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The problem with this article and any like it is that it equates appearances with substance. To any casual visitor or even resident, Japan looks affluent. The city is clean and safe. People are dressed nicely. However, the truth is that Japan is propping up its economy with soaring debt, funded by the extremely high savings from the better years. The reality is that the economic growth is stagnant and population is declining.

Unemployment is artificially low but the labor market is skewed. There is a substantial number of people seeking full-time employment without success. Many able workers are trapped in contract employment or part-time jobs with low pay (in Japan it's prohibitively hard to fire people once they are "full-time" for whatever reason short of sever economic loss or extremely gross incompetence). If you ever put out an ad for a job opening you'll likely be surprised by the number of over-qualified applicants who have ended up "off the rails" of Japanese society for whatever reason.

One thing the article does get right, is that many Japanese probably feel that the lost decade is a myth as well. That is mostly because people have also learned to downgrade their lifestyles gradually (no need for a car in the cities thanks to public transport, no need for TV thanks to YouTube, NicoNico, piracy, no need to buy video games thanks to mobile gaming/social gaming, etc.).

However, the day of reckoning is approaching on many fronts such as the withering competitive advantage of flagship industries (especially electronics), the rapidly aging population, and soaring national debt. Japan has the highest suicide rate among youth across all industrialized nations and a declining birth rate, whether people acknowledge it or not, there is a large segment of the population that doesn't feel confident about Japan's future prospects.
Disable .DS_Store for network drives:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1629
"When you upload a photo to Facebook from your last trip to NYC, you get excited ... you know that people will see your photo and acknowledge your existence you feel alive."

This is absolutely crazy! That feeling of excitement is often nervous insecurity bubbling up. I used to be desperate for digital validation on Facebook and it made me miserable. Since leaving Facebook and focussing on email, Skype, Twitter and HN I feel a lot more relaxed. I enjoy those forms of social networking. Every now and then I still catch myself thinking: 'I wonder how this will look on Facebook'. But not often. Facebook invaded my mind and made me feel naked in front of a thousand strangers. On Twitter I know I am public. I shape my tweets accordingly. I do not seek validation. I seek connection and a desire to share interesting things with those who take the time to follow me. On Skype I connect deeply and privately with real people in sync. On Facebook the privacy slider was always moving and I was communicating with the people I love in an asynchronous, abstract way. On HN I enjoy the concept of karma but I am far more interested in connecting with people I have never met. I love reading the comments and reactions. I love creating content.

I could not agree more with this statement though:

"We see people come and go from our world. Some of them leave their mark and some of them just enjoy the ride."

I have started hanging out more on HN because it is filled with people who want to leave their mark. They want to change things. Facebook encourages us to consume, not create. That is fine if you want to enjoy the ride. I felt passive and insecure on Facebook. I feel energised and excited connecting with people on Twitter, chatting with people on Skype and writing this comment on HN. This is my social network. This makes me feel alive.
Generally just http://webetalk.com and reddit.
Ok, but no one uses telnetd, right?
Well, I guess for the obvious reason that they couldn't handle the hits.
Funny.. the site shows how 72k domains means nothing against 32 million domains and the new/leaving ratio is nearly 1:1.
I am wondering why godaddy even cares... they could think "ok, some domains will leave, but nobody will talk about it in 2 weeks". :(
I may sound asocial saying this, but I couldn't care less if other people acknowledge my cyber existence. What does it matter if someone commented on my new photos or wrote on my Wall? It doesn't add any value to my life, and fortunately I don't need people's validation to feel good about myself. I'll log in once every few days to see if I need to reply to someone, but other than that it's just another website. It kinda scares me how Facebook is now such a central aspect of people's lives. I know a lot of people who obsess over not having enough "likes" on their profile or whatever and they start questioning their personalities, friendships, etc. It just seems silly to me.
It doesn't matter if modern programs can read _macosx, the problem is modern applications creating them. Since they store useless metadata these days, there is no reason not to stop default creation of them.
Hi Mike, I am actually halfway through your guide right now. It is awesome. Just wanted you to know that your effort is much appreciated.

Will be picking up Texture soon. Thanks again.
Dude, you're only 23. When you say you have no ability with people, what exactly do you mean by that?

When I was 23 I was more or less a complete moron with people, and for years to come. But it has improved to the point where I'm content. And I'm only 29 now.

