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> Now, both have to work to pay the bills, and children get less time with parents and more time in institutions.

I guess I'm not the only one upset by this trend.
Thank you for that very stimulating defense of vimscript. Here are a few observations:

"First, there's just a ridiculous amount of plugins and such already made. Either they'd need to be ported to the new interface (an insane amount of work) or the old interface (Vimscript) would need to be maintained alongside the new. Neither option seems very practical."

As of now, www.vim.org contains 3,716 scripts. It would be a tremendous amount of work to rewrite them all. However, that would not be necessary. First of all, the vast majority of scripts on vim.org are abandoned after a version or two, and never get very many users (if any). Second, many scripts on vim.org are for outdated versions of vim (usually 6.x), and don't work on the newer (7.x) versions of vim anyway. They are also effectively abandoned. So they don't need to be rewritten either. Really, the important scripts that would need to be rewritten are the really popular ones, and there just aren't that many of them. It might be a fair amount of work, but not overwhelming.

"Second, the main advantage of Vimscript is that it uses the same commands you use every day while working with Vim. `edit foo.py` in a Vim plugin does the same thing as `:edit foo.py` in your daily routine. This makes it really easy to get your feet wet with Vim scripting -- in fact it makes it all but unavoidable."

It's true that there are some similarities between vimscript and the regular commands you'd use in ordinary vim editing, but there are also many differences -- such as functions, looping constructs, conditionals, lists and dictionaries, etc. I don't think losing the ability to use vim editing commands in scripting vim would really be a particularly big deal for most vim users, as most of them probably already know another scripting language anyway.

Finally, there's actually no reason to get rid of vimscript altogether. It would hurt no one if it remained an option for scripting vim. What does need to happen, however, is that more of vim needs to be opened up to being scripted from other languages. The existing language bindings are often pretty crippled compared to vimscript, and you often need to call vimscript from within those other languages to do everything you need, making the use of another language a superfluous waste of time. So what really needs to happen is to fully get rid of the dependency on vimscript, not to get rid of vimscript itself.
Why the -u on push?
It's really not that bad. Homebrew may have fewer packages than, say, Debian's apt repo, but I still don't use 99% of the packages in either, and both cover everything I need.

Consider what exactly you'll be using in your stack, and go from there. I've had zero problems over the years using OS X for Rails, Python, node.js, and C++ development that was seeing deployment on Linux (typically Debian or Ubuntu, sometimes CentOS).
I thought this was Total Annihilation for Android and clicked excitedly, only to be very, very disappointed.
> All the results for the svn search are about getting rid of these folders -- nothing explaining their contents.

That would be because there's little to no content in the svn folders, and none of it is user-consumable: all the metadata manipulation is done via svn's properties[0] and their cli interface (proplist, propset, propget and propdel).

Apart from these, the content of the .svn folders (at least before 1.5) is pretty much only duplicates of your checked-out files. All the brains live in the (remote) repository, not in the .svn folders. I've never seen any case where somebody would go muck around with the content of the .svn repos, the only direct manipulation of them users have a use for is stripping them for exports or because somebody did not `svn export` and sent .svn folders where they did not belong.

Oh, and svn has had a full-featured client library[1] (and bindings for most popular languages[2]) for a very long time, so people have rarely needed to essentially reverse-engineer the interaction process from a checked-out working copy.

edit: now that I think about it further, your very observation is proving the complexity of git, or at least of git's UI: it's not expected that users of svn ever go muck around with their .svn (and as I explained there really is no reason to), so there is no wondering or audience about that, whereas not only is it expected that git users understand the content of their .git, it's pretty likely it will become necessary at one point in your usage of git, because you'll have no other way (learning the plumbing by rote is not an option until you've even done that, since it can only be understood if you know how git's store works, you'll just end up learning both anyway)

[0] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html

[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/

[2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/...
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Right, being mainly an extension the x64 is hugely influenced by x86. The 64-bit Win32 ABI is obviously influenced too, to the point that on x64, 32-bit process is largely just a native 64-bit process with 32-bit modules loaded.

Most of the time, the differences are hidden by abstractions in the Win32 C API. The calling conventions do a pretty good job of this (especially the 64-bit ones). Still, there is a nontrivial amount of software that does need to use a few (or many) assembly instructions or interact with the CPU in low-level ways. Windows is a relatively friendly OS for applications that rely on non-standard behavior.

You can't "just port" an antivirus package. Certainly many malware samples won't run on ARM either, but many will (like .vbs). It will take time to sort all that out. In the meantime, many companies simply won't deploy Windows without AV.
Except for the ones who were killed off.
How is this better than using amazon web services?
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Thanks for the feedback.

