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But as jsnell said below this:
A lot of people might like the idea of living on Mars when there is absolutely no risk of that actually happening.

While I think that we're still a good ways from pushing this planet to it's limit (at assuming renewable energies come online quickly enough to mitigate population growth), eventually we'll want more room. And living in contained units (underwater, in space, or on other planets, ) doesn't seem like a worthwhile solution. So we're either talking population control or making more livable space. Surely, a thousand years into the future, we don't want to only have one livable planet to our race. And (maybe I'm wrong but,) terraforming what we have seems more likely that traveling to other Earth-like planets.

I'm not crazy enough to think that this is something we can overcome easily, or during my lifetime, but I think it's more of a "if we don't get started now, when?" type issue.
> If WP7 was made by two greasy dudes in their basement, I would still think it is just as nice.

It would be a lot more impressive.

> I've used the clipboard once since they've updated WP7 with it

I use it regularly with e-mail. Without it, e-mail becomes that long sausage of quoted text and most readers can't quite figure out what are you taking about. It spares me a lot of re-explaining. Not to say re-typing (which, in a small keyboard, is great)

> Regarding multitasking, frankly I like iOS/WP7 solution far better than Android.

I tend to agree with that. There is something in the Android way of killing apps that feels wrong, but the way it manages the app lifecycle (inactivating, preserving state, killing) automatically has its own intrinsic virtues. I like the way WebOS does it with cards. I feel iOS is a little bit confusing. Never experimented with Mango (WP7 has more registered developers in Brazil than phones sold), so, no first-hand experience with it here.
This creates a lot of possibilities for data breaches, especially with a single database. Maybe it would work better with 2-factor auth dongles. But the hardware & software side has to be auditable.
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Ya, that's a problem. Still don't know enough to say, but if I had to guess, I'd say your core problem is cultural/people, and until that changes, there's nothing you can "learn" to improve.

On a technical level, if your language doesn't support things like inversion of control (in one form or another) and reflection/proxying (or a dynamic runtime), it's going to be an uphill battle to write effective, non-brittle unit tests. Therefore, maybe end-to-end integration tests might be a better fit (for which, I'm no expert).
Yeah, agreed. It's all very well pontificating about the unjustness of having a crappy job, being "under-paid", not doing anything "worthwhile" or apparently bettering mankind. But I know from personal experience that having any job, any job at all, and earning a crust is a damn sight better than earning nothing at all.
If/when asteroid mining becomes profitable, that's when the private industry takes off, and the entire thing takes care of itself.
I once tried to create a list of basic patterns...always thought it'd be more useful than it turned out to be:

https://github.com/mogade/badwords/blob/master/en.txt
Isn't this like admitting you have a drug problem and instead of going cold turkey, you decide to just have an occasional hit. I agree with the authors philosophy, however you need to go full cold turkey!
> and something scarily new like Plan 9 is, well, scary

Plan 9 would be more OK if it didn't try to be so not Unix.

That's too bad. It saddens me that, of the three more advanced widely used OS, two are variations of the 70's Unix theme while the third is the bastard child of VMS with lots of lipstick on it. :-( Plan 9 deserved better.
...as long as there is fast wireless internet access at the destination.
But it seems that that is what you need:walking off into the desert to think for 30 days.
Try unplugging for 3 full days and each fourth day, you get only an hour.
Soon:
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You're missing the point. Within the set of points along the curved line, I can define any point by a single coordinate: how far along the line that point is. That makes the space defined by that set of points one-dimensional. The fact that the line itself is defined by multiple coordinates within the larger space it is embedded in, is irrelevant.
Lattitude and longitude still make two coordintes…
I was not asking about position on a curve, I was asking about the curve itself.
Working in PHP I find I could probably easily download the PHP docs and be nearly completely happy. Client side though is a different story, plenty of times I have look for something in the JQuery docs but needed to refer to something like a stack overflow question to really get what I need.

JQuery/ JS seem to lend themselves to many different ways to do tasks and the selectors are a bit like regex for me in that I haven't really committed it all to memory.

It is a trade off though with the distractions, possibly you could try and bank up stuff that docs don't give you the answer to and hit them all up in one go.
...which is one less than the three it would take to represent points on a sphere in cartesian coordinates.

