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A good guide for BSD users is here:

http://arduino.cc/playground/OpenBSD/CLI

Most of the non-IDE toolchains I've encountered were horrific monsters, including several TextMate bundles. I wonder how worthwhile it would be to create a simple wrapper a la dotcloud's deploy utility, or Rails' initial project build.
What does iOS 5 do that she actually needs? My nontechnical friend anecdote is the opposite: she likes the big screen and Swype on the Evo, and doesn't care what OS point version it's running.
the only meaningful opposition has come from democrats, and the entire political spectrum of "anti government" has lined up behind it

Which Libertarian think-tank was it that was supporting the bill?

Really, jbooth, your partisanship isn't helping anything.
Hey look it's all white guys ... How inclusive!
It would turn corporations into tax shelters, allowing investments to compound at a faster rate

Is that so bad? Is it bad if we encourage people to invest in businesses rather than term deposits (or CDs as I think they're called in the US)?
From my experience, Intel is nicer for addressing (e.g. [foo + bar * baz] instead of -foo(bar, baz, qux) is much more meaningful) and (at least nasm's) macros are more powerful as they can do looping and conditionals, which are useful for static generation of things like tables.
It would be easy to argue that most software fits the "tool" label. As far as I know, rms objects to describing GNU as a set of "programming tools" or "development tools" as he (reasonably, in this case, I think) finds those labels unfair. GNU software is required for any operating system using the Linux kernel, as far as I'm aware, and those systems are not limited to programming or development.
Only partially. This code isn't portable. This is more analogous to a game engine, it's a development engine. Along with not being portable, the code can't be distributed. If the developer offered some package with their rendering engine for purchase outside the app store, then other devs could publish games using this development engine.
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I don't think it was an ejection seat, I think they jumped out the hatch.
It's more that you get towed, vs. fined. Even if you're a billionaire, it's annoying when someone tows your car.
With more apps like this, hopefully that will change.

Until then, more angry birds!
It's meant as a humorous reference to all the content creation v. consumption talk when the iPad came out. http://allthingsd.com/20110302/so-tablets-arent-for-content-...

Not everything has to be serious.
>It was by no means an organic/natural effect of our socialism being dysfunctional.

as in some humor underground song of 70's (written by a musician who traveled internationally with official Soviet Union folk choir) "you can find everything in Yugoslavia - condoms, TVs, clothes, watches - everything, except f&cking socialism " :)
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(Yay deeplinking)
I agree with this sentiment (and that Jobs would have left much less of a dent were it not for Ritchie), but I can't help but think we've got this whole thing backwards. We should celebrate people such as Jobs, Ritchie and Uncle John in their life while /they/ could enjoy it, and not wait until they're gone. (So really, every day should have been Dennis Ritchie day, and John McCarthy day, and et cetera.)

But if there's a Dennis Ritchie day, or a John McCarthy day, I'll certainly take time to celebrate the life of a real hacker. They will be missed.
Thanks for the disclaimer. Your post is propaganda.

Finding information on Steve Jobs from 2000 - 2005 is actually pretty easy on Google. Search "steve jobs", then on the left-hand bar, click "custom range," and input 2000 to 2005. Done.

I invite readers to actually try the blekko example to see how incapable it is. Searching with /date=2005 : (a) sorts the results by date, such that you the first few pages are full of irrelevant pages from Dec 31, 2005. And, (b) only returns results from 2005 (it's not clear how to search over a time range).
I think that this might well be the most idiotic comment I've ever read on Hacker News.
Personally I think that Amazon has essentially unlimited growth opportunity, much higher than even the most amazing, most profitable product companies like Apple or Google. Product companies have a Microsoft problem: after they dominate a given market (and Microsoft pretty much dominated a lot of the most valuable segments of software market) and that market matures into slow growth, they have a very hard time finding new opportunities and consequently only grow with the size of the market, and as we've seen with Microsoft's flat stock price, Wall Street doesn't like that.

To me, Amazon's is Merchant Of Everything, both physical and digital and Everything is a very big market. Amazon grew to its current size by exploiting shift to on-line purchasing but today they're big enough to start taking advantage of their size. Walmart conquered U.S. with lower prices but Amazon can offer even better prices because they don't have to operate physical stores with staff, just warehouses. Amazon is not done until they have a warehouse for each Walmart store, Best Buy store etc. and their competitive advantage grows with every warehouse they build.

And when there are more Amazon's warehouse than Starbucks, there's international market to conquer.

