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This comment won't be very popular and let me explain why in case you are interested in retaining credibility for potentially well thought out things you say in the future.

First, admitting that you didn't read the article in a comment on that article is showing your hand before the call and you know for a fact it's a losing hand. In the future, just fold and keep your chips.

Second, it's important to retain your clout in a community like this and actually reading the site regularly is key. If you had been reading this week you would have seen the 2 posts riding the top two related to PHP "winning". In both cases you would have gotten grumpy and written precisely this comment on those articles. If you had, you might have actually had a lot of upvotes. This articles is a response to those posts saying something resembling your point with some meditation on the topic.

Third, and this is the key point, try harder before commenting to ascertain whether or not you agree with the article before admitting to having not read it and then personally attacking someone you don't know. If you absolutely have to attack someone, it is universally bad form to attack someone whom you agree with.
I've used vi for 20 years now (gosh), and it's only in the last few weeks that I've actually started using it properly. One example is that I wanted to save in fewer keystrokes; like ZZ, but without quitting. I came up with this for my .vimrc:

:map ZA <Esc>:w<CR>

I find the vim help very intimidating (with every possible feature and then some), but it turns out to be really simple to create your own commands. I also made ctrl-N go to the next file (ctrl-P for the previous file), because I do that a lot.
When you sign up, they ask you what size you want. I haven't gotten an account yet, I just saw an image of it from:

http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/01/zumodrive_is_goi...
unfortunately it wasn't a test, there was no if. I knew it would work.

Ah, the classic claim that there was never any doubt of success. Always works best after the fact.
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Every two weeks it seems like someone writes this post and it hits the top 10. Astounding.
[T]hey still won't teach it in school and noone will remember it when it's gone.

Indeed, imagine a world in which English classes started with bawdy, violence filled plays written to entertain a mostly drunken and illiterate rabble. Then for the second unit, you could maybe read a serializations designed to sell magazines, whose author was paid by the word. Perhaps by the end of the year, you'd be ready for pop-lit writers who had to retcon their stories due to marketing considerations.

Ugh, what a pitiful and impoverished English curriculum it would be if transient crowd-pleasing drek like Shakespeare, Dickens, and Doyle were studied as literature.
A commodity can only compete on location and price, and location doesn't really get you much on the Internet.

I used to think this until I started freelancing, but it's much easier to get quality jobs if you can meet with the client face-to-face at the start of the gig.

If you program only in the most popular programming language, you have made yourself a commodity.

The author seems to think that one PHP programmer is just as good as the next, but there's a whole litany of skills beyond just writing code in whatever language that make someone desirable to a client or employer, from communication to product design. Programmers are not cogs in a machine that you can replace easily as long as you find one that speaks the right language.
Looks good, but I can't stand the cheesy fake-bubbly voiceover on the video. I keep expecting her to tell me it's only 3 easy payments of $19.95 and if I order in the next 10 minutes I'll get a free [something... ]

Anyway, good work, but please rethink the video.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404872

There was one a month ago
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This is too much work for keeping your ratio all nice and swell. Start using newsgroups. You pay a bit and get insanely fast downloads (maxes out my fiber line around 9-10MB/sec).

http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/02/12/how-to-download-with-new...
I got mine in the mail today, btw: http://tlrobinson.net/skitches/nerdmeritbadge01-20090117-182...
I believe he didn't think much, but just wanted to rant.

It's easy to see that an interference from the attribute of one good to the attribute of another is usually not sound. For example, just because bricks are commodities doesn not mean everybody is able to build proper houses.

Also, if we follow his assumptions and logic, any language that would have won the popularity contest, would have been a "looser" by his definition. For nearly everybody would code in the most popular language, therefore reducing prices for programming jobs in that language.

But, of course, this logic is also flawed. For it assumes that supply of programmers increases while demand remains more or less constant, which consequently leads to decreasing prices for programming jobs. However, the popularity of a language may also increase demand for programming jobs. Depending on the relative effects, (average) prices may decrease or increase.
There could also be a secret prize or two
Ah ok - think a usage based account with a cap would be a good option too.
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Governments must step-in and give incentives to Inter-Faith marriages between Jews and Arabs.

This will prevent terrorism.
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Hmmm... I'm getting close to my 2000... Can I request a chicken sandwich with my zen awakening?

