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raganwald is agreeing with Dave Winer in arguing against the personal ridiculing of RMS. The validity of this argument does not hinge on whether Dave Winer is being hypocritical in making it or not; one can be a hypocrite and still be correct.

In other words, if you want to argue against raganwald and Dave Winer, that RMS should be ridiculed, you need to come up with something that logically supports that, not just assert "Dave Winer is a bully also". This assertion does not advance your argument.
Umm ... your conclusion is kind of funny and wrong. You might not be familiar with cryptography, modern smartcard technologies, and how those can actually keep a secret.

I agree with your assessment on facial recognition and fingerprints, though the biggest problems with the fingerprint authentication are the lack of ubiquitous sensors and privacy issues.

But password manager software is better than nothing ;)
I agree with you and I made it so the iPhone you carry around everyday can be your password manager.

I'm honestly not trying to spam HN with links to my product but since it's on topic I'll just mention that I developed an iPhone app called KEYBOX ( http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com/keybox/ ). It securely manages passwords and other secrets without dongles or other devices.

USB keys are a good idea from a convenience perspective but what makes it convenient for you makes it equally so for a hacker (the nefarious kind) to break into whatever system you're trying to make secure.
Shop windows.
HUD in anything that needs a HUD.
AR Sunglasses.
Invisible wall mounted televisions/displays.

That's a start I think.
I learned to code C from a book years before I touched Lisp, and knowing operator precedence didn't help me understand one bit about what the code was actually doing or where the rules of the language came from. It wasn't until I found SICP that I could claim to understand programming.

The important thing about learning to program is having an accurate mental model of what goes on in your program. C, and especially C++, make that much harder than it actually is and the way Lisp presents it.
> RMS is and always has been ... more than willing to engage in personal attacks in service to the causes that interest him.

Can you cite something? Your above quotations are not personal attacks. He is explaining (poorly) that the chosen venue was not correct for the content being communicated. He is speaking in terms of principles and not attacking the person's identity.
In a world of Apple, Google and Microsoft FSM seems to be our only hope...
Turbo Pascal was my first programming language. I thought it was the coolest thing ever that I could write a game, put it on a floppy disk and share it with all my friends.

I wish there was something like Github back then; I lost all my early source code years ago. It would be fun to see how terrible it looked :)
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maybe, like many of us, winer doesn't pay attention to gruber.
Writing to the journal is actually done outside of the write lock most of the time. It does hold a readlock, however as of 2.0 most commits will release the lock before doing any disk I/O.
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Separation of concerns? :)
Ignorance is not a sufficient excuse to feel "bullied and ridiculed". If you can't be bothered to educate yourself, then why are you worth talking to? If the timing is poor for looking it up, politely stating that you don't understand the jargon and would like an explanation is a fair response. Saying, "I don't know this information, and the fact that you have it is offensive to me," is the very essence of anti-intellectualism.
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I've been working out of the TechStars offices for the last few months and most of these guys don't care what their product is as long as they can sell it to investors. In Job's world, the customer is the consumer. In the startup world, the customer is the Angel/VC.
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Already went through undergrad, but I was curious where it would have told me to go. It was telling me Princeton or Yale. That wouldn't have ended well.

What I found interesting was that my alma mater, Purdue, wasn't listed in my searches. I spent forever messing around with the search parameters until I figured out that it was blocking me on SAT scores. I'm guessing that you're matching against average scores of admitted students?
The quotation for me:

Watson: 2,280 processor cores, 15TB of RAM,
20 tons of air conditioning, requiring 80KW
of electricity to power it all.

"Compare that to a brain that weighs two pounds,
fits in a shoebox, and that you can power with
a tuna fish sandwich," said Ferrucci.
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#1 is why they have asynchronous writes, even though that doesn't really solve the problem for some (most?) use cases
I do respect everything I know about Dave Winer, except for one thing, his greatest perceivable flaw: He is too sensitive. Way too sensitive. He has blocked dozens of people on Twitter, including Kevin Marks(!). In his post he used phrases like "makes me feel ill," "here's what really pisses me off," and "I was so shaken to see." He strikes me as the kind of man around whom you'd have to walk on eggshells in person. That's not good.

