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I work at OpenShift. On pricing: There are two models, the one quoted above where you use your own EC2 account and get 30 free hours, and one where you're running multi-tenant in our EC2 account entirely for free. On the second one (called Express), the intention is to keep these free instances and have people pay for additional capacity. It's a git interaction, languages are Java, Python, PHP, Perl & Ruby, and we're giving away the largest free quota of MongoDB so we can get your feedback.
Has anyone seen a exploit that allows an attacker to view your camera, without turning on the green indicator light? This is the kind of stuff my nightmares are made of.
Don't forget that there are significant benefits to smoking as well.

Yes, even for people who it will kill. (In fact, that's probably one of the benefits for some.)
Does anyone have a TL;DW version of this? This speaker takes an incredibly long time to get to the point, but I am interested in the topic.
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It's not new or strange at all, but I would hesitate to call it a success.
How good is the battery-life?
What easter egg exactly are you talking about? I wasn't able to find any, even with your hint.
He makes a great point in favor of CoffeeScript: making your JavaScript look nice takes much more work without CS. The fact that he is lining up the multi-line string line breaks says loads about how CS will more easily make your JavaScript look good. How many times have you tried to line up your equals signs or colons only to then later add a longer key or var name that required you to further tab over your = or : to keep things lined up.

But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt vanity is the primary reason people are using CS. My number one favorite feature is the list comprehension, and if it didn't have that, I might not be bothering with it.
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> "That sounds more like trademark law."

Design patents are far more like trademark law than utility patents. And, frankly, the wiggle room for arguing infringement is far less than for Trademarks.

Samsung is not in court for having the same rough shape, or bezel, or frame, or dock connector, or packaging as an iPad. It's there because it has all of these things.

They can literally only lose if the court determines they were making a KIRF.
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"Since the iPad came out we all have a preconceived notion of what a tablet should look like but had the iPad been designed differently...we'd live in an alternate universe where everything is the same including the court cases and me-too tablets except they'd all be copying a different design."

Right. All of them.

Except of course for the mid-2009 prototype of the JooJoo mentioned in the article, which was what went to market by the end of 2009, months before Jobs showcased the iPad at the end of Jan 2010.

"'Obvious' is always obvious after the fact."

The person writing the article you're responding to is writing it from the perspective of someone who designed a similar-looking product before the fact.
The definition of waterfall is that there is no loop. When one step is done, it's done.
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Waterfall is actually considered the very best model for software development, when the requirements are known up front in excruciating detail.

An average project experience around 25% change in requirements. Hence waterfall is highly unsuited for the majority of projects, since it does not handle requirement changes well.

However, in a few areas such as aeroplane control software, space shuttle software and similar, waterfall is indeed the optimal development process.

Different projects DO require different development processes. That's not wishy washy, it's the reality of software engineering.

Mindlessly applying your favourite development process to all projects, be it waterfall, scrum, evolutionary prototyping, spiral development or what have you, will very likely result in failure, if the process does not fit the project.
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I do mostly C and Python in Emacs, but have recently switched to using Emacs in a full screen terminal (iTerm). It works pretty well, and is the only environment I can make consistent across every platform that I use. All I need is an terminal and an SSH client :)
That seems pretty novelty.
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Well said, and the exact reason I moved away from consulting after a decade of doing it.

The developers often get blamed for "not understanding how real people use the system". Most features are requested by C level people who have never actually used the system.

While consulting, I've actually been told NOT to talk to the users who will be using the system. In a large enterprise it is often about power and politics, it is rarely about building value and increasing productivity.

Vote with your labor, work for a small company.
So, let's talk about the incentivization issue first.

Why is it OK for them to ask antirez to support Windows, but not OK for antirez to ask them to support Linux/POSIX?

Because antirez has a tool whereas BigCorp presumably has a problem. Because all of us could benefit from this, while only some of us might benefit from BigCorp switching to Linux.

Asking somebody to make their tool more available is, I posit, much more reasonable than asking somebody to change their problems.

BigCorp has potentially hundreds of thousands tied up in existing equipment, IT infrastructure, and training for employees. You and I might not flinch at spinning up a VM to run a database, but we (and the rest of the HN community!) should not fool ourselves into thinking that this is in any way always appropriate for a company.

Meanwhile, a huge fraction of antirez's time will be spent dealing with the effects of trying to maintain a high-performance, low-level datastore on two utterly incompatible platforms, and the time he spends on that is time taken away from work on other bugs and features, which also amounts to time taken away from all the people who already use Redis on POSIX.

