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For web apps I would like a language that works both compiled and not compiled. Either I just copy my scripts to the web server when I'm lazy (or developing), or I compile it (and run unit and integration tests and whatever) when I'm done developing. Is there any language/platform that works like that?
Who was it who said that the only intuitive interface was the nipple and, after that, it's all learned?
Japanese don't need/want sex? Surely the Japanese are as horny as the rest of us. You'd have to come up with some pretty convincing data (surveys aren't worth anything when asking questions about sex) to convince me that there is some great difference in libido between Western and Eastern cultures.
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What I don't get is why browsers don't come with good looking typography settings by default.
Japan cannot re-militarize. It's constitutionally impossible. Even if they could I think there's more going on here. There's a lot of underlying conflict in Japanese culture that isn't immediately visible. This kind of conflict spans thousands of years of cultural history; the cultural thing to do is to hide your true feelings in the name of harmonious relationships[1]. But the outcome doesn't seem to be that conflict is truly stopped just deferred.

In the case of Japan birthrates have been a subject of concern for at least the last two decades. There are many potential contributing factors, not the least of which is the enormous amount of stress on the average family and the exorbitant cost of living in a megalopolis such as Tokyo; the stress of working long hours and having high expenses is enough to prevent people from having kids and even having a relationship.

Although geopolitically Japan is generally a peaceful society de facto I would argue that that is not necessarily true culturally. And even in the context of geopolitics there is a fair amount of drama in Asia that involves Japan, e.g. between the South Koreans, China, Taiwan, and Japan.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae
I wouldn't expect somebody doing a small (15 min) program do it with TDD. If they will do it - it will be a plus, but it's not that important.

BTW: What is your position versus the person you interview? (Are you on the same table looking at the same monitor or are you behind him looking at the code?)
I worked with Simon for a bit, but he was so far ahead, and our fields were sufficiently far apart, that I never really got to know him. This article captures much of what he is like.

I remember his kibbitzes when playing backgammon. Frequently they used terms or phrases that didn't seem to make sense, but later as the game unfolded and he carried on his line of thought things would become clear. Did he see them early? Did he see them more clearly? Hard to say. He rarely actually played, so it was difficult to tell if he was good.

I also remember when a member of the department had to get from Cambridge to Leeds (I think) and both the trains and the National Express coaches were on strike. Simon, from memory, wrote out a timetable that got Tom from Cambridge to Leeds in one (very long) day using purely local bus services.

And I remember watching Simon, Conway and Parker working on the Atlas. The interplay was amazing. Parker wrote programs to work efficiently on what were then unimaginably huge data structures, Conway seemed to see the structure and make friends with it, and Simon did the calculations in the abstract algebraic space.

I liked Simon, but I never really got to know him. It's a waste that no one has worked out how to make the most of his truly amazing, and deeply unusual, abilities.

I really do hope he's happy.
78 comments so far, and not one mention of technical writing. I have to admit that I almost never hear about hiring or contracting with tech writers in early-stage startups. But it might be a worthwhile idea.

I'm a tech writer, and I hope that not too much self-advertising for my first post here.
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It very well could be, but I very much doubt that the keyboard will be replaced in the near future. 10 years? Maybe. But not for the near future. People are too ingrained to let keyboards go any time soon.
I didn't read the suggestion as applying to a war between China and the U.S., but rather, to joining some conflict such as the U.S. in Iraq, or China in Mongolia. (No, I don't think the situations have anything in common besides involving the respective nations in strife.)

I say that as a clarification of the discussion, not because I agree that it's a good idea.
Was up coding while monitoring a few sites and saw that Walmart had updated their prices and that my local one had some in stock. Made it to the store in time to get the last two.
sorry, but if you spend 2500 out of 6300 you are still left with 3800. Let's assume you spend 2000 on bills and food, which seems scaringly high for me, you are still left with almost 2k for "fun stuff".

I understand I have a point of view based on living on $1k a month in good ole europe, but that seem to go quite far.

Am I missing some other basic life expenses you have in SF?
or drive a car,

Half my friends don't know or care how to drive a car. I'm 32, don't have a licenses, and can probably count on my fingers the number of times I've genuinely wished I had one. Just because something is vital to you and your social circle doesn't make it universally true.
I believe keyboards are on the way out regardless of whether haptic technology ever develops to the point where it can replace a real keyboard. Few people do serious data entry. On-screen keyboard is good enough for overwhelming majority of users. I think physical keyboard will become a peripheral device used in some professional settings, but not by an average user.
Yes, we all dream up these world-formulas in the bathtub.

