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"Describe the difference between Java and Javascript" is actually one of the first technical questions I ask when hiring developers (or otherwise evaluating the skills of anyone in a technical, Web-related position.)

When I first tried it, years ago, I was a little embarrassed for having asked, because I figured everyone would know the correct answer. Then several candidates totally blew the response, and I realized just how good of a filter the question really is -- and continues to be.
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I'm not an Emacs user, but aren't a lot of the text-editing shortcuts straight from Emacs?
Sure, but don't go around acting like you innovated the thing. The MS blog post doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the other projects that have gone before.

Given the $B++ MS has sunk into Windows development over the years it seems a little embarrassing for them to bragging about ripping off Synergy (and adding file transfer and daily phone-home to Bing).

Actually, I consider the lack of file transfer and Bing integration bonus security features.
This does not look like a big win for Python, since it's most likely to provide you with ludicrous amount of computing cores, and Python currently is a bad tool for concurrent computing.
Wouldn't that be Typed Scheme/Typed Racket?
I do know about Hilbert, however Einstein and Hilbert were in heavy correspondence in the preceding few months and Hilbert never claimed primacy over Einstein. My conclusion, after seeing many accounts appears to be that Einstein would have arrived at the equations irrespective of Hilbert's inputs but not vice-versa. "Hilbert's treatise was exceedingly involved, or indeed confused—according to Felix Klein."

Also it should be noted that Satyagraha and Gandhi's civil resistance predates the March 1st movement.
Not sure why, but on my ipad2, it crashes the entire browser every time I open it. Did anyone test it on ipad2?
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I like that this blurs the line between individual computers. To what extent does this combine their processing power though? Right now it just sounds like an easier way to transfer files. I wonder how much further this will be taken. Perhaps one day it will be easy to temporarily bunch together a few computers into one super-performing machine.
This was originally posted on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2960235

Here is the article link: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...
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Most of my friends have hundreds of facebook friends. I only have about 45 fb friends and tons of friend requests. Some of these friend requests are from acquaintances, while others are friends I don’t particularly care to have muddling through my social life. So I don’t plan on confirming them anytime soon. That’s just me. I like my privacy and I like social media.
Paul Theroux’s recent article in the TheDailyBeast “How Apple Revolutionized Our World” resonated with me. Particularly the snippet below:
“Steve Jobs opened the world—“unscrewed the locks”—and made information accessible. But in the hectic transactions of life today, something important has been lost. We older people know it as privacy, almost an unknown concept today. I feel that at some point in the near future, there will be a mournful awakening and the stunning realization “I have given it all away”: all our numbers, all our details, all our quirks and secrets and searches, and even our dreams, and we will stand naked. The computer that allowed us to stare in wonder at the world has allowed the world to stare pitilessly back at us.”

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There's definitely a very active win32 channel on freenode - if not there's channel 9 (which isn't unusable) and apphub. What were you using ?

* Alas, I'll continue with my thoughts; feel free to ignore them or consider them OT; I apologize. *

Why use an unrelated thread to give a braindump ? You seemed to have no problems posting trollbait in response to this post.
I have that as my homepage to make sure that the cookie is set every time, and I still occasionally end up with search results or google products in non-English.
Only if you don't count the communication/interaction/cooperation networks as being a part of the whole.
The things he calls "bang commands" are actually "event designators" (!!, !blah), "word designators" ($) and "word modifiers" (:p). There are links to docs for each at the bottom of this page: http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/html_node/History-Interacti...

I use them all the time, and anyone watching over my shoulder always asks what that was. Learn !!, !$, and a few modifiers. You'll be glad you did. Personally, I use !$ constantly (and variations like !-2$, which gets you the last arg from 2 commands ago). The "h" modifier is handy, too. It's like dirname for the word. Consider this example, where you copy a file to some deep path, and then cd to that dir to continue working with the copy:

$ cp foo.txt /some/really/long/destination/bar.txt
$ cd !$:h
$ # (do more with ./bar.txt)

The substitution (:s) and global substitution (:gs) modifiers are also useful:

$ echo some args
some args
$ !!:s/some/more
more args

(Also, note that his explanation of !* is actually incorrect. He says it leaves off the last arg, but actually leaves out $0 (the command name). !* is all of the previous command's arguments.)

