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Hey there,

I'm a freelance rails developer, done a bunch of startups and working on several new ones based in Europe and the US and I've been here for 3 months already. This city is amazing, and I've met a lot of programmers (even American ones doing the Tim Ferriss thing). When do you arrive? Feel free to email me, msethi@stanford.edu.
C# feels dreadfully underdesigned to me. Despite its massive flaws, I still love Java for how consistent it is, and for how well-thought out it is. For instance, generics in C# aren't getting covariance and contravariance until 4.0, which I consider to be a fatal flaw. "List<? extends String>" makes so much more sense than "List<out T> where T : string".

That said, I am sad that the BGGA closures proposal won't make the cut for Java 7. I hope that some IDEs and APIs support it anyway.
Missing the application of Foo.description(). That said, I feel that compile-time failure is vastly underrated. Java is making even more progress on that front by introducing type checker frameworks with JSR 308.
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Judging by the number of adultery stories I've heard here and there, I'd imagine it's a few more than we'd expect. Females seem to use it for hooking up, not for any sort of relationship, and it seems to be used especially if one is already in a relationship.

As for gay men, there are many men who hate the idea of finding a hookup or boyfriend in a bar. Gay.com has tons of users, myself included until I met my boyfriend there about two years ago. While that doesn't affect AFF's population (I haven't heard of gay people using it that much) I would imagine the same is true for straight folk.
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Hmm, I would think adulterers would be less inclined to post their own picture online where it could be more easily found. Perhaps they want to get caught I suppose.
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Paraphrased from my fuzzy recollection of some random interview with a recruitment guru:

"The best question to ask is 'What would your mother say was your greatest weakness?' - it's like truth serum. People start babbling about how she thinks that they're always late, or procrastinating, or unreliable and so on."

"What would you say if someone asked you this?"

"'You never call.'"

Apologies that I don't have a better source for this - anyone recognize it?
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Hi!. I'm from Buenos Aires too.

We have BarCamp, WordCamp, PallermoValley, TweetBaires, Starbucks, and a few Apple resellers. What else do you need to live here?
About the same time we stop eating food and everyone lives on super-concentrated Food Pellets(tm) I expect. While driving flying cars on the moon.
Interestingly since writing that Stephenson has stated in interviews that he exclusively uses OSX these days.
Now that Firefox has explicit support for key continuity management, I think I'll just dump my root CA store and go with that. Global PKI is just not such a great idea.
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Overall, I like it. Would be nice not to use Flash for multiple file upload though. Some folks just don't have it. Allow an alternative for one file at a time. Or unpack an uploaded .zip?
I don't think it's necessarily superior. I played with Io a long time ago, and my first thought was: "This is lisp/scheme with a different syntax."

Personally, I think embedability, its syntax, and prototype orientation are great. Especially with javascript becoming so pervasive, other prototype-oriented languages are a great addition, especially since js is not traditionally geared towards running outside a browser.

If Ioke gets concurrency right and is sufficiently fast (around ruby or python) I think it will be an awesome language. I'm very excited about it.
That could have been put a little more politely. ;-)
It wouldn't take 4 hours. The site runs on a CMS (look @ the footer)

So it would take a few minutes. Or even few if you use something like Slinkset
Well, it's not like developing fart application took massive amount of brainpower that was diverted from quest to cure cancer :).
Oh my, we mustn't say bad things about the new messiah. You should look at the political compass web site sometime to see how different the US politicians actually are.

Obama is going to be like any other US president: optionally do some good things, not change some things and make some things worse. The biggest contribution he is likely to make is let us get back to not being embarrassed every time we see our president in the news (well, that and do something sensible about this infernal war).
Posting a site/startup for review means that the user is ready to take the sweet cake "cool stuff!" reviews and even the bad "you built shit" kinda statements right in the face.

P.S: That was just IMO. I don't know what others think of review threads.
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I usually restrain myself on HN, but this time I can't..

Please, oh please oh please keep in mind that "your" is not "you are".

Having to constantly be deciphering (imploded) sentences is exhausting.

