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Besides the direct performance issues already discussed, it is my opinion that:

1) A programmer who programs something of decent size and ceases to concern themselves with memory entirely will write code that will continue to bloat unneccesarily-so for the life of the software. At least some attention to memory is neccesary to keep usage reined in. You don't have to fight for KiB, but think about it. It rather seems to be a resource you can use 5% of, but without proper attention rapidly wind up consuming 100% of.

2) A programmer who disposes of the idea of using memory efficiently has probably discarded the idea of algorithmic efficiently in any way whatsoever. Pursuing memory optimization is a decent proxy for all forms of optimization.

[/not a programmer by trade]
This is the only thing that makes sense. Strong team, good product -- both make excellent qualifiers for this acquisition.
I don't use Photoshop much, but this is the kind of attention to detail that the world needs more of. Rock the fuck on, sir.
That's a different question than the one you originally posed.

Your question was why outsourcing X was any worse than outsourcing Y or Z.

The answer is because different things are different.

As to your current question as to why outsourcing X is worse than in-house X, you're obstructing discussion by trying to preempt discussion of the merits of X in the first place.

If you don't want to get into the issue of whether software patents are good or bad, then you want to remove the only meaningful part of the discussion.

To use the torture example, ask yourself: Would you rather be detained in the U.S., or in Syria? It's begging the question to assume that the outcome is the same either way, i.e. torture, death.

Behavior changes depending on consequences. It's very hard to get soldiers to kill "the enemy" in close combat, when they can see the other person is a human being like them. It gets easier as you increase the gulf of humanity between them; shelling from distance, or dropping bombs from altitude, or now, flying drones from complete safety with only a video screen and not the smells or screams or feeling of personal danger to the pilot.

Behavior tends to completely devolve when one side can engage in aggression essentially consequence-free, or believes it can.

All you have to do is look at the civility of discourse on the Internet, or appreciate the ideological battle the West has against religious martyrdom that leads to suicide bombers. The latter is a huge concern, because you can't have a functioning society where nothing can dissuade destructive behavior.

Alternatively, patent trolls are like the introduction of an aggressive exogenic species into an ecosystem. With no natural predators, the new species will wreak havoc on the existing balance.

Soon it will be more profitable to sue people than to make anything, and then making anything will just become a liability. Much like investment bankers playing games with financial instruments to become wealthy on paper without making anything real, finance's evil twin will be patent trolls who become wealthy by destroying real wealth.

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." - Bill Gates, 1991

The only way we've gotten around the standstill, to the extent we have, is via cross-licensing and mutually-assured destruction.

So the tl;dr to your question is: Because the outsourcing in this case creates an asymmetric warfare model. The "outsourcing" is kind of like a "godmode" switch on an FPS game. The guy who runs the server goes around fragging everyone else while invulnerable which ruins it for everyone but him.
CPUs have a few megs of L1-3 cache because any more would slow it down. If you made the caches larger, it would increase the distance a signal has to travel, meaning more latency in the signal. With the clock speed of modern processes, this does matter.

The best possibility would be fully realising the NUMA architecture, and giving each core a stack of dedicated SRAM or DRAM at sizes of 1GB (these would have to be off-die though).
No, that's pure coincidence :) Just seeing the thread now...

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"Garbage" is programmer speak for "has some serious bugs that need attention before it can be considered high-quality software".
I threw together http://www.dragdropcomics.com/ to make it easier to create Rage Face comics on Reddit, then I realized that there were already two or three very good and fully fleshed out Rage Face comic web apps, so I kinda left it as is. My idea was that artists could upload their own character sets and people could pick a character set to make a comic out of, but I never really moved beyond the initial version of it.
I used 18px minimum in Safari for a long time and I'm just 25. If a site breaks, you can just hit cmd+'+' to zoom it up, which will usually fix the layout.

I am now on Chrome which zooms uniformly and when HackerNews comments are just barely readable, the 'reply' links seem to be twice their size, when in Safari they were the same (minimum) size. Neither approach is pretty. :(
I'd phone up the people who'd designed me my multimillion dollar bespoke unmanned laser-accurate weapons delivery platform, and ask them if they fancied whipping me up a quick encrypted serial protocol for a couple of extra million dollars on top.
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This is cute, but not really realist. I.e. The test written before configuring the Django Admin.. how can you know what links you have to click if you don't see the page?
EDIT: Already it's own post now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084961

Wow! Easily the best Steve Jobs article I've read this week!