Rumor has it that at 20,000 karma you get to know nickb's true identity.
Who gives a f**k if PHP won anything- go build something useful already
Seriously, languages are just a tool for doing things. Cool things.
I created one with a karma of 150, so it has got to be way lower than 200.
It seems to me the probability of a false positive membership test is non-zero.
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It depends on your queryset, but the incremental (and even the full) indexing is very fast. There are some benchmarks against lucene out there (e.g. http://ri.ms/pts ), but none that I've found against tsearch2.
Great strength, but also a great weakness of jQuery. My most common jQuery bug is a rule that doesn't get applied correctly (wrong selector) and it just fails quietly. It's very hard to write console.log statements, or even do debugging breakpoints on a long method chain.

Probably a way to solve this problem. Maybe jQuery needs a monadic method that logs the current chain object without interupting the flow.

$("div.blah > h1").logCurrent("Showing current item:")

where log current would display your message along with a representation of the current state of the transitionary object, and then return it back so you can continue on with the chain.

Something like this probably already exists. Or it wouldnt be too hard to write a plugin.
$2.99/month for 10gig is not too shabby!
The video is cheesy, but I thought that it was entertaining.
If you want tea, you can make some out of barley or brown rice. The stuff is pretty popular in Japan and Korea. I don't usually like most teas, but barley tea can be good.
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PSU here too!
Close: I'm graduated from B-CC.
I agree. But...what do you do to prevent that while still making deals happen?
Something like this would work:

jQuery.fn.logCurrent = function (title) {
console.log(title, $.makeArray(this).join(', '));
return $(this);
};

But it depends what you want to log for each element. I think Firebug's output would give clickable links in that case, but you could alternatively cherrypick class names or the like.
Some other healthy, high protein grains:

Quinoa - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa

Teff - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teff
My first reaction was also that the $129 price tag seems steep, but then I started doing the math: My guess is that if you want to go with EC2 on your own that it's approximately $50 per month cheaper than Solo (see http://tinyurl.com/2q4e3t for the AWS EC2 cost calculator).

However, my guess is that there is a significant number of of Rails hackers who would be better off spending those extra $50 to get going right away instead of messing around themselves trying to configure their EC2 instance.

Ezra mentions a lot of details in his introduction video on the EY site, such as a hardened and and pre-compiled nix packages (cough* rmagick), optimizing MySQL memory usage etc, knowledge they have built-up over the years within EY. Their knowledge is worth money.

The only problem I foresee for EY's Solo is that the 'end result' of an EC instance deployed by Solo is easily copied. All the knowledge poured into the configs are accessible by anyone with root access to the instance, and nothing prevents you from deploying the next instance completely yourself. But if the configuration management tools of Solo (and upcoming Flex) seriously rock than I doubt that this will be an attractive option.
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So that's roughly the same as storing everything on S3 and downloading almost all of it once per month. Of course it has functionality as well, so the pricing appears reasonable to me if used for data that is actually used and not just archived.
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Certainly good advice but it may leave HN readers with the idea that hiring a VP of Sales person early is enough. Blank explicitly rejects this and suggests that early sales are the responsibility of the founders. In particular they have to treat their product as a hypothesis, which few successful sales folks are able to do. They treat objections as something to overcome. Only the founders can balance the question of whether they are talking to the right prospects with the right message about the right features.
Mostly HN has just gotten bigger. This means that bad comments and bad posts happen more often than they used to. But good discussion also happens more often than ever.
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You can also add assertions to jQuery about the length of the chain:

jQuery.fn.assertLength = function(i) {
if (this.length != i) {
throw "Expected " + i + " matching elements, selection was: " + this.get();
}
return this;
}

If you're using jQuery 1.3 (with its new selector property), a better implementation might be:

jQuery.fn.assertLength = function(i) {
if (this.length != i) {
throw "Expected " + i + " matching elements, got " + this.length + ", selector was: " + this.selector;
}
return this;
}

You can then introduce the assertLength method in to your chains like so:

$('div#intro a').assertLength(3).click(...)

If the number of matched elements doesn't match the expected, you get a descriptive exception raised which stops execution and shows up in the error console.
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Made by user jraines: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jraines. Found out about it from this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438699.
Interesting - I wonder if they can/do detect identical files and store them once?

