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SOPA is pretty egregious, and it looks like it could get everyone in a lot of trouble given the way someone can merely allege copyright infringement and get a site blacklisted.

Any company with a crucial web presence definitely does not have better things to than stop this bill from being passed.
With the myriad unprovable universe theories (GUT) that are coming out anything is possible :)
In detail, why is git better than subversion if all I need is a central repository for a few people working at a company on one site, sitting in the same room with permanent network access.

I was in exactly this situation at my last job (minus the same room, I was stuck in a separate office). In spite of the main source repo being SVN, we all used git-svn as our client.

The main benefit is that git makes it easier to create clean commits and push them to trunk.

E.g., I want to make module Foo, and use it in Bar. I can use git as I go, building module Foo incrementally over 5 commits (none of which has sufficient quality to go into trunk). Then I can do 5 more commits which integrate Foo into Bar. So my individual history is tracked while I'm developing. If, while building Bar, I make a bugfix to foo, I can commit it.

So logically, my commits look like:

101-104 Work on Foo

105-107 Work on Bar
108 Bug fix on Foo
109-111 Finish work on Bar

When it comes time to push to trunk, I can rebase 101-104 + 108 into one clean patch, "Built module foo", and 105-107 + 109-111 into "Incorporate module foo into bar". Then I eventually push these into the main repo.

Further, if I'm working on this with someone else, we can use git to track work between the two of us without committing to mainline.
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If you use Xmonad with GNOME 2/3 or Xfce, this panel applet/plugin can be handy:
https://github.com/alexkay/xmonad-log-applet

(disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer)
Off-topic:

I use Ctrl-P Ctrl-A sudo <space> which is exactly the same number of keystrokes as "sudo !!" and a much more general solution in my opinion.
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Personally, I agree with all of the points you made here, except for the suggestion that we don't need to dig further. The SOPA bill (still) has a lot of potential to enable Internet censorship, and for something that far-reaching I think it's fairly important to be transparent about the various lobbying groups and their aims.
It's not necessarily that they can't afford to buy apps, but that they live in an economy where credit/debit cards (and even bank accounts) aren't that common.

Most of Africa's like this, same with a lot of Asia - Visa and Mastercard have very little footprint there. Instead people use cash to buy pre-paid access from their mobile carrier.

You're right there's a question around what kind of adverts you'd display to them though.
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I wonder if there will be many winners from these music wars? I've been seeking out music released under Creative Commons licenses via Jamendo and the Internet Archive for a while now, and the quality and selection continues to improve (not just click hop, noise or tracker-based techno anymore). Most artists don't benefit from their relationships with labels, so anything that reduces their exposure can hurt their main sources of income (performances, merchandise, etc.). It will be interesting to see if new artists start ignoring labels because they simply aren't worth the trouble.
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Xoxos has a couple phase distortion synthesis VSTs. http://www.xoxos.net/vst/vst.html

If you lack a VST plugin host, http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm is very bare-bones but does the trick for doodling away and http://reaper.fm/ by Justin Frankel (of Winamp fame) et al. is a more full-featured DAW that supports VSTs.
What you describe is the original use case for git: pull-based community development. So I can only conclude that you don't see a problem because you've never actually done it.
"It seems reasonably that the fire could outsell all the other Android tablets combined by 2x, possibly even in its first quarter of existence. Amazon has a great brand and distribution channel, and the Fire is very good value for money."

I was referring to this statement. I rather like Amazon and the Kindle Fire, I just don't see them selling 2x the total amount of Android tablets that have been sold thus far.

If you weren't including all other android tablets when you made your comment, then you shouldn't have used the phrase "all the other android tablets combined."

The 6 million tablet figure is an estimate from Andy Rubin.

http://www.androidauthority.com/there-are-over-6-million-and...

