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Then certainly you can appreciate the best modern free throw shooter Steve Nash (Canadian and former soccer and hockey player).

The key to making free throws is eliminating error, not finding a method that makes the shot x% easier.

Proper basketball form sets a player up to shoot the ball exclusively with one arm. By adding a second hand into the mix, shooting an underhanded shot you open up the process for more error.

Barry cannot be used as a meaningful example. Far more players have achieved success (and even greater success) using the traditional 1-handed shot. Even the world record holder for most consecutive shots used the traditional method.

The superiority of the granny-shot is just another myth spread by those who don't really know the sport.
lol, did you mean reddit material ?
Another reason not to used the underhand is that it can only be used on the foul line. (Can you imagine an easier shot to defend!)

When a high-level basketball player might shoot 50,000 shots in an off season why would they split time between two techniques? (Especially when the granny-method isn't fundamentally better when it comes to bio-mechanics)
totally useless benchmark... yea, of course lighttpd is faster in standard configuration, but what if he would have turned off 20 or so useless apache mods that are not needed for a machine serving static requests? If you really want performance from apache you can make it very fast, and there's tons of different ways to have kick ass caching inside apache. Though I'd say that lighttpd is probably faster with tweaks. The reason to go for apache is battle tested stability, robustness and extensibility.
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That article sounds more like bartering. "I'll make you a website in exchange for some lawn work"
This seems like hyperbole - 500 trades in the modern stock market is a fraction of a second. No human can intervene that fast. I'd like to see how they figured that.
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More like Digg material.
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Amen to that! Same thing could be said for MySQL vs Postgres benchmarks. I've been doing some research on the two and I have to say people at the SliceHost forum suggest that MySQL can rival Postgres if you turn off certain modules (like skipping InnoDB).
So boys who play counterstrike do it, instead, because they really want to kill people?
I weren't clear enough, sorry.

Yes, it is extremely hard to add lisp-style macros to C or Java because they have no s-expression structure you can work on. And they do not want an s-expression structure because it is too alien for those programmers. Thus, they perceive that macros are not worth the effort.

I think macros are left out of so many languages because people do not know how to incorporate them while retaining other desirable properties of the language (type safety for instance).

Also, macros are not the only way to build ORM systems. Python does the same with metaclassing as an example. But we can agree on that trying to map it into a statically typed language with reflection/AOP as Java did is doomed to fail I think ;)

I am not trying to say that macros are useless. I am trying to say that some languages leave them out on purpose. Many problems on which macros look nice can be solved with a little extra thought on representation. But then again, many can not.

I see the discussion of macros/no-macros a bit like the discussion on static/dynamic typing. With static typing, we know we are leaving some valid programs outside the gates of the static world. But we think that this loss is negligible compared to the benefits a static check gives us. Yet, some people oppose this viewpoint and wants the valid programs as well, because they perceive the benefits of the static typing to the negligible. Both approaches are valid, but it currently looks like it is hard to get all of the cake in one munch.
Actually, asymptotically (as you peel off the overhead) I'm sure they're in a dead tie. Ultimately, serving a static file consists of reading the header, opening the target file and calling the sendfile() syscall. The bulk of the work is obviously the data transfer, and on a modern OS that happens in the kernel. I have a hard time believing that any web server is going to significantly distinguish itself on the basis of header parsing, of all things.

And since when is service of static files a significant performance problem anyway? Unless you're youtube, this is the easy part of web application optimization.
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Not true - MySQL is faster than PostgreSQL, but PGSQL is faster under load.

What's being argued here is that there are no technical grounds for one application to be faster than the other - they're just sendfile() whatever is requested of them, which doesn't leave much room for speed differentiation.

On the other hand, database engines are very complicated beasts that do tons of stuff, each in their own way. There's lots of room for one to be faster or slower than the other depending on how they're designed, how they go about accomplishing something, and the tasks they're optimized for; in contrast with web servers where they all do the same basic task using the very same algorithms and APIs (for the most).
There's really nothing new under the sun, but success has as much to do with timing and luck than with skill and perseverance. When I was 17 I founded soc.college.admissions for a related purpose. For those of you who don't remember USENET, think of it as the poor man's web. Mostly text only, and uncontrollable, it was eventually overrun by spammers and eclipsed by the Web. And does anyone remember sixdegrees.com in 1998? It was the first LinkedIn/Facebook site to see major publicity. The not-yet-ready public was horrified at the privacy implications, and it died.
I'm going to have to disagree with you. What was the number Steve gave last week? 100,000,000 downloads?

