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So much bullshit in this thread...

First of all the logo:
http://www.google.com/search?q=devil&tbm=isch
Clearly an image of the devil.
The pitchfork strengthens this meaning:
http://www.symbols.com/old/encyclopedia/05/051.html

What is the devil?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil

So, the thing in FreeBSD logo is clearly considered to represent personalized evil by a lot of people. Denying the significance of this meaning is stupid and counter-productive.

Some of people take the issue of opposing evil very seriously and personally. As we all should (according to our understanding) -- whether it is poverty, poisoning of air and water, unethical business practices, corrupt officials, etc.

Now I believe the main cause that this story made the news is the 1000$ (potential?) loss for the hotel and some other demands from the customer. Other than that I doubt it would be considered important by the many people posting here.

The customer is called "superstitious". It is also noted that the customer and the complaining hotel owner are both women, while the ISP owner and his tech support person are both male. So we see the cliché of superstitious and irrational women against calm and rational men.

So yeah... ignoring the obvious, looking down on people based on their religious beliefs and sex, ignoring them unless the issue involves money...

Get over it. If you want more people to like FreeBSD -- change the logo. If you won't -- don't complain.
But WHY not build it on land? Find a remote piece of land and build your progressive city or refugee center at a quarter of the cost, with much easier access to food, building materials and other stuff. There are thousands of acres of land around the world that are perfect for establishing a new settlement, far away from any civilization, if that's your thing.

It'd be easier to create a sort of enclave state (like Lesotho, but smaller, for example) than a seastead...
It must depend on the company because the company I work at now has almost exclusively older programmers, I think I'm one of only 2 developers under 35 and most seem to be at least 40. I think the technologies used influence this, I work with Java and it seems they tend to people with more experience, if its a startup working with the next hot trendy dynamic language then, yeah, they probably aren't going to see a lot of value in hiring a dev with years of experience but I think this says more about the company than anything else as they value trendiness over solid software development practices.
If you do link to their site, what can they do? Redirect to 404 or home page for external links?
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What you are missing is the inherently multi-disciplinary nature of programming. People who develop deep technology solutions by necessity have to get a crash course in whatever business system they are automating and improving. If you spend 15 years working on various projects, you have not only stayed current with a shifting base of state-of-the-art tech, you've also been exposed to critical parts of operations and learned what the issues, risks, and drivers are. You don't get that in the EMT world, or the brain surgery world, or the nuclear physics world. In those worlds, you have a single industry and set of problems that you live inside for your entire career.

There's also a huge bedrock of many business-related disciplines that don't change. Want to be a manager? I can throw out every book written in the last 20 years and still sit down and put together a damn effective course in management. Want to learn accounting? While GAAP has changed, many accounting systems are still using the double-entry ledger system that was in place in Dickens' time. The business practices of running an A/R system now is going to look very much the same as running that kind of business did in 1980.

Yes, it's true that great performers in any field will naturally pick up a bunch of things in other fields, but these are mostly peripheral to their job, not a critical part of it. Pilots may learn a bit about how radios work, but it's not the same thing as spending two years writing software radio code. Technology development is unlike any other field of endeavor because it is a meta-discpline: it encompasses all other disciplines. Everything you do in life, including being an EMT, is being assisted by technologists somewhere. Programming and technology development is the bedrock of every other kind of activity. Good technologists are not only experts in one area, they are experts in learning new areas. This is one of the reasons why Google is involved is so many things and so many other companies are not. You have a breadth of capability with 40,000 generic engineers that you simply wouldn't have with 40,000 rocket scientists, fishermen, or history majors.
Same question as bsenftner. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable authenticating just yet.
Until seasteaders are able to bank their money with independent, ocean-going financial institutions, they may not be able to escape the taxman’s clutches.

You probably can't really escape the taxman's clutches anyway. It is mostly a matter of whom you pay, not if. Taxes exist to cover the costs of governing the people, providing infrastructure and services for the citizens and so on. Even if you can get unplugged from existing governments, someone has to pay for the infrastructure of the seastead and essential services. You can give it a different name, but charging your people to help pay these costs is basically the same thing as taxes. Not charging your people to help pay these costs would mean eventually sinking to the bottom of the ocean. These costs are likely to be relatively high, higher than what it takes to maintain roads and sewage and the like on land.

Unless a seastead were the size of Manhattan its citizens would have to forgo the cultural life, the parks and the wide choice of shopping and restaurants offered by large cities.

