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I have fun on the PS3 - and while there are some serious issue in how things are working behind the scenes, to me that's where the fun is. I like the Playstation line, and I like the exclusive games they have, but as I said it's all about opinion and if others prefer the Xbox line, then that's where they go for their games - and that's fine with me.
You're not giving a criticism, you're just being a dick. As for offering opinions, you might want to try 1) making them constructive, and 2) not following a silly statement about the title being "desperate".
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> It's easy to dismiss people "jiggling things around until they work", as lesser, more inefficient or just plain bad programmers. Just remember that you were once like that too.

Sure. But you're not ready for much more than an internship in the software industry (if even that), if that's the phase of programming you're at. The point is that you aren't yet ready to write production code if that's your approach.
I think the assumption was that even arrays indexed by integers are stored as JS Objects, which are basically a hashmap style structure, and so they wouldn't be implemented like a ho-hum, classic array. I'm not sure if that assumption is right, but if it is, there would be no need to re-address each element.
Apple is famous for doing whatever they have to to ensure an unmarred experience by their customers. Does this step surprise you?
I wasn't asking you, but I'm glad you answered. Great advice. Thanks!
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Some applications will work better in a touch screen environment, that's the aim of the Metro UI. Some applications, like Visual Studio, will work best within the traditional desktop environment. I think Microsoft is more about offering you a wide variety of choices on how to implement your application rather than forcing you to any single technology.
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What is it 2007? An interesting article would draw the comparison between the three waves of filesystem access (command line, desktop, and no-filesystem filesystem) and search. Then we might get an interesting discussion about how search is really just a CLI where none of the commands are published, so a psuedo-CLI. Want to be the next google? figure out the desktop metaphor for search.
GCC can statically prove that `s` isn't changed at all in the loop body, just accessed. Thus the analysis goes: `strlen()` is pure, and its argument never changes, so its result never changes, so I can hoist it.
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I wonder if the rise of Chrome at the expense of Firefox is a counter-counter example. FF has grown bloated and more chockfull of features. Chrome, on the other hand, has retained a unified and coherent structure.
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This is broken in a different way (assuming you mean something like the following):

int c = this.MyControl.TabPages.Count;
for ( int i=0; i < c; i++ )
{
this.MyControl.TabPages.Remove ( this.MyControl.TabPages[i] );
}

Let's say you have 4 items. That'll go something like this:

Original list: (0,1,2,3)
Remove 0 Item 0 removed, items (1,2,3) become (0,1,2)
Remove 1 Item 1 (originally 2) removed, items (0,2) become (0,1)
Remove 2 Only two elements left in the list (0 and 1), so there is no index 2 anymore...
You've been on this website for less than two months. You do realize that this site used to be called "Startup News", right?
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The compiler can see the loop, so it can optimize it. Hosting constant expressions out of loops is a long-standing optimization in all compilers. Here, the expression "s" is unchanged* inside the loop, so the compiler can hoist it. If the expression were "s[0]" it could do the same. But can it do it for strlen(s)? It can, if it knows that strlen() has no side effects. So gcc extends C's syntax to add a "pure" attribute to tell the compiler exactly that.

* Pedants will point out all subtleties about C pointer aliasing rules apply here. But for the purpose of explanation, assume that nothing assigning throuh s means "s is constant".
Constructive criticism is highly encouraged, and even sought after.

Under what conceivable perspective could your comment be viewed as constructive? You basically blurted out, "Me too... NOT!"
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Can you share a few thoughts about trends that are coming macro or micro which we all should be watching both for disruption and opportunity? Within tech, broader socio-economic changes, global changes etc? To help us better "future proof" ourselves and our passions.
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More evidence that if a language lacks macros, people will find an alternate mechanism for language extension (bytecode generation) which is usually much more complex than macros would have been.

On the other hand, reflection in the hands of over-eager users is already a nightmare... perhaps a huge speed bump in the way of full metaprogramming is a good thing for most projects.

As far as the actual application presented here.. it doesn't quite get you Scala's traits (no self-types) but it seems pretty close. Nice hack.
Focus is a funny thing. I think those with brilliant minds are the ones that are most consumed and distracted. (I'm alluding to you, here.) I think each person is driven by different things. Personally, I find accountability to be a huge motivator. To that end, I work with partners on projects and try to find people who are just as passionate as I am. My partner never let's me drop the project so I continue to make progress despite whatever is distracting me at the moment. Some people use mental tricks for motivating their progress. (Like making games out of tasks. Or using systems to influence taking decisions that yield the greatest net personal gain.)

