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georgemcbay basically said [why shouldn't Google do what they want with their browser?], to which thristian replies [because...Microsoft]. I think that's a bullshit argument, especially since there's nothing about Dart that threatens to take away anyone's freedom to continue using Javascript or whatever else comes along.

I gave a bullshit reply to make a point; let's call it hyperbole. Of course I know that it was a mixed bag for everyone. Some good things did come out of it though, IE6 is almost gone and those good things are still here (and they've evolved). Evolution is slow and life itself IS indeed a mixed bag. Business is WAR!!

Anyway, I love, love, LOVE the fact that people are working on giving us lowly blub programmers a choice. :)

EDIT: Didn't realize who I was talking to, so let me be really clear that I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with all things in tech, including Javascript!
I guess they are too damn smart:

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/mormons-have-highe...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/12/religion-iq/

EDIT:
Ouch. I know race, religion and intelligence are touchy subjects but I never thought I'll get downvoted on hackernews for (somewhat) sourced compliment. I myself am atheist in 95% catholic country where Jews are unrecognizable for anybody except antisemites. I personally have nothing against or for Jews.
>I was hoping ...

OK, I can see that now -- I think as highlighted points instead of a paragraph, this would be clearer.

And "Grooovy - Create Friendships in 5 Steps" is more impactful and piques more interest (my opinion) as a headline than "Grooovy Lets You Meet New Friends Comfortably at Your Own Pace."

Good luck!
Any vehicle. Even when going from station to station, VTA light rail is often less than a third the speed of driving. Biking is often faster.

Coverage is also really poor, especially in the southern areas (Cupertino, Campbell, etc.)

(Just to clarify: Biking in the Bay Area is really good. Public transit, at least in the South Bay, not so much.)
Oops. The tone in this article makes me upset, if you hadn't noticed :)

This one puts it under a much better light: http://apple2history.org/history/ah05/#02
There are many examples of YC backed companies getting whooped by their competitors. In fact there are only a couple categories where a YC company is the leader.
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Pulls all the tweet with a the hashtag #boom. Mostly an inside joke with some of my friends and I that we use whenever we ship something or get something done we're proud of.

Ex - "I just sold 10K of product on my e-commerce website #boom."

Wanted to see if I could come up with something that pulled all of those tweets together and I was able to do it pretty quickly. Mostly a practice in executing on small ideas quickly & making them happen.

Unfortunately (and humorously), I also found out that a bunch of other people use the #boom hashtag in a lot of other fairly humorous ways.
The article states that the government had a court order but didn't have a search warrant. It seems there is a loop in the system with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. My questions is, did Google 'have' to give over his Gmail account information? Or do they just comply to make their lives easier?
Ever heard of "boiling the ocean"?
That said, if you start using #boom in your tweets or start saying it out-loud, it gets really hard to stop doing it #boom.
I love Railscasts, but this seems a little premature even by Rbates standards or popularity. Generally, Railscasts revolve around industry standards. I'm not saying Stripe won't be, it probably will... but man, this is some front running.
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Google isn't a monopoly.
I don't see how eBay is a fair comparison because its competitive advantage is its strong network effect and established ratings/community. Imagine if management was satisfied with only 2% market share..
So, something that lets people who don't understand JavaScript "compile" some other language into JavaScript, is horribly inefficient. Wow, what a surprise.
Except that Zionism has only existed as a coherent and codified ideology since 1896 and AIPAC has only existed since 1963.

In fact Herzl published Der Judenstaat as a response to what he witnessed covering the Dreyfus Affair as a journalist.
For what its worth, I felt really awkward reading many of your replies in this thread. You are our spokesperson for JavaScript and the CTO of Mozilla. It would be nice if you could talk to people without making disparaging and downright condescending remarks.

I look up to you to speak for the community and to use judgement and character. Anyways, maybe I'm just being too sensitive, but I figured I'd say something.
Well, to be fair, the African National Congress, which he headed, was a terrorist organization. His (ex-) wife was personally involved in some political assassinations, carried out with tires filled with gasoline put around people's necks and then ignited. I'm very happy that apartheid is over, but I do not support the violent tactics the ANC used.
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In today's society 'having to' and making your life easier is just about the same thing. Don't want to comply citizen? We do have those antitrust hearings scheduled in a few weeks, would be a shame if we found out you were running a monopoly and had to break up your company.

When US citizens are assassinated by presidential order rather than being brought to trial it's probably time to 'make your life easier' rather than wait around for the ICC.
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My take home is this:

Netflix competes as a delivery pipe for content with Cable providers.

Cable providers already get ~$50/month for your Internet connection, and spend (collectively) $32 billion/year on streaming content, aka "cable TV".

Netflix wants to build on top of the network infrastructure of Cable providers while paying far, far less for the same content. This is their business strategy.

Verdict? Sell your Netflix shares. They are trying to operate a toll booth on a road they don't own. Furthermore, the actual toll operators (the Cable providers) are already getting 3-4x the $$$ from users, are already paying for the streaming content, and they show no history of being as stupid as the music companies (Tivo anyone?).

