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For years i tried to become more extroverted, only to discover at a certain point that it's a dysfunctional path that leads to a superficial, seemingly fullfilling but unfocused and non-goal-directed lives. The nuance of conversation is a charm, it fades fast.

If this is how you think extroverts are, then I would suggest that you don't understand very well how extroverts think.

As someone who spent his youth as an introvert and later discovered the joys of extroversion, introversion seems like a suffocating, lonely, and stunted existence. Do those years mean I understand how introverts think? Of course not. Introverts obviously don't think their lives are lonely or stunted. Instead, I have to view others' choices with humility and accept that their thinking will always be alien to me.
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Yes, sorry-looks like the edit link for that expired. That was meant in regard to Uniracers. I never knew that they had to stop producing the game on account of a lawsuit, that's actually quite sad, as it really was a great game.

The game would let you name each of your Uni's(I think there were 20?), but I got kind of a laugh out of how it would reject a name like "Sonic" or "Sega", with a message of "Not Cool Enough".
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The same bank also complains if you want to use more than 9 characters in your password.. That kindof hints about how they store passwords in their database..
It seems like you're not seeing the forest for the trees, with respect to what I'm saying.

I don't need help upgrading. I just think the Rails core team should do releases in such a way that big features which drastically change the way Rails does things, aren't put in the pipeline back to back, like this was (3.0, then 3.1) that way Rails doesn't get a reputation for constantly redoing the "Rails Way".
This is true, because they were testing in a mouse-based interface. Of course mousing would be faster.

Now take an app that is keyboard-centric like Notational Velocity (or gvim/macvim). All of a sudden keyboarding is more efficient.

Now, compare the speed and efficiency between the two paradigms. No surprise who wins there.

Use the paradigm that fits the application. Use the applications that fit your style. Nothing new here.
It would never occur to me to write something non data-driven using Rails... because to me Rails is rapid development platform for data-driven webapps.

Interesting that people do though. Any particular reason? What features of Rails did you still use? Seems like an odd use case.
By the way, I've always wanted to ask someone who buys gold/silver as a hedge against economic collapse - are you physically holding it in your house, or what? If your gold is just 1s and 0s in some database which say that you own some gold, why do you think you will be able to get it after the "Big One"? Your bank or brokerage may have to give it to some creditor who is in line before you. And there are precedents for the government just confiscating it, or forcing you to "sell" it at the price they set. So what's the plan?
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http://victorsunited.com

It's a turn-based, (largely) asynchronous, strategic conquest game that uses the same ruleset as a classic board game that you probably played when you were a kid.

The idea is to create a social game that you're not embarrassed to play. You know the trend of people getting together in bars to play Settlers of Catan for hours on Friday nights? We're trying to make a game that same people would want to play for a few minutes at a time from their office on Monday morning.

I've got a half-written article about how we're doing some cool continuous deployment stuff that I plan on sharing with HN soon. In the meantime, any and all feedback is welcome.
expect the rate of hitting pedestrians, other vehicles, and animals is really going to go through the roof due to inability to break effectively.
Small nitpick: If you're using a non-relational database, the library you use to connect to it is not an object-relational mapping layer.
That allows things like basic medical safety to be determined by the free market, which we've tried before. It was dangerous.
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There is an ASCII swastike with racist slur in the thread now.
if More abstraction is leading to more complexity, then there is something very wrong going on.
hah. I went to school with Beau, he was a complete douchebag.
Much more than usual for a french immersion student.
I used to work as an editor for freshmeat.net and we would get hilarious submissions like this quite frequently. For example, the "revolutionary new file compression algorithm" that quite literally converted a file into binary and removed all the 0s. Such a shame that the author "hadn't gotten around to" writing a de-compression tool!

We were often quite sad that we couldn't publish some of these gems, they were brilliant.
let's please just celebrate our differences rather than tear each other down. This is a real insult to anyone who doesn't consider themselves introverted...
Click through to the debate and read Horowitz' side:
http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/710

He has some pretty compelling graphs and arguments for his position!
> -No dual ATT/Tmobile HSPA support

According to the article it's on LTE, so that means AT&T or Verizon. I can see why they're doing it as it looks like WiMax doesn't have a great future ahead of it, but I both those carriers have abysmal track records for customer abuse (as opposed to merely bad.)
Publish a review on release day with everyone else: "Now, based on our poor reviews of their poor previous releases, their PR agency declined to allow us to review the game before release lest we review a poor game poorly once more. That said based on their previous poor releases, and without ever seeing the game, we give it 4/10."
Not true. Any acceptable ORM system (and there's a lot of those nowadays) allows you to drop into pure SQL and several levels of abstraction between that and pure object code.

