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I'm rather off-topic, but your monitor resolution comment made me smile.

I'm currently trying to squeeze the last dying days out of my 15.4" Dell Latitude D810 with its expansive 1920x1200 native res. It's a 7 year old machine, but I can't stand the thought of losing it, because the only laptop I know of with that resolution today is the massive MBP 17".

16x10 aspect ratio is pretty much a thing of the past now. It's a sad feeling to think that my next laptop will have lower resolution than what I've had since 2003.
This kind of response, using words like 'repulsive', is a form of thoughtless polarisation. I expect better from someone always up-in-arms about the quality of posts here. This is just flamebait.

There are several possible discussions here that you can't just sweep under the rug by declaring those opposing you as 'repulsive' beforehand. Here's a simple question: should they also ban the lolicon subreddit? The children's-pageant subreddit? The bikini subreddit, because it allows posts of children? Almost everyone agrees child porn is repulsive. Not everyone agrees that means you have to ban /r/jailbait. Read the article, linked in the OP, by Neil Gaiman and please respond civilly instead of inciting a flamewar. Your dismissiveness is unacceptable in a reasoned debate.
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From his wikipedia, "In his senior year in 2005–2006, Lin captained Palo Alto High School to a 32–1 record and upset nationally ranked Mater Dei, 51–47, for the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division II state title." I assume division 2 is the second highest division in california. Given that, and he was the main player on that team, it is SHOCKING he didn't have multiple scholarship offers from major division 1 college teams.
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Thanks for sharing this tip. Do you by chance know of any tutorials on writing middleware that does this sort of thing?
As long as the upstream Debian guys keep maintaining them, you should be able to do KDE pretty well still, right?
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I find myself time after time wanting to write a programming blog, but being turned off by the options. Normally I would write one myself in tornado, django, sinatra, ruby-on-rails and then waste all of my blogging time programming the actual blog!

Requirements:
- markdown
- gists
- simplicity

Seems like tumblr and posterous support markdown, and posterous supports gists to boot. I've tried both but neither really stuck. Both had confusing "social" aspects all over the place (wtf are posterous spaces) and cumbersome admin interfaces.

Does anyone have a solution that they actually love? I'm leaning towards giving both a chance again, or just writing something with sinatra[http://www.sinatrarb.com/].
I guess I don't get what he has against use strict? I've found that it's usually less painful than the alternative.
Its 2012 and we still embrace high Pageviews and architectures to handle them but ignore revenue.

Its high time everypost about insane pageviews and servers be coupled with solid revenue numbers.
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This is one of the worst trolls i've seen on HN. Obvious ignorance of pegging, flame-baiting the downvoters and trying to link the possibility of alternative sex acts with physics.
I think every programming language has a preferred way of doing things. Every profession also has a preferred way of doing things. For example, as a professional writer, I can site the AP Stylebook, Strunk & White, the Chicago Manual of Style.

Work doesn't happen in a vacuum, and when you're dealing with other people, some kind of standard is necessary, even if it does seem a little annoying at times.
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I only barely understand the appeal of twitter so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems really narcissistic to inject yourself into your friends' wedding with something like this. It's their wedding; for them it's a life-altering milestone, for you it's 5 hours of friends and family and a hangover the next day (unless of course you're extremely close, but then 'Cheering' them is beyond tacky and impersonal). So when you 'Cheer' your friends' wedding you're making it about you and your relationship with the ceremony and the couple (i.e. "Yes. I have decreed this to be a wonderful event from my perspective and thus I shall Cheer it. Like and retweet if you agree it's wonderful."). You're no longer there in the moment for the experience and for the people who are getting married, you're there to let everyone know your perspective on the events in the moment they happen.

The difference between Cheer and taking a photograph with your point-and-shoot is that the photographs are uploaded after the ceremony has happened and therefore it is "let's remember what happened on this day" rather than "this is what I thought of this particular moment, like if you also agree this was a particularly wonderful moment".

Sorry if this is out of line, it's a very pretty site. This is just something that stuck out to me.
I still see a lot of areas in the process of being redrawn while I scroll.

A lot better than "this process is frozen, Kill?" that I get with Browser, though.

