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Nope, I push them to Andy and he hand-checks them first. Could automate it, but maybe some other factor would be different someday?
"simply indenting the whole line" </quote>

"the package cc-engine (including its cc-* helper packages) bundled with GNU Emacs 22 is approximately 27,000 lines of lisp code, and it's all dedicated to indentation." </quote> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/js2-mode-new-javascr...

It seems realigning each line is not that simple.
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I have a particular dislike for that icon set. Things that are shiny are too shiny and things that aren’t shiny look flat. It also has a bad case of Apple envy; but is nowhere near up to the OS X icons’ standard.
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Thanks to everyone for their feedback. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the response. I've done a follow-up post to more concretely respond to some of the main threads here.

http://www.orianmarx.com/2008/10/16/reflections-of-a-y-combi...
most textmate dev nowadays is being done in bundles. while the elastic tabs thing doesn't work quite right in textmate, textmate's tabbing (soft-tabs to convert tabs to spaces, backspace to go back a 'tab', autoindent based on syntax conventions) is pretty satisfactory.

one thing it doesn't do that looks REALLY appealing with elastic tabs is multi-tabbing, especially to appropriate spacing on multiline parameter lists. i'll add 'write a bundle to do this stuff' to the long list of projects that fall behind the startup.
Architects don't make much money. And within the field, there is strong inverse correlation between prestige of the job and the pay. Some of the most prestigious New York firms actually pay their employees less than minimum wage. And I'm not talking about interns - I'm talking full time employees with masters in architecture getting paid virtually nothing. On the flip side, if an architect does project management for construction, they get paid a lot more.
Fantastic idea, but like all dating sites, starting from scratch in terms of userbase will be tough. A quick search shows a total of six "groups" near me, and I'm in a major metro area.

Hope they can attract enough attention from a Match.com-alike to get bought outright.
I use align-regexp for equal signs and end-of-line comments occasionally.
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> when you count the big corporations that aren’t going anywhere (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, etc.) and the porn sites (with which you cannot compete) you have a lot of dogs fighting for very few scraps.

WTF? Facebook and YouTube didn't even exist 5 years ago. Good to know they weren't thinking the same way.
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There are a lot of bad things on the Internet: spam, child porn, malware, phishing and so on.

You know, I'm actually quite fine with the government not getting involved with my spam, malware, and phishing problems. I don't really want to get into the Child Porn witch hunt, but pretty much everyone is capable of self regulating there, too.

Pretty soon we're going to need things like Tor just to get a clean end-end IP connections between hosts.

We need to strengthen our crypto laws now before lawmakers realize that in order to continue their self-given rights to continue nannying they need short keys and escrow.
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This saga has been going for a while. The back story is here ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/2913315731/
The first one left with no ill will. We are still friends. It's the rest of us that left in disgust :-)
So one question in light of this... if you have unequal ownership do you have unequal rights in decision making?
A collaborative, relevance-aware feed reader. I'll save more detail for the future :-)
"... > Given that nobody does lone-programming anymore Really? I need a support group. ..."

I'm being facetious.

This was a throw away line Doug Crockford gave in a talk I was listening to, "Quality" talk I was listening to the other day (about 10-15m in) ~ http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/05/do...

For most SoftCo. management this is probably what they think.
But YC also requires you to be in the same location as the other startups and to attend two dinners each week, plus it encourages visiting the YC partners during "office hours".
"... I thought some orchestras started having blind auditions ..."

That's what I thought and was the reason I chose this instance. I remember seeing an example of perceived vs actual performance and more women where hired because of bias selection. How many Orchestras try this I don't know.
This really has no business being on the site. I program in both PHP and Ruby, but there are no bench marks or explanations as to why the company needed to switch to Rails. What was the problem in PHP that they couldn't solve that needed a complete port? What were the "architectural" problems that required the expensive & time-consuming process of switching languages?

Without any kind of data or insight into the train of thought behind the change, this falls into the infotainment /advertising category. We can do better than this.
Thanks for the feedback. I quoted you a bunch in a follow-up post.
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Heh, I haven't quite settled that yet. It will be on the blog eventually :)
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"... My viewpoint is about gaining a more rounded understanding for a person's character, i.e. using all available information on a candidate to try and build a more accurate representation of them. ..."

I'm not sure more data is better trying to verify a candidate. You can infer things by viewing a candidates flickr + twitter + blog but how do you know it is not being spoofed, manipulated?

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Exactly - let the professionals do what they can. I am a designer and I could learn how to code a site in Rails or Python, or whatever, in a few weeks but the code would be a mess and the site wouldn't be optimized and I'd waste a ton of time figuring all that out later.

I'd rather pay someone who knows what they're doing and can do it right the first time.
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Obviously I can't give an unbiased representation of all the facts... so, I did my best to convey what I felt was behind what went down. I appreciate that you see the nuance in this. What I can say is that we spent a lot of time talking about all our concerns, on many different occasions. So on the one hand, this is part of why I was a little surprised by what happened in the end, and on the other, it's why I feel there probably wasn't much to be done to save the company at that point.
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Perhaps it's for maintenance reasons? Who knows probably the first iteration of their site was the standard PHP + SQL+ HTML format.
All the comments so far seem to focus on Uranium based nuclear weapons but what about plutonium based?

