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In my opinion, Apple's original sin with iOS was banning side-loading. Many of the specific things they've done that I would call evil, for example:

- squashing alternatives to built-in iOS apps

- the attempt to ban iOS development in non-Apple-approved languages

- the in-app purchase nonsense [apparently designed to prop up iBooks, among other things])

are only possible in the first place because of the side-loading ban. Making that one change (without changing the APIs, the App Store, approval policies, etc.) would go a long way towards fixing the aspects of the iOS platform that are problematic from the perspective of user freedom.
I presume that CL standardized on a base as a default, though? Otherwise you have an appropriately recursive problem that every base is "base-10" in that base.

edit: (setf read-base (+ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1)) :)
Long live SE, they brought me some great phones (P800/P900/T68i/P1)... But I'm definitely excited at the prospect of some phones as forward thinking as the Z5/Z7 were in their day.

Let's home some of those designers & engineers are still around to produce the goods...
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Why nobody mentioned 'Netflix culture' - That seems to ideal to me.

http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
When I was a kid, I would have loved all of the specific sets that they have now. Why? Because it increases the possibilities of what you can build. Those 'specific pieces' are mix-and-match with other Lego blocks.
There's been a little interesting work that suggests that there are different archetypes among the extremely creative that roughly correspond to 'early peakers' and 'late peakers'.

I just skimmed this wired article but it seems like a good summary (note the '06 date though)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/genius.html
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I'd say this is all a matter of preference. If you have smaller hands or something this phone is probably going to be annoyingly big to you. If on the other hand you have large hands like me, its perfect and just the right size.
Indeed, Flash became popular especially during the IE6 stagnation.
doh! our bad will fix
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They need to include $2,000,000 checks to each member of congress. That's about how much the media companies are paying everyone who supports this.
Yes it is. It is one of the best US papers and is read internationally. It doesn't have an agenda, but is a little conservative. In other words, the traditional values of journalism are still held there - like breaking stories and original research and writing. I think importance of web-publishing there, and its success, is fascinating.
A few days ago I decided to pick up a bash book from O'reilly and, truth be told, the guys in a room in Freenode knew how to help me in any question I made, no matter how silly I might felt for even asking (specifically I remember asking them about case insensitive shell expanding of wildcards which ended up being a locale issue in my installation).

That doesn't mean that they're all saints, I just find it comforting that there are people out there who will gladly assist a complete stranger (in my case, me).
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I don't see any good use for ondir, because I will use the commands I need when ever I need them, I don't need some command every time I change directory. When I need to run another command at the same time i'll just do the following:

[BigOne@BigOne2 ~]$ cd LolFolder && ls -la
I'm curious as to where you found this information. Thanks.
Thank you. Sorry for the ban reasons guesswork in GP.
You won't regret it! I'm not sure if I could ever stand windows as a main development environment again. POSIX is just a lovely environment to be in. Once you get the hang of it you'll see you become a lot more faster at mundane tasks (even scripting them). Good Luck!
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I was recently given a small netbook and took the plunge with arch / xmonad and it has been pretty eye opening.. Going from "I need more control over screen brightness", to being able to assign keys that control the display precisely how I want has been frustrating and satisfying in just the right way. Thanks Zed for another great source!
Nothing to fix – he just read it wrong because of the way it's formatted.

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I am surprised you missed Brian and Joe from AirBnB. Both went to Rhode Island School of Design and AirBnB is probably valued higher than all these companies combined.
I just went and checked, and the standard gives a default value of "10." for read-base , so decimal by default (I think). It also says:

"Notes:

Altering the input radix can be useful when reading data files in special formats. "
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> absurd level of incompetence on the part of Lockheed Martin [not likely] or the article is incorrect,

I am also working in the area of government military contracting and I would claim your credibility in LM's competence is baffling. Are we talking about the same company here?
What is the best language to learn for web dev?
I have been going back and forth between PHP, Java, Javascript, Python, Perl, RoR, etc... I have no idea what to pick. I am relatively new to programming, but been working in the computer industry for years. I want to start messing around in web development, but I want to make the right decision on language choice first. What do you all think is the best path for me to choose?
The lower-quality one is 340M, and is plenty of definition/quality for a standup special.
Those were remains of internal testing.
Of course they're on there! think you prob missed them...
<sarcasm> Wait...a toy that is oriented primarily towards boys? It must be evil! </sarcasm> In that case, Barbie is evil, GI Joe is evil, Transformers are evil, My Little Pony is evil, etc...
From the email: 'And i know that now you are thinking "aw shit. Why'd i let this guy into my life this way?". Well dont worry. Because i really swear it that i wont bug you.'

