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This is definitely false: they respond quickly with initial triage. The main problem is that you will subsequently almost never hear anything from them and if your issue was reported as a duplicate you'll need to manually poll them over email for the status.
> For now it seems OOP is the worst paradigm for programming, except all other paradigms of programming

I remember a piece about how most of the common OOP `patterns' are invisible or trivial in languages with first-class functions.
I see a lot of people who are inside the industry as employees agreeing that it is a bubble. But I see a lot of people inside the industry as investors saying it isn't. I'm not sure if that means anything, though.
I appeared on the first season of Shark Tank ('The Factionist' t-shirt company) and I can confirm that this is true.

The 5% equity choice is new, but doesn't surprise me. When I was on the first season it was only the 2% lifetime royalty. It's not actually that bad of a deal because the royalty was taken out of net income - NOT top-line revenue. So, even if Zynga was on Shark Tank they wouldn't have owed ABC a lot of money.

I was called about once a year after the show by the show's lawyers to collect the royalty. I had shut down the business immediately after the show aired, though, so I never did end up sending them a check.

2% of future net income isn't really a bad deal for most of the kinds of businesses that appear on Shark Tank. None of these companies are VC-investable, and these kinds of royalty-for-placement deals are common in the infomercial industry (which is what a lot of Shark Tank businesses are - informercial products).

I worked for Barbara Corcoran for a year after I was on the show - she's a class act and probably the one Shark that takes her investments seriously.

I've answered several questions about my Shark Tank experience on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Nate-Berkopec/answers/Shark-Tank-TV-ser...
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That sounds useful. But you could do the same thing in a VM (or seven) on your desktop. It might be useful in some circumstances, but it's certainly not a requirement to deploy a working product. No one would choose to be locked in to a vendor because of that alone.
Your logo doesn't work. I'm using the latest Firefox on a Mac. Error: strengths is undefined.
Some interesting points.

The most important point you make, that for me proves it's a bubble is this:

"And this is the situation where companies like Facebook or Google, or VCs are more interested in acquiring assets (ie investments in startups), rather than caring about the actual money itself."

Hello? You're "acquiring assets" and not caring about money? What? Some make the argument that Google bought youtube for a big sum, and use that to justify Facebook buying Instagram for $1 billion, but clearly this is not sustainable.

For the "acquiring Instagram for a billion" stage to continue (proving there isn't a bubble), acquiring company needs:

- To be doing 3 figure millions/billions in revenue (there are only so many of these)

- Have a really clear idea of what they're buying and why (Yahoo sucks at this)

- Have patient shareholders that allow you can take huge bets like Instagram (if Zuck went off and negotiated the purchase of Instagram without board approval and Facebook was a public company, I'd imagine the shareholders would scream blue murder and possibly sue).

All this is fine and well, but as you note it distorts people's thinking - people use the dollar figure per user from the Instagram deal, which only is applicable IF the above conditions are met (i.e. you are bought by someone who's buying you for something other than financial reasons. Which is a clear sign of the bullsh*t phase of the cycle, in my opinion.)
Pass me that junk, I want the stepper motors.
Related-

http://blog.yafla.com/Pet_Store_2011__Metrics_Instead_of_Eva...

These micro-benchmarks aren't even a good kicking off point for comparisons, as the things that yield a trivial benchmark win are often the things that yield significant performance troubles at scale.
> I want a language that reads more like a book and less like a formula, perhaps that's just me :)

Perhaps you shouldn't look so much for a new language, but rather a new way of using the language. Have a look at http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf, a showcase of literate programming using the example of the venerable Colossal Cave Adventure.
> The big advantage of an arbitration clause is that the outcome of a contract dispute is much more predictable

That is indeed a big advantage, but not for you. If you are an individual and the counterparty is a large corporation, the predictable outcome is that you will (almost certainly) lose, notwithstanding the merits of the case.
While that's cool, it's not quite what the OP achieves. Using this mixin will turn whatever you apply it to into a solid-color triangle with the passed-in options. The triangle will need to be its own element.

OP adds two triangles to whatever it is applied to, one for the border color, another to cover it up with the background color. And it doesn't require any additional elements... it just adds these to whatever you are applying it to.
I do too. I also tend to find that once I have a module for a particular record type, I eventually find enough other things to put in it, like instance declarations, that it's not a hardship to have a separate file.
You still have to do this. Minecraft is a bad example.
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I think their point was that Ctrl+Z is more intuitive than Ctrl+Shift+T, though I don't necessarily agree with that.
To complement Marijn's response, here's a blog post from one of the Rust developers that gives a bit of an introduction into regions:

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/04/25/refe...
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I agree.