Both he and Stallman have accomplished many great things. They've left (and continue to leave) their mark on the world. It's not a stretch to say that in the tech sphere, they are public figures. (Most of us here, I'd wager, don't even merit a Wikipedia biography). The more well-known you are, the more people talk about you and up goes the probability that some of it will be offensive. If you're Bill Gates, you might even take a pie to the face. It that sort of behavior acceptable? Of course not. But if you're going to put yourself out there, you need a thick skin. Stiff upper lip, Dave.
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The mythical interpretation of the brown M&Ms as signifying capricious demands made by popular people has overtaken the original meaning, so Kottke et al. should be understood as referring to that myth.
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Seeing as this is the top comment, could someone please back up this argument beyond personal anecdote? At least the people arguing the other direction are pointing at actual companies.
I think Lukas Mathis created it for his post "Realism in UI Design" [1].

[1] http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/01/21/realism_in_ui_desig...
"1. it's a flash application"

I don't think this is correct. There is a flash Websocket transport, but the rest of the app is HTML.

A link to the developers: http://www.esn.me

(A bonus, being a web app means I can check it at work!)
One early criticism (aside from the sharing bugaboo) is the header is larger making the allowable reading area much smaller.

the topmost the feed content can be read is ~193px from the top of the browser. And you can't scroll down because of the way the page it built.

Here is what firebug told me:
29px - account bar
59px - search bar
73px - feed toolbar
32px - feed title bar (in the reading pane)
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I don't really care anymore about the design of Google Reader. The only thing I use it for is for syncing my read items between my different reader apps (like Reeder for iPad). As long as they keep supporting that I'm fine, but this seems like a service anyone could implement in case they stop the API access.
I'm quite familiar with cryptography and the principles of secret keeping. I am not as knowledgable about smartcards I admit.

Is there something that makes a smartcard based USB key work differently when held by a person other than its rightful owner?

My impression of them, perhaps incorrect, is that they are akin to Hanko ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanko_(stamp)#Japanese_usage ). Basically a system of using possession combined with a fairly unique set of data as a means of distinguishing and authenticating its owner. But in practice its far less than perfect.
Aquariums, windows to contamination rooms, windows at observation decks, car windows /plane windows /boat windows, 1 way mirrors/windows in myriad situations
Please don't pedal this nonsense.

"Free software" existed well before Stallman.

I learnt to program from magazines that had "free software" written out in BASIC. It was free (cost and freedom). After that we used to download free software from BBS's. Fractint etc.

Free software existed before, it'll always exist. It's existence has nothing to do with Stallman.

About as irritating as hearing 'Crockford invented JSON'.
His first sentence is a (slightly testy) comment that the emacs mailing list wasn't the right forum for a birth announcement.

This didn't require telling the guy that the birth of his child was menacing, insignificant because it was accomplished by a female instead of a male, and complicit in mass starvation and genocide. The "wrong forum" content was just an incidental cover for a long-form attack on that person because it happened to push Stallman's buttons, and Stallman was in a position of power on the list from which he could conveniently abuse the poster without fear of repercussion.

It's bullying every bit as much as the attacks on Stallman.
honestly, do these people look like they want to screw you out of your first million?

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/NYC_Resistor

;-)

look at all those happy/helpful people, ready to volunteer their time and emotional shares to help you get your project off the ground. (and this is only one great hacker spot in the city.)

in my experience (~10 years in manhattan+brooklyn)...these are the kinds of people/groups that are here...looking to build stuff and have fun.

...but, of course, in a place as large as this, you'll find all types. (as you do in the valley too, really.)
Perhaps my difficulty is that, when I read Winer's writing, I feel like he is inserting himself into the message. Instead of saying "this is my point," I feel he says "this is how I am related to my point."
Dave Allen's Getting Things Done suggests having multiple levels of task/tactical/strategic/life tracking and review, roughly like you are describing, although doesn't suggest a special view for it.
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I completely disagree with that statement.

The execution model behind Lisp is trivially simple compared to C which makes the corresponding mental model of what your program is doing simpler.

As for what goes on "under the hood," SICP builds a virtual register machine and a Scheme compiler for it in one chapter. Find me a C book that does the same.

But you don't even need a chapter. Abdulaziz Ghuloum shows how to build a Scheme to x86 native code compiler in 10 pages: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
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I think raganwald offers a different perspective from Dave Winer, and I think both posts are important for our community.
I didn't see an mean intent in it. Personally, I thought the parrot thing in the rider was noteworthy, amusing, and didn't reflect at all poorly on rms. To the contrary I found it personable and charming. I was still sore from his comments the day after Jobs passed, and this diffused the bad feelings a bit.

