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While developer productivity is important, I tried to avoid suggesting that one set of tools were better than an other - for reasons that I hoped would be evident. That said - not sure - but I think the IntelliSense overload in VS2010 gets in the way as often as it helps. The great thing about learning other languages and frameworks, is that you discover what works (or not) and why. In my case - it was liberating to be able to build and deploy a complete solution - for free. Linux and FOSS gave me that choice.
I am not sure I would like UK "culture" to be judged by our eurovision entries and suspect most europeans would feel the same.

The UK does have a problem though, in many ways we are much more like america economically than the rest of europe, but european is trade is big part of our economy.
Hey "Matt Smith", if you did this to a person for sending you a spam message, then you lack in empathy. I believe it's plenty to mark his message as spam (pressing "!" in Gmail with enabled keyboard shortcuts).

You know, you can go out to street and have someone offer you a newspaper to buy, which is basically a form of spam.

Will you then start shouting that person's home address, showing picture of their home, printing their family details, and posting what you found on their public Facebook?

This is a serious consciousness deficiency, my friend. I bet you also don't see a problem with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and you think it's actually to protect the american citizen. I don't want to insult you but I assume there's a chance of you really thinking that.

One more thing. I have my FB and Google+ profiles set to public, and I'm not going to change that. I'm not going to live in a false notion of privacy, which never existed in the first place. I believe in an open world, I believe we will get there if we all try. And people like you are not going to scare me to thinking otherwise.

I'm fully aware that a person like you may one day use my public information to attack me for whatever reason, and I'm prepared to handle that in a human and kind way. The same way as if that happened to me on a public street.

Have a nice day.

p.s. don't use Wordpress if you are in the business of attacking people.
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Thanks guys for the positive criticism and encouragement. It certainly means a great deal!

I agree with the comments on poor contrast, especially on LCD monitors. That will need to be fixed.
What about the guy who actually asked the question? this whole thing emerged in an askreddit thread in which someone asked what would happen if marines went back in time.
>>... I disagree [...] Comments in the code are good.

Read the elisp example after "In contrast, here's what my code tends to look like today:"

I doubt Yegge argues against well written comments.

(Personally, I wonder if I should start to sign everything I write with "/eternal teenager"? :-( :-) )
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I'm pretty sure he doesn't get anything. Ideas aren't subject to copyright protection. Ditto for the people who made suggestions, unless Erwin copied text into his story.
It's still not an argument to optimise OSX for the use case of 30" monitors though.
I would have thought that the duplicate function would have had 'duplicate it where?' in it.

The only reason I can think of for not having this is so you could make temporary changes to a document and not have them saved - which just seems to be a different way of arranging the cart and horse compared to the 'save as' workflow. With the Save As workflow, temporary changes are simply not saved. With the Duplicate workflow, you have to dupe the document first to avoid unwanted saving, then make your temporary changes. I don't see much of an improvement overall.
Sounds like a good attempt to using homomorphic encryption?
My autoresponder just sends "I'll read your e-mail when I return". In general when reading e-mails takes too much time, I just read and respond to the rest on another day (except e-mails from friends). If you respond to your 200 e-mails immediately, you can be sure to have 100 follow-up e-mails the next day.
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It would be possible but I'm not sure that would be that much more useful than just sending a separate request for each url. If there were lots of them, they could just be looped through. Also, with lots of urls, the response could start getting quite slow. Maybe I'm missing the point of what you meant?
Hopefully I can give you some perspective here. I didn't know Steve Jobs, know very few people who have worked at Apple, none were key people.

This isn't the first book, article or interview that openly discusses Steve Jobs darker side. I haven't read the book, I'm not a Steve Jobs fan.

The book could very well be a hack job, but I doubt it. Nobody is a perfect human being. A book which follows both the amazing successes and the temperament and attitude which created them in an honest way is likely an effort to humanize Steve Jobs. I can understand why you wouldn't want your idol to be humanized. Why you don't want to read about their flaws. But at the same time, Steve Jobs was human.

I believe you are correct about Next and OS X, and I can't imagine bill gates saying 'none of the NeXT code made it into OS X'. Aren't they both still today based on the same kernel? Maybe Issacson misunderstood something, or maybe you misread it.

Either way, my point is that Steve Jobs flaws are widely known, but some of these flaws may have been responsible for his business success, some may have been detrimental to his personl successes. This we'll never know.

What we do know is that the man wasn't a god or a saint. He was a man, with character flaws just like the rest of us.

