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> [Sun May 17 2009] [15:03:35] <stu8ball>	rmsgnu: Is it true you deliberately named POSIX with a "POS" for "Piece of Shit" in it?

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:03:41] <rmsgnu>	because not everyone else here was on voice.

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:03:43] <telaviv>	rmsgnu: so what is the the next big step for the fsf? New software? Winning some court battle?

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:03:50] <stu8ball>	Given that you're a Lisp hacker I would assume you'd dislike such standardisation efforts.

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:03:59] <stu8ball>	w.r.t Common Lisp

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:09] <rmsgnu>	No, POSIX refers to "portable operating system interface" with an x.

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:23] <telaviv>	haha

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:29] <stu8ball>	I know that's the _official_ meaning

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:33] <stu8ball>	;)

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:34] <rmsgnu>	They were going to call it IEEEIX, which sounds like a screem of horror.

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:34] <rejohn>	who is on voip now?

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:50] <sn9>	luckily, "mueslix" is already trademarked

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:53] <rejohn>	telaviv: where are you now?

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:55] <rmsgnu>	I figured nobody would actually call it that and they would instead

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:04:58] <vsayer>	i'm on voip

[Sun May 17 2009] [15:05:09] <rmsgnu>	call it "a spec for Unix-like systems".

http://www.thelinuxlink.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=40...
I completely screwed up. I meant to put Startup "Hacker" resource page as I beginner's resource page. My apology to the hardcore "hackers" of the world. May you make it through the day!
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That's cool of you. I'd like to see more sec, *nix, sys & CS on that list.
Not the same thing since history is not Amazon's value proposition.
Come up with a brief idea and build a MVP of your startup, so you have something to pitch people about at the airport ;)

EDIT typo: our = your
Resque. https://github.com/blog/542-introducing-resque

I use the Ruby version, but there is a php version too.

https://github.com/chrisboulton/php-resque
I would rather see Mozilla focus on the individual end user experience than cater to what some IT dept wants.

Every BigCo I've worked at, IE was the official supported browser. Firefox was the defacto used browser by employees who probably didn't need a corporate IT managed desktop to get their work done.
Other currency feels cheap? Are you kidding? Whenever I go the US I'm always reminded of how crappy the currency is. It looks and feels like it's printed on low grade recycled paper. Counterfeiting is such a problem that half the shops won't take 50s or 100s. And your wallet is perpetually stuffed with dirty, crumpled, near-useless $1 notes.

Imagine if you ordered a credit card from a bank and instead of receiving a shiny plastic card you got a low quality bit of printed cardboard. You'd think that was pretty low class, right? Well that's how I feel comparing the US and Aussie money in my wallet. The production quality on the American banknotes just does not match my expectations for a modern country in 2011.

Nothing against America of course, but I don't get the country's weird resistance to progress in certain areas, no matter how much of a no-brainer improvement that progress is. "Protect the greenback" - this is nothing but resistance to change, any change, no matter how beneficial. It's baffling how it can seemingly win the day, again and again. For me it is analogous to not upgrading to OSX 10.7 because you have nostalgic feelings about 10.6. I just cannot fathom how people get themselves into this state of mind.

OK, going rather off on a tangent there .. anyway other currencies do not look cheap : ) except the japanese yen, which IMO is the only major banknote series even worse than America's.
I was at devopsdays in Mountain View CA a week ago and one of the panel discussions was on package management. I was a bit surprised to see it as a topic, as there are numerous known ways to solve the problem.

It turns out, that's exactly the problem. The topic was hotly debated and yes, there are endless possible ways to distribute packages across a large environment.

I think choosing a pattern involves deciding for yourself how secure/auditable you need your environment to be and how tightly you want to couple your deployment process to your current architecture (ie. some package managers only work on some systems, etc.). That will narrow your choices down to a handful, and then you get to dig into the implementation details and decide from there.
"But I am telling you that owl invi­ta­tion or not, you already have this abil­ity within you. That you have the abil­ity to cre­ate magic within your­self. That you just have to imag­ine — and believe in your imag­i­na­tion so much that iyou work hard enough to make it real."

This is really key. SO many people struggle with this brand of magical thinking, i.e. "There's someone out there who will solve all these problems for me." It took me 27 years to stop doing it myself. I see it with a lot of my friends starting companies and trying to get traction for them. They take every meeting with a VC who "wants to chat," they consider uber sketchy proposals from marketing guys looking to "combine my people skills with your product" etc etc etc. And it leads to death.

I spent a solid year of working on Windy Citizen where my hopes and dreams were all centered around getting one of the big newspapers to write about the site and the community coming together there. It was a huge waste of time and energy that could have been so much better spent actually building the community and making the service better.

