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> I wish something similar could be developed for Ruby.

There's something like Pypy for Ruby already: It is Pypy itself.
Pypy is a framework for implementing jitted dynamic languages (any language, not just python).
You can generate interpreters for any language you want, as long as you write them in Rpython (restricted python).
So, if you want a pypy for Ruby, just write a ruby interpreter in Rpython, and then use the pypy translation toolchain to compile it down to C, while automatically generating a just in time compiler for free.
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> Ditch Enyo. No more messing around with your own frameworks and stuff. Writing them is fun, but web developers don’t want to learn yet another framework. The framework wars are over, and jQuery is the winner.

jQuery is not a framework...

I agree generally but I don't think he takes it far enough. If Enyo is just a js framework like Cappuccino or Backbone.js then the first thing they have to do is open source Enyo. I should be able to run an Enyo app on iOS or Android or Fennec or whatever.

Next they need to drop their packaging mechanism and embrace Open Web Apps[1].

Next they need to allow non-Enyo js apps to be packaged and installed as "native" apps.

Doing these things would put WebOS on footing with other competitor "web oses", specifically ChromeOS and Boot to Gecko. Except that WebOS would have beaten them to the punch on having a mobile UI perfect for multitasking web apps.

[1]https://apps.mozillalabs.com/
I couldn't see how this one was so different from vimeo or all those other "corporate youtubes", many of which have been around for years.
I don't visit /. anymore, but definitely grew up on it. I don't think you can understate the impact it had on a generation of geeks. Especially when it comes to Open Source, I think /. was incredibly important in educating people on a concept, history and philosophy many of us take for granted now.

And hot grits aside, it really did set the bar for intelligent discussion. /. was the first site where the comments were always more valuable than the articles. RTFA's were common, sure, but so was incredible insight and inside knowledge. That's what made it all so addictive.

I remember hitting refresh constantly on /. during 911. Personally, I found it the best source of information anywhere, though you had to have your own sanity filter on as well.

Thanks cmdrtaco, and congratulations on a real legacy. For me at least, /. is mostly replaced now, but that doesn't diminish what it was.
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I've heard that ReadyTalk, in Denver, offers it in the form of "eight weeks on, two weeks off" scheduling. A couple of friends from work have interviewed there and said that it seems to be a great motivator for the engineers.

One even rigged up an iPad to their in-house keg that somehow analyzes pours and is working on the "perfect" pour for each beer.
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Same problem as Spine."js", playing hide the salami. Most JS devs still think JS means ECMAScript. Call it what it is. Python packages compile to C but they don't call themselves names like "Django.C", that would be disingenuous and obnoxious
It's funny how both sides in any argument or disagreement think one side is belittling the other by doing nothing more than assuming the other side doesn't understand something or another (this includes you just now btw). Certes pointing out ad hominem counts as ad hominem every single time too.
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hah. Yea I think perhaps I was a bit hot on those estimates. Its neat vendors practically give away some of these eval kits for marketing (which is almost certainly what this is, guised under a charity...), but it makes life awfully hard for me when clients now expect their 5000 unit run ARMx single board computer should cost about 15$ a pop (totally unachievable) plus engineering. I still hold on to my conclusions.

Without breaking down everything piece by piece, we spend about 3.00$ in plastic and other headers on a medium qty design that looks about comparable to what theyre doing (i/o wise). Also, female 1/10" headers are quite a bit more expensive than male, which I think skewed my intuition a bit.
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It was part of a lawsuit settlement so Microsoft wasn't doing Apple any favors. Microsoft wanted the lawsuit to go away.
Even after the austerity measures Greece is still spending more money than its taking in. If they disavowed their debt they wouldn't be able to get anyone to lend to them, and they would have to undertake even more radical austerity measures.

EDIT: Defaulting and then doing even more austerity isn't a horrible solution and might be better than their current zombie status, but they aren't refusing to do that because they're stupid or sellouts.
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That's what I use it for - other people can be very creative with them, notable the artist David Hockney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162
Me too... they had some of the strangest and freaked-out submissions there. I don't know any substitute for it on today's internet.

Last time I went to the website I was surprised it was still online and I felt really sad when I realized the frontpage submissions were weeks old.

