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Don't you think that something like a private HN for the Enterprise could solve this problem (actually I'm thinking of a little bit Quora/HN solution)?

Yep. In fact, I'm actively working on building something like that. Although I use Reddit as a comparison more than HN, and the scope goes further than a Reddit/HN clone, that's a big part of it.

If you're interested in looking at what I'm doing, it's all open source. See:

(project site):

http://code.google.com/p/neddick

(Github repo):

http://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

(demo site):

http://spdemo.fogbeam.org:8080/neddick1/

(warning: the demo site can be abysmally slow at times, but I'm not promoting this real heavily yet, so I haven't put a lot of effort into make the demo real stable and performant.)

2. karma points (reward for being active and a way to find out what is more interesting - like on HN)

That and any notion of "gamification" is one thing I haven't done much with yet. I'm still undecided on the extent to which it has value in an organizational setting.

My approach is also less Quora like (I started before I discovered Quora, or maybe there would be more of a Quora influence), and is more like Reddit. But I'm working on another piece that I've been describing as a "sort of mini "Facebook" that will deal with managing social graph connections, and will have support of more of an "activity stream" type of thing.. I'm envisioning a very pub/sub model where you can subscribe to "things" you find interesting, whether that means "subscribe to this tag" or "subscribe to updates from this app" or "subscribe to status updates from this user," etc.
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I'm not sure what you're saying here. The point of the scenario is that you can have large differences in wealth while everybody has the exact same income. Certainly I wouldn't say that we shouldn't worry about matters of fairness.

I'm guessing that you think that I think that the scenario I gave says something about whether our society is fair or not. I don't think that. Instead what I think, and what I was trying to show, is that if you're concerned about fairness looking at wealth inequality is almost entirely useless when we could be looking at income or consumption inequality - because its very easy to have a society with large amounts of wealth inequality even if almost everybody would agree that it was fair.
We decided to go with Tumblr, Startup is http://www.quoteroller.com. Pretty easy and flexible in terms of customization, but, unfortunately sub-domain hosted. Once we get a bit time I think will move to Wordpress.
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Cool idea. There's an error in your video though. It says the email discussion between Simon and Ray is dead, except Ray didn't talk to Simon, it was the discussion between Simon and Ashook(sic) that died.
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I'm the same way. dual monitors are also a must for me. Coding on on screen and refreshing on the other and looking back to the code without losing my place is just much smoother than toggling/minimizing.

Another thing is, with a laptop, ur mobile, so you might be coding in some foreign environment, which can be distracting. With a desktop, I'm bound to my own familiar space where I can be most productive.
> If not, be aware that there is no way to know for sure that your refactoring won't break the functionality of the code

That's not true. Some refactoring are safe and you can prove it, see http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/reverseConditional.html

Any refactoring party on some real messy code should consist of a long chain of little proven-safe logical steps like the one above, or pure renaming, or move-around. In the end, like when the sea is gone, you may find some smelly dead animals that you'll have to take bare hands and fix, or not (sometime it is simpy too heavy to move, you'll have to leave it there, under a thick isolation layer).
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Wouldn't have guessed those, thanks!
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Itanic.
Money quote "... In so doing it reminded the world that the Itanium chip exists at all"
Technology moves fast enough that your feature is usually obsolete within a year or so; if you're not on the critical path that everyone is building upon, chances are your project will just be canceled and all the time spent polishing your code will be wasted. Better to get stuff out there so you have a better chance of being on that critical path, and dealing with the inevitable messes and complaints of "this is shit code!" later.

I cannot disagree more strongly. I'm dealing with a decade old application that's been coded using this philosophy, and there are enough code smells here to make a sewage treatment plant seem fragrant.

There are methods many hundreds of lines long, inside classes that are thousands of lines. There are isNegative() functions that return true for values above ten million. There are hidden dependencies all over the place, as people patched in functionality in the wrong place and no one moved it to the right place later. And, of course, there are no unit tests.

The impact of all this is that even trivial changes take weeks, as the developer has to wander a morass of bloated functions and tangled dependencies in order to just find the source of the issue. The "cascade of ADHD teenagers" can work for a couple months, but its not a long term strategy.

