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Wikispaces (a PBWiki competitor) had our Wikipedia entry deleted in August 2006. At the time we were non-notable and had a medium- to low-quality entry written by others. During our deletion process, we argued that it was perfectly reasonable that Wikipedia delete our article, but it seemed quite unreasonable to single us out of a dozen other non-notable wiki farms (not to mention hundreds of other non-notable websites) that were not being considered for deletion. The response from the AfD commentors was in essence, "fine, go ahead and propose deletion for the wiki farms you think don't belong". We of course had no interest in doing that.

I was upset for some time that our article was deleted, but I'm not anymore. Wikipedia's standards don't work for small companies. In August 2006 when our article was deleted, we had less than 100,000 users and 50,000 wikis. Today we have 1.4M users, 595,000 wikis, and a healthy and growing business. A Wikipedia entry might be nice to have, but it doesn't have anything to do with how we serve our customers and build our business.
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Drawing a bunch of lines and opining on them for 20 minutes does not qualify as science.
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yeah, i read that linked from his post today. UR is the only blog I follow closely.
The JavaScript engine performance improvements we've seen over the last few months has been awesome. The competition clearly benefits everyone.

Obviously it varies between apps, but it wouldn't surprise me if the major bottlenecks in many applications are in the DOM access rather than JavaScript engine. It would be great if we saw similar competition on DOM performance.
"the government needs to step in or capitalism could cease to function."

they have it backwards, when government steps in capitalism ceases to function.
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"Those speculators betting on the stock market falling are ruining the economy. How dare they bet on things going down!"
I disagree with that definition of success.

Fair enough, but I hope it's not just a matter of semantics. My definition of the success for making educational materials available is making education available. The absolute goal would be 'the best education.' I admit, this is probably not the goal of this particular project.

Universities have an inherent interest in maintaining a big enough gap between free & premium education.

It seems to me that you're objections are base on an assumption that education cannot be acquired outside of institutions with an equivalent quality or ease. No chance. Universities don't have to worry about that, so no conflict.
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What about other derivative financial "instruments"? There has been a lot of talk about the shadow banking system and their ability to avoid regulation. Won't these players just step in and sell these "hedges" privately and probably further exacerbate the problem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banking_system
Bravo! People tend to boggle when I decry Lisp as being hopelessly low-level.

Sometimes ambiguity can be free, allowing indifference to how the machine works, without obscuring it at all. A good example is classical Hindley-Milner type inference (the algorithm that adds type annotations to plain System F code): it is fairly easy to construct oddball statements where annotating the types is undecidable or would cause resource exhaustion. But it turns out that for the known examples, it would be either impossible to decide the types in any form, or it would take O(c^n) bytes to enumerate the annotations.

So effectively there is no downside to the ambiguity -- the ambiguous statements are already infeasible for other reasons. Everybody Wins!
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Anyone here know much about the SunSpider benchmark? It's used in this article.

It's a WebKit benchmark, so if they are using that to drive their performance tuning then this might lead to a bias (if you use a benchmark as your milestones you're going to get good at that benchmark, even a complex one).

Not saying they have, just curious.
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Often test suites are distributed with the source to the package.

This is about including them in the binary distribution. So they are available in programs people distribute, and also in binaries for mac/windows/ubuntu etc.
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That comment is absolutely ridiculous. Those lines are graphic representations of surveys. They're collected data points. That's certainly part of science.
Has McCain spoken out in favor of something like this? This would seem to be pretty out of line with typical Republican doctrine. I don't see this as being an attempt to save his job, it's clearly not going to happen if McCain is elected.
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I believe Microsoft has the personality of Gates and when Gates just simply found out in life he didn't want to be an asshole anymore this caused Microsoft to lose direction.

The same thing happened to John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. One day he just decided he was tired of being the asshole and said "spend it". He created a foundation to spend his money, there is a funny part in his biography where he was making money so fast his foundation could keep up spending it, causing Rockefeller consternation.
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If you use S3, I hope this is valuable for you.
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(Warning: Following comment irrelevant to OP's subject.) Wow, that's amazing! There're so many interesting mechanical (and electro-mechanical) innovations on your Technology page. My appreciation for Hacker News just went up several notches since it's attracting folks like you. Are you funded? I hope so.

Who else is building such stuff that isn't just computer science/engineering?
Such a respectful reply. To judge by his writing, Weinreb is a genuinely nice man. I'm glad that he has taken on a (semi-) public role as Lisp advocate.

I'm a recent (last 3 years) adopter of Common Lisp who works in it every day. To me Lisp is hardly a failure, it's a secret weapon. For example, a couple of weeks ago I had occasion to take a complex chunk of CL code and make it compile into Javascript as well (I need it to run both on the server and in the browser, under different circumstances). The point isn't that I needed, say, Lisp macros to do this. The point is that I was able to do it pretty easily. As a working programmer, I'm surprised by how often something that feels like it'll be scary and hard turns out to be pretty easy in CL. In fact I often spend more time worrying about it than I do coding it (which makes me wonder how long it will take before certain habits that come from experience in less productive environments die off).

