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Ok, how is it different to mailing list with nice looking subscription page?

Looking at your (minimalistic) page, I can't see a reason why should I give you my email and click "sign up". Some more info about service, guest preview of what is offered might make me interesting, but one page with one image and subscribe button will not.
Heh, someone should create some cool t-shirts.

"Got quiche, bro?"

"Quiche on Rails"

"Brogrammer. Will code for quiche."

Additionally, startups in the know should put "unlimited quiche" in their hiring posts. Free beer is soooo 2011.
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What the hell?!

Is it really so hard to believe that some people honestly think that Reddit should have no Subreddits explicitly catering to pedophiles?

Yes, I’m for Reddit taking away the freedom of pedophiles to share photos on Reddit, even if those photos happen to be legal more often than not. Is that really such an outrageous position? Why should Reddit allow everything? I don’t understand the premise. I think there is nothing wrong with asking a medium to have reasonable policies.

Reddit did the right thing. Finally. It took ’em long enough. It’s quite sad that it took a coordinated attack to show the admins what’s obvious.
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I see this more as an INvalidation test. Answering yes to those questions doesn't mean anything. Answering no to any of them is a bad sign. However, that's not very insightful.
Canonical recently stopped funding Kubuntu: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/canonical-to-stop-funding...
One issue I always have is the various path env variables (GEM_HOME, etc) that you have to set on a per-directory basis on hosting environments. Right now, I have an alias command in my .zshrc that sets the path based on the current directory, but something tells me there is a better way to handle it.
Agreed, but then the headline should have been "Guy has a fun time spending 1,000 hours building a neat looking house."

What bothers me is the bait and switch. It's bad journalism, but I would bet that the people who find this economically or ecologically "good" would be disinclined to change the headline because something to the effect of "dude has fun hobby" doesn't have the same "social good" connotations as the current headline.
Can we get a semi NSFW tag on this? It's a bit...edgy.
While your assertion may very well be true, the link you provided is not, in any way, any kind of proof. There's nothing in there - at all - to support your claim that "app store piracy is a huge problem".

Do we have any actual figures to support this claim? I highly doubt its validity, you see.
You are right that it refers to the rocket, but the length of the project is due to the purpose and goal of the payload, not the development of the rocket. If you look at the history of the VEGA programme, and why it was started, you will see that the development of the rocket has been designed for the sole purpose of putting into orbit a unique combination of (scientific) satellites and picosatellites. The development of the rocket has always gone hand in hand with that of the payload. The rocket technology used in VEGA already existed, as Avio was already a big contributor in the Ariane 5. The primary user of this rocket, and the those who promoted VEGA, were and still are, the scientific community at European universities.
Rise of the Independents
I agree. I don't think he would have managed to retain friendships and partnerships with engineers so successfully if he was that horrible to them.
I've never smiled so much at a game demo - the final video looks insane and so much fun! I really like the various co-ops modes you're throwing into the mix.

Looks awesome - best of luck.
Do you really believe those bullshit conspiracy theories?

Yeah, right. Some goon posted CP on Reddit, causing outrage among some Reddit users but also flaming (and highly upvoted) defenses of said CP – presumably all by goons.

There were numerous jailbait subreddits for years. This is no conspiracy. That doesn’t even pass the sniff test.
Yeah, add Devise and I'll buy it actually
This isn't the first time Microsoft has altered their logo, check the google image search for Microsoft logos http://www.google.ca/search?q=windows+logos&hl=en&rl...

I was looking at the start-screen of windows7 on the weekend, and thinking it is time for a change. A new design is needed, both to move beyond the baggage of the past, as well as promote that their is a BIG difference between the old Microsoft and the new (or old Windows if you'd like).

At the same time, the logo in this example is very much a model of the Metro UI. I don't think the current logo says much about Windows, a clean fresh logo is needed.
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This is already available in Nightly.
Sorry, I was inaccurate, they do serve ads, but not web ads, and so far I don't have any reliable information stating that Apple scarps the contents of user's personal data to deliver more relevant ads in a way google does.
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That's extremely true.

I remember how the banks used bailout money to pay out bonuses. There was an uproar about it, and they scaled it back, but I remember the banks arguing that if they were going to survive these turbulent times, they'd need to keep the top talent, and that meant bonuses. There was that indignant letter to the nytimes from an AIG employee (salary + bonus around 700K) who was angry that people were angry about his bonus, since he had "nothing to do" with the people who ruined the company (his analogy was that it was like blaming the plumber when the electrician burns the house down).

