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Also beware storing milliseconds in 32-bit quantities (as if you'd ever! but it happens).

GetTickCount is the poster child for this class of bugs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetTickCount

In fact some versions of Windows CE intentionally set this value to (0xffffffff - 10 minutes) before bootup so that bugs were more likely to come out in testing, rather than showing up 42 days after bootup.

Also, don't store time intervals as floating point, especially if you're working on a missile system: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1667060
I don't get the point of this post. You liked stalking people's class cards, so that leads you to believe that the next logical step is to create Facebook? There is so much fallacy in that logic I don't know where to begin.

First you have to recognize that people enjoy doing it and that there is a potential market for the same idea extended elsewhere (in other words you can build one that is better than what already exists). Then you have to both know how to build a website and have the wherewithal to spend hours, days, and weeks, building an initial working version with proper execution.

That's almost like saying to yourself in 1920 that you always recognized people enjoyed getting from one place to another as fast as they could, and while you were contemplating cool business ideas Henry Ford was in a shed building the Model T.

I know it's been said a billion times, but ideas are fucking worthless. There are an infinite number of brilliant businesses in every industry waiting to be built, but unless you are smart enough to build them, you aren't doing anything worthwhile. Just about everything you use every day could be built better, and not just incrementally better, but revolutionarily better in a way that would promote mass-adoption. But simply knowing that isn't enough to build a billion dollar business. It requires genius to have the vision for the starting point of what that product actually looks like in practice and then knowing how to set it into motion.
Because uranium is cheap, so why bother? The price of nuclear energy is dominated by the cost of building the reactor, not the fuel.
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Agreed. At least they make the info available via API; for example, Instantwatcher:

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/169810
>While this is an attractive bet, as Google you would have to hope that neither your OS or network got too popular or you could quickly end up in anti-trust territory.

Sadly, this is probably true. Such integration may prove too useful to consumers and too game-changing for Google's competitors. I wouldn't put it past them to use the federal government to makeup for their lack of innovation.
Apparently they opened it up already for all people to join, at least here in Spain.
How did this not get more attention? It's a pretty huge boon to the liquidity of Bitcoin.
MySQL (at least 4.x and 5.x) stores DATETIME columns as a "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" string

Wow that's terrible!
On a legal level, yes. But outside of software and some other "internationalized" areas, the lack of common language makes it kind of hard
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No, they aren't numbers. The standard is quite clear on this. Consider old DOS architecture where you had a section and offset. Your code is also not well-defined C. C only lets you perform subtraction between two pointers in the same block, this code is at best implementation defined and worst undefined (I can't remember).
The way an infinitely unlikely but theoretically possible event is described is in fact 'probability 0'.

Sure, in a specific finite range the chance is a specific positive number, but the overall chance is 0.
I think this is the article's point. Which leaves one wondering why it was written.
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While I almost agree with your first paragraph, the second made my eyebrows raise (and that's why I downvoted). "mean-spirited" and "shortsighted" are very strong words for a valid question - the grand-parent was quite polite, so no need to be defensive.
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As a comment, the word 'jugaad' is somewhat explained here:

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/dec2009/id20091...
Hopefully the TOS episodes are the 2006 remastered-for-HD versions. They look magnificent scanned from the original 35 mm film.

I understand TNG was shot on film but composited digitally in SD, so HD-quality episodes are much more difficult.
Keep going it gets better as of 3rd or 4th season. The magnificient seven ferengi (not sure if that's the correct title. In it they want to save quarks mom) episode is the funniest ST episode of all times.
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The article is correct and you are wrong for two reasons:

1) If oil is still available - that means it did not run out. Even if oil is expensive.

2) There is plenty of oil. It's just hard to drill for most of it. With increasing oil price less accessible oil will be drilled out.

3) Oil can be synthesized. Currently it's cheaper to drill for oil than synthesize it.

So comparing oil to 1600 wine is incorrect.

4) Oil is still very cheap. That's why it's so popular.
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I think you're being overly picky about wording. Intellect creates intellectual artifacts, just as a mason puts down masonry. If such an intellectual artifact happens to be property then it is intellectual property.
That is easy since pointer arithmetic is only valid inside a contiguous block. You don't need to talk about it in terms of a pointer being a number at all.
This article is /right/.