I don't see how Netflix can compete. That streaming was Hastings' personal vision for the company means nothing without a way to get there, and as far as I can tell, short of legislation, there is no way to get there.
I assume they only take a limited amount of start-ups. What they really need is more people sifting through the applications which you can see that they have hired lots of partners.
You speak of "off-shore" as though it represents some magically lawless region. As useful as that might be for these purposes, it doesn't exist. Your server will exist in some country. That country will have laws; those laws may or may not favor you. That country may or may not wish to refuse a US court order. Most countries are on fairly good terms with the US, and unlikely to say "no" to a request for evidence based on what looks like a standard legal investigation. Many of the countries not on good terms with the US rank pretty high on the list of places not well known for respecting rights, least of all privacy. And on top of all that, keeping a server outside the US does not render you personally immune to a US warrant if you remain in the US.

(Most of the above applies for s/US/$country/g as well.)

You're likely better off hosting a mail server here in the US, not actually storing any mail on it, downloading the mail immediately to a local mail store on an encrypted disk, and using encrypted email to protect new mails. That still won't render you immune to prosecution, but you might consider the consequences of refusing to decrypt a server preferable to the consequences of revealing the contents of your email. Or not.
Not many companies can ignore their customers, shove an idea down their throats and they respond positively. Netflix is no Apple.
I don't understand why Dart is supposed to be good, someone please explain it to me like I'm an eight-year-old
The headline is a little disingenuous (technically correct, yes...) - especially if thats all anyone ever reads. Google didn't hand this over on a whim, rather:

The contacts list and IP address data of Jacob
Appelbaum, a WikiLeaks volunteer and developer
for Tor was given to the U.S. government after
they requested it using a secret court order
enabled by a controversial 1986 law called the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act, according
to the Wall Street Journal. The law allows the
government to demand information from ISPs not
only without a warrant, but without ever
notifying the user.

The problem/fault/remedy lies with the US gov, not so much the compelled company in this case.
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I really did not mean to discuss the clinical definition of a sociopath, so much as the common definition that I have read about - society's meaning of the word. Many 'sociopaths' who are designated as such may not fit the clinical profile at all. However, in some capacity they exhibited behavior they can act like people think a sociopath might.

Reading the message, I felt like this person felt stereotyped and misunderstood - but very in tune with himself. I wonder how he would succeed in an cultural environment with less emphasis on emotional empathy and guilt? Is it us or them that is actually best suited for the greater good?

So, the purpose of the thread was to elicit feedback on the idea that our world is changing fast, and this particular genre of behavior may be better suited. You can't deny that that 'overrepresentation' in some niches has grown, and is likely growing.

Incidentally, I've never seen my karma on comments on a single thread fluctuate so much. Its been very interesting to watch.
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I agree there is a network effect to get critical mass, and certainly a winner-take all game in auctions.
But eBay lost its essence a long time ago as they absorbed too many MBAs and let them rather than the technologists run the show. The description in the OP of the process eBay went through was enough to know the reinvention would be a failure. It was.
Don't confuse .net Magazine with Microsoft's .NET platform (or anything to do with it). ".net" has been around quite a bit longer than ".NET", and has always been a web-centric publication.
You're much better off just using full-disk encryption; throwing away the key effectively destroys all the data. You do need to make sure you actually erase all traces of the key (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cold_boot_att...), but you need not worry about physically destroying the disks.
If you are indeed close to interchange, you shouldn't have an issue with many of those things (aside from Amex). Cybersource and Authorize.net are a source of your problems - they do their best to lock you in to terrible pricing and tack on hefty fees all over the place.

Foreign fees really should be quite close to your other fees. You take a hit on the fact that they are "foreign" but they actually fall under a lower interchange category, so it comes out a wash for the most part. There should be no float-related costs, gateway fees are standard for auth.net, most reasonable places won't charge you PCI fees if you fill out the simple questionnaire, etc. With a decently-priced interchange plus merchant account and gateway, you should come out much cheaper.

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Yes! That is exactly what I was thinking, especially when "Captain Crunch" keeps talking about "the system."

Exploring a complex system and trying to break it down to it's underlying rules is the ultimate engaging activity. It's a little less so when that system is man-made, though I imagine Ma Bell at that time was so large and complex that emergent properties had arisen of the system that no one knew.

The idea of riding the wires using your voice because you have perfect pitch does feel very Neo in the Matrix though. Going to have to watch that movie again as I tail -f some logs.
As someone who has worked in voice recognition and seen it flail terribly for decades, this is the nut of the answer, coming after several breathless paragraphs: "It remains to be seen how well all of this research and technology really winds up working."
Well, I don't care about my math rep so... I don't get it.

You've listed 3 sides of a box. Does that mean that the "fourth" side is part of one of those 3 sides so a = b = c? Or are you asking for the orientation and relative length of the 3 sides such that the fourth side would maximize the area of the box?
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I wonder if the only speed benefits that the Dart VM gives would be able to be beaten out by a smart compiler. I know this is early for the cross-compilation code (it doesn't trim out anything it doesn't need here), but I hope this isn't what is ultimately used in that comparison.
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For those wondering why Netflix was allowed to stream content at low cost so far, here's the reason: marginal consumers.

