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Out of curiosity, has anyone tried coding on a netbook? I'd imagine it would be hard to use a whole IDE, but how about vim or emacs?
If you're a jealous Rails dev there's a similar plugin that provides most of the same functionality:

http://github.com/drnic/rails-footnotes/tree/master

Here's an awesome, low-contrast-so-it's-easy-on-the-eyes screenshot:

http://marcusvorwaller.com/look/footnotes-20080920-221131.jp...
I think the inside (fundamentals) vs. surface (UI) is an important way to think about any kind of module - including languages.

Lisp is interesting, because one of the strengths of its syntax (that it's as close as possible to the internal AST so you can fiddle with the language easily) means that it really doesn't have a designed surface or UI (yes, you could add one, but then lose this key strength). Lisp wears its guts on the outside - very convenient for surgery.

Forth is similar in this sense.

BTW re your comment on the blog: he did say "Mac adopting Unix" (unless he edited after seeing your comment). The answer that comes to my mind is "Erlang with Python syntax". Pattern matching is tricky though - but doesn't Python already do something like [Head|Tail]? Or is that only on the RHS?

PS: lumpenproletariat - ridiculing newcomers who aren't as knowledgeable as you is what got Lisp to where it is today.
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I thought one major difference is that in "gambling" your bet is final, whereas derivatives may be unloaded at will (assuming you can find a buyer or don't need one).
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"Really good teaching is about not seeing the world the way that everyone else does."
The real disgusting thing here is the abhorrent conduct of the police and judicial system.

This happened in Boston. You know all those movies and TV shows that stereotype Boston cops as a corrupt tribe of violent irish guys? That's really what they are like. Plus, Boston cops like to seem tough on terror since their community supported IRA terror during The Troubles and they feel a bit guilty and conflicted about it these days...

This is a classic case of town vs. gown. The townies won.
that should be a no-brainer... shame on you flickr and your lazy product team
This is obvious but bears repeating. I still silently curse every site that makes this mistake.

I've done my part to fix it, by the way. Here's the introduction to Section 6.5 in my book RailsSpace:

6.5 Friendly URL forwarding

There’s one final flourish we’d like to add to our basic login functionality. One of our
pet peeves is when we go to the front page of a site, click on a link for a protected
page, are prompted to log in, and then get forwarded back to the front page rather than
to the protected page we originally requested. This is lame, lame, lame. Obviously, the
site should remember the protected page we requested and then forward us there after
logging in. Let’s implement (and test) this feature, which we call “friendly forwarding.”
Apple's stance on acceptance/rejection of these apps is getting more disgusting by the week. There are many ways to discuss this rationally, and many have been used already, here and elswere. But the first, straight from the gut, reaction is just that: disgusting. I know it is their platform, store and will and right... it's still disgusting.
I stopped finding rap parodies abut nerdy topics funny about 10 years ago. The Office, on the other hand, never will be cliche.
I didn't notice it until this article pointed it out. I think its usefulness is diminished by these things:

1) The color is too faint.

2) The scrollbar widget is standard. I think this is a good thing in general but as a user you expect it to behave a certain way and don't stand around looking auditing individual pixels, especially since they didn't keep the standard title bar design and size.

3) I spend most of my time using find thinking "I hate that slash doesn't start the search here. Grr." I know that ^F has been the standard on PCs for a long time, but / is definitely my preferred way.
s/Simson/Simpson in the title.
i've been using an msi wind as my sole workstation for the past month and a half. virtual desktops are vital to maximizing the 1024x600 workspace.

my ide is xterm+screen+vim so two 80x40 xterms next to eachother is all i need on a screen, with firefox in another workspace.
My understanding was that Zed Shaw is worried that suits will infiltrate and make the whole thing about business, instead of it being about the fun of putting things together.

My understanding is also that Zed Shaw should pay more attention to the Make Magazine community, since I think it's more what he's after, but I haven't actually been to an FU meeting yet (I think they're starting one in Austin, just haven't yet).
My post was an excuse to point out Dilger's unethical behavior ;)
Escapist entertainment only helps proliferate troubles. We need entertainment that improves us too. Classically, it was thought the two go hand in hand.
I think they call it "the gutter".
> you will lose your reputation.

He's talking from personal experience, he did loose a lot of reputation when a company he invested in went bankrupt. So he's not wrong.

> Hasn't that caused a lot of problems?