You seem to have taken it very personally, but I seem to recall the 60 Minutes piece saying that Steve didn't want to see the book, but gave his wife the responsibility of making sure it was true and fair.
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Thanks for the link. My first thought was that it would be a potential disaster like the inflexible and pro cyclical American balanced budget laws, but the Swiss law seems very reasonable """It states that each year, the budget must be in balance, adjusted for economic conditions. This adjustment is made by multiplying expenditures by a cyclical factor (the ratio of trend real GDP to expected real GDP), thus either allowing for deficits during recessions or forcing lawmakers to have surpluses during booms."""

Since US GDP is currently far below potential GDP that would seem to allow for a substantial fiscal stimulus right now but force the government to save when the economy is stronger again.
Is it hard finding staff that have sufficient technical knowledge?

It feels like the recruitment industry in general is very cut throat and has high turnover.

And in an industry that has a shortage of skilled people to begin with, that's probably not a good thing.
I believe valve games' price are consistent. It's the publishers that think Australia's easy for upselling.
The problem with the Flex community as it is today is that the sponsor of the community has no direct responsibility to the community except as it benefits the company. Obviously this will be fixed as soon as it is handed to a sponsor that, in effect, _is_ the community.
That's true in absolute numbers. But if a country is able to run a primary surplus over the long run, it means that the growth of its economy and its tax revenues is keeping up with the additional nominal debt. So the debt grows in absolute numbers but not relative to GDP. That's why the primary balance is generally considered a good measure for debt sustainability.

Still, you are right that they may not be reducing debt, but at least they are keeping it stable.
A VC (Fred Wilson) on Zynga's "Give our stock back or you'll be fired"
Sorry mate, ever heard of vendor lock-in ? This is what happens adopting closed source technologies, they sounds great to start, then ... here you are.

Migrating to community-supported-free-open-source technologies "suddenly" makes sense.
Well, we try to enter songs/artists we think will appeal to Europe's tastes. And mainly fail, because we are so different from them.

It's fairly obvious that our countries usual musical output is pretty decent, and if we entered any of that into the contest, we'd win (If it was actually anything to do with the song).

I love the Eurovision song contest though, because it highlights how ridiculous the idea of integrating Europe is. You get countries who always vote for each other even when the song is rubbish, and you get no one voting for us, even when we have a half decent song. The Eurovision song contest is the best advert for a 'euro-skeptic'.
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It is safe to generalize that Android (why the quotes?) is open.

There is continual activity on the Android source tree with updates for most versions of the platform well after December last year. The well publicised exclusion is Honeycomb and we can only speculate why Google kept that one to themselves (incomplete/Kindle Fire depending on your Android hate level).

Even if you insist that Android is not open in the most complete sense, you have to agree it is MORE open than iOS which makes it more appealing to some people.
Can you explain why you gave the article that title? I don't see Fred mentioning the stock issue at all in the article, and I don't see why the founder having a 'long roadmap' means that somebody who was given an amount of stock should have to give it back.

If the road map was so large, the stock plan should have reflected that, or maybe the company hasn't reached the value metrics at the intersection of road map and stock plan.

Either way, is that the fault of the employee? Why do the employees have to give back their stock? What about Pinkus? Is he putting his stock back into the pool also?

I haven't been actively following this story. So I'm sorry if I'm still a bit ignorant about it, but my main point is that I'm not sure this article is directly referencing the stock issue.
Not very suspicious if you look at how .NET evolved and continues to evolve. They have had massive changes in their offerings which is a good thing but frustrating if your a dev strongly invested in what they offer. Often you have to rewrite your code with each new offering they push. Then ASP.NET Webforms slow death in favor of MVC, another major rewrite again. Along with the rewrites you are giving up a huge investment you've made in webforms ( their previous offering).

From asp.net 1.0 to 2.0 required a rewrite to take advantage of 2.0 featureset. From linq2sql to EF where linq2sql was dropped in favor of EF and we still have no proper assurance. winforms 1.0 to 2.0 then wpf. Moving to wpf as you may guess requires a major rewrite. Then the rumors that wpf is dead. SL is the next best thing. Now they say SL is dead but your skillset will carry over to building metro style apps.

Perhaps he can avoid all this frustration now!
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Ah, thanks for the note -- I haven't checked it in opera in a while :)
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Im sure they are going to drop metro too, shortly after all their customers hate it even more than vista.
Some time ago I registered 100EuroTweets which I guess was kind of a similar idea: you would be able to send messages to that account by paying 100€. Presumably people would follow the account to see who would be crazy enough to pay, and in turn the tweets would actually get some exposure for their money.