If you want me to describe the curve itself, you are essentially asking for an embedding - there are infinitely many of those, and they will depend on the dimension and coordinate system of the superspace.

Of course it's impossible to explicitly describe an embedding without reference to the superspace, but that only goes for one level - you can ignore said superspace when describing the interior of the subspace.
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Firefox will be getting a new release every six weeks.
Also, the really secret can't be connected to the internet at all. Anything top secret will be on a server that can only be accessed by people on site. All USB drives on the network must be logged, or maybe disabled. All cables, computers, and other equipment must be visible, so people can't but the network. No mobile phones can be switched on, and cameras are strictly forbidden. All that jazz.

The stuff that will be put on here will mostly be stuff that's a little confidential, but not particularly threatening.

Obviously, it's still a threat if somebody got it all in one hit. But Gmail and Facebook would hold much more useful data.
You know what really works? Swap your keyboard and mouse every month. The subtle changes in geometry and force between 3 or 4 sets of keyboards/mice somehow prevents RSI from becoming chronic.

I once suffered terribly from RSI, until I got a small collection of input devices and established the habit of changing them every now and then. For the last 10 years I've been swapping between an Apple wireless keyboard, a Vivanco generica, and a Logitech keyboard every few months, different mice too. It feels great..
Very interesting. I am always amazed how quickly browsers can update the layout when you work with jQuery to update CSS or the DOM.
Good point! I should have phrased it "the right degree". I could have added "from the right school" too.
This post was killed for whatever reason:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2893463

11 hours ago tenderlove wrote:

Haha! I am a glutton for punishment, that is how. Also I plan to drink beer shortly.

Yes, as long as there are no crazy problems, I plan to release the final on August 30th.

EDIT: I meant to say the 30th! :-(

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/msg/f47f9e4a...
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Pretty much the full web dev stack is open source, including jQuery. If you really get stuck, you'll actually learn more by reading the source code than by getting a piecemeal info on Stackoverflow. I don't remember having to do that with jQuery (most of the JS I write is without a JS library, and I have the rhino book), but I've frequently read the source code to bits of Rails or MRI when I've not understood something and been offline.
>Spoon lets you use your desktop apps and docs instantly, anywhere, with no installs.

Except for the Spoon plugin, which still prevents you from using the apps in any environment where you can't install programs.

This could be interesting if they leveraged NaCL to allow actual install-free apps, at least for any machine with Chrome. Right now, it's no more interesting than PortableApps.
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Depends on how you count. There are only so many IRL people you can interact with on a daily basis and even with most of those I tend to keep in touch online for various reasons.

99% was an exaggeration though of course :)
They refer to Tali Garsiel as "she". Sure it isn't a "he" ?
It's a matter of practicality. As a web developer I simply cannot afford to go cold turkey.
Well, yes, but they felt they need to restore some reputation.

(Or would my post be received better if I just said "Well, yes"? :))
IMHO - There is a ring of truth to this, but it does not seem so profound. When I was unemployed (2008) it was depressing because the market was awful. But... I was able to work full time at improving my health (no "I'm working too hard to go the gym" excuse!) and finding new work. The fear of poverty is depressing, but not as bad as working awful hours without the time to improve one's situation.

It is very easy to say, "Better to go hungry and wait for the perfect job." I think it is more realistic to say, "Don't take the first job that comes along. Be sure whatever you do is at least moving you in the right direction."
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> According to the StatCounter browser statistics, currently (August 2011), the usage share of Firefox, Safari and Chrome together is nearly 60%. So nowadays open source browsers are a substantial part of the browser business.

Somehow this never occurred to me to aggregate it this way. I recall having read somewhere that the server-side ratio is about 70-30. It's quite a milestone as now both ends of the WWW platform have an absolute majority being open source.
Perhaps you don't like what you're working on enough? I am generally in the same boat as you, constantly interrupted by the need for an easy information stimulus. But I have noticed that when I work on something that I truly and deeply love, then the allure of everything else fades and those "let me just check HN" thoughts are disspelled because that thing I am working on is so goddamn cool.

