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That's an interesting viewpoint, which explains some of the problems I have been having with git.

I can see that git is a very natural way of storing, modifying and passing around change sets, to a range of people.

I previously used svn more for a way of 'recording all of history', and it annoys me that git really feels like it fights against this viewpoint. I can see why, as recording all of history makes passing around, changing and merging changesets more a pain.

Don't really have a solution to this. Might try hg, as it might fit better with my mental model.
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While I agree with those safeguards, the big disadvantage (particularly when working with a large group of people) is that they are all defeatable by a stupid / uninformed team member, particularly if it isn't noticed for a couple of months.

Of course you can argue that we shouldn't work with stupid / uninformed people, but often it is unavoidable.
The last paragraph sums up the reason why I never pay attention to BI or their headlines:

"We don't know when, or even if, Facebook will actually release a phone. But, if it does happen, it will have had plenty of experience figuring out the basic applications every smartphone needs to be successful."

Facebook certainly does have many apps in place to build their own OS (and they should) but these features needed to be broken up into different apps or it would've created a convoluted single mobile app.
The phrase "new physics" refers to the jargon of calling various subfields something-physics (like "Higgs-physics" or "B-physics"). New physics is correspondingly any additional field in the standard model ( and therefore just a tweak).
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Relativity & Quantum Mechanics were massive paradigm shifts. In contrast, any flaw in the Standard Model, while exciting, will likely be orders of magnitude smaller in terms of impacting how we view the world.

Also we already know the Standard Model is not the complete picture (it cannot integrate QM & General Relativity).
I, as an Indian am tired of the 'World's Biggest Democracy' label. I feel it is a clever way for India's politicians to mask huge problems we face as a democracy - rampant social inequality, throwing money at problems that need creative solutions cotinuous effort and commitment etc.

Except for very few states, turn up for elections seldom crosses 50%. If the number of people participating is the measure for biggest, I would think there are other places with bigger participation in the electoral process.
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Michael Viscardi's paper on the Dirichlet Problem (with his mentor as co-author) can be found here:

http://www.heldermann-verlag.de/cmf/cmf05/cmf05027.pdf

Here is some press coverage of Michael Viscardi:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10336018/ns/technology_and_scien...

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=1391089

http://presskit.ditd.org/2006_Davidson_Fellows_Press_Kit/200...

http://www.ams.org/notices/200603/people.pdf

(second and third pages of link above)

I had the privilege of meeting Michael Viscardi at a Davidson Institute for Talent Development event in 2007. He has an engaging curiosity. He said that he worked with his mentor by reading undergraduate books about mathematics and working through the problems until he got stuck. Then he would ask his mentor what else he should read to understand the part of the first book that puzzled him. He relentlessly moved forward in his understanding of mathematics, both through this process and through the American Mathematics Competitions

http://amc.maa.org/

programs, until he found the Dirichlet Problem and began working on that. Asked at the 2007 event what the applications of solving that problem are, he said that he (then) had no idea what the applications of the solution would be, but that he had heard from other researchers that there are important physics applications for the solution. When Viscardi entered Harvard University, before the usual age of college entrance, he didn't even take Harvard's legendary Math 55 course

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55

but went immediately into taking graduate-level courses in Harvard's mathematics department. It will be interesting to see his further development as a mathematician.
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It's not that hard to find cases in C where x=a+b; y=c+d; is slower than x=a+b; y=c+d;. What that happens has very little to do with C you really do need to dig down a level to understand what's going on. That said, the C compiler was optimized for a range of diffrent CPU's all with their own preferences so it will swap some instructions around to help you along, but it's not prefect which is IMO some of the oddities's associated with C.

68000 assembly is vary different from x86-64. x86-64 has a huge instruction set with a lot of legacy crap, multiple execution units even on a single core chip, does out of order instructions etc. Just poke around http://sandpile.org/ for a few minutes and you will probably learn something new. Then read up on L1 cache which is a vary strange beast that's fast etc.
That's exactly what George Patton should have said to motivate his troops. So I would not consider his quotations worth anything when considering the benefits of U.S. weaponry.
Not sure how old your experience is, but there's increasingly less friction here.
In all reality, one of the best places to start is Wikipedia. The sources quoted in the game theory articles are fantastic.

Also, "Game Theory" by Fudenberg and Tirole of you're mathy, or Gibbons if you're wanting a fairly awesome introduction: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Applied-Economists-ebook/d...