One of the storage solutions I worked on did this - EMC Centera - mostly to handle email archive (in corporates you can end up with the same attachment duplicated many times over - it's a bit of a pain).
I moved from emacs to eclipse, for python development, 3 years ago. Why? The nicely integrated subversion integration (subclipse), the SQLExplorer plugin, and PyDev. I only really use the editing features of pydev, I hardly ever go into debugging mode. I code everything these days using TDD and have eclipse set up to run nose (the test discovery script) on whatever is selected, be it a file or a directory. It also gives me code coverage.

I still love emacs but the future IMO is with eclipse.
No, it's correct -- you can see that by induction on the add operation. If you're allowed to increase n without first ensuring the invariant on the first n members, then it can break, yes.
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What makes you think they can't? They have the same target audience, some of the same investors, and are working on the same problem - universal access to one's files.

I'd:

* Rebrand Zumodrive as a future version of Dropbox

* Use Dropbox's syncing model to ensure the local cache is kept up to date to a user-configurable percentage.

This would allow speedy access where the local device has the space, and still allow access where the local device doesn't have the space.
The "set stack" and map ideas down at the bottom suggest a variant since I was just reading about A* search: a "set priority queue" that keeps the Ullman map's parallel members and values arrays in heap order according to the values. I'm thinking this might be good for A* when the search nodes can be denoted by dense-integer keys but the distances vary over a wider range.
unproven for who? I certainly cannot do it as well which causes my eyes to strain much more which causes headaches.
As unhelpful as the threads you're obviously referencing were, it reads like you're dismissing this kind of discussion in general, i.e. what makes a language successful.

In a forum/news/discussion site founded by the man who designs arc, populated by many others who design languages I don't think it's an worthless topic.

So maybe I don't give a fuck if PHP won anything, but I do give a fuck why it did.

ps. sorry about the swears, ironically I couldn't get the eliding asterisks to work.
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Yeah - this was simply trolling. But when you go through this - he actually has one interesting argument about why PHP won the biggest market share - and it is that it improved in just one aspect over the dominant language of that time - Perl.
HN Proposal
It seems most HN readers seem to prefer HN over the "rest" due to the "discussion" here. Therefore, I propose a simple change:

Instead of making the main heading link to the article, make it link to the discussion, regardless. Have a "view article" link where "discuss" is currently, to allow readers to view the article.

Although a simple change, I think it would change the overall view of HN drastically.

What are your thoughts?
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Do you want to make money or not? You refer to your competitors as commercial - don't you intend to profit from your software yourself? If not, why bother putting so much effort into promotion?

Or do you mean proprietary instead of commercial? There are many commercial Open Source projects. It sounds like you want to become one.

In which case, are you selling support? Bespoke development?

I'd start by getting some testimonials from your existing users.
OT, but the boiling frog myth is just that: a myth.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
Its pretty hellish on your social life though...
I use eclipse when I need the debugger, and for certain code editing tasks (it understands Java code in a way that emacs doesn't... though I'm sure someone could write elisp to solve it) and emacs when I want to impress my friends.

The way I view eclipse is that in general its pretty awesome when the plugin you're using is well developed and thought out. When the UI is nice, everything works great. When you're in mushier territory, emacs (and vi) are like text-editing power saws, they're pretty good at moving text around, but rarely understand the code, so the things you're used to working are pretty much always available.
Thank you - I forgot to do that.
Oh dear. I read that as:

'The healthiest foods for under dollar one'

Damn you argv. Damn you to hell.
Broken link in the submission - here is the actual link:

http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/The_Ultimate_Pa...
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Not really; until recently there were still more new film installations than digital.

The cost of film is on the distributors and studios, but the cost of moving to digital is twice a film projector and falls on the theatre owner (who already has working film equipment). So the distributors (who aren't technically needed in the digital era) are trying to find a way to stay relevant and the studios have been subsidizing the cost of digital installations, so it has been very slow going.
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Even just a link to http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc would do the trick (though a summary would be better - there's plenty of space) - I can never remember which formatting scheme is in use here compared to other sites.
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Which direction do you see things going? I personally feel that more effort is being put into eclipse, hence it has a longer term future.

A big win for Eclipse is the ubiquity of an easily installed, strong, consistent virtual machine across OSes. Cygwin is a great achievement but too much like hard work. I'm compelled to use Windows in my day job, with no admin access, and being able to use the same development environment with my linux box at home is great.
he says to email him, probably because then he'll add them to his big list.
One thing I really like about the idea of Facebook Connect is that I don't have to manage multiple accounts. I usually only register an account on a website if I can see myself using it semi-regularly. That said, like you mentioned, I don't like having it tied to my real name, and Facebook account, so I've never used it. So if I want access to the member's area I usually just check bugmenot.com to see if they have account info.