To note, none of your examples use that methodology any more. I'm not sure if Google ever used it. Facebook and Twitter may have been like that at the very beginning, but both exhibit quite disciplined coding standards today.
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I also heard you can predict criminal tendencies simply from cranial measurements[1]. This guy may be onto something.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry
I absolutely hate this sort of vigilantism. How does anybody know that the guy in the video is actually the guy that stole the laptop? How do we know that he isn't just some guy who bought it on craigslist?
How about submerged reactors? They'd use ocean currents to cool passively.
backbone is super nice, i wont be the one saying otherwise. It isn't the same scope tho. It does event emitter and much much more!

I like micro frameworks (aka tiny libraries) because it is standalone and so small you can easily maintain it yourself if needed. So it is less an actual dependancy.
Mark Bao has really not made a single mistake in his PR execution. I have to congratulate him and learn from him, as others here have also said.
While this story is awesome, it's really not that relevant today. During the Apple II days most programmers would have been self taught. Today, not so much.
The point of the book isn't so much to argue against war in general as to argue against the idea that war is inevitable.

The idea that war and specific acts of war are unavoidable parts of the human condition is supposed to seem as insane and pathetic as the protagonist's passive view of his life, a view that comes from his beliefs about time travel.
Ask HN: Please review ting: my Google App Engine project
Hello HN:

ting displays only top 7 results and related tags. Users submit links and associate relevant tags with their link. The tag set with most value is displayed on top.

ting is still very new and the database is empty except my own links and these few sample searches that I prepared for your review: “new york hotels”, “startup”, “google app engine” and “python.”

I really enjoyed working with Google App Engine and Python and I thank you for your comments both here and in the help page if you wish http://ting-1.appspot.com/help.
I could care less, but companies have done it several times.

Netscape skipped version 5 (a doomed project).

Microsoft ditched version numbers for years (95, 98, 2000), and then just names -- due to how version number increments on an existing product appear to end users.

To technically savvy it doesnt really matter "is it 5.0 or 4.5?"

But the version number or name is about trying to position the product as a "new one" or even just "mature" to the more typical end user.
http://ting-1.appspot.com/
To rekindle the nostalgia, headless linux gives you bash prompt.
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what would you expect when you decrease taxes for the top and increase taxes for everybody?

The total tax burden is equal to government spending [minus any income from government owned productive enterprises]. That total tax burden is financed either through explicitly collected tax or through deficit. During recent decades, the skyrocketing government spending and decreased tax rates mainly for the top, caused skyrocketed deficit spending - the skyrocketing of the tax paid by everybody.

To illustrate, imagine the situation with 0% tax rates and the government financed by printing amount of money equal to 50% of GDP - that will make effective tax rate 33% as 100 dollars of produced goods and services will be presented with 150 dollars of money. So people who made 100 dollars will be able to buy only 66 dollars worth of goods and services - thus effectively have their 33% collected and spent by the government even with 0% explicit tax rate.

edit: please don't mistake described process for inflation which itself is another tax [in addition to described above] collected next year and the year after that and so on... on the earnings of this year.

The deficit tax can be thought of as a dilution in case when government would additionally issue itself a chunk of stock in your company in exchange for some "protection" to you.
when i told a friend about this he said

"35 pass erase followed by OSX on a portable drive, resell immediately at a good distance for a good keep quite discount"

when i responded with

"what about some kind of advanced government software or computer forensics kit"

his rebuttal

"only going to get you if its laden with child porn"

i chuckled
The application with 10,000,000+ downloads they are referencing is Trapster.

Trapster was designed from the ground up to be a platform for drivers to share relevant geo data.

The Trapster moderators have worked to curb DUI checkpoint sharing since its inception but users find ways around it.

So really this is a platform discussion - is it the platform's responsibility to proactively moderate the content?

If so doesn't that have wider implications for Twitter, Facebook, etc?
I would suggest not just trying but actually doing it for at least 3 months. If you enjoy the process and learn quickly [problem solving, creating something new, etc] then programming is your thing. I didn't play Mario or Quake neither most of really good developers I know. You don't have to be a gaming nerd to succeed as a programmer.
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Congrats to the Django team! :) I'm in love with your API.
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i agree with the semantics and that startups are taking on a broader definition than they once use to, but i think it boils down to one thing: startup vs. company = business plan vs. business model. steve blank provides a lot more detail into this comparison - http://t.co/ObGV2jf
Be very careful starting down this road though ... especially if you don't have tests in place or are not intimately familiar with the codebase or you might find that your 4 hour sugar high turns into a nightmarish week of trying to fix random bugs from your refactoring effort.
Have you talked to the manufacturer? Once they agreed to replace it they may not care what state it is in. They may agree that you can physically destroy it and ship them the remnants or something. You're probably not the first to ask.

