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Those are valid numbers as long as solar is backed up by fossil fuels or nuclear, but if you want use solar for most of your electric power, you have to take energy storage into account. That's a lot more expensive.
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The default behavior also checks file size in addition to modification time.
Downvote? What could possibly warrant that? Not that I'm offended, but I am confused. I thought I was accurate and relevant. Did I get some fact wrong? Or did I say something offensive?

Re-reading my post, I find 2 potentially offensive excerpts:

"Dennis Ritchie didn't know better" Assuming mandatory indentation is superior, this one is flatly true (and there are other things to be said about the syntax of types). But I'm not saying he could have known better. As far as I know, no one knew better at the time.

"someone who cannot get past a Python-like syntax is probably not someone he would want to work with anyway" I apologize for this one, but I am personally fed up with people who won't use provably superior technology just because it would break their habits. Enforcing indentation in Javascript would be a minor syntax change, that can be learned in minutes and mastered in a day. I'd be wary of someone who refuses to make the leap despite the evidence for it. I must admit however that I'd understand if they just didn't believe in the evidence. (but then we can talk).
why do people want to do this?
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I just compare Scala's growth to that of Java or even Ruby (since RoR). I also think that this adoption is not the result of Scala's power features but in spite of them (really, there was little choice in the statically-typed JVM languages). But I really have no skin in this game, and Java does need a modern replacement to fill a certain niche, and I have a hunch it will be Kotlin.
And not just simpler, but way simpler, and way easier to get nice results. Think of all the stuff you get "for free" by using HTML in a modern browser. You'd have to write all this stuff by hand or lean on a game library to implement: text input, input focus, buttons, UI events, styled text (bold, italic, etc.), text shadows, box shadows, skinned UI (CSS).

In fact, I bet big name games will increasingly embed things like WebKit and use HTML5 and CSS for their UIs in the future.
>"China has even more scientists in key positions in the government."

Party elections are a bit of a stretch.
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Thank you. I often feel the term "anti-intellectual" is used on a person who simply disagrees with a notion thought up by someone that has been labeled "intellectual" by someone else or worse, themselves.
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Nobody's useless. It's easy to get wrapped up in the impression that we are defined by our jobs (especially around this site), but we aren't. I have had some unrewarding jobs myself, with little big-picture purpose and no easy way out, but the solution is to find (and make) value in other activities. Cultivate a hobby or an art or a programming side project that is important to you. Even the small "feel good" activities you mention are not insignificant if they impact someone else - and if you choose activities that are more interesting to you I suspect you will find them to be more satisfying.
Hey, this is something I wanted to build for a while, but never really got around to until this weekend. Please let me know if you find any bugs or if I'm handling a license improperly (IANAL).
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What do you mean with "really" and what do you mean with "mutual" ? In the article, the situation is described where the man in the relationship desires the woman and the woman desires another man. If you're asking "is it always like this?" then answer is simply "No." I don't even think it is very common, but that's judging from anecdotal evidence.

If you would forgive me for being so unromantic on valentine's day, the experience of being in love has similarities to a drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder. For most people, such infatuation is short-term, and in long-term romantic relationships usually replaced by feelings similar to friendship and attachment.

In my opinion, fretting over whether your significant other is really as addicted to you as you are to the SO is not productive. Focus on whether you are happy and whether you are getting your needs met in the relationship. If you are not, you are perfectly entitled to do something about it (starting with talking it over). If you are happy and getting your needs met, stop worrying.
Haha, this is great. I actually only found out about this about a year ago after it bit me pretty hard...so anything to help spread the word... :-)
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Isn't that basically what Khan academy is trying to do?
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I'm thinking of adding an "Additional notes" box to the book profile for that sort of thing. Recent events made me shy away from any sort of hosting, but I definitely see the value in direct download links. I saw your submission :) Thanks for trying it out. Hope you'll find it useful.
In principle, yes.

However, an individual connector may be rated to 100 watts, but the controller may not be able to deliver 100 watts to each of the ports it is connected to. You might have to span the TV across several different hubs.
Sure, experimenting is a great way to reach an optimum solution to a given problem.

Now please, go to your cellar and tell me for what kind of experiment are those 40+ different chargers that you have for all your devices, which most of them have exactly the same power requirements.

I would say that, in most cases, those chargers were developed in order to take that extra 1 EUR profit.

