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The biggest problem would be that the £ symbol is not on US keyboards. The # symbol takes its place, but is called the pound sign rather than hash.
Can someone shed some light on his development environment? I realize that he's writing Java in Eclipse, but it seems that the changes he's making are showing up in the rendering in real-time. How is this possible?
You magnificent, magnificent bastard.
Actually, what you describe is illegal in most developed countries. Microsoft knows this better than anyone. They've been strung up for "bundling" and "predatory pricing" many times. Also, their position in their "monopoly" markets are weakening by the day.
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I agree with flagging a post that was taken down voluntarily. If the greater good is served by debunking the article, people can publish their own posts debunking the kid's findings based on their own expertise.
Ouch. Did this author ever watch a gaggle of teenage girls purchase things? "competence and talent" have very little to do with it.

That's why I mentioned the importance of not becoming a hive mind -- much purchasing (and trading) is done as the result of social pressure, not some futuristic idea of a meritocracy or even need. In the real world, with real people, if we don't keep our minds separate, we'll end up in this huge common mind where each little whim is judged socially, promoted socially, then manufacturing and trading decisions are made for everybody at one time, then on to the next thing. But even then, even in that terribly-imagined future, immediacy becomes a tradeable commodity. You just can't get away from trading.

Quite frankly, it's easy for somebody who fancies themselves an expert (and even I fit this category by pontificating here) to imagine some type of meritocracy, usually with their own values as universal. Plato started it, so he's in good company. But this is foolish in the extreme -- it assumes some ultimate value system shared by all mankind, it assumes some metric for that value system, and it assumes each individual would evaluate that metric the same way at all times. This is just too much. Way too much. If anything, if we continue to interconnect, it'll be social proof all the way down. Creativity and competence will have nothing to do with anything.

At some point, no matter who you are, you need to expose yourself and your ideas to those outside your little clique. Hence the importance of continuing to discuss these types of problems. These ideas strike me as highly provincial.
> everyone here just wanted so badly for the kid to be a genius

And there's nothing wrong with that. It was an interesting, creative and thoughtful experimental approach that singled him out from the unwashed pimply masses and that's the humanity we like to celebrate in this country, albeit the ugly fact of his theory being wrong. He's not a scientist, he's a thirteen year-old kid and he'll have plenty of time to learn how to improve.
Eclipse will automatically update the running classes with the latest code that compiled. If you aren't changing method or class signatures then it will work like that :)
Posted somewhat earlier, with a bit of discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906473
Well, that remains true regardless of whether you're an entrepreneur, a freelancer or a salaryman. Anyone you do work for is a client of sorts and, even as a salaryman, you can end up in charge of other people. Plus, as an entrepreneur you do have a degree of control over the course to take when engaging the market and hiring people.

As long as we're talking about control, I can't see how it's possible to trump a bootstrapped entrepreneur who has a minimal team or none at all.
This is for Notch's Ludum Dare entry. Apparently he spent like $300 so that everyone could get a HD stream to read what he's writing. But then 11,000 people (by far the most popular on livestream.com right now) watched a screen that said "brb, getting a cheeseburger" for about an hour before he started. I bet someone at livestream.com analytics was really confused :)
They have an open bug about it, it sounds like they'll work on it.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/15
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This reminds me of the Hackontest (http://hackontest.org) (Disclaimer: I was working there for/on OpenLieroX.)

We were filmed all the 24h via webcam and all our screens were recorded also via VNC and inside the OpenExpo, one could watch us coding live.

I don't really find much records of it though but here are two videos (sadly not the VNC records):

http://www.etoy.com/blog/archive/2008/09/26/hackontest.html

http://technocrat.net/video/Hackontest/2.mpg

I find it very instructive to actually watch other people coding.
I'd pay money for a 24-hour channel of various programmers, known and unknown, livestreaming. Does this exist already?
there will be beligerent nations, and pacifist nations will get rolled by them unless they've got a strong ally to bail them out.

Over here in europe we have that ally, it's called NATO.

And despite all its flaws it seems like a more reasonable approach, rather than encouraging individual nations to build nationalistic regimes (all the way down to the "standard messages") in order to protect against potentially "beligerent" neighbours.
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After seeing him give a talk, I've come to the conclusion that Simon Peyton-Jones is possibly the most British man alive.
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It's like all 3d programming I've ever done...