Not sure what you mean by the standard preview shot?
those with wealth, are too greedy to allow their wealth to be taxed for social services such as better schools

My property tax bills beg to disagree with you. For the 16 years I've owned my house, I've watched the portion of my taxes that go to our schools go up far faster than the rate of inflation.

If there's a problem with education, it is absolutely NOT that there is insufficient money being invested into it. This should be so transparently obvious to all by now, that I assume anyone claiming otherwise has motives he's trying to hide.
Ask HN: Which startups are you most envious of?
This could be a good exercise on what motivates us and how founders view other founders...
If that sort of thing was effective, income inequality would have dropped over the past 60 years as government regulations raised the minimum wage and shortened the work week. Instead, it dramatically increased.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Income_Distr...
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I half expected it to suddenly open it's eyes and cause me to change my pants.
That actually looks fairly positive - hopefully the 0.1% won't come up with a genius/subtle way of getting rid of "the other, useless" people en masse. As resources get scarce that's the greatest and very real threat.
> I'm not sure the Post Office's problems are related to technology.

Well, other than that whole "email" fad.
Sorry, my fault. They're going to end it soon, according to Obama's postmaster general and the legislation to do so is being filed by a democratic senator. http://www.businessinsider.com/say-goodbye-to-saturday-mail-...

Point still stands that "fox news said this about obama" does not correlate at all to what he's thinking or even doing. In fact you can usually assume the opposite.
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I'm sure someone is embarrassed, but it sounds like Valve will just blacklist all these keys from Steam, issue new keys to the intended recipients, and that will be the end of it.
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Policy adjustments for maintaining capitalism in the post-employment era: provide a minimum guaranteed income to all citizens and abolish minimum wage. This was Milton Friedman's idea.

This would create a massive market for a standard "life package": a combination of food, shelter, and healthcare for one person with cost equal to the minimum income. We could even have cities organized around the concept. Then, people can go to work in creation spaces where they get micro-paid exactly what their contribution is worth. Getting $5 for a blog post I write sounds great if I enjoy doing it and am not hungry.
This is certainly key to the appeal to the current enthusiasts, but (to pick an obvious example) suitcases full of dollar bills or Krugerrands are also decentralized and anonymous, compared with centralized and usually non-anonymous methods such as credit card transactions or bank transfers. Most people don't find these other decentralized and mostly anonymous currencies to be especially interesting unless they are engaged in illicit activities or traveling to places where the banking system cannot be relied upon.

I expect the actual appeal is that the value is these attributes in common with the fact that it is virtualized -- i.e. the value resides in data rather than in a physical object such as dollar bills or gold. With data, you don't have something tangible that you have to smuggle across a border in person, you just store it safe somewhere and retrieve it over a secure computer connection wherever you need it.

Or alternatively, you could use bitcoins to purchase something else virtual anonymously. (If you use it to purchase something physical, than there is an audit trail attached to the transference of the physical goods that defeats some if not all of the value of the anonymity.)

Perhaps this makes bitcoins especially useful for some scenarios, but overall I haven't yet seen any use cases that lead me to believe that this is a breakthrough of any particular kind.
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This high granularity of employment sounds like a terrible inefficiency. There are jobs that need to be done, but can't be, because they don't justify a full-time or part-time employee. There are people that need to work, but can't because much of the work that needs to be done is in chunks too small to occupy their time.

Perhaps we need something like an exchange for labor, like a stock exchange meets a temp agency. We could then transition chronically unemployed but capable workers into these labor exchanges.
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Wonderful quote. I happen to be listening to the Insight cover on virus 100 as I read your post :)
The best I've managed is this: http://qntm.org/fib

I find that removing all mention of Y combinators made the whole thing a lot easier to read.
The financial crisis did not make people buy mobile phones instead of landlines, Hulu and Netflix instead of cable TV, or Craigslist instead of local newspaper ads, or ebooks instead of paper books. It might have accelerated the shift, because the new technology was cheaper, but people naturally gravitate to the better product.

These technologies split, reorganized, transferred, concentrated or decentralized demand. Call it what you will, but people want the new stuff over the old stuff. And if they want it, they'll buy it.
We spend more per student than we ever have in history. Why wasn't the country in chaos when there weren't public schools at all?

