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It's not just a new X WM, though we do still use X (at the screen level). Basically, we render everything inside the X root window. It's all composited, using the same compositor we use for web content ("CC").

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura <-- somewhat old, but you can get the gist.

ChromeOS used to have an X window manager (which is what your link is pointing to, the code used in M18 and earlier). The cool thing about the new code is that it runs in Chrome, so it's much easier for more engineers to test and develop for, and it's also platform agnostic (since the only X interface is at the host layer). This means Windows developers like myself can work on ChromeOS WM features since I can effectively build and run the ChromeOS WM on Windows.
> So your complaint is that when you use @ to suppress an error it... suppresses the error?

From your edit, you've only been working with PHP for about 6 months, so you may not have seen some of the code most others have. Can you imagine, then, diving into a website's back-end to see @ all over? It turns out, the previous developer realized all those nasty notices and errors stopped happening if he slapped a @ on everything. Now your client/boss/friend is pissed because when someone submits their form and they have a space in their name, the entire site crashes, and you have to figure out what's causing it through a tangled web of spaghetti code with no errors.

This is the norm in PHP because, like the author said, it makes it incredibly easy to write bad code.

> If this one thing that annoys me on HN it's the pervasive anti-PHP snobbery.

This isn't anti-PHP snobbery. To write it off as such is an attempt to dismiss most of the (quite valid) complaints. And complaining about someone complaining is really only highlighting your own hypocrisy.

As you said, you really don't understand his need to complain. That's fine, but many on HN do. This was a great write-up for all of PHP's downfalls. Some of it is really only complaining about how PHP isn't Python, but there are a lot of fantastic points about language design and how PHP sacrifices consistency for... really no reason at all. So don't assume every complaint about a language is "snobbery" or an attempt at "streed cred" (wut?) Instead, ask yourself why there are so many people writing so many complaints about this one language. Then, ask yourself why you're writing them off.
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It depends for what:

- FB for photos for my relatives/friends that have FB accounts

- Posterous/G+ for more personal photos (just neat stuff I take a picture of)

- Costco Photos for my parents-in-law

I guess that last one is the "unsolved problem" bit, but there are blocking logistical issues to even get them on the internet that may not get solved any time soon.
> PHP is a community of amateurs. Very few people designing it, working on it, or writing code in it seem to know what they’re doing. (Oh, dear reader, you are of course a rare exception!)

This was about when I stopped caring about what the author had to say. The sentence where he snobbishly belittled me and called me an amateur because of the programming language I use.
This looks like the personal agent fad/schemes of the '90s
Yep, static sites feel slow, but maybe that's just the geographical distance at play (I'm in Europe).

Any plans on merging those bugfixes and additions back to the Mercury project? :)
Should languages be required to ensure the security of the code produced for them?

IMHO this is more of a complaint about the security of Wordpress, not the PHP core. People love to bring up phpBB or Wordpress in these discussions, but there are many, many more systems using large-scale PHP about whose security you just don't hear, because they are coded by professionals who know how to produce secure code in PHP.
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The issue is mainly that domestic routers NAT tables tend to overflow with that many users on them.

Either this causes them to reboot (if they're crappy) or truncate the table, killing the oldest connection.
Uh-oh, this seems to be the beginning of the end for BB: once you get into this looking for a good CEO candidate thing, things generally do not go back up, e.g. Yahoo, Motorola.

BB's problems are myriad, but to me a single problem stands out clearly, and it's not Amazon's competition: It's the hapless nature of their store associates:

i) In BB stores, when you walk in it's always hard to find an associate.

ii) When you do find them, they tend to be starry-eyed young guys who know next to nothing about the products and usually resort to random searching of the aisles, which of course you could have done yourself.

iii) When they need to check for product info, e.g. "Do you have it in stock"", "Does this work with that?" They have to walk back to a computer screen on their desk and check using the browser, which of course you could have done much faster on your phone.

It's hard to create a low-paid task force that's also knowledgeable about the intricacies of tons of electronic products. So the solution is to use in-store tablets with a helper app running on them. In other words, go to an Apple store, observe for 15 minutes, come back and replicate. BB already has great inventory APIs, coming up with a very useful v1.0 shouldn't be hard.
This point is so insightful and important, and I'm pointing it out in the hopes that more people will see it.
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The NYT lasted longer. Building a business that survives through generations is not to me sneered at. Yes, in these times of unthinkable market reach a new biz may get a speculative valuation (although some think it may be defensive), the NYT brand is/was classic.

