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Where's the proof that Rails has achieved the platonic ideal of OS X support for a dev platform? What, not arguing that at all? Then why is it hard to understand how 5 months of Katz's time could be well spent there?
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Yes, I think so, except its the equivalent of a new Solaris/OpenSolaris distribution (from which Illumos derives).
Re:He's harassed me too. (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14, @06:07PM (#39688797)

You're an idiot, or you're lying. Or both.

I do not believe that CP is involved and the FBI won't take the bait.
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Re:He's harassed me too. (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14, @06:41PM (#39689097)

Let me get this straight.

You know his name and aliases. He also allegedly sends out child porn. He's also doing it to a lot of people for a long time. You still can't get a restraining order on him.

Also, you think [reddit.com] this [reddit.com] and this [reddit.com] are his sockpuppet proxies just to attack you (both active for a long time, write in different styles and on different topics, one registered four years ago, another one - 9 months ago).

No, you totally don't sound mad at all. And noone could suspect yourself of being Rachel's sockpuppet.

Now tell me I'm Jason Christopher Hughes too.
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http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2786853&cid=396...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838958
THIS (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/kkrieger-chapter-1/scr...) Entire game (interactive demoscene) is only 96kb. It's all procedurally generated which is what demoscene is all about. Everything you see, sound, music, textures, models, is just code. No images or audio what-so-ever. Just algorithms that generate shapes within shapes, within shapes. Like fractals almost.

I was devastated to find the group's website is gone and the game's page no longer on the internet. For those of you who want to experience it I've got it on my server here: http://data.chrisnorstrom.com/hosting/kkrieger-beta.zip. They were probably the best group out there. Looks like they closed up show because their site theprodukt is closed for good.

I knew a really good Demoscene coder, and he introduced the culture to me. He worked on synthetic procedurally generated voices (which is really hard). But the problem is that the bar to entry is extremely high because it's all algorithms and the culture is all about fun, not profit. So the community stays small. Why spend months making lights and patterns react to music in a 64kb file when you can make a 200mb game or animated and sell it. The means do not justify the ends, thus most people will never know the awesomeness of demoscene.
I gotta say, ZFS+KVM sure seems like an awesome combo. Any ideas how this is different than SmartOS?
A great book on the subject is Thinking Fast and Slow.
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> Application programmers, unless they’ve committed serious crimes, should not be forced to deal with [JavaScript etc.].

> We’re not out to take JavaScript away. We’re not that stupid. I personally if I could I would, but Google probably wouldn’t.

I know it's cool to hate on JavaScript these days. But it just doesn't deserve it quite that much. And, wrong as that analogy may be, it smells like someone coding mostly in C++ talking about why C sucks.
There may or may not have been someone willing to do it for free, but that doesn't invalidate the effort Yehuda is willing to put in, or the price he has attached to it.

Once upon a time, my neighbor brought me a cake that they had made. It was fantastic. They weren't a professional baker, but could likely have sold the recipe to that cake, as I enjoyed it immensely.

Does this now mean that all other cakes aren't worth it? If I go to the grocery store, can I just walk out with a cake because "someone else is willing to do it for free"?

Obviously, the answer is that I can't. You're perfectly welcome to think whatever snide things you like about wycats, but it seems like kind of a douchey thing to do unless you were personally willing to provide Rails.app.

oscardelben is. Perhaps it's to make a name for himself? Perhaps it's because he believes it should be done? Perhaps it's because he believes that wycats shouldn't be charging money for it? Who knows?

It's awesome that he's doing it, and it makes him look like a big giant hero. He deserves every kudo that comes his way -- but that doesn't mean, for one second, that wycats shouldn't be able to accept money people are willing to give for a task he can perform very well. wycats is a proven developer, and doesn't need any reputation. (Not saying that oscar isn't -- I don't generally follow Rails development that closely. Apologies if he's the Linus Torvalds of Rails or something.)

And at the risk of sounding like a tool, we should probably point out that oscardelben's project isn't finished, and is described, in the Readme as "Not ready". It might take him a few months to get it perfect.
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Thread Theory (2008)
Hungover yeah not good, but I find a beer or two can give you a different perspective on something that's exactly what you need sometimes. Like how you solve problems in your sleep or in the shower, sometimes just saying 'screw it' and doing something sloppily gives you the clarity needed for the real answer
It better be a computer literacy thing.

Many of us are taught music lessons early in life but only some become musicians. The main goal of these lessons is not really for us to become professional musicians in future, but to know that music is composed of notes, who the classical musicians were, what instrument are there, and so forth. The same thing applies to arts and painting classes. The basic goal is for us to get an idea about basic techniques and gifted people.