This idea that special people do special things is proposterous. Anyone can do something special, you just have to put yourself in a position to accomplish whatever it is. Waiting around for some outside force to change your life it the fast-train to loserville. Glad Jenny shared that message with the kids.

It turns out, if you're intently focused on your own mission, if things start coming together for you, people will go out of their way to make things happen for you.
Not just for twelve year olds. It works just as well for this 48 y.o., too.
Nokia X7 Vs Samsung Galaxy S2
Nowadays a new fight in the world of communication has been established, everyone wants to have a most powerful cell phone in terms of its features and technology.
I don't really see the motivation begin dethroning SF as the go-to place for startups. NYC is great, a city I personally love, but why can't it co-exist alongside SF? There SHOULD be two great places for startups, not just one. What will make the difference, though, is what types of startups flock to which city and why. No need to start a war, work together and the end result will be a tech industry that will be hard to stop.
No, at least today's immigrant is living at peace with you - not killing you for your place in line, as our country's founders did for their place in line. I feel an honest refugee would be a better neighbor than someone who'd hold the lack of paperwork over someone's head.

You really don't have much to complain about.

As for law though, and obeying it, no. No, you don't have to obey the laws of the land you're in. In fact, there are times no good person would do so. It's just rules other people made up, not 'right'.

You're right I can't change the law but I can undermine it - make it easier to break and escape punishment for. Waste resources chasing ghosts instead of waging war and evicting the needy.
It seems a bit inelegant to introduce a CSS property for this. Those vendor prefixes should be reserved for properties that either are in the process of becoming a standard or that the vendor wants to become a standard. I don’t know how that property fits in there, it doesn’t seem like something that should be part of the standard, it seems very iOS specific. That’s not what those vendor prefixes are there for.

What meaning would that property have on other platforms?

By the way, there’s even more good news for web apps. contentEditable is supported in iOS 5, in fact Apple devoted a good chunk of a WWDC talk to contentEditable.
Defeatism FTW?

If there's anything the PUA community shows[0], it's that social skills can be learned. It's also easy to get to a medium level of fitness, especially in our culture of sloth.

Sure, he's 11, so maybe it's not that easy, but what's really going to hold him back isn't his "geekiness," it will be his mental habit of shying away from growth opportunities due to fear and "oh I just can't help it!"

[0] not an endorsement of that community, btw, except for Neil Strauss's The Game, which is a fun read
This is a good idea. Like an OS-independent RedHat, focusing on the apps.
"our", or "your"? :)

I already have something past the mvp stage. that's taking up all of my mindspace. I was hoping for sightseeing stuff. gonna have some breakfast and going to walk around town, starting with blue bottle. I hear they make a good espresso.
I can't seem to find an 'eclipse.ini' file on my system at all. I had eclipse sts and zend studio both installed (both based on eclipse) but "locate eclipse.ini" nets me nothing. Perhaps it's config.ini? Or somewhere else these recommended changes should be made?
Restaurants aren't very mobile.

Depends on what defines a restaurant, is it the building or the people. While the building itself isn't mobile, the people who run the restaurant certainly are. If the manager, head chef, sous chef, maitre d', and a few other key people where to close up shop at their current location and set up a new place serving the same food a couple of blocks down the road, wouldn't that count as mobile. Sure it will cost a bit of cash upfront, but if they can negotiate a better deal on the rent, they'll quickly make that back.
There is probably some highly non-obvious reason that sorting your queue of URLs by length is optimal, which was arrived at after a lot of modelling and testing.

We're unlikely to ever know the answer unless someone from google explains it to us.
The quick jump in major version is because Mozilla is moving to a rapid release cycle, a la Google Chrome. Firefox 6 and Firefox 7 are expected by the end of the year. Here is one of the relevant blog posts:

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-fir...
> Many companies provide matching funds for retirement accounts, but don't allow you much say in where you invest. You can be given a basket of stocks and told to pick, or told which fund managers you're allowed to use.

You do realize that the 2nd sentence isn't necessarily supporting evidence for the first, that the basket and the funds matter.

Regardless, the big 401(k) providers already have advice services. (Schwab's is provided by a 3rd party.) And, independent financial advisors will take your company's list and generate a plan. (such as ricedelman.com .)

Yes, I realize that there are employers who don't use such providers or won't pay for the advisor service, but how can your service address that problem?
I was wondering why nobody's posting anything, then I remembered I'm still on EST. heh. nothing beats sleeping in and discovering its only 8am :D
This is interesting. Just my opinion but you might be ahead of your time. NFC needs to be more mature before a user's location can be exploited. But by then, the concept of a 'check in' will be redundant to this process. Your window of opportunity seems to be now. What remains to be seen is what is the best way to leverage the 'check in' and that if you (4sq) have figured it out.

