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I'm not refuting your claim that text or instant message content can be deep. What I want to highlight is that relying on such methods of communication when decisions with substantial consequences need to be made, or you want to get someone on board with your idea, can be treacherous. Managing romantic relationships is a widely-relatable example of this.

I bring up the business relationship aspect because HN is focused on entrepreneurship, and many of the readers are interested in the subject. Even for non-entrepreneurs, successfully managing your business relationships would likely be of interest.
Perhaps they'll build it out of oil drums like their SAM systems? I don't think Iran is capable of putting together a decent steel drum band much less stealth drones.
> accidentally reuse your email password somewhere

That kind of thing never happens "accidentally", especially if you're smart enough to use two-factor authentication.

By the way: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...
Update: Per PG's post at the location below, it looks like I can query once per minute safely. I'm going to do better than that and query once every 2 minutes. Hopefully a 2 minute delay won't be too much for HN readers to bear.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721105
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This is a brilliant idea, but the implementation is a bit poor in my opinion.

In other tutorials (such as Try Ruby, for example), the input is actually parsed and executed. I've found people like to play around a bit and try things the tutorial doesn't specify, such as grepping a different part of the limerick or catting a different file.

I know it might be hard to implement but it's much more pleasing to have a more complete simulation - I got confused when I tried to grep 'yo-ho-ho' and just got the full limerick (though I haven't used grep much so I might be at fault here)

Good luck with it!
Seriously, does anyone need a new Galaxy S? I don't want to believe that any smartphone user needs something more powerful than the current Galaxy S II.

You want to drop another 600 bucks on a new smartphone? That's fine then, but you probably don't need it.
I do the dishes. Since I can go into automatic mode, the hot water loosens me up and I get to daydream. More often than not these dreams can turn into future features for my project. Any chance I can take to daydream I take.

It's a lucid dream that you can get to work immediately after. Letting y imagination run has pushed me to build many things I wouldn't have rationally considered. The dishes are the most sure fire quotidian way to get there.
yep, agree with you.

(The blogger we're all responding to is basically making the same point for a "technical cofounder" as well, though not going as far as to say they are expected to write code: merely that they should have this ability, i.e. be a "coder".)
A corollary I've found is that it's easier to go along with things you don't really agree with in person, when in email you'd disagree. Especially for conflict-averse people. Pros and cons, I guess.

If I know someone is conflict-averse I sometimes actively seek out their view by email after a meeting, to make sure I know what they really think.
With dating it's quite common to ask someone out the first time via text. Especially online dating.
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Several of the OPs submissions have ?repost on them, maybe just to get around the repost catching, maybe it's totally automated.
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Lenovo do multiple ThinkPads that have docks that support 3 monitors. Example: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t520 and http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.pag...

Lack of SSD surprises me, one would think Gary Newman (creator of Garry's Mod) had need.
Doesn't the frequently changing hardware play hell with Windows activation and other DRM systems that track serial numbers and MAC addresses?
The article author of course has an interest in convincing startups that naming is important. That doesn't make him wrong, but I think it's easy to see that a name does not a successful business make, and that naming is one of the tarpits that any business owner can get stuck in.

Pop quiz: rate the expected success of each of the following businesses based only on their name:

Ford
Reebok
Nike
Apple
Chevy
Applebee's
Jack In The Box
Google
MicroSoft
WalMart
Lowe's (which, by the way, competes successfully with The Home Depot...)

and finally, my personal favorite:

Pets.com

A "good" name only does one thing: it gives you a very brief head start. It might make it easier for people who aren't really interested in your business to talk about you. How far do you think that will carry you? How far can you get if you avoid the name tarpit entirely, and just concentrate on your brand, your product, or your service?
It seems like every 6-12 months, a tech blog will punt with some screenshots from The Wayback Machine and a "look at the old web" article.

I'd be very interested in an article that used original screenshots from the time, and some real historical context and insight into the technologies powering the sites and the way people used them. Just going to Archive.org and taking some screenshots is, well, lazy.
The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away
Just found this awesomeness, could not resist not to share.
By that point, you've already connected and made clear your romantic interest. That will not always be the case in other relationships.
Still broken. Maybe its me and not your site.
He didn't say that it validates our understanding, he said it validates that "we're advancing our understanding." It sounds like they learned quite a lot from this experiment, including some big surprises.
I'm impressed with the amount of hype Samsung is creating with this device, even if it is mostly inside of the tech crowd. Great job, Samsung.
Software Patents are for Assholes
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A vehicle like this can be controlled for more of it's flight phase, giving more flexibility in targeting moving objects, or strikes of opportunity. Also, as you said, this is less likely to start World War III.
Being able to write scripts in Clojure where one would normally use Python is a fantastic way to get used to Clojure. I applaud this.
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Combine and Compress JavaScript During Development
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Uber, Airbnb, et al. explained -- The "Crowd-scaled" Business Model
Whatever.

