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I hope kids today are exposed to the electronics field like I was.

It seems harder to me. Your past days are reminiscent of mine, but I could get on my bicycle as a sixth grader, bike to Radio Shack, and grab some parts (light-activated SCRs, transistors, timers (555!) and logic chips and make stuff. Sometimes I'd get a grab bag of 'unknown' digital pieces and try to figure out the pin-outs (always could rely on +5 and ground being standard).

I'm not sure how kids go about doing that today. I don't know of any store a kid can get to (without a credit card, that is) that has that kind of hobby equipment any more.

I recently had occasion to go through the house where I grew up (my father still owned it) and saw all of my old play stuff. I told my tale but the kids (teenagers now) didn't seem so impressed (old CRTs lying around!). I grabbed the old Radio Shack IC guidebook and left the rest behind. Quite a sad day, actually.
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Not at all. Immigration laws are not the primary inhibitor of migration, (lack of) money is the greatest barrier. The fact that you say your un-learned opinion is a "fact", proves burgerbrain's point that immigration laws are more xenaphobia than anything.
I didn't know (until now) Sublime Text.

I don't want to seem inquisitive, but it looks a lot like VIM. I thought it was VIM, or a human-friendly version of it.

I took a look to http://www.sublimetext.com/features and many of the features listed are available on a vanilla VIM. Many, if not all, except "Asynchronous file loading, so you're never blocked when loading files off slow network drives", "WinSCP integration for editing remote files via SCP and FTP" (OK, maybe you can have the last one using sshfs).

[edited, I've removed "Commenting and uncommenting blocks of text" from the features vim does not have.]
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Yeah I agree the execution could've been much much better.

I do think it might've reduced the barrier for getting Mum & Dad's local shop their own website though. As you say, its difficulty to maintain didn't help!

The upside is that after 30 days you can transfer your domain name away and use it on your own site hosting, which is exactly what I did.
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I've never understood why or how Angry Birds had become such a phenomenon. It managed to really separate itself from a plethora of mobile games and seems like it's the modern day version of Pac-Man. I've even saw a Today interview where Dick Cheney says that he plays it on the iPad. I would've thought with the plush toys and Chrome OS commercials that they would soon jump the shark.

Congratulations to Rovio for creating a game that's universally loved by people of all ages.
In a nutshell, it's a document db coupled to a graph db to provide degree-of-separation based permissions on whatever users want to place on the web. I'm just extending Facebook's privacy settings to web content sitting outside of Facebook.
This case looks politically motivated even if we assume he's 100% guilty of everything he's accused of. Sweden basically never spend this amount of efforts and resources to get 'normal' people extradited, even when they're accused of far worse things that Assange is accused of. Had he been just some tourist there is no way in hell they'd bother with any of this.

That being said I don't think there is some big dark conspiracy with the CIA pulling the strings, but more a case of local prosecutors and politicians who saw a chance to make a name for themselves, and a tiny country with self-esteem issues desperately wanting to swing their dick with the big boys (and I say that last bit as a Swede).
The graph the title links to is a little dated, it only cites stats up to July 2011. Here's a more up to date graph citing stats up to October 2011:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200809-201110

The curves are even more revealing.
Assange's camp put out an argument that it was technically much harder to extradite from the UK than Sweden, for both legal and diplomatic reasons.

http://www.swedenversusassange.com/US-Extradition.html
At the same time, it's good that we have judicial oversite on this and he wasn't just extradited by default. I don't want to live in a country where I can be forcibly deported at any time, just because some foreign country wants to question me.
Salesforce - I like the idea of Force.com being offered that uses the same infrastructure as the core product, as well as the companies they have acquired.

37signals - great example and I liked reading their timeline to see how/when they expanded. Jason is also very open on Inc.com about running the company. For some reason I recall reading an article where their adoption rates were a lot lower outside of their core product.
The only things the US has left are the culture and the hype - people are either taken in by the ability to be at the epicenter (which is very important for most entrepreneurs) or by the propaganda/marketing/promises. Otherwise, it's pretty easy to start a company in other countries, especially if it's mainly operating online.

The US is unbeatable in one thing, though: you can find almost anything you want at prices much lower than any other countries. That's an important advantage no matter what industry you're in, or heck, even for everyday life.
Firebug

Or Chromes Developer Tools

They don't have color pickers, although in Chrome if you click on a colored-value (Hexcode,RGB, or HSL) it will toggle it between the 3 representations.

There are plugins you can get that will save changes made with these tools, I believe, but I have no experience working with those. Typically, i'll play around with FireBug / DevTools, and then just persist my changes by hand as I find things I like. Using them is as simple as right clicking and hitting Inspect Element.

