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Btw....can't wait to see what you guys do with the subdomain 'thingama'.

It's almost obligatory with that domain.
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Not sure why you called TomofTTB smug, he was being quite the opposite.
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The only interesting package I had on Cydia was Frash, and I don't see that being built in in the near future. :)
This was in the news almost as soon as the riots started, with the media lapping it up as an opportunity to get some buzzwords in. I think they are also considering, or have already used, some mass phone record crawling.

The British government - either party - just doesn't seem to "get it" with respect to civil liberties. Poor logic comes up time and time again, the public don't really care much unless they read The Guardian. It makes me glad I left to a liberal cheese-eating European country ;)

At university a law student defended (regurgitated a professor's opinion) our lack of constitution by saying that all the important parts end up enshrined in law anyway and that the constitution's lack of flexibility causes problems as society/technology changes. I think there's more to it than that - the mindset that accompanies having a constitution (particularly in the general population). At least in the US encroachment tends to happen with extreme events and is duly challenged as unconstitutional.
I don't.

I've tried a few others. Both Dotcloud and Duostack (before the acquisition). But I always ran into one or two little sticking points or things it couldn't do or things it could do but not easily.

I keep coming back to Heroku, for both Ruby and now Clojure. (And now that their Node.js hosting isn't awful, I'd probably use it for that too if I did something in Node). It makes it so easy for me to get an app out, even with little wrinkles like needing some configuration variables that I don't want to check in to my codebase.
Since Jobs was gone from Apple in 1985 what was his role in the Macintosh II, which didn't come out for 2 more years? Not a question that should be left to suspension of disbelief. And the iMac came out in 1998, but Steve was working on it at Apple in 1985 – in the Macintosh II building? To paraphrase Col. Kurtz: "Journalism? I don't see any journalism here."

And one more thing™, Dhuey is the one with a tin ear if he doesn't understand that fans are anathema to Jobs' aesthetic.
Not really, Amazon web services launched Elastic Cache based on Memcache thats Dotcloud's meal. Since Amazon is mostly customer driven more the need for specific platform AWS will launch likely.
> For over a decade he had a string of public failures

I'm not sure if NeXT's history is a failure or the building of a foundation. Something similar happened with Pixar: Steve bought it in 1986, Toy Story was released in 1995.

Before TS, Steve had already sold the hardware side of Pixar, the staff had to be cut in half, and Jobs was still wondering whether he should resell Pixar in 1994.
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I have found one article suggesting Franklin's use of "Temporary Safety" is analogous to "Tranquility", which suggests an interpretation essentially condemning appeasement; that is to say, giving up liberties to a power to placate that power, to further tranquility (for now).

I will have to read further, but I personally feel this is a much sounder interpretation of his quote.
There are lots of people who would say that the right to bear arms is a constitutional right and produce stories of the person who COULD have stopped the criminal had they been able to bring the gun into the diner, but were powerless to do so. I guess there is no clear cut case you can make which everyone would accept, because liberty for libertarians is, in fact, just that.
Ah, you noticed that too? I thought it was unusually clever: only if you attack civilians, we will bomb you; the civilians are rising up against you with tanks and guns; you fight back; we bomb you!

Media have tagged along as usual: massive glorification of the rebels without discussing many of the issues or history; implicit support as if treating events as a football match with the rebels being England.
Just a thought: we're talking about WordPress plugin code here. Anyone ever tried to collaborate on and add features to code like this: https://github.com/jigoshop/Jigoshop ?

Any value judgements aside, it is just very hard to touch this kind of PHP spaghetti without breaking it, let alone add functionality unless you completely own the code.
The British have had a problem with their teenagers for a very long time. I saw YouTube videos back in 2008 where a girl was like, "why do people cross to the other side of the street when they see young people? we don't all carry knives, we aren't ALL criminals. Why do they look at you like a criminal?" But the truth is, this problem hasn't really gone away.

