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> Are you sure you don't? Can you explain to me why your new foreign policy states that "The United States must remain the world's only superpower, unchallenged by any other nation."?

You do realize you're citing (1) what someone wrote as an interpretation of some cobbled together quotes and (2) a draft document that the cite itself admits was changed in the relevant part.

However, a more interesting question is why you think that US policy matters. The Chinese and Russians don't think that they have to have the US' permission to develop their capability.

Why would the EU need the US permission to build some carrier groups or some airlift capability? (The latter was part of the point of AirBus, right?)

>>> Whenever something big needs doing, the question is "how do we get the US to do it?"
> Please give me examples of "something big that needs doing" that the US did, so that I can refute you.

It's not the "did" but the "needs doing" - my point being that unless the US gets involved with something, the rest of the world stays out as well.

I'm amused that you're asking me for world trouble-spots; you keep telling us that Americans are clueless about the rest of the world.

I mentioned Sudan and the other things in sub-saharan africa. Or, is that too small or unworthy of your attention?

Surely you're not going to claim that the world is fine except for Iraq. As a sophisticated "citizen of the world", surely you've got a long list of things that need doing.

Go down that list and ask "why isn't my country (or the EU) handling this?".

> Fear the economy will collapse? "ok, let's take 700 billon dollars from the taxpayers and give to irresponsible and stupid (well, maybe they are not so stupid after all...) bankers - this will surely help."

At last count, the EU had put in over 3x as much.
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Just an FYI... The official list will be online at the Rails Rumble 2008 site shortly, once voting opens.

Teams have an additional 24 hours to update their profiles (make screencasts, etc) and then we need to review and weed out any entries that were disqualified. Therefore, I would expect voting to open sometime Tuesday. In the meantime, please register as a judge to vote! http://railsrumble.com (anyone can judge!)

The entries this year were absolutely unbelievable. Thanks to everyone who got involved.
...none of these modeling schools is "better" than its peers. Each one can model essentially any problem. There are tradeoffs involved with each school...

Who are you and what have you done with Steve Yegge!?

The Pulitzer Prize it won doesn't nearly do it justice. It's one of the greatest and most unique works of imagination of all time.

Ah, there he is :)
Get a treadmill desk.
I think this is a critique of bad organizations more than performance reviews themselves. Most of the points can be attributed to organizational problems rather than problems with the process of performing reviews.

A good boss in a candid organization will be delivering informal feedback throughout the year. The annual performance review has no surprises; it's a set time to formalize what is already known.

People shouldn't treat performance reviews as salary negotiations, but instead as evidence-gathering for a salary negotiation. A salary negotiation has two important variables and the performance review provides evidence for only one. The two variables are a) Value delivered to the company by the employee and b) Best alternative salary for the employee.
That's a neat post, the talk about Wyvern gets me really excited because game programming is my primary domain of interest.

Someone please enlighten me; is the property model pretty much just reverse or non-hierarchical OO? Instead of saying "J.T. inherits from football player" you say "football player doesn't really exist, J.T. just inherits from a bunch of objects which are instances that have the properties of a football player"? The difference here is that inheritance is more like a node graph and a not top-down hierarchy, where the only real root object is the super-generic "object" object.

If this is true, what about the "Chieftain" example Yegge said he left out? Is there a prototype called "Chieftain" which objects can inherit, but which alone doesn't fully implement a game object? Is it the case that you can't have "Chieftain" objects running around, as they only have all the properties needed when they are, for example, an "Orc Chieftain"?
It hasn't. Microsoft's growth has remained relatively stable since it's growth from '95 to 2000. Apple has almost zero impact from '98 to 2005, which is where we start to see the stock perform well.
The reasonably insightful comment on reddit was that this isn't just a pissing contest between MS and Apple - it's a pissing contest between Crispin Porter and TBWA (the ad agencies)...

