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Who says the free market can't provide law and order!
finding it ironic that i found this article on HN, a content aggregation site...;)
And a smack upside the head now could be what propels them to up their game.
I can't imagine managing an open-source project as big as Linux. Therefore, I cannot judge Linus' way of voicing out his mind.

But if there is one advantage I see from the way he does it is that it drives careless and willfully ignorant people away from his project.

In my personal opinion, I think people are quickly judging Linus' personality based on some texts they see on their computer screen alone.
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Yes really. Anyone can hit ok, but not anyone knows the admin password. Someone can't walk up to your machine while you're away and install software in Linux, they can in windows. Hitting Ok is not sufficient. The point of sudo is to verify your identity, an ok prompt does not do that.
It's very important to train people. Otherwise, they get the idea that their entitled to an instant response.
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Sorry for the stupid question that ignores the rest of your excellent summary:

"dismiss with prejudice"

What does 'with prejudice' imply here? I've seen this used many times in various government/legal contexts ('cancelled without prejudice') etc...

What does the 'with/without prejudice' part mean?
There are precedents for APIs being protectable by copyright? :( Which ninth circuit cases are you referring to?
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Plenty of skydivers have landed without a parachute, just not well.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-fall#Surviving_falls
Schema changes are exclusively an application-layer change in MongoDB. So MongoDB can support as many schemas as you want at the same time whilst you are migrating.

Also don't forget that MongoDB can have arrays and sets as a "column" type. Which if you tried to replicate in RDBMS would mean a multi-table migration.
You have a very valid point. Recently, it seemed that Linus couldn't go 5 minutes without calling someone a moron. So, I went to his G+ feed and read a few entries. It seems he does NOT call someone a moron in every post! edit: He must get quite frustrated sometimes.
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"a new way to access/axis the web".. they keep mentioning it in the demo video.
The only legit companies I've seen use popunders in the last 5 years are (1) Netflix (2) American Express. There must be something those 2 companies are doing as it's specific to them and them only.
Steve Pavlina wrote a related article titled Self Help Junkies: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/04/self-help-junkies/
Aww, you saw through my veil of mystery:P I was just curious to see if games are more addictive for you personally then other "common" addictive activities.

I wonder if it's because games and TV have something in common that the other activities don't: A storyline. I personally get a little engrossed in media, but only for a few hours then I'm bored. Games, however, I can play all day. Other activities just don't have the same pull for me.
It completely tweaks the way you search the web.
what kind of information? also, name was a bit confusing, but I suppose it's https://qwickbit.com/ pretty simple design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearchMe

I remember when this came out -- they spent a lot advertising this same "revolution", there were billboards and everything for it.
We use a whole bunch, some of the main ones:

- async => helpful async library https://github.com/caolan/async

- nodeinspector => node js debugging in a nice webkit UI https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector

- riakjs => for talking to Riak: http://riakjs.org/

- knox => S3 helper https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox

- optimist => helper lib for writing command line node apps (no more bash :) https://github.com/substack/node-optimist

- mocha => unit testing node code https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha

- emailjs => email helper https://github.com/eleith/emailjs

- uglifyjs => code minification https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS
Why is it rare for RPC/filesystem failures to not be handled at the level of the call?

I think its much more natural for a memcache API to return an error if the server is not reachable, and I can continue to execute the current function. Similarly, I think its more natural for a "users" API to return an error if a particular user doesn't exist so I can redirect to a signup page or something, rather than throw a UserNotExistException.

And yes, errors as return values may seem to add more code to simple examples. But I find it does wonders for clarity/readability. Using "regular" control-flow for error conditions and the "happy path" makes code much easier to follow; this is as opposed to trying to intuit the different ways control can jump from the happy path into the error handling.

Also, I find that having to write the "if error return error" makes me pause to think about how to handle errors properly. For example, if the function I'm writing literally cannot proceed I will return the error. If its a really weird place to be getting an error, write it to a log and return the error. If I can ignore errors (like the memcache example above) then I keep going.
Cause he is MAXXXTREME!
Hanlon's Razor.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Thanks so much, Tom. Nice words coming from you.
Can I send you an email?
I absolutely agree in theory.