"Is he talking about possession?"
"Is he comparing things or putting them in chronological order?".. and so on.
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Same with me. I saved a copy of that photo. :)

When I read about Flickr a couple of years ago, I thought that it would have been a part of a cool 3D game that didn't take off. I never thought is was a tool for 2D game!!

b/w the screenshot... I'm not able to find any Flickr or photo feature that hints that there's a feature to take/view game screenshots.
Huh? He said entreprenuers are going to start fleeing the US and flocking to Chile because of Obama. That's just dumb. Your reaction is equally ... bewildering. I'd rather keep politics off of this site entirely because they have a tendancy to degenerate into knee-jerky stuff like that.
The problem is that for a lot of people, the answer wouldn't really be about business. If they really dug down to think about what their greatest weakness was, they might find it was an issue of character. And those don't go over well in an interview.

What company or government would hire someone who said their greatest weakness was sex addiction, alcoholism, sexism or a vindictive streak? And yet, men such as Bill Clinton, Winston Churchill, Richard Feynman and Thomas Edison have done great work and great things despite those weaknesses.
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No, you just must not say them here. Political discussions about the US president are inappropriate and off-topic for a thread about Argentina on a forum about 'Hacker News'.
Anyways.. :)

I've been asked this question a lot of times.

Usually I've worked hard to dance around the issue, and I guess I've often blown it too.

Once I even voiced my concerns about the sensibility of the question, but the interviewer said I should answer it anyway!

I think I should try something like this in the future:

- What's your greatest weakness?

- Asian women.

( Unlike some people even on HN, I don't claim to see much action though :p )
...if the only consumer Internet companies going public are ten years old and issuing stock to recapitalize rather than to grow their business, yes.
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Hi, thanks for responding.

Either way the app will be based on web technologies, it's just a matter of who does the hosting. So if customers self-host it should be technologies they're comfortable supporting, which IMO rules out Ruby or Python frameworks since most of my targeted customers would likely be using .NET or Java.
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The whole point is that by being able to save only four links, you'll be a little more picky about what you want to save. This webapp is not about saving bookmarks but about _really_ reading things.

Btw, the forth link was supposed to be an easter egg ;)
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great classic read. It should be posted once a year, holiday time seems about right :)
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Decent idea, except for the part where you made it an Apache module. If you'd instead built an app/middleware/server spec like Python's WSGI or Ruby's Rack, it'd be possible to use this sort of thing with more lightweight servers.
Another nasty interview question is something like: "How well do you work under pressure?"

When you hear that, you could interpret it as: "We want you to work your ass off under unrealistic deadlines caused by our incompetent/greedy salespeople and bad management".
As much as I'd like to create an interesting but small iPhone app, this makes me seriously wonder if the people buying iPhone apps is much more mainstream (e.g. college or high school or even grade school) than we realize.

I wonder how many times his fart app was rejected. My guess is it will be hard to unseat his app (Facebook effects).

This is like Facebook apps but with real monetization.
Now thats a world class entrepeneur...
Absolutely. Some languages comfortably support several paradigms, of course (http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?MultiParadigmProgrammingLanguage).
I do know what the paper is but I am sorry to say, it's still a strawman in this case.
You could also have a listen to the stuff at http://www.audiodharma.org/
Its this kind of thing that makes me think karma is a real thing. I've spent the last 2 days working on getting Rhino to work with lighttpd. Haven't gotten far, mainly problems getting lighttpd running on Mac OS X. Either way, its really nice to see other people working on variations of the same theme.
You might want to look at Lua. It's significantly faster than Python (particularly with the LuaJIT compiler! (http://luajit.org/luajit_performance.html), can also be used as a prototype-based language* , and easy embedding was its primary design constraint. It also has tail-call elimination, coroutines, closures, and so on; semantically, it's very much like Scheme with a vaguely Python-like syntax.

* The language design favors hooks (called "metatables") for adding features to the core over adding features directly, to keep it small and flexible. You can build a prototype or class-based OO system in less than a page of relatively simple code. (See _Programming in Lua_, ch. 16: http://www.lua.org/pil/16.html ) Or delay/force, map/fold/filter, etc.

It's also written in pure ANSI C, which means porting it is trivial.
It appears he traded some immediate use for greater ultimate potential, if believe that much of PHP's success is due to optimizing for ease of use with Apache first.

(After actually reading TFA, I realize that he actually did it as mod_v8 because he's an Apache maintainer or something).
Fair enough, I guess I have too many people around me here in Europe that have much too high expectations to the point that I start seeing in more places then it is.