There are also a lot of blogs on algorithmic (computational) game theory if that is of interest to you.
And that's all I need ;)
How is PHP's namespace implementation inadequate? Use-as statements are the staple of every PHP library that uses namespaces, and this seems like a half-measure to placate less-experienced programmers.
Previous submission, with a few comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4013021

I'm glad that there is some more discussion of this issue, as medical devices are some of the main high technology products in my part of the United States, and my son (also a Hacker News participant) worked as an intern at one of the medical device companies here last year. Medical device businesses are much more regulated as an industry than are most Web-based SaaS businesses.
"Apple, the most valuable company in the world, maniacally focuses on product experiences, down to minute details like the experience of unboxing an iPhone."

Sure, they focus on the experience their customers have...using the physical products they just bought from Apple. I thought it was the conventional wisdom, by now, that Apple was a hardware manufacturer and they make money by getting you to buy physical objects. iTunes, iCloud, etc are ways to make their hardware more attractive.
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See previous discussion, which digs into the sources and suggests that there is less here than the headline promises:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676

Or see

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4030148

as an example of how a major mathematical discovery by a teenager is verified and followed up.
You're correct, I did not mean to slight the contribution of the RAF and other Allied air forces. (Though I think my other comments should illustrate that I am far from a "national triumphalist.")
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Hi. Written EMRs and built medical devices (10-12 years exp between them). In many cases messages from devices and external systems are processed asynchronously, so there isn't much choice but to trust remote timestamps.. I may be getting data minutes or hours later. Just a distributed system challenge.

The time zone issue is a human one. Historically clinicians schedule doses at "Every 3 hours" or "Once per day, 8am". Humans figure out what that means, but a dose scheduling system that shifts 8am an hour after daylight savings (because it interpreted the schedule as "every 24 hours" is going to run aground with nurses when it tells them they're late). However, every 3 hours is pretty obviously an interval and likely shouldn't shift by 30% of the interval!

This isn't a distinction that clinicians are used to making, but as someone who had to write some of the first dose-scheduling systems focused on clinical accuracy, we ran into this challenge and did a lot of thinking about which schedules really meant 'intervals' of specific units of time and which ones meant 'due at these calendar times every day'.

It's an interesting example of a problem that introducing technology introduces/exposes while showing up to fix other things.
I recently took a course in the university about elementary particles. The expression "new physics" means they are measuring something that is unexpected, and that they think that to explain it they will have to make some correction to the "standard model", for example, add another particle/field/interaction.
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What medication is going to help me? Antidepressants that cause brain fog and increase my serotonin levels so I'm delusionally happy? Antipsychotics that inhibit dopamine and therefore any hope of concentration? Hypnotics or benzos to inebriate me from anxiety? Marijuana to destroy my short term memory? Modafinil or other stimulants? Perhaps some X-treme Brain Hacks like ECT or massive brain trauma will solve my overthinking?

I'm quite familiar with this field, and I've been recently evaluated as completely mentally well by two mental health professionals, a career psychiatrist and a general mental evaluation practitioner. I have papers to prove it.

Even so, how do you suppose I get to the doctor or pay for this medication? Remember, I'm hardcore into the startup lifestyle, going at it with all I've got, just like I read on here!

I need help with food first before I could even dream of that luxury, and please don't make assumptions based on your superficial armchair diagnosis. I don't quality for state help because I'm not registered in the state. But even if I was...

I'm in the Bay Area. There's definitely not a problem with mental illness here, social services has it all covered! Come on out, kids! Come achieve your dreams of being a hacker and get back at the bullies! Trust us, we're your heroes!

For every kid that makes a million bucks from YC (and is then promptly sucked into development hell for a decade) there are a hundred more that end up like me. Don't gloss over it, because that makes YOU responsible.

Don't give me this sad little naive dismissal about "navigating my life." My mind works fine. This isn't a utopian society and people fall through the cracks every day. How many kids are going to end up homeless trying to be like that AOL kid? Look at LA and what Hollywood does!

What is truly mentally ill is believing you're going to change the world and make a billion dollars from your useless cloud todo list app or whatever. Half of these startups are funded because they were college buddies with a junior VC, or it's a company showing how big and tough their balls are by dumping some huge amount of money on a random target to show corporate dominance.
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If you're involved in this project, please fix one thing on your website: What on earth is this?

You need a simple statement of what the project actually achieves for me, not random promises of "versioning" or pictures of calendars. I've no idea why I need them.