Really, I don't know which library you're using, but I have never seen such an issue with neither Django nor SQLAlchemy, LinqToSql, or Yii's ORM.
An Adobe partnership with Canonical to help make Ubuntu a viable mobile OS competitor to Android would have been far more innovative, intelligent, and superior long term business strategy.

Because virtual platforms like Flash and AIR are doomed when they are subject to the iron fist of Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Only a true open platform (not quasi-Google open) is a safe home for them.
I want to be friends with you! You are hilarious! :)
Fun trick:

Find a high res picture of the moon. Say this one: http://universe-beauty.com/albums/userpics/2011y/04/19/1/18/...
Go to http://www.tineye.com/ (Reverse Image Search) and search for that image.
Click one of the results (make sure it isn't just the same exact image) and then click the "switch" button repeatedly to wobble the moon. Because Tin Eye matches the rotation and scale of the images, it creates a neat effect.
The words "introvert" and "extrovert" have been used by a lot of people over the years, starting all the way back at Freud I think. If a modern scientist uses these words, though, they're probably talking about it in terms of the Big Five[1] personality model, which is mostly just identifying some observed clusters of traits with strong correlations that tend to persist over a person's life. People argue about whether there might be more emperical clusters worth adding, or whether they might be made more orthogonal but generally there's a good amount of rigor behind them, far more than IQ for instance.

Introversion/Extroversion is very much a matter of degree, just like pretty much any other human trait. It doesn't uniquely determine behavior by any means, humans are very complex creatures. However, there is a pretty strong correlation [2] between someone acting in an introverted or extroverted manner in one situation and acting the same way later.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation

EDIT: All of which isn't to say that people can't use those terms in pseudo-scientific ways, or that the author of the article isn't. After all, people use terms like 'mass' and 'gravity' in pseudo scientific ways too.
This is true regardless of impending bubble or not.
Yes, I can see how you would see it this way. Heck, even I did, until a few weeks ago, when I a) began working (unpaid) for Zannee, and b) read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

Here are just a few thoughts about why I made this request as I did:

We aren't forcing anyone to take an internship with Zannee. This isn't slave labor - no one has to work for free against their will. If people don't see the value in an internship with Zannee, they won't take us up on our offer. No harm done!

We are looking for students who are trying to expand their education, who want to take their own entrepreneurial and programming educations into their own hands. We will give them enough structure that they can feel supported as they learn and improve their skills, but not enough to constrict them - we keep it flexible and give them significant autonomy.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad teaches that to be wealthy, you should not work for a wage; instead, you should work to learn - to gain skills and knowledge that you can apply in building your own business (your "business of you"). No, we aren't paying, but this is a profitable company selling B2B software online. If you are a young entrepreneur who wants to learn how to successfully ideate, implement, market, sell, support, upsell, and grow a B2B software product, what better opportunity could there be?

Remember how I said above that I myself am working unpaid? That wasn't a typo. I thoroughly believe that Dane has the knowledge, skills, and experience (obtained through intelligent hard work and lots of practice in his business) to help a mature, driven student with entrepreneurial desires and programming skills learn how to start and grow a successful B2B software business. That's why I flew out to Des Moines, Iowa, all on my own dime, leaving my friends and the wonderful restaurants of New York City, to work for Dane - for FREE - for the summer.

You might think that Dane is taking advantage of me, but I disagree. It's a win-win situation. He gets free labor to help with growing his business. I get access to invaluable knowledge, skills, and one-on-one time with a successful entrepreneur, not to mention access to his network of entrepreneurs and businesspeople! It's a big win for both of us.

For students (or non-students even - I could care less) who want to have their own profitable B2B software business, this really is the chance of a lifetime.
>If I may ask, what makes you assume they do?