Frankly, it's humbling to think about.
It was November 2010: Oracle and Apple announce OpenJDK Project for Java on Mac OS X (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/11/12/oracle_and_app...)
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I didn't realize the New York Times was the yardstick that we use to measure the worth of tech startups.
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the easier question to ask is what HASN'T Microsoft done?

quick example: they paid millions possibly tens of millions for the best people from industry and academia to build automatic bug searching tools. these tools currently define state of the art for finding bugs in applications.

they also have a community outreach program where they will work with companies and individuals that report flaws. that same outreach program will work internally with the relevant product groups to get flaws fixed.

oh and also they invest constantly in improvements to their toolchain and operating system runtime to make exploitable bugs harder (safeSEH, ASLR, DEP, GS cookies, EMET, encoded pointers, safe-unlinked heaps both in user and kernel mode, etc).

and yet, you realize, there are still exploitable bugs. in my opinion you should regard this as the fundamental instability of system software written in C. if microsoft can't get that right (in terms of security and stability), after all that they've invested, who can?
It's built in to win8, in the Messages app.
Oh, Android is extremely good for them. But it's an eggs-in-one-basket deal and Chrome OS helps that.
I wonder what would happen if Geek Squad's Robert Stephens was promoted up.
Not for 85% of Mac users. They'll use Mac App Store and Facebook, which are both Java-free.
At this point, Instagram's primary value is in its brand. I never used it, but heard about it so many times that I was under the impression it had been around for years. It might have 30 million uploaders, but hundreds of millions of people are aware of it. For an 18-month brand that is perhaps the most meteoric rise in history. If you consider WPP's brand value estimates (Apple $153 billion, Google $112 billion, Facebook $19 billion), the number might not be so weird.
I think you meant to say "raison d'être"
In case anyone’s interested, here’s how I managed to get Mosh to compile under Cygwin:

https://gist.github.com/gists/2349067/
False. Everyone on the site is real.
Yeah they're all upstream. Jeremy added me as a core contributor on GitHub, I was firing off too many pull requests :-)
I think, all things being equal, I'd rather own the NYT than Instagram. Which isn't to say that Facebook didn't make the right decision (i.e., to forego buying the NYT), but that value is relative.
DHCP pool being exhausted or NAT table getting full are the two main problems I've seen at hackdays
To be fair...

Apple is training an Army of people on the same 4 products. Best Buy is trying to train an Army of people on a myriad number of products.

Just sayin'.
Instagram was worth $500 million right before the purchase. it got doubled to 1bil
If nyt was gonna get bought it would get multiplied by 2 so around $1.9billion.

Yeah. It makes no sense. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
> INNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The board

Is INNEAPOLIS a place or did they really misspell the companies head quarters location.

A quick search shows their head quarters are in Minnesota so it looks like they did. Or possibly it's shoddy reporting by the website who cut and pasted the press release?
This was a cool hack, I'd love to hear more about the way you modified things.
Are you releasing a library?
Huxley seemed to be using the quote to suggest that Kapersky didn't know of them.
They are very real.
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All my Apple products have been purchased from Best Buy (except iPad 3 which I had engraved), why? Because of the Reward Visa that I have with BB. But I dread buying Apple products everytime I go to BB – you never find someone that's free, I'd have to hunt down employees or stand next to one as they helped other customers (which took up to 30 minutes once) and wait for my turn. And after telling them what I exactly want, they'd disappear for 15 minutes in the backroom, only to come out with the wrong model, another 15 minutes before they tell me they don't have it in stock.

It's a horrible buying experience but I endure it for points (especially when one spends thousands of dollars, it can really rack up). It's the only reason why Best Buy still gets my money.

(If Apple had their own Loyalty/Reward kind of program on top of their customer service, it'd be so full of win.)
Honestly I think it's only a matter of time. They have online editing already.

I've been watching for Columnist to have a source code drop. I'm hoping it will be open sourced:
http://substance.io/michael/columnist
Demo: http://columnist.devseed.com/
I'm building a developer oriented platform using PHP. I made the decision to use PHP mostly for market size. If I targeted, say, Python or Ruby developers, my market would be too small to make a significant business.

