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It's hard to fully articulate how wrong this and so many other comments in this thread are.

People have the right to be offended, they however DON'T have the right to not be offended.

Linus is a nice guy, he works well with others and has built some of the most amazing software in the world today. I work on the kernel and other system code on a day to day basis and have participated in threads with Linus before. When you are wrong he tells you so, in a very clear manner that outlines exactly WHY you are wrong.

Sure, he isn't always concise and succinct but that isn't really the point. If he wants to interject a few choice "swear words" to describe how badly you did something that's fine by me. As long has he describes exactly what is wrong and how to fix it.

People need to get a lot less wrapped up in HOW something is said and focus on WHAT is said. The essence of Linus's comments on this pull request can be summarized easily. GitHub's pull/request features are inadequate for kernel goverernance - and as the creator of git and designer of the inbuilt pull-request functionality he thinks this is subjectively retarded.

If you read past any of that and start saying crap like "he could have been more polite" to him then you have obviously missed the point. It's not his (or anyones) job to cater to peoples inability to grow a skin.
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Why not just create a new account and move on? Unless I am missing something.
It might just be someone doing it as a 'job', to supplement their trust fund, or their government benefits, for instance. Or they might be using the money to buy meth and support meth dealers.
I have two problems with this. First, it is a severe safety issue for power company linemen if your local power company does not know about your system and know where the external shutoff switch is. Second, we installed a solar system last year and the installation (physical panel installation and electronics, with interactions with the local power company) as only about 13% of the bill ($1800/$13600).
`node-webkit` looks similar to this: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
Oh, and I can download the audio version of the video I bought for free - nice :-)
I enjoyed the story, but something bothers me (just a little bit). I don't like his attempts at sensationalizing the event:

> The protesters were surprised, I think, that my subject was interesting
to them. At one point they all applauded spontaneously when I described
a feature of the system.

Rob Pike is a renown scientist, at the time working on Plan9 , the most exciting project of the moment. He tried to portray the protesters as mindless sheep blindly following rms, where indeed they were smart people genuinely against the idea of software patents. After all, this is MIT we're talking about, is anyone surprised that these guys actually showed interest in Rob's talk?

I know that if I were there, I would've definitely put up a protest sign, while still being thrilled to attend the talk.
Because I have an invitation associated with the old account that I needed to RSVP.
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The benefits from economies of scale and mass-ordering still apply to much lower priced hardware.

The IT staff wages will still have to be paid because hardware needs support regardless of the unit price.
We recently started migrating many of our systems from old (poorly coded) ColdFusion IIS servers to Play2 with Scala. My Java experience before was academic only and uptime/concurrency are big deals for us (payment processing), so we decided to give Scala a try. I have absolutely loved it. Play is a very strong framework, and Scala has greatly increased my abilities as a programmer.
His comment was relevant to the discussion, and was a relevant comment reply (talking about organised gangs using begging to further their goals).

I'm guessing you just want to shut out views that are at all critical of immigration, or even just seem to be. You want to shut down that discussion entirely.

I'd downvote you, but that button doesn't appear for me.
They do this too in Australia and out of those who I see regularly in the CBD I don't mind them as they're usually friendly and honest.

The idea of getting them work, as small as selling magazines is, is a great idea.

I personally follow a similar approach to Stallman here in Australia and I agree that it definitely is hard when you go to another country. I spent two years in the Philippines where poverty is common and at first I had no real idea what to do as we were constantly being asked for money, every day.

Another idea I stand by is not too judge too quickly the homeless or so in saying "Oh, they'd just go spend it on drugs or alcohol."
Please look at the authentication system password recovery when all I can remember about an account is the email address. Thank you. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963671
Thanks for pointing that out. Cross-posted the link to the url in your post. Thanks
This is pretty much the same as @synthesize in Objective-C.

I think a better example of metaprogramming might be the usage of method_missing in Ruby, or, say, __call and __callStatic in PHP, which all allow one to do interesting things with non-existent method invocations.
I have to agree. Whilst "questions as headlines" don't mean the article is bull-hunky, I'm finding it's a very convenient rule of thumb.
> StatusNet ... already has a large number of users (e.g. on identi.ca)

I know a tiny number of geeks who are on identi.ca, and a small but larger number of people including both geeks and non-geeks on Diaspora. Maybe I'm atypical?
From the third paragraph:

"If there is a loss of grid power, the panels will stop delivering current because it could be a danger to line workers, according to the company."
The Verizon iPhone was running on 3GPP2/CDMA network, this does not have SIM card. It is the 3GPP (note the missing 2) track that uses SIM cards. The 3GPP track is the most common track outside North America where the CDMA was strong. For 4G it looks like a total walk over for LTE though, LTE comes from the 3GPP track.

