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I think both of you are right. To each his own. I have a few applications that are algorithmically complicated and it is impossible (or very expensive) to implement multiple versions of the same thing on different platforms. Even though the core stuff is say 60% of the codebase (vs 40% in UI), say measuring in number of lines, the benefit of doing the 60% in a single productive platform is very very important. I'm talking about correctness, maintainability, consistency between different versions, etc. The remaining 40% UI code can be ugly, platform-dependent, inconsistent, etc, and it won't bother me as much. After all, an error in the presentation is far less lethal than an error in the core logic. In this case, a common platform is strongly favored.

That said, indeed many apps are not like that. Going forward though, I would conjecture that there will be more and more sophisticated apps.
Premature optimization is the way to go right?

Screw referential integrity.

Screw db security.

Screw simple administration (single backup).

Raw performance of one part of the system is the only concern.
I understand the technical aspects of it. There is still no guarantee that they delete the photo. They say they do, and I don't seriously doubt them, but the possibility exists that they keep them around for whatever reason. Further, there is a real possibility that an attacker could find a way into the Instagram systems or hijack the communication streams between users and the servers, and then you have a leak. It is a potential privacy concern that is caused by the "upload everything and throw away some of them" algorithm.
While I agree that part was out of place (as well as the easy bake oven skit) he does make some good points and does well at defending the more upsetting/progressive changes in rails.
I saw Damian Conway present about this, and it was absolutely fascinating. It started as a practice of removing syntax from code position and instead encoding it in variable/function names, like Latin does.

"The paper also explains the special source filtering and parsing techniques required to efficiently interpret a programming language in which the syntax is (largely) non-positional."

Here's the Sieve of Eratosthenes:

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;
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meo maximo vestibulo perlegamentum da.
da duo tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.
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fac sic
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lista sic hoc recidementum nextum cis vannementa da listis.
cis.
It's protecting customers, not Apple.

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that it protects Apple from having their users find out that 30% of what they're paying gets nowhere near the person they think is getting all the money.
You need to take that in perspective. Someone legally purchased the game, and then shared it with someone else. It is the exact same thing people would do with cassette taps 2 decades ago, when the RIAA decried mix tapes would kill music. 2 decades later, that industry is bigger than ever.

The difference is that one cassette is much more expensive than 15 megabytes of magnetic storage, and the gas to go from a friends house to let you copy their tape is much more expensive than the electricity and internet bills to transfer the data.

But it is such a common misconception that it is stealing - it is duplicating bits of data on magnetic storage that, by nature of the physical properties of the device, are extremely easy to replicate.

Yes, it is "hard" to understand the concept that once released, the content is no longer under the control of the creator. But defying the physics of physical storage only causes what we have now - big corporate lobbies are pushing to destroy all personal privacy to make sure no one uses the inherent properties of the technology developed in ways they don't desire.

And that will destroy the internet and society at large if left unchecked. You can't take away personal privacy and expect anything less than collapse. The only solution is to accept the reality that digital content is infinitely reproducible for free, and go from there. The old brick and mortar model just does not work.
I disagree. There is a large mental overhead associated with these kinds of things and living in cities is all about choosing where to spend ones mental energy - since there isn't enough to see everything.
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I see your point.

If God exist(s|ed) then all the observable parts or effects of God (are|would be) natural, 'by definition'. And in that case the supernatural existence of God is totally pointless if it is even an issue. And it wouldn't work to disjunctively define 'caused by God' as meaning 'no natural cause' because some or all natural causes would be from God.

I suspect that the insistence on words like 'supernatural' is an insistence on an honorific, and on a social attempt to suspend the use of reason and evidence as they pertain to specific topics. Theists who don't insist on this kind of artificial isolation between talk about God and (say) talk about numbers or ethics or physics necessarily become more heavily engaged in the messy details. For similar reasons, dismissing the supernatural is quick and satisfying for skeptics in a way which extended theological arguments are not
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This is why some of us can reasonably hope to launch a startup on the side while working a full time job. We're not putting in two 8-hour days, we're putting in 8-hour days at a full time job, and then putting in a couple highly productive hours on our own project every night or early every morning.

