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"The problem was the problem. Paul realized that what we needed to be solved was not, in fact, human powered flight. That was a red-herring. The problem was the process itself, and along with it the blind pursuit of a goal without a deeper understanding how to tackle deeply difficult challenges."

I think this is untrue: people were solving the right problem, but doing so with insufficient tools. MacCready's solution was to improve the tools, but other alternatives (for example, hiring a thousand engineers and building a thousand planes a year) would have found the same answer. Of course that answer would have come at a much higher cost and for this problem it would have been uneconomical, but there are plenty of domains where MacCready's approach would have been suboptimal.

"Iterate faster" is a good lesson that I think is probably applicable for all of us, but the temptation to solve tangential problems is a hard one to resist and often unnecessary.
Xtend - a language that compiles to Java (like CoffeeScript)
Xtend is a simplified ruby-like version of java that compiles to readable java. Much the same as Coffeescript does for JavaScript. Xtend may be pig latin java, but it does seem to effectively kill the noise. It has type inference, closures and hashmap syntax that otherwise would require a lot of noise and boilerplate.
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I think it would be difficult for Stack Overflow to slow down. In the post, Jeff links to one of his previous blog posts that describes the "running as fast as they can" culture that's been instilled in the company: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/go-that-way-really-...

I can see why he'd take some time off and maybe start another venture that would lend itself to a more laid back culture.
You may have needed 30-60 days to build an App in the past because development eats up so much of that time.

You should still start with a real problem, do good planning and market research, as well as validation of your solution, and that can take time, but no longer will you need weeks and weeks to implement the App. The company I run, Blueprint (https://blueprint.io), is basically a tool like Illustrator for people who want to build iPhone apps. Best of all, unlike a bespoke App which has to have its code opened up and then be republished each time a change is necessary, Apps you build with Blueprint can be updated with almost any kind of change while they are still in the wild.

Now, 30 days doesn't consist of 1 - 2 weeks for planning and design and 2-3 weeks of fast coding and testing - it can consist of 3 weeks of design and a few days of building your App for free. You can even use Blueprint to preview your App live in your browser and gather feedback from your target audience before you commit to paying the one-time fee for sharing releases. It's a new way to approach the process of creating mobile Apps.
The article explains at least some of the content.
Windows has had a secure storage system for a long time (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995355) but, unsurprisingly, many developers chose not to use it and there were limited tools for interacting with it in the base install.
Just because enterprises have silly rules about updating software does not make it a 'good reason'. Just think of how much effort has been wasted over the years by most of the internet propping up IE6 to appease corporations that have these policies.
Having been watching your interactions on here evolve, I read your comments as a heartfelt thank you rather than as pandering. Apply the usual principle that those who disagree are significantly more likely to post than those that agree and draw your own conclusions.
Go read about AM demodulation. It's pretty simple but a diagram really helps. The Wikipedia page on crystal radios has a good explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_detector#Crystal_detector
Very excited about this. My T410 has a noticeably shorter battery life when running arch compared to windows. This will help close that gap a bit.
It's a philosophy, not a requirement. Mint thinks you should upgrade Ubuntu that way as well.

I just keep separate partitions and do a full install on the ones I need. No sweat.

On the other hand, I did a "ubuntu" style upgrade to 10.04 LTS, and that worked fine, too (I run that on a netbook for their netbook interface). It took longer than a full install on Mint (perhaps being a slower machine had something to do with it), but it worked out ok.
The same was said and downvoted last week when the Poles demonstrated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515839.
I am not comparing it to incest. This was hyperbolic! And taking everything so seriously, especially such a minor matter (and it is a minor matter; people in other areas of the world have bigger things to protest other than their right to post breastfeeding pictures on a social network) is also a bit ridiculous.
This material can also have an interesting negative resistance ("kink") characteristic as well, like so many natural semiconductors.

You can even make an oscillator from some of these negative resistance materials by just biasing the crystal with the right DC voltage and connecting a parallel LC tuned circuit. The basis for a simple transmitter!
Actually, reading his biography, it didn't sound like that to me at all.
"More time" as opposed to complete ignoring and acting like he wasn't the father, yes. But the reason he had the biography written was because he wanted his kids to be able to read why he had so little time for them and to get to know him a bit better that way. And those are his own words, as far as I recall.
Mandriva and its descendant PCLinuxOS also fall into this category. I believe Mandriva is relatively popular in Europe also, being used in government and such.
Why not. Saw someone had posted a byproduct of their startup, so I did. Not as cool as the other guys, but it was something I built as part of a "marketing" (ok, airbnb style spam) strategy for my last startup.

