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Yeah, I love how it's two perfectly good hammers, cut in half ; with the most important bit thrown away, and the rest "cut-n-pasted" together, then lovingly smoothed over so you cant tell… I think I've seen that before…
Does this project intend to make /all/ of Objective-C available thru Ruby?
I agree with everything you said. I hope you'll make it into YC. Good luck guys!
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Right now this is the top post on HN. Why?
You mean to a username?

I can - it's all AJAX though, so you won't be able to spider it or something (If you want to do that, there is an API I could expose).
The social filters of sites like Twitter and Facebook are very deficient compared to the social filters of genuinely social aggregators such as HN and Reddit. The "genuinely social" bit there is indeed a dig against Twitter and Facebook - Twitter, because it's terse and disorganized, and Facebook because it's just a web-based interface to 'offline' social relationships rather than a community in its own right.

And I follow HN via RSS.
Not sure if you're native Chinese or not, but... As a native English speaker learning to speak some Chinese since living moving to China, I find I topic-front as often as I can. Not sure if I'm doing it because it's novel and not clumsy as in English, or whether the language itself encourages that style of speech.

> throwing words around can definitely get you farther if the grammar is simple than if it’s complex. But you run the risk of arriving at a structure with a meaning you didn’t intend, and I’d rather just try to use correct grammar

I'd argue pauses, like tones and stress and other "prosodic features", have just an important place as grammar in natural languages.

And... not sure if you're a programmer (this IS Hacker News after all) but... computer languages could also use an equivalent of pauses, stresses, and tones alongside grammar to communicate semantics to the computer and/or other readers. If whitespace and newlines is like pauses then Python uses a combination of pauses (i.e whitespace) and grammar to communicate semantics.
I've been using PHP for well over 10 years, and I love this thing. It seems like most commenters take this as a snub to PHP, I don't see it that way at all. Note that the guy who made this is also a PHP dev and has been for a long time.
Sounds like a description of a non-newtonian fluid, like maize flour mixed with water (which you can compact in your hand but liquefies when thrown), or quicksand.
The domain registrar is basically "Name.com" in Japanese. Google translate often fails hard on Japanese to English.
Instead of presentational elements, you should use CSS!

http://davidwalsh.name/webkit-marquee-css
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/
I'm learning Japanese now. Can I ask you some questions?
Oh, well. The important thing is that humankind has evolved since then: Never embed an animation effect in our markup.Today's web designer understands separation of content, presentation, and behavior. To 'blink', create a jQuery plug-in

A second and just-as-important lesson: never use blinking animation by itself. For maximum aesthetic appeal, use blink in precise syncronicity with the other core web site building blocks--pulsate, throb, flicker, and strobe.
Wow. Thanks for the all responses people. There are some really good suggestions here. I have added the project to GitHub for anyone interested in improving the tool.

https://github.com/jamus/rwd-demonstration
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/03/execution-in-king...
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So what does this do? compile ruby code into objective c? or directly into machine code that can be run on iOS?
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Kudos. This is very impressive. However, I think iframes + postMessage + xframe DOM/BOM abstraction is the more clean, reliable, usable, etc. way to go. Or defining a sandbox API for browsers that doesn't require iframes. But this could even be a nice first step towards that sandbox API.
My suggestion is lawyer up!
I say its stopped because it is lacking a lot to get it working on OS X, so its not "done", and the latest release is for 10.5
It kinda makes the asteroid mining venture from yesterday seem a lot more sensible and tangible an investment long term.
Perhaps in detail, but they both constitute classic Ponzi schemes. Convoluted valuation(s)/promise of returns only to find yourself trapped with a worthless 'investment' when the core of the operating capital has been pilfered by its biggest players.

Goldman Sachs is the underwriter (and reason enough to scoff its initial valuation and then spike in price) of the IPO in question, hence the pump and dump; JP Morgan was taking a billion in fees for services rendered while Madoff laundered his money there.
Only do it if you very 1. objectively feel the problem is not solved well today 2. very much want to solve the problem.

