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When I moved to the bay area, I noticed that fellow Australians who had been here for more than three years sounded weirdly sort-of-American, and thought "good thing I'm going back in two years!"

I'm still here six and a half years later. I'm the guy in the video.
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"However, REST requires developers to realize that stuff like "publishing a blog post" is a resource,"

I don't get this.

Blog posts are resources. POSTing to the collection of blog posts creates a new one. "publishing a blog post" is an action, maybe -- not a resource.
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How does it only affect linux firefox users? I think you're right about Adobe's motives, but it certainly affects any linux browser that could use libflashplayer, no? Ie Chrom*, Opera..
Because Woz would never[1], ever[2], ever[3] dress for the occasion. Ever[4].

1. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2011/04/woz-return...

2. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpmlgqzYtY1qafiav.jpg

3. http://www.pcbdesign007.com/articlefiles/77213-max%20woz.jpg

4. http://cdn02.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy-im...
Thanks for the links.

My question goes further though, as someone who has worked with, and implemented too, column-based stores: I'm curious to compare the respective space/ram consumption for the data part, too.

I think I'll write such a benchmark one day :)
This seems kind of contrived, since you can already use a lisp to target the JVM, CLR and the browser. But I guess since the author thinks lisp adoption (??) is a political imperative, maybe I'm just missing the point.
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Looted? If you want to argue from a position of fiscal soundness you will have to do much better than suggest Canada adopt the US approach to health care, which provides less coverage at significantly higher rates. Or advocate the intentional debasement of a currency as measure of fiscal sanity. Your proposal leaves the poor much worse off and the rich paying considerably more for health care. The difference in costs buys a lot of lunch.
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I doubt many framework creators intended the framework to be a substitute for learning the actual language. They're usually built to help with code organization, reduce boring repetitive work, deal with cross-platform glitches, etc.

It's difficult when you first start, though, because it can be confusing to know the difference between a language and a framework. Especially so in native GUI development, in my opinion. But I think whether people start off with a framework or not, eventually they can wind up in the same place. Because frameworks are often built using good practices, so the newbie learns good habits, and has to fill in their language gaps. Someone who starts with fundamentals may not know how to organize code until they discover some frameworks.
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.. this is clearly an April Fools joke.. "do you agree to be responsible for the weather in Seattle?". I'd say yes, but I have a feel that Chuck Norris,who's actually in charge, might not like that.
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All your evidence is decades too late, but you have a point. Woz would have worn a suit to a job interview or investor meeting. But the 1970s were a long time ago. It's no longer to be taken for granted.
Are you saying that you think that Ogg Vorbis will trump the other audio standards in the end?
think of module/import usage in Python, but without OOP dot-notation

I don't find that to be a problem. In fact, I love Python's module and import system. And the worst thing about Python is it's OO dot notation. I wish that Python had multi-methods too, and no OO-style method calls.
I'm a big fan of the model of teamwork where everyone is welcome to offer their opinion on and spend a bit of time thinking about and working on any aspect of the product, but there are fairly clearly defined responsibilities regarding who has the final say on what goes to the final product. Or to put it other way, everyone is involved in everything, but each thing has only one person responsible for it.
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I don't think it would. Because part of racing is gambling on the other driver to back off when fighting for position. And when I say "gambling", there are a lot of very human factors involved in trying to figure out an opponents likely behavior. It's not like chess.
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Sony (4/1) "smallest Ultrabook" made me dream just a little.
It seems unlikely that social media has had a significant effect on making rape easier because rapes in the US been declining for a while now.
Exactly. For some people it makes sense to be Facebook friends with their parents, because they interact with them socially.

It probably never makes sense to be Facebook friends with your students, but then why would you want a relationship with them at all on any social network? It just doesn't seem like an appropriate forum for that relationship. It's not as if Facebook is meant to replace all communication online.
Erik Naggum had a flamy comment on that topic: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/e5af8ef3f8...

The study you mention brings me to another point: In some cases the discussion here on HN revolves about believe systems, papers an references cited are often selected for an argument by authority. Moreover: would a paper in itself be enough? wouldn't you have to, critically follow through to the reviewing peers? concurring papers? This is indeed death of any discussion and it proves nothing in the end.

