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I get an alert in Safari on Mac:
'Floatbox does not support quirks mode.
Page needs to have a valid doctype declaration.'
The only thing I miss is integration into something like Campfire. I would like to see integration with Github pull requests. I think that Github is far better environment to discuss development issues, because comments/discussions are inlined with the code and Github Flavored Markdown makes communicating easier.
Yes, absolutely. CVS, for all its faults, changed the way we think about source control. It became a public record, not just a tool. And what's funny is I don't think any of us realized it at the time; we were all too hung up over how weird lockless modification was and learning to do merge failure resolution.
It gives very short shrift to commercial source control systems generally. Two (VSS, and SCCS --- the latter part of the original AT&T Unix distributions, on the same closed-source terms) get mentioned in passing, but neither gets treated as a milestone.

That would include BitKeeper --- copies were available for a few years at no cost to Linux kernel developers, but only on increasingly restrictive terms, which McVoy ultimately wound up revoking altogether. IIRC, Linus released the first embryonic version of git within weeks after McVoy withdrew the free-as-in-beer version of BitKeeper.
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Please read "how to disagree" - http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
500 on Youtube
It looks like requesting a non-existing video on Youtube returns 500! More info here: http://lbolla.info/blog/2011/12/17/500-on-youtube-on-non-existing-videos/
Other than compatibility with 30 years of software and the huge annoyance of using an identifier that doesn't fit in a machine word. The integer file descriptor is here to stay.
The technically more descriptive "Private" and "Public," perhaps?
If FreeBSD is like OpenBSD, you may get EINTR on NFS, but the file is still dead.
Comments after reviewing the oEmbed spec
Yet another node.js Twitter clone
Made a twitter clone with node.js and mongodb as a learning exercise. Plan to add realtime updating with now.js next.

Some front-end code borrowed from https://github.com/tglines/nodrr

Turbulence.js is an API I'm building for handling realtime streams of arbitrary data-structures. Will open-source it as soon as it's polished.
Perhaps they should rerun with different input immediately after submitting.
The "standards" drum is absolutely mind boggling. Netscape flooded the early web with proprietary extensions and we should be thankful that they did. "It's not standard" is not a reason to dismiss something out of hand.
It really depends, but whatever you choose, make it consistant.
Sure. Or just don't close() from a thread where you want to handle signals (without terminating, that is). Signals are the broken bits, frankly, not the POSIX standard. They have never played well with system calls. There's an essay somewhere I remember reading where an ITS hacker looks at Unix for how it handles the interrupted system call problem and comes away horrified at the discovery that it makes the user do it via EINTR.

There's no good reason to be catching synchronous signals in modern code[1]. See signalfd() et. al.

[1] Well, except for things that can only be delivered synchronously like SIGSEGV for user-handled paging. But that's complicated enough that the extra complexity of handling a SIGSEGV delivered out of a syscall is probably tolerable.
My personal definition of a startup is a company that is not yet a business. Which then brings up the definition of business. To me a business is a company that produces a stable profit, maybe 6-12 months profit.

Personally i think calling very well established businesses like 37signals a startup is quite insulting, as to me, its saying they're not successful, which they clearly are.
NoCrap Google Search Bar - Greasemonkey script for those who like to KISS
vimgolf is very similar, and has an interesting mechanic of not letting you see significantly better entries than your own.
The article mentions average phone revenue in India, and I'm not sure if it was trying to make the link or not, but the missed call culture shouldn't affect overall Indian cell revenue rates too much since someone ends up paying for the call. Exceptions would be phoning outside the country and the receiver having different rates than the sender.

Of course it makes a difference if, say, everyone using missed calls were with the same company. Then that company would fail...

Perhaps a solution (assuming one is desired) is for businesses to offer toll free numbers such that cell phone calls to them are payed for by them?
Interesting, I didn't know anything actually refused to close the file. HP-SUX sucks again.

From one standpoint, I can see that would even be the desired behavior, because it gives the app the opportunity to deal with the error in some meaningful way, like to finish flushing. But since everybody else has long since decided that if you care you flush then close, being different is just aggravating. Although it sounds like flush then close will work everywhere.
This is a classic example of a question that can only really be answered with data. Generic studies are good, but nothing beats data you gather about your particular UI.
A trivial attack... like the one where you can send anyone at all any number of text messages, and THEY have to pay to receive them?

