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I'd reached a plateau with vim and I was good with it, but knew I didn't have the full power. Then I started doing other things with it than just coding, and it moved me to a whole new level.

I started writing text, stuff like my blog and emails, and suddenly a whole lot of extra commands started to make sense. For example, block commands like '}' and ')', and formatting with 'gqap', and so on. I was now doing really powerful stuff at the word, line, sentence and paragraph levels. Before I could do 'cw' and be happy; I knew there was a 'cW', but who could be bothered. Now I really understand and I can use all that without thinking.

Then I was able to take those new skills back to writing code, so my vim-fu when coding is so much more powerful. It is a whole new level above what I had before.
Why there shouldn't be a reasonable expectation of fairness, i.e. that twitter (or any free service for that matter) will not hand your nickname to another entity? I believe there indeed is an unwritten rule on the Internet, that the nickname should belong to the first person who registered it... I mean, if he didn't violate the trademark at the time of registering the account. Of course, twitter has the right to do it, but still I don't find it normal.
They're awkward for you, like feet and inches are awkward for me. When I hear people say they're "five eight" I have absolutely no idea what that means.

People don't say they're "one point seven meters" tall, they say "one seventy four" as in 174cm.
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You need to be out there networking! Being in Palo Alto gives you access to a lot of tech people and events, so theres no excuse. The people you meet will end up future employees, VCs, angels or people that can make introductions. You should being following investors on twitter and reading their blogs. Watch for events they speak at or attend. Go to those events and try and meet them.
can agree with the first but the second is just silly. In the metric system you would say 1.76m as 'I am one seventy six' just like you would say 'i'm five eight' for 5' 8" in the imperial system.
Usually people would mention their height in centimeters, such as 183 cm -- which is more precise than feet and inches. But that's not the point. Metric is "better" because it's decimal and since you very often need to perform arithmetic on distances, having them in a format that is easy to do arithmetic on is a good thing.

Unless you're doing physics, you'll never do arithmetic on temperatures, and therefore the ability to more intuitively describing the weather is much more valid.

For the record, I'm European, and have no intuition of Fahrenheit temperatures. But the guy is actually making a valid point.
C was a great language when it was created, considering the requirements and constraints of that time. In 2011, it is unexcusably unsafe and lacking in abstraction power - C99 included.

Almost every type of operation in C is predisposed to HUMAN error (the worst kind of error) - I/O, strings, creating a data structure, declaring a variable, calling a function even basic maths can fail in unintuitive ways. [1]

No matter how many glue languages you use, C is not going to become safer or easier to use. Furthermore, C's abstractions are inadequate for most things, even the things that it's traditionally known for,such as the Linux kernel. Take a look and see how many wheels have had to be reinvented for the kernel or any large C project.

But... you probably already know all of this. It's just that you're so comfortable with it that you're willing to forgive all of its sins.

[1] https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...
Of course it shouldn't. No facts should be surprising, but they are. So what do you do about it? You either fix peoples' expectations to match reality, or you fix reality to match peoples' expectations.

Considering that the expectations here seem pretty reasonable, I'd personally rather the latter.
Can you give an example of a situation where the precision given by an integer temperature in °C is insufficient but in °F is sufficient, and which occurs often enough to make adding a decimal inconvenient?
Isn't Celsius equally "boolean" in that sense then, as in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313288 ? Above or below freezing.
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If you're not willing to state your reasons for assuming that the source is "slightly suspicious looking", then why bother writing it?

As for people somehow thinking they have the right to use Twitter's services like property - this is actively encouraged by Twitter themselves. They have an entire website dedicated to teaching its users how to develop their accounts as official representatives of their organizations/businesses/brands. You can check it out at http://business.twitter.com/.

The main issue here wasn't that the original owner of the @girlgeeks account assumed that they were entitled to ownership of the username. It was that the name was taken away from them without any opportunity to dispute Twitter's intentions, nor were they given any due notice, so that they may inform their followers and communicate alternative plans to keep in contact with them. They were simply cut off.

Those _are_ reasonable expectations.
You're not really addressing the arguments presented in the linked post, you're just being snarky. I can appreciate that, but the linked post makes some really good points.

