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log out of facebook and visit the same page, you can sign up with just an email address.
Wait... I thought global warming was supposed to trigger the next ice age—not postpone it! Carbon emmisions -> higher temps -> melting ice -> colder oceans -> drop in temps -> ice age. So which is it, climate scientists? Ice age, or water world?
Its not "built for speed". Its build for speed and for the browser.
Interesting; I love the "cooks anywhere" aspect and the touch screen that kinda showed where things were.

On thing I noticed about the video was the horrific parallax; it looked like the demonstrator was hitting the touch screen a good 1/2" away from what was being selected.
I'm sticking with itunes. This is utter rubbish, its not got any redeeming features at all. This will never pickup in the UK.
Slightly misleading title headline. It's mostly just a software stack to put one devices. There isn't really any content available.
European court of justice (ECJ) have already ruled that such blocking is againts EU rules and regulations, http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011...

So I guess that higher Finnish courts will follow ECJ's decision when they get this case.
I can only speak for myself, but my 4-month coop terms are the only reason I managed to graduate. I studied computer engineering at UW, and it was more intense than anything I've had before or after university. I definitely would have burned out by third year without my coop terms.

It also helped that coop paid for everything: tuition, rent, food, etc. (Although, I don't smoke/drink/do drugs/drive/have expensive tastes...) I graduated with a net (albeit tiny) profit instead of the massive debt most students seem to end up with. An 18-month placement probably would have been financially equivalent, but I would have had to take on debt before my third(?) year to benefit. Judging from my friends in other programs, having money troubles or taking on jobs while in school is extremely stressful.

(Aside: One could argue that since I admit to struggling to get through without frequent rest that I am under-prepared for work, but having been in a full-time position for some time now, I can see that university was artificially intense. Nobody in "real life" expects the same rate of output. Although, now I feel somewhat under-challenged because I had just managed to get used to the amount of effort required to do well by the time I graduated!)
I wonder why they would reveal this without any announcements of signed deals with TV manufacturers. Seems like killing it off before it even hits the ground -- this is destined for months (if not years) of delay before getting anywhere.
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Ask HN: Why do browsers fetch images from other sites but don't fetch text
Wouldn't web development be much easier if browsers could fetch pieces of text from other sites the same way as HTML tag <img> does now. Using, for instance, CSS selectors. E.g.:

<text src="http://remote.site.com" selector="div#post123" />
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This reminded me of http://www.hid.im/
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This article is precisely why I have a Linux box on my desk here and support android only. WHEN (not if) When the government decides to blacklist and whitelist ideas, actions and clicks, I can recompile the OS and comment out those lines.
Thanks for the detailed answer :) I had similar concerns about performance and compatibility. I'm not too keen on learning and maintaining code for two separate platforms, though, so I may end up just sucking up the differences so that I can get something launched!
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This is old (2006), and seems to base its argument around the problems with unrestricted pointers in C, that cause aliasing.

As of C99, of course, C has the "restrict" keyword which allows pointers to explicitly be declared to not alias, thus enabling all these optimizations in C, too.
I don't know, but the word "lacklustre" certainly describes the US library as well.

Netflix instant in the US is really only worth it if you like "B movies", or just shit movies.
I can see this might be posted to Reddit (humor certainly or WTF) but surely not HN.
IMHO the only good thing about this is that it fuels the development of safer and more resilient tools for us. Like Distributed DNS oder Distributed Social software.

http://distributeddns.sourceforge.net/
http://wiki.socialswarm.net/Main_Page
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Everyone knows the routine, get to work by 9 AM, sit in front of the computer, code all day, and head home at 5. Now, thanks to guys like Tim Ferris I have started to re-think how I work and what makes me productive as a software developer. Recently, I made some big changes to my Monday to Friday schedule. For a long time, I did things just like all of the other coders I know. But during the second half of 2011, I started experimenting to see what type of daily schedule makes me most productive and here is my current schedule:
That's interesting! Do you have any thoughts on why there is not more outcry about this? I'd guess the social status of doctors has something to do with this?
For me, the blinking and moving ads completely invalidate this site..
"Windows Phone Has A Totally Unique UI" - I don't think this is a valid point. Unique does not automatically win anything. Better might be a winner, but the article does not say that.

It matters in that it's something that people can't complain about. If it had a non-unique UI, then it would be dismissed almost immediately.

"Originality Means Fewer Forays Into The Patent Wars" - Why? Just about everything is already patented ("An object oriented interface to the operating system" by Apple), so I don't think this is a valid claim.

