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Here's a blog post from his mom talking about him from two years ago. At the time he was corresponding with Bill Gosper (founder of the hacking community according to Wikipedia)

http://www.daftmusings.com/2009/05/14/neil-and-the-julia-rob...
that question is a bit of a turn-off to me. obviously "benchmark it, see what's slowest, and make it faster" is a correct answer, and so is a 40 page essay about browser rendering, minification, full page caching, fragment caching, AJAX, etc. have you tried anything more specific?
Oh absolutely. I have no doubt about that. In fact, saying anything else would be absurd.

However I think it's fair to recognize the difference between someone merely (very) happy about their Apple stuff and someone who seemingly is personally insulted when it is suggested that Apple is (shock!) a normal corporation following a normal corporation's need and desire to profit, doing some ethical comprosises on the way.

And looking at snprbob86's post here, it's full of seemingly personal feelings when discussing this topic. It's almost this short of saying "Dear sir. You have defiled my lovers honour and I challenge you to a duel".

I have to say he/she seems like the glorious, crowning achievement of the Apple PR-Department which is hellbent on making Apple-Products a matter of personal honour and identity. And it's very freaky to observe from the outside.
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And that's why I say that it works for the vast majority of instructions that are executed. There is that slim chance that it will flub up, but that kind of error either: A) gets caught in the hardware or B) completely takes down the operating system or app.

The likelihood of some cosmic ray flipping a bit of a counter variable in some loop's sub-millisecond lifespan is just so unimaginably small you can count it impossible.
Basically the idea behind what I was gonna do was a user can subscribe to certain keywords. The system would than keep track of the /new page and when a new post was made with that keyword, for example: "Apple", it would round it up, and on the next batch of alerts sent out, it'd put that one in the list for that user to be notified of. Had a bunch of other ideas for it too, a long with watching what x user submitted, and even the ability to be notified of "Show HN" and "Ask HN" posts.
This is actually the thing I miss the most from my graduate days.

JSTOR is a gold mine of wonderful knowledge: you can search for any word you like and instantly be connected with hundreds of years of very intelligent scholarship. You acquire a feeling of immense humility at the breadth of things known to humanity but not to yourself. Surely this is something sorely missing from contemporary civic society, and especially the freely-available discourse on the web.

Someone will make a lot of money if they can find a way to charge a reasonable monthly fee for temporary access to this knowledge without killing the golden calf of institutional subscriptions. It should be no different than the Encyclopedia, which was enormously valuable but didn't dry up demand for academic publishing.

It is my goal to have personal access to JSTOR by the time my kids can surf the web.
Because everyone in a participatory/discussion class would have to agree to have the distribution happen. Plus, you may not want certain discussions to go public, depending on the nature of the subject and the direction some discussions take.

EDIT: s/wild/public/ I was originally looking for 'viral', but I just remember some of my smaller college classes sometimes getting into intimate discussions that wouldn't have happened if there was a chance that the class would have been public.
If you are using mulitple inheritance to reuse code, you should think twice (even with regular inheritance). Unless there is a meaningful is-a relationship, this is best accomplished via composition.

If you are in the Java world, this is where it pays to switch some classes to Groovy and use its @Delegate annotation. It's a compile-time AST transformation, such that straight-up Java code can take advantage, and it can inject the delegated interfaces into its parent class (so now the class can show up as implementing an interface for the dependency injection framework).

This can be introduced on an as-needed basis (make some files Groovy and the Java code can call them) and Groovy is essentially 95% compatible with identical Java code, so you can usually rename .java to .groovy and be good to go.
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This is all excellent advice but a huge chunk of the attention Trello received is a reult of the name "Spolsky" being attached to it.

He has a strong personal brand that has been cultivated for a decade.
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Curious what issues you had with jqm. We're always looking for feedback.
While his website lacks any specifics it would seem he is, in fact, a he; a Mr Peter Ammon.

http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2005/05/26/say-hello-to-ridiculo...

Well, that's my cyberstalking for the day.
Is there a way to add or contribute music to the current music list? I like this site, but if I'm going to be a VJ then I want to be able to upload some of my own beats/songs to mix in the room.
Nice Link!

