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I guess I haven't necessarily removed them, I've just neglected to pursue them or don't have the burden.

Marriage - I've been single for 5 years, and adamantly stayed single, to the point where I've been in a couple of longer term "relationships" that I've simply cut off in pursuit of other things in life. In reflection I feel this may be a quite cynical outlook on life and will probably change in the near future.

Children - I wrap it.

Pets - Don't have the time nor want to spend the incredulous amount of money required to maintain one.

Elderly Relatives - All of my grandparents have passed and my parents (who are almost in their 60's now) are generally in very good health. I guess I'm very fortunate.
The article assumes that Netflix's revenue is a function of traffic, not subscribers. Without any data to show that BitTorrent users (a) aren't already Netflix subscribers but (b) would become subscribers if.. something..

it's a meaningless exercise, even before you ask 'OK, what's the something?'

Which they also don't do. In fact, they seem to think that if the MPAA stopped suing file-sharers, the file-sharers would all move to Netflix. I'm not really clear why that should happen.
I entirely agree, but I think having so many distributions exacerbates the problem because there is so much fragmentation in terms of stuff like testing and support documentation.

If I have a problem with my Linux Mint install and find something related to fixing the problem in Debian there is a fair chance it will work, but then again there's a chance it doesn't. If the solution is written by a slackware user the chance that it will help is even smaller.

Lack of bugs and issues is a huge part of the overall user experience. There seems to be a belief that making a shiny product that looks like something from apple will make it more friendly to users, this is fallacious.

I think the original reason that the mac was perceived as being more user friendly was only partly down to it's UI and mainly down to the fact that Apple had a simpler and more focused idea about how their product should work and what it should do (controlling the hardware helps somewhat here) and therefor there was just less surface area for bugs.

Linux has the problem of being a patchwork of software with different levels of quality put together by different people with different ideas about how things should be. Whilst this has it's merits it does lead to some problems which really have no right to be real problems.
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This is awesome. I love it. Thanks for building this.
I am not sure if i would really want to be sentimental with my co-founder. It's not a (romantic) relationship we are in. I know making such a letter with "brogramming" attitude would be quiet opposite of this but I believe any such letter should be a balance of "feelings" and get-things-done ("brograming") attitude. This seems to lean a bit on the "feelings" side.
Well, it simply highlights the fact that whilst people may deceive themselves into thinking that what's good for companies is good for everyone (due to increasing of wealth and production), we realise that companies are in it for the people who run the companies, and if there so happens to be some downright abhorrent legislation that may benefit them, they'll support it until it becomes an issue where the net impact will be negative, due to bad press and the like.

It's morality by committee.
Nothing happens for me...

[05:57:27.861] uncaught exception: [Exception... "Not enough arguments" nsresult: "0x80570001 (NS_ERROR_XPC_NOT_ENOUGH_ARGS)" location: "JS frame :: http://tap5.com/lab/snowflakes.html :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 43" data: no]

That error just fills up the error console in firefox...
I'm not big on travel either, but I think you can get something more general out of the post, which is summed up in the last paragraph:

> The point of this post isn't some self-aggrandizing narcissistic pontification, but rather to demonstrate that setting goals works, and to inspire people to do likewise. Work out where you are now, where you want to be in a year, and set-down a series of concrete steps that will get you there. Follow your dreams.
A lot of things are generally accepted as "good ideas", but how often are they practiced? Most software management would throw their own mother under a bus if it got the product out the door on anything close to schedule or budget.

Which is to say, code cleanliness is very much not the norm anywhere. And if anything the game industry seems to be a good 10-20 years behind the rest of the software industry in terms of hewing to good practices (clean code, automated tests, etc.)
I find it ironic that I had to disable AdBlock Plus to see the images in the post.
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The ASF is missing the boat here. It is like ... the 21st century? And core people of the Apache are not only thinking “SVN should be enough for everyone” but also make it exceptionally hard for projects to use the rigth tool for their job.

My bet is still on Git being shot down due to some random made-up “quality concerns” in the end.

ASF went from a helpful free software organization to a software graveyard: Ant, Maven, Subversion, Commons, OpenOffice ...

Sad, but that's reality.
The future of reading on the web is easy to change, all we need to do is pay some money for each article we want to read without adverts...

