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I'm surprised Google hasn't tried to hire him. They hired the inventor of Python, and it would seem up their alley to hire Linus.
I just made the "See It in Action!" button bigger and red.

I think this version is better than what it used to be. Thank you for the suggestion :)
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Had the pleasure of meeting Linus last weekend while up in Portland, at a Go Kart facility no less. Super nice guy, but I was a little too star struck to form coherent words. His race nickname was Penguin, :).
You could try building out an online lifestyle-type business, like selling apps or some affiliate marketing stuff.

That would give you enough passive income for you do whatever you wanted with your time.
The worst part of that last article you linked is that the only time they acknowledge a possible female role is in the "Mediocre Man" stereotype: "Don’t let the name fool you; there are female varieties of Mediocre Man too. And he or she always takes longer to produce worse code than anyone else on the team."
Whether it would be better for him is debatable, but getting more money to people like Linus is better for all of us because money ≈ power.
It looks like Artic Link is going to bring it down to 86ms [1] with an initial capacity (surprised they didn't talk about that) of 2FP x 8λ x 40Gbps = 640Gbps.

The Artic Fiber website is full of good information, including expected latency between a bunch of cities, and high level colocation options [2].

All I could find on the Russian initiative was this simple website [3]. Total available capacity is 100WL x 100 Gbit/s, but no idea what phase 1 will be.

[1] http://www.arcticlink.com/home.html

[2] http://www.arcticfibre.com/service-offerings.html

[3] http://www.polarnetproject.ru/
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"Kolbrenner says the movie is “going to be completely different—I don’t know if I should say that or not."

I really hope they don't fuck it up when they make the changes. Prufrock, if you're reading this, don't let them ruin it. Please, please, please watch out for your story. Don't let them make it completely different.
Literally? Did you literally fall asleep in English class?
> How in god's name can the guy who named linux after himself ever feel sad?

He didn't want to; Torvalds named it "Freax", as he says here:

> Honest I didn't want to ever release it under the name
Linux because it was too egotistical. What was the name I reserved for any eventual release? Freax. (Get it? Freaks with the requisite X.) In fact, some of the early make files --the files that describe how to compile the sources-- included the word "Freax" for about half a year. But it really didn't matter. At that point I didn't need a name for it because I wasn't releasing it to anybody.

> And Ari Lemke, who insured that it made its way to the ftp site, hated the name Freax. He preferred the other working name I admit that I didn't put up much of a fight. But it was his doing. So I can honestly say I wasn't egotistical, or half-honestly say I wasn't egotistical. But I thought okay, that's a good name, and I can always blame somebody else for it, which I'm doing now.

> -- Linus Torvalds p84 and p88 "Just for fun"
I tend to agree with this point. There should be a firewall or layer between customer -> developer communications. The firewall intercepts/takes/handles incoming requests from the customer and forwards them on to the dev team or a developer who, if needed, can/will contact the customer. The customers should never have a direct line to developers unless you only want developers to work on "urgent" (regardless of important or unimportant) issues and "small/easy" features.
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I feel extremely privileged to have worked on Discover Envoy (the switch access software and hardware solution Christopher uses). It made my day to see this video!
I think the big latency issue here isn't so much with analog input delay of the user as it is the speed of video processing algorithms.

Currently researched augmented reality solutions look great, but they're plagued by delay that make usability an issue. As processing power becomes cheaper and faster, it makes sense that we'll eventually be able to achieve almost-realtime augmented reality. At such a time in the near future, head mounted displays will definitely become popular.
Douche much?

Looking over your comments on HN, that latest comment seems to be the peak of your contribution here. In over two years you've picked up 394 karma points. I'm going with the assumption that all of those karma points are from being a pedant about the English language. You're such a valuable member of this community! Rock on.
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You're confusing YC with a charity. It is not. Trying to invest in teams that will succeed is the modus operandi of virtually all venture investors, YC included.

YC is trying to rewrite a lot of the rules of venture investing, and has had quite some success there, but at its very core it's important to remember that they are investors. At the end of the day, the measuring stick of an investor is their returns, not how many (proto-) companies they pulled from the brink of implosion. As such, your second measuring stick rings false.