Finally, one really useful thing he doesn't mention at all is brace expansion. For example, these are equivalent:

$ cp foo.conf foo.conf.bak
$ cp foo.conf{,.bak}

http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/html_node/Brace-Expansion.h...
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Yeah, if Tim Berners-Lee was dead, he'd be rolling over in his grave. As it is, he's probably rolling over in his bed at night...

Unless of course he's totally supportive of using a hyperTEXT markup language to write applications, I don't know.
Reminds me of Jeff Eaton's talk at Drupalcon this year (http://lanyrd.com/2011/drupalcon-london/sgkbz/).

Personally, I think Drupal needs to be forked already and stripped of its non-essentials. As much as I like the Drupal community, it's always felt extremely rigid and even more so when Drupal 7 was finally released.

In one of the Drupal Camps for the release of D7, more often than not I would overhear PMs and developers saying things to the extend of, "I will not touch D7 or its documentation until 6 months from now." It's been around 8 months now since then, and not once have I had to deal with a Drupal 7 site (as all of them were D6).
It sounds like a rather toothless precedent, since the employer can just wait a week or two and use something else as an excuse for termination. Even if the employee keeps the job, the bridge is thoroughly on fire.

Not that I have much sympathy for the employee in most of these cases. You don't air the dirty laundry in public unless there's a damn good reason.
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This was the original intent (to have many languages supported by browsers; not necessarily a single VM with many languages). It just never really materialized. By the time the web was ready for bigger apps that needed more software, Javascript was Good Enough for the purpose, and munging other languages into the browser was too much effort. JavaScript grew up alongside HTML and the DOM, making it uniquely qualified for building applications around HTML and the DOM. I think it's telling that Google is building a new language rather than modifying an existing one (though it does appear to be inspired by other languages).
Thanks, that's worth reiterating: IE wasn't buying. Alas they didn't get IndexedDB done for IE9. And, just because WebSQL wouldn't fly does not make IndexedDB the one and only winner. We need to revisit this whole messy area.
add keyboard shortcut options, eg vim and emacs, and people might use it for real :-)
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The reality is that this sort of bloat happens in every mature software project. Some of it will get fixed, some of it will persist. You take the good with the bad, but at least there IS a community behind the project.

However, what Drupal has going for it right now is critical mass. It has finally gained widespread acceptance with government agencies and large companies... it's an exciting time to be part of the community, and to a large degree this can be attributed to having Acquia really champion the project with enterprise clients. No other company was previously capable of doing this. Because of this singular fact, Drupal will remain relevant for many years to come.

The only reason this sort of discussion is even able to happen is because the Drupal project is open source... can you imagine how much shit is buried deep within every single product OpenText, for example, maintains? Have you ever tried to do anything truly custom with Microsoft Sharepoint?

Let's try to fix the problems, but let's also recognize that Drupal has a lot going for it at the moment.
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I don't use Deft, so YMMV, but it sounds like you're looking for visual-line-mode.

Interactively:

M-x visual-line-mode

Or in your .emacs:

(add-hook 'deft-mode-hook 'enable-visual-line-mode)

You'll probably need to set deft-line-width to some number that's larger than the most columns you ever have in a frame, because from a quick glance it looks like Deft has some magic of its own.
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Is Java more maintainable than terser, more advanced languages with better abstractions? The possibility that this may be true terrifies me.
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Probably because the article made it sound like something unique to Apple or at least Silicon Valley. It's great that they're doing it, but it's nothing new.
Just a note: KVM support in Solaris/Illumos/SmartOS is Intel only at the moment.

