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I'm not convinced. It looks a bit like spawning threads in Java, but doesn't seem to offer that much more.
How is Sun going to continue to support all of this free stuff? They don't have an IBM-like number of consulting deals.
Considering how low the intelligence level of TC commenters has sunk, I'm beginning to believe it's actually detrimental to be featured on the site.

I thought Duck Duck Go was interesting last time I looked at it and it seems to still be so. Continue innovating and good luck.
I wrote a greasemonkey script to help me. It marks comments that have already been read. The way it marks comments is ugly and probably backwards (i.e. you probably only want to mark new comments, not the other way around). I did it as a proof-of-concept, mostly, but this thread convinced me to make it available.

http://dionidium.com/projects/greasemonkey/markasread.user.j...
8 of the 10 oldest domains can be tied to lisp... and to keven bacon...

1. symbolics.com: made Lisp machines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics

2. bbn.com: BBN made BBN Lisp for the PDP-1: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/index.html...

3. think.com: homepage of Thinking Machines Incorporated, the company that made lisp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp

4. ...

5. dec.com: Digital Equipment Corporation (which got bought by compaq, which was bought by HP) made PDP microcomputers. The first interactive lisp was implemented on the PDP-1 in 1963 by Peter Deutsch http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node5.html

6. northrop.com: northrop is still using lisp http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.h...

7. xerox.com: xerox made the Xerox Lisp Machines http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/

8. sri.com: SRI is still using lisp http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/it_management/sri...

9. hp.com: HP can be tied to lisp... but more strongly to keven bacon... http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/90/HPL-90-213.html

10. ...
You're right to be skeptical, but I encourage you to investigate further, since this is a common but erroneous belief: that even a few minutes without oxygen causes irreparable brain damage. In fact, it's the autoimmune response upon revival that causes the damage to the brain, not the hypoxia. And cold prevents the damage; some types of brain surgery require zero blood pressure, and are performed at low temperature (potentially for hours) without harm to the brain.
Excellent point - thought somewhat distressing. Most companies place value on the number of hours that you put in at the office (though a good portion of them recognize your actual contribution with pay increases, stock compensation, and promotions).

My position on this (and, I'm actually in a position to sign off on contractor invoices) - wouldn't you rather your top people do the same amount of work in _fewer_ hours, presuming they maintain the same level of quality?

What's the value of doing something in 40 hours/week versus 8 hours/week?
It's not just a matter of a lag. The Big 3 owe auto suppliers around $10 billion for parts already delivered. These suppliers need payment soon to avoid their own bankruptcies - payment they won't receive with a Big 3 collapse. If many suppliers go bankrupt, presumably parts will become more expensive for all domestic carmakers, including the Japanese companies, leading to more layoffs across the industry. All these layoffs - a number potentially around 3 million jobs - represents a significant drop in aggregate demand within the entire economy, and puts even more pressure on state and local governments already struggling to raise revenues, to say nothing of unemployment insurance. The bottom line is demand is not constant. A Big 3 failure would push demand down in the form of people who can't afford things because they don't have jobs. That can cascade in unexpected ways.
Hate to rain on your parade, but this was posted a little while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295817
This would be nice. I'd like to suggest a few things too. Sometimes I find good threads or interesting submissions that I want to read/analyze in the future, mainly because I don't have time at the moment, so I upvote threads. My saved list keeps growing even though I have done dealing in some of them. it would be great if you can delete it from saved list.
The indie Mac icon designers must be really making bank from the iPhone gold rush. They were already making good money from the people releasing crappy Mac apps, but now there's a much bigger and stupider group of miners to mine!

They get paid $1000+, up-front whether the app makes money or not, for something that has no bearing on the app's functionality. Genius.
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"If you want to securely erase a hard drive, it's not as easy as writing it over with zeroes. Sure, an "erased" hard drive like this won't boot up your computer if you just plug it in again. But if the drive falls into the hands of a specialist with a scanning tunneling microscope, they can tell the difference between "this was a 0, overwritten by a 0" and "this was a 1, overwritten by a 0".

There are programs advertised to "securely erase" hard drives using many overwrites of 0s, 1s, and random data. But if you want to keep the secret on your hard drive secure against all possible future technologies that might ever be developed, then cover it with thermite and set it on fire. It's the only way to be sure."

