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Octopress is based on Jekyll, however, it is not exactly clear to me what it adds to Jekyll. Is it the extra plugins? Is it Rake-driven management?

Reading through the documentation quickly, it seems to add a lot of complexity compared to plain Jekyll.

A comparison with Jekyll sans Octopress would be appreciated!
I missed out on goog and eBay, not that it's too late. But the ipo that I won't miss out on investing in will be Craigslist, if Craig newmark ever decides to go public.

My strategy is: invest in what you use and understand.
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Finish! You can start working on your startup on the side, but with only 1-2 years left, you'll have a degree that can be used in case of emergencies to get you a job.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1291969

That's a HN submission with good comments, where he basically gives the plot of independence day.

I'm more worried about alien life forms due to the Great Filter problem, personally. Other life is bad news for our chances at a cosmic-proportion, galaxy-changing Singularity.
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I'm not quite sure what this offers over jekyll apart from a few more tags and a slightly more opinionated deployment strategy.

I was half expecting a combination of the wordpress admin panel + jekyll backend (kind of like gollum except for blogs). Now that would have been imPRESSive.
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Exactly why I prefer static pure HTML pages whenever it has a tiny chance of being good enough. That is for hackers in my book.
And that code should be documented, right? A hacker-centric blog could be a good tool for that.
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Apart from discussions on the quality of headline writers in popular and specialist scientific journals, I find it really interesting that the "out of Africa" hypothesis seems to need to merge with the multicentric model of human evolution.

Add to that the Denisova hominin sequencing (from the single toe bone that was thought to be Neandertal of a population that may have diverged from the African populations around 900kYA) and possible presence of up to a 4% admixture in Papuan and Melanesian populations.

It's exciting times to be interested in human evolution.

Remember that a 4% contribution is about what you might expect from a great-great grandparent (although we're talking whole populations here, not specific individuals).

My take home: the different clades of humans/hominins have been able to recognise enough of themselves in others that they were able to mix and interbreed. Early human prehistory wasn't just genocides and extinctions due to overspecialisation and ecological change. Awesome!
Read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url_encoding -- surely php has built in functions to handle this.

Note that `#` should be encoded as `%23` and that your suggestion of encoding it as `%` results in invalid urls.

Also this means e.g. search result page urls can be passed without resorting to POST.
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Let me tell you a story....

In 1997, I was precisely where you are right now. I had just started the third year of an accounting degree, I hated every moment of every single class, and my grades had started to slip from all 90s into the mid 70s. Being a good Gen-X'er, rather than outright quit, I decided to be a slacker for four months while I slowly started doing market research.

By early 1998, I was ready to drop out and start my own company. That company was reasonably successful and I sold it later that year (for a price I would laugh at today, but I was 21). Most importantly, I learned more in nine months than I had in my entire University career. About a decade later, I went back to school and finished my degree.

Basically my friend, if you're not motivated and if your marks stink, why waste money? You likely aren't learning much of anything, so either go out and start something or get a job. Higher education is hard enough when you are motivated; it is a waste of time when you are not.

Just my two cents - best of luck!
> Key-value stores are schemaless but RDBMS can do key-value storage just fine as can file systems.

Moreover, any serious RDMBS has an XML data type for efficient storage of unstructured/semi-structured data. Some even include index mechanisms to handle XPath/XQuery expressions efficiently, so handling tree-structured data isn't an issue, either.
Yes, but don't you get it? AFTER the exodus from Africa, the two populations were living in the same region (europe), but did not inter-mix at all anymore. Otherwise there would be more DNA in the europeans.

Why mix when in the middle east and then refuse to mix when in Europe?
Thanks, but the point was to be able to do it all as GET. Support for POST only became a necessity trying to parse some search engines with parameters in the url.
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If you choose to go with a custom CMS, you are going to have to:

- be responsible for your CMS' security (this includes both penetration testing and patching)

- build something that can scale along with your traffic

- test the CMS thoroughly to make sure there are no bugs

- build it in such a way that you can add new features as you get new ideas

If you stick with Wordpress:

- a large community watches for security bugs and (usually) skilled developers write patches for any bugs they find.

- scaling really should not be a problem as some huge sites use Wordpress (though they often use modified versions)

- a large community tests each new release through a very efficient beta program

- access to a large pool of already developed plugins.

For me, the decision is simple - rather than build another CMS, I would prefer using one that someone else wrote. That frees up time to make sure my content is great (and to work on other things).

Best of luck with your decision!
As someone else remarked, if you think that your online identity has some value then you really need to own it yourself. Giving the keys to your identity to Google or anyone else potentially gives them a lot of leverage over you.

