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People put misspellings into their dictionaries. They don't know how to remove the misspelling. Thus, there's no red[1] squiggly line telling them there's an error.

[1] Who chose red / green? I'm not colour blind, but I think these are not a good choice. Especially since the squiggles are the same - at least make the shapes different.
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> general lack of solid applied computer science

Programming is becoming a huge part of everyone's lives. Languages that ease the learning of CS and lower the barriers to entry are very welcome. And some of them also happen to be great business tools.
I think the question is how many people actually got in from no-idea.

If a bunch of people submitted apps, thought about entrepreneurship, and 5-10 groups or individuals got interviews, thought more about entrepreneurship, and some (or none) got into YC, I don't see how this really changes things.

In fact, I think we'd all win from 10-18 year olds learning more about entrepreneurship (at least as an option), so they could steer their careers toward it -- by working on independent projects, by working for great companies (like facebook) where they can learn and meet cofounders, etc.

I agree that working for a company like Facebook is probably a better purely-financial decision than starting a startup, for a lot of of people, but I'd rather do a startup anyway.
Aren't most providers going to be handing out /64's? I know Comcast is working on that at the moment!
> Some people love the iPhone and that is fine- to each his own. I just refuse to believe that the love affair is based on anything other than marketing.

I would argue that the iPhone and indeed most Apple products embody a "Quality without a name" as originally described by Christopher Alexander in a "A timeless way of building" http://www.munnecke.com/islands/qwan.htm . Very few other companies are able to achieve this. I believe that it is for this reason that people develop a greater emotional attachment to Apple products then the products of companies like Samsung. For example Apple products generally feel great to hold and touch while the same cant be said of Samsung's products.
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It's a really uninteresting phone from a hardware viewpoint (not that anyone should have been expecting anything exciting). It's a tiny incremental improvement over the Galaxy Nexus (more cores, slightly better camera, slightly larger battery, etc). It's not at all clear it's an improvement over the HTC One X.

So what's there for people to get excited over? All of the new crapware Samsung are piling on?
> How many successful entrepreneurs have you heard of without ideas, just totally empty heads and whole bunch of hustle?

We'll find out after this next YC round. Besides, I think the point is that pg is looking for people that are the antithesis of empty heads. Startup ideas mutate, and if you can find driven people with fertile minds and place them in a setting where product ideas can be brainstormed and hashed out with the guidance of the YC team, then they stand a much better chance of success then the typical entrepreneur who might try this on their own.
Saving memory still matters if you are trying to fit something into cache - although the items you are storing in the list would have to be pretty small if the extra pointer mattered
It's less ugly. It's simpler.
> Samsung is for real and is developing devices that are at least as good as Apple in many ways and they deserve equal consideration,

iPhone/iPad's Processor, Display and few other parts are made by Samsung at the moment. So yes, they make 'stuffs' at least as good Apple.
I am actually really curious to know more details about what you do.

For example:

1) Are you a developer? If so, do you ever find yourself missing the knowledge about low-level computer science? Let's say, how operating systems and filesystems are built under the covers, the internals of database systems, various algorithms that help solve problems quicker, etc. Do you see yourself working on problems that require this sort of knowledge in the future?

2) Are you a designer? If so, do you find yourself missing knowledge about various theories of UX that you wouldn't know even exist unless you'd learn them from a professor? I am not a designer, so I can't speak the vocabulary, but I am sure there's a significant amount of theoretical knowledge in the field that is not useful right away; so, I wonder, do you ever come to a point where you actually need that kind of knowledge?

Thanks.
I've never used git in-the-large, which may be why I don't understand:

Why must some other library/module be part of my project? Why not reference and maintain the external lib/mod externally? We've been doing that for decades. It seems a solved problem.

Bringing an external library within the fold of your project feels like unnecessary coupling.
Ok, so the timing on this is really amazing. Techcrunch, reporting on Facebook's S1, mentioned that Yahoo! has suggested another 12 patents they may try to throw against Facebook and their Open Compute project. The Yahoo! letter is here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/92280387/TechCrunch-Letter-From-Ya... and the source of many of these patents? Inktomi!