I don't know who else is poking fun of him, or what they're saying. There is limited time in life and an inexhaustible supply of jerks on the internet.
Sort by magic seems to be intermittently breaking. Or more accurately the ordering of items seems to be changing dramatically on refresh.
Why do people from the U.S. use the word "hate" so lightly?
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Stallman is a walking PR nightmare, and you're getting mad at human nature?? I don't believe this.

99.9% of humans won't take you seriously if you eat your toejam. That's normal. Stallman is nearly the worst thing to happen to the FSF. He should sit back & let Eben Moglen do the talking.
None of the widgets worked for me in the demo. After researching WebSockets I figured it out: WS aren't supported by IE (or so it appears, using IE9 with all default settings). see them when using my Chrome browser. Seems like IE users are still a pretty big market though, so not sure how this will succeed without support for IE.
For those who weren't at pgconf.eu - we're actually serious about the cruise. Let me know if you'd be interested in going. :)
Stallman is not a child

True enough. But behavior fitting only for overgrown children is still a bad idea, even if Stallman can take the heat. I agree with raganwald here that if we can say "I am a human being" we ought to have some basis for treating all of our fellow human beings humanely.
OT: Is there a way to remove all my comments from HN? I would like to give up.
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Wirth and Oberon yet. His '95 paper "A Plea for Lean Software" mentions Wirth's law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
The way that that quote gets used doesn't make sense to me.
Even given that all truth does pass through those three stages, that doesn't mean that something passing through the first two stages is especially likely to be ever accepted as self-evident.
I feel like those guys are projecting their own issues onto the situation. I didn't sense any malice in Kottke's post and certainly nothing that I would compare to high-school bullying.
Compared to PostGIS SimpleGeo is seriously lacking. You can only do the simplest of queries, and it has tiny limits on most accounts.

The problem is that spatial data tends to create strange usage patterns compared to other software. I run PostGIS installs with tens of millions of features, most of which will never even be queried. Different spatial queries can result in dramatically different resource needs. I need a service that is affordable to store multi GB datasets, and can query them very quickly. SimpleGeo have not come close to solving this.
Urban Mapping - http://www.urbanmapping.com/ - for data [ http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog ] and custom map rendering [ http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence ].
I did this too but had the other disks mounted (sometimes my girlfriend wants to stream media off the PC to her PS3 while I'm playing games). I have noticed that Origin will spin up inactive disks when launching Battlefield 3 (even causing the game to crash when joining a multiplayer server when the disk spinup time is > their timeout). It's ridiculous.
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If you disagree on the ideas, you could still be friends with the man

Can you? Is it possible to be friends with someone who says that anyone who disagrees with his ideas is evil?

I'm an atheist, yet I have no problem with being friends with people who are religious. I do, however, have a problem with being friends with someone who ends every conversation with "... and you're going to burn in hell for an eternity". RMS' refusal to accept the possibility that any position other than his own might have value puts him firmly into that camp of people I don't want to have anything to do with.
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I think raganwald's perspective is fine and dandy, as a comment on the original article, which is how he originally left it.
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The Apple II, the first mass market personal computer, predates the "Free" software movement by several years, and came with Basic-- the most popular language at the time for hobbyists-- installed, by default, for free.

For the most part, Apple has given away development tools for free, or at very low cost, primarily to cover the overhead of offering them.

Since Mac OS X has been out, development tools have been free, and in the box. (Though now you download them rather than get them in the box, of course.)
RMS has an interesting anecdote about this in his speech on Emacs:

"[Bernie Greenberg] wrote a version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program."

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
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This is regrettably very true.
So the only way to share something privately is to first publicly +1 it?

Ah, apparently you can click "share" in the black bar at the top and it will let you directly share the currently selected item in reader with specific circles. That's not very discoverable.
Our USB key cannot be easily, if at all, copied. It's based on smartcard technology used by banks and governments around the world.

There's an implied 'because' between these two sentences, which I think is problematic, since the first sentence does not necessarily follow from the second.

I couldn't care less about the second part, but the first is a great idea. When I visit the website in your profile, though, I don't see any mention of hardware, just software.

