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Well, get a better checking account to start with!

Yeah, the money is small, but it's also free. I mean, $10-20/year for doing nothing? Why not?

So as you say, it comes down to the risk differential. If you believe a debit card is less risk, then certainly a tiny amount of interest won't change your mind.

For what it's worth, I've heard far more horror stories about debit cards than credit cards. The major difference is that with a debit card, any company that gets your card info can screw you over. You place an order online, and the company charges you $1000 instead of $10 by mistake, leaving no money in your account. Your next transaction then overdrafts, leaving you with a fat fee. In theory, it's not your fault and you should be able to get the bank or the merchant to cover it, but they'll all be pointing fingers elsewhere....

And of course, if you can't get the money refunded immediately then you spend a great deal of time with no money in your account. Now you may have trouble buying necessities etc. until the situation is fixed.

Additionally, I have my credit cards set up to automatically pay off the full balance each month. If somebody tries to pull a dirty trick and the payment is made late, the blame is clearly and fully with them, so I imagine that would be quickly resolved. Beyond that, there really isn't anything to go wrong other than a major failure of self-control.
Thank you,

Originally it was a twist on cultivate, but I don't think it's really working.

Thank you for your feedback!
It seems like competing for sales is old hat, now the strategy is to throw patent tantrums. This just comes off as a bummer for the consumer.
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If there can be considered a "main" programming language that is taught at most colleges, and that most students spend the majority of their time with, I would say it's Java.
I really don't understand the point of the blog post.

So Javascript can be formatted to look kind of like CoffeeScript?

While I agree that Javascript is often misunderstood, to me his formatting of Javascript is making things much worse, in terms of maintenance (yeah...let's all line up equal signs...).

I personally DO NOT write CoffeeScript but I think the difference between CoffeeScript and Javascript goes beyond formatting. Writing CoffeeScript seems to me to be a syntactic improvement and eliminates some of the need to really learn Javascript (which I think takes quite a bit of effort)
I pretty much only use emacs on a mac. This means I don't care about having a keymap that is the same on a linux box.

So, I use option for 'alt', but here's the great thing. You can use the command key for other stuff! I've got keybindings for my most common actions.

command-j -> ido-find-file

command-d -> anything

etc
We are getting into a fairly geeky tangent here but I think some of the most memorable interactions involve dragging: the engineer at the transporter room controller and the ensign at flight control on the bridge. Both involve dragging some energy level upwards.
Personally, I see a very clear line between culture and politics. The people of the various departments didn't have any conflicts. It was strictly between department-heads.

And, for what it's worth, the C-level types loved the project too. What I did was replace a wooden peg with a modern prosthetic and upset the guy who was selling wood oil for conditioning the peg and the guy who sold the leather straps [1].

edit: That said, sure, it'd have been less stressful if I worked in the politics up-front. I said as much. But I've done it that way enough to know it would inevitably have compromised the system. And my post was a response to "why aren't the systems better?".

[1] and him, only because he couldn't see past the loss of the peg-strap business to see the gain of business making, maintaining and adjusting straps for the modern prosthetic.
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Because why? It took time for them to research their patents or prepare the submission? Why are you assuming that everything could have somehow been ready instantly at a moments notice? If they set a deadline they should be happy that Apple abides by it.
Could you expand on that? I'd be interested in hearing what the benefits are, as it doesn't seem to be something that is talked about (taboo against discussing the positive aspects of things seen as societally undesirable?).
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In terms of economic efficiency then:

This being a BSD product, BigCorp can do their own port. They can decide to release it or not, based on whether it is more economical for them to share the support load (but also provide the "profit" to their competitors), or not.

Microsoft chose not to with their BSD Socket modification, for example. They can just as well do the same for Redis.

Pure and simple, this is Microsoft tried to get something (remove incentive for people to use competitor) for almost nothing.

When Microsoft NoSQL server arrives (and I suspect it would, sooner or later), if it is even remotely competitive with Redis, you can be sure they'll speak badly of Redis -- they do that to their own products when a new version is out.
In our opinion, current state of the art practice with analytics APIs is to extract semi-processed data out and do more massaging locally with tools ranging from Excel to SQL databases and Hadoop. This could be dramatically improved by providing new higher level API with SQL-like declarative syntax specifically designed for analytics. This would outsource hard problems of event collection and big data processing to the API provider, while giving analyst enough power to quickly build reports and live dashboards with potential to mashup other data sources. Infunl is building full fledged tracking service, API and query language.
Actually, this is refreshingly honest compared to the "agile" methodologies. Having worked with plenty of supposedly agile consultants I can tell you they basically do waterfall it's just their cascading stupidity starts with code and then wanders around writing unit tests until the client is tapped out. At least this is doing some actual user interface design and usability testing.

