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[You were down in the grey, so I upvoted you, not because I necessarily agree with you but because your comment is still contributing to HN--even if it might be somewhat contrarian. :)]

While I agree that being an introvert is not a bad thing, I don't think it's unreasonable for a person to want to change some aspect of their approach to life if they see a benefit in doing so.

I would caution against taking a pure "your work will speak for you" approach. If I have the most amazing programming language/web framework/cold fusion reactor sitting in my house but I tell no one then my work is not going to speak for me. It's just going to sit there generating cheap energy.

In order for your work to speak for you someone needs to be listening.

Social skills are a force multiplier: the more your work is promoted, to the right people, the bigger impact it will have. Either you do the promotion yourself or you meet someone who will do the promotion for you...

And this comes from an Introverted New Zealander so I know of what I speak. :)

As a final example:

Do you know one of my forms of passive income? I would say, probably not.

As an introvert I'd leave it at that.

But as an introvert who has learned people have to know something exists before they can hear what it says...

You should totally listen to what The Bright Bunny has to say:

The Bright Bunny.

A little craft. A little electronics.

A whole lot of awwwwww! <3

(http://thebrightbunny.com/)
I have seen test rigs where the button switches are in series with an LED - the LED lights essentially instantly, and it is very obvious on-camera when that circuit is closed.
You mean the same line that has been in place for nearly 2 years ?

Pretty sure most people don't care.
It also says a lot about you that you posted this whilst having a fundamental lack of knowledge about the situation.

Did you even read what you linked to ?
Serious question: If Oracle wins their lawsuit and the court rules that APIs are indeed patentable, what prevents the ReactOS team from being sued into oblivion by Microsoft?
The last successful ubuntu upgrade I did was 10.04 (9.10 on my laptop), I think. 10.04 - 11.10 all broke (on multiple computers, in different ways) eventually requiring a liveboot and significant skill. (I'm now running arch, with significantly better results - but not perfect.)

I've never had an openbsd upgrade break, even when I do it the ninja way (which I often do, being a reckless fool).

Despite the longer setup time, I've found that openbsd servers end up needing far less maintenance than any others. It works well as a "fire-and-forget" operating system, a quality that seems to be lacking among the larger players.

(EDIT: not disagreeing that apt-get, yum, and pacman/yaourt are nice. Just talking about how awesome OpenBSD is.)
Sure. If you wanted to take this further, a source linked from DOJ's website:

http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/466/2/

Jefferson Parish Hosp. Dist. v. Hyde

(b) No tying arrangement can exist here unless there is a sufficient
demand for the purchase of anesthesiological services separate from
hospital services to identify a distinct product market in which it is
efficient to offer anesthesiological services separately from hospital
services. The fact that the exclusive contract requires purchase of
two services that would otherwise be purchased separately does not
make the contract illegal. Only if patients are forced to purchase the
contracting firm's services as a result of the hospital's market power
would the arrangement have anticompetitive consequences. If no forcing
is present, patients are free to enter a competing hospital and to use
another anesthesiologist instead of the firm.

Obviously, substitute "iPhone" for "Jefferson Parish Hospital", "iCoud" for bundled "anesthesiological services", and "Android" for "competing hospital" that customers are "free to enter".
"Awesome", yes. It's also going to take about an hour of my full concentration to accomplish. That's also not something I can say about apt-get...
Apple has significant market share. They just don't have anything close to a monopoly.
Additionally, there may be an argument for locality here. If every time you're serving an image, you need to look up a bunch of metadata for it, you can benefit from storing it in the same place. Then it's a matter of whether you rather encode the metadata in the image and store it as a file, or encode the image in the metadata and store it as a database entry.

Now if you throw in having to do a little bit of post-processing based on various conditions, then the scales start to tip.
THIS version does. And a NEW version doesn't.

There is no specific probelem with Dropbox.
I actually rather like Wikipedia's page on the three - particularly the matrices of different options for the different BSDs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_sys...
Some info on on-the-fly compilation:

https://github.com/harrah/xsbt/wiki/Triggered-Execution

http://cookbook.liftweb.net/Developing+using+a+text+editor.h...

https://github.com/liftstack/lift24-s29-blank.g8#readme (still a work in progress, not debugged, but you can test the sbt "~ compile" continuous compilation directive)
Try implementing some of the data structures and throw some toy problems at them. That's a really good way to get a feel for them. I've done that with AI algorithms, and I found that it really helps solidify the concepts because sometimes the results don't make sense and I have to figure out "why". Implementing the algorithms forces you to do a deep dive, but at a pace that hopefully won't fry your brain. Don't overlook the papers that the author linked to at the bottom if the article.

