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Pirates are generally noted as coming after privateers. Privateers had plenty of places to hide. Notably privateers with letters of marque against Spanish shipping had British, French and Dutch ports to hide in.

Piracy developed when the pirates could appear easily as privateers. If you didn't piss of your host nation, then you were free to loot the ships you wanted. Then pirates gained enough money and power that they could start their own micronations. Note that privateer ships were often enlisted by the military during wars, so it's safe to assume an assault on a pirate haven was out of the question for the military. Especially when pirate controlled settlements were often cleared by privateers issued letters of marque on condition of clearing the settlement.

I don't see how governments will keep ships out of the hands of criminals when governments show little desire to exploit space, where as corporations do. Corporations will grow very quickly in space, governments won't. Governments are likely to spread via colonies rather than commerce or expansion.

The guy doesn't argue convincingly that there won't be pirates, because his argument should have meant pirates wouldn't have existed in the 1700's. The Spanish knew where the pirates and privateers were running to, but they were well enough armed that you wanted superior numbers. So it was a matter of attacking a solitary ship with more fire power before it could reach a safe port.

Even though Port Royal and Tortuga were known as lawless ports, there was plenty of law there. The Spanish weren't about to invade a port with cannons on its battlements and dozens of privateer and pirate ships docked. Many of these pirate ships were better crewed and equipped than their respective nations military ships. Stede Bonnet had a sloop with 120 men and 16 guns. He was captured when he only had 50 men and was beached in a harbour. Notably the military brought 2 of the same tonnage ship, notably 8 gun vessels which Bonnet's ship had originally been at the start of his life of crime. [Edit: IIRC Rhett had 130 men on his two ships and simply outlasted Stede whose crew surrendered - Stede wanted to blow his ship up rather than surrender]
The writer was, at some point in his life, a spoiled teenager. Most of my friends and other teenage students near me, (By the way, I'm from India, 15) love to do their homework, as, it's challenging and we feel something after completing it. Same is the case for most of the teenagers in other parts of my country, nearly everyone does their homework properly.
It makes sense if you're trying to stick with the window.location.search convention. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.location#section...
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Ask HN: How can I convince my co-founders not to use a LAMP stack and should I?
I need your help. I am not a coder. I do some coding (mostly backbone+cs these days) but I have become more of a product guy. Still I think I have a good understanding of what's going on and I try to make myself familiar with the tools/languages used by people I admire.

My problem: I am starting a project with a few friends. They are good programmers afaik. They have been working in a PHP environment for more than 5 years now - with java being used more and more recently.

Now for our project: They argue that for building an MVP it is logical to stick to what they already know best: PHP.
I argue that if I have to deal with PHP/LAMP again - now that there are all those amazing server and client side tools based on node, ruby, scala and cooler-than-php-language-of-your-choice - I might die of annoyance

Am I wrong?
If not, how can I convince them that those new tools are worth a very close look - even for an MVP?
Are you scanning craig list manually?. If done with a crawler, how you mannage to keep your site unbanned?
Is there any legal and simple way of obtaining the ipa file without using iTunes (i.e. on Linux)?
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A warranty is the manufacturer's bet that the car won't die within the terms of the warranty. The longer the warranty, the stronger the bet, presumably because the manufacturer knows how good its processes and results are.

I would see such a EULA as a negative warranty, the manufacturer betting against itself. I would walk.
WordPress will just create a new entry in the db with a different status, like draft. The current version would be 'published'.
I actually have a pretty hard time coding without music, maybe I'm used to it. I usually listen to electronic but nothing too fast. Generally anything that is at the bob-your-head tempo. PhuturePrimitive (lately: Kinetik), Max Melvin, Eastern Sun, Sounds From The Ground. Oh, and sometimes I just _need_ to listen to Underworld, DubNobassWithMyHeadMan. If I don't want to think about putting creating a playlist or selecting an album, I'm listening to GrooveSalad on Somafm.com.

FWIW, my spotify username sanjayU. I would be interested in learning other HN spotify usernames, especially if you like downtempo/triphop/world/etc.

edit: Added phutureprimitive.
That's pretty much the name of the game in the accessory market. You're never going to have as much information as the company who makes the device and they are always going to want a chunk.

See Apple for a good example, they're snatching 10% of all accessories off the top (that's for all sales, with they're own massive sales channel the return really fattens up). Not to mention that Apple makes and markets their own accessories.
Although I don't listen to it elsewhere, I've found that trance music works really well for me. I curate a short Spotify playlist that reliably gets my brain going for me: http://open.spotify.com/user/benwerd/playlist/2srQ17pp4T1CNs...
This would only work if there was one universally agreed upon truth. Our experiences color our opinions. One persons Fat is another persons 3/4 finished with a weight loss program. We all think we're above average. Rather than spending so much effort cutting each other down to get the real pecking order, isn't it better to build each other up to fit our inner ideal?
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Even though I listen to slower/ambient music I can totally understand this. I used to crank up Way Out West and drink lots of caffeine...I would get an amazing amount of work done (at least relative to myself)
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Nitpick: being the son of an investment banker (not a retail banker; there is a big difference) and a lawyer (barrister in the UK) likely places this family in the top 1% of income earners in the UK. By most people's definitions, that qualifies their family as "upper class".
I've noticed 2 things.

