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This just goes to show you don't understand compilers.

No, admittedly, I don't, at any more than a basic level. But you're still wrong.

Try compiling, linking, and running an ObjC program without the ObjC runtime. See how that fails. See how long it takes you to write a minimal runtime that can run your program in user-space, and then kernel-space. It won't be quick.

Try compiling, linking, and running a plain-vanilla C program without the "C runtime" (I guess you mean a combination of libc, libgcc, and crt.o, basically what you get when you pass -nostdlib -nostartfiles to gcc). Yep, that'll fail too. Then get it to compile and run anyway. Not that hard.

That's* the difference I'm talking about.

At the very least, kernels like Linux and Mach/Darwin already have kernel-friendly replacements for the libc functionality they commonly use. Doing something similar for ObjC would be time consuming. Certainly it isn't impossible, but note that I never said that: I merely pointed out it wasn't easy.
Unless of course the project itself is the real reward.

I think the tiered award thing hurts a lot of projects by distracting from the basic fact that what you're really contributing to is making the project real.
This is the same story that was on here a few weeks ago.
The email address you used to sign up for github (the one optionally kept private by github) and the email address in any commit messages are unrelated.
Some syntax highlighters, such as highlight.js [0], can do language detection and it works reasonably well with short snippets too.

[0] http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/
that's what he did. he engaged politely, until someone said something stupid. he only debated technical points until then. the guy who posted the stupid comment was just that, stupid, not a troll, so he went on a tangent to put that person in place. he was totally civil to whoever was civil, if you are taking what he said to other person as not being civil to everyone else, who need to re-evaluate your sensibilities.
Kickstarter recommends providing intangible rewards. Some people just don't listen to that advice.

To me, it just indicates a lack of creativity. There are so many ways to reward people when making a game, such as allowing funders to name in-game characters or locations, or to have a say in some of the game design. Posters and t-shirts seem like very lazy rewards. And costly of course.
We need github for music.
I can see your point re: boring solved via automation.

However, there is still a tremendous class of software that can't (or hasn't yet been) automated e.g. boring enterprise integration mush, or accounting software, or whatever CRUD app the company needs to meet xyz goal for the year.

Sure there have been some efforts to automate or semi-automate some of this but the solutions are often more cumbersome or boring than the original. There are probably tens of millions or lines of code written for this kind of stuff every year.

Sure if you look at a high-enough-level most of these look like the same thing (and thus easy to automate) -- CRUD apps basically. But the truth is that this just hasn't happened yet because the devil is in the often excruciating details.

The developers who end up doing this kind of work do critical stuff, it's the equivalent of building a working sewage system in a growing city, not sexy but utterly critical. No amount of programmer astronauts are going to keep the poop flowing away form the population.

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/08/what-happens-when-you-flush...

Still, if anybody could solve that kind of boring software development (something that can't be done with sewage systems), it'd be a multi-billion dollar company almost overnight.
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Kickstarter does warn people about this. People should read the text on kickstarter more, or listen to advice more often.
That corporations in America don't pay their share is not the issue. Its an issue, but not the issue.
> You forgot one important thing: Potential for Growth

The key to understand this madness is so right in front of our faces, that we can't even see it.

Due to the dynamics/nature of the market, stock investments seems to be more about a gamble today, and you can't gamble on Ford too much except for it to go down.

Forget trying to spot the value. It's all about what's hot.

Hence Facebook is getting crazy valuations.
Agreed. It's not that these weren't legitimate business expenses but if you are trying to start a company on a shoe-string budget you should really spend considerable time trying to get the best deal possible and limit all expenses to the bare minimum.
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Congress can't outlaw lobbying, it is a core Constitutional right (free speech, right to assemble, right to petition govt).

The problem is that the government is too big and has too much power, so the rewards for lobbying are so great.
Saverin is paying his taxes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came

And in the first step - a classic dilemma - how do you know what you can't see when you are blindfolded.

Remember the police man in Denmark earlier this year that "by mistake" blocked the half internet to his country when fiddling with such "blacklists".

