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I think it's worth noting that git did not replace tarballs and patches. Git replaced Bitkeeper. Bitkeeper, as far as I know, replaced tarballs and patches. And as far as I know, git did not start as a bunch of scripts for dealing with tarballs and patches. The design was inspired by his knowledge of and experience with Bitkeeper.
This is not even wrong.

I don't know where to start. Sure, training people in Latex will eventually make them churn out better looking documents than Word, but the initial training costs and learning curve are going to be really high for the average office worker for who Word with the ribbon is overkill.

I am all for being against conventional wisdom, but surely someone would have done some experiments on these lines to unlock the creative expression of their employees? There are even a bunch of companies who allow and provide facilities for napping since they believe it helps be more productive. What's stopping them from switching to CLIs exclusively?

Also, he ignores the power of macros(VBScript is very powerful) and keyboard shortcuts in GUIs. Watch an occasional user of Office vs. a pro user and you can see the difference clearly. How many here can profess to know about every feature or shortcut in Word or Excel? Just see http://www.shortcutmania.com/Microsoft-Word-2007-Keyboard-Sh...

or

http://www.asap-utilities.com/excel-tips-shortcuts.php

Same with IDEs, you can automate a lot of tasks if so choose to spend your time on it and rarely even use the mouse. You only hit a wall in the most simplest of applications(same as CLI), for complicated applications, there's a ton of room to explore.

It makes more sense to rant against programs/devices(browsers, pdf readers, watching movies) that encourage consumption versus the programs/devices that encourage creation(photoshop, IDEs, writing HTML in notepad). That's the only way the analogy of driving a car vs. playing a guitar makes any sense.

I can't fathom why the author is trying to turn that argument into a CLI vs. GUI argument that superficially sounds plausible but just falls apart with a little scrutiny.

Since the author has mastered the car UI, I am looking forward for him to execute this move http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CK94zCXsKI&feature=relat...
Invention,Innovation,and Entrepreneurship:Different processes,different people
Recent drop out here. How did you find your first job?
We're not Drosophila, we're people with minds capable of exploring and understanding a world that goes beyond biological evolution. We don't have to use death to iterate, we do it using general intelligence (it outperforms evolution by a factor of a bazillion). Also, not all organisms use preprogrammed death as a mechanism to iterate, ask an amoeba sometime.

All this talk about the inevitability of death and how that's supposdly a good thing is basically just pseudo-religious reasoning in defense of a status quo that is rapidly crumbling away.
I absolutely agree. I studied economics and people have asked about it - what do you actually learn? You learn maybe a couple actual skills (regressions being the big one) but more importantly, it was learning about how to think like an economist. The sciences had more practical skills I can say I learned about data structures, theoretical performance, etc, but the biggest thing I learned taking CS courses was how to solve problems and then how to solve them faster, more efficiently, planning my time, and other skills which aren't listed in a course description.
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Google Updates its Transparency Report
Google has just updated its transparency report with data from the first half of 2011

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/#2011-06
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This isn't a very accurate headline.
That’s the point, though, isn’t it? I think Weizenbaum was pretty devastated when people actually took it serious.
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Back in the day on punch cards etc code was often data. To fit everything on a punch card often times you would use tricks like dividing by 13 rather than 12 (it was close enough) because elsewhere you needed a 13. So a language that combines the two don't seem so out of left field as it does today.
It's not about "who knew what first." It's about figuring out if it's actually true.
^that^ ;)

Concision is the currency of well formed thoughts on the web.

Also, I agree that it's a generational thing. People who have a problem with it are usually older. (Or maybe just too sensitive.)
Then it gets worse... Then it gets better.. Then it gets worse.. Then it gets better... I'm not sure how long that loop lasts.. But dealing with teething, sickness, going from crib to bed, etc.

The hours of sleep change from time to time. But there is nothing quite like seeing your child look at you with a grin from ear to ear when you come home and they come running up to you saying "DADDY!" (or "MOMMY" -- but I'm not a mother ;) ).
Huh?

I'm in San Jose and my last electric bill was $107 (including taxes) for 587kWH. That's just over $0.18kWH.