I think one has the more appealing product to market, the other has the bigger budget and the defensive position. It's a fairly textbook marketing battle between the entrenched number one and the upstart niche player.
When tab doesn't work, Control + Tab usually does. I think Mac programs make up for less tabbing by having far more keyboard shortcuts.
Free PSP Downloads Sites
Some websites claim to provide free PSP downloads on trial basis. For example, some PSP sites allow PSP game demo downloads that can be installed on your PSP. If you are satisfied with the free PSP demo downloads, then you need to pay for the full program which is again quiet expensive.
Google Online Tools - Do you have a "Plan B"?
While it's great to use Google tools, it's important to keep in mind that you want to use them, not totally rely on them. I read about a situation where a person's Google account was disabled, which caused a LOT of trouble for him. I don't want to be "that guy" and I'm sure neither does anyone else.
When Multimedia was Black and White
* Pressing Apple + C or Apple + Z meant forcing my hand in to uncomfortable, unnatural positions - I prefer the spacing on a standard PC keyboard between Ctrl + C/etc*

Huh? I'm pretty platform agnostic, but I've always liked this about the Mac. The Command key can be held down my shifting my thumb to the left of the spacebar and I can copy+paste without ever pulling my hands off the home row. Trying to hold control with my pinky and twist around to hit various key combos always felt more like a contortionist act to me.
As much as I like LaTeX, It's not something I would typeset my resumé in. Then again, I was a graphic designer in another life and I think that resumés that stand out, stand a chance.

I can tell you that when I'm looking through a pile of resumés, the ones that are actually interesting/eye catching are probably the ones of the people who I want working with me.
Motorola Readies Its Own Android Social Smartphone
I don't think Apple is trying to target users of Vista, just people that are considering moving off XP.
This is an amazing find. Steve Jobs is definitely one of my role models, and I'm sure a role model for many of the people on this site.

Macs have completely revolutionized every piece of consumer technology, and have set new industry standards in everything that they do.

I really enjoyed watching him pitch this startup, I have always wondered how Steve Jobs was as an early-stage entrepreneur.

Good find.
How Steve Jobs pitches a startup
Mesotherapy cost
Cool resource for those interested in mesotherapy (a treatment for cellulite) and other beauty and health procedures.
Unfortunately Emacs doesn't support any notion of prototypes.

Sure it does - just cons stuff onto assoc lists. I think PG mentioned this at the end of his "Arc lessons" essay.
the win on this article is the comments: he posted the article, someone cracked the license generator, posted the source. there was a brief, friendly discussion about this.

if it were one of my previous employers, they would've immediately sic'd lawyers, the fbi, homeland security, and anyone within shouting distance on the commenter. (the head of the legal department once got up at a quarterly meeting and ecstatically announced how many people had been prosecuted that quarter. there was an uncomfortable silence that followed, as everyone began expecting security cameras installed in every room. they started appearing shortly thereafter.)

the authors sense of humor about this and pragmatic outlook is appreciated, and in my mind, correct. do what you can, make it easy to buy, make it uninteresting to break, have free versions available for people who need them.
Plus good coffee is much better for you than any of that 'instant' stuff. But I think his point was more you don't need to spend 5000 on a coffee machine, especially when stepping out for a coffee is a good time to socialize with colleagues.
Although it's very cool technology, and I like the Thunderbirds reference, I can't really see it being especially useful. Instead of having a "crack team" of Marines ready to be deployed anywhere on Earth within four hours, why not just have a bunch of teams positioned four hours' flight from most potential trouble spots?

The comment about finding Osama Bin Laden seemed particularly odd. They really thought that the best way to respond to a report about what cave he might be in would be to load some Marines into a rocket somewhere in Alabama and blast them around the world to land in Afghanistan?

And that's without worrying about how you actually land a billion-dollar spaceplane in presumably-hostile territory without any teams on the ground yet to help. Perhaps it drops them by parachute and then finds a friendly airbase to land at?