Rob Walling's "Promise to verb your noun" is a great way to quickly get something up.

Edit: Just read about it on Wikipedia. Now I get it.
Thanks for your input. I'll get going in that direction and see where it leads to.

I like the long-term view of writing, which is likely to be useful to more people for a longer time - I think I've heard these referred to as 'pillar posts', but there the slant was more on winning readers organically through a sheer volume of wordcount in the post. I'll be more specific, but follow the proven formats you mention.
Configuring every single device to use NTP is a hassle. Do medical devices on an intranet use DHCP? DHCP is capable of handing out NTP server addresses, although I don't think it's very common. Another hacky option would be to override "pool.ntp.org" on the intranet's DNS server so it points to an internal server.
Robert Scoble makes his money by having lots of followers, so obviously follower counts matter to him, but they have absolutely no bearing on whether or not a site is a "ghost town" or not. I can follow Robert Scoble on G+ and NEVER interact with any of his content, so can 1,500,000 others (which is what has happened) and somehow that isn't a ghost town?

If you want real hard evidence that G+ is a ghost town (in that nobody uses it):

Robert Scoble posted a video yesterday: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/ToU5ESJY... and that video got 778 views (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcLhi1VUbmc).

Out of 1,500,000 "followers" on Google+ less than 1,000 take notice of his posts. That's even worse than Twitter.
I agree that code is not the only thing that should be worked on. Loving customers, treating them with respect and listening to them is also essential to me.
I am currently working on an idea and have a lot of questions on different aspects and don't even know where to look for answers. Is there some online resources related to the different aspects of an online business? (understanding a service that you pay for and use online, such as BaseCamp from 37signals). For example, should you start to give a service for free at the beginning and then monetize it when you have a lot of users, if you do so, is there some legal issues following this way? Another example, the disclaimer: how do you manage this, does it really protect the entrepreneur? I feel like there is a lot to considered out of the code itself and the marketing.
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and considering that everything is expensive, the wages are not that high either. Moreover buying in apartment in a appropriated size (>=55m^2) close to the city in Stockholm is always >3 million SEK (~330k €).
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They are also surprisingly closely related to Tipi's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipi
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Ah, thanks tokenadult. Searched around but didn't see it posted previously.
I bought a used $50 reel-style push mower (like your grandpa probably had) and started using it to mow my 1.7 acre yard. At the end, I have nicely trimmed grass and a crazy effective workout.
But he's suing in the U.S. Not in Sweden.
Starting out in a new field (gym in this case) with unrealistic expectations (unrealistic training plan) and trying to meet these unrealistic expectations can quickly deject ones efforts. The issue is with setting unrealistic goals, and NOT asking for advice / direction from experts (gym trainers in this case) early on. It's the same problem faced the world round for anyone starting out in a new field with unrealistic expectations and lacking patients.

Yes, going to the gym with no set plan and allowing this plan to evolve will encourage you to go more often if you are the type of person who sets unrealistic goals and gets dejected by not meeting them. But this, I think is NOT the best way to go about achieving your goals, it's a slower path, asking advice from experts will shorten your path.

And taking Arnold Schwarzenegger as a role model is not a fair motivator for ones efforts. Trying to emulate the efforts of someone who's already long into their career without knowing all the "tricks of the trade" namely anabolic steroids is unfair to you. For me a better role model would be someone who's just a bit ahead of me who's already taken on advice from experts!
That's a REALLY BIG "If" there. Like the "neutrinos observed moving faster than light" recent non-story, these individual experimental anomalies should be regarded with a high degree of suspicion.

We have a long way to go as far as accumulating evidence contrary to the Standard Model before we get to an analogous situation to where Einstein was when he postulated Relativity.
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Same here, tried in Chrome and Opera, same result.
The research tested 1700 devices. A single device that is off by 42 years (reset to Unix epoch?) would have skewed the average by over 9 days. So unless a number of other devices had similarly extreme errors in the opposite direction (and even if they did, I'm pretty sure the researcher would have only looked at the absolute magnitude of the error, not their direction), I think it would be safe to assume that extreme cases were excluded from the average.

Bnd you're right, 80% of them were within 30 minutes of the right time.

> "One in five were off by more than 30 minutes"

In fact, given that the article mentions daylight saving time as a major problem, I'm not surprised that the average error approaches half an hour. At any given time, a lot of machines would be running in the wrong timezone.
I wish that when I read a large discussion (100+ comments) there would be a way to distinguish comments I have already seen. Because for a large discussion I care about, I'll revisit it several times to see what was added. Except right now, I have to rescan everythng.

