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I'm not so sure. At my last company, we sold to four reasonably separate industries with a small amount of overlap. The four lines of products had nothing in common to look at - different shapes and styles, different colours. The marketing department liked the different colours because it made sorting the propaganda cough sorry, I mean 'info packs' easier. But the effect was that there was no commonality in the field - a user from one industry crossing into another would not recognise our equipment.

For the marketing power of unified forms and colour schemes, see Apple. Colour schemes all by themselves probably aren't enough, but they are a fundamental part of 'form'.
I'd like to point out that if jQuery fell back to the fundamental Array.prototype.forEach function when available, $.each would be /much/ faster than a for loop. Array.prototype.forEach, when available, is native code.
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It's actually not reasonable; since the 70s there have been significant pushes toward efficiency on a variety of fronts which make pre-1970s energy consumption statistics inapplicable.
Why don't you move to SF for the summer. You could do something like a summer program at Stanford

http://www.summer.stanford.edu/programs/program/undergraduat...

Maybe you can even swing transferring to something like deanza community college for the spring.

Basically, you'd be taking almost no risk vs staying in school where you are at, plus you can do the startup thing.

I never really understood the point of going into real estate if you're not interested in it. Its not like money falls from the sky right off the bat in that industry.
> If a provision as clearly drafted as [the First Amendment] may be subjected to political interpretation, what legal provision may not be?

It's not clearly drafted at all, nor "the clearest, most definite legal language"; the term "freedom of speech" is quite vague (insofar as it isn't interpreted literally, voice only, no writing, which certainly wasn't the intent), but there's no reason a law couldn't be written that specified in great detail what sort of activity is protected and what is not. It's just that we'd have to frequently amend such a law to account for changing mores, which is currently done on a more case by case basis.

> The very notion of a free market in legal services conjures up the image of anarchic gang warfare or rule by organized crime.

Are they not examples of such a market?

> One advocates a free market not because of some moral imprimatur written across the heavens, but because it is impossible for human beings to amass the knowledge of local conditions and the predictive capacity necessary to effectively organize economic relationships among millions of individuals.

This kind of hand-waving is usually used to justify the idea that the free market works best with as little regulation as possible. Unfortunately, the prevalence of harmful monopolies in history suggests that this is not true; state regulation is necessary.

> Although I am tempted to give this response, I never do.

You just did.

> This is because, although true, it never persuades. Instead, it is usually interpreted as an appeal for blind faith in the free market[...]

This is a somewhat disingenuous way of avoiding the point.

> A final example may be supplied by the many commercial enterprises that voluntarily opt out of the state judicial system by writing clauses in their contracts that require disputes to be settled through binding arbitration or mediation rather than through a lawsuit. In this vein, the variegated "legal" procedures that have recently been assigned the sobriquet of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) do a good job of suggesting what a free market in legal service might be like.

It's a good time for this to come up, because AT&T and their contract requiring each defrauded customer to negotiate individually is a pretty good example of how private justice can be perverted. What if similar practices were allowed in criminal law?

> In disputes over consumer contracts, the parties might well be satisfied with the current system of litigation in which the parties present their cases to an impartial judge or jury who renders a verdict for one side or the other.

The consumers would be and the corporations would not. Guess who has more bargaining power?
It won't let me respond to your comment, and you're right, I shouldn't have made that comment. I do apologize, and apparently misread the comment. Hopefully people can look past both things and realize that there is more to ARM than just "omg the processor isn't as fast as a quad core i7"; That said, I'm also looking forward to this board and hope it makes it stateside. I love ARM (if you couldn't tell), and the main thing holding it back is the lack of people who are familiar with it. Since it's been most typically an embedded processor, most people don't write software for it unless it is specialized.

And pretty much any game that runs on an iPhone could run on an ARM desktop. Off the top of my head, popular "mainstream" games that I can think of would be Street Fighter 4, Mirror's Edge, I'm sure there are more, I just happen to have those 2 installed on my iPhone. ARM machines can also run Android, as long as you are willing to put in the kernel work, and most companies do these days.