Or, you know, he might talk with the Microsoft development team and try to get them to take over maintenance of the Microsoft codebase, and clean up the platform-specific architecture that gets in the way--and in so doing, write better code.

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...

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There is no incentive at all for antirez, his employer VMware, or the Redis community at large to go through the pain of integrating Windows support into Redis mainline.

Let's look past incentives here. Let's talk about Doing the Right Thing.

A huge number of people here make daily use of software packages and stacks that are open source. We owe our livelihoods to the folks that have been kind enough to release the source to their programs and, more importantly, work with the community to improve their code.

We owe it to ourselves and our community to call out people being lazy and selfish, and letting politics overrule sound engineering and decency.

This is an unreasonable decision by antirez. He's got a cool framework. He's got a bunch of code and (presumably) people that are happy to work with him on making it even more useful.

He's also not going for it, because "use linux lol".
Not because it's hard, not because he doesn't have folks that can add it, not because the problem extends beyond some refactoring and #ifdefs and makefiles.

Because he's lazy.
Because Linux is the One True Way.
Because helping out anyone who can't just change their infrastructure on a whim is too much to ask.

Really folks? You don't see a problem with this?
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I'm not a fanboy at all I use Windows, Linux, Apple, Android I'm not employed by 'company X' so unless they pay me I can criticize all I want.

From what I understand Apple refuses to pay Motorola royalties on the basic patent of a "hand-held mobile telephone radio" (or whatever phrase is used). If Apple refuses to pay for such a basic fundamental mobile phone patent how do they expect anyone to take them seriously for simple esthetics/design of a device?
"""Your statement can't be true unless all obvious ideas have somehow been patented since the dawn of time"""

Yeah, but I'm not talking "fire" here. The context is ideas that can generate lots of money and companies want to use like crazy. Like pinch-to-zoom.

If they claim it's obvious why didn't they implement it in their products first? Why wasn't it part of the web standards from before the iPhone? And why nobody patented it? That's the gist of my argument.
Why should antirez feel compelled to support Microsoft's enterprise customers without compensation at the cost of significant complexity? The incentives are all wrong.
I actually know Clark Valberg, the founder of Epicenter Consulting, and did some work with him a few years back; he's a great guy. You guys can criticize him all you want, but he actually cares.

We should direct our efforts towards the bloodsuckers, not the people giving blood.
Do you have the results of that research project available somewhere?
the technical stuff (fragile versions and bytecode, etc) is being worked on by Typesafe, the venture-funded company backing scala and ideally will improve. so, i thought this was the most interesting part:

"By most measures, Scala is not a simple language to learn. While there are lots of languages that are large in scope and features, most can be learned over time. Scala fall short by requiring you to learn at least 75% before you can do anything meaningful. When I first started out with some basic scripting this didn’t appear to be the case, however; once I tackled a real project, I realized how limited my knowledge really was. For those that think you’ll coast by because you’re a Java expert, think again. My Java knowledge is extensive and the parallels between the language are few and far between."

part of me wonders if this is inevitable, and a good thing. many problems don't require expert tools and expert teams. joe blo can write a blog on appengine, and you can throw a bunch of college hire "consultants" on many business apps and be successful. Competence is relative. As problems get more complex (see Why Is Payroll Hard[1]) you need more expert teams and more expert tools, your average enterprise java team of people who work 9-5, have a nice family and a powerboat hobby (but perfectly competent, by most standards!), can no longer successfully manage the complexity. Maybe they can't grasp scala, maybe they just aren't interested in grasping scala. But there is a set of problems which you need experts to solve, and experts want sharper tools. like git, a macbook, and not-java.

I think Scala might end up like Javascript -- it has good parts, and it has bad parts. but in the hands of experts, allows us to accomplish things which are otherwise out of reach. this hits home for me personally -- i can create elegant functional solutions to problems that I just struggle to tame with traditional java-OOP[2].

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyIsPayrollHard
[2] which is, you know, how people get turned on to FP in the first place. "you don't find it, it finds you"
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While I think that's a bit dramatic, I do find that I often have to manually modify javascript libraries I use before they work the way I expect. I'm thankful for the 90% of the library I did use, though.
There was a version called "Nibbles" that came with QBasic (Which in turn came with DOS 5). It also had another artillery style game called Gorillaz.

I guess the nokia implementation is considered the reference because it had the install base and must have wasted hundreds of thousands of hours worldwide.