Well, good luck to you and the rest of 4sq. I like you guys, just don't get how you will survive.
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This one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13912836

Lots of talk in there about goals beyond lulz.
> don't pick A because seasonal trends dictate they always fall 8% in June

I don't believe that such a stock exists.
This speech reminded me why I shouldn't give speeches to 12 year olds. :) "Magic? Magic is what you don't understand, and while it's okay to not understand everything, there is in general too little understanding going on so wipe out magic frequently!"

At the kid level I was happy he didn't praise intelligence but rather hard work since that seems to work out for the kids better as they grow up. Though I wonder where "Wizard" lies on the spectrum between praising for "Hard worker, lots of effort" and "Naturally intelligent"?
Happy to put in a list for you as this is outside of my domain. I sense a "Hacker" attack coming on :) /Learning
Rather than your community college, use these:
MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
iTunes U: http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

Formal education isn't necessary, but it's real world helpful to get some education on data structures and algorithms IMO.

Publish everything you can on Github and ask/answer everything you can on StackOverflow. Then use both of those as resume references, and just get a job. :)
Er, I should have edited that.

The Afghan central government would censor, but has a lot of other issues to worry about, and this is about last on their list.

The local government could try to censor (and, I think has objected to porn and other stuff in the past, which got filtered); the people running it have been proactive in working with the local government.

Not getting blown up is the primary concern here, not government censorship, though. If Afghanistan gets to the point where government censorship is their biggest problem, that's success.
its not ios specific, this is a commmon problem on all touch devices, I am actually very curious as to when this is going to hit android.
While we are worried that performance may be lower and costs higher - we are not sure if this would be the case. If we can get the same performance for a comparable cost (say within 10 to 15%) of what we are currently paying, we would prefer EC2 for two reasons 1) Redundancy - in case we have a problem it would be easy to restore instances and be back up online quickly 2) Flexibility - as we occasionally (2 or 3 times a year) do have peak traffic loads when we could use more servers.
A poor mans PageRank algorithm, assuming nothing else, would assign a higher PageRank to shorter site links on a page. Presumably the crawler visits pages with a higher PR first.
But not all programmers make iPhone apps, Facebook games or web applications.
Because my encryption keys are 2048^2 characters long (They're images). Its not just ``Very Hard to Remember'' but ``Damned hard to unfuck.''

(good point though, +reply, -op though.)
I've never been able to understand the competitive advantage of Groupon's business model. While they can offer local businesses a large pool of prospective customers, they are constrained to being pseudo-local.

I lived in Philadelphia and about 3 Groupon-like models popped up around my university and offered me more relevant deals than Groupon did. By being super-niche, they were more useful to me. To get more entrenched in any given locality, Groupon needs to hire more sales people and this will not scale profitably.

I think the killer business model in this arena is the platform model - what Yipit are doing. Aggregate deal-providers and serve as the information hub about all deals.

I'd love to hear a good defense of Groupon's business model. It would be a relief that staggering amounts of capital are being raised with a sensible strategy.
I wonder if this is a side-effect of (relatively) high engineering salaries. Financiers say 'ok, fine we can take paying $100k a year because we can write out your options at will.'. It may be a wider symptom of VC starting to attract more cut-throat PE firms.
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> In Bob's neighborhood, none of the houses are freshly painted, because it's in nobody's best personal interest to do it, because they don't own the places. None of the yards are weeded or landscaped, the plumbing leaks, and the wiring is hazardous. Bob commits as little of his own resources to his house, because it doesn't belong to him.

> But, I question that system. I think, if Bob weren't a rational actor

The above tells us more about your definition of "rational" than anything else. You're envy driven.

The guy above defines "rational" differently - he's greed driven. He fixes up the place that he rents because of the value that he gets.

IMHO, you're too concerned about what someone else gets. You don't even see how anyone else can think differently, hence your label "rational".

Envy is the stupid sin. It's the only sin that doesn't get you anything.
Hm, ok. I guess the syntax rubs me the wrong way. Why does “overflow-scrolling: touch;” mean “use native scrolling”? What are the other values? What does “overflow-scrolling: touch;” mean on the desktop?

But I guess that’s really not such a big problem.
Foursquare also just opened a San Francisco office in order to be able to hire more technical talent. So, meh.

http://thenextweb.com/location/2010/11/22/foursquare-to-open...
A lot of people buy SUVs these days and all I see them do is drive to Walmart.
This poison company will simply be another footnote in history. Mainly because of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2689512

Microsoft should have stayed far, far away.
It's probably just a short URL is a heuristic for an important site. www.site.com/section is probably more important than www.site.com/section/subsection/detail/page/5/comments. A good move for the crawler - don't get distracted by "deep" pages - try and stick to high level ones first.