If you're using Google accounts for any business related activities then you're risking the chance that some bot implementing a set of dodgy heuristics and with no real accountability can shut down your operations at any time (see http://fora.tv/2008/08/08/Daniel_Suarez_Daemon_Bot-Mediated_...)
You're the person who posted the other day at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2792610 saying "I am greatly interested in programming, and I guess I am doing good at it", etc. You didn't follow up on any of the replies. What is it you're looking for? What do you want to accomplish? Figure that out and you'll answer your question.
Without wanting to get into a debate on filesharing itself, the fact that many people do something doesn't mean the law should follow them.

The majority of people used to be racist. The majority used to be homophobic. The majority used to be sexist. Three quick examples to outline that public opinion isn't automatically the correct opinion.

Thanks to journalists adopting the term "vox populi" to mean that public opinion is all-important, it's worth remembering the actual quote it is taken from, which translates to:

"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
I do not think that human history occurred the way you think it occurred.
It's not about cost, it's about being tied a large weight that could be thrown overboard at any moment. I went with a gmail account back in 2004 because I didn't want to be tied to my ISP. Now, all my services (ALL!) use my gmail account as a means of resetting my password. If they decide to take away my account, I will be completely screwed.

What to do...what they need is the ability to have 2 email addresses for all services, so if I get cut from one, I'll just sign up for the other.

Seriously, I don't even care about all the emails in my inbox, I will go on if I loose my 3G database, I care more about my identity.
This tweet is apt:

http://twitter.com/#!/spectralhole/status/69513328166313984
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Yes, you encode `&` as `%26`, `=` as `%3d`, `?` as `%3f` etc. You only need to resort to POST if you would hit length limits with your constructed url.
This is a very good point. Reading old philosophers really open ones eyes to the things that have changed little in human culture throughout the centuries or even millenniums.
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Hmmm - well, how confident are you that (a) you marketed the app/website/product to the right people at the right times, and (b) that the landing page was working correctly, and then (c) that the design of the landing page wasn't causing abnormal bounce rates?

If all of that holds true, I think I'd opt for the "It just didn't work out" email. That may lead to other opportunities whereas just dropping it won't.
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That's because you're an emo kid and like books that conform to your narrow view of reality.
At first I was like "whoah," and then I got to the last part of the sentence "to do ads." That's still cool I guess.
Thanks again, I see your point, but this would make the syntax absolutely obscure.

The idea is to keep it simple, to just call

?url=theurl&sel=.simple_stuff

I will look at using something else than % as you suggested.
I think there are numerous examples of ancient architecture from even before the age of Rome found in Africa. Particularly northeast-africa.

Africa is just too big and diverse too be lumped into one category. However I did get a good chuckle out of the jpeg.

I do have to agree with the some of the sentiments here. There are examples of Africans who also have the Neanderthal presence in their DNA, again, east-africans. Probably explains why they're so different to other Africans.
Though I still don't know whether they're considered sub-saharan africans or not. They are genetically very distinct from surrounding Africans.
Intel has been looking at this for a while - and had quite a few successful experiments (OP is probably aware of this). I think the stumbling point is the HDDs, which have a much higher rate of failure when the temperature has a high degree of variation.
Watched a fantastic movie about this, Project Nim
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Using this transfer protocol is not recommended in this case.

This type of message SHOULD be delivered synchronously. In case it is delivered asynchronously, the receiving peer MAY refuse it.

Another possible problem is that, since 6 months is a long time, you might get time-out before the message is ever delivered.
This is just pathetic drivel to sooth the guilt this guy has over having a job that essentially does nothing but pose as a court philosopher in the upper echelons of a certain mega-corp while most of humanity scrabbles about trying to make ends meet.
I've been trying to get into Emacs for the last two years and can't seem to do it. How do you manage? Also, amen to Monaco (although I use 9pt).
I got the same message for the UK (and instead of "Tel Aviv" it just repeated the random string I'd inputted for my city).
I was terribly happy to see this article all over my Twitter feed. This game is an inspiration for budding programmers, even if the game is terribly difficult to get into comfortably. I've been playing it for quite some time now. Very happy to see it.
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Is the master's degree the new bachelor's?
Hi. Just so you're clear, the term "Hacker" used here is used in the "programming subculture" sense, not in the "security breaker" sense.

Please see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subculture...
Even though a majority of people "used to be racist" (I'd say the majority still are) the vast majority of racist behavior is NOT outlawed. Specific behaviors are outlawed and laws are not allowed to be discriminatory based on race.

Besides, the whole idea with anti-discrimination law is that you identify a politically disadvantaged group and ensure they aren't unjustly exploited by a system they have no hope of changing. It's very clear that anti-discrimination laws are designed as an exception to the rule of democracy.

