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Ah, here we go.

"And it also doesn’t count as using up your personal time because it is adding something that nobody except Olympic athletes is doing enough of anyway – exercise. You can take your 10 minute bike ride directly out of time you would have otherwise spent in the gym, or waiting in the doctor’s office for prescription medication."

I was wondering how he managed to eliminate that from his calculations. He didn't, of course. Some of us don't do either of the alternatives, so this really would be stealing the time from their day.

And 10 minutes? 5 minutes each way? I'm pretty sure that's all but impossible in most major cities.

And some of those car costs don't disappear when the commute does. You still have to -have- one to go shopping, on trips, and other errands around town.

And so you get to work after your 20 minute bike ride, and what do you do? Why, you go shower, of course! You were just biking for 20 minutes! Nobody wants to smell you. That takes more time from your down... Don't forget the shower when you get home, too! ... Your company doesn't have a shower? Good luck with that!

And danger! When you've got a ton of steel wrapped around you, you don't think much of the danger of the open road. But when the only thing keeping your brain away from the pavement is a little foam hat, the world is quite a bit scarier... Even if the drivers are playing nice!

Oh, lunch time. My favorite time, I'll just go get... Oh wait. I biked in today. I can't go very far... Guess I'm eating that bag lunch after all.

I choose my apartments for their proximity to work. And I love having a short commute... But even when I -could- bike, I rarely did. There were just too many problems with it.
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vBulletin has run a lot of big forums and finding someone who has experience skinning it should be easy.

also, http://vanillaforums.org/
For sure, if you're setting up a proper home theater, the 1080p media will make a difference. For the family room, I agree the difference is minimal. At typical viewing distances, it's probably not even visible.

As for streaming, from what I understand, 720p is actually better than 1080p when streaming, because 1080p streams end up getting compressed to the point that they actually look worse than the 720p equivalent. Fuzziness from stretching the 720p signal is less visible than blockiness from 1080p compression. Blu-Ray obviously doesn't suffer from streaming limitations, though.
Me and the rest of the developer community laugh at the contrary blog posts, all the way to the bank. This weekend, there will be hundreds of thousands more iPhone owners, and the developer community will make a fortune.

I applaud Apple for focusing on what's important - speed and sex, not features and fapping. Because when they do, all my apps get faster and all my customers get happier, and I don't have to do much work at all. Integrating with new APIs and hardware is a necessary evil, but we just want the devices to keep getting smaller and faster, as do the consumers.
I've yet to hear anyone protest manufacturing or retail. The outrage is over the government subsidizing the banking industry while refusing to do anything for the roughly twenty percent of the population that is essentially jobless, uninsured and mired in debt.

As a case in point, right now the Federal Reserve is funneling free money to banks, which are using those funds not to lend but rather to engage in short-term arbitrage and leveraged trading activities. One example is taking almost zero-interest loans from the Fed and using them to purchase Treasury Bonds which pay much higher interest rates.

According estimates published by Ron Suskind in his recent book "Confidence Men", simply printing the money and giving it directly to the government to spend would save something like 350 billion in interest. Leaving aside the question of how many jobs could be created with those funds, I'm sure there are plenty of individuals at the protests in New York and elsewhere who would be willing to act as middleman for considerably less than 350 billion. Why shouldn't they be angry?
"and really who isn't unhappy with the world right now?"

Most people who are capable of rationally evaluating the standards of living we currently enjoy versus that of any other point in human history usually aren't that unhappy with the world right now.

I say this in the general sense; of course at any given time, N individuals will be hitting the bottom of the barrel, but the barrel is getting shallower and shallower with each generation.

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes; apparently I'm factually incorrect, and the Global Human Development Index is actually declining?
Ask HN: How many of you read beyond the top 200 posts on HN?
How many of you read beyond the top 200 posts on HN?
Oh man, does mentioning the name of famous people or parties count as partisan now? How exactly would you like your news?

"A party tried to vote on a bill today. A leader of that party said it was a good idea."

Since HN is targeted at the startup crowd, many of whom hope to become or are already wealthy, this seems applicable. Doubly so, since Krugman is pointing out that the financial industry is using a false association with productive rich people to cloak their behavior. If the hammer end up falling anyway, Silicon Valley might be wishing that Wall Street didn't drag their name down into the mud alongside their own.
Where does that information come from? Is that a common way for such deals to be made?
I did actually try a couple times. :)
The mistake Netflix made was adding in streaming to its DVDs-by-mail brand in the first place. Had they launched Qwikster instead of adding Instant to Netflix, Qwikster would almost certainly be a strong brand today, probably the leading streaming movie brand.