Yes! this was exactly my initial reaction when I first saw this in my inbox so soon. The whole experience has been so honest, genuine and fun.
Alright, I don't give a fuck one way or the other. You tell me what makes them the default bad guys and what makes US the default good guy or neutral guy?
Does anyone know if this is correct?

If someone pays me $1000 with a credit card, I pay Visa $25 (2.5% transaction fee)

If someone pays me $1000 with Dwolla, I Pay Dwolla 25 cents.

That's what I could figure out, but it seems too good to be true.
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For the record, I don't use this package at all (I do not currently use Java at all, in fact, although I have extensively in the past while tending sites running on Tomcat). However, all of my servers use Ubuntu, and the idea that removing the JDK is considered a security patch, which normally should "do no harm, add no features, change no behaviors, and only fix bugs", clearly underscores that the Ubuntu upgrade process is not safe.

I mean, honestly, and you can say "that's stupid, you shouldn't do that, now your argument has jumped the shark", but this policy, if understood by actual users, would simply cause people to never install security updates at all. You want security updates to be a no-brainer: there should never be a downside to installing a security update; you don't want people second-guessing a security update because it might just uninstall the package entirely.
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That's nice :)
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Interesting point. I wonder if this is a way Tumblr wants to protect your creativity, allowing you to specify the title of your blog and have that come out from Google.
Thanks. Self-taught FTW.
My side project. Currently listing and parsing Australian job listings.
I've gotten 4 emails so far including yours. I'll set some basic infrastructure up when I get home tonight.
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Eh, do you have an agreement with Craigslist? It looks like your app is in direct violation of 12b of their Terms of Service, plus the name of your app is a pretty obvious trademark infringement.

The screenshots looks nice though.

Good luck.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=...
All of the military GPS receivers also use the civilian signal to initialize their position to lock on to the military encrypted signal. I would assume that in the event that they lose the P code, that they would revert to the C/A code.
Anytime the headline is posed in the form of a question, the answer is no
America certainly isn't the good guy in the middle east. If there is a measure that puts America ahead I'd like to hear it. This is not, however, a defense of Iran. Can everyone involved be the bad guy?
Every web app is gonna use JavaScript in the browser. So IMHO learning JavaScript is a must.

Then the question is: what server-side language to learn? If it were me, I'd learn a modern scripting language like Python or Ruby.
Related to that... the 'cd' section seems to be missing "cd -" (ATM).

$ cd /some/really/long/dir
$ pwd
/some/really/long/dir
$ cd ~
$ pwd
~
$ cd -
$ pwd
/some/really/long/dir

I'm pretty sure "cd" and "cd -" are my most used commands. CDPATH ranks pretty important too.
> Perhaps the House of Representatives should be populated like a jury.

This is called "sortition". The wikipedia entry is pretty good (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition).

> Then revert Senate seats to be appointed, not elected, positions.

In the US and Australia it used to be the case that Senators were appointed by States.
I don't think that's it. If ICANN can ever launch their TLDs-for-everyone plan and let a thousand flowers bloom, you won't have companies buying defensive domain names in every TLD, because there will be thousands. It makes the point moot; with only a few tlds, consumers might expect that airsupply.com leads to a medical services co or the high-tenor ballad king of the 1970s, and they'll each compete to register that name first. When it's airsupply.brakes.railway and airsupply.diving and airsupply.fixaflat, that assumption is broken, and it becomes futile to try to pounce on every domain with your brand in it.

The companies pushing the loudest "Sky is Falling!" messaging are those like MarkMonitor who (a) already protect their customers from fraud, real or exaggerated, and (b) just happen to be a registrar..
I was very psyched to see this, however, I am afraid to tell you that this is missing parts of the text. It is missing the 'Do This/Source Examples' - a vital part of the text for sure. Replace with fixed copy and report back! Thank you kind sir!
Ask HN: Best way to get an article written on your company?
So I own a software consultancy (www.isotope11.com). We've got 14 employees, things are going well, etc. We do a lot of work to get the customers we get - it takes quite a bit of effort.

Anyway, one of the projects we worked on recently got written up on good.is, and they mentioned our url in the story. That tiny bit of press led to 100+ new visitors and at least 2 new business opportunities. It was far more efficient than what we typically do to get work. I'd love to pursue some press more often, and we have some pretty good stories to tell. I just have no idea how to pursue such a thing - I've always relied on word of mouth for work, which is great but not speedy.

