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Open Source Evil Overlord Name Generator
It's written in JavaScript.

Try it out here:

http://www.nicollet.net/files/blog/evil-overlord/

GitHub:

https://github.com/VictorNicollet/Evil-Overlord-Names

It uses a simple format for describing how names should be constructed, which makes it easy to extend, and to guarantee that all names are equally likely to be generated. It can currently generate 23037267 different names.

Pull requests are welcome if you wish to help me add new name formats or elements !
In all my messing around it did not occur to me to try that. Thanks! Solution blinders in action! I suppose a little animation would have gone a long way towards clearing that up initially.

Even doing it correctly, I still feel it's a little too slow, and still relatively easy to flub it into closing the book. I applaud the idea, though.
My experience reflects yours. However of late I have had to crack open the source code for ASP.NET MVC & the Azure SDK. Not so much to correct a bug but to ensure functions that I am overriding follow a similar design pattern to the original.

I've never had the need to get into ASP.NET or the .NET framework itself but being able to get into components built on top of these lower level technologies has been very helpful.
Ha! Yes, sorry I probably shouldn't have used such a broad brush.

Some people do care deeply.

I'm just frustrated with Commons at the moment for other reasons, and took the opportunity for a childish jibe.

(good work on the UploadWizard :D)
Lockpicking is one of my hobbies from one year. Is incredible fun and challenging.

If you want to start, I recommend you reading the MIT Lockpicking guide. It have the basics:
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You can found a cheap lockpicking set here:
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Also start opening cheap padlocks so you can get your first success fast and get motivated.
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Distributors refuse to sell Raspberry Pi without CE mark
"Initial reactions to Go 1 have been overwhelmingly positive, particularly (and not surprisingly) on community sites like Hacker News, a Y Combinator-run reddit clone populated by self-acknowledged hipster hackers." Hah: http://webdev360.com/google-releases-go-1-to-rave-reviews-41...
After signing in, you can indeed select other users' timelines instead of your own.
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Non-hardware hacker question: as the Pi is modified over time, does it need to be re-certified each time? Or is it certain components on the board that require this?
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I cannot reconciliate the fact that I believe regulations kill innovation in our industry, while at the same time believing that lack of regulation in finance is destroying the economy.
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They actually have a compatibility package[1] to let apps use the new tablet layout classes on Android versions back to 1.6. Developers have no excuse.

[1] http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html
Hm, more and more video links on HN. Perhaps it is time for a [video] marker for stories?
Slightly off-topic, but your post reminded me of Slavoj Zizek's fiery verbal attack on charity[1], especially the line at the very end:

"It's horrible to see a child whose life is ruined because of an operation that costs 20$. .. (but) If you operate the child, they will live a little bit better, but in the same situation that produced them"

Just an interesting side-note on this debate.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g
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Is it possibly as simple as the fact that you can smart regulations and dumb regulations?
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Sick to death because he can't update to a new version of an operating system??

I know this psychological feeling of wanting the latest craze, but the reality is probably that the old versions of Android work just fine. We have somehow been trained to crave new OS versions, but that is nothing to commit suicide over.
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I think it could be quite a bit worse.
Sure we have fragmentation today with distros doing their own thing but these are mostly due to differences either in ideology , philosophy or technical goals.

Having this controlled instead by OEMs run by MBAs who are more interested in kickbacks and splashing their logo on everything could be a worse experience.

GNU/Linux has a great deal of flexibility which is great for hackers, but is also great for those who would seek to abuse it.
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"making sick children happy"

This is a pretty reductionist view of his activities, IMO. Keeping cancer patients "happy," especially young children, is a huge part of their recovery. People like to speak in broad, fuzzy terms about the power of "smiles" and all that, but there's plenty of clinical research showing the significance of attitude on the workings of the body's response to disease. (And, even if the smiles had no effect whatsoever, it's still a noble cause to provide comfort to the sick and dying).

"...if his objective is to do as much good for the world as he can, he's not acheiving it."

But who said this was his objective? This is merely conjecture by a handful of HN commenters. Batman himself has neither stated, nor implied, that he's seeking to maximize utility of his efforts.

