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It means that if they really did have something like it then they're imbecilles for not marketing it like Apple did. If they didn't have it then they're imbeciles for not having thought of it.
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I'm on the same boat. I didn't drop, but just not attending courses. I'm curious, however, to know why you did regret it.
Best summary on this whole discussion.
Not only is the idea itself not unique; other hackers have been working on this for at least a decade with little practical success. It's hard enough covering a city with wifi let alone connecting a mesh network over the air.

Rushkoff and others think it's just a matter of time... I remain skeptical.

How many of the groups members have worked in telecommunications and understand how antennae work, how signal broadcasting and processing works, how OTA protocols are implemented, etc?

You can't build the kind of robustness that we enjoy today out of commodity hardware. If you want a decentralized darknet, you'll probably have to dust off that 56k modem and get used to using fidonet again.
It means: either they had equivalent technology and failed to market it (imbecilic), or else they don't actually have equivalent technology and either don't understand the difference (imbecilic) or hope you won't notice the difference (imbecilic).
> the UK, is trying to wriggle itself out of the human rights laws of the EU as they're too strong and (apparently) being abused

It's worth pointing out again that the European Convention on and European Court of Human Rights are entirely and completely distinct from the EU and any federalisation coming from Brussels.

Not that this decision from the European Court of Justice (which is an EU institution) has anything to do with Human Rights anyway (other than perhaps insofar as the ECHR already stipulates the right of privacy).
Let keyword: good. The function scoping of vars is gruesome.

Default arguments: good. Clearly useful and already used a lot with the if (foo === undefined) foo = 'default' pattern.

Non-strict destructuring: bad. It's neither destructuring-bind nor pattern matching... If I destructure a 3-list to 2 vars, I want it to fail, dammit!

Multi-line strings: good, obviously.

Templating: hello, PHP! I thought we already know better.

List comprehension: useful.

My humble opinion: it's hopeless. A mix of useful and terrible features means it'll still be made out of "the good parts" and the awful rest.
I know. I've seen it. Can you point to some unreadable code? Preferably one that does not fall into the 'operator overload ing abuse' category?
> If all you have is a strong understanding of algorithms and computation... your just a computer geek. Doesn't make you a good 'programmer' (in the sense that you can produce something someone wants).

I think y'all are all using different terms (and I notice the parts-of-HN undercurrent of "technical skills don't matter, you need to be social and build products, startup pivot founder startup" but I digress).

To me, someone who can use algorithms et al is a "programmer", which is largely orthogonal to being able to produce something someone wants, call them a developer or something. Not every programmer has to be social client facing; getting detailed functional specs and creating good code to fulfill those specs absolutely does make one a programmer.
Dropship is what I was thinking of. Here is one of the hn posts about it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482712
Sure, people cite online stuff more, because people are lazy. But I haven't seen any bias against people who do cite books. That's mostly what I cite, since I write articles while I'm working my way through books, citing the book in the process. People seem to actually welcome it, if anything. I've added some information not previously available online that way about some archaeological sites, Greek wines, old AI systems, and a few other things. I've gotten only positive comments from doing that, which makes it extra-weird that people say Wikipedia is so unfriendly to contributors. No bureaucracy or acronyms or anything; just a few paragraphs with a citation to a book or two, click save, done.

Surely there must be books on animal husbandry that can be used to improve the articles? There has to be something, because I don't think Wikipedia should let you just cite "trust me, I know this". As a reader, I don't want to have to trust Wikipedia; I want Wikipedia to point me to somewhere where I can follow it up.

I do agree that there is a huge pile of stuff only covered in books that is under-covered on Wikipedia currently, due to nobody having gone to the library and dug up the information yet. It's got 3.8 million articles in English, but I think is not even halfway "done".
>>"wow, we're so blessed to have these guys"

Don't put words in my mouth. I asked a simple question.
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Yeah, I've got the same experiences in both Netherlands and the UK (I'm an Englishman living in the Netherlands, and working for a French multinational - just up the road in Ede).

Sure, we can use VPNs to access Hulu or BBC iPlayer, but that's an extra expense and adds an extra layer of complexity to it.

Take, for example, my BoxeeBox: it works great for local files, but it misses all of the cool streaming features that American users can enjoy.
The biggest tax break they got is a loss carryforward. This is a one time event due to losses incurred by GE Capital, and is almost certainly not something they did on purpose.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/losscarryforward.asp#axz...

