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It's ok. Don't go nuts over how you can monetize/expand it yet, work on features and interface.
Uhm, have you actually read the whole thread? This Andre guy was being an obnoxious rigid pedantic idiot and Linus was trying to help all the other people to just the the damn thing to work. I think behavior like this Andre guy's is not criticized enough in the industry - it's toxic attitudes like that that poison the whole environment, and I applaud Linus for not tolerating bullshit, in no uncertain terms - even in the 'position of authority' he's in.
why is it that more expensive mattresses = better sleep? Cite the evidence showing that high thread-count sheets = better sleep, which in tern laeds to improvements in waking life.

Sample of one: Due to serious health issues, I got rid of my expensive mattress and high thread count sheets and now sleep on the floor with no bedding. I sleep way better these days and overall quality of life is dramatically better. :-P
I had my phone stolen in the early stages of a three week conference tour in Europe. Since I was anyway on the road, I decided to wait until getting back to Finland before getting a new handset.

That was a very relaxed couple of weeks. And surprisingly, people were willing to agree on time and place to meet, and kept to those because I didn't have a phone. Much less hassle and calendar tennis this way.

Unfortunately the realities of running a business forced me to get a phone after the trip.
I wrote an HP LaserJet III printer driver for Borland's Sprint word processor way back in 1991. Every now and then, when I google myself, a copy of it comes up somewhere. Here's one:

http://www.sci.wsu.edu/math/faculty/barnes/borland/simtel.ht...

my driver is hplj3j11.zip, partway down the page. For that audience, all filenames had to conform to the DOS 8.3 standard.

I just skimmed my documentation in that archive, and hoo boy was I ever earnest. I took myself so seriously!
I was playing Goldeneye on N64 when I was 9, yet I have to agree, AAA shooters these days are something else...
... to its detriment, at times. I have a very good app on my iPhone that plots out bike paths around London for me. Sadly, when I have reached my destination, and "close" the window, it continues to use the GPS and other battery sucking things to the point where I have to manually go and kill it via the kill-menu (which is all I ever use the fast-switch menu for).

I'm not saying this is Apple's fault, but that it's very hard to work out when someone has "finished" with an app that could continue to, say, provide information about what the user is doing to a third party, or sucking battery life, or making annoying noises, for example. And apps that do this after I'm "finished" with them annoy me to no end. I'd consider that "broken" :)
What programming languages do people hate most?
> taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week

Yeah, like somebody's going to believe that.
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Oh, spare us. Playing at Mr. Citation Needed is not a form of smartness and is in fact a pernicious sort of bias. If you are too afraid of being wrong, you'll miss out on the benefits of being right.
I mostly agree with you here, but I do think the technology has advanced since the Fukishima (or certainly Chernobyl) were built. Those plants are fairly ancient. Newer facilities have much safer designs.

I don't like commenting on things I know only a little about, however, one thing is getting overlooked when people make this argument.

The newer designs are usually PWRs which are stable by design as loss of water or power slows down the reaction. Unfortunately, they are expensive to build (billions of dollars) and have a limited life due to the challenges of containing pressure with metals exposed to radiation. This makes them barely economic over their lifetime at todays energy prices.

The UK has allowed the planning and building of new PWRs. Unfortunately, the companies involved are reluctant to go ahead without some sort of subsidy or carbon tax.

If any of the above is wrong, I'd like to be corrected. However, I feel this is a valid point that is rarely made.
I tried to enter the full address for our office, which includes a suite number, and the address wasn't found. It might be confusing for some people to have to type an address differently than they do everywhere else that they enter it on a regular basis.

"Address 2" doesn't (usually?) matter for driving directions but I can see businesses wanting it to be 100% accurate if they're linking to your page.
There are a lot of reactors which are much more dangerous than the one in Chernobyl. The ones using Plutonium, the breeders, the ones with large storage sites full of spent fuel, etc.

The Thorium reactor has a lot of problems. Engineering problems that are not solved.

Remember the German Thorium reactor, the HTR 300. It died with a whimper.

What we really don't need is giving nuclear engineers more money to create huge nightmares.

The first thing before ANY nuclear engineer could come back with another idea is to provide us with a safe storage technology and clean up failed attempts like in Asse II.