But I've found certain individuals tend to have a disproportionately high number of idiotic ideas. My frustration builds quickly with said individuals, and I'm only human.

I insist, however, upon giving everyone the benefit of the doubt for the first few idiotic ideas, because I expect the same in return. I'm not immune to bouts of idiocy myself.
The text of the personal reply makes this possibility unlikely:

I'd really hate to lose the "Best Page In The Universe",
maybe we can find something a bit more suited to your liking.

Obviously it's not just a random email address that someone forwarded on to Maddox if the site name is specifically mentioned.
The iOS version looks genuinely interesting. I bet they would have better success if they made it a real browser on desktop too, they could have used Chromium, like Rockmelt did.
I suppose it has changed. But it's always been somewhat focused on startups and the startup lifestyle.
> The NS classes were introduced as part of OPENSTEP

This is incorrect - the NS prefix was introduced in NEXTSTEP along with EOF.

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Agree. By comparison a single panelist UDRP for a domain name is $1500 ($1300 a little less at adrforum.com)

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/guide/index.html#b3
"If you have a question on your mind, just type in whatever the thing you want to axis!"
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Should you train that person or should they train themselves?
What frustrates me is you young bucks confusing Linus' personality with his technical prowess. He is not (only) his code.

What if you found out Mozart ate little babies. Some of you would say that his music sucks. Some of you would say "Well, Mozart had to eat babies, to fuel his creative genius!" Few would accept that Mozart was a flipping musical genius who ate babies.

From what I've read online, Linus can be a churlish little bitch, obviously ignoring the issue at hand when it suits him. Sometimes, he calls someone a moron, because they have done something he doesn't like, for some social reason.

But he's a damn fine programmer, and can logic it up with the best of 'em. Often, when you get the the moron blessing from Linus, you have made a grave technical error, and you should be called on it. I wouldn't use the same style as Linus, but ey, to each his own.

Just enjoy him for what he is, and leave the cult of personality stuff for others.
Friendly encouragement is a far better motivator.

Psychologists have demonstrated that positive reinforcement causes lasting, long-term change, while negative reinforcement only impels temporary change.
A year or so ago this was also the case with Facebook [0]. I believe it's a simple compromise between user experience and security. You can probably eliminate a large portion of user frustration this way. Before you instinctively respond with something like "but security should be the NUMBER ONE priority," realize that you're always making a compromise between user experience and security, and in fact, the two aren't even orthogonal. You could require users to purchase and use biometric scanners to authenticate, but that would likely be very frustrating. Or, you could require users to use a 50 character password with tons of entropy, but that would probably just lead to users leaving, or (perhaps worse) writing their password on a note stuck to their monitor.

[0] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-passwords-are-no... —Actually, Facebook wasn't completely case insensitive. It only accepts the chosen password and a version with every character's case inverted.
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I was tempted to say something similar. But this is a thread about Linus.

As for your use of find, I rarely ever use find for anything more than printing a recursive dir listing. I always gravitate toward different approaches for doing the other things it can do. Syntax is probably one of the reasons. I'm just not motivated to learn find's idiosyncratic syntax. Why not just make find use C-like syntax as does awk? If I was to redesign UNIX, every utility would, where possible, use a C-like syntax. Because then the user would naturally be learning a little bit about C right from the start.

Have you ever tried the k language?

If you like terse, it is a pleasure to use.

Generally, I like sed as an example of a terse, compact language (and sed seems a logical extension of ed, not something wildly and arbitrarily different), except when it's necessary to use -e to separate commands. Being able to use semicolons to separate commands allows more density.

I have always posited the verbosity (and the complexity) of the shell comes from the need for quoting and escaping. If you could avoid those two necessities, the command line could be more concise, and readable.
That's not actually his problem. They could easily add an unsubscribe link and make everyone's lives easier, but that would screw up the faux familiarity.

