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I can totally understand why this would be hard once, I'm trying to understand how this would be hard in repetition.

Lets say you do the work of creating an EPUB formatter that works to your satisfaction, then is it like a pipeline where you can feed new material in and get books out repeatedly, or do you have to tweak it for each book?
It's about time to revisit Day of the Tentacle :)
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btw, Tri-X was my first thought too after seeing this headline. Glad to see a few people still have their priorities straight ;)
I've learned to ignore the whole karma thing when writing a comment. It's part of the "be yourself": you can't write anything original in fear of being downvoted.

I do sometimes check back which comments were voted up (or down) for the sake of curiosity. I then wonder what was it that made one of my comments get many times more points than my average, but often it must simply be that I happened to comment early. I don't really care that much where my karma is going, it's more like a reflection of the community than a reflection of me.
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I think it is statement that is worth repeating regularly. Too often I work with technologists who refuse to consider a moral or ethical dimension to the work they do.

The technology may not inherently have an ethical or moral dimension but the uses to which it is put often do.
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Sometimes at a startup you just don't have the resources to do everything. Upgrading to Rails 3 pays down their technical debt substantially and will help prevent interface bugs like the ones you encountered in the future.
Ask HN: How would you redesign the iTunes UI for purchased season pass TV shows?
Backstory: I just bought a season pass for Breaking Bad S4 via iTunes.

My Assertion: The UI to access purchased video content via iTunes is atrocious, with very little thought to accessing videos outside that of a table layout.

Notion: Rather than critiquing the UI alone, share the fun and have the HN community give their two cents. Please constructive comments only.

Screenshot of iTunes with season pass. Note that the columns for Episode ID and Episode # had to be manually added with a right mouse button click.

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B79HizzVRilLZWEzZDcwMGQtMjdhMC00YmY2LWIwYzUtNDNhZDkzNmI0NjYw&hl=en_US
I feel you were lacking in the number of iPads you were carrying (compared to her).
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Cars are not a good analogy for this situation, at all. The presence of software and computers in our life is much closer to the invention of the alphabet and writing. Written text gradually becomes so ubiquitous in life that being illiterate is a serious handicap for anything you want to do.

Likewise, the amount of software and technology we deal with on a daily basis is increasing at an exponential rate. It is just a matter of time before the ability to deal with it at a deep level becomes a necessity of life.

Of course, not everyone will be paid to write code, just like not everyone is paid to read/write, but you'll be handicapped in life if you don't know how to do it. Moreover, coding itself will largely change as well: programming languages are constantly adopting every higher levels of abstraction and gradually becoming more accessible to a wider audience.
Link above, repeated to make it hot.

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Cars are not a good analogy for this situation, at all. The presence of software and computers in our life is much closer to the invention of the alphabet and writing. Written text gradually became so ubiquitous in life that being illiterate was a serious handicap for everyone.

Likewise, the amount of software and technology we deal with on a daily basis is increasing at an exponential rate (http://www.quora.com/Does-the-computer-programming-professio...). It is just a matter of time before the ability to deal with it at a deep level becomes a necessity of life.

Of course, not everyone will be paid to write code, just like not everyone is paid to read/write, but you'll be handicapped in life if you don't know how to do it. Moreover, coding itself will largely change as well: programming languages are constantly adopting every higher levels of abstraction and gradually becoming more accessible to a wider audience.
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For me its the 5th one now. It shows another blog based on this post( http://meta.ath0.com/2012/01/05/googleplusungood/ ) as 2nd in the search for "jon mitchell jury duty".
Can you please explain the difference between reflowable and fixed-layout ePubs?

I thought the entire point of using ePub over PDF was so that it would be more adaptable to each reading device and/or reader (e.g. larger font sizes).
I think I agree with you, but what do you mean by "I own the only watering hole" in this hypothetical context outside the zone of commonly prescribed rights of freedom, ownership, etc.?

You own what? The land? How much of it? And why? Because I can't take it from you? Watch me (and my army). You own the well? To what depth? Watch me (and my army) dig deeper and take the water from underneath "your" watering hole.

It seems you're conflating somewhat the concepts of personal freedom and interpersonal contracts. For example, your right not to be murdered and my right to "freedom" are not in contradiction if my right to freedom is constrained to apply only to those actions of mine which have nil or negligible impact on others.

I think Cerf's point is that we should not take something which is complex and takes extraordinary human effort to produce, maintain, protect and secure as a granted right. It intermingles motivations undesirably.
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I went to the American consulte in Tel - Aviv about a week after they've changed the Visa procedure and had a missing form. The consulte did had a couple of PC's but non of them could access an email account.

I wondered to the street and found a coffee shop next to the consulte that provided all the services you'll need, lockers (this part is strange since you can't pretty much bring anything to the consulte e.g. a mobile phone lockers are essentials, I know that other consultes like the one in Sydney provides lockers), printer, and for a fee will feel up your forms.

