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I am just wordless. Probably 'jerk' is the best I can say.
Probably something like Duck Duck Go, or something.
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Makefile fussing was driving me insane with Go. I was trying to build with directory local packages to keep bits of code separated cleanly and it was a pain to get working.

I discovered http://code.google.com/p/go-gb/ and haven't looked back. It makes building Go code SO much nicer. If I just want to try something quick in Go I just make a directory, place my whatever.go file in it, type 'gb', and run my program.

I really hope they make this 'go' tool as easy as 'gb'.
I have personally tried walking off randomly in Paris. I didn't use any map or GPS or even my direction sense. I just kept walking randomly and I realized it is very difficult to get lost in a city like Paris even if you wanted to. You pick any direction and walk for about 15- 20 minutes and you would definitely find at least a sign post pointing in the direction of a nearest metro station, and once you are in a metro, you are in the grid, you are not lost anymore! And of course, in a city like Paris there are always people around irrespective of the time of the day to ask for directions.
>"10,000 times better than anything I’ve ever done."

That's perspective.
>For example you can't look for the Sun if its cloudy. //

I do - one can often tell where the brightest part of the sky is even on an overcast day; knowing roughly the time and season (for a known geography) then gives a rough direction. I read a report that polarising sunglasses help this too but I've never actually tried. With me it's sometimes more of a perception that the sun is in such a direction whilst I can't really make out that part as [particularly] brighter.
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Rubbish. It was emailed to me by Posterous as I subscribe to the blog, so to lots of others too I'd have thought. I searched Twitter and found many tweets about the hack; the cat's already out of the bag. The View count on the article shows many have read it but I agree further constraint would be worthwhile. I attempted to contact them, it failed due to their error, and the method wouldn't have been urgent enough anyway. Knowing of their connection to news.yc I came here to raise the issue with a crowd that would be sympathetic and would likely know of a means of direct contact.

Though by all means up-vote my post. ;-)
Go seems more like an imagining of what a modern descendent of C should be like.

It's not just about classes; it's also about concurrency.

Although D2 did have some concurrency ideas, I think Go does a much better job at figuring out how to solve concurrency problems on modern hardware.
"Every road is six lanes wide, even the dead ends and alleys"

And you can see your destination, but it is on the other side of that six lane highway, you're on foot, and there's no sign of a crossing point anywhere...
I agree. The font size displayed was simply too large to read comfortably, whereas HN is very easy to read. Nothing to see here...
It's just my opinion, which I am entitled to. Also, show me what's wrong with the world ("your small bitter self") and I'll show you what's wrong with you ("piss of back to 4chan").
You could as well say that now that gcc can compile C++, it can drop support for C (and no, C is not a subset of C++ anymore).

Go aims for a very small and clean set of features that work well together and produce code that is easy to write and read, D seems to aim to include every C++ feature and a few more.
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>Most web sites break down when fonts are upscaled.

Funnily enough, the top bar in the article page broke at that scale, pushing "Directory" down.

Personally, I had to downscale it twice (not sure to what %) to be able to read comfortably.
For what it's wortjh, I used to be able to read small fonts comfortably when I was 37. Not that I'm 44, I can't. I read Hacker News with Ctrl-+, and I'm happy that Chrome remembers my zoom setting between visits, or I probably wouldn't have visited very often.
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It's interesting - I question why Stallman felt the need to say anything. Have some respect in death - and even if he chooses to ignorantly portray himself as an arse by continuing to poor criticism on someone 1 day after their death - I put this to you.

If Stallmans "dream" of "everythings free" truly prevailed. Most of the technology that we use would never have been invented anyway. The capitalist nature of society demands returns for injections of investment, and indeed, this is how investment generates advancement and so on. Stallman continually criticises closed environments - and while I do applaud what he is trying to advocate in terms of "open source" computing - I do strongly disagree with "we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing."

Really ? That "malign influence" across 4 decades is what has shaped computing. Indeed, the typefaces representing the letters in your poorly timed comment, Mr. Stallman, wouldn't even align. Malign indeed.
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Am I missing something? The physical size of a 16px font will surely vary based on resolution and screen size.

So claims such as '16px is the same as most books' are clearly nonsense.
as well as weathering you can look to see which way the trees are bent. in the UK most trees lean to one side as the wind is mostly from the SW.

