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I think these are all meant for different situations. For example you can't look for the Sun if its cloudy. Also, the horizon is usually blocked by a lot of buildings in big cities, so even if it is clear, you won't be able to find the sun pretty easily. Also, if you don't have a watch and the time is somewhere between 11 and 1 o'clock how can you tell if the Sun is in the Southeast or Southwest?
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I'm getting slightly fed up of the number of "check this out" and "do that" things floating around at the moment, servicing the never-ending desire for linkbait and karma-whoring.

I've had nothing but pain from these things; they are simply reasons to procrastinate rather than create.
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That made me think of humanism: as a humanism, nothing human is strange to me. Steve Jobs would be a humanist CEO. As the CEO, no detail of my company is strange to me.
I wonder why some people still hear a guy who uses email to access the internet.
The future's looking bright for Go.

I've recently been looking at some new languages: Scala, Haskell, Clojure, Node.js etc. Go was the only site to put code samples (live ones at that) on their front page.

Language/framework creators take note: The first thing I want to see on your site is what the code looks like. How to install it is a distant second (I can look it up once you've convinced me it's worth installing)
Sounds exactly like the Senator Online party that ran in the 2007 Australian federal elections. They did pretty poorly (according to Wikipedia) but still...

http://www.senatoronline.org.au/
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> "I once asked him if he was glad that he had kids, and he said, ‘It’s 10,000 times better than anything I’ve ever done.’ "

Take note guys, this is coming from the guy who practically invented modern computing.
Interesting that of these six methods, only one or two would actually work in the United States, and then only in a few cities.

- England doesn't really do Cable TV like America does, so you actually do see these dishes everywhere. In America, you don't ever see them. You'd probably violate your lease for installing one.

- American cities have hardly any churches compared to Europe, where 5 out of every 7 buildings you pass will be a Church of some form.

- America is 20 years old. Anything older than that is due for replacement. Hence no weathering.

+ (1/2) People. Cool. American cities do in fact have crowds, so you can follow them. But unless you're in NYC, you're probably going to end up at a parking garage.

- American cities tend to follow a grid, and are much more decentralized. Everything you need to get to is in every direction. Every road is six lanes wide, even the dead ends and alleys.

+ (1/2) New York might have clouds, but I've never seen one in LA.

So yeah, if you're lost in a US city, you might as well just ask somebody.
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Meh.

I lost my PDA stylus years ago. Adjusted the setting slightly and my finger worked fine. Palm did not need any radical new tech to hypothetically make touch.

Apple did need a different tech (transparent capacitive touch) for multitouch. But stylus-less finger friendly touch screen interfaces were around for 20 years before the iPhone.

The multiple finger manipulation was innovative and an improvement. (Though the Synaptics touchpad driver permitted basic multi touch years earlier.) Finger-based UI was not innovative and has a long history before Apple.
I agree with rms on a lot of things, but this was truly tasteless and disrespectful.
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really?

so you think your small bitter self, fuelled by a few thing you've read written by other small bitter people, understands Jobs better than the people who've spent decades working alongside him? piss of back to 4chan
I think you're wrong at "if you don't understand why it works it probably won't".

While I long given up PUI (Programming Under Influence) I still occasionally do some in Haskell. After a litre of beer I am pretty dumb, but I can follow clues from compiler to get something working.

Most of the time, it works the next day, when I sober. That's in contrast with C/C++. Scripting languages give some power like that, but I can screw myself with them much more violently.

In my humble opinion, Haskell is the language of choice for drunken programmers.
We were in Marrakech earlier this year - I really tried very hard not to get lost, but it's almost impossible not to. Even the GPS on an iPhone and Google Maps didn't help that much (and produced a horrific bill for roaming charges). Far easier to pay one of the locals to walk you to where you want to go - at least round the souks where it is completely maze like.

Another approach to in-city navigation is, of course, to have a centrally located conspicuous landmark. In this town an ancient castle on top of an extinct volcano serves splendidly in this role.
So, whoever Julio Capote is, it looks like his machine has been hacked. Also, apparently (although it could all be a fake) he likes to look at porn on the web. I guess we found the one guy who likes porn.

Also, he looks like he's interested in George Washington Carver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
If you verify the correctness of the CLR, by the same reasoning don't you have to verify the correctness of Windows as well?
In my opinion, a phone needs to be extremely portable and easy to use with a single hand. I'm a tall man and the thumbs on my large hands have no trouble reaching anywhere in a 3.5" screen. I'm also rather athletic in build, so a device the size and weight of an iphone is just within the bounds of what I consider acceptable to carry all day in a front trouser pocket. I've experimented with phones that came in other sizes. The smaller ones sacrificed too much screen real estate, the larger ones were a bit unwieldy to touch / carry.