Might not be the most efficient workflow, but it's worked for me. I couldn't even imagine trying to do any kind of design work (and I do not do design work by trade, but some times it's forced upon you) without the aid of these tools.
I would doubt there is any exception to this policy for the US. See also:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/global-issues/human-rights/justice-...
My granularity is: Different things go on different commits. For example, you can include 30 files and hundreds of lines in one changeset if they are all related to the new feature X, but do not in the same changeset correct the indentation of a code block.

The commit message is like a title. All diff lines must be related to it or they should be in another changeset.
Sublime Text 2 is a fantastic product, their updates are timely, and it's been my goto editor for months now. Thanks for the hard work guys!
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TradeNet fills an evident gap in the equity trading systems arena. Most vendors focus on either the front office functions forequity trade and order management or, alternatively, focus on the back office functions including operation and settlement for equity trading.

While the arena is witnessing mergers between different player to offer a full cycle coverage, TradeNet was built from the start to handle the whole process of order equity trading from capture to settlement. TradeNet has always offered real-time risk management, real-time purchase power management and real-time settlement to customer accounts. This has been possible due to TradeNet's integrated architecture for equity trading.

TradeNet also features a full-fledged suite of channel applications to enable investors to manage their accounts from the internet, their mobile phones, IVR systems, or from a specialized desktop application that offers high levels of sophistication.
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Have been using Sublime for 4 months or so and really enjoying it. It strikes the perfect balance between having enough nice features and tools to make programmer happy and getting to much in your face (like many IDE's).
Honestly, who besides programmers even know the difference between software engineers and programmers?

I personally don't really think there is a difference. They are essentially the same thing. I'm both and I don't really see a case where I'd call myself one and not the other.

So who is making the distinction? Us (engineers) or other people?

If you really want to make the assertion that non-engineers are making the distinction between programmers and software engineers, who do you think told them what the difference was?
I first used Git before I really understood source code control and more or less did the same thing. Kept it up until a friend of mine that I was working on the project with figured out that there had been upwards of 200 commits in one day with no commit messages. Oops.
The Reader team must be thanking their lucky stars that their product lives on and that Reader hadn't been given the chop like other non-mainstream services, e.g. Google Notebook, Code Search. Ultimately it's a techie tool and most internet users likely aren't aware of feeds let alone Reader.

I bet they agreed to any hurried G+ shoehorning as it's a sign Reader isn't being wound down.
I suggest you should read up on the case. There is a certain level of ridiculousness beyond which any thinking person can realize the charges are nonsensical.

Here is Glenn Beck explaining the charges (cause he's funnier than a translation of swedish court documents): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVt-WD-p950

Sending him to Sweden only makes sense if he will get a fair trial there. Based on the fact that this case hasn't been dropped, and the trial will be held in secret, there is a good chance that he may not.
You're getting it all mixed up. The extra cost of hiring a single ditch digger to do the job is the forgone cost of letting a dude with a giant earth-mover handle the job.

You're implying that we're becoming less productive, that's totally untrue. The same argument has been made about the motor vehicle, cotton gin, etc.
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If Chrome is the market leader, you have a viable argument for not supporting IE at all. Or at least making it a low priority.
I added a short description at the top of the discussion. I've just generalized and extended privacy settings that Facebook and Google+ offer for content residing within their platforms. On the one hand it's possible to assign permissions to web content not embedded in a social utility, on the other, I can provide degree-of-separation ranking of the content users have created, for example comments/reviews. So, out of the hundreds (or thousands) hotel reviews on Tripadvisor, you could get just a bunch, written by people close to you (in a social-network degree-of-separation sense). If I could only get Tripadvisor on board...
I like using it as a text editor but have had trouble getting it set up for Scala development. Other than getting syntax highlighting I have had trouble integrating it with an outside compiler and getting a few niceties like auto complete and highlighting errors on compile.

I'm curious, what language do you code in using Sublime and what is your set up?
In terms of affecting what devs need to do, it doesn't matter. However, if it happens (and it's a big if), it would certainly be noteworthy, because it will cement html standards-compliance.

As you say, you need to support IE, Chrome, FF and Safari - but (at least for IE < 8) this has always meant supporting the standard and then tweaking it to make it work in IE. I've never had significant differences in webpage functionality between chrome, FF and safari (YMMV). IE 9 is MUCH better at standards compliance - but this is purely because of MS's losses in marketshare.