Unfortunately, the primary impact of putting up a paywall for premium content seems to be to raise huge arguments about why "information wants to be free", not the reality of what happens without one.
Also, the classroom lectures for the upcoming algorithms course are already up.

http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...
Your primary argument seems to be that in the event a "replication event" fails, the data is lost forever - this is simply not true.

I the event a replica is unavailable for a write, the co-ordinator stores that write itself and delivers it to the replica once it becomes available again (Hinted Handoff, see the oft linked paper on eventual consistency).

This makes read-repair far less of an issue, usually only as a mechanism to ensure consistency of requests that occur in the window between the node becoming available and the hint being delivered.

It's called eventual consistency for a reason. Writes don't just go missing. If you're uncomfortable with the "eventual" aspect of the replication model then you're better off with a database that sacrifices availability for improved consistency guarantees.
I suppose that Tichy Ijon (lastname firstname) is a pun on tachyon. Nicely fitting the current LHC head scratching ...

My first look at the doodle popped up "Trurl and Klapaucius" in my head - and it's been many years. Queue one Cyberiad for re-read ...
Yeah, it doesn't work in Firefox :-/
See issue on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656099
No reason you can't do an inventory check at the same time as returning the basic catalogue details, it won't be more accurate in a separate call 50ms later. If you're generating the page for a logged in user then you know who that logged in user is and what they're asking for, so you can calculate coupons and the like in the same call too without needing to resend the same parameters to the database to look up, and if not feed in a different parameter for their IP address.

Now, I'm sure there's all sorts of other things in apps beyond my experience where you're better off doing multiple calls to the database, but certainly nothing you've outlined in those two couldn't be handled by a decent database infrastructure in a single call returning (potentially) multiple results sets.

One thing I learnt many years ago in data intensive apps. Communications latency between your app and your database will kill performance if you let it. Shipping data back and forth repeatedly will hang, draw and quarter it. Absolutely, aggressively, pare the number of external calls you have to make to the bone and you'll see a very significant performance boost.
Why? Is it because The Deck is selective? Because if that's the reason then there you have a problem to be fixed by another startup. Bloggers of the world, unite?

(I know there are already a couple of offerings and people working on new ad networks.)
I think I have mentioned this in the past on other articles about advertising. The overall game of creating aggressive advertising has not changed, they just now have more tools to do it.

If your going to force me to have a fullscreen ad before reading your content then at least allow me to dismiss it easily with a single click on the ad and not having to hunt for a close button (if there even is one).
The amount of times I've had a fullscreen ad completely block a page with no way to remove it..

Regards content, I think this is partly just a function of so many people now reading stuff online.
With more people reading things on smartphones/tablets on their way to work on the bus etc there is a market for more "tabloid" style writing that can be consumed quickly.

There are still plenty of people writing high quality content and lots of it gets linked to here on HN.

People will just be more discerning about the content portals they use.
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>This includes modifying a Google trademark through hyphenation...
the biggest thread for reading on the web is - in my humble opinion - the swipeware deployed on multiple small and big sites (i.e.: all *.wordpress.com blogs) for mobile devices like the iPad. swipeware has a horrific user experience, adds nothing of value to the page or the article and makes it impossible to read an article from start to finish.

out of curiosity: is there anybody out-there who thinks swipeware on blogs is a great idea/experience?
That is exactly why it can't be considered a good option and why it is "bad" for the wider internet. The Deck being selective is saying "we know adverts suck, so if you're actually good you can be in our super neat actually good system!" so instead of solving the problem of bad adverts, they're just ignoring it and saying that the sites they like can be in their small network that doesn't have the problem.

Their entire network does ~100m monthly impressions, that's nothing.
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An excellent description of severe depression. I wonder how many people who have never experienced a depression episode will manage to have empathy for it, though.

I say this because now that I'm on the path to recovery, it seems I can recognize all aspects of your description based on my memories but I can't comprehend my memories as a personal experience any more. It's almost as though I'm trying to access a memory written for an incompatible mental model (like trying to load an old version of file into newer software). In a way this makes perfect sense because what CBT did was restructure my mental model of the world.

