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Anyone who did 10 minutes of research (or went to the "Hacker" wikipedia page) would know that the word "hacker" means a very different thing within the technology community than outside of it, yet I see article after article feigning ignorance to this. Is it just to manufacture controversy - is that what our media has become?
He won't have to wait long. Yeeloong have a quad-core Loongson-3A 13.3" laptop on the way.
What of BSD? The stack /can/ be the same even.
Chrome Developer Tools is a powerful and often underutilized toolbox.
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/overview.html

Inspect the DOM and set modification and event listener breakpoints:
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/elements.html

Assets, Cookies, Databases:
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/resources.html

Network timings:
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/network.html

JavaScript debugger, breakpoints, watch expressions:
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/scripts.html

Profile everything, network, scripts, styles, layout, painting, garbage collection:
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/timeline.html

JavaScript CPU and Heap profiling:
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/profiles.html

JavaScript console, see errors, execute code, inspect breakpoint scope:
http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/console.html
JSHint [1] - don't fall prey to JSLint's dictatorship

Keep in mind, this is simply an opinion. Although not everybody appreciates JSLint's emphasis on explicitness and readability, there are still a great number of people who do. To the OP, try both, and decide for yourself which one helps you write better code.
First off, Sencha Designer 2 just came out (beta) and will support graphical layout plus code editing. U shud try that.

Or consider eclipse plus the spkt extension, which offer code completion for extjs.

If you aren't using sencha stuff, then ms visual studio has pretty good javascript support.

Use firefox w firebug, and try jasmine for unit testing
Now implement a raytracer that infers lighting location and reflectance (and subsurface scattering) of the objects in the scene from the image and then we can have a whole new level of realism.

In all seriousness, though, I do wonder what kind of processing power you would need in a handheld device to be able to do that. Could we realistically achieve it within 15-20 years? It's certainly one of those "gimmicks" with extreme potential.

That little tangent about realism aside, the engine itself does look quite remarkable in how smooth it is able to run. I wonder hwo well it handles occlusion, changes in lighting and the other benchmarks for computer vision, as it was not demonstrated at all in the video. In fact, the presenter quite handily avoided putting his hand between the camera and the soda can.

Other than that, I can't say much without trying the thing, but I do not own an iOS device and don't plan to in the near future. If someone decides to try out the framework, I'd be glad to read a more detailed analysis of it.
I know a reasonable number of present-day developers who use a setup not much more complex than that: emacs or vim in a console. Not very practical for webdev, but you can do scientific-computing or embedded dev that way. For scientific computing you'd probably want a beefier CPU to run tests, but those are often run remotely on a computing cluster anyway.
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I've found firebug to be superior to CDT in every way
>> After all, Google is a company, here to make money.

>Those bastards... and they force you to sign in for their email and g+ and picasa and.. oh, wait.

I haven't said that making money was bad, it's business, and that's the risk to know where is the interest. Sure you signed, but silly me, I wasn't thinking about all this when I first sign-up for Gmail, and sure as well I could resign, but meanwhile they collected data, probably much more that I can think of.

> Let's be honest with ourselves and admit that data is the currency we pay for 'free' online services, and if we don't like the service or the 'price', we can just stop using it.

You're right, I was answering about that to the person who said "oh, it's not that bad, the price to pay it's some ads that suit your profile", but the 'price' is indeed more than that.

> Btw there is google analytics on his blog.

It doesn't surprise me, his post sounds to me more like an easy "don't be evil" troll.
So what, he can use whatever He wants.

What's wrong with doing things "just to to feel better"? Or is it only OK when you consume more to feel better, not consume less to feel better?

(not to even start with "what did he achieve ..in 20 y")
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I think sek's post was more along the lines of "but what has he done for me lately?"

Right now, for every piece of open software that has enabled all kinds of world-changing good things, there's a dozen situations where open software is not a viable solution when compared to the closed alternatives for a wide variety of reasons, unless you're explicitly choosing to use only open software as a show of support for an ideological cause. What frustrates me about Stallman is that he spends his time lecturing people about why they're bad people for not using open software, instead of actively working to make open software a more appealing solution more of the time.
The real geeks I know would at least dream of building a computer of which they control all pieces of software. Maybe for the achievement only, but they at least dream of it.

I am pretty sure that RMS gets his work done as well, whatever that work is. I wouldn't suspect him to be _lazy_.
The saddest part of all this is that kids will read it and think "this is what 'sticking to my principles' is going to get me, so fuck it."