The main thing to learn is the fact that both music and painting are forms of expression and that we will continually encounter them in life. Also, with the help of these early lessons many uncover their inner genius and that helps them go in the known direction from that point on.

Since coding is an activity that trains one's computational thinking - a skill that is so relevant today - it better be introduced early in life too. It is also a form of expression, and knowing that it exists and how it can be applied is just as relevant as knowing about arithmetic, letters, music, art, etc.

I don't suggest that the format of the current classes is the right one (in fact, I believe that it is not), but it is essential to have a child-friendly methodology and teach coding, or rather "programming", as a skill early in life.
That is indeed the logical consequence. I’m not disagreeing.

There are a plethora of factors that make, say, results of a social science statistical analysis less likely than they might seem. Biases, wrong assumptions during statistical analysis, …

I’m also not claiming that it’s impossible to find better methods that shield scientists much better against, for example, biases. I do indeed think that this (developing new and better methods) is where non-natural sciences have their most important work in front of them. This is where it’s at for them, this is where real revolutions of several fields are possible. If only someone knew how exactly.

Until then we have to deal with what we have. I think it works relatively well, considering, but I’m certainly not happy about the current state.

When it comes to this particular theory, it seems to me that the odds are pretty good that it is true. The explanation for why the copy is the way it is – it was painted by someone with a knowledge of how the original was painted – doesn’t seem that outrageous and pretty logical to me. It’s certainly always possible that there is a better one.

(By the way, I disagree vehemently that those kinds of theories have little impact on our lives. This one maybe not, but forensic science – which is very similar in its method and process to what this researcher did – impacts a great many people. There researchers will often take a first look at something and immediately start forming hypotheses, which they then seek to confirm or falsify by further collecting evidence. Even worse: Researchers might be told hypotheses by non-researchers – say the police. It’s important that we find better ways to do it. It's important that we know exactly how sure or unsure we can be about the results.)

Again, to re-iterate: Just because there is justified doubt doesn’t mean this research is worthless (which your tone seemed to imply, maybe I’m wrong about that).
I doubt there is any car that can unless the brakes are really dodgy (apart from the rocket powered ones with parachutes)..

Just goes to show, if you haven't got a hope in hell, try bullshit and long words.

[edit] Just looked up formula one cars, they are 2g acceleration and 5g braking apparently.
This has been very useful for me, thanks.
Hah, you could always go the Indy game route and name library functions after the big donators :).
Such is the wonderment of lowered inhibitions.

"Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills"
http://medicaldaily.com/news/20120411/9496/alcohol-solving-s...
Lua for A&B, Go for C.

Looking at go-hero.net, it's interesting how the successful, popular languages in the past compare against the TIOBE index; what people want to use versus what the _have_ to use.
But "what should it be worth" can be debated until you're blue in the face and still have no real outcome. What Facebook paid is a fact, not speculation.

For all you know, Google is kicking itself for not making a $2B offer to them, because Google Plus could use all the help it can get.
Hydroxide: https://github.com/Poincare/Hydroxide

Disclosure: I'm the developer.

Its very easy to use, small, and if you fire me an email about anything going wrong, I'll fix it :)
Can I just add that on the whole the techniques that currently get labelled 'responsive' are fairly non-awful and only obliquely related to the awfulness described herein.
because your young folks are all using it. You have to participate or be left out in the cold.
I missed the bit about founders in the title and was wondering why would accelerators in a device not be able to detect up? The the dead rotation axis wouldn't interfere.
You can easily compare this to literacy, the ability to control written communication. I'm sure around 1800 many people didn't understand the point, since you could always just walk up to almost everyone you'd want to communicate with. There was no way then to forecast all the implications (esp social and technological) that widespread literacy would eventually entail.

Similarly, programming is the ability to control computation. It's very hard for us to understand just how a society would behave when 90% of the population has the power to create any software tool it needs, to compute sophisticated statistics, and so on.

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone today who disagrees it was a good thing that (almost) everyone learns how to read and write. I'm also convinced 100 years from now, you won't find anyone complaining about widespread programming ability.
It sounds like the biggest complaint here is more or less sound volume (i.e., loud ass music --> I can't talk to people). I share this sentiment with bars. Quiet to moderate volume bars > loud "hip" bars any day.
Coursera, on the other hand, seems to be a series of lectures that they then overlaid questions on too.

It sounds like you haven't really looked at Coursera? It has assignments, including programming assignments.
Anyone can open up DotA and read the source. It was easier before IceFrog started using WC3 Map Optimizer[1], but even obfuscated JASS/processed vJASS is easy to read. The archive's "protection" is easily defeated by editing a few bytes in the MPQ header[2] or using a non-WinMPQ tool. (Sadly, Blizzard never gave us a way to protect our content, which is why Guinsoo was able to take DotA from Eul in the first place.)