Here are some of the resources I frequent to help mold my thinking and personal refinement. Maybe something below will help.

http://the99percent.com/tips/browse/3/Action-Method

http://www.oninnovation.com/videos/detail.aspx?video=1251

http://changethis.com/

http://zenhabits.net/
You sure can. But I have to go write that up too.

The Why was explained in the talk itself , naturally. The video will be posted
Yeah, like, back in the old days we had a link to an 8085 instruction reference card that got some attention. I think that was about four months ago... ;)
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In my experience an hourly rate usually either a) extracts the budget number that they have or b) gets the response of OK lets just do it hourly or c) I get show to the door.

In situation A it is usually because they see my hourly rate a pricy and so they give up their max budget, as a negotiating tool. In which case I tailor the solution to that budget.

In situation B they generally have a budget in which they don't see my cost as even making a dent in.

Finally in C generally we would have never had a meeting of the minds in the first place. I don't compete on price, there was a point where I had the price shoppers filtered out of my sales pipeline, but as we are bringing on new clients again, we do end up in situation C from time to time.
"If it stops working, I'm free from worry because the Apple store makes everything better."

You should've just said 'I love Big Brother.'
While I love the simplicity of iOS, the second you need to do anything remotely complicated your stuck.

If I want to send said Keynote document, Keynote must know about my email program, conversely if I receive a Keynote file my email program must know about Keynote. I have little faith that my daily file handling can be completely abstracted.
The job market disagrees with you. Corporations want exact or near exact match to their requirements if they are to consider you for a position.

Keyword scanning of resumes by HR and managers looking to minimize the need for training has led to this.

For start-ups I agree with the assertion. Otherwise the reverse is true.
This is awesome! I didn't realise you can jump with the up key.

Also, I broke the single-player demo version by switching on bounce and upping the speed to 9999999. Oopsie.
I really like your insight about the accumulation of decisions over the course of a project - I've never thought about it in quite that way, that by having one default decision or the other, your project's destiny is completely different. Picking a sane default answer to that question for a project should be thought of as one of the (many) important jobs of its creator.

edit: I really don't understand why the parent comment was downvoted and then deleted.
Haskell, I assume. Two things really make Haskell shine when it comes to problems like this: 1) higher-order list operations -- you're not iterating through indices, so there is no possibility for off-by-one errors, and 2) immutability -- your code takes a new list with the undesirable elements removed; you can't remove elements of a structure at the same time you're iterating through it.

I always love the problems on SPOJ where they give you the number of cases up front, because in Haskell you can almost always throw out that value. Your map function knows when the list is out of elements.
I think the criticism here is hypocrisy. Google has a reputation of being extremely honest, open, fair, what-have-you. This reputation is exemplified by their offering a an initial choice in other markets. But, as this example illustrates, in the markets where it actually matters, they take that initial choice away. This is not really hard to understand.

Google adores the reputation they have for somehow being above the fray and simply being the best. They cultivate this image. But over and over it's revealed that they are a normal company, who does things such as "delayed open source" to keep partners in line, purposely introducing systematic flaws in their Web search API, and of course the foregoing "special circumstances", all of which are sneaky ways to have the appearance of the image they want, while keeping their competitive advantage.

I don't begrudge them these decisions, but all the Google fawning does get a little hard to take, as if they have some sort of moral superiority. The facts say otherwise. They are not altruistic. They do not make decisions that might hurt themselves in order to give others an equal chance. Google has replaced Apple is the PR machine extraordinaire in the modern corporate world.
> In my ignorance I would not click it because I do not know what it represents really.

I actually only click on ones I don't recognize.
The above study lacks all the important details (who was tested, on what content, and with what prompt), at least on the page linked to.
You don't have to rewrite your entire app. In fact, there are probably large parts of it you can reuse. But you can't expect a Win32-style UI to work in Metro, and you can't expect sandboxed apps downloaded from a marketplace to be running as admin and have full access to the registry, either.

Can WPF apps run on Win8? Yes. Are they preferred when the user is running an iPad-like device with no keyboard and fat-finger pointing accuracy? No. How about when the user has a keyboard, mouse, and desktop? Sure. Is Excel usable with fingers? Not really.