Those are always the first two prerequisites.
OpenID, FTP, and email are all apparently dead, too. I guess I'll have to add RSS to the list of 'dead' technologies that I use and enjoy every day.

Seriously, though, are these "foo is broken/dead" stories being pushed by people who want to monetize 'improved' versions?
http://news.php.net/php.internals/58385
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So, you type out the same obj-c code, but with different syntax.

Doesnt seem to save any time at all.
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Where did you see an actual ape-man?
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lowendbox is good, but sold recently and I think there were some dramas around the new ownership or something.

I still like it though.
I know a thing or two about App Engine too, and I disagree with you.
Yes, verbally. More than once and many months part. I believe they will come through with an agreement of some kind, but I worry about receiving the specifics of what I (and others) got promised.
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It was already well known that the FBI was talking with and investigating May First/People Link. Whoever is sending in the bomb threats to U Pittsburgh already knows it as well. So there was no point in 'staking out' this server.

They probably just seized it for evidence collection. May First/People Link said they don't keep any logs. Maybe the FBI didn't believe them or think they can do some 'advanced forensics' on the HDD.
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I wholeheartedly agree with this.

However, I think it's weak that the 'best example' is to 'hazard a guess' that Sal Khan learns more from teaching than just reading. There's no actual evidence in that statement, it's effectively just backing up 'I think' with 'I think.' I find it disappointing because I'm sure there are good arguments that could be made for his point.
Yes, I was a bit disappointed, I was hoping that the effect was being caused by the AC mains frequency effecting the lighting. Ah well
If spouse is working, and children go to school, then most likely family members are also "out" for better part of 9-5, so even if you might be "free" during those times, your family may not be. That is why 9-5 works for (most) families (I think)

BTW, if you are replying emails when having coffee with your wife, how is that "family" time ?
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I doubt they care.
It suggests to, via you voluntarily typing

echo 'source "`brew --prefix grc`/etc/grc.bashrc"' >> ~/.bashrc
It's times like this that remind me how important it is not to completely rely on 3rd party scripts. Try pointing all 3rd party scripts to a non-existent server and see how long your website takes to load. This can be mitigated by loading scripts asynchronously.
> I've been using PHP for well over 10 years, and I love this thing.

You're not alone. There are many of us. PHP powers the Internet, period. Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc. You can whine all you want about this and that, but you can't argue with success.

As far as hammers go, I had my wife make me a stuffed PHP elephant! It's on my desk right now.
It migh sound unbelievable, but why not?

I'm learning Ukrainian and Russian for 3,5 months. I understand Ukrainian just like that and understand Russian quite well; written and spoken. I speak ukrainian quite good and start to speak russian (because I started with ukrainian and didn't write russian first). It was 3,5months of nearly no effort maybe couple hours a week.

OK, I'm polish so slavic languages are nothing new to me, but many people learnt russian here with nearly no result. I think it's way of learning. I just started write and read ukrainian and russian bit later.

If I learnt familar language so fast with no effort why not to learn european language in 5 months of some effort? It's possible since european languages are not completely different and I know english and understand german now. Well, maybe it won't be C1, but I can believe there are people with better language skills than me.
In which languages are you then coding the VM/JIT?

At some level you need native code.

For me, I want something like Ruby that generates native code.
No commercial versions yet because they just recently created the market.
You're supposed to get something written in your offer letter. After that, there might be some delay, usually until the next board meeting, to get the real paperwork (which includes # of shares and strike price). But what you are describing is worrisome.
If only Facebook thought of loading their SDK asynchronously. Oh wait, they did:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/client-s...
because no matter what people say is wrong with php it still does the job. We love php!!!
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I would prepare for some pictures of "duct tape and bailing wire... [that] we love it for...", if only I could imagine it could be done as creatively as the above hammer. But you know, the more I read these analogies the more I'm beginning to like PHP, not as something to work with but as that second cousin you met once at a family gathering and remember as being odd but nice and a funny guy.
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yea i tried it in the firefox console after i posted it.
it felt wrong and lol it was
please try to redownload it, i believe i fixed the issue
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Is it just me, or is 40 hours a week possibly too long, even when you're running a startup?
It's the GCC and the related tools, my friend, that made possible the GNU Linux OS and its kernel, and a multitude of other open source (free!) software. And also the GPL license, of course.

