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Well, my personal opinion's that Apple are harming their platform in this matter as well. I know for a fact that many developers are shunning the platform because of actions like this. As a matter of fact, I shun developing directly for the platform because of similar actions in the past, like giving iTunes away and driving all the payware music players out of business. Or building the dashboard and driving Konfabulator over to Windows.

However, I stand by my assertion that given Apple's history and given the fact that there was an NDA in place when the book project was begun, there is no sympathy to give out here, nor is there any surprising "Who would have thought Apple would do this?" news.

In fact, nothing has changed since the NDA was first revealed. I say again, it will be newsworthy when the restrictions are lifted. Until then, it is like telling the world that Steve Jobs is tyrannical and abusive to his employees.
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This is exactly what people said about GWB.
CherryPy doesn't get enough love.
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Don't you mean "live ordnance"?
I don't disagree with "normal sucks", but don't underestimate chasing girls. It can sometimes be more fun than the dating part :)

I've personally been fortunate in finding a great balance between hacking and living, and am grateful for it.
Two words: awe. some.

Now that I understand we are supposed to self-sort by political party and weight, it'll be a lot easier to find the other rotund realists.
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I want to read more about the social news black market. Does anyone have any material or comments on it?
You can say that, but it doesn't make it true. Her only experience of substance is being governor of one of the least populous states of the Union for less than two years.
Now we just need some lolcats and our journey to the dark side will be complete.
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Yes, but a correlation does not mean there has to be a causation.
Those arguments against using STI are equally valid with inheritance in general, which is to say not valid.
While this article is supposed to be satirical (I hope), it fails at even being remotely humorous. As much as I love reading an invented rant, the excessive amount of swearing just ruins the whole effect of the article and reduces it to a childish game of "look how much I can swear!"
I think what he meant was objects being destroyed implicitly when they go out of scope - some kind of a "controlled" automatic garbage collection. And it's true that this particular feature in C++ has led to creation of many interesting techniques - auto-pointer, scope locking, to name a few - that otherwise would require full support on the compiler side. The beauty of C++ is that you can implement this kind of things yourself without changing the language.
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I don't think that it's a direct correlation. It's more about culture and knowledge. Most of armenians, azerbaijans and moldovans don't even KNOW that software can be bought.

PC by itself is a huge amount of money for them (and many of them get it free from rich relatives that make money in Moscow, Europe or US) and everything that is inside is considered already overpriced.
Ah, thanks. Anyway with meta-poll system I was meaning something similar to that (a poll on polls, but I see it's rather a ranking on questions).
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I tend to agree. What he says usually lack substance, I can't help. Don't want to be harsh, but sometimes I consider it just a distraction.
And this is stupid, but honestly, who uses the term "mary jane"?
I've got mixed feeling about STI. We're using it for one of our larger projects with success. I don't like that they recommend polymorphism for everything; this makes iterating collections of the interface very difficult.

Controller tests are actually really important for a few reasons; one of the more obvious being user authentication. While our controllers tests are anemic when compared to our model tests, we do test the more heavily used controllers.
Until they found out that he had a higher GPA than Gore, and that Kerry's Navy Officer Qualification Test put him at the 50th percentile in a group with average SATs of 1100 -- 100 points behind Bush.
Better how? For whom, and when?

How can a language be "better" than another?

If I'm in .NET land, I'd prefer to use F# absolutely whenever I can. It's not like there's big important things it can't do that C# can.

The biggest thing to me is that if software systems keep getting more and more complex, the need for language-oriented programming will increase along with it, and combinator libraries have been found, over the last 20 years or so, to be a good tool for creating embedded domain-specific languages.
What is the "Proust Questionnaire"? He could have asked some real question to Bjarne!! What a waste.. ;-(
I don't know why it works, but I can verify it helps. I've clarified and developed my startup idea merely by pitching it to relevant friends. Try it.
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I sorta have the opposite problem. I'm quite introverted and enjoy programming for its own sake, but I have a difficult time making myself work on projects outside of work because it just feels too lonely.
Can anyone say anything about the cost of living in Boulder? I've heard that it's almost Aspen-like in terms of housing costs (which is to say, very high).