As far as Amazon taking over app distribution, I don't think that it will happen. As stated elsewhere, there are many more phones than tablets, and that isn't going to change. While Amazon's alleged Kindle Phone may be as big of a success as their tablet, it still won't represent a large enough market to matter to Google.
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Just like I call the same guy for home repairs each time. It's easier for him to get the job because he previously did a good job.
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Certainly by those standards, the Youtube link you supplied is a back button. I wonder if you do find anything readable outside of HN these days ;-)
"People is scared about home automation."

I'm scared about where they found their proof-reader.
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From the article: "[Gates] also said there was no viable alternative to the Windows operating system in the market at the time [1995], which would mean Novell does not have an antitrust case."

That statement is only even remotely true if one interprets it to mean that there was no alternative to Windows at the time that ran on the same hardware. Macintosh computers were alive and well, no?
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. some of his heavier works are well, heavy in the English version. I'm thinking of "Solaris", "His Master's Voice", "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub".

A case of bad translations. Those books are quite readable in the original language.
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What progress have you made on your startup for the month of November?? (full-time or on the side)

Launch something? Almost launching? Got featured on a great blog?

Guess I'll start off:
Still making progress on http://www.Freelanceful.com and waiting for the developer to finish. [there's been quite some trouble/drama with the developer]

In the meantime; I've also decided to pursue spending 6-8 hours a day learning Ruby on Rails [I'm a freelance UI designer currently] and also started up a new blog on Web Startups: http://www.webstartup.me
I have to say, this is great and very timely. I have lost track of how many conversations I've had in the last year where I lament the shocking state of home automation. If there's anywhere REST standardisation is welcome, it's in the home.

That said, the home page needs a lot of work. It's garish and the english is terrible. And does anyone really say "mashup" these days?
I'm not sure what this website does. It doesn't seem to provide anything concrete, except for the faulty premise that low adoption of home automation is due to a lack of interoperability between vendors, and the proposition to fix that by sprinkling some magic 'REST API' dust on it.

People who decide whether to buy a home automation system or not don't give a flying fuck about interoperability - they want one vendor to install and maintain it for them anyway. What they care about is cost, features and (for renovations) how hard it is to install the hardware, and how much it can do for the money and time invested.

What we need is more accessible hardware, not more software. There is plenty of open source home automation software. What we need are cheap ways to build sensors, buttons, actuators etc, plus a cheap way to make them look good, too (that last part is the hardest, actually).
It will only be a matter of time before somebody converts this to Javascript :)
My macbook died recently and I switched back to ubuntu for the week, first thing I did was install xmonad, its a really awesome environment to work within.

I do wish it played nicer with other window environment, some applications just dont work inside a modal interface and when they dont I just want my normal windows with title bar and buttons back

I havent installed it on my mac now its repaired, the fact I dont be able to use my normal mac apps kinda put me off, but I may give it another shot, if there was a way to have xmonad like behaviour with mac applications while preserving floating windows I would be in heaven (divvy etc most certainly do not count)

Its probably worth mentioning that despite following several tutorials, getting xmonad installed on 11.04 was a nightmare that left plain ubuntu pretty broken, I would like to see that process improved as well
Launched my Twitter competitions tool:

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Got some interest, but still working hard on the marketing side of things. Few people have registered to use it, but am still chasing the elusive first sale! ;)
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I tried posting the full code, but HN seems to remove it.
Anyone else having trouble trying to run it? got the assets in place, get to the menu fine, hit new game then get a black screen with an empty box in the middle. Suspect its the copy protection?
just curious; how'd you come up with the name?
>> xmonad is uber-wonderful but a good beginner documentation would be really awesome.

Why don't you write one? A lot of the xmonad (and other tiling wm) communities are battle scarred veterans who have been using dwm (the ancestor of xmonad, awesome et al) since day one and they don't need no stinking documentation :) And besides, one of the core ideas of dwm and (some of) it's successors is that the source code is the documentation.

So if you're a newb and would belong to the target group of the docs you're requesting, you're the perfect individual to write them.

