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British English uses a hell of a lot of implicit meanings, though this is declining with the rise of both modern soundbite politics forcing public discourse to be more literal, which also combines with public discourse being less implicit to benefit a more multicultural society. Nuance takes a long time to learn, and it's easy to take things the wrong way if you don't have heavy experience with it.

I don't speak Vietnamese, so can't comment directly with that, but I can relate to my experiences in watching public Australian English simplify massively over the past 20 years or so. The wider public take a lot of cues from the media. Soundbite journalism be damned.
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Thanks to the antitrust trial in the late 1990s, they've mostly been neutered in this regard.
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I'd be surprised if so, the userbase is probably going to be pretty tiny. It's not really easy to get an Android phone without a data plan (although it's possible), and there's not really any reason to use it otherwise, other than initial curiosity.
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Great idea. They should offer smaller bounties for texts that don't meet the criteria, but would with some work, proportionate to how much work needs to be done. Though it seems that just evaluating them requires considerable effort.
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I hope comments like yours will disappear first.

Yes he did not say anything we didn't already know but he did put them together in a novel way, thereby increasing atleast my understanding of events.

Your comment on the other hand did no such thing.
Asking for a citation is fair but he did say average and most folks on HN do not use average computers. My guess is that you have an above average machine.
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Exactly.

The computing power and, if I had to guess, the bill-of-materials cost is probably roughly equal to an Apple TV. The difference is that Apple has a traditional retail markup whereas it sounds like Raspberry Pi, being a charity, will be selling their product only barely above cost.
Reminds me of a similar service that would email you a pdf of a site.

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Rather than Saylor decide on what to buy and at what price, I wonder if they could use a kickstarter-like model. If they matched individual donations, they could make their money go further & get some genuine measure of community support/interest in different texts.
> Just opining that people will, in fact, vote with their feet, and that it's going to hurt Twitter a lot.

Well, if the people are going to do this when Twitter finally figures out a monetization strategy, then Twitter won't be in business for very long and people will be forced to find an alternative either way.

It's a bit silly to expect them to continue living off of hundreds of millions of VC money to preserve an ad-free user experience.
Ads were definitely not what killed digg. The biggest upset in balance was the increasing appeal of Reddit, a bloated staff, and Digg 4.0's RSS importer for submissions, which effectively made users pointless (aside from voting). Digg probably was still going to die, but these things certainly sped it up.
Actually English has very few syllables compared to Filipino or Spanish. Nearly a third of the words are one syllable and most of the multiple syllable words have either Latin, French, or Greek origin. I think there was an attempt by early humans to make words have as less syllables as possible to simplify communication. Then as our thoughts became more complex they either changed the tone of the syllable (as in Chinese) or added prefixes and suffixes to alter the meaning of the root word. Those language families that decided to add prefixes and suffixes became known as "inflectional" languages. Those that remained mono-syllabic have a variety of tones per syllable.
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Are you serious?

Was that necessary?

As I said to billybob, when I work in cvs or Subversion, my team is working on a branch. Personally, I work on a branch of that branch. I check in anytime I like. When I want my teammates to receive my code, I merge back to the team branch. So, I don't really get the 'sandbox' advantage of git.

Speed and disk space have never been an issue for me with cvs or Subversion. The content-tracking sounds interesting, but really, I don't rename files all that often.

it has a killer app in GitHub

That doesn't have any sway on my choice of version control. I sometimes retrieve files from GitHub, but that's about it.

I don't know, I haven't heard anything really compelling about git. People who use it seem really excited about it, but not for any reasons that strike me as particularly objective.
PPK came up with JSON over SMS, which would be a great way for people to use apps with phones (or in countries) that don't support data (including MMS). I guess this is a much bigger problem in developing countries. You can see his slides about this here: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/10/fronttrends_...
It may not be directly related to that, but I don't mind it that much. I like the fact that when I look at the price for something I don't have to add in the sales tax. I sort of like the one-or-the-other approach in Oregon (only income tax, no sales tax) and Washington (only sales tax, no income tax). There are obviously nuances (e.g. Multnomah County has a ~15% tax on car rentals) though.
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I do keep on top of things, but unfortunately the academic "industry" doesn't like to really push the boat out. Radicalism and original thought are frowned upon in the scientific community. Everything is the same ideas recycled and repackaged slightly differently.
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You probably should have chosen somebody who wasn't a complete douche bag to make your example. Joe Biden cussing like that makes him look like a complete fool. I am all for cussing when situation is right, but this (and Biden's mockery) is just vulgar for the sake of being vulgar. There is a time and a place for vulgarity, press releases is not one of them. It just makes you look foolish, easily manipulated emotionally, and unprofessional in my eyes.
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This is so clever. So impressed right now but I feel like this is going to get shut down so fast....
My Windows 7 hasn't been rebooted for the last 22 days. I'm not sure I'm that impressed with fast booting.
Wow. Am impressed by the support one gets on HN. Keep it up guys and wish you the best of luck chad.
> The power of sports metaphors

If you understand the games it's about. I have no idea what the rules of baseball are, how you win, how you lose, etc. (I'm French) and found the whole baseball paragraph hard to understand.

