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You might have a point if he was discussing a political issue.

But he's calling out people of national - if not global - stature, who wear scientific illiteracy as a badge of honor. Their stance on such issues gives gives millions of other similarly uninformed people the rationale for adopting such views as their own.

Not only is he right on the issue (the age of the earth, and the universe), but he's morally right for calling them out.
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I grew up on a citrus farm in Florida, I was the first generation to leave the far after NAFTA due to the fact that we could no longer compete as a family farm. While Farming has a lot of variables that cannot be controlled and is grueling work, I did not find it to be any more mentally difficult than development. There is a lot of science in farming for sure, but one thing about farming that is very different than software development is that only one person needs to do the thinking and can then delegate to less inclined individuals. The structure of the workforce is different in that a single thinker can do the processing for a group, in software there is no such luxury, if I do all the thinking for another developer then I might as well take the 10 minutes to write it down and save the salary of the other developer. That's the big difference, roles can be delegated in some professions, in others they just cant. To some extent they can be in software, you can have a test developer, and a build manager but for the most part each one is working out specific, unique problems in their domain.
Real, normal people? I wish it were true but in my experience github is just another source code repository.

As for BSD a search of my (partial) ports tree finds 19326 Makefiles of which 102 contain the string github. Thats 0.5 percent, which tends to argue against your claim.

That's just the easiest measure I have at hand. Would be interested in others and their findings.
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I agree that the Mickey Mouse analogy is probably more accurate than the shop-lifting analogy but I can't help thinking that it sounds a bit frivolous and contrived on first listen (if you analyze it then it makes perfect sense, but soundbytes shouldn't need analysis).

The shoplifting analogy seems more immediate and straight-forward to me. I understand that the shoplifting analogy equates piracy with theft but the distinction isn't really all that relevant to SOPA. Uncle Art probably equates piracy with theft anyway, so why fight the battle on two fronts?

One final point on this, by indirectly conceding the piracy/theft point you're less likely to step out of alignment with Uncle Art thus making it easier for him to agree with everything else you say. :)

P.S. I know we're all probably focusing too much on that killer soundbyte but I do think it was the missing ingredient. :)
> What I'd like? $10-$20/month for instant streaming access to all movie content from X major studios. Another $10-$20/month for instant streaming access to all OTA/Cable channels.

It's a simple, mathematical fact that the current people paying for films and television are paying much, much more than your hypothetical $30/month.

New content is simply not available at the present quality level for the price you are offering.

To put this in perspective, it'd be similar to telling Apple/iOS developers that instead of buying apps a la carte, you want to spend $1/month and get instant access to every app, both paid and free -- the math doesn't even remotely add up to compensate the people writing the apps.

Hollywood, both for feature films and for cable is insanely competitive, with massive downward price pressure every single year. There simply isn't the amount of overhead to be removed from the system that people not in the industry seem to think there is.
Interesting idea, but I don't see many use cases.

Are people really handing their phones out that often?

I only hand my phone to someone else when:

* I've asked them to take a photo of me.

* They're riding shotgun in my car and need to call a contact or navigate with info readily available on my phone.

Neither situation is risk for people snooping around.
You seem to confusing C and C++, there is no std::string in C and MRI is written in C.

A 'C String' is by quasi definition, a segment of memory that can be properly processed by the string functions in the C standard library, which requires null termination.

>Now the reason why they technically are (i.e. the reason NULLs are stored at the end of the string) is for compatibility and optimization.

Really its just because they are C Strings, that is they use the C standard library string functions, if you want to use them, you must null terminate.

>Therefore, while null-termination is absolutely NOT required when dealing with an exclusively counted-length implementation of C strings (a la RString, CString, std::string, etc.)

None of those are implementations of "C Strings", they aren't even available for C.

The determination as to whether your using null terminated strings or not comes down to the String library your using. If your on C, your probably using C std lib and need to null terminate your 'strings'. There really isn't much more to it than that.
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I live in the UK. Literally the only thing I know about Rick Santorum is that he is a homophobic bigot, and the only reason I know that is because of the Santorum neologism. The same goes for the people around me. In my experience, outside of the US "Santorum" is an internet joke first and a politician second. The word "Santorum" is a bona fide cultural phenomenon, whereas until a few weeks ago the man Rick Santorum was just a crank ex-Senator taking a shot at the primaries.