I haven't been a 'coder' since 1994 yet I'm defiantly "technical". The teams I lead, AFAIK, don't question my contributions because I don't code. Nor are my designs less valid.

In fact, my years of involvement on the operations side of the house sometimes make my choice 'technical' choices more informed than what straight coders cook up.

Again, phooey.
I've always wondered why humans are the only species on earth to build huge complex societies.

Why aren't there multiple species of intelligent life on earth? (yes some animals are pretty smart, but they don't build cars, make movies, have laws, etc.)
Global .gitignore vs repository (local) .gitignore
Lots of people skip generations, or are simply on the lookout to finally get a smartphone. Samsung kinda has to play this game.
Manufactura statement on slanderous racist accusations.
by Manufactura on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 7:49am

As some of you might already know or might have heard, Ben Dewalt of the project Terrorfakt, one of my good friends and colleagues has been under an extremely nasty and unjustified attack and harassment campaign by Rachel Haywire of “Experiment Haywire”. She has been posting all over the Internet for quite some time with lies and extremely slanderous and false accusations claiming that Terrorfakt is a nazi/white power band and that Ben is a “Neo-Nazi”. There are a few folks out there that have taken her insane and ridiculous lies hook, line and sinker, without actually knowing or learning anything about Ben or Terrorfakt.

As a Hispanic and someone that has worked with Ben both in the studio and on the field for some 6 years now, you should ALL KNOW that nothing could be further from the truth. I’m making a public statement on this to educate any and all listeners and followers of my own music that might actually believe what that disturbed individual is saying. What most folks don’t know or realize, not that it really made any importance back then but clearly does now, is that during the US Manufactura / Terrorfakt tour in 2004 not only were there various members of our bands from various nationalities and races but various religious backgrounds as well. Our own road crew, security and merch personnel included Jewish members. I being Hispanic, along with long time collaborator Dre Robinson who is African American have performed numerous times with Ben as Terrorfakt. Ben himself has performed as a member of Manufactura on multiple occasions. We have performed and played for a wide variety of multicultural audiences through out North America including Mexico.

As Ben is a very direct and forward person that says what he means and doesn’t like to deal with unnecessary bullshit from anyone it is clear to me that the real issue “Rachel Haywire” has is a personal one, clearly she is a prime example of not taking rejection well. Her accusations have no merit whatsoever and in fact are erroneous and I believe abusive harassment, slander, libel and defamation. Ben has stated that he will be seeking legal action to stop this once and for all. I for one I’m 100% in support of this and I urge all of you to be extremely weary about any of her future statements or comments regarding this matter.

Thanks for reading

- Karloz.M
MANUFACTURA
Will the startup bubble make programming obsolete?
Peter Thiel: Startup CEO Salaries Shouldn’t Be Above $150,000
>You can't build stuff. You can't take an idea in your head and produce a product that works.

>You haven't spend 10 years learning your craft. You're reliant on other people to make things for you.

I don't think that has been a problem for lots of people. Take Steve Jobs, as far as I'm aware, he didn't write any code for Apple. What would his answer be when asked, in relation to his company, "Are you technical"? I don't know, but as the founder of a technology company, I imagine he would say yes. Or something to that effect. He's pitching a tech product.

As many others have said, if you want to know if someone is a programmer, ask them.
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That or eBay(owner of Paypal) has a monopoly on online auctions and online payments and are in a position where they can do pretty much anything they want to squeeze a few more dimes out of their clientele with no one to effectively challenge them.
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I still remember my geocities URI: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/3664 I typed it so many times before I understand relative and absolute locations... :(
See, THAT is why you think before you leap. Iteration #1: make it 'forbid to commit code' instead of 'forbid to write code'.

And I agree that that might only work fine in safety-critical code.

And writing useless tests won't help if this would be as strict as I envision. Imagine a project where you cannot commit

if flag:
doA
else:
doB

unless you have a test that hits the doA part and a test that hits the doB part. Complete code coverage, enforced by the system. I am thinking more and more that I do want to see such a tool, but not really will want to use it. Maybe iteration #2 is "hm, that is not the best of ideas". Although, if somebody would want to pay for such enforced code coverage, it could be fun to search for with design patterns that help it make easier to write such code...
What I think: technical = can build stuff i.e.
software <=> coder,
hardware <=> electrical engineer,
physical product <=> mechanical engineer
and so on...
What's this need for such a constant turnover of new phones? They only get marginally better or more useful with each generation, no matter the manufacturer.
Great points. I'll attempt to implement a "real" grep soon.