In fact, if this is a US company, I'm reasonably confident those messages are not CAN-SPAM compliant.
Why isn't that technique (normalizing then hashing) acceptable? There is always a compromise between user experience and security. Why allow three character passwords, or passwords of "password", but not case insensitive passwords?
Someone has launched the same niche website idea as me. Do I abandon the idea?
Hi all,
I'm a long time reader, but first time poster.

I have spent the last few months developing a website which fills a specific niche market. It isn't unique by any stretch of the imagination, and there are similar sites all through the US and Canada. It is an interesting concept as it focuses on your local community, so I invested a lot of time developing the idea and am at a point where my site is almost finished and ready to "launch".

Last night I discovered that someone has had an almost identical idea and has already launched; my competitor has already had television and radio coverage. Our services and revenue model are almost identical.

I guess I am at a loss as to where to go next, and would like the suggestions from the HN community. Do I

* Ignore the other site and launch... Full steam ahead!

* Wait a month or so and see how the small niche market responds to the competitor to see if it's worth while me launching (essentially having him be my guinea pig)

* Abandon the idea. The sites are similar and the market is small.

Any comments, suggestions, or ideas welcome.
What's the font on the landing page? Is that... Times New Roman?
Yahoo! includes signing key inside Axis (anyone can publish as Yahoo!)
Fake Yahoo! Axis extension, made by the same guy who tweeted the above: https://github.com/nikcub/yahoo-spoof
"I see a huge potential to disrupt this market."

Will be tough as the manufacturers are complicit in this way of doing business.

As you said: "and even the manufacturers websites don't list most of the model names or make them easily identifiable"
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Yes, yes, 100 times yes. I'm so sick of the shallow, mindless BS these sites repost constantly. Great post, great details and investigation. Thanks
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I'm not sure what jacquesm's political and philosophical views are, but the whole idea of governments (including democratic governments) is that there is more than one kind of person (namely, that some people can justifiably perform violent acts like taking a portion of your income).
Well done Yahoo, is it a cert they use on all their products / sites or just this one?

Wondering about the pain the revocation is gonna cause.
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I worked at Amazon and we found (to our surprise) that power users were using these commands from the build in Kindle tweeting functionality.

I think the number of power users using this feature is probably actually higher than the number of false positives of exactly 2 word tweets where the first is get
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I think the point is he trying to make is that the plugin is for the browser which should have abstracted away all OS specifics.

I.e. this plugin should work on any OS that the browser does.
>>This is a dying company. I have ZERO respect for any employee of a company like this.

And I would have ZERO respect for any employee who runs from a company just because its dying. Those are the last kind people I would hire, because those are the classic cases of what Zed Shaw describes are the kind of people who work for successful companies, and not to work to make the company successful.

Rats are first ones to run from a sinking ship. And employees who generally leave first during the times of crisis are generally people who have no qualities to be war time leaders, who can steer and motivate their teams in difficult times. I would never trust such people with any kind of work that is important.

When I see such people, I often wonder what are they actually worth? If its for money and nothing else, what is the point in really hiring such people for important work? How can they even be trusted when to handle responsibilities in times of crisis, which forces them to quit? Its easy to continue work when things are normal in a successful flow. But its take a lot more heart and character to last through tough and difficult times.

When I see people who want to join Google, or Facebook or <anything> just because its successful, and somebody else has already done the base work to make the company successful. I see people who just like to be part of somebody else's success without contributing nothing much to it.
Not to mention the ";)" completely messing with the matching brackets.
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>User for 244 days

I think PG has specifically addressed this in the guidelines.

edit: here it is:

>If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
"Dismissed with prejudice" means the matter isn't eligible to be brought before the court again (due to overwhelming bogosity or other such factors).
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I notice that your account is less than a year old, so I'll point you to the HN Guidelines:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a
submission is inappropriate for the site. If you
think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by
going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.
(Not all users will see this; there is a karma
threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also
comment that you did.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't
submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.
(It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think your link is broken.
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For those who don't know 'losethos': he's a guy who has been hellbanned from HN for a few years now.