I didn't check yet with Aurora, but do you handle keyboard shortcuts? One thing that keeps me with Browser instead of Chrome is that it supports desktop-style shortcuts like Ctrl-L and Ctrl-R when I'm using the hardware keyboard.
> Considering the decimation of the manufacturing base here in the USA...

Decimation? Of the labor force, maybe. The U.S. is still the largest manufacturer in the world:

http://blog.american.com/2011/01/the-demise-of-america%E2%80...

We manufactured more in 2009 than Germany, Japan, Italy and the U.K. combined. China's growing fast, but we're still outputting something like 40% more.
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Agreed. However I wouldn't complain if this drives costs down for students.
There is truth to the assertion that sites that run on user contributions must be pruned. Reddit has strived hard to make the community self-policing. The Reddit methodology has always been that users have to be the gardeners. It's more scalable that way. Smaller users garden with upvotes and downvotes. Moderators can use shears.

It's hard when an issue comes up where the game-theoretical approach produces a bad result. The current Reddit structure works well when it assumes that good content is the paramount rule, but now we have a new paramount rule: obey the law. The site structure and the ranking algorithms don't meet the new requirements, and as a result, manual pruning is required.
people tend to think of it as a freedom of speech issue

First-amendment speech is only a subset of free speech. Unfortunately people seem to hear "freedom of speech" and think that the ONLY place that freedom exists is under the scope of the 1st. Its not.

The Bill of Rights only says that our government can't take it away. Other people are still free to take it away. But when they take it away (and are within their rights to do so) it is a free speech issue. The difference is the argument is not a you can't or you shouldn't be able to, its just a you can but shouldn't.

What people are railing against is not that that reddit, or whoever, has decided not to adhere to the restrictions placed upon congress, but that they've fundamentally changing what it means to be reddit. This is the article's "Very Serious Discussion About What Sort of Community We Are".

It's your garden, so you have the absolute right to pull weeds. The weeds get no say.

Yeah, reddit has complete control. But unless they're happy exercising that control by disabling all user submissions and posts, or actively banning anyone who they don't like discussing the nature of reddits rules, they have given their flowers a voice about the weeds.

Perhaps, when you say that people should STFU and take it, you might be interesting in hearing the thesis of (reddit co-founder) Ohanian's TED talk on social media: "You No Longer Control the Message, and That’s Okay"
What is a better solution for a high traffic site than tracking page view data into an RDB? Log files other than the built in server logs? NoSql? I'm genuinely curious because my work site is currently tracking into Sql.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, the high-profile subreddits under scrutiny didn't contain child pornography regularly or at all. The jailbait one was depicted on Anderson Cooper's show as having pictures likely grabbed from Facebook: e.g. teenagers in swim suits. There was also mention of a single commenter claiming to have more revealing pictures of an underage ex-girlfriend (which sounded like they would have qualified as child pornography), which prompted other commenters to ask him to privately message them with links. I was under the impression that this was the most illegal thing on that subreddit, and that the main problem was that people thought it was creepy to have pictures of minors in swim suits. More realistically, I think the banning was more about the news segment, since everyone already knew about that subreddit.

> What a subreddit's policy says is less important than what actually gets posted there and/or what people expect to find there.

What's the line? What if someone posts a single nefarious link on /r/nsfw, or for that matter, something completely unrelated like /r/askscience? It seems like you're proposing that outlier illegal content should result in the banning of a subreddit if the subreddit is "creepy," but not if the subreddit is "normal."

> the expectation is that those subreddits will contain child porn or something similar.

You're hinting at the important problem of defining child pornography. Are pictures of minors in swim suits child pornography? Sure, it's creepy to think about adults surfing for those pictures, but is it even borderline illegal? I don't think so. I think reddit has every right to ban whatever they want (although it seems to go against the stated purpose of their site), but it seems a bit disingenuous to claim that it's at all about legality unless it truly is.
A: True, but “mind-numbing” does not mean “quite difficult”. Also, if you have 400+ Facebook friends you wish you hadn’t I think it’s your fault, not Facebook’s. I don’t expect any service to provide marginal functionality like that. You do that once and from then on you think more carefully before accepting someone’s request.

B: True, but the parent was talking about UI.