There have been no cases of anyone ever restoring a zeroed hard drive. It's utter bullshit. Especially these days with our precision aligned platters and insane densities.
Interesting bit of trivia: nobody can ever have example.com, example.net, or example.org because it's a reserved domain for the RFC. Check it out at www.example.com.
Does anyone have a link to an online copy of the actual thesis?

Simple searches turn up places like http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/uncollected-dfw.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AaronSw/David_Foster_Walla... which only mention it.
Damnit, I can't believe I typed that, and didn't catch it. Goes to show how bad my Japanese has gotten over the past year. I really need to start studying again, and not just chattering with my girlfriend.

Yeah, 大変申し訳あります sounds like something you'd see in 漫才.
To place this in context...I was six, and my family couldn't afford a computer. It would be another 2 years before we had a Dell in the house.

I've kinda been addicted to it since.
So what's this going to mean for scribd? Are they going to go way of the YC startup web 2.0 calendar that ebayed themselves off, after Google Calendar came out?
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..related to technology, of course.
A > B does not imply that B is finite. But ericb already said this.
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Also handy when you're not at your computer, or at one with download restrictions. I agree Safari has a fast PDF viewer though.
To be honest, I usually just keep the thread open in a tab for a few hours until things die down. That said, I generally only comment on a handful of threads per week, so that's a manageable system for me. For those of you who participate more, I think that wouldn't work so well.
I am lucky enough to work with Kelli Shaver on my startup. She's been a friend for 10 years, and is an awesome designer -- of everything, but especially of icons.

She recently took down her icon site, but still does icon work for people. Her freelance portfolio is here: http://www.kellishaver.com/
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Live Free or Die Hard maybe? War Games Dead Code? Antitrust?

Not sure if those are driving people, but they try to put kids in those sort of situations to help save the world.
As I read your comment, you're suggesting it's a form of self-involvement. If so, I don't think that's quite fair. Programming has been around for fifty years. That far into, say, the industrial revolution, people were talking about it a lot. In fact, it was at least a hundred years before industrialization began to be understood and quite a while later before you get Taylor and Ford. And software is far more complicated than that. So the reason we talk obsessively about programming is that we've barely begun, it's really important and fascinating, and we don't understand it.
This is a really minor thing, but a pet peeve of mine is when vowels from two separate words line up in a domain. It confuses me at first glance, and sometimes the name gets obscured. So I see, CloudFireit (i.e., something I would pronounce "firite") instead of CloudFireIt.

You might want to consider switching to something like getcloudfire.com or gocloudfire.com ... both are available.
I might be thinking of a different feature but I like how on LtU it says "13 comments | 5 new comments" for example
Have you browsed a magazine rack or TV listings lately? Most of it is pretty far from intellectually stimulating.

What makes the app store "sacred ground"? If there's a market for dumb stuff, let people sell it. If it's both dumb and unwanted, then it should get buried at the bottom soon enough.
Thats nice if you have the luxury of space and don't ever trade books in for credit at second hand stores. Sometimes its nice to pass a book on to someone else after you have read it.
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Well, depending on multiple sites for critical data of course multiplies the risk of failure. But the risk of depending on one other highly reliable site for something that should almost always be cached anyway is indeed very very small.

I wouldn't say this whole issue is FUD though. For instance I would not want to depend on four different even high quality third party sites for each request to my website because the likelyhood of failure would be (almost) five times as high.
Look at #20: 20=	05-Aug-1986	STARGATE.COM
That evaluation is taking into account the fact that death is inevitable within 120 years or so regardless of what you do. If you expected to live for 1000 years or more, you'd presumably value your life higher.
I agree 100%. this is essentially a sucker tax. why does everyone spend so much time worrying about suckers? Oh right, because we all subsidize suckers with taxpayer dollars in socialism. poor people are good at wasting money, that's why they're poor. giving them the money of non-suckers fixes NOTHING.
Even worse, they are going the way of a company built around a feature. Kiko users would have had to consciously move to Google Calendar. With PDF viewing most people won't even notice if what they are using changed. (I'm not ranting against Scribd - the same applies to others, like YouTube, which are essentially viewers for data that's hard to view.)