In any case, I shouldn't have brought this up on HN. Most people here are acquainted with Valve and have no reason not to trust them (short of being burned by Steam[3]). By the same token, most people here aren't acquainted with WC3 modding and have no reason to believe me, which is entirely reasonable. And it probably sounds like I'm insulting IceFrog when I say he's not a great coder, which isn't at all my intent. He's exceptional at community building and other things, just not at what I'd call traditional "dev skills."

1. http://www.wc3c.net/showthread.php?t=79326

2. Starting at offset 1D9, change bytes 56 78 4F 50 to 20 00 00 00. The "protected" map is now open for business.

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537976
Don't tell the truth? How can this be good advice?
I think at some point in time they assume that the page is complete and use that as a reference point to compare the rest of the frames to. It's most likely the window load event.

I think in fully dynamic pages, that constantly change, it's worth presenting the video and let the person running the test pick a "final state" to compare against. You can then work backwards as in the automatic case.
the skew is my fav. looks like the lists are pushing and pulling..very creative indeed.
Thanks. Couldn’t remember and missed it when I went looking. These things happen.
It's hard to understand because none of the tools the typical developer works with are ideal. But trying to make something perfect that already works well? It's a waste of developer time.
Actually this is the opposite of my experience. It's actually "Run Anywhere, as long as you're on an Intel or ARM CPU".

I know I'm in a tiny minority of HN readers, but I have to deal with a pretty wide variety of UNIX platforms.. my code needs to run on SPARC, Itanium, etc. Sure most of these have a foot-and-a-half in the grave but one still is hanging in there: I still see a decent number of AIX customers; it'll be with me for the next few years at least. If something can't be made to run on a POWER CPU I can't touch it.

In the past, the widely used scripting languages (perl/lua/python/ruby/...) always treated CPU portability as sacrosanct. In time, there have been CPU-specific optimizations work done (LuaJIT, etc) but there is always a way to run the underlying language anywhere.

In the JS world, all of the modern work seems to carry an assumption that node.js is available, which in turn relies on the V8 JIT engine. V8 supports Intel, ARM, and (to some extent) MIPS CPUs -- IIRC node itself only supports the first two of those.

I'm all for optimizing for the 99%-case CPUs, but it's frustrating that I can't use these JS-based tools even at a large performance penalty.

I was heartened by the existence of the "SpiderNode" project since it would provide some engine diversity to the node.js world. From what I can tell it doesn't seem to be getting much traction in the wider community though, so I don't know if that's going anywhere.

Last I heard, the V8 team's opinion on portability was "ARM is our bytecode, just emulate that".. which is a fine answer as far as it goes. However, I haven't seen anything that actually implements this advice though (short of emulating an entire linux kernel in qemu) I keep hoping that V8 will add a fallback non-JIT mode for greater portability but I'm sure it's not a priority for Chrome.

So JavaScript portability has ended up in an unfortunate predicament: the language itself should be portable to "any OS" but in reality all of the non-browser projects have tied their wagon to a single engine.. and that engine doesn't have wide portability as a goal.
Here's the text of Munger's speech: http://www.loschmanagement.com/Market%20Comment/Client%20Let...

It is well worth a read.
Anything and everything that GOOG weights is critically important to be able to measure.

So somebody please build a MVP that lets me type in my URL and get a best-guess for how GOOG is going to rank me along with a simple visual output like those charts that I can stick into my reporting for clients.

Then go send the link to Search Engine land, Matt Cutts, SEOMoz Blog team, etc - definitely going to be a pressing need for this info from SEO teams, and no immediately obvious place to find it, summary of ranking algorithm:

"The technique we settled on was to take histograms of the colors in the image (one each for red, green and blue) and just look at the overall distribution of colors on the page. We calculate the difference between the starting histograms (for the first video frame) and the ending histogram (last video frame) and use that difference as the baseline. The difference of the histogram for each frame in the video versus the first histogram is compared to the baseline to determine how "complete" that video frame is."

Edit - your list to market to: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/seo-websites
I've heard it as, if it comes out the way you want, you'll have no problems with that. OTOH, if you catch yourself thinking "best two out of three", then you know what you want.
First comment:
"venky said...

He claims in his model, 'his car decelerated at - 10 m/s^2 and, instantaneously, accelerated to + 10 m/s^2 at t = 0'.

No known mechanical system is capable of achieving such an instantaneous jump without a tail-off period. ...."
Re:He's harassed me too. (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14, @06:07PM (#39688797)

You're an idiot, or you're lying. Or both.