People shouldn't be so fixed just on Emacs as the only Stallman's contribution and defining legacy in the software world. IMHO, his editor is the least important thing he created.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
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I think that they take fingerprints in Japan as well, among other things
Your comment deserves a woosh, but this isn't reddit. The parent post was making fun of a spelling error by making similar errors in 'tag', 'Netscape' and 'Navigator'.

Your comment is also wrong in that marquee actually originated in Internet Explorer 3. I remember when there were webpages that would blink in Netscape and marquee in Internet Explorer since each browser had its own proprietary annoying tag.
I am seeing this sort of thing frequently in GitHub - people start working on something and it gets "released" before they are ready with it and the authors have to scramble to say that this is not ready, ward off degrading comments etc.

The js.js blog post mentions this and in mrbuy , the README has just been updated. Is social coding being taken to the extreme?
There are... different markets. I have a whole lot of customers in the area; probably the majority. I do often meet customers at social events, and yeah, they usually don't have the tiny guests, and they usually think I'm super cheap. I mean, here in silicon valley? even mediocre Engineers pull six figures. (well, mediocre Engineers that can find employment in silicon valley; generally, but not always, that means significantly above average by the standards of most places.) so the difference between five bucks and three bucks is not a beer, it's what goes in the tip jar after you get your latte. Nobody is going to notice, and none of those people are going to buy my five dollar plan when I give you twice the ram/disk for six dollars, and really, most of those people are going for the $12 or $20 plan. I mean, having extra ram is kinda nice.

But on IRC, I meet kids from Alabama or Minnesota... or China or Myanmar. They're making less than ten bucks an hour, if they are lucky, working at wal-mart or best buy or what have you, and trying to learn about computers. I know a couple of these people starting hosting companies. Some of them are pretty good, others, well, they are interested in learning, and that's good too... but for them? that difference between three bucks and five every month is worth spending some time on.

So yeah, it's a market that I owned once, but that market has... passed me by. (and really, a lot of the people in that market seem kinda angry that I'm not keeping up with the times... which I guess I could take as a complement?) I will put some effort into it again, at some point, but it's not my current highest priority. The comment that gave this hn post it's title was actually me trying to get those people to quit buying my five dollar account, because while in '05, I had images that worked okay on it, today, out of box it just does not work very well. I didn't disable ordering on it completely mostly for irrational reasons. I am pleased and surprised that other people found it this amusing.
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Which is entirely reasonable - each country has different attitudes about what is appropriate public behavior, and what isn't. What I found odd about this case was that the evidence was pretty minimal, "The pair's defence lawyers said the woman - who did not appear in court - had not seen the kiss herself, but had been told by her two-year-old child that the girl had seen them kissing." - I think this was probably related to the fact that they were consuming illegal alcohol as well.
teaching is still a bit different than deeply understanding it. when i was in high school, i always tried to teach my younger sister what i have learned in class when i got home hoping it will help me remember stuff. but over time i found out rememebering is still different than understanding. to understand better, u might have to sit in front of desk alone and put alot of thoughts on what u learn quietly.
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I've got to manually tell the billing system to make you a bill. Sorry.
From a first look, MacRuby does a better job of integrating with Objective C/Cocoa.
I think that may be the one I read.
I agree, as evidenced by the bit you didn't quote. (?!)
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It did not. Nobody refers to their current wife as "my first wife." If he was still married to her, it would simply be "my wife"
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"Please note; this means all plans come with $4/month worth of support."