Expect lots of "collateral damages" once this will have become mandatory (the next step)
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True say, I've found walking the dog to be a great time to think. Not only is it time to yourself, it gets the blood flowing and of course the fresh air is great.
All these sites (like IVI and the likes) share the same, very limited, library of content. It is like 10% of Netflix/Hulu, or even less. But potentially sure, I agree.
At Caltech the children of any employee who manage to get in (on their own merits) are given free tuition.
I will take a look at the book value of Ford's debt tomorrow on Bloomberg. I agree that the market value of debt should be used for the analysis, but I don't think it will change the conclusion.
We do, you just don't hear about it because "we're in it together" and it's not really anyone's specific money being stolen. And banks profit so much, it's just a small dent in their profits. And these security costs and investigation is paid by society, not the banks.
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I don't think it's ethical. I clearly identified myself as a competitor and we were ahead of them technology wise so he had an incentive to talk to me and I shared a lot of our implementation details (not to give enough leverage, but enough to support an interesting conversation between hackers). I return he told me quite a lot about their implementation, but I don't think it's OK to share. I don't expect him to share what I told him as well. The dialogue was clearly off the record.
Why does no one want to actually _answer his question_?
It's one of my major gripes with tech forums these days: Someone asks a question about "How can I do X?" and instead of providing an answer, everyone piles up to say "HAHAH X is so stupid, you should be doing Y".

I actually preface some of my questions these days with "I realise X might sound silly, but I'd like to do it so please answer the question instead of telling my why I shouldn't be doing it"

Stop it already. Or at least ANSWER THE QUESTION and then politely suggest why you think it might be a bad idea.
It's on ice. Not alive, not dead either. I'm chasing another opportunity now, but keep this one still in mind. I guess my email should be visible in the profile, feel free to contact me.
Have you ever actually used Ada? The standards document is incredibly clear and well-organized, to the extent that most Ada programmers use it for reference.
I am sure that weight/size isn't the only parameter they're optimizing around. Likely battery life/flight range is the other primary parameter and optical & audio quality and transmission range secondary priorities they would be considering.
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What's sickening is the way you devalue life by thinking you're helpless to sustain it.

Life is just another phenomenon subtended by physical law. We, as intelligent creatures, have the tools necessary to use those laws to our advantage.

If you're not willing to use those tools, that's you're prerogative, but don't look down on those of us who would like to make the most of our time on this earth.
That's the truth for everyone who hacks around in their spare time, but: don't stop starting new things! I've got a folder full of half-finished crud, which will probably never be finished. I've become OK with that. I do, admittedly, keep one or two larger ideas on the go now, that I do try and work on, just a little, everyday... but the "not starting anything new" goal is a bad one. It led me into one of the most depressing years of my life; I'd constantly feel self-pressure to work on the "big stuff", rather than hack away on little things, which led to a (severe) degradation in my happiness, and in my work performance.

So, yeah. Definitely try and finish one or two that you deeply care about, but creating new stuff is what we do, and there's no shame whatsoever in a folder full of unfinished ideas.
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The issue isn't that all the third-party implementations are no good, several are good. It's that there is no Pythonic one which is also standard and blessed, which would help with interoperability as well as providing one obvious way to do it.

I'd rather Python moved in the direction of go than Java
Yeah I am actually really surprised the article didn't reference the movie even once.
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That's really interesting. Are any of the papers you know to use OS 9 national ones?

I have a Blackberry from about 7 years ago that won't even connect to my computer, but it's reliable. The battery lasts me 2 or 3 days, the software is perfectly stable and responsive, and I'm just used to it. I imagine the software it runs is insanely old and out of date, but I have no desire to replace it. It just works. So I understand the sentiment. Although as a developer I try to keep pretty up to date on my computer :P
Or you're interested in our implementation?
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this will cap everything else, HTTP uploads, Dropboxes of all kinds, etc.
Minecraft.net has a stats page here: http://www.minecraft.net/stats

28,850,178 registered users, of which 5,884,899 (20.40%) have bought the game.

In the last 24 hours, 125,974 people registered, and 13,337 people bought the game.

Approximately 5374 sales a day.
My understanding of the legislative process is that a bill exists in a stand-alone form while it is being debated. When it is voted upon in its final form, however, lawyers working for the legislative branch convert the "human readable" form of the bill into what is, in effect, a "patch" to the existing law (i.e., "Paragraph B of subsection 2 of title 18 shall be amended to read ..."). My (albeit cursory) understanding is that these literal changes to the code are what are actually voted into law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service

Conceivably, changes to the US code could be tracked in the same way that changes to a bill are tracked, and every bill could be introduced as a branch of the US Code (i.e. a patch on the trunk), and every vote on a bill would be a vote to merge that branch.
It will. Issued debt rarely ever trades at 100 (except in special cases - ie debt near maturity etc).