Edited to fix my phone's auto-corrections.
The need to have Wikipedia in search engine results is perplexing. Why not just search Wikiepdia? It is certainly not slower. They even provide SSL.

Is it the lack of full text search on Wikipedia?

I've experimented with building a full-text search for Wikipedia. But so much of the content is just copied verbatim from the sites listed in the References and External Links, it seems not worth the effort.
How long till Google buys Xamarin?
Angry Birds uses C++ and Lua. Haven't looked at Bubble Bobble.

Not saying you COULDN'T write games in other languages. MineCraft is written in Java, for instance. But my statement still predominantly holds true: Most serious game developers use C++, and many use Lua.

For some definitions of serious, anyway. I guess I mean "ones that have been doing it for any length of time professionally." Or maybe I just mean "almost every one I know." Something like that anyway.
That's a weird example to use, since US cable franchises are in fact usually monopolies.
Ask HN: Socialcam spamming Facebook newsfeeds and growing virally as a result?
So I clicked play on a social cam video somebody had watched on my feed. Here is the link I clicked on:

http://bit.ly/IsnK8v

as this link appeared in my feed. The link took me to socialcam's website where I could watch the video. As soon as I was done watching the video I could see the link posted on my feed as me having watched and shared the video, which I explicitly never chose to. Also, I started getting comments on that shared link as well from people.

I really really do not like apps using underhanded techniques to go forth with their viral agendas. If I really wanted to share this video, than I WOULD HAVE. That is what a like/share is, isn't it? What do you guys think? Should this be allowed. I am also willing to bet that, this is one of the reasons for their viral growth in the past couple of weeks.
In my opinion the best way to contribute to ReactOS is by buying a copy of Crossover Office or Crossover Games. Besides actually getting something immediately useful, you're directly contributing to the development of WINE. ReactOS uses WINE for most of its non-kernel code.
Awesome! I just filed a few bugs with patches that let it build out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. There didn't seem to be much in this space outside of levmar ( http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/levmar/ ); levmar is great for what it does, but some friendly competition is most welcome from my perspective.

It's really surprising how broadly applicable non-linear least squares is.
I have no idea how it appears to other people but my personal approach is to not say my name or ask for names when I first meet a person.

Unless you have developed the skill to remember names, you're most likely going to forget it in a second--and then you just have to ask for it again later!

Instead, I prefer to have a great conversation with someone and then ask them for their name once I have something to which I can attach it.

I find this reduces the pressure/anxiety at the beginning of a conversation as I can focus on what the person is saying instead of trying to memorise their name.

Well, it's been great talking about succeeding in social situations as an introvert. By the way, I'm Philip, what's your name..?
Microsoft got hauled through the courts and turned into the EU's personal cash-register for doing similar things in 'their town'.
You should look up what "linkbait" actually means. A forum discussion between developers about a problem using the Dropbox SDK in the iOS app store assuredly does not qualify.
It sounds like the in app purchasing rules are not that well established if they can arbitrarily be applied to some n-depth linking to a spot on the web where the user can make a purchase. They would kind of have to reject any app that has the ability to open a link to Safari. Once in Safari (which technically means you are no longer "in app") you can browse anywhere and make a purchase. So maybe it is not an antitrust issue and just an anti-user issue.
You are implying that your opponent's knowledge of antitrust law is limited to a "nerdly" definition he has read on Wikipedia. Perhaps it was not your intention, but that's how it came off to me.
Do any of the readers on this thread work at Apple? I'd love to have you chime in. The silence is deafening...
So, if there was an addon that bundled all these !bang pass throughs as search keywords and worked cross browser would you still use ddg for this?

I'm going to guess "yes" but perhaps for others it would be no?

I'm not saying this just to be argumentative (honest!). Just that when I tried DDG as my search provider before (which was a while back now) I found that !bang looked like a great idea but just made searches slower for me. But then I've got quite a few years of established search keywords.
I believe the concern is that without ECMA/ISO standardization, there's nothing to stop MS from suing Xamarin/Mono should they decide to back away from an open language specification.
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My argument isn't that such a definition of Sherman Act violations is "nerdly". It's that it's wrong. "Nerdly" is just color commentary. And, for what it's worth: it's from one nerd to another.

Happy to clear that up for you.
Correction to market-first step 04: Determine if the needs/desires are significant enough and the solution is worth committing to, then scrap or build idea.

Another is the customer-first approach, perhaps a layer higher than market-first approach. That is, think of who you'd like to have as a customer, then find what problems these people have that need solving.
All that Ubuntu-baiting in the post makes this seems like yet another totally useless but demo-friendly feature used to lobby for a disruptive new way of doing things. I'm not quite sure yet of what good systemd is supposed to do besides breaking almost two decades of muscle memory on how to manage services. But this post does not fill me with hope of there being any tangible real world benefit.