I can't help wondering how much support that is.
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I wasn't referring to implementation really, but the principle.
The main python could be in /bin or /usr/bin or possibly /usr/local/bin. The poor user or developer shouldn't be required to anticipate where and should not need to resort to hacks such as env.
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Why don't they use something like bitbucket (free private repos) until it is ready to be launched?
A PHP conference, perhaps? :D
He may not be designing WP7, but he has the final say in many of the decisions around it. Given MS's track record, I would cite WP7 as an exception, compared to Apple's much more consistent successes in good taste/design over the years. It takes good taste in the leadership to consistently recognize and promote the good designers to positions where they can lead the products.
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As the owner of five sub $250 Aerobed's (though I've never had the balls to return them after seven months of use. :-) -I can say they are somewhat higher quality than your typical $100-$200 Airbed, they are still meant for "occasional" use - I.E. pull them out for guests 2-3 night 3-4 times/year. Probably good for five years. If you get seven months out of a $150 Aerobed, then you are about average. I've had _one_ last 14 months, the rest went around 7-9 months.

If you want to use an AirBed continuously, be prepared to plunk a minimum of $700, and upwards of $5,000 for a top of the line Comfortaire.
Won't that add a whole round trip before actually getting the content?
thanks that gave me a laugh!
This is ridiculous. Who forces login to view, say, Bugzilla bugs? I don't know of any such project.
But you've seen the GCC - the thing that compiles the Linux kernel, right? The default C - and some more languages - compiler on almost any Linux or BSD system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection
Thanks for the downvotes, but I'm serious. A link to "funny" image is at the very top, this is one small step from memes being posted on HN.
What's the js to make a site editable with your cursor (you can click on text in a <p> and then you get a cursor in it where you can insert more text, also changes your mouse cursor to indicate that you can edit, over text)? I saw it here on hn once in the comments, but then I couldn't find it again later when I needed it. (I had also saved it in a vim window but forgotten to save it, ugh!)
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Aren't LEDs fed with DC? If so they would obviously not flicker but I'll admit not cracking my LED bulbs open just to see, as they're expensive enough.
nice frontend :)
matz own mruby.org. and its page is under construction.
matz said I pushed source code only, I'll build web site and docs later.
would it save us from the hell of objective c?
Not really comparing like with like, colo vs cloud
Maybe they should require money for exporting to a local copy and offer online sharing for free, or the other way around.
That doesn't mean we don't want to know what happened or why.
bagofholding is also mentioned in this strange WebKit bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62122
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We were trying to use it to allow users to share content without being taken from the site. We ran into numerous problems that I think stemmed from the click-jacking protection as well as it just being incredibly inflexible in a variety of ways. Further, it's friends (twitter and pinterest) more or less demand that users leave the current page. So we decided to go with the tasteful Zocial icons instead and trust that users will not be too distracted by the popup window.

Also, no haterade on the sharing thing. It's a charity project that is all about people "getting the word" out and the sharing is unobtrusive.
Flagged. Pages submitted to HN should not be behind login walls.

This thread already has multiple references to the fact that you have to log in to see the submitted post. Some are justifying this by saying the content is only relevant for people/developers who have FB accounts. While this may be true, there are many HN users without a FB account. For them, this submission is nothing better than spam that attracts unverifiable comments.

Although there is a large intersection between the two groups of HN and FB users, you don't have to be signed up with any other webservice in order to use HN. This is not only about FB. As a matter of principle posts to HN should be accessible for all HN users without requiring them to sign up with any other webservice.
Something is confusing - nobody measures bandwidth in GiB, and _almost_ nobody measures disk space in GiB. It's useful that they emphasized the unit, otherwise 99% of their (educated) customers would have assumed 10 (network/disk) Gigabytes was 1.0 * 10^9 bytes.

The only use of GiB that I seen commonly is in Memory. Every other use of "Giga" is the SI reference.
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Because every pseudo-hacker feels a desperate need to make i clear that (s)he is not associated with supposedly uncool languages.

You might want to notice that the topic is more relevant for a story to get on top of HN than its actual content. Just saying.