IIRC the DOS version was pretty much unknown unless you happened to scour your disk for .BAS files.
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He is known to be opinionated.
You're assuming the OP is going to have his child blindly recite things. What if he actually teaches his children like parents are supposed to?
Interesting idea (that is, launching the site with hardly any features). Good way to make sure the product doesn't become vaporware.
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I like Astrid, too. Very quick and light.
What a disgusting assault on Salvatore's character. I really don't think anything more needs to be said, your resorting to such attacks pretty well speaks for itself.
I'm using an X220 with 8G RAM + Core i7. I did not buy the SSD-enabled version from Lenovo, but replaced the factory's SATA disk with a 128G SSD I previously had on an X200... Had to hack the disk a little to fit on the X220 though. It's the fastest laptop I've had, screen is super bright, and with the large battery, I get 6-8h hours depending on the use.

I'm pretty much sold on Lenovo/Linux laptops when it comes to development, although I'm pretty sure that the even-lighter Macbook Air would cover 90% of my current needs (after a huge RAM boost ¬¬). Were I more on the run, I'd probably go for the mac. Right now, I need the raw power of the X220. :)

Oh and BTW if Apple started selling ARM based laptops, I'd get one for sure.
I honestly have no idea if this is some kind of performance art or parody or whatever.
I will teach my kids to say "...with liberty and justice for some".

Not "I will teach my kids about...".

and when the teacher corrects him/her and gets sent to the principals office. he will have a packet of material proving my case beyond all doubt.

= The kid will not know what they are talking about, so I will make them carry around a folder proving my point to anyone who dares to question me.
OK, the gene is called CHRNA5 and it seems to be related to a nicotine receptor. Here's where I found that: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v40/n5/abs/ng.109.html

According to that article, the SNPs in question are rs1051730 and rs8034191. 23andme tests for both.

(My results indicate that I'm at lower risk, but I'm still not going to pick up a pack of cigarettes anytime soon :)
> "Apple will always have the option to just take their things and go home. "

Sure. And at that point it will be reasonable to cast aspersions all we want. I just don't think it's reasonable to do so while they're still following the rules.

> "the web would never have been allowed to take off."

The systems being locked down isn't a big deal, I don't think. The far larger risk was the monoculture that Windows presented and thus the control Microsoft could (and tried) to exert. As long as we have healthy competition between viable alternatives, I think the mobile space will be healthier than PCs in the 90s. Carriers, manufacturers and platform vendors today may try to squeeze out third party solutions, as Verizon is trying to control the NFC wallet space. But they extent to which they might succeed is the extent to which there aren't competitors for what they offer. The operating systems they (ab)use to push this plan are largely irrelevant of their ability to get away with it. Indeed they stand at their highest chance for success, right now, with the most open mobile operating system on the market.

That said, a locked-down monoculture would be a far bigger threat than a monoculture with more freedom.
Not really.

Google "George Selden patent"
I'm glad you brought up Microsoft tablets! It's an excellent point because in all this talk about how the design of a tablet is obvious no one seems to get that it could have and has been done differently in the past. I think a lot of why it's obvious now is because the iPad is the point of reference. If the iPad didn't exist we may have a different view of what's obvious. Even if you take industrial design practices into account that doesn't mean manufacturers would have followed them like many imply.

I feel like there's too much talk about patents. I want to avoid talk of patents, trademarks, and the whole debate surrounding them. Instead, if you first focus on what's really going on here you see things differently. You'll see a tablet that came out first then another competing tablet that looks almost identical. Patents and trademarks aside its pretty hard to miss the similarity and if you consider that MS tablets and other previous attempts weren't designed that way then the whole "obvious" argument goes out the window.

It's normal for competing products to have the same features and many other similarities but there's a point where the competition stops making a competitive product and comes out with something that's a rip off. Patents and trademarks are things we should discuss and are important topics but in this case they're just a tool Apple is using to stop getting ripped off. I know they're abused but I think it's justified in this case. Look at the Samsing tablet next to an iPad. If you don't see the outright plagiarism then youre trying not to see it. I think this is a pretty clearcut case that's getting convoluted by people who are trying to tip toe around the plagiarism by making this about the merits of the patent/trademark system and laws.
wth did i deserve those downvotes for?
I've been using Evil for a couple of months and love it. I switched from Viper+vimpulse and haven't missed a beat. It works really well and was easier to setup. Any VIM user considering Emacs should give it a shot - the best of both worlds, really.
No one will like a site without a few more of those features your site doesn't have. There's the old phrase "it's whats on the inside that counts", but with first impressions, that's simply just not true.