If you doubt this, take a look at Hulu. Hulu's a strong streaming TV brand because of its content deals; it didn't need to tack on the names of its industry sponsors to become the place to go for streaming TV.

Now Netflix is saddled with trying to be two things at once. Just because one company is trying to do two things doesn't mean it needs to stuff them both into a single brand.
It was a dumb idea to use http:// as the namespace for XML DTDs. They should have used URIs that don't work when typed into a browser, like dtd:/W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict/EN instead of http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd.

Oh well.
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That was the first thing that struck me (even before the #include) as I have no idea how to write those.
Very few of us, I would say.
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His argument is not necessarily partisan; it's simply that certain individuals representing one of those parties have stuck their necks out especially far to disparage the movement, in order to score political points, and so they are the ones upon whom the blade naturally falls. This is an issue of class conflict more than partisan, and both parties are deserving of criticism in this regard.
I think I disagree because I'm more interested in what some of the more inbiased Hacker News'opinions are. For example, I very much enjoyed geebee's comment and insight and it is one I don't think I would have gleened from the NYT Comment section or other source.
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True, but you will very selldom have clear sidewalks and even if they have been cleared you still risk falling on some piece of ice.
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Wow! Now I know that only Republicans represent the obscenely wealthy. Thanks, Krugman!
Given that its supported by Sencha (ExtGWT), and Spring, and IntelliJ, you can probably guess that the vast majority of GWT users are in enterprise environments. :) AngryBirds uses GWT. You actually don't see many people writing very large Web apps outside of Google precisely because most organizations didn't have the resources to produce something like Closure or GWT. Duplicating GMail with no tooling using basic JS is quite a tall order.

Many new Google services these days use GWT, like Google Flights, Hotels, the new YouTube editor, Google Offers, etc. AdWords is written in GWT too and is quite large (millions of lines)

One of the problems Dart hopes to solve is to have a large codebase(apps easily into the millions of lines of code) that is toolable, and statically optimizable. Javascript is particularly poor at this.

The Closure Compiler was actually invented by the Google Mail and Calendar teams as a way to wrangle Javascript and tame it's suckier bits to enable sane development of large apps.
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That would indeed be the biggest issue.

You are right in that not properly having some type of failover and thus funneling all traffic to a single region or datacenter hurts.

I would have thought that a Corp as big as RIM is that they'd be able to hire some seriously good talent which address this issue. Especially since I believe one of the big points they use to sell to business is the 'Enterprise stability' line.
> C# 1.0 was "terrible" for the reasons of being practical.

No, C# 1.0 was terrible for the reasons of being a slightly improved Java, without some of the baggage (before it created its own, because you can't be a good java descendent without building a pile of legacy garbage) and nothing more.

Fucking hell, I loathe this bullshit about "pratical", it's the most meaningless term since "strongly typed". You know what else is practical? Computed gotos, FORTRAN IV, Superzap, front-panel switches, punch-cards, tape decks and magnetic-core memory.

Releasing C# without generics and half-deprecating all of the collection hierarchy (but leaving it in an undead state by not actually migrating users of old collections) a version and 2 years later was not "practical", it was a lack of foresight. Not having iterables was not "practical" it was "a pain", taking 2 releases to get properties (in the first place, and not so verbose you wanted to stab your eyes out) was not "practical" it was "whelp let's get this shit out now, who cares", having nullable references still isn't practical to this day.

> What language do you think was perfect at it's first release?

None, I've yet to see a perfect language at all. But there's a gap between a terrible language and a good language, or even an interesting language. C# 1.0 was nowhere near a good language. It wasn't even interesting.

And it's not like this shit's new, most of it is multiple decades old at this point (the only language aiming at mainstream I've seen do anything even remotely novel as of late is Rust and its typestates). We're talking about making mistakes which have been solved for 20 years.
Except that OWS is losing legitimacy because the political operatives have decided to take it over or at least try. By putting the union members on the line with genuine protesters they are making it out to be something it is not, as in there is a direct attempt to make this work for the DNC and not for the protesters.

The odd part about having the union members march along in NYC is many of them are very highly compensated both in yearly pay and retirement whereas the majority of protesters look like they still need mom and dad.