In the end it seems to mean that you can lose trying, or lose not even trying -- but if one's not trying why are they even in the field?

IMHO such posts should be more informative: what was the original plan to make money, what was tried, what failed and why; who were supposed to be the paying customers: users, carriers, phone makers, app developers or...?

And what were the operating costs? Wouldn't it have been possible to keep it running "on the side"?

As such it's a sad story that makes us sad; but we'd like to learn more.
I find it a bit suspicious that the video has been spliced at 0:33. Maybe the boot hadn't really finished and a "Still loading" window popped-up.
Twitters downfall will come when people realize that the service their offering isn't exclusive. It can be easily duplicated and improved. It seems similar to SMS and e-mail. The concept is something that will last forever, but eventually, someone is going to create an open standard that allows for people to submit "tweets" (or whatever the equivalent will be) from anywhere to anyone on any platform. Imagine a podcast style system. Get live updates on any device, subscribe to users from iTunes/GMAIL/etc.

It'll happen, sooner or later. (Probably sooner now).

To explain my idea better, think of internet messaging systems. People use AIM, ICQ, Pidgin, etc. You can communicate with users on other platforms using different software. Right now twitter is both the back-end and the front-end. Eventually, it'll just be the front end like GTalk or Pidgin.
The regulations regarding funding for private firms stems from a time when it was much harder to do qualification. With the changes in technology and the emerging reputation economy, the risks of such investing have diminished. Especially if it's capped, opening up investment to the average person would cause an explosion in innovation and job creation that would offset the harm cause by fraud. I'm extremely excited by this!
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I was wondering how this would impact multi-boot systems, as mixing hibernation and multi-boot is an extremely bad idea (unless you know what you're doing, and even then there a
are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot).
Thanks, it was a lot of fun :)

I hope it doesn't get shut down TOO fast. I think it has a chance since the userbase will probably be very small, since the number of people who have Android phones without a data plan with US T-Mobile is probably on the order of thousands...
I'd love to hear more about the single founder experience too, could you tell us more about that or write up a post about that?

Edit: I just found a post about your experience on your blog, thanks for writing about it already. For others who are curious about this, see here: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/08/31/applying-to-yc-as-a-sin...
This sounds like a wonderful project. There's honestly no reason that this couldn't take off for most lower-level undergraduate classes. It would certainly kill off a large portion of the textbook publishing business, but they needed to die anyway.
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The minute you (as a twitter client developer) start doing that, Twitter will revoke your API access.
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From what I can tell, Chinese will often drop tones, just as English will drop vowels (substituting most vowels for a schwa - a kind of "e" or "uh" sound) if the meaning is not too ambiguous.

People who learn Chinese often fret about getting the tones right. The tones just aren't that important - Chinese speakers can generally guess the meaning, though they will think you sound like a 4-year-old if you don't pronounce tones correctly. IMO, getting the vowels and consonants right is harder (and more important).

Seriously, here's the pairs you will confuse:

d / t - d is unaspirated

j / zh - j is a "cjsch" sound (a bit like "Asia") while zh is a "j" sound

q / ch - q is a "bright" (slightly whistled?) ch; ch is a "dark" ch)

x / sh - x is a "bright" sh and sh is a "dark" sh

c / s - c is a "ts", s is just s

b / p - b can sound a little closer to p than in English and p is more aspirated

g / k - g sounds a little close to k, while k is more aspirated

Then there's the vowels, which are really hard. Learning four tones is comparatively easy.

If you don't get the consonants almost 100% correct, people will simply not be able to tell what you are saying. If you don't use tones, they can usually understand, as long as you use simple words (which face it, you will).
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Can you give some examples of implied meanings in British/Australian English? As an native American English speaker, I've never had this opinion of British/Australian English. I mean, I do feel that Americans are more straightforward, whereas the British are rather reticent. But I don't think this is extensively reflected via linguistic differences.
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I think this is a great idea.

I lectured at a college for a few years. One class I lectured for was an intro class with 500+ students a trimester. The Course Admin wrote the text and seemed to update it often. I had seen the different versions. The updates were minor and the text was still out of date by at least 10 years.

The only way to change the text was to get a different Course Admin.