I suspect that AirBnb, Dropbox and Heroku are simultaneously among the investments that YC is the most proud of and the companies that would have been most likely to succeed had they not been a part of YC.
I didn't mean to imply it's on the list of reasons. Just a side effect.
My point was more that the baseline latency on a modern computer and operating system, without really doing anything on the application side, is already very significant--it took simplifying assumptions and a good deal of hacking to get to that figure of ~23.3 ms. So, yes, latency is a big issue with practical augmented reality, on several levels of the hardware/software stack. Computer vision algorithms that rely on temporal coherence can easily introduce many frames of latency, so even if the per-frame processing time is manageable, the latency may not be.
* Surely the amount of cocaine found in "very low doses" of brewed coca tea is not what one would consider, in your words, "a moderate dose of recreational powder cocaine." So I don't think that what you've posted really supports your claim that the WHO finds recreational cocaine usage to be less hazardous than drinking enough to get drunk.

* Whether or not the US's drug policies are more harmful than the drug itself is a totally different question.
As opposed to Richard Stallman, who probably does not drink coffee unless it comes from a coffee maker running free softare.
Why? It's his choice. He could easily have cashed in to the tune of millions per year. Through public speaking, endorsement deals, etc. He chose not to. His choice, his reasons.
I tried using just the iPad and the on-screen keyboard took up too much of the screen for my liking. Bought an Apple Bluetooth keyboard - it was better, but function keys, etc are not fully supported. Eventually went back to using a MacBook Pro. For me having a keyboard; not having to prop up the iPad; and being able to function without a wireless broadband connection dropping out, slowing down is a more productive experience. And ... I really prefer to have bigger screen. Sometimes use the iPad in a Logitech dock as a second screen with AirDisplay - now that is convenient - but not on the road.

In your situation I would seriously consider getting a MacBook Air.
What's more, for many of us it's insulting to people we love – friends, colleagues or family. (My mum's seriously twice the programmer I'll ever be, for the record.)
The ones hired to provide the beers?
What if you dont have 2 pairs of eyes?
Just bought a copy with the PSD. As everyone here have said, the price point for both bundles make it a no-brainer.
I would say that the lightbox expand and contract was confused for close. It took me a few clicks to work out.
Love the fonts btw...
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Being the famous guy in the graveyard isn't particularly appealing either.
It's modern digital folk art!
But, in my experience, othering isn't going to drive people away, not in any significant numbers.

Are you a straight white male? If so, you probably shouldn't be generalizing your own experience to everyone who isn't.

Try talking with some people who aren't. Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of many examples of people who have spoken out on this topic, and there are many open source advocates who can give you their own experiences. Lydia Pintscher of the KDE project (and author of "Open Advice") has much experience with communities and such problems.

Artificially suppressing occasional acknowledgment of differences

Nobody ever asked you to do that.

only teaches that these differences are a bad thing.

If someone wants to make a point of a difference they're proud of, they'll do it themselves. Don't force it upon them!
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Hard drive capacities have increased far more than fourfold in that 10 years, though.
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This is mainly for consistency with the previous JSON libraries developed by Douglas Crockford. In JavaScript, it's easy enough to "create your own API" by just aliasing JSON.stringify to JSON.serialize or even a local "serialize" function that it isn't too much of an issue.

As much as I agree that the naming convention isn't great, it's better to have consistency -- especially in a language as dynamic as JavaScript.
Still, for comparison a huge site like reddit is serving around 1000 pageviews per second. The hardware in this post isn't that good, nowadays you can do quite a bit better. If you could get even 0.02% of these pageviews per second out of more modern hardware that's already 100 pageviews per second. Only a handful of sites need more than that. For example HN certainly does not. And AFAIK HN runs single core on a language (Arc) that compiles to Scheme, not the fastest in town. Since reddit is only about 70x larger than HN, we are probably close to the point where with a lot of optimization a site like reddit could be run on a single large box (if we're not there already).
Very cool but how is this going to affect my hatmail.com address...?!
12.699.999 copies. I just bought one.
This is even worse of an idea than the balloon thing.

Those drones can stay in the air for at most 15 minutes. This means that you have to have someone constantly rotating the drones and changing their battery. So then you go and arrest whoever is running the drone 'base'.

I put a keychain camera on my $100 remote control airplane. I don't suddenly own a Predator UAV.
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> Maybe the jobs for these people are light enough that there is no context switching cost or the cost is low.

Getting a site to work in IE6, or designing a usable UI, is probably hard to do with constant interruptions.
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I do not want to sell, just want to have some idea how it may worth, if possible.

Thanks in advance!
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I love the first comment at over 6 years ago.

>yeah, exactly, why the hell would you want an itunes phone!? silly apple, jacks are for pods.
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Hey, maybe that was me! I sell software online via PayPal IPN, and at least once a day (often more) I get email from customers angry at me for not sending their license key. Invariably it's because they no longer use the email address that PayPal thinks they do.

