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Amazing. I always thought that something better than super-sampling had to exist.

I hope this becomes standard on PS3 titles, it's painful seeing all those ragged edges on screen, knowing you have a few gigaflops of processing power sitting there, doing nothing :(
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How else can you guarantee how it will look in a feed reader (many of which strip styles or ignore stylesheets)? The Web is one thing, the places that ignore your styling.. quite another ;-)
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I hope we'll see more and more of this type of development, it's pitiful that nuclear technology has stalled in the US.
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Did your contract have drag-along rights[1]? I'm certainly no expert, but I think that's quite common. It would be very difficult to sell a company if you had to track down every single shareholder no matter how small their stake. So it's basically a majority rule.

[1] http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/02/term-sheet-drag-alon...
Exponential is the most "correct", but often it doesn't actually sound good in a game, so people will opt for inverse distance or even linear. Basically, it comes down to experimentation in your particular environment and deciding which model "sounds" best.
Kim Il Sung is also the eternal president of North Korea, but I doubt he is having a direct impact on the governance of the country.

It is a ceremonial position; no doubt he has some impact (it was implied that he was one of the reasons Microsoft didn't pursue Courier if I recall correctly) but he probably isn't involved in anything beyond vague larger-scale strategies.
There's a profound difference between having "read enough" insightful books and/or lengthy articles on a subject and having "read enough" Youtube videos and blurby articles on a subject. With the former, a few days of deep reading can yield insights and techniques that months of unskilled "jumping into it" wouldn't have revealed. With the latter, yeah, you'll face diminishing returns pretty quickly.
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Ever since I've started programming in haXe, it became clear that the language you code in should never be completely tied to a single platform. This article hints at Flex dying and tech needing replacement, yet many parts of an application (lets call it domain model and business logic) should be unique and not rely on a specific platform or data exchange format.

When you write your data model in a language that works on client and server platforms, you save lots of duplication of effort and gain flexibility.
The best example of experiencing the opposite I have is a fairly large application I worked on, where the backend developers designed a totally different set of classes around a (pretty much undocumented) XML structure than the frontend guys. Basically all communication happened through XML. Sure "it's an open format!", "it's human readable! (in a sense)", but taking over this project figuring out semantics and what was considered valid became a painful effort.

Your frontend should always use the same domain model as the backend. Designing the fundamental parts of your application without relying on an ORM, XPath, JSON, .NET, Scala case classes, Flash, Javascript, HTML5, Swing, whatever... makes you platform agnostic and shrug at the next internet technology death.

Am I happy Flash is considered dead? No, currently HTML5 lacks many features I rely on today and sanity (isn't it kind of bizar we consider cross-browser issues as normal?). Will my skills and all of my codebase die with it? Absolutely not.
Well said. I wasn't trying to say DropBox is the only or the first. They had the will and attention to detail that so so many sites don't.
Partly as self-promotion, and partly because it might be useful to someone, here is a link to what lamson is:

http://lamsonproject.org/

and a series of blog posts I wrote on setting up a simple lamson server:

https://github.com/drewbuschhorn/lamson_gcal_example#readme
I'm descended from Haacks... I wonder if we're somehow distantly related. It's not a last name you see very frequently.
Ya, I think grayscale or false-colored images would help.
My main concern was forcing payment processors to cut off organisations from their income. I don't know anything about the ITC, as I am a foreigner, but it seems that they are more at risk for being manipulated into a position where they do not properly investigate cases.
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I'm curious what constitutes mastery in English for you.
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Thanks for the offer. I really don't have any plans to pursue this idea, for various reasons. I did this quite a while ago. It ended up being more an experiment in landing pages and google ads.
that's interesting. a fake telecom spec (4G!) can't perform like a 3G network.
If you read the comments, you'll see they also missed putty and filezilla. Their 'review' indeed seems to have been pretty poor.
As I understand it (IANAL) the vast majority of members of the class find out during the settlement process, i.e. well AFTER the lawyers have been picked.

You can technically "opt out" and go sue the company yourself, but you're not going to get people who realistically, upon receiving notice that they are getting an unexpected settlement in-between two utility bills, decide to form their own class.
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Assuming good coworkers, team lunch is hugely beneficial for unstructured communication. Everyone gets together, regardless of role, and just talks. People learn about each other, learn about the state of the business and figure out when someone they don't often talk to is actually in a position to help them out.