"Hmmm something isn't right... uggghhh... now that stopped working... ughhh"

I love it; using eclipses live debugging feature makes this incredibly entertaining. Also, excellent taste in music.
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If you like this kind of things, Peepcode's Play by Play screencasts are good too.
Seems to be standard eclipse. It is hot code replace - see http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_What_is_hot_code_replace%3F
> Sorry for the snark - I like WP7, I think it's a refreshing take on smartphone UI, but adoption is really at a standstill.

It's worse than that for WP7. Even Samsung's Bada has more marketshare than Microsoft. That puts Microsoft in fifth place, and without even any momentum.
Our ability to overproduce seems nothing compared to our ability to overspend. The great dilemma of our time lies in the debt relationships between us and the ability to re-balance them of which automation might play a role.
I think the point here is that Aidan's system has no moving parts and does not track the sun. If you accumulate the total energy produced by the array over a period of one year in, say, capacitors, then I am not certain at all that his tree configuration would not be better than a fixed array of cells.

Of course, the fact that the picture in his paper showed a bright white wall just besides his experimental setup removed credibility to the whole thing.

But this prevents no one from repeating the experiment with better control over the variables and who knows...
It is still pretty impressive because these are biology novices, and RNA folding is a somewhat complicated biological process. AI does outperform humans on a regular basis, especially in narrow domains (chess, checkers, calculation, now jeopardy)
Not that it makes a difference, but I believe R6RS provide first-class environments, too: http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib-Z-H-17.html

Edit: After looking through the Racket docs, I believe I was referring to were its namespaces.
You're forgetting that many of the people who have those things you describe can only actually 'afford' them in the US because of cheap credit. If they were to sell all those things at the price they bought them, they would still be in debt, and thus are, in fact, poor.
Hey, it's just a bit of fun.
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The first Samsung Bada phone was launched in June 2010, a few months before WP7. Bada has been increasing in marketshare since its launch, unlike WP7, and surpasses WP7 (note that Microsoft's marketshare includes the older Windows Mobile as well, I can't find separate figures - so Microsoft's lack of success is even more significant).

WP7, so far, is a failure.
My educated guess is that there is some benefit to having a uniform distribution of solar power over the course of a day. If all leaves pointed in one optimal direction, then more energy would be directed at the tree in a single day, but it would collect this energy in a narrow time span. It's possible a tree could not efficiently process this energy in this time span, similar to how you would not be able to eat a deer in one sitting.

By having a generally spherical orientation of leaves, the tree is always receiving power throughout the day.

Again, this is all just my hypothesis.
Actually, my understanding is that the p in preg actually stands for perl. php.net refers to PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions).
It looks like his changes appear in the game window without rebuilding the program. Is that what everyone else is seeing? Is this a technique I should know about?
£ isn't even available on my keyboard, I would need specific software or IDE features just for this.
The second part is pretty much Apple's vision for iOS 5, Lion and iCloud.
If I where one of the purchasers of the doomed products that they terminated a little over a month after releasing I would file a class action suite on the grounds that they had to have had discussions about ending the product line before it was ever released. If they can find supporting documentation they can prove that material information was withheld that affected the purchasing decision of the consumer. This actually would be a pretty easy case to make. I would also argue that support has been dramatically affected by the fact that it is no longer a strategic offering by the corporation as such I would argue that the only remedy would be the release of webOS as an open source offering so that the implied support and future updates of the device can be restored to what was implied by industry norms. I would make the argument that the only way that I can get the support and updates that are implied in purchasing technology is for the OS to be removed from the hands of company that has shown disregard for it's obligations to do so. While it is out of the norm to be able to force a company to give away a product via a class action, I think if they argued for punitive damages in lieu of open-sourcing it, if the damages where grievous enough, HP may opt for releasing the OS over the monetary damages. IANAL but I think there is a strong case to be made and their hand could be forced on the issue.
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To solve the perceived "quality" problem (and that perception is itself a problem), Google has, true to form, relied on a technical barrier (must have one and only one first name, one and only one last name). They have then all but automated catching the ones that get through the barrier, by soliciting users to report fakes. Whether they review those reports before notice to suspend is an excellent question, one that Violet Blue has probably asked. https://plus.google.com/105822688186016123722/posts/LWySptwh...