In contrast, GE's green energy and paying for employee health insurance are done directly to avoid paying taxes.

GE's windmills are profitable primarily because of the tax benefits. And there is no business reason whatsoever why a company should pay for employee health insurance, or car insurance, or cable TV. Companies pay for health insurance because it reduces the tax bill, and they generally don't pay for car insurance (which doesn't reduce the tax bill).
Ask if someone on HN who is local will email you (or call you even). I went up to Boston once for a conference and drove through New York and it was a nightmare. From the hotel in Boston, I called someone in the DC area that I was stopping off to see on my way back and she very briefly gave me instructions on how to get from Boston to her place without going straight through the middle of New York city. She was appalled that I had done that to begin with. The trip back south was far more pleasant and faster. Than she gave me a day tour of DC when I briefly stayed with her and I probably hit a lot of the highlights in a very short time without having to do any research whatsoever. Having never done the tourist version of DC, I don't actually have any basis of comparison so I probably don't really appreciate or understand how good I had it.

For that matter, the entire trip to Boston had been facilitated from the get go by similar personal connections, much of it through people I only knew online before actually meeting them on that trip. I got a speaking gig to bring down the cost of the conference and probably all kinds of other help that I couldn't possibly recall after so many years. I was only a homemaker doing volunteer work and trying to get what I needed to help my special needs kids. It got me cross country and all that, on a stringent budget.

Best of luck.

EDIT/PS: With today being Thanksgiving in the US, this is one of the worst possible days of the entire year to ask on the internet for this sort of US-centric assistance. You might try again either tomorrow (Friday) or next Monday/Tuesday. (My recollection is you are British or something. My apologies if I have misremembered and thus inadvertently insulted you.)
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Felt like ranting.

So you put me on a waiting list for an invitation to your new product. Fine.
You have a few more kinks to iron out and bugs to squash before you let me and the rest of the world in.

DON'T ask me to tweet or otherwise promote your website in exchange for that invitation - that pisses me off.

I'm doing YOU a favor by trying out your product in the first place : the web is saturated with LaunchRock template signup pages, so it's already a miracle that I put in my email in yours.

Startups should let users experience their product before requiring ANY kind of signup / personal information - so if a splash page was enough to get me to put my email in that signup box, you're already getting a lot from me.

But telling me I now need to start promoting your product before I've even tried it to get access to it in the first place ? Ugh.
I've had a Samsung Focus for about 8 months, and had an LG soemthing WP7 for a month before that (it got confiscated by my carrier, long story).

I've recently moved to Chile and was given an Andriod (froyo) by the local carrier, and I've committed myself to using the Android for 2 weeks. I really miss my WP7.

I've used iOS (iPod Touch), WP7, WebOS and now Android, and WP7 is beautiful and snappy. It is very well thought out and the integration of content into the device is amazing. I am yet to find anything on Android which I think is done better than on WP7. iOS is probably more refined, but not as well integrated, and not as beautiful (but that is a judgement).

I'm still surprised every time I seem somebody else with a WP. What also surprises me is how many people play with mine, and then suggest that they would consider it when replacing their phones. The common line seems to be that 'everybody has an iPhone, I want to get something different'.

Also, I can't find a link now, but I believe HTC said 1/3 of their shipments last quarter were WP. That's huge! It doesn't mean that they are selling well, but somebody somewhere is ordering them. Maybe it is just MS giving them to their employees.
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I would guess that a fair number of Linux distros don't ship with a Ruby interpreter installed. (It would obviously be trivial to install one using apt-get or yum or whatever, but it's not already installed.) Perl is there because it's long been considered a kind of extended shell-scripting language. Python's probably in most places because so many GTK/Gnome apps depend on it. But I'm not sure if Ruby is (yet) part of standard builds.
Nice to see many of CoffeeScript's constructs coming to ECMAScript.
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I am certain most HN readers who are expressing negative sentiments here and who have spent several years in school feel very threatened by a Django coder.
Please tell me that is optimised out at some point in the PHP compilation stages...
Yes, and David actually mentioned openly in that talk that they try to borrow good ideas from other languages if possible! There are templates from PHP too :)
Some funny technical stuff. Maybe u could explain some of them..
selling tickets might be nice....how i love product managers (even better sales managers) :)
no. the problem is that scala allows almost any string of characters as identifiers, and this encourages programmers to use symbols instead of english words for their function names. So you end up with identifiers that convey no meaning whatsoever, like /:\ or >>:.