This isn't the sort of thing you can really analyze on the level of language features. I find that a lot of the discourse around language comparison is the activity of researchers and hobbyists (for want of a better term) who aren't immediately concerned with building major systems. They like to explore many different things and the programming tasks they take on tend to be conducive to that - coding exercises and such. That's great, but not the same perspective as when you throw yourself into making one big system over months or years. To the first sort of person, the various Lisps and startup annoyances and incompatibilities constitute a huge barrier, enough to say "why bother" and move on. To me they were an investment that paid off relatively quickly and has since produced big gains. (I mean technically. We'll see if they cross over economically.)

Lisp isn't going to have a major resurgence on language grounds alone. It's too old for that, and too suboptimal for blog posts. What would, though, make a big difference is seeing more successful products made with it. That may sound odd as there have been few so far, but that's where I think the untapped potential of Lisp is. And if that ever happens, an ecosystem might develop that has fewer of the dysfunctional aspects of the past. Successful companies that use Lisp would fund open source development, and so on.
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Doing the same search for San Francisco gives us very different results.

Jobs with Java in the title (1,529)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3Ajava&l=san+francisc...

Jobs with C++ in the title (476)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3AC%2B%2B&l=san+franc...

Jobs with PHP in the title (326)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3APHP&l=san+francisco...

Jobs with C# in the title (224)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?l=san+francisco,+ca&q=title%3...

Jobs with Ruby in the title (217)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3Aruby&l=san+francisc...

Jobs with Perl in the title (161)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3Aperl&l=san+francisc...

Jobs with ASP in the title (101)
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3Aasp&l=san+francisco...

Jobs with Python in the title (90)
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Thanks for finding the source.
I'm confused. "I'm a pissy" was it? What are these ads for?

Come on Microsoft, make some cool software and advertise it. Remember? writing cool software? innovating?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=307004
Well, sure, but when you're talking about regular expressions and don't give them a context (which you did in your PHP example above), you should be using regular expression escaping syntax, not one that is based on a context that isn't mentioned. PCRE are the same no matter which language or application uses the library, how the language serializes and represents regular expression literals is an aspect of the language, not of the regular expression engine.

Oddly, it's really unintuitive to specify a character class as you have above that is composed of the backslash and the w character in PHP. The PHP single quoted string '\\w' and '\w' are exactly the same, and end up being the same to the regular expression engine. If you want to put a backslash in your regular expression, you need to quadruple it.
The Zimbabwe figure is kind of misleading, unless it's corrected for the insane inflation of the Z$. I just did a quick calculation, and assuming 10M% yearly inflation, that works out to about 20 weeks.
I'm starting to see Wikipedians as cops with big mustaches. Mostly harmless, generally the good guys, but often symbolically overstepping their bounds.

I acknowledge the rigorous formalized system, but even a speedy response does not justify the offense.

It appears there is bias here. Instead of instructing us on how to participate, the members of the community should address it.
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Apple's annual revenue is ~$20B. Microsoft's is ~$51B with significantly higher profit margins.

Don't you think that "no hope" is kind of a stretch?
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Unfortunately this would imply lots of unemployed less skilled workers

How would that be unfortunate?

http://www.reason.com/news/show/122019.html

The public often literally believes that labor is better to use than conserve.
Oh, good, more stories about Microsoft commercials!

I know when I get together with hackers, there's nothing we like more than watching TV commercials, hearing what tech bloggers think about TV commercials, and talking about TV commercials. Sometimes it keeps us up all night!

Having stories about advertisements on the front page also makes up for the lack of other ads, which has always made this site look kind of geeky and 'small potatoes' to me. Corporate marketing on the front page means we've arrived into the mainstream, finally!

And did you catch Eva Longoria Parker in the ad? Wouldn't kick her out of bed to check email on a MacBook Air, that's for sure! Isn't the wait for the season premiere of Desperate Housewives killing you? Me too!

I, for one, welcome News.YC's new video viral marketing overloads.
Macros are a double edged sword. Their advantages also drags in some disadvantages. If they were only advantageous, they would have flown into mainstream languages long ago(in the full Lisp-sense where the macro is a lisp program).

But they have not. This can be due to multiple reasons: their disadvantages outweigh the advantages or that the effort of getting them into the language simply drags so many other undesirable things with it. Perhaps the advantage of a macro is perceived to be so small compared to e.g., function composition and higher order functions, that it is left out of the language.
Can't say I agree with the substance of this article. A lot of the drawbacks seem to be either preference, something that has been improved already or something that just required a tad more effort (e.g. I found the testing resources for Flex to be pretty reasonable).