For me, this paragraph captures it all:

I spoke with a man whose right hand was permanently curled into a claw from being smashed in a metal press at Foxconn, where he worked assembling Apple laptops and iPads. I showed him my iPad, and he gasped because he’d never seen one turned on. He stroked the screen and marveled at the icons sliding back and forth, the Apple attention to detail in every pixel. He told my translator, “It’s a kind of magic.”
It almost certainly voids your warranty, but you can actually root kindle3s or under pretty easily and install a program/mod that lets you change those backgrounds.
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In the marketplace of ideas Stallman has a simple remedy for his woes with Apple. Make better software than them.

Go on Richard, I dare you to.
I was just thinking today about this.

Working w/ both Mixpanel & GA and wishing increasingly that they were one in the same.
RMS has the FSF and Defective By Design sites as soapboxes if he wished to gain more attention from Jobs's death. This was a post on his political notes page. He did nothing to publicize it.

He didn't post to aggregators or tweet to ask for upvotes (technically it was posted on his Identi.ca account which is linked to his political notes feed, but it got no special treatment).

If some major sites hadn't picked up on it and provided the publicity, most readers would never know. So RMS wrote a politically incorrect opinion on his personal page. Can we move on now?
(BSD != "Free" => Mac OS X != "Open". Jobs "spreading BSD" is therefore irrelevant, and probably explains the downvotes you are receiving, if you or anyone else are at all curious.)
Browsers usually offer View Source in one of the menus. But now thinking about it, you were probably joking... :-)
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(1) You and grandparent are correct the only incongruence between factor and number are between the original and the 3g.

(2) iphone 4 keynote, right at the 30 min mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1edQuxclUs
RMS makes no comment about "great software" in the post. He says that Jobs "made computers as a jail 'cool'" (paraphrase), and I think to a great extent that's true -- Apple has always been the most aggressively locked-down computer maker. Although OS X uses several open-source internals and although Apple even maintains some of these (including very important ones, like CUPS and X), they are still in some ways the most "locked down" computer (and consumer electronic) maker out there.
I would say that a very significant contingent of Protestant church men are in it for the money. We shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking that they're all sincere -- cons often come with a generous helping of scriptural glaze.
Same, I know a few lurker hackers here (i'm non-tech) in SLC who probably won't post :)
It would be really interesting to see software that would accomplish this. The tricky part is that the correct kerning changes based upon what font size the text is. Most typefaces are optimized for body copy, not headlines.
Well, I think the question of "who pays for it", while important, is orthogonal to this particular issue

I would say it's at the heart of the issue. Presumably, the rationale for disallowing a body parts market is that, while there might be more supply overall, there would be less available to the poor, because they would be competing with the rich. If the cost is socialized then that issue goes away.
Relevant pg essay?

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
I upvoted this, but meant to downvote it.
Given the degree to which Phelps has in fact monetized his craziness, I'm personally inclined to believe that it's at least partly an act. His whole family regularly engages in activities that are specifically calculated to make people angry enough to do something, and then they sue everyone they can get their hands on for as much money as possible.

I don't think he's an atheist, though. I know plenty of Christians who are almost as crazy and definitely not acting. I think he's just a fundamentalist who's smart enough to take advantage of adding a little on the top; a sort of larger-than-life "media personality."
Do we not still talk about Aristotle or Plato? Euclid, Archimedes or Pythagoras? Hippocates or Eratosthenes?
All the more motivation for them to fix the bugs, no?
Still in college is not the best time to challenge a corporation and risk a lawsuit. Besides having better things to do, college computer science students are not known for their wealth, lawyers on retainer, or breadth of legal knowledge.
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Not exactly - once someone dies they cannot evolve their thinking any further. No matter how stuck, people can change. (And sometimes, yes, there is very little chance that that will happen).

So as long as he's alive, there's a chance for controversy. Once he dies his followers can create gospel.

Sounds cultish, I agree.
If you're right, it's a pretty deep con he's playing:

www.atheistnexus.org/page/nate-phelps-2009-aa-speech

trigger warning/tl;dr: Phelps family is every bit as horrifically abusive as you'd imagine.
That's actually an awesome point. A robot construction kit that you could connect to a phone would be a cooler way to really learn about robotics than a delivered, finished robot.

Even if it were modular -- so that you learned nothing about connecting wires, soldering, etc. -- having the experience of getting to choose how you build your robot and what sensors and drive train and such that you use would make a huge part of the experience. It's definitely fundamental to what makes Mindstorms so valuable.
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Some corollary of Poe's law applies here. If some religious guy seems too batshit insane to be true, he's just as likely to be real as he is to be batshit insane.
rtm would never run HN on Linux :-)

If they haven't upgraded, FreeBSD 7.1 (not sure on the particulars of RELEASE version).

news.arc does not need Apache or NGiNX, but I'm not sure whether HN uses varnish cache.
Attack of the drones.
OS X would not be possible without RMS.