Moreover, html5boilerplate recommends NOT to include the /1/ query:
http://html5boilerplate.com/html5boilerplate-site/built/en_U...
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I'm impressed how nicely formatted that letter is in a fixed-width font.
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I can hold these two thoughts in my head at the same time: (a) that camcording movies for later release on the Internet is illegal and antagonizes theaters, and (b) that camcording movies is not a real threat the movie industry, but other (more popular) forms of file sharing clearly are.
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I posted a Sass mixin for doing this here: https://gist.github.com/2645575
The president of the Federation in Star Trek VI said it best:

"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing."

Other than the initial level of indenting, which is basically a non-issue for most people I suspect, there just isn't any reason to omit tags like this.

At the same time, they make the markup clearer, and help a reader quickly delineate between two important sections of the document. Therefore, since they provide at least a very small positive benefit, it is perfectly reasonable, IMHO, to include them.
I think this is a great step. Publications are an outdated business model and they can't and shouldn't survive at their current (in my opinion egregious) costs.
Some data: Inria is (AFAIK) one of the 3 major public research institutions in France: CNRS (the largest, multiple scientific fields, 26k people), Inria (CS, 4k people), INSERM (Medical, 6k people). There are others, but they are much less staffed. Anecdotally, I worked in a CNRS lab and I can tell you that it was very much applied. But applied research was the stated goal of the lab, and I can't say about the rest of the CNRS.
Yes, it's not a hardship, but it does raise the threshold for doing the Right Thing. Quite unnecessarily in my humble opinion, since OCaml provides an example of how to add this feature to the language without colliding with any of Haskell established concepts. (I don't know about collision with the existing syntax, but you'd enable the modules like any other extention with a pragma.)

Do you know whether Template Haskell could be contorted to provide a syntax?
I use Delicious and tag it all
Ask HN: proper etiquette on submitting your own stuff
I've noticed a few commenters mentioning it's in bad taste to submit your own blog posts. I'm curious if that's the prevalent opinion on HN, and if so, what's a good way for an unknown aspiring blogger to make it to the front page?
Probably the most accurate answer to your question is: Because so many people don't know they are not required. (I certainly was in that category until about 5 minutes ago)

But even now knowing that info... I will continue to use them. Yes, it adds another level of indenting... but personally I prefer that. Text that is without a left margin tends to be a little harder to read. I also like to have a visual grouping of the elements. I think I would disagree that it "makes it more complicated" to have those tags.
Hardly meaningless. The problem is that the larger application benchmarks fall prey to accusations of "I wouldn't write it that way!". Their results are just as hotly disputed.

This micro-benchmark makes sense. It's benchmarking an HTTP server essentially. Any benchmark further than this would really be benchmarking the JVM and V8. While that would be interesting, I think in this case, this micro benchmark is OK as long as you know its limitations.

The reality is that most people's app code and databases are going to bottleneck long before either Vert.x or Node.js do. The main thing this benchmark clears up is that both of them are really, really, fast, and that if you do lots of simple to process responses you may want to go with Vert.x.
"Disclosure in 30 days unless otherwise requested".

I love this so much. "Unless otherwise requested". Perfect.
Actually what would really be neat is if it uses an included library if one is linked (e.g. jQuery $(function(){...});) and the code shown wrapped in an anonymous function otherwise (function(){...})();
Might only be the maths department, but Elsevier is sitting on a whole lot of loose snow right now and this is yet another snowball picking up speed somewhere further up the mountain.
I once saw someone try to describe a hypothetical selector that did this using this syntax:

p < span.fast { color: red; }

Although that made perfect sense to me at the time, using some sort of subject signifier ("-hitch-has" or "$") makes much more sense.
Its worth pointing out that Elsevier also controls the whole line of Lexis Nexis products. Academic publishing, especially journal subscriptions and research databases, is one of those most entrenched industries there can be. It might not be as fashionable as hating on Elsevier but Gale, ProQuest, ACS, CSA and company make a hell of a lot of money through exclusive contracts with smaller publishers. Any new entrances to the industry are locked out from all valuable content or choked before they can even get going.

This is all at the expense of libraries and universities, and by proxy, your tax dollars and tuition. The industry is in need of massive disruption, has been for a decade now, but wrestling their IP seems an impossible feat.
I'm not in the US. Over here, the idea of a car worth driving costing only 100 euros is ludicrous, and was so even before the local scrappage schemes took plenty of 10-years-or-older cars off the road.