Spreadingsantorum.com has relevant, keyword-dense content and a substantial number of high-quality links, more than enough to outweigh any possible penalty for the hokey googlebombing links. By almost any SEO criterion I am aware of, it beats ricksantorum.com by a country mile. If Rick Santorum wants to solve his Google problem, he needs to play the game like anyone else - add quality content and build quality links.

For Google to manipulate these SERPs in the interests of propriety or prudishness would be absurd. They have an explicitly stated policy of ranking based on their algorithm, with the exception of webspam. Tinkering with results manually is a can of worms they have no interest in opening. They've stuck to their guns on much thornier problems than this.
If there's one thing I hope that people entering adulthood today learn from recent history, it is that you cannot depend on your employer, the government, your union, or any other large impersonal bureaucratic entity to take care of you, individually. You better plan on doing that yourself.
I wonder how things could have gone differently for Kodak. Kodak invented the digital camera, so it's easy in retrospect to say they should have focused more on digital technology. But film was printing cash and they would have had to anticipate so many changes. Photography behavior, photo sharing behavior, personal computing, and now mobile.
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Ask HN: What is HN's source for freelance & consultant contracts?
I've run solo for years and have drafted up a number of contracts based of what I've seen/been sent from time to time. I figured with more jobs coming in lately it's time to do revamp the contract.

What is HN's source for freelance & consultant contracts?

My 2 main uses would be for 1-off jobs for random clients & long-term relationships with companies to do development as a contractor.

Any direction or links would be appreciated. Thanks guys!
Does anyone have a transcript for those that are unable to parse video content?

Alexis, did you talk about Internet Freedom? How anyone in the world can use Internet to read about controversial topics, to share memories, etc. However, certain industries can not compete in controlling topics, memories, etc, so they are bringing the laws in, making website owners at the mercy of aging industries?

Did you know that SOPA is just one of the many bills? I highly recommend adopting Internet Freedom movement that seeks to clearly say any SOPA-related restrictions are unacceptable. Otherwise, how do would you explain a bill titled "Stop Online Child Pornography Act"?

Quite a mouthful, though.

I'd say SOPA is giving corporations the power to control Free Speech on the Internet because it's illegal for the government to do so. If you don't want the government or big companies to read what you type online, then demand Internet Freedom.
The guest mode is a great idea. But for now, if you have very private stuff on your Android phone, you can lock down on an app-per-app basis. This could be a little inconvenient, though, and either you always keep them password protected, or you have to remember to protect them before you give the phone to someone.
It is interesting that for obsoleted technology patents don't do much. Who cares about say "new innovative color film developing technology"? A large tech company filing for chapter 11 could potentially have a hefty patent portfolio ready to be sold.
His overall statement there is that evolutionary time is now part of common culture. It only seems reasonable to mention exceptions to this. In fact, not doing so would be rather cherry-picking, don't you think?
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$17/$50 is roughly the 35% royalty rate. KDP offers both a 35% and a 70% (less delivery at about $0.15/mb in rounded kb increments) royalty rate[1]; however, the 70% royalty rate is only available in about 14 countries and you fall back to the 35% royalty rate elsewise.

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Locale sucks battery quite a bit simply because it's a location tracking app, with all of the consumption that entails. It works for me though because my phone, if not attached to me, is charging on my desk at home or at work.

Tasker much less so.
So that leads to the question of why Bing is giving similar results.
I wrote about this too: http://joakal.com/2011/09/27/the-social-network-killer-like-...
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Exactly. Learning to program is an exercise in learning how to maintain forward momentum while stumbling. If someone isn't up for some frustration, learning to program is not going to be appealing.

