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Learn Objective C:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL640F44F1C97BA581&...

Learn iPhone Development:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53038489615793F7&...
Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) did it in 1995 ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNQqePk8Kg
> If we don't reduce the noise, then search engines have a harder time trying to find the signal.

That's very nice, except much of the discussion here indicates clearly that deleted posts are not noise but are useful, valuable resources to the participants. So the "must reduce noise" explanation doesn't work here.
Seems.. easy enough. Are these videos good enough?
Good to know that it's getting better nowdays, still I would not exchange my trusty linux distro to osx ;-)

How are things when you have to compile python extensions on your own?
Dijkstra's algorithm with low edge weights on fast roads, and high weights on side streets might work.
Or if this were explained to be a sequential process and not a just a descriptive list of unrelated declarations. It seems reasonable to think that that list contains a contradiction if you've never been exposed to these concepts before.
Nothing. That's why the GPL can be easily seem as being all about ego and anti-profits rather than freedom. Even if the company in your scenario violates the GPL it doesn't do anything to hurt software freedom. The GPL seems to be a tool to force FOSS ideals down people's throats rather than the nice sounding ideals that are the official party line. A GPL violation doesn't stop free software advocates from paying it forward and sharing and the original source is still available to anyone who wants it. But few people really want freedom. The goal of the GPL can easily be mistaken to be to turn all software into GPL software. In fact the existence of the GPL itself can also be mistaken as a clever ploy to infect non-free software and make it free.
I remember where in one of Vonnegut's books, he describes life not as some fixed end-result in time to be celebrated or mourned, but a process, something you could visualize as a roughly drawn line taking all sorts of directions through time, alongside other lines, often interacting with some of them, creating effects, and finally terminating.

I suppose, in some sense, it's not far off from our idea of a process running on a computer, often interacting with other processes, launching other processes, eventually terminating.

Taking that further, one way to look at this is that life is really a process, running on our software (genetic code), which we have some control over (somehow). We literally are code that writes code, albeit very slowly, over generations. And perhaps that what we really want is to able to look back at what we've etched into this big computer's (i.e. the world's shared) memory and be proud of it.
coy? I was going for blunt and self-depricating. The thing was that I didn't want people buying the bigger instances thinking they'd get big product support. Without putting you on my pager (which is going to cost you more than $68 a month) we simply don't have that capability. But yeah. responding in a reasonable period of time is something I am working very hard on, but to be completely honest? it's something we fail at... a lot.

Person for person, I think we stack up very well against any other front line support... but there's essentially two of us, and yeah, the wait times quite often render the knowledge moot.

Nick and I fight about this; Nick thinks it's better to not say anything until you can say something definite. I think it's best to say 'I'm working on it, doing X, Y and Z' - but compared to 'real companies' both nick and I are on the side of "it doesn't really count until you fix it" whereas most big companies have SLAs that reset the clock when they respond and get a level 1 person working on it.
I feel the judge will rule that APIs are not subject to copyright. There is no expression of creativity and it is fairly mechanical. I also think that if they are subject to copyright lots of people are going to get sued.
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If you like this, take a look at Blinkenlights: http://blinkenlights.net/

Esp. watch the videos from the original Blinkenlights installation in Berlin and the Arcade one in Paris.
There are efficient network structures that are not hierarchical and are not trees. Trees have horrible single point of failure characteristics, where one bad node kills an entire branch.
Not a native iOS dev , but I have had a good experience by building apps using PhoneGap http://phonegap.com/ .
Depends on how you learn, I think the videos are very informative. They're not going to teach you everything, so buying a book or two would help a lot.

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iPhone-Development-Exploring...

The book is kind of dated, so I would recommend looking for something more recent.
Great, this is something I'd pay for
http://www.bts.gov/publications/federal_subsidies_to_passeng...

Roads definitely have subsidies, but according to the document above, much less than urban transit or rail - if people pay the full costs of cars, they should pay the full costs of transit (not your typical $1.50 bus fare). In urban areas like the Bay Area or LA County, car trips are about 80% of commute trips, with transit at 10-15% but local/state transit funding is WAY above 10-15%, with a lot of gas taxes being funneled to transit projects. I believe that first off, we are 'paying' the true costs of cars, as people have voted for a government that pays for highways through income income taxes as well as gas taxes.

