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I've never seen the movie.

> Commiting suicide for failing to figure out some stupid propulsion mechanics! I remember thinking at the time that if this same film had been made in English, the critics & audience in the US would have torn it to shreds for such pandering & crass footage. But India being what it is, this very scene was lauded for its authenticity!

But that's kind of unsound to assume that the suicide must have been due to the specific event (not getting a helicopter to fly), rather than the bigger picture in this person's life.

Surely failing to graduate in an environment that places everything on having a paper diploma, including one's own image/self-worth, is more to the point of the suicide.
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Your deciding what is and isn't important for women to care about is a perfect example of privilege. When somebody says they care about something, the right response is to take note of why they care, and try not to repeat the mistakes on display here. Responding with arguments about why we shouldn't care about this is furthering the problem.
Yet it never occurs to them when dividing people into groups that maybe they're the incompetent ones...

Who's more competent? The person using Agile successfully and getting things done, the guy using no specific development process and getting things done, or the guy writing long blog posts about why he doesn't care for a development process he doesn't understand and doesn't need to participate in if he doesn't enjoy it?
I think the generalized term for that is "the narcissism of small differences".
Or depending on market conditions the exchange rate could move in your favor and those bitcoins can buy much more than what they could on the day they were earned.
Lighten up!
What is GO programming and why should I care?
Nice work with the Python style, though I believe Simple and Obtvse missed the point as with every clone of something out there that tries to replicate what they could see on the outside. Skipping over Dustin's attitude of the situation, no one really knows how Svbtle.com works on the inside do they?

From the outside look and the screenshots (because that's all Dustin showed you) it's a simple design and that's the point; it was never supposed to be a complex work of design for you to be proud that you could replicate it in 1 day in rails. Yeah, Dustin put some work into thinking what could work for the layout but once the application of the design is done, replication is beyond simple.

Clone all you want I think it's great but Dustin was really telling the story of the "network" the idea of a closely knit community of writers (pseudo-writers whichever you prefer). I look at it as similar to the Deck Ad network or Dribbble (before every desperate Designer begged for an invite). Or when an HN clone comes along, no one ever migrates across, they always come back here.

Point is, the one thing you are never going to have is the network, that human element that sets apart the clone from the real deal.
They do have that data, and you can see it:

http://www.google.com/s2/search/social

https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/

(not sure the links work, you get there through the dashboard)
The problem with this is that that is just the first step. Having a nation with no alliances means that you will pretty much be invaded with impunity.

But given the way certain nations have been behaving of late, having your own nation may not make much of a difference.
Any new major startups built with PHP?
Can you name some major famous successful and hot startups that have been launched in the last two years and have been built with PHP
And in the mean time, all HN readers who visited the page with the iFrame got cookied with an Amazon affiliate cookie of the "Hacker" writing about this!
Correct. Audio support is one of the big features what is keeping me on Flash. This is a great rundown on the depressing state of audio support in HTML5:

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audi...
The end of the article seems to say that since people copied the feature between when it was first invented (by Loren B.) and when the patent application was filed, that counts as prior art. IANAL, but isn’t that false, if the period between the invention & patent application is short enough? What is it, a year or two?

Edit: Gojomo says elsewhere in this discussion that the grace period between public disclosure & the latest you can file is one year.
I use Django daily, and it's great for a lot of stuff, but I would have to disagree with your "Django for anything larger". Maybe I'm just building things where Django isn't appropriate, but for large stuff that need to integrate with legacy stuff, I would like avoid Django in the future.

Also, getting started on a Flask application is a lot more work than Django, setting up logins, permissions, database stuff and so on takes longer compare to Django. I would pick Django for something that just needs to be up and running quickly and with an okay admin interface.

If you start picking of core bit of Django, I personally think it starts to lose part of what makes it a handy framework.

But in the end your right, the framework isn't important, it's the product. I try out frameworks every now and then and pick the one I feel comfortable and happy working with. Currently that's Flask, but previously I normally went for web.py.
Eye-tracking of the future will read your mind
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" Is the first line of the agile manifesto.
Ahem. Beat you by a mile (or 173 days):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085082
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...Law is basically a big virtual machine that runs on metaphors and rhetoric, kind of like the IE6 html engine.

Best quote I've read all year. Also makes a ton of sense when put like that, so thanks.
Pricing before I have to authorize the app would be nice. Sure, I can change permissions later, but I'd rather not have to.
I hate that term cowboy programmer. Very effective rhetoric, though. Let's take the archetypical example of people who get stuff done without our process, and call them cowboys! Now, anytime someone points out a dumbass process-driven decision that could have been avoided by using our brains, we can just disparage them as a cowboy.