Apps are faster, they feel better, they can take advantage of the tilt properties and of multitouch. Did you not see the new ads? The new focus is all about gaming. You can't do games on the web with the same level of quality.
Nice read for some fresh thinking. Makes me smarter.
Exactly. None of the conclusions he drew about C# or Java are especially true. C# is one of the most reliable frameworks I see, and to say that OOP scripting languages are "better" than Java/C# (as Mac is to Dos) is BS.
Unfortunately, if you take a look at the Apache source code you'll see that a ton of hooks are inserted into the entire process all over the place, adding a ton of useless calls that don't benefit you anything in exchange for allowing certain uber-cool tricks to be done in the future by other devs, but unfortunately affecting their own bottom line.
I love the jargon. "Brain Damage" means inconvenience. The meaning is apparent to anyone who thinks for a living, but says it with drama.
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Not to squabble on generic terms with you, but pop music is still music. Does it focus on entirely different things than other genres of music? Yes. Does that mean that you can easily dismiss it as not having any musical merit whatsoever? Of course.

However, it takes talent to make a good pop song. It's a radically different talent than the sort that goes into other music, but pop musicians are talented. They're just looked down upon because their music is so lacking in terms of depth. But that too contributes to WHY they're so popular. The creation of pop music is a study unto itself.
seems like a smart enough guy...typical "trader"...doesn't care about the direction things are moving, as long as they are moving. traders hate a sideways, sluggish market...they need volatility. he must be happy these days.

i disagree with his implied comments on the dollar. this is a dead currency as of friday. i expect the debt to hit twenty trillion by 2018.

look at the wikipedia page for the french revolution. accumulation of vast excess debt destroyed the monarchy. no one thought things would/could end... they thought they could just abuse the currency forever and somehow things would magically turn around, even though everything they actually did just made things worse. sounds like america today

i say the dollar will not last until 2025. no dollar...no USA. USA IS the dollar.
painful. put it down at page 100. already recycled. oh i know what you are thinking, i must be some sort of caveman who prefers michael crichton. nonsense. when i read fiction, i want to have some fun. this book just isn't fun. stephenson knows how to write fun books. snow crash was a literal page turner...why do you stay up all night turning pages? because the book is fun.
His blog also talks a lot about typography. He discusses his thoughts on movies and writers. He links to interesting videos he comes across.

He's excused for being an Apple blogger by the fact that he's interesting and a good writer. If you don't want to read him, then don't.
pointless discussion. apache2 can saturate the typical outbound connection for static files. you can't push any more data than that. this is why people gave up on the linux kernel http daemon so long ago...its pointless.

in any case your static files should be on a cdn like akamai.
From the second interview.

"they needed to take Bear out and shoot it in front of everybody. So they took it out, at a 2-dollar offer, all the senior management is gone, and that’s the financial equivalent of taking the shareholders out and shooting them."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=310285
it can still saturate a 1gb outbound link, so who cares?
It has to do with the characteristic of the activity being "disgusting" as opposed to being "not in shareholder's interests," "not in customers' interests," or even "not in society's interests."

Both corporate behaviours have incited this kind of deeply emotional response. So it's interesting to ask someone if they have the same emotional response to each corporate behaviour.

It would be very interesting to me if someone says they find patent trolling to be businesses making money according to the rules of the game as they are written but that same person thinks of Apple's behaviour as "disgusting."

I am not suggesting anybody here has that response, just that I see that the question is interesting.
Voice recognition would obv be very cool if it was instant and involed machine tralsnation so you could talk in english and on the other end it comes out in chinese(or whatever language you choose).

Also, some phones already have voice recognition, if minimal, right? You can say a name and the appropriate person is called.
I have read through the apache source, actually. If those hooks are disabled, they're just a branch not taken. Compared to the work of moving a 32k (or whatever) file through the page cache and out the network interface, it's just noise.

I'm not holding up apache as a model of clean code, mind you. Like all mature software, it's terribly crufty in places. I'm just saying that serving static files is something that even crufty software can do quickly. If you want to show up apache, this isn't the test to use.
Windows wouldn't be able to pull off the complete focus that Apple does. Their products don't merit that necessarily.

