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Which is rather interesting because, in an interview a couple weeks back, he said he wrote mc because he thought manipulating files through the shell was painful (or something to that effect) and he wanted something like Norton Commander for it.

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail5021.html
Don't make the mistake of assuming it will only every be consumed by Ruby. Make it make sense for JSON, not the initial language used to write or consume the code.
And you are assuming that there never will be a need for parallel development?

Further more, having that kind of naming scheme might actually hold you back from doing parallel development - aka using git to its full potential. I regularly make use of branching even in my personal projects. For example starting the development of new experimental feature while still continuing fixing bugs in the master branch.

The larger the commit numbers grow the smaller will be difference between a number 1935 and git hash af23cc. Besides, git provides easy means for referring to the most recent commits using HEAD, HEAD^, HEAD^^ and so on. There's also --since option for going further back in time.

As a result your commits now have two revision numbers: the hash used and maintained by git and the number used and maintained by you. But there's no escaping from hashes. You're forced to use them anyway. So why supplement them with your own revision numbers? That's like having a digital library system and maintaining a perfo-cards archive at parallel.
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OK, here's what I've done ...

I turned on show dead, I worked out who the username is, I went at look at their twitter conversations, and I looked at the submissions and comments from that HN username.

In the twitter stream someone suggested that getting downvoted to -40 triggers an auto ban. In response idlewords said "Nope" and offered a link as "proof."

As far as I can see that link (which is to their comments) actually supports the suggestion. There's a comment made a few days ago that's been downvoted into oblivion. If that took a day to happen, then everything after that would become invisible.

And it has.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me, and ...

<rant>

I really get irritated by people just spreading around their sense of entitlement rather than actually trying to get things resolved. It's been said many, many times here, if you have a problem, send a short and concise email to PG to try to get it sorted.

You don't have an inalienable right to post or comment here, it reflects better on you, and on any services or companies you run, if you try to resolve problems or issues rather than just complaining in a public forum.

</rant>
Are there two different sizes used for 11? I have two 11s next to each other, one with font-size 10.135196568048482px, and the other 6.871829374810328px.
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Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.
Just tried it: nicely done especially as I use a slightly customised UK Dvorak keyboard.
The anonymous down-voting on hn is really a problem.
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(From http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html )

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem$ ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

---

Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
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Yes, it's astounding (if true) that Pocket Fritz only searches 20k nodes per second, compared to Deep Blue's 200M. There must be some serious positional intelligence involved there!
A good SSD will have a seek time of something like 80 microseconds. Spinning mechanical platters are no longer the state of the art.
Useful link:

http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf

'The fallacies of distributed computing explained'.
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A huge amount of code gets slapped together by mediocre programmers but still serves a useful business purpose. I think we should be trying to design languages that are accessible to people like that but less cumbersome to more skilled developers. Scala was intended to be such a language but I think it has unfortunately overshot its goal.

I have high hopes for Jetbrains' Kotlin project. Even though I don't do any JVM development at the moment if Kotlin turns out to be a good Android language I might pick it up just for the pleasure of programming in such a nice environment.
It's not necessarily that you "can't" do a lot of things -- it's just harder. Recently I was trying to play around with Xmonad. I managed to get it up and running in X11 on OS X but it always was a little "off". I wanted it full screen, but sometimes the dock would appear, sometimes not, sometimes the OS X menubar along the top would appear, sometimes not. Sometimes various applications would lose focus but stay in front of X11. It was just not very great.

Then I ran into some problems getting gvim working in that setup. I'm not completely facile with all things Linux and usually Google for some help setting things up, but in this case I couldn't find anyone else who wanted to install gvim on OS X using X11, so I was out of luck there.

In the end I just fired up a Linux VM and it was all as easy as could be.
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Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BVs3oHY...
Very neat. I like the name quite a bit, and I like the idea.
It's always good to have a reminder ;)
Does it run client-side, or server side?

I'd appreciate a textarea version to test with, as a demo, before I either give you my Google Credentials or download an app.
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I believe the head crash occurred on a different disk pack, one that they were using to test it.
Maybe if they made an Android app of it.

Did anyone else see the title and think that it was a new shell?
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The chief problem with this is that a big part of Scala's value proposition is its integration with the JVM. In fact, a lot of the more awkward bits of Scala (and Clojure) are the price that has to paid to interoperate with Java. It's worth it for predominantly Java shops but for people already outside of that ecosystem it just looks like baggage.