Is that crazy or what?
MacRuby is probably a decent place to start. While it won't mirror a true RubyMotion environment, it should be close enough to get a feel for what you're in for.
I've just got to say that James is great guy. I run into him constantly (usually at hackathons in the bay area). Smart guy.
That's not the other side of the argument, that's Florian's ridiculous assessment that he wrote before the Judge had even read the EU opinion and asked about it specifically in the linked list of questions. Florian's argument relies on his assumption that Alsup doesn't want to be "innovative" with the law, so therefore he must base it on Johnson, which isn't anything like the ironclad logic he's presenting it as.

While he likely will want to avoid wandering into new territories, it's been 23 years since Johnson, and many cases (including the ones listed in the linked groklaw article) have touched on very similar areas of IP law. A smoking gun case on APIs is not necessary for there to be applicable precedent.

Meanwhile, EU court decisions certainly do indirectly influence judgements in the US, especially on tricky areas with very little precedent. At the very least, in this case it gave Alsup another judge's perspective. The EU does have much more specific laws governing copyright here, but if you read the actual opinion or anything about it (instead of Florian's weird Fox News style mention of it), it goes into specifically why APIs should not be copyrightable and the chilling effects allowing otherwise would cause.

The idea that this is a matching game, "find the most similar court case and repeat the verdict" is, again, ridiculous.

Finally, stop registering new accounts just to quote Florian at us.
"have grown increasingly weary of [..] rock star rants"

That's funny, because to me it seems you've taken a few of them at their word about what "the Ruby community" is like (or even the existence of a singular one in the first place).
Don't get me wrong - I love the 'no idea' concept and hope it works out, and I love the fact that YC is ballsy enough to experiment and innovate. They key here, though, is that ideas still matter. YC will simply help generate and execute those ideas.
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Ever had an upstream gitsubmodule move or shut down? I can't go back 6 months in my SCM and rebuild exactly what I had because the repo is gone now. This is bad and against the concept of having an SCM in the first place.

There is a horrible habit of people forking projects on github just so their submodule stay stable. It's broken.
Because you screw over people who are just as if not more able than you to do the work but who simply aren't out of control liars.
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No, there would not have been other rovers on Mars in the meantime. There were no rovers in development between MER (Spirit and Opportunity) and MSL (which is now en route to Mars).

There's a lot riding on MSL landing safely, because there's nothing solid after MSL right now. There used to be a 2018 rover, but it was recently cancelled.
I love their technology, but don't like their design either. I've read some of their recent design blog post, and I'm getting a vibe that they think they're to good for feedback.

The reality is that their page design is more driven by look at how clean my design is rather than let's make it easier for people to quickly glance and pick most interesting content in the list.
Dependency control it is a solved problem. Which is why SVN has externals, Hg has hgsubs, and Git has submodules and now subtrees. This isn't a git-in-the-large problem, it's an almost-any-nontrivial-project problem. It only seems unnecessary 'till you've had it and tried to live without it.

Bringing other libraries into my project is beneficial because then my build system is able to wrangle those just as easily as my code. (And it's also simply useful in the case where I've written both modules but maintain a separation for whatever reason--one is an open-source project and the other is not, whatever--to be able to make changes to one from within the other, run the tests for the submodule, and push it up to staging or upstream, without having to leave my current project.)
If you're the type of startup that expects to have big companies for clients, they may dictate certain minimum requirements.
There is something about this that I really don't like. Usually we would reasonably expect one interview to be one article, it feels like they are trying to extract every possible page view and search engine ranking. Completely contrary to Sarahs started aims when it started.
I thought this rhetorical style sounded familiar. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844851

I don't think many here are arguing that Ruby is particularly interesting technology-wise. Amongst languages, well, it isn't particularly. But the baseless FUD about the "culture" or the "community" is unnecessary.
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Yes exactly.

After you have divided your project into independent modules you have agreed that the changes in these modules are going to have minimal impact on each other, then what exactly is the point of merging the history of all those changes?.In my use case that would actually create a bigger mess.

Now I think this could perhaps be useful if there are modules that I have forked from elsewhere and the fork is going to be used in my project only.Although even then I dont see any downside of using submodules.