And, in any case, you cannot compare market values of two companies with different leverages such as FB and Ford without renormalizing earnings to the same leverage level. Earnings on equity are amplified if the company has debt (which Ford has). FB has no leverage - its unleveraged earnings give it a whopping market value of $95B. Ford can't even manage half of that figure with its $100B (!) of debt.

Edit: I am relying on your figures.
Great idea, and seems to be a relatively wide-spread one, at that. But, as others have mentioned, it faces steep adoption challenges.

I recommend taking a look at Rogers' 5 Factors of Adoption [1] as a starting point. It would be extremely challenging to get this approach adopted from the top down, especially in an entrenched democratic system. Instead, a less risky approach may be to first get it successfully applied at the small scale. For instance, can you get a small township/incorporation to adopt this method?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
I don't believe anyone is an idiot. For I have seen many people do incredibly smart things. People who work at fast food restaurants. Security guards. Pizza delivery drivers.

If you saw [1] Hawkins strolling down in his electric wheelchair you would not even think they guy is one of the smartest minds to ever challenge the world.

Everyone is capable of amazing things. There are no morons.

[1] Thank you eblade for pointing out that I wrote Dawkins (the biologist), instead of Hawkins.
Exactly. And is the result different from keeping old versions of libc around and linking all programs you haven't updated against it? From the description, that's what this system does.

If dependencies never change in place, you're emulating static linking with a dynamic linker.
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Yup. I've got it up on github at https://github.com/gliese1337/schrodinger-lisp, with explanations blogged at http://gliese1337.blogspot.com/2012/04/schrodingers-equation... (first installment; there are later posts with the same tags describing incrementally added features).

The syntactic sugar for macros isn't pushed to the public repository yet; not till I get a good blog post written up about it. But it's basically parallel to the operation of "wrap" in Kernel- where "wrap" creates a lambda by evaluating the arguments to a vau expression, "macro" evaluates the return value of a vau expression.

I'm doing most the research stuff on the Schrodinger repository, and things that I like will end up eventually on https://github.com/gliese1337/vernal-lang ; I've stopped actively updating that repository for now because I'm contemplating re-implementing the "real" Vernal interpreter (as opposed to the "research-only" Schrodinger interpreter) in Go, so that there's only 1 level of interpretation going on instead of 2.
second edit: there's a link on reddit to the c++ coding standard for the joint strike fighter and it says pointers should be written like int* x; for exactly the reasons above. pretty cool - http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf see section 4.9.6
Kickstarter isn't far from its own optimization industry - like SEO and social media consultants, but guidance for presenting fiscally impossible idea as plausible and tantalizingly close. Then just make a slick concept video, keyword that baby up, and astroturf some buzz. It can't miss!
There's probably some corruption in there as well. Management doesn't give a crap about the work function, and only one vendor is qualified to respond to the maintenance RFP. So some old-timer is probably making a mint "maintaining" the system.
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+1

It's not cynicism, its realism which must be reflected in the strategy for change, otherwise failure is inevitable.
"IPads? More than one?"

A better question might be, "iPads? Why are these people soliciting money from people to make an iPad game when they don't have any experience developing for the iPad?"
Weird, none of my monitoring is showing any downtime...

Is it still not working for you?
That's an interesting view, but I'm wondering about your response to some apparent consequences of that view.

Would you say that you think society should stop using as much life-prolonging medicine as it currently does, so that people die earlier? That would help with overpopulation, and it's the corollary to your view that society shouldn't make new life-prolonging medicines. Or do you think the current medicines are fine, but we shouldn't make any more? If so, then what makes the current level of medicine so special and desirable, compared to medicine a little stronger or weaker?

Aren't you on your own "ego trip" by letting yourself keep living? After all, aren't you part of the problem of overpopulation? Shouldn't you kill yourself, and make the earth that much better? Or is your view that you living is a necessary sacrifice, because you can hopefully convince many people to have less children or kill themselves, and it will be worth it overall? Or would you say that people who have already been born should keep living, but people who have not been born yet should be prevented from living, by encouraging people to have fewer children? If so, what's so special about the people who are already living compared to the people not yet living?
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That's not true. Ford is more than $100 billion in debt. If a corporate raider were to take over Ford, they would be saddled with a ton of debt too, making such a takeover a much less attractive option.
"Promote and market to help sell the game and fund future expansions and possible sequels"

Funding the game in development may have been more prudent.
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Sure, you explain quite well why there would be resistance to such an idea as this.