Additionally Bezos has shown that he's very comfortable competing aggressively, running the business at the edge of profitability, which makes sense if you think that Amazon's ultimate ambition is to drive every other merchant out of business by offering lower prices and become the Merchant Of Everything.
There are some red, blue, purple and green guys if you look further down.
Did the author of this post read the New Yorker article? If so, he might have noticed that Anthony Trollope was not a postman. His duties varied during his career, but he was never out carrying a mailbag.

Trollope's autobiography, which you can find at the Gutenberg project, is very much worth reading. It does support some, not all, of the assertions here. Trollope was very cool in evaluating his own productions and indeed his trade, his vocation, or whatever you will call it. He worked hard at writing well.

As for the assertion that writer's block didn't exist before the late 19th Century, what evidence is there? It seems to me that various artists have always left works unfinished.
I never meant that I didn't think anyone wanted do, just that nobody does it. The StackExchange question doesn't contribute to that, he wanted to but found out he couldn't and so he didn't.
Apple already allows JS (and other) interpreters to be embedded as used in projects such as Titanium and Impact game engine.
That depends on what the businesses are doing. If people set up corporations which do nothing other than hold term deposits, I don't see how that's any better than people directly holding term deposits.
I assumed that he just wants a tea cup and a hot water supply.
"Suffice to say, there were/are pros and cons to having a specialist."

Let's not go there. Specialists were accused of favoritism: filling orders that certain traders submitted and ignoring requests from other traders.

More generally, the advancements, both in technology and in pricing, actually helped everyone. SOES (small order entry system) helped smaller traders to quickly trade. Decimalization really helped reduce transactions costs (spread between bid and offer is a sort of transaction cost, when we were dealing with 1/16th quoting, the spread cost was over 6 cents)

On another front, brokers used to screw people over by telling people they bought at one price while actually buying at a lower price. This is why Regulation NMS came about. And HFTs nowadays help keep all of the exchange prices in line, minimizing the potential damage of shady broker behavior.
As a side note. Is Lua as a language any good? Will it continue to be used in the future?
* Sales guys - Does every request have to be called "urgent"? Have you ever had a non-urgent request?

* Why do things seem to pop up at the last minute, giving us nowhere near enough lead time?
I think you should have read the whole comment you were responding to. Dead squids don’t have brains. rms does.
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29 interviews in the past? I would hope the first interviewer would state in precise terms how many options I would be getting.
Debugging and editing web pages in 3D
It's one hell of an ugly link, but:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=perl+tutorial&ie=utf-8...
I think nobody and spot may have been referring to pension funds as well, seeing that many pension funds did have the AAA rated CDOs in their portfolios.
Well, I bought a car and exchanged plates there.
>Now that's what I expect out of a multibillionaire.

I suppose it makes up for him not living in a gated fortress.
Those are the top ten salaries. Getting a job at Google probably isn't for one of those jobs. It would have been nice to see data on salaries that entry level engineers get etc.
You want to criminalise failure to recycle, or failure to provide a work environment that's unreceptive to disabled persons? How's that going to work?

At what point does pollution or energy usage become criminal?
Predictably those "crazy Google interview questions" sound like bullshit.

And displaying top salaries as a pie chart is confusingly meaningless.
Me too. As the WSJ column says, the streaming catalog just isn't adequate yet.
I tried it for a few weeks, but then gave in. But I mostly hang out on the long tail; almost nothing I wanted to watch was available for streaming. My wife, on the other hand, streams a lot.
If you like CoffeeScript you should try out http://moonscript.org

CoffeeScript inspired syntax that compiles right to Lua.
I highly recommend Derek Sivers' videos: http://www.youtube.com/dereksivers
Sounds like a win!
A sign of the times
If you'd like something with more of an Electrical Engineering bent, nerdkits are pretty good, and they use the same chips. They still have a bootloader, but other than that it seems to be raw C, bitbanging, interrupts, all that sort of thing :)
People usually put an equality sign between high-frequency trading and algorithmic trading. One is a subset of another.

There's also a subset of algorithmic trading that inserts large stop-loss orders (not much of an algorithm there, it's just done by computer program instead of an individual), which have been known to cause flash crashes.

Hence the confusion and belief that by eliminating HFT we'll eliminate automatic stop-loss orders.
The problem with graphical programming is that it is inefficient when it comes to using a large API. There are only so many icons and graphical objects you can fit on a screen, while still making it easy for users to find them.

That's why they are restrictive, they have to choose only a narrow set of methods to expose to the users. By narrowing their available functionality they also become useful for a smaller domain of problems.