If you were more specific about your problems with social interaction you'd probably get some good advice here.
I seem to be somewhat dense today, do you mind explaining to me what harm will come if the next IDE to a language I use is implemented in native client and runs in a browser and wouldn't come if it was written in java and ran on my desktop? (and therefore was only available when my laptop was, etc) or for that matter the photoshop or some computer game.
I use Firefox for development because of Firebug

I use FF for casual browsing because of Adblock plus

The plugins make the browsing experience for me
You really need to look at the specific model, not just the brand. I think there are sites like Edmunds TCO and Consumer Reports which are good about model reliability.

I'm really happy with the Audi A4 (B7), made from 2006.5 to 2008, with the 2.0TSI engine. They're probably $10-25k used now.
> * "It's very simple: the primary goal of Chrome is to make the web advance as much and as quickly as possible."*

This is actually a bit frustrating. There's a bunch of people writing sub-optimal web-pages; not understanding the features or the security; and then there's a bunch of browser engineers trying to keep up.

Security still needs huge amounts of research and energy to progress beyond the broken model (username and pass everywhere / single weak social media login for everything) to something that most users can cope with.

I sound like a luddite, but I miss the days when you could do a Google search for something and the first page would be people who knew a lot about that subject, and who'd written some great text about it, and given it a bit of markup.

Honestly, ideal web pages for me are those but with CSS.

A lot of the web now feels like it's been designed by people who grew up with Geocities and <blink> and <marquee>.
That's the plan, but without charisma or pedigree, I've found it quite difficult to inspire confidence.
Started out promising, with a good observation about human motivation. Ended badly though, with one-sided and biased commentary about Google+ streams being "dull as dishwater."

Well, now. That's entirely dependent upon the stream of the user in question, isn't it? Someone like moi who has been circled by over 5k other users on Google+, but has 650+ friends on Facebook, clearly doesn't fit that stereotype. In fact, Google+ is far more "active" for me, in terms of interactions and posting, than my Facebook wall is.

Not only that, but Google+ has about 150 million active users now. So generalised "Google+ is dead" riffing doesn't impress me much:

http://www.webpronews.com/google-hits-150-million-active-use...

I can't vote this story up since it's ridiculously distorted.
What you are claiming is not true. Here are some sources that refute your claim:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Sales_and_chart_pla...

In October 2008, a report from Warner Chappell revealed that although most people paid nothing for the download, pre-release sales were more profitable than the total money from sales of Hail to the Thief. The report also stated that the discbox sold 100,000 copies.
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Well. I didn't like GoDaddy in first place anyway. I moved personal and other domains I administer out.
That's a nice story about Radiohead but it isn't true. In fact, Radiohead's online release of In Rainbows was a smashing success and generated more money in opt-in online sales than their entire previous album. Cite:

http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/40444

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Sales_and_chart_pla...
Agreed...

It was a pretty thin article - but the G+ criticism was just completely irrelevant to it and add nothing to the idea being explored...

Also - in general I find the g+ bashing is weird generally... My stream is full - my conversations endless and awesome.
Sam Altman has what I lack. http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

> You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king. If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.)

More than that, I can't seem to inspire confidence in people. I don't know the cause, but it's proving lethal to my ambitions. As far as I can tell, it's the same situation Jobs found himself in:

> "You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.” [1995]

I don't know. I'm just enjoying life and pursuing my research. But it feels unsettling coasting like this. I have Carmack's technical skill; if only I could rally like-minded capable people who wanted to build the next Id or Epic, then we'd stand a fair shot at success, at influencing our industry and the world. We wouldn't be just another puppet for publishers. We'd have a shot at making an impact: the next Half-Life or Final Fantasy or World of Warcraft. The formula is good people + shared goal + time + rapid iteration + don't get distracted. It works, it's proven, and I've seen it happen firsthand at S2. We can achieve that same success.

But why should anyone take me seriously? I probably wouldn't, if I weren't me.
He's suggesting that because Radiohead eventually took down the page, the experiment was a failure. He's conveniently ignoring the fact that their online opt-in pay system generated more revenue than their last published album before they dismantled it, demonstrating that demand/revenue in the new model exceeded the old.

I do have a link to cite: http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/40444
The "fatties" remark was pretty crass.
A huge improvement on the previous .ini files and something still unmatched in the Mac or Linux worlds with config in arbitrary locations and formats (which, incidentally, let anyone write anything anywhere in a similar fashion).

