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After an unmanageable number of note-to-self emails — I mean, just imagine having to sort through an inbox of hundreds of things you sent yourself with the expectation of following-up later — I finally transferred them all to Evernote and haven't looked back. (Really, I can't recommend using something like Evernote or OneNote more for the purpose of brain dumps).

The problem I see with solutions like Hopper is that they aren't ubiquitous. I have to load a website and deal with whatever interface they've decided is the 37signals-esque simple-is-best approach to solving a problem that only matters because their execution pretty decent and for that reason I come back to it more than once... At least with Evernote I can throw shit in, in whatever format I prefer, categorize it, and then come back to it later when I feel like looking at what I thought was so rad at the time. It's no wonder so many people do this over email.

Back when I had dial-up and wasn't online all the time, my solution to this problem was Notepad. Yes, plain old .txt. THAT's how to get shit done. Don't matter what fancy tools you use.

(No offense, Hopper...)
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What I find gross is that the article somehow considers cubicles as a "private" solution.

This modern management cargo cult has reached really gross levels of absurdity.

If open plan is a cacophony of voices amidst which a person is to find focus and deep thinking, then cubicles are the same cacophony without the peripheral vision part.

I find teamwork, collaboration and such bullshit words just a mask for true motive. Cheapness. Cheapness in landlords, Cheapness in architects and Cheapness in companies who ultimately make up reasons for why they don't want to spend money and time on building truly productive environments.

Its sort of sour grapes situation.
One might argue that the "default state" for all forms of property, including my car and dinner plates, is in the public domain. What fundamental law that transcends the Constitution says my car is "mine"? Yeah the Constitution has some base in natural law, but that's subjective western thought too, nothing universal. I agree 100% that IP laws today need tweaking, or scrapping, but GP is right that the philosophical debate over it is an unrelated issue.
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> What is wrong with different naming conventions for fields vs. properties, and methods? It makes it immediately obvious what is what at a glance.

Which is precisely one of the problems of properties in C#, it makes fields and properties look and feel extremely different from the outside which violates the uniform access principle.

As I noted, ideally C# should not have public fields in the first place.
So, if Google makes money with Apple stuff (iPad, iPhone with search, maps, etc), and Microsoft makes money with Android...
Let's close the circle! Let Apple make money with WP7! (C3 technologies for bing maps could do it...) And everyone will be happy forever! (Or not).

Seriously, Ballmer should send a really nice corporate gift to Brin, Page and Schmidt, with a card: "Thanx pals!"
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If you are approached by one of those clone companies, what would you respond?
NO! Get out of my face.
No, but if the pay is good...
Yes, what's wrong with that?
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Well, okay, but I notice rabies is pretty ubiquitous. Rabid bats turn up where I live on a regular basis.
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> If we have 50 programmers working in complete isolation then we will have 50 different programs. Collaboration becomes key to scaling the craft.

Since most programs can be broken down into a set of components I believe it should be relatively easy to parallellize the workload.
I think most issues come from some kind of server-side caching. I guess they fell for one of the NoSQL buzzwords and they really didn't get it.
Bean-type setters, definitely.

On the other hand, you could have "setters" using the same naming convention which do a clone-and-replace (and return the new object), that would not violate immutability (and would be easier than building objects from scratch every time from the outside) e.g.

Type setFoo(FooType foo) {
return new Type(
this.field0,
this.field1,
this.field2,
foo, // bam
this.field4);
}

many functional languages have that behavior when manipulating "records".
I do not know about other sites on the list, but cember.net was not a clone. It was the sole player of business network in the time in Turkey. It gained real traction here and It's owners were out of ideas or out of interest of making money by running it. Then they have sold it for good money to Xing. If they haven't I believe they would burn out. And then cember.net "merged into" Xing and business networking in Turkey demolished.
It's still a good idea to separate markup and styling. In the interest of getting things that look decent out the door quickly it's often necessary to postpone ideological purity.

If your idea proves successful then over time you will need to evolve away from bootstrap anyway, and you can get cleaner markup and style along the way.

If your idea proves unsuccessful, good thing you didn't waste too much time on a pure semantic markup.
Google not only makes money off of Apple products but pretty much any product from where one can search. That includes all the android devices as well. Which makes you wonder why are they pushing android at all. People are used to using Google so no matter what OS, they are going to use it anyways Why spend billions of dollars developing and defending it?
But what happens if you incorrectly predict that an abstraction will be needed?