They got this wrong; in actual fact the reason they don't need to worry about patents as much with WP7 is because they have the patents from windows mobile to attack pretty much anyone who tries to sue them.

"Uniformity Across All Devices and Carriers" - Apple has that too. Also, the non-uniformity is one of the selling points of android.

It's also one of the major annoyances of android, as we've seen updates go completely ignored by OEM's and carriers. From a developer point of view it's also a more challenging experience due to fragmentation.

"Zune Is Baked Right Into the Operating System" - Remember Zune? No? It was the next iPod killer. By the way, the iPod is baked into iOS.

Not every music service/player is born equal, and far too many people gloss over its excellence. Zune has the Zune pass, which is unique to it and allows it to have a far richer music discovery experience, which is unrivalled in the marketplace. Speaking of which, also has as much content as iTunes these days (same # of songs etc.)

"Xbox Live Gaming Support" - IMHO this is the only valid point. Still it's not a unique point, with play station integration into Sony's androids...
This is actually one of the lesser interesting parts of WP7, as there aren't many multi-player games.

Someone else mentioned press releases - this article is far too error-prone to have come from Microsoft. It's more likely just someone with a passing interest who's been asked to write something on it.
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This is a small service for poorly connected users who can access the web only in a limited way. You just send an email to "gitcommand@gitmanual.org" and get back the corresponding manual page in a nice HTML format.

So if you want help on the branch command, just branch@gitmanual.org.

Your email address is not stored, no logs are kept.
This may be a good phone. I don't know. The problem is the network effect they relied on for years now beats them. The people who still don't have a smartPhone is large, but those late adopters will follow their friends to android and iOS devices. It simply lacks the mind share of apple and the bombardment if devices that android has.

Honestly. If you aren't number 1 or 2 in a market. Get out.
And this is the cheapest city in Europe.

Western Europe.
i thought that was the case, and figured we would have heard of them raising a round since then.
Checking it out.

This should be interesting. CSS Spriting was made way manageable with Lemon, a Compass plugin which later became part of Compass Sprite.

The few limitations on the part of Compass Sprite, had always let me do my own sprite, I usually like those tightly packed image sprites.
No. Everything after 2007 was a response to the iPhone. MS is in good (?) company.
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You seem to be under the impression the value of a company is somehow related to lines of code, it's not.

It's like saying techcrunch is worthless because it's just a wordpress install with fancy theme, or flipboard is worthless because it's just an RSS reader.

Code is just a small part of what makes a business successful and defensible.
What you are saying about someone else's code is true, but being able to read code and understand what is going on is a skill that is worth its weight in gold.

Being the one who can dive into someone else's code and sort out the problems or make the needed changes can earn you tons of respect - especially if everyone else saw the code and ran for the hills. (and money in some cases)
> In C and C++, there's no such thing as an array

Yes there is. `int a[10]` allocates 10 consecutive `int`s on the stack, and it's the only language construct to express that (with `alloca` but it's a builtin function).
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The above is what works for me and I love to get feed back from other developers on what works for you and how you make your self a productive developer.
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Very nice looking! I didn't look at the code, but am still going to say nice job. thanks for sharing with us.
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And then there are SIMD compiler intrinsics. Not technically part of the C standard, but if you want them, C/C++ is where you find'em. Failing that there's inline assembly.
Because I've read this blog before, I can point you to this:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2010/07/seed_conflicts_of_i...

Don't blame the author
Turn it off and on and try again ;]
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what exactly are the differences between this and jquery lightbox?
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People where buying billions of dollars of short term treasury bonds with a negative interest rate recently, because they are safer than mattress's. However, I was talking about real costs after inflation ex: Inflation = 2%, government bond's yield 2.5% capital gains = 25%, mattress yield = 0%. (1 + .025 * .75)/1.02 = 99.88% vs (1/1.02) = 98.04%

The only number the government does not control is the interest rate they need to pay.
You think they would have made more of an effort with the catalogue on offer before launching..

I can appreciate that UK will have different licensing laws in place than the US, but what's on offer now is a real turn off and a disappointment.
This caught my eye "After pushing through a handful of the excellent 193P Stanford iTunes tutorials, I got a bit frustrated from not working directly on my product, so I just fired up xcode and began to develop it and worked out how to do things along the way."