In the case of copyright holders, especially large companies, they are usually the least politically disadvantaged of anyone.
If you're looking for blogging software for hackers, look at http://wingolog.org/software/tekuti/.

From the page:

Tekuti means "I'm telling you" in Oshiwambo.
It is weblog software written in Scheme, using Git as its persistent store.

'Nuff said.
I'm not sure where you're from, but here in England if you knock something out you've beaten it unconscious :P
Hell, if you were a real hacker, you would ssh to your server with vim or emacs, write the post in markdown or somesuch, and have your the blosxom-inspired clone you wrote yourself serve up the HTML.

The real reason it's "for hackers" is for marketing. That and improving its chances for a front-page mention here.
What laws there are isn't relevant, my point is simply that what the majority thinks or does, isn't always the right thing to think or do. Obviously laws regarding discrimination can't be identical to laws regarding piracy, but the point is simply that, just because a huge number of people download content for free, that in itself doesn't make it the right thing to do (nor does it make it the wrong thing to do - all it does is make it the thing that lots of people do).
ahem dude.. 99.9999% of all US patents suits are never brought to trial..it was not settlement offer but a debate on stay two different things ..could not MS find better mouthpieces?
"out of the people I know who use tablets"

I didn't mean to make that comparison, I guess. I specifically don't own a tablet because it doesn't offer any really appealing use cases to me. I can't speak for the market in general, the iPad is a big-selling device, but e-readers are quite popular too[1].

I guess I want to wind this up; I never intended to lay in to your criticism of the eInk screen, simply to offer that my experience of people's use cases differs to yours. It's kind of redundant right now anyway, the number of hoops you have to jump through to turn a nook touch into a general-purpose Android box means that it's still not a consideration for most users.

[1] a quick google for "more tablets than ereaders" yields the converse http://www.google.com/search?q=more+tablets+than+ereaders
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Jeykll is a static generator which has simple support for blogging. If you get started with Jeykll, you still have to write all your own HTML, CSS, etc. Getting a Jekyll blog from just a generator to the point where it's something you'd be proud to post takes a good chunk of time and many developers don't want to deal with designing their blog.

Octopress is HTML, Sass, Javascript and a set of Rake tasks and plugins for Jekyll. It's a framework for the Jekyll blog generator. It has a 320 and up, responsive layout. Some plugins that make blogging easier.

Octopress isn't really any more complex than if someone set up a Jekyll blog for you and handed you the keys, but of course it's going to look complex when compared to a generator.
I didn't knew about redradtable, it looks interesting, thanks for the link.

[Disclaimer: self advertisement follow ;-)]

I think that my own blogware fugitive[1] is by far more hacker-friendly than octopress. It only depends on git and it integrates completely in the normal git workflow by using hooks to generate static html from files. Also, the article files just contain their title (the first line of the file) and then the article itself. All the meta data are those from git: creation and modification dates, authors...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2799246
He forgot that the Sun and Google talks were about not patents but on joint venture to build out android..
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While I agree with at least part of the sentiment in the tweet, I'm not sure it's relevant, for multiple reasons:

1. The photo's 4 years old,
2. It's not clear that they're all running Mac OS X
3. Mozilla actually delivers products on OS X
4. Mozilla's stated mission is web freedom, not software freedom (though the two are intertwined to a degree).
5. What nice things are being denied? (The only candidate I can think of is H.264, which again was an issue of web freedom, not software freedom).

Very similar points apply to Mozilla delivering a webkit-based browser on iPhone/iPad.
From whatI can tell from the git repository (https://github.com/imathis/octopress/), Octopress adds two major things to Jekyll: a bunch of automation (via the Rakefile) and a default theme.

Reading through the Rakefile, the automation actually looks pretty useful. For example, you can a new post with rake new_post["title here"] and Octopress will generate a properly named file for you with the correct yaml front matter.

I didn't look at what the default theme actually looks like, but looking through the code it appears to be useful in quickly getting a blog up. For example, it has a partial for integrating disqus comments out of the box.
No it didn't because economies of scale took their toll. Still, it would be possible to build an elegant Mac around an x86 processor, but Apple would have to design and manufacture their own chipset. Nothing would make the CPU elegant, but, at least, the rest of the computer wouldn't be this mess.

But then Macs wouldn't be able to boot Windows. When that becomes irrelevant, we may see change.