I tried highlighting this in the FAQ and on the purchase page, but the rate at which it happens didn't seem to change.
A couple points.... Keep in mind that I may be different because I start to worry about the people I am with if I fit in too much. I actually prefer to be a liminal figure (look it up).

First, humor is a way of managing tensions. It can create, dissolve, and transform tension from one form into another.

One of the real problem trends in America today, IMO, is rewarding hypersensitivity to taking offense. The problem is that it is possible to deconstruct a sufficiently large corpus by anyone to find something arguably worth taking offense to by today's standards. Thin skin should not be rewarded, but that's what happens when we focus on the negative side and place all the onus for change there.

A better approach is focusing on the positive side. Welcome people to your team and empower them. Trust them. Where they have relevant differences (that MBA on your hacker team) take that into account perhaps making him a go-to-person for business questions relating to the software? Focus on being what you want to be, not avoiding bat things. That means that jokes, etc. are far more likely to be offered in good faith and taken in good faith than they are if tensions are already of a bad kind.

LedgerSMB under my leadership has done quite well with a very diverse group of contributors. Nearly a third of our committers and contributors over the history of the project are women (noteworthy because that approaches commercial software development gender gaps rather than the larger gaps of open source), and we have people contributing from at least 5 continents (none from Africa yet to my knowledge). In the process we've had contributors whose countries were talking about going to war with eachother a few years ago (Colombia and Venezuela).

Moreover one could take your approach to othering to the other extreme, welcoming a talented woman as "one of the guys." Even assuming this has a welcoming effect, would this really reduce the level of sexism in place if the environment is male-normal?
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Y combinator should only be one of the avenues to be explored by an entrepreneur. My team (PayGuard) submitted an early application hoping that they would have more time to look at it, we still plan to update it before the March 28 deadline. We will apply again in the winter if we don't get in this summer since we're already quitting our jobs anyway. Getting accepted in the program will certainly jump us in the fast lane but we will not even slow down if we don't get in. My team have debated and made improvements to the idea for the past 6 months then we realized that the time for theorizing has ended and the time for building a product is now. We can't wait to test this out in the real world because we think there is a serious need for a payment system specializing in long distance and cross-border transactions.
poor guy...most people don't give a shit, and if demanding something gets them what they want, better yet. The amount of people who genuinely care about what this developer(or most opensores developers) is contributing is very minuscule.
And they charge and arm and leg for that. I go to StarBucks or Maccas and use the free wireless there when I travel.
Thanks for this. What a simple concept! I have so many docs trying to manage myself that they have become almost unmanageable. I've been using Google docs, Evernote and Trello. I recently took to using Trello as an electronic diary.
Not to mention, I still scribble in an actual notebook!
There is a hypothesis that the Angkor civilization collapsed due to the lake and wetlands around the city drying up. It is widely agreed that at the time the city around Angkor Wat was the largest in the world. The Angkor civilization collapsed at roughly the time of the Medieval warming period.

It is just a hypothesis but a very interesting one.
What I meant was: "If you used this metaphor [of a 'death march'] in Germany it would be way worse than saying 'We had to work like niggers' [in Germany]." The latter would still be very offensive in Germany as well. I honest don't know if it would be "way worse" than saying it in the US, maybe it's about the same category.

I don't really think there is a point in putting up a comparison whose crimes were worse. It's more an emotional response when people get offended than a rational one, anyway. Maybe it's only worth pointing out that genocide is seen a more grave category of crime than other forms of homicide in international law.
that was exactly my thought process, I've found technical ebooks < $10 are a pretty much instabuy as I know I'll be stuck on a train one day looking for something to read
"Are you a straight white male?"

I can't speak for the other guy but I was until I discovered through reading history how artificial a concept that was.....
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No, I've only read articles about it, so I definitely can't make a definite judgment about the quality of the research. But assuming journalists aren't misrepresenting the facts (which may or may not be a good assumption in this situation), it seems fairly obvious that Microsoft has a vested interest in developing a better phone operating system.

Their intentions weren't necessarily nefarious, but I doubt they funded this purely for the sake of science. It's in their best interest to study cell phone efficiency, and it's in their best interest to study their competitor's phones. That just seemed like an obvious conclusion, but is there something in the actual paper that indicates anything different?
Had the same issue, pressed esc to get out but that's not very intuitive.
Now defunct Transmeta hired him for just in time recompilation of x86 machine code into Transmeta's RISC machine code.
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Right, and there are other RNG and PRNG sources and interfaces for precisely that reaon. The question was why random(3) isn't arc4random(3).
> If it was a case of people shrugging it off, if this sort of thing could occur without anyone batting an eyelash... I'd have a lot more second-thoughts about my career path for one, and I'd have turned away from the start-up community on top of that.