Even still, there's a very credible argument to be made in his defense against this charge.

Sure, he may not be maximizing his direct impact. But I imagine that the novelty of his approach, coupled with the publicity he's received, will have a large, indirect effect. Maybe more "Batmen" will answer the call of duty. Maybe more people will open up their hearts and wallets this week. Etc. It's highly likely that the sum total of his direct + indirect impact on the world is greater here than if he'd simply min/maxed the direct impact (e.g., by donation to X causes in Y locations).

He's now got symbolic value, as does the $250,000 Batmobile, and it's hard to measure the impact of that value. But it's certainly nontrivial.

As Ra's al-Ghul taught Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins, the goal is to "become an idea." That way, what you stand for becomes far bigger than what you, alone, can achieve. You leverage your personal impact on the world. It's a lesson that this version of Batman seems to have learned well.
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"Hostile work environment" is a set of landmines in every US employer's terrain. If you locate here, you can't legally or practically avoid employees who take this stuff very seriously (though I've been fortunate in not seeing anyone go ballistic over anything). The only workable response is to suck it up, don't commit thoughtcrime in the office, and go have a drink and unwind with the people whose discretion you respect.
Thanks very much for the great comment.

I agree, I didn't go as far as I could have — but then the article is intended as more of a warning than an in depth discussion of a struggle. Having said that, I definitely saw in myself the symptoms of escalation.

My hope is that anyone in a similar situation recognises in it themselves and makes a change, preventing anything worse, whatever that might be, from occurring.
Most Apple, I guess? The jailbreaking prevented OS updates, but the inability to sync and battery life were most likely due to the device itself.

In the first place, I want to be able to install programs from wherever I like (which was why I needed to jailbreak - to install an important app which had no official iOS release at the time), so having to jailbreak for that capability is still a drawback (or 'failing') of Apple/iOS relative to my requirements.

I hope the Nexus won't get in the way of my needs - I don't want to have to wrangle with anything when an OS update is issued, even if I root my phone. And I also don't want 0 updates. Does any phone fit my use case?
"I myself struggle with the concept of asking $25k to build what he wants to build."

Are you of the opinion that people should only be paid to do things that they don't want to do?
I don't know, but that doesn't stop me from speculating..

1. Licensing fees from manufacturers for the patents, designs, etc. [once the tech is street-ready and approved]

2. Contextual/location-based ads as you drive around?
Eben states in the comments on the original post that both distributors didn't include compliance people during the contract stage. Raspberry Pi assumed that they could be like the Beagleboard and not require CE marking. So everyone involved overlooked it. More of the blame lies with the distributors I feel. I mean, they are meant to be the experts here, and have done this many times before.
I documented everything I know about custom keyboard layouts on OS X, which have been supported since Jaguar (10.2): how to create them, how to install them on a per-user basis or system-wide, how to make a custom layout the system default (even for the login screen!), and how to assign a custom icon to your self-made keyboard layout.
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Someone has already covered tethering, so I'll just emphasize there are plenty of other useful things you can get by enabling "Unknown sources" without rooting: other app stores (Amazon [noted upthread], GetJar, MiKandi, ...) often with their own exclusives, software under development (Swype Beta, Mozilla's Aurora and Nightly, ...) and so on.

Separately, if you managed to buy a Thunderbolt from AT&T you have much bigger problems than getting tethering working. The Thunderbolt is a Verizon-specific CDMA/LTE phone that doesn't support any of AT&T's networks (AT&T's LTE is on a different band).
While this is annoying for the Raspberry Pi guys, I don't think their innovation is being stifled...

Requiring certification when you're planning on making a few hundred units and selling them yourself to a few schools (or whatever) in the UK would be stifling innovation.

Requiring certification when the project explodes, scaling up new distribution channels and production, shipping internationally, seems reasonable.

Considering how popular it's gotten, and how many, many thousands of these are going to be sold in the near future, it's nice to know that these meet some basic standards.
Developing for iOS is really fun. I started learning 3 months back, bought an iMac and iPod touch. And since then, I am surprised everyday by everything it has to offer. Storyboard, Debugging, Submitting App. Everything is so beautifully designed.