(It wasn't clear to me, and I though I was doing something wrong when it failed on an AMD server)
"Just debug the machine-generated code instead" is not really an answer.
Even though Typo3 originated in Denmark it's huge in Germany. I think Typo3 is more popular than Drupal in Germany.
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Interesting stuff, thanks for posting. Ordered the book and looking forward to reading it.

As a software developer this talk about the importance of making small steps of progress, makes me associate this with Test-Driven Development, where I, or even better me and my pair-programming partner, continually get a sense of progress.
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I really enjoyed reading your story. I had similar experiences with my side project as well.

In my case, I tried to take on the behemoth that is Intuit. I spent 2 years working on the same side project. In my third year, I decided to quit my job and focus on it fulltime. Six months into working on my startup I realized that I made the mistake of trying to pick a fight with Intuit since the product that I was building was too much for me to handle.

I decided to switch course and focus on niche products for the Mac App Store. Two months after my pivot, I was making a few thousand a month from my apps. I've since accepted fulltime employment and am continuing to work on my Mac Apps as they are still generating the same amount of money.

From this experience I learned its best to focus on a niche market if you are a one man band. I think your failure was because your focus was too wide. Perhaps for your next project, you should consider focusing on a niche market.

Good luck.
The article is from 2002. I think now Haskel might be the best alternative. In 2002 though OCaml tools were probably better and more mature than Haskel ones.
a big change is coming according to TechCrunch, but it looks the same in Canada. Maybe you got an a/b test.

why not link to amazon as your title?
I always hated amazon page design. They have this disease where they try to put as much shit on the page as possible. Their home page is completely unreadable. I'm sure they A/B tested it to the stratosphere, but it doesn't work for me at all.

I've seen this happen on a very popular site, design-by-committee was responsible. It looks like amazon has the same problem. They ask designers to design something nice, but the requirements are insane - you have to shove 20 different blocks on a given page. Then they go through rounds of discussions in rooms full of project managers, product managers, designers, project leads, and often some executives (who for sure think they know better). They argue over and over, of what features should be on the page, while stabbing their political opponents' suggestions. It ends up in a clusterfuck like that.

EDIT: That's what it looks like to me:

Above the fold: http://i.imgur.com/X0xde.jpg

Below the fold: http://i.imgur.com/ldzIj.jpg
The answer to that is obvious. We just need to replace them with core developers that have more durable filaments!
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Fair enough (shamefully a bit bored and trying to create my own entertainment...).

Must be slow news day on HN if this is on the front page.
My friend did test it on his iPad2. It worked. I currently have no iPad2 with me. Will let you know again once I get my hands on an iPad2.
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Probably more like String Theory. An idea that there must be a singular product that can satisfy everything at once. (We could even call if the Master Control Program! ;)
Yup, but you can also put Bash in a vi mode. Some else will to chip in with the exact incantation, since I'm on my phone now.
> In addition to the file movement features, Mouse Without Borders also allows the user to log onto all the PCs linked together by the program via just one PC.

That's the big one. I use a commercial tool (MaxiVista) right now, and I've used Synergy in the past (buggy). The drawback of both is that you need a separate keyboard for each system to log in, and then you can use the software as a KVM. If Mouse Without Borders allows you to log into a separate computer, then it adds real value above the others.
Hi,

I have been using vim extensively for about 8 years and used a boring phase during my previous work-life to start learning Emacs. My motivation was not because I liked anything particularly well in Emacs or disliked vim, but more that I wanted to see first-hand what the difference is really all about. (So that I know what the flame wars are all about, without ever needing [and also never wanting] to participate in one...)