I'm not on a life-line or time of use schedule. (That's a two family house.)
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Why did you go in the first place? If you don't care about the 'system' why apply to college and waste a year or two on tuition? Or is it more about nurturing a chip? "yeah, I can get into your school, but here is what I think of it."
Look, if you are trying to find an optimal policy in an unknown environment (w/drift) you are going to need to make the exploration/exploitation tradeoff. How you do it is your call, but if you think that the act of 'dropping out' is, in of itself, of positive value as signaling mechanism you are sadly mistaken.
Interesting. I had a friend come back from a flying trip to China a few weeks ago and he said much the same thing - not common and too hard logistically.

It's not the sport for everyone, that's for sure. I love it, and am never quite so happily as when the vario is screaming, although I'll admit it's 98% bliss and 2% pure terror.

It's worth mentioning that a CuNim will happily break a 747 too - that's why all aircraft give them a wide berth.

In Manilla it was a case of competitive pilots taking disproportionate risks. Based on the photos I've seen of that day, I think a lesser pilot such as myself would never even have launched.
Anyone tried a Turing test on Siri yet? She'd fail the first time she tried to call someone or do a web search, but if you could head her off before she can try to do anything but answer it might be quite convincing.
I've read time ago that he (Ive) wanted to go back home (UK), because his family is still there.
If this thermostat has activity sensors, how can it tell the difference between a pet and a person? Not that I advocate freezing pets while I'm not home, but they don't need a toasty 72.
Or you could do both. I worked 15-20 hours a week while I was in school with a local software company learning all those things and doing the academic work. Most of my classes were in the morning and I'd work 3-4 hours in the afternoon/early-evening when all my roommates where playing video games. This lead to great summer jobs and I left college with a BSc and real-world experience. This lead to a higher offer out of school and looks great at the same time.
This is turning into a buzzfeed article about annoying net language. It's all just opinion. No one writes like that at work.
it's correct to think about the bigger picture, but you'd be paying rent anyway. I think the right number to look at is tuition + opportunity cost, e.g. 6K + 18K salary or whatever.
The workflow was indeed inspired by Bitkeeper, nothing is truly revolutionary, but Bitkeeper itself was not the status quo in a world dominated by CVS, SVN and Perforce.

On "tarballs and patches", I was referring to this famous quote from http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111288700902396 ...

So I'm writing some scripts to try to track
things a whole lot faster. Initial indications
are that I should be able to do it almost as
quickly as I can just apply the patch, but
quite frankly, I'm at most half done, and if I
hit a snag maybe that's not true at all.
Anyway, the reason I can do it quickly is that
my scripts will _not_ be an SCM, they'll be a
very specific "log Linus' state" kind of thing.
That will make the linear patch merge a lot more
time-efficient, and thus possible.
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Suffers from HGTV syndrome at $249.

It isn't going to change the world or revolutionize home automation it's just going to be another "subzero" or "commercial range" as seen on Househunters: Tahoe.

The issue with programmable thermostats is that they are not about temperature but comfort, and comfort is affected by what you have been doing and what you are wearing than a few degrees of setting on the thermostat.

It's the exceptions that make programmable thermostats problematic - the day you get home early from work and the house is 82 F and high humidity in July, or when you are home with the flu and the heat is off...neither is worth $10 a month of possible savings.

We have a non-programmable digital thermostat. It simply has a button with a "$" which bumps the temperature a few degrees toward energy savings based on a user setting.

[http://trane.com/Residential/Products/Thermostats/Non-Progra...]

The bulk of our energy savings since the install probably comes from the fact that the temperature is set digitally rather than with an analog resister - so we tend to adjust the temperature more conservatively and less often.
And where does this magical free food, housing, and lack of bills come from?
I am Lawrence Lessig - AMA
I like the way Symfony2 is laid out. The project structure it gives you seems better suited to large applications than the way Rails lumps everything together.

Unfortunately, in the beta, you had to place the bundle name/path in a about six different places for a single bundle. It was somewhat cumbersome to do manually (although there was a rails-like generator script).

I also wasn't trilled with the debug messages. Half the time they gave information about the internals of the framework and no reference to the place in my bundle where the error was.
Wonder if we met with the same fellow. Andrew Du, I think his name was.

And you're right that a more substantial aircraft is no guarantee of survival, but a glider with a Vne of 140+kts and hefty airbrakes is going to have a much better time escaping from cloud suck than a paraglider.

There are days where it's foolish to launch, of course, but days which look good can still surprise you, so I like having the extra capabilities.

