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Actually the "First Post!" comments in different languages was the first thing that caught my eye on the blog post.... humanity is so similar across all cultures and languages. A troll by any other name/culture/creed is still a troll :-)
That's a really neat feature of the 360. I think it's an excellent media center.

At the same time, I agree with the ancestral poster: I wish that Microsoft and Sony held more reverence for gaming. I say this as somebody who wants to be a game developer: right now, gaming is easily the most disregarded artistic medium. Most games are sequels or spin-offs or rip-offs, have been for two generations. There are some games that rise to the top - the Katamari series and Shadow of the Colossus both showed, on a mediocre system, just how hilarious/moving a good game can be - but even most of the top-name games are awful. The writing and character graphics of Fallout 3 made me cringe on quick glance.

Part of it is that games have become a generic commodity. You have the shooter genre, the RPG genre, the sports genre, the racing genre, and games compete to be the best of each every generation, and it's always the same groups competing. You don't have this treatment of a game as an art form.

Unlike movies where you start off in theaters, unlike TV shows which start off as incremental releases, with games the release is the release and that's the only release. Games lose their mysticism an hour after they've launched. It's terribly demeaning of the entire medium, the way things stand right now. And it hurts both the developers and the consumers to have games treated so matter-of-fact. It kills something that ought to be magical.
A longer TN visa is only nice if, in fact, your goal is temporary work in the U.S. If you actually expect a green card some day, this change is a curse.

When your 2nd H-1B expires, you must have started the green card process (or equivalent) to stay in the U.S. For most people, this is within 6 years of arriving in the U.S. But for TN visa holders, they stay in the U.S. for the duration of all their TN visas, and add the roughly 6 years for H-1B after that. So now, this could be 10 years or more.

And the companies I've seen are in no rush to start your green card any sooner than they have to, as it costs them money (and you may just quit).

What's worse, there is some risk and complexity in switching jobs while on a visa; technically there is a chance you could lose all rights to stay in the U.S. when you quit your job.

So most people will work for a single company for many, many years, just to get their green cards. If you aren't completely in love with your job, this would suck.
Of course we're harsh. Start-ups are almost all extremely competitive, and the people who use start-ups are cutthroat capitalists. Everybody's looking for the absolute best things can get. I remember, two years before Tumblr launched, I would go between blogging platforms at the rate of one a week, pounce on every update, install and test every beta and every plugin, looking for a platform that would work well for me. I still do it with certain things. Any time a social network claims it's got something Facebook doesn't, I check it out. I'd like to think this isn't entirely unusual behavior here. People in this field are very often perfectionists.

With Scribd we're a mix of benevolent and indignant. Benevolent, because it's YCombinator. Indignant, because it renders text in Flash.In both cases, though, the response is the same. Benevolence isn't being kind and wishing good luck. Look at sites with that attitude, or real life institutions, and there you'll find the places where progress becomes stagnant. In order to encourage progress, it helps to have a bit of an edge. And it attracts the right people. I plan on launching a beta preview of my current project to members here, because I want to be ripped apart before anybody else sees this. I figure it'll do me and my partner a world of good.
So, wait. If they become profitable WITHOUT being bought, you still eat two hats? Or are they entirely separate hat affairs?
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I doubt Microsoft has trouble creating languages - if anything they'll buy the brains.
All aptitude tests will fail once they become a standard, because suddenly test-takers are able to prepare for their test. Take the SAT. All students are told by teachers that it's in their best interests to buy books of old tests so they can see and memorize the questions and see patterns for answering in the new test. The test suddenly becomes a metatest: the real test is very often about how well you can prepare for a test. And in the end, it doesn't matter, because within a certain percentile colleges don't care. It's all so that CollegeBoard can make a lot of money and certain colleges can use the SAT as a qualifier to filter students more quickly.

A real aptitude test might test students' abilities to form opinions and chains of logic. They might test, rather than their ability to write a five-paragraph essay or to understand an analogy, the ability of a student to convey information with as precise language as possible. A math aptitude test may test a student's ability to prove points - but rather than using an obscure formula like current high school geometry, it would use natural language and grade on the idea rather than the jargon.

Really, the only aptitude test that matters and can't be faked is one for creativity, and that's only because you can't test on it. (A year ahead of me at the New Jersey Governor's School for the Arts, according to our head instructor, was called by CollegeBoard to try a hypothetical test for creativity - including a multiple choice section, of all things. The test was abandoned when all the handpicked students gave extremely different responses to every question.)

I think that's why colleges are abandoning the SAT test as criteria. Some top-notch colleges don't ask for test scores at all (some are even weaning away from GPA, which is a godsend for certain types of students). That's a smart choice on their part. What do test scores prove? Our year's valedictorian, a very bright girl who also took a dozen SAT practice tests, got a 1600 on the main section. I had no practice tests and got a 1510. In the end, the numbers are so close as not to matter. Even a perfect 800 category means nothing other than a person's happening not to slip up (and with a 4-hour test, slip-ups are all too common). Our principal, at a ceremony, gave us awards for our perfect sections while talking about how this made us perfect scholars. This is a terrible mindset with testing and it encourages things to get only worse.
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Consider HN is a hacker + entrepreneurial site you could see why people would not welcome Reddit/Digg support for piracy.
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Meh, I disagree. There are groups that claim to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative. There's no catch phrase for someone who tends toward slight conservatism, but is generally open to government intervention, though I imagine such people exist. That's at least two dimensions to consider, it seems to me we should at least have a plane.