You could argue the same way about incentives for public vs. private transportation - people get advantages for buying hybrid cars the same way the public transport is heavily pushed onto cities. I don't think the solution to suburbs is to make them all into cities, or that the solution to cars as they are today is to replace them with public transport - cars have succeeded in capturing a huge % of marketshare so we should learn from their success and improve private transportation rather than trying to change human nature.
The note about who should be credited, the peron that discovers, or the person that develops and applys has me pondering. Probably both.
Wow. I'm 2 blocks from that building atm. This is great.
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Edition-Develo...

This seems like a pretty good book, I bought the one I linked above, but reading isn't really my thing. I learn better through seeing.
It was a casual way of saying he has bills to pay. Had nothing to do with actual groceries as far as I can tell.
Universities also follow this model, and Google popularized it in the tech industry (inspired by the grad school structure)
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ARC is pretty slow in the presence of multiple CPUs as it's still reference counting underneath the hood (which requires atomic increment/decrement). Garbage collection and other forms of manual memory management have the potential to do much better.
Yeah I agree, Heh. This is good info, thanks.
Try contacting NameCheep.
One of the main reasons for that is that it's an awful lot slower. I live about 40 miles from work at the moment, which I cover in about 50 minutes door-to-door; there is absolutely no way I could achieve that on a bike. I'd guess that might take me 3-4 hours each way, so hence the bike is unfortunately not an option, regardless of its energy efficiency or cost.
I look forward to hearing how NameCheap and Google handle this. Followup please? Good luck.
You've done a great job of summing up one of the reasons that public transit in the US is as bad as it is.

My goal is to safely get from Point A to Point B, and I don't want to spend a lot of time waiting around at Point A, or sitting and waiting on the way to Point B.

We have three goals here, in order of importance. Let's call them safety, convenience, and speed.

Taking a bus with a bunch of drunken hooligans doesn't help much with that first, and most important, goal. I want my transportation to be safe, and the high crime rates on public transportation in the US speak for themselves.

Interesting experiences are great. Getting mugged isn't, and while I'm not a prime target (muggers don't usually pick on two-hundred-pound guys that spend a lot of time in the gym), five loud, drunk people in a gang is not the sort of situation I want to be around regularly.

Especially if I'm carrying a $1500 laptop and a $600 smartphone.

Convenience, at least here in SF, is also pretty miserable. I have not once had a bus arrive on-time. The trains are usually on-schedule, but conveniently frequent only during peak hours, and they only cover a small portion of the greater Bay Area. Don't even get me started on CalTrain.

If I want to meet somebody and I need to take a bus, I need to add an extra half-hour window around my journey. If you assume a normal tech-person salary, that lost half-hour makes it cheaper to take a taxi for most journeys.

Speed is good for trains; busses, on the other hand, live at the whim of traffic.

Japan gets all of these right in its major cities. I have never once felt threatened on a train, and delays are few and far between.

The tradeoff they make is in manpower -- station employees are everywhere. We tend to not like hiring lots of people in the US, and so public transit stations might have one or two visible employees, and certainly not visible, uniformed personnel at every platform.

This is why cars are as popular as they are. In SF, if I want to go from Pacific Heights to the Inner Sunset, a journey by bus-and-train pushes about an hour. By car, it's about fifteen minutes.

In my car, I have a stereo, air conditioning, and a clean, comfortable seat. Public transit, on the other hand, is pretty filthy here in SF, and for some odd reason they jack the heat up enough so that I need to do a little striptease whenever I get on a train.

All minor inconveniences, sure, but it adds up quickly, and what do I get in return? I'm late, have lost money in the long run, and arrive more often than not in a worse mood than when I started.

I really want working public transit here in the US, but the way things are going, I don't see that happening for at least another decade.
Does it really matter if you die unhappy?
"501" is not an accepted term, and doesn't even make sense. Is it supposed to mean someone who programs at 5:01 or someone who doesn't? Someone who plays in the office all night, or someone who makes progress on a healthy schedule?
Might want to fix that link, there's a `'` in there.
Well said, because SPOF is the precise problem with managerial hierarchies.
Can you explain further and what the "nope" is in response to that allbombs said?
I was part of the team that worked on this way back in the day, and it was a blast. It was a bunch of soldering, running wires, trying to debug all the issues, etc. And then everything came together and it just worked.

