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The audio delay issue persists for me in version 2.0.1 like the parent commenter. Among other issues is an increase in random crashing. The new interface isn't particularly inviting, either. Reading through the other comments here has caused me to revert to the older version with which I was never unhappy with.
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Thanks. This means a lot to me.
controversial as in it's an undesirable, irreversible interaction that really turns people off and critics of dcurtis's "work" were more than happy to speak out about it.
Forget refer.ly, how is Amazon going to cope with this in general?
Time will tell if the Xbox will be considered just as much of a mistake. They've lost billions of dollars on it, it hasn't given them any advantage in other consumer product categories and the idea of any company "winning the living room" seems quixotic in a world ruled more by highly personal devices (phones, tablets) more than whatever's on TV.
"cwd[] should be MAXPATHLEN bytes long"

This is actually a common mistake — PATH_MAX and the like are not guaranteed to be defined. In fact, in POSIX it is literally impossible to ever know whether your buffer is long enough. Your best bet is,

#ifdef PATH_MAX
char cwd[PATH_MAX];
long len = sizeof cwd;
#else
char *cwd;
long len;
if((len = pathconf(".", _PC_PATH_MAX)) < 0)
len = 8192; /* some arbitrary value */
cwd = malloc(len);
#endif

This is probably one of the ugliest parts of POSIX.
Finally, somebody talks about this! ;) We're fixing many of these problems for local deliveries with: www.postmates.com
I have witnessed the most deplorable marketing method *ever* used by a startup.
@silverbax88 - exactly!

No matter how well designed or "active" websites may appear, if its only function is to send you to some affiliate offer - it's spam. The best of them are very good at faking legit websites (even having an active "community" engaged in "discussion"). They are extremely good at faking normal human activity and I don't see the end to it. There's virtually nothing you can do that a script can't do also.
At dinner the other night, our five year old and his five year old friend wouldn't eat their broccoli--until I told them that broccoli was worth 2000 points. The points had no reward attached, other than getting "points", and making sure the other guy didn't have more imaginary points.
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You should also get in the habit of compiling with warnings (-Wall -Wextra -Werror) and running with valgrind. And writing test programs (in this case they could be shell scripts, unless you want to split your code into a library and an executable, so you can test the library with c programs. That lets you run your tests with valgrind.
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The EU parliament has an amendments systems that does exactly that: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/european-parliament-share-a... .
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Indeed, its easy these days to do something, but it's hard to do it well.

This is a particularly interesting effort as it is by far the most mature (7 years of work has gone into it - originally targetted Brook; then CUDA; and now OpenCL); is well funded (so will see continued improvement); is a deep, strongly typed embedding (meaning it looks and behaves like normal Haskell, making it easy to use); and is the most widely used Haskell GPU language, going by downstream dependencies.
Ok, I signed up in hopes I could get refer.ly started for my company. I don't see any option for business owners.

Just found this: "How Can I Check Whether You Have Rewards Available for a Specific Link?

Referly provides rewards for purchases made on thousands of websites. Stay tuned, we look forward to offering a directory in the future. For now, if you have a specific question just drop us an email."

Are you kidding me? How do you launch without this feature? I feel like you just wasted 5 minutes of my time and that leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

Edit: Where do I go to delete my account?
I've had royal mail pull the future thing on me a few times. Picking up from the depot is no joy. The depot near me is open for about 3 seconds a day and there's always a queue of at least 40 people on saturday (closed sunday), which is the only time most people can actually fit in a trip to the depot, what with all those pesky jobs they have to go to.

If you have 40 people queueing outside you deport every saturday to pick up stuff you didn't deliver, then you're not doing it right.

I feel you pain. Perhaps it's better in the states, but here in the UK it's a fourth rate service.
As is so often the case, IMHO the poster is ignoring the business side of the equation in favour of "correct". A good ORM is fantastic for speeding up development. If you design your db around being well usable with the ORM, the potential development gains (at least in dynamic languages like Python) are HUGE. I left Django in part because of their ORM. But using SQLAlchemy, we develop far, far, faster than if we were using SQL directly. And it's flexible enough to allow me to drop into the SQLAlchemy Query language when I need to hand tune a query, or to SQL itself if I really need to get close to the metal.