We won't wake up one day and be all "oh shit we ran out of oil". These things work on a gradient, yo.

As the market prices in upcoming oil scarcity, so prices will initially rise. The price of oil today prices in future scarcity. As the price gradually increases, other alternatives start to come online from a financial viability perspective. As more money is spent on those alternatives, so economies of scale start to kick on, so new R&D resource is spent on alternatives, so governments jumpy about energy security subsidize, etc.

If you want a natural resource to get all paranoid about, in ~20 years, South East Asia will have a 300m person gender imbalance - there will be 300m men who can't find a wife, can't start a family, can't settle down, and can't get laid. I wanna see how the market solves /that/ one.
Legalities most likely. Serving a younger audience usually requires specific privacy features and guidelines.
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Who can get why they have used Swoosh in it? As it is an abstract design, nobody will eventually find out the concept in the first place.
Ah, I see. You should definitely check out zope.interface; it's a different approach to a similar problem. This is quite cool, though. Good work!
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Actually it isn't very anonymous at all. From a few minutes of looking at that account I know both of their first names and their address (also the name of their cat).
This could enable a group of friends to build up fairly long-running tabs with no effort, then pay whenever the tab hits a convenient amount. Less friction, more fun. I hope you guys succeed.

Currently, even in a group of friends where we basically always split everything down the middle to keep it simple, not even having to do a split at all until a later, convenient time would be fantastic.
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Stuff likes this really makes me want national mandatory licensing for rebroadcast of TV at a per household rate.
But this seems like something they would have known before. Why did Google Wave not have similar restrictions?
I think it's a symptom of all of the advice in web 2.0 etc. entrepreneurial circles along the lines of "promoting brand you" and "always be blogging". A certain segment seems to believe in always offering their opinion on everything even if they have no experience in the subject and no particular insight.
Where to start with a comment like this?

'...REST always been a part of rails?'
'...obsolete technology'

How is REST -- a set of architectural principles and constraints -- obsolete when you use it every time you browse to a web page? I feel people need to start treating REST more for what it is rather than an API or some library, or SOAP for that matter.
The original stateless way has fault and partition tolerance baked right in. By breaking this convention you open yourself to a world of hurt, no matter how many band aid concepts you patch over it.

If you had ever designed or worked on a distributed system that needed to scale you wouldn't talk about adding servers and sharing state (distributed anything).

Sure distributing state is a fail-safe strategy - but not a scalable or performant one.
> * While my BUZZ prediction was way off (thanks to Google freezing development!)*

This floored me right here. He's laying the blame of his failed Buzz prediction at Google's feet? The reason Google stopped developing Buzz is because it was stillborn. Either man up and take credit for it or else don't mention it, don't stick a waffle in parentheses and expect people to take your next prediction seriously.

I remember the prediction at the time because it was so irrationally exuberant:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1116363

Google+ is obviously a lot better than Buzz, but I don't understand the justification for coming with these hyperbolic predictions. There's a big difference between impressing the bubble-within-a-bubble early adopters interacting with Jason's punditry and crossing the chasm in the way that Facebook has done.

Jason didn't give a timeframe for this 50/50 split, but I'll repeat my statement from 508 days ago with reasonable terms:

Mark my words, 3 years from now Google will not have taken 50% of Facebook's market share.
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You can boil it down to religious extremism: Puritans (the New World's original religious extremists) propagated their values well. Puritan values (which are ultimately Judeo-Christian) stuck longer in North America.

The Judeo-Christian tradition of heavy authoritarian social traditions (top-down, male oriented, "might makes right" mindset) mutated into what is basically a modern jingoist mentality.

Eventually, you arrive with what we see today: a culture which values strength and fierceness, and reflects this in its movies and tv, while simultaneously holding onto an antiquated fear of/confusion about human sexuality.
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I took this class 4 years ago in UMass Amherst. In Scheme. I loved it.
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Some of this feels like trying too hard to adhere to HTTP. For example,

> Accept: application/vnd.steveklabnik-v2+json

This declaration loses information, because it no longer contains the MIME type for JSON in a standardized format. Assuming the server responds with the same string for Content-Type, any application that does not know specifically about this API can no longer recognize that it's JSON and, e.g., pretty-print it for a user, as I haven't seen done for JSON but is regularly done for XML by browsers.

