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> From an ease-of-use / ease-of-maintenance perspective, Debian (and its derivatives) blow RPM-based systems out of the water.

What kind of a comparison (Debian vs. RPM-based) is this? Does dpkg(1), as opposed to rpm(8), really make all the difference in "ease-of-use"?

Of course, I understand what you mean, however, don't you think that if Debian really blew RHEL and SLES out of the water, its adoption in the enterprise server space would be a bit higher? You are kidding yourself if you pretend that the commercial distros are only used because they come with support, and also need support, being intentionally crippled.

Obviously, a meaningful comparison of Debian, RHEL and SLES does not fit into a HN comment, but as someone who has used all three, I would always choose Debian last, and not only because of the lack of commercial support.

(By the way, the main point of the support you get for RHEL and SLES is not access to a guy on the phone. The real value is the L3 support, i.e. bugfixing. As a Debian user who runs into a bug that cripples your system, your options are:

a) fix it yourself

b) pray to $DEITY that Debian developers fix it soon

c) try to expedite b) by harassing Debian developers in bugzilla, which is going to be as inefficient as you'd expect.

As a paying customer of Red Hat or SuSE, you are entitled to and will receive a fix for the bug ASAP, and although ASAP often translates to "a couple of weeks", it is still a hell of a lot better than what Debian can offer.)
By that logic, they don't run C++ either; they run machine code. So does everyone else.
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SD cards are such kind of memory card that is use for storing data purpose. SD cards are widely used in cell phones, cameras, game console, etc.
Site seems to crash a lot, probably isn't built for being on HN front page :)

Otherwise, kudos - some beautiful textures. Thank you
Citation please.

This should be fun.
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I just wish we could stop supporting 2.4.
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The re-binding of the arrow keys in particular has been driving me insane. The different behavior for backspace I can live with, but I keep finding myself trying to scroll search results with the up/down keys and reverting to using the mouse when I'm surprised to find it does something else.

Glad to see I'm not the only one this has been bugging.
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When I was learning Python, I had some giddy moments. I think charisma is an acceptable adjective for such a thing. =)
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I'd say, anecdotally from my own experience, that it's more of a power law distribution. Some songs/albums I listen to quite frequently, while others I listen to once and then forget about.

Suffice to say using this sort of subscription model, the hits would still be big money spinners, but for the vast majority - the long tail so to speak - wouldn't make enough to live on.
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Hey, thanks for bringing my attention the 50K in 12 weeks suggestion.

I found some nice tips from that passage in a PDF version of the book and I think I can finish an ultra-marathon by the end of October with less than one month of training. I did -0- workouts and ate cake and pizza during the prior 30 days.

50K is too easy. I'll do 50 miles in a real race.

Want to make a bet—or a challenge—out of this?

Unlike yourself, I'm not particularly athletic. The longest timed race I have entered was a 12K (finish time of 1:07:11 for the May 2011 Bay to Breakers). I have done some nature hikes longer than that, though. Haven't gone to the gym, lifted weights, sprinted, or cross-trained in over a year.

Message me if you're interested. Contact info on my HN profile.
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Doesn't fail miserably on my Android phone. The colored background strip is a bit too short to contain everything, but that's the only problem.
I hear you, but if your experience is with pre version 3 intallations of Wordpress, I will urge you to try again - they started getting a lotof stuff right in the 2.8-2.9 timeframe, and the version 3+ releases are, as I mentioned, really quite good little CMSes.

Have a look at http://www.tokens.com.au/ for example.

On the security reputation front, yeah, Wordpress does have a somewhat deserved bad rep, but the only times I (or any of our customers) have been bitten, it's been ultra-cheap shared hosting that's laelyt blame (along with Wordpresses php-reliance and it's need for guessable-path world writeable directories in the web root...)
No, unlike PHP, PHP.reboot is secure by default.
That's why PHP.reboot use DSLs, because it enables the runtime to know the context thus sanitize the inputs by itself.

Rémi
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Awesome, I am always looking for excatly this every time i try to make a webpage.
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Most of the times I hit backspace is when I am filling out a form and the idiotic browser behavior of going back a page blows away all of my input. It is beyond infuriating.
But does it lose data like accidentally hitting backspace does?
Not much of a criticism, but I love the design. It's pretty generic, but it feels like a generic app site done absolutely right.
Also implemented here by Mr.doob: http://www.ro.me/
This is yet another reason that I disable javascript altogether in my browser. Only on those websites that absolutely require it to function do I enable it. Unfortunately, more and more websites rely on it.
Damn. I'm stuck in Tucson, between the rock that is Qwest and the hard place that is Comcast. If Sonic operated here—or someone similar—I'd switch instantly.
It has been opposed to individual freedom since it put down the Whiskey Rebellion. If people cared about personal freedom George Washington would have been hung for treason.
A similarly fascinating and influential book for me (at age 10, mind you) was Out of the Inner Circle, a book whose cover featured the "computer intruder" author with a black box over his eyes. So as you might guess, it was very much following in the same outlaw hacker mold which may have been set with this very article.

