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No. Bad things are bad, and no one should train themselves to pretend they are not bad.

When your friend not only cannot appreciate your hobby but derides it and doesn't attempt to make up for that, your friend is not a very good person or friend. You may be able to train them into being a slightly better person or friend, but more likely you need better friends.

We should not expect people who have been shot to make jokes or to be happy. We should expect them to save their energy for recovering from their wounds.

Our natural emotional reactions to our circumstances are there to provide a corrective feedback system.

The fact that this type of perspective is still so popular just means that civilization has a long way to go towards making daily life more tolerable for average people.
GHC 7.4.1 released (kind polymorphism, constraint kinds, better profiler)
And yet it doesn't support native code. What a big fail!
I really don't think the issue is judging something based on revenue at all.

There are numerous ways to measure the success of a product. It depends on what it is meant to accomplish.

The real point is: it does not matter what tools you use, so long as you are able to reach success (in any number of ways a person may choose to define it).

You can obviously argue about which tools will best get you there, or give you the best chance to succeed.

I've seen plenty of entrepreneurs or developers, use a tool 85% good enough, to hit a homerun. It's little different than a good plan executed today being better than a perfect plan tomorrow. I believe there are exceptionally few cases in life or business where the '85% good enough' won't do the job. I've yet to see the 100% perfection set actually exist anyway.
Then spend it on a good life. Give the rest. According to study, you only need $75,000 to live happy. http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-fo...
Btw, I am not sure why my first comment was downvoted.
How fat is "fat"? Are you assuming the cache will be able to fit whatever data you need to work with?
Please note that I didn't say the future of recycling is the reduction of consumption, but rather that it would be more largely affected by a reduction in consumption (than by 3d printing).

Oh, and sorry for briefly turning into Al Gore there. :P Good catch!
neat idea. now if only every employer had the same standard REST api at an agreed upon URI, (like sitemap.xml) so you can mass-apply, mass-update resumes. on their side they can mass-flag, mass filter, prioritize.
people use different apps on different devices to access the same data

They do right now because they have to. Different apps/methods are best on different devices, and there's not enough thought to moving interfaces between devices. But if users didn't have to, and the mechanism worked well, they'd love it.
There are some mods that try this. Finite Liquid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlnUXXzc1Fg) for Minecraft, for example, implements a simple pressure system, along with pipes, pumps and other flow/flow-control tools.
I wrote M/mumps/cachescript professionally for 2 years at epic systems. I think most sane people's opinion of M can be summarized as

BAD TOUCH! BAD TOUCH!
Many may not be truly happy with what they are doing but they are not willing to risk the well being of their family in order to seek what truly makes them happy.
"I didn't become a programmer to talk to people"
I don't usually say this, but this app is worth signing up for. Really well made.
When trying to follow the link here:

> Use this site to coordinate your discussion – http://peekhack.posterous.com

It gives a 404 Page Not Found error.

Edit: Okay, the link from the site is actually:

http://www.peek.ly/blog/news/old-peeks-testbeds/%20http://pe...
I want to share something that really impacted me in a big way, related to this notions being discussed here.

It was something I saw in a museum in New York state, about 1 hour north of New York City - I cant remember the name of the museum or the artist or the piece.

It was, literally, a matrix, where every point was a day in your life.

The shocking thing about it was that you could see it in its entirety pretty well. To my surprise, it was not a HUGE matrix, but rather a pretty small one - that you could see quite clearly both holistically, and every individual cell.

I tried to reproduce it in this excel spreadsheet. It is very shocking to see your life in such a way. It is scary. There are not that many cells!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22472889/yourlife.xlsx
I don't have videos to hand, but the vi master I know is a sysadmin rather than a coder - lots of glue code and config changes. I can't say I've watched a full-time programmer code in vi.

When I first starting playing with linux, I watched him get into a remote machine, replicate a few blocks in a conf file and customise them in vi, then restart the service, all in the time it would have taken me to simply complete my Windows remote desktop request.
> it's just a set of rules

That pretty much describes every system.

> It implies Gmail-man is a sentient entity..

It's a corny parody for internal use.

And for all the bullshit that Google spinned towards Bing in public, I consider this fair play.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3536110
35 years in prison is what you would get in federal court for walking across the street as the light was changing from yellow to red. It is there to give the government a better position to offer a plea agreement. It is highly unlikely that he would be convicted of every count, and even if he was, it is highly unlikely that he would receive the maximum sentence for each count.