This is just like when Apple released OSX 10.5, and all of a sudden all the Carbon apps had to be rewritten. Except not; Microsoft will still let you write Win32 apps and run them on Windows 8, where Apple said "if you want to run on 64-bit OSX, rewrite."
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He was literally hovering over them the entire time holding his glass of water just so he could make this claim. ;)
Could you achieve the same things on an Android tablet? On the Touchpad? On the Playbook? I'm not sure if that is an inherent issue with iOS, or rather functionality that mobile OS's in general have not yet bothered to implement, as tablets are still marketed towards common consumers, not power users.
OpenSocial 2.0 was just released last month. http://blog.opensocial.org/2011/08/announcing-release-of-ope...

OS may not be as popular but it is still in use.
Does that say 202 million years? :)
However, once you have a position at a company, I have found that companies love the generalist because that person can wear many hats, decreasing the need for more employees.
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This release includes another significant change that, for some reason, neither the submitted article nor the higher-level announcement [1] mentions: if an HTTPS page loads a script over HTTP, the script is now blocked from executing. There's a popup which warns you that "This page has insecure content", and you can opt to ignore the warning and unblock.

[1] http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-stable-release-of-chr...
I think that the "bad thing" about "Johnny" is that he's all sizzle, no steak. When the focus on the product is lost, there's only so much even the greatest ad guru can really do (with enough talent, money, and determination to succeed I think that a great marketing campaign can be enough -- but that's for the rare company that already has the money, when most new business just have the drive).
there is some irony in that it disables the ballot not for Russia geographical (like IP based), it disables if you run in Russian locale anywhere in the world, ie. it disables it for Russia in mental space. Seems like pretty correct reflection of the fact that notion of ballots, choice, etc ... is foreign to Russian mentality.
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Yes. My bad. I should have said "The real problem is we still need to code." I do agree with you that we will always need to design interfaces, engineer solutions, gather requirements, understand the systems being developed, etc. But we should not and will not need to code the solution.

What does "fully composable" mean?

A framework/architecture that is fully composable would be one that allows you to implement any solvable system without writing code.

As for the "MBA-talk" stuff... It is possible to create frameworks that are fully composable. If you would like, I can chat with you about such things outside of HN.
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This was described by Cooper in "about face" a long time before iPhone was out. And I was really pleased to see it in real life, at last.
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I really don't understand your point. How is any of this to the detriment of the average user who uses the iPad to browse the net/read ebooks/watch movies/listen to music/as a digital photo frame? The average user doesn't need to use the iPad as a computer. If the problem is pricing, then that indeed is an issue with tablets, but then Apple's products have always been high priced.
That's the one I am thinking of.
"One OS to rule them all"

Nice try, Microsoft, misleading people into thinking that. But it's more like:

1) Windows 8 for x86 desktop systems

2) Windows 8 for ARM (no native apps, and quite different)

3) Windows Phone for mobiles (based on Windows CE)

My question is why didn't they just make WP7 for tablets? I know Win8 wasn't ready, but from some videos I saw on TIMN of Win8 running on ARM tablets, it was clear that the dual core ones could barely handle it, and only the quad core Kal-el had more acceptable performance. I'm sure WP7 would've flied on those. Why did they have to port that whole 8 GB OS to ARM when it will have no legacy apps anyway?
"But, this company starts its day before the sun rises and by 8am our entire 10 person staff is heavily caffeinated and operating on full cylinders. Fast forward several hours and the earliest our staff leaves the office is 7pm. We do not leave until we are satisfied with the days metrics, period."

Doesn't sound healthy at all. Hope you're actually getting things done, because that can't last long. (And if it does, you won't be getting things done.)
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Not Mike but my 2 cents. Very fast for me. I was playing with the price slider control was actually slower to move than the new options were to render, pretty remarkable. I'd recommend using html5 sliders (<input type="range") and then falling back to whatever you're using here (should still be able to style it).

I think it was a good decision to only ask initial price on the first screen and then switching to a price range on the second. It was a bit difficult to adjust the min and max because they're so close together. Not sure how to fix it. Maybe have them be 2 separate colors so you know which is which.

I'd like more than 1 option. Being able to page through the choices would be nice.