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I think Apple's hardware is mediocre at best. Yes, it's way better than the vast majority of bargain basement plastic-shelled PC laptops, but it's nowhere near as good as Lenovo (ex IBM) Thinkpad X series.
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So now we've gone a) from semicolon consistently after statements, to having to remember where to prefix with semicolons, or b) from one character to four.

Why aren't we just using the semicolon as it is required in any other (C-based) language?
Do you?

You are demonstrably incorrect. If you were right, there would be almost zero purchases of anything available on Pirate Bay. As it is, Hollywood is raking in cash.
The Occupy Movement is ranked #7. This article seems very linkbait-y.
Except the subreddits banned were some with pictures of older teenage girls (15-17) in non nude situations, the most edgy being bikini pictures. Something that belongs on reddit? That's for you to decide. Paedophilia material? No, not even fucking close.

Besides, pedos wouldn't trade images on reddit, I really refuse to believe people would be stupid enough to trade such pictures through a US website which offers no anonymity.
Tumblr is an extremely pageview heavy design, but the industry has moved away from PV as an important metric for a few years now. Fortunately they're nice enough to post their quantcast data publicly: http://www.quantcast.com/p-19UtqE8ngoZbM

They're still phenomenal numbers, but IMHO should be much closer to a 100-server environment than a 1000 server one.
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It’s grade A victim blaming.
This is a post about architecture and scalability, not business.
I really liked the blog post. I really like the styling. It has a very strong brand. However, one thing on using your maps. I have an astigmatism, which makes tall narrow characters hard to read, especially at an angle. Here's my observations:

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- I really, really like the map styling.

Hopefully that helps you.
Well, I didn't verify the claim made by previous post, only addressed how it is relevant (if true).
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Another project with similar aims:

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If you read the article you posted, you'll know "stopped funding Kubuntu" means Canonical "has paid for developer Jonathan Riddell to spend the last seven years working on Kubuntu" and will ask him to do something else after 12.04. He already wasn't fully dedicated to Kubuntu for a year or so.
> But the funny thing is, the same people that are fine with pirating are against essentially the same thing with the GNU license.

They could be against it because it hinders sharing, not because it violates copyright.
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But Firefox already works like that. If you install as a (non-admin) user, it goes into your user dir and there is no update service.

If you install as an admin user, it goes into Program Files, and by your own admission, there's no other way to update it than to have the update service.
Division 1 NCAA scholarships are restricted to something like 70 per school across all sports. I'd be surprised if any 2nd tier high school players get div 1 athletic scholarships, even if they're good. The guys getting scholarships were scouted out in junior high school.
Extra semicolons can cause problems. If "someone who doesn't know what they're doing" starts putting semicolons after randomly chosen tokens, it will absolutely break your program. You need to understand statement boundaries whether or not you explicitly mark them with semicolons.
Interestingly, instead of immediately quitting some people are instead just slacking until they get fired and receive lucrative severance packages.

If such are the habits they've cultivated in finance, they won't do very well at those tech startups they plan to join.
"Pedos can’t trade their images anymore (whether legal or not)."

The only thing that this move ended up doing was ensuring the use of private subreddits for this act. People aren't going to change simply because someone told them that what they already knew was wrong is now more wrong. The content will still be traded on reddit (even though I highly doubt that cheese pizza pm's actually happened very often), just not with a public pool to gather from.

Plus, all of this shit is still up on imgur.
How so? If a girl posts a picture of her in her underwear on the internet and she gets ridiculed for it, how is that victim blaming? She did something stupid, she got teased about it, case closed.
> There are some pretty strong fundamental reasons why you want to have debugging tools be exactly in sync with releases, especially when you are making major changes to feature support and rendering. Also, in this day it just makes sense to have such tools integrated in the browser.

That's cool and I can see that, but it does not explain why they're not building on Firebug's established base.

> However, all of this is sort of beside the point. The Firebug lead went to go work for the Chrome team, so the Firefox team is in a bit of a pickle.

Firebug already survived the departure of its founder years ago, if there's a will it can survive Barton's as well.
Just because you think some people enjoy looking at pictures of young-looking girls (in some cases it's hard to estimate their ages) you think they are "pedos" (and you also create a legal vs. illegal distinction, too). By the same token of jumping to conclusions from small sample of behavior I judge that you are a complete hedge brain, because you cannot even find a synonym for fuck in a short comment.