I look at your site, and I see its a poorly designed, poorly implemented site. For most people, that's enough to immediately leave the site, and not come back. First impressions are extremely important, and your site gives off a terrible first impression. When someone sees someone link to your site again, they will immediately think to themselves "this website again? I hated it my first time there." and then you will have to convince them that it is worth it to go back. It takes a lot more effort to convince someone your site is good later on, than take the time and effort to make it good to begin with.

Why don't I immediately see when I go to the homepage how I can submit my own idea? No, I have to go to an idea first (at least from what I can tell) to submit an idea.

Why do I need to click into an idea in order to vote it up/down? Put a plus next to the title, which will expand text below it, and then have the Good/Bad buttons next to the idea.

The Free CSS template makes your website seem cheap. It immediately shows that you haven't thought about personalizing the site for your users, but rather phoned it in in order to put your site out there.

Never expect people to like a site that has shown that no effort was put into it to begin with, to justify to yourself to put more effort into said site. The phrase "I am not going to spend time implementing features for a site no one will use" boils my blood, because you as an entrepreneur are the showman: if you'll only do a song and dance after people say they loved you, even without knowing you, you'll never get a gig ever.

You get people to care about your site, not the other way around. You've shown that you don't care about your site, and so thus other people will care even less.
It's good proof of all those things.

Whether or not it was successful in the market or made Michael Arrington a lot of money, though, it also seems to be proof not only of the idea that the general appearance of the iPad was likely to be arrived at by other people working on the same problem, but that it was in fact arrived at before the iPad was released.
Where does the "CHIP. CHIP, WAKE UP" quote come from. I recognise it, but I can't recall why.
So what I do not understand, if the goal is to stay with java and leverage their background, but wanting something less laborious to code. Then why not try Groovy? Seems to me anyone now wants to do Scala just to put it on their resumes.
With each such law passing, for how long do you think you'll still have this opportunity? And most importantly, will you notice when opportunities will be completely gone?

Also, don't get your hopes up. Proponents of SOPA clearly expected opposition. What you're witnessing is the Overton Window strategy [1] and I can guarantee you that there's a 100% chance that their original plan will be 100% successful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334504

For your:

"The issue is not whether TeX is capable of the tasks it was designed to do."

No, that is exactly the point.

Net, TeX won't slice bread. People who want to slice bread shouldn't use TeX. Simple.
So, is this the real story behind this post?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310904

From the original response:
"In cleaning up spam on the old site we got a bit overeager and decided it wouldn't make sense to leave the broken remains."
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because I can throw questions at them

With all the Q+A and documentation sites that exist, that might not be as big an issue.
I've used Notepad++ on my Windows days. It's nothing like Coda (which is itself limited), or TextMate. Hence my reaction.

It's more like a dumbed down version of TextWrangler.
He's a patent lobbyist. Who exactly finances his operation is in part unclear (he seems to work for Microsoft on one project). He does not want to disclose his income sources. Some people feel that he's highly biased against Google etc.

FM is generally well informed, but may have a hidden agenda, you have to be awake when reading his opinions...

My main beef with his persona is that many news reporters call him an "expert" and publish his opinion as if were facts set in stone.
Think about it from the cost perspective. Not necessarily in terms of dollars, but in terms of time. There are thousands of BigCorps out there. There is only one Redis. If every BigCorp that runs mainly on a Windows stack (I'm personally connected to two, Fog Creek and StackOverflow) has to spin up %nix boxes just to run Redis, there will be tens of thousands of hours wasted as each company gets this new environment up and secures and maintains it going forward.

However, if he does support Windows, it might take antirez some extra time to support this patch, mostly front loaded. If it is too much for him personally, he could ask just one of the BigCorps who care about it for some help. (I'll bet Microsoft would be willing to dedicate a dev or two.) The number of hours spent may be in the tens to hundreds, but will be much more efficient overall.
Amazon offers same day shipping in some areas, obviously still not instant gratification but they are getting closer. An awesome company in my opinion.
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in the US, a stocking stuffer is a christmas gift, often a small but fun one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_stocking
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Sir or madam, if you would like to articulate why you classify my observations (and in the rant section, opinions) as disgusting, I would very much appreciate the insight.

If I have misclassified the situation, by all means, enlighten me.
sorry for not perfectly designing an application from the ground up on an internet forum. people said they could not imagine use cases for Redis outside the web cloud stuff. i gave some examples in an attempt to help people's imagination.

a decent response to my post would be to explain why Redis fits web/cloud only and why its design is a misfit for other areas by nature.