I'm guessing the part where they said that they use Netflix and Redbox is probably a good indicator.
Have you read your SICP today? You'll fit right in if you have.
Interesting. I've always gotten along well with Germans, but in reading that article, I can tell that I have embedded in my speech some of the pleasantries that annoy Germans. I'm even more interested in visiting Germany and the Netherlands than I already was.

Thanks to all three of you for your examples.
Do night clubs count as pubs? The route passes right in front of Krystle/Dicey's on the junction of Clonmel and Harcourt Streets (just after going through Iveagh Gardens - btw what do you do at night when they're closed? ;)).

Now, Krystle and Dicey's are, afaik, both owned by the same hotel and they are officially classed as nightclubs. However, most of their clientele are not hotel guests and it's a very popular spot for after-work beers (particularly in the beer garden during the summer). I think, were Joyce around today, he would class it as a pub for the purposes of this experiment.

I think trying to go down Harcourt St. is a mistake as it's a well-known night spot.
Well compared with a motorcycle or motor scooter, it seems like the rider could have a much better protective cage.
Ah. The guys I knew at Citi had a small team but i'm not sure if they were direct hire or via contract, but they basically dealt with the low-hanging web-app-pentest-fruit.

I don't work for a financial company but I work for one that works for/with them. Their code review is more like: "Hey, did you even test this code in QC? I can see a syntax error." I don't think anyone here actively looks for security problems during review. If it compiles and it's sat in dev/qc for a month (we just assume it's been tested), it's pushed out. I don't think anybody here would recognize XSS if it hit them in the face, and this particular bug ("allow any authenticated user to view any URI matching a given string") sounds suspiciously like a bad ACL rule in their identity/access management servers.

Edit: and the web app would have to not be rejecting access by an invalid user. I can see a single line's test being formatted in a weird way and this getting missed when somebody committed it - after all, if it doesn't cause failure, is there a bug?
I am referring to software such as viplugin. You're still in eclipse, so anything you do in eclipse without the plugin still works, but you also get Vi-style editing.

The point here is that the discussion is about input styles, not "IDE vs Classical Editor".

EDIT: or this one: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ there is a bunch out there.
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"Failing to raise the debt ceiling is not a US default. The US receives more than enough income to cover its debt service, which also has priority."

That's a Republican party talking point, not a fact.

Everyone knows that debt service has priority. They also know that it's non-trivial to just stop paying for other services, and that even if it were easy to do, it would be seen as a serious lapse of judgment by our creditors. You don't have to default to get hammered by rising interest rates on your debt; you merely have to look irresponsible enough to be a bad risk.
It's the attitude I was taking issue with, not the decision.
My experience with my Nexus S is that the few times the UI freezes, neither the physical mechanical buttons nor the physical capacitance buttons help any. I can either wait a while, or hard reboot and wait longer.
Honestly,my first thought was, ``What is Adobe AIR?'' Doesn't sound like much of a loss.
This is something every PR company does tacitly. Why wouldn't they? If you give journalists your product and they shit on it, you're going to go to other journalists next time.

I'm surprised a PR doesn't know enough to not state that publicly, but still.
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Is it? What were you trying to teach them? That they'll continue to earn a wage from their employer, even if the employer is unprofitable?
Can't load the page, in the meantime you can find the codebase on Github:

https://github.com/indutny/node-spdy
> You wouldn't believe what a state-of-the-art interface looked like in 1989. My awesome shiny new Mac SE/30 -- an excellent machine -- had a 512 by 342 black and white display...

You wouldn't believe what a state-of-the-art interface looked like... in 1981:

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8...

