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What about the progress being made by file systems? btrfs, for example, includes some amazing abilities.

And what about git's content addressing?

Progress comes in fits and starts, and not where we expect it.
And if you don't trust the developer, it's easy to fix his mistake:

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I think this proves Ted's point. Look at that code. It is ugly as sin. Since I'm not an expert at node.js, I can't follow what is going on at all. Plus, this is memoizing. That is just cheating, it doesn't matter how you implement the algorithm if it memoizes.

If the creator of this github repo is to be believed, implementing a 3 line algorithm in node, you must use 20 lines of intricate, ugly code. If that is the case, node.js IS cancer.
Thanks for all your hard work over the years. It is truly, truly appreciated. I've watched so many Railscasts while learning Rails that my wife rolls her eyes when she hears the intro chimes.
The question is, what is it that they will 'accomplish'?? What do they want changed? Ok, they want jobs, they want Wall Street to be accountable, etc. etc. Why can't they say that?

The spreading of the protests doesn't mean that they are actually protesting a cause, it just means that more people who are also angry are joining in to vent their anger, but in these sorts of 'protests', where they are not focused on a common cause, I don't see how having more protesters will lead to an outcome.

I suspect in the end, most will go home, complaining that they were 'silenced' by the media, when it seems that they were victims of poor planning and a lack of organization.
> I think that maybe it's time to stop taking the pain and do something about it.

There you go. I'm sure you'll find you're not alone.

Best of luck and stay positive :)
Obviously this is working for you, but what about an icon that triggers a git shell script? Clicky clicky?
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It's beautiful how node takes a 2 line algorithm and turns it into 20 lines of twisted magic, lest you block all your connections.
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Please for the love of all that is holy - stop buying companies!

It's really just so painful to see good companies sucked into the gaping maw of installer hell, 50MB downloads and bureaucratic 'enterprise' sales that - with exception of Photoshop - seems to be Adobe's main value add.
I like the sound of that. Care to share a makefile?
Well, since you asked: I want fewer people sleeping in parks and playing in drum circles and pretending to be reporters, and more people working inside the system to right its course.
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Have you tried looking for another programmer? You can teach a lot of things in life but not passion and personality. If he lacks both of those fundamental traits (not skills), you should probably look for someone else.

Right now I wouldn't have a come to Jesus talk with your programmer, instead accept who he is. He is not going to change so make plans with that in mind. You can probably still launch and do what you need just look for someone else in the mean time.
Hopefully this is a wakeup call for the Github guys and they start working on their business instead of just the product. This is a great start: http://fi.github.com/
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I THINK, and this is just my hunch, that he, and a lot of other people, are looking for some sort of definite, positive, cohesive, rational, achievable agenda that the country (or, you know, at least 99% of it) could get behind.

Instead of, you know, just a bunch of people whining about how horrible things are in a world where being a member of the economically disadvantaged majority means owning a satchel full of luxury electronics like ipads, macbooks, and DSLRs.
It's a non-condom contraceptive. Are they more likely to contract HIV after using this due to an increase in unprotected sex or is it actually a part of the chemical process that increases HIV contraction even when using condoms.
Only a moron would refuse to use a good tool if it's written in a language that is not said moron's personal idol.

Except of course if the language is Java.
So my first thought on this thing, was doesn't Arrington have a non-solicit clause with AOL? Most people in tech do - they can't just go start a new company and take all their co-workers with them.
The book would disagree with you there.

(I could close with that bald assertion, but I won't.) Its basic thrust is that the patent system is "broken" to the extent that it does what it's designed to do: grant to an inventor a time-limited privilege to restrict his competitors so that he can earn monopoly profits that will reward him for his invention.

The book opens with the story of James Watt. Watt made a series of improvements to the design of a steam engine and obtained a patent, which he used to interfere with his competition. In particular, he used the legal system to crush Jonathan Hornblower and his superior engine design; the rest of his competitors had made further improvements, but simply waited for Watt's patent to expire (which had been extended to a 32-year period) before putting them into production. Watt himself was forced to use a technically inferior design element in his engines for some years to avoid infringing on someone else's patent. When Watt's patents finally expired and his competitors could freely enter the market, the number of steam engines being produced and the rate at which their efficiency improved both exploded; furthermore, Watt's company continued to increase production and make a profit for years despite the disappearance of the patent protection.