Then again, I doubt these guys do this since it's all marketing.
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Wow. So well written.
Really a question I thought I should have asked.
I am a long time Thinkpad use, I am thinking of getting a personal laptop.

I visited the showroom and had a look at the various entry level HP and Dell models and not very much impressed with the build quality of the ~ 1000$ range.
I have seen people recommending MBP in many forums and thought I would give it a try.

I visited an Apple showroom last week and played with the 13 inch MBP for sometime, the build quality and looks are extremely good, but I felt a bit strange when trying to use it (that was my first experience with Mac), I had used Windows and Linux with various UI (GNOME,KDE,XFCE) etc but I couldn't navigate comfortably on Mac , It felt a bit different. I came to know that Mac doesn't have a backspace key, I was also not very much comfortable with the touchpad in Mac (I was apparently searching for the trackpoint)

I will be using a Thinkpad for my office work (client mandates windows XP).
How useful would be to get a Mac, will the transition be easy?
I would have to work on the Thinkpad in office and Mac by evening, will this won't affect my productivity by causing confusion due to different keyboard layout and mouse.
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This is the first I've heard of OpenShift, from the sounds of it there are a set list of applications/languages you can use on the platform? Are there any plans for node.js support?
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How much money are you making by the way?
Thanks.
Yes, I was. And it was caching just fine. But too many hits makes Apache gobble up all the ram on the machine.
You're fundamentally asking the wrong question. First you figure out your design, then you use the right tools to implement it.

Redis may or may not be an appropriate tool for any particular design. I've solved a lot of problems with it, but my employer still has Oracle and MySQL databases that are unlikely to ever go away. I've also solved a lot of problems with Python on Ubuntu, but some of our infrastructure uses Windows and C#.

You've got a hammer and you're searching for nail-like objects. You need to put down the hammer, and figure out whether you even have nails in your project.
Good point. At any rate, there is room for improvement, especially considering the normal checkout systems appear to perform more quickly.
There's a local article in the Austin Business Journal quoting a guitar dealer who says "Amazon charges $1000 for a guitar, but when I charge $1000 for the same guitar, I have to charge $1082.50 because of sales tax".

What he doesn't consider is that Amazon is more than likely charging $800 for that guitar.

The "locals" make claims about price difference being solely due to sales tax, but overhead is more the reason than anything else.
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Ask HN: Quick Mobile Game Developer Survey
Would appreciate your help on a survey to understand the mobile game development community on HN. Specially indie. And those willing to try a new marketing model for their game. 8 questions only!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZ2WDdseERhd0NoYXl0WTZyelF3clE6MQ

Thanks!
There are some real problems with these "eloquent" styles.

They work only in a monospaced font. I code in a proportional font, and none of the column alignment tricks will look right when I view the code.

Even if you like to code in a monospaced font, there's no reason to write code that becomes hard to read in a proportional font. It's very easy to write code that is perfectly readable in both monospaced and proportional fonts: you merely forgo these column alignment tricks.

Also, this style of code is a pain to maintain. If you add a variable with a longer name, you have to go up and down adding spaces in front of all the other = signs.

And I find it hard to read even in a monospaced font, e.g.

var i = 123
, j = 456
, k = 789
, aMuchLongerVariableName = 'foo';

Matching up the initializer values for i, j, and k means my eye has to scan way across a sea of whitespace and hopefully remember which line is which when I get there.

Finally, the example with the escaped newlines all in a vertical column does not do at all what he expects! All those extra spaces become part of the string.
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Ghostscript runs postscript and is opensource.
> If you can't/won't write platform-independent code, you are either lazy or your problem domain is heavily dependent on your platform. As far as I know, in-memory key/value stores aren't a Linux-specific problem, so...

If you can't write your OWN in-memory key/value store, you are either lazy or a parasite.

> Let's talk about Doing the Right Thing.

The right thing for people like you is to, you know, just maintain and release their own Redis port. It is BSD licensed - you don't even have to release the source code if you don't want to. And in fact, a port already exists. So you are either lazy, a parasite, or a troll.

> Because helping out anyone who can't just change their infrastructure on a whim is too much to ask.

Money talks, bullshit walk.

> Really folks? You don't see a problem with this?

Yes, I do see a problem with people like you who feel entitled.