Without going deeper into your "analysis" I assure you that there is no single, unifying causality to the effects you describe.

I also assure you that my country (germany) has a really bad track-record of listening to guys with "easy answers" whose arguments started out strikingly similar to yours.
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Tell me one example who bought a plaform in and made it successful.

This is the kind of discussion that seems interesting on the surface but in reality has little substance, but here's your one example: QDOS->MSDOS.
To find that gap, your fingers would have to move across, feeling a difference between a key and a gap between keys, until they feel a larger gap.

Feeling different vibrations when your fingers at those places would impart the same information. e.g. if _ is vibration, and a space is no vibration, the function keys would feel like this:

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
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I'm thinking of a platform to build a reliable offshore dev teams. Are those offshore developers freelancers or it's a team that work only on your (or maybe one or two more clients') projects?
It's amazing that these people are working so hard to recreate the experience of "typing" on a ZX81 keyboard.

Most laptop (and desktop) keyboards are pretty horrible already. So I'm sure that the final step to these awful abominations is not far away. Depressing.
Your tone makes it sound like you're dismissing some of the concerns that have given rise to these movements. Make no mistake: importing a large class of people with differing values to society at large will carry frictional costs. How you deal with those costs is much more serious than just calling people racists can solve.
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In what sense are we the dominant species?
There is a significant body of work done by Lev Gumilev on the death and genesis of ethnoi (the cyclical nature of societies, as You've put it). It will certainly let you see things from a different perspective.

Sadly, most of his books weren't translated from russian. One that I could find is http://www.amazon.com/Ethnogenesis-biosphere-L-N-Gumilev/dp/....

EDIT: found a free on-line version of the book - http://cossackweb.narod.ru/gumilev/contents.htm
If they can react extremely quickly, and to a light touch, then maybe it will work.

I'm happy to give it a go, but it really is going to have to be very impressive to allow touch typists to function.
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this happens largely because contract law is ignored by judges whenever contracts violate their ideals. activist judges are a very serious issue that has huge costs for society. corporations are resorting to third party arbitration because enforcement of contracts by the prevailing legal system is not reliable.
Are you hard of reading? That was my whole effing point.
Pretty much anything will sell at an 80% discount :-)
Ask HN: Should HP Open Source webOS
webOS is pretty nifty. It would be sad for it to die off completely and to lose all of its innovative features. Wouldn't everyone, including HP be better off if it was open sourced?
If you want a concrete reason that "blood" ties are non-imaginary, there's kin selection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
its called human trafficking and organized crime is way ahead of you.
Isn't that a little like saying touchpads will never take off because they're not good enough for precision movement? If you're doing "serious data entry" you'd get an external keyboard.
Yes it's overpriced, but the logic of "paying per use would cost more than buying a package" doesn't hold up, because it's how most things work.

If you rent a single DVD it will cost more per film than if you get an unlimited monthly plan. If you buy a single song on iTunes it will cost more per song than if you buy the album. If you rent a car for the weekend it will cost more per day than if you buy the car and use it all the time.

The main cost is the infrastructure, hence why the more you buy, the cheaper it can go.
Unfortunately, many applications and operating systems have decided to hide keyboard shortcuts and underlined accelerator keys, in the interest of "user friendliness."
> There are no barbarians at the gates, they have all been (mostly) civilized.

We still have the same "barbarians" as we always had. For the last two decades we just happened to be in a little better relations with them.

There is currently a war in progress in Libya in which one side is supported by the European forces. In 2008 Russian army entered parts of Georgia, mere 15 years after the Red Army was pulled from Eastern Europe.

Nothing changed. It never does.

> I think the kind of large scale war you talk about is permanently over

I agree that large-scale warfare is currently not very likely but I don't think it was ever that common as the twentieth century had led us to believe.
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There is no such dependency on Google with Android because it's open source. You don't have to ask them permission or pay them money to build a phone with it. I agree life may be hard if your competitors get the code before you do and that you may want to have a cozy relationship with Google (and cooperate with your competitors on some level) but it's nowhere close to the dependency you get being a WP7 OEM.

If I ran a phone maker, I'd keep a WP7 handset or two in the lineup (because there will be people who'll want it) and because I don't like to be cornered. But I'd also keep a team ready to run with Android without Google support, knowing exactly what I'd have to change if I couldn't use Google brands or software.