Will there be downsides one day? Probably. Will they come even close to the business value of the amount of the coding time we've saved during the critical bootstrap phase? No way in hell. As they say, those are problems I'd love to have.
I understand that, but they did also say "Fuck people who bitch about how expensive college is."
FWIW, gcc 4.6.3 has no trouble with this code (or my hand-typed simplified variant). So is it incompliant or just not subject to a bug that affects the spec and (presumably) MSVC?
Under current laws, wouldn't the way the Terms of Service are presented be considered a contract signed under duress? I mean, they are saying that if you don't sign the contract, they'll kill you, which is kind of the textbook definition of duress.
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yeah, exactly. as a dev i'm just solidly impressed with the experiment. it seems like a fun project someone decided to tackle and did so quite well. what i think most of us want now is for the author to take it to the next level and make it more appropriate for our non-touch devices, but that's not really his responsibility for an experiment.
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There's an option to do that:

$('form').superLabels({ slide:false });
The airlines have to try. Flight safety is expensive.

I mean you can conceive of solutions:

* Why does the luggage not get treated like container transport. Load up cages next to check in desks for the same destination.

* Take back control over your booking. There is absolutely no need for any airline to not take bookings direct. Want to sell through your partners - fine but they come to your API/site to actually book it. Then everyone has real time info. Think that will drive your prices down? No, don't sell at loss making prices.

I could go on. I am having a hell just trying to find somewhere nice and sunny to take 2 children. There is just so many options and so little information to trust.

But this problems exists for every service - hair cutting, selling houses and airlines. One and only one URI is really selling an actual seat or an actual house or an actual chair with a hair dresser.

So one and only one URI should publish what is available.

And then aggregation and search is simple(ish)

It seems to me that the next evolution of the search engine is to tell the people selling stuff that they don't need to do SEO, or marketing. They just need to use a standard micro data / format for whatever they are selling.

A long time ago I worked for an ISP that gave 1MB of personal disk space free to everyone. We bumped to to 10 then 100 when we realised no one actually used it.

This failure to put our own stuff online is the cause of huge problems - real estate agents, facebook, AOL, every walled garden, every agent, all stem from people and businesses not publishing their own needs.

Must stop ranting now
IMO if you have to ask whether or not you should reply all in an email thread the answer is generally no. This is just a nice way to let other people know how that logic works (:
Considering the metamorphosis idea, by the time your whole brain was replaced, piece by piece, by devices simulating its behavior, you became an upload - it's just that all of your data is running inside your head (or that this illusion is maintained by very low-latency links to your root-self running elsewhere).

Still, the moment you move its dataset to a new device and deactivate the original, aren't you killing the original?
Yes, Parecelfarce are notoriously rubbish and regularly pull stunts like the one you describe. (google "parcelfarce" and insist on that spelling. I get "about 428,000 results" returned ...)

I know a few people who would happily dance on their grave if another company were to put them out of business.

My first thought was a shipping window that narrows as it gets closer. I.e. On Monday you can predict arrival on "Friday" with 95% confidence. At Friday 11am you might be able to predict arrival at Friday 11:30 - 11:45 with 95% confidence.

Also, is it possible to apply a technical fix to the social problem of the driver writing an incorrect time on a slip? I.e. insist on it being a printed slip? It's probably more common that they send the slip without making a serious effort to ring the doorbell and deliver.
It doesn't matter if the CLR is supposed to be the future of cross-platform languages. It is irrevocably tainted by Microsofts primary focus on the windows platform.

A new language is extremely vulnerable, more so that properly anything on earth, and its chances of adoption are exeendingly rare. You just cannot afford to cut of the couple of hundred early users because your language only works, or works best, on Windows.
In the spirit of http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ and http://www.shouldiusecomicsans.com/ or the (defunct?) "is it christmas yet" page, and maybe http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
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step 1: actually do something and stop doing things related to the topic of doing something.

step 2: keep doing that.
That's not what placeholders are meant to be used for though (see here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...).

This plugin doesn't replace (true) placeholder functionality, so I suppose it's the same as what you're doing except more semantic.
> can we not agree that it is entirely manifest in the brain?

This is the old materialist vs idealist, monoist, dualist etc. debate in the philosophy of mind. It isn't as much of a slam dunk as you think it may be, and the gulf in opinion is broad and branches out into many tributaries.

Materialism is the belief that everything in the world, including mind, was material, but that has progressed into physicalism since late nineteenth century physics showed that not every force is made up of matter.

I used to be very interested in this topic and leaned towards the idealist argument of mind being made up of more than material, but I lost interest as the debate on both sides tends to spiral and involve religion and spirituality. But I still tend to believe that if we completely cloned a brain materially, we would still not have a mind, that it would be missing something.