This is only my opinion and YMMV, of course. But for me at least, it's so wonderful that there are products out there that take ergonomics into account instead of just dashing for the biggest possible spec.
Haskell at the top of the list was one that I really enjoyed. It has a pretty scary learning curve but its wonderful having a language that feels so consistent.
For those that are kneejerkingly chastising Stallman, understand his point of view.

OS X and iOS are not free, and Apple led by Jobs changed the way that people thought about installing Applications on desktop operating systems as something that requires manufacturer approval (App Store), which led the way for others like Intel to make AppUp, etc. This restricts what the user has access to install is more of a setback for the free software movement than anything Microsoft ever did.

Jobs also changed the licensing program for Macintosh clones, making it too costly for the manufacturers to continue making machines. If there were Mac clones, then eventually perhaps freedom would have flourished.

Basically, Jobs was the ultimate technology monarchist and Stallman the ultimate technology anarchist. (I almost said capitalist and communist, but Stallman is all about free, not about centralized distribution and control.)

I'm not saying I agree with the man, but this is what he means by jail.
It's currently quite a pain to get the most-recent Go release installed, and integrated into your development environment. I'd like to see Go v1 be more distribution-friendly. This is the biggest show-stopper for wider Go adoption.

I'd also like to see a built-in IDE analogous to Python's IDLE to lower the barrier-to-entry. IDLE is great for education.

I also think that Go needs to establish some sort of independent entity for the future development of the language. People need assurance that Go isn't going to go away if Google gets bored with it. Go hasn't crossed that rubicon yet, and this is another big barrier to adoption.
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The last straw ... Good-bye Mr. Stallman - we may not agree but I won't spit on your grave. And I'll continue making money from closed source software and contributing to open source communities whether or not you approve.
And that the local population is helpful. In the country where I live people will offer help without being asked if you read a map in the middle of the street, but good luck asking someone for directions if you're not a native.
This is the beginnings of my first serious blog. Let me know if you find it helpful. I'm specifically interested in feedback related to clarity and appropriateness of detail.

I'd also love to hear about any Unix-related topics you would be interested in having me cover in future blog posts.
Flattr does exactly that (bulk payments). It's just not well adapted for payments since you don't pay a fixed amount to each website but a fraction of a certain fixed amount divided by all the buttons you've clicked on that month.
Wha?

The iPod was an industry dominating hit. That’s a fact, not revisionism. A look at its marketshare over the years suffices.

Also: iTMS. It changed the music industry. To claim otherwise would be absurd.
The fact that people would stop paying?
its obvious his blog has been hacked.

it is not obvious his home computer has been hacked and he looks at porn - that could be faked.

Whichever way, his life is ruined.
I've tried to email help@posterous.com to ensure they know. Got an immediate SPF bounce.

"help@posterous.uservoice.com rejected a message that claimed an envelope sender address of ralph@[elided].

"help@posterous.uservoice.com received a message from getfile.posterous.com (184.106.20.101) that claimed an envelope sender address of ralph@[elided].

"However, the domain [elided] has declared using SPF that it does not send mail through getfile.posterous.com (184.106.20.101). That is why the message was rejected."

I'm happy with my SPF definitions; looks like an internal posterous problem. Can someone who knows the posterous mob give them a bell; they may appreciate the wake-up. :-) Thanks.
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Yeah at less than a thousand views so far, damage control could still be effective.
The problem with limited government is the management of the commons. Everybody wants safe water, safe air, safe food, etc. Also you need to make investments in the future such as infrastructure, science research, education, etc. Once you have a huge economy with powerful competing interests you're going to need a big government to manage it all. The "small government" types say that we should let the free market somehow make the choices on all these things, but I think that is just naive thinking.
The aricle is OK, but I had to laugh with this starting quote:

"“The most obvious common ‘personality’ characteristics of hackers are high intelligence, consuming curiosity, and facility with intellectual abstractions. Also, most hackers are ‘neophiles’, stimulated by and appreciative of novelty (especially intellectual novelty). Most are also relatively individualistic and anti-conformist.” – Eric S. Raymond, The Jargon File"

Which reminds me of that immortal Reservoir Dogs line: "let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet"...
"actually do see these dishes everywhere"

Not in towns that have lots of old buildings, where planning rules generally try and stop people from attaching satellite dishes. However, people still have them - but positioned on the roof so that they aren't that obvious from ground level.
Yes ... And most of the enlightened (here at HN) seem to approve of Jobs - voting with their wallets. I don't own a recent Apple computer, but I have a Powerbook (Wallstreet) that's still running after after more than 12 years ... I think that says something about the quality of the engineering.
I've found these 2 sites that appear to do similar, but for charities. I found the links via Slashdot ("Kickstarter like service for charities")
http://www.firstgiving.com/
http://startsomegood.com/

This last one is UK centric: http://www.justgiving.com/
> Publicly held corporations are greedy by definition. The objective of such a corporation is simply to make as much money for its owners as possible.

