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"Technology's greatest contribution is to permit people to be incompetent at a larger and larger range of things. Only by embracing such incompetence is the human race able to progress." http://www.theodoregray.com/BrainRot/
Don't use Java in a nuclear facility (see Section 3)
You're not wrong. It is not by some rational calculus that these desires are expressed. I should note that I don't ever actually buy any Power Challenge XLs or anything, just that I bid on them (to lose). Working on The Big Iron at HEP back in the day was really fun, and the fact that an 11" MBA is considerably faster than the 12 processor R8000 SGI box used for simulation work in 1995, while amazing, is sort of sad to me. Fast computers should be BIG COMPUTERS.

But I'm a greybeard; this is well-established.
Great service - I've used it to build a modest application or two for Android and iOS. One caveat: Phonegap plugins that include native components (for example, the Facebook plugin) can't be included in apps built with Phonegap Build (yet).
The standard indentation is 4 spaces, and people often have their tabwidth set to 4 spaces. Sometimes tabbed code (often older code, before spaces were really standard), end up with mixed tabs and spaces. The logic of the code then reads completely differently depending on your editor settings.
I left a large Silicon Valley company for some of the reasons you mentioned and knew I shouldn't work anywhere like it again. It's just not a fit for me the way it is for others.

Smaller companies have a more diverse range of cultures. Maybe you got unlucky once, but it might not happen again. It's hard to know what the culture will really be like based on interviews, but learn what's most important to you and make a point of researching or asking about that as you interview. You are interviewing them as well.

And there are also small companies out there that aren't startups.
Women-Led Startups Have Fewer Failures
Why do you have such a strong negative reaction to this?

Seriously, your comments sound childish and insecure.
It's not Ryan's passion I'm critical about. It's the fact that he's blasting anyone who doesn't fit in his view of right as "you don't understand how fucked the whole thing is." That's quite an ego to assume anyone who doesn't agree must be ignorant.
History of Mozilla – A Starting Point
It might be a fun topic to kick around, but it's ridiculously soon to conclude anything. Even Apotheker looked like he might have been competent after only six months.
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I can narrow down Asia to Post Soviet asian countries such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan etc. Internet is normally overpriced in these countries and opera mini has nice compression features and dedicated "turn off images" button, which is very handy. And not everyone here can afford high end iOS/android devices, so for Symbian, Opera mini is the best choice.
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Why Facebook Timeline Will Be Huge for Brands
Phone Gap paired with sencha would make one seriously native-feeling iPhone application. And all HTML5? Beautiful.
Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Development Platform
With some of the more advanced things like NaCl, it wouldn't surprise me at all if some of the functionality looked the same, or even had quite a similar purpose.

We don't know if the malware signature is on bits that do bad things, or just bits that had been unique to Zeus until now.

Edit: Also, some people are reporting no problems. It could be that those Chrome instances really were infected. We don't know where they got the download for Chrome from.
This happened to me today. MSE does give the choice of what action to take, I figured better safe than sorry. I'll reinstall once it gets straightened out.
Because spaces allow for indentation and alignment in every editor under the sun.

Also, because tab is a pointless character and an outdated hack.
The Haiku Project http://haiku-os.org/ is getting rather close.
Upload your website, download a native app.

What is wrong with this picture? If you can build your app as a web app and don't require hardware access then I'd think twice whether a native app is required.
Daily Mobile Minute: Hilton teaches us a lesson in mobile - not a good one
Ask HN: Looking for MySQL / PHP hacker for a project
We are a marketing firm creating our first consumer facing resource. We need a hacker comfortable with PHP and MySQL to help us take the project from paper to code.

We have created a rough specification document outlining the features and functionality we will require. Currently there is some level of detail still missing however from a high level the entire project is defined. We expect if the project is successful to "bolt" on a 2nd piece to the initial project and we have also defined what that would be so that it will be possible to code with the 2nd piece in mind.

This project is fully funded and ready to go. If you want more information on this project please email me. My email can be found in my profile.
Amazon's Silk: Another way SaaS is closing the Net
Mike Ash on Automatic Reference Counting in Objective-C
there are two different kindle products - the e-ink kindle and the kindle fire. the e-ink kindle has a few different revisions with different input and connectivity methods, but in the end it is all the same functionality: the ability to read books, shop in the kindle store, and nothing else.
A good book that has quite a bit of CSG and chuck peddle commentary on the 6502 and commodore more specifically is Commodore: A Company on the Edge http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/d... It goes into how Chuck was at times doing a roadshow with the 6502 educating and assisting manufacturers on developing applications for the 6502 and related chips.
Things I Changed at My Startup After Going to Startup Day
Oh dear. No matter what the reality of the situation Microsoft ends up looking really terrible here.
> This is maybe a bit far from the topic, but I would like to know why there is such a need for anonymous functions in Python.