Sure, this can be in fact very nice if you are writing a DSL for a problem that already has its own well-known set of symbols, like a branch of mathematics.

However, what happens in reality is that most programming is "business" programming. But still programmers use it for everything (because we're lazy and typing :: seems faster than "append"). The scala api leads the way here. For example the list class:

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/collection/immut...

The following are all subtle variations on append and prepend:

::, :::, ++, :+, ++:, +:

Can any non-scala programmer guess which one is which? When you move on to the Map or Set class, it's a little bit the same and a little bit different. Sure, at one point you will remember all of this by heart, but the same pattern repeats itself when you try to use another library: it defines its own little language, instead of using the one common to us all: english.

Note another huge drawback, for me at least: you can't google such symbols because of course search engines will treat them as noise. Even searching for them with regexes is tricky because you can't use word boundaries.

The argument I heard over and over is that you can make non-sense function words even if you're restricted to alpha-numeric. This is true, and it happens. However, if I call my function "append" or "xyz", and what it does is "prepend", it's obviously the wrong name and you can point it out.

Symbols, on the other hand, are arbitrary, and it becomes a question of taste.

edit: removed some list operators added in error, thanks Inufu
I've never read or written a single line of Scala code, I was just trying to be helpful by providing a link where there's lots of Scala code..
> the continued lack of an iPhone is only going to hurt them more.

I noted that Apple is offering the unlocked 4S almost immediately this time, unlike the 4 where they waited half a year or a year before offering it. Hopefully this could be the beginning of the end of carrier-locked phones in the US.

Where I am, you could buy a locked iPhone with a carrier plan through the Apple Store for the 4 model, but for the 4S this simply disappeared, they now only sell unlocked phones. I'm guessing because the carrier subsidies are so small that it's not worth "polluting" the brand with it.
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To me this spec itself is a step in the right direction. There has been no major work towards improving JavaScript in a long long time. I left out in my post the part about modules (which will hopefully solve all the crazy 3rd party JS issues), because I have no idea when they will actually get implemented by the browser vendors. But, I am hoping that this will continue to evolve in future, instead of getting stagnated.
I think you should fork the README
Don't know much about PHP, but the templates also exist in Python.
I once wrote node-gif (https://github.com/pkrumins/node-gif), a node.js library for creating animated gifs. (Note: it only works with the old node 0.2.x.)
Sure. All you need is a 20-foot wide sheet of poly film moving 20 feet up,over,and down at 1000 feet per second.
Apparently not many, as I got quite a lot of resistance to the idea that it might be harmful in the long term (in places other than HN).

I suspect that's mostly from players who like getting games for cheap.
Try this link [1]. It appears to be slightly different from the one in the original submission.

This link allows donations in various currencies, although some are only available via credit card, while others require the use of PayPal.

The credit card details form that displays after clicking "Donate by Credit Card" offers "Outside the U.S." as an option for the "State". Also, there is a "Postal code" field, which is hopefully more friendly for those without a Zip Code. Finally, there is a drop-down list for selecting "Country/Region".

There are also alternative donation methods, described here [2].

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[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give/en
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The moment ads are permitted on Wikipedia, advertiser conflict begins. We see this all the time on news sites: unintentionally offensive correlated-ads on content that should be free-standing. I believe the Wikipedia Foundation would agree with this and advertising will not become an option.
I live in Europe and I don't see how it's different here than anywhere else. The great thing about programming is that it allows you to be an entrepreneur regardless of your geographical location. Nobody can "crush" me except the market if I'm not smart enough.
Ask HN: Would you rather be lucky or good?
The other day, one of my classes involved an extremely heated discussion on whether success is based more on luck or more on skill/effort. Surprisingly, the class was pretty evenly split between the two, with very extreme views on both sides. In reality, the two concepts aren't mutually exclusive, but if you had to pick one or the other, would you rather be lucky or good?
Interesting and provocative question. I suppose that there's no way of objectively knowing if the changes are beneficial or even safe. (Come to think of it, how would we even define beneficial?)