Crappy consumer hardware is never "the state of the art." Even now, when it's all we've got. The art remains sadly frozen in time.
Are those of you whom are saying there is anything at all good or usable about this approach just trolling? Pleaaase just be trolling, if my opinion of humanity goes any lower I'll have to start building a 'compound'.
A small 3rd wheel for emergency braking would work (it could even be automatically lowered when the chassis has rotated over a certain amount), or you could just drive only at slow speeds. The Segway is a diwheel as well, and people don't worry about that.
I was thinking pretty much the same thing. I'm guessing extroverts need to "fit in" a lot more than introverts, and this challenges the extroverts needs perhaps. Also it could be found that when you aren't being talked to, that there is something wrong with yourself, instead of it being the other person's issue. So perhaps it causes some issues that way too. I think society is sort of conditioned to think someone who doesn't socialize at a certain level, somehow has a problem. Which we are a society, socializing keeps us together, so its understood why this is probably seen as a bit more of an issue. Being introverted I like to maintain a low level of socializing, I do it when I want to, I have no problem doing it, its just not as much as other people. But not all people have that ability, and I think people assume the worst, that the person somehow needs "fixing" and isn't happy with their social life and doesn't know how to socialize. Where me, bottom line, I'm not talking to you cause I don't want to. Whether its because I find the person terribly annoying, or just can't think of anything worth while to say is dependent on the situation. Which is why I either really like extroverts or really hate them, they keep the conversation going and are fun, or they never get the damn point, I don't want to talk to you, and annoy the hell out of me.
Unrelated, but one of the things with FPS's and such that annoy me the most is that you are required to use the mouse to achieve top efficiency. It would be great if someone made a game or extended the options to allow for better keyboard navigation / aiming. Like key combinations to tweak the interval size for a directional key (speed). I.e. shift+w, alt+w, ctrl/cmmd + w, maybe vim-like w20, etc. Also for increasing turn intervals like 45, 90, 180, and custom degree immediate turns.
Saying the primary character traits of extroverts is gossipping and seeking drama is just silly. Extroverts make connections with many people (shallow extroverts are drama-seeking gossips), which most introverts simply can't understand. My wife, who is the premier example of an extrovert, has no interest in gossipping or in drama. I've seen far more drama in a group of forum-cruising introverts than in her life.
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Fassbender is such a player, and we must be grateful to him for providing us with movies and Inglourious Basterds, Centurion and Fish Tank among others.
This is something of a non sequitur. The debate is around the tech bubble not the various global financial crisis.

While one may affect the other, the debate is around the bubble.

You imply that the global economic situation may cause this bubble to burst or deflate. It actually tends to be the other way around. Hot markets can pull economies out of (or into) recession. The housing/internet markets contributed to the boom years during the Clinton era (and pulled us out of the recession of the 80s). Over-leveraged, cheap-money financial markets pulled us into one.

It may be the case that this next internet "bubble" helps bring us out of our current economic malaise.
Love this pair of observations about how books get judged by their worst parts, but collections of online posts for their best:

Another problem with a book is that it's One Big Thing. Very few book reviews say "Chapter two is a gem, buy the book for this and ignore chapter six, the author is confused." Most just say "He's an idiot, chapter six is proof of that."

...versus...

Thanks to Twitter and Hacker News and whatever else, if you write a good thing, it gets judged on its own. You can write 99 failures but you are judged by your best work, not your worst.

Microcontent (and even decontextualization) for the win.
Balsamiq Mockups has worked perfectly fine for over two years on my Ubuntu install.
Just because you have access to the pictures does not mean you must consume/view them immediately. If many folks are taking pics, I might want to glance every once in a while at what might be going up on FB tomorrow (people, especially women, are very socially conscious, and FB has become the de facto personal brand management tool).

Or if I know someone is closer to the action. Or someone took a picture of me and my wife, or a bunch of people took a bunch of pictures in a group shot. At the game someone might have better seats, at school teenagers could go to town with this.

I think they had a great idea that helped them get $141 million from some of the biggest names in the VC world, but bungled execution badly.
Ask HN: What is the meaning of "Python’s broken notion of lambda"*?
* Hal Abelson in http://www.codequarterly.com/2011/hal-abelson/
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Not sure what is the practical and/or logical purpose of differentiating "hiding" applications and "minimizing" windows. They do one and the same, with the exception that "hiding" hides the entire app (with exception of Photoshop), and minimizing moves a window to the dock. IMO, two different behaviors for essentially the same thing - I can't think of a strong enough use case where you would want to hide instead of minimize (or minimize vs hide).

Back on topic, here's another thought (which I alluded to in my original post, but could not articulate well): could it be that their study included shortcuts that were too complicated? Could their results be skewed because in some instances it was easier to grab the mouse than to perform finger-gymnastics or to even remember the complex key combinations? I think the results of their study were glaringly obvious: the answer isn't "Move everything to the mouse" but "Improve keyboard shortcuts"
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