It depends - if you are holding assets that belong to the customer, or have a contract to do something for a customer then yes.

But if you have a business like his, museum, then there is no reason to say anything - if you go under, at worst someone will be disappointed they can't get in, but they will not loose anything.
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"... Both the keynote speakers Mark Shuttleworth (Canonical) and Ted Leung (Sun Microsystems) expressed their concerns about Javascript becoming so fast and prominent that it could displace Python in the future. ..."
"... Our eee came with xandros installed and in full working order ..."

Which version? 901, 1000?
"... For a 7 foot guy with an additional 3 foot reach (like Shaq) the underhand shot makes a huge difference in terms of the angle the ball approaches the basket. ..."

For the record Barrys prime height is 6'7".
Unless he's run off with their money, the investors should just take it on the chin. If they wan't a guaranteed return they should, umm just stick it in a bank deposit.
All good advice, except:

f) Avoid using gender-specific terminology

The convoluted language necessary to do this can make things worse. This sounds more like being politically correct than anything else.

Also, I personally hate chapter headings stated in the form of questions. Whenever I see that, I know the next section will be full of useless "don't worry" platitudes.
On an interesting sidenote this actually means the value of PR0 site links may be worth more than from PR1, because the PR0 site may simply be a site with good PR that just hasn't shown up in the latest update.

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Very interesting, but I think you meant to submit this to Reddit, not HN.
Again, if this is something that bothers you, please understand the solution is to NOT BUY AN IPHONE, and not "whine online and continue to use your iphone".

RMS once agreed that OSS tools were inferior, but he only used OSS tools because by doing so (and contributing code and +1 userbase) he was working towards a future where the OSS achieved parity or became better. Same for all these other arguments. "But only Apple makes iPhones" is true, but ignores the greater market impact.

Besides, I fear that with the death of Palm and the increasing distaste towards WinMo (and the continuing stillbirth of Android) that the lesson carriers are learning is that closed is better.
I think chrome is marginally better (har har) because it saves like 10 horizontal pixels.

One of my computers is a tiny netbook, and let me tell you, saving 10 pixels is what I worry about all day long.
I'm guessing that depending on what you're trying to sell you might still want to reach the entire family (first thing that comes to mind is cars)
One thing is that often times you also care about the POST vars that got you to that page, so you need to somehow persist that as well, which is harder since you can't get a redirect to POST easily.

So the problem is (sometimes) harder than it appears.
No it does not cover the stock market anymore than it covers buying and selling oranges.

It also does not cover second life no matter what the article says.

If you are buying and selling something for fair value, that is not a game of skill. Not unless you want to expand the definition to every business in america.

A simple definition of the difference is that in a game of skill the amount of money has nothing to do with the activity. This is not so in business, second life, or the stock market.
I think this notion comes from the general feeling that things were more libertarian in the past, which is true. but you have to go back to before the civil war to really see it.

the united states has gone through 3 phases in terms of government. first was the constitutionalist republic from 1787 til the civil war, which was fairly libertarian in most of its policies compared to today. then civil war until the depression, and finally the depression until present day. each government has been legally distinct in its dealings, and each has been less libertarian than the one before it.
Yes, it's fine for coding. I have an eee 901. I use xmonad and very small fonts and everything is great. It's really a wonderful laptop for traveling -- the battery lasts long enough for me to use it while waiting in the airport, and for the entire flight (most of the time).

The CPU is plenty powerful, too. One of my current projects is a 3d game, and it runs fine on the eee.
1. How about those that bought an iPhone anywhere between when the AppStore was announced and when this crap started?* Do they get to "whine"?

2. Even if 1. is not the case, why not "whine"? Some might even end up calling it userbase reaction, feedback. Not getting into something is not always the answer to having some issues with that something.

Also, equating negative opinions about something about which you have a positive one with "whining" ain't cool.

* not my case.
Idea for killer mobile app?
"Now Goldman goes to work every day on Park Avenue, in an office with an interior window through which he can keep tabs on his 25 employees"

An office on Park Avenue and 25 employees before the idea has even been proven. Madness.
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You really have to admire Fionas powers of persuasion. Its not enough that shes smart and beautiful but she is also a master at the art of manipulation. She knows the exact buttons to push to make Michael do her bidding and the best part is that Michael knows exactly whats going on.
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True. I would say the events are not surprising given the way Apple works as a company, but sure, I guess they have a right to complain.