We need more of these technical links on HN.
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I am curious, how do you get access to Wikipedia statistics?
On the Cedar stack, the slug is still read-only, but the ephemeral filesystem is writable. The slug is what gets deployed on each new dyno spawned. The ephemeral filesystem is the individual file system on each dyno. So a plugin like WP Super Cache would be able to write to the file system, but that cache would only exist for the individual dyno that wrote it.
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Do people build companies here, or is it just a big party?
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As Heroku has a Postgres backend, I imagine you could also install PG4WP (http://www.hawkix.net/tag/pg4wp/) which is a plugin to get Wordpress working with Postgres DBs, and just deploy directly using Heroku alone.

You may run into problems with any other plugins which use MySQL specific SQL syntax though.
Just buy a Mac and leave Microsoft if you don't like it and please post something constructive / informational instead of rants.

Really, it's OK to not like a product/platform/company. It's also OK to not buy and use those products.
I wonder that too. It seems that sometimes the comments on HN to a blog post don't match up (I wonder if they even read the same post I just read).

If I click on a link and find something I like enough to finish I will vote up and add a comment if I have something to add.
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My penny might not be worth much, but the name's quite a mouthful, on first impression.
Ahh nice, really good ideas.

I agree the following notifications are all handy, didn't think about Shown/Ask HN posts, that's a good one. As for keywords, that didn't dawn on me either, another good one.

With all these notification settings I can see that a "digest" style email once or twice a day might be the way to go to avoid Google banning me for outbound mail and annoying subscribers.
Imho, when you're launching a product, if your final goal is to get VC funding, then go for a tech conference. If your final goal instead is to sell a product, then you probably want to look at other venues, and spend your energies in marketing efforts to reach out to your potential clients.
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If you have examples of more specific questions, I'm glad to hear them. I would accept either of your answers, btw. Answers I have seen include "It is always SQL" and "make it ajax--ajax is fast."

The purpose is just to verify that they can put some ideas into writing, have a mental framework for debugging in place, and can verbally demonstrate any sort of familiarity with the technologies involved. It isn't a gotcha-type question that expects a specific answer.

edit: That said, your feedback is good and I will amend it to give more of an idea of how long a response is desirable.
These guys are doing some very cool stuff.
The point isn't that it's impossible to happen.

The point is that Sony is disclaiming responsibility for anything it does wrong.

It's like saying, "Well, I'll work as an engineer for you, but I refuse to be held responsible if the bridge collapses." Even the nuttiest libertarian could find reasons to pass laws forbidding that kind of contract. And even if it's legal, I wouldn't drive on that bridge. (Or would I? If everyone does it and it looks safe enough...)

This is even worse when I think about it. It's more like buying a plane ticket, being in the airport, and suddenly the pilot goes "I am not legally liable if I crash the plane while I'm drinking on the flight."
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filter predicate xs

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and it doesn't exist if you search it from the url bar or the searchbar (with google as search engine) of firefox.
couldn't agree more.

if i had to come up with a permutation algorithm as part of writing code, you'd better believe i'd look one up so that i'm sure i'm doing things optimally. i wouldn't trust myself to come up with the exactly right algorithm on the first try.

if i had to deal with some weird half-sorted array, i assume i'd be working in the same context as the problem and wouldn't have to make up a solution on the spot with limited details. why do you have a weird-ass data structure like that to begin with? that's the first question i'd ask.

personally i always ask a couple of simple questions (like FizzBuzz) and then talk experience. if you want to see a code sample, ask for one -- written on a computer, without someone hovering over the candidate's shoulder. coding solutions to weird questions on a whiteboard doesn't help anybody.
could you add a search to add in music videos from youtube/vevo?
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Most of his list of abandoned microsoft environments haven't been abandoned...
Because Microsoft is teh suxxors! </sarcasm>
"We stopped taking Windows seriously as a server platform years ago. The only ones left who care are those stuck with Exchange or Sharepoint in their companies."

This is pretty much where I stopped reading.
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Getting a feedback on Android Market is tough, isn't it. I don't have any strong statistical proof to state it, but don't you find it difficult to review an app? How many times where you using an app, found it interesting but didn't bother to post a review, just because you had to close the app and open Android Market? I know I never gave a review because of this.