But, 35 years is scary, and if I were in his shoes and the government said "pay a $100,000 fine", I'd probably agree without much argument. And that's exactly the point of saying he faces "up to" 35 years.
"Seeking applicants fluent in spamming tech."
In a democracy, free markets don't make the choices. The people do.

And the means by which they do it is with their voice and their vote, not their wallets.

People are more than just consumers. Consumer behavior is driven by many other factors then what people actually want, and the free market does not necessarily reflect the will of the people.

Free will is more than just being able to decide whether or not to consume shit.
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We've been doing this at EDITD for a while too:

http://editd.com/jobs/senior-engineer/

(for example)
This is a clear sign of fear of shipping. Call it anything. Just ship. Change the name later if you have to.
I have a few Polo (Ralph Lauren) shirts that i wear that I bought in the very late 90s. I'm not saying that the 300+% markup is valid, but I've worn a shirt in three different decades.
In clothing there is a standard wholesale markup, which is 2.0-2.5 of manf costs, and a standard retail markup which is again 2.2-2.5 of wholesale cost. This means that they are selling it to the retailers at around 60 bucks or so, and then the retailer is selling it for 155. The 30 dollars provides money for rent, warehousing, salary etc for the brand/wholeseller. For the retailer it does the same. Retailers also sell in tranches (at 10-50% off) so they have a distribution curve through which they set price bins
> Make gmail-man a bit more creepy. Or aim for a certain style of musical (or era).

So you want to 1) ruin it and then also 2) make it so everyone thinks Microsoft is bitter.
There is a billboard around Utah that has a base64 string on it, if you decode it, it reads "head /hi" and if you HEAD their domain/hi it says POST then some params about yourself to /apply.
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It's the division of people into "us" and "them", and the overwhelming belief that "we" are right, and "they" are wrong, and evil, is one of the biggest problems in the world's politics. And it's the biggest thing, out of many, that's wrong with Reddit.
I don't see the above quote as particularly disrespectful in context. It's a bit like a friend who has just spent half an hour talking you into going for that new wonderful job, and says 'or you could stay in your crummy current job'.
You all are confusing logic with politics. This happened because Google is not a French company. It happens all the time in France.
I didn't say anything about it being bad to enjoy your craft or what tools you use.

I've been dirt poor. Painfully, not actually scratching by, live off of ketchup packets poor. Let's talk about only seeing green some time eh. No matter the cost, I've always chose to do what I loved, and I've paid a helluva price for it at times. I've been an entrepreneur since I was 15. I know a thing or two about the extreme ends of both success and failure.

What I'm saying is: get the job done, whatever it takes. Use whatever tool will accomplish the job for you personally. Don't waste time turning yourself inside out over pedantic debates over 5% efficiencies, while opportunity escapes out the back door.
I believe the main point was to isolate your emotional state from impacts, and not to "be happy about bad things."

You have to maintain your well-being in the long term by being friend to good people and, well, not being shot, but in the short-term reinforcing positive thinking might just save you from a worse situation.
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If you got this to the point where you could scan a document and have it spit out latex code for the whole thing, you would have... ... a huge success on your hand. EVERY mathematician I know, most certainly including myself, would use it constantly. I have pages and pages of disorganized handwritten notes.

Since this is a forum for startup founders, put it this way: such a scanner would be of more use to mathematicians than, say, the sum total of Elsevier's output, and their latest financials show annual operating profit in the ten figures.

FOSS would of course be even cooler (IMHO). But, food for thought... :)
I can't say why everyone who's homeless is so, but I can say why many mentally ill people are. In order to qualify for government assistance if you do suffer from mental illness, you must realize you actually are mentally ill. This is the biggest barrier for many of the mentally ill. If you don't think you're mentally ill and actually are, everyone who says you are becomes yet another antagonist in your grand conspiracy theory--so that rules out going to see a doctor to get a diagnosis, that the government requires in order to prove incompetence (the catch-22 of SSI and friends). A very common delusion of the mentally ill is that the government is stalking/torturing/raping/spying/etc on them and so the mentally ill will do everything in their power to stay away from government workers or officials (sadly, these delusions can become self-fulfilling prophecies after a while). At least in California, the law requires that a mentally ill person voluntarily seek medical help, so friends and family are left helpless to do anything for a mentally ill family member except to support them with money out of their own pockets--bringing the entire family into poverty. People who suffer from mental illnesses like schizophrenia will incur irreparable damage to their brain if left untreated for years or decades; this is a common fate.

Sadly, the only hope for many mentally ill people is that their families won't give up supporting them before they develop some sort of other physical disease from neglect of proper medical care, and can then qualify for government assistance under that disability instead of their mental illness.