Typical thread of citations against citations: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3749114 but the debate is never coming beyond the point of "how do yo know this?" questions, masking "I don't like your point" as "you have no data backing this up".
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That's exactly what he did by announcing this publicly instead of just going to a public wifi and quietly taking down the botnet.
Yeah let's celebrate Fourth of July on HN too, because it's also once per year.
That may be your definition, but I don't think that's what he meant :)
So, it's obviously an April fools joke, but it had my brain spinning a little. How long is it until we have 8GB the size of a quarter with processing? It's likely eventually possible, but what kind of things could we do with processing power that small? I know others have started work on interfaces for glasses, input for implantables... but have we scratched the surface for dreaming on what we will have -- as possible, at least -- in ten years?
Yes, almost. Eliot almost said that -- said something superficially similar to that -- but didn't say that. People use "great artists steal" as incorrectly as they use "information wants to be free." The line hasn't been polished; it's been co-opted and transformed. Which is exactly what he and Deleuze were interested in, and why they so often circle the same drain.

Of course how audiences receive art and how artists create it aren't disjoint processes, but I understand you getting hung up on Deleuze's use of the word "mistranslation" there. It helps to know that he's working out of a tradition that treats the idea of translating as a figure for "owning" (in the Heideggerian sense, also translated "enowning").
They still collect the data, ready for consumption by the next regime.
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And that might also be useful app, if you're into this sort of thing. Like 'HW users who want to advertise to other HW users they might want to grab a beer around me'.

Getting the privacy right is tricky, though.
I thought this too, but (seriously) wondered if that was part of the joke.
If this is an April 1st it is in extremely bad taste.

If it is true, then I gues that OMGPOP will be a great addition to Zyngas "culture".
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On the contrary, it can be a lot more gratifying for a designer to be deeply involved in a product's design and make a long-term vision come to life. Gmail is not a good example since it's a fairly mature product, but I'm pretty sure a designer will never run out of things to do at most startups.
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Joke is (mildly) on the BBC, growing up we would always have spaghetti squash growing in the garden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_squash
Google Tap actually had me laughing. Especially "Todd Smith"'s wisdom. "You can tap in the morning. You can tap it at night."
I partly agree with your argument, specially on the liquidity side. Having said that, Venture Capital is one of the riskiest investments, and they wan't to make outside investors feel as if these companies are Treasury Bonds. VCs should be less selfish and admit that raising Series A, B or C does not validate a business and it's ability to become a great company. An it specially does not validate ridiculous valuations in the Stock Market.

Just watch Jeff Clavier's interview in Blooomberg, it's simply embarrassing: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/74892006/

IPO investors should sue any pre-IPO investor going on national TV arguing how great their investment is, and later dumping the stock. Just listen Jeff's argument and count the number of "if". He is just making a bunch of excuses of why Groupon is great, all conditional to god know what kind of number of hypothetical events. This is acts are dangerous, selfish and immature, as they damage the Startups' image to society.
No, I think debating/critiquing is exactly the structured type of discussion that introverts thrive at. It's the unstructured "say whatever comes to your mind" part of brainstorming that we don't do well at.
I personally didn't see any typos. I have this auto correct mechanism in my brain that ignores all the typos (which does have a bad side because I do a lot of them).

I'm not sure what grammar nazis look for in an article. The point the author trying to convey or pointless study of grammar?
I like what he is saying. Money is just one form of affirmation among many others. All of them respectable, money is just more tangible and conspicuous.
Response from CEO of OMGPOP to lone employee that left because of Zynga
Doesn't really need an active board. You could have a camera + projector and a board with fiducal marks.
True. But I bet you'd get 80% of the way there with canny + hough.
The most interesting thing in my mind is not which type of office plan is best for which type of person, but that no one can ever agree on the answer. Maybe the right solution is to allow a mix of plans? Let people have private offices that want them, and an open plan for those that want that too. True, it won't be perfect and there might be some issues with teams mixing up different types too much, but overall it might be better than only having one type of floorplan.
An idealist can be positive about a state of affairs and the future. He need not be disappointed that utopia has not yet been reached. I find HN encouraging, because the tone and contents are mostly pretty good. So where does your disappointment come from?
Groupon is VERY Silicon Valley, investors include NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins.
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The attitude "never say anything you would not want tosee published" is wrong.