Is there more information available somewhere?
There was free software befor rms, there are other licenses which are more free than his.
I know many will not agree with my opinion that rms and his ideas are obsolete and irrelevant, but they are.
Mind you, free and open sofware is not irrelevant, quite the opposite. But rms view of the tech world is.
heh. There goes my hopes of cleaning out my wife's 200k+ unread email account.
For people who care there are big differences between "free" and "open" and other similar terms.

BSDs are open source, and free as in beer, but there have been years-long flame wars between RMS (and FSF advocates) and Theo de Raadt (and BSD advocates).

Stallman may say that free software has not been successful when people use the term Linux instead of GNU/Linux. (and yes, I am aware that there exist Linux Kernels without GNU userlands.)
Sharing works. Sharing just does not work without publicly +1 the reader item. (This is a big -1 for me).
My biggest complaint is they tampered with the scroll bar. It's way too small now and only functions as an aesthetic touch... The regular scroll bar works perfectly fine.
Our goal is to make it easier to choose products/services for your business based on the companies that actually use them: What analytics do YC companies use? What do small non-profits use for CRM?

This product is pre-beta, and we definitely plan to add more features/data, including reviews. We'd really appreciate feedback on what would make it more useful for you!
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> You are assuming that the consideration was cash.

No, I was not. The acquiring company causes the liquidity pref to vanish regardless of the currency, if they're sensible.
Nice that the prospect of some competition is stirring things up!

The Beagleboard was nice but at $150 - unless you REALLY needed the small size you could buy an old laptop for less and get a screen/keyboard/disk/network/PSU
Yes, you're right, my mistake. I was thinking of an old map I saw that had west up and north right.
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dlikhten try! lets see if this works for everyone :)
The new design is definitely cleaner and consistent with other Google products, but it is not a design focused on providing a great reading experience (as the product name "Reader" suggests). It is basically the Gmail layout and interaction model, just different content. I wish Google had taken an approach that deeply focused on the content first (as Flipboard does).
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How is it possible to pronounce GNU given Stallman's own instructions?
From http://www.gnu.org/: 'The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix!”; it is pronounced g-noo, as one syllable with no vowel sound between the g and the n.' How is this possible? Doesn't a hard g imply a vowel sound?
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Is there a way to remove all my comments from HN? I would like to give up.

Don't you see a delete link next to your recent posts? There is a time limit on how long you can delete or edit your posts, but you should still be within that limit for your most recent posts, all of which you can find if you look at the "threads" link at the top of the page when you are logged in.
It means making a service not for consumers but for other services is a bad business nowadays?
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There are a lot of tools and major projects within the various BSD's that are GPL'ed software. This includes but certainly isn't limited to gcc, gdb, grep, binutils, diff, and more.

It is only recently in the last few years that the BSD projects have started removing GPL'ed software from their base trees and replacing them with BSD equivalents. clang is slowly being accepted by FreeBSD (a BSD compiler developed by Apple), tools like grep and diff are being redone under the BSD license, and OpenBSD is looking at pcc to replace the gcc compiler for their base system.

The main reason is simply because they want to create a fully BSD distribution of components, where none of it is under the GPL license, secondary only recently has there been a new compiler available that is as good as gcc and could be a viable replacement.
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Fwiw:

I hadn't heard of you until I saw this post.
I took a look at the website, and having seen that and read the article decided to sign up.
I was immediately prompted to sign in with Facebook, and I closed the tab.
I too mostly "hate it when people call THEMSELVES entrepreneurs". But I do love it when people say and prove that they are looking to change the world. If that involves building and selling a company, then why not? By selling Viaweb and then growing YC, pg has done more to change the world than he could have done by staying put.
JavaScript would definitely be my #2 choice to recommend to someone who wants to program. One of the problems with JS used to be that there weren't any even half-decent "Learn to program with JavaScript" books until Marijn Haverbeke's (who also happens to be a prolific Lisp hacker) Eloquent JavaScript (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) came out. It's a very solid introductory book.

HTML5 Canvas is also awesome - IMO it's the most convenient way for beginners to do computer graphics in any "real world" programming environment/language.
Arrington's pissed because some actual, real-live truth got out because he didn't have "a sound bite?" Shudder.
It's horrible...

Removal of sharing completely fucks up the workflow I use to send things to pinboard