Scribd's approach of being a destination website is completely broken IMHO, because the Web already has a destination to read any type of text - the Web itself. What they should've had is a Firefox plugin that captures my PDF links and opens them in Scribd instead of Adobe Reader. Google is doing this for mail and I'm sure a feature like that is in the plans for Google Toolbar.
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I do that too... works fine for me.
I probably spoke to fast. I could see it being somewhat feasible if the cryonics facility was immediately informed that the patient was dying, and the patient was frozen within hours of clinical death. My main concern is the success of freezing a brain dead person. I also was mainly referring earlier to the loss of information in the brain, not the actual physical brain damage.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theoretical_death. So if the family refuses or delays to inform the organization, I'm skeptical about whether the information in the brain can be preserved. And there have been bitter legal battles fought over cryonics. http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/is-that-what-love-is-the-...
Ditto for that recommendation. I've known Kelli for many years and she is a talented and smart designer - as well as an all-round nice person.
Actually, for most people (don't forget that the bay area isn't the normal world) -- the cost/benefit ratio is definitely there. Just read the reviews, from all the top reviewers. People know how to upload photos to their computer. It's not rocket science. But they don't do it because it's a chore and take a lot of activation energy. So like any other chore out there -- they end up putting it off.

With the Eye-Fi Card, all you do is get in range of wi-fi, turn the camera on, and the photos will go to your computer and to any of 25+ sites. It'll also tweet on your behalf, and embed geo-location information into the EXIF header.
Heh. I love how the techcrunch comments are mostly retarded. Almost zero constructive criticism so far - but you should definitely get a deutber involved once you can pay him to appeal to idiots like that...
We support Gallery 2, which is the largest photo sharing open source project on the net. So ANYONE can become a destination for the Eye-Fi Card.

Email me at [gillat AT yahoo DOT com] and I'll send you a PDF file that explains how to do it. You just need to support 4 API's, and you're done.
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Not Wi-Fi. This is white space. I've heard estimates of 20mbits but I'm not sure if anyone really knows yet.
Awesome. We believe that images should live in the cloud because it's MUCH more secure than having your photos just at home. Dropbox can become an Eye-Fi destination if they want to. Just email me at gillat AT yahoo DOT com
The way that the Eye-Fi card works, today, is that every photo that's taken is uploaded to the destination. You can keep switching destinations, online, whenever you want.
They can become a destination ;-)
I love DHH's talk from Startup School "The Secret to Making Money Online". Seems like his "charge people to use your service" become a lot more relevant since the recession hit.

http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/97862/DHH_Talk__Startup_School...

Frankly I often mentally reference PG's startup school talk: solving a problem for people whose hair is on fire. People who have a big problem that need any solution urgently.

http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/98110/Paul_Graham_Partner_Y_Co...

And of course, both of Hans Rosling's talks on global poverty trends from TED. The technology behind his presentations is fascinating, but the historical context he adds as a speaker pushes these two videos over the top for me.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/hans_rosling.html
I recently pointed this impressive tool at a project of mine and got the following. Care to share the sloccount output for your project?

SLOC	Directory	SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
18246 sutro java=18246

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
java: 18246 (100.00%)

Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 18,246
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 4.22 (50.63)
(Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 0.93 (11.11)
(Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 4.56
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 569,991
(average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
I know that my comment stems from both the fact that I have no understanding nor ability to do graphic design.

I am however compelled to say that at the price of 1000 USD per icon, you actually come out to a 1.5 cents per pixel of a 256x256 icon, or about 65 pixels per dollar.

Now that doesn't sound as bad as the million dollar homepage, is much better looking than that brain-fart of an idea, and it's "yours." You get a custom icon for your application, and damn it looks good.

Mantia's homepage shows that he can pretty much consistently do an icon of that quality in one day.

Here comes the second part of the calculation... as a consultant/expert doing enterprise integration (and I'm talking enterprise - multinational telcos, airports) in Europe I can expect to earn about 400€ per day. That's about 535 USD per day.

I realize Mantia is earning about twice as much as I can per day and I get confused. It's not even only about the money: while I am considered nothing more than a higher-up keyboard jockey, he gets the kudos for being an artist.

To the proponents of the theory that programming is actually an art: have I chosen to live off of a wrong art type? :-p
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As of right now the promise of cryogenics is analogous to snake-oil and various forms of alternative medicine. Surgery is something that works, we know why it works, how it works, how to do it again and again, how to gage the probability of success in particular cases even. In other words surgery is something on par with science and engineering. Comparatively the promise of cryogenics is like science fiction and magic.