This isn't always true.

The objective of a corporation is defined by the objective of its owners (if the owners are any good). This objective might not necessarily be "to make as much money as possible."

Different corporations have different cultures, and these cultures can define different priorities for the companies.
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tzdata says absolutely nothing about geography. "America/New_York" is just a name for a certain set of historical timezone data, but it's completely up to users to decide what geographical area they want to associate with it.
You ask to much. Maybe you can stay calm and read the 10'000th article on node.js while half of the world mourns one of the greatest visionaries of the last decades. I can't.
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You can’t please all the people all the time.

MP3 players sucked. You had to manually copy music onto them or use the absolutely crappy music libraries that came with them.

With the iPod you have your nicely organized music library and you sync it with your device. For the vast majority of people that so much better than manually copying music. I would never want to go back to the world where I copied music manually.
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Richard Stallman is nuts. Here's why.
1) He says that you should not own a mobile phone;

2) He criticizes Bill's charities, but have never done anything.

3) He believes in paper voting over machine voting

4) He doesn't use a browser; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox;

How can someone hear him when he says something like this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
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I'm curious- what do you mean by "enlightened"?
You should really compare sizes by lining up edges.

They have not really decreased the bezel that much either. But area increases as a square so you get good returns.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-pictures-3...
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_evo_3d-pictures-3901.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-pictures-3468.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_hd_lte-4198.php

I'd handled the HTC Desire HD a fair bit (someone at work has one). The opposite end of increasing as a square is that small increases are bigger than they sound. It's a lot of phone there.

I am sure a lot of people are fine with it.

If they could make everything edge to edge, I'l be right there with with.
I mailed them but didn't get a bounce. So perhaps the message will get through.