Here's one, Net Neutrality, what is that?
There is no inherent technical reason why you couldn't. And this article at Google (expand the first [+] area) suggests you can use non-www domains just fine:

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

Where did you get the idea you couldn't?

(The only trick might be something specific to App Engine for generating the www -> non-www redirects, as you won't have the usual access to web server configuration options. But that'd be a better question for the App Engine forums.)
Indeed, some of my OnStartups.com posts do show up on the HN front page. Hopefully, it's not completely random and some people do find the articles useful.
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Not exactly its a bit more difficult, leap years occur once every four years unless the year is divisible by 100 and not by 400

so 1900 wasn't a leap year 2000 was one 2100 won't be.

Although in most places I saw the code just ignored it as something that's valid between 1901-2099 is considered good enough in most places.

Edit: sorry shouldn't post this early in the morning, its 400 not 1000
I absolutely love this text editor, and found windows binaries on the gnome public ftp. Everything looks to be working fine, minus a few plugins that I downloaded but otherwise well worth grabbing.
Or you could update from the actual command line and possibly learn something while you're at it:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-friendfeed...
How true. As an example, learning and understanding Python/C API was much more practical and enlightening experience for me than experience of learning a new language like Haskell or O'Caml.
There's always jury nullification.
Ah, so we can maybe expect a Y2.1K problem then
No, century years are leap years if they are divisible by 400, so 2400 will be the next such, not 3000!
It's online: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5464625623984168940
...I'm unclear why you are conflating support for piracy and Digg/Reddit.

I understand the attitudes of those so grossly offended by copyright and DMCA violations. But suggesting copyright infringement doesn't automatically disqualify an article from Hacker News.
The thing that kills me about this bug is that it's such an easy bug to find in a code-review. Some person totally unfamiliar with the code asks "What happens when that inner if condition is false?" and MSFT is saved from yet another embarassing gadget glitch.
Yep, and year after year the media bleats on about how exams are getting easier because the scores are going up. The kids nowadays are going to hell in a handcart.. we've heard this since time immemorial. (Yeah, Marselis isn't the media, but still.. :))
Yeah, but with software, there really is no "original" to steal. They can make new copies and ship them to the store for like $0.50 tops.

The real value of software is the information, the compiled code that makes it do something valuable. You're not paying your share towards development costs that make that happen. So you're robbing the company of the money you would pay for the software.

With software, the idea of theft only being taking the physical product is stupid because the physical aspect is practically worthless. Some software isn't even distributed through physical means at all.
I have watched it on google video up to the sex scene. it was pretty faithful to the book. I did read the whole book online . Now that I have revisited it is pretty faithful.
Congrats on the progress so far. However, I think you really need to focus on making the purchase page more structured towards helping the buyer make a proper decision. Right now it's a sea of text and a row of prices. I'm inclined to ignore the text and choose the lowest price, even if it's not in my best interest.

This post at 37 Signals is a great reference for you: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1496-design-decisions-the...
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What's wrong with accumulators? They are useful for transforming head-recursive code into tail-recursive code.

Granted, accumulators can't really improve code that traverses trees. But for code that traverses lists, like zip... accumulators can be useful. Also, the added complexity isn't too bad.
There's also a Mac OS X port out there: http://blogs.gnome.org/pbor/2008/12/28/gedit-on-osx/

The major cross-platform toolkits are getting better and better all the time and have come on leaps and bounds in terms of providing a native look and feel.
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I agree things are speeding up, but think it's largely because Microsoft is now realizing that they need to keep IE up to date and standards compliant. They still have 70%market share, and it's not shrinking fast, so the onus is entirely on them. IE7 is kind of a sucky browser but a step in the right direction in terms of compliance, and IE 8 will be much better.
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You won't miss cable unless you're a sports fan. The Stanley Cup finals are pretty much the only time I'll find myself looking for somewhere to watch live TV.

I don't even bother with Netflix. You can download any new releases, often before you can find the DVDs (especially during Oscar season, when all of those screeners end up leaked) and full seasons of any TV shows. You do usually miss out on the commentary though if you're into that.
I signed up. My use case is probably different from your larger corporate or workgroup users since I want to use it with clients and prospects so pay per whiteboard or some other scheme that doesn't have me buying the 100 user model would be worth a discusion. But it's handy and it feels like a white board (once I get used to drawing with a mouse). Happy to see you turn pro.
I have wondered why that back catalog isn't much larger. You would think it would be trivial for them to slap every game they made on there, plus license entire catalogs from other companies, given that they're just roms.