Google's monolithic lack of customer service is well known, and I believe it starts with good intentions, trying to automate the management of the problem as much as possible. The problem comes from believing too much in their algorithms and automated solutions. They're all very smart, but their solutions are not as smart as they think. Or, maybe they're even smarter than I think, and they've gone the Pinto route and calculated that a certain amount of customer "disasters" is relatively tolerable.
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? I don't see a complaint there.
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I hope that it becomes as integrated as the parent comment is saying: I open a page, it's on my iPhone, it's on my laptop, it's wherever my AppleID is.

/That/ would be awesome. But I don't think iCloud will quite be that (yet).
Yes, my account is scheduled for suspension tomorrow, for attempting to use my real "wallet name," which happens to be a mononym. I'm angry. I'm particularly angry at their oily statement that I don't "comply" and that I'm free to leave. Google has manufactured that anger.
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It's basically edit and continue in debug mode.
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I think that's the idea behind iCloud
It doesn't have to be a big issue. My name and identity is what I say it is, because I say it is.
Would be interesting to have a recording of the linux kernel programmers, could release a 'Best of Code 3.1'... offering football highlights of coding :)

I wonder who would pay to watch Carmack and others code on a regular basis..
There are fewer people in all of the US than the rest of the world. I don't think theirs is the keyboard the world should be optimising for.
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I'd be very interested to look at live editing of experienced vim hacker to steal some tips.
Hotswap bug fixing is the Java term for it. .NET calls it Edit and Continue. Much the same thing has existed in Smalltalk and Lisp etc. for much longer.

It's particularly well suited for things like a game loop or a server, because it works best (or rather usually, only) when the code you're editing is not on the stack.
Yes, everybody prefers it to working in isolation
I think one of the comments of the linked article made the best point, his science teacher should have caught the mistake.
Education and journalism FAIL...
I don't work in IT/a computer related field. Many people I know do not have smart phones.
There's also a lot of companies that start small, stay small and die of attrition. But, those don't make for sexy blog post reading, however.

That's not to detract from the above company.
Random thought: Are Apple the most likely buyer for Twitter? I bet there's a lot of overlap between their users, and it would be a nice addition as a native app on the iPhone. Also Twitter's prominent usage among celebrities, musicians etc might make a nice complement to iTunes.

And it gets Apple's foot in the door of (realtime) search.
Have you read "The Fates of Nations" by Paul Colinvaux? It's a fascinating - and disturbing - book, covering the exact topic you are talking about.

But where Colinvaux and myself would disagree with you, is the direction of the cause and effect.

My interpretation is that a society starts off warlike. At some point it either conquers, or is conquered by its neighbors. Once the empire is at its natural borders, war no longer provides a good economic rate of return. People avoid the army and instead go into trade or farming. The imperial peace provides a stable base for commerce and industry. People become rich. As they grow rich, and as the need for martial valor declines, people become more decadent. They spend more on luxuries, they have less need for children. Thus both a decline in fertility and a decline in aggressiveness are symptoms of the underlying cause (war no longer being necessary for survival, and war no longer providing a good rate of return). Eventually though, on the borders of the empire some new, highly fertile, highly aggressive population arises. Meanwhile the old growth civilization has long lost its martial prowess, and each individual resident faces a game theory optimum of continuing the decadence, rather than face the rigors of a martial life. Thus the bordering tribe eventually is strong enough to invade, the old civilization falls, and the cycles of history continue.
But a distributed layout might have higher minimums than a single orientation. For an actual tree, at least, that might be important. The sun doesn't just move during the day, it changes its course over the year, so it might be very beneficial to the tree to ensure that it get's at least a certain amount of juice each day.

There might be other reasons than optimal solar exposure. Maybe structural reasons, or, I don't know, sap distribution ...

Finally, maybe the Fibonacci sequence gets selected in nature a lot because it's easy to select. What I mean is, the very best algorithms are not necessarily the ones that get selected - the ones that actually get tried and are good enough to survive are the ones that appear. My theory is that organisms stumble into stuff like the Fibonacci sequence or that fern fractal because they are likely to and because they work well enough for whatever purpose.
If I have a webpage open in my browser, it shows up on my tablet when I open my tablet browser and the changes get pushed back to the desktop when I sign back in

Firefox Sync.

documents

Dropbox.

email

That's how IMAP works.