Anyway, any pointers?
By discouraging one 50%, they are encouraging the other 50%. If the increase by encouraging the latter 50% offset the decrease by discouraging the former 50%, they get a net increase in profits. It is a lot easier to market to either boys or girls than to market to boys and girls, so marketing to one half or the other tends to be more profitable than marketing to both.
What your reading is really representative of MG's and Josh's respective writing styles. MG is opinionated and polarizing. Josh is informative and (tries really hard to be) objective.
On a related note: we're redesigning our site currently. The new one will be live by the end of January, 2012. I am aware that the existing site could use some work, and the new design is phenomenal :)
The thing that bothers me about this is what bothers me about the term "designer" in general. The role of "designer" is by definition a person who doesn't get their hands dirty. It's one that depends on other people to make things happen.

I think that's a mistake in a startup for the same reason that it's wrong to have a role involving control of quality or security or innovation or customer satisfaction. Those things are pervasive concerns, and if you have one person or group responsible for them, then it means everybody else isn't.

I intensely value design activities and design thinking. And I value products that are well designed. But I think treating "designer" as a role is dangerous.
There are potential repercussions. A false claim of infringement leaves the claiming party open to liability for it. In practice this may not be easy to take advantage of, but it is there.
Where I come from we buy our phones not from a carrier but from a retailer and we are not forced into a payment plan that makes the phones look cheaper than they are. So an iPhone 4S costs from $830 and up, a Galaxy Nexus costs from $770. Both phones are pretty expensive but the iPhone is still the most expensive one. Those figures might be off in the states of course.
Good point. I suppose that given that there is considerably more competition these days and that IE 6 left them with a bit of an unfavorable reputation, they should be happy. Things like this are certainly in their best interest.
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Given that the NYT is reporting that top secret documents were just left in a trailor in Iraq by the ton, I suspect that it's more likely the drone was landed in Iran by accident.
In another part of my life, I am a trained therapist and I would like to encourage you to see a therapist NOW - before the thoughts of suicide return. In the meantime - even though it is a bit 'off topic' - anyone dealing with frustration can use this article: http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doi...

So many of the comments in this thread are valid and worth another read - you will never succeed unless you risk failing, period. Keep trying - shoot for small success - take a break - find support - and the best suggestion I read in the thread: stop lurking and start contributing here - be a part of the community where most of us have failed at something a time or ten!
Joshua, dude -- relax.

It's MG and Gruber. Nobody (and I mean nobody) who values straight commentary listens to these guys.

Of course they're Apple shills. It's what got them notoriety and made their reputation. They're not going to turn on the hand that feeds them.
However at the same time a lot of them claim to be critical of US govt's policies on war, drones, extra-judicial killings and so on. All that taken into account is surprising that they as a group would rush to discredit Iranians' capability and ridicule this situation.

It is interesting that they are essentially playing along to the US govt. propaganda. The govt. knew what had happened but lied, telling the media a malfunction occurred, and the drone 'drifted' randomly into Iranian territory. I expected them to lie and make shit up. That's fine. But is is interesting that groups liberals are also doing that, without being coerced or forced to do so. It illustrates an interesting process that happens were supposedly fairly liberal individuals still end up White House lapdogs without even realizing it.

It is also funny how after more evidence comes out, neither the media, nor say, Redditors, go back and admit their previous mistake, instead the strategy moves to "ridicule".
What will it take to elect technical people to public office?
I'm referring to most travel agents outside of the U.S. and perhaps Europe, and many restaurants, shops, boutiques. They pass the credit card fee directly to the customer in many instances, which I'm usually fine with. Larger stores will eat the fee but many smaller businesses can't do that.
You say that the enterprise is “lucrative” and then you say that “megacorps want cheap” software.

I don’t dispute either of these statements. I share the observation that price is the number one concern of those who don’t understand technology and that there’s a lot of money to be made in that space. But what to you think enables both of those statements to be true?

Is it that developers are able to con technophobes into contracts and processes that appear cheap but ultimately end up costing them more? Or, perhaps technophobes actively demand things that lead to that situation e.g. waterfall. Or some other possibility?
Solving the email problem
Too bad we don't have some sort of upper age limit on electing officials.
The NFC antenna is back there, which probably limits the materials they can use in the backplate?

Not that it matters on Verizon ;)
I've known more than a few of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNPP
> “We have a project on hand that is one step ahead of jamming, meaning ‘deception’ of the aggressive systems,” said Gholizadeh, such that “we can define our own desired information for it so the path of the missile would change to our desired destination.”