We all like to hack on stuff, but often our projects are a marriage of convenience between the love of hacking and some project idea that makes business sense. It is in these cases I have found there are often some very tough uphill climbs where the mind constantly tries to escape to more rewarding things. If you are smart and lucky enough to find something that is just so sock-rocking cool that you can't not think about it every waking minute, then I think your complaint would soon be that the only thing you ever want to do is work on your project :)
Minecraft released for android.
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You might have done more research than me on this, i.e. it's possible that this particular Android device doesn't actually allow it, but generally speaking you actually can do some amount of Android development on an Android device: You can install the Android scripting environment and Python for Android, and hack up Python Android apps right on the phone.

I don't mean to necessarily dispell your argument, though. I fully agree with you that it's really important that the computers we put into people's hands continue to be sustainable, i.e. that they're not just consumption devices but also allow the creation of programs. I probably wouldn't be a software developer today if my computer growing up had been an iPad, say.

Just that I think that of the current crop of smartphone platforms, Android probably comes closest to allowing and enabling hacking.
May be we have different ideas of what constitutes working out well, I wouldn't have considered the subsequent failure and acquisition of Compaq and Sun to be good outcomes.
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I jog with my wife a couple of times a week; back-pains, neck, etc. are all gone. I mean _everything_. I feel much better.

Seriously, jogging makes me feel better and helps me think straight.

I can now sit down in coffeeshop for a couple of hours without a $500 chair.
> Almost all of their grant money goes to paying the salaries of people in their lab (fixed costs).

That highly depends on the field. At my university in the math department, you're completely right. In the physics department however, the costs of the machines and experimental setups dwarf the salaries. Because the demand for things is so low, the cost is ridiculously high. For example suppose there were no plastic coke bottles, but you require one for an experiment. How much do you think it costs to make one coke bottle in a university's workshop, or to order one from a specialized company? The costs can easily go in the thousands of dollars. That's the situation scientists are in for parts used in their setups, and for the machines they use. If you can share machines, that can be a huge cost savings.
Google is... lacking when it comes to vertical or specialized searches, millions of database specific search interfaces on the web are a proof of this.

Furthermore, I would never ever gauge the viability of an idea simply based on feedback provided by random users on a forum, no matter how biz/tech savvy they might be. You need a more robust process for evaluation your ideas that's based on actual customer data. I suggest Steve Blank's The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

Good luck with your idea.
The authors picture looks like a woman to me.
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Agreed. Very useful for PHP development.
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I understand what you are trying to say, but I don't think it is entirely accurate to say that being able to define any point by a single coordinate is what makes it "one-dimensional."

The reason is that R^n has the same cardinality as R. You could create a bijection between the set of 2-dimensional real coordinates to the set of 1-dimensional reals by using every even positioned digit to represent the X value and odd positioned digits for the Y.

The issue with this is that the intuitive metric you were using in the space breaks down and you need a totally unintuitive one to treat this 1-dimensional version as a metric space. It wouldn't be fun to play a game in.
We created a PoC a while ago showing ETag + browser fingerprinting to replace cookies/client-side storage: http://www.adperium.com/tracking

It works in all major (desktop) browsers, but not in some mobile browsers.

I think the cookie debate (in the EU) is not in the best interest of users: with cookies, the user has full control of the data stored, can easily purge cookies, etc. With user-tagging technology moving server-side, this gets a lot more complicated.
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I think the point is the "normal use case for screen", which tends to be, for me: keep alive, and sometimes multiple sessions in one window.
There's certainly room for another search engine. Have you ever tried shopping searches on Google? They're painful and I'm building something to fix that. Another horrible search experience is site-specific search. Try looking for some techcrunch articles about a topic or company. You'll get a ton of results, but filtering them is nearly impossible.

I think there's great scope for innovation on the UI, as hipmunk has clearly shown. Touch-based interactions, instead of typing and clicking, are going to be important.

Is there any specific vertical you're thinking of?
Oh i totally understand that but i think if you read between the lines this article is more target to an audience like us. ie Hackers, who might hate their job but are still at it, moving pay-check to pay-check not happy with what we are doing with our time, able to do other things but just not stepping out to do it, not for people who have a family, a mortgage and need to put food on the table.

Plus its been 2 days because thats when i found this article, if i found it 3-4-5 weeks later then i would have put there 5 weeks since i have been unemployed. Regardless of the time its been since i left work the choice has been made to step away from a stable income job that felt completely draining to being unemployed but enjoying what things i can now do (which is the jist of this article)

>Try being unemployed against your own preferences (i.e. after being fired and unable to find new work) for half a year or a year - as in the current climate, long-term unemployment is becoming increasingly a problem - and we can talk again.