When you say something (online) you are publishing it

all those pub conversations, all those vitriolic diatribes against managers (whom we later bacame) are packed up and put into a book called read me later

we have all been writing appendicies to the Viz Swearosaurus
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I think a big part of the problem is sites like 99designs and crowdspring that de-value the creative and design process to pennies on the dollar. These sites turn great artists into sweatshop workers.
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How can you make the browser run lisp?
I'm sorry, but I have started putting my foot down with my work and saying that the weekend is mine. I have come to the conclusion that working hard 24/7 is starting to wear me out and is starting to make me resentful.

I'm available throughout the week, if you can't provide and environment for me where I can be productive because of for example an open floor plan then I am not going to spend my time for you.

I have been very fortunate though in that I have a very understanding boss that lets me work whatever hours I please (I generally get to the office by around 1000/1030 and leave at around 1800/1900) and that has helped my productivity quite a bit as well because I am sleeping on my own sleep schedule that works for me, and at the tail end of the day when I am most productive the office is empty and quiet and I can get my work done.
If you believe the whole introvert/extrovert Jungian/Myers-Briggs thing I classify as an introvert and I love agile. So do lots of other folk I know - including some of the people who actually started the whole agile thing (there was a long and tedious thread on the XP list on the topic if anybody cares to read up - see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/msearc...)

As others have pointed out, no agile process that I am aware of recommends open plan offices. Open plan offices suck. What many in the agile community do recommend is having team rooms - where everybody working on a particular sits together.

In fact the only agile process I'm aware of that makes any explicit statement on working environment is XP - which has having per-project team rooms as one of it's practices (the primary practice of "Sit together" In XP2E)

And there's a lot of actual evidence that the team-room way of working is very, very effective. See this quora answer of mine for some references http://www.quora.com/Is-having-all-the-startup-engineers-wor..., and the agile alliance guide has some references too http://guide.agilealliance.org/guide/teamroom.html. Especially the "Offices That Work" paper that has some nice info on the relative trade-offs.

I find it curious that so many folk focus on individual performance - when most development is a team sport. I don't care if I'm a little less productive as an individual by a few project-related interruptions if the overall productivity of the team I'm working on improves.
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The way you could go about this is by stating that it is in the public domain, and for those countries where the public domain doesn't exist that it is under an MIT license.

At that point you have covered your bases and I and many others would feel comfortable using/extending/developing with it.

Sqlite is public domain for example.
I'm trying to help with this as well :) http://folyo.me
Computers actually play poker rather well.

And in racing computers have no fear for their life, and they know exactly what their (cars) limits are - I think it could be done.
Also great: Adobe to charge developers per line of Actionscript code

http://www.8bitrocket.com/2012/03/31/adobe-to-charge-develop...
Plus, this year it's _Sunday_! I mean seriously, do we need to be super-productive every single day of the year? And for those that want to make a slippery slope argument, I'd just like to say that April's Fools holds a very special place in geek life - it's pretty much the only day of the year that being original and whacky actually gets us applause anther than condemnation. It's practically the Geek Nation national holiday, so let us have some fun!
This looks really cool but I can't get the REPL to accept keyboard input in Firefox.
AdBlock Plus is showing me pictures of cats rather than ads. Not sure how you'd add that to the list.
> Sodium nitrate is a raging carcinogen if you char grill it.

I don't think that's unique to sodium nitrate.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2519/does-barbecuin...

> Sulfur dioxide can cause problems in some people.

Right, and gluten does a real number on the (relatively few) people with celiac disease; gluten is a naturally-occurring protein that is perfectly healthy for most people, so we can't judge a chemical entirely by what it does to some people.
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This is just awesome! Great work!
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Do you think that graph would look any better with a mere 50 years of suppression? Or even a minuscule 20?
Is this an April Fool's thing? Not sure...
Gotta be a joke.
I'll probably try that then. Initially I chose Unlicense because it addresses the "no license" means someone can go "over your head" and license it. The whole licensing thing is a pain in the ass. And now I see http://unlicense.org isn't even resolving anymore!

I like the idea of Public Domain with fallback MIT. The main thing is I want it to be un-copyright-able.

Thanks for the suggestion and do feel free to check out the development progress on github!
great analysis. if you can keep them challenged and provide them best possible environment to tackle the challenges, they will be happy. They will excel and so you have excelled - automatically making the people you report to happy...
They are basically crowdsourcing their April's fools day joke. Genius.
I have uninstalled flash player on all my machines. If its flash and has no h264 fallback its probably not a video worth seeing anyway.