I haven't seen any complaints about Microsoft dropping POSIX support (which, if it was actually usable, would have supported redis out of the box).
How long before we see a how to on "using OpenShift's free MongoDB instance with Heroku?"
Hey Saurik, Just wanted to say that we're aware of the (significant) flaws in the webhook APIs. We're in the process of redesigning them now, so thanks for the feedback on what is important to you.

(Also, just FYI, you can see logs of all the webhooks in your Stripe account, including the response body and response status code, and they can be retried with a button click -- a manual process, yes, but it is at least possible)
Clickable:
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While it's useful to be aware of where a study comes from, at least in this case, I more than trust Accuvant.

They're as good a team of security researchers as you're going to find.
In my experience, moms are a lot less likely to understand computers than dads. Same with grandparents. There is possibly sexism going on here, but it often has roots in reality.
While the study did consider fruits and veggies, it did not account for factory farmed meat and dairy consumption, genetically modified foods, animal protein intake, food dyes, cell towers, etc. In 20 years from now we might finally realize that genes alone play a very small role in development of cancer cells. Time will tell.
Surprising that SQL Server beats out Postgres, especially considering these are developers in companies <100 people.
Have a look at our 2011 PLDI paper. You can find a link here: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/reference/research-pape...
Recommendation: Change "Schedule gifts to be sent to the females in your life" to "Schedule gifts to be sent to the women in your life."

"Females" sounds like cop-speak.
It's not that simple. They don't need to pay Motorola to sue others. If we're speaking legally here then your argument has no legs. If we're talking realistically then you have a point but the courts will think that's irrelevant and make a decision based on the merits of this case regardless of any hypocrisy by Apple either real or perceived.

Now, speaking from a real world perspective and not about law, I'd say that the Motorola case is a lot like the Ford case. I'm the case of Ford you really can't stop others from making 4-wheeled, passenger carrying, combustion engine cars. There was just no other way at the time. Same for "hand-held mobile telephone radios". If Apple gets sued for such a generic technology then every cell phone and walki-talkie maker not paying Motorola royalties should too. In the case of Apple v Samsung, they aren't arguing that others can't make a tablet. You can easily make tablets that are similar (because even I will admit that nowadays there really isn't much more you can do with tablet design) and people have without infringing. But the Samsung tablet is so close to the iPad that its almost indistinguishable unless you inspect it further. It's like if someone made a project management web app and called it "OperatingBase" and it had all the features of Basecamp, a website with the same colors, similar logo, and all the rest. Well 37Signals couldn't sue the other project management app developers (let's pretend they have design patents in this case) but they sure can try to stop the asshole who is very obviously trying to rip off their product and ride its coat tails by hoping consumers who don't know better will think its the same exact thing.
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Their business model hasn't been superseded. Amazon is free-riding on the stores' display of physical goods. If the shoppers don't value being able to view, handle or browse the physical goods, why are they in the store? So they value having the store there but don't want to pay for it.

Maybe Amazon's plan is to drive these stores out of business and then open its own display stores where people can go to inspect merchandise before ordering it online.
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It's nice, but it leads me to think that they are a Y Combinator company. Are they?
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Doesn't really matter anyway, since the worst offender are always Flash & Java plugins. You should disable Java right away if you haven't done yet.
I've been thinking on this subject for a while - and working on something to new ways of promoting a game.
Just posted an Ask HN survey to get a sense on the need for that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334832
Apple has refused to join the W3C Web Events WG since it started in October 2010. One of the only benefits they get from not participating is that it's easier for them to exclude patents from licensing requirements. We should assume that Apple's legal team carefully considered the patent issues back when the company was deciding whether to join the working group.
Having consulted with various branches of the US Govt for about 13 years, I can safely say that this is almost exactly how most govt projects work. They are far more often about satisfying political objectives for bureaucrats than helping the user.

This is why I'm far happier now consulting to startups than to large corporations or the govt.
You are right in that we're not BigCorps, but if anything, that makes it worse, as we don't have as many resources to spend setting up boxes we wouldn't have otherwise needed.

It's not a moral and ethical calculation, it is a simple calculation of time. One of our main goals in the software industry is to reduce redundancy. Antirez's decision is increasing it.

Arguing simply based on incentives is also a fallacy. If we were to look at everything from that perspective, no one would donate to charity and far fewer open source projects would exist.
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If I'm not mistaken, 4 actually very much does follow from the preceding points.

The code is brought into existence. Code is observed to be capable of being modified into working on Windows (i.e., nothing radically platform-centric about it). Microsoft provides the grunt work to accomplish a patch that proves this observation true.