Believing that the next hundred billions on new nuclear technology will be better spend than the last ones, is just naive. Especially given that the basic question of storing the waste is totally unsolved. The US abandoned now Yucca. Germany has also no storage site. Instead the waste is piling up in totally inadequate places - spent fuel is stored in pools near reactors and in dry storage near reactors.
We had some ideas here: http://www.ajatus.info/documentation/ajatus_manifesto/
I'm not much of a phone person these days (which is funny because pre-internet, my phone was practically surgically attached to my ear). I got rid of the land line because it was costing big bucks to almost never use it. I researched the cheapest phone option I could find. I got a prepay cell phone that I keep for calling my mom (who is not on the internet) and for dealing with other calls I occasionally need to make. At first, I carried it with me. These days, it mostly sits on the counter at home and is so ignored that I periodically pick it up only to find the battery is so low that I need to charge it before I can use it. And, really, I frequently just plan to make calls from the free phones available in the phone room at work.

Of course, I also don't have much of a social life at the moment so I don't deal with most of the scenarios referenced here (like meeting people at a predetermined time).
"we are going to use the back of my house(for effect) because my whiteboard already has a bunch of theories of it.(Too concise to be on paper)"
paul kennedy. Britain. 1914.
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But it's very hard to do in terms of knowing how to do it. Most people here on HN know what it takes to get good grades or work out, but even here on HN not everyone is good at networking, not everyone can relocate to SV (eg. because you have a family or don't get a Visa), not everyone can afford to repeatedle try again with a new company. Also, when I said "wealthy" I meant "how wealthy is your family", as in how big a risk can you afford to take.

Where I live (E.Europe) I find most tech entrepeneurs are from somewhat wealthy families (= they don't have to worry about getting a 9-5 job, but they're not driving around in sportcars), so they're motivated but get to take bigger risks, don't have to worry about making a steady income, and also receive free networking from their parents, who are usually also businessman.

You can still try to work around these problems, in fact I have tried to, but you're taking on very large risks which are hard to control. Eg. if you're supporting your startup with contract work because there's no VC money around, and your contracts dry up, then what. Or, if your competition, located in another part of the world gets VC money and speeds away in terms of hype (not even the product), then what.
Agree! the HN hiring thread or the contractor spreadsheet might have helped too (but I doubt the "reasonable price" part :)

I definitely did not feel good after reading the post. (Most of) these guys on the freelance sites seem to be undoing the good work by others from the same geographic region by providing such poor service and thereby allowing others to define the stereotypical "Indian developer" by the poor quality of services offered. I personally know fellow good programmers who would be offended by kind of service offered by these people.

IMO, the author of the blog post should have taken help from a technical friend to choose the contractor(s).

In the couple of interviews I've gone thru (and even while making friends), the opensource code I've written and the a reference at the startup I did my internship at, has come to influence the other party's decisions and outlook towards me.

I sincerely hope, that the author has his project completed at the earliest.
Not very many, as far as I've been told.
You were completely wrong and I corrected you. That’s it. I was not commenting on the wiseness of not enabling the right click by default.
I don’t know if you noticed but I was at no point defending Apple’s decision to disable the right click by default. I was correcting a comment.
Since I'm currently exploring some of the same problems, I'd like to ask further..

How do you guard yourself against user-shared copyrighted content* ?
Do you delete on request from the copyright holders? Do you weed out in the shared content once in a while? Do you have some kind of policy or agreement transfering the infrigement to the sharing user in such cases ?

*Say, a user has access to some content behind a paywall, but shares it un-blocked through your service.
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Why is there the message 'Do not use this registry key' in the registry?
Sample of two: within reasonable limits, the harder the surface, the better I sleep. Best sleep I have is usually on a $5 polyfoam mattress on the floor. Best chair for me: $10 exercise ball.

So maybe time to call the bluff of the fancy-mattress-chair-industrial complex :)
Relative increases seem insane... But overall - that is still a low number. More are killed by their own parents for various reasons.

I'd really like that we put things into perspective a bit.
Happiness = Outcome - Expectations. The key to enjoying life is keeping expectations low to the degree that you're always pleasantly surprised.

I find this a bad advice due to many different reasons. First and foremost, startups must have high expectations in order to, well, start up. People would never, ever create a company assuming it would go straight to hell after six months.

What also bothers me with this statement is that, by keeping expectations low, you would probably not work as much as you would if you had higher expectations.

