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Extreme CSS3 only Tic-Tac-Toe with input:checked
Monadic Programming in Scheme
Hot spares do not provide less downtime compared to a supported drive failure (ie. 2 disks on raid 6). they just reduce the mean time to repair. Handy if your disks are at a remote site or your dealing with very large arrays but likely a waste of spindles if your sitting next to your data all day.
I dont have confidence in that. I just havn't thought about the direct way when I wrote the first text.
I think you think you're being sarcastic. But I do actually work for a developer tools company, and I implement language features on a continuous basis. I implemented anonymous methods - closures - for Delphi, a task that involves no small amount of scope wrangling; and FWIW, Delphi almost certainly has a larger userbase than CoffeeScript, albeit one with greyer hairs. While my specialism is in statically typed, compiled languages, issues around lexically nested scope are pretty much the same as in dynamic languages.

If you want to have a constructive conversation, you could try dialing back the snark, and addressing my arguments directly.
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Good piece. It's well worth watching Terry Pratchett's "Choosing To Die", about assisted suicide, for an argument of one solution to this dilemma. I'm not sure there's currently a better way to hack death.
Assuming they didn't sign a contract?
Httpcode - explains the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line
I think a solution using RSS feeds may get around this, if you can have RSS feeds to everything. (Not super familiar with CL feeds.)
That's not a counter example to the point I brought up.

A counter example would be an example of 2 Korean words that are ambiguous in regards to homophones when written in Chinese characters but non-ambiguous when written in Hangul.

Actually I'd be very interested to see any Korean, Japanese or Chinese words that are more ambiguous when rendered with characters than phonetic syllabaries (i.e hangul, hiragana, zhuyin...).
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Well first off all S3 is not the only option. Hell even going mid tier with an established SAN installed at a cheap colo is way cheaper than S3 and leaps ahead of their solution.
I remember switching to them from Network Solutions or Register.com, who still charged like $99 or $29 per domain (I forget which). It was amazing that they had $9 domains AND they provided DNS (it used to be you'd be stuck needing an ISP for this)
The first domains I got were from register.com at over $30/year. I assumed I was getting great service or something. When I finally had an issue, I sat on hold for over an hour and then got disconnected. I decided to switch to godaddy, the cheapest well known brand.
would be excellent if you added voting buttons in the title box as well!
I agree but arguably, you could say one of the focus is the cloud. Building an AWS competitor isn't necessary something they wouldn't consider in the future. They do have a DNS service, and they already do 3rd party registrations with Google App integrations for various things. None of those have been on the cut list. And I'm sure they have plans to continue pushing things forward for cloud services. Being a registrar and having services integrated with each other (see AWS) is an added benefit. I could be wrong and this is purely random thoughts out loud, but not everything should be viewed so narrowly or direct that you miss the big picture on where the focus is at and how you get there. It's still a possibility and none of us knows what Google has planned.
Soon, mobile phones in India will carry radiation tags
i don't have an opinion on the larger fight here, but you have to disable pulseaudio if you want a fast startup in opensuse 12.1 (otherwise there's a 30s pause when the desktop starts). disabled, everything seems fine.
Foundations of Statistical NLP is awesome.

Having some background in statistics, but none in either linguistics or NLP, that book was a revelation. If you read, and implemented all the exercises in that book you'd find a way to make millions, as NLP is a big deal right now. I did find a little too much concentration on the low level stuff (character parsing, bag of words etc), but in conjunction with Elements of Statistical Learning its wonderful.
"Mostly" is not enough when it's not a hobby. It needs to "just work". Of course other OS'es aren't at 100% in that regard either, but at least they don't break stuff that used to work so often. I've used Linux since late 1990's into 2005-2007 or so, after that only revisiting it every now and then to see if things have improved. They have, but not enough. And the curve is only getting flatter, especially with much/most of the crowd that used Linux because it wasn't Microsoft moving to Macs over the last 5 years.
Just FYI, nearlyfreespeech.net is a name.com reseller. name.com did speak out against SOPA too, but only after namecheap did.
Not supporting IE 8 seems particularly short-sighted, given that IE 9 won't install on Windows XP.
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In USA, a scientist is three times more likely to be an atheist than the national average. (It used to be more but ahteism became more prevalent in the last decade).
Trademarks cover identity and brand. It hopes to prevent "brand dilution" (some sort of passive libel, might we say?), thus making trust-based business difficult; it does this by granting infinite namespaced monopoly on symbols and marks.

As a consumer, I want trademark laws are enforced rigorously. I don't want fake goods of inferior quality that can be even endanger my well-being.