So this isn't a new idea, but its an interesting phenomenon.

BTW
I got my visa, and I must admit that the consulate service was outstanding
Funny that he distinguishes b/w "you" and your "mind". IMNSHO You == your mind.
Saeed Dehnadi and Richard have done some interesting work on... A cognitive study of early learning of programming, available at Saeed's page:

http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/
Isn't persecution a form of disregarding your rights? Isn't removing Internet access a form of persecution?
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Here's one I just thought of. Maybe not entirely serious:

Prostitution is illegal in most states. SOPA is nearly equivalent to shutting down a bar because somebody went into the bathroom and scrawled "For a good time, call XXX-XXXX" on the wall.
In Perl, the CPAN module Smart::Comments does something similar:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Smart-Comments/lib/Smart/Comment...
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I could propose a complement approach: when inserting comments to the page, pg could automatically prefix all paragraphs with "I think that..."

That would remind people of the true nature of their words and help them remember that the commenter is just stating what he thinks is right and not an attack against the reader's personal state of world. That where I think all useless arguments start from. There's a difference in reading "Water is dry" vs "I think that water is dry". I try to implicitly "hear" that prefix myself each time I'm listening to someone talking.
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This is what happens when people with the kind of crazy that broke HP and Palm and Compaq decide to play with open source projects.

Clue: Dealmaking is not codemaking.
Ironically, Arrington still "writes" for Techcrunch

https://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/27763718700
This is a tough job, most people don't want it.

People like to be lawyers and study business more instead of becoming programmers.
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> Why everybody seems to want to reinvent email is beyond me.

11) Program parsable structured info? UNCHECK

How cool if emails have a semantic layer standard, like when someone invites you to an event using email, another app could automatically recognize datetime, convert time zones and add to a task reminder? (think of embedded iCal or vCard, but more generic and powerful).
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Ask HN: Any simple alternative of Google Calendar Tasks?
It's been a year since this post on Google support forums. Still waiting for repeated tasks & it's reminders without luck.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=4597c9e968e0286f&hl=en

I'm considering some alternatives like RememberThe Milk, but want something lightweight that integrates well with Google Calendar.

Could you suggest an app for that, please?
Ask HN: Is there a web service where I can ask for stuff? Items, not services.
Pretty sure he speaks of Unipress Emacs. A little history:

Richard M. Stallman wrote the original Editor MACroS for the TECO editor.

James A. Gosling implemented Emacs in C as a stand-alone editor, sometimes called "Gosmacs", and distributed it freely with no copyright notice. Gosmacs had an extention language called Mocklisp, which wasn't really a Lisp (it had no lists) but appeared similar.

RMS used Gosmacs to get started on GNU Emacs, which featured a "real" Lisp (close to Maclisp).

JAG sold the rights to Gosmacs to Unipress, who renamed it Unipress Emacs, sold it commercially, and stopped distribution of gosmacs and derivatives (like GNU Emacs).

Presumably it was around this time the interview with Bill Joy occurred.

RMS rewrote the part of GNU Emacs that was derived Gosmacs, mostly the display code.
One could guess that this experience is part of why the GNU project insists on signed copyright assignment or release forms for key utilities.
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Seriously, what is wrong with you? I've been reading HN for 3.5 years now, and you, specifically, are the reason I've never created an account and participated. You seem completely unable to reason about anything more complicated than simple arithmetic, and yet you are so consistently sure of yourself, and your correctness, and so quick to tell everyone how wrong they are. You, for some reason, see it your responsibility to police not just the whole of society, but take extra pleasure in policing HN with the cocky douchebag demeanor of a real cop, flagging and hellbanning as you see fit, etc. Seriously, you are a child.

You've changed your argument several times in the comments on this page. Initially, it was that Google has specifically chosen, for political reasons, not to move down the current top result. Then, instead of admitting that you are wrong, you imply that what you actually meant is that they don't do it for a variety of reasons, not really political. Yet that post is the top post, because you're Tommy Ptacek, HN royalty, right?

The vast majority of your comments on this page, and many others, are so completely devoid of thought and reason, it is literally too painful to continue reading them. Take this one, for example. Really? Half the country is interested in ultra-right wing conservative politics? So much so that they need to do internet research on the social conservative who has only in the last couple of weeks had any poll percentage worthy of finding out who he is? Barely half of the adult population of this country cares enough about politics to even vote. Half of those are moderates. Probably half of those realistically would not go researching candidates on the internet. Before two months ago, for 95%+ of the population, if they knew the word santorum, it was not Rick Santorum. As for myself, the only two times I've ever searched for santorum were to see what the joke was, and what the origin was. In another two months, Rick Santorum will again be forgotten for history, but the word will live on. And you want Google to manually drop the current top result in the rankings for a few months to help out poor Rick Santorum, so nobody need remember why that word originated? And, in your mind, that is the reasonable and non-political thing to do? Because you just can't believe that most people would be searching for anything so crass? Really?