The EfikaMX has a "desktop" version as well as a netbook version. They are both almost identical, although the netbook version doesn't have any video out. It also runs off of a 3 cell battery, and gets somewhere in the range of 6-8 hours of solid usage, not just sitting there almost suspended. They(i.MX515) pack the AMD(ATI)z430 3D unit, which runs at 133MHz (the i.MX535 version will run at 200MHz); This is also known as a Qualcomm Adreno, although the Adreno uses a z180 instead of z160 for the 2D unit, not sure if it uses something other than the z430 for 3D. The difference between the graphics card in the Xbox360, and these is that the 360's runs at (i believe) 600MHz.

I'm not sure what graphics card will come with the ARM11, but if it does 1080p and OpenGL ES 2.0, then I'd guess that it's a Mali. I could definitely be wrong, but really, at 25 dollars, even if you only played with it every once in a while, it's probably worth it. And if they do a buy one give one like OLPC did, I'd definitely order a minimum of 4. I hope they are able to, and I'll be watching closely.
> the Go compiler is single pass, which considerably cripples the language and imposes a lot of weird asymmetric features.

What evidence do you have that it cripples the language? And can you point to a single 'asymmetric feature' (whatever that means) caused by this?

If you read any of the interviews with Rob, he clearly points out that the compile speed has little to do with it being 'single pass', and all to do with the package system.

In my subjective experience the compiler is way faster than Java or C# compilers, and they still have plenty of room to optimize compiler speed (for example, there is plenty of stuff the compiler could do in parallel but at the moment doesn't because they have tried to keep the toolchain as simple as possible specially while the language is changing so fast.)
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Ugh. I have it with ambitious apps. The app store needs so many more perfect standard apps. Custom controls are easy to get wrong. You have to be a genius to do an ok job with custom controls and most aren't.

This looks like a HN app I would actually like to use (as opposed to all the others currently in the App Store). Looks can be deceiving, though, the app might not be to my liking in some subtle way.
(There are several HN apps in the App Store.)
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Article as told by a Jewish author:

"Readers of this column may have heard the Jewish joke about the rabbi who is asked to settle a dispute. After listening to one side's argument, the rabbi declares, "You're right!" After listening the other side's argument, the rabbi nods and says, "You're right, too." His wife, who is listening, declares, exasperated, "Rabbi, this is absurd! They can't both be right!" The rabbi sighs and replies sadly, "You're also right!""

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Hat's off to you. Nice write up - looking forward to learning from the code you're sharing as well. Thank you.
>Ah, so the author cleverly toys with the readers’ understandable confusion when encountering the question.

He makes the scope of the questions rather clear from the outset:

On the basis of your personal understanding of this sentence's meaning (not your knowledge of constitutional law), please indicate whether you believe the following sentences to be true or false.
I think laptops running iOS are very likely. They saved the company by discovering that appliances for consumers are more profitable than tools for human beings, and this way it doesn't much matter that they've never been able to compete on manufacturing efficiency with commodity computer hardware.

Mostly it bugs me that ARM is seeing more and more use yet I still can't drive up the street and buy one on a motherboard. Freezing out hobbyists is an alarming step backwards for the industry.
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Intent of the hypothetical, addressing its parent's thought about moral relativism, clearly supposes that you are inconveniencing people for monetary gain without possibility of compensating or otherwise being able to undo that.

Your reply is the equivalent of answering "If a genie grants you one single wish, what would it be?" with "I'll wish for a million wishes" :-)

And your reply subscribes to moral relativism too ('If I give them $x each, then it is okay to delay them. What is a few minutes anyway?'). Also note that $x that you are suggesting to give per person times 100 is just 1% of your gain. You don't know how much you cost them with the few minutes of delay that you caused. Perhaps someone missed a connecting flight and lost the chance to see his mom before she passed away.
Ataggart, your response to me is for some reason dead.

