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As his 60 minutes of the slot has ended Kaufman leaves through his pages of notes satirical concluding Thats all gold.
Absolutely lame and disgusting to worship someone who humiliated coders routinely
I thought that this site was for "hackers", not UNIX newbies.
I tried the cycling to work, and found I could make it work for me on a 6 mile or so, 30 minute cycle, twice a week. My bike was slow, and I wasn't particularly fit.

Incidentally, I did try the going slower thing, but I don't know if it's Manchester's humidity but it didn't really make much difference! (This could have been that my mountain bike's gear were irrepairably stuck in top gear - least this city is flat!)

In theory, I'd also found a way around the sweat problem. A new gym opened around the corner from work, and had a special offer of £10 a month. I sold it to myself, that it was worth just to have a shower when I got to work - and I'd not have one before I left in the morning. As a bonus, it was a gym, and they're kinda full of fitness gear, so I managed to overcome my pretty entrenched fear of these gym place and booked a trainer to give me a personal training plan. I'd say it's beat my fear of gym's and 'that' kind! Anyways I'm sure this story may one day go on to to say I lost 50lb - I'd be happy with 1 stone tbh, but that job ended and now I'll be working much closer to home.... a 10 minute cycle / bus journey. So, a bit less exercise, but less faff.

Still hoping that one day I can buy a house, with a similar commute from work. Though my generation (mid-30s) is still priced out of the housing here unless you're in a couple, both on decent incomes. That's definitely changing though!!
The U.S. isn't that much different. The CIA only lets him into the country on the condition that he isn't allowed to talk about politics. That's why all the talks he gives here are so boring.
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I'm sure I'll get downvoted, but this is funny and worth commenting on. Nice.
Perhaps try leaving a few sets of smarts in the office drawer, for the occasional day when it isn't so hot & humid and do the cycle just a couple of times a week. You will notice a difference :)
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There are other ways to locate and request a file than by trivial HTTP GET.
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Heck, did it break the iPhone 3GS sales record? If I remember correctly, the 3GS has been the second best-selling phone in the US for the past year.
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Sorry that this isn't related to the article text at all, but I have been noticing this a lot recently. It's a web design thing. It's about margin-left.

Have one that isn't zero.

Please. I don't want to resize my browser (currently 925px, which is reasonable) to make your content readable.

This is what I'm talking about: http://i.imgur.com/Dlcgg.png
You are correct that jurisdictions vary significantly.

But I believe the Massachusetts is pretty strict.

eg, here the legal department of a hiring company said the non-compete on a laid-off worker was probably enforceable:

Bob Balaban of Lexington took a software engineering job in 2008 that required him to sign a two-year noncompete agreement. During the recession of 2009, he was laid off. Balaban had several interviews with managers at a prospective employer, but it had a business unit that competed with his old employer. “They informed me that their legal department advised them against hiring me because of that

Courts find them enforceable, too:

And these cases do sometimes wind up in our court system, taking up judges' time. Earlier this year, a judge blocked a South Shore hair stylist who was fired from one salon from taking his blowdryer over to another salon.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/09/no...

IANAL, but I think your intuition might be dangerous.
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We just submitted our application and I have to admit that YC's application questions themselves are a great exercise for anyone who is starting a new business. I felt that all the questions really made us think about each and very aspect of our platform and challenged us to articulate it in simple words.

We are excited to see what comes out of it and good luck to the rest of awesome ideas!
For those of you taking guesses at what the current thinking is about Psychopaths, I advise watching this Ted Talk by Jim Fallon.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jim_fallon_exploring_the_mind_of_a_...
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Where are all the great JS tools and IDEs then? You simply cannot compare JS tooling to what can be had for a popular statically typed, inheritance based language. It's a whole different league.

P.S. Snide remarks such as that make you sound like a junior programmer who thinks he knows everything. Just a friendly tip ;)
Yea, that's a good point. I wanted to keep it light.
I have to work with folks who confuse size_t with int, and as a result they have overflow bugs depending on whether O_LARGEFILE is in use. So yes, I care. Not because printf format strings are terribly important, but because understanding and adhering to the type system is essential to write bug-free software.
Mulling over an idea: bookings for heavily subscribed events
I've been wondering this week if extremely popular events and services are well serviced when it comes to reservations. Just curious to hear what other people think or if anyone is tackling this space - I should clarify that it's not really an idea I have been looking to take on as I already have my share, I'm more interested in talking about it on HN.