I'm pretty sure there are a good number of people on here who are splitting their days like this.
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I have been a paying customer for 6+ months, and I don't think they are the best service. But when open site explorer has recent data, it is extremely helpful.
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Maybe twice in a lifetime. The last one was in 2004. From Wikipedia, "Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years."
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I am pretty sure I was going for a 'for you and your partner' there. Not sure where that you want. Glad it's entertaining.
First movers in a space they have somewhat created. Would have loved it a couple of years ago.

Lots of potential in related verticles. Let the copy cats begin.
I certainly think it does. Apple has not really tackled the watch market, but it will.

Either they get bouht or one-upped by an apple watch-pod. the iWatch.
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1. The Pirate Bay's support of piracy is quite "volitional", to use the ruling's terminology. The Pirate Bay goes to great lengths to maintain its ability to enable piracy. Google will gladly exclude your entire site if you ask them to.

2. The purpose and character of Google's summaries and cached pages is quite different from The Pirate Bay's links. (In particular, Google has no intention of totally replacing the original site with an unauthorized copy, and its content is not generally useful as such.)

3. The Pirate Bay is not covered by the DMCA's safe harbor provisions (as, again, it isn't open to the idea of taking down content at the request of copyright holders).
Here's the source for that one: https://github.com/mape/node-wargames
Most serious RDBMSes can handle online DDL without locking the table.
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Suppose that we strip Santa of all his characteristics: we say that Santa's age, weight, beard, gender, personhood, personal history, powers, acts, etc. are all irrelevant.

Now what meaning is there in discussing the existence of Santa? None. Because (I submit) what it means for something to exist is completely different for each thing.

Discussions about God constantly founder on this point - at the outset, when discussing the mere existence of God, it seems almost inevitable that every single characteristic is removed from the table until there is nothing to say about him.

But if his existence seems to be proven, then a massive conjunction of claims about him (indeed, a great number of claims specific to a religion) tends to spring up out of nowhere, as if these did not need to be specifically shown.

This shouldn't be surprising, since many specialists in apologetics have admitted openly that their purpose is not to zero in on the truth through reasoning and discussion but to try to use reason as a weapon against itself to clear the way for adherence to some specific religion.

"I'm trying to figure it out" isn't a religion, unfortunately.
Actually, via the link, you can see that pg was using Stypi (I too thought it was EtherPad…). The link from the post works: https://www.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences

Edit: Okay, I was wrong. It was originally Etherpad: http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
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Your experience with logs doesn't invalidate the point the author was trying to make. Storing your logs in your production database is a stupid idea.

You're already doing what he was suggesting anyway - storing your logs somewhere other than your application database.
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Great job! Can you add "telecommuting okay" filter?
You have to do the latter. If you just switch without making any noise, then the company just sees you as percentage of users using the competitor's product. Not very meaningful.

You have to write a short letter saying why you once used <product> or refused to purchase <product> because of <reason>.
Can most hn participants abstain from commenting on the law unless they actually have real knowledge of it, please?

It is so complex. I'm blown away daily with the knowledge of the hn community, it runs so deep. And everyone seems like a genius because they only comment seemingly on what they know.

Yet everyone seems to think they know the law. On the surface programming and the law seem so similar, yet they are so disparate. So, so far apart.

Ask an attorney what determinalistic is, and you'll probablly find a blank. Ask a programmer, and they think what is the law is the law if it maybe sort of fits part of what they heard about the law.
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I'm not sure you checked the definition of amateur in that dictionary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_ought_problem
http://thesaurus.com/browse/amateur
> being compensated in accordance with the value they're generating.

I think the above phrase is the key to understanding "per-day" vs "per-hour" billing thinking.

I suspect most developers don't think in terms of value they're generating--partly because they don't know the value they are generating.

It's easier to think that you're billing based on "how long I'm sitting in front of the computer typing" rather than "how much value I'm generating" because then you don't need to think about how much value you are generating.

From a client's point of view, they're never paying for you to sit in front of a computer, they're paying for the value you're providing to them.

I suspect part of the issue is that "per-day" still seems like a measure of time not a measure of value.
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Being "locked in" to an opensource database doesn't strike me as some kind of unbearable death trap.
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I have heard this argument over and over again.