I don't think that the author is very clear at all. He is deliberately misleading. That sentence is clear as mist.
My advice to you is as follows.

Make the decision now, at this stage in your life/career, whether you want to be a developer or not - and stick to the plan that follows.

If you do, then you need to work hard to obtain the level of proficiency needed to cut it in startup world (the "it takes 1000 hours to become a master' quote comes to mind here). I'm not sure if that is the 'going back to school' aspect you are considering but there a numerous ways to learn to be a good developer. It also means that most of your business school teaching - while still useful - will go unused as a dev. I'm not sure how much debt you have from school but is it worth wasting that education at this point?

Or decide that you don't want to be a developer and stop trying to be one. If you move to SF/Silicon Valley you won't hack it trying to be a "part-dev/part-business-{blah}".

If you are not sure what you want to do then I'd suggest coming out here and working for a funded startup or BigCo to get some stable salary and also build up your contact network (business or marketing out here requires a strong contact network). If you want to start another startup you will need a technical co-founder and so this also gives you time to meet such folks.

Hope this is useful.
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please comment below or email me at martin at UpOut.com
I have been using instapaper for a while and absolutely love it, but I think the real kicker for me was when iwas able to view what my social graph was saving for later with their twitter and fb integration.... That being said, I am a HUGE fan of Shelby.tv. I have tried a few other services in the space, but have yet to find anything that I go back to. I am finding their "always on" experience to facilitate choices. But again, I think the kicker is the social curation that I love most. They figure out which videos I want to watch based off my activity....

....now if only my instapaper filled up with articles that I wanted to read all by itself....
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I agree that I was overly snarky, though only slightly. I disagree that Kids & Mortgage is still very common. Maybe just common, and even then, there's often additional nuance (second marriage, renting not mortgage, etc.)
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I'd love to work with them to make a purely automated provably-anonymous file dropoff system, which could then be used by others. The type III remailer network sort of facilitates this, but there are better ways.
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In my Slackware system, which does not use PAM by the way, it's perfectly possible to support the "wheel" group. In fact, the group is already present in /etc/groups and you can add users to it. Later, you don't need to change the permissions of /bin/su. The check can be run from the program itself if you edit /etc/suauth and add a line like this:

root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP wheel:DENY

But I think this may be due to the "su" program not being GNU su, but the one from the shadow suite. :)
Real Estate doesn't look so great from my seat http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-shilling-sell-your-house...

Id say, at least find a like-minded network online, such as linkedin groups etc...(shameless self promotion http://www.linkedin.com/in/blwallace)

My friend from Illinois keeps quoting the Beverly Hillbillies theme song "Calafornie is the place ye wanna be" this week he is pitching to angels and VCs in LA after a week pitching in SanFran. Plus, coming from a midwesterner, California is a different planet(in a very good way).
That's a good point, but I think by "most popular" the author was referring to popularity in the hacker/startup community. One could make a similar argument about operating systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_system_usage_sha...) or web browsers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers), but I don't think anyone on hn would call Windows XP or Internet Explorer "popular"
I apologize if it came across unappreciative of the difficulties involved in emigration. Instead, I simply see the difficulties of migration being just as difficult under the author's proposed system. For the author's proposal, if we don't have a meta-legal system to prevent the various legal systems from trapping their customers, it seems that the new legal systems would use the same tactics that the governments use right now. It's so much easier than actually competing.
Of what? Flash? RTMP? 4-way video chat?

If you want all that in a single package, no.
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We can't have partial frames. Trying to do it as an XP app using .net and we keep having delays and drop-outs. It is suggested that we use double buffering and direct x. Any help appreciated!
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Thrift's RPC is (optionally) built on top of HTTP, but provides support for custom typesafe (kind-of) data structures and the conveniences of RPC. If you're sending data that's more complex than a single homogenous type, then delivering a structured message over RPC is a necessary abstraction.
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I think you've missed my point a bit. My point is that if all that is needed for schools to expand CS education is cheap commodity computer hardware, it already exists.