I have my documents, open tabs, bookmarks, history and email all on my Android phone. It already works, and it's amazing.
Again, Firefox Sync is already that. Why aren't you using it right now?
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Posting things you want to keep private on the internet is bad for privacy. Real neames are not.
Not to mention loss of other google services. When my account is suspended tomorrow, they tell me I will also lose access to Picasa and Reader. People have lost access to gmail, although that is supposedly a bug (although I have already moved all my mail to fastmail.fm).

To their credit, they gave me time (four days) to download my data, which I've done.

And even if I don't lose access to gmail, who's to say that won't happen on purpose in the near future? It's obvious that Google wants to leverage + as much as possible.

What about ad sense? Google apps? Everything is potentially targeted for pulling into the Plus system.

Finally, I've heard that beyond Picasa access, loss of your G+ profile interferes with Android utility. I don't know specifically what, or even whether that's true.
I was heavily involved in solar car racing in the past. All the best racing teams have rather flat, if only slight curved arrays on their cars.
Our first fancy super computer modeled array was much more curved to attempt get more power over the race course over the various sun angles and longitudes of the race.
Net result: a panel that was a pain to build, and had less than ideal power because of the difficulty of construction and fragility.
The wording feels like a complaint to me. Maybe it's a British thing, and slightly more subtle than comes across in most internet text. It feels gently annoyed, slightly tongue-in-cheek.
It could be the case that 95% of the readers who encountered the original article on HN thought it was bunk, but didn't want to spend the time to correct it. Or maybe it's the reverse-- maybe 95% of us believed it was a brilliant invention. I can't think of a way to estimate which is true.
I think it's time for the HN Automation Thread Template:

P: Robots are taking our jobs!
~P: No, because of:
{{ lump_sum_of_labor_fallacy }}
or
{{ luddite_fallacy }}
or
{{ they've been saying this forever and they've always been wrong }}
P: {{ various responses; invoke Martin Ford or Marshall Brain }}
~P: These guys don't know economics...
while(1):
P: hand wave, generalize from anecdotes,
speculate in the absence of empirical evidence
~P: hand wave, generalize from anecdotes,
speculate in the absence of empirical evidence
VDU 17 would have saved the day there.

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Yes, and “Perl” has often been expanded as “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language” (I don't recall whether this is a half-joke or not, but I think it is).

If you like you can add the “compatible” though, which would conveniently add to the length.
He is using JRebel i guess.
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All the cells in one string (i.e. all the cells in series, connected positive to negative terminal) need uniform sunlight. Otherwise some cells can go into reverse bias and dissipate the power of the other cells in the string. This happens, for example where there is uneven shade, or dirt on the array.
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Could this be repressed sexuality? How can one explain the fact that Japanese produce some of the weirdest and sickest fetish porn?
All I have to say is the guy writes pretty darn well for a 13-year old. Perhaps his experiment is flawed, but I was very impressed by his writing skills, and I know it will serve him well in the future.
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Map $ to £ - problem solved!
My read on China is that there is a weaker society culture while also having a stronger family culture. This probably means that a lot of startup financing will be from families as the middle class grows and there is spare cash around.
Not yet, but be patient. It will fail.
A quick look back at HP Marketing: Why WebOS?
The reason I think - China is choked for capital. Yes, there is money, but not a lot. Unless you are doing are doing a government contract (i.e. building infrastructure) or are in real estate, you don't get much capital. Interest rates are artificially low, but only if you can get a loan - i.e. you look very very safe. Why bother investing in business, when you can borrow at a low rate and invest it in houses?

Chinese businessmen look rich. Some of them do have a lot of money, but most are just richer than the average Chinese worker. And because the poor Chinese workers are poor, they can't bootstrap their way up so easily.
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Does anyone know what he's making? I just tuned in 30 minutes ago, and he's been focused on getting his RenderWall function to work. Has he said what his eventual plan is at all?
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I can't help but be reminded of Mike Rowe's (the host of Dirty Jobs) testimony before congress. There is going to be a major shift in attitudes towards going to college when the average Masters student realizes that the starting salary for skilled labor (i.e. electrician, plumber, etc) is higher than what they can expect to make. In my humble opinion, college gives the average BA student a whole slew of soft skills and trivial knowledge that adds little value to a company straight out of school.
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TDD zealots should not watch this - it can hurt deep inside. err... now that I think about it: Waterfall zealots may feel similar discomfort
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