They might have to forego a lot of that anyway. I briefly considered applying for a job in Hawaii and I asked around regarding things like food in Hawaii (because I have special dietary needs). I was told basically that spam is a staple food, good luck getting meat and milk on a consistent/reliable basis as it sometimes isn't very available, things get flown in from far away so a lot of it is frozen not fresh, and what is available is quite pricey. There is plenty of sea food available, but I am allergic to shell fish and don't tolerate large quantities of fish well. In fact, I rarely eat fish.

A few years ago, I stayed in Port Aransas, Texas for a few days. I loved the place and have toyed with the idea of going back (as in living there). But I struggled to feed myself while there. There is a great deal of sea food and some very expensive restaurants and some real dives and a very limited grocery store. Given my dietary restrictions, these details made it a daily challenge to try to eat properly for my needs and I don't feel it really did an adequate job.

So if an island a short drive off the coast of Texas has challenges in offering "a wide choice of restaurants" and Hawaii has challenges with making sure food (in terms of variety and affordability) is consistently available, what on earth makes them think a floating platform will do better merely based on population size?
Tell HN about: Institutional memory and reverse smuggling
They "suggest" all sorts of ridiculous crap.

On the internet, we call it 'trolling'.

In the case of RyanAir, they've turned trolling into a marketing strategy.
Throwaway account for obvious reasons. I've been meaning to write something about this. Some recent discussions on HN about institutional memory convinced me to throw it online.
"I'll just go out and say that it's a non-issue for mainstream user."

Might also be why the "mainstream" is primarily using Apple iPads/iPods/iPhones vs the myriad of Android devices available.

What bothers people is that when you swipe from screen 1 to screen 2, there can be a > .5 second delay. It doesn't feel remotely "natural" for something that you're physically touching and supposedly interacting with.
I don't know a single religious person that would seriously take a cartoon character with horns to symbolize some kind of pact with the devil.

Then either you don't live in America, or you don't know many devout evangelicals.

know quite a few people who are offended

So that settle it: you're not keeping company with average "heartland" Americans. You self-select the people you know, so using people you know as a general population sample is usually flawed.
Yes, there are indeed lots of people who are bothered by it.
You are quick to accuse them of getting "all bent of of shape" about it, but in fact the vast majority of them understand the idea of a mascot and don't complain.

Sports mascots seem to be established as an exception. Sports teams seem to like to project an irreverent image. Duke, in fact, started as a religious school. Methodists are pretty cool about not getting "all bent of of shape" like that.

You don't have to go back in time very far to find people who wouldn't understand the idea of having a mascot for a computer operating system. Thus, it was not established as an objection.
Dear Internet Guy who's clearly never sailed,

Have we mentioned our rubber dinghy's and fishing boats can only sail a few hundred kilometers?
He made this yesterday. It is not that atonal, but it is still very beautiful.

http://soundcloud.com/jacob-cello/ignorant-shit
I think what you're seeing here is endemic of teams of almost entirely junior engineers with insufficient experience (especially in startups), rather than the software engineering space being inordinately large.

Regarding GitHub's seeming rediscovery of the pre-fork model, I too was pretty surprised -- largely because the model was long-since dated by the time they opted for it, as it doesn't scale well on modern multi-core/multi-cpu hardware. This original HN thread on Unicorn had a vibrant discussion on the subject -- the differences of opinion seemed to boil down to experience and subjective biases: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=872361
I have a similar experience, but while I can get used to the blurriness, and after a while I don't notice it as much, going back is always a breath of fresh air. I imagine it like putting your glassses on - if I had to wear any - everything just aligns right. In fairness this happens on Windows as well if I have ClearType turned on, but not quite as much. Mind you the MBP has a higher dpi than my desktop monitor, and the bkurriness is still noticeable. On a different laptop that has Linux running, slightly higher dpi looks good; same with my Android phone.

No matter how long I use font aliasing, without some very high dpi my eyes just cannot adjust, cannot totally ignore the bluriness. Seems like I'm in the minority though.
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because there is no land which is not under some state control
Don't know why you are being downvoted - while they do fly to a lot of off airports they do fly from quite a few airports, we flow with Ryanair from Edinburgh to Marrakech earlier this year and it was perfectly OK. They were the only airline flying direct and as we were only going for 3 nights we didn't want a long detour via a hub.

Having said that, the Ryanair website is pure evil - the fact that the option to not buy insurance is half way down the list of countries is an example of just how devious they can be.
Some nematode spread by a moth. Attacks the roots I believe.