When I was using micromobs.com for discussion groups, they had a very simple and elegant system: keep all comments in place to preserve context, but grey out the ones I have already seen. The problem on HN is that it would conflict with bad comments. Maybe use a different color?
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Personally I don't approve of _software_ patents but these ones don't bother me that much. I don't really see this different from all the other patent licensing deals we have with the rest of the (wireless) industry. These are part of the way these standards are developed (available under FRAND licenses) and licensed.

If you want to bring in a moral perspective I personally feel that a bigger problem is what to do about "legal intercept" features. Especially when selling equipment to countries with regimes that want to misuse them.

But lets say this included some trivial (or non-trivial) software patent and this jointly owned company started trolling a lot of individual developers and/or smaller companies. Then I would feel different about this.
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First of all, I think I should point out that I released a free guide in 2007 showing people how to buy and sell domains whilst making a large profit on them & this method involved GoDaddy Auctions (TDNam).

With regards to the service you are providing I think it’s one of the closest offerings to my guide in doing the filtering for domains.

However, I'm not here to talk about the guide I'm here to answer some of your questions.

First of all, it does add some value to GoDaddy Auctions to the normal user but there are some features missing which would improve the usability and functionality of the service.

Whilst the usability of it is 'OK' although when you compare it to other domain services it’s actually a LOT better than others - there’s a few features such as 'price', ability to filter domain extension, remove hyphens etc that need to be added and also the 200 limit isn't as much as when I'm using GoDaddy Auctions, I'm always selecting the 500 option (and then I still think 500 is too limiting!)

There are other types of auctions on GoDaddy Auctions - a lot of trades happen around "buy it now" and a few other options which your service doesn't seem to pull them - you really should.

I'm not sure about the issues with regards to GoDaddy itself as they own gomommy.com (which redirects to GoDaddy) and I'm not sure if they hold a trademark on "GoMommy" but you should definitely look into it from a trademark perspective.

With regards to monetization of the service, there are a few ways you could do it - one way is via a fee - although $10/month is a little high for it as it currently stands and you also need to compare this to TDNam (GoDaddy Auctions) that the price point is only $5/year.

If you are looking to charge for the service, then you definitely should add a lot more features to the service (including some of the ones I listed above).

However, there’s also incorporating GoDaddy's Affiliate Programme into the service - so that whenever anyone buys the domain, you get a % of the sale. This wouldn't even be hard to incorporate as they already get to the auction clicking the link anyway so it’s just slightly modifying the links to incorporate your affiliate code.

Additionally, you could also offer a 'free' and 'paid' services - the 'free' being the one currently as it stands (although I would still add some features) which incorporates the affiliate option and the 'paid' having a lot more features whilst still incorporating the affiliate links.
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Another good one is http://gmvault.org. I used this just recently to backup and transfer all of my Google Apps emails to a separate gmail account since I'm transferring my apps domain to a different provider. Going just off of what the article says about BaGoMa, Gmvault seems to be comparable in features.
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doing ineffective things is not the same as not taking yourself seriously.

in general, what sort of physical activity is good for you, how to get started, how to progress, and so on are all pretty well understood. not only that, it is all pretty straight forward.

whether at working out or anything else (e.g. learning to program or learning the banjo) you should worry about doing it effectively. get the brush strokes of that right -- it is much easier to stick to something you see yourself improving on.

taking yourself seriously are things like thinking that if you miss a workout day your regime is ruined, obsessively counting your calories, etc. avoid that.
A few things:

- If you're using bash to install dependencies, it might make sense to stick it in a shell file and run as a provisioner on `vagrant up` [1]

- You can set the NFS shared folder for your working directory to be anything you want in your Vagrantfile, eliminating cp'ing files. [2]

- `pip freeze` catches everything pip has installed, while you really only need Flask, virtualenv and gunicorn in your requirements. [3]

As people have said, Chef and Puppet will help with all of the above and the configuration of nginx, which is awesome. If you use a provisioner, when it comes time to deploy to an actual server, you'll have less manual work to do.

It also has the added benefit of heading towards dev-prod parity, something Vagrant can help with a lot.

[1] http://vagrantup.com/v1/docs/provisioners/shell.html

[2] http://vagrantup.com/v1/docs/nfs.html

[3] http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/requirements.html#fre...