Of course, this also means there is a definite, clear feeling of accomplishment and progress.
Yes, it wasn't my intention to imply that mobile OSes don't have anything to offer serious gamers. It was more that serious gamers don't have much to offer to mobile OSes. While people who have phones buy games, I don't think they'd buy a phone just for that -- at least not in quantities enough to make it viable strategy.
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You still have to solve for the software crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis it is still with us today. It is the major reason that I am not optimistic about it changing in the 10-20 year outlook baring a major shift in how software is assembled. The problem with those VB and access solutions is they inevitably do not scale. I think they are great for empowering people but I have seen the pattern too many times where one of these solutions outlives it's intent and becomes a critical system at a company that then pours far more money into keeping it alive than they ever would have should they have hired a developer in the first place. Some of the best environments I have seen is organizations that encourage business people to solution in access, but once a homegrown solution hits a certain size they hand it off as a prototype to a development team to turn it into a robust solution. Therein lies the issue, the tool that empower people inherently lead to sloppy solutions that further the software crisis, the tools that help manage quality and scalability don't empower the lay person. No one is even remotely close to crossing that chasm. If anything web apps have made the two that much further apart.
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It was an attempt at humor. The CTA button is humongous.
Poll: How Many People Have Actually Done a Startup?
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If SOPA becomes law, lets use it to shut down the phone company.
If a site like Reddit is responsible for a user posting a link to pirated content, then the phone company should be held responsible for every phone call that aided a criminal act.

Is it possible we could use SOPA to get the phone company shut down?
Things are moving so fast that I wonder how long it will take for smartphones to kill those low/medium-end cameras. I have a cool small sony camera and I only take photos using my phone.
Probably for the same reason a lot of other good features don't get implemented: there are higher more impactful features to be implemented first, a bigger bang for the company's buck.
"""63% of Americans aged 18 to 24 couldn't find Iraq on a map after we'd been at war there for three years."""

Yes, but not because they are dumb.

It's because you're NOT really at war with Iraq, and I mean not in the sense that other countries are at war.

What happens is that your central government sends some (paid) troops to fight 10,000 miles away. And they fight some states with minimal arsenals, tiny air-force etc, or tribal/urban guerrillas. Now, besides the families and friends of your troops, this "war" doesn't affect the general population at all. There are no counter-measures or attacks by the enemy in your soil, no adverse effects on economy (except some overspending), etc.

So people in the US, from Idaho to New Orleans, could care less if there is a war happening or not. Even the "support our troops" is mostly a goodwill/political statement, a self-adhesive ribbon for your car, not a matter of life and death.

Now, what happens when two countries go to an actual war, historically, is much more grave: hundreds of thousands (or even millions) die, their cities are bombed, there is compulsory drafting, thousands of refuges, food shortages and a huge toil on the nation's economy. You haven't see any such war, at least since WWII (and even that one you fought with minimum impact, --with the exception of Pearl Harbor--, thanks to the US's convenient distance from Germany/Japan).
Huh, I did this just now and it's the top result.

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edit: Ah ha, it only shows up if you have safe search off.
There's a bunch of gamified todo list things on the App Store that do this.

Also: "This is the only reminder app in the App Store that allows you to create location based reminders and alarms and send those reminders to friends and family."

Really?
It's no coincidence when you see tech oriented sites have visits from 30-40% of Chrome owners (or Firefox owners a few years earlier), when the general market share for Chrome only had like 10%. And then a few years later the general marketshare reflects the marketshare on tech sites from a few years before.

Bottomline is browsers need to win over the tech crowd, or they will fade away. Firefox did that to IE, and now Chrome is doing it to both Firefox and IE.
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I'm greatly enjoying the read, and it's a question that appeals to me greatly. Most of us frequently make a statement akin to "everybody else is stupid", although we usually except those around us at that time. After all, only other people make that class of mistake. We'd never do that. It's just pruning the gene pool!

The reality is a little more uncomfortable to accept, and a lot of it lies in the fact that we don't always know how to think, leading to us not knowing what to think.

Side note: I'm disappointed in the lack of copyediting in most of those essays.
The biggest issue is resource limitations - multi-user systems require an abundance of resources that phones don't have.

What about the memory overhead of concurrent sessions?

Who gets to run background processes, and when are they terminated? Because neither CPU nor battery life exist in abundance.

What happens to incoming calls/e-mails/texts/notifications? (Especially for the guest account, where you don't have a second phone number for that account)

What happens to e.g. alarms set by user1 if user2 is logged in?

Which settings are shared, which aren't? And if your phone storage is encrypted, how do you handle shared settings? What about privacy? Can user1 e.g. record GPS signals even if user2 is logged in? If not, what about "Find my phone" features?