For people without debts to the JVM I think it would make as much sense to just jump to Haskell.
I was talking to a guy on the train once who was telling me he'd love to build an iPhone app (context: iPad early adopter, someone else was cooing over it or whatever). He was under the illusion that it was about as simple as creating a spreadsheet.

I broke the bad news to him that creating an iPhone app was rather more complicated than that and required you to understand quite a difficult programming language (Objective-C) and a non-trivial framework (Cocoa, UIKit) and make a financial investment in a Mac and an Apple developer account. I kind of feel bad about it afterwards because it might be a good idea.

I just don't think it's healthy when people think that writing software is easy or doesn't require skill and expertise... because they might get scammed in the same way as if they go around believing that investing in the stock market is guaranteed PROFIT!1!
I honestly don't know much about Play, but I like the website. Nice use of scroll/navigation. But, whatever you do, DO NOT look at it in IE 8!!! ;-)
True that. If we pretend they're not talking about frictional (between jobs) or structural (tech makes people redundant) unemployment, they seem to be claiming that they can eliminate the kind of cyclical unemployment that happens when the world economy goes down the drain. I'd be fascinated if the Power of Social Marketing can fix that.
It's not clear how app engine is really helping here... or is this just something he mentions as a theoretical possibility? To make use of all of those cpus I'd think he'd need to distribute the load using the task queue, or if necessary, multistep fan-out / fan-in with the help of the pipeline library.
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Yahoo's existence is unimportant - maximizing the value to its shareholders is. Yahoo's well played effort to get purchased by Microsoft (at a much higher share price - nearly 3x the current?) was exactly the move it needed to make at the time - and it was pure idiocy to not finalize it. The next Yahoo CEO needs to get the current managers and staff of each department to justify their profit/loss status - if a manager is not up to that role then find one who is. Then sell the losses, and put those people to work elsewhere if a refocus is going to occur. Take what's left and optimize it. Look for any new ideas that complement the profit makers. And if an offer at 50% more than market value comes along, take it, damn it.
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Question for everyone: if the Kindle Color really does use Amazon's Appstore, then any apps for the Color would be developed using Java, right?

I'm not very familiar with Android development, but the Kindle tablet represents a humongous opportunity.
I was co-chair of Python 2006 & 2007, and in preparation I went to SMOFcon. SF con issues have some relevance to tech cons, but only partially so:

* SF cons don't usually provide food for all attendees, which is the big cost driver for tech cons. For PyCon 2011, catering was 54% of the budget.

* Tech cons mostly don't have to worry about people in costumes, keeping under-18s out of certain events, or as much rowdy late-night behaviour (e.g. room parties).

* Tech cons really, really have to worry about the WiFi network. Recording every presentation may also impose more A/V requirements.

Going to SMOFcon was somewhat useful to me, but the differences are significant.
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Wingspan Technology

We're looking for Java and iOS (iPad) engineers. We write enterprise software for pharmaceuticals and others.
http://www.wingspan.com/about/careers/
The website is nice with one small but massively important exception. The line height of the text is far too small, it should be around 1.5 times the font size at that size.
1. If you can, consider changing the title to "Show HN: [DESCRIPTION]"

2. It's an awesome idea and I installed it for Gmail, but I feel it doesn't do a particularly good job at this stage (unless of course one introduces direct offenses using words like moron, idiot, etc).

I'll give you one crude example, where the software miserably failed to detect potentially upsetting language. It's intentionally over the top.

"That's not what I said at all. You guys don't understand what I'm saying. I wish I had smarter coworkers. Your mothers were clearly too busy sleeping around with large animals, instead of teaching you how to listen. I'll talk with your manager about this, because you clearly don't get it. Fuck this."

It would be an incredible product if it could catch much more subtle issues than that.

For example: "Did you even bother reading my email?" should be red flagged, so that it can be corrected to something like "Did you have a chance to read my email yet?" or "I wasn't very clear in my previous email. Allow me to explain further."