And that, *ing the customer, which somehow has been taking this mess for over 20 years.
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I also thinking the same thing. Why there are prefixes in the first place?
Who knows? Maybe someday we'll discover some magical way to transform atomic structures within a reasonably small, energy efficient end user device. Some collection of materials, tools and techniques we can't even conceive of today, but for now it IS literally inconceivable (notwithstanding the hand waving of self described "futurists").
Every meaningful point might not be on the agenda, and refusing to have a pertinent discussion because it was not on the agenda will lead to a second or third meeting, who knows when, with revised agendas that still might no be good enough. That's largely inefficient and a time loss for everyone.

Of course if nobody cares about some tangent point, it should be stopped on the spot. If a discussion appears while some of the stakeholders are missing, it might be postponed as well, but if it's not the case there's no reason no to go on and discuss it, just because it's not on the agenda.
What if we chose a voltage that could be transmitted throughout the house without too many issues -- like 48V?

Then we could step that down in the sockets, to 12 and 5V.

We could also use USB cables that have transformers built in, I guess -- bulges in the cable, or something. But then you're moving away from the 'one cable for everything' idea.
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Please excuse my ignorance, but what does "like a porn star" mean?
it's in the same position as go and c - it's not a revolution, but it would make life so much better.
Directing calls to a SIP client -- softphone or hardphone -- ought to be much cheaper, on the order of free to 3 cents/minute depending on how you arrange it.
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Great work! The guy who does photoshop job for you is simply amazing.

From a high-level view, I hope we see super-intense competition of tablet browsers soon. Because looking at -webkit-on-iPad, I feel IE6 has just been re-invented.
Hmmm...I will have to download that version of Chrome and see what the problem is. I'm just running release (17.0.963.46).

You can remove the text by highlighting it and tapping the Delete key on your keyboard, or by right-clicking and choose "Delete". If you click the Gear icon that's above the Search box when you are in the Image Search dialog, you can set it to put automatic labels above, below, or not at all.

Are you trying to tag image results in your personal image library? Or tagging supports doesn't work when your browsing the site outside of the editor?

Thanks for the feedback! And feel free to email help@symbly.us if you would rather do this via email :-).
They've got at least three different programming ecosystems thrown together it looks like. Admittedly some of it may be legacy, but still most large environments I've had experience with have a bit more focused an approach. The more different moving parts you have, the more different things you have to head-scratch at when something breaks and you get a 3am page. ;)
No, it _isn't_. It has many things that NO 8-bit system was capable of, like smooth gradients in multiple colors, and rotated sprites.

16-bit I'd maybe grant you, but no way is it 8-bit.
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A nice feature would be the inclusion of essays. I think they should be treated as second class citizens on your site but it could add significant value for people browsing by tags.

Awesome project by the way, will definitely be using this.
"My parents were married for 30-something years, and he said (it was) because they never wanted to get divorced at the same time." Gwyneth Paltrow
The post I replied to opined that "Maybe without football, we'd be closer to finally decoupling youth sports from the education system.": Their issue wasn't just with football, and instead football was the beachhead to try to excise physical activity.

In my high school there were a large number of prominent sports, with participation covering a hefty percentage of the student base. Wrestling, basketball, football, swimming, badminton, track and field, volleyball, among others. There was something for almost anyone, and it was a fundamental part of the social, learning, and physical wellness recipe. The school heavily promoted and celebrated academic excellence as well (and, contrary to the common bigotry, many of the academic leaders -- the ones who I competed with -- excelled at sports as well).

If a particular school focused only on football, then of course that would be a problem.
Yeah - fair point. I think I meant automating everything around the edges of the actual conversation - from transferring calls to the most appropriate person to collecting metrics to drive NPD.
seems like you should have http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html if you're posting here ;o)
Because you like it, and want it to be successful so you can keep using it?

Makes more sense than paying to advertise a political party or a sports team...
A key point is that X11 is no longer used for drawing; in recent years people are moving to client-side drawing (usually with Cairo). Thus the subset of X11 features that people use is similar to Wayland's features.

When people talk about client-side (really the toolkit) decoration, that's in the native Wayland case, so it is different from the way it's done today.
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Is it really a good idea to ask potential suitors if they want to buy it? Wouldn't that send them the message that you're desperate and receive low ball offers as a result? I'd probably establish relationships with people in the same space as you, and just mention you're looking to move to something else.
Glad you like it! Thank you. It seems like that's something people would find useful, as jonaldomo suggested. I'll work on that as soon as I can. I was also hoping to drive traffic to the book homepages to support the authors, which made me a little hesitant to show direct links.
It's not if no-one cares, it's if not EVERYONE cares.