(This is how text messages work in the USA.)
How does the mentor apprentice relationship work?
I'd like to learn more about how the daily interactions between a mentor and apprentice work, assuming they can not meet in person daily. What are some of your experiences with your mentors?
2% is a joke because it doesn't stack up with inflation. At that point you're literally getting your salary lowered.
All else being equal, use the shorter word.
Xxxterm, a minimalist web browser
Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA #2
Do they announce these things somewhere, or did someone actually input "let it snow" and thought to post it here?
for a landing page where you tell them about the product, your.

for actual app interface, my is better
Ventrilode; a Ventrilo client for the iPhone
Why So Many M&A (merger & acquisition) Deals Fail
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Agreed. Users will be reading "My" every time they see it, so unless it's vital, leave it out.

For example, Microsoft abandoned the "My" prefix in Vista for Documents, Pictures, etc. in the UI.
Why Your Business Needs a Mobile Website Right Now
Twitter stalker released - Free speech prevails
sshfs!

When I want to work with a server, I very often use "sshfs <servername>:<remote_dir> <local_path>" to mount it to my local drive. (By default <remote_dir> is your remote home directory, so you can omit it if that's what you want).

Then you avoid all that mucking around with ssh while working. Probably a bit more inefficient, but you can use rsync if you're pushing a lot of data around.

Available on homebrew as "brew install sshfs".
or option 4: [name]'s Items and Photos?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't the case such that when you place a call and immediately hang up, no one pays for that call, although unnecessary traffic is caused for the operator? In some of these cases the receiver might call back, and then that second call is paid for. But if this is really a culture in India, then the operators lines are used a lot all the time, even though no one is paying for these one ring calls.
Anyone wanna tear out the source and package it up?
MacOS KenDensed: Amazon, Carrier IQ & the FBI
Have a look at what Joe Biden's been up to.

(I.e. He'll sign it. Biden's been the Administration's poster boy on this topic.)
I want to say that I heard good chilean health insurance was cheap, but I might be mistaken.

I assume you buy chilean medical insurance, or you can keep your american medical insurance if you are an american. Most american medical insurance will cover you out of the country, for reasonably short trips, though I think you'd want to check into it.

Since we travel a lot, we've got travel specific insurance from one of the companies that focuses on that market. There are a fair number of them that do so but the terms vary. (We've just changed and my cofounder is the one who handles that so I don't remember the name of the company off hand.)
In case you're interested in Mario's history, here's an incredibly detailed book:
http://www.pixnlovepublishing.com/The-History-of-Mario.html
I thought this was hilarious.

Reminds me when @joshu raised and spouted a bunch of jokes for the idea he was pursuing (1).

I can't imagine being in that position and NOT using the media as a vehicle for your personal amusement.

(1) http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/01/feeding-frenzy-as-delicious...
Hung Jury - 11 to 1 for Novell
Quoting cing:

How about option 3: "Items" and "Photos"? Unless of course you have to differentiate between "Mine" and "Everyone Elses"

Combine these two ideas, and I think you're starting to make sense.
Eats one cpu core for me and makes the fan blow loudly. Which is why I never like these things.
Google is becoming notorious for not supporting the iPad. I found Google+ to be totally unusable.
Have to simulate the wind somehow...
DoD is starting an app store
Do you have a reference for this? I'd love to see the stats.
Notch live coding for Ludum dare 22
Actually, men in crappy, dangerous jobs is an evolutionary trait. It's also why they're (traditionally) the ones to go to war and why everyone thinks women and children are to be protected above all else.

If 90% of the males in a population die, it takes 1 generation to recover. If 90% of the females in a population die, it takes 5 generations to recover. Meanwhile, they are easy pickings for other competing populations.
Funny, half year back the same bunch of people said the same thing to Flash.

Now imagine a world where every banner or sidebar is full of HTML5 canvas animation ads.
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Advanced search (bottom of search results)->Advanced search tips (top of the advanced search page)
> they are murdered by random people far less often than men, representing only 21% of victims.

Murder is an incredibly rare occurrence in most countries and social environments. On the other hand, women are a huge majority among rape victims, and this is not exceptional: 5 to 10% of all women are sexually abused at some point (depends upon the country, again).

> Perhaps the focus of all these stupid gender articles should be on encouraging young women not to alienate a large subset of people.

Perhaps the focus of people like you should be to think about your attitude, just like this article conveniently talked about? Your arrogance and close-mindedness are astounding. Oh, before you ask, I'm a white, straight male too.
Just another example, among the infinite others: you fsycn a filedes in a thread, then write to the same fd from another thread, and write(2) will block. Tens of semantical behaviors like this are NOT part of POSIX, but are part of real world systems.

So anyway in order to write non trivial systems you have to understand the implementation of different system calls in different operating systems.
That's not design, that's product management.
Liberating software - interview with Richard Stallman
Enjoyed the defrost button :)
Watch Notch code Live: Ludum Dare 22
I agree. This article helps me understand why Vim has been so fun for me to use.

I guess I have been doing this naturally for years and didn’t realize it till just now. It’s almost a telepathic connection; just think the word and the computer responds.