You have to remember that Stallman was around before Jobs' day -- he was performing real work at MIT when Apple was initially conceptualized. Stallman therefore is apparently less vulnerable to the reality distortion field and does not unduly offer oblations to a guy who was obsessed with shininess at the expense of hacker culture. Jobs went to lengths on many products to prevent tinkering in an age when computing was still very open and very academic, because Jobs didn't want any little peons messing up his perfect devices. Hence Stallman's quip that Jobs made computers as a jail cool.

If you think about this statement from Stallman's perspective it really makes a lot of sense, and I think it is ridiculous that the Steve Jobs hero worship pervades so deeply as to not recognize that Jobs was a control freak even after Apple products were sold and in the possession of customers, and that some people, particular contemporaries of Stallman's stripe, may not have been fond of that. I doubt that the release of the iPhone really did much to persuade that set of people.
Actually, he did post his thoughts before the launch: http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/teardrop_skepticism
Beautiful. Big fan.
And, ofcourse, this is exactly what stops most people from reaching the truth on any matter. What you just described is being a politician, it's putting form over substance. The truth has little room for niceties for it often stings. This is why most people cannot be programmers or scientists or engineers - they are too focused on the social dances and miss out on all of the glory of the rest of the universe.
Smartphones have orders of magnitudes more computing power than Arduino. Arduino is a nice learning platform but you will reach its limit rather quickly and have to start over with a new more expensive platform. Smartphones have enough power for your robot to evolve to using advanced control algorithms, advanced kinematics and mechanical modeling, advanced image processing (computer vision), speech recognition, text to speech etc...

I agree that maybe this 'Romo' project is too simple to do much. I am not a fan of these 'graphical programming' platforms but it's just a start. I think using mobile phones for robotics has much more potential to advance the state of the art than Arduino except maybe as part of that Android-Arduino combination Google did.
Eh, guys. I may be off here but isn't the problem that the US use of drones is killing civilians ("collateral damage"). And that is what is currently making people living there very sad and angry.
This was actually only the opening for Silicon Valley Bank CEO Summit: Defining Moments. All the other speakers were fantastic so figured I'd post links to their presentations as well. This was an all day event, but extremely educational.

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Avery Lyford (Partner, Blueprint Growth Partners): "Big Brother" Alliances for the Win - http://video.svb.com/video/Big-Brother-Alliances-for-the-W

Brian Wong (Founder and CEO, kiip): Moments-Based Marketing - http://video.svb.com/video/Moments-Based-Marketing

Bob Wiederhold (Founder and CEO, Couchbase): Being Part of the Venture Ecosystem - http://video.svb.com/video/Being-Part-of-the-Venture-Ecosy

Sunil Nagaraj (Bessemer Venture Partners): Customer Discovery - http://video.svb.com/video/Customer-Discovery

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Eric Ries (Entrepreneur, Author): The Lean Startup
- http://video.svb.com/video/The-Lean-Startup

Ron Gutman (Founder and CEO, HealthTap): The Hidden Power of the Smile - http://video.svb.com/video/The-Hidden-Power-of-the-Smile

Duncan Logan (CEO, RocketSpace): When to Pivot - http://video.svb.com/video/When-to-Pivot

Leslie Bradshaw (COO and Co-Founder, JESS3): Disruptive Marketing - http://video.svb.com/video/Leslie-Bradshaw-Disruptive-Mark

Q&A with Gary Kremen - CEO of Sociogramics, Founder of Match.Com, Founder of Clean Power Finance - http://video.svb.com/video/Clean-Tech

Peter Byck (Founder and CEO Winery Exchange): Continuous Entrepreneurship - http://video.svb.com/video/Peter-Byck-Continuous-Entrepren

Linda Jackson (Founder and President, Team TIBCO): Defining Moments - http://video.svb.com/video/Linda-Jackson-Defining-Moments

Greg Becker (President and CEO, of SVB Financial Group): Closing Remarks - http://video.svb.com/video/Closing-Remarks
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He already does. The only difference in the perceived quality is the learning curve. Learn the *nix way and you will be enlightened. Learn the Apple way and you will remain ignorant (but have lots of time for shopping, cos math is so boring, right?).
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Jobs has put great software into more hands than RMS ever did.

You do realize that Apple has been dependent on GCC to build its products for most of Jobs' second tenure, don't you? Some of that is code that RMS personally wrote.