(100 euro cars used to be found; people who don't want to admit their car's worth nothing. They were often bought by teenagers, driven psychotically for a night, and burnt out. These days I assume they're being driven into the ground instead.)
Looks interesting, how does blekko index search results? I prefer how millionshort lets you disable/enable specific sites for search. Although, given how millionshort is designed specifically for removing results, it would be more difficult to do that on blekko.
Yeah, I read the marketing copy too. It sounds like it's deliberately worded to avoid mentioning whether or not you're licensed to run it on Mac/Linux.
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Someday, someone will implement the W3C DOM API in node so that it's possible to parse XML with the same code on both the client and server. Until then, I guess I'll keep serving with xpcshell.
Wolfenstein 3D is banned. It is just not "indiziert" anymore. It is never going to be unbanned because of the unconstitutional stuff (swastikas, HorstWessel Song etc).

Your link is about a different game by the way.
Looks awesome... can't wait to try it! Been on the wait list for what feels like (and probably has been) 1.5 years though...
Plans/ETA for android version?
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I was waiting to see exactly how this was handled on the octothorpe, but he strategically cut it short. Also, it seemed a little hand-wavy placing a simple spring among a collection of far more complex 3d objects.

It's an awesome project, but I appreciate when engineers either show how they addressed the edge cases, or are more honest about its failure points.
One thing the author never mentions is how Portal teaches you how to play the game. Yes, the player has to play, as the author points out, but Portal's designers created very deliberate sandboxes in which to play. They created rooms with distinct features that make it likely that if you play enough, you'll discover the correct thing to do - even if it's just by accident.

That is the design part: understanding the rules of the environment you've created, understanding how people are likely to behave based on prior knowledge when put into that environment, and creating scenarios which lead them down certain paths without telling them about those paths. It's a probabilistic thing. You have to create a scenario where the most likely outcome is that the user learns what you want them to learn.

Another neat thing about Portal that may apply to applications is that the spoken lesson doesn't come until after you've discovered it on your own. The explicit tutorial doesn't so much teach as reinforce.
> You could break your CSS into multiple files, but this is in direct opposition to one of the tenants of website optimization: minimize the number of HTTP requests.

Am I missing something here? Your fonts were going to be in a separate file anyway, right?
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It's easy, just add the site you want to delete from the web to your /spam list or the /slashtag that you're negating out of the results.
> ... then it's most likely a catastrophic, extinction-level event for most of the startups in the Valley.

Most SV startups are valueless Facebook partners? Really?
Interesting usage of the word "solved", there.
I'm not sure I agree (I too did not know they weren't required any more).

We frequently see things like JavaScript pulled in at the bottom of documents -- the head and body long since stopped having functional impacts, and all they seem to do is make you feel guilty about doing things it seems it's not only pragmatic but perfectly OK to do now.

I guess omitting the outermost HTML tags would disturb me slightly if one wants to keep XML-ish. But then it's always bugged me that XML kind of assumes the "file" has no semantic significance.
I would get yourself a copy of The Good Parts. As someone who also went from Python to JS, it didn't fully click until I sat down and read through the book. Now there are aspects of JS I actually prefer over Python.
Using your template: I think it will be 'Facebook bubble 1.0' or 'social bubble 1.0'.

In an Internet 1.0 world "Facebook", would have happened via a 'social' protocol on the Internet just like SMTP, and Zuckerberg would have been a hacker icon just like a Tim Berners Lee.

In this Internet 2.0 world its heading for a 100 billion dollar IPO. I think, its a bad movement of capital. As Facebook was more lucky - timing wise it happened just when broadband Internet was getting prevalent in developing countries of Asia, and many other things.

And unfortunately, it has got no real competition. The only people who are trying to compete (atleast visible to most, discounting efforts like status.net) are Google. Who are just building another Facebook like walled Garden in Google+.

How I would have loved to see a concerted effort from hackers to liberate 'social' to what it should always have been - a protocol!

PS: If mails had happened in Internet 2.0 world. We would have gmail users only mailing to other gmail users and hotmail users only mailing to other hotmail users ... but actually gmail would not have happened as Sabeer Bhatia or Microsoft would have been still ruling the mail world ;-) ... But thankfully it did not turn out that way, as there was already a protocol called SMTP!
Yes, the designer in this project naturally wanted both a border and a box shadow. I don't know how to accomplish that in CSS without using additional elements. I'm currently using strategy #1, hoping that nobody notices :)
It's great to see mathematicians taking up, Tim Gowers's rallying cry and have the courage to step away from Elsevier. The academic publishing industry for periodicals is going the way of the journal industry.

Apps like Scholastica (http://scholasticahq.com/) allow anyone to start their own peer reviewed journal and manage its content. Very soon, they'll even be able to publish open access (http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/21917547765/open-access-p...). Full disclosure: I'm working on this application.
If I understand you correctly, your problem would occur if, say, you were maintaining 1.0 and 2.0 branches of a product and needed to apply the same bugfix to both; you can't merge, so you cherry-pick.