Also, if there is someone currently living in CO, what do you feel the likelihood is of this bill passing?

http://www.coloradoballot.net/ProhibitFiringEmployees.htm

On the surface, it kind of seems like this would be bad for startups.
But you can't go out and buy more cache. If you have an algorithm where the working set spills out of L2 cache (let's just assume that anything needing a log time search facility won't fit in L1) you can easily get a factor of 5 or 10 or so by packing your data.

Main memory latency is a huge factor in modern performance analysis. And I was sad to see that this wasn't even covered in the article. The biggest win for a B-tree for in-memory use IMHO isn't actually the size advantage, it's the fact that you can prefetch each node and not have to pay the full round trip latency for log2(N) lookups.
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Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
This is basically the title on CNN's site right now, and I thought what a great question to ask you guys.

Me? It's got to be a lunar base. Always wanted one.
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Maybe Real Steve Jobs hired him to run iPhone developer relations.
A friend and I were talking the other day about teaching software architecture. He was telling me that he was able to teach all the details of the work, and why everything was important. What he couldn't teach was that "ah-ha!" moment that occurs during planning.

I told him the secret was that you continue to describe and refine your definitions of the problem. That's how "ah-ha" moments work.
My comment got picked up by valleywag. Just to make it clear, I have the exact same class of shares as Kevin, and no mention of cashing out has been mentioned to me. If there hasn't been "cashing out" I'm fine with that. If there has been, I at the very least should know the details. My issue isn't dilution but liquidity preferences.
Interesting. Very simple but very effective too.

Is there an open source alternative for it out there? One we can install and theme on our sites?
Do you know how much money crosses hands every day in the Digg blackmarket? About $1.6 million dollars....

Wow, even if the figure is 1/10th of that, it's still a huge pile of cash.
Yeah. That's how it works. The link appears when there's been an update. Until then it's listed as a "stale bookmark."
It might. I'm not certain.
i'd probably take one or two billion and buy myself a giant island to live on and forever take care of my personal needs. and fly into space a few times, too.

after that, i'd take the half of the remaining and invest it in technology and fields that i'd like to see improved (i.e. space travel, science, alternative energy, etc etc)

i'd take the other half and invest/give it to more charitable devices (poverty relief & research, disease research, land preservation funds, etc etc)

basically, try and make the world a better place.
I've been using it as my main newsreader for a few days. It's done pretty well so far.
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Alex3917 - I don't disagree. But, isn't Godin's approach still masterful self marketing? Being self-referential is tacky. So, justifiably, he avoids it.

My point: the fact that you know his style of promotion means he's self promoting. :)
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I think that a lot of the time, it is. He's got one or two nicely-written articles and a lot of noise that sounds excellent.
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Thanks for giving a more human side of the story. I think Godin is a very good self promoter, but I also think he's someone like Tom Peters: an out of the box marketer. He has different ideas, he can support them, but also he chooses a more shallow way of explaining them, probably to get them faster to the general public. I don't buy Kiyosaki for example, but Peters and Godin: they have interesting, original and honest ideas. I can't say if they are sooo great, but I think they might be useful sometimes.

Anyway, Godin's blog isn't very interesting, but the books are better, at least the ones I read.
I assume that you couldn't find anything wrong with my post, so you attacked my personality instead.Your point is valid thou, surrounded by all the smart people in HN i feel kind of dumb. But my mental abilities are off topic.
I agree. "Evil" is silly language to use here. Unfortunately, "evil" is often used to describe Apple's biggest competitor, so we developers are used to misusing that term.

Let's take a step back and speak more clearly: what Apple is doing is harmful to its developer ecosystem. Not evil, and maybe not stupid (time will tell).
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Release the hundreds of drugs some people will not approve because that will hurt their financial interest.
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give $11,000 to each of the 62 million households in the u.s. making under $50,000. watch the ensuing chaos with glee.
Taking an entire giant island for one person would make the world a better place?
An interesting book might be to collect a bunch of choice essays from people about this same topic: "Growing up geek"

I'm sure there are some pretty cool stories, and it might help younger generations get through their early years with a bit more confidence etc.
It was almost believable. But I'm not sure what it's relevant to?
I would bootstrap the asteroid mining economy, invest in micro-terraforming and nano-technology so that each asteroid could become it's own self sufficient republic.
Yay Anarchy !
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Native GTK is not the Apple problem. GTK developers could use Mac application paradigms instead of Windows's and embrace GNUStep/Objective C for GIMP and GNOME instead of implementing their own toolkit. They made the choice of going Windows-like way, not Apple. That's the reason of why "on Windows for years, but still tricky on MacOSX".
I wonder if "ant turd tokens" is the official, computer science term? Cracked me up, though... I find those annoying in Erlang.