As a final note, I have always kept my expectations very, very high. I always aim for A's at university. Yet, I do not feel less happy than the average Joe, even though I sometimes get a B or a C.
Nope. I go through in Reader and open up all of the interesting looking stories' comment pages at once, then go through those tabs afterwards.
I have a suspicion that change, any change, has a placebo effect. Does anyone know of any studies done to test this?
Good OO design makes this relation very explicit in OO languages as well and they are means in the language to achieve it - using interfaces, public/private/protected, annotations like @Override in Java etc. Also, most object oriented APIs provide different means for extending them than subclassing of concrete base classes - that's what interfaces are mostly used for.

The argument in the blog post is pretty much worthless as they are not backing it up in any way or explain what they mean with very vague adjectives like "anti-modular". I have been programming functionally in my spare time for the last few years and there is certainly plenty to love about it, but the lack of a clear set of principles and language tools for decomposing systems into manageable modules I would actually view as one of it's main problems at the moment.

Decades of writing large-scale OO software, produced a large set of such principles, which applied thoughtfully produce software that really is modular, in the sense that you can keep track in your head of a large program. Things like law of Demeter, substitution principle, open-closed principle and so on and so forth. This imposes a lot more structure upon the code and simply makes it easier to remember things then just using functions grouped into modules/namespaces like it often ends up looking in FP.

Now, I'm not saying that there are some inherent problems with modularity in FP - I don't know the full spectrum of functional languages and how they approach this problem of grouping large amounts of code into meaningful pieces. But it doesn't seem that there is some form of a united and well-known approach to this in the functional world, so such claims of "anti-modularity" should be well-backed by arguments and examples of how does FP _help_ modularity. There are surely plenty of people wondering about how to write modular applications in functional languages - just look at the popularity of threads like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3077866/large-scale-desig...

Because of the above, I'm really looking forward to the development of languages like Scala, which try to blend the benefits of functional programming like parallelisation friendliness, with the main benefit of object orientation - clear rules for program decomposition. Also, some of the issues are probably orthogonal to what kind of language is used (in certain bounds at least), for example look at this decades old paper:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Design/crite...
I think just further's the OP's point. The plural of "anecdote" is not "data." What you are saying is not unreasonable, but testimonials are the lowest from of evidence.

I'm sure you can find at least a few very convinced people to tell you sleeping on jagged rocks is the best decision they ever made. And they wouldn't be lying, but that doesn't mean I should expect the same results.
The important lesson here is that the only way to fix C++ is by making it even more complicated. This may sound like a joke, but it is in fact the truth.
Thanks! I swear that did not work some months ago.
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I don't know how to say this nicely, but nobody seems to care about displaying the Soviet flag, though they killed a lot more. Maybe it's just time to bury the hatchet.
Or maybe not:

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html
We don't need storage sites. If we unstuck our heads from our asses we can just burn most of the waste.

And you're talking like nuclear engineers are some sort of freaks just waiting to unleash the next horror upon the world.

The fact is that if we want to realize UN millennium goals we need more energy. If we want to help poor asians and africans, we need more energy. If we want everybody to own a Xbox, a car and a week of vacation per year - we need more energy.

Basically only obstacle in our path of increased welfare and general well being (peace also!) on the world is access to more, cheaper energy.

And newsflash - hydro, solar and wind won't cut it. They might if we build a world supergrid. But that won't happen for at least 40 years (If we had necessary tech today - it would take 20-40 years to get it built).

So what are you proposing? Or are you just washing your hands and laying off the burden from your soul?
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Business of Software is the best for sharing these videos. Thanks Joel/BoS!
Thats something I'm really ashamed of. Until having some kind of help on my side I also don't think it would be worth the trouble.
I think this quote is often used beyond its range of validity. There is value in pointing out counterexamples when someone presents a general theory that you think is false.
I think the key with a post like this is the tone. If you're writing a "my first experience trying X", you should avoid trying to sound like you have any advice to give or lessons learned. You don't know what lessons you've learned until much later. If he'd wrote it from the learner's perspective, it would have been a much more interesting read.

We all had experiences like the author's during our first try at this. I made just as many mistakes from just as many bad assumptions on my first for-profit site. The thing is, I waited several years until I had some perspective before I was ready to write that experience up in a way that would be useful to other people.

[edit: this is the article I refer to: http://expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/01/6-things-that-kill... . You can only imagine how comical it would have sounded had I spouted off about how all this stuff was going to work back when I was doing it.]
Beat me to it :) I decided to have a go at this myself last week and got quite a lot done until the day job interfered. Second comes right after first though, right?