Anyway, it definitely seems like technology looking for an application rather than vice versa. But hey, I'm fine with that.
but well, it is looooong, isn't it?

;)
Music is ridiculously litigious, but we have plans for the space.

If you like, you can submit any band's site to Tipjoy right now, e.g. http://tipjoy.com/joy/90578/
Digital Signatures and Security Encryption
I'll try not to get mean - I'm a Mac user, and I know how much I hate it when Windows users get douchey - but I think that the biggest problem they'd need to fix is the ration of aesthetic to functionality. It's what pissed me off every day with Vista. Microsoft added features that look "Mac-like" but without the inherent usability.

For instance, that window display where they're all sideways and you can scroll through them. I'm certain that's a rip off of Expose on the Mac. The difference is that Expose provides a very quick-n-easy way to access your windows, whereas that display seemed like it didn't make things particularly easy. And I forget if I tested it, but I very much doubt that it was a spring-loaded view, either.

The Aero theme is another instance. Compare that to Leopard's Aqua. They're both attempts to look modern and beautiful, but Leopard goes about it my making all of its chrome minimal. The buttons are small, the borders on every last window are 1px. With Vista, you get bulk hanging off of every window and the buttons look cartoony.

I won't go into the OS operations, because - again - I think that anything that I say will only invite flaming on the other side, and frankly I'm sick and tired of Hacker News having the same fucking OS wars that every other social news site does, and I don't want to flame things. But OS X feels like a complete solution in a way. Every part of it has been lovingly slavered over to perfection. From the feel of the computers to small things like the message windows (there was an article here talking about on OS X message windows are more direct than their Win/Lin equivalents) things are polished to a fault. And that's something that Windows or Linux need to "fix" before they can really seem like a decent competitor in my eyes.
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Spear phishing attacks can target social networking sites
You mean besides the fact that it's slow, clumsily designed, and ugly?
They're getting aggressive because they want big results.

OS X is on the rise: it's getting big pretty quickly. Apple wants to take advantage of that and force every last Apple product they can into the consumer marketplace.
But do the Apple ads cost as much as this Microsoft campaign? (Disclaimer: I don't know if they do or not. I'm curious myself about this.) Because with Microsoft the cost of the ads kept popping up, especially in regards with Seinfeld. I'm guessing their current campaign is pretty vastly expensive, and I don't know if Apple's campaign is or not.
A thing I have noted is that every time I code in Java I feel handicapped for the lack of proper syntactic sugar for maps (I mostly code in JS/Python where maps are used for _all_ kinds of things (and hacks)). Anyway, great post.
Apple invests in advertising. There is a difference.
The comments really show how Peldi thinks:

In the article he stated why he sees no point in making it hard to crack the code open, then someone posts this code and mentions that he is no pro hacker, but just was able to use his newbie-skills in flash because there was absolutely no obfuscation or something - and now Peldo is researching and asking for ways how he could do better.

Well that's fast learning. Im really impressed.
Or, just run it as a webapp which people do not download.

With desktop software, they download it, and you usually have no means to shut off access etc unless you build in some callbacks etc.