It seems clear that the overall effect of Watt's patent protection was to greatly slow down both the development and the wide-scale adoption of improved steam engines--and, as a footnote, that it may not even have been necessary to ensure that Watt made a profit. Note that Watt was using the patent system exactly as it had been intended. In the book, we see this happening over and over in detail and across a wide range of industries.
How about a leader with a clear message that people can stand behind? Right now it just seems like a herd of cats.
Not trying to be snide, but, does anyone care outside of the arguments of VC / funding bubble?
"Do we now hold groups responsible for images that 50 of their supporters have shared on Facebook?"

According to the treatment the Tea Party has received in the media and in public opinion: yes, yes we do.
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I don't know if this advice is any better than "just Google it" but I usually come up with every single variation on the idea that I can and just start brute forcing search terms. By the end I'll have a computer-slowing amount of open tabs. I bookmark them all and then start going through the results. It's rare that I don't find some usable code.
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No wonder these guys were so happy to shit all over the asset they sold to AOL. They didn't need it anymore and loyalty to the TC Don was much more important. I'm sure AOL wishes they had a few more clauses in the agreement now.
I take that back...

I just went to digg.com and realized that its become a gimp of it's former self, with front-page stories only getting 2-4 comments.

It must suck for Kevin to promote a dead project he is no longer associated with.
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At least you have documentation. In the bad-old-days before ubiquitous online documentation, you'd have to sort through whatever crap the vendor saw fit to give you. If you were very lucky, there was a mailing list you could post on, if you were very very lucky, your post to the list would actually get a response.

No, software installation today is an absolute breeze compared to what it used to be, no matter which platform you're on. On Windows, DLL hell is largely a solved problem. You can just double-click the Installshield EXE and take a coffee break. On Linux, you can invoke the package manager for your system and have an even more seamless experience. Heck, even programming tools offer their own package management systems now. Want to install django? Pip install django. Want to install rails? gem install rails. It's definitely easier than unzipping files, setting configuration settings, finding (and, in some cases, installing) dependencies, and then crossing your fingers and typing make.
Yea, I know they wont :(

I hope they change their minds on this :)
Out of curiosity, are you using this for Up On a Hill now?
The tactile/haptic feedback is a good point/addition but the reality is that for gaming applications that require those features, users will always spring for a real controller (and should - touch devices wont kill all things, they'll just replace those use cases in which haptic/tactile feedback isnt critical). I'm working on bit.ly/watchandplay which is similar but more of a user first product (rather than developer first) and I think the real potential here is to connect every internet connected screen to the phone as controller, so that you never have to lean forward again.
Sometimes you'd want to actually re-create the path of mouse movements and clicks across the page.

You can see this page for an example of what I mean: http://www.clicktale.com/product/visitor_recordings
I must have missed the back story. Are people really able to just launch cracked versions of apps back to the Google App Store?
So I guess the question is, if the meaning of "correct" isn't defined, how did you arrive at code to do that thing? Are we talking neural networks here or what? Even those get tested, maybe not in an automated way, but you could at least make sure the results are better than your last iteration.

Take the facial recognition example. Give the whole thing a few images that it should fail on, and some it should pass. As you learn more about the system and where things fail or just don't add up, add tests there. Its likelier those parts of the code are bad too so refactoring isn't unheard of.

To a degree I completely agree with you that some things don't have a easily known answer in the real world. But adding tests to test known things like regressions, just seems like it should be a minimum of testing. I can't count the real world apps I've seen without a single "proof" that they don't regress state as things change. And they do, often and repeatedly. But dealing with external products and teams can be frustrating.
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Reading this, I sympathise completely with the developers (being a developer myself). And I also see the uncomfortable parallel with arguments I've seen/made about the music industry.

Poignant.
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Out of curiosity, were you doing a high number of reads at the same second? And if so, was it the same batch processing method you were using, or was it random reads?
in Code:

static final String HELLO = "helo wolrd";
...
out.println(HELLO);

in test:

input = in.readln(); // yeah massively simplified, I know
assertEqual(Code.HELLO, input);

pass.