Note, we're using small-a agile at my shop and it's working well, but that's because of good people, not because of blind adherence to a process and eschewing individual thought.
>But I agree that men generally don't mind Bob with his hourly cracks about women (and maybe gays).

I'm male and certainly mind very much! I tend to find people that make cracks about woman not very smart. I also can't stand misandry which goes completely unnoticed by society.

>That's why men swear up and down that they've never seen sexism in their workplaces. Because we simply can't see it. (And our society is sexist, so sexism is kind of like air.) Hard to imagine that silly ol' Bob is doing anything so impressive as "reinforcing patriarchy."

The feminist patriarchy concept is also sexist. It implies that just by being a men one is in a more powerful and advantageous position.
For a more detailed explanation please look at this video http://youtu.be/JHkGZvC0z4I

Note. Criticism of feminism is not necessarily anti-woman or anti-womans rights.
G#... any day now, any day.
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In my fantasy billionaire scenario hiring PMC would be a viable option. Also, with lot's of cash to throw around - how hard would it be to build an alliance with neighboring states, bribing politicians, "friendly relations", etc. You would probably trade with them anyway, build a few facilities there to please the people/sell the story.
It's in the way it's being done. The argument for why we should be cautious is straightforward. It consists of simply pointing out that people seem to be spending a lot of money on assets for which the price has been rising rapidly, and they're doing it based on a soft thesis of simply assuming that a past trend will continue into the future wrapped in a thin candy shell of hype.

A compelling counter-argument to the assertion that people are overvaluing tech would be a clear explanation of why the prices being spent on tech companies now are justified by compelling reasons to believe that those companies can produce value for shareholders by either delivering a portion of profits to the owner's pockets or by increasing the fundamental value of the company. This explanation would of course need to be finished off by a case for why the amount of value that can be delivered to shareholders is in proportion to price at which those shares are trading hands.

On the other hand, folks churning out lists of reasons why "this time it's different" that are peppered with buzzwords like 'transformative', but never getting around to directly addressing the actual question at hand in any sort of articulate manner, have been something of a mascot for the past few market bubbles. Consequently, seeing them coming out of the woodwork yet again does not inspire confidence. No, it's not proof that we're in a bubble. But it takes some heroic naivete to see that behavior and not think, "Hmm, now where have I seen people acting like this before?"
That's a really valid point delinka, hadn't considered it. Thanks for the feedback.
Linux on an 8-bit Micro?
The War Against Youth
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http://mushahda.com/38.html
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This article has a low but not abysmal content-to-annoying-ad ratio
This just made my day. Kudos - or to say it with Dr. Sheldon Cooper: "Bazinga!"
Nice app, I like it, hotornot for startups ;-)
Wouldn't Tweetie itself constitute Prior Art that invalidates this patent application? I believe this behavior was in the app long before the application was filed (which was just the day before Twitter announced the acquisition of the app).
Ivy Bridge Quad-Core Desktop and Mobile CPUs launching on April 29
You do realize that telling HN is not an appropriate way to have that bug fixed, right?

I know lots of Googlers hang out here, but your comment is buried pretty deep.
It's not even a new user issue. I've been an editor for going on 5 years, and I still get templated and reverted on inconsequential edits.

Case in point: I recently edited this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turing_Machine_in_Golly.pn...

It's a screenshot of the 6 octillionth generation of a Turing Machine built in Conway's Game of Life, using the GPL'd program Golly. The previous image contained Windows GUI elements (title bar, etc) which are non-free and cannot be used on WP when a free alternative exists. So I cropped it and uploaded the edited image.

Within minutes, I had received a template on my (seldom-visited) commons talk page informing me that I had uploaded a file without specifying its license, and that it would be deleted. Take a look at the "Permission" field on that image: "See LICENSE.TXT distributed with Golly for GPLv2 license"

Despite this (incredibly clear) assertion that the image was GPL'd, I received a warning that it would be deleted. Why? Because I hadn't included the "This image covered by the GPL" template that a) I didn't know existed, b) there was no mention of on the upload page, and c) is a wordier version of what I wrote in the license field.

As an experienced editor, I'm used to these stupid quibbles and time-wasting fights. I'll still contribute, although they are a large part of why I don't contribute more. As a new editor seeing this, however? I would have told them to fuck off, got banned for incivility, and never gone back.