Webapps on the other hand, you have complete control always.
Right now, Apple's pushing for the businessplace. Snow Leopard is supposed to have out-of-the-box Exchange support, which is a step Apple needs to take. Beyond that, Apple's been winning over plenty of small businesses: not the big guys yet, but large corporations can't change on a dime. If Apple stays as consistently reliable for another handful of years, I'd predict us seeing the Mac starting to gain entry to the workplace.
With respect to your story, I'm fairly certain there are more convert stories among people who have used the Mac than there are stories of people disliking them.
And this is why I said 'These were just some of the things that annoyed me' - emphasis on the me, if you will. What I find annoying, another may find bliss, and vice versa. Such is life.
Wow. This reminds me very heavily of the tactics in Starship Troopers. (The book. Haven't seen the movie.)
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Is it possible that Apple's blind to the Quicktime problem because it's working on the Mac so well? I remember loathing Quicktime on the PC, but since I've moved over to OS X it's moved very quickly at all times. It's possible that its reliability on OS X makes Apple less quick to move and fix things, which is a tad disappointing.
One of the mentioned benefits was that a space-plane is well out of the reach of enemy radar. Helicopters and conventional jets give fairly large notice when they are inbound.
And Crispin is a company that's known for taking pretty daring risks. There was an article that said it was ironic that they're running Microsoft's campaign, because they're a very "Apple-like" company.
Why can't it be they're targeting both?
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don't bother with whois; query the root/gtld nameservers for a valid NS record for the domain to see if it's registered. dns is much quicker and nobody's going to shut you down for using it.
Its extremely well thought out articles like this one that have converted me and so many others from digg to HN.
Is it just me, or does a project code-named "Hot Eagle" sound like something you'd see on Bravo?
Next was not a start-up by the time Jobs filmed this. They had been in existence for around for six plus years by 1991.

It is a good vid though ;)
It's just that, regardless of cost-effectiveness, an advertisement that criticizes another company for spending money on advertising is pretty hypocritical.
If the marines can purchase/configure this as a sub-orbital equivalent to the Osprey, then that's good news for everybody. Look for suborbital commercial flights within 20 years after production (anybody remember how long it took jets to go from the military to commercial sector?)

My question involves the end-state -- you've got some expensive hardware sitting on a hot LZ with no way to leave. Whatever they develop, it's going to have to have the ability to leave the LZ and return home to be worth the expense. Perhaps some kind Osprey-docking system with the Osprey taking the place of the mothership?

I don't think forward-deployment is a viable alternative, mainly due to training issues -- hard to cross-train and intensively train folks scattered all over hither and yon. There's also the fact that hardware comes out of one budget and people come out of another. For some reason it seems easier to get a new stealth bomber funded than a division of marines.
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I think it's actually pretty hilarious. Ever since the Microsoft "I'm a PC" ads came out I've wondered what it meant for the Apple ads, I guess now we know. Apple has them coming and going, there really isn't much they can do.

Gizmodo had a similar reaction to many of you, that it's a pissing match and normal people don't care, but actually I think it's the opposite. People LOVE the Mac ads, even people who don't use a Mac think they are funny. This is another instance of the Techie echo-camber getting in the way, so what if some hardcore techies don't like them because Linux is superior, btw it's not, the market at large loves the ads and it's getting them to take a better look at Apple computers, end of story.
Check "The Origin of Wealth" One of the conclusions is precisely that economy is a very complex dynamic system and advance techniques and models need to be built to understand it. Also, our capacity to make predictions is very limited. Free markets can be efficient but sometimes they are not the best mechanism.
Kongregate Labs - open source Flash game tutorials
China gets Universal Healthcare?
Is it discouraged to submit articles about your own company? If so I'll remove it...
man its amazing how much the guy aged in 17 years.
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It's a good idea, but like any scheme, can be worked around. If it's a standalone application (i.e. not perpetually online), a keygen could be written, and thus the names that are used to create the keys are garbage names / gibberish. In either case, people could buy valid copies of your software with fraudulent or stolen credit card information and share those keys. Only the crackers (red zone) have the emotional burden of performing credit card fraud, while the more moderate pirates still benefit.
Therefore, if you use GWT you don't need an MVC framework for Java anymore.
Old school: http://is.gd/4q57

(Actually http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#(DEFINE) but the URL parser seems to hate this)
How about that it's much slower than it's predecessor, requires tons more hardware, and generally all around just kinda sucks. I've reverted to XP pro myself at the office, Vista's a piece of crap.
My app last year (pubbud.com) never really took off, but I was able to extract the code and productize it here http://railskits.com/map
Obligatory complaint about how scribd takes 5 minutes to load and ends up as a worse user experience than linking to the pdf.