If you don't see this as a significant thing, then I'm guessing you're too young to have been coding web pages when IE had a 90%+ market share. You kids have it easy. :-)
Brief is cool. I just tried it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
It's irritating, that as a Swiss citizen, I first heard about this here on yc :)

Well, I heard about some plans for a new and alternative newspaper when a notorious right-wing investor (pals with our right-wing demagogue-in-chief, ex-minister and billionaire Christoph Blocher) bought the newspaper BaZ earlier this year. Later a company headed by Blocher was then given a consultancy mandate. Resistance formed an people vowed to launch something new.

Great that these plans came to fruition.
No, we don't, but we often don't have a choice; that choice is made for us by PHB's and astronaut architects. And in my case, banks, who are my company's main customers.

The whole world isn't Silicon Valley; there are a lot of us out here who don't get to do the new-ooo!-shiny all the time.
There are a lot of things wrong with this case, but this is not one of those things.

First, normal suspects are harder to find. Assange is a semi-official person, not a lot of work went into tracking him down.

Second, the case was already opened. Assange's location in the world did not affect it.

It'd be different if Assange's identity was not known, and if, at the time of making the decision to investigate the case further, his whereabouts were unknown and him likely in another country.
"It's right because it's the law"

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Worse than “OOP is the one true way” is “OOP is the one true way and Java’s style of OOP is the one true OOP”.

I’ve heard of a CS curriculum that starts by teaching Scheme and ends with a segment on “OK, now you know how to program in Scheme, here is how to do it in Java”. I don’t know if that can fit in one high-school class, though.
And can you link to reliable sources with that stuff?

And there's a different between a rape trial being held in private (see fun2have's post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186245) and some secret committee.

Personally, I think there are too many contradictions (like the fact that the stories have changed) for this to be something other than politically motivated. But we shall see.
VIM supports editing remote files via scp and ftp. Just use {scp,ftp,http}://$host/$path to open a remote file though http support is read-only afaik.
The "average" is a totally inappropriate statistic for reporting this kind of data. The Ofcom report should have used the median.
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The Swedish Parliament make the laws, and the head of the Parliament has proclaimed the man guilty. Do you not see the lack of justice there?

Is the head of Parliament also the judge at his trial? Will the Swedish people be voting on the verdict American Idol-style?

If not, then no, I don't see 'the lack of justice there'. The legislative and judicial functions are kept separate for a reason.
This is awesome, but totally overpriced. It's a shame, because this is exactly the sort of hardware people need to start using in the home. I suspect the case is slightly overengineered - an extruded aluminium case may have even given a better finish. Also, Ubuntu on a NAS? Overkill?
I've been once on the other side of the "be nice, it's a f####ng gift" situation.

I had a subscription at a local telecom company, which provided both telephony and broadband internet. I went and cancelled the subscription in July 2010, and almost a year later, in June 2011 I get called by a repo company asking for $20.
After a few calls, I find out that the telecom company issued one more bill, 3 months after I cancelled. Apparently, they gave me for free when I cancelled another 3 free months of phone subscription, which automatically extended the broadband internet connection. Arguing with them over the phone (I had left the country by then) I got this exact reply: "It's a f####ng gift, be nice! What's your problem?"

The way this works in my country (Romania), if you don't pay up, you either have to sue them to prove you don't have to pay, or you get reported to the credit bureau so you won't get any loans from any bank for the next few years. Sadly, I ended up paying ...
Hostgator has an affiliate program offering $100 per sales. Will that be used to cover the initial costs? Just thinking.
Do the students move on to using an IDE? I realize that Eclipse or Visual Studio comes with a lot of overhead and you can easily spend a whole semester getting bogged down in all the options, but I would think that an editor with syntax highlighting and parenthesis matching would make a big difference.
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very cool - great work!
The charges seem a bit 'iffy' to me. Apparently if the girl doesn't enjoy the sex in Sweden it is rape...

Aren't the two charges. He didn't use a condom and he coerced a girl to sleep with him?

That said I now have little sympathy for him. If he is innocent I am sure he will be found so in Sweden.

He was originally a beacon for free speech. Then he oversaw the release of un-redacted cables and he turned into a pillock. He deserves what he gets.
I didn't say that. I was referring to the 'rule of law' not the 'law' itself.

For example, was it right that Turing was tried for his homosexuality? Yes, it was right. I believe that the law itself was despicable but it was right that he was tried as that was the law at the time of his 'offences'.