I am still using vim from time to time, but cannot imagine going back to vim full-time and leaving Emacs. The learning curve is steep and getting a nice setup takes considerable time (thankfully, there are very enlightening articles, for example the one from Steve Yegge, as well as the excellent emacswiki; plus, many people post their ".emacs" file on the web.) IIRC, it took me about 6 months until I felt proficient, and now, after almost 5 years or so, I couldn't actually be happier. There are many reasons to my happiness with Emacs (TRAMP, ido, yasnippet, auctex+reftex, vcs-interface, dired+, org-mode, macros, breadcrumbs, etc.) but I don't want to get into that, let's just finish this by saying: if you're generally interested and have some time at your hands (it's far less cumbersome as you might think, and mechanically codifying is usually [for me at least] not really the time consuming task in programming), just do it and stick with it for a couple of weeks!
This is an internal tool that has been apparently been made public. All employees at MSFT get more than one machine connected to many screens. Mouse Without Borders was developed by a group of employees in their free time to make it easier to deal with multiple Windows desktops. IMHO it is much nicer and more secure than Synergy for managing Windows machines. It's not a clone of anything. The Garage is MSFTs version of 20% time where you can work on whatever projects you want. There are some extremely interesting and useful projects that are part of the Garage beyond this one that haven't been made public yet.

Disclosure: I'm a dev at MSFT.
I'd argue that it still matters tremendously due to scalability concerns. Check out stuff like Sproutcore which moves things that were previously done in PHP to Javascript. That will make a huge difference if you have thousands of users for your application...PHP might require a cluster with a few application server nodes if the data is pretty cachable, while SproutCore might only require a single server if it's just doing JSON API calls or something.
Great tips. !! is a nice timesaver when you've forgotten to prepend sudo to a command:

$ /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server restart
Failed, need root access
$ sudo !!
Success

cd - is also quite cool, it takes you to the previous working directory.

$ pwd
/some/really/long/path/goes/here
$ cd /var/log/app
Work in this directory for a while, then go to previous dir
$ cd -
$ pwd
/some/really/long/path/goes/here
good luck buying an macbook air, which started the post from the article, that can even play video at decent frame rates.
Agreed, although his site is much prettier, and the post view pages look like dave.is or zach holman's site. It's a coincidence we are both using Interstate Condensed.
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But side A will always give you work :)

Joking aside, I think it's nearly impossible to predict. I doubt most HR departments do background checks that thorough, but you never know.
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Can you give me some more feedback? Is it just having a photo on the page that's the problem or is it the photo itself?

I A/B tested a few photos on hotornot.com but I'm not sure that the photos that tested best there would do the best on my own site.
A neat thing about csh/tcsh is that you can use history expansion with aliases. There are some legacy aliases at work that allow SQL queries from the command line using this:

$ alias select='sqlcommand -s "select !*"'

would translate:

$ select * from tablename

to:

$ sqlcommand -s "select * from tablename"

(Note: I may be getting the specifics messed up as it's been a couple of years since I looked at the implementation, but the general idea is there.)
seconded! I made the same beginner's error, too, and then decided that it was just the wrong thing to do. Emacs does not have a modal concept and cursor movement is not done with "hjkl" (and "ew") in Emacs. As Steve Yegge said, you should use incremental search forwards and backwards instead. I guess that eliminates many of vim's keystrokes (stats would be interesting), so staying with its keybindings might be prohibitive to learning Emacs...
Here's some follow-up from a somewhat different cohort.

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A quick look at the article shows it's binding history search. It's already bind to ctrl-r - you can do a ctrl-r, type a few letters of the long commands, and keep doing a ctrl-r till you find the right match.

Apart from additional bind your setup requires, arrow keys are near impossible to touch type. Even if you can touch type them, that means taking your hands off the home row, and positioning them again.
Thanks for the feedback. The problem with having all the posts there is that it's difficult to order them in a way that makes sense. I argued against reverse chronological order in the post.

Maybe you could show a list of post titles and short excerpts, and clicking on any post expands the content in place.
It's a forum, who gives a shit.
set -o emacs

or

set -o vi
The text editing shortcuts are straight from readline http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html emacs bindings, which bash and many other programs use. readline supports both vi and emacs bindings.

I am a dyed in the wool vim enthusiast, but when it comes to command line bindings, emacs' bindings are more convenient.