If you've got 10 people in the meeting and 6 people start discussing something, you've got 4 people who are having their time wasted and were given no choice in the matter.
Well, I agree I was an ass there. When I read your comment I thought you were pushing something in the lines of "well, the problem is simple if you treat it with [insert hight-concept mechanism here]", which always gets a bit on my nerves. You know, like none has thought of the problem domain before? Anyway, I think I might have been mistaken.
That would be practical, however many of the books also contain information on how they can be bought even if they are free. So that is also information that should be displayed. It's nice to support the writers where they provide something useful.
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Twilio has a gaping gap in their service: there should be some very simple/easy out of the box solutions like "voice mail system" that you can then hook into with your own custom stuff. Not simple as in hack together a bit of PHP, simple as in click a few things on a web page.

As a small business, I really need a simple voicemail system, but don't need their programmable stuff. Yet. But it's cool enough that I suppose I'd go for them over others just to have it available if I want it in the future, if I got the simple voicemail system for a reasonable price.

I also tried Grasshopper, but their site barfed on my (very standard, plain) credit card.
Parents have been signing indemnify clauses for years. I know my parents did when I played in high school in the early 90's.
That's awesome! How do you handle the screenshots?
My meeting rules are simple.

1. I don't go to a meeting that doesn't have an agenda.

2. After I get the agenda, I try and work out what I can over email and phone, if possible.

3. If I can't get out of the meeting following step two, I let the meeting organizer know I'm available for 45 minutes at the maximum.

4. I leave at 45 minutes regardless if the meeting is done or not.

These principles have served me well.
worse then meetings: Skype-Calls (or even Group-Skype-Calls)

there is no agenda, there is no reason (mission statement), nobody prepares for anything (they are googling it during the call), it is not optional (they just call you), everything is summarized in an email afterwards, the email does not differ in any way from the email you would have written without the skype call.

some clients prefer to meet me before i start working for them (not going to happen) - the next thing is they want a skype video chat (not going to happen, i work naked) - then audio (hey, i'm online with a mobile data stick, not going to happen) - then they want a skype chat session ... i'm yet looking for arguments against chat sessions.

i once uninstalled skype, but the argument "i don't have skype" didn't work....
Because we're not qualified. We barely elect officials let alone scientists.
Is there a purpose to that?
Did not like this post. Like many others over here, I also have read all the great posts by him over the years, on joelonsoftware. But, honestly, this one just does not cut it for me.

He is over simplifying everything. And his extreme view ends demoting the "top" of an Organization's chart. Heck I won't want to start a company to just move furniture around.

And you can not have a binary classification for a CEO - Steve Jobs or not. In reality there will be lot of people who are perhaps very skillful, experienced and work very hard at the top. So their skill level might be closer to Steve Jobs than your average Joe. So you have to treat it like a spectra.

He makes a very fair comparison of developers and similar in a software company with that of a toothpaste company. But his fairness goes for a toss, when he compares the people at the "top". IMO just administrators should have no place being in a software product company in the first place.

He makes a good point, that its best for the organization that if all the brains are used rather than just one brain. But he goes to the other extreme to make this one point.

Experience does have a role after all. A fresh bright programmer might want to code everything up in the latest shiniest thing, if you _know_ that its a wrong decision. Then is it not your duty to explain him and convince him.

In such a situation, who has the luxury of acting like a university Chair, and setup a committee to take the right decision? :-)

So the comparison with university is wrong. I see another comment in this thread referring to 'architecture astronaut' in the context of this post. IMO, this is more of 'architecture polish' ... just skims the surface :-)
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I think we should beWhat about it is 8-bit style? What is 8-bit style?

If it means that it resembles games on 8-bit computers or game consoles, then no, it doesn't really look like 8-bit style. It looks more like early 1990s computer gaming, when things were fully 32-bit all around if you had to reduce it to those terms.
Are you familiar with PyPy? It was originally just an exercise in implementing Python in Python, but then it was discovered that this led to some very interesting possibilities for JIT compilation, and after a lot of work PyPy is now much faster for most tasks than regular CPython.

The thing is, there's nothing about PyPy that says it has to be implementing Python itself, and recently here on Hacker News there was an article where someone was singing the praises PyPy as a way to implement the language he was developing.
http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/fast_enough_v...

And it seems this person had come to the same realization.

EDIT: Oops, rereading I see I misunderstood something the README said, and he is only now considering using PyPy instead of CPython.
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Is this a theoretical thought or a practical consideration?