There's an attitude among the regulars that Wikipedia is a treasured resource that must be defended against innumerable vandals, trolls, and spammers by a select cadre of noble volunteers. To an extent, they're right. But when you have such badges as "The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar" [1] being held up as the height of achievement for veteran editors, it engenders a culture that is exclusionary, if not actively hostile, towards new editors.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiDefender_Barnstar.png
What difference does that make? I'm really not following you. When they sell, or buy, they pay the tax. It makes no difference if they place a limit order or a market order.

The spread is just the difference in prices, it's not an extra fee that some pay and some don't. The only reason it even exists is that where the prices meet trades happen, so the prices never actually meet for long.
I'm surprised by how defensive the comments are here. They seem out of place, especially on "Hacker" News, an entity whose name by definition emphasizes thinking outside of the box. Frankly the post seems spot on regarding providing multiple examples (1 hypothetical and humorous, 1 general, and 1 specific) of how "engineering" minds' over thinking causes them to be outperformed by "simpler" minds and more obvious solutions. Even his string example could be kept obvious and simple by saying, "Measure the circumference, divide by 11, mark on string at regular intervals, cut to lines," and I'm fairly confident it would still be the best answer.

Any post-sophomoric software engineer will lament an over-designed system they helped create, lauded for its superior design, only to have it become unwieldy and unmanageable under its own monstrous complexity, and then refactored to a far simpler and more intuitive solution. It's no coincidence KISS is taught in every Engineering 101 class across the country.

I found the article to be light and refreshing, reminding me that as an engineer, often I am my own worst enemy...

Or the very least, the enemy of that tragic racquetball launcher I built in Freshman engineering that _literally_ crumpled under its own weight on demo day. Lol.
I solved that thing in less than 2 minutes too, and bet my pinkie finger nobody would take more than 15 minutes to figure it out.

There is some background of truth in the article, that most people lose the will to be creative (not the ability) over time. But it's over-generalizations galore.
Twitter's ToS requires third parties to respect deleted tweets, etc.

Trying to decide whether the disposable nature of this product meets that requirement...
Hi Kamil - A database-backed blog enables you to easily integrate the content into your existing website -- for example, dynamically displaying the latest entry on the home page, and it makes it easy to style the blog with the site's existing templating system rather than maintaining a separate system.

I wanted the benefits of a dynamic app, but I wasn't willing to exchange Emacs for a Web-based editor so I created a hybrid engine.

I chose Neo4j because graphs are an elegant way of storing relational data. There are no tables to mess with and no joins (everything is explicitly joined). And if your blog's auth/commenting system uses data from the social graph, such as Facebook or Twitter, a graph database provides a clean way of storing the data.

Also, I am the author of Bulbs (https://github.com/espeed/bulbs), a graph-database framework written in Python, so using it was a natural choice.
Dark Sky, short term local weather prediction app.
I think the technical term for this is a "fully general counterargument": one that can argue equally well for true and false ideas.
The 'timeout' as referred to in the list of possible actions ('schedule a timeout') refers to the timeout mechanism used to implement master election in Arakoon, our product on which some of the experience in the article is based, where we attempt to be at level 3 in the rewrite we're currently working on.

When this action is evaluated (in the impure part of the system), an action will be scheduled with the threading system for execution sometime later, at which point some new message will be sent through the machinery, just like any other message received from another node on the network.

It's not about timeouts on message transmission or anything alike.
(Also, black roll-out thingy on the right side, fixed header as you scroll down, roll-out footer. This page is not that minimalistic.)
I like this concept. I'd provide a few more examples than "farmers market" on the front page. Get a "How it Works" page going, too.

Creating an account (after signing in with twitter) felt sketchy. Password displayed in plaintext, typos "genrated", bad punctuation / capitalization in the headers, and an error on http://thrdplace.com/signin_signup/index.php?route=users/com... -

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/34/d394755760/htdocs/signin_signup/application/views/users/complete_registration.html:12) in /homepages/34/d394755760/htdocs/signin_signup/index.php on line 29
>Your deciding what is and isn't important for women to care about is a perfect example of privilege.

What privilege exactly? The privilege of sharing my opinion on HN and getting down-voted for it?
I thought "privilege" was a concept related to power, what happened to that notion?

Women, like men, also care about BS. Non-issues, stupid issues, moral non-issues, religious hard-lines, the latest celeb gossip, some fad, etc.

One can decide for himself what he considers important for other people to care about, like I did, and tell those other people his opinion. Like I did. And apparently, like you did.

Free speech, is a bitch. You don't only get people complaining about sexism in "that's what she said jokes". You also get people complaining about meta-sexism, ie, whether the first kind of complaining is important or stupid.

>When somebody says they care about something, the right response is to take note of why they care, and try not to repeat the mistakes on display here. Responding with arguments about why we shouldn't care about this is furthering the problem.