I worked for a startup that tanked. Lots of people put a lot of their lives into it. Options were worthless (and I knew people who had worked for 7 years or more) The startup kind of made the last payroll. We got our regular paychecks, but they failed to pay out all of the vacation time. We found new jobs, and moved on with our lives.

Nice thing about high tech culture is that the experience (even the failure) made more more employable, not less. So in that sense, you can fail in the valley.
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Seriously, I thought meh just a hard platform game until I saw the bungee coop
A "grizzled 33 year old". That's so cute ;)

Knowing what you don't know is empowering, for a while. And then you realize that you're mortal after all, and will never even know enough about all the things you're deeply interested in, let alone those many things that sounded interesting, but that you never explored.

It teaches you a lot of humility, but it doesn't feel that empowering. At least to me.
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Regarding the quiche reference, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was a humor book and a meme back before there were memes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Dont_Eat_Quiche

(For those too young to remember... It's scary that if Marty from Back To The Future were to go back in time today, he would go back 30 years to 1982, instead of 1955 - http://i.imgur.com/VkHdj.jpg )
>Have you looked at the majority of pictures in r/jailbait, r/teen_girls, etc? If not, how can you say they were illegal?

I saw enough to make the judgement the majority of it was illegal. They had no intention of posting legal content.

>So the question is, how can you claim "the majority of them were illegal" when it's impossible to objectively determine that?

Okay then, if I were to claim, "The ones I saw were illegal." How would that change anything? There was still blatantly illegal content actively posted to and promoted on a forum.

If your goal was to win an argument of semantics, you should rethink your strategy.

>And I'm sure plenty of r/teen_girls posters would tell you they're posting the images for their artistic value.

No, most of them admitted to wanting sexual gratification out of the images. You must not have visited the subreddit. This wasn't some grey area.

>That's a completely different issue, don't muddle the discussion.

You were the one to first compare them. You should take your own advice. ;)
Perhaps simpler: If you make something and I take it without permission, I'm a dick. Going around being a dick is bad karma. Morally, we should all strive to not be dicks.
FWIW nowadays MacPorts does install binaries for packages when available. I just did a "port upgrade outdated" a couple days ago and many of the installs were very fast as a binary of the current version was available for my OS.
That's not true. Trackpad gestures are pretty awesome and it's easier to switch between applications using them as opposed to command-tab.
My family needs really great health insurance (USA, where job and health care go hand-in-hand).
Another minor issue... why is there an asterix next to "Email," but no accompanying disclaimer or privacy policy?

Your main headline in 3 lines (rather) than 2 on OSX (Lion) in Firefox 10. Look is like the div width issue. Everything else looks good. Keep up the good work. :)
>designed to serve as a first course in an undergraduate

>In order to succeed in this course, you must have taken an AP level physics course in electricity and magnetism.

Do high schools actually offer AP EE Physics classes? I went to a blue ribbon high school and they sure as hell didn't offer anything that specific at that advanced of a level. Even the university I went to had EE Physics as a 200 level class.
If you work in finance, then not living in Manhattan means you're not "serious" and will be passed over for promotions, etc.

Basically, high rollers are expected to live a high-roller lifestyle. If you display signs of frugality it means you're still thinking like a poor person.
>Right, so how many of them have you looked at to make that judgement?

Enough to determine there was no intent to post legal content.

>And perhaps more importantly, isn't it slightly problematic (or at least odd) when a large number of people are justifying the ban by calling this material illegal... and to be able to argue that they must, surely, have committed the crime of viewing child pornography online themselves?

A large number of people are saying this material wasn't illegal. They must surely have viewed it themselves, as well. Where does that get us?
Yes, sorry, they are. They are not serving web ads though, nor we have a reliable account that they collect information from user's iCloud emails to enhance the relevancy of iAd ads.
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That's fair. Then again, that's how Summify started out, too. Once we get the consumer-facing site built, feel free to sign-up then. This list is just for people who want to be notified once we're live.
When it comes to decision making, the managers should be more like customers, or representing customer's demands. The customer's demands are usually less technical, like they want something 'fast' or 'not to break' or 'cheap' or 'easy to use' or 'soon'. The customer can be internal or external. The specialists need to supported as best as possible to enable them to satisfy these demands by choosing and implementing the best solutions for it.
Developers aren't "normal people" then? If that's seriously the attitude Apple takes towards its developer community ("no, we won't give you the software you need, get it from the crappy community projects") then why do you put up with it?