Thanks for the feedback!
I use a very plain style for my personal Web site as its aimed at teachers (educational institutions don't always have recent computers) and students (they tend to use phones for Web browsing).

I suspect there is considerable peer pressure on any small company or computer professional to have a Web site that looks 'designed'. Shame really.
Perhaps multiple highly-intelligent species would be very unstable and likely to annihilate each other (at least if they both lived on land). Think about it: there's only one "superpower" right now.
For some reason, I've seen more and more examples of blatant intellectual property violations coming from the traditional media. Pretty much every news paper's web site publishes articles with embedded Youtube videos of copyrighted material, which may or may not be legal in your country. That's just the norm these days, but it gets worse.

Recently, there's been a surge of cases like this where publishers simply grab images or other content from the internet, publish it without checking the license or giving any credit to the original author. And then they sell this material and claim it's their content.

When you cite a sentence from a magazine in your blog post, you'll get a cease and desist letter. Fair use should go both ways.
And it will be much better and cheaper than the iPhone

Take that fanboys
heh, http://www.spoj.pl/SHORTEN/ - 4all who love codegolfing.
Sometimes people on HN confuse spending $20K on living expenses while you're trying to start "the next Dropbox" with bidding $20K for a contract job that can never make you rich. I suspect most Kickstarter projects are closer to the latter.
How does milage fare when you factor in the weight additions and structural design changes necessary to make a vehicle street legal in the U.S.?
Sounds like they are going directly into the StackOverflow database.

If not, Google should reconsider. A lot of people got screwed when StackExchange dropped support for custom "stack exchanges" a few years ago.
You're right, looks like it's been at least since 2009. I recall they used to not have any redirects, and then they started inserting them randomly, for only maybe 5% of search results. Then at some point they got phased in for all results. Thought that phase-in was more recent, but seems not.
Yeah, innovation is stupid.
Humans didn't do any of those things for several hundred thousand years, either.
Just about anyone using PayPal's back-end payment notification has experienced this. The article says PayPal notifies you about a delay but I've seen cases where even that doesn't happen.

If you're selling a service, the best thing to do is to provide a grace period. So to maintain goodwill you just let 'em in and if PayPal doesn't confirm payment within 48 hours you suspend the account until they pay.

Obviously that doesn't work well for non-revocable transactions, but you have to weigh the potential for fraud against the lost sales.
No language has a doom sentence on it- they're just tools. There's some languages that are definately more often found in certain "cog-ish" code production companies, which might be what you're referring to.

The best thing you can do for yourself is get familiar with most languages out there, and build a sense of generalism about yourself. If you're comfortable with learning new things, and have a portfolio to back it up, you can have enough options to avoid companies that places you in a "cog" position (If that's what you're looking for.)
It pretty much comes down to having thumbs.
Likewise, I've seen similar in my environment. I think the difference is that mobile will enlarge the market, not displace full function devices - it's not CD killing the cassette tape (as the original article author seems to imply). Systems catering for mobile consumption will see increased use, but that doesn't mean decreased use for those not.

The change is presenting as a line continuing to blur between computing devices (laptop/tablets/phones/etc)... and that isn't taking much time at all.
don't take it personally, you decrypt someone else code , we decrypt yours, so there will be one to decrypt ours again. is all about decryption ;)
Intelligence is expensive[1], and there may be some sort of threshold effect. Let's ignore the last few centuries of Revolutions, and look at the longer scale. Humanity is recognizable back to 200k years or so; civilization in any sense goes back maybe 5k years. How successful was humanity's intelligence during those 195k years? Not very: humanity spread slowly, did not represent a huge population, and suffered many reverses. And that's not even getting into arguments about what the (extinct) Neanderthals mean with their larger brains.

[1] Metabolically and in other respects; if you doubt this, I've listed what I know about this in http://www.gwern.net/Drug%20heuristics and especially the footnotes & hyperlinks.
"the only reason Google started with such a simple design is because they didn’t have a webmaster or anyone that knew HTML."

Can anyone verify this? Sounds a bit far-fetched, to be honest - a company of engineers couldn't figure out HTML enough to put together a decent website? Isn't it more likely that they just put a MVP up and then iterated from there, and since Google was a highly functional search engine, they never felt the need to expand the homepage to include superfluous items?
herein someone who doesn't program functional or dynamic languages concludes light table is contrived or impossible because Eclipse already does the job for them.

likewise, criticizing the long term potential for a project like this because it had tabs in the concept video is silly.
I would translate it exactly like that, though it's actually not ad hominem but ad humanitatem, really. We are all biased creatures, as others have pointed out. I think the critique is biased, I think it is biased because the author put a lot of effort in his (otherwise awesome) Java product, and therefore I quoted Upton Sinclair.