The 2G/3G/4G evolution for 3GPP looks something like this (sorry for the alphabet soup) : GSM->WCDMA->LTE
Entrepreneurs tend to be irrationally optimistic...it's good for the world as a whole, but probably maladaptive for the individual.
It is interesting and helpful, because the reasons that these beggars are operating in Sweden was given (internal migration within the EU).

If he hadn't said it, replies would have expressed surprise that the prosperous Swedes had resorted to aggressive organised criminal behaviour, and there would have been speculation on why that is.

There would also have been questions on why the government hasn't done anything about it yet, which he also addressed in his comment.

Stop telling us what we can and can't talk about.
> In theory "homelessness" is a solved problem in the UK. In practice, there are people who sleep on the streets and there are people who are effectively homeless but who have short term accommodation and there are plenty of beggars.

The situation in the UK is somewhat unique. As you mention, homelessness is not really an issue. All homeless people are entitled to benefits to cover accommodation and food.

Unfortunately people still tend to associate begging with homelessness, when the link between the two is tenuous at best. The overwhelming majority of beggars are not actually homeless, and most are begging to fund a drug addition (see: http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/news-and-views/campaigns/givin...)

There really is no need for anyone in the UK to beg in order to survive, hence why begging in public is illegal.
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The Compiz 'color filter' can do this.
I think a better example for a text adventure would be Advent or Zork... Old, But very detailed, complex, and user-friendly.
Very interesting - kind of like PhoneGap for your computer.

I'd recommend placing a few screenshots of example apps on the front page running natively on different systems (mac, windows, linux). Well done!
Howto Create a Blog on Github Using Octopress
You want a blog, right? But not a pussy’s blog, you want a blog you can commit and push to :-)

Then Octopress is the right choice. After hosting my blog on WordPress and Tumblr for years, I just jumped on the Octopress wagon, so for a reference here’s what I did to set it up.
Remember, this post is just about the Silicon Valley ecosystem. It's a narrow and specialized world where youth is worshipped, and it's very different from the rest of the world.
I really don't understand why GitHub should fix it, though. It's not like it's impossible to put on a README or something else in a prominent place that pull requests need to follow certain standards.

With Linus' current work flow (pull requests via e-mail), it's still perfectly possible to have a horribly structured pull request, and so they've added on rules beyond what the technology can do for how pull requests ought to be formatted. I'm failing to see why the same rules can't be applied to GitHub.

Linus invented Git, and it's perfectly possible to have single character commit messages in Git. I'm not quite sure why it's a failing of GitHub that it takes a similarly loose approach to how it deals with pull requests.
My pet peeve. This was closely watched at Techcrunch and we mocked other blogs (and our own bloggers) who fell back on it frequently (pronouncing titles with question marks with an inflection).

Using a question mark just means you aren't sure of your position or what you are trying to say. It makes it easier to sit on the fence and not really say anything, playing it safe.

I think most readers prefer a firm opinion or statement, regardless of if they agree with it or not.
This guy's opinion of course omits the huge problems of walled gardens, dickwad Apple rules, closed platforms, 30% royalty absurdity, and the archaic development process of native apps.
Why we need to keep talking about women in tech
I forgot my password as well, it started with 'moron'. :(
"You get 4 downloads"
Why limit it? It seems totally against the point. Why not even let people download a torrent and they can get the video on as many devices as they please and it wont even stress his servers.
A SIM-less network will have to developed sooner or later. If we are to connect n * 10 billion devices to the mobile network the amount of gold used for the SIM cards will become an issue. So removing the need for a SIM, and thus the gold used, will be neccessity.

But most likely this will be driven through the "normal" standardization committees (3GPP etc) instead of coming from Apple.
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> I fail to see how the gypsy beggars are the problem and not your legislation or enforcement. If hostile begging is an issue, legislate it out of the streets.

He did explain why that wasn't being done.

> Instead of complaining, you better appeal to your fellow citizens and solve it.

Wouldn't that involve some complaining?

Anyway, I notice you didn't say that to wilfra. Why doesn't he get accused 'complaining'?

Why didn't you try to solve the issues in your post with action instead of with complaining?
In fairness, I would assume that pg and al. are clued in enough to know that HN's login and registration system is complete bollocks. They just don't care about it (presumably, they consider that there are more important things to work on than fixing this, which I'd say is probably true).
If you have a problem with a purchase made by credit card or via a credit agreement offered by a retailer, you may be protected under section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act. This makes the credit provider jointly liable with the retailer for anything you buy, provided the item costs between £100 and £30,000. ... Purchases made on debit or prepaid cards or chargecards are not covered by section 75. Neither are purchases on credit cards that are worth less than £100 or more than £30,000. However, your card provider may offer chargeback.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/jan/20/section-75-charg...