Update. And their reply:

~~~ Reply above this line ~~~

Hello John,

Thank-you for the report. I have gone in and taken the post down so that it is no longer live. Julio is a contributor of our main blog and his email address was compromised and used to send that post. Posterous itself has not been compromised and the posting has been removed.

Thank-you for using Posterous and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Kathleen
Yes, it's a "No True Scotsman variation" that takes into account the fact that a particular company gives TONS of attention to detail, builds lots of internal prototypes, and values usability and good industrial design ("how it works") greatly.

The fact that you don't know if something specific happened does not mean that you cannot reason about the high possibility of it happening given the historical information you have available.

Given what we know about Apple, Ives et al, what exactly do you believe of the two:

1) Apple picked the dimensions at random or without thought
2) Apple studied to find the best compromise for the device's dimensions
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Close. Pulp Fiction. :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes
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This guy confuses software with religion. I wonder what search engine he might use, Google or Bing?
Since when has Stallman ever been subtle? At least he is consistent. I saw nothing wrong with his statement.
Most web sites break down when fonts are upscaled. Sad but true. I configured my mother's firefox to do that, it works, but most of the web doesn't look good.

Which is sad. My eyes aren't very good too and they prefer bigger fonts. In fact, most people have vision problems those days.
There is also another list which focuses on vendor-prefixed properties: http://peter.sh/experiments/vendor-prefixed-css-property-ove...
I don't know of it's so huge for corps. They tend to not mind spending the extra money to get EC2 + RDS in return for reduced lock-in, an environment you can control, and serious SLAs.
lightened of money from their wallets?
I considered doing that, e.g. log into a gmail account, but help@ is unlikely to wake them up or alert them quickly, unfortunately. Could really do with a personal call to someone that works there.
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Is there any area that google don't stick their nose in? Now they are also in the DB business??
Its a real shame the OP chose to get upvotes here rather than find another way to alert posterous and keep it contained.

Schadenfreude :(
As mentioned before http://fontsquirrel.com is a great resource, which includes a good cross-browser css snippet for embedding webfonts http://www.fontspring.com/blog/the-new-bulletproof-font-face...
On our site (flup.com) we've used Chunk Five as our logo font and Museo Slab as our headings font along with Lucida Grande for body copy. We've also used line-heights and font-sizes from the Blueprint Framework http://www.blueprintcss.org/
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You'd probably violate your lease for installing [a satellite dish in the US].

Large parts of London (and other areas of the UK) are designated as conservation zones and so satellite dishes require planning permission. Every now and again someone gets around to complaining and all the dishes under 4 years old are removed from a road.
It's all subjective, but here's a list that I put together myself: http://blog.fogus.me/2011/08/14/perlis-languages/
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Someone died though. The polite thing to do would probably be to say nothing at all ...
I'm surprised that their (astrolabe) website is still up. Where's anonymous with their LOICs when they are needed desperately?
However we rationalize, finding your way out when you are lost in a city based on wind erosion patterns or the direction in which the wind is blowing the clouds, is perhaps how Sherlock Holmes would find his way. I'd rather look for someone to ask directions, look for road signs, landmarks, payphones, maps, city's skyline, metro stations etc.
It's worth remembering that even Stallman himself admits he is mildly autistic. Autism is often characterized by black and white thinking and lack of empathy towards others - both of which are displayed to excess in his comment.
No.

D is a rethinking of C++.

Go is a re-imagining of C++.
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I saw Richard speak recently and I have to say he doesn't come across as being crazy.

However, his world view is very much permeated by the importance of individual freedom and he is somewhat zealous in getting his message out there.

I like to think I have a more pragmatic approach to individual freedom than that - I'm happy to sacrifice freedoms in some areas if they grant me freedoms/abilities in other areas.
Have you thought about adding a link to a server rendered version (something like same_url+"?script=0") inside a <noscript> area? It'd be easy to implement.
Makes me wonder whether a free software Steve Jobs (equivalent) would be possible. Maybe you need to be a powerful autocrat to generate enough directed force to dent the world?

It certainly seems like the divide between computer consumers and computer developers is getting ever wider. One side has their computer experience made ever simpler, whereas the other has to deal with ever more complexity (cf. Ryan Dahl rant).

The ultimate revolution might be to simplify programming to the point where anyone can do it.
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I mean that the readership here is much more likely to understand the DRM and license implications of purchasing Apple products and services and yet there seems to be a disproportionately larger percentage of Apple users here than in the general population ... Or perhaps my perceptions are just plain wrong?
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Got to be Edinburgh?!
Personally I'm a fan of bigger font sizes. Interesting though that Facebook actually reduced their body copy down to 11px, and apparently they are doing pretty well ;)
Nor did he imagine Enrique Inglesais's "I Can Be Your Hero" being sung by Steve Jobs.

Influential role model is probably more accurate.
Yes, he's crazy (aren't we all?) but he knows how to dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls
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There is nothing wrong with time getting bent. For as long as the becoming shape is never known to none but that single mind with childlike irreverence. The footprints I will remember, but most of all, I will never forget the child in you. He gave us all those things that are the focus of stubbornness. Too sad he went away with you. Rest in peace, Steve.
Yes, asking locals is the only way to go. There are things that map will never help you with i Marrakesh.

After two days in Marrakesh locals told me that there is a shorter way from my riyad (kind of a guesthouse) to Jamaa-el-Fna (main square). Easy! You just have to turn left here instead of right, after twenty steps use the arch to find seemingly dead-end internal yard, enter some non-descript door and ... wait for it... smile at the receptionist of the spa salon on your way to their front door, which opens to one of the main streets. And from there it is a direct way to Jamaa.

It is like a magical world from child fairy tales, with wormholes in time and space behind every corner.
Interesting, but at that size of font used on that webpage I read at half speed and I'm 37. For the hacker news site I can read a full line in 3 focus movements. It's much easier to switch focus to the right than to find the next row in text. Not convinced but YMMV.
I wish articles allowed downvotes. I suppose on some level it's technically satire (the timeless "value of a life" discussion), but it's in poor taste and poorly executed. Clearly this is targeted at gaining a few pageviews and doesn't strike me as interesting or entertaining to the HN community.
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I can't agree with you more. I think this is one area where there would be some demand...but nothing is available at the right price point. It could be that the technology isn't there yet.

This generation is the first to grow up staring at close, backlit screens most of the day. There will be some long term consequences if we don't find some way to lessen the impact on the human eye. Our eyes evolved in a very unique way due to our environment. Drastically changing how we use them within one generation is already causing more people to have issues. Our eyes developed to perform well at varied distances in sunlight. Now, we typically look at something very close that projects an image with light. Granted, everyone needs to take a break and get outside and away from technology...but that gets harder as talented developers and engineers keep on creating great products and experiences.