My wife was curious about what I was laughing so hard at, but realized it was "computer stuff".
Build a space elevator and start mining the asteroids. This involves a robot army that would need to be built as well. No, I'm not joking
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Giving $698 billion to tech research and charity probably would.
ah! i loaded it in linux last night, and the css or something isn't right and could only see the screenshot. then, now in xp, it says http://news.ycombinator.com/rss is a bad feed, which is ironic. they wrote their own rss logic or something? i thought others were worrying about such things now
Nation-wide high-speed wireless. Computers for schools. Spend the rest on paying down our debt.
If I had a nickel every time my girlfriend saw me laughing or giggling at "computer stuff" and then rolled her eyes, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
In college I ended up helping found a Science Fiction/Fantasy/Anime/Gaming club which served both as a geeky outlet and as a social hub. I'm still very close with many of the friends I made there. Look for like-minded individuals! They are out there.
would you like me to say "i'd give it all up to charity"? i'd be lying if i said that, and so would anyone else.

i've always wanted to live on an island, thanks for shitting on my dreams in a hypothetical thread :*-(
Create an alternative, multi-tiered research funding organization and proceed to turn the education system upside down.

In fact, $700b is more than enough to do this several times over, so the surplus will probably go to funding a century of other programs related to exploration, bioengineering, green technology, and other sustainable development projects.

Seriously, what could it be other than this?
I was just sitting on my hypothetical high horse and giving you a hard time.

Friends?
For me personally, the hassle in getting Rails set up proved to be a barrier to entry. CakePHP or even Wordpress make for more convenient alternatives for small projects.

Maybe Slicehost will change that.
Historically speaking, software piracy has skyrocketed since the nineteenth century CE. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware#1...)
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I had no complaints on either issue. The fact that students make up a third of the population of the town probably had something to do with that.
Erlang with Python-syntax is a great idea. But couldn't see any sample programs (just one-line snippets)

EDIT some of Reia is written in itself:
http://github.com/tarcieri/reia/tree/master/src/reia/types
http://github.com/tarcieri/reia/tree/master/src/reia/core
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Yep, sure would make the world a better place for that guy, at least!

I'd take a small amount of it ($2-3 million if i could be sure of good interest returns over time, more commensurate with inability to do same) and return the rest to the taxpayers.

Alternatively I'd use that money to buy/start a small nation with a refortified constitution and the freedoms we've lost over the last century.
This reminds me of how international editions of books are sold at discount rates to match local economies. Also, DVD region encoding. There doesn't seem to be any equivalent for commercial software.
Got me until he said "Java". What's with the evangelization?
How does this hit the top of HN without someone coming in and decrying it's nonhacker nature? I laughed at this, but I just want to stop and remark on the fact.
>...each asteroid could become it's own self sufficient republic. Yay Anarchy!

That's not anarchy, since each republic would presumably have its own government.
There is a game called Wurm Online, made in Java, that you might want to take a look. It might change your opinion about 3D. It is not very polished, but that's more the devs' fault than the platform itself.
... Give $11,000 to each household making under $50,000, and you're in essence paying all of that towards households making over $50,000.

Some people are poor because they're honestly down on their luck, and need a helping hand. The majority on the other hand are simply unemployable, or horrible with their finances. Give them a handout and the money will simply end up in richer people's hands. That's not helping them.
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I would start my own aircraft company, all my planes would have lisp based auto pilot AI's.
Yes! Mining the Sky was an amazing book. http://www.amazon.com/Mining-Sky-Untold-Asteroids-Planets/dp...
I like the way you put you reply, and it's interesting to get another point of view.

To share my own present experience, I'm still in college myself and working with nearly all of my free time on various projects of my own, summers included. In contrast to you, though, I've kept up fairly well with the things going on outside of my own world (please note this is not a knock on you). While I haven't heard quite the same things you have, I've definitely heard some fairly awful stories about what people get themselves up to with too much time and not enough to do.