That said, I find your caution perhaps unwarranted. Many other circumstances are known to cause changes in brain-structure, e.g. growing up bilingual, but I think it would be rather unwarranted to warn against childhood language learning on the basis of this.

Personally I am content with the proof of my own experience; the changes I see in my own psyche and mental performance are entirely positive.
Interesting. Apparently I write like Cory Doctorow.

It would be nice if there was some easy/integrated way of viewing a quick excerpt of text from the author so I can see for myself the similarities.
Yeah, I switched to T-Mobile recently because it seems like they're the least evil of the big four by a fair margin. They even let you get around the subsidized phone lock-in thing by charging people without a contract less on their monthly bill.
Hasn't failed at all. These guys want to use what I'm using right now. In fact they do use it from time to time by logging in under their own user accounts.

The average person would not have to edit a bash script to manage their computer. Almost everything works right out of the box like you would expect.
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Heh! I open sourced it: http://www.codingrobots.org/p/iwl/index (or https://github.com/dchest/iwl)

Shared traffic stats here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745555
Thanks for what you say here, glad you are going further in your journey. I too have many many skills but only at the entry level area, so my resume is just a mess.
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The sad fact of the matter is that "being successful" goes beyond making a good product. A team/person can create a phenomenal indie game but if they don't have the proper skills/hookups to market the product where people can find them they're dead in the water. Others that build a worse product but are able to get it out there will win. Apple has shown how marketing can be greater than engineering in many regards.

It sounds like people want to blame bundle providers for picking some over the others but how is that their fault? If the humble bundle crew finds a set of excellent games (I've yet to be disappointed by their packs) who are we to ridicule if their selections neglected other good games? I'm sorry but that's life in competition.

A big part of this too is that there's boatloads of indie games out there. But there's only a small dingy of good ones. Everything believes that their game is worthy of the throne but very few are as developers often view their work through rose tinted monitors.

Life is what life is: some win and some lose. There is no entitlement here where hard work guarantees a reward; there is no 1:1 relationship like in the games people are making.

Personally though? I feel that if bundles weren't to exist then even fewer indie games would receive recognition than we have now. Out of the 5 indie packs I've purchased I had only previously owned 3 of the games (So that's about a 3/20 ratio give or take). I'll take our current system over the alternative.
I have many ideas. I really probably should just pick one and a technology and just do it. Thanks for your comment.
I got the same result but yeah.. doesn't really mean anything unless they tell you how they come to that conclusion
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imho, this is the programmer's fault, not the language's.

Or would you say it's the gun's fault if you shoot somebody with it?

So if some programmers write unintuitive code with Scala, don't use their code. It's still an awesome language.

edit: where did you find +++ and :++ ?
They are not in the List api.
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I know a good amount of how basic programming works. I have written some apps in javascript(albeit very simple), simple simple stuff in python and java, when I was learning them.

I feel like I would be a waste of a person at a meetup since my skills are seriously just entry level.

I looked at codeacademy for a while. If I had the cash and didn't have a wife and 10 month old son I would move to Chicago in a heartbeat and do this.
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Yes you're right. My post came off with a different tone than I intended as I didn't want to state that it isn't a sweet product. I think its a rather cool idea and surprised it wasn't done previously.
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Do you work in fields similar to these? I am willing to dive into any field as right now my resume is a bunch of entry level skills, and I have the time to spend reading books and learning on my own.

What are some examples of a business intelligence software?
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The article says that polygon objects can exist in the engine and interact with the "atoms". The polygon objects can be animated, fly around, cast shadows and interact with the rest of the world, but the article did not say anything about the atoms being animated. So I don't think you're going out on a limb, especially considering what other people (like Notch) have said on the topic. It looks like the atoms in the engine are strictly static.
I also believe it is nonsense to overuse symbols for methods. I think even Martin Odersky agrees (I've read somewhere).

I guess this is something that will settle down eventually. And programmers will stop using so much random symbols instead of English.

For the specific case of Lists, I don't think is that much trouble. It is the most important class of the language. You better get used to it anyway.
What language, and where do I start? Do I just build algorithms that do things and post my results on a blog?
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Wait till machine learning starts kicking in (which is pretty soon - next 5 years), the concept of a job will become outdated for most people. The new york times needs to start going beyond degree/no degree talk and start discussing adding proper safety nets. Read Manna by Marshall Brain (short read online) for where things are heading.
Which idea are you leaning towards?