I think the Java ecosystem needs a good, mature language now ... and I fear Kotlin is still at least half a decade away from being stable. While Kotlin compares nicely to Java 7, we need to keep in mind that both Java and Scala won't stop being developed. So pragmatically speaking, it will need to compete against Java 12 and Scala 2.16.
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Firstly. Really good idea to list these books.

As for the direct link vs. link to the website... You could have both maybe?
One exception is the Integral Fast Reactor, which was near production-ready when Clinton cancelled the program in 1994. GE-Hitachi has a similar design called the PRISM which has been approved by the NRC for a full-scale demo reactor. GE is trying to sell it to the UK to burn up their plutonium stockpiles.

In the IFR tests at Argonne, researchers cut off the cooling system entirely, and the reactor just quietly shut down, with no damage.

A great new book on the IFR is Plentiful Energy by Till and Chang, two senior scientists at the Argonne project.
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The metrics for determining the success of OLPC and similar programs should be long term, not short term.

I suspect that few of the HN'ers who started out typing BASIC from magazines into a VIC-20 suddenly had better grades because of it.

Instead, they were learning and developing interests which have had long term benefits - and that's what education should be about (at least in so far as one buys into Dewey).

It could be that those teachers who are spending thirty minutes getting students set up with their computers are spending that time because the computer makes it obvious which students are not prepared for class - i.e. it is easier to ignore a student who shows up without their notebook than one without a computer.
I totally agree. There's also hidden dangers involved. If you're a company like AirBnB or Path, and something disastrous PR-wise happens, it'll appear all over TC if you're a Silicon Valley darling. If you're not known among SV, maybe 1-2 minor publications will pick up the story, but there won't be a huge commotion. If they're not your target audience, is it really worth a write-up in TC?
I'm not sure that Java 8 won't render Kotlin largely irrelevant.
Even before Apple consciously set out to harness this, people were self-identifying as Unix people, Microsoft people and even CP/M people. So, yes, Apple consciously leverages this. But, no, the behavior is not solely a result of their effort.

Consider all the tribes that don't even have a coherent "brand" behind them: C people and Ruby people; truck people and sports car people; dog people and cat people; PC gamers and console gamers; new york- and chicago-style pizza people; goths and hipsters and rockabillies; nerds and jocks; white-collar and blue-collar people; etc.
> So a lot of the parser code is fixing the HTML author mistakes.

This is probably my biggest problem with most of the ideology behind HTML 5. You learn from past mistakes and HTML has no way to teach you anything because there is no error-correction-test feedback cycle.

How do you learn proper HTML? You write something, you load it in a browser, does it show properly? It was right. Does it show in a funny way? There must be something wrong. What? Who knows. Nobody knows because you cannot, by definition create _wrong_ HTML 5. It is just that you did not write what you think you wrote.

There are validators you can use to validate your page. But most of the times they will tell you that your page is wrong while it actually looks perfectly as you wish in the browser. The browser is not complaining and the page looks good... these validators must be too picky, a waste of time.

The problem that killed XHTML was the draconian error handling in most browser. Only Opera had a good way to handle XHTML errors: a banner that told you that the page had an error and which error. Under that banner the page, rendered as best as possible. That was a good way to learn (and to tell people that the person who wrote the site is not a pro).
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While in the meantime, US cries about China's 'unfair' advantage in developing green technologies and lifts tariffs for imports. Perhaps just another difference between a lawyer driven society and an engineering driven society.
Thanks for the feedback, Ross. One thing to keep in mind is that we kind of launched against our own gut feeling. Which is the way you are supposed to launch! ;-) Lots of loose ends & you can be sure we'll be working on the UX for both Android and iPhone.
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tl;dr - giving an article a skim read it appears these devices wont allow facebook or youtube etc... so my point is probably mute..

Learning begins? Or we further Facebook's cause (along with other activities that are complete waste of time, gaming and streaming poor comedy). In Thailand at lot kids / teenagers / young adults have a netbook or laptop or a smartphone, if you are being a mr nosy you are guaranteed to see the little blue bar at the top of the screen and face palm, the wealth of information that is out there..
Of course in the north, you get places like Michigan/Michigan State, where they have hugely successful football, basketball, hockey, and baseball teams.
For what its worth, my experience backs yours. Earlier in my life relationships were more lopsided, but as I acquired more experience and kept searching for for somebody, things have oscillated a bit and evened out.

I think its hard to understand that things can be better until you've experienced them that way.