The book, ghostwritten by Howard Rheingold in 1985, was a visceral crystallization of what I think is fair to call the punk era of hacking in the early 80's. Having just enough point of contact in personal computing to understand what was going on and just enough credulity to accept the wildness of the story, it was quite a captivating narrative. This book, a few issues of Electronic Fun with Computers and Games and a photocopied version of The Secret Guide to Computers were what really turned me on to computers as a kid in the 80's.

Reading a book like Inner Circle or an article like this may have provided a certain hero myth for hackers, the kind which sometimes seems necessary to kindle a long-term passion. A myth like what James Bond was to aspiring CIA operatives, Star Trek was to future JPL engineers, and now The Social Network is to Stanford undergrads. I think our society greatly underestimates how valuable these myths can be. Without an article about having a hand-held box that lets you put a worldwide communications network at your disposal, would there be an iPhone?
Instead of malloc, wouldn't it be safer to trigger an int80 straight to the mmap syscall? You only need to overwrite a few instructions, and put them back in place when you're done. Then you have freshly allocated memory pages for your exclusive use, and I'm guessing things get a little simpler.
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Agreed. Sonic.net has been my ISP for 5 years now, and I've only had a problem with their DSL service once. The problem turned out to be a failing modem, which they replaced, for free, even though the modem had just gone out of warranty.

Can't wait for their SF fiber roll-out.
Google swag usually isn't primarily in Google colors. I have a jacket which is black with a small red "Geo NYC" logo on the breast...and a t-shirt which is black with the Google logo on it in the normal colors. Neither looks clownish.
PHP was designed to replace Perl, so how could anyone still be using it!? </sarcasm>
Could you explain the project in a bit more detail? Right now I'm not 100% sure what it does.

Basically I'm confused because I can't relate to the problem. I've never needed to ssh into a server to play an internet radio station. What kind of a media setup do you have to build to reach that problem?
I've wanted to dabble in a few audio experiments myself, however I keep coming up short trying to find single sample tones for all the notes on a scale. Not sure exactly what to search for. Any tips for good source material?
How dare we give someone the chance to volunteer their time for something? From now on, I say we force everyone to require monetary compensation for all time spent on any projects, even if it's something to which they want to donate their time.
CoApp is also backed by Microsoft, IIRC.
Having worked at Microsoft (which I pretty much only have nice things to say about - it was a great environment in many ways) and now being at Google, I have to say that they feel very very different. I feel like I have far more ability to make things happen/be creative/take initiative at Google; admittedly, I happen to be on a new, small team, but I don't think my experience is that unusual.
Kindly, maybe a retitle, a contextual reframing would angle yourself a more positive approach?

Elevating emotions with class warfare within a general community is direct politic.

I believe you have a better muse.
This is a browser bug. If you don't want the browser to send keystrokes to the selected page, program it not to.

(I tried to do this in conkeror to override Github's retarded keybinding for "l", but I failed. I don't blame Github, though, I blame my shitty user agent.)
Just to help connect the dots on this - Sonic is the ISP that received a court order for Jacob Appelbaum's email. https://uloadr.com/u/rA44.png

The author of the "Five Levels" article is the CEO of Sonic.
>I would settle for a way to see mappings. Browsers already have to know what the mappings are in order to support them, they just don't share that information with users.

It's not that simple- the onkeypress event fires every time a key is pressed. What the function handler actually does is non-deterministic. The web app would have to somehow declare its keyboard shortcuts.
That and these days you can get 200, 500, 1000GB caps, which really are about as good as unlimited as you can get. You'd really have to push to download that much data in a calendar month.
I do have rebuttals to many of them, and you can read them at http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/whitepapers/heldhosta.... This law is not a good example of regulation in the public interest.

Think Computer Corporation isn't listed in the opposition column because I had no idea that there was a hearing scheduled for April 19, 2010 in Sacramento on the issue. Did you?

It's pretty sad that you can buy a law for $20K. They only spent $3,600 in Virginia.

Also, "waive" and "wave" mean different things.
>This is exactly why Apple is anti-hacker.