It's not unlike pulseaudio with all the imaginary benefits that might be relevant once in a lifetime, which in no way balanced out the continuing inconvenience and pain that it's caused in practice.
The best fundraising you can do is from your customers! You retain more equity and more control. And by the way, customer revenues is the only way to sustain a real business over time. Might as well get good at it early-on.
Immune for now anyway. If we reach a point at which machines can reach or exceed human intelligence, we will find ourselves replaced there too. So far it seems that point is well ahead in the future though, as AI is a challenging field.
The maintenance contract is another $10 for the next year (assuming you're still < 5 people). And you get software updates during that period. It's not particularly devious.
Blackberry is more J2ME-ish and Android is more J2SE-ish. It's possible to share engine code (I've done it) -- you'd still have to do custom UI code for each.
I don't understand why people think this is new.

I created a website that announced the launch of a small mobile app for both iOS and Android platforms. I was told by Apple that my app would not be approved as long as I had links to competitors (i.e. Android) on the web site.
This got me thinking, I see this pattern a lot on Hacker News, where somebody important introduces themselves and then people engage in really thoughtful questions and answers. I would like to see something of this sort, but rather systematic, maybe a Answer HN type of thing? (like, Ask HN:)
The only issue would be how to decide if one should (or good enough to) provide this service, in that case probably just answer to public demand?
Your definition of 'enterprise' might be different to mine. I'm thinking of SAP and PeopleSoft. And I think the crappy schema arises (sometimes) from not wanting to use any proprietary DDL features.
Of course, definitely a lot of money. We funded using cash from doing client work part-time.
"Social" is here to stay, because it's baked into what it means to be human. "Social software" in its current form will hopefully be replaced by stuff that's much better, since FB/G+ etc still do a piss-poor job of capturing the richness of human social relations and activity. But whatever happens, expect technology and social behavior to be more entertwined, not less.
It doesn't matter if cars are powered by pixie dust and traffic controlled by oracles; using a 2500 pound, six-by-12 foot box to transport 1-2 humans plus cargo is inefficient and wasteful of both energy and space.
Is anyone going to short this? With an IPO of this size, that sounds like the beginning of a story that ends with "and then, in shame, he jumped from his 15th story window."

No matter what you think of its long-term performance potential, I can't understand how anyone would bet against Facebook in the first few weeks.
In light of your recent rantings about "nerds"[1] and the law, it's hard to see your post as anything other than a continuation of your angry attacks on anyone who dares speak on the subject of the laws governing our hypothetically-democratic society. Your authoritarianism has degenerated into simple mockery. Even when you are right (which I think you largely are on this matter), you no longer contribute anything of use because any meaningful content is wrapped in an opaque blanket of anger and hostility.

[1] I do not consider myself a "nerd", by the way, nor do many other people that you probably seek to apply that label to. Some of us find it quite insulting. Call yourself whatever you want, but speak only for yourself.
We managed to get some nice launch press and a lot of organic word of mouth/referrals.
Simplicity Matters By Rich Hickey (Keynote at RailsConf 2012)
Which packages? I'm curious, because unless you're trying to work in Python 2 and 3 at the same time, I can't think of any packages which don't support 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7. And I've been programming in Python about 10 years or so. Unless you're going super-bleeding-edge, it shouldn't be a problem.
I'm fairly sure that a comment on this thread by an Apple employee would result in a pretty quick firing. It's a pretty tight ship over there.
Practice. (Ugh, how helpful... :) )

For me, travelling outside my city and country lead to the biggest improvement in obtaining the courage of which you seek.

It boiled down to putting myself in a situation where I could go, "What's the worst that could happen? I'll probably never meet these people again in my life, so, so what if they end up thinking I'm an idiot?".

Of course that's ignoring the risk of viral video and retweeting which weren't really an issue back then. :D

The interesting result was that, if, say, I was in a group and asked what I worried might be a stupid question, but asked anyway, I'd have people come up to me after who would say "Hey, thanks so much for asking, I wondered the same thing, but was too worried/shy to ask".

Then I could revise my self-talk to "Hey, I'm probably not the only person wanting to ask this question, so it's okay for me to do so".

Also, spend less time listening to yourself tell you why you shouldn't. And go ahead.

Start now! Turn to the person nearest you who you don't know and start a conversation. Then come back and tell us how terribly it went and how you would've been better not to have started it.