Wanna know something, i have a friend who i have offered my garage too for a couple of months cause at the moment he is at risk of loosing his house. He is forced to rent it out and cant afford another place to live. He wants to keep the house for his family and doesnt want the bank to take it away and turn all those years of hard work in interest payments to vanish into thin air just cause of a few months of missed payments due to being layed of.

Now he works 2 jobs 18 hours a day for 7 days to get what he used to be paid before he lost his job and needs to do that until he can get back on track so that his missed payments for the last few months have been made up. I know full well what unemployment means, not first hand but close enough ..... and its sad

HOWEVER ... i dont think this article is directed at people in this situation - hence my caveat :)
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5hit, that's a fuhked up list.
Nice, i will definately check it out. At a first glance it seems to be a nice way to fight procrastination.
"...it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day."
For me, this already worked today. Usually i browse the web aimlessly for hours until i get something done but after writing these 750 words i already know exactly what to do. Gamification obviously works for me...
Show HN: Converto.in the easiest file converter.
Converto provides you facility to convert files in desired format just by drag-n-drop on the site.
We are starting with Images and plan to add all the desired and possible file conversion pairs.

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What can you do?

1. Help us to beta test features, Your feedback and suggestions are valuable for us.

2. Lets us know which file type conversion you would love to see added in next update.

3. If someone want to contribute, feel free to know about your working conversion module, but must be in PHP.

Thank you very much.
I thought you were going to end it with something else ... the two sons got massive reverse mortgages on their land. Commodity prices collapsed after the bountiful harvest and the bank ended up foreclosing.
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Converto provides you facility to convert files in desired format just by drag-n-drop on the site.
We are starting with Images and plan to add all the desired and possible file conversion pairs.

Really I need your help.
What can you do?

1. Help us to beta test features, Your feedback and suggestions are valuable for us.

2. Lets us know which file type conversion you would love to see added in next update.

3. If someone want to contribute, feel free to tell us about your working conversion module, but must be in PHP.

Thank you very much.
Dupe: already on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2894697
They will buy shared computers and hack on them. It's what I did growing up in India. Only, there will be a lot more of it, because these guys already have a device they know they can hack on, if they had a "computer".
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You mean time? Not really. Few games allow any movement backwards in time, and practically none have free interaction with this "fourth" dimension as they have with the other three.
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The only thing missing in software is the "instantly" in "instantly sued". That's not going to happen because patent-holders want to wait for there be something worth shaking down first.
Hopefully thats not an issue, i plan to train myself more during this period of down time. Just cause im not going to the office doesn't mean im going to loose my skills. If anything im going to be learning a lot more things then i did at work.

If they care whether i am currently employed or not if i do need to join the work force again then i guess screw'em, they aren't looking for the right kinds of things.
Interesting - we run a pretty large entirely eventlet-based system, so I'm excited to try this out on that. That said, our threads often number in the thousands, so I'm unsure how this would cope with that.
subsequent failure and acquisition of Compaq and Sun to be good outcomes

I don't understand what you mean. Compaq and Sun were struggling prior to being taken over, not afterwards.

I'm more familiar with the case of Sun, but in that case some kind of take over was what all the shareholders were hoping for. The employees and many in the tech industry might have preferred a different buyer.
A return would imply that this bit of Motorola made a profit wouldn't it?

Which it doesn't really.
don't forget eye excersices - they eye doctor recommended the other day that every half an hour or so I rest my eyes from staring at the monitor by looking at something few meters away or just closing them.
I like how he talks about "solving frivolous problems that ultimately contribute nothing to the betterment of humanity as a whole" and how it's a waste of talent.

But meanwhile, there's a giant "HipsterVision" ad on his sidebar.
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> you're paying for the grade & the transcript, not the content.

How much is the grading and transcript worth? How much does it cost? I think there's a great opportunity for a startup to just focus on offering transcripts. The hardest part of education is the course content. The grading and transcript part is easy.

I love the concept of open education. But it seems to me that universities who do this are self-destructing. Does Stanford really want to base it's value proposition on its administrative staff? "Anyone can get the knowledge for free. But if you want certification from the Stanford administration staff, that will cost you $150,000. Come to Stanford and get a diploma!"