Anything under £100 and might be out of luck.

Take Mastercard's scheme

• The cover applies to Mastercard debit cards, prepaid cards and Maestro cards, and to purchases made on a Mastercard credit card which don't qualify for section 75 cover

• There is a minimum spend of £10 but no upper limit on spending

PS: Subsection (1) does not apply to a claim—

(a)under a non-commercial agreement, F1. . .

(b)so far as the claim relates to any single item to which the supplier has attached a cash price not exceeding [F2£100] or more than [F3£30,000][F4, or]

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/39/section/75
I missed that, thanks! That makes the $1000 panel kit (which probably generates 200 to 250 watts when it is sunny) very price competitive. That said, I really like my large professionally installed system and I like getting paid by my local power company.
The thing is that these libraries are not going to grow to several hundred seats in the next 5-10 years, like the company you worked for. They will remain at their level of 5-20 seats. As such there is no need, nor will there ever be, for such strong infrastructure in a small communal library. They'd easily be able to make do with buying a 100$ router every second year.
This is what is sad about it, are we now building cars that could last forever but their electronics will end up making them disposable? I hope not. Sending an otherwise good car to a wrecker because the little (and not very powerful) computer can not be replaced seems very inefficient. Is someone figuring out how to make commodity platforms for cars yet?
You should check out macVim. There's a build available with a real gui project tree, and it has regular GUI tabs that you want. I use it occasionally, but I like having everything in one place with tux panes:)
It's hard to say. In either case, the result makes julianpenrod look rather silly. More online publications should, as the New York Times does, note all corrections to an article since its original appearance in a paragraph at the bottom.
I wish it was Python, but am rather glad it's not PHP. Ruby is a perfectly reasonable choice, even though it's not the same horse I backed.
I accept and agree with the statement "detailed commit messages and pull requests with context are objectively more useful", but I don't see how GitHub fails in that regard any more than Git does.

You can have horrible commit messages and pull requests using e-mail pull requests. You can have the same with GitHub. Ultimately, the decisions of what sort of quality you demand on pull requests ought to be up to the maintainer, and GitHub is doing the right thing by not enforcing a standard that doesn't work for the majority of people.
Haha ... like that outfit.
There is so much unproven bullshit and downright deception in that article that this is the first thread I've flagged in a year and a half.

1st. No one has been charged, tried, and found corrupt.

2nd. Was this association before, during, or after the court case? There really is a difference between those three.

3rd. What is this "association"? The judge's name is part of the lower category with a dozen other names. Does this mean he's in the same building?

4th. Even this article is starting to claim (in edit/update, forced by a commenter) that this "commercial" course was some type of an official bar course where the two parties were perhaps picked by the bar (as in, they didn't pick each other).

5th. The article keeps on mentioning that this judge ruled "file names" to be illigal. Right, because taking the URL and breaking it appart before posting it on a warez site clearly turns everything around and makes the forum a place for a purfectly legitimate discussion of "file names". The author seems to be outraged by this.

And it goes on and on...
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It's based on Chromium so it's pretty likely it will support just about everything and even more.
I was with you until the last sentence which seemed to be hanging beyond the edge of its support.
How is GitHubs "version" inferior? The technology that Linus uses to do pull requests (email) validates even less than a GitHub pull request does. The Linux kernel and git have standards that enforce that e-mail pull requests have to follow certain guidelines, but it's not impossible to apply these guidelines to GitHub.
The tables are turned. Someone born in Western Europe might well lead a life of poverty while a Japanese or South Korean person will have a great education, get a job straight out of university, and not want for material needs. Will South Korea or Japan donate their money to help such people, or allow them immigrate to their safe countries? They will not. Do you think the Chinese will?
> Many of my facebook friends will post anti-facebook privacy news links. Yet, they have not joined Diaspora

I've noticed quite a lot of people tried to join Diaspora, but were stuck on waiting lists. Not sure if that's still happening, but I think it constituted some serious self-foot-shooting. If anyone's still having this problem, I think diasp.org will let you sign up.
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"That rule was dropped a long time ago"

There are no rules for approval on the appstore. Just guidelines.

If Apple feels like it is in their best interest, it will allow the Google Maps app in the Appstore. Otherwise it reject the app.
After finding that the learnboost cluster version doesn't work with the latest node release, I've switched to cluster2. It's pretty easy to get going. I thought about building something with the native cluster but didn't have the time.
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Poll: Majority approves of Obama'a marriage decision.
I think Topcube does this as well: https://github.com/creationix/topcube

Topcube, however, is missing the Mac version.