On the other hand, the original suggestion:

> Accept: application/json

works in theory, but in practice makes it more difficult to test the API in a browser. This is not the end of the world, but there does not seem to be any real benefit in using Accept. I cannot think of any practical situation where a tool can use the standardized header for an advantage...
I disagree with the author.
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Little known fact about Zuckerberg and Facebook; the idea and the name came from his high school, Phillips Exeter Academy ... I would know since I was in the same dorm as Zuckerberg around that time (it was a boarding school).

Exeter was certainly neither the first nor the only place to have a paper facebook. Harvard, MIT, and most summer camps all had the same thing at that time and years prior.
Yeah, Star Trek VI was one of the good ones! :)
Regarding how "the right thing" stacks up to the worse-is-better solution, the author writes:

> How does the right thing stack up? There are two basic scenarios: the ``big complex system scenario'' and the ``diamond-like jewel'' scenario.

> The ``diamond-like jewel'' scenario [Scheme] goes like this:

> The right thing takes forever to design, but it is quite small at every point along the way. To implement it to run fast is either impossible or beyond the capabilities of most implementors.

This doesn't sound like it's actually the case, is it? There are, of course, many different Scheme implementations; they seem to get implemented in reasonable amounts of time, and some execute code very quickly indeed.
> incidentally, does anyone know of a really good API for time (including calendars etc)? python's (which is largely a thin layer over C) is a horrible mess, for example.

The only date & time API I've ever seen praised is Joda (JDK/Java library). Joda's author went on to redesign it from scratch (though with inspiration from his work on Joda) for JSR-310, Java's new Date and Time API.
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Balancing a budget in a recession does not subsequently mean that the state will take in less tax revenue. It also does not necessarily mean that a "large portion of demand" will go away. That would depend entirely on what was cut.

However, consistently running an unbalanced budget will most definitely lead to a "downward spiral".
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Apparently SPJ was once asked by a customs official in America if an american citizen could do what he did. Someone with him announced that his work as the creator of ML made him irreplaceable.

So you see, ML's got fanboys in high places. Even close to SPJ apparently.

Source for SPJ Koan : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWSZ4c9yqW8 (around the 4 min mark).
Number 4 has a big caveat in that it requires really good communication skills to make certain everyone understand what the purpose and use case of the product is.
And Gmail was a calculated and intelligent response to Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail?
I haven't watched the new TOS episodes - are they simply remastered from the original film, or did they also add new CGI, a la Lucas's re-releases?
> I'd like to add one to the list - store your Unix time as a 64-bit value

How about actually doing the right thing and using time_t?
Am really not sure why this app needs offline access to my data. I've developed Facebook apps myself and it is generally important to clearly specify why an app needs offline access unless the reason is obvious (say an iphone client where logging in each time might be a pain).
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You are hardly alone. A year ago in a consumer satisfaction survey, Facebook ranked below the airlines. There is no reason to believe they are better liked today.

I have to believe that a company that is that disliked by its customer base is vulnerable.
To be simplistic, it seems that things are quite different this time. The fundamentals of crises may be the same or similar, but the world has -never- been linked in the way it currently is, and the world population, and total consumption has -never- been as high as it currently is.

I hate to argue against an entire book with a sentence like that, but claiming that this is a "pretty vanilla financial crisis" seems to take the overall situation in a dismissive light that I don't agree with.
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I'm confused, what's the technical challenge of the News Feed? Scaling? Efficiently determining the most relevant news per user?
Good read, thanks.

Last paragraph was really weird, though. An unsourced, odd vision of afterlife described as "perhaps" Hemingway's? Was he even superstitious?
I would have never known this was a Google property.
Old news - this is just decompiled, not the original source.
Not quite what you are asking for, but I've recently started using the Chirpy VS add-in (chirpy.codeplex.com). It comiles CoffeeScript on save in VS, producing one readable and one minified js version.

It also handles .less, but I haven't used this yet.
From what I have read here on HN and elsewhere she's just very, very good. "Propped up and sponsored by men"? Could you elaborate? You're seriously downplaying Sheryl's skills and ethics. And "the problems that most other women have"? Don't let my mother hear that BS, she'd say: "who the hell is most other women"?