That's why there's such an inconsistency between the views that I see here and the views that I'm finding on all of the (Apple-leaning) blogs that I read daily. It's not because Mac users like to just blatantly bias themselves against Microsoft. It's because I think that Apple users have a much more sterile attitude towards the products that they use. They care only about how powerful their computers are, how beautiful they look, and how quickly they can get their work done. It's like the commenter said here a long time ago. Picture Dell running an ad like Apple does, with a Dell computer revolving in a white space. It's preposterous. They couldn't get away with it.

So Microsoft runs these ads. The reaction I've seen overwhelmingly here is that they're doing a great job of making Microsoft seem like a likable everyday company, and that that's a brilliant ad campaign. The Apple users, on the other hand, think that Microsoft is admitting inferiority by doing this, and that the fact that they're not directly attacking Apple's product (or promoting their own) is a sign of absolute, terrible weakness. It's a difference in mindsets. Personally, I agree with the Apple side's mindset, because I dislike ads that don't actively push their product. I consider that dishonest. That said, this site's making me realize just who those ads are being aimed at.

It's funny that you mentioned charity. I always saw Apple as a very Objectivist company in terms of their attitude towards their products, and Microsoft as the obvious mass-market opponents that get depicted in Ayn Rand novels. A big part of that difference is always that the villains in Rand support charity quite publicly and the Rand characters focus only on one thing: their work.
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It's jaw-droppingly bad if your point of view is that ads are supposed to sell their product. That's not a big mindset, and so Microsoft's ads are being pretty accepted by people, but Gruber's very deliberate in that mindset.
I knew that cavitation was a concern for submarines, pumps, ships, torpedoes, etc. It makes perfect sense that it could become an issue for any fast-swimming aquatic life as well.. but I don't think I ever put two and two together on that. (I guess I assumed no aquatic life could swim fast enough to have cavitation concerns)
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Yeah but the temporal explanation is far more entertaining.
Where should I move? Or maybe a better question - where will you be moving (if at all)?
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Rules #10 and #11 seems especially applicable to my own situation, when jumping from startup idea to startup idea.

130 year old advice seems more powerful for some reason. Hopefully reading it here is the first step to resolving it.
Ask YC: How can i delete my YCombinator news account?
I'm looking to delete my YC news account. I did not find any helpful links here or in google. Thanks.
yeah - reddit.
You can access multitouch, and some tilt stuff from javascript.

I guess it depends on connectivity in your area of the world.
As a user, I'd rather keep applications sandboxed in a nice browser with nothing downloaded.
http://www.google.com/search?q=delete%20my%20account%20site%...

As a bonus, delete whoever voted this up.
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By that standard, any kind of entertainment is worthless.
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Exactly.

Moreover there are reasons why texting evolved as the popular application of the underlying technology SMS, which supports many other forms of broadcasts. (including the killer idea)

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Most thought of SMS as providing a means to alert the individual mobile user, for example, of a deposited voice mail, whereas others had more sophisticated applications in their minds, such as telemetry. However, few believed that SMS would be used as a means for sending text messages from one mobile user to another.

Read on - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service
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Wish I had responded sooner to continue the discussion...

If I sell, it would be capital gains taxes for an individual (me) who owns the business, not capital gains for the small business, so maybe I'm still misunderstanding what is intended.
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What can OCaml do that you can't do in other programming languages?
It seems like he invented this myth in order to debunk it. Surely everyone knows the 19th century was dominated by cartels. If people only know two things about Teddy Roosevelt, the second is "trust busting."
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> I'm willing to entertain, for the moment, the idea that some particularly high-energy collisions are capable of reaching back in time and preventing themselves from happening.

Doesn't make sense, to reach back in time to prevent itself from happening, it'd have to happen.
What does it do though? It's not very clear.
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500 trades is a fraction of a second if the market is open. The article is pointing out that if the Treasury hadn't intervened overnight, the market would have opened much lower in the morning.
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Exactly. The guy writing the article misunderstands why people send messages with text. It has little to do with convenience, or because there is no alternative to it - it's just a form of communication that many people like for whatever reason. I won't make the same mistake and claim that I know why others prefer texting sometimes, but personally, I use it when I want to make a neutral query to someone, when I want to communicate with someone without revealing the tone of my voice, when I want to give a person the opportunity to ignore what I am saying or to delay a reply, etc.

Communication is wide and varied, and SMS is a choice in communication. Trying to replace SMS with voice is like saying that one should replace email with telephone calls. The applications are different, and people use it for a different type of communication.
"The findings kill the suggestion some of the earliest Americans came from Europe."