It is ironic (I wonder if you can understand it) that, had the sort of limitation that you back were in effect on HN, comments like yours would have been deleted.
I think the biggest deterrent from online voting is the fact that it's hard to verify who a person is. If every person had one specific, Online Identity (like the one you describe), we would be a lot closer towards adopting a system of online voting.
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Of course, your comment wasn't any help, either.

It seems to stand for "Sorry, Could Not Resist".
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> There's nothing unreasonable about stating in your TOS that you can't have a subreddit the very existence of which breaks the law.

That's not what they did. What they did was to say that suggestive content featuring minors is prohibited. I feel like a broken record, but I guess I need to keep reiterating this: Romeo and Juliet is suggestive content featuring minors.

> You could download kiddie porn on /r/jailbait

No you couldn't. Nothing pornographic or illegal was ever allowed on /r/jailbait. It might have gotten posted a few times, but the submitters would have been banned.
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Quote: "But the funny thing is, the same people that are fine with pirating are against essentially the same thing with the GNU license"

You probably have cause and effect reversed. I'd wager that one of the biggest reasons for their wanting an enforcement of the terms of the GNU license is to show the big companies what it feels like to be in a situation where your choice is limited to one of (a) stick to the terms, or (b) don't use
10.6 adds a lot of new frameworks, which get loaded by Apple's apps, so memory usage goes up.

10.6 does free up disk space (but that's not as useful as memory).

Obligatory: I also went back to 10.5 after spending some time on 10.6, fwiw.
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Gotta admit that I'm getting to that point too, so good for you. I've been working with the .NET stack since the beta, and at this point in my career I dabble in other languages, but keep coming back to the bread and butter since "that's what I know". All the while I'm involved in the ALT.NET community secretly eyeing Rails and Python wondering when and if I can take a hard left and make the jump. I'm sick of working in the .NET box where we get excited about tools and features that were released years ago on other stacks, just to have a port done that's about 3/4 as good as the original.

tl;dr; good for you man.
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I thought the analogy was appropriate. Like the author said, the purpose of the article is to provide a metaphor for software development we can study in real life. I don't think the intention was to create a directly accurate comparison.
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It's a business decision, plain and simple. Get over it.
"I think you're missing the point of the users who see this new rule as a negative mark against reddit"

We see the point, we're saying it doesn't matter. It's been pretty obvious over the last year that this train has been coming down the tracks and there's ultimately only one way it could play out.

The spam rule was already there and it's not rocket surgery to realize that any content more objectionable then spam is also eventually going to be excluded.
> Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people.

My high school English teacher mocked Harvard students who used term "very unique". "uniqueness" is a binary (not continuous/leveled) attribute (and "very" is a near-meaningless word).
Right, that confirms my point - if a niche MMORPG is the third-largest export, that means that opportunities in science and r&d are scarce.
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You're definitely right that the motivation behind a tweet, or a "like", or in this case a "cheer" is narcissistic. However, I don't think that makes a difference. Your observation is just that, an observation. Psychologists have made observations of this nature about human behavior already. If there was no common, narcissistic behavior amongst humans, then the word "narcissism" would never have been invented. Furthermore, we would never have developed a concept of narcissism at all.

With that said, we all do narcissistic things. Narcissism is only a problem when it gets out of control. That is why we have expert psychologists and psychiatrists to take care of this, and define what is and is not an acceptable level of narcissism (in the DSM-IV definition for narcissistic personality disorder)

Sure, there are reasons to be for, or against narcissistic behavior. If you like, you can personally hate narcissism every time you see it. But if you are so quick to jump the gun and call this novel little app "narcissistic" and declare you don't like it, because you must hold yourself to some higher moral standard, then you are probably very, very blind to much of your own narcissistic behavior.

We are all narcissistic. Some of us are more narcissistic than others, and some of us are more aware of our own personalities than others.

The bottom line is that regardless of the motivation for "cheering" (liking, or any other form) something, the end result is likely going to be fun times clicking shiny buttons for everyone, so just live it up.
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