I also think they should vote with their dollars too though.
I looked into my old bookmarks and found the link. So perhaps I even got it from you back in the day. Thanks!
I think this is more a case of certain things being trendy for other reasons and ignoring success rates because until recently it was difficult to quantify one method as better than another.

It boggles my mind to imagine how much more awesome sports could be as technology improves and optimal styles develop.
Python does not do [Head|Tail] but it does [First Item, Second Item, etc].

(Ok, Python can do [Head|Tail], but only in function invocation. But since Python is not as functional as we would like it, working with β-reduction only does not feel comfortable.)
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Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs I was constantly told, "You can have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it you're still going to be broke." The point is, if you're going to succeed in this (or any) business, you need to be in the business of selling.
I think Jott already does it as a premium service-- but who wants to call a flippin phone number just to send a quick txt?! I've heard there are some people who swear by jott, but I think they are all old people because if you are halfway competent with a smartphone it just seems like a pain in the ass.

You could try to port http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/pocketsphinx/ to the iphone...

Or even easier just stream the audio off to a sphinx-4 server and push the txt results back to the phone in near-realtime for visual confirmation/correction and sending. Very seamless for the end user and compensates for voice recognition sketchy.

It would be interesting to then run the text through some kind of txt-speak filter that would shrink the text. I'm always impressed by people who can cram a small novel into 140 characters.
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Are you meaning to imply that you contest either that the Earth's crust contains ~2.1 quadrillion barrels of oil, or that world society currently consumes ~80 million barrels of oil per day?

2.1 quadrillion bbl / 80 million bbl/day = 71,918 years of oil left.

Do you believe that civilization is in imminent danger of experiencing an oil crash?
Interview with a hedge fund manager
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Eh? Not buying an iPhone is certainly a solution, but it's not the only one.

If I walked into my favorite restaurant and said, "I love this place, but I wish you had slightly fresher salads," would you say, "Shut up and take a walk-- there are plenty of restaurants down the street."?

Consumer feedback is important. You're probably right that the most powerful thing a consumer could do is very loudly announce that they weren't going to buy for a specific reason. But it's still plenty compelling for a business to hear, "I'll grudgingly use your app/tool, but I'm continually frustrated by X".

Watch Apple-- I'd wager they respond to the "whining".
My 1000/Linux can run Eclipse, but it only runs well when in high performance mode which shaves the battery life significantly.

Even the most ludicrous text editor you can think of should be fine. It wasn't that long ago that a 1.6ghz machine with 1gb of ram was top of the range.
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a lot of factors ... are placing significant pressure on the CURRENT supply of oil TODAY.

You are referring to the surplus supply? How do you figure that surplus supply should push prices up?

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Financial_Tsunami/Oil_...

Compelling evidence also suggests that the oft-cited geopolitical, economic, and natural factors do not explain the recent rise in energy prices can be seen in the actual data on crude oil supply and demand. Although demand has significantly increased over the past few years, so have supplies.

Over the past couple of years global crude oil production has increased along with the increases in demand; in fact, during this period global supplies have exceeded demand, according to the US Department of Energy. The US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently forecast that in the next few years global surplus production capacity will continue to grow to between 3 and 5 million barrels per day by 2010, thereby “substantially thickening the surplus capacity cushion.”

.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22there+is+no+gas+shortage%2...

In January of this year, the U.S. used 4% less petroleum than we did a year ago. (Oil demand was down 3.2% in February.) Furthermore, demand has been falling slowly since July of last year. Ronald Bailey of Reason Online has pointed out that worldwide production of oil has risen 2.5% in the first quarter, while worldwide demand has grown by only 2%.
I can introduce this feature in gaming - and it will still be gaming essentially.
Add a GPS receiver to each bottle.

Ok, you have to wait at least a few years until the receivers have become cheap enough to make this worthwile. Perhaps RFID will be there faster. Perhaps bottles will even come with RFID chips from the factory.
This link is just to give a reference point for the second interview: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=310285
Would be nice to see it on a per capita basis.
It really doesn't matter whether these stories are true or not. The fact that they could conceivably be true is indicative of a major problem. After years of building software around Microsoft's tedious business plans, we developers are excited b/c the "good guy" is on the cusp of winning the next big war. But Apple is blowing it badly. Developers flocked to them like refugees b/c they were allowed to use the tools they wanted and their users had a platform that worked. Now Apple is playing home court advantage much more heavy handedly than Microsoft ever dreamed. The iPhone is years ahead of the competition. Steve does not need to behave like Vladamir Putin to win. Balmer had it right about one thing even if he never stayed true to it: "Developers, developers, developers!!!"