Linked is a submission of his from quite a while back -- soliciting help.

Do you think I should seek investors? The fact that there is absoluetly zero buzz, makes me pesimistic. No emails, nothing.

He sounds very reasonable here... he's talking about something non-technical, and he's voicing sentiments of emotional pain -- I think there is a serious ethical issue of how HN has handled things here.

There he is... asking for advice, but he's not even allowed to do that. No-one can see anything he says, no-one can hear his call for help.

I do recall seeing him on other forums a few years back, and his touch on reality, apparently, has only been dwindling since then. It just breaks my heart that things had to be this way -- that he was taunted for "wasting his time" writing a 64-bit operating system, instead of being treated with kindness and respect, with the same dignity that everyone deserves.
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I've also noticed a strange "anti-college" sentiment being expressed recently. Or, it could just be my own personal bias after having decided to go back to school after being in industry for several years.
Great diagram! But I think some of the points are in the wrong ven locations. "Will a lot of people buy this?" should probably be in the 'Market Opportunity' and Product' section and vice versa for the others.
I agree with him. I feel like adding tags that we can filter might solve most of it.
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It means that the judgment is final and the case cannot be reopened.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_%28law%29
It seems to be that there are pretty much "roles" that we expect public persona to fill. RMS is supposed to be a freedom nut, Linus is supposed to be a rude ranting geek, Palin is supposed to be a complete nut that never gets anything right and so on.

Somehow it seems that in the flow of news and information we turn all the individuals into characters from a sitcom. Not allowing information through when they are acting "out of character" or even appearing to be quite human.
I don't know what kind of damage you can cause with this information, but I do think that posting this publicly was pretty unethical. You should have contacted Yahoo and then disclosed the information after.

EDIT: And here comes the downvotes. If you disagree with what I said then you really should post a response because you're preventing me from understanding why I might be wrong. If I knew your house door was unlocked, would it be okay for me to tell everyone in the world before I let you know?
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You've literally never submitted a single link to this website, you don't get to complain.
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Hey! Getting my app to do something of questionable utility in a completely stereotypical but pretty-looking way featured on Lifehacker is the keystone of my marketing plan!
It depends.

If you feel like you're close to product/market fit or if your runway is short on your startup, you might want to continue the way you've been doing things.

On the other hand, as a self-taught programmer, I imagine there are a lot of skills that you can improve on. The danger of writing spaghetti code is you can't reuse it, and if you continue to write spaghetti code, it be becomes a habit. In the long term, your best investment is in yourself. Time spent on getting good at your craft may help you to get your product to market faster.

Also think about how much time you expect to use on revising/debugging old code. If you expect to extend or build on top your code, it is usually worth spending time revising it. I like to believe there are different degrees in quality for code. Spend more time on more vital or core components and less on others.
It isn't a matter of having strong, dissenting, controversial, or unpopular opinions. It's a matter of not having tact.
Bullshit right back. I don't pay attention to the others, but Torvalds is awful. His bizarro personal attack on C++ programmers when explaining why C++ isn't used in the kernel was wildly unnecessary. There are sufficient technical reasons alone. I watched his talk on git where he repeatedly said SVN sucked in order to make the case for git, but he never gave any example of why SVN sucks. In other words, the only people to benefit from his comments were git users who already shared his hate for SVN.

I like Linux. I cannot stand Linus, and I'll avoid him at every chance. He relishes in being awful to people and, regardless of his technical contribution, he seems like a terrible person.
You should not abandon the idea. Keep working on it and do it better. Your goal should be 1% of US market and you'll be fine.
Not just that but also macro variables that affect the performance of the equity markets as a whole... He is being prudent in diversifying a fraction of his exposure away not just of FB, but also from the asset class and perhaps even the currency / country.
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