But, again, you don't have to depend on Google like you do with Microsoft. And true great devices come from the careful matching of hardware and software and that's hard to do if you don't get the source code.
Tunisia is self-destructing, has one of the world highest divorce rate, slow birth rate that will make it disappear if not solved early, more than 10% of the population working/living abroad, and enough social/life mess that I/my friends want to somehow leave the country and live in another place.

Yet, we did no wars, made no commercial/art explosion (even food we don't produce).

It's not about wars, allies or anything else. I summarize it to the following:

- Justice: Yes, justice is point number one. You must have justice.

- Values: That's why religion works, it keeps values deep inside and transmit them from a generation to another.

- Education: To avoid mess, and poverty.

Military? No, you don't really need it. You need values. Look at 2006 war between Isreal and a few folks in Huzb Allah. Isreal has the strongest military in the region, along with support from the USA and Liban (gov), yet they failed.
Indeed. Apotheker is the symptom, not the root cause. But even if smoking caused the tumor, part of the treatment is removing it.
Every time I hear someone argue that the mouse or keyboard is going away, I'm reminded of Chung Lee's ignite talk about why that's not the case. http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/07/myth-of-dying-m...

There are human computer interfaces for different computer sizes. The mouse and keyboard are good for "human scale" devices like the desktop and laptop. Touch is great for pocket sized devices, and motion is good for even larger devices. The mouse and keyboard aren't going away, it's just that we'll have more non-"human scale" devices.
Unfortunately you can't just point random people to that chart, because there's a reasonable chance they won't know how to read it.
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1. I agree that most divorce proceedings do favor women.

2. As a friend of an attorney who tells me that most of his male clients never seek custody and don't even petition for visitation rights until the CS payments start coming due this is completely inline with our society. I'm sorry, but once the divorce is finished most guys just want to move on with their life, the family they had becomes an encumberment. Most would prefer to be free to start over than continue being reminded of a failed relationship. That's just the way it is.

3. The primary purpose of the act of having sex is reproduction. The courts have already decided that every time you have sex you implicitly agree that a baby might result. It doesn't matter if it's oral, anal, or vaginal if someone gets pregnant out of it you can't back out you've already given consent. Even before reading the article I already knew the outcome, skimming to the bottom confirmed 30-40 years of court cases on the same matter.
Ask HN: Best way to find HN readers in my local area?
I am trying to find like-minded people in my local area (Sheffield, UK) to meet up with.

I'm sure there are people around here and in other places around the world which aren't major cities that would like to know if fellow HN readers exist in their area. It would be frustrating to find out that you live down the road from someone who was building a startup but never knew they existed!

Is there a service / site that could help with this?

Cheers!
I am basically just starting out on building this. I probably won't be able to complete it on my own though, would be glad if anyone wants to help out.
Turning off the autocomplete/intellisense/whatever is always the first thing I do when forced to use an IDE (as opposed to a text editor). I find the feature distracting and unhelpful.

Curious that I'm so opposed to autocomplete in text editors when I'm so attached to globbing in my shell. What's the difference?

Well the first thing is that the shell doesn't use pop-ups that hide my code. This is my #1 problem with "over helpful" editors - popups appear, unasked for, right on top of the code I'm looking at.

Secondly, the shell only helps me out when I ask it to. I have to press <TAB> to trigger the globbing. If the shell can't guess what I want, then I just get nothing - I have to press <TAB> a second time to ask it to give me a list to choose from.

I'm not sure what the equivalent would be with a programmer's editor. The <TAB> key is pretty important for indentation, but a Ctrl+KEY combo might be too clumsy. Where could the list of choices go where it would be both near to the cursor and not obscure nearby code?
Shame culture. Japanese couples are ashamed that their neighbors might notice something. Therefor they prefer to go to some anonymous place. Furthermore have you ever been to an average Tokyo, Osaka flat? They are incredibly tiny and the most unromantic surrounding imaginable.
My 12" Powerbook got about 5-6 hours. That's about the bare minimum of what I consider acceptable.
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I'm not sure how your policy recommendation relates to your initial observation (gender equality -> fertility).

How does forcing the childless (note: people of both genders can be childless) to subsidize parents promote gender equality?