Nice work getting it done!
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"socially engineered spamming". How accurately does this really represent AOL's business model?
You don't start a company to become happy, and most young entrepreneurs have to work at it for years until they get ROI, so if they went into it with high initial expectations, they're almost guaranteed to burn out before reaching their goals.

Speaking of goals, you're confusing them with expectations. Having high goals and low expectations is generally the most potent mix to ensure that you're working hard. If you're working hard for an exam, but expect you'll only get a B, getting that A makes you happy. If you instead expect the A, and only get a B, you'll be unhappy and discouraged. We all know about that one star student who cried because they got "only a B".
I totally agree, did you know you can do things like rising contrast and sharpening images in special ways using useless filters like neon glow in combination with blending modes.
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Presumably, what you are describing is an n=1 instance of the Hawthorne Effect. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
A quick google search gave me these two tutorials, second one builds on the technique explained in the first:

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/lightning/lightning.h...

http://tutorialblog.org/lightning/
That's not true at all. There's wide variation on the quality of writers even if you restrict yourself only to those who can spell and use correct grammar. Things like word choice, omitting adverbs and filler, sentence length, organization into paragraphs, structure of the piece, transitions, use of formatting, and supporting details all make for noticeable differences in how easy it is to read.

Saying "there's no way to get better" is like saying "once you learn the syntax of Java, you know everything there is to know about programming." It just belies your ignorance of how much else there is to know.
Ya, I did the same thing.

I remember first messing with Enlightenment in '95 or so. And it was the bleeding edge, the realm of "latest hardware only". I think my overclocked pentium 120 did an ok job of it, but only barely.

But I guess fast forward 15 years and it is pretty fast. Kind of like Emacs eh? :)
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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
I think you are mistaking "expectations" and "ambitions".

by keeping expectations low, you would probably not work as much as you would if you had higher expectations.

I think the opposite is true-- there are many startups that have failed because they expected the traffic to be there when they launched, because they expected the world to sit up and take notice, instead of realizing that there was a lot of hard work they had to do to get it. Lower expectations, in this case, leads to harder work (and a higher likelihood of success.)
Bit from the second video: "How many parties need to know that a phone conversation in Virginia is being recorded? One. Me." (Coming from a policeman that tries to get confessions over the phone.)
For every non-asshole, you can find an asshole with technical proficiency.

For every Steve Wozniak there is a Steve Jobs.
OK, I'll bite. Assuming an average figure of $4,000 per journal per year, how much does will a university like Cornell spend per year on all journals? I work at a smallish European university, and even in my smallish field of the humanities we have access to about a hundred journals (give or take); I dread to think how many journals the university library subscribes to in total, plus dissertation databases such as ProQuest, non-academic periodicals archives, yadda yadda. For something like Cornell, I suspect the figure has to be much higher (more journals, more subscribers).

Plus, it's fine to think that Cornell can afford it; but can a second-rank public university? It probably doesn't, it has neither the money nor the bargaining power. Which means that its academics have limited access to advances in their fields. How can that be fine?
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So far I've had nothing but positive experiences with the LLVM and Clang integration in XCode 4.0. After almost ten years of relying on GCC this feels almost like cheating on a spouse.
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This is the quote that's the most relevant and was unnecessary for getting his point across:

Quite frankly, I find your attitude to be annoying and downright stupid.

He was being insulting and unnecessarily aggressive.

Post #128 was stating logic and facts. Linus responded with logic and facts also, but before he did so, he stated the insult. Unnecessary and didn't add anything to the debate except emotional provocation.

If someone else doesn't get it, he can say, "This is my point, I hope it makes sense, if it doesn't, I don't know what else I can do to make you understand me." Something like that. And then just stop replying. Instead, he turns it into a pissing match.
Great little framework. The Month Calendar View is very similar to Apple's Mobile Calendar.

Kal is another great Calendar Clone. https://github.com/klazuka/Kal
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Smart kid, but integration by parts is a long way from a good alternate theory of relativity.
What would have happened if the US government did not bail out GM? Would other auto manufacturers fill the void? How many american workers would be out of jobs (both from GM and from their suppliers, and their supplier's suppliers, etc.)? We would still have Ford, either way and most imports.

Contrast this with the finance sector. What would happen if Goldman was not bailed out. What investment banking firm would still be standing and what would it look like?
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I think it is an interesting concept. What are some scenarios where you think this might be used? You might want to provide some examples of the site. You could use a stronger call to action.
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"Mike Maples Says Twitter Is a Thunder Lizard" from Gigaom.com
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So do you always view negotation as someone winning and someone losing?