Because they get the technology out of my way unless I want to know? It's bizarre enough to have this stance at all, but to want to force it on others?

>Yet we spend years learning how to operate the human machine.

We all learn the things that are part of our expertise and try to avoid learning things beyond that. Can you fix your car if it breaks down (well, from the sound of you, you probably can to some extent)? I don't know how and I don't want to know how. I just want it to do what I bought it to do. I don't care why or how it works. The only thing I have to learn about a car is just the bits I need to get it to do the job I bought it for.

It is naive and unrealistic to expect everyone to be an expert of everything. And why do they need to learn how to administer a linux server just because they want to look up some information that happens to be online?

>To go off on a slight tangent, why is it so widely accepted that everything should be easy and require no thought?

This is certainly a tangent. Things should scale with use. If I'm a sales guy I don't want to know anymore about a computer than I absolutely must. I have a million things I have to know to sell, why burden my mind with information that has nothing to do with that? I don't care about password security or any of that nonsense. I need to check what other people are asking/saying (email) and be able to create slide shows.

>Since when do we celebrate ignorance?

On the contrary, it's takes someone truly brilliant to make something so simple that you don't have to "learn" it to use it.

>There is a clear benefit to understanding your tools which is that they become more effective.

And for those that need that, it exists. Just don't force it on the 99.9999% who don't need it.

>I feel that we are too far in the former direction.

I feel we're not remotely far enough in the efficiency direction. There are still far to many underpinnings showing.

>makes greed their life

Greed? Do you mean as in; for money? He wanted to change the world. How could it be greed? First of all; he became even more focused when he found out he was going to die (what good would even more money do him them) and second; he wasn't taking pay for what he was doing!
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I agree with you, I'm not a good PHP developer.
Before that bad experience, I was thinking that PHP was a kind of visual basic for the Web. Easy to write, fast to get something.
I was wrong, that why I've called my language PHP.reboot because I think that PHP in 2010 should be rebooted to be secure by default.

Now, the main point of this toy language as you call it is to demonstrate that a dynamic language can be fast if you don't design it with an interpreter in mind.
BTW, I really hope that this is what Dart is.

Rémi
www.cushycms.com is pretty usable for that purpose.
I do a similar thing, but I live a few miles away and walk to work. A bonus: Crossing the grid diagonally allows me to vary my route frequently without any additional time penalty.
Amazing how far we've come, eh? Hard for me to reconcile the fact that I have to put US-based communications in the same mental bucket as China-based communications.
Creating an object:

Greeter greeter = new Greeter()

or

var greeter = new Greeter()

Defining a constant:

static final myConst = 1

Plus there are classes, interfaces... It's just Java?
The "hello world" example is incredibly uninformative. What does that have to do with "structured web programming"? Where is this printed out on a web page? Does the console output there correspond to the html output? Or some other console?
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Wasn't Rheingold the greybeard in that documentary about Suck.com (about the first web bubble)?
I use my backspace-key zu back-navigate very often. Very Often. Until I stumble upon a Google Searchtesult page.... ugh.
Why I like my Backspace-Key to go back? Because beside its name, its right above my returnkey and switching to a URL to read something up and then quickly get back is a nice feature. Yeah ALT+CURSOR_LEFT works too, but that are two Fingers I have to positionate to hit the correct key while backspace is just 1cm moving of my index finger.
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If you're using safari, then press forward right away because your form data will still be there.
Looks a lot more like James Gosling, actually ....
Because hijacking the name of a popular project is a dickish move in general (see http://www.php.net/license/index.php#faq-lic), doing it for ludicrous reasons even more so.
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>What Apple's products tend to do is trade one kind of freedom for another. They don't eliminate or reduce freedom, they transform the essential nature of it.

No. Apple's design choices remove freedom. It would be easy for Apple keep their software as it is, but also include text config files. I agree with you that "sane defaults" are something that Apple does really well, and I agree with you that it's great for many users.

But not having the option to change some behaviours; having that option locked out, has removed some freedom from some users.
Just had a look on my laptop - it's a very nice landing page :o
My experience is that with ridiculously much exercise, I can do with less sleep and still feel excellent.

However, that usually means trading one hour of sleep for one hour of additional exercise. And I'm lazy, so sleep it is! :-)

The thing I'm jealous at you US people for most of all (except those from Maine and Alaska) is the ability to wake up with the sun each morning. Here in Northern Europe, the seasonal differences are simply too large.
but one advantage of having different syntaxes inside the language is that you don't rely on strings to do everything.
So your language is more secure and can have better performance because by example for the SQL syntax you can produce a tree instead of serializing your request as a string.
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Failure to live up to promised quality of service is one obvious "evil" to be added to the article.