Building new control structures in-language, without having to hack the interpreter, and without the result looking like somebody has puked all over your screen. First-class functions are under-used in Python because they're syntactically and semantically heavy. With full anonymous functions, the `with` statement would not have been needed, it could have been handled through a higher-order function, akin to Haskell's `bracket`[0]

> In Javascript, with silent overwriting of functions and without modules, it is obviously very bad to pollute the only namespace with function names that can clash with each other

Namespace pollution is completely irrelevant (it's very easy to handle it in Javascript via the namespace pattern).

> Moreover, as it is lame to use _temp as function name, it forces you to formulate a meaningful function name, which is good pratice, especially for your lectorate, right?

If it is, why can I put name-less blocks of code in `for`, `if`, `while` and `with` bodies?

Not all code blocks need a name. Those that do will be given one.

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/...
I changed the name to a more appropriate one:

https://github.com/FreeRPGengine/Free-RPG-Engine-FaceBook-Ga...
Sony enters the world of medical devices
It is a little premature to say that there is no danger of being sued as most of the litigation around Android surfaced recently (almost after it began to gain traction) and not back in 2008 when it first launched?

With all the bogus patents out there, it is hard to imagine any complex mobile system that doesn't infringe on _something_ out there.
I bought both last year in late 2010 when they came out. I really wanted to keep the 11 but the 13 was just a much better all rounder. I always wished I had kept the 11. But once you sit down at a desk, portability stops being an issue and you appreciate the extra screen size.

1 year later and I sold my 13 to buy the new 11. For some reason I again ordered both the 11 and 13 and now I still can't decide which one to keep. I really really want to keep the 11 but the smaller battery, very slightly slower processor, worse speakers and smaller screen keep putting me off. The price is almost identical (top 11 vs base 13). The extra portability just makes me want to forget about all these drawbacks.

I plugin to an external monitor at home anyway, but what about places where you need the screen size. Anyone done or seen anyone do a hackathon with the 11?

If they just dropped both models and brought out a 12.1" my life would be complete.
What's WireCard like price-wise? Doesn't seem to say on their website.
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Irish Startup Launches Comprehensive Child Protection Tech for Mobile Devices
American Strike on American Target Revives Contentious Constitutional Issue
> Please take into account in your explanation that the US is able to borrow at record low rates right now.

Someday we must pay that borrowed money back. I'd rather not borrow any more.
Show HN: Famigo helps families find iOS and Android apps
As a parent, it's really hard to find good mobile content for your kids. Not only is there an issue with quantity, with over a million apps between iOS and Android, but there's also a quality issue, in that so many of these contain ads, in-app purchases, or content that's not completely kid-friendly (looking at you, fart apps). We're working on the solution to all of this at Famigo - http://www.famigo.com

At Famigo, we've built a system to help find and recommend great apps for families. We approach this problem in a lot of different ways: our staff reviews every app on the site, our rankings are crowd-sourced based on what parents actually find helpful, and then we throw some machine learning in there based on app trends over time. The result is that, if you want a free, educational, iOS app for a 5 year old, we've already got those identified.

We've learned so much from the community here at HN and would love to hear what folks have to say. The URL again is http://www.famigo.com.
Am I back to 2010? Or am I reading Reddit?
"They will undoubtedly make phones. Why give away a market to competitors that is worth billions?"

It's an extremely competitive, painful market. MS are struggling, Palm have already tried once and failed. Amazon is taking another approach (having their own AppStore on Android) and it's working out for them.

Hardware was Palm and WebOS's weak spot. An Amazon acquisition could be many things, but I very much doubt it's a play for any hardware gains.
"Native app" could be a critical bit for marketing or payment processing.
I've noticed that it really depends on what subreddit your link gets featured in on Reddit.

I still get a lot of traffic from r/food, but it was relatively miniscule compared to the traffic I got from a post in r/reddit.com (which no longer has any incoming traffic).
Required? No. But there are benefits to being available on said platforms such as free distribution and eye balls.

But there are also drawbacks, more specifically with Apple, if you have to spend a lot of time in the black hole review process.
How is the Kindle Fire not a tablet?
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Even if this is true and it does happen, I would think Palm as a brand is dead. Even if the Fire 2 ends up having webOS, Amazon would never market it that way. Just as how Android is behind the scenes on the current Fire, they would do the same with webOS.
It's about being found in the app stores. That's where people look for stuff on their phones, that's where you need to come up if you have something you want on someone's phone.