It's also literally true – the team eating together begins and ends their meals simultaneously, meaning that productivity resumes at the same time for everyone. This makes things really easy when you're working on projects with multiple people.

Team lunches are magic with the right crew.
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Except the point in this case was to use Redis's built-in TTL system, which won't work if it's a single key.
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Come on. High lipid foods like the tahini in baba ganoush are well-known vectors for Salmonella, and many different foods quickly grow Staph quite well at room temperature. Refrigeration limits bacterial growth and production of toxins. Even adding fresh herbs like parsley can contaminate with E. coli.

Thanks to the "bureaucrats" who do their jobs and keep food safe in the face of ignorance and antiquated food serving practices.
Your alternatives are for the income that hosting advertisements may provide. They are not alternatives for the service that advertising itself provides.

And for that I offer in place of unsolicited advertising:

- Classifieds

- Directories

- Brochures

- Information centres

- Expos

- Local bulletins

- Store signage

- Word-of-mouth

- Sponsored events

- Trade publications

Of course these may well not have the bang-for-buck of unsolicited ads, but I dream that one day the visual pollution of third-party advertising will not be as accepted.
Right. The point would to allow this kind of thing to happen more organically. Those with a grievance would aggregate before the legal team was chosen.
and that the best way to do that was to help other people get what THEY want.

Would be interesting to see how you back this up. My experience has invariably been that no good deed goes unpunished.
But reading is good for reminders. Go ahead, read a couple of books on a topic and then try to "do". You will soon be knee deep in alligators and unable to remember everything that you absorbed in those two "great books". The solution is to read everyday and let it remind you, directly or indirectly, of the great stuff that you studied but have nearly forgotten because you haven't put it into practice.
The MOTD is for the MOTD, and bashrc is for things to be launched on login.

This seems to be a very blatant example of scope creep.
Android gave them the option to return to doing what they did best.

Did any of them take that option? The first thing I do when I get a new Android phone is to re-image it with what Google provides. Samsung and HTC have shown that all the hardware makers can do is write crap software to replace the working software they got for free. And then never ever even think about updating it or fixing the bugs.
I'm not okay with anyone who doesn't enjoy eating lunch.

I'm... so unaccountably bewildered and even offended at just the notion of it. I've never felt this way before.

I suddenly have so much new compassion for religious zealots.

edit: Ha, the anti-lunchers have come outta the woodwork here. Come on dudes, grow a sense of mirth. I'm mostly judging myself for intolerance here.
MySQL does already automatically cache queries internally. However, the scale of that caching is limited, in part because it's difficult to scale MySQL horizontally in the same way as Memcached or other distributed caching systems.

Adding read slaves is a great on many levels. Adding slaves, however, is not without overhead and stale data/programming complexity exists there too.
The big difference is that successful class-action lawyers transfer wealth, while successful entrepreneurs create wealth.
Yeah, I noticed. I also asked them to remove bundle from my program via comments. It doesn't seem like there's any other, documented, way to get them to do it.
I know. But for serious application a real drawing capability is needed. This should actually be possible to implement on top of the GTK+ layer.
I know it's an overly snarky comment, but being from a state that has literally ZERO 4g coverage, I gotta share the frustration. You have to live in a huge city to even get the signal, and when you do get it, your battery consumption is greatly increased. 4G as it stands for me is a huge pile of care not.
Yeah. The right time to exercise when a company is filing is like...a few years before, when the shares were pretty much imaginary and you weren't standing to be taxed for imaginary wealth (why I once agonized over buying 25 cent shares for 700 bucks in a company 4 years away from an IPO, I have no idea--it's either lost money or free cash. Assume it's lost money and you're either right or happily surprised a few years down the road; both aren't such bad outcomes).

You've likely heard this, but one thing you might want to look at is a hybrid transaction (I think they call this a "cashless transaction"); exercise and sell enough to cover taxes and to purchase anything you've got available to exercise (to hold for another year).
see that is what i mean
I'm illiterate though.
This is an interesting approach. I'm definitely going to check it out. Thanks!
Where does one converse in English while in a foreign country? I basically taught myself English using the Internet and even though my understanding is top-notch due to copious amounts of reading & watching TV shows, my speech & active vocab are severely underdeveloped.
This isn't the first time his comments have been well received on HN.