You are a little wrong there about Linux. Nearly all configuration files are in one of two places, /etc or dot folders in the root of my home folder. I can't write to the files in /etc as a user, and the config files in my home folder only apply to me. (Incidentally, since most Windows users at home run as administrator, they have access to the system configurations).

Personally, I don't like the registry because it is a binary blob (and having .ini files spread everywhere is much worse). I like human editable configuration files spread out in a folder hierarchy. I can use the same tools to modify configurations as everything else, as (nearly) everything is a file. I modify configurations with a text editor, I copy the configurations as files etc. It also allows me to get a better understanding of the configurations, since I can easily have comments and can literally copy and paste between text editors to migrate partial configurations.

In terms of a networking environment, applying configurations from a central user server is probably easier with windows due to the nature of the registry. However, due to the separation of system and user configuration on Linux, this is not an issue. You have /etc configuration as part of a 'system image', and can update this using tools like puppet. Then you have your user configuration migrate with a users network filesystem.
I'm so sick of this.

...I wish I could make everyone in congress get an education or something. Make them study some history before they're allowed to propose any more decisions.
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He was already the twentieth+ artist to do this. Many artists before him have been releasing content successfully and many more will continue to. As I said, it is interest in compelling content which generates buzz. Your assertion that it was "the model and not the product" is unfounded.
Many programs do something similar, for example vim creates file~ as backups. Using a graphical file manager, these used to annoy me. After switching to a terminal for file management, I can easily ignore them as if they weren't there.
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I suspect this is a great way to force FireFox to adopt Dart.
Yes, well, I went into partnership. It was hard to leave my previous job in a big company as it was a good company, good package, great people, 10 minute commute. The reason I left was because although the job was good, I would never become more than a small cog in a large company and then retire. I wanted to do something cool, make a difference, and have a shot at earning enough for my family to have a good life and start some altruistic projects.

The things that enabled me to leave and start something new were that I became more known for my work so I was offered opportunities, advances in broadband, video conferencing, web based project management, collaboration tools, powerful hosted DVCS, and other free tools allowed me to easily work from home so I didn't have to relocate or commute for hours.

It has been a good few months, it is going well, and I'm excited for the next year.
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I think it's indicative of the bikeshedding tendency of HN that we've spent this whole thread bitching about the hidden .DS_Store file and none of it admiring his work hacking the Finder.
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That is probably why it was overlooked
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>> If you read a site like Daily Kos and see all the action going on there, it would seem that any successful legislator would have to necessarily build a tolerance to negative emails/letters/calls.

I wonder if calling/sending letters to media outlets like WashPost and NY times might be more effective than doing the same for legislators. Right now, coverage of SOPA/PIPA is completely lacking among big media outlets. Negative coverage of the bills could go a long way towards defeating the bills. The tricky thing is that a lot of the big media outlets are owned by companies who are few of the major supporters of SOPA/PIPA in the first place.
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Rather than 'The Myth of Japan's lost Decade' it should be seen as 'The Myth of Japan's Economic Miracle'. Japan is a clipped beauty that, sadly, will eventually wither in the vase of socio-economi-demographic delusion.

Japan is the first major example of a culture that got so caught up in technological, economic, and social success that it forgot to insure it's own cultural perpetuation.

It's success comes from the fact that it's been among the most successful at efficiently consuming it's seed harvest.

Or to put it another way it has what can be termed "Cut Flower Syndrome"

You can cut a flower in a certain way, place it in a well formulated solution and then stick it in a strictly kept cool environment with the right humidity and light levels and a cut rose will last for quite a long time, in fact for the near future it's virtually guaranteed to outshine any flower kept in the field on the plant. It's protected from excesses in sun, rain and wind, from the ravaging risk of the pest or happen-chance calamity.

Look at the numbers.

Total Fertility Rate of between 1.2 and 1.4 (depending on what source you feel like believing the CIA or Worldbank respectively).

Cultures don't survive that kind of fertility rate. The math just doesn't work. Not when you've been below replacement fertility for now coming on four decades. In another four decades their population is set to be what it was four decades back, only this time with a population that, on average, is much older.