I'm sure all the old timers on the IRC channel will be glad to help you to get started and will be even more delighted if you finish a doc.
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I would be seriously pissed if I donated my time and effort towards something like ASF, trying to help the open source world, only to be "considered harmful". WTF.
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It's a good idea but at 160$ for a 6" robot it really should be moveable. Also I see that these are not aimed at children but making them more resistant (built from more flexible / tough materials) would be one of those 10x moments.
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So after telling us that your current environment is working with people who have a hard time with svn/cvs, forgive me if I find your opinion on git's ability to handle the requirements of large-scale, community driven development of the code that pretty much runs the internet to be utterly irrelevant. No. The kind of people who cannot handle cvs/svn update concepts are not the target demographic for a solution used to develop a fucking operating system or the worlds http server.
> The best scenario is that the issues are related to a software anomaly, and that engineers can then upload new commands.

Dear Santa, please bring me a 15m dish for Christmas, because I badly want to try to upload new commands too.

More seriously, I never realized that there are probably a lot of hackable things flying above our heads, provided that you have the appropriate equipment.
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1112/InfoTheory/ is a bit more recent and should be pretty similiar :)
Fair enough, neither of us were particularly precise. The rubin figure will undoubtedly count anything that can possible be called an Android tablet, including the nook.

That said, what matters is not how many devices are sold. It's how many app buying customers adhere to each store, and how much they spend. The vast majority of android phone owners are not buying apps.
This isn't so much writing forward compatible code as it is writing good code. These are good standard practices for past and present browsers. I can't possibly know, much less test against, every browser, OS, plugin combination out there. Good practices are our best substitute for that.
..why isn't project x on git /rant

tl;dr

Github has a great social interface, it is a tool, there are others and there will be more.

Yes it is an evolution towards DVC + great social interfaces, older industry mammoths will be slower to adopt then newer more agile projects.

ps. I just switched from git to mercurial and it's a breath of fresh air.
That can be fixed with this:

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From my quick read, the article talks about the proliferation of "creative technologist" who lack deep technical skills, and the problems brought when these people is put in charge of conceive, and lead the implementation of creative technology projects. I agree with their point.
Stupidity, frankly. I was looking for something that implied interactivity and Twitter in its name... and came up with that monstrosity of a name ;)
There's a long history of this sort of thing. All communication with Galileo, for instance, was via the auxiliary transmitter intended to properly target the much bigger main transmitter; the main transmitter dish was damaged on launch.
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In practice, all national/supranational agencies tend to collaborate to an extent on these things.
Arianespace is even doing commercial launches of Soyuz rockets from Guiana:

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I don't think that Daring Fireball is a good example for a membership based blog. Gruber made all feeds freely available in August 2007. The membership button is still there, but besides a T-shirt, it doesn't provide you with anything new.

AFAIK he gets a lot more from the weekly feed-sponsorships, The Deck ads, and Amazon referrals.
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Ask HN: Should I start looking for remote/freelance work outside my country?
Today, while browsing the job sites for my area I started to notice a, what seems to me, bad trend. Of the few postings that detailed the salary, all of them were offering around 1000 euros (1300 USD) before taxes for people with 2-3 years experience (searched mostly iOS and Rails). This comes around to 700 Euros after taxes or so.

While I know the economy and country (Portugal) is in the crapper, this saddens me. I actually am doing a bit better but even this weekend I met with a client to discuss their need for a custom backend which I estimated to be around 1500-2000 euros development (and I lowballed) I also just got back that maximum he was willing to pay was 500 euros.

I read here in HN that talent is hard to find now a days everywhere, but from everyone I talk to here, those are about average salary for developers. (A couple years ago a manager told me their programmers with 5+ years of experience were quite happy to earn 1000 euros after taxes)

Is there anything I can do/say to try and convince clients that good programming skills are actually worth paying for? Any book recommendations? Or (and for people that know the kind of mentality I'm talking about) the only way to actually start making some more money is to look only outwards, either for remote work to people in the UK/USA or create and market a product to those markets? (I already do a bit of freelancing like this but it's a lot harder to get clients)
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yes, you can unistall it, but popular distros do come with pre-installed stuff.
Being WPO consultants we of course made a big effort to make CDN Planet fast. Our goal: the average page page load time must be <2 seconds for 95% of all page views.