But a developer will (should!) find the error immediately.
We still have x86 because we don't like to change things. We like to be able to run windows 95 apps on a modern desktop, just like how we wanted to be able to use our original B&W TVs when colour and widescreen were introduced (although, since analogue signals are dying out, this will soon not be possible; hopefully interlacing will dieout soon too). We like backwards compatibility, upgrading our chips while still retaining compatibility.

Also, x86 isn't as bad as it is made out to be either, even if most of that is just how well our compilers can optimise x86 code.
Read the article again. If you still don't get it, take a look outside the article at the rest of the page :)
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This is actually a very good development. This will help that even general public start understanding "patent troll" problem which, in turn, will get some ears in in Washington.

I hope that more and more opportunistic lawyers join the "patent troll" bandwagon. Eventually, some of them will not say "wont sue individuals" because they will understand that changes in IP laws are going to happen soon: make money now or never (very similar to what was happening just before the housing crash of 2008).
Then the politicians will act. Hopefully, giving bailouts and not doing reforms will not work for this issue.

Is there anything we can do to speed up this process?
From day one my gut has always told me that Android users are pretty much like Amiga users were back in the day -- the idea of paying for software (any software!) seems like a bad idea. That may be good news if you're Google or a carrier, but it's bad news if you're a developer.

To me fair if Android is part of the "Google way" and maybe the solution is to have advertising bring in revenue (which goes back to AdSense). On the other hand iOS reminds of the Mac back in the day: The users seem to be willing to pay for software -- however that software better be damn good.

So perhaps the solution is to really think of both platforms as being a very different play from each other. Most developers think of their program as something to port between platforms, but maybe that's not what this ecosystem is about? In the same way the games that you would build for Nintendo DS wouldn't even be aimed at the same audience as the Xbox.
I think you'll change that notion once you reach 40.
They had integrated PhoneGap with Dreamweaver 5.5 --- not totally shocking, and makes sense to move more towards html5
Nope - I'm not really talking about Bugzilla or Jira from a UI point of view, but more of a functionality angle.
That's the thing - the UI for issue tracking, on both Github and Bitbucket, is great. No functionality however.

TL;DR : will pay for issues
And in case anyone still doesn't get it, replace "app" with "music", or "song" ;-)
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God yes, I love my 3gs, but its long in the tooth now.

Just give me a decent amount of minutes I'll never use, maybe 4-5g data/mon with no tethering and unlimited texts for something close to what the Europeans get service for. If carriers want to play price war, its about damn time. AT&T and Verizon aren't going to play that ball unless someone blinks.
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Hint for everyone who has commented so far: this post is not really about apps.
My cousins and friends from India have explained to me that this is due to a lack of legitimate "fees" for government services that we are accustomed to here in the US.

Those extra $10-$25 fees for things like getting a birth certificate are high enough to cover the wages of government workers and therefore discourage the petty bribery that goes on in the third world.
Before commenting about Android, read the article twice, look around the page, and if you still want to talk about Android, read one of the related posts.
Maybe app developers should now form a group like MPAA?
I must be missing something really obvious here. I haven't used Earbits, but as a streaming service, why not enforce things like this server-side, rather than trying to suppress pirates from distributing the cracked client app?

(No victim-blaming or other moral subtext intended. Just curious.)
That's too bad. Diggnation should've adopted or slowly added two other hosts. With over 34 million total views on YouTube, they've achieved a healthy growth of views with no signs of slowing down: http://bit.ly/rmKFdH Furthemore, their brand online was huge!
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I think I heard it here, too. It's funny how often the rule works, mainly with sensationalist news stories. "Is this the iPod killer?" No.
I think the source of your frustration here is idealism. You're assuming, first of all, that things should be "better" and second of all that things could be better.

Software and technology in general is like a gigantic thriving petri dish. The natural world is terribly inefficient, too (I need how many sperm to germinate one lousy egg?!)

The simple fact is that I'm able to read your rant, think about it and reply whilst sitting in a cafe on a mobile phone. That is awesome progress.