"American cities have hardly any churches compared to Europe". what? I thought there were loads of churches in america?
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The direction of mosques could also be a little unreliable in North America, since the method of determining their orientation depends on whether the Rhumb Line or Great Circle distance is used to find the direction of Mecca: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla#North-American_interpreta...
It's called the app store.
We stayed at a riad quite close to the souks, along a very windy lane down the side of a mosque. Even 20 minute walk from the taxi that took us from the airport to the riad was an adventure!

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I agree completely with this article. As I've gotten older (now 43) I have had more and more trouble reading web sites. In fact, I've noticed lately that I don't even try on some sites that have "small" fonts, I just close the tab. There are some sites that I really like and I generally depend on my browser to help me out. Chrome has a good habit of remembering my page zoom on a particular site so I don't even notice the font problem on subsequent visits.
I got lost in Venice once when i'd just arrived. It was midnight on a sunday and there weren't many people around as I was trying not to think about the film "Don't look now". It was about then that i realised that although i had what looked like the hotel's address, it wasn't going to be quite that simple to find.
Oh noes, Stallman is nuts :(

1) So what ?

2) He did few things. He launched Free Software Movement, started Free Software Foundation, and GNU project. He is main author of GPL :)

3) So what ?

4) So what ?

"How can someone hear him when he says something like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349 "

Because he's not hypocrite.
Any article that starts with a 'call to authority' where the authority is Eric Raymond is likely to be poor. And lo the article is quite poor.
I'm all for it. I zoom 70% of websites I visit, and I'm only 20 and don't have particularly bad sight -- I'm able to read unzoomed websites, but it's too wearisome.
Working closely with designers and observing client requests over the past decade or so, I've seen another pattern that also leads to the "small type" problem: Client requests to get as much above the fold as possible. Granted, the majority of the projects I've worked on in the past four or five years have been very large organizations. When client committees make decisions, it's much harder to teach them or even steer them in the right direction.

I'm seeing a growing number of comments here that read like "I can..." or "I prefer..." The article clearly states this is a decision arrived at by considering the end-user. It's all relative; all sites don't need to be that way. You should be user-testing every project with your target market anyways, and if you were and it was a problem you'd hear about it. I know I have, many times.

Another great article on this subject is one "Relative Readability" by Wilson Miner:

http://www.wilsonminer.com/posts/2008/oct/20/relative-readab...
Yes :-)

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Thanks, Awesome list. This for sure would help me save hell lot of time.
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And then there's Sprint. At first I was happy that they finally had the iPhone, but then I looked into getting one...buyer beware.

When trying to pre-order the iPhone 4S on Sprint's web site, they let me get through the entire process before pulling an oh by the way at the end where they reveal a $10 PER MONTH "Premium Data charge for this phone". With a 2 year minimum contract, that's $240 more that they're perfectly happy to not mention in their advertising, while they are simultaneously quite happy to boast about all the "savings" that you get.

Just to be clear, I already have an Android-based HTC smart phone on Sprint and a good data plan. There's absolutely no way an iPhone will be more of a burden on them than my current phone, so this entire thing is nothing but a scam.

The sad thing is, I was almost rooting for Sprint. I stuck with them and figured someday they'd get the iPhone. I was happy that they did, until I realized that they really don't give a crap about anybody. Since they seem to want to lose all their customers, I am happy to be one of the latest to grant them that wish.
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You can use NoSquint to upscale entire pages globally (much like Firefox's built-in per-site zoom). It doesn't mess up layout like font-only scaling, though it can do that too, if you want.
Recent releases are already available for Windows, see http://code.google.com/p/gomingw/
I believe in paper voting over machine voting. (Actually, I believe in paper voting; I'm happy for machines to count the vote, but I want to make my vote on paper.)

The vote counting process has to be transparent, and closed source voting machines are not transparent.

Are you calling me nuts as well?
I have never ever understood the desire to make installation details and lists of requirements the first thing I see on software docs. I come across all these tiny packages or full-blown applications and I have to literally spend minutes to figure out what they actually do.

Being open source is not a real advantage any more, but it takes so little effort to summarize your project at the top of the README, so please do it so I can fall in love with your stuff.
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Oh, Venice doesn't count. Getting lost there is an experience in itself... although probably it would have been better not to have it so soon, and presumably tired and hungry.
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Most languages are "worth checking out." Every language offers something unique, by definition. The question is: which languages are "worthier" than others? Or, rather: how should you prioritise your learning queue?