Of course there is a lot of down-side to this, but it is what it is. I wish the App Stores, particularly the Android Market, would create a much more elaborate system of categories allowing people to narrow their browsing down to exactly what they want, then it wouldn't matter so much if there was a lot of useless crap in the app stores, because we would never see it.
Just wait till Spine Mobile is released on the 4th of October at FOWA:

http://cl.ly/Aa4V
http://cl.ly/Aa7P
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How is Cloud Hosting Set to Change the Business World?
Two problems:

The definition of "uptime", the host SLAs only covers network uptime and environment uptime, but clients consider "uptime" to mean application level uptime, which includes downtimes for server maintenance, steady-state backups, backup restores, deploying new releases, etc ... anything other than service is not 100% fully functional = downtime in their minds.

Also for costs, "reasonably fast failover to another similar host" implies live redundant equipment at another host which is double the hosting costs, that's a big pill to swallow, so big that most orgs would rather suffer the downtime when they see the real cost of full redundancy.
It would be neat to hack up a simple copy program that uses more USB friendly buffer sizes and see what happens. I don't have an XP machine handy so I can't easily test this.
A newer(?) video showing it actually being field-tested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqMVg5ixhd0

// please mute the speakers
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I can't remember seeing a web shop that does IBAN/SWIFT transfers (apart from one or two small-time ebay sellers). I pay via wire transfer all the time within Germany, but outside it's credit card or paypal (and even the latter quite often requires a credit card transfer for that).

It's not a big deal for corporate / professional deals with largers sums, i.e. a monthly €49 subscription. But if you're running some kind of browser game and want to get one-time €2.99 payments, you'll have to deal with a rather different demographic. Have yet to see an internatinal (at least pan-European) service that provides a good solution for that. Most of the time you have to cobble it together from all different local providers, and a lot of them look quite fishy to me (and that's saying something in that market).
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I too have found myself watching videos of apps (particluarly games) before buying now if they don't have a free version.

I was actually considering doing an experiment where I removed some of my free versions of apps from the Market and put in better videos to see if I could get the same results.... I doubt it, but...
You can do the same in Python, with named functions or lambdas:

>>> def foo(x):
... def add(y):
... return x + y
... return add
...
>>> bar = foo(10)
>>> bar(5)
15
Maybe it would be good to write the custom an email explaining stuff like

99%=Well run server
99.9%=Multiple backups, will cover most hardware failures
99.99%=Top grade commercial
99.999%=What companies like Google or Yahoo can achieve
99.9999%=Hopefully the US strategic defense systems are this reliable

Also, you're assumption about the servers are entirely independant. That's a reasonable assumption in terms of fires and blackouts and floods, but not for software problems. You really can't assume that unless the servers are all running entirely different software stacks on different operating systems.
This is why we have cfengine (or similar). Because yes, we do have NxM accounts (double and triple figures respectively), and we can all passwordless-ssh to any box we have to and have our dotfiles set up just the way we like them.

But no, we don't "waste our time" creating these accounts. We have tools to do this for us. Revolutionary, I know.
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If they did something interesting, i.e. are worth acquiring. More likely, they still sit on a month-old feature set of the original and then are sued out of business – or just ignored.
Did he timed this on a Mac or Linux? Just curious how bad is Windows. I've experienced this many times but never thought as a big hassle to hop through HDD.
Taking actions to alter one's self can easily improve the ability to take actions that affect others. A simple example: lifting weights so you can be a more effective fire fighter. There are many others, including the ingestion of chemicals to alter mind state. Oh, I don't know: like drinking that cup of coffee in the morning, the one that gets you through your emails and keeps you from being a grumpy asshole all day?

Posting to a forum with your self-righteous, unapproachable attitude is the DEFINITION of masturbatory. You clearly cannot politely engage others on this topic, so why bother commenting here to simply tell the druggies how you feel about their petty dalliances? To make yourself feel better?
That is true. I've seen some people quite happy working at small companies that did not have good experiences at big companies. Perhaps I just had a bad experience.

As you said, I need to interview them and make very clear that I want to work hard and contribute, but I need autonomy and no micro-management. Let's see if I can find any company that works like that.
If you are not familiar with Obj-C, I would recommend Monkey or CoronaSDK instead. You'll be off and writing games in no time. Monkey has export to Flash AND HTML5 capabilities, as well as Android and iOS http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/
You can, yes, but is it safe?