Alternatively: What is the value of the data, measured by the cost to you if it is lost? If it is greatly in excess of a few thousand or something, and my first paragraph didn't give you satisfaction, why not just eat the cost of the drive and just replace it? Yes, I know not everybody has tons of money but if you're looking at real losses if the data leaves your hands, well, sometimes life hands you lemons.
It shouldn't matter.

The Arab League represents the leaders of 22 middle eastern countries including Bahrain. The reason the Arab League isn't constantly asking for UN intervention is because it's composed of very people who are responsible for these repressive regimes. A perfect example of this was Egypt where the Arab League backed Mubarak.

Gaddafi is unstable so they've thrown him under the bus but don't kid yourself. That strategy only works for them because it distracts from their own atrocities.
I hate coding on anything but a laptop. Having the keyboard + trackpad + monitor in such a tight space greatly decreases the time my hands and eyes spend moving. I've tried dual-monitor setups before, but they make me feel like my head is on a swivel.

Additionally, with a laptop, I can take my primary work environment with me everywhere I go. Coding at a coffeeshop or in the car is the same as at home at my desk; you can't do that with a desktop and multiple monitors and a mouse.
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Of course 100% code coverage won't make your code better in every possible aspect, nor it guarantee that tests are perfectly written, but at least a) the tough parts of the code won't be skipped during the test b) you will have cleaner, more usable (testable) API.
I don't know much about Windows Embedded Standard (what Microsoft officially calls its modular embeddable cut-down version of W7, also known as "MinWin") vs. Windows CE, but Microsoft for whatever reason still chose to base Windows Phone 7 on CE instead of Standard, indicating that they still don't think Standard is appropriate for mobile devices. Probably they will port it to Standard eventually, but they haven't yet.
Thanks! I'll take a look at this right now!
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Sertlet’s departure may indicate a diminishing role for Apple’s desktop operating system as the iOS, the operating system for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, becomes a larger focus

Looks like Scott Forstall is the new king. Mac engineering being a legacy line within the company.
It's not a "safe" copy, it's a set of known data in memory that fakes the DB connection and reacts as it will with a real DB connection.

And yes, I have 500+ UTs.
This is just a late-night hack that I did after I got tired of viewing Github repository links on my iPhone.

The app is on Github if anyone wanted to fork it for whatever reason. Hopefully Github doesn't have an issue with me using 'octocat'. If you do, please contact me.

The .cat TLD has a requirement that sites have at least Catalan within 6 months; I'm working on a translation.
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I'm not sure about the UK but in the US the major credit card companies are requiring merchants to pay for quarterly security scans on their site in order to stay PCI compliant. Personally, I think PCI is racket designed to collect more money while deferring losses to merchants but in the US it is another thing to think about when accepting payment. If you go with an off-site processor (like paypal express) you don't need to worry about PCI compliance because the card is not actually handled by your web app.
I think the perspective I was taking in my post was that many bosses do not fully understand the inner-workings of the codebase for their own product and they also don't need to maintain it.

Worse yet are the bosses that used to be a part of the programmers, but moved on a long time ago. They tend to fight for preserving the existing architecture of the application, even when it is clearly inadequate for the task at hand. To them, preserving their illusory understanding of the codebase is more important than allowing the application to evolve.
if you ever created a proposal, check Quote Roller. We launched it last Friday. Need feedback on UI, usability, usefulness of service.
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I like the animation between the screens of the tour, but I'd like even more to be able to try out a demo of the bug tracker.

Also, I'd avoid using a quote from a bugrocket founder as a testimonial.
On my (frankenstein) desktop at home, I use a Logitech G5 mouse. At work, I use a MBP and have become quite fond of the touchpad.
you can pay your hardware investments back maybe in 2-6 months

Can you clarify the logistics of this? Do I borrow BTC, find a hardware vendor that accepts it as payment, then repay with what I've mined? Or do I find a lender that will give me USD and accept BTC in return? Or do I spend USD on hardware and put the resulting BTC towards my regular costs of living? I doubt my landlord/utility providers would accept rent/bill payments in BTC. I've seen the "trade" page on the wiki, and it only lists a few dozen merchants, generally dealing in web site services and luxury goods.
Which part? I don't think he actually logged in under the guy's Facebook account?
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"So your argument is basically that government comes to tax bitcoin, or make it a part of a legal currencies, bitcoin will suddenly drop it's value? You could argue the opposite just as successfully..."