I'm Australian and will be in the US for the next three weeks including a few days in Chicago. I like interesting restaurants and had hoped to visit Alinea, but of course the tables are snapped up well in advance. It's a similar case at French Laundry where, from what I've read, you need to hammer their phone number months out for your chance. In each case, I can only imagine how many calls they get from hopefuls asking about cancellations and the like. I read a comment from the owner of Alinea saying that they had 3-4 staff dedicated solely to handling reservations; essentially telling people that they were full. Alinea doesn't use OpenTable, and OpenTable is no fun when you're browsing for whatever opening you might get.

Hiking Half Dome at Yosemite now runs a reservation system with limited permits. When I hiked it, it was only weekends but now I believe it's all week. These permits are snapped up in advance. I think Machu Picchu were introducing a daily quota when I was there many years ago. I imagine that over-subscribed places and events would be a growing market too.

In Australia, expiring ("dropping") domains are "caught" at auction. It made me wonder if a specialised service could work for oversubscribed services - putting cancellations out to bid, handling applications for vacancies. Potentially split bidding proceeds between a restaurant/provider, booking engine and a charity if the venue were so inclined.

Anyone know of anything happening in this space? Grant Achatz (Alinea chef) and a sidekick (Nick Kokonas) have apparently worked on a restaurant project where tickets are sold in advance. The Business Week article mentions Kokonas having programmers working on an engine that might operate in this area and take on Open Table. Does the potential go beyond restaurants?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_15/b4223098867567.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/dining/05achatz.html

Side-question - would taking bids for openings irk people? First-in, best-dressed only? A lottery of some sort?
Yes, interest deduction is a big subsidy, but also roads, cars etc are highly subsidized. I'm on my BB so I can't provide good sources, but if you google subsidies of driving americans etc you will find a lot.

In Europe, they charge very high vehicle and gas tax to make up for the roads and keep people from driving. In the US we allow much less wealthy people to drive. Neither is correct, but we in the US highly subsidize commutes.
Wonder what portion of the $2B in transactions are those that come under $6 on which, Square actually loses money. Also, it averages $2500 per merchant, which seems that these are low volume merchants, and unlikely that Square has recouped their merchant setup costs yet. Transaction volume has to still improve significantly before Square will find itself in the black. Yet, much kudos to a true disruptor.
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Is that really the point, though? kragen's sibling post makes a better case.
Thanks for the responses. Yeah, I was thinking that it was very important to actually learn the "computer science" part and not just the programming part.
It depends on who submitted it. We submitted early, but have made small revisions every day, aside from two large revisions in the last day or two. I guess we were not too worried about it. If it's going to work, it's going to work.
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for distance education.

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The Microtouch is using an ATMega32u4, which I think is this one: http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/ATMEGA32U4-AU/ATMEG..., which Digi-Key lists for US$3.79 each in quantity 25. An ARM alternative would be the LPC2103, such as http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/LPC2103FBD48,151/56..., US$4.95 in quantity 25.

That's a real difference, but the Adafruit retail price of this device is US$70. But the ARM chip is, at least on paper, dramatically more capable:

The AVR has an 8-bit ALU and runs up to 16MIPS (12MIPS in this case) and has 32K of Flash and 2.5K of RAM. The ARM has a 32-bit ALU, runs up to 70MIPS, has 32K of Flash, and 8K of RAM.

So for boosting the price from US$70 to US$71 or US$72, it would seem that you get three times the RAM and six times the compute cycles.

Newer ARM chips like the LPC1114 http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/LPC1114FHN33%2F302:... are US$2.25, 50MHz (and I assume 50MIPS), 32K/8K, Cortex-M0.

So there must be something I'm missing. What am I missing? Are the LPC2103 and LPC1114 a lot harder to integrate into existing designs? Is it that much harder to get ARM machine code out of GCC? Is the LPC very power-hungry? Does the LPC need some kind of expensive and complicated support circuitry? I'm out of my depth here. Help me out.
Um, no. It wasn't "from a private Google-staff-and-their-friends" beta, it was from the modestly-controlled semi-open beta that ran along the same lines as the earlier gmail "beta" with "invite codes" given fairly plentifully to everyone already using the service.

There were millions of people with no close connection to Google already using G+ by the time the floodgates were fully opened on September 20th, which is the magic day DM chooses for their laughable reporting.
Didn't see much of a hint at what to expect without registering, so I left. Is it ugly inside? Empty? I wouldn't register without having some idea of those things.
Looks amazing! Has there been any official posts about how it was implemented?
I use semicolons pretty heavily in Lisp. ;)
"missed the last bus in"

This is the problem with small cities' public transit systems. Temporal flexibility is limited compared to driving one's self to work. Need to stay late? You'll be staying all night, or your spouse must come pick you up.