I'm not suggesting we shrug it off, not batting an eyelash. It's completely idiotic and should be mocked appropriately. But I'm guessing (with high confidence) that if the frequent posts about this brand of stupidity were replaced by articles discussing the actual roots of the "science/technology is for men" prejudice, and blog posts from, say, the khan academy, on how they're working to fight those conceptions, you'd feel a heck of a lot more welcome, and the many, many women who are just on the "no" side of getting involved in the tech industry would be much more likely to get involved.

I'm not trying to replace criticizing language with fixing deep problems. I'm trying to replace criticizing language with discussing, directly, deep social problems. They're the same order of complexity, and one helps much, much more.
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I propose we declare religion a fallacy and declare that it provides no value to a population. You don't need to hurt people to eliminate ignorance.

My problem is with the group think mentality. Religion just happens to be a larger manifestation of group think, but more so a way for people to orchestrate their desires in the guise of being from the word of god making any argument (like this one) absolutely unacceptable if it questions that authority. That's why religion stands out - because it has the power to control people in mass without much resistance. Help me understand why this is good for society. As such, I've only seen people dance around why it is good that religion is velcro-ed to our behavior. Help me see why a large group of people forfeiting their critical thinking in place of a bunch of mythological fallacies as A Good Thing.
After racking my brain for years trying to figure out why shitty "design patterns" have been winning while functional programming (despite its superiority to typical object-obfuscated architecture) remains on the back-burner, I've come to a few conclusions.

1. The name "functional programming" doesn't sell us; it just sounds impractical. What we do isn't really "functional programming" in a purist sense. We need side effects all the time. We just have an understanding of the need to manage state (not eliminate it) properly. We need a better term for the hybrid functional-preferred/imperative-when-appropriate/very-occasionally-OO style that good engineers use, but all I can come up with (for how we "functional" programmers do things as opposed to the enterprise hoipolloi) is "non-shitty programming" and that sounds biased.

2. Usually, when we showcase FP, it looks like we're hawking complexity. We get into tail recursion and abstract data types right away. In fact, proper use of FP reduces complexity a great deal. For example, Scala is actually less complex than Java by far. On the other hand, it's hard to present Scala to a Java programmer without it appearing that one is trying to shove more complexity into his workflow, because it's only after a few months of learning how FP works (and that you don't need classes to program, you just need functions, because that's what algorithms actually are) that people realize how much simpler code becomes when done properly, and that functional programming (unlike <managerially-empowered flavor-of-the-month X> in Java) does provide life-long, substantial boosts in productivity and product quality. Until people get to that point, they'll feel like we're just shoving a tough learning curve on them.
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I don't necessarily recommend coding on an iPad at this point in time, but if you're going to try and use the iPad as a laptop replacement, you're probably better off getting something like Kensington's KeyFolio case+keyboard units[1]. I've seen 'em in action and they seem to work pretty well.

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My original post said nothing at all about cocaine being good for you. It said alcohol is even worse. I was not referring to coca leaves in my original post. I said "moderate recreational dose of powder cocaine." I was very clear. I really don't see what problem you have with my original post.

As for whether or not the typical recreational dose is moderate or high, I have met several people who have admitted to consuming cocaine recreationally at least once, and all of them reported snorting a relatively low amount of powder. That's consistent with what I remember the WHO report saying is somewhat toxic but not likely a big concern if not done frequently. It emphasized that chronic users and users of large doses almost invariably suffer from huge health problems. I don't advocate recreational drug use, let alone powerful stimulates. All I advocated in the original post was that alcohol is awful for you and should probably be avoided. Please stop changing my words.
Fn-backspace is no good. You just don't "get" the almighty Thinkpad.
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How is that license plate holder legal? You can't even see the state name, and you have to guess based on the lower loop on the "g".

Don't drive that car into Texas (http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist25/pr03...) or any other state with similar laws...
It might seem like a productivity win, but it may also be a creativity loss. A recent book by Jonah Lehrer http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0547386079/theeconomi... (I found out about it via The Economist http://www.economist.com/node/21550235) describes how creativity is most likely to happen at times of calm relaxation, such as a relaxed warm shower or a casual walk. There are times when I eat lunch at my desk to get more done, but I have found a casual stroll and lunch outside to be well worth the time and mental state it provides for thinking and creating.