(I'm not disagreeing with your suggesting that you can subsidize something to get more of it, I'm just trying to figure out how your last paragraph relates to the rest of your post.)
This sums it up "So HP’s CEO Mr. Leo Apotheke Apotheker, if you don’t want to use WebOS in the mobile world, set it free. Let the open source community see if the old Palm OS is as good and has as much promise as so many of us thought it did"
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There is no data other than surveys I could think of to prove this “allegation”. I am sorry; you will have to remain unconvinced.

On a side note, I did not believe it either. But the fact that a couple would want to have sex every week, or even more never ceased to blow the mind of Japanese people I talked to.
If it's fun to develop for, I go for it. I have given up Java before writing things for Android and I can tell you it's a nice environment to play. Palm was a joy to write for. Why did you think I was a Palm developer? Because it's fun, not because I dreamed of retiring after selling a million copies of something. If I wanted a huge market, I'd cover Android an Apple.

There are developers who'll follow the money, wherever it is. Some very good ones won't.

Or, like I said elsewhere, Microsoft has the best developers money can buy. Platforms like WebOS have the best ones money can't buy.

Oh... And I'd be perfectly fine with a VM image with Windows and the WP7 dev tools. I just don't want to boot into Windows or buy a license so that I can make their product more attractive.
Erm no. My 12" Powerbook lasted for about 5-6 hours. 4 hours is a definite step backwards from that.

My current laptop is a Thinkpad x200, which goes for at least 8 hours of real use (the manufacturer rates it at about 11 hours).
The obvious answer is Yes (I don't think many will answer No to this question) But who will do the support and continue development of the WebOS in case it open sourced. Also based on Java open sourcing, I can suppose that WebOS might use a lot of proprietary components and so opensourcing it will require a lot of resources.
According to HackrTrackr[1] there's tcrayford[2] in Sheffield. Doesn't seem to have been seen for a while.

You could also try HackerNewsers[3].

[1] http://hackrtrackr.com/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tcrayford

[3] http://www.hackernewsers.com/users.html

There's also this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1521162
Are you comparing an OS a single guy wrote with WebOS?
I wonder how many people would sign a petition to support the open sourcing of WebOS.
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I don't think. Actually, I think it's tablets that will be receiving keyboards, a la Asus Transformer style. You get the best of both worlds.
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It might be worth trying incremental search in Visual Studio (it's like "find as you type"). I use it with Emacs keybindings (CTRL-S for forward search, CTRL-R for backward search), but I'd imagine you can bind it to whatever keystroke you want. There is no dialog, you simply hit CTRL-S (or whatever it is bound to), then start typing and it immediately goes to the next occurrence of what you have typed; you hit CTRL-S again to go to the next occurrence.

Incremental search changes the way you navigate text beyond using it for searches. Want to move to particular place in the text file quickly without using the mouse? Pick the most unique string near it and incremental search to move near it, then use regular keyboard movement commands to get to it (if the unique string itself wasn't where you wanted to be).
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Yes I am aware of this point of view. I think, the trigger for the lost decade can be attributed to the housing bubble. Yet, the almost complete stop in the GDP's growth and the complete immunity to monetary stimuli (~0% interest rate for 20 years) are impossible to explain by the bubble collapse.
Are you comparing an OS a single guy wrote with WebOS?

...and here we go down the rabbit hole. If I answer your question, which expands the scope of discussion beyond what the GP post was requesting and beyond the scope of my comment, then you respond, and I respond again, by the end of the thread we could be discussing the relative merits of tuna versus salmon.

I was responding with a specific counterexample to a specific point (which I quoted) raised in the original post. Nothing more.

Or, if you prefer a one-word answer: "yes." Now, I'm going to leave this thread to its proper place in my mind, which is to say, out of it :).
The Snap framework (http://snapframework.com/) for Haskell works this way. Your application (including the web server itself) gets compiled down to a single binary, but during development you can make changes and see them reflected on the fly without manually recompiling. This is my understanding based on an interview with one of the framework's developers; I haven't used it myself for any significant project, though I plan to.

Haskell in general meets a lot (though probably not all) of the author's requirements. Static type inference is great, and Haskell's system makes explicit type declarations completely optional except for in a handful of rare cases, though you will find yourself wanting to use them on most functions anyway because of how they clarify and improve the readability of your code. Testing is also dead simple with tools like QuickCheck--it essentially manufactures test cases for you based on invariants that you specify about your code.
Basically they got it cheap, put a half ass hardware effort behind it, and now are cutting their losses. I wonder if that's how it went over in the board meeting?