Sadly, there seems to be a lot of money to be made by professors requiring their text books in college.
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Are you satisfied just by voice? prepaid card? enable roaming and pay big bucks? or just see who's calling? buy a plan overseas because you go there too frequently? limit yourself to wifi at the hotel?

regardless of the country you usually go to, what do you do?
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I think we just have to agree to disagree on this point. I have nothing against somebody stating their position with emotion, but this was vulgar and designed to do nothing but escalate the situation. She didn't use profanity while making a great argument, she used it to directly insult her previous employer. So things didn't work out for her at Yahoo, and she got fired on the phone - yeah, it sucks. It doesn't give her the right to act like a spoiled brat in public. I'd expect better from my children then how this woman acts in public. She should be embarrassed. If she really wanted to get back at them there was much better and more professional ways to go about it. I stand by my reasoning that this kind of vulgarity used in public should be shameful, and I'm no prude.
Don't conflate notebook and desktop PCs here though. Most notebooks seem to have little trouble with sleep/hibernate but I've never owned a desktop PC where the fucking ACPI worked like it is supposed to. As a result I always turn off sleep and hibernate and avoid the frustration.
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If Vietnamese is much like Chinese, I wouldn't be surprised. Chinese speakers don't specify much. They tend to hollar low-context imperatives at each other, and hope that everyone already knows their job. Linguists call this a "high context" language, because if you don't have a good idea of the existing context you won't figure much out.

I suspect it's related to the extremely strict and ridged hierarchies in China, and the extremely flexible and implicit social networks. Your boss doesn't ask you to do a favor. They order you. In contrast, you don't ask your neighbour if you can borrow a cup or sugar, you just take it, and pay back the favor some other time. If they don't let you (and don't have a good reason), you just never talk to them again (or if that's too severe, silently downgrade your relationship with them).

Funnily, "let" and "make" are the same word in Chinese. i.e. "My mother made me do my homework, then she made me watch TV".
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It's easy to get good coffee in the U.S., at least in the more metropolitan cities. Just don't go into Starbucks.

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But then again, trolling is more fun than contributing to something.. Right?
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It's unclear to me if the lisp version is actually any faster. Does anyone know if this is just a pure troll or if there's any substance to it?
Shel's seems like an amiable enough guy. But it seems clear to me that with out the business strategy and vision of Bezos Amazon wouldn't exist. I think this quote summs up Shel's and Bezos's styles succinctly "I am a product of the 60s just like Jeff is a product of the 80s".

I don't think Shel should be considered a co-founder. None of his DNA is imprinted into Amazon. In the end, he was pretty replaceable.
lisp? Looked like erlang to me.
It's been a long time since I came up with this solution, and not necessary anymore for TextMate, but something along these lines may help you:

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Nice. I hope the app has a "don't send passwords" warning in there ;)
Also, how do you (do you?) handle SSL operations, specially POSTs?
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> I know my Macs "sleep" rather than hibernate

More precisely they do both. Close the lid and they save RAM to disk, then sleep. Open the lid and they resume instantly from sleep and discard the hibernation content, but wait long enough to drain the battery (or pop off the battery e.g for a swap on older Macs) and they will resume from disk.

IIRC Win 7 knows how to do that, though it might not be default.
Erlang, not lisp.
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Why? I trust professional reviewers more than I trust random disgruntled customers. Because some doctors are better than others, professional reviews could be useful information.
Interestingly enough, this long-time Erlang developer is contemplating switching to Clojure for a variety of reasons. ('Erlang is a ghetto')

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I don't really care as much about the boot time as the time between my desktop showing up and any of my commands being recognized. On my old Thinkpad as soon as the desktop and Start menubar showed up I got the same two laggy warnings about incompatible drivers every single time I would boot, and for 20 seconds or so icons wouldn't even respond to me hovering over them. Then I would have to wait another 20-45 seconds for anything to open while all the little icons and their respective programs were loading in the bottom right part, among with other background activity.

Granted the computer was a couple years older than average users' these days, but psychologically it was just infuriating to think the computer is ready for me, and then having to sit through the "second boot." Instead of a super-fast boot they should focus on a super-simple boot which isn't torture to watch. I can walk away from my machine and do something else for a minute while it's booting, just like anyone does when they're popping popcorn. But the popcorn should be easy to open once it's "done."
very cool. i might just stop using techmeme!

I agree with the other commenter about having a "more" button.

The thing that bugs about techmeme is they make it appear as if the tech word consists of a handful of companies (Apple, FB, Twitter, Google, MS), and you basically have no other news outside of that.

Your site has that, to a lesser degree, but its still there. I see 2 google stories, 2 twitter stories, 2 yahoo stories. It might be useful to compile a small list of company names and group on company name if you see it appear twice.
I'd also like to know about reading speed; I'm convinced that subtitles in Polish are displayed for mere microseconds, and the same rapid-fire display is true for various dot-matrix-type signs.
The "new" code appears to be https://github.com/tonyg/erlang-smtp/blob/master/src/smtp_se... with the copyright notice changed.
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I thought it was "only" $500M, but regardless, they're clearly gunning for an IPO. Hard to say how that will pan out, though. LinkedIn has an $8B market cap, but Groupon's IPO seems stalled.