The thought of this leads to some conspiratorial thoughts: from various sources, we might know where a missile originated from, but who knows what might happen to it during flight?
Donations to a campaign, presumably, try to support a candidate trying to win an election. With winner-take-all elections, if the candidate does not win, the donation does not magically get un-spent. Or do you suggest that donations to a campaign should get spent on something other than that campaign?

Donating to a party has the effect of donating to one or more of their campaigns, so the same problem applies.
Agreed. On the server side my vote is for Python. I think it is a better all purpose language. So if you have scientific, engineering, or mathematical parts of your app, there will be lots of libraries to help you out.

All though if I started out today with zero knowledge, I'd be tempted to be lazy and just learn Javascript on both the browser and server side with Node.js.
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A possible reason is that they believe they'd be less successful if they actively tried to broaden their consumer base.

Whether that's correct, I couldn't say, but it's certainly not an impossible scenario.
But consider -- organizations like Wikipedia are located in the USA, precisely because of the broad protections of freedom of speech. In fact, there are few other places in the world where Wikipedia could have been founded before being sued out of existence, absorbed into the government, or thrown off the internet entirely and its founders jailed for life.

Even now, I don't think there are any other countries who are willing to plant their flag on free speech, in the uncompromising way the framers of the US Constitution intended. In the UK, they still tilt libel laws heavily in favor of public figures, and are even willing to prosecute crimes like "glorification of terrorism". In my country, Canada, we have a great tradition of freedom of speech, but in practice we're willing to dispose of it when it's good politics. And even other Western countries one thinks of as bastions of tolerance still have blasphemy laws.

So if the USA goes down, I'm not sure what other society is ready to step up. Iceland?
Have you seen what you're describing work in a company with multiple software products and more thank 20 people?
That's the true horror of the situation. Not only are our representatives for sale, they're for sale cheap.

If the media companies were bribing these clowns with billions of dollars, that would be one thing... but some of the people who signed that open letter probably spend more than $2,000,000 on lunch.
I think one has to see toy manufacturers as a conservative (in a politically neutral sense) cultural force. Let's take this a step further and look at the way heterosexual relationships are sold to kids. We can't see lesbian Barby & Kendra sets because that would be sexual, but Barby and Ken are evidently not.

So here we are selling a specific model of sexuality to young girls as normal. And this is a major aspect of our cultural heteronormality.
really? I wonder how hard it is to get one near the launch site!!
It's interesting how you can buy 2 new cars for the price of making that website. It's a freaking website people. With text and images. And you can download something. And there's a donate button. Not rocket science. Not a huge multi-man multi-month effort. Or if it is then it's being done wrong.

In other news... it's good to be in the business of making websites for celebrity techno-newbs. :)

On a related note, I once had a conversation with a potential client who told me they'd spent $3 million to make their website. I about lost it. Text and images people. Forms. Buttons. Stylesheets. Not "hard" in the same league as buying 30 Tesla Roadsters market value kind of hard.

And no I will not tell any of you who that client was! bats your fingers away
I don't mind the feel of a larger phone in my hand but I do find the larger size a distraction when it's in my pocket.
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It's extremely elegant and readable, when done idiomatically.

list := OrderedCollection new
add: 1;
add: 2;
add: 3;
yourself

There's actually a literal syntax for Arrays, but the above example applies to all code and is used heavily in constructors and anything using a builder pattern.
I think you're confusing 'evil' with 'takes reasonable actions to ensure that it, as a company, is as profitable as possible'.
Radeon HD 7970 specs: 3.5 TFLOPs, 3GB on-board memory, 3W idle power draw
The cops and robbers theme is really just a play on the good v. evil theme that permeates most childrens books, stories, movies, etc.

I think it's pretty benign and just part of the process of helping kids make sense of the world through play and storytelling.
Conspicuously absent: Berners-Lee and Bray.
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I hear you...this is only our first visualization (will probably do next one on a timeline etc, so you're point about league isn't really an issue)...this first piece is more about highlighting case studies we're examining (mega success and dud failures- I like all types of data)...hopefully this is also a challenge to the next generation of designers to step up and ship something of consequence in collaboration with other brilliant folks from different background like great engineers who have been doing it for decades in deep tech... design+tech entrepreneurship is still in it's infancy... I do know that we need to be proactively driving new ideas and not be so reactive. “They have checkins, and group coupons, and native apps, and just got a valuation of thirty billion; WE need to have checkins! We need group coupons! Bring on the native apps!” I hope future designer-entrepreneurs can be more proactive and present a state that doesn’t yet exist. Addressing latent needs ESPECIALLY in emerging markets and coming up re-framed business models for the other 99% of the population.