For instance, he argues that it would take a lot of working around to provide instant feedback for code with side-effects, but isn't that obvious? The LightTable video doesn't claim it magically mocks every external component or does some other fancy stuff. That doesn't make the feature less useful, especially in a language like Clojure, which was used for the demo. For me, that part reads much like "since it ws so hard to create Chronon, one cannot pretend the LightTable features are so easy to implement. Let me prove that by putting LightTable in the context of my product."

There was — deliberately, yes — a bit of snide and a lot of cynicism in my post, but I hope to have made it clear that it was not without a reason (for the cynicism, at least).
AFAIK, by the time we'd be able to convert our whole auto infrastructure to be based around natural gas, we'd only have a couple of decades left before it was just as gone as the oil. I've heard proponents boast that there's enough of the stuff to last us a hundred years at our current consumption — but isn't the whole idea to radically increase our consumption? We easily have room to double or triple it. If this catches on, it seems likely I will have been alive to see both the beginning and the end of natural gas.
I just think it's a bit bizarre to use sales of dedicated reading technology as a proxy for books read. As has been pointed out here, there's a lot of not-so-dedicated tech that can read e-books. Plus, you know, there are books. Major metro areas still support great independent book stores. Places out in the hinterlands don't, which means that downloadability is a bigger factor.

Anyway, seems to me that if we really cared about literacy, we'd want a random sample of peeps asked how many books they read last month, not what hardware/software they have on which books might potentially be read!
Because we're the only ones with language. Language gave us a huge technical advantage over all of the other animals.

Typically, in species without language, it takes many generations for a "mutation"[1] to propagate across the species.

If I instinctually figure out a better way of hunting deer, which gives me an advantage over my competitors for mates, and I pass it on to my children, who pass it on to theirs, etc. eventually the new instinct will be present in most of the species.

(This is basic basic natural selection).

Language changed all of that. Now instead of waiting for offspring to carry a mutation, I can just tell people about the better way of hunting deer, they can do it, and they can tell people too.

Stuff spreads quickly. It makes humans able to evolve at a much, much, much faster rate than any other animal on the planet.

(And yes, really, humans are the only animals on the planet with language. Bird song, whale song, and tree-pheromones don't count.)

[1] In quotes because consciously iterating over a problem (like hunting deer) isn't a "mutation" in the classic sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ob0xR0Ut8
Yes, it says the requirements are Apache 2, PHP 5.x, and GD lib. I would call those specific server-side technologies.
Leadership Lessons from a Carrier Based Fighter Squadron
In the European tech press there's also a fair amount of rumble and hype about the next version. The Galaxy S II sold a fair number of devices (at the expense of HTC which didn't have a matching killer device), so we'll have to see.
And if you're so inclined, you can pick them up at a nice discount from Lenovo's Outlet site -- as long as you don't mind refurbs and other returns: http://outlet.lenovo.com/laptops.html?series=143
"Working to Code"
Valve Employee Handbook Reveals Creative Keys To Success
The rule of "show not tell" was wildly violated here. Could have been a good story if it had been rooted in reality.
Groupon didn't quite ask for his level but did ping him about web dev work.

https://gist.github.com/1285068#gistcomment-56327
I know that there are lots of smart people at Microsoft and that they are perfectly capable of making effective products, but I think this effectively sums up all of my feelings towards today's Microsoft:

> This company is becoming the McDonalds of computing. Cheap, mass products, available everywhere. No nutrients, no ideas, no culture. Windows 8 is a fine example. The new Metro interface displays nonstop, trivial updates from Facebook, Twitter, news sites and stock tickers. Streams of raw noise distract users from the moment they login.
How do you know he is sad? How do you know he would want to hear that young people admire his work? You have never had a chance to tell Steve Jobs you admire him; did he suffer because of that?

I think Burrell has had a happier life than Jobs, honestly -- and he is still alive. Plus, Jobs and Hertzfeld make/made sure he has the help he needs.

That said, the different paths the Macintosh team have taken through life are good to dwell on. None of us know where our lives will take us.
"Will the surge in demand for widgets make widget-makers obsolete?"
Actually, a higher rate of new devices also means the retail price drops. Providers like to tell you the device is 600 bucks but you're getting it for free with their subsidies, when really it's already a lot cheaper online. I got my Galaxy S II two months ago for less than half the initial cost, 10 months after it was released. Apple products on the other hand... They're always expensive.