It searches for tweets based on keywords you specify, the follows the sender. If the sender follows back, it tweets at them or dms them.
I'd much rather see people making better use of tags. I inherited a git-based project recently where branches were being used as a sudo-tag to indicate what code was currently deployed to each server environment, but no tagging of releases whatsoever :-(
I would argue that the favicon styling used in this Gmail Unread Message Count userscript is a bit nicer looking? http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/39432
I guess this may seem insensitive, and I admit, I will never understand, as I'm a young, single, childless male.

Why do you need to post these pictures? It's not that I find these pictures offensive, but the odd time I see somebody breastfeeding in public, I do catch myself being slightly thrown off. It seems like a very private thing. Why do you WANT to post these pictures online?
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Roughly, when you're receiving an AM signal, you use the rectifying effect of a diode coupled to a low-pass filter. The idea is that the envelope is all you really need to pass to the speaker, if the signal itself is powerful enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope_detector
I think the most important part of being a father who works is keeping strict boundaries between work and home. When I am at home, I am at home. When I am at work, I am at work. The kids know that M-F, dad's gone at 7am and home at 4:15. They know that when daddy's home, he's all theirs. We play legos, we play blocks, we build trains, we color pictures, wrestle, laugh, read books. It's all about them.

This strict boundary means I rarely if ever work from home. It confuses them. Daddy's present, but can't play with me. It breaks my heart to hear "Wanna snuggle with me, Dad?" and I've got visual studio open on the computer. Fk code. I want snuggle time with my baby-girl. So I leave if I have to and head in to the office. But I'm back before the kids go to sleep to read a story.

"Success" can be defined a lot of ways. My Dad reached his success by working very hard to gain enough money at the end of life to live playing golf daily in sunny Florida. He sees the kids maybe two times a year. My success will be living a full life now, surrounded by snuggling grandkids and hopefully great-grandkids when I'm old, still shoveling snow in Wisconsin winters if that's where they are.
At the risk of sounding trollish, that's not really RESTful.
I switched to Mint a while back, not because of mad h4xx0r skilz (I don't have them), but because it "just works" (for linux). As a happy coincidence, they give me an acceptable desktop option in their custom desktop.

Unfortunately, in Mint 12 my lexmark printer no longer works. I think it's some issue between 3.0 kernel, cups, and Mint, but nobody has quite figured it out yet.

This happens with Windows upgrades too, so please no flame wars here.
Martin Fowler has spoken against feature branching as well: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html
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This sort of analogy doesn't go very far for me because spoken languages evolve organically and continually in ways that computer programming languages do not. My compiler/interpreter doesn't meet me half way when I make small human-comprehendible changes. Even spoken languages that are engineered grow and change in-use.
It's idiotic because it's pointless. I guess some people may be offended by it (after all, it's public!) Say that some people are offended by photos of people eating so Facebook decides to ban those. What's the big deal? It's not like it's racial discrimination or anything.
If you had a chance to do it over again, which store would you have picked instead of Mongo?
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One thing about ubuntu (and the reason i prefer it) is that it works well with new hardware mostly out-of-the-box. If you use it on laptops that is a big plus. If you hate too much eyecandy, xubuntu is an obvious option.

But maybe i have overlooked other distributions that "just work" out of the box.
Everyone should stop making sweeping statements about what everyone should do.

Snark aside,

> Long running branches are bound to happen, [...] Good communication comes in handy here if you are working on long running feature branches.

How about this: Instead of having long running branches, don't have long running branches. Everyone runs on the same master branch, and master is always deployable. This way you don't need to communicate (yes you do, but the sort of communication alluded to is secondary, the full, up-to-date code with tests is the authoritative source). Have features that you can turn on and off in configuration, it's not like having branches ensure that you didn't screw anything up.
I couldn't agree more, that's a pretty "wtf" statment to make. I think it demonstrates the growing disconnect between Canonical and the Linux community.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that very few people think of Kubuntu when they think about KDE on Linux. openSUSE, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, Arch are the go-to's for KDE on Linux.
That's more or less how I learned it, and never really realized that it was an anti-pattern. Do you have any links that go deeper into it?
Yeah, I cringed when I saw the password-over-http part. Fine for a free service, not for paid.
I suppose it depends on your mother tongue.

KoffieSkrip is nie eintlik 'n Afrikaanse Javaskrip nie.