Isn't that a bit high? cdnplanet is actually impressively nippy for me, I'd just expect them to aim for 1.5 sec.
> I haven't tried using xmonad with the ubuntu panel and stuff, so I don't know about that.

Use XMonad.Config.Gnome.gnomeConfig as your base config. Log in with gnome as normal and do:

pkill metacity
pkill compiz
sleep 3
xmonad &

Not the most elegant solution, but it works.
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Perl is a dynamic language and can execute Perl during compilation. Some languages such as C++ allow metaprogramming via templates or other special compile-time meta-language constructs. Perl simply allows metaprogramming via Perl.

From the reception to my comment it seems HN readers aren't very familiar with dynamic languages. Perhaps I invited those subject to dunning-kruger by providing an overly simplified example.
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I guess this is the kind of article we can expect from the new Arrignton-less and Siegler-less "Techcrunch"
Checking for null on every method invocation? I usually call methods for a reason and if my object is null, I have an error. If I have a situation where an object may be null, there will be specific handling for that case.

The other "patterns" are fishy too. How has this gotten so many points?
Copy&Pasting the text resulted in an error because it uses fancy " signs, use this instead:

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Is there a compelling reason for somebody already using Awesome WM to look into Xmonad? Seems like I'm hearing about it more often these days.
So are Dickens and Tolstoy.
This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve at Skim.Me (http://skim.me), except we're not focused solely on article text reading. Even reading my bank account info on the web is terrible.
I'd imagine you need a particular encryption key to do it.
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It doesn't use this, but if you check the diagnostic dumps in iOS5 (it's buried somewhere in settings) you'll see it gathers pretty much simillar data (I've seen battery status, app installation, free space etc. in there).

What remains to be seen if any of that data is sent to Apple if you opt out of "diagnostic data" sending.
Oh, that's a certainty. I've seen Amazon Mechanical Turk work items that have you place a five star review and receive payment for having done so.
That's pretty cynical. If big business is backing out, SOPA is dead. The people don't want it, the politicians don't care either way so long as they get money.
Is this 1000 Euros per month ?
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I suggest you pick up a copy of the New York Post and other NYC 'tabloid' style papers before making a blanket statement like "editors wouldn't allow that."
Why was this submitted via a link shortener instead of the real link?
Personally I find that Professor Ng manages to instill a lot of energy into the ml-class.org lecture videos.
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So like Python's 'in'?

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If its 1000 Euros per month, I think you can do better if you start looking for remote/freelance work. You can try odesk.com or elance.com to get started with. As your portfolio starts building up, you can start charging more per hour and you will find potential clients approaching you instead of other way round.
How do "analysts" get interviewed by a major newspaper and then their opinions presented as if they're actual news? If the Times wants to run a "here are some opinions from people who are generally knowledgable about the industry but have no specific detailed information about the matter under discussion," they have plenty of on-staff writers who could do the job.
Joel has said in the past that nothing has increased sales more than adding new features. I've always wondered how he reached that conclusion and what data he used to arrive at that. (it doesn't necessarily follow that if subsequent releases generated more sales and had more features, then it's because of those features that sales were made).

Generally I've found that simplicity may not create marketing buzz for your product but will result in more people actually using it (sadly people using != more sales all the time). That's why people still use excel instead of the enterprise crm/erp system that their COO bought.
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I'm very interested. One question: Do you have some place to put people up in, or would we be responsible for lodging, food, etc?
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Mikeal isn't arguing that Apache source should be put on GitHub.

He is saying that ASF would benefit from the kind of community development that git promotes as exemplified by GitHub and linux.
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