On the front page the price renders as: Â£. Not sure what you were going for there.

I'd use this to shop if I could page through results.
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Writing on a whiteboard while explaining yourself is different from typing alone into an IDE. Conventions you might use to avoid syntax errors (like typing a pair of braces and then filling the middle) may not work on a whiteboard. Pacing is different, and muscle memory doesn't help. You're looking at a blank whiteboard rather than your terminal with other parts of the codebase. The first few minutes of coding are often "getting up to speed"; many programmers are orders of magnitude more productive once they're "in the zone".

In short, I wouldn't consider "your whiteboard code is missing a semicolon" to indicate a lack of productivity overall, only a lack of practice coding on a whiteboard. (It surprised me how much better my whiteboard code got over the course of a quarter of teaching.)
Great article. I disagree with the notion that 'launch is for amateurs'. Launch may be at times for amateurs, but it's really great for the big names, as well -- seems like Apple does pretty well with its launches...

I think that the real point of the article launch is really not so good for amateurs -- though amateurs might want to wait for a big launch in order to release their product, which can be a bad idea.
Obviously I'm not advocating violence against children. Nobody does that, not even those who practice it.

I was referring to nature films we've all seen where a bunch of adorable cubs are crawling over a mother lion and one of them crosses a line somehow and she swipes it with a paw. What I'm advocating, which I think was pretty obvious, is quick, clear, and loving boundary-setting in response to bad behavior. How one does this is beside the point; that's why I said "figuratively". The point is that we ought to do it, children need it (have you never seen a child calm down after being stopped like this? they need it for their own security), but parents who identify with their children tend not to do it.

Violence is all about the emotion of the violent one - trying to relieve a feeling of rage or whatever. Discipline is about giving the child something they need. It's impossible to do that when in a violent state oneself, so in fact these two things are mutually exclusive. It's possible to be violent to a child without any physical contact. That's our preferred form of violence nowadays.

On the whole, it's better for people not to hit their kids than to be as brutal as past generations often were. But to turn that into a virtue, as we have, is self-righteous.
Yeah, I was thinking Haskell, but any functional language will do. Problems like the one in the blog post really make you appreciate them.
Sony doesn't seem to have much of a brand left to protect. Since the root kit debacle it's just been one thing after another. They seem actively customer-hostile.
What a great concept. I bet it would be great via the browser.
And that's fine. And Google's reputation for the morality of its decisions should be equivalent to Apple's in that case, as well.

But it's not, and that's the reason to point out issues like these, to puncture the undeserved "goodness" reputation that Google cultivates, but is at odds with reality.

When Google offers users a choice, it appears that they're being fair, but Google offers that choice because they know that they won't lose market share. If they did start losing market share, the "choice" would be gone. That's not a choice, that's a calculated decision to foster the "goodness" reputation.
Since then, PyPy (http://pypy.org/) has made Python to be "turtles all the way down" as well and proven that an efficient Python implementation can be built that way.
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hah, I though this was going to be about a site where you can rent someone's dog for a few hours here and there. there are already dog rental sites, but how can individual pet owners monetize the hours they're not at home to enjoy their furry friends?
Thanks for taking the time to write up the details. I appreciate it.
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Is jailbreaking killing DropZap 2 with one star reviews in the App Store?
Check out the slaughter:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap-2/id378977964?mt=8

I have reasons to suspect that jailbreaking is responsible for DropZap 2 v2.1's freeze and subsequent crash on launch reported by some users.

Please give the app a try. If your device is not jailbroken and it still freezes/crashes on launch for you, please let me know.
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Excellent link-- thanks.
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Thanks Matthew, that's nice of you to take the time to try it and give detailed feedback.

It's not obvious, but if you click on any of the 10 results on the right, you will see its details on the left. My latest update (yet to push live) makes this a lot cleaner and more obvious.

Is that what you mean by page through results?
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Agreed. If you have other people in your life, that is no way to live.
On the assumption that your question is verbatim what you give applicants, I'd say your success rate would be low. Your question lacks appropriate definition to be solved, in it's current state.

You have multiple types of folds that could be made, variable on direction, orientation, and fold distance. The only one really pertinent to this problem is fold distance. A paper folded 50 times could be 51 * thickness, if you don't define that the paper must be folded in half each time. If you enforce that it must be folded in half it becomes: (2^folds) * thickness.