There is a rising level of frustration but I don't think OWS has the answer. The local Atlanta version very impolitely chased on Representative John Lewis shows that at is basis they are not aligned with any particular party. So attempts by the DNC machine to co-opt this to give them a legitimate counterpoint to the Tea Party are going to fail, and fail badly.
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I'm mainly curious why Google isn't going after some sort of bytecode for browsers, and then building a language on top of that. That would let developers use the language that works best for them, and would really open things up for new languages in the browser.

Does anyone on the Dash team have any feedback on why you guys decided not to go that route?
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I did the same, first switched to DVD only before the price hike ( couldn't find anything on streaming I liked... ), then just today cancelled the DVD service, probably wont be back as a customer...
"What I did take away from Intuit was an essential skill: How to rapidly test and iterate on ideas until you finally get to an indispensable product."

I found that comment really interesting since I've heard this from multiple current and ex Intuit employees. Given how "hot" the lean start-up methodology is, you'd think Intuit would push this more in their recruiting.
Why not say why you think Krugman's articles in particular should not appear on HN?

I want to see this kind of article on HN because it's hard to find a high-level discussion of these issues elsewhere.
Would you also rather HN avoids the topic of Krugman's editorial entirely, or just his take on it. Personally, I think the topic in general is extremely important, and relevant, for HN members, and I for one am interested in HN members' opinions.
Adbusters is an advocacy organization. Do you count PETA as a media organization?
And they are ruled by pools of monies.
Perhaps, but sometimes you just have to get your hands dirty, right?
I didn't know about paid SU... i'm going to give it a try with one of my projects, www.plansharing.com. I've tried Facebook ads and Google AdWords. Neither of which has been very good. Facebook REALY doesn't want to send you off site, and mostly the google ads were run on spam trap websites in my experience.

If SU leads to organic traffic too, that's an interesting alternative.
My reaction to the article was much the same. The article makes an argument I've made myself several times.

But the author's examples and 'calculations' are just this side of garbage.
Well stated ... and you really have to be careful defining wealth creation. I view most of Wall Street's activities as sucking money out of the wealth creation stream as if flows by. (I won't even claim that the investment banks are the only ones stealing from other's hard work ... where is the interest on my savings account? It was 5.25 percent when I was younger).

And before I get completely flayed by the big company supporters, I'll also state that I don't have a problem with money lenders and brokers making a living ... but what we're watching today is flat-out usury.
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> out of 4,294,967,296 possible values

Another dangerous thing in C: assuming the size of integer types.
Update: Google has confirmed to me that Andrey Petrov is joining them. They were silent about whether or not any assets or property of SocialGrapple were part of the move.
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Congrats. So I guess Google+ Analytics is the next stop...
Isolated cookie store?

I noticed yesterday that Fluid uses the Safari cookie store - which makes it useless atm as a private browser.
There is a lot more information in an editorial than a directional vote.
It would be more interesting to see which execs got huge compensation while getting big government handouts that have _not_ been repaid, and/or did not make the government money.
Please tell me you aren't nicknaming yourself after Jefferson Davis. ;)

Anyway, I admit it's a stretch, but Krugman is one of our most valuable economists, and this can be read as a social assessment of the current dynamics in our economy, including these growing protests. This has ramifications for us all, most certainly including hackers.

I disagree that Krugman's piece is overly partisan; it's not his fault that virtually all the plutocrats at fault happen to be Republicans.
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So true ... though the Apple masses don't tend to recognize they're using UNIX. And ARM is a great technology that's also pushed others. Would Atom exist if ARM hadn't been pushing the low-power agenda?
love coincidences, I have just published my own network for betas and startups ( right now it' s under your post in the hn ask page ). Maybe it' s not exactly what you are looking for, also because it' so new that there are not many people in it. But i think it's worth checking out :) Best wishes and good look for your app, which i like a lot by the way!
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I love how a simple slideshow made out of cartoon characters got me knowing about the C and C++ standards more than a written reference ever did.
I'd expect IBM, of all "big companies," to be one of the least concerned about an acquisition using GPL software. They do so much work with GPL software, I'm sure they have very well defined internal policies on making sure they're in compliance. IBM is number 7 by measure of changesets (http://lwn.net/Articles/460597/) in the 3.1 Linux kernel.

Heck, my company (approx 150k employees) isn't what I'd consider a good contributor to open source software but even we have internal policies defining how we need to comply with GPL and other open source licenses. There's lawyers internally that specifically work with open source compliance.