I had the same reaction when I read this a few months ago:

http://www.berklee-blogs.com/2011/07/john-mayer-2011-clinic-...

Discussed here
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2846949
First off, you are reading it wrong. But it doesn't matter.

Google owns the copyright on Android, so the Apache License has no relevance to their activities. Licenses are a way of limiting the restrictions levied by copyright law; they give you more freedom than you would otherwise have. If you otherwise have more freedom than a license grants because you are not bound by copyright law, you ignore the license. It's meaningless.

I haven't contributed any code to the Apache-licensed parts of Android, but I assume that you assign copyright to Google when you push your code. That means that Google continues to own the copyright on the whole codebase, and you have copyright on your contributions.
Well, Rolf. I can't say I understand your... lifestyle... But if this is what makes you happy, I will try to be understanding.
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This seems to confirm 125 GeV rumor that has been circulating last week.

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So say in 4 hours that baba ganoush stays in room temperature what is the probability of contamination? And do you know an online source to look up these numbers? And does anyone know if in other parts of the world baba ganoush is served freezing cold on a bed of ice?
Honeycomb is completely open source now. They released it with ICS.
I've thought about implementing something like this; but, I keep coming up against two different arguments:

1. I think there's value to having people come to your site. Not just for traffic, but to keep them involved and aware of changes to the site.

2. Content being posted in the email can be far more complex than the content being posted in a simple Textarea. There's a nice dependency on the clean input of a textarea and a form submission. With rich email clients, you just need to take more care.

... of course, maybe that's just me being intimidated about thinking about the whole workflow in a different way than I'm used to.
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I thought it was a little odd that he says the proper way to solve the problem is to have a higher-res screen, just before he says that we can't do super-sampling because it's too expensive.
Your point is well taken; however, as the writer of the article, I'd say this. Our business requirements dictate that slightly inconsistent data is acceptable in certain circumstances. We would not retrieve objects through the caching flow in situations where absolute data integrity is required.

That points makes all the difference, in my mind. To your point about excessive invalidation, that depends on your Read/Write workload.
The TerraPower design is really interesting - hope it is successful. China is also developing Thorium reactors. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_prit...) Safe/cheap nuclear would make such an impact - I'm happy to see developments - though I wish they were coming at a faster pace.
What was your project called? I remember reading a paper on an ML implementation of FRP (Reactive ML?); I'm curious if that was you. Also, yes, on my website.

I'm working with Stephen Chong. This isn't his primary research focus, but he is a really great adviser. Our PL group is really strong (I think :P), so I have lots of great resources around.
BTW: CNET is not the only entity doing that, they just happen to do it on a scale and got noticed by the public.

There's a class of lowlifes who take popular open source programs, rename it and wrap inside a custom installer that similarly tries to trick the user to install some other, usually crappy, software.

My program (Sumatra PDF) is popular enough that it happened to me 3 times and I know that other popular open-source programs were similarly violated by the same people (not going to link to them or even mention names to not give them google juice).
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i have a huge problem with this, between HN, /r/programming, /r/netsec, /r/technology, fastcompany, I find myself not really "doing" that much with programming as a hobby. I studied computer science in college, and for the last 3 years have been working in the military outside the field, but my passion still lies with computer science. Unfortunately these days it seems I mostely read into the success of others.

I guess a lot of it was getting burned out on tutorials, I have a hard time completing them, because the thrill of programming for me lies in solving a new problem, not typing in someone else code. It has been hard for me to pick up rails even with the excellent rails tutorial just because I dont find it all that exciting to type in verbatum code. Anyone have any good suggestions for learning new languages?

I think that just starting small scope projects and adding to them incrementaly with some good ref materials might be the solution.
ColdFusion is how I rock out with my code out. It's extremely powerful and has an awesome community of developers.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks for backing me up :)
That has no relevance to the article at all. They're announcing that Firefox 10, when released, will have extended support.