My own conclusion is that we simply do not know, and that to me is more interesting than knowing as the pursuit is more rewarding than the end goal. There will always be open and unresolved questions in science and philosophy. We have yet to explain seemingly more simple phenomena such as gravity, so explaining the mind (or indeed altering it or cloning it) seems so far out of reach.
> Sun was a reliable partner for open source community but doesn't Oracle make you afraid while you develop anything java or jvm-related?

The suit is regarding an implementation of Java that did not pay for a license (Oracle's claim, not mine) -- not applications built on the JVM or Java.

So I'm curious, what can they do that you fear? They give away the JDK/JRE for free. Ungodly mountains of code are developed on top of this stack. If they wanted to sue users of their software, do you think they'd start with your company, or Bank of America, JP Morgan, etc.?
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Yeah, I've got an issue open on github for this. I'll fix it when I get the chance. Thanks :)
6 years ago Ruby was also rapidly growing "baseline noise"...
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby&l=

IMHO Kotlin is less of an improvement over Java than Scala is. Mostly the impression is Kotlin == the poor man's Scala
Sorry to disappoint you. For teh sake of getting this out the door and in the hands of users we haven't built our a directory page yet but its in the works - we move fast. You can also request a specific product/reward here (not yet publicly linked on the site) http://refer.ly/business.php

But if you still want to delete your account just email support@refer.ly and we'll take care of that right away
Seems that they do http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html unless it's a different iOS version of VLC than the one on the app store that was removed.
Hey Andrzej, thanks for the feedback - sounds very logical. You're right - dropping it on GitHub will not make any $'s, but it might enable one or two other developers to get some value from it, and if I'm honest, that's ultimately what I want.

I'm not worried about making money from it per se - but would be happy to keep it maintained, updated and bug fixed if I could derive some nominal fee from it (I guess licensing).

I designed it to be extremely modular, so developers could add new spam checks and tune it to their needs with a minimum of fuss - it just might take some time to get all the components installed + running (I could create an install script methinks).

Thanks again!
My point is more that in-depth knowledge in a number of languages is also vital. The 18 toy examples is completely unimportant. Competency in core Python is. I would look for such depth in one or two other languages.
Are you sure you committed it to the homebrew repository on github? Your github page doesn't show any activity that indicates you've forked the homebrew repo or created a pull request in the past 14 days (since you made the "c" repo).

Even so, based on the general rules for homebrew inclusion they would reject the formula because:

1. I don't think they like names that have the potential to conflict with others ("c" is in that category). The shortest name I see in their repo is two chars.

2. Typically they only want widely used formulas ("We generally frown on authors submitting their own work unless it is suitably notable." [1]).

[1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formula
That's hilarious. I was jamming out this design all weekend and never once did it occur to me, then I get this and a few tweets about it. Let's call it an unintentional in-joke then :)
They could counter you are already dead and they are offering you the possibility of "post-mortem health care".
A couple weeks back, I saw E. O. Wilson speak. The guy is a science pioneer, has written over 20 books, and had come to talk about the new cutting-edge work he was doing in evolutionary biology. The guy is 82. And sharp as a tack.

When I asked him what his advice was for the whippersnappers among us, he said: never retire. Sure, you can quit doing one thing. But start doing something else. From the way he said it, his implication was exactly yours: the moment you allow yourself to stagnate, that's the beginning of the end.
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Judging by its appearance, I'm guessing this won't have any business options? Would be nice to have a centralized product like this that saves me from having to find/sign up for each individual affiliate program. Plus having all the analytics data in one place, too.

Right now it seems to be super early stage. No database of affiliate programs that they have and you can't even withdraw rewards (earnings).
In the public forums the devs have been very defensive about the UI redesign. I don't criticize easily, but it really does seem to stem from arrogance.
I had looked into doing this with pure CSS, but I hit a roadblock. I can't remember what it was, but it may have been the Firefox thing mentioned. Would be cool to add a css file that does the same to the project when the support is there though.
See comments above about general vs specific human capital.
The interface might not be the prettiest, but I don't think it's "horribly unfriendly". Can you contrast it with another player? I have been using vlc for a long time now and although I just switched to Mac OS, I can't say that I find other players on the platform particularly appealing.
But again I think it depends on what you do it. In my case its usually either in minimized mode or playing a movie on full screen mode, making my contact with its UI very limited.
Somehow this is quite slow in FF (its fast in Chrome)
> I don't agree with this. From what I've read NaCl isn't even getting auto-run by default. It is not trying to replace JS just sit alongside it as an application language. It lets developers target CPU architectures instead of Operating Systems which makes a lot of sense to me.