Afrikaans has a few quirks and oddities that would make it seem strange to English speakers. For example, the Afrikaans sentence above means "CoffeeScript is not actually an Akfrikaans Javascript". But to someone who is unfamiliar with the language, the structure might imply a double-negative ("CoffeeScript is not actually an Akfrikaans Javascript not").
> On paper the GPLv3 is awesome, but it adds some major restrictions that make it unappealing to corporations.

Oh, stop with the FUD. The only people GPLv3 is a problem for is proprietary software companies, and people who think they're in that business. Of course, on HN that's probably a lot of people's employers (mine, too), but let's not pretend that this extends to "corporations" generally.
Oh, great. Pleased to meet you. Sorry if I sounded harsh, didn't mean to. HN is too terse to know a little background about news or people without resorting to following the link itself.
Absolutely, but over different things like work conditions or blatant discrimination. I think there is something new here. It's a social-cultural issue that in a government would have been handled by the supreme court.
Off topic, but PCLinuxOS is really just a terrible name. It's so horribly generic. It sounds like "Windows Antivirus 2012".
People who worked for the same company all their life did it for the pension. Those companies tended to care more for the people that worked for them. Those were the good-old-days when people were valued.
Yes really bad. No offline possibility for a start. You need an html render for me to use it...
We recently have switched over to using CoffeeScript in production and haven't looked back. One thing we found out real fast was to not compile the CS until you go to staging or QA. The way we get around this is using RequireJS (http://requirejs.org/) and the CoffeeScript Plugin(https://github.com/jrburke/require-cs). This buys you the ability to compile at runtime in the browser, so you don't have this mess of CoffeeScript files and compiled JS files in your source. When you are ready to build for production or QA you use RequireJS' optimization tools to concatenate, minify, obfuscate and compile the code. Hope that helps.
Given the documented auth mechanism, I'd say this is a requirement.
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> - She asserts that the movie in question was officially registered AFTER her alleged infringement.

That doesn't stop infringement claims - it would just limit damages to actual damages rather than allow claims for statutory damages. Registration has not been a requirement for copyright since the Berne treaty was ratified.
They're linked inside the article:

* http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/images/galery/assad/mail2.pd...

* http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/images/galery/assad/mail1.pd...
> For the majority of European countries? Can you give some examples?

You seem to think otherwise.

Name five countries where the current political leaders can do a better job running your life than you can. In how many cases could all of their predecessors over the past 50 years have done a better job than you?

There are lots of countries and lots of political leaders over time, and I've yet to find more than a small minority who I'd trust to walk my dog, let alone run my life. (And yes, the same applies to other types of leaders, but that's not particularly relevant because reducing the powers of political leaders doesn't give other leaders power. Ford can't make me buy.)
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kubuntu are the ones who maintain the packages. If they go away, you're either HOPING someone volunteers to package KDE in an independent repo (a pretty daunting task), or you're building it from source.
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AM radio works by modulating carrier wave (of constant, high frequency), by voice (small, variable frequency). You want to get the voice, and if you just connected signal from antenae to the speaker, it'll be vibrating too fast for you to hear the voice.

So you need to filter out the carrier part of the signal. Diode only allows current to flow one direction, and the rest of circuit allows it to discharge slowly (it has some capacity).

When there is unmoduled carrier wave (silence on radio), there is balance between the current that flows thoruhgt diode, and the current of discharge, so the voltage on speaker is more or less constant (probably not on 0 level, but it doesn't matter).

When carrier wave is modulated to half the amplitude, speakers gets less the voltage.

So speakers vibrate with voice wave frequency, not carrier wave frequency, so you can hear the voice.

Imagine you want to measure the daily sea level, and it's very windy (big waves). You can't just measure it once a day, because depending on the moment you'll measure high or low level of wave, and you want the average level. So you make a container that is filled by waves throught one-way pipe, and you drill small hole in the bottom of that container, so it leaks at a constant rate. When you tune the size of hole in the bottom, and the size of one-way pipe correctly, you can measure level of water in this container, and it will be proportional to the average level of water in the sea.
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The Prime Minister actually quit yesterday so it's the "former" Prime Minister.
Startup idea: a social network for breastfeeding women :-)
But it does represent a "convenient" and yet bizarre disconnect between the policy makers and the foreign service.
You sound like the slashdot review of the iPod: even if all of the features were possible before does not mean there's no benefit to producing a solid, high-quality implementation.