I tend to pick up a book on subject X from time to time and getting bored after a while just repeating code. Fear of jumping in and doing things "the wrong way" is probably the reason. I tell myself that im going to come back to it; and never do.

Do anyone else have any experience on the subject? I have a nagging feeling that this is how most people actually ship product and would love some input.

(Now if this is to much off-topic, let's just downvote this)
I think banning direct donations would at least make it more difficult for those politicians that are motivated by financial gain. Money can buy all kinds of things, not just campaign ads.

Also, running an effective campaign for someone else without central coordination of the message is a lot more difficult than what's going on now. Such campaigns can easily backfire.

That's why I think the extent of political corruption could be reduced by banning donations.
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I was actually under the impression that Fortran was used simply because the experts (in this case in fluid dynamics) was familiar with Fortran. It was the language they learned and used while back at the university. At least this is the impression I got from working in the field.

I never heard of anyone suggesting we should use Fortfran for performance reasons, instead there was an ongoing movement to evolve the code, moving it to use the OpenFOAM solver that's written in C++.
Is it normal for domains other than facebook.com to ask for a facebook password? If so that seems very risky.

I would have assumed Facbook Inc to require third-party sites use a federated auth API, such as OAuth.
Thank you. I see some variant of this argument somewhere on the web every few months, and it makes me want to bang my head on the table.
I don't think the ECJ ruling covers DNS- or IP-blocks. To my understanding ECJ ruled against filtering that would require the service provider to look into the traffic that passes through its system.
Umm, yes C/C++ will not parallelize your code for you, whereas Language XYZ will. Im not sure how this is an argument against C/C++ being effective. C/C++ will not parallelize your code by design. It's was never meant to. I'd never blame my stick-shift car for not changing gears by itself - thats the first reason I didnt buy an automatic in the first place!

If your matrix manupuilation code performance becomes an issue, you, the C/C++ coder will have to parallelize it and take responsibility for whatever assumptions have to be made.

Im sure that the limit of what one considers as acceptable code alteration by the compiler/interpreter depends on the person. Personally I'd be very wary of a system trying to guess-parallelize my code - especially if I can do it myself whenever I see fit by adding a dozen boilerplate code lines. I'm sure most academics needing a numerical calculus system would be glad to have the system abstract away every possible optimization, so that they can stay as much as possible in the 'abstract math space'.

I am also kind of wary of the "look, I wrote the program in several languages and here is the perf comparison". Our skills with each language vary. What I liked was (i cant seem to find the link) a teacher who asked his class to write a program doing some text manipulation/indexing (iirc) in whatever language they wanted.
The fastest code was in C, yet the worst C implementation was significantly slower than an average java code. To sum all this up - the speed depends on the skill of the person in the particular language, much more than on the language itself.
It feels very great to see Pakistanis on forums other than Facebook/twitter.
While a lot of Scientific computing is done in FORTRAN, much of the lower-level `plumbing' is written in assembly, C or C++.

C isn't an efficient language, C is just thin layer on top of assembly. You can write shit code in C, I know that from experience, but you can also write really fast code in C.
A law stating/clarifying that only individuals, not companies, have first amendment rights would sort much of it out, coupled with caps on political donations per individual, including donations in kind (like sympathetic campaigns.) (I'm from UK, by the way, so I'm no expert on the US constitution, but we have similar issues here. Just trying to be logical - which always works in politics...)
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Looks great.

I noticed from your domain you link to an old version for Prototype and Scriptaculous. The newer project page design is much cleaner and less distracting. It was hard for me to see the link to "A new (jQuery based) version of this script is available" from your old design. The yellow gets lost in the sea of colors below it. I almost commented on you not having a link, but I just couldn't find it.

Also, just wanted to point out a fatal error on your site:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 5 seconds exceeded in C:\domains\nickstakenburg.com\subdomeinen\projects\library\Zend\Filter\PregReplace.php on line 25
Thanks for the Tweakers link. I had forgotten about that.
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The OP wants to point out that C hasn't got first class arrays the same way that Fortran does. The C kind of arrays get passed to and from functions using naked pointers and that makes lots of compiler optimizations more difficult because of aliasing issues while a Fortran compiler knows that two arrays cannot alias (use overlapping memory areas). By adding a "restricted" declaration to your pointer types in function signatures, the compiler assumes no aliasing occurs and goes on with the optimizations. It's the coders' responsibility to make sure no aliasing happens, but if it does, all hell can break loose.
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WP7 sucks (re to "Windows Phone Is Failing Because It’s Great" thread)
> C isn't an efficient language, C is just thin layer on top of assembly.