I feel old now, missing the 90s pre-bubble internet and I am sad I was just a few years too late to that party back then. sigh
Or just Apache's Option 1 as in your post above?
> And since I'm going to have to find a job in a few months, I'm on LinkedIn as well.

Well, this is going to be one short CV and cover letter... "I built slashdot" should be plenty enough, really.
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This document was immensely helpful to me http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf

Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2796371
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The iPad is a tool and toy you probably don't need, but if used to the max it'll probably enhance your life in some noticable way.

Every single morning, while sipping coffee and waiting for my omelette to finish cooking, I catch up on the latest news through Reeder, the first RSS reader I've actually enjoyed using. I also check my mail to see if there's anything important I need to respond to right away.

When I'm finished eating and catching up to the latest news, I grab my iPad and go upstairs for my exercize. While doing strenght training I use my iPad to quickly make a note of how many reps and how much I lifted. After I'm done with my strenght training, I take a run either outside or on my threadmill. If I take the run on the threadmill, I'll use the iPad for watching a video, either South Park or TED.

After I've showered, groomed, brushed my teeth and flossed, it's time to start working. When I work my iPad is always lying on the desk next to my laptop. I use it for:

* Displaying my ToDo-list (the Hit List)

* Displaying the email I'm working on.

* Displaying some relevant notes to the work I'm doing (Evernote).

* Displaying a PDF or website containing documentation to what I'm working on.

* As an extra screen (AirDisplay) for Photoshop tool pads and similar.

* VNC or SSH to another computer

* The occational check of HN, Twitter or Facebook.

* Calculator

* Calendar (Week Cal HD)

Yup, everything I've mentioned could be done on a normal laptop. However, it's incredibly useful to have an extra screen for displaying relevant information that'll never be obscured by application windows covering the information.

After I'm satisfied with my work for the day, I might hang out with my friends, perhaps take a picnic in the park. My iPad is always accessible in my manpurse. If a customer has an emergency problem, I can quickly and easily log into their server and fix the problem (Textastic/Prompt). If I get a brilliant idea, I'll note it down in Evernote and analyse it with the Business Model app. Maybe I want to think deeply about my business - I'll just open Dropbox and read through some business documents about future plans or surf on some of my competitor's sites through Mercury Browser.

When I'm back home I might do some more work or chill out with some games. Perhaps I'll open Rage HD and have one of the most immersive and physically exhausting gaming experiences possible through the Virtual Window control mode.

Right before I go to bed, I write in my diary (Day One) and finish my TODO-list for tomorrow.
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Unless they can "start implementing" tens of billions of dollars sitting around to use for pre-purchasing heavily discounted parts for their devices to drive profit margins high as a kite and low as a rock for competitors, I don't think there's much to worry about.
Problem is, technology outpaces longterm planning exponentially. Apple laying out a plan for 20-30 years would actually work against them as they would be planning, in large part, based on current, or foreseen technology and cost. It's a little like when a movie director attempts to predict the future.

You just can't cut Jobs as a catalyst only. His mind is welded to the myriad of changing variables in technology and no plan is going to be able to emulate that.
Tom, this reminds me a lot of the game creators that Clickteam created years ago - Klick&Play, The Games Factory and Click and Create. Do you take any inspiration from these?
I spent hundreds of hours as a kid making games. I consider it one of formative aspects of my life.
Keep up the project. I think it could be really successful.
In what sense has Microsoft lost?

Sure, they lost their lock-in, but everything else is pretty much the same.
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I've been down on Slashdot for the last few years, even going so far as to remove it from my RSS reader and bookmarks bar. I check back sometimes here and there but devote most of my time to HN/reddit now.

Taco's farewell (and Hemos' reply in comments) really brought to me back why I liked Slashdot in the first place back in 1998- an editorial voice curating interesting tech stories.

That editorial voice was important to me in 1998, as I was in college for CS and was really uninformed about things like (as _delirium notes in this thread) the EFF, the RIAA, open source software, The Many Uses of Linux, etc. I compare that to today when I just scan lists of links on reddit or HN and pick out the items that interest me. The editorial voice was a good starting point for me- it directed me to interesting things that I couldn't have fathomed. As I grew into my techy career and interests, I needed it less and less.