I do not believe that CP is involved and the FBI won't take the bait. Reply to This Parent Share Flag as Inappropriate

› Re:He's harassed me too. (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14, @06:41PM (#39689097)

Let me get this straight.

You know his name and aliases. He also allegedly sends out child porn. He's also doing it to a lot of people for a long time. You still can't get a restraining order on him.

Also, you think [reddit.com] this [reddit.com] and this [reddit.com] are his sockpuppet proxies just to attack you (both active for a long time, write in different styles and on different topics, one registered four years ago, another one - 9 months ago).

No, you totally don't sound mad at all. And noone could suspect yourself of being Rachel's sockpuppet.

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No. Prettier != better, as one other commentator pointed out. I think there were many things that Kyro did better than the current design, but his design wasn't something I'd be comfortable putting on the site in it's current form.

To address some of the points in the other thread: Yes, the current Exec design looks like something that was done by a non-designer in an hour. That's because it was, by me, the night before we launched. And I'm comfortable with how it works; when we have a full time designer in house they will iterate it based on achieving specific goals.

I don't believe in changing design for the sake of changing design or just having something prettier. I believe in design that achieves specific goals and functions, and that defining those goals and functions are actually the most important parts of the design process. Because of that, I do not believe that it is possible for us to use an outside design without first coming up with new goals for the front page. I don't want to invest my own time in doing that right now, because my time is extremely valuable and I don't think our crappy front page is our current bottle neck on Exec (actually, I know it isn't). So, any effort we made in improving it at the moment would wasted. So, I'm not changing it.
Yeah, I still do a lot of my own customer service too, and I think it's had a big effect. It can also be really draining, though, so I understand why people want to shield themselves from it, and I can sympathize with a company that just doesn't want to deal with someone's outsized personal drama.
Almost 10 years ago work sent me to TechEd 2002 EMEA in Barcelona. I remember a party with Cirque du soleil (or a similar) troupe, and a Ballmer-like break dancer. Everyone was driven over to the event at one of the former Olympic venues. There was booze and loud music but it a fairly good event even if you weren't drinking.
The title of the submission is misspelled; it should be "Thread Theory" according to the article.
No problem :)

I really got your point now. I thought about the "demoralising X empowering" and my solution for that was to work with pairs of students. Working as a team, they can discuss and motivate each other.

When I blog about the results, I will highlight the number of pairs that completed, partially completed and did not complete the assignment.
Google's concept of a "ghost profile" (that they submitted as a patent, so I assume they're planning to implement on G+) is actually a decent solution to this problem. It lets you be "in the loop" and receive content posted on G+ accounts in your email without having to create an account yourself or post the images publicly.
Winner Takes All is more of a continuum than an absolute.

For example, most people say that a social network site is a winner take all market and that FaceBook has it.

While they have the majority, Linkedin also has some share, Google+ has some share, even MySpace still has some share. All the competitors still have huge valuations relative to anything most people will ever do.

Further, Facebook doesn't have anywhere close to a monopoly on internet advertising dollars let alone all advertising dollars. There are many companies that earn money through "eyeballs".

Basically the Winner Take All Markets concept is an oversimplification, but still a great way to think about competition.
Check out his other stuff: http://hakim.se/experiments
I think the award for that is probably jointly shared by doctors, journalists and sci-fi authors, with an honorary mention for stock market traders.

[edit] The team representing the traders were in an early lead, but they all got disqualified after testing positive for cocaine. The doctors and authors should have been disqualified as well, but the doctors all said they had a sore leg and none of the substances in the authors' blood showed up on any known test. As far as anybody can tell, the journalists were just drunk, but no-one really knows what happened to them in the end, although there are some unconfirmed reports of one being eaten by a leopard.
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I think perhaps you got caught up in the theme (as you see it) and didn't notice the intensely irreverent humour in the writing. I found it to be highly amusing and original. Especially the part about arguments in the home between a litigator and a magazine editor - the wife always wins.
You'll also see them called "open spaces".

PyCon has some great ones although they were a little disappointing this year. A combination of the hotel layout and placement of the openspace proposal (sign up) board was not great.
Check out Google's API Discovery Service[1] and a video from the 2010 I/O Conference[2]. It may not be the best basis for developing a RESTful standard but there's some good stuff there. I especially like how they demonstrate building an API in that video. I'd like to see some open source projects built around this concept (instead we keep seeing similar services that aren't open, often incomplete and unusable).

[1] https://developers.google.com/discovery/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu5ZxGUfgs (~35:30 is where they actually demonstrate building an API)
Npm-police (policing the dependency packages versions)
I think the thing with Google Plus is it's meant to be a "better Facebook" rather than going after a different unique set of interactions.