Or does anybody want to buy cheap climbing gear from china with Petzl on it?
You mean your cert? Technically, you don't need to transfer the cert -- nothing prevents two CAs from signing certificates for the same domain. You can just buy the cert from someone else and start using that.
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Let's say are rid of foreign porn. Are our Children safe now?! What about American porn sites? *Oh right, we are gonna make another bill fixing that! I swear US is more and more like China these days.
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What do you mean by "a SOPA easy/painless transfer your Web business to us page"? There isn't something a competitor could do to make the transfer process any different than it normally is - you just have to do it.
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Yes, I would have moved sooner, if i knew about the Elephant situation.
I think the 'failure' of the commercial Linux desktop can mostly be attributed to economics. Most importantly, consumers do not want to pay for a desktop operating system (even if it were proprietary). Microsoft effectively shut down the alternative market by making Windows-hardware coupling mandatory for large hardware vendors. This gives the perception (through scale and coupling) that Windows is nearly free. So, why would one spend money on an alternative operating system?

Then, there are social factors. A vocal minority of the Linux community is outright hostile towards proprietary software or even towards any form of capitalism. It is not a very attractive market to operate in - one misstep, and elaborate PR campaigns are set up.
I long ago got rid of my directly registered GoDaddy domains, but the Google Apps registered ones... can you switch to eNom?

New domains I get through name.com and they offer you the option to set up Google Apps for your domain.
> Go Daddy is the world’s largest domain name registrar with more than 50 million domain names under management.

Every time when i read some company's "we are f.ing big you s.ckers" shit, i hate them a lot... Yes you are a big company because of us, the individuals. If you forget it, you have to lose.
I think"attempting to copy" is the operative phrase there.
S3 fails too, right? Didn't they have an internal network issue this year, and go down for hours?

Anything you haven't tried, doesn't work. That's a truism in computing. I don't think Amazon tries failing-over entire data centers very often (have they ever?), so when it needed to happen, it didn't work.

Anyway, I'm thinking this guy has only to back up his photo store about once a day to (something big) and put it in his bank box, and he's good to go, at least for a photo site.
Surely we can come up with a better technical solution for this!

Currently pharmaceutical companies try to prove authenticity by e.g. printing little holograms on the pillboxes, which is not very effective since pirates can print holograms too. How about this instead:

Each pillbox comes with a little paper which contains a random-looking string of characters and a trademark. It is folded-over and sealed so the contents are not readable. When an end-consumer wants to know if their drug is authentic or not, they tear open the paper, go to a website operated by (say) the US Patent and Trademark Office, and type in the trademark and character string (or scan a QR code). The website says "authentic"/"inauthentic"/"this string was already used".

On the production side, you can set it up so that the factory needs to communicate with a central company server to allocate codes, so you get an accurate count of how many codes are produced and if it matches the amount of drugs manufactured. This way, if an insider starts leaking codes to pirates it can be noticed quickly.
No empirical data - which anybody reading such an article would be looking for. They didn't rank Wikipedia editors by 'power', though they claim they could. Why not?
Mesmerizing reaction diffusion shader (WebGL)
Just to be clear: You and Brian are advocating that a potential employer will do a deep dive on my background without my permission?
How they probably don't care. If they didn't get a big pile of cash for supporting SOPA, I don't know why GoDaddy does that anyway.
I think you're making the same mistakes as people on that thread. It's a long stretch from "there's some x87 assembly instructions and some function calls that could be inlined" to "they compiled with optimisations off".

It's entirely possible, for example, that the relevant code came from a 3rd party library that the game was statically linked against; or that they had to disable optimisations in parts of the code because they were found to cause bugs elsewhere.

Creating a rich interactive world the size of Skyrim is a considerable technical achievement, so I certainly don't think you can accuse the developers of incompetence.
This is a followup to http://drdobbs.com/blogs/architecture-and-design/229300217 (the link in the article is broken)
Selling Apps: What am I doing wrong? Need outside perspective
Hi HN,

As a side job, I've taken up developing, designing and trying to sell apps. The market is crowded and there seems to be no room for my apps. I had a pretty good first week selling an app that I've spent seven months of my free time on, making $200 on the highest day. Now, it's down to about $2 or $3 a day - barely selling any copies, constantly slipping in the charts.