It also seems give me a useful way to understand why healthy people struggle so much to understand depression - the underlying causes (chemical imbalance; dysfunctional thought processes) are incompatible with their way of reasoning about the world.

I completely agree that being open about one's difficulties is crucial to recovery and living a healthier mental life. It's unfortunate how many apparently depressed people I know in my field who identify with applying the concepts I've explained to them (from CBT), but the second they find out the book I recommend to learn more ("Feeling Good" by David Burns) is about "depression", they ALL lose interest. (I understand this, though, because I was the same until I reached a point where I had to do something about my depression or risk serious consequences.)
I have no doubt the Kindle Fire will be a success, but we are talking here about Amazon overtaking the Android's app distribution, as if Amazon could do that by any stretch of imagination.

So what makes anybody think that Amazon will do better than Apple?

This is relevant, because for Amazon to take charge, either one of these 2 things have to happen: (1) Amazon should be so successful as to make irrelevant the other Android device makers OR (2) Amazon should make the device makers use their own Appstore

I'm not seeing (2) happening and as far as (1) is concerned, what can Amazon do that Apple couldn't? If price is the only issue, that didn't stop expensive Galaxy S phones from being sold, in spite of iTunes and in spite of a general consensus that iPhones are better.
Well, there's always the fact that it took them several years to gradually get to where they are now, including a couple of years of hard work in the beginning that weren't even visible.
Not just Postgres; any database server in which you can do either stored procedures or submit arbitrary batches of SQL statements rather than just individual queries will let you do this. I routinely do in MS SQL Server, for example, and have worked on multiple projects where the ability to do this was utterly critical to overall performance.

To be perfectly honest, I'd consider any database server where I couldn't do this to be something of a toy because of the restrictions it places on overall app performance. It might be OK in SQLite or Access but a real database? Sorry, no, come back when you've finished the thing please.
Yes. Because Scala doesn't make up random rules about how you name your methods.

If you name your method addAll or ++ is pretty much the same. The same rules apply to both. Both can be called the same way:

coll1.addAll(coll2) coll1.++(coll2)
coll1 addAll coll2 coll1 ++ coll2
I am sorry to tell you, but you are plain wrong! Git is better. The problem is that SVN embraces a workflow that is inferior. But if you are not willing to change your workflow, git will seem confusing, indeed.
Thanks. A have given lout a look in the past, but I though it wasn't actively developed anymore. I also liked Prince, but it is proprietary unfortunately.
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As did http://docs.latexlab.org/
If I had the resources, yes.(I'd either go to Norway or Australia, I'm not sure which) Unfortunately, I can't afford to leave the city I live in now, let alone the entire country.
Ugly monospace font in 2011 for a blog? Halfgrey on white background? I now have trouble taking anything you say serious.
What?!

If there's one thing time has proven it is that open source projects (usually) leave a lot to be desired in the UI department. UI is one of those things where a benevolent dictator is a good thing, it gives you consistency and given a talented designer leading the team gives you a far better product.

The typical path for for open source UIs seems to be to try to please everyone, which means making something that isn't great for most people who don't want to spend half a day customizing their interface.
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> I am sorry to tell you, but you are plain wrong! Git is better.

Please, do elaborate! 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. No distributed or remote or on-the-go development, no forks.

> SVN embraces a workflow that is inferior.

It is different but what exactly makes it inferior?
I didn't even realise there were images until you said. I guess he shouldn't have used 'ads' in his image names.
Maybe you misunderstood me? I wrote "it doesn't lead itself to easy incorporation of features" (such as the above). I also acknowledge several attempts to fix this. What I lament is that "We're stuck with a codebase that works, but is messy, too complicated and obsolete in many parts".

I know a lot of the above are supported (I use LaTeX myself, and follow the developments quite closely) in newer TeX implementations, but not in clean way and not with first class support, to the legacy limitation.