Also, the converse of the point you seem to be trying to make with your litany above is also true: new things are not always necessarily better than old ones.
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Anywhere in the 70's or 80's Fahrenheit.
I'm trying to figure out how old you are if you use both. Older than me (33), as I haven't the slightest clue what the temperature in Fahrenheit is, but younger than my parents (mid-60s) who insist on talking to me in Fahrenheit (and I still never managed to pick it up!)
Just because it is within the rights of Twitter to be a dick doesn't mean that it _should_ be a dick, and from where I am standing, Twitter is currently acting like a dick.
It's awesome is what it is. I wonder if you can pull the 1,2 and 3 word terms via the Google Analytics API? I'd betempted to use that data to generate popular search pages / navigation and internal link changes.
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That makes sense. Following that logic, the version that will be "free" will require Lion.
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At the behest of the development team I've taken down the old video.

I'll try and take your advice and revamp the campaign.
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The Eric Prinder.com link makes a related point to yours: People often conflate "metric is better" with "Celsius is better".
Wouldn't they eventually show up in a census?
Objective-C is a good statically typed language? I must admit that this is new to me...

How exactly is Obj-C "good"? Is it safer than C? Perhaps less verbose? Or maybe it's easier to use - libraries aside? Is it better because it runs on more platforms? Because it's standardized?

If all else fails, I think it must be the way that it manages to merge two completely different programming paradigms by just stapling them one onto the other.
I don't get why everyone is freaking out when Xcode 3.2.6 is still available from free.

Until we can no longer access 3.2.6, let's not start spreading FUD.
Only reason:
Because Americans are raised used to it. Humans hate to change, learn new things or getting used to them goes against our comfort zone, humans rationalize almost everything according to what their emotions dictate them.

As a European, like anyone in the world that is not American or English, I have been raised using Celsious degrees, so I am on the other side of the coin.

Biased arguments are not useful. This is a debate instead of dialectic.
There is absolutely no such rule.
Well, to be fair to the physical retailers, all online retailers should pay sales tax since you are giving them a 10% pricing advantage otherwise.

Amazon (and others) are exploiting a tax loophole, and the state governments are trying to stop that. They should, however, make such rules for all retailers, and not target Amazon specifically (I am not sure if they are doing so, but the parent comment makes it seem like that).
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Is it still a glue language if you have more glue than material? :P

I also find it very hard to believe that using two programming languages can be easier than using one. This affects team core skills, build systems, testing, debugging(!)... pretty much everything is the more complicated the more languages you use.
There's a greater chance that Apple won't block your app, but feature it instead, given that your app is GREAT. How about that?
FYI, "The Sabbath" is Saturday, the 7th day of the week (God rested, etc.). Just ask any jewish person, or look at a properly laid out calendar.
Starting with the first BBSes continuing right through to this day, rule one of the net is: the admin has absolute power. There is a tradition that site owners should be benevolent dictators, an assumption I believe is reasonable as far as private servers are concerned, but which is simply preposterous when we're talking about a multi-million dollar business where users aren't even the ones paying the bills.

So, yes, the "nickname honor code" is an unwritten rule, well it's more of a guideline, a ...suggestion really. The only true rule is rule one, see above.

My larger point is that people think Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Gmail, etc... are basic infrastructure services, and that they are entitled to use them. They pay their ISP fee and believe that includes a Twitter account and the right to use it. I suspect many can't tell the philosophical and technical difference between generic email and Facebook anymore. This leads to a false sense of entitlement and an unreasonable expectation of being treated fairly.
perhaps due to weight loss?
So, the same applies to the "free" web services like gmail and MSN/hotmail? They just can take your username and give it to someone else?
Can you be more specific? For outdoors temperature we would just say 20 or 23. Nobody needs to add a decimal point, because the precision given by Celsius is sufficient.
This looks like an excellent resource for when you are too lazy to get up out of your chair and pick up your copy of "JavaScript: The Good Parts" ;)
Clickables:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305689

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True, but it's conditional. It's only seen as a badge of honor if you learn from your mistakes and can talk openly about what went wrong. Otherwise, you come off as defensive (and therefore insecure).

Luckily, I think a community that makes it okay to fail encourages people to not be defensive. They know they won't be labeled a "loser", that they still have a chance to make it.
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I find your app great.
I can imagine numerous users (at least in my country) who have don't use smart phones, don't know how to use recording functionality in mobile phones, and have too low bandwidths to upload recordings.
For them and for me, its a simplifier.

p.s: my country = India
I was mostly with you until the part about the 'best [iPad] possible'. Making every part in a device like the iPad replaceable would not make a very nice product at all. Ever used an off-the-shelf Dell? You can upgrade it forever, but it's rickety junk.