I hope it's not viewed as complaining or whatnot, but I do wonder if anyone else avoids Slashdot in 2011 almost purely because of the commenters' obnoxiousness. I always get a picture of sysadmin-like greybeards pounding away furiously at their keyboards the moment anyone suggests that some software, somewhere be written in something other than C or perl. Ah slashdot, you truly taught me what a 'troll' was (and "-5, Troll"? shudder.) And for that I thank you.
> this includes you just now

Most certainly not. The factual divide is one issue and his politeness another. The posts of jrockway are laced with flat out insults that are unnecessary and have nothing to do with any assumptions about understanding.

Let me point one out:

> Your post [...] makes people wish your computer would punch you in the face.

(Omitted part not being an insult.)
The problem is that Greece isn't "only borrowing so they can pay their previous debt", Greece is still running a primary account deficit, which means that they'd still be borrowing even without having to pay interest. If they could get to where they were running one like Argentina was when it defaulted then default would start to look like a pretty reasonable option.

I absolutely agree about EU monetary policy, though. Its incredible that the EU central bank is raising interest rates right now.
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>The fates of Motorola and of Palm itself show that the days of US-centric mobile strategies are over.

One could argue that part of Nokia's demise was that they had no US market penetration. If they had, it would've given them enough time for MeeGo to be ready.

There was an article on TechCrunch about a year ago (I don't have the link) asking why European startups were having such a difficult time being successful in other countries. The argument by the writer is that Europe was too broken up; there were differing laws from country to country and that it took too long to become dominant. The US is an easy market to target because it has a large population that mostly speaks one language. Today it still controls 25% of the smartphone market. I would expect a country like China to become a leader (over Europe) as well for the same reasons.

WebOS could still become successful but only if it's open sourced. This may or may not be in HP's best interests though. It's quite possible that Samsung would choose it over Bada and HTC over Brew.
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The really short answer is, you don't need to install the same software on a phone, answering machine, router, bootable CD, tablet, server, and desktop. Windows does the same thing, but Linux makes it so easy that people take it a little further.
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I'm trying to grasp what you mean by scary in this context.
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Different variations for different needs. It's one of the goods points with linux I'd say, you probably wouldn't like the setup I'm using and the same way around. It's really hard to choose, especially for someone new, but the points is there's something that suits everyone or at least you can come much closer than you could ever come with only one to choose.

Some people like a graphic interface while others love the command line and want to do everything there. Some are power users who configure everything to the smallest detail (I've lost count of how many hours I've personally spent on configuring stuff so it's just the way I want) and others simply don't care.

What you must remember is that all distros are just a kernel with various programs, setups and philosophies surrounding it. Some are easy to use but huge and complex, others are bare-bone but simple and there are lot's in the middle, or little of both. You could start with a kernel-only setup or create your own collection of stuff you like, make your own distro.

You can draw similarities to whatever really - Which car should I pick? Why aren't all kitchen tables the same?

Why are there so many linux distros when there's only one windows and mac os you might ask? To begin they are different too, both versions (xp, vista, win 7..) and specialization (professional, home user..) but not all too different. Why? Probably because there's a company promoting, developing and supporting them and it's too hard, expensive and generally unfeasible. Why make two competing products? Let someone else do that, and they have! Unix, Linux, BSD etc.

As someone else said "it's because we can" explains quite a lot. Because someone finds it useful I'd say.

* Sorry it got a bit long winding.
Slashdot was my first true time-wasting site. During free periods in high school I'd read Slashdot compulsively -- as nicpottier observed, it was probably the first site where the comments were often more valuable than the story.

Slashdot was a blog before the word 'blog' was coined. A universal shared experience, in my case for literally half a lifetime.
Surely there was insult and ad hominem in his post (not arguing the fact), but I believe it was in reply to the insult and ad homimen from the post he was replying to. Calling someone an internet toughman counts as ad hominem just as much as calling someone computerfacepunch.

Although, the more I think about it, your point was probably: no need to stoop to the same level.
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What the hell is going on today? Thats two influential tech personalities resigning from their signature positions in 24 hours. Im starting to get worried here. Whats next, John Carmack resigns from id?(heaven forbid!)