Then you made a mistake and hopefully learned something. I didn't say architecting software was easy or without risk, just that you can't avoid doing it by following simplistic rules.

The best way to create abstractions is from concrete examples. Write something once. Then, once you actually find yourself writing it twice, abstract it out.

It's nice when things go that way, but it's not the general case. Often, by the time there is a concrete use for abstraction, the damage is done. For example, adding network multiplayer to a game that has been architected for single player is a nightmare of hacks and duplicated code (Notch has explicitly lamented about that one).

Anyway, back to the Minecraft story, who are you to say that the game would be better if Notch followed the premature abstraction strategy?

Notch himself seems to be saying as much in that blog post. But that aside, I'm a fellow game developer who has spent dozens of hours reading and modifying the Minecraft code. Even after a round-trip of obfuscation, it tells the story of its creation quite vividly, and the theme of the story is "hack around it!" Though I still have tremendous admiration for the game and its developers.
The guy talking to businesses wasn't talking on his own behalf. He was representing Google and acting on Google's behalf. It's stupid to suggest that he was doing this for his own profit.
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Wow, consistently doing all 16 of these is pretty freaking difficult. I guess that's why hard work is hard.
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If Pinterest wouldn't be so slow (like most US startups) to open up to the whole world. I signed up a few months ago and still haven't got my access.

This wouldn't solve the problem but for sure the effectiveness of these German guys "creations" would be reduced.
That's kinda sad, compared to Apple, Microsoft, and RIM. ICS fixes bugs too. People shouldn't have to deal with them until they buy a new phone.
It's too bad that even though most of those patents could be invalidated in Court, these companies fell one by one and started paying Microsoft royalties for all the claimed infringements.

I'm pretty sure most of the big companies like Samsung and LG didn't even agree to do this for nothing, though. They most likely got a discount deal for Windows licenses, or some similar deal. Both of them make Windows laptops.
Does anyone else think that the SOPA blackout that Notch is going to do (as per the Tweet linked in this article) crosses the line? Interrupting a service customers have paid for seems to go beyond what is reasonable, I haven't seen any others going that far, although I guess reddit does have reddit gold... to me disabling reddit (a user generated content site that will be affected by SOPA) is justifiable whereas taking down a service that customers have paid for that isn't directly affected by SOPA seems... overboard.
What infuriates me is that both of the California Senators are co-sponsoring this piece of garbage. One of them is Dianne Feinstein, who is up for re-election this year. I'm a solid Democratic voter, but there is no way someone who sponsors SOPA or PIPA will get my vote.

Even better than phone calls would be the emergence of a non-SOPA supporting Democrat running against Senator Feinstein. I'm sure the prospect of losing Northern California to a challenger would get her attention.
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Most likely due to a security flaw?

A new version submitted, waiting for approval.
This would be helped with a more descriptive title. I found it an interesting/quick look into working with the API, but found the title a bit too vague.
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So Microsoft unleashes its lawyers on Android OEM's and there's nothing Google and all those OEM's could do about it?

Wasnt Google supposed to 'defend' OEM's, specially after Motorola deal?

And, on a totally unrelated note, Microsoft does all the bad practices to gain profit; and it has an XBox with a camera connected to internet with closed source software which updates itself, on millions of houses across the globe? And we're supposed to trust them because...?
Multiplayer mode can be extremely hard and can take any fun out of being an indie game developer. I'm still not sure if it is the right abstraction to work in on day one.
We just discussed this at our local JUG meeting last night. My take is that accessors are popular in Java because most popular frameworks (esp. Spring) have a heavy reliance on JavaBeans. Once you start using objects everywhere as JavaBeans, you've no choice but to add them. And the IDE makes it trivial. Yes, there's constructor instantiation in most DI containers, but it's not frequently used.

I do agree that most modern languages have a much more elegant solution for this.
Update: Harry Reid apparently cannot hear you. He has come out with a statement saying that the cloture vote will continue on January 24th, despite the concerns of so many Senators (even co-sponsors of the bill) because it's "too important to delay."
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Unfortunately I'm a bit late to the party on this, but as a case in point, Norway has _very_ tight discipline on penicillin and antibiotics usage for this very reason. This has nothing to do with "medicines being outdated", it has to do with correct and disciplined usage of antibiotics.