Just one thing. The app store is really crowded, that too with quality apps. The apps which take lot of effort to make, someone else is offering for free. Unless you are developing for clients, its hard to survive.
I fail to understand why some programmers don't like to see other programmers get paid directly for their efforts.

If open source work is not paid for directly, it is paid for by corporations. Even when people do work in their 'spare time', it is being subsidized by the corporate job that puts food on their table.

Arguing against directly funded open-source is tantamount to arguing that developers should only be able to make a living working for a corporation.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to work for corporations, but what's wrong with having alternative economic mechanisms as well?
Clay Johnson has a book and website, "The Information Diet: a case for conscious consumption", on this topic:

http://www.informationdiet.com/
That pretty much completely blew my mind
Excellent! Now all I need is an N64 emulator...
JRuby will be in GSoC, and may also have a separate "summer of code" via an as-yet-unnamed benefactor. Perhaps we should just get Yehuda to mentor a student to build a single "Rails.app" that runs on all platforms, rather than just OS X?

http://jruby.org/gsoc
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Stuff your face with Springstein,

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Gorge freely on Gormley,

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Dine liberally on your Dickens,

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Not being able to update may well have limited you from getting battery related bug-fixes, and jailbreaking is notorious for allowing power-inefficient mods or apps to run - indeed that's the reason many people choose to do it.

I guess my point is that you knew in advance that the device wouldn't do what you wanted, so it's not really surprising that you didn't have a great experience and I think it's hard to blame that on Apple.

Personally I think that anyone who would need to Jailbreak an iPhone would have their needs better served with a good Android phone. In this regard they are simply aimed at different customers.
"paste a wrong barcode over the restaurant's one in the middle of the night & redirect cars to the competitor just down the road", then? :P
Why not have a lite / pay to get everything version, then?
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Nice collection!

I looked instantly at the code and it is not bad at all, maybe except for this piece:

function is_array(x) {
return Object.prototype.toString.call(x) === '[object Array]';
}

What's wrong with Array.isArray()?
As it wasn't mentioned, anyone have any idea of the license he'll be releasing this under?
> What do you mean by 'all caps all the time'?

I think (he|she)'s referring to the displayed case of the graphemes on the US iPhone's on-screen keyboard; that is, all letters are always displayed in upper-case, regardless of the state of the ``shift'' key.
He said 'virtually infinite', which I think is reasonable if you take that to mean 'more than we could ever use'.

Already today there are large scale solar development projects that, if scaled, offer the potential to supply enough electricity for a whole continent. eg:[1].

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/11/sahara-sol...
No, it will motivate developers to create add-ons that cost $2 each.

In general, your argument about a subset of products is reasonable. In a drawing app when you have to buy individual brushes it's scummy.
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After being involved within the family business (lock smiths and security engineers) for 3 years whilst in college, you end up realising how insecure and inadequate 80% of the locks around you are.

Any person with a small degree of knowledge can do some serious amount of damage if they wanted to turn rouge. (Bump keys and Snappers)
Saying that it is a very fascinating skill to learn, the social response to stating that you are a trained locksmith in conversations is quite interesting.
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There's no particular reason a Python-to-Dalvik compiler couldn't be built, though it'd look very different from CPython and likely any other current Python implementation.

Given Google's apparent predilections, however, I think a more likely outcome of the hypothetical scenario you seem to be positing ("switch from Java to something else") would be a migration toward Dart, JavaScript, Go, or some combination thereof.

I don't see that scenario as being particularly likely, though.
I thought your point was that most startups aren't solving problem and "create nothing of value" as you put it.
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That's because sexism is about special rights towards women,
and not equal rights.

That's where you're wrong. Sexism is a process of gender discrimination and it's tied to the cultural philosophy of the person doing it. The perception (or allegation) of sexism is comes from the feeling an action invokes in the mind of the recipient. I wonder if the sexism label is doing more harm than good when it comes to eradicating the underlying problem.

When I read about the "manly testing interface for Python" I clearly got the feeling this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, perhaps written by an adolescent after one beer too many. But yeah, at the same time I thought it was a really odd theme or identity for a programming project to have. I can see how it would be off-putting.