Woz showing up was the icing on the cake, and it was definitely one of the highlights of my college career.
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These guys help: http://domaintheft.org/
You might care to familiarize yourself with the terms "bonus", "equity", "expected value", and economics of the "firm".
why should Google get involved? seems like an overreach.
I think tlb perhaps disagrees: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644285
A study of number theory will enlighten you. By the way, 2 is most special prime. Lots of nice theorems about prime numbers have special cases for 2.
The problem with stack ranking and PRP is that its subject to capture by groups with in a company that will manipulate it for their own ends - which end up being counter to the longer term aims of the company and share holders - the HR director gets a bonus for managing the pay quanta down but the company loses 10x performers.

For example when I worked at BT the PRP was done - then to make the figures work out with the the increase in pay quanta - the figures where fiddled in secret meetings.

It also leads to people playing the game - for example to help with passing his board one of my colleges at BT made that his goal and play'd the game - but as my boss ruefully commented "he hasn't done any real work for 6 months".

I have also heard of mangers having quotas of people to give bad apr's to to force them out - one rather grim story from a friend who commented "well our unit has 2 people with terminal cancer so they where put down as cat 4's"
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You need to contact NameCheap. There is a window where they can reverse the transfer, if you can persuade them.
Well I don't think it all breaks down that cleanly in reality though. Everybody has dreams and some people pursue them 100% doing what they have to to get by in the interim, and some just categorize them as dreams and never really pursue them.

My point is that those who tell themselves "I'm not going to let outside pressures influence me and I'm going to do what makes me happy" very well may end up miserable in the short term while they are working to achieve their dreams. In the end, if they do not achieve their dreams (or even if they do) they have traded time that they could have succumbed to those pressures and been more comfortable with the end result of regretting not having had the guts to go after what they really wanted to go after. Then again, if you succumb and work forever in a job you hate and are miserable anyway then you haven't really succeeded in satisfying yourself now either. That's really a bad position to be in.

I think Jim Coudal put it best in a talk he gave (actually he was quoting somebody else whose name I can't remember) where he said "The reason most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals not for the person we will be when we achieve them, but the person we are today." I have found that that is really true. For example, people often go to law school thinking that they will end up happy if they get a job that pays a certain amount and it will look good to their current friends so they spend a bunch of money and work their asses off to get through law school. Then they graduate and feel compelled to take a job as an attorney and they absolutely hate it. I know this because I have many many friends who are attorneys and they all are trying to find a way out. I think the mistake people make in those cases is not cutting their losses and being truly honest about what kind of life they want. There is so much pressure to maintain the status quo that they feel trapped.
What's interesting about this is that it connects the ranking mechanism to the (seemingly unrelated and far more significant) hiring/firing mechanism.
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There is another approach which is equally as effective given you signed this some time ago.

You can ask the company to confirm that you are allowed to work on the outside project and that they do not consider it to be a conflict of interest.

My partner for example is working for a large corporation, and in her contract it expressly forbids being a director of another company. I wanter her to be the director of one of mine for family reasons, and she obtained a written confirmation that this was agreeable to her employer.

This effectively changed - or rather updated - the terms on which she signed her employment. There's no reason why you could not do this too.

As long as what you are doing is not within the general scope of activities of your employer then a release like this is not that difficult to obtain.
That's not quite right.

The smaller rackspace instances tend to perform better than the smaller EC2 instances (anything below m1.large), especially in terms of I/O.

If you don't need the advanced EC2 features then rackspace is also more comfortable to use (real IP addresses, no messing with EBS).
I recently compared the price of Rackspace, EC2, and Azure. If you compare the prices per GB of RAM, EC2 is far, far better than both Rackspace and Azure, which are about equal to each other. This only further solidifies the argument for EC2.

Here's a graph of the three provider's prices: http://i.imgur.com/G2laJ.png
I'm very curious what these principles are optimizing for. If they successfully produce the certain kind of life pg desires, how is that life qualified?

It seems like this method optimizes for happiness, as well as some kind of self determination. I'm curious if happiness is differentiated from pleasure, or contentment.