If educational "demands on the market" don't exist for P4-era used PCs now, are they necessarily going to exist for the USB stick PC?
Some key quotes

"Previously, these operations people would write these in Python, but they're finding that Go is much faster in terms of performance and time to actually write the code."

Go beating Python in time to code?

"[Node.js is] a single thread. In a very similar amount of code, you could write a goroutine-heavy server that could handle tens of thousands of requests and use all the cores on your machine, so that if the requests were expensive – if they were CPU-intensive – you'd have a chance of keeping up," Pike says.

"Node.js shows great numbers for heavy numbers of clients, and they've done a really good job. But if those clients are CPU-intensive, they've got no place to go. You can't get the parallelism you need. With Go, you get the best of both worlds: You get many clients easily handled, and if they're CPU intensive, you can imagine scaling to a much larger number of requests."

What's more, Gerrand argues, Go doesn't force developers to embrace the asynchronous ways of event-driven programming. ... "That lets you write asynchronous code in a synchronous style. As people, we're much better suited to writing about things in a synchronous style."

Not quite true about CPU-intensive tasks. Node can use webworkers and leave the main thread for handling small requests. Obviously JavaScript is slower, webworkers open up heavy OS level threads (at least in browsers, not sure about node), but there is somewhere to go.

I like the competitiveness either way. Go deserves more popularity.

I wonder, is it possible to do some syntax rewrite to make it look like a weak/dynamic typed language and only use static types when you need the performance? That would give them a popularity boost from superficial Ruby/Python devs traumatized by systems programming.
If someone wants to work in a root shell, I think it's fine provided they understand the damage they can potentially do. It could certainly be possible to habitually prepend commands with sudo, particularly if you need to type many of them.

Though certainly it's safer to do some tasks as non-root as well, such as compiling software, then switch to root/sudo to install it. Just remember to double/triple check each command you type in a root shell or after the sudo command. Particularly when using commands such as rm with arguments such as -rf!

Sudo also does provide some extra flexibility when you are delegating tasks to someone who doesn't necessarily need full root access.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2519858
Considering that the lack of a well implemented GUI is holding back broader adoption of Scheme, how about a windowing solution that leverages ubiquitous browser technology. You might want to take a look at Lively Kernel for some ideas. But since then, HTML5 support for Canvas in both 2D and 3D has greatly improved so might be better option than SVG.
If I decided to just stick to business, could I realistically get a job at a startup without a finished business degree?
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Keep in mind Microsoft is also working on porting Windows to ARM. Ideally there would be some form of Windows 8 able to run on the new Mac's by the time the architecture transition occurs.
I usually aim to make code that solves the problem it was intended to solve, as elegantly as possible. (Where elegance correlates closely to efficiency.) Whether it's understandable or not is completely secondary.

Often this means that if I don't leave myself a reasonable comment about what I'm doing in that spot and why, I'll relearn the importance of good comments later.
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We had a very similar setup at the same time - the workstations were "diskless" and the only way to get software onto the machine was to write it (in Turbo Pascal). The workstations were 8086's while the file server was a 286, and the other server was a (then very expensive) 386.

But the admins had installed "NetWork Eye" - sort of like a VNC for text monitors. So one guy in the class wrote an assembler (in TP) then got a NetBios book and wrote some low-level NetBios stuff in assembler. That allowed us to NetWork-Eye the servers to get some other funky stuff done.

One thing we did was to login on all 50 workstations (except one), and run the network eye in a cascaded chain. Then sit back and watch the first person come in. They're log in (on all 50 monitors simultaneously) and everything they did would come up on all 50. Usually took a few minutes before they noticed...

Ahh - good times.... <g>
> What other uses do you think that patents have?

They prevent others from suing you, at least over that one patent.

That said, I wonder how much it might fix if people were only permitted to license or cross-license your patents and forbidden from reassigning the patent or the right to sue over the patent.
Referring Ivy Bridge as a `3D chip', sounds a lot like regurgitating Intel's marketing hype. It sounds silly.