With bigger gliders you get much the same thrill with the vario screaming and such, but somewhat more safety. (Still plenty of risk, of course, but a few obvious failure modes are at least reduced.)
I've sort of been meh about fakegrimlock, just seems like a fad that will fade. That is, until I read this and finally heard him talking to me. I'm damn near combustible I'm flaming so much right now. Wait. That came out wrong.
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This is a great idea, my problem is we're approaching 30,000 so its far too late. But this is something i'll try. I recommend using Toutapp as you can start with a basic template and customise for the user situation. It just speeds the process of emailing lots of people up.
Eliza is actually an AI-building platform. The "doctor" program was like a Hello World, it didn't really show what the platform was capable of. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ELIZA
This remind me of the hilarious comment on GitHub https://github.com/about

VC Funding: $0.00

To grow a business organically is possible although slower than getting funding. It really depends on your business model and your money burn rate.
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Question Your Best Practices
Even if you don't get much out of it. The BS will work on two levels. The first is when you inevitably change jobs, you need that single credential as a baseline for getting your resume in the 'to be reviewed' stack.

The second, is that it gives you a higher safety net if/when you find yourself off track in the future. You won't have to worry as much about finding employment just to get by.
> peak usage in most countries is when it's dark

Citation needed.

http://www.srpnet.com/prices/home/tou.aspx

Looks to me like most of the peak hours are when the sun's out; especially in the areas where PV panels work best.
[IANPG] Since it doesn't result in better posts or comments, it probably doesn't improve HN.
This may be a stupid question, but are you sure your unsubscribe functionality is working? After "Successfully unsubscribing" to Appsumo (trust me, I saw the picture of the founder when I was done) about 6 times, I was still receiving emails from them, and therefore marked them as spam. I also will mark the companies that don't have an easy unsubscribe all method as spam. (IE, you didn't give me the option to opt-in/out when I signed up, and send me a whole bunch of emails which I have to log in to your app to turn off)
I think it it good for my career. I think it's better to learn theory after a good practice, not before. Otherwise you don't have the context, and you fly into to the clouds without keeping your feed on the ground of I Can Build Stuff With This.
For nearly two decades I was a diehard LISP advocate. I even forced all my programers to code three Crash Bandicoot and four Jak & Daxter games in custom LISP dialects that I wrote the compilers for (an article on one here http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...).
But by the mid 2000s I started doing the kind of programming I used to do in LISP in Ruby. It's not that Ruby is a better language, but mostly it was the momentum factor and the availability of modern libraries for interfacing with the vast array of services out there. Using the crappy unreliable or outdated LISP libraries -- if they worked at all -- was tedious. Plus the LISP implementations were so outmoded. It was very hard to get other programers (except a couple enthusiasts) to work that way.
Ruby struct a decent compromise. And it's type system and object model are better than CL anyway. The syntax is more inconsistent, and the macro model nowhere near as good. But it turns out. Libraries and implementation matter a lot. Still, you can feel lots and lots of LISP influence in all the new runtime typed languages (Ruby, Python, etc). And 30 years later, listeners still rule!

Anyway I bundled up some of my thoughts on this on my blog: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/10/25/lispings-ala-joh...
I agree. But Facebook isn't the only offender here; 3rd parties are also tracking your movements. The problem won't go away when Facebook relents; users are always going to have to defend themselves.
There is nothing to review or read there... only your splash screen. Live-chat is a good topic but without a demo there is little to comment about :)
A lot of the things _I_ do in Photoshop could probably be done more efficiently in a CLI (read DSL) than a GUI (and enable me to create and manage reusable components in a better way - some kind of mixins for example).

Now, a lot of what I do is adding (and tweaking!) effects and filters bound to shapes, selections (most often based on shapes) and layers, it would be harder to create an efficient CLI to _draw_ arbitrary shapes, but I don't used Photshop for that anyway.
BOA - Great online interface, late night atm deposits credit immediately (big deal for me), and access to my stocks directly in my online console (can transfer money in the same interface.)

I'm going to have to switch if they implement a $5 debit card fee though. Dunno where :P
Thank you very much for the clarification. While I don't have tens of thousands of pages like that (my site has under 10,000 pages in all and lots of those pages are very informative, rich resources), your point is well taken. It prompted me to look back over my last couple of years worth of content in a whole new light. Thus far I've deleted several hundred old news articles with no residual value, and repurposed several dozen news stories into evergreen reference articles that present lasting value to readers. And I have only gone through about 1/3 of my site's articles thus far. The end result is going to be a much better, more useful site for my readers - which is really exciting.