The problems we deal with as engineers are the reason we get paid to do it. Compare this to the practice of music: the art is in the beauty of the song. The engineering is in getting 5 stoners on stage simultaneously and managing to get paid by the ephemeral promoter at the end of it. I'd rather wrangle with a broken FreeBSD port dependency in the comfort of my office listening to music of my choosing (streamed over the internet, and made by people using computers) than starve because of crop failure.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double.
That's very true. It's hard to find many content creators who have a sustainable audience who want to stick with videos over 10 minutes long.
What does HN think about OccupyWallStreet?
A. Down with the bankers, up with main street!
B. Cool protest...but half of my friends work at GS so...
C. If I get this startup done, I'll automate an entire industry! Wait, did someone said protest?
D. All of the protesters should enroll in C++ or Haskell class right now. Or join the enemy: VBA.
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This is nothing more than a thinly-disguised allegory about piracy in the music industry. There are several big differences between the music and the software industry which I won't go into, except to say that: even taking this story at face value, for the developers to then start suing everyone downloading the fake copies of the app would still be a huge dick move.
(it took me an hour to get through the first 9 in 1.2. I'll get there! but console yourself with the thought that you, whoever you are, are far from the worst at this in the group.)
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OK thanks. It will be interesting to see what work we can do to prevent the dystopian outcome that Google and Facebook are working towards.
I didn't recognize it as an allegory until halfway through, because jailbroken iPhones already have a very comprehensive free-cracked-app store, and I can only assume Android users have way more options.

Is this one of the reasons games are all going free+in-app downloads? What's the actual state of mobile app piracy today? It seems like many mobile developers are already moving to alternative models not involving direct sales, whether that's a subscription, virtual goods, or pay-for-addons/upgrades.
Let's hope so. I would like Typekit to be integrated better with Adobe products, but not at the expense of the core Typekit service.
BLOOMBERG: The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. really? There's more than one bubble.
-1 means it still can be seen and read (and upvoted, if people feel so). A double posting is, at best, an error.
It's interesting that I saw this article in Chinese, on the China Unicom portal this morning. Apparently this is even interesting to the tech watchers in China -- although for the life of me, I can't understand how!
According to some sources, NYPD estimated the protestors in around 5,000:

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/30/huge-crowd-5000-...
You're missing the fact that it's about music piracy.
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Thanks for posting the AMA.

What sort of business criteria are you generally looking for in acquisitions? Is it technology or is it people or something else altogether.

Thanks.
This TechCrunch/CrunchFund stuff gets confusing. Is TC a news site and CF a VC? It seems analogous to the New York Times starting NYTFund and then having reporters cover their companies. While I suppose the lines are clear (to someone,) it just seems like there's a lot of Crunch and even more confusion on the part of the unwashed. Maybe I need a shower. Or a big CF investment and a positive TC review to soothe my skepticism.
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I don't really get the point of this article. Felt like he was just saying that everyone today is a moron. I find this attitude annoying. Get off your high horse. Yeah, there's bad programmers and some people are oblivious. In any profession, there are people that are going to suck at it. There's also people that are simply brilliant and are amazing programmers.

Then to act like the entire software stack is broken is silly to me. Sure there's inefficiencies. In any large complicated system, you can expect there to be room for improvement. And anytime you introduce layers of abstraction, inefficiency is bound to happen. But guess what? Not everybody has time to write code in assembly. The fact of the matter is, the software ecosystem has become so complex that people are forced to specialize in more and more specific subsets of it.

And all this jazz about "Oh boo hoo.. software hasn't solved world hunger and doesn't wipe my ass for me when I use the bathroom". Geez man. Calm down. These problems your talking about like figuring out AI are incredibly hard. Its going to take a long, long time for them to be tackled fully. Software and computers have only been around for the blink of an eye in human existence.
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I'd have thought that it wouldn't be significantly different to crack the in-app content and provide that for free as well, or even repackaged into the original app.

About the only thing that I can think that will defend against this is a streaming/always online service that actively requires cooperation from a server as part of its implementation. Any offline licensing system can and most likely will be cracked eventually, until you end up with the equivalent of CD-keys and server-side detection of duplicates or invalid ones. Even then, if you're only using the remote end for license validation, that code can just be removed - the most viable models are either streaming content (in a way that can't be batched and rehosted/provided locally), or offering compelling multi-player / shared online features that require a valid auth token.
While I hate what you are saying, I completely agree with it.