RMS used up his "I was there when" cred a long time ago. He's now the demented grandparent no one has the heart to tell to STFU when he yells at the TV. And yet simultaneously, one of the greats.
Ask HN: How to minimize pain from compromised Credit card?
Our Credit card has been compromised yet again. We have a strawman plan to reduce future pain, but I'd thought I'd ask here for any insight. I'll post our strawman idea as a comment.
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Richard Stallman is to software what Jean-Paul Sartres was to philosophy during his time and still now. JPS like RMS was living through his convictions and ideas to the point of refusing the Nobel prize because it would have tinted his motivations. RMS would do the same without any questions. Don't get them wrong: these people are not fanatic, they are just living and breathing a cause they started for a good reason. It takes courage not to give up to consumerism from corporates who try to milk everyone for the goal of making money and definitely not for bringing better living to our lives. Apple, Google, Facebook, they have a simple goal: $$$. When I see a guy talented and proficient like RMS defending his cause on a 9" OLPC, that takes guts.
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This is a great organization. I've been a gsoc student 2 years ago and learned a lot from my project and earned a decent wage. Google pays hundreds of thousands of dollars for Open Source contributions done by these students.
This is our strawman plan: Get 3 distinct credit cards.

One is for recurring payments only. It is left in a safe, and pays only those businesses with which we have a regular monthly bill. These are the ones that are the biggest pain to update.

The second is for online use only. I mentioned splitting this between trusted/untrusted online use, but we decided updating 'higher trust' sites like amazon, and itunes is easy enough.

The final one is the carry around credit card. It is only used for physical purchases, stores, gas stations, dinning, etc.

The idea is a compromised number is isolated to just one use case. And the more likely to be compromised use cases impose less pain on us when it happens.

So, one obvious question: is there a Credit card company that will just issue multiple #'s allowing this to be on one account?

Is there a better method of isolating these categories that we haven't considered, or a better way of dealing with it overall?

Finally I expect setting this up will throw all sorts of red flags from the secret algorithms that calculate our credit scores. Any insight on minimizing that?
Let me put it this way. On a regular week day, I spend around 12-14 hours a day programming (that might change with a kid on the way), only 10 of which are done for my boss. The point is I don't program to make a living. I just make a living by doing what I do best.

In other words, programming to me means so much more than what I give my employer. Just like the article says, it defines a way of life, that puts knowledge, learning and improving on top of everything else.
"Stallman was responsible for contributing many necessary tools, including a text editor (Emacs), compiler (GCC), debugger (gdb), and a build automator (gmake)." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Ignorance is incredible sometimes. We own both, Stallman and Torvalds a lot. I'm pretty sure Torvalds would tell you that he wouldn't make Linux without Stallman's work, in fact that's why Linux is GPL.
"blocking everything (a la NoScript)"

This seems to be a really popular misconception (presumably the name), but NoScript works pretty much as you describe, too.

You do not need a plugin to turn "everything" off, the browsers all ship with that capability and have for over 15 years.
The problem with visualization of traceroute results is that it needs a very reliable GEO-IP database. They exist, but are very expensive. Hops that are not in cities (but in some ocean) are often placed in the city of the owner of the router. With the rise of IPv6 this only becomes worst.
Which by and large hurts his position if that is to be held up as what it takes to follow the free software movement.
Firebug doesn't have anything close to the Timeline in Chrome. It doesn't have heap profiling either...
I don't think a regular employee could possibly know what kind of value they bring to the company. Tell the boss to pay you whatever they value you at. If the value provided at this company is less than what you could be providing at another company (i.e. salary), then that's your cue to move on.

If you end up getting a raise out of it, it's not really a hostage situation because they gave you the raise without you really asking for it.

It's economics.
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It sounds to me like what you need isn't an escape from JSLint, but rather a better JSLint config file that skips the stylistic checks you dislike. JSLint at its strictest can definitely be a little too strict.

(of course, there's really no reason to be using JSLint over JSHint anyway)
The Tron Legacy OST is always fun, but it's even better when you listen to it doing something suitably epic, because many tracks sound so unapologetically grand. Perfect sound track for handing in an important paper and doing mountain climbing. Or doing mock epic things: feel like Batman while chopping onions.

Some of the tracks from the remix album are also pretty cool.
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In word, yes. You either work for a company that believes in incentivising employees to stay, or you leave.
Generally a negative ROI proposition for most, imho...
"Hey, I'm a geek; it's my job to make things difficult for myself."
Is that true? Could you let me know where you got that info from so I can check for myself? Thanks!
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And you're not going to tell us those "core values".