I'm all for people engaging in cryogenics, alternative medicine, snake-oils, gods and magic if they have the money and desire but these sort of silly arguments and rationalizations about them I do not understand at all.
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Why no mention of Rep. Gohmert's proposal to make Jan and Feb 2009 a tax holiday? IMO it's a brilliant way to allow the free market to choose the winners and losers instead of putting that decision in the hands of the government.

(more about Gohmert's proposal: http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=953...)
The open nature of Android certainly has advantages over the iphone, but Apple secured a pretty hefty first-mover advantage. Also, they got it right from the start (or V2) with a great design, whereas Android still feels very much in alpha.

Background processes are a big win and would be a huge factor for me, but I'd need to see some improvement of handset design before I'm ready to switch.

The real question is when will we see a more polished Android phone?
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Looks mildly useful but I think it would be really interesting to use the context from WikiPedia to enhance the web results. Dunno if anyone does this.
It's funny that you mention that, my girlfriends dad does the same thing (I think?).

He through these people for O2 right now - http://www.thbs.com/
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About time, this should have been released several years ago.
Weirdly, Android (and most other operating systems) have the ability to run background processes without anywhere near as complicated a system.

They just implement preemptive multi threading, that way if some threads need more and some need less, they all get the CPU they need. (well, in general).

In fact the API you suggest seems needlessly complex Why a "VM"? Why register callbacks? Just let tasks run without a UI thread. Let the process with the currently visible UI thread have priority. Simple, done. (Glossing over the fact that doing things the way Apple does it allows for them to make better performance and battery-life guarantees, which is something not solved with your API as the user "cost" is taken out on other applications generally, as users don't know that their battery is worse because of you, or that there browser doesn't scroll as smoothly because of your bad background thread.)
My mother always said: You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
(Google did not have first-mover advantage with their search engine. First mover advantage helps, but it also helps if you have something else, like sexiness.)

Android handsets definitely lack a certain polish, both software and hardware side. Its quite a pickle.
Maybe, I'm wrong, but I often get the impression that the person who writes this blog is in need of a good grief counselor, but may be too smart for most of them to help.
I was contacted last week by a headhunter for this company. At first I was very uncomfortable about their business plan. But I talked to them and they seemed on the legit side of the law, at least over here in Germany. To sum it up: pure Faustian brilliance. I guess they're still looking for devs, so if you want an inside look, get yourself invited to an interview.
I agree. There's no reason to switch until there's a sexy good build quality phone. The G1 certainly isn't it.
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I don't see why it's despicable. The format of the auction seems to be clearly available to all participants. It's all consenting adults, who have all of the information needed to make their own informed decision as to whether or not to participate.

If people want to gamble, why not let them? How is this any different than operating a casino? It's not wrong to provide a service that many people deem enjoyable just because a small portion of them can't exert the self-control to use it responsibly.
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Legally I suspect it's quite distinctly not a gambling site. I would guess this to be legal in at least 44 states here, and I think it's fine in the other 6 too, though their contest laws are fairly convoluted.
Right, it's clearly not a raffle or a lottery. It's an auction. I don't think it would violate the sweepstakes laws of any state, though there are 6 I wouldn't push it in if I were running it.
You're wrong on both accounts. For one, it's clearly not a raffle because there is no random selection method. It's most definitely an auction. Exact laws on raffles and other forms of sweepstakes vary from state to state, but all require some sort of random selection method. Some merely require any randomness to exist, some require it to be primarily random (more luck than skill) and many fall in between. But none would consider something a sweepstakes that has no randomness at all.

For another, state Attorneys General are hesitant to try internet-related cases that violate sweepstakes laws unless it's more or less in the bag. It's a giant legal gray area and they don't want to set an unfavorable precedent.
Games of skill with monetary prizes are legal in all states. How you define a game of skill vs. a game of chance varies, but with no random element here, I doubt this would be considered gambling in any.

There are 6 where they may run into some sweepstakes laws though, I'm not sure. There are states where it is actually illegal to have a contest that is free to enter but awards a prize.
"How is this any different than operating a casino?"

Operating a casino requires a license for a start afaik, and there are checks to ensure things are fair.

How do we know the winning bidders actually exist?
I agree people should be able to make their own minds up in the main, but they should be doing that safe in the knowledge that they are being treated fairly.
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