Are there any people on HN with serious experience, willing to help out a beginner? Together we could come up with a list that can really help people. I feel like I'm the only person in the room who doesn't get get the joke. Should I just quit?

p.s. I've tried some things already, which unfortunately didn't work for me:

- Bamify Ads
- Getting my Designer to dribbble the app
- Writing bloggers
- Having Sales $2.99 -> $0.99
- Improving the app
- Adding features that were requested
- Having a nice website
- I don't think being young helps you either
- Trying to get some exposure on HN
- Being in the Instapaper App Direcoty
- Having a Youtube video
- Having a great name: Read
Bare bones Raspberry Pi PC gets ready to launch
Math for Programming
What are the best areas of math to have a firm understanding of that would help with learning how to program, beyond the concepts of basic algebra?
only shortsighted fools will require you to have all those although some may ask but it's definitely not required
When you get to the top, you want to stay at the top. The problem is that on the way to the top, you became big. Real big.

Big companies can't maneuver well. An elephant can't do acrobatics. They know they can't compete head-to-head with smaller companies.

So big companies start to create artificial barriers to entry. They form partnerships (i.e. Google), they begin to advertise heavily (i.e. Superbowl), and they start to lobby the government (i.e. SOPA). All of these actions are there to create lasting relationships that will help a large company like GoDaddy compete with smaller, more maneuverable firms.

GoDaddy couldn't give a damn about SOPA. They simply want to have a solid relationship with various members of congress, the senate, and parts of the executive branch. I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine down the road.

Also, although I don't believe this is a significant motivating factor, SOPA would reduce legal costs for GoDaddy. Currently, if there's a court order for a seizure or something along those lines, it has to go through a process in legal. One of the features of SOPA, is that it would take the process out of the courts, at least initially. No courts = no court orders to process.
Fixed? You know, I get the whole backlash against GoDaddy and it's totally justified but these posts that basically demand all businesses switch registrars or imply that any company using GoDaddy as their registrar are somehow sympathetic to them is nuts to me. I know they don't outright say it but that's the subtext I'm getting.

I hope everyone boycotts GoDaddy and transfers to another provider but we have to understand that something like this may not be feasible for some companies right now. Google may have a long term deal they have to finish out. In addition transferring the thousands of domains they have costs money for not just the transfers but they also have to get people to work on it and provide customer support as there will be many people who will need to know why this is happening and how they'll be affected.

GoDaddy has sucked even before they came out in support of SOPA, there's no doubt about that and the transfer/boycott movement is justified but let's please not put the entire focus on GD and remember the situations some companies are in can make it harder to transfer their domains. Also, using GoDaddy != support for SOPA just as using a gas powered car doesn't automatically make you a global warming denier. Circumstances just don't always allow for people to be idealists.
It was even more complicated in 1994. But, throughout high school and university I had plenty of time, and fixing things was an interesting challenge.

Then real-life started (internships, thesis writing, a day job), and the few hours per day that are left, you'd rather spend with loved ones, sports, and interesting projects. And then you suddenly realize that you'd rather have "works" than "mostly works".

YMMV
I transferred long ago, because of general "icky" vibes.
I started using Linux in 2001 and can agree with you that things were a bit messy up until 2005 or so. In my experience, I had very little problems since then, the only major frustration was Compiz not working on a cheap notebook that had 3D acceleration but no Linux support for it. Since then, everything just works, provided I don't sabotage myself buying hardware I know won't work properly.

I've also been a Mac user since the late 90's and I have a very solid experience with OSX since 10.2. It's not as flexible as Linux or FreeBSD, but, for a consumer-grade experience, it's excellent. I find the hardware choices somewhat limiting, but that's me. For work, I prefer Linux for its flexibility and, like I said before, I can't remember the last time my machine stopped working.
Those big names don't make the internet, we do. They might be what 10^-googol% of the internet.
That's so sad, but so real and common. Where I'm from, the law (kind of) allows for euthanasia. People can decide when to die, and have the option of leaving this place in a dignified manner, whit friends and relative in the room.
Agreed. This is a great resource for tracking the dev team: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/blog
I'll try again. I just used the Package Manager
No, it's because they're coherent experiences, developing single components over 10 or even 20 years. They don't chuck out entire subsystems on a whim, breaking compatibility with everything and then blaming anybody but themselves for the resulting mess.

Edit: it's quite astonishing how such a wide ecosystem of developers continues to misunderstand how you build successful developer ecosystems.
hehe good - but it seems you eluded my questions ;-)
In the case of SSL, I had believed it also implied GoDaddy was their registrar as GoDaddy forcibly required me to use a purchased SSL cert against a domain already in my account. Boy was that a bad experience when I found out post-purchase.

How are the top few companies getting around this?
Why stop at a technician license? CW (aka Morse Code) isn't a requirement like it was in my day, so I encourage folks to go all the way to Extra. The question pools are available and the actual material isn't too difficult to master since there are no labs or practical exams. (Plus code is more enjoyable to learn without the added pressure of the tests.)
1. Try to sell it on flippa.