This is the sad state of mental illness in America, the moral: if you show early signs of mental illness such as paranoia, anxiety, depression, compulsive or "antisocial" behavior, please do yourself a favor and go see a psychiatrist before it's too late. There is no safety net, just prevention--and FSM forbid you have a mental breakdown.
I guess I don't understand what you mean. The US can own a bunch of shares of GM and it's still a free market.

The jet fuel example is infuriating, but it seems more like a monopoly power than some government enforced regulation preventing competition.

I guess i don't see how the state is that different than a kid with a REALLY BIG trust fund - at least up to the point of special laws. The post office is an example i'm familiar with. it's a felony to mess with mail, but not a UPS delivered box. I didn't get the sense that any of these state industries enjoyed special enforcement like that- just that they had really deep pockets. Frankly, not all that different from Goldman Sachs.

From the example you provided "Social-imperialism" might be a better term to describe the behavior.
Only yesterday, I wrote up how I use a smart card and reader with hardware pin pad for SSH authentication. Seems relevant:

https://grepular.com/Smart_Cards_and_SSH_Authentication
For anyone interested in a similar, slightly higher specced, hackable ex-consumer device for next to nothing: ZipIt Wireless have been clearing their old "ZipIt Z2" messenger range for some time now.
http://linux.zipitwireless.com/

ARM9 ~300Mhz, 32MB RAM, wifi, QVGA display, keypad, mainline linux kernel support, etc.

Decent sized hacking community: #zipit on freenode & sites like http://mozzwald.com/

Believe prices are as low as $18 for a single one, or $10/unit if you buy 16. We bought around 20 in a group buy at our local Hackerspace. Not quite cost of postage, but still pretty cheap.
It's interesting, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi specifically calls out this idea of listening to your "natural emotional reactions to our circumstances" in his book Flow.
When you have a new child on the way, an extra room in the house could be a hell of a difference for more then 2 years of your life... is this advice realistic for people who need to support a family?
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I can imagine a time when this practice becomes so common that spambots start mass-applying, and then employers need to use a CAPTCHA to ensure that only humans are using their API.

CAPTCHAs on an API. Never thought I'd see the day...
You're right. The size of the selected city is fixed, just to be visually prominent, while the size of the red/blue related cities is determined by how many searches are happening to/from there.
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See also Enventra, works with Excel, Mathematica, and Maple: http://www.enventra.com/
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are these still available?
SSH is capable of running multiple channels over the same SSH connection. In theory this means you could ssh to a remote host, then establish a second channel to transfer a file over. Why the heck does the ssh tool not actually allow this sort of capability? Why do I have to establish a second scp or sftp connection to transfer a file when I'm already ssh'd into the machine? I don't get it.
This issue reminds me of French and German price controls on books, which appear to support small bookstores by damping the economy of scale of large chains. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/arts/24book.html?pagewante...

If Google is forced to charge the same prices as small mapping companies, those companies should have less of a disadvantage. It's not really a cartel if anyone can join. There are plenty of reasons why this is a bad idea, but at least I understand why France is trying it.
I'm not entirely sure I agree; but my point is that Ohanian's easy comfort rests on an unstated assumption that "we" will continue to drive these sorts of campaigns.

"Us and them" is human nature.
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I proposed something like this a while ago and founded a mailing list for interested persons. It went quiet over the holidays, but for anyone who's interested, send me an email.
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Whether their code is open source or not is almost irrelevant. Read what ESR said carefully, it's not actually about the code itself, it's about user control of their data and experience.

Appropriate, thorough APIs and policies can probably accomplish the goals of user control even better than what is most likely a maze of undocumented code that would be hard for anybody outside of Facebook to make sense of, or put to good use.
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We await the day when they produce the last word in parenthesis-based IDEs.
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FYI: Editorial: Upverter, another closed source vampire exploits open hardware for ventrue capital, PR, and profit http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/09/21/editorial-upverter...
Here is the follow-up he mentioned: Textmining: My years negotiating with Elsevier, http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/11/27/textmining-my-years...
Harvard and Princeton, by contrast, look for students who...

Cut it to the chase. The ruling class of tomorrow is the current class of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. (And maybe Wharton). The end. The current class wants a ruling class that looks like their idea of utopia. This means a very Kosher group of whites, a hefty dose of divide-and-conquer "diversity", and a minimum of technocrats. Obviously, Asians are left out of that utopia.