The downside of submodules is lack of good commands .For example a command to check out a different branch of each of my submodules - the branch which is used in this project.This could be done using the -for-each tag but its not trivial.

EDIT:In this thread zbowling makes a great argument against submodules.

There is a horrible habit of people forking projects on github just so their submodule stay stable
Does every single part of the standard library need to be rewritten "for humans" (read: in a certain style)? It seems that there are really better and worse cases for doing this.
Yes, but a phone is more than just a bag of loose parts. Treating it that way neglects some very important aspects, including software, physical design, the catalog of third-party applications available, etc. Samsung is way behind Apple in many of those aspects.
Very interesting. You should put this on the SO question.
"no idea" means "no idea at the time we apply"
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I know some incredibly intelligent people who chose not to go to college after high school. But they ended up coming back in their 30's because they realized you needed a degree to move up the hierarchy.

Unless you're dealing with a rapidly scaling venture (like Facebook or Microsoft) I would definitely advise staying in school to get that degree.
2022? 2030? :-(

While I'm really glad they do it and go there, I am not sure if this is the right way. If anything was to go wrong, then the complete mission is lost. And that would be terrible considering the timeframe of 20 years.

ESA should follow the SpaceX approach of sending several "mass produced" spacecrafts, or at least follow the Mars mission modell and send two. That was also done in the 70s with Voyager and others.
Most people don't look farther than the first 3 results, so what comes after that isn't very high priority. Might be the reason some more specific/obscure queries on google return terrible results :)
"Even VBA can be written clearly and works well."

And VBA has a surprisingly great development environment.
I think the negativity towards it arises from it being accessible to non-programmers. The VBA in the SO post is beautiful work, however.
>There is a horrible habit of people forking projects on github just so their submodule stay stable. It's broken.

Yes I do this and I hate doing it!
If you are not smart enough, it would be smart to stay in school few more years and get the badge. It would be really dumb to be dumb and also not go to school. Not to say, smart people do stay in school, but I would think that's not for the badges.
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Most people don't need more than 4G per process so I wish stuff like the linux x32 abi became standard. All the extra registers without the huge pointers. Would be handy for squeezing more into a cheap VPS. Not to mention the cpu cache.
i dropped out after deciding that there was no way id be able to afford the debt that i would be going into after 4 years of college.

I got a job as a artist working at a few different game companies then went to work on a movie for disney. i turned into a programmer about three years ago.

making games was more fun than making movies, by far.

Each new job position has been through referral by peers. been at this since atari in `93, I've never been asked about a college degree once.

got a house, a cool little machine shop, 3d printer, in san francisco... not bad, not bad at all.
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It's a shame there are so many legal costs and constraints to applying for patents; we badly need a patent equivalent to copyleft.
It doesn't seem that a "no idea" entrepreneur at YCombinator is that much different than "entrepreneur-in-residence" position at other venture funds.
opera? wow that "sounds" cool.
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heh, love how the revenue out of America is WAY higher than that of Europe even though there are more active users in Europe.
Yes these problems suck.

Sometimes I have deleted my entire repository and cloned it again to update the submodules just because I changed the .gitmodules file.

Note: This actually takes less commands than messing around with .git/config.
"goofy NASA stuff"? This isn't coming across as well-informed.

There's a lot of engineering that goes in to all these spacecraft. The goals are usually scientific (except for tech. demonstrations), but the means are highly coupled to engineering advances -- new sensors, materials, algorithms.
I've wanted this for ages, especially now that I do everything with a trackpad right below the keyboard. (I wish I was a better Cocoa dev.)
A largely unsuccessful entrepreneur's 2 cents: The idea is what you fight for. Even if you run out of money, you still believe in the idea to keep moving and eventually (maybe) succeed. The idea is your child, she may grow and become a musician instead of doctor that you wanted, but she is still your child. I am not sure how that applies when "no idea" teams just take duty of someone else's child.
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I will surely look forward to a laptop that comes with SSD. Let me see if it is still available.
What is your concern @ the chicklet keyboard? I thought they were the best keyboard designs. The slightly inward keys are found nicely by our fingers.
I had to do fuzzy string matching for car brand names, Two character pair matching tended to work best.