And Britain taking a page from the egypt/libya/tunisia playbook of limiting social nets isn't gonna help matters.
After posting this comment, I got a stern email from mister Paul Graham. You read that right. The cult of Apple is so strong here, that the site owner emails you when you talk against the brain-washed mantra: Apple is God.

Granted, I had a bit of tone as well, but still.

I'll take your advice and just leave it at that. That and refrain from commenting on any Apple-related threads in the future. There's obviously no point trying to bring the real world into HN Apple threads.
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The British government often comes up with poorly thought out policy ideas, but in fairness, these ideas rarely end up as actual laws - the obvious logic flaws are picked up on sooner or later. I suspect it's just a case that they needed give out some policy ideas to keep the journalists happy and this is the first thing they came up with.

Anyway, I can't see how removing access to social media would have had much influence on the riots - seems like SMS messages would be just as effective, for organising a riot. Social media just happens to be a cheaper option.
afaik the contents of several days messages from the bbm was handed over to police to hunt for evidence.

"To look for evidence". This is frightening. Searching through something to look for incriminating evidence. It's the reverse of how the system is supposed to work.
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Buffett is very shrewd. He invested in Goldman Sachs and GE during the collapse, but he refused to put a dime in Dick Fuld's Lehman Brothers.

This is why Berkshire Hathaway has been earning over 20% annually (on average) for multiple decades. He can get terms that nobody else can, but even then, he knows when it's investment and when it's speculation.
I get it. Pretty good idea.

One can either do two things in the tech world:

Create new ideas (be a pioneer, and get arrows on your back as a result).

Or

Improve on existing ideas that already have a defined market.

Just like pinboard improved on delicious, this could end up improving on the Q&A formula.

Their current approach is innovative in terms of presentation. It looks clean, simple, maybe even Apple-like in terms of grid-like alignment.

They need to differentiate the comment/solution issue. It is a good feature. The question allows for more data to be provided by the OP, but it is rather bland looking and gets lost in the gray background. Make the question textbox a light yellow to better contrast it.

I see this growing as a mix of different Q&A models. Time will tell.

Good luck to the Jig team.
Yep. It was especially facebooky because we use facebook profile images.
That might be the case. This blog post [1] shows some examples of what the advance optimizations do and it seems that, while it'll shorten everithing up, things that are put in the global namespace (window) will not be stripped even when they aren't called. As jQuery adds the 'jQuery' and '$' variable to the global namespace and all it's functions are attached to that object, I would assume that the Closure compile connot remove any of them.

Of course, this is all pure speculation, it'd be much better to test this out.

[1]: http://www.bitstorm.org/weblog/2010-8/Introduction_to_the_Go...
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> the person who COULD have stopped the criminal
> had they been able to bring the gun into the diner,
> but were powerless to do so.

Just like the people that don't want to wear seat belts and always bring up the anecdotes about people being saved from death because they weren't wearing a seat belt and were flung from the car?
I would have loved an elevator ride with him. The man is quite smart, and a resilient entrepreneur.
I think there are a lot of founders who don't code on their company's product anymore (though it's apparently not a pure factor of size – Gates and Zuckerberg are known for actually writing code many years in), but it'd be weird if they didn't write code at all. It would imply that writing code is never the most efficient way to accomplish a task that they want solved. Even with infinite resources at your beck and call, it's often faster to write a quick script than to explain to someone else what that script should do (and to continue to do so through whatever iterations seem appropriate).

I'm tempted to say that those who don't continue to hack were never really hackers in the first place. For a hacker, writing code is just one of the normal ways to interact with a computer.
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Can't Chrome or Firefox plus extensions already do these things?

And if not, why not write an extension that will, rather than a whole new browser that no one will use.
I want to get away from Q&A. It's not just arbitrary questions, it's your friends with real needs, and your neighbors with real knowledge, or whatever.

But: think of this as "create new ideas" but clothed in current UX. There's a lot more to this idea, but we needed to ship something so that we could start iterating with interaction from the public.