Norwegian hospitals use forms of penicillin which simply do not work on patients from countries where antibiotics usage is more lax. Treating a patient from Spain with the same penicillin which is used for Norwegian patients would not have any effect and kill the patient. This is _solely_ because poor discipline in drug usage leads to antibiotics-risistant bacteria.

What needs to be done, and globally, is to

1) Stop treating livestock with prophylactic antibiotics
2) Stop prescribing antibiotics for conditions where it doesn't work (just because the patient has a cold and is complaining "can't you give me something?")
3) _Force_ patients to take their entire antibiotics course so even the small but drug-resistant minority of bacteria is killed off by the immune system and not transmitted further.

If the global community fails to do this, we will in the worst case end up with a world which looks the way it did in the 1800s - a simple bacterial infection will kill you, because it can't be treated.

This is a question of disciplined usage of medicines, not researching new and clever ways to kill bacteria. We can't eradicate every dangerous strain of bacteria on earth - it's simply not feasible.
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I'm not a native english speaker, the word "homeland" just seems like a weird choice to me. It feels too patriotic and even a bit fascistic. I can't recall any public discussion about the name when they were created, but then I'm not from the US so I might have missed those.

Also, I'm associating the word with "fatherland", from the post-WW2-nazis-won-movie with Rutger Hauer :-/
Not true, they're playing hard to get. They're not open for everybody, although, sure, the limit isn't geographical
I can't speak for their motivation, but the what the Evening Standard (and Metro et al) printed was not related to the origins of the bus. They claimed they were dangerous to other road users. TfL disputes this.

Solving the overcrowding issue is more complicated than building higher capacity buses - you have to think about the speed of boarding, route layout, speed of navigating London's congested streets, fare evasion and more. In some places, the bus stops allow for two bendy buses or 3-4 regular buses to board at once, which means faster boarding on regular buses during peak times.

The new Routemasters, with 3 doors and 2 staircases, might prove to reduce overcrowding despite their lower capacity.
The main reasons for the TSA are:
1) politicians seen to be doing something
2) making the public feel safe flying again
3) because someone, somewhere is making a pile of cash from it
4) it's a good way to employ unskilled people

Catching terrorists is likely to be one of the lower priorities.

Personally I think that random thorough screening and randomly distributed flight marshals is a better deterrent than poorly screening everyone. It's always harder to evade a security threat when you don't know what it is or looks like.

Another thing that annoys me is that people push for more railways on the basis that it is safe than flying. Railway in the last 10 years has had more crashes and more terrorist incidents than flying, and a determined terrorist can create massive havoc, fear and deaths from targeting trains, as was tragically displayed several times.

But for some reason, you can still hop on a train with no screening. Go figure.
People live in a fantasy world if they think you can build something and you won't be copied - regardless if laws exist against it or not. It's just the nature of the business, and it has always been like that. The only solution is to be the one that truly understands his customers, leads the market, and is always one step ahead of his competition, and you will be rewarded for it.

Every single competitor in every single industry is more or less a clone of the "originator" (which probably based his product on something else, too) and then they "copy" each other's features.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5D43qAsVg
When it was coined, patriotism was all the rage.

Yes, it is a weird name when looking externally. But it (like the PATRIOT act) is a product of the fear at the time.

And it's time to dump both of those creations.
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> His office was nicknamed the Hot Tub on account of the heat they generated. Most days his stack of window air conditioners could keep up.

I ran the servers for a whole company like that, everyday thinking that's totally unprofessional but it is effective.

After we went to our own raised floor cold room, I still never felt it was that much more reliable. Cleaner, more polished yes. But 80% of the effect for 20% of cost is usually a good deal.

Fitting out your server room from the local hardware store felt like a successful hack.
How did YOU learn what you know now? Can you point out how to get there?
All for-profit companies eventually "do evil". If they don't, then they're not doing their job right for their share holders.