I never got round to implementing it, because I wanted it to be fully automated (checking a bank account), which is slightly complicated in Germany.

Anyway, it was just a silly idea in the spirit of the Million Dollar Page, for fun - just like yours, I guess. I actually like your variant better, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be quite successful.
Yeah, that's unfair...I retract that. But I wouldn't suggest for a second that you don't need "guys like him" i.e. great salespeople who can sell ice to eskimos. That's why I find his arrogance so over the top insofar as he compares himself to Jobs and other innovators.
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I think what is missing here (or what I can't seem to find) is my most frequently used webpages. I can add them manually, but I'm hoping this will create and update them dynamically, just like chrome does now.
This only depends on image size.
per-capita debt as a fraction of per-capita income or possessions would be more interesting; a millionnaire or someone with a solid 200K income with a 100k mortgage is not a problem.
The original story is at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3220819

The link is meant to go to a comment where somebody asks about the Zynga situation, and Fred Wilson replies with:

"i think it is an example of what the media does to companies that are in the quiet period. when mark and zynga can tell their side of the story, i think people will realize that zynga is a meritocracy where performance matters more than anything else "

And:

"please don't make the mistake of hearing only one side of the story when the other side can't talk because they are in a quiet period. when the truth can and will come out, i think you will realize what zynga does is not only fair and equitable, it is doing it in the interest of fairness for everyone. but you can do one thing. go look at Zynga's S1 and look at how much stock employees and former employees own versus how much stock Mark owns. mark is generous to a fault in my opinion."

Basically, only one side of the story has surfaced so far, and those in the know on the other side are legally bound to keep quiet for the moment.
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I’m using Gnome 3.2 on Debian Sid and vertical/horizontal maximization is still there.

To define shorcuts: Go to Settings, Keyboard, Shortcuts, Windows, and set your shortcuts.

To change the behaviour of middle-clicking or right-clicking on the title bar, install gnome-tweak-took, run gnome-tweak-tool, and go to the Windows section.
Use few layers of public services and you won't find who to use rubber hose on... the real (and fundamental) problem is how to securely sneak the key in a way that you can still trust it.
Here it is from the original source (WSJ):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870455410457543...
For what it's worth, Reddit's general manager vowed not to interfere in this case http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ljf4e/dear_reddit...
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Sorry, but I'm failing to see how this means it's dead... Things might change, but die?

Sounds a lot like people making things up to me...
That's a very important point. I wish it had been noted on the graph.

That being said, do governments buy bonds of other countries? Or is it just financial institutions and individuals buying them?
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With Smalltalk you can have your cake and eat it too! Its refactoring and IDE support is better than those of other dynamic languages and only slightly lagging behind statically typed languages(due to its relative obscurity, its ecosystem isn't as huge as Java/C#'s).
I'm glad you liked it and it zipped down to such a small size (I worked on Swiffy file size reduction as an intern. Without the runtime, we were often smaller after gzipping :D)
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The narrative commenting style was particularly recognizable. I started out in Java ~8 years ago and only recently moved to Python. Whenever I used to write a particular algorithm in Java I would write comments in the narrative style described by the article. However, I noticed myself deleting large chunks of those comments as I revisited the code at a later point in time. Comment refactoring, so to speak. These days, in Python, I rarely write narratives, and when I do, I delete or shorten the narrative before I commit. Moral of the story: narratives can be useful to organize your brain, even with years of experience, but they should really be gone when the code (and your thought process) is finished.
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This only works if Dave's capacity for responding to email is greater than the amount of email he actually gets. What happens if Dave never wants to spend more than 16 hours per day on email (a reasonable assumption), and his total incoming email volume would require 20 hours per day to get through? Email would queue forever.

For many people, email is an absolute train wreck.

The solution Dave chose is bad because messages get lost

This is the point. Dave would say that his solution is good precisely because messages get lost. Dave is effectively increasing the barrier to receiving an email, and filtering out emails that don't reach that barrier, which is an economically reasonable approach to the problem. (This particular approach may not end up being the right one, but it is worth a try.)
I guess I went wrong when I said Europe instead of European periphery (East and Mediterran, or he so called New Europe). Since the France, Benelux, North and Germanic states (the Old Europe) already share much more of the same values and outlooks towards business and civic responsibilities.

And I didn't mean that these peripheral people are all looking to move to Germany and eat Bratwurst and drink Beer, while reciting Goethe and enjoying Shit German Welfare. By the way, calling German welfare bad is absurd and completely a matter of political and personal convictions. Some of our US friends here would call German welfare socialistic and dangerous (?).