Another interesting idea would be to ditch Node all-together and use HTML5/CSS3 literally for everything your desktop app needs. With localStorage and other APIs being implemented in Chromium, one does not need the server part anymore.
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"In short, Zepto is expected to work in every modern browser and browser-like environment, except for Internet Explorer."

I can write off that idea then.
Where's your sense of humor? It was intended to be funny, and it was.

Of course, like all irony the glass is only half funny.
Let's not forget the infamous Crockford alert.. http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/12/10/crockford-alert/
> This article might as well be called: If you are shy, its you're fault, stop being lazy and change.

There seems to be a tendency to conflate someone saying "You can change X" and "If you suffer from X, you're a lazy and bad person." That's not productive. It's an emotional response to a logical issue. pg goes into depth about these responses in the article "Keep Your Identity Small": http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

A huge percentage of people can improve their social skills to practice, and we as a community can accept that without taking it as an insult to anyone who has weak social skills.
> In the direction of giving - either money, or if time allows, something like what Stallman is doing/advocating. The main thing that shifted my views was the notion that even if the money is "wasted" (or might be more effective dollar-for-dollar elsewhere), there's a lot to be said for the human connection - and that even if the recipient is operating under false pretenses (which does happen sometimes), that human connection is worth it.

Pardon me if this was mentioned in the debate — unfortunately I'm not in a position to watch the video at the moment — but the worst case in giving money to beggars is not just that the money is "wasted".

In the UK, the overwhelming majority of beggars are not homeless, and are simply begging to fund a drug addiction (usually to 'Class A' drugs such as heroin). A survey by Westminster Council found 86 percent of people begging spend the money they receive on drugs and alcohol, and seven out of ten of those arrested for begging (begging in public is illegal in the UK, although enforcement of the law is sporadic) had Class A drugs in their system (see: http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/news-and-views/campaigns/givin...)

In other words, when you give money to a beggar in the UK, you are more than likely funding a Class A drug addiction. An addiction that drastically reduces that person's life expectancy, and increases their chances of premature death due to an overdose.
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For one thing the better gas mileage is not much of an improvement from the mid-eighties, gas was much cheaper then ('78-'84 prices were high, inflation-adjusted still not as high as right now though except maybe in 1981). If you buy a new car and your issue is capital or cash-flow how long the car lasts will not be a significant factor in your purchase. Don't get me started on car maintenance! You can hardly touch a modern car anymore yourself, you pretty much have to pay someone to do anything. But I will concede that a modern car needs a lot less work.
The key difference is that its iOS on Apple hardware vs a general OS.
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"Support staff". Heh.
Verizon's new LTE phones have sim cards, although I'm not sure if they are for the phone's LTE radio only - I just got a warranty replacement phone and the activation process was simply switching the sim card.
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The “Plain Jane” timing GPS is real
Cross-platform, retro-styled, code-free video game creation software released
Plenty of HBO content is sold a la carte online. But HBO itself is cross-subsidized from cable subscriptions. Their online service is not intended to replace their TV channel, but just augment it.
17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks
Our trip to Verkhoturye - the spiritual center of the Urals
In the morning the three of us March 21 - Zhanusya, Katherine and I piled into a taxi and went to the railway station. Without the beginning of our adventure travel has not done, and much pausing in the road because of traffic jams, we almost missed the train Moscow - Priobe to which we had bought tickets there and back. Already in the last minute traveler caught up with the train in one hand while holding Zhanusyu, another fairly heavy backpack, I'm Kate jumped in the car, and panting, took their places. They traveled in an ordinary second-class carriage to children was fun talking to fellow travelers.
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Could a computer write this story?
I like being an introvert; I wouldn't change that for anything. I have learned not to be shy, to function in social situations. I think that's what the article means, learning to function, but unfortunately people will continue to confuse shyness with introversion and assume you can change either. It annoys me the number of times people have told me I need to "stop being a lone wolf" or "come out of my shell." That would get a two-word answer nowadays.

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."
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Many people tell me I don't seem like a programmer, and quite a few are surprised to discover I went to college or do non-manual labor. There is just something about my personality that suggests to people I'm not a knowledge worker, unless the topic comes up in conversation.

They have heuristics, priors and reasoning which lead them to correct results most of the time. Maybe they are even irrational and have a sucky predictor.

I know how I feel about this - meh.

Incidentally, why do you feel that being found attractive is a problem? And is this also a problem in fields with 50% women?