Codify does not try to replace text-based programming, but instead to make it easier and sometimes more efficient for graphics-intensive programming. For example, the easy to reach color selector is much faster than having to use a separate tool to get the numbers for the color you want. Same thing for the image selector.
I see some fine looking old cars here and there, for example a pickup truck that looks to be a 1950s or early 1960s model a few blocks from here. It is far better looking than either of our household's cars, and for most of our uses would serve perfectly well. Indeed, for errands such as dump runs or fetching garden supplies, it would serve better.

But I bet it gets worse mileage. I expect it burns more oil. Our cars are vastly safer, with air bags and shoulder belts.

You don't have to plan obsolescence, you have to plan _for_ it when technologies are developing at the rate they have been. Doesn't de Tocqueville talk about Americans saying that they've built certain things shoddily because they'll be obsolete by the time they wear out? (I think he had steamboats in mind.)
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Well deserved! Good to see a solid idea get funded..
There's Forrst. http://forrst.com/
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I'm told by a family friend who was Jobs' neighbor that his license plates were stolen regularly by his fans. This was probably how he chose to solve that problem.
It's pretty obvious that is the something that will come in another release.

Edit: Also, plenty of value is created by programs that had thick "runtimes". Think of anything from Visual Basic to Hypercard to things like Excel spreadsheets.
At the end of the day, a contract doesn't replace a relationship. It just puts everyone on notice about what's intended.

Most of the rider is crystal clear. It just gets hard to follow in areas such as the following:

A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar, any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags with me, so if we use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar.

If I am quite sleepy, I would like two cans or small bottles of non-diet Pepsi. (I dislike the taste of coke, and of all diet soda; also, there is an international boycott of the Coca Cola company for killing union organizers in Colombia and Guatemala; see killercoke.org.) However, if I am not very sleepy, I won't want Pepsi, because it is better if I don't drink so much sugar.

In more concise (and readable) form: (1) milk and sugar is required, although he may not use it, and (2) Pepsi, not Coke.
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Almost every day is Dennis Ritchie day for me, because almost every day I get to read and write C. Yes even in 2011. I look forward to hacker news being filled with C stories on the 30th.
It is better in Canada, but we have loop holes like the rest of them. Certain countries have tax treaties with Canada that effectively allow a massive decrease in dividend taxes provided that you have "management fees" in those countries. Although you wouldn't qualify for other benefits of being a Canadian company, such as the one time 750k tax free capital gains allowance, or SR&ED or research grants.
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I have kept a parrot for many years now, but I eventually decided that I agree with you: I don't intend to get any more parrots, and you shouldn't get one either. They are great birds but I don't think they make great pets after all.

(I'd elaborate but it's more fun just to refer you to RMS, who is completely correct on this subject. I didn't read the rest of his note, though, so he may be less correct on other subjects. ;)

Having said that: Just as birds are "meant" to fly around all the time, so are humans "meant" to spend most of their lives without sitting, run long distances across equatorial plains in bare feet, live in bands of perhaps a dozen or two individuals, teach their children how to find, identify, and possibly eat hundreds of varieties of wild plant, periodically endure starvation, cope with a wide variety of exciting parasites inside and out, and occasionally get attacked by wild creatures. And though at one time or another various people have become fanatical about recreating one (presumed) aspect of our early environment or another -- ranging from barefoot running to the "paleo" diet -- humans do in fact live full and happy lives in modern cities, or in the Arctic Circle. We're quite adaptive.

Parrots are also quite adaptive. Like dogs, their main concern is that they live just as the flock does. In a home the flock, of course, is you and any other creatures that happen to be around. Parrots are pretty happy so long as they're around people and doing what the people are doing. My parrot can fly, but does not do so often; when he is out of his cage, he generally flies only to get closer to me, and then only when I refuse to heed his calls to come closer to him.

But I agree that all parrots would be even happier living in flocks in outdoor flight cages, of a size ranging from eight feet wide to, well, infinity. So I don't encourage anyone else to acquire a pet bird, although I obviously endorse taking good care of the pet birds that already exist, like mine.
The biggest draw on a battery is current. I don't believe that RAM draws very much current, otherwise they would need fans to dissipate heat. Your screen's brightness likely has more of an effect on your battery life than doubling your RAM from 8GB to 16.
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These infographics are so noisy. They only make things hard to understand.
As a Google interviewer (and not-so-long-ago interviewee), I can assure you that the graphic's examples of interview questions are indeed 100% bullshit.
It has a huge amount of insight.