I made an app, MyCycle (it has nothing to do with the female biological cycle, had I known that google will relate it to this I would have named it differently), which isn't very popular. But I didn't get any useful reviews. Here is a suggestion to Android Market, "Why not allow apps to submit feedback through some API??? Is it that difficult to make a Android Market API?". I don't see a reason why Google has not done it yet. Well, for the time being I just created a website of my own, http://www.droidfeedback.com

In case you also feel the same, here are some simple steps you need to get started:

1. Login to www.droidfeedback.com

2. Register your app

3. Add some questions, you want to ask your users

4. For your app, download the jar on the website, or grab the code from googlecode link given.

Setting up the feedback form is simple, and I feel it is an easy step towards getting some useful feedback.
If you don't like the website, I sincerely apologize. This is my first web programming experience and I am no designer. I would be moving all the website code on github soon, so anyone interested in making it look good is welcome.

Have fun!

You can contact me at varun729@gmail.com
The solution to this is simple and has been clear for years: stop doing business with Sony.
If your music is on YouTube you should be able to get at it.
You have to type the track and artist name manually with a dash separator, as in:
"TITLE - ARTIST"

Can't wait to hear your stuff!
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Wow. So let me get this straight. I can start a service, that people pay money to use. I also tell them that their credit card / personal information may not be secure and if they want to use the service that they already paid for, they have to accept that I am not liable for its security and if (when) this information does get stolen, I can give them a coupon and get way with it? Please tell me I'm wrong. This can't be legal.
Concur. I fully support your (or anybody's) right to say what they want. There's no right, however, to tax-exempt status.
I've been using SingleHop for 20+ servers for a year now and I love them, I also know the owners well and they wouldn't ever do something like this on purpose. Honest mistake, not something so sinister :)

Thanks, Ben
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WinXP still has %50 market share? We use it on all our desktop PCs at work but I didn't know in the wild its market share is still so high.
I think I have a little problem with focus. I've recently graduated, and I'm very interested in a lot of different areas. For some of them, the interest is because that area is fun, for others it is because it will look good on my resumé. It's not that I could not make a career based on the things that are fun, but sometimes it looks more risky.

The problem is that I oscillate my focus through all these areas. You can't exactly call it focus :) It is hard to develop further in one area or another.

Do you have any advice for me? Thanks!
His OS stats are from December 2010, the up-to-date stats[1] show that xp is now down to about 42% and win7 is up to 37%. Not great, but hardly the stark picture he paints.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201008-201108
The interesting thing I find is that the developer talks about developing for his clients, and if his clients don't change to Mac, he'll still be developing using Windows.

If he truly does decide to develop for Mac/iOS, what does he think of the developer tools? I'm a web developer, but tried to work in x-code and found it very frustrating. I've heard very positive things about the windows development environments.

The argument about XP I think is flawed. The reason people still run XP is that it works for them. That is a strength. Apple doesn't support their apps on anything beyond a few versions. http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ve...

Windows XP was a very good operating system, but it is time to move on for many people. Vista I think was more of a PR nightmare than actually a horrible operating system. It wasn't good, I'm not saying it was, but I think the media blew it out of proportion. Windows 7 is very good. I downloaded the Win 8 developer release yesterday, and I have to admit that I think it lacks the polish of OSX. Refinement is still not Microsoft's strong point.

As a web developer, I think Microsoft's move to support and promote HTML/Javascript as a first-class language on their platform should be applauded. I'm one of those who think that supporting multiple languages for different devices when HTML can accomplish 99% of the capabilities is a ridiculous cost and energy sink. Though I do agree that UI refinements are required for web-apps to compare to native apps.
> Let’s list the litany of technologies released and then abandoned by you in the past 15 years: ADO, Silverlight, DNA, BizApp, .NET, J#, XNA.

.NET & XNA are abandoned?

> With Windows 8, we’re now going to write everything in HTML5 and Javascript?

No.

> I’ll give you props for making a gutsy move here. Acquiring a dying company, killing their development platform and shoving yours down their throat takes a whole lot of chutzpah.

I have no idea what company he is talking about here

>Picking up a company that doesn’t even use your core technologies ought to be a clear signal you’re not making the right move here.

There are many coherent arguments for why buying Skype might have been a bad reason. This is not one of them.

There were maybe 2 valid points in the whole article (Linux Server marketshare, Mac OS virtualization just works), but the rest of it is just a rant.
For sure if you think it'd be useful, but if the songs you're selecting aren't coming up right (or aren't in the search suggestions) you CAN type a more precise query (dash [-] separated) in the form, and then submit it by pressing ENTER
"TRACK NAME - ARTIST NAME"

Hope that helps? If not, just let me know and I'll definitely look at direct YouTube link submissions.
I've caught myself scanning at articles from people I don't know. I try to understand the gist of it to see if it's worth reading carefully, but when it comes from writers I know and respect I'll take my time and have a pleasant read.