Even now, I can appreciate the concept that in the future, I'll already have a significant amount of experience to rely on when I may have to address a specific problem. Undoubtedly, it may be a little lonelier while you're working your ass off to get ahead, but it also doesn't mean that a person has to be totally isolated -- I still have a circle of friends, and go out on a regular basis. I just may do it less often than a person who isn't working quite as hard.
You guys realize that girls and loving your work are not mutually exclusive..
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sure, no hard feelings :)
However, if you gave $11K in seed capital to anyone making under $50k who has a viable plan for a business with the promise of a few hundred K more if they started showing traction, then you might shake things up a bit.

...wait, isn't that YCombinator?
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Hey, I was working with a college degree for 3 years before I broke 50k. At the time I was investing 8% of my income and I was still eating out all the time etc.

I think the bar for poor needs to be a little lower than 50k/year.
This is just more of the every-child-is-special bullcrap that we fill our kids' heads with these days. Come on, people. Some kids are just lousy actors. Why should they get a chance to be in the main role? The real world doesn't work that way. When these same kids grow up, they will be so badly calibrated that they'll have trouble functioning.

What's wrong with telling a kid he's bad at something, and should move on to try other things?
Agreed. I would establish an organization that will essentially usurp the position of the NSF. It will be non-partisan, be free from political influence, and non-ideologically driven. It will be available to all academics everywhere.

My brother is a researcher in evolutionary biology. I have seen how the Bush administration has been sabotaging funding into this area over the last few years. Science should be a free for all of ideas, not influenced by politics, religion, or anything else except good hard science.
Buy off the government. Mostly dismantle it.
World's biggest gravity bong; it'd take the place of Ohio.
Ask YC: How will you build the community for a niche social news site?
Hi all,
I started Siliconverge (http://www.siliconverge.com) - a Digg like social news site for Semiconductor & Hardware industry a few months ago.

The site is catering to very niche market. I am doing this in the part-time because I strongly believe that this site will add tremendous value to lives of people from Semiconductor industry. I'am a Chip Design Engineer and feel the pain, and see tremendous value in this service.

Semiconductor/Hardware people still visit 10 different news sources on the web to read news - the typical traditional way. And there is no service for this industry, which provides similar experience the way Siliconverge tries to provide.

Now, my question is - how do I build the community around this site? As we always know, these services don't add value unless there is a passionate community behind it.

All kinds of inputs/suggestions/feedback will be highly appreciated.

In general, this question applies to all those people, who want to start such niche news sites using Slinkset/Pligg or so.

Creating such sites has become very easy now - but what about building the community, and hence the potential business around it? Any thoughts?

Aditya,
Siliconverge.com
Litigation is a problem.

Perhaps this is that one company that one should not start in America.
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I think I would buy an uninhabited island and make it a research facility where top scientists can work together and find a way to optimize solar power and batteries.

If I have those I will start a production company that makes those inventions and sells them at the price (or below) it costs to make the goods so everyone can use them. I would also invest in agriculture in dry area's (africa for example). What I would NOT do is waste it on politics, that's why I want the uninhabited island. If you build a facility/production company with that goal there will be government regulations about it and as most of us know, they tend to screw things up and only care for their wallet.

Also a part of that money will go to education and proper sports centers. I'm a bit overweight myself and I want people to know better then always go to McDonalds and have the option to do any sport they like, as it should be.
Agile does not necessitate pair-programming.
XP does, XP is more of a religion.

Accountants, like almost all service businesses, deal directly with customers and tend to have relative short iterations because you can't delay paying your taxes for ever.

So "user stories" and iteration are in fact very common things you can find not just in agile software development, but almost anywhere.

It's not that Agile is that great, it's that it is that much better then Waterfall.
Put it in the bank.
surfing-equipment + house on hawaii ~ 6million$

baller-life-style-money: 10$million.

my own scientific/tech projects, 1billion.

rest i would donate to various scientifc rpoject sand charity.
Shift 3rd/4th world countries to 1st/2nd world.
Digg specific... http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832
This an older article from WIRED (March 2007). A writer was able to buy votes to a lame, made-up blog post.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832

I'll try to find something newer.