I apologize I thought I was clear on it, I would not want to participate in a forum with people that's conduct is below a conduce standard that I hold myself to, If I felt that such conduct had reached a threshold of my tolerance for such behavior.

I don't know about your "core values", but 1% doing something every other month doesn't strike me as widespread.

I don't know if my case is even a true case of it or if it is widespread hence me asking if other people have seen the pattern, therefore the exact value of when it would send me over the edge is unknown. I do know that if it where happening to me once a week or so, I would probably give serious consideration to not participating in posting comments at the least. And I would also tend to view contributed news as having the possibility of being posted by such people that have little regard for the quality of the site.
I think the desired implication is the other way around: that these are games that it's now okay to pirate (according to a certain ethical view), because buying them wouldn't help the creators anyway.
About 1) Yes, broadband is less prevalent in India. But, storage costs are low. It is easy to get it from a friend who has the movie.

In how many cities do you find a legal DVD renting service for INR 50 ?

2) You are spot on about the 2nd point. It is a marketing failure on the part of movie studios that DVDs are still such a niche market. Multiplexes and cafes are booming, so why not DVDs. Availability may again be a factor. Before Flipkart, buying a DVD was a chore, esp. if you don't live close to a shopping mall.
The Lemote link was broken when I was reading the article. This may be the updated link?

http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.htm...
Microchip runs a Masters Conference every year at the end of August. During the week long event they do daily tours of their Phoenix FAB. I think with a bit of determined pleading, one could get a tour other times of the year too.
Sure, but they're still around. Or are you implying that the President and Corporation, Inc. would bail Tumblr out to keep their blog up?
Epic is famous for lock ins - once you pay the $50-100 million contract for them to take over your IT, your data will not interface with any other system again, ever.

I'm not too familiar with MUMPS but is there anyway the hospital's IT Dept. could allow a 3rd Party App to integrate to the actual MUMPS database/data source to get to the data, and thus bypass trying to get access to the EPIC/Cerner API or HL7?
Open source software and free software are two different things, and Stallman is an advocate for the latter (as well as the former). I think that's an important point, and one which people tend to miss.
But... (open source != FSF)

Stallman's ideas are what makes it possible for a college kid to run a web
startup today essentially for free.

With lots and lots of limitations the GPL license imposes on him... I think the world would be a better place with less GPL and more BSD/Apache/... - He did great things, but many of his ideas are old and frankly, ridiculous.

I submitted this link a while back that has a great discussion about what people think of GPS's limitations: 'Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3402346
You can avoid the blogspam and get the content directly from Intel here[1] since it appears every bit of this content was just stolen directly from Intel.

[1] http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-2476
First of all, a disclaimer: ask a pile of interested people very carefully before deciding on prices; people suck at accurately saying how much they'd pay for something, and that almost certainly includes me. :) If you want to get fancy about it, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorp%27s_Price_Sensi... , and perhaps http://www.priceintelligently.com/ ; if you don't want to get fancy about it, just make sure you talk to more than a few people.

That said: I actually think $4 would work nicely as a "project" price, and for more along the lines of 1 week rather than 2 months. That would nicely cover immediate one-time pain like the case I ran into. $4 falls squarely in the category of "yeah, I'll pay that to solve this problem today", and I'd have paid that just for the 1 day I needed to use it.

If you feel like you can comfortably serve people at $4/month, I'd absolutely pay that price without hesitation; $7/month seems reasonable too. Perhaps you should just treat that as the "project" case, and market it so that people think of it more as a "pay once and use it for a month" price than something they necessarily have to pay repeatedly for via a subscription. I think that'd make more sense than trying to go off the beaten path by talking about weeks. :) (Most "monthly" services don't really cater for the case of "let it lapse, then start paying again when I need it", but in the case of this project I think it would work beautifully to do so several times a year.)

I don't have a strong feeling for the right price for a year. You want something that makes people say "I'll use it often enough that I don't just want to pay $4 (or $7) each time I use it." You might just want to start with monthly and add annual if someone asks for it. Annual billing also introduces new complications, such as making chargebacks more frequent and more serious.

I also think some great opportunities exist here for "organization" or "college department" plans. I could easily imagine an entire CS department getting enough value out of this to pay for it, if you don't mind jumping through the hoops it takes to sell to such entities.