2. Failing that, put it on github, with a note that says "unsupported". (open source) It can help for future job interviews.

3. Delete from your local machine and move on with your life.
I hope you check your gear yourself before use and don't trust blindly in any brand name printed on it. And check out alternative brand, too; less expensive is not synonymous worse quality.
GoDaddy essentially told me they don't care that I'm leaving.
Honestly, I don't understand why move this personal attack against Lennart. From my point of view he just wrote pieces of software he deemed necessary. I would rather put the blame on distributions other than Fedora¹ for trying to integrate his stuff early and poorly (thus starting a chain-reaction which caused even more distributions to rush with integration attempts). I think he's getting a lot of flak for choices made by others.

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1: Fedora is known to ship with lots of experimental software/wide-scale changes. Its users expect breakage/major innovations from time to time.
Thank you for the youtube link. Great talk.
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>Skyrim is butter smooth at 1080p on my 360

Its rendered internally at 1280x720 and then up-scaled (Pretty much all xbox/ps3 games do this). Which is over course a legitimate approach & looks good. In contrast on a PC, it is actually rendered at 1080p without upscaling & so the PC ends up rendering more than twice as many pixels even though both are set to 1080p in the options. So direct PC-Console performance comparisons are a bit tricky.
They could make a browser extension that did it.
Not to personally attack at all. Honestly. But, JF- your profile says you are a developer evangelist for Microsoft. Which is one of the biggest supporters of SOPA.

Do you think it's a little unfair to provide an opportunity to pressure YC companies that use GoDaddy for their domains because of their SOPA stance while evangelizing for a company that has the same stance?
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Being young is a double edged sword. I know from experience. The best I can do for you is tell you that persistence pays off. You'll find success just after you're ready to quit. If you resist that urge you'll be alright. Also, great design has a lot to do with how people judge whether to buy an app or not. Male sure the previews are beautiful and are actual screenshots, not those stupid ad-type things. Actually show the app working. Having a site dedicated to the app that links to the app store is also good.

Features and eradicating bugs are important but when two apps are of equal quality I've seen the prettier one win every time. So make sure everything from the UI to the app icon is beautiful and fits with the iOS experience. I'm embarrassed to say even I'm guilty of deleting apps because of their icon alone! And I'm a programmer! Imagine how regular users must be.
It's not 20 hours a week, it's 20 hours once, only when looking for a job.

If you can't be bothered to put some brief, good code on github to review, why would I be bothered to interview you?
Perhaps his implication that those who disagree with IP are insane offended some folk.
If anyone here works at NameCheap, can I catch a break somehow if I try to transfer all of my domains over? I've got 20+ and hate spending extra money if they aren't up for renewal anytime soon.
That kind of attitude from "fans" must be difficult to deal with. Skyrim is a really great game, and calling the developers lazy is missing the point entirely.

Having worked on products (much, much smaller than Skyrim of course) targeted at different platforms (browsers and mobile OSes) it seems pretty rational to me to make the PC version a console port especially given the breakdown of users on each platform.
How I fixed Audio on Linux:
Removed anything whatsoever to do with Pulseaudio.
Got myself a decent sound card (Presonus FP10)
Set up JACK as the permanent sound-manager on my system
Set up an ALSA Loop for anything that couldn't use JACK but did use ALSA

I've had a rock-solid, reliable, stable, easy to use Audio subsystem on my professional-quality Linux-based DAW workstation, running my studio, for years ..

Pulseaudio was a total and utter waste of time.
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Let's not pollute this place with hashtags.
Of course it can, given how many useful open source solutions are available nowadays.

Considering the total cost of 6000$ for a single server, you would be dropping 12k from the get-go for two servers (though you should really lease over a 12 month period if you can't afford it) and then you need to add colo costs for the machines, which can be around 300-400$ per machine in a single unit colocation environment, depending on your location. This brings us to 21600$ in the first year for two machines colocated in separate datacenters, without any sysadmin costs;

The article states S3 would cost 60,000$ per year, and this doesn't include any bandwidth costs, whereas the colocation setup would include some decent bandwidth per month. Over time, it's easy to see how a lot of money can be saved.

Also, S3 is designed for 99.99% availability, but they only guarantee 99.9% through SLA, which isn't extremely spectacular. Hitting 99.9% isn't particularly hard if you have a sys admin worth his salt to set things up right, and with your own solution you can have more direct access to the file system as well as the ability to adhere to any regulations.
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Link to said app?
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So someone left the compiler optimization off. Anyway I reckon that during 3 years of development someone should have realized.

Or it could be raw assembly code or inline assembly. These would usually not be optimized.
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