My physics knowledge is basic at best but my understanding was that if you had a working nuclear reactor then plutonium could be extracted, relatively, easily from the waste.

Are there other obstacles in the making of a plutonium based weapon which means it's actually easier to enrich U235?
Agreed. There are better LGPL sets. We mostly use Nuvola by David Vignoni, though I've grown a little tired of its cartoonish looks, and David has since done better work (but none as complete as Nuvola...we paid for development of a couple dozen of the Nuvola set, so it's complete in ways that no other is for our purposes).
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We've done two logos at 99designs now. I blogged about the experience in a couple of places...with the winning entry being discussed here:

http://inthebox.webmin.com/the-new-face-of-webmin

We used a prize of $500 for each logo. In both cases, it was the highest paying contest on the site when started. In the second case, a $750 contest started soon after, but it didn't seem to impact our results negatively. The cost of running a contest is $39 (it was only $30 when we first used them).
Any suggestions on how to mitigate the risks of a technologically inept government leaving a list of all the sites I visit on a train? Route all traffic through a VPN out of country perhaps?
I think for about $20, that guy will write one for you! :)
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The app was neat, but I think anyone that has a need to type Japanese already has an IME. The latency of the app was irritating enough to make me not want to use it for anything more than typing a couple of characters. If it was faster, it would be much more useful. Nice job.
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'At least honest with his politics and motives'. Really? Are you talking about Joseph Stalin or maybe you're confusing him with Art B. Stalin who runs a convenience store at the end of our street and likes dabbling in local politics?
I am astonished and sort of angry that there are actually people with these kinds of assets who would think "just loan that company $20 million, we'll figure out how to get it back later!" or even that a business would think "let's just take $20 million, we'll figure out how to pay it back later!". I guess I always thought that these places had to come up with _something_, some kind of BS about how they'll have advertisers and merchandising and make sufficient income off of that, or something similar. Apparently I was naive.
Well, "what I did this summer (or fall)" is always a classic essay title.
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I really don't like these developments--viewing the requirements that seem to attach to these lending marketplaces, right after seeing dozens of smart people rack their brains on another thread here about what it would take to start an investment market, makes me a little sick thinking about the massive brakes that a slow-moving regulator like the SEC puts on financial innovation.

At a time like this, rapid financial innovation is exactly what is needed.
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There's something by Douglas Adams on matter & partical & energy & wave-particle functions and stuff.

He reckoned that 'stuff' is overrated, that of all the atoms that made up ksvs 10 years ago, virtually none make him/her up now. Whatever it is that you think you are, it's not the stuff you're made of.
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Given a choice between equality in actual misery and "poor" people who have multiple TVs, decent housing, way too much food, and so on, why would anyone prefer equality?

I mention that tradeoff because it's the decision we get to make. Free markets give us poor people who live like kings compared to the poor bastards who are all equal.

I think that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are an acceptable price to pay for a well-off poor people.

Me - I'm far more concerned with what I've got than I am with what someone else has. Why are you so concerned with what other people have? More to the point, how much are you willing to give up for equality?
It's likely that the average artist was producing mostly shit in hopes of getting paid. In fact probably even the best artists were producing mostly shit in hopes of getting paid.

The great artists couldn't bring themselves to produce shit, any more than great people in any field ever can. Show me an example of shit made by Leonardo or Van Eyck or Brueghel.

It's very well documented that rewards diminish both intrinsic motivation and creativity

In studies where they offer one group of undergrads money
to complete some random task and another group does
it for free? Things work differently at the other end of the expertise spectrum.
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Also true, though their LPs do get paid only on the profits (less the aforementioned management fees). If they weren't comfortable with the risk, they wouldn't invest, right?
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That's how I seem to be:- I can create nice elements of a design, but it always comes together to look out of place. The group I work with have a designer in our team who handles design for all our web apps.
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I accept that sometimes some people have problems with communicating when there's a crisis ... it could be pride, or maybe deep personal problems that can just cripple them and make them feel unable to face the world.

But what you don't do is take a 100k investment, spend it all, and then effectively ignore that portion of your life (and moreover, everyone else's) while you just carry on. And post it all on the net.

That's just flagrant, and disrespecting society to be honest.

Nik had the potential to be a lasting media darling. In the Aussie IT scene entrepreneurs with charisma are thin on the ground and even with a failed startup under his belt he would have had an enviable reputation. He probably would have found himself sitting on boards as a non-executive director, or having VCs tripping over themselves to be a part of his next venture.

The lesson: be respectful in business.
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Nothing new. Here's a Microsoft Dynamics CRM post from 2007 showing how to view Facebook info inside Dynamics CRM: http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2007/11/16/integrating-crm...

This article just sounds like someone taking that and selling it as a solution. Is "Facebook CRM" endorsed by Facebook?
The downside of this approach is that you have to mess up only once and accidentally create a connection between 'leethaxor' and 'your.name'.