My world view has been shaken. Best of luck & thanks for the good times CmdrTaco. I wore out F5 keys on that site :)
> Ah slashdot, you truly taught me what a 'troll' was

In a lot of interesting varieties! Some even sort of artistic, and some precursors of later SomethingAwful/4chan/internet-meme types of things.

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Slashdot editor Rob Malda resigned from his editorship this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the HN community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to geek culture. Truly an internet icon.
I'm undecided. If any site actually put DoubleRecall in front of text based content access, I'm nearly guaranteed to contribute to their bounce rate. Video advertising is limited to viewing videos which has a high bandwidth cost, I'll tolerate that since I can switch tabs, but any overlay or intermediate ad that requires my interaction almost always results in a tab closure instead of a further page view.

Still, there may be a significant enough chunk of people to make this an insanely profitable method, but the problem with making text legible for people to read means that it's machine OCR'able too. If this gains a ton of traction, how long until the AdBlock plugins start typing this in for you?
Why does he even need a job? Didn't SlashDot earn him enough to live on for rest of his life?
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You're right. I guess the right way is to focus on one particular industry. I have few in my mind that's have been overlooked. I had a tough time finding suppliers and manufacturers for a product that I wished to sell online. All I got was messy trade directories like http://www.tradeindia.com or a dedicated forum for discussing that business.
What frightens me even more than Luke taking the edge routers to Anchorhead, is this phrase: "When we received alerts and reports from customers, our operations team began to check our infrastructure." which suggests that they didn't have monitoring in place that could detect and alert on even such a coarse-grained event.
Slashdot still has the best comment moderation system, even if none is perfect. When the story gets crowded by zillion of comments you still get the best ones in a single page without having to read literally 10 or 15 pages of comments.
The verb "slashdotted" is even more common. I recall seeing it at least once in a Charles Stross novel or two, and in numerous other near-future SF.
My uncle had a heart attack 2 weeks after retiring. my family explained it as, "Some people just can't handle retirement" :) He's OK now. One actual explanation I've heard is that the stress can keep your body from healing properly. So as soon as the stress stops holding you together, everything just falls apart.
Awesome to see so much Portland activity here on HN! If anyone is looking for a front-end developer, hit me up, I'll be leaving my cushy Enterprise-land gig soon (bored).

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And the downvote was for...?
So much for the AAPL is going to tank and time to short comments. The change is a blip....
Is webOS open source? Presumably not yet, or I would have seen it ported to more devices by now?

Its fans would be insane to pour effort into saving a platform which is controlled by some completely-disinterested corporate entity. Any platform with significant closed-source components requires caution and compromise, but signing on to webOS is like a death wish at this point unless you own the thing.

Instead, make sure that enthusiastic users can spread your apps by themselves — directly from phone to phone without any centralised system.

I hear they invite kids to Defcon now. Maybe one of the third graders can give a talk about the problems with this idea.
Retiring the same day as Apple's CEO just seems like Rob Malda's style to me, in the best possible way. I doubt he made a snap decision to do it, but if he was already planning on doing it and saw the opportunity... :)
It is a familiar point that professors of economics are math majors who couldn't hack it -- that is, they are a selection from among econ majors of those with that sort of unhappy background. So it isn't surprising that they would form a discipline around themselves that presupposes a lot of dreary half-wit math of the type the chameleon Mankiw recommends. There is little reason to think that a capacity for mental long division will lead to anything but deadening ugly economics ... of the type we observe in fact. The original post is shameless since it hasn't occurred to the author there is plenty of research -- no doubt of mixed quality -- about the sources of different forms of mathematical ability. Note that the capacity prized by the writer -- for calculation in the imagination -- is frequently much developed in otherwise terribly impaired idiots savants.
Not to sound mean-spirited but I don't think Bill Gates needs a penny from your father. For the last decade his focus has been the eradication of malaria and other charitable works of the Gates Foundation that bares his name.
This will overshadow Steve Jobs' resignation.
Steve Jobs invented the myth that a founder invents and oversees everything his company does.
There is also something like youtube.com/boxoffice which youtube launched for showing full length bollywood movies. Youtube also partners with major production companies and they too can upload full length videos.
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