1) I'm better without music.
2) If I do listen to music, anything instrumental distracts less than anything with lyrics.
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of C++, really. That said, (a) is mostly solved in 11 with rvalue references, isn't it?
It's interesting to think that this might be a skill that we free software developers have to degrees that other developers don't. I generally think of this as "hacking".
I get your skepticism, but are your really going to give more weight to the theoretical omitted data in your mind just to quell your own cognitive dissonance?
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You can of course implement the same functionality using either C or C++. I agree - the two implementations would be very similar. But I don't think this is the point Bjarne is trying to make.

C++ challenges you to think in terms of types instead of functions. This is in my opinion often a more natural way to approach and solve problems and thus produces more elegant code. Because of that, C++ is a very powerful tool for library developers - you can design libraries that allow domain-specific developers to write expressive code that performs as if you had written more verbose C code. And this C++ code is not only more expressive for your fellow co-workers to read and understand but also in some cases for the compiler. This is the reason why C++ code can sometimes be compiled to faster machine code: you can give the compiler more information about what you actually try to accomplish (keyword: template meta-programming).

As with most things there is no definite answer. C code can be quite elegant and appropriate as well.
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so are almost all GUI apps

This claim is clearly false on Mac OS X and X Window platforms, and disputable on Windows, with the increasing share of .NET apps.
This highlights the risk of being a small player at the beck and call of a much larger one.
Let's say you win and a consensus emerges that "the sentence in question makes no sense." What then?
If I'm not mistaken, this is an AMA request, not the actual AMA.
Exactly. And nobody thinks that for loops are "magic".
rainymood.com -- I've been listening to this 30 minute loop of thunderstorms continuously for over a year. Music with words breaks my train of thought, so this is perfect.
> It's very difficult to explain to a user who wants title X in e-book format that the publisher doesn't offer it, that we can't buy certain titles or that availability is limited due to publisher limitations.

That sentence seems clear enough.
Have you ever played against the AI in Starcraft or other countless video games with AI?
house music. things without words or where the words really don't mean/add much is easier for me to have in the background. Classical works well too.
Anything instrumental/classical, The Social Network soundtrack, Daft Punk's Tron Legacy soundtrack, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, and NIN's Ghosts I-IV.

There's quite a bit of Trent Reznor in this list.
what is really needed is a good and well documented/tested javascript library for parsing and comparing URLs

I have a bunch of functions (parse_params, get_host, etc.) across a number of projects and always find new bugs with weird URLs that are out in the wild.
Probably because the official Nginx docs recommend it:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Ubuntu_PPA
Nothing. My brain can't process music while I'm coding. I literally don't hear it, or at most, it's just a increase in background noise. I wish that weren't true, but I just can't think and listen to music at the same time.
I am 18 and pop is my game. I would rather not disclose the artists but pop should suffice. (No! Justin Bieber is not on the list, if that is what you were thinking)

Although strange but I have found that putting a single track on loop is better than playing a playlist, dont know why. So i usually have a single track on loop for the night.
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ITunes radio. Lots of stations, you're bound to find something you can work along with.
What about the people who can't afford even that?
IMO, build with what you know already. If you want to build an MVP fast, then use PHP. You can always rebuild to scale later. That's if you NEED to scale, and people actually like your product.

The other argument is, maybe this is a good time for them to learn these new tools. Serious Question: Why are you going to die of annoyance if you are the product guy? As long as they can do what you want it to do, what's the issue?
I'd say let the technical people choose and use the tools they are familiar and comfortable with. There isn't a hugely material benefit from jumping on newer, sexier technologies. At the end of the day it's about having a product to sell, not platform jingoism and technological pissing contests.
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If I am reading this correctly, you want to maintain multiple versions of the same blog post, correct? This isn't really 'version control' (git, svn, etc...) in the traditional sense .

At a high level, you could just keep a record of every version of every blog post, then separately maintain which entry is most current, or active, or whatever metric you want to display/query. This will let you maintain all versions of the blog post and you can run diffs on different versions, revert to older versions and branch from any version.
I cannot access the article so I am only able to respond to the title at this time. I'm not a big fan of such sweeping generalizations. I am biased- I write in C all day long. C's basics are fairly easy to learn, it's an incredibly fast language and more than anything it is still in use! It may not be "elegant" nor mimic the style the author would prefer to write in but it certainly has a purpose and just because that purpose may not match his coding style that does not mean /everyone/ should jump ship and declare it as being "obsolete."

It is my basic belief there should be many tools in a developers toolbox and you should not always use the hammer on a screw or a very precise scalpel when trying to remove a sliver when a pair of tweezers will get the job done.

If you want to declare a language obsolete I recommend we discuss a language that is not in the top three!
I think you might be right. The most valuable thing for me from the book was the explanation of Godel's theorem, and I really enjoyed all the language play. After that, I grew really uncomfortable with the comparisons to "this could be how the brain works."

I have the firm belief that figuring out how the brain works will not be accomplished through pure mathematics, but through scientific inquiry.