So I guess what I'm saying is that if you want an open id system on your site, FC would be good because it has such a large userbase. On the other hand I don't know many people that use any open id system, so integrating with FC might be a waste of time.
Hey there is are godd FOSS blogging platforms. I like wordpress. Why don't you check one. If you need I can write for you for "free as in freedom". Just google for chanux, you'll find me :D
The guy that made that stole it from someone else and is getting a book deal out of it.
Should I send you a box of matches, perhaps you'd be interested in burning his article?

There is no "right" intellectualism, thinking about things and analyzing things does not first have to pass through a filter created by you on what is right to think about, and what not.

Your statement is awful because it advocates the creation of a limited and closed world, with only special topics being "worthy" of thought.
I'm in the habit of opening the link and the discussion (if any) in tabs immediately after each other. Then I can flit back and forth as required. Middle click - tab open - job done. I think your suggestion would slow me down.

It also doesn't work in those cases where there is, as yet, no discussion, as often happens with my submissions 8-(

Perhaps there should be a new link that opens a new window with left and right frames, left with the article, right with the discussion.
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[3] I think this is what people mean when they talk about the "meaning of life." On the face of it, this seems an odd idea. Life isn't an expression; how could it have meaning? But it can have a quality that feels a lot like meaning. In a project like a compiler, you have to solve a lot of problems, but the problems all fall into a pattern, as in a signal. Whereas when the problems you have to solve are random, they seem like noise.

http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
I've heard of this kind of usage before, and it caught me totally by surprise. Google must be loving this. It's no longer a funny/music/weird video portal, it's now a place where people go to find information and knowledge (even more since they moved googletalks into youtube).
http://browsershots.org/ can be pretty useful as well.
I don't think it would be much clutter if it only shows for edited posts. It would probably also cause an overall reduction in the number of edits.
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But reddit, digg, and HN are all sources of group-think, not really diversity.

Of the 3, HN is the only one that really welcome true contrariness SOMETIMES, but I've still been downmodded for pointing out biases and groupthink here.

And I'm not even an asshole about it.
Posting a message like that without supplying references or evidence just seems wrong.
There's a difference between pulp and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's understanding (and manipulation) of the human condition is self-aware, with a wink and a nod.

Pulp, on the other hand, is typified by "Pregnant by the Millionaire." (A real book.) The author may have a certain level of self-loathing (doubt it), but these books are straight for all it's worth.
Nota bene: You may think what I'm about to write has something to do with your last name, but I'm not that funny.

HN is very predictable, in some ways. It's not predictable with 100% accuracy like digg or reddit.

But, still, HN people have a group identity to a large degree. And if you attack that group identity, the group is interested in the attack and they are ready to circle the wagons.

Both interest and wagon-circling in this context mean upvoting so other people see it.

Hasn't just about everything Giles' written about HN come up on the front page?
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Why do you think you'll be able to spot the root problem if you can't even pick an industry?
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UK != socialist Europe, I suggest you relocate first, I can only talk about Belgium and I'm fairly sure you can game the system. Many countries do not require these monthly/weekly/whatever checks. 60% - 80% of current pay is pretty standard, but yes: every country has their own rules & after X months you really need to get a job again.

If you're looking for a moral justification, what about this: the baby-boomers set up a social security system that 'conveniently' collapses after they are long dead. The younger generations will not reap the benefits of this system, they will only carry the burden.

So why don't you take some of your tax money back and get a little retirement right now? Or better yet: do something productive outside of the system.
Maybe a bit vague, yes. But "linguasexuality" has got to take the cake. It sounds hot.
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I think the limit for comments down-voting is 75 (or a number close to 75).
Thanks for the reply.
That leads me rather automatically to rephrase my question: "Why no man page?"
And (sorry to be such a newb) what is News News? Do you mean just http://news.ycombinator.com/news ? If so the SEARCH button/form is proving hard for me to find !?¿?!
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a movie he might like Nuovo cinema Paradiso
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/
But AFAICT, the pop and restore operations stop working once you call del. But if your algorithm only ever adds and backtraces, you should be fine (if you know how many elements you will add or are happy to realloc your arrays from time to time, making add logarithmic).
Does this mean the content of your post is a joke? Can someone just delete the link and we can move on.
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