Currently, the content industry gets $32 billion/year for content. There are still a few people ("marginal consumers") that aren't paying for content now, but at a much subsidized price, are willing to view it.

These are the customers Netflix has right now for streaming.

Now here's the problem: marginal consumers are only marginal when the represent an insignificant portion of users. When they grow numerous enough, the pricing terms have to change. That's why Netflix is jacking up prices.

Eventually, Netflix will have to pay the same price as Cable providers for content (and it's nowhere as close to as cheap as what Netflix is charging now).
I took something different to many of the comments here. I found the most important takeaway was hidden in the later part of the slideshow, and referred to the difference in the attitudes and approaches to learning for two. Clearly the girl understood that in coding, there's usually a correct way to do things, and was always in search of that answer.

That correctness has varying levels of importance depending on the industry/application, but for a sufficiently large and complex project, the benefits to writing correct code is extremely valuable.

For instance, if it were a team environment and I had to write some functionality using the code supplied by the girl, I could simply assume standard conventions and immediately attempt to use her classes in my code. If written correctly, that code might work without further effort my on end.

If the code were supplied by the guy, I would likely have to go in to the implementation and ensure that the behavior conformed my expectations. And having to go through and read the code could require a significant time investment.

And of course, reading code often takes significantly (10x++) more time than writing it, so minimizing the necessity for it is essential in maximizing productivity. I would suspect that in most programming teams that reading other people's code is what eats up the most time, yet this time can be significantly reduced by following such a standard.

When the slideshow begins to refer to C++ conventions and the "rule of three," the guy shows that he doesn't take into account that others may need to work with his code. This can be dangerous as this single new team member can actually cause the total productivity of the team to decrease.

While this guy is just a made-up character, I wouldn't be surprised if most programmers think/act like him. At the very least, the majority of the ones that I've worked with, do.

On another note, the minutia details of C do come up if you work with and read enough source code. Being able to understand it is the more important issue at hand. Also, in response to many comments stating that writing code that works based on such minutia is poor practice, I think the girl would likely agree.
Inspired by Peter Norvig's article I once implemented a similar algorithm in JavaScript with a web interface that solves any Sudoku puzzle and made it available at my personal website: http://pankaj-k.net/sudoku/sudoku.html. You can either enter the Sudoku puzzle values in the 9x9 grid or just pick one randomly from the input set linked to by Peter. Clicking on Solve button show the solution.
I visit arXiv maybe five times a year, and every time I do the same "where the hell is the link" search. The problem is that the box with downloads appears to be part of the page chrome, not part of this particular entry.
I'd pack my bags and go so quickly, so whose loss would be it be? Then as a non-Jew, I think I'd do the same.
Using tor wouldn't have helped anonymize his contact list.
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Do you mean to imply that the point of Dart is to be an easier to understand Javascript?
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You wanted them to put that in the headline?
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I did one too, a few years ago: http://tirl.org/software/sudoku/ I hadn't seen Norvig's article yet then, but I had just taken a course taught out of Russel & Norvig's book -- and I arrived at a similar solution (depth-first search).
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For somebody who is watching this from outside the US. This seems to be a very different kind of protests to me. These protests don't have the same flavor of the Middle east spring. Or even that took place in my country(India, against corruption), which had a very massive Middle class backing.

More precisely, protests in Middle east and India were driven by a sense of desperation and last resort of helplessness. Protests in the US seem to be driven by frustration. There is a very evident thing that is emerging out of this protests. Lack of urgency and co operation from all segments of American society. By reading articles on internet what I see is, a very large section of the American society is still in two minds about how to go about it. This isn't a great sign for any revolution.

Besides Americans don't face the same problems as the developing nations. There is genuine sense of urgency and desire among youth in developing nations to do some thing big and change their lives. They see macro changes in government policy as a way to achieve that. They feel such way because for decades they have been starved off opportunities, growth, money and development. There fore they see a genuine urgency in fighting for what they need right now.

America doesn't have those kind of problems. You've had honeymoon period for decades now. You've had fastest developing Urban cities. Clean roads, great infrastructure. Values for capitalism inculcated in your culture. You've had the money and muscle power to twist any foreign government to do what you want. You gone to war and with little resistance achieved what you want.

The problem seems to have started recently, after excessive spending on wars. Employment problems due emergence of China and India on world scene. Mess in the financial system due lack of regulations.

You still don't have that magnitude of pain nor desperation to go to a tipping point to drive a full scale revolution. The American ego that its invincible as a nation is still carried by a lot of people. Although there is hardly any nation on earth today whose glory has remained for ever.
this just reaffirms my belief that jobs had a distinct sense of style and taste that far exceeds the normal. I think one of the things that played to his favor that he wasn't so much interested in the "what is possible" and "what isn't", rather he just believed it was possible and inspired technologists/programmers/hardware designers to make it so!
Google Docs does this well already... though I'm all for more options.