Its hard to treat trees. Their circulatory system is primitive, doesn't circulate much, is anisotropic. So not much leverage to apply treatments even if they existed.
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NodeJS 0.6.4 Blocked in China.
Maybe a third-party curated site like rubygems.org would be better.
We're not at all "notable" amongst the startup scenesters, but Ties.com/Scarves.com is located in north Orange County.
I don't know about the 'white hood w/ burning cross' reference (I assume KKK?),

Yes, in the US South that is an unambiguous symbol of the KKK and racist violence. It's even recent enough to be in living memory for older people.

Are you seriously comparing a) a regime that killed millions of people and started the 2nd world war

No, I'm not comparing the acts of one party (the actual Nazis) with the acts of another party (programmers at Berkely) or with a mythological motif.

I'm saying that the programmers at Berkley chose a symbol which already had a specific meaning and was thus guaranteed to be confusing.

Nerds have a negative stereotype of being passive aggressive, pointlessly confusing, making inside jokes at others' expense, and generally making others look stupid.
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Until webkit introduce a better debugging tool than it currently has, i dont think any web developer is going to stop using firefox and firebug as their main development browser.
Well, I've written a few simple applications, but what I can't really get is how to actually start on a big application?
I mean, do you just have to break it down into little pieces and then put them into a whole? Isn't this a very frustrating method of doing so? Is there a better method? Or is this a necessary vice you'll have to overcome?
I think the op's point was that the perception of 'GPLers forking BSD licensed code as being bad' is the fundamental misunderstanding of some people using the BSD license.

If they want contributions back, they are welcome to add a clause to the BSD license or use the GPL (or write their own), but they choose the BSD license in its current form and then get upset when someone stays within compliance of the license while doing something they don't like.
A better analogy would use a non-rival good, since taking all the candy precludes anybody else from having it.

Something like a work of art might be better. Let's say you sculpt a statue, and you allow anybody to view it for free, including the right to take pictures of it for free. You have an optional donation box next to the statue, but nothing mandatory.

Now, someone takes a picture of it, retouches it photo-editing software, and then sells that photo to millions of people and makes billions of dollars off of it.

Is it a 'cost of doing business'? No, because the cost had already been assumed by the time you'd decided to license the statue the way you did. Is it illegal? Of course not, because that's how you licensed it. Are you worse off for it? No, because you lost nothing - viewing the statue is not a rival good.

When viewed in this light, it certainly seems like a rather rude thing to do, but the artist knew that this was a risk when licensing his/her statue in that way.
If there is no open-source version of some piece of software, the BSD folks are better off than they would be if there was only a GPL version. In the absence of a GPL version, the newly-created liberally licensed version of the software is likely to get more contributors and users. In the presence of a GPL version, the BSD version has substantially lower chances of success given the same effort from the maintainers. If I am only willing to use liberally licensed components in my project, GPL software is actually worse than proprietary software.
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> I'm assuming a passport or military ID would have been adequate.

I really can't emphasize enough the degree to which the US revolves around state-issued photo IDs, whether in the form of a driver's license or a simple ID card. This assumption is baked into everything.

Take a look at this page: http://www.travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/stats/stats_890.htm...

In 2000, there were fewer than 50 million valid US passports. That's less than 18% of the population at the time, and a chunk of those passports were probably not truly valid -- US passports are good for 10 years, and nobody bothers to tell the State Department when somebody dies.

10 years earlier, in 1990, there were only about 11 million passports, less than 4% of the US population at the time.

This is because nobody needed one. Few Americans leave the US to go anywhere other than Canada or Mexico. Until 2009, land-based travel to Canada and Mexico did not require a passport, and until 2007, air travel to Canada and Mexico didn't, either.

This isn't Europe, you can't drive across multiple international borders on a day trip. It's possible to traverse over 4,400km in a straight line (on land) without leaving the 48 contiguous US states, and over 6,600km in a straight line (on land) going from northwestern Canada to southern Mexico, with only the US in between.

In contrast, by the time it became common for Americans to need an ID card at all, drivers licenses were also becoming common. Win-win.
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For those who haven't read the Ryanair story, it's pretty remarkable. The Ryan family had a small commuter flight business in Ireland (what is Ryanair today) and a large, profitable business leasing planes to airlines in the opposite hemisphere during peak demand. When the latter business was ready to IPO, it went really, really badly and the Ryan family had taken out massive loans throwing their entire fortune into question. They appointed a family friend, Michael O'Leary, as CEO of Ryanair and made a deal with him to give him 10% (I think) of all profits. O'Leary came to the US, studied what Southwest was doing, and took it to the extreme. He went on to become one of the most successful CEOs in Europe.