I was asking for a clean implementation, no something like XeTex --that while supports several modern features it inherits tons of design problems from the original TeX.
The issue with using quotes is that Carrier IQ would just claim they are out of context and dismiss his findings thus. By posting the unmodified manuals everyone can verify it easily.
This reminded me of Max Levchin's talk at the last Startup School. It has some really funny anecdotes and thoughts about co-founders - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JBWjuXO6kY
yeah, lout is dead as far as active development goes, but it's still pretty usable, particularly for non-mathematical stuff.
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I'm also interested in knowing how he afforded it at age 20. I'm 21, and just now finishing my M.Sc, and I feel like I would have to work a few years in a Megacorp in order to be able to try something like this.
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This is why I use Adblock on my desktop, and ReadItLater to extract the text on mobile. Without these the web would be pretty unusable.
"""Once you are talking about a multiple GB system, of course it's messy. """

Only there's no need for a typesetting engine + layout templates + graphing, math, bibliography etc add-ons, to ever be a "multiple GB system".

It just carries too much legacy garbage.
I'd like to know how much of the donations he "credits" to Liu Liu. Hate shameless requests for donations on top of very little work without fairly sharing the money!
>then your position in the market is based on imperfect information (and therefore, monopolization power).

Good! Who wants their living standard to be dependent on a never ending rat race of constantly out-innovating competitors? Especially when there are really big players out there that can throw huge resources into taking your market share.
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The Kindle Fire could outsell other Android tablets combined by 10x, and it'd still be outsold 10x by Android phones, and that's what makes it fairly ridiculous.

It's not that the Kindle Fire isn't a great product, it's that it's not relevant to the primary Android market - cheaper smart phones for the 99% of people around the world who can't afford an iPhone.
Isn't this more of a consulting (or contracting) company? At least that's how most of the smaller (20-50 consultants and 1-5 management) companies works around here.
how much of your donations are going to Liu Liu, the original author of the hard part of this piece?
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It harms the opportunity cost of the projects that reside within it. That's a real harm.

And I think the point is that while GitHub is there, use it. If it closes off, or goes bust, migrate. You can extract all your data - keep a backup elsewhere. At worst, you can move to Gitorious. I mean, currently they use JIRA for bug tracking - that's not an open project either, that's run by Atlassian.
Too bad about the bookmark lists, I've found some interesting ones. They were coming up for query-by-a-handful-of-examples (à la google sets and grids), just not very well known.
Liu Liu's code is a javascript port from openCV I think. As far as I know it is an implementation of Voila-Jones.
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It would be great if I could also specify desirable keywords (to lower the barrier) and undesirable keywords (to raise the barrier).
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Readable sweeps all that shit away and puts the plain text on a plain background. Use it and you'll stop caring what lightboxes and other crap web sites festoon their pages with. Safari's reader is nice as well, it even auto fetches all the pages in a multi page article.
I graduate from Texas this semester, but I'm not interested in the large Gantt chart consultancy firms and generic "business analyst" positions that roll through the business school recruiting system.

I've been teaching myself Linux/Ruby/Rails for a while, but I've had to scavenge time between school and work. I can make a basic forum in Rails, I know basic Git (have a Github), I've become comfortable in Linux, and I can deploy in Heroku/Linode box.

But I never had a mentor. After I graduate this month, I'd easily move to the Bay Area for this (or a job). But I suppose I might be too "advanced" for the offer.
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I'm getting it on google.de as well as on google.com (with country redirection turned off); the same was true last night. You never know what kind of localisation you get with google, and I'm not just talking about the doodle, but everything else.
The sheen is coming off this quite rapidly.
Well, which would we prefer? Seeing the ads, or having to pay for access to each site?

Personally, as annoying as ads are, I still prefer them being there to the content not being available at all.
@newsyc50 and @newsyc100 on twitter do something similar, although not in digest. You can also just run a cron job to fetch http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100
Can't they just be happy with all the free advertising they're getting?!
I'm assuming it was deliberately written like this for comic effect.
It's still an extra click.

Most of the time I just close the window - the web is big enough that if you're desperate enough to use such scummy ads (or beg for survey results?!?) then your content likely isn't worth reading.
I'm not sure there's anything there to be solved. If a "function" can return two different answers despite being provided with the exact same input parameters, you simply should not be attempting to memoize it.
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Yes, LLVM is a register machine and CPUs are register machines. My point really was that one shouldn't avoid stack-based languages or virtual machines because CPUs don't work that way, since some of the most used and most popular virtual machines are stack machines and get by just fine. (AFAIK both JVM and CLR are stack-based)
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