I don't think the author's list provides much variation. They're all important languages, to be sure, but I believe you can get better mileage for your time.

My ten recommedations, in recommended order, are:

- Racket (nee Scheme - why did they have to change the name!?)
- Haskell
- Java (reading the GoF)
- C, and the POSIX libraries and system calls
- Go
- Javascript or Lua
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>And everyone would initially vote for NIMBY policies //

I think this shows the problem, the tyranny of the masses. Basically as I grow older I'm more inclined to think that pure democracy won't work because people won't make short term sacrifices for long term gains or sacrifice there own benefit for the larger benefit of more others.

That said I do think we (I'm in the UK) need more representation for the demos. That, for example, we should have a system like Suisse where a proportion of the population can force a referendum.

My personal opinion is that a country works better if some of it's forces can operate covertly too.
I think your comparison of Jobs and Stallman are spot on, they are essentially polar opposties of each other. I know I will misststae this, and I hope someone more eloquent than me can rephrase it, but what I find interesting is how much they share in common, in terms of how much control they want. Jobs's total control of the walled garden, Stallman's total control over the source (i.e. you must give others access to the source). In that sense, Jobs favors the ditributor, and Stallman favors the recepient. Neither approach favors true freedom, in the sense that the creator decides how she wants to distribute her product...
Regarding the Joy programming language on your list, the author (Manfred von Thun) has stated that he no longer plans to develop Joy and recommends looking at Factor for a superior alternative.

ref: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/concatenative/message/487...
I'm not ignorant. I really wanted to heard what this guy had to say, and maybe there is some truth to it, but to read this page comfortably I had to zoom out.
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Does this equate to setting the base font size to 1em in CSS?
Wow. How really?
He was writing his opinion. Is that considered psychopath?
Is stallman nuts? -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083536
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Glad that you are quite open minded and ready to listen to new points on this topic, most people seem to prefer to ignore logic and evidence and instead follow what feels good.

> How I define a living wage: Enough income for a 1 BR apartment, 3 square meals a day (from a grocery store, not a resturaunt), and health care. Basically, the bare minimum.

The "bare minimum" is quite different if for example you are a student living with your parents that is working to help pay for university, or if you have children, or a working spouse, or savings.

Not to mention the HUGE differences in cost for the things you mention in different locations within the same country or even state.

For more info and links to many studies on the topic see: http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/minimum-wage/

And yes, I'm the same uriel as in reddit :)
On the surface the statements seems to make sense and the arguments are well put across, but unless someone actually A/B tests it and proves that it makes a difference to readership, or conversions (or whatever your goal is) then it's currently just unsubstantiated theory.
And then the PR guy called me “a fucking bitch”. I can’t even make this shit up.
IMO I agree with him.
It is illuminating to compare Apple's priorities then and now. You can easily see the common obsession with design and the drive to make it affordable. Despite Apple's early reputation, it's clear that they were still trying to keep the cost down so the experience could be shared by more people. Jobs was different, though, in that he would aggressively cut costs and just as aggressively not compromise on the user experience. Better a few things well than many poorly.

Apple then and now was able to make these "insanely great" products by attracting the absolutely best engineers. Yes, Jobs without [a] Woz is not successful. But Woz without [a] Jobs is equally so. And while brilliance in either slippery is rare, I don't doubt it's still easier to find someone with Woz's kind of talent than Jobs'.

Finally, even supposing that both skill sets are equally rare--who's going to be better at attracting new talent? One of the nice things about being able to persuade people to buy stuff is that the skill translates nicely to persuading people to share your vision and work for you.
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I read once that originally, politicians were not paid by the government. Their only form of income was from the people that that person represented: if the constituents believed that the politician did a good job representing them, then it was up to the individual people to pay that politician what they believed s/he was worth.

I guess the idea was that if you don't do a good job, you don't get paid. On the other hand, if you don't pay the representative fairly, then they won't run the following year. "You get what you pay for".