Then there's the whole 4-2-1 dilemma that accompanies this. Four grandparents and two parents for one worker to support. Look at a family and you've got up to 8 grand parents, four parents, and then the kids to boot, all supported by, at most, two incomes. If you keep the kids at just one then you're just perpetuating the problem, if you support two kids then you're still in some trouble, if you go to three then the ratio of working bodies to those needing support 1:7.5 -- don't forget Japan's life expectancy at around 80 years.

That's some serious supporting to do. Not to mention the fact that all those older people take significantly more capital to support than children, and we know children aren't cheap.

Japan's economy has been on the rocks since the moment their culture started to slip into making it okay to eat the next generation's seed to improve the living conditions of today. Almost four decades of eating that seed is not something you fix with government programs, and even if immigration was more culturally acceptable you'd still have the problem that the rest of the world has been following Japan in their demographic practices for several decades as well. So even if Japanese who have qualms about foreigners come around to loving people who don't have pure Japanese blood then you have to realize that the motivation for them to leave their homeland will be greatly limited as they too will have family to take care of with limited resources in their own native land.
It's always cool to see a nontrivial Haskell project.

This is also a great answer to one of the more prevalent complaints I hear about Haskell, namely that it is only good at the things it was designed for. I think it's safe to say that writing a database was not one of the things it was "designed for"; I'm also assuming you were relatively happy with the language for this project.

One niggle: have you considered reorganizing your directory structure to look vaguely like this[1]? This should make packaging your project and adding tests easier. Using hierarchical modules (e.g. Database.Seige.DBList instead of just DBList) is probably also a good idea.

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Structure_of_a_Haskell_pr...
Related: The former lead of the OS X Finder explains the origins of .DS_Store:

http://arno.org/arnotify/2006/10/on-the-origins-of-ds_store/
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Thank you, captain Obvious!
Yes the same here, Firefox is my main development machine and chrome is secondary.

I wish a world where firefox+chrome+open source derivatives have >80% usage share globally.
I'm the project's creator.

Haskell turned out to be a fantastic language to write this in; I especially liked how I was able to use the type system to separate out the levels of abstraction in the code base. I'm no stranger to implementing database like things and of the languages I've used in the past, I wouldn't favour any of them over Haskell in this setting.

I'll get right on to reorganization, it was on my todo list, but it's always more fun to add features instead. Thanks for taking the time to look at Siege.
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This is sad, scary, and as far as I've seen an inherent part of any long running engineering project. As software developers, we have a hard time understanding the rationale of some of the code we wrote last week, let alone someone else's code from a year ago (I don't want to imagine any of my company's code running 30 years from now!).

In a recent series of design meetings I was running for a large project, I started to tackle some of these problems by emailing out the final decisions we had made at the end of each meeting. The following week we'd still have problems in understanding/remembering the chain of arguments that led to the final decisions, and we'd lose some time re-tracing our steps. So I then adjusted to not only summarizing the decisions at the end of each meeting, but noting step by step the arguments/debates that led to it. Then at the beginning of each meeting I'd review them to the group. This worked, but it was an awful lot of note taking.

I almost wonder that now that more and more of these discussions are done through work email, IM, version controlled documentation (and code), the job of future archaeologists will be much more manageable (though still hard and fraught with risk). Maybe more and more tools will develop to piece together a project's evolution, rationale, and implicit assumptions and decisions.
It's an extreme case of what is commonly called a "first world problem".
There are sites that do this. I don't remember which but one of the sites where you can download subtitles already has a little javascript app that does the same.
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I have a LaunchAgent (~cron job) that zaps all .DS_Store files on the entire partition on a timer. I mainly did this so that Finder windows always use my default view settings.

I used to be similarly annoyed by Windows Explorer taking it upon itself to use weird custom views depending on directory contents.
Heh, glad to hear you liked using Haskell. It's a cool project; if I knew more about databases (I'm probably going to take a class on them soonish, but for now I'm completely ignorant) I'd look into it more deeply.

I completely understand not cleaning your code up--for some of my old projects in various languages, that's still on the todo list :) I just wanted to make sure you knew about that article--had I known it when starting some of my earlier projects, they would have been less of a mess initially. (Admittedly my last project was for a hackathon and was an unholy amalgamation of Haskell, Scala, JavaScript and a bit of Scheme; nothing could make that neat. :()
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http://subscene.com/ and a few other sites offer subtitles in many languages for pirated videos. No doubt it violates all sorts of copyright.
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