ISP does not even have to be "deliberately" evil to underinvest in their network and oversell their capacity. Measure your latencies and actual bandwidth throughput and often you might smell a rat. This is not even necessarily by malicious intent, the infrastructure of ISPs could be sufficiently complex that some subtle mis-configuration somewhere in the upstream router could kill your performance for certain operations.

ISPs act as Internet gatekeepers and have enormous power over its clients/users. With this great power should come great responsibility.
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> Browsers already have to know what the mappings are in order to support them, they just don't share that information with users.

Unfortunately the way this works in the DOM makes that undecidable. An arbitrary piece of JS code from the web page gets invoked for every keystroke, if the page code has added a handler for key events. If it has not called cancelDefault() on the event object by the time it returns, the browser takes the default action. The question of whether or not user JS code will invoke cancelDefault() for a given event is equivalent to the halting problem.
Hmm. A little underwhelmed so far.
I'm pretty sure they've underestimated the fall of the laptop/notebook market share in the upcoming years.
Can anyone explain why I should use this instead of other web programming languages?
Looks like an extended javascript with strong typing and more OO support, is it designed to replace javascript?
See this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699610
So far I couldn't find any reference to threads/continuations/coroutines...
Is the adobe demo playable by the public? I was under the impression that they showed a video but I can't find a way to actually try it.

Until then Adobe still has to fix all the issues that the browser vendors are working on. We will have to see but I'm going to wait until it's released and usable, right now it's just a tech demo.

In fact, just yesterday someone had code up to display TF2 levels and he also built a demo capable of displaying the Rage IOS levels in WebGL a few months ago. So there your example of AAA games.
>the Macbook Pro line will be slimmed down to Air specs

Wow, I hope not. Right now I use MBP as a desktop replacement. I've been able to get away with that so far because the iMac isn't normally dramatically far ahead of the 17".
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We're just across the Tasman from you, and have experienced the exact same thing with our games startup. When my (admittedly modest, even by Kiwi standards) co-founder was over at E3, he reportedly initally caused great confusion amongst Californians by describing our games as 'merely' "pretty good".
"There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great man theory, neatly summarized by the quote ”the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” This view was famously espoused by the philosopher Hegel and later Nietzche, who called such great people Ubermenchen (“supermen”)."

This is such a gross misunderstanding of Nietzsche and his übermensch construct that it gives little credibility to the rest of the article...
New MIME type "application/dart"... I suspect that Google Chrome will embed a Dart Runtime when it gets stable, that will be very interesting; I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing though.
It's actually runnable if you click the "play"-icon in the top-left of the code sample.

The "Hello, Dart!" is written to a console emerging from underneath the code sample.

https://code.google.com/p/dart/source/browse/branches/bleedi... is a more DOM-oriented version of the same program.
Nevermind! This looks quite exciting [1]:

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Concurrency is supported via actor-like entities called isolates.
An isolate is a unit of concurrency. It has its own memory and its own thread of control. Isolates communicate by message passing (10.14.4). No state is ever shared between isolates. Isolates are created by spawning (10.11)
>>

[1] http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf
Did you ever bother to read the HTTP vs. the FTP specs? "Remotely close" rings any bell?
I don't get it. What's the runtime for this? The interpreter seems to be running on App Engine, so it's probably JVM based, right?
I am most excited about the concurrency model!

"Concurrency is supported via actor-like entities called isolates. An isolate is a unit of concurrency. It has its own memory and its own thread of control. Isolates communicate by message passing (10.14.4). No state is ever shared between isolates. Isolates are created by spawning (10.11)"

http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf

I wonder how they compile this down to Javascript?
No it is not an obvious evil, it is an off topic evil.

This is a list of privacy issues, not incompetence.
HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3092558
Wow, really nice. I was looking for a tool to try out some code when working away from my workstation. This fits the bill, its fast and agreable to use. Thanks!
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The 1px gray border around the phone on the landing page blends right into the blue stripe, and the top metal bezel blends right into the white, making the whole design feel very flat. It would look better if you in some way added a bit of separation between phone and background.
No data is lost... if you're doing it wrong and hit backspace, hit 'page forward' to correct your blatant error.
You shouldn't. This has no practical use right now. Google's basically just showing us what they think JavaScript should look like.
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Yeah, there are more links to code samples here: http://www.dartlang.org/samples/index.html