As for Nest's claims, I assume you're talking about energy savings and, if so, are so very, very wrong: I'm a software developer and rarely adjusted the program on my old Honeywell thermostat because it took a minimum of 7 * 3 button clicks (morning, evening, night for each day of the week) simply to navigate through the program. I'm rather confident that the average American is even less likely to put up with all of that clicking and simply leaves at anything which isn't uncomfortable, even if it does waste power.
http://musicforprogramming.net/ has been submitted and widely discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694
I came to this same conclusion recently. It's great to spend time with the kids but there's a lot to be said for setting an example. I changed jobs to be closer to home after my second child was born. It's been over a year now and I'm realizing that being a good father is not just about spending quality time with your kids. It's also about teaching our kids to follow their dreams and find work that they truly enjoy. What better way to teach them this? This is why I'm making an effort to change my situation ASAP.
Still a big [citation needed]. Compare with something like cached Mako templates in Python and I seriously doubt it's competitive.
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I'm sorry, but you simply don't understand the meaning of the word "whitewash" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whitewash. You don't "whitewash" something by publicly apologizing for it or by pardoning someone who has been wronged. That's almost exactly the opposite of what the word "whitewash" actually means. When you "whitewash" something you DENY that it happened or try and BURY it.
But it's certainly great entertainment.
For me, Steve Jobs passing had the opposite effect.

I had convinced myself that my comfortable lifestyle web dev business was all I really needed. That pursuing startup ideas were not worth sacrificing time with family, friends, and hobbies away from the computer.

When Steve Jobs passed, I took stock of his accomplishments, watched the Standford address, and was generally inspired. It loosened me from my comfortable rut just enough to start bootstrapping a startup I had on paper for about a year. So far, 4 months in, the sacrifice has been little to none. Who knows though, I still may regret this down the line.
It seemed surprisingly popular ca. 2007 before people figured out that they were, I shit you not, tampering with the DistroWatch numbers by spoofing hits.

A decent distro though, and it was a little more usable than Mandriva at the time.
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If its not a full service, you can at least open source it (if its a by product).

But, yes, I'd pay for this.
See comparison[1]. It's still cheaper than Amazon.
They don't charge for requests and incoming bandwidth.

1: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/...
A malicious attacker with 30 seconds on your machine unobserved could just keylog you.
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Ok, but if they eventually strike out 'on their own', it's not something they're going to test, potentially leaving you in the lurch.
That's one way to think about it. Here's another: if you were actually able to get this chip from Broadcom (you're not), and asked for a 10K lot (you can't), do you think the price would let you achieve a $25 BOM?
This is good general programming advice beyond game development. If you think you need inheritance, you probably will be better off using composition because the general "is-a" rule of thumb is, in my opinion, a bad way to figure out if inheritance is required.

More in this old thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992745

In short, use composition and if inheritance is what you want instead, it will become obvious soon enough.
I think part of the point they're protesting is the notion that breastfeeding should be a private, personal thing. These women believe it's normal, natural and there's no reason it shouldn't be public - like if you were to kiss or hug your child in public.

I'm torn on the subject. There's plenty of normal, natural things that still should be private, but is nurturing our children one of them?
> Example, was the flash crash(I read the report and other sources), HFT algorithms (and people too) decided it was getting too risky to provide spreads and just decided to stop trading.

Note the word "people".... Are you claiming that someone (or something) has an obligation to trade? Who? (If the answer isn't you....) Why?

> The old market maker system is gone, and we really do not have a substitute that can handle the unpredictable.

We had "flash crashes" during the old market maker system too, so if you're claiminging that human market makers prevent flash crashes ....
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Why do you WANT to post these pictures online?

Probably for the same reasons someone would want to post any picture online.
For most people, the URLs these jobs are hitting will be calling code that they themselves have written, is that right?

If so, since I'm writing a bunch of code to do work, the marginal cost of dropping a call to that code into cron is awfully low. I'm not sure why I'd bother creating another username and password in an external system, much less pay for it, to provide such a small amount of incremental value.

I'd understand if the idea was to offer the power of cron to the non-techie laymen, but I'm not getting the sense that's the target.

The "you don't have to worry about [foo] because we manage it for you" value proposition only makes sense when foo is hard to manage. And, for techies who can edit a crontab in 3.2 seconds, this might even be a step backwards in terms of productivity.
Well, as a linguist and hapa I don't fit your mold very well. I don't like HAML particularly, and I prefer explicit block scoping a la JS and Ruby rather than CS and Python. I do like CoffeeScript though :)
Oh come on! Why don't they just build a www.breastfeedingpictures.com website if they need to show their photos so hardly?
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I think they call it "bonding with mother nature" or something, and nothing is really worth doing nowadays unless you can post it to Facebook for the whole world to see.