Here is a gist of the code in ruby if anybody wants to steal it. I stole it from somewhere else and thus you have the history of programming.

https://gist.github.com/1038659
This already happened (not the biggest of projects, but still). The guy took $80k after asking for $6k, and completely blew it. One year later and he is still "doing research" and hints at not having any money left.
Ок. There are bugs in the runtime, update and move on, drama queens.
The qwerty keyboard was designed to prevent the jamming of metallic parts of a typewriter. Surely it's time to put this metaphor behind us? People have migrated easily from typewriters to computer keyboards, and from pianos to synthesizers (depending on the synthesizer) but neither metaphor works effectively for a touch screen. A touch screen is unable to provide the necessary physical feedback to let the instrument 'flow'. Even using the finger as a cursor doesn't work anywhere near as well as a mouse or a stylus when editing text.

Touch devices require a breakthrough in text input if they are ever to become useful for creative output of large chunks of text. We all learned to SMS using a 12 button mobile phone pad in the '90s, people have spent months and years learning vim and emacs (despite their lack of intuitivity, consistency and metaphor), why can't we get away from qwerty keyboards today?

I don't have any suggestions, but people must be coming up with better non-qwerty ideas all the time. Where are they?
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I really never got it.
I had a Nexus One for one and a half years and now a Galaxy Nexus since launch.
The pentile display never bothered me, i never knew there was a difference until i came across those articles, stating how bad Pentile looks.

Bullshit, really. It doesn't matter _in real life_.

I guess the criticsm only comes from people scared by those i-hold-a-microscope-on-the-display "tests". I very rarely use a microscope on my mobile.
> There is a horrible habit of people forking
> projects on github just so their submodule
> stay stable. It's broken.

People are forking projects on github in that way because it's a quick, easy, cheap way to create a mirror/hosted copy of the repository they want to use.

I don't see how this is an example of how git-submodule is broken. If you want to use someone else's code, that is under someone else's control in your repository without creating your own backup of said code, then you're the one taking the risk by not creating said backup.

If the git-submodule is mission-critical to you then you should either:

1. Always keep a separate mirror of the 3rd party repo.

or

2. Mirror the 3rd party repo to a hosted location, so that your submodule can point to the mirror instead of the source (basically creating a caching layer under your control).

This is no different than the guy that keeps all of his email in Gmail, then complains because Google shut down his account that 'email is broken' because it's possible for this to happen.
I hope whoever posted that answer doesn't get shitcanned for posting sensitive information/their company's intellectual property/whatever to a public forum.
Objective C classes and methods are designed to be long and mostly typed by Xcode's autocomplete. With RubyMotion, I will end up typing out all those verbose methods, which I don't know if it's something I feel too big about.

The example author made here feels like I will end up typing about twice as much with RubyMotion than objective C.

Ruby:
@window = UIWindow.alloc.initWithFrame(UIScreen.mainScreen.bounds)
@window.makeKeyAndVisible

Objective C:
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
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This is insightful and well-informed.

There are also a lot of Earth-orbiting instruments that help us understand weather and climate (too many to list; way beyond taking Landsat-style pictures), the recent lunar missions (LRO, GRAIL), several solar missions (Stereo, SDO), and cosmology/astrophysics (Planck, Spitzer, Chandra).
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How are there 500 million users but only 125million friendships? Am I missing something?
One of the weirdest, but oft repeated, "criticisms" I hear of Ruby is how much "weird punctuation" it uses. A groundless claim compared to most other languages, though, as this snippet illustrates.
"drowning in debt"? Nothing changed from ten years ago, except for Greece. And everybody knew that, when they entered the Euro, they were not ready and that some major crisis would happen down the road. Now they have to transform their society into a firstworld country, that's hard, but long-term very beneficial. All going well, so far.

But I agree that the EU space program should follow the US example of privatizing standard stuff. But in Europe we have the problem that nations are still stupidly putting their national interests over the common European interest. EADS is one result of that sort of behavior. Imagin the European version of SpaceX was for example French: all other large countries, especially the UK and Germany, would want production facilities too. A innovative small company would die soon, crushed by political pressure.