Regarding queuing: Redis works beautifully for this. Just add the ID for the particular version of the project to a queue when the user hits the PDF button (Redis: LPUSH), and run a pile of queue processors, each of which grabs an ID from the queue (Redis: BRPOP) and runs pdflatex. To handle premium users, use a separate queue with some queue processors only looking at that queue and some looking at both. (BRPOP accepts multiple lists and returns an item from the first non-empty list.) Track the processing time for premium and free users, and throw enough resources at queue processors to get each of those to the level of service you want to provide.

Regarding payment: words can't express how much I'd recommend against PayPal. But then, I have access to things like Stripe and Samurai; sorry. :( I'd still recommend finding a decent payment gateway if possible. You'll also find it a lot harder to sell to organizations or departments if you use PayPal.
I am curious to know what cloud services he uses if any. I'm researching alternatives to proprietary/hosted software for some of my important data so I can avoid the privacy and security issues. Some of the services I would like to replace are GMail/Calendar/Contacts, Lastpass, RescueTime. Any suggestions?
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I have a better understanding of what you mean, but I think we're talking about totally different things. You're talking about a few percentage points around a 'true' price (under or over), that account for whether someone is worth more like $80k or $95k.

I'm talking about who you'll pay $35k, who you'll pay $60k, who you'll pay $30k, and who you'll pay $80k when you first get funding, and whether you will pay anyone over $100k at all.

When market price of two of your employees are each 80-95k depending on how much information a potential employer in your geographic/other market (including you) has about them, then it is the worst possible result for you to justify a salary of $40 or $35 for either on some grounds of fairness. It's also wrong to pay one $95k and one $60k also alluding to internal factors, how much information you have about them.

You don't pay someone $60k who's worth $90k if you're being fair (it's different if you just don't have the money). We're talking about a 50% difference here, not the few percentage points that come from inefficiency of information.

I think if you had any idea what the average first employees of hackernews/yc type outfits get as initial offers, you would feel quite different about where the problem lies. (just my humble opinion).

your suggestion is not about such radical differences as compared with 'true' worth, but only smaller ones.
He just says, here is a list, think about it. Which we did, so, mission accomplished IMO ;)

All I can think is, if I had the rights to, and assets form a great old game that many loved, I'd be working my butt off right now to rescript it for release on mobile app stores. It would be like a second wind of revenue.

Why the Sierra adventure games like kings quest, space quest, and police quest never came out on wii ware is beyond me. Not to mention iOS. Just look at the success of grisly manor.
As the FSF would point out, the free software movement is different from open source. If there was no free software movement, or a prohibition on GPL'ed software, then Google could have used other open source tools (eg, *BSD) instead.

One serious concern in the FSF seems to be that a large, programmer-centric company like Google could rewrite most free software, should the license not be compatible with the business model. Eg, the recent brouhaha on a non-GPL replacement for BusyBox and a comment about Google's goal of "reducing the amount of GPL software in user-space for Android devices."
All I could think about while reading this was minecraft...
Everyone who think's David's post was about privacy and information security didn't read it very closely. He said at multiple times that the purpose is because he wants to keep out of "personalized bubbles", wants to have a broader view of web content and to avoid sites changing "some state because it knew who I was".

It has nothing to do with what will happen to his browsing habit information or with dislike of being tracked.
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What limitations does the GPL license place on a web startup? AGPL, yes, but GPL?
Idea: make it so that when you hover the mouse over one of the lines on the map, the corresponding "Hop" row is highlighted and vice versa.
I didn't start to really understand how things all work and go together until I installed Linux on my desktop, and started exploring that world. I don't disagree with using OSX, in fact I use a Mac to do all my work now. But I never got started or interested or developed an understanding until I started using linux. Linux almost forces you to learn the underworkings of your system, computing in general, and loves to make you do work in the terminal. All good for learning programming.

I used to have a jokes tab on my iGoogle page, one day the joke of the day was: "If you want you computer to work, use a mac, if you want to know how you computer works, use linux, and if you don't want to know why your computer doesn't work, use windows." I thought it was funny, and it was a step in my inspiration to use Linux.

One analogy I'll make to promote learning on Linux: When I started playing guitar, any experienced player or teacher will tell you to learn on an acoustic guitar. Why? It's more challenging to make it sound good, you have to press harder on the strings, The strings are further away from the frets, you get buzz and damping if you don't use just the right form. It teaches you to over learn, then when you switch to an electric, it's easy peasy, and just sounds sooo good. I think in this case you could consider Linux to be the acoustic guitar, and Mac to be an electric. Just my two cents.
What was the project about ? Was it a new project or an already existing one ?
Also, based on what were you qualified for the program ?
Well that was actually my point; JSHint is effectively a highly configurable version of JSLint.
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Thoughts, guys?