This is a pretty common fallacy. These days a C compiler does so much magic that calling it sugared assembly doesn't describe it accurately.

With a 1970's single pass compiler your argument may have been more true.
How is it compared to http://csssprites.org/?
They were ordered to do both IP-level and DNS-based tampering.

Any ISP will already have some IP-based blocking mechanism system in place for fending off operational emergencies such as DDoS. Router ACLs and null routes are common ways to do this. In fact ISPs in Finland are required to block SMTP traffic from residential customers by default (except to their own relay servers).

The DNS side they probably had to improvise somehow, possibly by just configuring their own DNS servers as authoritative for the victim domains.
Absolutely agree re: typography. Or to quote this great post from @iA, "Treat text as a user interface" http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/the-web-is-all-about-...

It includes its own great list of other resources, including A List Apart and Thinking with Type.

I think a vast majority of websites ignore even basic principles like spacing, negative space, readability, and rudimentary concepts about typeface pairing.
Nobody cares because everyone will have figured out how to access TPB tomorrow latest. Elisa will fight the decision in court, but it's not like this would have an effect on people.
Having a disability does not make you disabled. That's not an opinion, that's just an accurate use of the English language. Telling someone they are "disabled" when they are perfectly capable of managing their work and their life, is just sloppy and rude. And yes, it's also a slur.
I found your post really intriguing.

I'm really interested about this 'flow' state you mention. I have found that I can get lost coding for hours but only if the problem / project is interesting enough. When doing something really really boring for a client or someone else, and without the tools and languages of my preference, I'm perhaps as 10% as productive as opposed in the environment of my preference.

The thing is, you can't always choose the projects you work on, and you can't always choose the tools you'd like to work with. Do you have any advice for improving productivity when you have these things against?
Maybe something like 'iPad RED'?
To address the limited inode issue
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Just curious, are you using any framework in your Node projects?
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We probably would have figured out solutions to cross-site-scripting (XSS) a lot sooner, that's for sure!
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Really? That surprises me. An article with details about the way an X-ray machine actually works, and details on how one was built in the home. Is this really not of interest to Hackers?

Hmm. You've given me something to think about. I'm going to have to update and re-run my analyses of the things that seem to be of interest to the HN crowd.
Curious quote, "When will Scott McNealy realise that OSF is the best thing that ever happened to him and cease offering it [sic] technology?"

What was unique or interesting about OSF? There's quite limited resources online.

Sun was an exciting company with its own vertical technology stack, and I was always surprised that they never made a serious attempt at making Solaris the developer workstation of choice. To do this they would have needed to (1) maintain a first class web browser environment; (2) provide a less sucky window manager; (3) multi-monitor support; (4) something that handled PDFs nicely; (5) an adequate non-console email client. Something like Java but with a better GUI layer would have been nice too. They bought the Lighthouse guys but then didn't use them.

Solaris had a significant technology advantage over NeXT, an established base in enterprise (a lucrative marketplace and much more forgiving than home desktop).

Ironically, while Sun were busy burning their OpenStep stack, NeXT were embracing Java and that kind of saved NeXT. It allowed independent NeXT developers to ride forward on a maintained technology stack (WO/Java) while Apple retooled.

Would be interested to know anything at all about OSF, and what distinguished it from SVR5.
There's a lot of zeroes behind the marketing budget for Microsoft/Nokia promotions.
Ubuntu/Unity doesn't even manage to run smoothly on my 8GB RAM, 6 core machine. I don't want to imagine how it would run on a TV.
As a very happy xbox 360 owner, I'm glad Microsoft doesn't subscribe to this mindset.
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don't mention wife/kids/mortgage. it is a negative for startup employment because you are bound to be the first to bail (whether by risk aversion or necessity) should things ever get tough.
It runs like butter on my 4 core 2gb laptop. Anecdotes are anecdotes.
Not really, USPs come in many forms.

But I'd be interested to hear your views on how buzzfeed is defensible?
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It's better to do things the wrong way rather than not doing them at all.

Jump into it. If whatever you build is successful (under whatever metrics that may apply), you can always consider some refactoring once you know better.
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This is a common pitfall of marketing (and spec) for phones I think. Tech driven customers are the loudest on the internet but that doesn't have to mean they are your key demographic. Look at the iPhone.

Beautiful design + great apps + crappy camera + small screen = slightly increased OPEX + greatly increased margin = happy times