Edit: this would also encourage webmasters to use short URLs, which benefits users by being easier to remember, too.
you haven't spent much time with wall street types, have you? It's a lot of alpha-male, machismo, 'let's drink beers and tell dirty jokes' - which, in my experience, is pretty much in line with being "cool" as an adolescent. Your implication that being well-educated and popular are mutually exclusive is just plain false, at least where I grew up...
Socializing too deeply early on at school is often a disadvantage in later life; the best successes are those with raw talents that learnt to socialise out of school.

The reason for this disadvantage is institutional and would be difficult to decouple from a mainstream education. Basically, the social hierarchy at a school promotes the social status of people that (a) are older or part of the educational bureaucracy, (b) demonstrate superficial interest in manufactured culture, (c) belong to mainstream cliques with lowest common denominator values, and most of all (d) are non-disruptive and therefore willing to follow the rules and authorities of the institution. This is as opposed to later life where in a less rigid social structure freethinkers move ahead from others depending on their ability to be (e) disruptive and on their human merit: (f) intellectual and (g) social.

It should be quite clear that, while a school may attempt to educate pupils which it often achieves to a high degree of success, the actual social structure is counter to the abilities eventually self-learned by a freethinker [e, f, g].

When a person that does not feel part of an institution and does not socialise as readily with it, they are not as easily influenced by the institution they: (h) criticise it and (i) differentiate themselves from it — often this means the band geek buries themselves in music and the nerd starts to read science text books in their spare time. While later on they are not handed the opportunities that would have arisen from a high social status at school they are: (j) less impeded by new hierarchies that they join, (k) now promoted based on the merits that they fostered while on the fringes of the educational institution.

On the contrary, the person that felt one with the institution and was celebrated for conforming to the values of its social structure has now learned behaviour that: (l) either brings no benefit to their existence in the new hierarchies or (m) actually counts against them. Worst of all, since they never learnt how to exist apart from a hierarchy (n) they prefer the security of groups over the risk of trying to do things their own way, (o) are likely to lack technical skills, (p) and might still be friends with the people they grew up with in school which would create “stickyness”.

As a closing point, of course there are exceptions, for instance: there are those with (q) leadership qualities and (r) high emotional intelligence that were successul at school while also able to control their school experience to their own long-term advantage. There are also many unsuccessful geeks and nerds whom only gain (s) intellectual skills, (t) simply belonged to a much worse-off social clique with the same problems, and most importantly (u) never learn to socialise and take risks.
The problem is the fact that most parents don't want to make the sacrifices that come with having kids plain and simple.
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Very hard, but possible.

The spreadsheet is a great example of something that is ridiculously intuitive when you first use it, and grows with you. From inserting values in cells, to formulae and UI features like freezing, to advanced constructs like pivot tables, and ultimately to programming.

I would call that a smooth UX trajectory from novice to expert.
My 2 cents:

From what I see on the list I am deducing that you work with rails most of time. If that is correct, that is what you should have aimed for "Ruby/Rails Resources Page".

I guess it would have worked better if you had created separate page for Apple resources(just thinking out loud; I do not know anything about Apple app development).

There is a lot of stuff that can be categorized as generic tools and not anything specific to hackers. Either should have been a separate part list or not at all(I am not sure many "hackers" [want to]use 37Signals services).

Listing of resources is almost useless to the reader if you do not provide a short explanation on why you think the tool is on your list. This saves readers' time. Hackers love knowing opinions; even if they don't agree.

Finally, You should have included only those topics on which you possess a good level of expertise.
I can't be bothered to manually sort something. Tell me when I can just call wallet.sort().
I'm hoping this will be the death of that hideous OnSwipe Wordpress theme which tries to make a perfectly functional smooth-scrolling website and turn it into a faux iPad app with jerky, glitchy scrolling and none of the usual site navigation. On top of that, the "View as standard site" link doesn't work 90% of the time.
The valuation is $8bn. Worrying about $100K is pointless. Stealing equity should be criminal.
Hallucinogens are not addictive.
"From other parents" sure. It's the other kids that shut the geeks out. I always got along with adults better than my "peers".
I like how 'nerd' is always associated with 'anti-social'. Doesn't a nerd's success hinge on their ability to create social networks for themselves?
s/Macbook Pro/good computer

and your point is?
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It's called private school, unschooling, and homeschooling.

The public school system is about a century away from making changes that benefit the students rather than the bureaucrats.
There are lots of context specific css attributes, what does overflow:scroll mean when printing a page.

as for the actual names, yeh I imagine there was already a lot of bikeshedding involved and could go on for years, I am just glad the code is there.
Boycott Skype. If this is how they treat their employees, how do you think they will treat customers?
Thanks for this. Git Extensions is the most promising of the GUIs I've looked at thus far.
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