Very much, by definition, users can reasonably expect a Windows port. The capability exists. The code exists. The patch functions. If Windows User Clippy says "I expect that redis will be ported to Windows, given these facts", Clippy is not being unreasonable.

I'm sorry, but to claim otherwise is merely being obtuse.

Your points about IIS7 and Transmit are correct, as those rely on specific OS functionality that is unique--the constructs Redis uses are not, and again code has been written to show this fact.

Now, there very much is something to be said for Salvatore (antirez?) not having to do this work for free. Indeed, VMWare may be spending a good chunk of change paying for his services ( http://antirez.com/post/vmware-the-new-redis-home.html ). I do not wish to suggest that he go uncompensated.

What I do wish to suggest is this:

VMWare: this dude you are paying to develop a widely-used and respected project has (seemingly arbitrarily) turned down code submitted from other practitioners in the field. He has suggested they fork the project (diluting the quality of the Redis brand and potentially removing resources that could improve mainline Redis). He has suggested that the project is too difficult to make cross-platform; I'm sure that you folks might have a different opinion on how important cross-platform support is.

Pay him more to make a better project (with help from people in the community!). Or acknowledge that he is correct in his assessment that this is somehow a Linux-only problem. Or do something else to help him figure out how his goals align with the VMWare mission.
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iPhone developer? How do you talk to you users?
I think local retailers are given "special treatment" in that they don't have to add a shipping cost on top of the item price.

Yeah, those lucky retailers get to blow off the shipping cost just because they aren't shipping anything. But they do have to pay a fee just for the privilege of doing business, and Amazon gets to do business without paying that fee. And now Amazon is using their dusty old brick and mortar stores as a showroom. I can see why the local retailers are feeling jilted.
It'd be really cool to have an ebook reader that converts epub files, and runs either TEX directly or postscript implementing the TEX paragraph formatter.

It's really bugging me that my kindle is incapable of running Knuth's algorithm, preferring instead to avoid hyphenation entirely, serving up an ugly hodgepodge of justified and ragged-right text. C'mon guys, this is old stuff...

Any open hardware with e-ink?
Good points. Even Gtk apps now that you jog my memory.
It would be super tough to replace TeX for its intended users and uses.

There was a GRIM problem -- getting math typed for high quality work in math, science, engineering, and technology. TeX was a terrific solution. The problem has not much changed, and TeX remains a terrific solution.

Or the problem was to put black marks on white paper with math and English with high quality. Now we put black marks on a white background in a PDF file -- fine. How to do that was the problem, and TeX is a terrific solution. Or, the intended TeX users are for the intended uses concerned mostly with the math, just the math. For the math, we need the TeX math fonts and the AMS fonts and how TeX formats the math in 2D, but we don't need color, 3D, GUIs, popups, pull downs, rollovers, animation, hot links, text boxes, radio buttons, drag and drop, icons, etc.

Good TeX users have lots of macros for TeX, editor macros for TeX, papers in TeX, knowledge of TeX, documentation of TeX, skills with TeX, and journals that will accept papers in TeX and don't want to lose these or replace them.

For 'what you see is what you get' (WYSIWYG), 'what you see is all you've got', and for the intended users and uses, WYSIWYG is very much a step backwards (I would yell and scream bloody murder) and NOT wanted.

Similarly I care from not very much down to not at all for support of all of Unicode, color, graphics, animation, direct output of PDF, output of HTML/CSS, 3D, CAD features, etc.

For a lot more in functionality, I don't want to struggle with a LOT more in documentation, quality likely much lower than TeX directly from the hands of Knuth, years of bug fixes and version changes, time to acquire skills, time to write new macros, effort to struggle with journals that still want TeX instead of something new, etc.

TeX is one of my most important tools. To have me give up TeX will require twisting it out of my cold, dead fingers.

Net, there was grim problem, and it has not much changed. TeX was and remains a terrific solution. Done. That TeX won't slice bread is just irrelevant.
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Ask HN: Interesting things to do with old smartphones?
I now have two old Android phones and am looking for ideas of something interesting to do with them. I've had old phones before, but without wifi they've been limited to just games, playing music, or reading ebooks. Now with wifi and some power, there are surely some more interesting things to use them for.

So far the best I've come up with is using them as wireless webcams using IP Webcam. They could also be alarm clocks or be used for streaming music or news. But what else?
"What THE stocking stuffer is"

not

"What A stocking stuffer is"

I'm aware of the terminology, was questioning the content of said prize.

But, in the spirit of all the foreign born readers of HN who may not know what that term meant, i'll thank you for enlightening them.