Beautiful.
Maybe something better would be 'may the quantum entanglement of the atoms in his body be retained when the molecules which make up his biological framework degrade'.
Is your website legal?
If you have a dedicated archive with dedicated librarians managing it, they can be in charge of migrating the archived data forward whenever a particular storage technology threatens to become obsolete.
Five Biggest Security Events of 2011
MIPS $99 Tablet is First Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet
Misses also GOOG's dearly Perforce.
For a discussion of the advantages (and perhaps disadvantages) of tmux over screen: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/549/tmux-vs-gnu-scre...
Facebook Threatens Lawsuit Against Mark Zuckerberg
Typo: I think you meant to type UNcertainty. The quote from the “Lean Startup” book is:

“… a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”

Assuming most readers know what you meant, but just had to correct it, for the record.
> This code has already been submitted by darkphnx

Ok, so I have to add random noise to my solution? O_o
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Can someone elaborate on the addition to the title:

... with no one to stop it

I understand it's close to Christmas but is it really that unusual to have hearings in late December? Are they really going to have a better showing of proponents vs opponents with this new date?

Otherwise can we tone down the added sensationalism to an already emotional topic? (Unless, of course, this is indeed an important point to make, and then I request some one elaborate)
They claim a non-parametric correlation metric that can capture all sorts of dependencies that current metrics may miss. This is kind of cool, and may eventually prove to be a big deal. If you're trying to find out what your new, unstudied, gene of interest does, it may help you find genes that it is co-expressed with, and give a hint at function.

In reality it's a big deal right now because they're marketing their paper as if it were a movie, with press releases, a professionally produced trailer, and well-designed web sites. Personally, it comes across as trying way too hard, but whenever Broad rediscovers some well-hashed field they like to play it up as if they were Newton releasing calculus upon the world.
"Then, there's the lack of address bar search, i.e. if you type in sentences there, the string will not be forwarded to your search engine of choice, it will most likely be declared as an invalid protocol, which is fairly annoying and counter productive."

This is not true, you can select what behavior your want the address bar to have, for example to redirect to "I'm feeling lucky from google". It even allows you to use prefix keywords, like "wp janitor" or "fm gcc" to search for example wikipedia or freshmeat. All of this is configurable and you can create your own prefixes.

Not only that, you can use fish:/ or any other protocol like lan:/ smb:/ to directly connect to ssh accessible machines, samba,etc. Konqueror is actually one of my favorite browsers , since it's very well integrated with the rest of the system, although it feels a bit sluggish sometimes.

Unfortunately it's hard to find a decent KDE distribution. Kubuntu for example has many flaws, and imho makes a disservice to the KDE people.

One problem and something that you would think to work without a fuzz is kmail and its default akonadi configuration: kubuntu comes with restrictive access to mysql and you have to run a command in the shell to fix it, not exactly user friendly or someone new to the system...

Not only that, KDE heavy use of effects (which can be disabled) exposes many bugs with the binary drivers from nvidia and ati. If you check the their changelogs is quite amusing to see some binary releases with "this x.y.z beta release fixes [problem] with KDE 4.x.x"

If Canonical would scrap unity and give more attention and resources to KDE, we would have a really good desktop environment be now. Saying this, on my laptop I use xmonad or fluxbox and for desktops a mix of kde, xfce and gnome 2d. I tried unity, but honestly, it doesn't feel right.
Actually misrepresenting reality. Do you consider William Wallace as a wimp because he wore skirts ?
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Once you've chosen "My" or "Your" it becomes a boobytrap you have to avoid in all your labels, navigation and copy.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1924102/my-account-or-you...

The second most popular answer is the one I'd strive for.
And they can illuminate the cover titles in calligraphy with little illustrations of cherubs and such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript#Gallery
I'm really shocked about the differing opinions on this. I have always thought that the "my X" label triggers selfishness and suspicion in users, putting their guard up. I prefer "Your X" so that people feel like a team has been formed. They trust you with their data because they are entering information into your site. We're a team.

I guess it is understandable that you might not have yet gained the user's trust but I feel like then they wouldn't be your user.
Ok, you have gained some rethorical points here. Some of my comments were a bit defensive, as a result of a feeling that I was circled. In fact some other commenters expressed views similar to mine and my first irruption has had some upvotes. Obviously some people understood what I meant, so I am not sure if it is needed to continue to explain.

Just a note: When I said "Showing disrespect for the reader seems to be acceptable in some cultures. It is not in mine.", it was just a polite way to say. (To say what? I just wrote it, but after some thought I yanked the thing. It was talking about culture as universal need for cultivation of oneself, aka education, aka civilization.)
That's … not how it actually works if you are in Germany. Typically you get a flatrate or minutes to landline and two prices for mobile calls: One for calls to your carrier, one for calls to other carriers. You might, for examle, have 120 minutes for calls to people with your carrier and 19 cent/minute to other carriers (and if you go over the 120 minutes).