Just Do It.
Using Lion, but I recall doing this for some time (Tiger?); I may be wrong. Do you have tap to click enabled?
I fixed up Firefox support. Strangely, all the 3D transform examples have always mentioned something like "perspective: 1000". It's always been some imaginary unit. Firefox requires "1000px" for it to work.
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on first thought I thought I was the stupid one and this was actually cool. On second thought, I realized it was April 1st.

But on 3rd thought...
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There's a data structure to solve this problem: the length 3 string. Google "trigram".

Russ Cox has even indexed regexp searches this way.
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Google Tap (April fool's joke :D )
This is just a palliative cure. The genie is already out of the box and you just can't put it in. The problem lies with our habit of giving away personal information like cotton candy. Combine it with lax security/privacy measures and this is what you get.
I must say Ruhoh API is very well thought out. Kudos for the great work!

How about extending the Universal Blog API for storing user comments? That'd make it a complete out-of-the-box blogging solution (a user may opt for using a comments service provider like Disqus OR use the inbuilt comments API). The spec could look somewhat like so:

- Directory Structure:

_comments //folder with json files containing user comments

- Comments file:

{{post identifier}}.json //could be simply the post filename.

- Comments structure:

{
"comments" : [{
"id" : "1123", //unique comment id
"author" : "Chuck Norris",
"author_handle" : "chuck@norris.com", //or a website
"date" : "yyyy-mm-dd", //comment date
"content" : "Hei! Chuck makes dumb comments."
},

{
"id" : "1124",
"author" : "Superman",
"author_handle" : "superman.com",
"date" : "yyyy-mm-dd",
"content" : "Superman is scared of Chuck."
},
]
}

We can leave the comment id and author details up to the login implementation.
Needs better wording. At first i thought it was a wiki-like effort to collect more accurate temperature information (far fetched, i know, but i 'm conditioned). I dismissed it without realizing its aprilfoolness
Interesting. That is a common trend I have noticed - there is some class of dev whose job becomes serving the internal business on an adhoc basis

your manager can either stop it by charging your time back to the requestor ( I would suggest you track the requests -send emails sayi g Bob you wanted a new sales report, it's third on list and expect it 9am)

or he can explicitly Market you to the business - what I previously did. And it is a powerful weapon for your manager. The higher ups feel well treated and the department gets all it's interrupts funnelled thru one person, who in your case seems good at it and happy to do it

but I strongly suggest you track the work, and push the marketing value of what you do.
I could use help with my spelling.
I'm sorry, but I don't see anything.
Sounds like technological determinism.
What I meant is that there is no other plausible lineage for that quote - and I've looked. If you claim otherwise, I'd love to see the citation.

It doesn't help to replace one obscure jargon with another, even more obscure jargon.
Probably some bad blood between the CEO and the said employee before the deal. But because of the success and jealousy of people, the CEO is sure to be painted bad badly.
Phone calls and meetings...
There is no period of time that is short enough. Even a year, three months or a week is too long. Copyright can't keep up with the speed of our culture anymore. The same goes for patents and progress, essentially. It's time to get rid of this artifact of the 20th century (along with the eternally backwards industries around it), it's holding us back.
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There are a bunch of comments here expressing outrage at the seeming arbitrary decision of Apple to pull this app.

Whilst others have correctly pointed out that the app no longer works because FourSquare has cut off API access, Apple's policies do essentially allow them to remove apps that they consider to be in bad taste or against the interests of consumers without having a guideline in place in advance.

They explicitly say that the app store guidelines are open to being changed, and that they think developers should know where to draw the line, even if it's not in already in the rules.

Compliance with the stated rules isn't a guarantee of anything. They really just help people to avoid repeating things that have caused rejections in the past.
Yeah it's an April fools. The copyright date at the bottom specifically mentions April 1st.

The domain was also just registered on the 21st.

Created On:21-Mar-2012 23:51:11 UTC

And the code doesn't actually exist. Look at their "fake" 500 error page:

http://morecss.org/more.js

`We have been receiving a large volume of requests since April 1st 2012.`
Very timely considering this just hit the front page

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783021
First time I've ever seen a YC Demo Day start-up presentation captured on video. Interesting.
I looked a bit and at every instance I found, the USPS is operationally profitable when pension prefunding is ignored. This is contrary to your claim. So if these other sources are correct, that $75 - $80 billion would go a long way towards covering the $55 billion prefunding mandate. Might even be able to take the remainder and modernize for increased efficiency, thereby further increasing profitability.