I agree about keeping away from politics, and now that you mention it, people flocking to Chile because of a change in president is a silly idea. People couldn't even get Richard Gear to leave after voting in W twice.
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BLINK still works in mozilla-based browsers, afaik
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I ask it to every candidate, because I have a form from HR with a list of questions I have to ask that's one of them. I tick the box and move swiftly on.

My own stock answer is "sometimes I have trouble delegating".
http://jsext.sourceforge.net/ supports lighttpd
Not exactly.

HTTPS does two things:

1: verifies who the other party is and prevents MITM attacks.

2: encrypts the connection and prevents snooping

#2 still works fine, and for many people it's the only thing they care about since MITM attacks are quite rare, and if you typed the domain name yourself you don't need the verification either.
The top earning Facebook app has made more money than the top iPhone app by a factor of 5 or more. There is nearly 50 million dollars in VC money funding companies who started doing only GAMES on Facebook. Dont fool yourself, having a price tag does not imply higher earning potential.
What's remarkable is that grown adults become MCPs.
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This is the best comparison. Struts was great when it came out and inspired a lot of 2nd gen frameworks like Webwork. Webwork was very clever and much improved over struts. However, struts was far more popular. Bringing the two together created a better product that was adopted by the mainstream java web developers. It was a great way to get the developers that were stuck on struts (for whatever reason, most likely to support existing code bases) into a better design.

In about a year I could write the paragraph above substituting rails for struts, merb for webwork, and java for ruby.
From where you do have access to a decent command line...
If you're looking to enjoy the finer things in life, Chile is probably not the best place. Argentina, Peru, or Brazil would all probably be better picks.
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Gee, it must be extraordinarily difficult to become a Mouse Certified Professional.
Yes but Facebook does not host your app. I'm pretty sure Slide's infrastructure (and administrative) costs are significant.
Wait... economics is wackjobbery, now?

Meta: I downmodded you for calling the gparent a wackjob, and now that I've decided to reply, I can't undo it. It would be nice to have an undo for comment mods here, as reddit has.
"Text editors should take a lesson from video games."
"Meaning" is an urge like any other. I'm sure we'll understand it as we learn more about the brain.

I think they conflict in the sense that people with that need to find meaning get strange ideas about the nature of the world. Of course it doesn't have to be this way, but it is often the case.
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Quick Summary: A bunch of questions related to open source have been posed to the following people, and their answers/views are there in this article.

Matt Asay - Vice president of business development, Alfresco
Andy Astor - CEO of EnterpriseDB
Chris DiBona - Open source programs manager, Google
Bruce Perens - Creator of the Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative
Sam Ramji - Senior director of platform technology strategy, Microsoft
Eric S. Raymond - Programmer, author, and open source software advocate
Dave Rosenberg - CEO and co-founder, Mulesource
Javier Soltero - CEO, Hyperic
Mark Spencer - Founder and CTO, Digium
Robert Sutor - Vice president of open source and standards, IBM
Zack Urlocker - Vice president of products, MySQL

The article is in an extremely unfriendly format. Here are the printer (and human) friendly page links.

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

Question No. 1: What do you see as the most pressing challenges and opportunities for open source given the current tech climate?

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

Question No. 2: Where do you see open source heading in the next five years,
especially with regard to development, community, and market opportunities?

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

Question 3: Does widespread adoption and commercialization of open source software create new challenges or pressures for open source projects?

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

Question 4: What are the next steps needed for open source as a software production methodology to reach the next level?

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

Question No. 5: Open source now enjoys a rich and complex history, which is largely the result of trial and error over the years.
What would you say have been the open source community's greatest missteps, or lessons learned?

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

Question 6: If you could wave your wand and create the perfect software "universe," what would it look like?

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...

Question No. 7: There has been a fair amount of controversy, competition, and dissent within the various open source communities.
Does this lack of agreement damage the long-term goals of open source, or would you like to see more of this?