And because you felt safe when posting as leethaxor, the result will be much worse than if you just posted sane stuff under your real name.
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That's hardly the point now is it? You knew exactly what the expression I used means in this context.
This is a great question and there is no easy answer.
I was also on the same page as to having a really amazing design for our app/start (Mugasha.com). I am not a designer myself, I am developer/UI/UX guy although, I have an appreciation for good design ethics. There are two ways to go about it, One is what 280North did and hire these mini-studios. They are great, focused and quite talented. Make sure its a mini one, big ones are not very focused. The second is the path I choose and found a designer in our local are through networking and events and made him a partner. This is tough, I am giving away a quarter of my company to a designer who I trust. I am also making him responsible and take ownership of the design and UI. Its a collaborative effort in the end but the best thing to do would be to hire someone who is good and who you can trust.
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A friend of mine once argued that alcohol boosted brain performance; it went something like this. Alcohol kills brain cells. Darwin's theory implies that the weakest and slowest to adapt will be the first to die out. Thus: Drinking alcohol kills weaker brain cells and boosts brain performance.

Does that mean that women are smarter than men because more of their braincells get killed (or shrunk) according to this research?
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Good news for all the hackers out there! The more you use the net, the smarter you get, the better you can hack, the better the net becomes, the more you (and others) will use the net, smarter you (and the world) become(s).
well, this applies as you get older at least. At least you will not be a senile hacker and start coding web 0.0 sites :p
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Actually, I'm going to dissent and say I'm not wild about the Cappuccino logo: it's too complex. Look at the small version:

http://cappuccino.org/images/cappuccino-small.png

It loses any sense of what it is, unless you already know. The larger version on the site is quite pretty, but I'm just not sure it works great as a logo. Logos should still be very clear and recognizable even when degraded a lot (size, lack of colors, etc...).
> I don't really think that this explains the paper mill business, but you could make the argument.

I was thinking along those lines (then thought it relevant to the way students are judged too, as well as coders). Teaching used to be a well-regarded profession and has instead become much lower status (and low paid). Some random stats I googled for seem to support this (possibly biased source): http://www.nea.org/edstats/losingground.html

I would think that you would be less likely to get away with the paper mill business if your teacher was a highly motivated professional.

In the UK at least, teaching is rigidly controlled, with schools' success or failure being evaluated according to various metrics. These are can be easily gamed (e.g. # of pupils achieving 5 A-C grades at GCSE. You focus effort on the C/D students, and push kids towards 'soft' subjects) - but only by teachers who are prepared to put the score-against-metric above the quality of the education they give. Of course, if you don't perform to those metrics, the school suffers (lower in league table => fewer pupils => less cash for school => worse education for kids), so you're effectively screwed either way.

Basically it's the old perverse incentive business, but yes, I do appear to have pulled a random rant out of thin air, so apologies to the regular HN readers. We now return you to your regularly scheduled viewing.

HN question: given that management needs info to make decisions and metrics are often gameable/perverse, how does one approach this problem? Is it just "good metrics"?

> Second possibility: Jbert is paying a starving blogger a couple of bucks to write his comments for him!

Now that's a startup waiting to happen:

karmachameleon.com - "building your online reputation"

(name appears to be squatted).
Richard Dawkins wrote an evolutionary program for "The Selfish Gene". It drew these tree like graphs and evolved them over time according to some evironmental parameters (can't remember exactly. Was a preference for certain angles in composition). Very interesting. Was facinating at how "biological" the end products were. They were very reminicient of forms in nature.
Py3k offers almost no immediate advantages compared to Python 2.x -> that slows down an adaptation rate -> long term advantages are eaten by a burden of supporting two incompatible language versions -> by the time Python 3.0 gains sufficient momentum it will be already obsolete.

The Zen of Python is violated: practicality is bitten by purity.
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Well, that simplification is not quite acceptable to me. The general definition of "living" involves more conditions. Wikipedia has a pretty good list of the 7 usual criteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life

I don't think crystals qualify. Still, in the end, I think I do agree with you; calling plants and\or crystals sentient life is pretty unfounded.
Or live with ugly code. Like they probably did before.

But you're right, this is a thing where I also see a big problem. It's not downward compatible.
Well, see, except that's the problem! A lot of time they don't have to prove themselves for a long time, certainly not in school, almost never in certain bureaucratic blobs, and when the consequences come for them... often they come for us as well.... see any massively incompetent's screw up that cost us all dearly.
Crikey. Maybe the new PM speaks Mandarin a little bit too well!
Yeah, though they can invest in many high risk VC funds much the way VCs invest in many high-risk startups. Harvard's endowment, for instance, is ~$35 billion. They're risk-tolerant on a level that Sequoia can only have wet dreams about.

So though VCs will be less risk-tolerant due to sample size than entrepreneurs, LPs will be that much less than VCs. Even the best VC firm is only a few poorly-performing funds away from the scrap heap.
I read it as: "Produce great content for free and let Google make money off it." Does Seth see the conflict of interest? Or is it the actual reason behind the post?
There are dark pools (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pools) that are under far less regulation at least ....
This doesn't feel like progress. Feels dirty. Feels like the dirty thin edge of a dirty wedge.
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