Just stop...please! Admit you're wrong! Stop being such a douche!

[1] "But Google's overall politics happen to be the same as my politics, so Santorum gets unequal access to the 2012 Internet."
This. Kickstarter is generating revenue in exchange for goods and services you're providing. It is not investment. I believe this is described in the Kickstarter FAQ.

I however disagree that it isn't worth doing if you aren't already popular. You can use it as a place to become more popular than you already are, or use it as a means to show some traction even if you only raise $10,000.
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A shame.. Is this a case of what's better for the dev team outweighing what makes it fun to use as a user? Sorry if that seems harsh, but (personally) this plus the simplicity of setting up map/reduce functions and seeing the results directly in futon are what made CouchDB stand out...
If CouchDB works for you today, there is no reason to drop it. However, I'm working hard to make sure Couchbase works even better for you. That's what I'm saying.
Related to Graffiti, I came up with this:

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Interestingly enough, I recently wrote a post explaining how to take a binary search and derive Newton's method from it: http://stevekrenzel.com/articles/newtons-law

It's a fairly straight-forward transformation.
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Internet access is not a human right, but right of free will when you are not harming anyone and right of free speech (a derivative of free will) is. That makes me think that when internet is taken away, there is a violation of human rights.
That's a funny requirement. Requiring uniques reduces password strength.
I do know about the Iowa caucus outcome, but I don't think it says much about Santorum's chance of becoming the Republican party nominee.

Now if Santorum somehow went on to win, or even do well, in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Florida, and then several more states, then I'd be proved incorrect and at that point Mr. Santorum would probably be a bigger deal than grody-substance santorum. And, perhaps, Google's top search result might even organically change. But that's still exceedingly unlikely.

Not that I place too much stock in arbitrary futures markets, especially with regard to democratically-conducted elections, but Intrade's numbers are historically more predictive than what Iowa's ~120,000 Republican caucus-goers choose:

http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=69090...
For the interested: enforcing no palindromes and unique digits reduces the number of possible PINs by about a factor of 2, bringing it down to 5040 4-digit combinations.

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Indeed, I really liked this post. Everyone hears how hard MIT is, but then everyone sees how 97% pass, so you think these must be some geniuses that get in who transcend "normal" folk like us. They're just normal people who might not have been the smartest at school, but know when they're not motivated and how to look for help and get motivated. It's a good message for any student.
> A human right to unimpeded use of carriages would seem hilarious today,

In an alternate universe, the author could have used "freedom of the press" as the anecdote. In 2012, where are you going to keep your printing press? But for the fact that the Constitution mentions a free "press", the word would seem hilariously backwards to us today.

It is a fine thing to be paralyzed about writing legislation that restricts freedom that could have unintended consequences a hundred years hence. But I do not think that we face the same problem when recognizing a right.
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That sucks and I'm sorry. I made lots of mistakes, the biggest was trying to run a business instead of the technology. I'm again back where I should be. Whether you choose our technology or not, I wish you success.
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I don't think it's coming full circle. They're just properly separating the project code, so that the time critical code is in C/C++ while the scale/fault-tolerant code will be in Erlang.
Several of the PIN-activated access control systems I've used have a similar concept, usually called a duress code or such. Your normal PIN would be 1234 but if you are being forced to enter under duress you put in 1235, and a silent alarm is set off.
No offense but MIT is an overrated school full of losers. I know plenty of them. If you want a real education, go to Stanford, bitches.
Here we just posted our 2011 story and Anand shares our 2010 one. I guess it is a little more out-of-the-ordinary : )
As a guy who was lurking around for basically whole duration of CouchDB development. I would argue that Damien did not fall prey to the second system syndrome. He's just too much of a pragmatic for something like that. The soundness of Damiens engineering views and approaches is hugely similar to those of Linus Torvalds.

The truth in my eyes is that CouchDB is misunderstood, the same way Lotus Domino is misunderstood. And if majority of users misunderstand what it is good about then it is not going to be used in an optimal fashion.

What I guess that Damien is going to do is build a database that does shit people expected CouchDB to do. And I believe that Damien is a hedge that ensures that goods are going to be delivered.
How about the right to own a printing press? A bit of not so distant nostalgia to consider: in some totalitarian states in 20th century (up to late 70's in one case I am aware of first hand), access to mimeograph machines were restricted.

Of course, he is correct that the actual right is the right to free speech, but practically considered in context of modern life, the two are arguably effectively equivalent as simply denying access effectively curtails the inherent right.

And what to make of the speakers' corner in Hyde Park? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers_corner
Yes. Erlang is great for proving ideas and making something work reliably. I have mad respect for Erlang, it's the kind of language where one guy can code a whole a distributed database. But when you need high performance and low level control, and you have the resources and team to make it happen, you really can't beat C. I'll write more about that soon.
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Go to Stanford. MIT is for lame idiots.
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