Even if it's not trying to replace JS, if it works well enough, a lot of sites will use it to replace JS, whether because they want to add functionality that's not as easy to implement in JS, because they don't want to expose their source, or just because their programmers don't know/like JS. We have already been through this with ActiveX, which was a similar idea, but poorly executed.

> Also it's C/C++, any popular app would be easily ported to mobile devices.

Only if the developers care. There's a chicken-and-egg problem here. If your mobile platform can't interact properly with a large proportion of the web, no one is going to buy it, and so no one will bother to port their site to it.

> "Compile to javascript" is an awful concept, "compile to IR" is better for a number of reasons that I won't go into right now.

Possibly. If you absolutely have to run C/C++ app on the client side, I agree that something like PNaCl (but actually architecture-independent) is a better solution than something like emscripten. But I think it would be even better to 1) run it server side or 2) write it in JavaScript.
glibc is not the only libc in existence. It is reasonable to ask that applications support systems other than those developed by GNU.
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Oh, also... once you're in the field, the placeholder disappears and you have no idea what you were meant to type (which is why the plugin slides to the side by default).
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mplayer, for example, is just as capably at playing just about any media format, but is definitely far more user-unfriendly than vlc
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I think the issue is more that without a directory your product is useless. How can I see when I'm going to get a reward if you don't tell me? I've signed up like the person you replied to and I've shortened 2 links, but there's no indication if I'm going to get a reward and if that's the case what incentive is there for me to use the link?

At the very least can there be a tick or cross next to the links to confirm whether or not your system supports it? The cynic inside of me wants to say that you don't actually have all these companies signed up, but I doubt you would lie so brazenly... although how you had the time to sign up thousands of retailers and no time to build the product into a usable state confuses me.
Hmmm... not quite a real-world scenario though. I like to consider it a quirky easter-egg :)
It sounds like there's some competition, too.

http://www.mobile-apps-news.com/bricks-vs-clicks-shoprunner-...
I agree. It's ugly, but the interface loads quickly, makes it easy to skip ads/chapters/include subtitles (even if those subtitles are .srt's), easy to change playback speed, etc.

Just like with website design-it's the UX that matters, not how pretty the app is.
I will point out that at least #5 is "solved" by DPD and Interlink Ireland to a reasonable level of accuracy.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

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I was going to respond on this very point myself. This blog entry is just plain wrong wrt the way that xargs works.
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There's a big difference, though: in C#, you can't accidentally mask a base-class function; you have to do so explicitly. If you fail to tell the compiler whether you're overriding, hiding, or replacing, then it's a compilation error. That's a very different beast than the C++ issues discussed in this article.
Ha, awesome.
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I have invested $70k, and spent around $15k so far over the last few months.

I am a unique case because I am also applying for a E2 Investor visa, and $70k was the number recommended by my immigration attorney to satisfy the visa application. If I didn't have that requirement I would have spent less on legal fees and hopefully would have launched the MVP for around $10k. I still haven't launched, but am about to start a closed beta program.
Oracle may not have made many friends among Java devs, but it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that developing a Java app is going to put you at risk of anything. Have you violated the license terms of the JDK (GPL 2)?

Unless your project is an incompatible Java fork you don't have anything to worry about.

Has anyone EVER been sued for simply using standard Java? Can you picture all of IBM's Java-using customers being sued?
See below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3971061
As it said in the post, the review existed when there was no referral program in place...I answered questions and helped current customers during this time because I like the product and I genuinely wanted the company to succeed. There was never a "promise in exchange for good reviews."
You not only misstate my assumptions, but seem to miss my point entirely.

Here is my point: the original human will not experience continuity, therefore it's instinct for self-preservation will not be satisfied. The best it can hope for is to take comfort in knowing that a copy will survive. Personally, this does not comfort me.

I don't doubt the possibility of a very high fidelity copy and supporting simulation, for all intents and purposes. I also think there may be sound reasons to pursue it. But I don't think it will benefit those who are copied, beyond any positive thoughts and feelings it may give them before they die.

Being selfish and programmed for self-preservation, I desire physical immortality instead. I have no interest in donating a copy of my memories to a simulation project.

I hope this clears it up; my interest is quickly waning, and I have work to do.
Agreed!

This has always bugged me. Partly because of the musclehead thing, and partly because it leads to shitty products and insane companies.

If you don't have at least a little skill in an area, you can't really know how to work with those people, and you can't really appreciate the work enough to tell when somebody's doing it well.

Great companies like IDEO and Toyota are explicit about this. IDEO goes out looking for what they call "T-shaped" people: broad general knowledge and serious mastery of one area. Toyota does extensive cross-training and rotation, because you can't optimize a system that you don't understand and appreciate.