I'd be concerned that based on the derivation of these rules that they actually are tuned to minimize regret at the end of one's life. If I had the choice between, say, twice as much pleasure throughout my life, but pangs of regret at the end, or a less pleasurable life that I felt satisfied with at the end, it would be a pretty difficult decision for me.

edit: downvote? really? to clarify, I'm not criticizing the article. I just want to think through the assumptions that underly it, both to know more clearly what they are and then to evaluate the ruleset by evaluating the goals it's working towards.
I agree, but I do wish there were more language-level solutions to those resources in GC'd languages. Linear types maybe? I don't know, just something that would keep me from leaking.
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Hi all,

I have made a script where you can follow HN users on http://www.nou.nl/hn/. Once you follow users, you can see those users on the frontpage with their last submission or comment. You can also click on the username to see the last 10 submissions and last 10 comments.

I have made it for myself, but am wondering if other HN users would like to use this. If so, I can rewrite the script somewhat, because now I am using cookies and calling the HN Search API (received help from Andres Morey; thanks!) for each user you follow.
I would then also add some features, like recommendations who to follow, how many followers a user has and how many a user is following, extended profile page and more.

Remember: this is a test version, so don't enter too many HN users or actually start using it, because it is not production ready (for example, 10 followed users will take more than 4 seconds to load the homepage).

Hope to hear your comments!
Mikeytemple is having a little fun keeping following mchurch around and keeping mhurch honest today.
So don't buy FB, sheesh. There's no "proving a negative" here, it's just a difference of opinion. All I'm saying is don't be surprised if FB's valuation doesn't go down anytime soon.
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Why would you need that?

You can just request a token[1] using the GitHub API on first load and then use that. I implemented that recently in Pulley[2], which is a GitHub Pull Request Lander.

[1]: http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#create-a-new-authoriza...

[2]: https://github.com/jeresig/pulley
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Very true -- I realised that blogging isn't actually that much more effort than writing comments. Now that I've started blogging regularly, I think my average post length is only slightly longer than my average comment length.
thanks, looking at it now.
The Accountant's Falacy: Anything for which the debit doesn't appear on your balance sheet is "free".

Follow busses in traffic for a while, and add up the total fuel, time wasted, etc. in all the traffic impeded by the less then 1/2 full (on average) bus. There is no branch of mathematics that could be used to argue that busses save the civilization money.

Consider if everyone was not disallowed by law(1) from carpooling for compensation. Roughly doubles the aggregate person-mile per hour bandwidth of the existing traffic system...

Bus driver unions and taxi owner associations are the net gainers of the lobbyist-written laws impeding transportation innovation; everyone else loses.

1) you can carpool all you want informally. You cannot set up publicly accessible systems which compete with taxis.
I did already... it's been 2 hours and haven't heard back from the fraud center
> I would like to avoid making these mistakes. But how do you avoid mistakes you make by default?

I try to do it by challenging a lot of what I think, almost all the time. It's a solution, although it's very taxing.

(I'd like to say I challenge everything always, but I likely have some blind spots)
Not sure I agree with his comment about lockin to features / variants of OpenStack. The API stays the same between providers (well, to a point - there are always extensions and versions). I even expect that there will be some project soon, offering you a locally-deployed version of the panel, so you won't have to worry about that.

Or to put it another way - once you hire people able to scale your servers in a cloud, I'm pretty sure they're going to be capable of learning something like a new portal for OpenStack in max 5 minutes ;)

Dependency on some virtualisation technology is a different thing. But that's true by definition - if you start depending on Xen and migrate to someone using OpenVZ, you're going to have to update the code. It's not going to be a surprise for anyone I hope. It's a bit like using ORM supporting multiple databases... everyone would like to do that just so there's a possibility to switch when needed. In reality, almost noone ever does that once the product is live. And if they did, there would be some corner cases to fix, like the type of available indexes, query optimiser needing different hints, etc.

Like in many other areas, portable == you don't have to rewrite it from scratch. Very rarely it means that you can just flip the switch and be on a different platform / service / message bus / database / network / ... without any work.
nice... :)
One thing that suprises me is how well the judge seems to grasp this rather technical issue.
GPL was perfectly fine for a product like Meteor.

Unless you plan to modify Meteor, ship your version and not share your changes, there are very few things you can do to violate the GPL by using Meteor.

Meteor is neither a library nor boilerplate code to add upon. Lots of folks seem to be "hating" on GPL for no good reason, except maybe not knowing it (which is a good reason but it's hardly justifiable at this point).
I really enjoyed this. It's short and doesn't meander with stupid jokes or idle chatter. Good work, especially by the moderator. Can't wait for the next one.