As long as you have your act together and can show that you're compliant with all licenses (open or closed), I can't see why it would be a major barrier to a legit buyout offer.
What is also interesting is that it appears like Intuit known for essentially building accounting software and accounting software inherently does not elicit "lean" emotions has a pretty good process in place where employees can translate their skills in the startup world. Like you had already mentioned that would be an invaluable recruiting tool.
The bank bailout is the one thing that seems to have actually worked.

The Fannie and Freddie bailout is still sucking money. TARP was a disaster.

And, the less said about Obama's green initiative, the better.
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Well said. I mean the dichotomy couldn't be more starkly illustrated than with Steve Job's death.

I was at the Apple Store in Chicago yesterday and the glass wall was covered in sticky notes and there were flowers and apples on the sidewalk in front of the store. Tourists were gathered around to take pictures of the impromptu memorial, for a man who was worth about $7 billion when he died. These same people wouldn't piss on Lloyd Blankfein to save his life, even though he is worth less than $0.5 billion.
I'm using it in a project I'm working on. It's really easy to use!
To the other repliers: it's downloading when you click on the download link in the top-level navigation. This was surprising and annoying to me as well.
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It's not though. If you're going to upend PHP in order to make it more like something else, maybe just use something else.
Thanks! I needed a reminder why I hate C so much.

You must be a language lawyer in order to do anything moderately complex and then be met with "the standard doesn't say anything about that!" when you realized the standard library doesn't include the most basic of things (yeah comp.lang.c, I'm looking at you...).

Yeah, I know. C++0x will be the grand unifying standard to rule them all...sure.
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Social Networks like G+ or Facebook are based upon either selling your data or co-selling it as in advertisement. This of course has implications on visibility and privacy of _your_ data.

I believe, this has to change. For this I'd like to learn, would you pay for a Facebook-like service in order to keep your data private and safe?
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True, it's a circle.

But are the people who protest the current setup insane, or is it the people who think dumping trillions of dollars into a broken system while doing nothing amidst historic unemployment and stagnation who are nuts?
If you were to make that analogy, I would think of it as the other way around...

You have to join a Bubble to receive the posts from it... you can't follow a user "at whole" unless you do it on twitter.

So it's a more direct relationship, your sharing with x people in the y something bubble... but they specifically joined that bubble because they only want to know about the "y something"

Also the people joined in the Bubble can post, it's not only the person who starts the Bubble.

Let me know your thoughts!
Ditch? No, it's a success! What I am saying it that smartphones probably won't change much its hardware format for some more years (with just tiny differences) so if I had to guess I'd say software is pretty much everything on this race in the medium term.

So, back to my iPhone roadmap, I can't see Apple releasing iOS 6 just after one year so iPhone 5, to be released in 2012, will still feature iOS 5 thus there won't be magical changes (the ones I was talking about on my previous post). Either Apple do something amazing hardware-wise or they hurry iOS 6 to be a major update to the platform in 2012 already.
Yes, it's okay if it's started once, but if you have to run it over and over then it's not. For example run it 10000 times, and if time it takes 300ms - you are looking at an hour of execution. Some apps (even if they are big) are just naturally cached by the OS in the file system buffers, but others are doing quite of other things before running.

If this is going to be a "shell" replacement it needs to start very fast at least in hot mode (cached).
> Google should be proposing a standard, open, byte-code compatible, Intermediate Language standard that can run Javascript and in the interim run on Javascript.

> That is something I could see Mozilla and Apple getting behind.

Why would you expect either Mozilla or Apple to get behind such a proposal? Apple has a powerful self-interest in making sure the Web remains a second-best app platform behind iOS and desktop OS X. Mozilla wants the Web to be the premier app platform - but it's no bloody good to Mozilla if the web is the world's #1 web platform but Mozilla has no control over it anymore. The last thing Mozilla wants to see is the Web browser become some fairly-easily-implemented, highly-interchangeable runtime platform adhering to a stable, open spec somewhere. This would, I think, be very good for the world at large, but it would undoubtedly be very bad for Mozilla - it's what is known as the commoditization of the platform. Mozilla's self-interest is served by keeping as much of the Web as possible controlled, in the minutest detail possible, by the hard-to-join club of major browser vendors. Right down to things like the lexical syntax of JavaScript. So in reality, as soon as Google proposed such an IL, Mozilla's advocates would start blowing smoke about "oh no, another Java".