My understanding of the article is that you shouldn't do it, because it's liable to cause confusion -- it's not safe.
Doesn't have to be arbitrary amounts, just large relative to the native sizes of network and USB writes. A meg or two would probably be plenty.
BTW ... do you keep the job offers up to date? I'm Chilean and interested on joining a startup but I'm not sure if the offers published on www.startupchile.org/joinastartup/ are up to date or not.
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Why smart poeple have a tough time dating
I find it interesting how I'm now reading cmdrtaco.net more than I'm reading slashdot.
I just finished listening to the Typo episode. It was fantastic and was my first introduction to Bill Hill.
On September 30th, 2011, an incorrect detection for PWS:Win32/Zbot was identified. On September 30th, 2011, Microsoft released an update that addresses the issue. Signature versions 1.113.672.0 and higher include this update.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia...
Oracle docs show plans for Hadoop, NoSQL
Itunes Connect Reports SSL certificate invalid, resolves to www.infoblox.com
Very curious to see how they implement this tool.

I would think there would have to be some type of "compiler hints" for particular app device builds.
I don't see where he says he knows what the solution is.
The Cascalog abstraction layer fixes this issue by separating logic from data, allowing you to play creatively at massive scale.

I just checked out Casacalog and I like what I see, although I have yet to try it out myself. Does anyone know of something similar that would work with Scala as well?
I third this. I highly recommend this book, especially to people who are analytically oriented.
For tutorial/walkthrough with lots of example small scripts Beginning Ruby, 2nd ed by Peter Cooper. For a straight reference The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto. A middle-ground (tutorial first half; reference second half): Programming Ruby 1.9 (aka, the Pickaxe Book) by Dave Thomas.

A great second book (maybe even first if you're comfortable enough learning basic syntax on your own) is Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen.
Because people are selling books that tell you that it's tough dating without buying said publication?
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I can't see why anybody would actually use jQuery Mobile and Sencha for web app development. I've tried them last week and they were impressive on a desktop browser. On a mobile device, not so much. Both jQuery Mobile and Sencha feel slow, very slow. The animations are choppy. Response times on clicks are way too long. Everything flickers like mad. Focus borders are drawn at all the wrong places. I can actually feel that it's a web app trying too hard to be a native app. On my Android phone it's even slower than on my iPad 1.

I'm not blaming jQuery Mobile or Sencha. I think mobile browsers are just not ready for delivering a smooth UI experience that's up to par with native apps.
What if Kindle Fire goea mainstream as an Android tablet
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It's the same problem with iTunes on the windows platform. When you sync your iOS device to your computer it requires so much personal information (e.g music, movies, photos, contacts) that this process looks fishy. Windows is rarely ever ok with this. Seems no different with Chrome.
I guess this is right.
Shit still works in spite of the software stack, not because of it.

Just how much reliance we put on autoconf really makes me shudder.
Extremely low CPM.
What plugins have you been using? Last time I look at pg, the plugins I found were alpha quality or just abandoned. I'd love to hear what's current. Thanks.
In fact, Haskell style frowns on using too many lambdas. It's generally felt that adding named functions is better for debugging and readability, the same as in python. So with the bracket function, for example, it's still considered better practice to pass named functions to it.
Ahh yes. I must give Tim credit. He is a very good speaker, that's for certain.
Also check out MIT's OpenCourseWare since they use Python in lower-level CS classes. Here's their non-major Intro to CS class, which comes with videos (YouTube or iTunes U), code, and a book or two in PDF form:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
I'm getting better than 95% up time on my home network. If you told me that and I was your client, I'd be going elsewhere.

Over 99% costs lots of money, yes. How much is dependent on how close to 100 you are looking to get, but that's the client's decision. 99% though is a perfectly acceptable standard.
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Hey man you should really turn that into a comic strip or book or something. At least a blog post.

It was both hilarious and informative.

But I think a problem alot of programmers have is standing up for themselves and being upfront and saying "You promised me X and if I don't get it I won't feel obligated to deliver Y"

That is the part that frustrates me. When people either:

- won't stand up for themselves and communicate their needs

- take the passive aggressive route of just walking of and not saying anything when you could have let the guy know how he was failing you.

Now you were pretty much right with what you did. But on the other end the OP was left wondering why.

A couple of awkward but straightforward conversations would have avoided both situations
You nailed by using the word 'buzz', it's pretty much about the buzz. It's a shame things turn out this way.
Top 20% of iPhone devs make 97% of the category revenue
It kind of is as a secondary function, but it was built as a media consumption/purchasing device, a kind of hand-held portal into the world of Amazon; even their browser relies heavily on their EC2 platform. Compared to the Android tablets on the market, it lacks a lot in the way of expandability and even storage. Even the underlying Android OS was forked to bring it further away from a tablet and more to an Amazon portal. That it runs Android Apps is just a pleasant side effect.

To quote Bezos himself, "We think of Kindle Fire as an end-to-end service"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/29/bezos-in-the-modern-era-of-...
You can use the APIs to spin up more instances when traffic goes up (and then close them down when you're not using them), but that doesn't happen automatically. Other than that, bandwidth costs are very high at Amazon compared most places, but it's still only $120/TB. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/