Re: comment/solution: I agree.
I'm a low-4-digit (or was, 1359) and left because the blogging system was just so bad. I think less that 1/4 of the screen you got for your own content.

That was the final straw, it had been an echo chamber for a while on the main board by that point, you know, every other comment seemed to be "Micro$oft is EVIL!!!!!", rather than the semi-intelligent debate I'm sure it used to have.
Is this all that different than the police entering your house (with a warrant) to look for evidence?

I'd say they have reasonable cause to believe that they will find evidence in the messages.
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Probably not. But spending another year coding wouldn't help, either. Ultimately the problems that we find can only be found by launching something.
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I'm a mid-stream adopter (uid == 626634) and I took Rob's departure to get around to removing /. from my bookmarks - something I'd been thinking about doing for some time. The main reasons for cutting the cord are that other sites (ie: HN) tend to list important/useful tech stories first and have a better signal-to-noise ratio in their comment threads.
Unfortunately I'm learning Chinese, which is not yet supported. But as I am very interested in using verbling, I thought I would provide some feedback:

Firstly - Why do I have to register to use? It would be nice to specify your language and jump in. Then if I enjoy the experience, I can sign up with my e-mail address, etc.

Secondly - Having spent a bit of time around Asia, the market to learn English is absolutely huge! A lot of people are desperate to practise English with a native speaker. In Taiwan, sometimes had people (usually high school kids) coming up to me in the street wanting to practise. However it will require localised sites, written in Chinese, or Korean or Japanese to tap this market. Also, it will need a different marketing strategy to what you might use for English, or a European market. In China for example, a lot of people spend most of their time hanging around on BBS's like MOP. For obvious reasons using Google ad-words would be a no go ...
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Given the amount of capital that B&H needs to invest yearly, this is a natural choice.

Buffet likes banks, he said so in the book The Snowball (a must read). Banks have float, which is interest free money "floating around" waiting to be invested by the bank, but not owned by the bank.

BOA also sells insurance, which has more float than a bank. B&H has a pretty effective group of insurance business people. A lot of the B&H wealth comes from the insurance industry.
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That's a bad comparison. It's more like entering everyone's homes to look for evidence.

(and I think I'm right in saying that the courts were't even involved, so the warrant part doesn't work either)
Not sure if serious or just mildly autistic...
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This seems to be missing the point. The theorem is that a monkey typing forever would eventually produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. This test seems to be having a huge number of monkeys typing random letters that might make up words, and if a word matches a Shakespeare play it is marked in green. In other words, it's just randomly generating words and slowly building a Shakespeare play. This doesn't seem hard at all.

Unless I'm missing something these seem to be two completely different experiments. One saying that a monkey given enough time could randomly create Shakespeare, and one saying given enough monkeys making random words they could eventually check off all words in a Shakespeare play.
Slashdot didn't originally have user registration, you just typed your nick in a field when posting a comment. They were already quite popular when they begin to require logins, and IIRC the <4 digit UIDs were consumed within a week or two. It would probably be a better metric to check UIDs under 20K or so.

All this talk of early slashdot reminded me that (for some reason) my account had unlimited moderation points back in the old days.
I didn't downvote you, but I guess the reason is that it's irrelevant which parts Samsung invented, and which parts Google invented since the point is that Apple didn't.

But Apple's new version of iOS "copies" several of the features from my phone.
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Did you see "Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad?" http://www.slate.com/id/2301228/. I wonder if this is a market that actually wants nice single-page websites.
It's great to see Jig finally launching to the public. I had a first look in June, when I used it together with 200 others foo campers to coordinate the trip to Sebastopol. Then I used it again when I moved from Chicago to San Fran to find a new accommodation.

I don't see Jig as a Q&A site because needs, unlike questions, tend to be personal in nature and change (or even die out) over time. The same need could be posted by multiple people in different locations, or by the same person over time, and all could get different answers.