They aren't going to spell that out in words, but their actions are clear as damnation.
The so-called "silent majority" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority) is certainly real. There have always been loud groups that constitute the minority: if Ohanian is suggesting that reddit and etc. will empower those that are silent who are members of the minority to be louder (which I think is implied) then that, I think, is a good thing, regardless of the political viewpoints being expressed. I don't think "too much" activism, even of ridiculous things, is bad.
Or you could learn how to love the things you are already working on. That option is easily overlooked.
Perhaps this one? https://twitter.com/#!/brutes_/status/158025883536461824/pho...
I think they missed the biggest thing - feedback loops.

The main thing social media has done is to democratize information so it's disseminated faster than ever and accessible to more people in more places than ever before.

So, when a like-minded group of people can agree on something, organize and instigate change whereas they wouldn't have 1) had the information 2) been able to organize 3) be effective, nearly as easily without the tools we currently have at our disposal.

It's the speed of information travel that lets us form and reform opinions as we get the latest up-to-date information. That factor, by itself, favors honesty and openness and makes things much, much more difficult to be shady and dishonest while keeping all your stories straight.
Reading the article and the comments here, I came to the conclusion that I seemingly don't really use vi. As in: I don't live in it.

On a typical day, I work with my files using grep, awk, bash, python, sed, make, cat, xargs, etc. And, of course, vi.

But I don't really use it like some (most?) people here seem to do. I don't list and navigate through files in vi (I use tree, ls and find for that). When I use vi, it's mostly for short bursts of manual editing. Occasionally, vim's syntax highlighting comes in handy - but that's about it.

Don't get me wrong: that is exactly why I _love_ vi. It starts fast[0]. It fits in pretty well with the rest of the unix environment (it can read stdin, for example; and with vim you can open multiple files given on the command line - and you can construct that file list with any of the standard unix tools, of course).

So, for me, the question "IDE or vi" ends much earlier. I don't even come to the point where I could discuss editing features. Can't read from stdin? Doesn't start in less than 1 second? Doesn't fit into my work-flow.

Of course, vi(m) is a great editor, for all the reasons mentioned here and in the article. But the unix user-land has some great tools, too. And it includes vi. So it is by definition an even better editor than vi. :-)

So that's what I use.

[0] Believe it or not, emacs starts still too slow for me. These one or two seconds tend to disrupt me a lot (I've tried it, with GNU emacs). And, as I said before, I invoke my editor pretty often, maybe 50 times a day.
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Tight integration between a mobile phone and a desktop OS is IMO a misfeature.

I have an Android phone and the only time I've had to connect it to my PC is to download photos. And then it looks just like another other USB drive w/ the top-level DCIM that my digital camera's SD card has. Just drag-and-drop.

On the other hand my in-laws bought iPhones and copying photos and MP3s to them via iTunes was confusing and very, very slow.

Consider too that for most people in the developing world, a mobile phone is the only "computer" they will own. Requiring integration with a desktop PC effectively cuts Apple and Microsoft off from a market of billions of people.
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I am a bit worried about the amount of false positives from these type of scans over the years (see antivirus scans) , and google`s lack of support or accountability in disputes. "We have found you to be guilty. We will not say what of. Goodbye" type attitudes from Google have shown up in a number of blog posts. I hope this system doesn't lead to more incorrect bans.
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http://www.harvard.edu/nobel-laureates

http://www.harvard.edu/pulitzer-prize-winners
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But will this last? With the phenomenal cost of running a retail establishment, it's probably cheaper to run an online store -- even if you offer free, shipping-costs-paid returns for any item that doesn't fit!

More and more people I know are finding themselves shopping online instead. There's a whole host of advantages:

1. The selection is way better, while the retail shop often has none of the styles you want, forcing you to go to specialty stores. Of course, online, "going to a specialty store" doesn't require driving.

2. Even though many people love browsing, the shopping experience is often just terrible. Online, searching for a particular type of clothing or style takes basically O(1) time, thanks to search, while in a retail establishment, you have to cart yourself across the store repeatedly. And online stores typically have images of models wearing the clothes, giving you a better sense of how it would actually look.

3. Some sites online offer actual, specific measurements for all their clothing instead of vague sizes like "6" or "10", whose meaning isn't even constant for a given manufacturer. I've never seen anything like this in a physical store.

4. It makes impulse buying easier, since you don't have to drive anywhere.

(and much more)

If Amazon can put the pinch on retail books and electronics, can sites like Milanoo put the pinch on retail clothes and cut out the middleman? I think there's still a lot of room in the online fashion space, and the margins surely have to be better. This is a harder problem than those approached by the typical HN startup, due to the problems of dealing with physical goods, but there's nevertheless been a lot of successful companies in that space lately.
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Oh dang, beat me to it, ignore the other comment ;)