How exactly do they do that?
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I made a little site along these lines a while back but other stuff came up and I never got around to finishing it. I've just put it up here - http://www.yamooki.com - if you want to take a look. Never got around to adding a review feature, I'll do that and hook it up with Facebook Connect when I get a spare couple of days. That (FB Connect) should make some interesting things possible, like being able to add as friends those users who have shortlisted same course as you, male/female ratios etc.
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I'm in New Jersey, and there's very little Wi-Fi. That's the other thing, actually: I speak from an iPod touch perspective, where you can't use a cellular network. That's something else to keep in mind.
Imagine a stream of water sliding down a string, every once in a while a droplet falls off the string, if the string is our worldline, the droplet is the world where the LHC is fully operational.

//actually that's total bullshit, the higgs boson likes it's privacy that's all.
I'm not an iPhone app developer, but there are quite a few banned apps I'd love to use. Notably, the one mentioned in this article-- managing multiple email accounts on an iPhone is a pain in the ass.
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I couldn't find an email to reach you. I just didn't want my name to be on the search results. Thanks for the delete!!!.
Ask YC: How would you go about finding your other founder (in France)?
(This question is of general interest, but responses specific to France will be of particular interest to me.)

Imagine you have a promising idea for a web service, solid funding and a ripe market; but you lack the developing team to build the site. You don't need "rock star" developers, but you do need some very good ones since the code will require solid logic and the capacity to scale well. And outsourcing is not really an option because your product will require continuous development. Thus, you really need a partner/founder who will be the company's lead developer/CTO (and who will have the contacts to gather the initial team: 1 or 2 other developers).

How do you go about finding this person? There is no job board for this kind of person: you're not looking for an employee, but for someone who will be a full-blown partner. And you're pressed for time: you can't just wait to run into the right person. You need to start tomorrow. Here are the things I've done; please chip in if you can think of others:

#	Attend OpenCoffees, BarCamps, etc.

#	Check the job boards and community pages of web framework websites, e.g.
- symfony-project.org / symfonians.net
- cakeforge.org
- pradosoft.com
- workingwithrails.com

# Scour tech blogs and look for interesting contributors

# Identify good contributors on open source projects (I really wish SourceForge allowed you to geographically locate project contributors)
The data is there but you need to extract it from the individual 10-K and 10-Q.
I might have to agree with you there. I'm going to hold on to this link.
Ah, very true. I can see the point of apps on the touch more than for the iPhone.
* Put up a paper on the board at the local university.
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"... why do you stay up all night turning pages? because the book is fun."

Well, sometimes, but "fun" is not how I'd describe the works of David Foster Wallace or Rick Moody, yet they (often, but not always) keep me engage with challenging use of language and structure.

Basically, it's enjoyable to have new stuff to think about, and that can happen in a number of ways.
I'm about 100 pages in as well, not about to stop though. Stephenson one of the few current authors that's not afraid to spend a hundred pages setting up the backstory for everything going on. Which accounts for the beginning of some of his books being exceptionally long and not the most interesting bits of writing that he's done. But the rest of the book - once you get into it - generally makes up for it.
I think a general class of good startup ideas are archivers of removed content. There is a project at MIT that archives videos removed from YouTube, there are people who would pay to have access to that. A similar class is adding search to sites that have crappy search ability.
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I have long suspected that most datacenters waste a tremendous amount of cooling energy. For example, if a datacenter is usually a higher temperature than the outside temperature, and you are running active cooling, it makes no sense to insulate the building. I think a lot of those decisions are made on "guy feeling" or what "obviously makes sense" rather than any calculation.
The people, like this guy, who might consider you are well hidden behind a wall of HR drones. Therefore if you do have lateral experience you either need to _also_ be able to pad your CV well enough to get past them, or otherwise hope that your networking skills are excellent and you get lucky with an introduction.

I got my current job through a series of near-miraculous coincidences. However one in a million chances come up very frequently (because the game is played a billion times a day) so increasing the number of tickets you hold by meeting as many people as possible is a good idea.
I'm only half way in at the moment, but I must reply and say that I think this book is excellent. It may have helped that I did the first couple of hundred pages on a flight so was a captive audience (well, unless I wanted to watch "Son of Rambo"), but I don't remember feeling that it was a slog.
why not just ask to have your name changed?
Wow, n+1 turned out an article that was no-nonsense, interesting to read, and not utterly full of itself. Props to it.
+ chances are if someone searches for socrates in Google, they'll get the results for the philosopher in the first 10,000 pages before the results start getting relevant to you