With that said, Jig will have to fight the only known certainty of any online community: as your user base grows, your quality declines. I can already notice the difference in both the needs and the answers posted now from those of just few weeks ago. Let's hope the Jig team has a strategy in mind to keep the trolls at the gates.

In any case, great job!
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I wonder if Steve Jobs leaving as CEO at Apple has to do with this.
Making a browser takes alot. This post reminds me the 'I want to build my own MMORPG, it will have X/Y/Z feature and I need developpers to help me.' posts. Great idea but why not fork an existing opensource browser instead of reinventing the wheel?
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Yep! We have a lot of ideas, and a bunch of them came from reacting to the traffic.

It looks a lot higher quality if you load your personal networks from twitter/facebook/etc but the traffic goes by much slower, so we need to work that.
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For example, would you argue that acquiescing to the ban on assault weapons falls under this quote?

Yes. I believe in the right to keep and bear arms, and I believe that right (reasonably) extends at least to infantry rifles and the like[0]. Aside from being the check of last resort on government power, military-style rifles are the most effective thing available to civilians for home defense and the like. While I will concede that those situations are rare, the use of weapons covered by assault weapons bans in crime is also exceedingly rare; criminals tend to use inexpensive, concealable pistols.

[0] Bans on "assault weapons" tend to list features like pistol grips and flash suppressors commonly found on military weapons and rare on target/hunting rifles. Incidentally, the only provision of any assault weapons ban I am aware of that actually affected the lethality of the weapons is the limitation on magazine capacity.
Seems like an interesting stab at fixing the drudgery that web app development has become. Some questions, however:

1. When you go through the pains of integrating everything else, why not go for gold and exclude x/html and css as well? These are as "glue, antagonistic" as the other bits that make up the current webapp quagmire.

2. When ideas like PaaS are emerging, wouldnt it be better to bundle everything that makes up the app separate from everything that makes up the platform? I know that this sounds like the antithesis of your "one executable" idea - and I love single executables where appropriate - but it seems like webapp deployment could do with some economies of scale on the underlying container in the sense that the difference between App A and App B is primarily in the functionality, not in the way those functions are accessed, used, etc.
In this paper they make a pretty compelling case as to why limiting/censoring media would actually be counter-productive and make the riots worse. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1909467

I have yet to find any research that shows that censoring would have the desired effect, which to me shows how dangerous politicians can be. Proposing such extreme measures based on gut feelings rather than sound research could seriously blow up in their face.
yeah. I agree. its missing the point. It should only count if it randomly generates an entire work continuously. All he's doing is generating 9 character segments and fitting them in.
It just wasn't very funny, creative, clever, or original. Every second comment on Reddit these days seems to be 'I love you so much', 'this', 'you win the internet', or 'sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman'.

Many of us here are Reddit refuges trying to escape this moronic behavior, please don't bring it here.
I know I'm not the only person to say this, but I kind of prefer the (original) implementation created by LiveMocha at http://www.livemocha.com/
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This is one of those ideas that people think of, notice that no one is already doing it, and decide that there is therefore an opportunity. But the reason no one is already doing it is not that no one has thought of it. It's one of the most common startup ideas. The reason no one is doing it is (I believe) that users don't want it.
Yeah, it looks like he's generating random 9 char strings, then testing to see if they fit anywhere at all in the Shakespeare corpus. If so, they get marked as 'done' (green).

The former problem you state is the correct one - that somewhere, one of those infinite monkeys, somewhere on his infinite typewriter paper, will contain a single consecutive string of the entire works of Shakespeare. Obviously that is monsterously more difficult, and almost certainly falls into one of those "If every atom in the universe was a computer, it'd still take x^n billion years" type combinatorial explosions.
Interesting perspective...makes sense, when you put it like that.
Exactly. This requires that some "intelligent person" map all the monkey 9 char pieces together! which defeats the point. My impression of the theorem has always been that if you had an infinite number of monkeys, each typing a continuous random set of characters, at least one of them would produce Shakespeare' work.

It seems more like an expensive way to capture media attention.
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