Or, you know, if it goes well. :)
You could create a new table called Logs2 and use your database's union functionality when querying it. Perhaps even a view to make things a whole lot easier.
You forgot the part where each team is trying to stop the other. That fact changes it from being a mere procedure to being a dynamic system.
Specifically, the Stephenson-Gibson conflict.
For what it is worth... I was not offended. I've a thick skin and enjoy a good debate. Psssssstt... half the time I don't even know much about what I'm talking about... but I usually learn something every time. :)
Err, in the age of directv, dish network, dsl, vdsl, fiber, u-verse, 4g, etc I don't think ye olde cable monopoly is an excuse anymore.
We don't like negative posts around here. We will bury any comment that doesn't make us feel good.
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But in this case, the town is not 90% of the geography. Last i heard Google's town is bigger and there is also RIM Town (mass exodus happening there), a new WP7 town (lots of airport signs) and a few others around.
For what it's worth, Windows 8 App Store will not restrict in-app purchasing like the iOS App Store does.
That wasn't really linking the user to make a purchase, it was somebody following a silly path of links from the initial target to arrive at a place where they could buy something. Maybe it was an honest (if overzealous) call by an app reviewer. Or maybe it was one of Apple's regular and brutal attempts at keeping direct competitors from benefiting from their platform. We don't know yet which, though I guess we'll know soon enough.
Nothing wrong with what Skype did. He made his money. Good for him. The point is that Skype is not magic. It's something that can be replicated, with simplicity and transparency.

I agree, the greed factor is great. And one would imagine some of those with the skill to make a "Skype" might think "Why should I do this for free?" Then you also have the perfectionists, with the skills, who won't attempt to build something that cannot be "perfect". They love to say "It won't work."

Skype is not perfect. And it's very non-transparent. But people are using it.

Should the next Skype be free and open? Is it worth building? I think the answers will become evident going forward. I think communication over the internet is too important to be solely controlled by [insert unflattering description here].

But we shall see.
Apple has a near-monopoly in Tablets right? Doesn't have to be about phones.
Okay, the incremental argument carries no weight. You could do a differential backups of the database.

If you are also doing transaction log backups restoring a file that was deleted is fairly trivial too.
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I have to disagree with the logfiles, I work for a really large domain hosting company so our logs are quite vast, dealing with spam issues can amount to a large amount of time being used just looking for the information you need.

we have greylog in place to help query these logs from our syslog server, it has helped us identify alot of different issues since we have put it in place, not to be rude to the poster but I dont think you have the experience with really big log files and how painful it can be (or how long it can take) when you have to grep through this information by hand, zcating an old compressed log file can take up to ten minutes before you even start seeing data let alone relevant data.
Not to detract from the Mono team's awesome achievements but:

- Microsoft has released a cross-platform CLR ("Rotor"). Win/Mac/BSD I believe.
- C# and the CLR are ECMA specifications.
- A lot of the class libs are definitely not Windows only.
- Microsoft also has Silverlight (CLR) running on Mac, if that counts.

The whole .NET stack, apart from some Windows specific libraries (some COM+ management stuff, Win Forms) were definitely made to be cross-platform.
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Reprinted from a news release at http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2012/darwin-evolution-natu..., but still no actual data.

It would be nice to know what current selection effects actually are; otherwise, it seems like kind of a "well, duh" announcement. After all, everyone knows that some people still have more grandkids than other people do.
Not necessarily. High-performance apps on Android are written in C++ and RenderScript anyhow, not Java/Dalvik.
It's pretty clear from his comment that he used it.

> Someone who's asking for a plain HTML version of a rich desktop style application probably wasn't going to use it in the first place.

That's a very unfortunate comment. In the end the technology is what matters the least in his feedback - odds are if you make the RIA responsive enough, use smart caching, sensible navigation, respect default behaviors, etc, nobody will ask for a "plain HTML" version. It's about the experience and usability.
You’re missing the point of tptacek’s criticism. He’s not trying to mock nerds, but rather to point out that their mental model of how the law works is woefully mismatched to how the law actually works, with a great deal of resulting whining and handwringing that could be avoided if they bothered to learn and think a bit about it. That I’ve seen, there’s been very little anger or ranting coming from his direction, and the label “nerd” is only barely pejorative (if at all) in the context of this forum: hardly a deep insult.

I think maybe this is an example where tone of voice is transferring poorly to internet text, and you’re interpreting his statements to have quite a bit more bite than he intends (or most others are reading)?
To be fair, they didn't open source theirs and make it available for people to play with.
But... there... was? Not too long ago? And it might require action by users of the Dropbox SDK?

I get notifications of security updates for apache. Guess I shouldn't though, because by the time I get any it's no longer a problem with apache. Maybe I should tell my security auditor that?
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And not forgetting, for example, Riak (Luwak), MongoDB (GridFS) or CouchDB (attachments), all of which are intended to hold BLOBs.
Thank you for the bugs and the fixes.
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