It would be interesting seeing the same statistics for a well established author. I'm guessing the numbers would tell a different story.
I saw your comment when looking through the comments to see if anyone had done it yet.

It had to be done.
The reason I bought a ps3 instead of an xbox was because of the exclusive titles (mainly mgs4).
This looks like a javascript issue but I have seen a server error from google - http://www.rajeeshcv.com/2010/07/have-you-seen-google-search...
They're not charging for the records, they're charging for use of the PACER system.. It's supposed to cover the cost of serving up the documents, but there's a huge surplus. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/federal-cour... It's not like they're claiming the documents are copyrighted or anything.
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The swarm of useless links (why would you link to twitter.com?) and red underline is not helping. I never did find the link to this blog post you talked about through the whole article. And gray headers don't do much for breaking up the text.

These are confounding variables.
It's generally asked at the end of the interview.
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There's a distinction between getting notified when multiple people comment, and when they get responses. Is the latter useful at all?
Hi Mike,

Would you mind giving a shout-out to Correlated (http://www.correlated.org) on your social networks?
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Source for where .NET has been abandoned? Sure, I'd love one too, they just announced the next version of .NET 2 days ago. Maybe I missed something since then.
I really like this sentence:

"[Let] your product trickle out when you think it’s good enough to get people excited, then listening hard for excitement. If you hear some, figure out where it’s coming from, and do more of that"

(OP's emphasis)
You could also use git-svn to checkout the latest release branch:

http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.2.1

and then deploy to Heroku directly using git.
Xbox doesn't have the uncharted games, metal gear solid, demon souls, etc.
Thank you. I am awesome enough.
I've had posts modded down for mentioning Keynes, almost certainly by people who don't understand economics. I don't know if that counts as progressive, but there's a strong overlap between those people and those who consider themselves Randians in my experience.

Greenspan was an excellent central banker, but he repeatedly stepped out of the role to champion and provide cover for Republican political policies (primarily tax redistribution) which provided a drag on aggregate demand and made the United States much more dependent on monetary policy and debt-financing to push growth following 2001. There is an element of hypocrisy in his attitude towards social security as well.

So I feel there is a lack of critical introspection or intellectual honesty there and it is somehow related to the way the Randian viewpoint encourages romantic oversimplification instead of... well.. regression analysis and empiricism. That said, I wouldn't downvote you for the flourish and have upvoted in fact - the rest of your comment was thoughtful and worth reading.
I think the reason you got so bad responses on the first question wasn't that they couldn't write the join statement but that they had heard the distinction between the different joins once in college and then never considered them again.

I bet that if you had asked for an example of a sql code which would list all the employees born before 1980 along with the department they worked for and the name of the head of that department, you would have gotten a much more useful result out of that.

That query is, incidentally, much more difficult to write.
Some people prefer the PS3 - I do. No fanboyism etc, I just have been a loyal Playstation user since the start and have every one of the consoles - and there are major issues I have with the Xbox line - but those are my personal opinions. It sucks that Sony has been mismanaging all of this and definitely took shortcuts in inappropriate places - and instead of improving on those issues they are just making things worth with bad PR. I hope they can change that in the future, as I would still be purchasing a PS4 when that became available - unless they really don't get a clue and make things even worse.
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Yep, that's a good idea. I've also thought about even allowing users to subscribe to domains. Want to keep an eye on new TechCrunch articles posted? Subscribe to techcrunch.com and that will also be put into your notifications.

Best way to handle all this in my opinion would be user accounts, and I know you probably had the same thing in mind when I started mine. No accounts, just put an email in, and a keyword and let them input as many as they wanted.
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I think they get covered in number theory courses.
Closure Templates was also my first thought. I like them a lot and have combined them server-side with AppJet, which also runs on the JVM. A perfect match in my opinion. I have written a blog post about this: http://blog.jgate.de/closure-templates-for-appjet
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Putting 'fun' in the description always seems desperate to me. You can't convince people something is fun if it isn't.

And this... I don't find it fun. Interesting? Sure. But I don't enjoy it.
That's a pretty ridiculous question that's why its low.
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my reason is specifically for split view coding. you really feel comfortable in xcode with 11"? hmm.. i think i'll go to the mall now and try that out.
Also I hate the "go back to inbox" button that looks exactly like a reply arrow
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