Teaching the kids that they are owed something merely because they have less than someone else? Seems to justify theft to me.
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This is true with Rite Aids in Pittsburgh as well!
How is aws in any way offering the same?
Having used Mercurial and Git, I have to say I vastly prefer the interface of Mercurial. It still has its quirks, but overall I find it much easier to use, especially on Windows. Git was very clearly built as a Unix solution first, with Windows support hacked on later.
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everything in this looks real, except the eye lids dont have eye lashes so the light rebounding off the sealed eyelid looks crap. otherwise cool stuff
And if TV prices were rising instead of falling, people would replace them more often?
So the news was that Jack Welch reads the news, just like the rest of us?
The point is that the "couple of OSes" does not include Windows 7 / Vista / XP.
In a related video that CNN linked in, it was being questioned if companies that aren't hiring are being unpatriotic. Union leader James Hoffa was saying that Apple is being unpatriotic by not hiring here in the US.

But, I don't quite understand James Hoffa saying that Apple isn't hiring- they are hiring both retail and corporate jobs.

http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/

Yes, they employ and sub-contract a lot of people overseas, but that's just the way things work in 2011. How many people are going to pay $10,000 for a laptop or $1,400 for an iPhone? That's probably the difference in price that it would require for Apple to make their products 100% here.
Git is intended as a tool for programmers, which are precisely those "mechanics" he mentions. Any programmer who's scared away by that doesn't understand what they do.
It's pretty simple to set up and use aws (simpleDB in particiular) to accomplish the same goals (back end support for simple mobile games) without having to write server / database code.
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A fair followup to Clojuly :)
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I'm very late in responding here, but maybe someone will still see this... Instead of a branded subreddit, do you know what I (as an advertiser) really, really want? A branded novelty account. I want to have a novelty account where I can post comments that are relevant and engaging with an occasional link back to my site, and I'd like for the users of reddit to somehow know that I am a sponsored account (perhaps through a "sponsored account icon" next to my username). My comments would be subject to downvotes and upvotes just like any other comment.

If you, or someone else at Reddit, would like to discuss more, my contact info is in my profile. Cheers.
Such fundamental social changes rarely happen smoothly and peacefully. The next 50 years should be interesting.
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...and you are an idiot. WHY did you use rebase? If you are a noob, why won't you use the great GitHub for Mac app? It is even prettier than Versions. http://mac.github.com/
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Ok, so we had a problem the size of a few paychecks, now it's the size of a piece of property. Hey, whatever, right?

But I said a couple steps, keep going, multiply that by a few hundred thousand or a couple million around the country. Can you think of any other problems that might result?
He also touches on a great point:

What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich.

By that logic the best money will be hot potatoes.
You can't have it both ways. Either consumption is encouraged via inflation or investment is encouraged. For example, say that prices were slightly deflationary, as they are with computer equipment, across the board.*

I could easily make the case that saving goes up! Why? Well if I took my goldbucks and lent them to you at 1% interest we would both be happy. My total return would be something like 3% per year (2% deflation + 1% interest) non-risk adjusted. You would be happy because there are plenty of people that are willing to lend money to you. Because you have access to lending capital, you hire more decreasing unemployment. You can try to make the case that you wouldn't hire because there would be no demand for your goods, but in practice there are A. Other countries, and B. A precedent that people do continue to buy, even during deflationary pressures.

The reason people buy computers and cars despite the fact that they are becoming better and cheaper as time goes on is that they expect that cars and computers are going to continue to get better and cheaper as time goes on. They know that they will face the same "save or spend" decision 2 year later, and they really do need a computer and a car.

The problem with inflation is that "encouraging spending" practically only happens to the poor or middle lower class. I can afford to research gold, silver, lithium, cesium, grain futures, bitcoins, etc. and protect my assets from long term depreciation, but they can't. So you end up with a class of people that have a negative net worth, that is totally unprepared for long term retirement.

* I know that money velocity starts to make a difference, but it is in effect the same as printing more money.
Where is that revenue supposed to come from?

It may be possible they create a good mobile search engine and eat Google's snack.
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What's the business need for tunneling into past data?
Krugman prefers the dollar, which has a supply that is constantly inflated by the central bank. But if the dollar is so good, why do people have to be forced to use it? (You have to pay your taxes in dollars, and you have to accept payments for debt in the form of dollars.) And how come bitcoin adoption has radically grown even though no one is forced to use it?
Question on this; how do I go about automagically downloading this in Stanza or Kindle or iBooks on an iPad? Is there a really easy way to do it?
The next hacker currency should keep Bitcoin's strengths, i.e., decentralization and anonymity, and lose its weakness, the fixed supply.