So thank you for your insight, and thanks to everyone else for their feedback as it has been extremely helpful.
Sorry if this is OT/ a foolish question, but has the content available from Netflix Instant also gotten worse recently?

I have a subscription but am not really the person who uses it at home and for the fist time in ages tried using it last night and couldn't find the movie I wanted, the "instead of" recommendations were ridiculous, and all the "new releases" were just totally lackluster.

Have I missed something else beside the Qwikster debacle? Or is what it's showing me algorithmically based on what my wife and kids are watching?

If not, I can see why people are canceling in droves.
I have to disagree on this one. If there is one who does not belong in the list, it would be Knuth. Zuckerberg, as well as Gates, Larry and Sergey, has created a technology company that changed the lives of millions. They are all well known by the "civilians". Torvalds less so, but still, the Linux project has had a relevance that trascends beyond mere technology.

Mr. Knuth's contributions, on the other hand, are much more fundamental. But, because of this, his name remains unknown for the general population. For us, he is a titan amongst men; for the world, he'd be an old, retired professor who cannot even figure out email.
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Something quite interesting that I forgot to disclose is how Facebook and Twitter performed, one compared to the other.
I expected Facebook to be more effective, and it was, but the percentage of users coming from FB was just slightly greater.
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Actually I think you're right, I remembered "reverse takeover" and this makes mores sense for that term.
Ok so I want to select the pretty green color from a photo for future use. In MS paint it would be two actions select the color selection tool and select the color. How do you do that from the CLI in more expressive way?
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I've been struggling in Uni for close to 5 years now. If I don't dropout then I'll just end up wasting more and more money. It looks like this semester my University may make the decision for me and kick me out for my low grades.

I know University is supposed to teach me dedication, perseverance, hard work etc but it seems all it does is make me doubt myself which makes me depressed and lazy.

I make reasonable money as a freelance web developer. I figure by dropping out of Uni completely, I can take on more jobs and focus on personal projects. This is what I want. This is what gives me excitement so why shouldn't I drop out if the only reason I'm in Uni is to finish a degree I don't even care for.
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With the world today functioning and relying on advances made in technology, you will find that there is a huge need for VOIP communication.
I guess it's a matter of perception. If I'm going to have a child, I'm basically giving up my lifestyle of travel, going out wherever/whenever I want, spending money on what I want, eating out all the time, etc... In order to provide for that child. This is selfish activity, as far as I'm concerned. However, this is how my wife and I live at the moment. We don't want a child ruining our fun! :)
To be honest a minimal version of windows 7 will run better than xp on a system that old. I mean, if you just want to setup something with the least amount of hassle.

Get a good video card though.
I just left BOA after 20 years (started at Fleet bank). I've moved to The Bank of Maine (http://thebankofmaine.com) basically because it will cost me less and offers higher interest rates. The jump was a no-brainer that I should have done a long time ago but, honestly, was just too lazy.

The recent news about BOA and their apparent arrogance in addition to the threat of new fees was the final nail.

Edit: I should add The Bank of Maine is local for me.
Yuck! I really don't like these kinds of schemes. People should share/follow because they actually like a product, not because they want to get early access to a product.

If your product is truly viral within its core user base those users will tweet and talk about the product anyway.
If you think an account is unfairly trying to manipulate the voting system; you have to contact them. Anything less is blatantly ambiguous and unacceptable.

I completely disagree that it's unacceptable. I prefer it that way. It makes it harder to game the system, and I think that keeps the quality here better. The current system is biased towards the community as a whole. You want it biased towards the organizations that benefit from visibility. I don't see any reason to swap those biases.

Personally, I find it marginally acceptable to tweet a HN submission instead of the blog post itself. Tweeting the HN submission is an implicit "Hey guys, please vote this up for us!" to everyone who follows you.
done! paste this [1] into shadertoy (and I de-lurked on HN after 3 years to do this; who knew)
nice effect, but it pains me that a multicore cpu implementation can be SO SLOW. modern pc's are fast, you know? not just the gpu... oh well.

[1] https://gist.github.com/f448ba84e94c61ab5924
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Yep, it's written in GWT.
http://www.quora.com/Angry-Birds-game/How-did-Rovio-build-it...
I really hate waking up to a black bar at the top. RIP McCarthy, you are a legend through and through.
:) you are right. We are releasing our beta soon. I justed wanted to know what you guys think of chat inside of mobile apps in general. Thanks for your comment!