The PHP eco-system (largely made up of platforms and templates) is huge. Ignore it at the peril of your revenue.
This checklist seems very centred on the UK hackday format (which I very much enjoy). I've noticed US hackdays have a somewhat different culture, with different expectations, as do gamejams, etc
This whole thing has really thrown into contrast the extent to which people conflate monetary value, societal value and the abstract concept of 'merit'.

A business is valuable to own if you think it may bring you more money in the future, or you think that owning it will give you an advantage over your competitors.

That's it. That's the entire thing. Nobody is trying to put a value on the relative social impact of Instagram vs the New York Times. Facebook merely calculated that they'll make more money as its owner than they would otherwise.

That our culture has seen to directly associate cash value with 'intrinsic' value is another issue entirely.
Something's only worth what somebody else is willing to pay for it. Try buying the NYT for $950 million one share at a time. You will actually drive the price up, since there's displayed demand. The market cap is just the sum of all of its shares multiplied by the last price the share traded at. It would take considerably more to purchase the entirety of the company.

That being said, Instagram sold for an outrageous amount. But this article is rather naive in how stock markets work or how companies are valued.
It's not. It's just crazy to think that a web app with $0 revenue that's been around for ~2 years can be worth a newspaper that's been around for over 150 years and has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other news group.
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Facebook and Wikipedia (and Wordpress) were born outside the software engineering establishment using lowest common denominator tools [1]. There's a reason for that: LAMP/WAMP has an extremely lower barrier to entry. A billion monkeys banging away on typewriters can make world-beating products, even if they don't compare to the works of Shakespeare in terms of literary quality.

Once these products prove themselves in the market then "professionals" are brought in to handle them, and these people probably know and like more refined tools such as Python or Java or something. It doesn't matter what language these new caretakers would choose for a rewrite though; PHP gave their system its first breath and that's how it stays long past the point in the lifecycle where PHP is a competitive advantage.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki#History
Wow, posting from North Korea. Amazing.

"No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail."
Although what I said could be applied there as well, given that I didn't even attempt to reference it, I'm pretty sure. Sorry, arbitrary dichotomies are only fun for ultimately inconsequential things (professional sports, for instance).
Specifically for Science Hackday there's http://www.sciencehackday.com/.

In general http://lanyrd.com/ is the closest I've found, but it's still not comprehensive.
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I love it! Disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders of Pair :)
The NYT has a ton of costs built into the company, and therefore into the market cap.
Raison d’être. I don’t know how threatening Instagram truly was to Facebook. Sure, they’re both social networks, but serving very different purposes. Instagram will remain running and separate from Facebook. The move is probably just the good sense to get in on a growing company that they can integrate with their platform—doubling, of course, as a defensive manoeuvre.
There is obviously no point in reiterating how Apple is removing Java, how they are adding VMs, code signing - etc.

The only way for them to improve security is to take it seriously, because the amount of code shipped with each release will only go up, never down. The attitude needs to change.

There is of course lots of data support this argument. Just do a quick Ctrl+F through http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130 for 'arbitrary code execution'. 21 hits, and many of them in core apple components. These are almost extinct on Windows by now.
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PHP gets a lot of hate for the same reason that Microsoft gets a lot of hate. PHP could have been rewritten from scratch and made more orthogonal but it would have immediately broken every existing PHP application out there. For better or worse, the install base matters. Once you a function/feature it's there to stay or you can't ever upgrade your server.
Nitpick:

If you've watched 114000 years of Netflix by the time you're 83, color me impressed.

And you'd have to drink 2 liters of soda/beer a day for 1711 years for that many (olympic sized) pools.
>The common objections don't change this. "Uploading your brain" is an unsolved philosophical conundrum that may or may not continue the existence of "you".

In the naive way of making a copy of it, yes.

But consider this: with some future procedure, each neuron of your brain is replaced by a mechanical one, one at the time. You maintain your consciousness at all times.

In the end of the process, you now have a fully mechanical brain.

No philosophical conundrum this way, right?

>The universe eventually dies, too. 10 billion years is not immortality.

Yeah, I don't care, 100-200 million years sound enough for me until I get bored.
There's a lot of tutorials, and that makes PHP bad? Sure the tutorials don't teach what you prefer. This just seems like a silly argument.
and cars are more superior tools than guns(how many died in car accidents this year? 10's of thousands?), but you don't see cars being outlawed... this tells us it's more an emotional reaction than a logical decision.
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I don't really want to draw parallels, because I don't know anyone at Instagram, but this really feels like a standard Silicon Valley puff piece to make the newly wealthy insiderish person look like a renaissance man. I'm going to guess that along with the $500k came the admonition to hire real engineers stat.
1. Where are those bug searching tools used?