Is anyone working (in public) on the problem of designing a currency that adjusts its supply algorithmically based on appropriate metrics? Sort of a Greenspan-o-matic?

I've thought about this for all of 90 seconds, and it seems like the metric might be some combination of transaction volume, a price index, number of users, and the current money supply.
It creates a tracking branch, and so git knows how far a branch is relative to a remote branch.
Of companies that are still in "startup mode" it's hard to say. Of recent (or semi-recent) startups that have achieved success, or some degree of success:

1. Tesla Motors - because they build sweet products and have a CEO who I admire.

2. Facebook - because they've made their founders a metric buttload of money, and have impacted millions (if not billions) of people around the world.

3. Scaled Composites - Because they're on the forefront of doing something amazing... making space-travel dramatically more practical and accessible.
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I'm missing the connection between your comment and the parent. But to answer your question:

In times of economic hardship, people have less to lose. If you've got everything you want, you don't want to rock the boat. If you're dissatisfied but are still able to make a decent existence (whatever that means) for you and your family, then you might want to rock the boat, but you're unlikely to take the risk. If you're already in a situation where you can't provide, then there is very little risk, so what the heck.
One thing that would really help such scenario become an affordable reality, is seeing the cost of living rapidly decline for people living with low wages.

For them , the major living expenses are housing, healthcare, food and energy, and a car(when there's no decent public transportation).

Those areas mostly doesn't see big cost reductions. Some of it is because high barriers to entry, regulation, dislike of low-end disruptive innovation by people(in healthcare and probably in housing), low investment in r&d (in construction) and other reasons.

On the other hand, if you look at the third world, those are exactly the ares they out innovate the west:

1. low cost housing(Tatas to build world's cheapest home for Euro 500[1], cost of residential buildings made with reinforced concrete to average of less than 1,500 yuan($235) / square meter[2])

2. low cost healthcare(Dr. shetty, reducing the cost of heart surgery to $2000 and working towards $800[3], program that trains lay people to treat depression in india[4] , and many many others)

3. low cost transportation : the famous TATA nano.

4. while u.s. is really innovative in this field, china is probably leading this field throught huge investments and low labor costs.

So this leads to an interesting situation: In 20 years , when automation might take hold(here and in the third world), who will be better prepared for it?

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2770956
[2]http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/45-more-buildings-to-follow...
[3]http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-06/world/india.health.cities...
[4]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/asia/11iht-depress.1...
I believe I have discussed education issues on here with you in the past. Suffice it to say, I believe you are sorely mistaken.

1. Proportions of taxes can shrink or grow at any rate independent of inflation. This doesn't say that the absolute value given to education per student (and that's the measure that matters) has or has not exceeded inflation.

2. Statistics saying that e.g. yy% of students do not benefit from reduced class sizes or increased educational spending, where yy is some large double-digit number, ignore the critical exceptions to those statistics. Public education must address the worst-case outcomes, not just the average case, or those (100-yy)% of dropouts will sink into ghettos and become a significant drain on society, when most of them have the potential to be net contributors.

3. As I'm sure I've said before, talk to a few overworked, stressed-out teachers after an arduous day of dealing with students threatening them with violence, administrators not supporting them with classroom materials (try teaching math without any textbooks), etc. It's like babysitting 250 erratic 4-year-olds a day without the right toys to pacify them, except those 4-year-olds can kill you.
There should really be a Godwin-like rule when it comes to accusing someone of not knowing how to read.

How many people does AirBnB employ, again? I've never even heard of Kijiji.

Add up all those companies and you're around the level of a single 100k city newspaper. Maybe 2-3 of them. Did you know that newspapers actually employ a lot of people who's whole job is to get stuff printed out on paper and delivered to everyone's door?

Again, nobody's arguing for going back to stupid inefficient gray-paper classifieds. They're just pointing out that efficiency has eliminated more jobs than it's created this time around (see also manufacturing), and there doesn't seem to be an obvious next step for those unemployed if they can't learn programming.
yeah, it's definitely great once you reach a certain traffic level. I imagine you either get a ton of traffic, or you're site is very dynamic to require 16 workers. I cache a lot of pages so many requests do not hit the rails stack at all.

But this is what I love about the ruby world, we get both options :)
You seem to be missing the 10% or so chance that Facebook is obsolete in 5 years time.
The other big problem is that debt loads don't drop along with prices - which effectively makes them rise. Falling prices (which lead to falling wages) + stable debt loads make it far harder for debtors to pay off their debts, which puts even further drag on the economy.