There are also other reasons why people don't emigrate - language and cultural barrier is key here. Romanians and Bulgars are migrating to Italy, due to language and cultural similarities. Polish are migrating to UK - since new generations apparently speak better English than German, etc. If more people spoke German, then you would see much more emigration to Germany, hell you don't even need to migrate for the most part. Being able to get business connection with Germany going on a personal level is more than enough for one to get going.

What I mean is that New Europe would want more of Germany (or Old Europe) in their own countries. And by that I mean an judicial systems that work. Government that actually offers some services beyond employment for the unemployable and privileged. And system where hard working people are protected from scores of predators. This is the gist of problems that Europe is facing currently. As far as Greece, Italy and Spain goes - its not the same as the CDS crisis in US. The problems that led to current state of affairs have been well know for a long time, but have not been acted upon due to ignorance and systemic corruption on the part of these weak countries.
Ask HN: Costs of IT startup in Montreal, Canada
Hello,
I wonder if there is anyone here in Montreal or Quebec?
I will move to Quebec soon, and I need to know what is the cost to found a startup in Montreal in specific...

I will be more like self employed, so I won't hire anyone, and I will use only my laptop, so no infrastructure or equipments costs..

I just need to know the cost of renting a 1 bedroom apartment in a good area in Montreal, and also cost of internet, phone line, bla bla bla.

I am immigrant and permanent resident in Canada, so I need to know if the government is providing any facilities to immigrants who wish to establish their business, and what is the cost of the paper work? And can I do it myself or I will need a lawyer?

It would be more than perfect if you provide me with a website about entrepreneurship in Canada/Quebec..

The startup will be a web development and programming business, so also if you have any tips on how can I get a local work/contracts, that would be amazing indeed.

Thanks so much in advance,
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What if you do it cheaper?
I see this motive for Germany: the Euro has been a back-door mechanism for buffeting weak parts of the economy during a stressful period (reunification, global plunge in manufacturing margins). The effect is similar to what China gets by constantly buying treasuries.

Beneficiaries have been the former east and farmers. Italians can buy German milk that would otherwise be expensive.

Here's some speculative fiction on Germany without the Euro: the DEM is a very strong currency. Bankers drive fast German-branded but Eastern-europe-manufactured cars along a financial-sector corridor that stretches between Zurich and a much larger Frankfurt am Main and which has sucked the momentum out of the city of London.

Munich has some strength for being in the middle of this but has been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs. Most regions are less fortunate still. Production for export is impractical. There's significant social unease, particularly against hard-working migrants from other European areas "taking german jobs".

There are many poor regions that haven't crossed over into services mindset and vast regions of poverty. Wealthy western states resent seeing all their taxes disappear to weaker regions. There's general dissatisfaction with the reunification project.

In short - a harsher take on the UK.

(I've no ideas about France.)
I hope I answered most of your criticism in my post do danieldk.
Both fail for me.

There's a middle ground I aspire to. All I want from code is clarity. Not just for me, but for anyone who has to touch the code in the future.

The first is so verbose in comments that you don't see the little code there is. And you couldn't see all the necessary code on the screen.

The second (now) is so dense that you have to read the code carefully and slowly to understand what it's doing.

I have the luxury of time when writing code, I can consider it and lay it out however I want, comment it how I want. To a person fighting a critical bug they lack this luxury. It's my job when I create code to help the person debugging it (even if it's me) to understand the code as quick as possible so that they may find and solve the problem as soon as possible.

Three things I always remember when I code and design software:

1) Debugging is harder than writing code, so if you've been clever in writing code you are by definition not clever enough to debug it.

2) UNIX philosophy... do one thing well.

3) Write both the code and comments in a Hemingway style. Use no obscure language, keep it in layman's terms... but say only what you need to say.
You (and I to a certain extent) need to be more specific. You've provided a list of screen readers. What I was really trying to say was "when someone argues that a particular markup or technique has benefits, then they need to demonstrate a real user with a real need who will benefit using shipping technology".

So we would need to pick a particular point of contention and then we can argue the toss.
I think it's fascinating to imagine a future where scientists finally discover the "anti-fat" drug. I believe it's bound to happen in our lifetimes. In a world where only the poor are fat, it would be very interesting to see how this affects the perception of attractiveness in middle class/upper class society. Would we adapt to value knowledge above physical appearance?
Did you specify 'URGENT' in the subject?
Took some digging, but as far as I can tell, this is the original Reddit thread in question:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...