Minor nitpick: Windows NT has been ported to MIPS, PPC, Alpha and Itanium, and was originally developed for the Intel 860 (though that version was never sold). Legend says there were Intergraph Clipper and SPARC ports too. If Microsoft pulls off the ARM release of Windows 8, that will be one more architecture with a Windows NT port.
> A Gameloft employee, who asked not to be named, said a clause in their contracts allowed for a "reasonable amount" of unpaid overtime.

why is that kind of language allowed at all in contracts?
I think the code is the solution. If the code isn't written, the problem isn't solved.
Octopress is a framework for Jekyll, which — like most static site generators — was built for hackers. Octopress is a well designed starting point for Jekyll blogging.
The tagline has nothing to do with Hacker News, the fact that you would even say that is amusing.
"Particularly northeast-africa."

I hesitate to say this since I had been planning on staying away from this conversation, but northeast africa is not part of sub-Saharan Africa which this article seems to be concerning (at least according to the Discover writeup, which I only skimmed).

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sub-Saharan_A...
> Hopefully this is not exploited to "scientifically" explain the inferiority of sub-Saharan Africans vis-a-vis the rest of humanity.

IIRC correctly, Neanderthals had smaller brains.
There has been talk for sometime that they're MySql issues are crippling progress and development due to complexity of management and upkeep.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse...
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I know I've had to go to the one near me a couple of times because it's the closest psudo electronics store, so when I've needed something at the last minute or right away and didn't feel like driving 20 min to the suburbs.
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I'm using Jekyll, and it took me roughly 3 nights to get it all up and running. Now looking at Octopress, they've literally done a couple of things I did myself to Jekyll (new post rake task, uploading to production, etc. etc.) So if I'd start from scratch today, I would take a good look at Octopress indeed.
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I don't think you should. It's the work you did when you setup Jekyll that Octopress now has out of the box.
I think the main piece of advice is number 2. Make lots of small throw-away programs. Whether these little junk programs are good or bad doesn't matter - you will be learning something either way.

And post everything to Github (or Google Code, Sourceforge, etc). Having that kind of thing public gives you more of a reason to want to improve.
I believe that is actually a "stupid cavemen" popular myth. From wikipedia:

Neanderthal cranial capacity is thought to have been as
large as that of a Homo sapiens, perhaps larger,
indicating their brain size may have been comparable, as
well. In 2008, a group of scientists created a study using
three-dimensional computer-assisted reconstructions of
Neanderthal infants based on fossils found in Russia and
Syria, showing that they had brains as large as modern
humans' at birth and larger than modern humans' as
adults.[8] On average, the height of Neanderthals was
comparable to contemporaneous Homo sapiens. Neanderthal
males stood about 165–168 cm (65–66 in), and were heavily
built with robust bone structure. They were much stronger
than Homo sapiens, having particularly strong arms and
hands.[9] Females stood about 152–156 cm (60–61 in)
tall.[10]

Of course whales have big brains too and they are pretty dumb, so our mileage may vary ;)

edit: formatting
Everything is explained thoroughly but there are really only 3 steps, all on the first page http://octopress.org/docs/setup

1. Clone Octopress
2. Bundle install
3. Rake install

The reset of the documentation is about deploying, customizing, and updating.
Ah ha!
Thank you for that,it was enlightening.
I have heard before that East-Africans are considered caucasians. Though I don't know this for sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
Wikipedia for 'caucasian' seems to suggest they are though.
Strange!
He spearheaded the adoption of MongoDB and probably Redis at Craigslist. That's more action than most commenters will see in their entire careers.
The default theme is almost identical to the Octopress home page. The only differences are the color scheme and header logo.
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Thanks burgerbrain. It seems I didn't remember correctly (or did - it's been a long time since I last got really interested in this, perhaps the early 90's). And I also have some reading to do ;-).

OTOH, in regard to the parent post, reason never stopped a racist before. It's doubtful it will now.
The site design is nice, although the use of hash-urls for things like the login URL is mildly irritating... especially if it doesn't work with Chrome autofill.

Showing the workflow is key. I'm a RunKeeper user; do I use this on my phone like RK, or need to enter routes? Can I choose common routes that other users have put in?
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When you're small and starting out is definitely not the time to be mucking around on a learning curve.

Learning a new tech in a startup is doing a lot of 'busy' work that is only beneficial to you as you're learning something, it doesn't benefit the business, it slows it down. You're also more likely to make fundamental mistakes in your implementation as you don't know the tech.

And switching when you're running is not as hard as you'd think as you already have the domain knowledge of how the solution actually needs to works.

It's all a balancing act, if the new tech is a fundamental selling point (for example your program's 10x faster than incumbents) I can understand it. If it's to deal with future scalability problems, well, that'll be a good problem to deal with later.
Very ironic that this is on a site for "Sony Security"...
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