It's actually not so complicated, but it's certainly often a good idea to know which carrier someone is using when you are calling them on the mobile phone. There are, however, also plans that treat all carriers the same.
"what happened was that they didn't have anyone [internally] who disagreed, who thought differently."

I suppose that someone on the team could have "known" that the product wouldn't succeed with customers before it shipped, but the strategy of knowing what will work with customers in advance is considered a bit outdated, especially in software which is now relatively cheap to prototype and get out in front of customers.

"Teamicide" is also a big reason for startup failures. (For an entertaining read with an overview of teamicide see: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/01/are-you-creating-mi...)
In terms of historical interest, it's also worth noting why McVoy restricted and eventually withdrew the BitKeeper license: Andrew Tridgell (of Samba and rsync) had begun reverse-engineering the protocol with the eventual intent of implementing a free client.

The resulting debacle was fairly ridiculous; Linux chastising Andrew Tridgell, continued flamewars about using a closed-source product.

What I find interesting here, though, is just how much hot water McVoy landed in. He gave away free licenses to Linux developers, then when someone in that community started reverse engineering his product with the intent to replace it, he revoked the free license, leading Linus to develop a replacement anyway -- one that has largely consumed the vast majority of BitKeeper's target market.
It seems to me like the opponents (there are only a few anyway) in the House are just as eager to attend this vote as the proponents. So perhaps I am missing the deviousness?

Plus, since more people are at home during the holidays, wouldn't more people actually be watching the news?

(I'm not saying there isn't a well funded conspiracy to get this bill passed at any means possible, but it seems that we may be seeking out things to get angry about)
I'm all for opposition to SOPA, but does this really fit on this discussion?
Why Is the NFL Afraid of Technology?
It is so cool!
"""Which part of:
* More divergence in browser script runtimes
* More divergence in standard libraries in script runtimes
(...) seems like evolution to you?
""""

Both of those seem exactly like evolution. Evolution --as in real life-- is all about divergence...
Duplicate of:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364234
A good discussion arose on this question a while back - it might be worth checking out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1714184 and the original article that spawned the discussion -> http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/06/unsuck_it_special_byeby...

I tend to prefer using the 2nd person, if I have to choose one over the other.

[edit] - Sorry, should also add the link to the Yahoo patterns article, which also recommends the 2nd person http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/core/yourvmy.htm....
He didn't - he sold $100mm in a private offering a while ago, not sure what the parent comment is referring to - obviously has his facts wrong.
Part of the problem is that the OP is concentrating on a game targeted specifically at guys who can't relate to women.

You can't say that Angry Birds is misogynistic, nor could you say the same of Bubble Bobble, Spy Hunter, Tempest, Centipede, Strider, Tetris, Farmville, and thousands of other video games throughout the ages. One thing Facebook, iPhone and Android have FINALLY brought is "casual" gaming for the masses, by demonstrating a market that nobody could see due to the social stigma of the geeky loser gamer.

The crazy shit only comes with heavy action games, mostly FPS (but even here there are numerous exceptions, such as Left 4 Dead).

But then again you see the same thing in TV and movies; they cater to different audiences, some of whom are offended by things the other audience likes (usually what the other audience finds sexually appealing). But when it comes down to it, it's escapist media. People don't care that it's unlikely, and they most certainly don't assume that it in any way reflects real life, any more than someone playing a FPS is likely to take a gun to work and start shooting up the place.

The comic industry in America on the whole has never grown up beyond male adolescent fantasy. That's unfortunate, as there are much richer possibilities (the Japanese manga industry, for example, caters to so many segments it's mind blowing).

But make no mistake: The American comic industry is not an example of male privilege, or any unconscious attempt at keeping women down; It's a vicious cycle of social stigma against comic READERS, and the resulting lack of market for a wider audience. Maybe someday the "iPhone of comics" will come and save us.
I like Eric Ries' definition. To me it implies the startup is trying to figure out some hard stuff and that if they nail it it could be HUGE! A non-startup reminds me of any ol' business that is just making money and is boring on a day to day basis.
Sorry for the confusion - but yes, I meant languages implemented in C or C++ (Java, Factor, Python..)
The artists being represented by these lobbying groups are probably just as ignorant of the consequences as the legislators.
"My Computer" et al. sounded patronising and childlike when it started and continues to do so now.

How about just "Items" and "Photos"? Unless there is something marked "Someone else's items" and "Someone else's photos", is it necessary to specify that they belong to the user?
Maybe GP meant 'throughput'?