Knowing the story, my reaction to this headline is: wow, through testing, they figured out that people buy the ticket rather than wanting to fill out the CAPTCHA.

Great read: http://www.amazon.com/Ryanair-Story-Controversial-Low-Cost-A...
It's a problem in a lot of engineering fields. Even when older engineers stay around, the knowledge often isn't transmitted. Sometimes it's because you have gaps, where a company grew a lot, then plateaued with no new hires for a while, then grew again later. That gives you old and young cohorts. Not to be an old fogey, because the young engineers bring a lot to the table too, especially familiarity with newer technologies. But a lot of knowledge slips through the cracks. I'd imagine it would just slip faster when people retire in their 30s.

Might be worse in tech because you can reinvent the wheel, with less physical infrastructure that has to stay around. Or maybe that makes it better. I started writing up something about some of my experiences with institutional amnesia causing problems when you still have the old wheel around, since old factories don't go away easily. But it ballooned into a much longer story so I threw it up somewhere anonymous and submitted separately: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3311015
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The university system has created a surplus of people with phds who are qualified and intellectually capable of being university professors. There are a lot of good articles about how the job market for those wanting to become professors is terrible.
I don't know much about plants but have resolved health issues of my own that doctors said couldn't be resolved. I read a book some years ago with a true story in it about a man in a village saving a fruit tree by starting an ant war. The tree was being destroyed by an infestation of (I think) large red ants. The villager kept bringing leaves with black ants to the area. Even though the black ants were smaller, they eventually won and the tree was saved.

So I'm wondering if you can research natural predators/enemies and import them to kill off the nematodes?

The other thought that occurred to me: I am wondering if you can get the soil tested and if there is some way to determine there is a nutrient deficiency that could be remedied. Again, I don't know much about plants so that I don't know where you would need to go to get info like that. But my best understanding is that a nutrient deficiency can compromise an immune system. Alternately, a high availability of something desired by the predator can attract them. So I am wondering if that would be a helpful approach.

Just thinking out loud.

Best of luck.
Some people are on a crusade to rid the world of the devil.

Some people are on a crusade to rid the world of censorship.

Some people are on a crusade to rid the world of closed-source software.

/me makes popcorn.
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Do you think travelling to 'Hong Kong, part of China' is just a matter of hopping on a bus for a 20 minute journey?

1. China is a very big place.

2. Even if the travel itself is convenient, not all Chinese can travel to Hong Kong. You need a visa, different currency, etc. Hong Kong isn't just another city in China.

3. Would you travel to a different state just to drink fair trade coffee (pretend it is not available in your own state)? Would you go every time you wanted coffee?
Most interesting one:

- cluttered appearance

as a suggestion for what Samsung should do different from Apple. How condescending is that?
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It's not deliberate evasion. Email systems weren't originally designed with strict data retention policies in mind. I know Exchange offers some features in this regard, but even there I doubt it's impossible for a user to innocently create an archive outside the reach of the policy.

Web messaging applications that do everything server-side are much more readily "locked down" in this regard (properly designed web mail would work just as well).

Sure, it's all just data, and if I'm sufficiently clever I can always make copies of it. But then I'm operating outside the policy. The point is that if everyone follows the policy, all data that shouldn't be retained won't be. It's much easier to write and implement such a data retention policy when the data's only permanent home is on a server.
Lots and lots already already did just that.
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How can you say "4.0 devices" (plural) when there is only one announced 4.0 device, which is stunningly smooth in the video and in actual use?

I think you're just repeating the meme of "lol Android graphics are bad" which hasn't been true for at least 2 years, even with relatively weak phones (like the Optimus X)
Accusing Chrome of becoming bloated seems harsh, technologies like SPDY and V8 have improved the browsing experience and isn't it a main priority of the Chrome team to never increase the start-up time?
Another detail from about the 70s, would be that some of the people doing the programming may have been (extremely good) EEs: Intel switched from making memories to making processors, PARC was being ridiculously productive, and so on.
The pre-rendered ones are called subtitles, and the text is called closed captions.

Not all DVDs have both, although a lot do. Some have just one or the other.
Great article. It made me realize that BSD-licensing really does mean "others can do next to anything with your code". So they can sell it (yeah ok, I knew about that one already). But they can also put it into a GPL project. Or mix it with tabasco and blueberry jam.

If you don't want that anyone can do anything with your code, anything (as long as they keep the sticker that it came with), don't use the BSD license.