It's often difficult to know how a written statement was meant to come out, especially if you don't know the author. My beef at this point would be with the project description not so much the name itself, because it seems to employ the tired cliche of hardcore things being manly. On the other hand, it's probably meant to be a joke. Which is all fine until a female developer comes along and interprets it as "fuck this, the author clearly doesn't want me to use it", or until a male developer reads it and thinks "screw this, I'm not taking lessons in gender identity from you"
"JavaScript is part of the web now." It wasn't before? It's acceptable to have completely blank pages with no content, JavaScript 'or else'?

"It's because people like interactive content". And Google put '+' into everything because 'people like social', not some plan to compete with Facebook.

"some conspiracy to DRM their corporate advertising blog." Because clearly I was talking about a single blog.

"proxying works fine for SPDY" A SPDY -> HTTP proxy. When there's a SPDY-to-SPDY caching proxy and no man-in-the-middle you might say it works fine.

...that's a lot of spin from a Google employee. Maybe I hit pretty close to the mark.
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Fair enough.

I guess the trade off is against having a massive visual change every time you tap shift that could draw your eye away from the cursor position in the middle of typing.
I think you either are lucky or not working on some low level problems. I had at least two cases (in last 5 years) where I had to debug code and enter Windows libraries reading assembler code using cdb/windbg. It was painful knowing that in Linux I could simply read code, understand it and potentially fix it. In some cases low level tools help avoid debugging assembler (like dependency viewer, process monitor, spyxx, wireshark and etc.).

It is really not about fixing something but understanding what behavior underlying libraries expect from software you are writing. The situations where documentation is technically correct but practically useless.
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PandoDaily was apparently created to give TechCrunch a run for its money in the linkbait department. I've absolutely no idea why any real geek would go there for news.
> Can you point to the rude parts? Or is that too much to ask?

Any of his comments in this thread are rude. Practically each on seethed with immaturity and rudeness for the other people in the thread. Any particular part? Yeah, the parts where he was commenting.

Rude is obviously subjective, but tied to social norms. It's like me calling a woman a "fucking bitch" is rude based on social norms, not because "fucking bitch" itself is rude. So, just consider that before you try to suggest that "what he said was clearly not rude or immature." We can obviously go back and forth all day long and get no where.

> Actually most of the discussion on the issue is like that of touchy 20 year olds. Adults dont "down-vote" on disagreement.

Well, I'm fairly confused now. First, I'm under the impression that a 20-year old is an adult. Secondly, I agree that adults don't down-vote on disagreement. I'm confused because if most of the discussion is like that of adults, and adults don't down-vote on mere disagreement, what's the issue? I sincerely think you were making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Yes, there will be people who down-vote because they disagree. There are also people, like me, who will see that and correct it should we feel the down-votes are not necessary, even if we disagree. It's self correcting that way. Hell, people up-vote even when they do disagree, if only because the comment is thoughtful.

I think the issue isn't people disagreeing on a subject. I think it's people disagreeing on what constitutes having a mature conversation. You obviously disagree with others' assessments.
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That is a mischaracterization of the contest.
Should mention its only in the USA and locked to AT&T with contract.
Very nice. Is there any chance of a follow up on your comment in the previous thread:

"I'll write a post describing what I did to take boot time from 2.5 minutes to 10 seconds."

My interests:

- how did you find what to optimise?
- what approach did you use?
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Neat. Jetpac actually shipped as a playable sub-game in Donkey Kong 64, so I guess this emulator was ultimately used there.
And, if I get it correctly, that way you can tether the iPad via the android where there is no wifi?
Very few investors will invest purely in an unproven team, YC and HackFwd are exceptions rather than the norm. Most investors would expect to see tech or traction in addition to a solid team.

As an individual with no product and no track record you have a minisiscule chance of raising investment.
And even with these mentions it would still be more of an advertisement link than anything else.
First problem: you're asking us if you have what it takes.

If you show up to an investor with that attitude they won't spend a second with you.

Stop asking us if you have it, and start telling us that you have it (or at least act like you do).

You have to believe in yourself so much to a level where you can convince someone else to believe in you so much that they'll hand you their hard-earned money.
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