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...
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This article is from March 2008. I realized it must be old when Eric Raymond was talking about Vista not getting adopted.
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"In this work we better understand how digital-to-analog converters can be applied to the development of e-commerce."
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Implying that entrepreneurs will leave the largest economy in the world en masse and head to a small, Latin American economy, just because a democrat got elected is, in fact, wackjobery, even to the point of making anything else said in the same comment of dubious credibility. Chile's economy isn't even 10% the size of California's.
Unfortunately, as a closed-source propriety platform that doesn't have any support (nor plans any support) for Linux, I had to discount Unity3D almost immediately.

Flash loses out largely for the lack of good accelerated 3D. I've played with papervision but it's just too slow for a anything decent, that I can guarantee will run on even moderately equipped machines.
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I'm not even talking about Slide, I'm talking SGN, Zynga, Playfish. These companies were all making bank before they had to invest in infrastructure. Plus, Facebook offers free starter hosting through Joyent.
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Since I found the joys of ShareReactor and Edonkey (now Hulu/etc) I have connected my PCs to TVs. Have not had cable for a long while.

With a sour economy I have seen a lot of articles on Cnet and elsewhere promoting what is seen in the video. Though everyone is different and maybe enjoying Internet TV in their own fashion (Boxee, Windows Media Center, laptop connected to TV projector).

Thought I'd post this to see if others here too enjoying all their content through the web? If so, how?
Since I found the joys of ShareReactor and Edonkey (now Hulu/etc) I have connected my PCs to TVs. Have not had cable for a long while.

With a sour economy I have seen a lot of articles on Cnet and elsewhere promoting what is seen in the video. Though everyone is different and maybe enjoying Internet TV in their own fashion (Boxee, Windows Media Center, laptop connected to TV projector).

Thought I'd post this to see if others here too enjoying all their content through the web? If so, how?
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I would restate the claim as "Obama will take actions that make the US economy much worse than it would have been without those actions (which is what people usually mean when they reference productive people fleeing a country)." If you agree that it can be restated that way, then it seems we have a real disagreement over whether Obama's stated plans will make things worse. This has nothing in particular to do with his being a Democrat.

Chile (or Argentina, or other South American countries) just happens to be under discussion in this thread; I would agree that if productive people start fleeing the US for economic reasons, only a relatively small percentage will flee to Chile or Argentina. That just didn't seem important to the real thrust of the comment, though.
Awesome stuff, V8 is one of the superior javascript engines and this would be an amazing step forward.
Yes, it means Rails will feel more like Merb. From the article:

"As you have probably gathered from the above, there aren’t any clear points that the Merb and Rails team disagree on anymore."

Basically, Rails is being reworked to be more modular, to have less tight coupling among components, to have a defined API and test suite, to support other ORMs, etc. These are the reasons Merb came to be, and the merge back into Rails vindicates the Merb team's design decisions.
I have a dual-boot home-built P4 machine at home with a Logitech wireless multi-media keyboard. Under XP, the device functions as a standard 102-key keyboard. None of the extra buttons work (mute, volume adjust, etc.) Under Ubuntu, most of the keys work as designed (and this was autodetected during installation. I have not done any post-install customisation of the keyboard). I can mute volume, adjust it up/down, scroll windows with the little scroll wheel, etc. Nearly all of the extra keys work under Ubuntu that XP ignores. I could install the special software Logitech shipped with it to make those keys work, but it's slow enough already under XP without adding extra software to run. The machine is limited by motherboard design to a max of 2 GB RAM (which it has). Under Ubuntu, I very rarely see any page file swapping going on, but XP swaps frequently even with no applications open. Windows 7 better have superior memory and process management if they want to run in a low-RAM environment.
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I actually think The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has more literary value to an adult than to a high-schooler, not that I would remove it from any high school curriculum. It's the Great American Novel. Worth a re-read, whether or not one has read it or grasped it before.
Neat idea but I don't think there's a reason it needs to exist.
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"This is like Facebook apps but with real monetization."

http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/23/virtual-goods-starting-to-...

And it's not even a top app.
Cool. I really think there needs to be a concerted effort to build a standard library for general purpose javascript that all of the javascript engines will implement as the standard. It's kind of frustrating that we have this amazing V8 engine, but no way to use it to do any real work. Older engines have stdlib projects, but they are tied to the specific implementations.
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We've done this before.

http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=328670

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=255257

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=206686

I'm of the opinion that the third or fourth time a topic is repeated, it (and supporting comments) should be added to a HN Wiki.

I think it would make a great resource for us.