I believe that same standard applies to Assange. He is alleged to have broken Swedish law, the British courts believe that under European law the right procedure has been undertaken for the extradition and so we see the process of law operating.
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I may have misunderstood slightly... please ignore the Ubuntu comment.
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It's a mistake IMO for old hats like myself. After 20 years using ifconfig, it's almost impossible to get used to some new, linux-only tool (even though it may be better).
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> I've never understood why or how Angry Birds had become such a phenomenon

See
http://www.mauronewmedia.com/blog/2011/02/why-angry-birds-is...
for a detailed analysis from a design perspective. Great read.
It doesn't explain all the "why and how"-s, but does provide some interesting clues.
I've also tried to adopt it last month but I found it very unproductive without file and folder manipulation.
The layout can be tightened up a little bit. I experience no significant lag when scrolling or changing feeds. Imo, the blogosphere is overreacting. I disliked the look and feel of the old one :)
By execution, do you mean in terms of what the customer gets out of it?
So the main bottleneck that meant Jobs-led-Apple released N products instead of N+1, was an attribute of Jobs himself?

Because that doesn't bode well for Apple in future. Or for any of us looking to ape them.
When is 1080P Netflix coming to my device?
I recently got an ASUS Transformer and I was pretty happy that I could use something like ConnectBot [1] to ssh into a virtual machine I was running on my main laptop. I was coding in django/python, and I could test the website using Firefox Mobile- I could actually use this for work!

... 30 minutes worth of typing on that keyboard and bad support for alt-tabbing between apps and the tiny screen, I was back at my comfy ThinkPad. Even for other types of work, such as when doing research, I find it cumbersome to swap between my browser and note taking application. The selection of apps (compared against mac, windows or linux) is just not powerful enough. It gets tiring after a while. A good ultraportable (say the MBA or x220) offers much better value for me. I find tablets are good for reading, surfing etc, with some nice apps to let you get work done if needed. But certainly not something that you'll want to be using for a while.

[1] A small footnote on how good the user experience is when the software that you use is open source. It didn't support some of the keys on the Asus transformer (for e.g. using the back key for 'esc' in vi). I was able to fork and fix that pretty quickly and was on my way.
Can PAN card be verified using API? If so then who all can get access to that?

Its impossible to verify otherwise.
And within 2 years it will be used by more than 100% of people worldwide!

As my maths teacher used to say, "even in the privacy of your own home, you should not extrapolate."
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I think neither.

The treatment have most likely not been politically motivated, as Sweden's justice system doesn't work that way. Politicians can't really sway prosecutions.

It's also likely that Assange is not guilty of rape (the allegations have a lot of holes and inconsistencies in them), though probably guilty of being an asshole. Alas, that's not a crime. Nevertheless, this is not a reason to drop the case without investigating it properly.
This is good. Everybody should be learning to program. Khan Academy and Codecademy are benefiting everyone. I wrote about that here: http://goo.gl/cTcbp
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The first thing I did on that page was add "membase" to the list. If one adds the "couchdb" and "membase" lines, the result almost - no, not quite - keeps up with the MongoDB line. This is compatible with my first thought that people have had trouble keeping up with Couch's continual changes in name and direction. Relatedly, Couch* (the company) has often failed to provide a comprehensive solution, requiring users to grab other pieces from other places - e.g. BigCouch from Cloudant or Futon from the Apache project. Contrast with 10gen/MongoDB: consistent name, consistent direction, single source for the whole solution including client drivers.

There are other factors as well. I've heard some people say that Couch* is a serious memory hog. Others have complained about dependencies. The REST interface appeals to some, but others would prefer a more binary-oriented protocol. The relentless positioning vs. MongoDB, and particularly some of the FUD being slung by Couch* advocates (hi rdtsc) is generating a bit of a backlash as well. For all I know some of these issues no longer exist, perhaps some never existed, but without a focused effort to deal with these impressions they remain liabilities. Couch* comes across not only as developer-oriented, but oriented toward a particular kind of developer.

Note that none of these factors relate to the technical quality of the two products. I think Couch's general distribution/replication model is fundamentally a better one than Mongo's, though I think Mongo wins by having real ad-hoc queries instead of requiring the moral equivalent of stored procedures. I thought little of Mongo's answers regarding durability and replication (and TBH still don't think they're at the level they should be) but I could see that progress was being made and I have enough of a long-term perspective not to get all perma-caremad about it. In the end, I think Couch* has been held back a bit not by its technology but by all the "other stuff" that goes into making a project or company successful.
I think a concept video, as long as it isn't too outrageous, is a decent way to inspire people. Some people watched minority report and said "I want to build that" -- concept videos could achieve the same. At the end of the article he mentions RIM's videos. I would say those are totally different as I think most of the basic components of that world are in the device or rumoured to be coming soon. That is cool. If someone can grab their latest device and make one of those workflows happen how good will they feel and what could come next?

Yes there are bad videos and they may have an unclear purpose but I think it is all about the context of the video.
Every "private EC2 infrastructure" I've seen is a bunch of hypervisor servers.