If there IS a problem in the first place.

Because, sometimes the problem is "caring about something", itself. For example, when you are a hypochondriac, the problem is not the diseases, rather the problem is that you consider them a problem in the first place.
I'm sure he could coax at least a few more hours out of it by somehow finding a working 1x CD-ROM drive to boot a LiveCD from.
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Pay attention to the language you're using: "smug", "huge ego", "overblown response", "idiocy", etc.

You're trying to make this out to be a principled stance about "spreading ideas", and yet with every post you undermine that claim and make it clear that it's really about "Dustin Curtis is a jerk, so fuck him."
I think this is a novel concept, but I think people will see the password and be a bit skeptical to use it (I realize you can use the secret key). You will need a way to build trust with consumers so that they use your service. As well, you will need to prove that my password (or secret key) aren't logged ANYWHERE for me to use the service.
I disbelieve. How could this possibly boot to X without a framebuffer emulator too?
Well, shit... Alchemy+Stage3D is directly a competitor to NaCl+WebGL. By refusing to help NaCl become open-standards-worthy, Mozilla is going to end up watching Alchemy beat out NaCl (and Emscriptem) with a completely proprietary, revenue-shared (and therefore implicitly licensor-dependent) alternative.
Love this metaphor and there's some truth here but no amount of training is going to make a manager butt out when the manager is the problem.
Michael Pollan on Open Source Agriculture [video]
FYI, Comcast's new generation of DNS servers appear to be much more reliable. They support IPv6, DNSSec, and don't have ads. Also, they're anycast (like Google), so the IPs are the same everywhere:

75.75.75.75

75.75.76.76

2001:558:FEED::1

2001:558:FEED::2

http://dns.comcast.net/
That's an interesting way to look at it, but I would frame the issue in a different way. It's unlikely Comcast would pass on the savings to their customers. It's more likely that they would charge their customers more for accessing the other services that are not hosted in their closets. Then that becomes the scenario that so many people are worried about where big companies who can negotiate deals with Comcast have a huge competitive advantage over smaller competitors who might not be able to negotiate the same deals.
Ask HN: To Ask for CC on Signup or Not?
The prevailing idea about converting customers on freemium websites is to require a credit card signup right off the bat, at signup time, to validate that users are indeed willing to pay for your product, and to increase conversions.

This method was used by Basecamp for a long time, requiring credit card on signup, but in the new version of Basecamp, a credit card is no longer required.

In StartupsForTheRestOfUs Podcast, the author/developer/owner-preneur of HitTail.com said he's asking for CC's right away and in the episode I listed to, he said that he hadn't reached the 30-day post signup time to see if those people converted, but he seems to be a fan of requiring CC on signup.

I'm building out the payment screens for my app and I'm left wondering, will I get better conversions by requiring a CC right away or is the NEW best method to NOT require a credit card right away?

Your feedback is appreciated.
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Never gave much thought to Go's UTF8 support, but this makes me think that it might've been better limited just to the string literals. The last thing I want is to patch other person's code by copy-pasting original variable and function names, because all I have is a standard US keyboard locale.
There is no X, he is accessing the system through minicom.
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Indeed, but it's harder to automate. And automating tests is very important.

Some test cycles here involve the automated deployment of VMs based on machine templates that are then configured using Puppet. If we were to do that with Windows, those tests would never run.
I've been using scrum for about ten years at several companies. Each time I do it, I explain to everyone that the process has nothing to do with getting people to be more efficient or work harder. It has everything to do with helping me estimate when stuff will get done so that I can let all the dependent parts of the company know well ahead of time.

If the work being done doesn't get re-prioritized, I can pretty accurately judge about 3 months out and very accurately judge a month out. That lets the rest of the company plan fundraising, PR, sales, etc.

This is where I disagree with the author. You do get fairly predictable output out of a group of engineers regardless of their ability as long as they are consistent in their estimates for how long something will take (it doesn't matter if they over or underestimate, just that they do it consistently). You just won't like the results if they are mediocre.

I really want to stress how important the whole self-learning and re-adjustment part of the process is (if someone doesn't scream at least once during a retrospective, they're probably just going through the motions.) While I've run "scrum" for 10 years, the details of how each worked were pretty different depending on the teams involved.

That said, I tend to hire self-managing, self-learning engineers which scrum works beautifully for. I also am completely comfortable with delegating away large amounts of authority especially given the type of people I hire.
One of the founders of Picplum here.

We acquired the Picwing last year when we started Picplum. The core idea behind Picplum was based on Picwing.
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