Surely this is something that the Linux project runs into constantly? I wonder if they have a solution?
atm, we seem to be crushing their webserver. If you're feeling kind, don't click.

The page copy is just two sentences, one in German, one in English - essentially:

"due to unsustainable pricing, the math department has canceled Elsevier subs"
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Oh god. I'm in Australia and if you tell me I can get a house for $500k I'll say it's cheap. The apartment I'm living in is worth $550k. The only houses as cheap as $500k are over an hour from the CBD. Where I am living (half hour away), houses start from $800k up to $1.5m.

The average (house+apartment) price is still below $600k, though.
Less than $50B USD per year. Peanuts, compared to the nearly $20T USD in retirement assets in the US.
> This micro-benchmark makes sense. It's benchmarking an HTTP server essentially.

Kind-of true. But to give any results that can be applied to the real world, it would have to use a much larger payload than a hello world.
>"Since selling to Google or Facebook is the exit strategy for most of these SV startups, if that door closes, then funding will get pulled quickly and violently, and it will be the start of the next dotcom bust 2.0"

This points to one of the differences between this boom and the last one. Valuations are being driven by companies with lots of cash are buying startups and sophisticated investors funding growth. Last time, the valuations came from dumb money parked in IRA's and 401k's via Wall Street.

In other words, currently valuations are primarily based on the potential sales of a company's products rather than on the potential sale of its stock to mutual funds.

If the current startup ecosystem went bust, most people wouldn't feel it because their retirement accounts and personal savings wouldn't see it directly. In the dot.com bust, many more ordinary people saw the value of their mutual funds decline because so many hot companies were publicly traded.

That's not to say that recent legislation to allow dumb money investment in startups won't ultimately lead to a similar bust. But we're not close to that yet.
Very nice, but the "Ninja Rockstar" sign reeks of brogrammer.
I have to disagree with that premise. By submitting your own posts or websites (as in "Show HN"), you allow the opportunity for commenters to communicate directly with the author. Personally, I think that's really powerful.

The voting system is there for a reason, and posts should get attention due to quality content. The person who submitted it should be irrelevant in that regard, and hence, I'm not really sure what the downside is.

Can I ask, where are the other discussions on this matter that you mentioned?
This is pretty awesome, any thoughts on how to implement support for other languages than html5?
> Eastpak

Ohmygod, I accidentally repeated what seems to be an urban myth in Germany. Eastpak DOES repair broken zippers - unlike all the independent repair shops that I have asked.

Grandparent poster, thanks for making me actually google this!
T happens to be written in Ruby but it's a CLI, not a Ruby library. The fact that it is packaged as a gem is incidental. T was designed to be called from a command line shell and to interoperate with other Unix utilities like grep, cut, awk, bc, wc, xargs, etc. All output is streamed to stdout, so it actually makes just as much sense to call t from a shell script (or, for that matter, from a Perl or Python script) as it does from Ruby.
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Ask HN: Please give me your thoughts on my new site: www.coderegator.com
Hello all,

So I found myself constantly looking up code references and commands at work. There was always that thing I did like 3 months ago for Apache that I would not remember since it's not something I do often.

I mostly kept all these references in Google docs or through bookmarks, but I still found myself searching for certain tidbits, so I decided to write this little code organizer.

Some features:

-add code samples

-add tags to code samples

-add other users code to your samples (can't edit these but you can put your own tags)

-fork any code including your own (these can be edited)

-add users to follow

-filter on categories, tags, users simultaneously, so you can really drill it down, like: show me codes by user "rob" in category "mysql" with tag "blah"

Anyway, if this describes you, I hope you will find it useful:

http://www.coderegator.com

Thanks,

Rob
Disabling the hardware is probably the least of your worries (depends on the job the hardware performs).

Installing a permanent backdoor (that you only get rid of with external flashing hardware - OS reinstall won't help, new disks won't help, reflashing firmware won't help) is not.
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Some day was two years ago:

https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom

https://github.com/andreasgal/dom.js
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Thanks. Sprucing up the splash pages is next, putting on my marketing hat after some sleep :)
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I couldn't agree more... a lot of the appeal of Kind of Blue isn't its musicians' virtuosity, but rather that the pieces are very well-executed, accessible and interesting to both casual listeners and "serious" jazz fans, and the recording is now very, very familiar.
Hey, thanks for pointing that out (and thanks to kibwen for the link).

I've been trying to use (or rather, bend) rust for kernel development lately, and memory allocation was my biggest limitation so far (including stack allocation). Definitely looking forward to future improvement on the language, it looks very promising.
Same as oulipian, I got some error about 0 being undefined.

Also, if you are planning on doing a spring-mass simulation, it's much better to use arbor.js which has background thread support (and is non-blocking)