As a heavy plugin user who routinely connects to machines without the plugins, it is not an issue for me at all. And I learned vim while using tons of plugins. But obviously if you are depending heavily on something like Cream (which makes its behavior more like gedit or something, insert mode all the time) you are going to have a tough time adjusting. Very few plugins change vim's behavior in that kind of fundamental way, however.

Life is short. Use the plugins you want to use.
This is the iPad version is it not ?

Do you have the right user agent set for your user agent.
They're complex transactions. Inserts against dozens of tables, selects from dozens of tables. We're not talking about glorified KV lookups here.
Not many plugins make it an unfamiliar editor. Actually, reconfigurations of core vim are more likely to cause that kind of frustration (e.g. if you change vim to use Ctrl-V for paste instead of blockwise visual mode). This is so easy to fix.

Getting your dotfiles in git once didn't seem necessary to me - and indeed you can get by just fine - but god it is nice not to have to redo any configs and have my setup always ratcheting forward because I don't keep losing things or not having them.
Why you would want to advertise this to the rest of the world is beyond me. You will get blacklisted. Soon.
Fails in IE9, Firefox 12, Opera 11.62.

Looks different in Chrome 18 and Safari 5.1.5 (not sure which one is correct).
Antitrust laws regulate anti-competitive behavior. Coercive monopolies are simply one of the forms this behavior may take. It's possible to run afoul of antitrust laws without having a monopoly, and it's also possible to have a monopoly without running afoul of antitrust laws.
I find that Vimscript tends to be faster than the other languages in many cases, for one reason.

But probably the #1 reason to write a plugin in it is that your users don't have to run some flaky Makefile/Rakefile or install system dependencies in order to use your plugin.

This is most of the reason I jumped ship from Command-T to Ctrl-P as soon as it came out.

I will concede that Vimscript looks grody and I wouldn't write non-editor software in it, but it is really a DSL for configuring an editor on the fly, works great for that and doesn't really hold a huge number of shocks for someone who can handle things in the range of C, bash, etc.
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it is 1611 if you count transitions of individual digits (i.e.: 8:59 -> 9:00 is three transitions because 3 digits changes)

I personally consider it to be 1440 transitions with some transitions involving multiple digits (and hence harder to do) but arguments can be made for both ways of counting.
Ansca Mobile's Corona developer tools are similar to Moai. Corona uses Lua (including a simulator and debugger) and can publish iOS and Android apps.

http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/
The school (i.e. ENS Lyon), honestly I understand that it's there, but the high school and prep school? Probably not necessary. (even if it's Louis Legrand… :) )

To be fair with France, I would be surprised if Stanford grads don't mention it on their resumes even years after their graduated.

And to be fair with French schools, it seems to me that they're overall less elitists than US colleges, especially by the simple fact that they don't cost $20-50k a year. (thinking of colleges like Stanford, not State universities) The job market after graduation is certainly elitist in the sense that grads from the better schools will often be preferred just because of their diploma, but the schools themselves are for the most part open to anybody who can rank well at the exams. (disclosure: I'm from one of these "elite schools", but I certainly don't get to "enjoy" it as much because I live in the US. Meaning I doubt employers have any idea what school this is)
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Google's knol is over
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I reject Apple and its products.
They should have the server or client send a traceroute with the data it sends when it logs a connection for more accurate mapping!
That only means that if you're a developer, Apple's App Store is a monopoly since that's where the people are that pay for apps. "Just go elsewhere" doesn't work because they can't make money there, like Netscape did have Unix and Sun CDE versions but they were of no consequence compared to the Windows one.
Curiously, the big news on kickstarter in Dec 2010 was also a watch, also for an apple product: TikTok for the iPod Nano http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...

I wondered if apple might seize this, but they didn't. In fact, you can now buy TikTok via Apple. http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6100ZM/A (and other wristbands). I reckon Apple carefully considered watch form-factors many years ago - they are not surprised, and 7 or 10 or 20 million revenue is riches to us but rounding-error to them. Either, they've dismissed it entirely; or they are waiting for some tech threshold to be crossed. In short, they have other fish to fry.

However... they don't like alternative appstores.
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FWIW, here is the HN link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495336
The book is out of print :(
FreeBSD is the one you should run. It has the best performance and hardware/software compatibility of the three. It's the easiest to get off the ground with for a beginner as well, so it's also a good starting point.