3. This would be an amazing tool for any textbox on the web (via browser extension). Its use would certainly be encouraged here on HN for commenters.
Play is lovely, but the one thing I'm really hoping for is improvements to make Scala's Option types work out of the box with Hibernate (rather than having to use nulls).
Hi,

As a small business advertiser on Reddit, I feel as if this would be a good idea, especially for big businesses; however as I wrote before (http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=shoham), there are a couple of little things that I think you guys could be doing to be more business friendly with self serve ads for small businesses like my own: http://www.feed-forward.net

The three main ideas are: (1) lower the cost per day for ads (for a small business, with less than 100K a year in revenue, Reddit ads don't scale well). Facebook, and Google have a $1/day minimum. (2) Let the OPss of self serve ads moderate their post. It defeats the purpose of spending money on an ad, and having such an awesome idea such as the SSA program if the comments section is hounded by trolls, and moderated by no one. I've been told by admins that Reddit has a long history of free speech adherence, which is great, but posts are removed from subreddits all the time for not complying with the subreddits' rules, at the mods discretion. My proposition is that you guys extend this courtesy to buyers of SSAs.

Third, allow advertisers who have been advertising for a while to focus their impressions on people who have already clicked on their ads. Again, this is a small business-friendly idea -- I've focused most of my ad buys on r/music , a huge subreddit of 150K people. If after a month or two I could focus my buys on those users I've already engaged with in that r/, that would help bolster two objectives: keep the ad conversational, and help advertisers create a community around their submission/business. Once a few thousand people have seen my ad every day for two or three months, I can maybe even invite them to a sponsored r/...

-Shoham
I love the idea, but I would prefer to see the infrequent tweets at the top of the page above the frequent ones instead of the frequent ones being so tiny I can't read them even if I want to.
Because it is usually things like we have 1000x faster such and such and 100x smaller since such and such a time. This brings home that there were amazing technological advances even in the 70's worth noting. Sure we have SSD's now and so on. But, ya. Just kinda cool to see.
Had that happen to me many times.

Problem with being a smallish web development company is that you're either getting the difficult dregs, or you're hoping large multi-disciplinary agencies don't lure away your lucrative gems.
I realize evolutionary psychology is exciting but it's also very dubious as science because it isn't predictive or falsifiable in most cases. This speculation is what you're calling "application of theory". If you want to claim scientific credibility, do some actual neuroscience with a testable experiment producing hard data quantifying the exact degree to which differences in the size of certain structures is heritable and the effects it had on high-level cognition. This is a lot harder than ret-conning sexism on the Internet and it would be worth contemplating why close to half of the scientists actually doing this work are doing so despite being female.

Regarding my point on high-level differences: "high-level" simply means anything using more than a simple circuit - walking is a high-level activity and talking is an extraordinarily high one because you have everything from motor control to language and abstract thought driving it. Any high-level activity is based on low-level functions, yes, but there are always multiple strategies to solve problems and the brain is notoriously adaptable (this is how e.g. congenitally blind people end up using the visual cortex for other tasks)

You've reduced your timeframe by an order of magnitude but are still clinging to this hunter/gatherer gender divide which is unsupported by evidence. This Disney history, not anthropology. There is considerable evidence that gender divides were less pronounced prior to the rise of agriculture - and that almost nobody got the majority of their calories from hunting; certainly many women hunted and fished as well - it's almost never about pure brute force (a better tracker is going to trump a muscular lummox every time).

Finally, remember how MRI works: it tells you where millions of neurons were using oxygen in the recent past. It doesn't tell you why, distinguish between the highly specified types of neurons, or allow you to see patterns in behavior. It's still a useful tool but you should think of it like comparing programs by dividing a CPU in quadrants and measuring the average heat in each area after running the programs for awhile.

Finally: you still ascribe purpose to evolution. If something didn't kill you before you reproduce, there's little pressure to remove it. Arthritis is common but hardly selected for.
Agreed on one hand, but there is some great stuff on the JVM, and that is stuff you could expose people to eventually.
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This is kind of fantastic, in the 'I almost want to go out and plaster it all over a website just for fun and to laugh at peoples reactions' fantastic.
And even more, there is rlwrap (i.e. readline wrap) command line utility that wrangles the badly behaved tools and allows you to use VI editing mode with almost anything (like cat command etc).
gtypist -- http://www.gnu.org/s/gtypist/
Low-to-no-value-added reselling is in general a tough business, and thus encourages scammy/spammy behavior.
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I know of a group of people doing something similar near where I live. They have successful serial eco entrepreneurs, experts in land acquisition, builders, teachers, and several doctors, involved at the higher levels. Not exactly a bunch of hippies. (Edit: If they were doing it somewhere more sensible, as in warmer, I'd be on their board as well. I think people should be encouraged to create intentional eco communities.)