2. I'd agree that the outreach program is something that Apple clearly hasn't done.

3. Apple clearly is doing this too.

HP's work on secret agents in the 90's shows that you can't prove code to be trustworthy. You can only assign trust to the intentions of the originator.

Therefore, the most significant thing you can do to improve security is to verify the provenance of trusted code and the isolation of untrusted code.

Windows clearly has decent technical code-signing infrastructure, but Apple seems far ahead in terms of effectively deploying this model into the field.
From what I've heard they are paying mostly in stock, and a lot of people think Facebook itself is overvalued. So paying $1B with overvalued stock to buy an overvalued company seems to make sense.....
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PairMixer finds you other single people to Pair with.

Pair is a private social network iPhone app designed for couples.

I am completely confused what it is.
>This is the farthest one can ever dig into this problem.

No, I think the whole problem can be bypassed, check my answer above.
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and life! Life causes more death than anything!
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I agree with the general point but this seems more of an indictment of other languages than a plus for PHP: with PHP, it's easy to get started with the most simple features - and then it takes years to learn how to cope with the language quirks and inconsistencies, deal with outright bugs, and learn a number of non-obvious ways in which your “working” site might be hacked due to a hidden language feature.

There are two ways in which this could be dealt with: one would be for PHP to have a change of religion by the core developers and start a massive cleanup project fixing API warts, adding placeholders to or deprecating the default MySQL driver, etc. This wouldn't be easy but it wouldn't be especially difficult except that the core developers are usually hostile to suggestions that they fix, or even document, mistakes.

The other would be for other languages to start simplifying the learning process - Google AppEngine is probably the easiest intro of all, albeit with a severely non-standard architecture, Rails.app, etc.

I think a language like Python or Ruby is likely to gain a smooth dev server install before PHP becomes less treacherous.

(Pro-PHP flamers: I started using PHP back in 1999. Your arguments are not new.)
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Yeah, they're based out of Minneapolis. Probably a copy/paste error somewhere and they missed the first letter.
"It would take considerably more to purchase the entirety of the company."

What you said is true. But the argument of "worth more" etc. is arbitrary and just looks good in print. Same as clearing x million users etc.

So even if you had to pay 1.4 billion (a 40% premium) to buy all the shares of the NYT it still shows an interesting comparison of value.
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I've been in the computer business all my life. I've learned something: there is no place on Earth where ridiculous amounts of money is spent on ideas that may or may not make sense like it is on tech.

I've seen companies spend millions on mainframe computers used for transferring text files around, which a handful of pc-sized servers could probably do just as well.

The "easy" money in the technology sector is something that should be seriously investigated IMHO. I think everyone who works with technology has seen their share of suspicious deals. The question to ask is often: who is providing the easy money, money which can be "wasted" as long as it produces a profit?

Facebook ran on investor money up until a short while ago(a short while in major corporation age, what, 2 or 3 years?).

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple bought Instagram. But Facebook is not even established as a blue chip, it's not a money printing machine, and it just pulls U$ 1 billion out of its pocket and buys a photoshop thingy???

I find this deal hard to understand. I think U$ 1 billion has just been efficiently moved from place A to place B and that's as much sense as I can make of it.
"Longevity and subjective awards are no substitute for a good valuation in your portfolio."

Han Solo, capitalist.
If only because every person who owns NYT stock at a $950 million market cap expects it to go up - otherwise why hold the stock?
The value of brand awareness is also inversely proportionate to how much brand awareness you already have. When you're Facebook, more brand awareness may not be the primary motivator.
I'm certain it, Comcast, allows incoming port 80 get requests, but it is certainly frowned upon.
I'm finding it challenging to find indications of "persistence." He did some coding at night for what sounds like a few months (this is the baseline effort for 99% of the people who live in Silicon Valley). Then he went to a party, where he was handed $500k.
What's worse than PHP, people that complain about it. It's like a plumber complaining about copper in lieu of plastic, no one gives a shit, just get the job done. Sitting in your little complaint hole , no matter how well thought out, doesn't really help you does it?
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> As a cynic, I say it's just a complete fear of not existing that's the draw to living forever.

I love this Mark Twain quote: "I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."