Wait 5 minutes, then click on 'download'. sigh
True, but note that alists run in linear time. They're great for some things, but you probably don't want one with thousands of entries.

You could use hashtables instead, but the syntax for hashtables in Emacs Lisp is cumbersome.
If you're going to buy Areon chairs in an effort to retain key employees, great. That's good thinking.

If you're going to buy Areon chairs in a guise to "saving money" you are a fool.

I'm not against perks for employees, what I'm against is disguising clear expenditures of cash - justified or not - as "saving money".
* frankly I'm sick and tired of Hacker News having the same fucking OS wars that every other social news site does*

A-fucking-men. Almost as bad as having the same profane reaction comments that add noise without signal to the discussion.
and yet linux (specially ubuntus 8.04, 8.10) feel pretty polished to me. yes, to a fault.
yup. that pretty much covers it. funny thing is that XP sucks too. it just looks soooo much better in comparison, that i began to actually like it a bit.
No need to link to the Crunch Gear spam.

http://www.buy.com/prod/acer-aspire-one-aoa110-1955-1-6ghz-5...

I have this machine and love it. Hell of a deal.
Fennec: Mozilla for mobile alpha available
Couple of project ideas/opportunities
> The difference here is that inheritance is more like a node graph and a not top-down hierarchy, where the only real root object is the super-generic "object" object.

Right, although there isn't necessarily an Object that everything inherits from.

You have an object, whose properties (both value fields and methods) are contained in a string-keyed table. If you want to inherit from it, you create another (probably via a method called "new") which defers to it when anything tries to find keys the new object hasn't overridden.

If you think of the initial object as a Class object that instantiates instances, that's the idea, but you don't need to have an explicit class for something you'll only ever have one instance of - you can just build it in place. (Want a singleton? Don't give it a method that spawns new instances. Done.) It's more generalized than OO systems in which Classes and instances are two fundamentally different things.

It may be helpful to read the chapter on OO in _Programming in Lua_ (linked above): It has a very concise intro to prototype-based OO. Lua may also be worth a look since you're interested in game development -- it is quite popular as an embedded scripting language in the game industry (and a pretty cool language in general, I think :) ).

Also, see: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClassesPrototypesComparison
Ask YC: How do you learn a new skill/framework/technology?
I need to be able to contribute to a relatively large Adobe AIR project and I'm starting from scratch with this technology. What's the best way to go about it?

I usually get a good book/tutorial and work my way through it but this time it seems there's just too much to learn for this to be feasible within a reasonable time frame. I would need books on Actionscript, FLEX, etc...

Do you know of any good resources that might be useful for this particular case?

How would you go about it if you were in my shoes?
The cost of First Click Free
Also, also recommended (Richard Steven's code from his book on network programming): http://www.kohala.com/start/unpv12e/unpv12e.tar.gz
> 1) houses were 50-200% overvalued to start (good morning, Silicon Valley),

How does overvalued by >100% work? If a house was "overvalued" at $1M, will it really become worth -$1M?

I'll "buy" as many of those -$1M houses as I can find. Heck, I'll even take -$100k houses.
It's not an elaborate undertaking, either: you can make an object system in just under a page of code.

Here's a good example, with lots of commentary: http://www.erix.it/progutil/gpeddler2/help/oo.html
I agree. This is one of the better articles to grace HN in some time, and if I'm not mistaken, the blog is a newcomer here as well.
I think every company that is trying to figure out its customer is a startup. =)
"Advertising is the price you pay for being unoriginal."
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Wasn't this the same shtick used to sell DC-X in the early 90s? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

Such a shame the SSTO funding went to that VentureStar thing instead.
Thanks. How does it compare with eeePC?

[ edit: http://www.xarj.net/2008/acer-aspire-one-vs-asus-eeepc/ ]
Be grateful:

"I considered splitting it into 3 articles, but instead I just cut about half of the material out. (Jeff and Joel: seriously. I cut 50%.)"
Is the Linux community afraid of Opensolaris?