Other issues (observed as a lifelong Clevelander):

1. The elapsed time savings of using public transit is often quite negative (compared to a city like NYC where it probably is often more time-efficient to take the train).

2. Parking costs are relatively low, so there's no tax on bringing your car with you to work. And, you almost never pay for parking at home.

3. You can't live easily without a car, so the potential savings of public transit is reduced to less usage of your current vehicle. You still have to own one, pay for insurance, etc.

4. Density is so low that your first/last mile issues may literally be that far.

All of this creates a death spiral for these public transit systems: Ridership is low, so vehicle frequency is low. This creates higher costs of public transit for people who have more money than time (how much could you have earned while waiting for the bus?), so these systems end-up serving only those with more time than money. This creates a stigma around using public transit which further reduces ridership. Add in white flight and the fear that extending public transit to the "nice areas" will allow "those people" to invade, and it's hard to imagine how public transit could ever work.
Oh sweet! I didn't know about fuser. Thanks!
IMO, if you're a lone wolf, don't pretend otherwise. That trend from years back of pretending you're the CEO of a one-person operation is looking very tired. I have a hunch that people will be more supportive of and receptive to someone giving it a crack on their own.

If you're after businesses, then you will need to offset the "what if you get hit by a bus?" question, however.
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Interesting Criticism.
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People also used to program computers with punch-cards. Everyday. Of course they can use Javascript.

You didn't address any of his points though. Where are the great Javascript tools and IDEs? There are tons of them for languages with static typing and classical inheritance.

Here's just one tiny example: Compare how you go about refactoring code (renaming classes, functions, etc) in Javascript with the many ways that it may be done in Java or C#.
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But look at it this way: What would github gain by adding mercurial support?

They're insanely popular and becoming more so by the minute, and their biggest problems probably have to do with managing growth, not lack of users. With git itself becoming increasingly popular, there's absolutely no sense that git will be a limiting factor any time in the future.

They clearly do recognize the long-term advantages in improving the usability of git, and have been making moves in that direction (iphone client, increasing the functionality of their web interface, some interaction on the git dev list), but hg's purported UI advantages are tenuous at best, and it seems a much surer bet to consolidate their position and improve git instead of investing a lot of effort in supporting hg, which would only _dilute_ their position.
A few reasons why I prefer my Thunderbolt to the iPhone 4:

-Bigger screen

-LTE 4G

-Tons of different ROMs available

-More customization options

-I prefer the Android interface

It all comes down to your needs. The screen size alone takes the iPhone out of consideration for me.
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There are a lot of details on his blog. http://rossum.posterous.com/zork-for-the-microtouch explains that for the Zork Z-machine, he pages to the MicroSD card:

> Because the microtouch only has 2.5k of memory, all Z-machine memory is virtual, including its stack. 3 layers of caching of different granularities were required to get reasonable performance. A page file on the microSD card ("p.pge") acts as its backing store. By default the app loads "game.z5" game but will play most non v6 games: just change their name and copy to the microSD.

Doesn't explain how the hell he gets a high-resolution proportional font to draw on the display, though.

Upon further digging, it looks like the LCD controller must contain a framebuffer, with 16-bit TrueColor, so 150KiB of RAM. Take a look at https://github.com/rossumur/microtouch/blob/master/src/hardw.... From http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/ILI9325.pdf, "ILI9325 is a 262,144-color one-chip SoC driver for a-TFT liquid crystal display with resolution of 240RGBx320 dots, comprising a 720-channel source driver, a 320-channel gate driver, 172,800 bytes RAM for graphic data of 240RGBx320 dots, and power supply circuit."

I wonder why he didn't page onto the framebuffer instead of the MicroSD card. It seems like kind of a waste to have 168¾KiB of RAM in a computer and only 2½KiB of it used by the CPU. The LCD driver actually uses 18-bit TrueColor; if you just used the low-order bit in the blue channel, you'd have an extra 9600 bytes. ☺

With that mystery resolved, the font is straightforward: it's a bunch of bitmaps in the program Flash which get blitted into graphics RAM to draw characters.
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Just so you know, I think the link on your website to your author application form is wrong (it goes to https://hyperink.wufoo.com/forms/hyperink-author-application..., which says "page not found").
"Floodgates fully open"

But enough of a difference between the "modestly-controlled semi-open beta" and "fully opened" to see a a 1200% increase.

