itself a part of Anonymous? It's hard to say, because Anonymous is itself more of a phenomenon than a group, a criticality accident of discontent, if you will. They both operate on the same principles, though.

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident )
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Ask HN: 2010 CS graduate here, where are the jobs?
I graduated a few months ago from a state university with a degree in CS from their engineering school. Right now I'm working for a large corporation doing extremely entry-level IT at a low hourly wage, and I feel like my brain is rotting away from lack of challenging work and the opressively dull environment.

When I search for "computer science starting salary" and related, all I see is glowing articles talking about starting at $50-60k a year, the huge demand, etc.

When I read threads on here about jobs, its talking about how plentiful they are, anyone with some personal programming experience is considered job-ready and even offered work! People talk about the great work conditions, enjoyable work, cool coworkers, etc., which for me would be way better than increased pay!

However, when I go on any job sites to reconcile these amazing tales of entry-level jobs to any openings, all I see is Java/.NET development at BigCorp, for people with 3-5 years of experience. (And I have a feeling they don't mean 3-5 years of experience installing Windows XP and troubleshooting email.)

So help me out here HN, how do I go from my stuck in the 80's corporate IT job to working on a small team of HN calibre developers on something that I could actually be proud of?

--2.6 year member of HN, Recent CS Grad
And about "hand sanitizer". Its alcohol. Protocol for sterilizing in alcohol requires minutes of submersion. So don't think those little squirt bottles are going to be helpful.
Does anyone else find this creepy?
IPad 2 is a Digital Campfire. I now know what every other tablet is missing.
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great programmers are very hard to work with and need a wingman for doc and cleanup.
Are there renowned Internet startups with black founders?
What went Wrong at Fukushima
Very cool--thanks, guys!
Outer sunset, mission bay, parts of fidi, foster city...
Re reactors: you're kidding yourself. The reacors that shut down regularly will be restarted, sure. But those where cooling failed will NOT run in a month or 3. Those where the core melted are gone beyond salvage.

And patio11 is talking bullshit as well: the situation at Fukushiuma may not be a Apocalyptic Nightmare Scenarios yet, but the systems did not work "exactly as designed", the situation it's not under control, and may still turn into a ANS if containment fails and the wind turns towards Tokyo (which is forecast to happen around Tuesday). Flooding the building with sea water is a desparate measure, not SOP.
I live several hundred miles from Miyagi prefecture.

If this is a matter of life-or-death importance to you, find my contact info and I will find someone for you to speak to about it. If not, wait a few weeks and the prefectural tourism board will be able to help you out.
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Thanks for the reply.

I agree you can easily search for photos of ducks on sites such as Flickr however I just wanted to create a that members already following this pattern of taking photos of their ducks around the world could use to share with other members following the same idea.

Flickr is filled with millions of members and millions of photos so a member not looking for photos of ducks may still get them as a search result, meaning they wont have any relation to the photo or probably wont have an incentive to comment it, follow the user etc moving them onto another photo instead.

The simple idea that the duck in each photo relates to not only yourself but other members, other photos and the whole site itself. No completely random un-related photos being posted up which members think to themselves "why was this posted?" hopefully you get my point.

Thanks again for the feedback, and I'll be sure to get out of the habit of using CEO too.
Wait ... is it specifically for diabetics? Then I think you should specify it. I personally am trying to maximise time between meals and not to have any snacks in between. For those not having any disease, the human body is extremely efficient in maintaining blood sugar and homeostasis in general even during prolonged fasting. And intermittent fasting has significant health benefits.

Not just for diabetics, if you ask me. I'll occasionally have a "low blood sugar phase", where despite having eaten at my normal times that day, I'll just run into a complete wall and need to eat RIGHT NOW, and if I don't I start to feel miserable very quickly (faint/weak, etc.).
I designed and built the Tesla coils and there came along "The Hacking Gentleman"
If you’ve heard about it, it’s too late.
The Startup Foundry is giving away $6,620 worth of goods to 2 Lean Startups
Me too, but replace Fluxbox with XFCE. XFCE 4.8 is actually quite usable and pretty. I'm impressed by the developers' attention to details, like the fact that you can alter settings of a panel no matter whether you right-click on the panel itself or on a panel widget, or the fact that the taskbar correctly rotates 90 degrees when the panel is docked to the left or right side.
This is starting to look like a really difficult game of Sim City.
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Entry point was Safari though.
From what Shuttleworth is replying to: Mark argues that GNOME should be a place where we have internal competition. But his idea of internal competition seems to be competition between different end-user experiences.

So is the idea then that Gnome is oriented toward imposing a single user experience? Like Twitter and Apple and so-forth????

I deeply disagree with this. A good portion of open source user experiences indeed suck but competition seems like a far superior approach to creating a good user experience than accepting a single committee of expert.
Sounds to me like a hollow, bullshit term when you put it that way. If that's what "lean" is, then we should just call it learning best practices.

From what I understand, "lean" as Eric Ries & Steve Blank describes it has a very specific meaning and it's mostly a collection of activities that is suppose to lead to fast, customer-driven product development and better ROI on marketing dollars, while reducing wasteful activities that suck up time and money.

Coming from this perspective, I find Edward's query worth exploring.

I'm no "lean" expert so I might be wrong. I've been looking forward to Eric's upcoming book to read and get a better grasp of what he's talking about. :D

Update: This presentation provides some real insight into how Steve Blank and Eric Ries define lean startup: http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/customer-development-past-p...
Moving on from iPad "office productivity" apps
Too one sided.

"A rising tide raises all ships."

The best execution in the world won't save you if you are focused on the wrong thing.

In fact great execution in the wrong direction is a menace.
Yeah I heard about that but thought it might be a bit far-fetched. Yeah I meant correlation with the earthquake (the articles I read strongly mentioned that the volcanoes are coincidental, not necessarily related causally).
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I also use Facebook friend lists, and I often post things to my status that are restricted to close friends only. I also restrict Facebook chat using friend groups. The problem is that these friends have no way of knowing that they are the only ones in on the conversation so they feel constrained. Also, most people I know don't bother to segment their friends.

I also group people on Twitter into lists, in the hope that the lists will become useful someday.