Would this work in the grand scheme of things these days? I always think that there are too many 'key people' and too many companies with so much financial clout that the money they give would overshadow what the constituents would pay privately. The one saving grace there, I guess, is that at the end of the day, the person still needs to be voted back in...
I disagree. As far as I can tell, Go is a resolute step backwards from C++ in efficiency, modeling power, and generic programming. That's not necessarily bad; simplicity has its virtue, too. The larger problem is that Go fails to avail itself of the progress in programming languages theory and practice in the past 30 years.
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I love that feature from Chrome too. I zoom about 80% of the sites I visit now, and I love how Chrome remembers that preference for some of my most frequented sites.
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4) He doesn't use a browser; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox;

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So you're suggesting the iPhone have a resizable screen?
Nice design of the web page and the content is interesting too. But when I take the survey google warns me that the website wants to track my location so I quit the test. Has anybody completed the test?
I agree! Have been doing this on my sites for a while now. Another thing to note is that when the font size is small, the number of words that fit into one line increases. It's easier to read lines with less words (which is why newspapers use columns of short width) and using larger fonts in the same horizontal space achieves that.
I have only skimmed the page, but this caught my eye:

Close is intended as a way for a sender to signal
that no more values will be sent.

Go 1 will disallow close on receive-only channels.

Why, then, would one still call this 'close'? Wouldn't "done", "dontexpectmore" or "sendEndOfData" be better names?
I find myself zooming nearly 80% of the sites I visit now, including Google Docs. And I'm always a little bummed that Google's Spreadsheets give me this warning:

"Your browser's current zoom setting is not fully supported. Please reset to default zoom."
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Then you learn most mobile sites disable user scrolling, because of a bug on iOS that causes non-standard zoom levels to cause text to wrap off the screen when changing orientation. So if you did this and your site isn't readable on someones device, they can't even fix it.
Note that the author means "fonts/sizes that are 16 pixels tall" NOT "16 point fonts" (which is what you get when you pick 16 in MS Word or whatever).

The difference in terminology is subtle to look at, but huge in practice.
Ironically, Smashing Magazine itself is not set in 12px…
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Because Apple generally tries to create products that appeal to a large percentage of the population, not "blind faith". It's an observation based on common sense.
I'm wary of reading too much into this sort of thing.

The author is going to have to do some serious back tracking the day Apple decides to increase the screen size.
Look, all respect to Stallman for writing Emacs and the GNU toolchain. Among technologists he's clearly one of the few figures on par with Jobs. Indeed, he's also personally a difficult figure and a bit of a totalitarian about his craft, much like Jobs himself. [Though I don't think Jobs would ever publicly emit something like Stallman's "eulogy".]

Where Stallman falls short is in supposing that open, hackable systems are an unmitigated good. "Just works" and "highly configurable" are often antonyms, rather than synonyms.

Should open, hackable systems always exist or be developed as a check on Tivoization? Yes. Are they ever going to get a dominant market share, in the sense that the masses making voluntary decisions will choose Free software/hardware? No.

more of a setback for the free software movement than
anything Microsoft ever did.

No.

iOS exists because it can make tons of money to pay back its development costs. Android exists for the same reason.

And at some point, a true mobile/touch Linux (perhaps a fork of Android) will also exist, and the free knockoff will owe a great deal to the hundreds of billions in dollars in capital plant installed worldwide by the for-profit, closed originals.

Indeed, Linux itself exists because of the fact that AT&T could make a profit off Unix, and that IBM could make money off selling computers.

So: iOS is not a setback for the free software movement. In the long term it's a massive boost in the arm.
The world needs freedom, and the world needs order. Stallman was and is about freedom. Jobs was about order.
As far as I can tell not too much has changed in the language landscape since then. IO, and Factor seem to have stalled a bit. Scala and Clojure seem to have picked up a little steam. In the time since then Go is the only language to make enough of a splash that I would give it any thought. For me at least, F# is the only older than that language that has become interesting enough to learn.
>Most of those reasons have nothing to do with government intervention or bully politics. //

In the UK I expect a lot of it is to do with mobilisation of GIs in WWII.

>Every time you consume a movie, you're the direct benefactor of a massive global economy and copyright system that can fund content costing tens of millions of dollars to produce and give it to you for $10. //

Well actually it's more like £15 GBP which is >$20 ($25-23 this year, I think being out by a factor of 2 is notable) for some of us.

That aside it's not exactly an efficient process and the capitalist system appears to have no interest in making it more affordable. Why do actors get paid multi-million dollar sums for doing a movie, why do we support this sort of thing through copyright. Yes I know that's not the limit of it, there's much much more to copyright but you picked on big-budget movies.

If the copyright term on a blockbuster movie was 10 years do you think that movies wouldn't be made any more? Absolutely not. There would be more of them IMO with more drive to creativity. Why on Earth do we protect movies to such an extent when inventions are limited to c. 20-25 years.
16px you mean?