The floodgates opened, the tide rushed in, the tide ran out.
How is this a success for Google+?
And counterpoint: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113117251731252114390/posts/AZh8...
You would buy the CD, or pay for the download. Doing that is way less justifiable when it's available on Spotify.
Can we stop dropping the 'e' from all these site names? It was retarded when flickr did it, it's even more retarded now.

Be original people.
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The problem with using water as a standard is that "water" isn't well defined when you're measuring to eight decimal places.
I was an AVP at a large company...it had 6+ CEOs....hundreds of directors + managing directors...thousands of VPs...thousands of AVPs.

Point is, large companies throw titles around like candy. Also, I hate to burst your bubble, but programming at a large company is very different than programming at a start up (especially one on of the rarer technology-focused startups like 10gen).
I checked for it in the "labs" section of the site to no avail. I am sure some of our lovely adobe members would love to fill us in >wink< .
I agree with all of your points. I just dislike the knee-jerk reaction to "financial engineering", as though it's a total fraud.
Why does C allow so much bullshit to work?
not too familiar with cloud software, can someone point to a reference on why use openstack instead of Xen and VMWare stuff. I am not bashing openstack, I am trying to educate myself here...
I'm already way behind on one HN request (the postfix dovecot OpenBSD e-mail server), but I will try to write something on this. Guess I should get a blog.
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I hated it - as it took too long to log in.

But didn't know how to log in otherwise - and keep my account.

Keeping access to my account was the main thing (preferred username + some karma)

Fortunately, thanks to other comments in this thread I set my password - http://news.ycombinator.com/changepw - and I am now more more than happy for you to ditch it (personally).
Chris Wanstrath, CEO of GitHub, still writes meaningful amounts of code as well.
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Sorry, I must have missed the word 'in'.
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I must be misunderstanding something. A bus that covers 40 miles in 22 minutes would be doing 109 MPH the whole way, even on the shoulder.
You do realize, on iOS, that most contact info on the device is synced with either Google, or (in iOS 5) iCloud? Facebook is not making this information public, neither are those services.

And how can they ask every person in your contacts if they approve: even incorrectly assuming all of them have an account on Facebook, you would still need to upload that information for those accounts to be linked and the request messages to be sent. And that's invading the privacy of the user's address book: they are now sharing that someone is in their address book, even if they didn't want that person to know.

Finally, it does say exactly what is uploaded (which is much better, even, than iCloud or Google's sync: seriously, how can you argue that Facebook's contact sync is so awful and ignore Apple and Google's services?): emails, phone numbers, and names (I may be forgetting some here).
I bet he doesn't have to use his real name.
Spotify will never be truly profitable. The labels are leeching whatever profit they make out of pure greed. It's a huge problem for any big streaming service, and it's just not worth it for investors.
Their CTO, Eliot, seems to spend the vast majority of his time coding. I'd say it's the result of a technology-focused company versus, what seems more common these days, as a 'product' company.
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Wow, really? Grow up? Nobody said it was all good for everyone. I made a counter-point that was clearly as balanced as the original point.

Anyway, it really depends on your point of view. Personally I love the IE6 stagnation and other failures that affect the web such as the epic lameness of Javascript. Why? I think the whole platform sucks and I'm glad to see it fail and push people to build better solutions.
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sigh people sure are silly ...
Semi-colons do not enable this feature. Multi-line chaining works just fine sans-semis.
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Not sure why you are being down voted.

Harboring people powerful governments consider terrorists is an extremely dangerous proposition. Always has been.

This is basically the same action that France took against Malcom X. Publicly, it was bowing to American pressure. Unofficially ... well I don't know the truth of it obviously ... but many are saying that the French had it on very good authority that Malcom X would likely be assassinated on that visit. They didn't want that happening on their soil. If the Americans had problems, the least they could do was keep the problems to themselves.

Believe me ... none of us has ANY idea what is going on behind the scenes ... or what the real story is. I think SA security orgs are getting tired of dealing with everyone's issues. A prominent rights activist AND a prominent Rwandan government opponent both had an assassination attempted on them right in the middle of the World Cup! Enormous resources are going into protecting exiles of conscience in SA right now. Security and intelligence resources I'm sure.

This is the terrain that SA government is operating in. Better to just say no to everyone else. SA is a nation with enormous problems of her own ... she has already done her bit. Let others invite the Dalai Lama if they care to.
I guess the issue is that making thread-safe GUIs is incredibly hard. So all GUI frameworks require you to update the GUI state only in the 'GUI thread'. Which means we use hacks like 'runOnMainThread', etc. to update the GUI.

A saner way is to implement an event bus and send update events to it letting the main thread update itself from the bus. Some frameworks do use this model but really, it would be much nicer if the language itself could do this.