Reminds me of the Fight Club quote:
"We cook your meals. We haul your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us."
Sorry, could not find an article that provided more insight into details of cavitation and still has visual appeal.

If you really want to go into the cool technical stuff you should have a look at http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/1/4/bubble.htm
A good analogy is a human and blood. Our bodies naturally regenerate blood

If the earth does not regenerate oil on human timescales, then your example is not a good analogy.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22does+not+regenerate+oil%22

As far as we know, the earth does not regenerate oil. The only question is, how much is really left?

If, as has been established and has so-far been contested in this thread neither by you nor by anyone else, there remains at least 70,000-years-worth of oil (at today's comsumption rates) in the earth's crust, and if demand is not growing at an appreciable rate, then civilization is not in imminent danger of experiencing an oil crash.

Do you believe that civilization is in imminent danger of experiencing an oil crash?
"The authors reason that any accelerator which surpasses a certain threshold of super-high-energy collisions (thus producing many of these new particles) will never go into operation because it violates some yet-unknown universal law. As evidence, they provide the failed Superconducting Super Collider, which Congress canned in 1993 after spending $2 billion on the project."
Except that universal law apparently does not apply to whatever mechanism accelerates cosmic rays... So it must be a very selectively universal law... ;-)
In my opinion this case is much alarming then the previous one (the podcast application) because here seems like that the guys in charge to check if the applications are ok or not are not competent enough, or better, they don't really have a clue if they claim the missing 'edit account' is an application problem (it can be an usability feature). Very sad.
Why is it disgusting? Why is it surprising?

People seem to be forgetting Apple is a business. Not a charity.

I think Apples biggest mistake was to launch the app store in the first place. I'm not interested in pretending my phone is a light saber, or using it as a flashlight.
For me, it sort of "dumbs down" the phone.
There are some apps that look well written, like super monkey balls etc, but most of them are just idiotic. Wastes of time, and money.

Apple is there to make money, and give users what they want. Not developers. If there's an app in the store that does something similar to an app Apple does, but a bit better, guess which one I want as a user? The Apple one. I want to know Apple will support it, be behind it, make sure it works for everyone etc. The other app could be a 1 man band who isn't that bothered.

I don't think Apple should have opened the app store, they should have just exposed all the hardware to javascript, as they did with the multitouch, orientation changes etc.
The only thing the app store has going for it is a willingness from users to pay money for novelty apps, but I think that will soon wear off.

In this particular case I can't see why anyone would want the app anyway. What does it offer above the standard mail app? Do Apple really need the extra hassle of providing support - "My mail doesn't work Apple!!! Oh um by the way I'm using some weird app I installed"
The sites I've designed just do the login live on the page you needed it on, via AJAX, without actually redirecting you anywhere. Of course, each displayed page has to know both its guest and user state (and be able to transition between them), but that seems like the correct approach, anyway.
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A few iphone app developers != consumers.

Do you seriously think iPhone users care one bit about this?
I'm sure the 10 or so lost iPhone sales from iPhone app developers will really hit Apple where it hurts ;)

But I completely agree. This whining is getting really boring. It's their decision, and rightly so. If you don't like it, don't write for their platform. Write for android or a webapp or something.
These are people who JUST DON'T GET IT. You see, texting is a completely different form of communication.
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Unless I'm hugely mistaken, American trust in the government isn't anywhere near a high point right now. Unfortunately I can't find a source to back this up, so take it as you want.
Ok it's not only in the west the programmers are focused on bullshit...
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In a second-handed way -- it's pretty clear that iPhone developers care about this, and that iPhone users care about developers.
Please, we get it. Apple reject some apps from their store. How many more of these 'stories' do we need before everyone gets it?

If this is surprising to you, you should probably read some books on business, customer service, user experience etc

It's a shame this sort of thing gets upvoted IMHO.
If you think the app store is the next big war you're totally missing the massive ship sailing past.
I think mobile is the next big war. And the app-store is the AOL of mobile.
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“Life After Death” takes place after an event that has left several people injured in an ambulance explosion - in particular, Pratt. The timeline of this episode seems to cover at least several days.
These methods would definitely get trough my anti pitch filters. No doubt they work. It is also very efficient for the seller.

Any other tricks like that to share ?