All things being equal, is there anything technically compelling to favour Silverlight over Flex?
I remember playing a robot programming game back in school some 20 years ago. Some time ago I had a discussion about games with my younger brother and told him about it. Yesterday he showed me this game saying "Look, I found the game like that one you were talking about"

Thanks to the authors for re-creating that experience.
I wonder which game they modelled their about.

The newer game has got isometric view and better sound(though from what I hear it is still tracker music), the older had moving staircases and single-stepping debug. But for the most part, it's still the same which is amazing given that both programming technologies and game industry have gone light years since then. Someone would call it "too simple" but isn't it amazing that a robot programming game basically the same as the one from 20 years ago is still fun and relevant enough to be rated high on Reddit and Hacker News?
it wouldn't surprise me if the major bottlenecks in many applications are in the DOM access

No question about it. I'm wondering why we're not seeing much work being done in this area. Perhaps it's because the problems are messier and not as well defined (let alone as well researched) as things like method dispatch?
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Do you heard about Haskell or F#? They a related to Microsoft research without any marketing crap, I really appreciate that.
I can understand that with a bank of hot spares or use of a service like EC2 or wild traffic swings, the exact number at any one moment becomes less relevant. But it would be nice for them to have given a historical average (and even, typical variance), based on their logs of actual machines dynamically brought into or out of service.
Do you mean capital adequacy requirements?

Because there is discussion that the biggest failures were where the SEC relaxed it's requirement.
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Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby...

C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.
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The figures for india are wrong too. You need to pay only 1 months basic pay to fire an full time employee or you can ask them to leave after one month without paying them any extra money other than the salary for that month.
What i respect:

a) Zoho's recruitment of smart young hackers in India. They don't look at their degrees, but their skill + tenacity
b) Not taking VC money. Granted AdventNet gave them a great start.
c) They've built a here to stay business.
What I don't respect:
a) They basically ripped sugarcrm off with VTiger and called it "REAL open source". Last I checked sugar got past that debate with GPL3, plus zoho relabels vtiger as zohocrm with a new skin
b) Their products are soulless and lack innovation. They are basically ms products + ajax with a shitty ui.
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I'd like 2 things to come out of this

1.) Some kind of lab support. I could buy a kit and go along and build what ever simultaneously with the class I'm following.

2.) an automated way of seeing how well I'm doing. A test giver/grading.
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and done. Compare against Chrome on Windows.
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Unbearable - cool people in general don't go around telling everybody how cool they are. I would have thought elitist marketing companies would know such things.
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I'd also like to see this compared on a range of javascript test suites like John Reisig did recently. Good job on the quick test results though.
There's also FDT, an Eclipse plugin that makes Flex Builder look like a joke in terms of how it deals with Actionscript code.

I don't know what it does with MXML though, and haven't tried the debugger in it either (I don't have the so called enterprise version).
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just as likely. I wasn't implying this was a heroic action. Perhaps my original post was misleading in that regard. I don't know anything about the person that did it or why. History gets to decide the import of people's actions.

I think that increases in behaviors where people work outside social norms (this includes people that strap bombs to their bodies) are indicators of stress in the social fabric. Labeling actions as stupid, or terrorist, and such are useful but miss the bigger picture sometimes.
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I posted almost the same question here about a week ago (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=301853). There may be some more insight in that thread for you.

From the responses I got I have decided to continue with my project, infact, I am going to be leaving my job in a few weeks to concentrate on it full time.

The world (and the internet) is a vast place, there is more than enough room for healthy competition in most fields. The way I ended up looking at it is that the worst case scenario would be that you don't sell many copies (if your competitors can sell it, so can you), but will have gained so much more experience in trying. Even if it doesnt make it big and just gets a small amount of sales, it is better than nothing. If it under performs and I have to go back to work, any sales that continue to come in will supplement my income.

If you enjoy the project you are doing and think you can improve on even just 1 part of your competitors solution its worth sticking with it. You can also watch your competitors and learn how they work, let them do the experimenting for you, see how they are spending their marketing budget etc.
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Is this meant to be sarcastic? If not, then I really don't get it. How is this in any way world changing?

It's just some pretty pictures from a standard google office complex.
The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...
It's not just misleading, including Zimbabwe on the list right now is just silly. Their currency is essentially meaningless.
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err, yeah, faster JavaScript is good. Hope that Microsoft finally wake up and do something about theirs.
"How to change the world" is the name of his blog. But I agree, this are basically just the dude's vacation photos. Yawn.
Well if you put any stock in microbenchmarks, try this DOM in your favorite browsers: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/perf/dom/artificial/core/001...

Safari + ToT WebKit is way faster than the others.
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There's a long tech history of companies making record profits just before they go out of business.

It happens when they hone their product during the adolescence of a disruptive innovation. Microsoft is staring down the twin barrels of linux and SaaS. Its products have pretty much maxed out their potential (read: they've run out of runway), but are neither free nor services. It's a different game. [edit also, wine works amazingly well]

Meanwhile, Apple heads the disruptive innovation of iPods. They'll need another disruption soon though. Tech demands it.