I have no vendetta against them. You're seeing something that isn't there. The reason you're seeing it, is because of their undeserved reputation as being less evil than other companies. You're merely demonstrating my point, yet again.
Aren't they de-coupled by now? I don't think minecraft.net goimg down also takes down authentication anymore.
Uh, Common Lisp and Scheme use parentheses for block delineation. How does someone on HN not know this? :-)
I think that having their own mobile os lets them keep the status quo. If apple changed google for bing, even when a lot of people would change back to google search, i bet that a big percentage would simply use the default (think about ie8). Also, it lets them refine and make more relevant their search results, collect geodata for other services (transit for example), expand their services, etc. its not like th
ey are mother theresa. And above all, it helps them expand their core business, letting every device maker use a smartphone os that doesnt suck, all with google as default search engine.
Thanks for the stories. I love hearing from people who lived in former East Germany. The stuff that went on is just hard to imagine sometimes. I'm always left wondering if there were any true believers, or if everyone just went along with a 'well, what can you do' shrug and made the most of it while privately laughing at the attempt to recreate society in a new image.
"and it has an XBox with a camera connected to internet with closed source software which updates itself, on millions of houses across the globe" :)
Eclipse can add a breakpoint to a variable. Any time that variable is accessed or set, the breakpoint is tripped. That's less than 30 seconds, that's like 5. You literally just click to the left of the variable definition.
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This isn't about 2 spaces vs 4 spaces. It's about 2 spaces in a language where blocks are defined only by indentation. That's a HUGE difference.

I have no problem with 2 spaces in C/C++. I have no problems with Pythons use of white-space to define blocks. But the combination is deadly.
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/157856961612873729 https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/157857196254834689 https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/157865002177536001

based on this I'm assuming he means they're going to take minecraft.net down meaning the login servers, otherwise it'd be a worthless gesture, nobody would know (besides Mojangs bank account)
True, but that's a fairly recent phenomenon and it's not even true for the more fundamental discoveries. Unless you mean the philosophical ideal of empirical research, in which case I would say that your view of the situation is flawed. It's only really true for simulation experiments, like those that try to simulate the entire universe, from a uniform inflation onwards. Few discoveries have been made that way though.

The use for limited-application theories is obvious. With the exception of lithography for chip design, all of electronics works with classical electricity theories. All of architecture, by now capable of constructing objects that are several kilometres high, works on classical mechanics. All of computer science works on ZFC, when it's obvious that real machines don't actually implement that. Or dumb mistakes in algorithms that are "assumed correct" anyway because we don't know how to fix them (such as several tree traversal techniques claimed to be O(N) yet in reality more like O(N^2) because they fuck up virtual memory by allocating memory like Obama allocates money.

Hell, I'm told that even ITER's reactor design is tested with classical simulations, with one or two correction factors to "compensate" for quantum phenomena (but not using the quantum formulas, because that doesn't work). Even inside the LHC 99% of the design is made using classical formulas, basically everything except the targets.

Physics itself could be said to use pre-Godel mathematical models (since we haven't quite figured out how to fix the problem Godel pointed out while getting pelted with tomatoes, that's more of necessity than stubbornness of course).

The reality is that science is back in the 1900's before Einstein : we have several big flaws in our theories staring everyone in the face, making lots of people angry. At the same time scientists are telling everyone that science will solve every problem very soon now (or at least not contradicting it). In the meantime nobody has any clue how to fix the gaping holes in our most fundamental theories.

Maybe it's time we did an exhaustive search of patent offices and Italian kindergarten teachers ...
Why is there not a referendum process in national US politics? It seems the only way to prevent government officials from passing this kind of legislation is through public outcry on the internet (and mass media, if they listen). People should be allowed to reject this kind of thing through a real process. Special interest has a bigger voice than the people most of the time. Referendums work in Switzerland (usually, let's not talk about minarets).
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I can't see that working - any more than giving your DVD protection scheme the same acronym as a common file format (CSS) to prevent people finding ways to defeat it.
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As I watched the demo videos, what I imagined was a veritable army of psychotic individuals, each thinking they were a reporter, each armed with a plastic microphone, wandering from booth to booth to record their two minute impression.

On the other hand, the Samsung Kitchen Window is nice, but really seems impractical for most kitchen windows that are usually 18" or more behind a counter. The Samsung Kitchen Window needs mounting somewhere else closer and/or to be integrated with a Kinect.

Personally, I would probably mount it on some sort of track so that it could swing around in the kitchen always being in line of sight. (Donations accepted to make this wish a reality.)
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It's both very interesting, and quite depressing because I live in such a safe seat that the guy has never even bothered to visit our town right before election time, so I doubt he gives a damn about what constituents think the rest of the time.
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Should this blackout be limited to IPs that appear to be American, or universal?