The GPL license that, again, RMS personally wrote covers the kernel of the Android system. "Great software" that's in "more hands" than Jobs' devices.

Jobs was a slick businessman like Gates. RMS wrote fucking GCC.

Guess who's contribution I value more.
As an atheist, I think it's pretty clear from your post that hatred and bigotry is alive and well outside of religion. You know what else is typical in religion, including Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, etc.? Tolerance, love, and generosity. If you don't know religious people who are the epitome of these qualities and find strength to exhibit them from their religion, you are living in a bubble.
RMS is wrong insofar as he believes that FOSS exclusively will result in more people having better software than if there is FOSS + ~FOSS.
VirtualBox has always worked very well for me. Perhaps the poster did not install it correctly or just doesn't know what they are doing?

Just not me: I know about a half dozen people who also use VirtualBox, and I haven'heard complaints. Perhaps the poster works for one of the commercial competitors.

Strange rant against a good, and free tool.
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There was something in this article that really resonated with me.

I was talking with someone the other day about how confusing I find Facebook as a recent addition to the network and couldn't believe that it was so popular, given the fact that users are usually so overwhelmed by complexity.

In the same conversation, we discussed that, whilst someone can look at my relatively trivial application interface and be completely paralysed by it, the same people might have built up incredible complex patterns of behaviour on their own cobbling together functionality in Excel to achieve a goal that eclipses any complexity I could have built into an interface.

I realised in reading this article that not only do users understand complexity that they themselves create from non-complex components (or over time in reaction to very specific problems), but they also collectively understand complexity if they're on the journey of an application from the very beginning because the early adopters are there to teach everyone else.

If you release a complex product, even one less complex than Facebook is currently, but perhaps more complex than it was on day one, you're releasing into a world with no resources to handle that complexity. There are no blogs, no experts, no neighbours, friends or well wishers, no adult education courses on your product.

By the time Facebook got complex, there was so much community around it that people were able to cope.

I think this is an important part of the "customer development cycle" that I've never really heard explicitly discussed: not only is releasing early important to help you find the right customers, but it's also important to help you increase the complexity of your product over time without alienating your audience.

If you go too long without releasing a product, you get used to it and you're unable to adequately discern the complexity anymore, reducing your ability to explain it and help early adopters along on the journey.

The longer you take to release your first version and get your first customers, the bigger the barrier to entry and steeper the learning curve will be for those early adopters, so they're less likely to take up the cause of advocating and documenting your product's features, blogging about it with helpful hints, tutorials and recipes for using it, than they would if they had been on the journey with you since development began.
The post in question makes no mention of FOSS exclusively resulting in better software than FOSS + non-FOSS. Are you just debating Stallman's generic platform here? Seems a bit off-topic to me...
For all the negative reputations Windows has aquired, it really seems like the architects of 7 & 8 are taking this seriously and doing some real Computer Science. This is some really good stuff.
And never mind code. This basher is a complete nobody who seems to profit from open source more than contribute. It's not like the heads of several major FSF projects are banding a revolt.

The sinister anti-Stallman/GNU sentiment on HN is reaching incredibly high levels. Luckily it's mostly nobodies like this big mouth bozo.
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This was my first thought as well. I built a similar robot in terms of physical design and motorized capabilities a couple years ago for ~$400. It wasn't controlled by a phone, which will admittedly adds some complexity, but I really can't see their overall hardware costs, including prototypes, getting into the 10's of thousands. Is the expectation here that this is also covering a living wage for the developers? It seems like they would be more successful with a lower funding request with the plan being to make a profit once the device hits market.

EDIT: It looks like they aren't even applying a solder mask to the board, which is a really cheap way to improve quality and reliability. For an extensible product that they want people hacking, I'd be spending the few dollars to help minimize short circuits. From my experience, everyone who has skimped and not gotten a solder mask applied to their board ends up regretting it down the line.
> products that non-hackers can use

Agreed on all points, except for the definition of "use". Sure, my mom can now send emails, visit websites, even make her own newsletters with clip art, and that's mindblowingly fantastic. But she can't build a dynamic website herself, or add a new feature to an existing program she uses. (iWeb and Automator are a good start, but not good enough.)

I'd like to think that someday, creating simple software will be something everyone will be able to do. Perhaps it's a situation similar to AI, where a generalized all-purpose solution is a pipe dream, but where narrow domain-specific solutions are more achievable; for example, platforms like ifttt.com or FormStack, which are highly usable to semi-techie prosumers. The future's still wide open, so we'll see what happens. :)