It seems like the OP's point is pretty valid to me. I use an OS that gives me what I need to do my job.
For those who like Lisp, here's a similar article with Clojure as the target language:

http://ethanfast.com/2009/09/ga-framework/
Future of car sharing (how beautiful... see the power of a modern web browser)
Thanks! +1 for the HackerNews community :)
In terms of the lecture content, if you go to any large university this is essentially how those 100 level courses are taught anyways. You're sitting in a huge auditorium with hundreds of other students just watching the lecture on a TV screen. The grading of assignment is then done by TA's. The professor has been abstracted away so far in those classes that I see little difference just replacing it with a format like this.
Yes. Welcome to the "good old days" of programming :)
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It looks like a neat concept. I'd probably throw him a few bucks if he had a kickstarter project.
And this is why when traveling any distance we shut our Macs totally down
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At the very least, they should have informed the users of the risk they were taking... There are plenty of developers who could copy all sorts of data without you knowing.

I think this is the whole crux of this issue. Hardly anything is private anymore. Today, people are willing to share data, but they demand control^ over it. If you just ask for the data, people will give it most of the time (especially when they went through the process of downloading your app and/or creating an account for your service). It's when you start doing things in the background that people start to question your motives & they feel like they have been conned into doing something they shouldn't have. A little transparency goes a long way.

^This is, of course, the hard part.
Sorry if you took offence to what I said, I simply interpreted you listing all the issues searching specifically for django and how you work with django, then claim that they are generally a bad service.

Your complaint was very specific, yet you claimed it was a general issue.

All that being said, your complaints were entirely targeted towards meeting your needs. Hence, specific need. I can't even conceive of how your complaint wasn't about a specific need, or how this is so drastically different from a specific issue.
wish i could see the slides :\

edit: ok, the video does show some of them..
Your argument basically calls for casual users to stop being casual and to begin to become experts. Activity monitor certainly does help casual users understand what's going on. For the casual user using a system normally (meaning having a browser open, checking mail, writing in a word processor) seeing that application X is using the most memory means that's the problem to them and they're correct to assume they should kill it. It may be hit or miss but that's all they know and in most cases things get fixed that way.

As professionals we often forget what it is to be a casual user. Asking a casual user to learn what you explained as folklore is simply too much to ask. Everyone who uses a computer should at least be technically literate to a degree but that means understanding the basics. To a casual user the basics are: my computer has a processor that executes tasks, it has RAM that stores data for quick retrieval, and a hard disk for long term storage. Each application uses a percentage of my finite RAM and when it runs out my system slows down. Therefore logic dictates that if I kill the app taking the up the most RAM my computer will go faster.

That's all they usually know. We understand that Activity Monitor lies to us and killing random processes is voodoo but we also have to take into account how we use our machines. The casual user will be able to solve their problem by killing processes more often than people like us will because of the way they use their systems plus there is a placebo effect for them. When they kill a process they often feel like the system just got faster regardless of whether it really did.

I liken it to driving a car. Ask some random person about fuel economy. Their thinking is "high octane fuel has more energy per gallon therefore if I use it I'll get better fuel economy". They might even know the relationship between tire inflation and fuel economy too if you're lucky. Ask a professional driver about those things and they'll look down at the average person like they're crazy. They know all how octane, oil, air filtration, shocks, struts, aerodynamics, etc, etc. all contribute to better fuel economy. "If only the average driver knew what I knew, then they'd save a ton on gas" theyd think. But alas, that's too much to expect so we just have to make sure they get the basics and it's up to the professionals to provide the average person with something that just works and do our best to be one step ahead of users by anticipating their usage patterns. This applies to hardware/software engineering, car manufacturing, and anything else. You just can't expect the user to learn or even take an interest in even a quarter of what we know.
I'm really glad I don't work somewhere that this wouldn't be completely safe.
Popular misconceptions about UEFI Secure Boot
It's really, really hard to go wrong with Lenovo kit.

ThinkPads are cheaper than similarly-specced Macs, just as well built, and run Linux great. They are the equal of Apple kit from a pure hardware standpoint in just about every way except styling. (Personally, I'm a fan of the black, Christopher Nolan Batmobile-like design.) And you won't find a better laptop keyboard anywhere.
I don't buy that at all. If a serious distro pushed an update that broke X, we'd have all heard about it. Which distro? What package was it that broke? Are you sure you weren't mucking about with non-distro stuff like the NVidia driver installer?
Yeah, I always found it quite educational to read about the state of the art in the old days. Helps to put things in perspective.
The whole time I was reading it I just wanted him to stop talking and take my money. He should release it on Xbox Live no matter what microsoft says. (I think anyone can do it now right?)
I'll clarify, since the fellow above sounded a bit terse, but was entirely sincere:

Unlike...99% of forums out there, HackerNews frowns on the "I agree" and "this" type comments. I don't think that was your intention, but since only high reputation posters can actually downvote, you'll get buried if your comment is breviloquent. This has pros and cons, but is a net positive.