They want to have full control and not all of the usual infrastructure required for a town like sewers, roads, etc. One of the major problems of course, is zoning laws, which can be circumvented by setting it up as a university... or a religion.

I skimmed through the omegaproject site and didn't see where it was planned or who was behind it, two things that would help. Without knowing more about the people involved, it does come across as suspect.
Not really. VIM has vi as subset, and plain vanilla vi is still quite powerful text editor. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, and I would not choose to use it as the primary editor for all tasks, but if I'm on a system where I have to edit something using plain vi, I won't have a hard time doing it and doing it fast.
I certainly believe that marriages can be more harmonious when the men is in a economically leading role. Do I believe that women should suppressed in order to achieve this? No. Do I believe that if a woman wants a successful marriage, pursuing a high-status career can be harmful to this? Yes.
>"pre-sell the homes, and use the profits to create the most extraordinary town ever built."

Profits are what is left over after you build everything. When pre-sales create profits, you have a scam.
it looks like the scale is based on total tweets? it just doesn't seem correct... it looks like it's scaled based on how long the people have been users.

there is someone I follow who joined in 2008 (or earlier), used to tweet a lot, but now tweets a couple times a week... I would expect them not to be an 11. other people tweet several times a day, but have been users for less than a year... their's are larger.
To show how unlikely it is that it will beat the strongest GPL chess program on modest hardware, a back of the envelope calculation.

The program they want to use ranks around 500 elo points lower than the strongest open source program on the same hardware. (source: http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/rating_list_all.html)

It is estimated that doubling the speed of the computer adds 50-70 elo points (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chess cites David Levy's book how computers play chess.)

This means that they will have to achieve anywhere between a 2^7 to a 2^10 speedup over a normal single PC. Once you consider the latency problem described above, it is very unlikely that they can achieve this speed up. To put this problem into context, even on a quad-core a three times speedup is considered pretty good in computer chess.
OSX is an OS where you run VMs for Linux and Windows.
I keep seeing people saying how great and fast it is to do stuff on their mac and run Windows for a few apps incl. mail client, office suites, some dev tools and many java apps (cause they're often not so nice on OSX)

Then I see them with the Linux VM for all the dev tools, the hack tools, and so forth, because, well, hacking them up to work in OSX is always a pain, and even using stuff like brew is often a pain (+ delay)

Well I dunno, I run Linux native and I get stuff done faster than the ones running Linux in a VM of course. I also have Linux VMs under Linux when necessary, with KSM and it's a lot faster and memory efficient than when running OSX native on the same hardware.

I install stuff in about <5s where it takes a VM to boot/resume in OSX, and about 5-10min to install from scratch when the app _supports_ OSX (ages if it doesn't but has more or less compliant sources)
Cute idea. But my tweets are some of the largest things and I'm not really seeing much else - and mine are pretty frequent, too.
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> Widget ethics. Using third-party processing power has usually been opt-in: people needed to install SETI@home or the BOINC software to lend their CPUs. JavaScript allows us to use people’s CPUs without their explicit consent just when they visit a page with the widget, which makes this a grey area.

This could be a new way of generating revenue from a website: selling time on visitors' machines. I'm not saying it's a good or ethical idea, but it's certainly an interesting idea.
It's all about the extra pain. (or the lack thereof)
The men on daytime TV sitcoms are not roll models for men, they're there for the women audience of those shows to laugh at to feel better.

Look at action movies. Those are the roll models of men. Look at advertisements targeted towards men. Those are the roll models of men.

Of course as memory serves, the female lead of Everyone Loves Raymond is actually more out of shape than Raymond himself... But hell, how about the most popular woman on television? Oprah isn't exactly trim.
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I actually just did a poll on the google group to see what others were using for CI.

Most are using a combination of:
Calimoucho
Jenkins with the play plugin https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/play-plugin Teamcity
Bamboo

So there are currently many options.
Lovely splash page.

The feature list very much lacks a "supported languages" list.

I know that the USA is the world, except that, well, it isn't.

I like the pricing, btw. 10$ is an amount I'd be willing to pay for this (if you'd support Dutch).
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he couldn't get an affiliate link for that...
I don't remember when they switched. Perhaps a year ago, maybe more. The development models we're working with all have FreeBSD.
Wow, 61% of websites that responded with an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header had a value set to "*". This allows for the website to be access in a cross-domain manner (think XSS, global wild cards in crossdomain.xml, etc).

I'm worried to think how site operators will adopt CSP (Content Security Policy) once it starts to gain traction.