Besides, even if they do purposefully hold off on stuff that would make it better only to manipulate us and profit (which I doubt[a]), it still doesn't make your first-gen iPad useless. It works great still!

[a]: To take the example of the camera, they probably weren't able to make it a good experience. The software was still buggy, or they were waiting for more readily available parts (supply chain is a big deal!), etc.

In short, they aren't bricking original iPad's, so there's no reason to get upset about a new one. You can simply hold onto yours. If you can't because of peer-pressure or you require the newest status symbol, that's not Apple's problem -- Indeed they would be stupid not to capitalize on that.
Eventually, if not now, you should write a more detailed autobiographical book or piece. Your story is miraculous and would inspire many people.
I've thought about applying to YC a couple times now, but our founders (myself and another) are not coders. I can do the usual rudimentary (CSS, HTML, PHP...), and we've done all the UI and business planning, but we do work with others to code the actual site. I assume that there's not really a place at YC for us? I'm incredibly passionate about being a hacker entrepreneur, but without being a brilliant coder, it seems YC is not an option.

Just curious.
Regardless of XCode 4 free or paid, it would be nice to have a compiler separate from XCode. Installing the whole IDE you never use has always seemed like an overkill.
Also, why have a $1 donation, that makes you look desperate! Read the post on the front page of HN titled "We don't get out of bed for $10K".
I know Phil Hagelberg (technomancy) frequents Hacker News, so: thanks for your work on Leiningen. It just works and as someone new to Clojure it has saved me a lot of time already.
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Its true. I follow both the blog poster and the person who had their username taken from them.
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What do you think? Need some real critics on that!
I assume you're referring to the memcached addon reference? That's $20 for 100MB of cache ram... The amazon small instance is 1.7GB of RAM for around $40. Making the memcached addon a 850% markup.
When is the "better" precision needed? Because the article itself says low/high 70's. This would translate to 20-25˚C. Who feels the difference between 72 and 73 (22.2222-22.7777˚C)? If you need precision, you will need decimals, in ˚F or in ˚C.

And I don't understand what does it mean to "not use all the digits". They are used, not just for the narrow range he cares about which is the comfort zone in his particular region of the world.

In Belgium it is between 15˚C and 25˚c all the year with few extremes on either sides. Nobody need 3 digits to tell if it's warm or not.
For indoor temperatures, European electronic thermostats seem to use half-degrees C, so you can e.g. set the air conditioner to 22.5. Not really a huge problem, but it's interesting that the size of the European thermostat control increment is around 1 F.
Twitter and the person who stole the username. The original girlgeeks even helped them set up and knows them.
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I'm @philjackson (my name being Phil Jackson, obviously) and there's a Phil Jackson who's prominent in the world of basketball. I've often wondered, if basketball Phil Jackson went to Twitter and said "I want @philjackson", would they give it to him?
In Brazil the SMS network stop working during Carnival celebrations. You can't talk due to loud music and everybody is trying to meet their friends.
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I have seen that 'Crazy Ones' commercial* dozens of times, still gives me goosebumps. Such good work.

How much of this quality is Chiat/Day and/or the specific team at Chiat Day? Or is it mostly Jobs' vision for the ad that the agency just executes?

*http://vimeo.com/7640346
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I'd say the primary difference for day to day weather use is cultural. If you grew up with F or C, that's what you're used to and is what's best for you.

I'm in Vancouver, BC. I'm really close to the US border and have spent a fair amount of time in the states traveling. Going to the states is always confusing as I don't have the experiences to know what their temperatures mean, nor do I have a map in my mind. I know what 0C, 5C, 10C, 15C, 20C, 25C, 30C and 35C feel like. It's no different that 30F vs 70F for the author.

I know freezing is 0C and boiling is 100C and the body temp is 37C. I have know idea what the corresponding values are in F, and I really don't care because it rarely affects me and if I need to know I can ask my iPhone.

The one place this isn't true, at least in Canada, is cooking. We still use the imperial system. The oven is always at 350F, and sometimes 425F. But those have no relation to my normal day to day temperature uses. They are just numbers I'm used to because I use them on a day to day basis.
Sure is. To some people. I was talking about my own perspective :)
I thought the reasons for having doubts about the source were obvious, so I didn't write them down. What matters is I came to the conclusion the story was valid, otherwise I would not have commented on it. And even if it had turned out to be fake, the essence of the story is still important and believable.