Anyway, welcome to HackerNews.
Depends on the person. I find many business notebooks pleasing to the eye.
The author appears to have the maturity of a high school sophomore, but wow does that game frighten me, in a Super Meat Boy way. Forget Microsoft, do a Kickstarter to raise funds to hire a real artist and build some kind of story around the game, then publish it for PC and Mac (on Steam if you can - good luck with that meeting). If you're successful there, the publishers will come calling.

The game mechanic is clearly there, but it needs a story and style. Again, Super Meat Boy has the "ungodly hard" thing down, but without the distinctive art direction and slightly disturbing story, would it have been as big of a success? I suspect not.
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Same here, no problem. Lion and Xcode 4.2.

Remember that after downloading Xcode form App Store you actually have to INSTALL it and after RUN IT at least once so everything works properly.
I want this guy to succeed just so that I can hear more semi-edgy stories like this. He walks the line between funny and TMI well.
I don't think it is an EE physics class. Rather the first physics class generally deals with motion/forces while the second includes electromagnetism.
I was an ardent Ubuntu user and then I bought a Sandy Bridge-Optimus Thinkpad. The high temperature and constant fan forced me to move to Windows 7. The temperature on Linux was at least 10C higher than on Windows.
Yes, through the Xbox Live Indie Games program (they might have renamed it recently). Problem is, he wouldn't get the promotional backing that a "real" game gets, both from MS and from a publisher. Those games hardly get any attention, and good games often languish amongst 2-hour tech demos and ridiculous Minecraft ripoffs.
Replying to myself because I decided I have more to say:

Imagine if a coder wrote a big huffy blog post declaring that he was only going to use single-character variables everywhere because it was more "minimalist" than using descriptive variables. He'd be hanged.

Obviously what "fat" is deciding to do with semicolons is less annoying than the strawman I just made up, but I don't think it's entirely dissimilar. The Javascript spec doesn't say that you must use descriptive variables, and using single character variables is certainly valid. However, it's an established convention that we just don't do that, because people find it irritating.

Basically this just comes down to "plays well with others".
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I disagree that the Dost Test even applies to those images. These were not "nude or seminude" images in the first place. They were, at most, girls in bikinis. These subreddits specifically did not allow semi-nudity.
Actually it would be very different to run a sewer to this house than to a traditional house.

When you are piping large amounts of raw sewage around you need strict rules to protect people, property and the environment. So now you need to get it up to code, and pay trained people to check that it complies.

Straw is a promising material but I think we've already tried harvesting logs in "large quantities" and it hasn't worked out perfectly.
Why one tech writer says 'Do Not Track' won't kill the free Internet
Agreed on the great concept.

I'm in love with the idea of infinite levels, and playing a level that hasn't been played. It reminds me of the thrill of watching a minecraft level birth itself in front of you.

Agreed also, on the kickstarter project. My wallet is ready.
I have to agree with the surprise and dropping it on you after the meeting had started. At a minimum, that rather puts one "on the spot".

As for the interview / candidate position itself: Is that what working for them is going to be like?
This is indisputably a big part of why people on wall street get paid so much. It doesn't explain why the opportunity exists in the first place, but it does explain why the top players get so much money.

As long as we're careful not to associate "bringing in revenue" with "creating wealth", I'm in agreement. My big problem with wall street isn't that top players get money - that's fine by me. It's that they acquire wealth without creating it, and in many cases inflict real wealth destruction on the rest of the economy.

In general, I'd say that in a a good economic system, wealth acquisition correlates closely and positively with wealth creation. When it does, people tend to value and admire the wealthy. When the correlation becomes negative, well, you get the French revolution.

This is a big part of why wall street pr types try to frame this as a general "anger with the 1% issue" rather than as an "anger with wall street" issue (and even then, plenty of banking activity is highly beneficial to the economy). This is why I was so disappointed to see the "occupy wall street" movement become so diluted ("occupy the ports! occupy berkeley!). In the early days, we could turn to the wall street people and say "hey, this is occupy wall street, not occupy google. we aren't you, don't think you get to hide behind a productive industry that actually creates some value." Now? Well, I wouldn't be surprised by "occupy silicon valley".
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