Only with a heaping helping of wishful thinking. In the real world, when a currency incurs previously-nonexistent liabilities (in the accounting sense) the reaction of people isn't going to be piling in even faster. It may not kill BitCoin but it isn't going to be a moment where the value rises.

"And the "bitcoin = domestic terrorism" attack is quite hilarious (in it's futility)"

For the record, I disagree with the argument that alternative currencies are solely for money laundering or terrorism (note you added the terrorism connection, I just mentioned money laundering). I'm simply saying the government may make it. If you're going to be paranoid and cynical, do it right. If the government perceives BitCoin as a threat to its power, it isn't just going to come out one day and say "We perceive BitCoin as a threat to our power and so we're going to just stomp it out." They're going to have some reason with vague plausibility for enough people to give them cover to do what they want. (In fact I think that there may not even necessarily be any one person who thinks to themselves BitCoin is a threat to the dominance of the US Government and we must come up with some pretext to stomp it out, these things can sort of emerge from the successfully-evolved system itself.)

I actually approve of alternate currencies and expect that they will exist in the future regardless of what governments say. I think the embryonic versions already exist and the technological trend is unstoppable. I just don't think BitCoin is it, as it is today. Someone pointed out to me that someone could take BitCoin and actually provide some sort of backing, and I think that would be a potent combo, though given the "men with guns" option isn't really available that seems to only leave physical assets, which is tricky to pull off at scale. (You would need to actually be ready to provide all the physical assets if there is a run on the currency, no excuses, no clever contractual "no we didn't really mean it", you actually have to have it. Perhaps ironically, if you can, you may never have to, but if you can't, you will certainly have to.) If there's some sort of third option, someone might be able to actually provide the recursive base case and put BitCoin on a firm footing.
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+1. My most common conundrum these days is whether to favor improved quality or consistency. If I make improvements to the current project, how can I make sure they make their way into other, parallel projects that share code and architecture. Is it better to be "better" or "worse but consistent?"
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> Most drunk people drive fine for hundreds of trips.

I don't know that this is true, but even if it was I don't know that it's useful information in terms of minimizing harm, just as pointing out that some people smoke their whole lives, live to be 90 and die in their sleep.

The devil is in the averages. The data shows that drunk drivers kill more people than sober drivers.

About the rest of your post, no downvote from me, you make a great point. You're right that society treats drunk driving as worse, but don't forget that texting while driving is a (relatively) new problem. Drunk driving used to be fine by society, and then values changed. Texting while driving is now undergoing a similar change, we're just much earlier in the process.

In principle you're right though, if texting while driving kills people (and it does) then we should treat that as aggressively as drunk driving.

Perhaps the difference here is that you can camp a bar, whereas it's harder to camp texters. ;)
The average speed trap doesn't affect traffic (unless you happen to be the person pulled over). DUI checkpoints often have miles of stopped cars waiting to go through.
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Ask HN: What resources did you utilize the most when learning to code?
I've been coding now for two years. My method for learning at this point is digging in and building stuff. But when I first started out, I relied heavily on books (You remember those right?). Lately it's been online documentation for whatever library I'm currently using.

What helped you the most when you first started out? Videos, books, online tutorials, school, or another method?
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Link : http://www.streamshq.com/

Streams is a new Customer Support forum which brings answers from facebook.

Streams also post a user's question as a status update to his facebook page and bring back the responses/comments/answers automatically.In addition to forum community, streams also relies on facebook to get answers.

Benefits

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1.It improves the overall experience.The probability that a question gets answered is very higher on streams then on normal forums.

2.Inline Comments,Likes make Streams more engaging.

Please let me know your comments.
Hey, thanks. My testimonial on the page is a bit of a joke at the moment. Since we're really early in the process here there aren't many people to get testimonials from :)

As for the demo, as I mentioned, that's definitely on our radar. Have some cool ideas on the subject, stay tuned.
Cool. The demo can be kinda flaky right now. And one thing that's misleading, is that you have to be logged in to do certain things (like voting), but if you're not logged in, it doesn't give you any feedback if you try to vote - it just silently ignores it. This project is still in a very alpha stage... it's almost more of a Proof of Concept than anything at the moment. But I think it has a lot of potential.

If you want to talk more "offline" feel free to drop me an email.
Yes, what a cosmic coincidence that this guy, who lives in the same building as Mark Bao, happened to purchase what he thought was a legitimate laptop on Craigslist!