The glass ceiling metaphor is too abstract because it makes an underhanded claim to universality. "A glass ceiling for women in tech" is too vague and doesn't advance the discussion.
Nerve cells are far too slow.
We won't wake up one day and be all "oh shit we ran out of
oil". These things work on a gradient, yo.

After seeing how well corporations have dealt with IP addresses, I'm not so sure about this. Add in the possibility of a random war suddenly quadrupling the price of oil, and the fact that it might take twenty-plus years to switch the energy industry over to another technology, and I find it very believable that we'll wake up one day and be all "oh shit we can't produce enough energy."

South East Asia will have a 300m person gender imbalance

True. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how we can deal with that one at all, given that it's already happened. I'm lumping it in with tsunamis and pandemics rather than resource depletion.
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But Google started in '98, making them two years too early to be "of the decade."
It seems that Google's been fighting very hard against this recently [last 8 years], which actually makes it a lot let useful for me, and likely others here. Of course, it's the right thing for them to do, but I'd still give quite a lot for a "Google Classic".
I have a horrible attention span for math nowadays but found the whole first chapter a pleasant read. Different strokes for different folks and all that. It could be a little better spaced out and what not, but this is a great refresher.
You're right. It should say: Unix time is the number of seconds since epoch, not counting leap seconds.
No market "manipulated" Greek dept. The Greek government took more money than they could pay back and mostly spend it on creating fake jobs in the government. The submarine deal is only 1 billion euros, this is not the reason for the hundred of billions of dept. To my knowledge this has not been payed yet. The F-16 deal is 1,5 billion euros, also not the reason for the billions of dept. Especially not"half the money."

It's plain simple, the Greek people voted for a government that took more money than they could pay back and lived great with this. I know it's easier to explain the Greek guilt away in this than face reality.
I don't follow the logic in the examples at all.

First, we have a comparison between the assertive McKinnell and the respectful Katen. But there is no mention of 'fairness' to be found.

Then we have a study of students that found that ruder people seemed to be more powerful, but I can't figure out how that relates at all to wanting to give more power to less fair people.

I'm not going so far as to say the conclusion is wrong, just that this particular article seems to provide no evidence for it.
Any idea why it was done this way? It seems like counting leap seconds belongs in the same layer as sorting out timezones, i.e. not here.
I'm also happy to beta test the iPhone app.

I currently use something called Share-a-Bill quite heavily, but it has some shortcomings. I've also just moved into an apartment with 2 friends, so we're looking for a better application for sharing bills.

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It looks like the domain (fb.me) is owned by FB but also looks like a generic shortner. Anyone have any ideas what this is about?

Screenshot of what it looks like in my browser: http://i.imgur.com/ROGQR.png
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And false. See lysol's reply or the 5.0 reference manual's section on storage requirements:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements....

"YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" is the format of the DATETIME datatype. That's all.
While the news feed is certainly not trivial, I think you have a point in that it wasn't news feed's technical prowess that made it a game changing feature for facebook. In fact, there was a pretty vocal displeasure among its user base about the news feed feature. In the end, however, (in a slightly biased reading) it fuels the fire of narcissism most efficiently, and therein lies its true power.
While some of the DNS data points at Google, it's primary DNS server shares the IP address with a DNS server for slide.com.

The IP address for that DNS server is part of a block that is allocated to Slide, Inc. at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA which also happens to be the address of Google HQ.

Which makes sense, given http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/google-buys-slide-for-182-m....

But no, I wouldn't have thought it was a Google property either.

Edit: fix URLs, oops.
Can their sovereignty be weakened? As in the French and Germans slowly just taking over Greek institutions. (As in since you can't get the taxes yourself, let the Germans run the police and the tax office?).

There were snide remarks and suggestions a while back of them selling off islands? That might work.

Then I wonder how would the Greeks pay the money back anyway. How much feta-cheese and tourism can they sell? At some point the interest rates are just to high for them to even touch the principle when paying back, even if they start to double their feta cheese production and start actually diligently paying taxes ...
A calendar application is a bit different, since the whole subject of the application is time, time zones, etc. Still I'd store all in UTC along with the user's time zone (you'd have to store the time zone anyway with localized time too).
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Same here. They seem to solve a problem I personally have.

Currently, I use emails (sent from my phone) to "remember" what I owe people and what they owe me, but it's kind of annoying. I also thought about building an Android app, but I think I'll just use this instead.