Their online gameplay was half-baked from the start. The day I got my Wii (2 days after it launched) I also bought Madden, only to end up pissed when I realized there was no online connectivity. It took forever for that stuff to actually work, though I will say that now that it's there, and unlike Xbox it's free, it's pretty nice.
It's not unfair, the Xbox was a hell of a lot worse for a while there. The vast majority of the initial batch ended up bricked. They might be better now, but I expect if Wii has the large scale problems Xbox did you'll hear about it.
I don't believe they'd claim 50k a day if it were 1.33k. Something is wrong there.
Who has precedence, the CC NC clause or the First Sale doctrine?
PG didn't say "build something legal that people want".
That's true and so was your original argument, and both are true of YouTube as well. That doesn't make their traffic any less impressive. It's just using good viral spread mechanisms.
Yep, but we'll have Y2K38 bug before that because of the original Unix time rep as signed 32bit int

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.

I stopped reading there.
Sorry, you're right. Changed the original comment.
I should definitely clear this up on the webpage (and I'll be putting a video up as well), but you could certainly manage with even an Individual Pro account.
He talks derisively about a project that used Seaside.
Programming just got commoditized.
Yet another example of: differentiate your programming skills and set yourself apart or be eaten alive by an offshore shop.

The fact that the programmer is being sold as a commodity doesn’t augur quite well for an average programmer in the US.
That's nothing new. Check out Elance.
Give it some more time.
I don't think he was questioning the value, he was commenting on the use of the word "stealing". Copyright infringement is the better phrase for it.
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70% might be true in some places, but it's changing a lot.
For example, Mibbit gets about 19% IE usage on the main client. On the widget as you'd expect that figure is higher - 30%.

The surprise is how well chrome is doing these days - usually beating Opera and Safari, and sometimes beating IE6.

I think most of the push is coming from firefox,chrome,safari and opera. People using the new wave of webapps aren't using IE, because it's ridiculously slow (Even GMail now deter the use of IE).

I'd say it is shrinking very fast in webapp early adopter circles, and that's a key area of growth for browsers. IE better up its game with IE8, or get left behind.
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Not if you want to tar & feather someone, it's not. Sometimes communication is the least important function of language.
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that's what the regeneration process is for. and you only get 12 of them so don't waste them by falling off the top of a radio tower or be poisoned by gas.

in all seriousness, I very much enjoyed your comment. In my opinion, I think it would be great if we could somehow make the process of aging less uncomfortable for our last half of our life while keeping our natural lifespan more or less the same 70 +/-. But if we can find cures for alzheimers, skin cancer, etc that would be great for our quality of life. But where do you draw a line between anti-aging and cures for diseases such as these?
"was eventually broken - Not that long ago"

The smart folk at Bletchley Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park) were happily deciphering German messages for most of the war.
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Wii innovated and became better in an area that happened to matter more: player interaction with the console. I don't think it was obvious in foresight that this was so important.
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I thought from the first paragraph the article was going to talk about how H1-Bs can start their own company but really it was about how startups can hire H1-Bs. Well, I'm already in that situation so it's not of much use to me.

I think most H1-Bs think that they have to stick with the same company for years until their green cards get approved. Well, that's not really true. It didn't seem too risky to transfer my H1-B to my second company when I had to. And when I needed to move to my current company, I could even transfer my green card application because the AC21 rules state that if my I-485 has been in processed for 6 months (or something like that), I could transfer that too. What all this means is that I don't think H1-Bs are beholden to the companies they are currently at. They can switch if their new companies are willing to process the legal documents for them. And even if they can't pay the fees, it shouldn't amount to too much (~$1k).
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The quote about the 30 results sounds tenuous at best.

Did the user search 20% less often because of an imperceptible page load time, or because they became overwhelmed with the number of search results and decided to quit?

User experience drives more activity than performance. Perf is important, but that particular example sounds totally bogus to me.
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Not a fair comparison: you need a viewer for swf files too. Downloading is not a problem. If it takes 0.3 s on scribd vs 0.8 s with pdf, then I'm willing to wait to have a viewer that allows me to scroll with my scrollwheel.
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According to their on line processing times data they haven't reviewed _any_ petitions for family members over 21 in the last 11 months, making the queue now about 10 years long (including the 2 years it takes for an initial response to the application).

Any improvement in US immigration policy would be welcome.
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Maybe, but there are good-enough test plans. This one wasn't.
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There's a part of that which is some weird inter-generational perceptual phenomenon. There's another part of that which is the general advance of culture -- somehow kids are becoming more sophisticated at an earlier age. Scores can also go up because more people are gaming the system y hiring test tutors. However, in the US, there's another part of that which is a genuine degradation of the US public school system.
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Much of that 80 hour "work week" can be filled with moments of joy and neural stimulation so rich and fulfilling, that it can be fairly compared sex.

Then again, lots of being a musician involves prostituting yourself by pretending that you're enjoying playing something you think is stupid or boring.
What kills me is the fact that they have a while loop on the main thread of the Zune, which wasn't tested for all possible values of input. I don't know about anyone else here, but as an embedded software developer, that sort of thing automatically sets off alarm bells for me. Such a situation would definately be code-reviewed, and heavily unit tested in a sane development environment.
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Krugman, in an article from the 1990s in Slate cited recently here on HN, expressed the opinion that the Euro would reduce employment growth in Europe, which didn't seem very plausible to me.
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