When the iPad came out it was (naively) decried as a device that segmented computing into "content consumption" and "content creation". Apps like this continue to prove that wrong.
I just wanted to add that Apple can do magic - but not that kind of magic!

Apple's magic is what we should all do:

(1). pick a market subset (a niche) that will be really delighted
by our product, both because of what they value (due to their
psychology and the problems of their circumstances), and aspects
of their circumstances that we can use to really make our product
rock.
(2). make the product do that.

This is "marketing"; not in the sense of advertising what we have, nor in the sense of choosing to make what people want; but in the sense of choosing the people who will want what we want to make (though truth be told, Apple also excels at advertising, spending a fortune, winning awards etc).

This is all awesome, and to be celebrated and emulated. But Apple doesn't do technology research - they beg, buy or borrow technology, and then commercialize it (e.g. desktop, touch, siri).

Technology research is magic of a different order... AI research the darkest of all.
I wonder if Squeak will be allowed back in the AppStore now?
AWS was built in the same datacenters by the same IT engineering team that provided core hardware and networking to the retail website. The top level software APIs were (obviously?) not created before the Amazon retail website.

Amazon IT and AWS invented a virtual machine infrastructure that Retail used as soon as it was available. AWS services were quickly adopted by many teams as well.

AWS has always beeywn the future of Amazon Datacenter IT. Retail is a huge legacy system, so of course Reddit could launch on AWS faster than Retail could fully migrate.

AWS is an externalization of core Amazon technology. Don't get hung up on the fact that Amazon runs on a babysat patched alpha version released before the 1.0-quality version went public. Retail needs some customizations hat your startup doesn't. Really.

This "skunkworks AWS" meme is a story about the business, not the technology.
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Well, I was ultimately commenting on margins. Since we agree that at scale, DIY is cheaper, that implies to me that AWS margins are healthy.
On point 2&3, there are plenty of cloud offerings, the more you use premium features, the more you are locking yourself into to one provider.
I would say that the greatest additional benefit over traditional hosting is low startup cost and autoscaling. But once you're established, if you're using those premium features, you're stuck, so your business better have high margins too.
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New college graduate engineers get about $100k base pay (it was in the NYT around January).

Out of college I was hired as an Associate (not currently in the role) and making about $50k base, plus a 3k signing bonus and roughly 3.5k in stock grants per year.
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If distribution cost were high and creation cost insignificant, copyright would not be needed -- the creator can handle competition from other distributors...

While this is probably true, it certainly doesn't mean that distributors want such competition. They want a competitive advantage, and it's much cheaper to get such an advantage by picking popular authors than having a technological arms race or price war with other distributors. Copyright was introduced to provide an artificial monopoly for distributors.
I'm with you in spirit, but I'm feeling pretty pessimistic about how successful your crusade would be.
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Oh, I'm not saying that the Canadian tax system is perfect. Far from it. Just that this specific property -- integration of corporate and personal income taxes -- is a very good thing.
I hate this sort of article. Every month or so, another "look at this evil bill that will destroy our liberties" article comes out, and everybody gets all worked up about it.

tl;dr - The judges sitting on federal courts and the supreme court aren't responsible to voters, don't need campaign funds, and don't have a career to worry about. In the unlikely event that this bull makes it out of congress and past the president, it'll be struck down. Just like it has been every time before.

Sure. If this bill was an enforced law, that would be bad. Unthinkably bad. But that goes for a great deal of what happens in congress - especially the House. A small portion of this manure actually manages to make it out of congress and past the president - and it gets taken to the courts. The more interesting cases make it to the Supreme Court, where the nine judges who aren't up for re-election, have no career to worry about, and are already rich enough to be well impossible to buy off, get the pleasure of telling - in this case - the entertainment industry to go stuff it. The supreme court has repeatedly refrained from supporting this sort of thing, and they're unlikely to start in the future. Even if the worst happens, and this thing gets passed, the courts will strike it down long before the bureaucracy finds a way to start enforcing it. It's highly unlikely to affect any of us.

Some other commenters have almost correctly pointed out that "they're not going to give up" - because in many cases, fighting for these inane laws is their day job. First, there's also a group of people whose day job is to argue these sorts of laws. And another group whose day job is to strike them down, _even if_ the opposition is poorly argued. Second, those lobbyists are likely to be loosing their jobs soon as the industry paying for them begins to fall apart.

So, please. Stop freaking out every time one part of the government does something stupid. Writing to your local dimwit to point out the obvious: ok. Running in panicked circles on the internet: unhelpful and irritating.

/rant
Part 2: https://plus.google.com/113789777314020158193/posts/8SekPWzx...