> As for people somehow thinking they have the right to use Twitter's services like property - this is actively encouraged by Twitter themselves

I know. But that's not reality, that's marketing.

> The main issue here wasn't that the original owner of the @girlgeeks account assumed that they were entitled to ownership of the username. It was that the name was taken away from them without any opportunity to dispute Twitter's intention [...]

In my view, one follows the other. Allow me to clarify: the outrage over Twitter's behavior comes from the (mistaken) perception that Twitter must provide a service to its users and that it has to do so in a fair and balanced fashion. This sense of entitlement, however, does not correspond to reality. In reality, they can do whatever they want.

I don't mean to defend their actions, personally I don't think this is a nice way to treat users, though there may be legal issues that leave them little choice which we know nothing about.

> Those _are_ reasonable expectations.

Companies certainly want you to believe they are in order to gain their users' trust, but that doesn't mean we should forget who is holding the strings.
"Sold to a rival bookmarking service". That would make sense.
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OF COURSE THEY CAN!

It boggles my mind that anyone would seriously need to ask that question.

Entitlement much?

Yes, it would not be nice of them to do it. Yes, it could be bad for their image and ultimately even their business to do it. No, they shouldn't do it.

But they can, and it's not illegal.
From Wikipedia:

The energy release of an earthquake, which closely correlates to its destructive power, scales with the 3⁄2 power of the shaking amplitude. Thus, a difference in magnitude of 1.0 is equivalent to a factor of 31.6 ( = (101.0)(3 / 2)) in the energy released; a difference in magnitude of 2.0 is equivalent to a factor of 1000 ( = (102.0)(3 / 2) ) in the energy released.[2]
That's exactly how I feel about drawing a portrait of a friend or family member. I realize that it's a very small task compared to writing a novel, but after getting the initial sketch done, it gets a lot harder. Even after many revisions, I keep finding little things that are off. After a while, I start doubting my own judgement about how light or dark a given area should be. At that point it's very easy to walk away from an 80% finished work, procrastinate indefinitely and then start working on something easier like a plant.
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The obvious choice here is to start with The Little Schemer. After that you can go on to SICP. Another alternative which is not nearly as challenging as SICP is HtDPv2 (How to Design Programs v2). HtDPv2 was written to be used with Racket.

There's also the Reasoned Schemer and Seasoned Schemer, but I haven't any of read either of those so I can't tell you with any certainty if they live up to the experience provided by the Little Schemer.

In general those are the 5 best books covering Scheme as far as I know of especially for you as a learner. I'm sure there are other books for more advanced Scheme, but I don't know them.

The Little Schemer is great fun and is programming equivalent of piano finger exercises.
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i find this sort of fetishism disturbing. i much rather like Kurt vonnegut's stance on this: authors are not obliged to finish what they began. he also claimed having trashed quite a few novels.
I came to the same conclusion, otherwise I wouldn't have written the post at all. However, it's a blog with a spammy looking address and very few articles in it. I didn't mean this to be an attack on the author, it's just a first impression that gave me pause.
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Wow, desktop experience in my browser. One of the best HTML5 Apps I have ssen.
Most of them using the simulator. There are also some good apps that can help you like http://soundstageapp.com
Thanks! I need to change my account to accept international calls to make sure that you can use it.
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Personally, I don't agree with that.

I have no trouble with thinking about objects in memory that I create through code. But when I look at a XIB, it has things in it like "File's Owner" and "First Responder" and "Application" that I'm not sure what they do. And when interfacing with a XIB, I'm not ever sure if that thing I'm looking at is instantiated in the XIB, or if I have to make it myself, and so on.

I suppose I could have gotten over those mental hurdles eventually, but I chose not to. I prefer thinking about objects that I make myself, and I avoid Interface Builder whenever possible.
Actually, I've been thinking about it and the problems happened around the time I upgraded to Windows 7, at which point I installed Firefox to my (relatively old) SSD, which was problematic in the past for Firefox. I'm going to reinstall it to my HDD as I had it previously and see if that fixes the problem.
The contact info in your profile is a gmail address. If google decides to wipe your account and give that username to someone else, do you think it's wrong?
How's it different?
Congrats Travis! Can't wait to see what comes out of it.