Sure, conceptually it's a solved issue. Practically, there are innumerable details to be figured out.
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"""However knowledge of foreign policy and of geography are two different domains. A person could read an article a day about the Iraq war without ever looking at a map of the mid east."""

Yeah. And I wouldn't trust the foreign policy knowledge of such a person.

A person not interested in checking out for himself the geography of the place of war, and even the culture and history of the enemies, is just an idiot being force-fed news stories.
The reason I don't log on someone else's phone is not because they don't want me to, is because I don't want to! Just the same reason why I usually don't log in on an untrusted computer.

Maybe just for browsing the internet it would be allright, but I won't hand over my passwords. Isn't there any keylogger yet for android/ios? You don't even need to go by the store/marketplace, just local, developper stuff and there you go. Do you want to log on my machine?
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> but one thing about farming that is very different than software development is that only one person needs to do the thinking and can then delegate to less inclined individuals

True, although, technically speaking, that work still exists. The programmer just delegates it to the computer instead of having people do it. There is no reason why you couldn't have an assembly line of humans hand-compiling your programs, if you really wanted to. Once you give them the basic rules, they can set forth and complete any task that you ask of them. It is just repetition at that point.

Farming is quickly going in the same direction. The delegatable jobs are, more and more, being done by machines.
I mean fast user switching on a resource-constrained portable device. There's a bit of a difference in terms of how to do it. (See also my above post listing some of the issues)
What?

When did Rees identify anyone as a socio-political opponent? What prejudices does he have? Where did he toot his own horn? You seem to have read a completely different article than I did.

All he said was that evolutionary theory hasn't been fully accepted in some areas. I'm perplexed that you're so offended by that statement.
Thanks. Does Google still demand CS degrees? I ask because I can think of several people doing dev there now that don't.
You'd have to assume normal sunglasses are factored into current classifiers.

However, sunglasses coated in dazzle-style patterns...
Except that doesn't explain why they'd make getting permanent residency so difficult. If they were interested in keeping your hard-earned dollars in the US, they'd try to keep you in forever.

Instead you have to deal with the wonderful world of employer sponsored green card and your 15 year-long wait.
I agree, the percentage of smartphone buyers who are serious gamers must be in the single digits.

I have no clue how MS could improve Windows Phone so that it will attract iOS and Android users. I also don't see how manufacturers of dumb phones would choose Windows Phone over Android, unless they're offered large sums of cash (like Nokia). IMHO, Windows Phone is screwed.
You call the link disgusting as if it's some sort of universal value, but "disgust" is a culturally constructed physical reaction. Not everyone is disgusted by the same things you are. Some people think kimchi is disgusting. Other people think it's the most delicious thing on this planet.

I'm not trying to dissuade you from your disgust, but try to appreciate that not everyone shares your values.
> even permitting them a small amount of part time work.

The E3D lets a dependent of an E3 visa holder obtain an Employment Authorization Document (EAD). Once obtained, the EAD allows the dependent to work in a regular full time job - it's not restricted to a 'small amount of part time work'.
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From your second link:

Samuel Mudd is sometimes given as the origin of the phrase "your name is mud", as in, for example, the 2007 film National Treasure: Book of Secrets. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd's birth, and is based on an obsolete sense of the word "mud" meaning "a stupid twaddling fellow".[18][19]
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You may want to give Racket a try, it is a LISP dialect and geared towards learning LISP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28programming_language%... . I wish I had learned LISP first it is so much different than the languages that get their linage from C or smalltalk. It frees you from the constrains of other languages and requires a lot of deprogramming to learn once you know another languadge. It's not going to be the easiest language to learn as a first languadge but there are a lot of advantages in doing so. Racket will help make it easier as it is designed as a teaching languadge.
> outlook rule that funneled all logging email messages to the junk mail folder

That's a telling sign of incapable software developer.
"""case 2: apps with no data from real user. He opens up foursquare/yelp to look for a restaurant... has to create profile"""

And that somehow makes it totally useless?

He can: talk on the phone, check his email on the web browser, surf to anything he likes, use any other app that doesn't require a profile, play a game, ..., ..., ...

Even calling case 1 "totally useless" is retarded. He can still do tons of stuff (call, browse, use as calculator, ...) except run apps.
Thanks. Not my usual crowd, but we've certainly got common ground here.
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So then what is your suggestion for a first language and why is that your suggestion?
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