NetBSD is the one whose source you should study. The emphasis is on correctness and portability. The book Code Reading by Diomidis Spinellis used mainly examples from NetBSD even though he is a FreeBSD developer, because (he implies) the code is easier to read.

OpenBSD forked first and developed a reason to exist second; its storied past is really quite an interesting read, but won't leave you feeling like it is being developed by the greatest minds in security for exactly that purpose. I think its secure reputation is more fiat than fact and I'd like to see recent benchmarks substantiating the notion that it is better to run on routers and whatnot. I have no use for it.
> A big problem is that Git has no concept of what Perforce calls "exclusive checkout" where only one person can claim and file and work on it. That's a deal breaker for most. Communication is hard. Make it apparent that someone has claimed a file.

Is this a problem particularly in the games industry for some reason? Because in "regular" development, people always think it'll be a problem before they try it. Turns out not to be, especially with the great merge support you get from git.

I could see it being an issue for binaries though. If anything, I'd expect people to balk at having to clone the entire history of large binary files, which don't typically delta-compress very well.
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One of the first bosses (entrepreneurs) I ever worked for used to pride himself on how "well balanced" his work and life were (and that of those of his early partners as well). They'd roll up about noon and were out buy 4:30.

That all changed once they hired their first devs, for actual money. Once he was paying "$5000 per month for you" you damn well better be in by 9 and stay till 6.

I wonder how their culture will change when they start paying big bucks for real employees.
This reminds me of the last time a tech demo got posted to HN and somebody pitched a fit because the bare-bones demo didn't work in NCSA Mosaic.

It's just a demo, people. Not production, not even beta, not even a product — a demo. Don't be haters.
Gerrit (http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/) addresses some of the same problem space and comes with an awesome code review system. It also has one of the world's strangest access control systems. But it works and it's free, and the code review makes it all worth it.
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Seeing as pair.com has been around as a very popular/huge web host since the mid 90's, they're never going to get their titular domain...
Like the shell, the hierarchical filesystem is valuable as a 'maintenance hatch' for power users and administrators. If it is too much underemphasized then it will suck to work with. Similarly it is very valuable for the functionality you get in a GUI to be exposed at a lower API level and for the GUI to use that API, rather than for APIs to be locked up in GUIs which are incredibly awkward to wrap or automate.
>It's protecting customers, not Apple.

What? It's specifically set up to protect Apple's cut of 30% and to prevent other app stores from charging less.

Lets say you price a service at $14/mo. Apple takes 30% so you price it at $20/mo. Apple takes $6/mo. Windows 8 ap store takes zero if you roll your own in app mechanism, but you can't charge Windows 8 users only $14/mo. You have to charge them $20/mo if you want to stay in the iOS App store.

How is Windows 8 users being forced to pay $20/mo instead of receiving a benefit from their platform competing, protect Apple customers?
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Racist, at least by typically objectivist measures
For most of the 90s I remember hearing how Linux was so stupid because it was derivative and behind the times and never innovated.

Now whenever there is an innovation, it is reviled and everyone asks for the interface which looked roughly like Windows 95.

So I guess they listened to the wrong messages.
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Sort of saddens me,these guys came to pick-up where Etherpad guys left and change the online writing. And after first release there was no major update.
I suspect that the people who approve what Linus says on this matter are the people who already agree with what he says on this matter. Already having this kind of opinion, it feels good for some smart high-profile to say it in an articulate way.

It's true that liking Gnome and/or Unity seems to have a kind of stigma these days.
Moai's hosting services are an interesting differentiator (compared to Unity and Corona). I was previously waiting for Unity or Corona to partner with someone like Parse but Moai appears to provide a good offering specific to the social x mobile type games (ie DrawSomething).
>It's actually more simple: they're protecting their own users from being ripped off, by being charged a premium because they're iOS users

Apple is trying to protect their own users from being ripped off by Apple? That's some _really_ twisted logic there.

That rule is in place to safeguard their 30% cut. I don't see how the user benefits from having to pay 30% extra instead of getting a 30% discount on the same supplier's website instead of paying Apple the tax.