Also, Firefox 3.6 was released about 2 years ago. The extended support period for Firefox 10 will only be "about a year". That sounds reasonable given the market share decline rate of 3.6 you quoted.
No he is a scala early adopter. There is a big difference. I have less and less respect for the man the more I look at Lift. In fact after I started working with Play and their scala support I have and even better sense that he is just a java developer who found a new way to manipulate XML files.
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What about Still providing a simple text box, but the action upon submit is sending an email. It needn't be from the commenter's email address, it could be from a separate email address "comments" or perhaps a separate adress for the individual post.
Not having a doctype does indeed cause IE to go into quirks mode. This is still true even in IE9. Thankfully, <!DOCTYPE html> is recognized correctly, even by IE6.
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That's a bad excuse for breaking standard functionality for no reason at all.

Debian is my primary distro and I still consider it the least evil - but sadly only in contrast to what the others have on offer.

Their mentality to patch and break everything at the slightest opportunity is a big problem. Don't get me started on the mess they make under /etc with all their ass-backwards wrappers for apache configs etc. Motd is not even the tip of the ice-berg here.

Personally I've long stopped relying on anything but the base-install for this reason.

Anything relevant to an application deploy is compiled from source or installed from a custom deb (postgres, nginx, et al). I have better things to do than figure out the latest brainfart of some package-maintainer about how to scatter a postgres-installation across the filesystem...
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The Wayback Machine doesn't have the original Yahoo homepage. The one here is later. sporting a link to Yahoo! Deutschland.

If I remember they had their acronym in the lights: "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"
> What is reading one more article going to do? Probably nothing.

Reading articles after articles instead of doing things is a very common form of procrastination. From Wikipedia: "procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority".

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To fight this plague I'm working on an anti-procrastination web community for startup founders and people working on side projects: asaclock™ (http://www.asaclock.com).

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I agree but there is no reason the text box couldn't achieve the same result -- sending an email. External client would nit be necessary. I have wondered why comments and google plus don't already work this way.
This still does not look reasonable. It looks like business as usual for Congress: propose something awful, and compromise by only doing something partly awful. Doing nothing never remains on the table.
The time has come when people will start shooting cops.
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I love Sumatra PDF, thank you for making it.
"They didn't make the iPhone, no, but they placed themselves in a position where they could react to iPhone."

Exactly. They set themselves up so they could quickly react to disruptive change in the smartphone market. The iPhone happened to be what came along.

Most people don't understand what an impressive accomplishment this is. Let's look at how long it took for some other smartphone competitors to release their response to the iPhone:

Palm took two years (and started over from the ground up).
Microsoft took three years (and still doesn't have traction).
Nokia took took four years (and then threw it away).
RIM still isn't there yet (next year?).

And Google? They took one year. They clearly were doing something right.

BTW, props for remembering Danger. So many people don't in these discussions and (for someone who was working with smartphones back then) it is incredibly frustrating.
What did Google embrace, extend, and extinguish with Gmail? You can still connect to it with any standards-compliant MUA to download messages, and you can send messages to it like you would send messages with any mail server. Every user can talk to the rest of the Internet, and every user on the Internet can talk to Gmail users. So there is no extension or extinguishing going on; it's just another mail host that is functionally identical, from a standards perspective, to any other. You happen to also get a nice web interface for free.

Compare this to Exchange, which is its own system with a special client and special server. Good luck using offlineimap to sync your Exchange inbox.

But sure, let's talk about how Eric Schmidt was the Apple board during the development of the iPhone.

When Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board, he did not attend any meetings related to the iPhone, and then eventually resigned. He also got Android through buying an outside company, which did not sit on Apple's board.

So let's talk about the design similarities between Android and iPhone.

You press a picture of the phone when you want to make a phone call, and then your voice is transmitted over the cellular phone network to the person you're talking to? Icons are pictures of things? You can send and receive text messages and email from the phones?

Ultimately, any phone is going to be very similar to any other phone, because they are both phones.

And I don't think a company that develop's open source should be able to place ads on it, as to me, that is still 'selling' the software.

Interesting thought. When you write your own open source software, don't put any ads on it.

But it's worth pointing out that Google doesn't put ads in Android. Some providers even switch the search engine that Android uses from Google to Bing. The point of open source is freedom; if someone wants to make money with it, you can just delete that part. And people have done that with Android.
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That's a valid concern - but then by all means make it an optional package. Linux is modular, there is absolutely no reason to mess with core-stuff like that and not provide a simple way to revert to normal.