However, in the 200+ year history of the United States Congress, no tool like this has existed that could bring the kind of transparency to the process that reformers have been pushing for for nearly as long.

It is one thing to say "We need more transparency!" It is another thing entirely to say "Publish all bill modifications with attribution using a public version control system!" Having something specific and concrete to push for, something the implementation of which can be said to be completed or not completed in definitive terms, can make the difference between a successful push for reform and an unsuccessful one.
Phone Survey after Google Phone registration
I read a post on HN or somewhere else a couple of weeks ago about how this guys wife gmail account got hacked and how gmail has become an intricate part of our everyday lives. He says to tighten his gmail account security, he added his phone number as an extra security measure for authentication and I had been wanting to try but just got to it today. Right after I added my cellphone number, I got an automated call from this number(12533829958) about a political survey. So, I got sold out either way or was it just a coincidence huh?

Edit: I see some people got calls from that number too
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-253-382-9958/2
What's sickening is that you think sustaining life is valuing life. On an individual/egotistical level, perhaps. On a global level, not at all. If I die, life goes on. If you die, life ends. See the difference?

"Make the most our time" and live indefinitely are opposite concepts. Making the most of the time you're given is an honorable goal. Extending life for unknown reasons besides "living longer" doesn't make logical sense, and is a large waste of resources for people who are actually productive. Let's say you're 80. Should you spend $100K to live another 10 years or would you rather your grandchildren go to college? Pick one.

Extending your life is devaluing everybody else's life. There's plenty of life out in the world that benefits when someone dies, either through consumption of raw material or reappropriation of resources. Dying is not devaluing life, it's celebrating it by returning what's given to you for others to use.
HBO, I would gladly pay $15 a month for streaming service
You make it like NF with no ads and let me watch on my PC or phone with no BS. Don't f*©k it up with ads like Hulu has done.
Soap operas on HN heh? As long as he is a law abiding citizen I don't see what business anyone has with what he does or where he lives.
> Sometimes you should be free to call a spade a spade.

"Sometimes" is the key word here. But people tend to take it too far - they start thinking if you yell "this is a fucking spade!!!" loud enough, that magically makes everything into a spade. Most of the times it's not. You can afford being blunt if you're genius, but if you want to emulate a rude genius, don't start with rudeness. Start with developing a new OS and making it worldwide success, then you can proceed to rudeness. Though I would rather you didn't, but after the OS part who cares what I think. But please don't start with the rudeness part. Actually, it would be nice if rude geniuses would be a bit less rude too, just to provide an example. But OK, nobody's perfect. I just feel there's a lot of rudeness out there in open source world, and after years of doing it - it starts to get old.

What I'm seeing is that 99.9% percent of people "calling spade a spade" do not contribute much by it and scare off people. And in open source people is the only capital the project has, so it's pretty much like business owner making a daily cash bonfire in the backyard. Yes, people make dumb suggestions, especially people that are new to the area. But it's not hard to treat them respectfully - or if one doesn't have time for it, just not respond and let others who have more time do it. Maybe the geniuses should get themselves a good PR person? :)

The point is in 99.9% of cases rudeness carries no value (most frequently negative value). The content of rude answer may carry one, but that would be preserved without the rudeness. Of course, in case of geniuses, their positive value is so immense that the negative part is completely overwhelmed by the positive one. But it still is a negative.
The OP isn't making a legal argument, he's making a moral/ethical argument.
It's professor Hawking that's wheelchair bound.
The Future of Shopping – Part 2
Customers could touch the products and feel them personally, which is more like an activity and experience
Show HN: Oblique Strategies - Mobile web app for creative help/inspiration
I'm assuming you calculated the average sales/day over the time period since day 1? When did they first launch btw?
Yes, sure, but you may pre-screen before - random selection of people happening to be in a particular bar at particular time is not the promising method. I'm not saying it can't work - I'm just saying it's not the one that people should be crushed if they're not having much success with it. It's like being depressed that playing lottery still didn't make you a billionaire and thinking there must be something wrong with you because of that.
I didn't say that Ford is going to get raided. In fact I said that it isn't, because there isn't anybody big enough to do it.

Although there probably is some way to siphon off the assets and default on the debt without committing fraud.
Oblique Strategies is a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, with each card containing a short phrase/remark that is meant to help with creative blocks or dilemmas.

I made this because I wanted an app on my phone that showed a random oblique strategy. The web app works almost like a native app (at least on iOS) when you "Add to home screen".

Also, the code for the site is at https://github.com/nomatteus/oblique-strategies