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How different is .live() from .bind()? does this mean we do not have to .unbind() and .bind() when we want to create events for dynamically created DOM elements?
I'd have to agree. After spending a bit of time working on a J2ME app, friends and I figured out that you'd have a helluva time getting it to run on enough phones to actually make a difference. With operator restrictions, the need for security certs in order to run code on a real phone (important to gauge real behavior that emulators often can't do), and slightly differing implementations of J2ME on different devices, you'd have to do so much to get things to work to your liking. If you're still insistent, experiment a bit and think of something to write. I figured out J2ME wasn't for me after a year of dealing with operators, devices, etc. HTH
Having the government "stimulate" the economy with demand only postpones the inevitable, because...There are too many companies making too many consumer goods

Rest assured, then, that the government stimulus will mainly benefit producers of steel beams and concrete rather than iPods and Laptops.
I buy programming books on subjects peripherally related to what I do when they go on sale and then read them later when I have time. When Codys went out of business last year I was able to get an OCaml book and a half dozen odd graphics books for a few dollars. I still haven't found the time to read them thoroughly. That said, I just ordered http://www.lua.org/gems since I do a lot with Lua these days.
Most programmer's fonts are sans-serif - eg

* the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in Linux distro terminals

* Default terminal.app font in OS X

* Powershell / Visual Studio use Consolas in Windows

Those silly bars on the end of your typewriter font distract from the true shape of the character.

Agreed re: variable width being unusual.
He does know that executives don't set their own pay, right?

Theoretically. Some examples (here anyway) suggest otherwise. Here's one:http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/07/business/sxtelstra.ph... http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22617851...
I'd like to see it show the host after redirect, too. Some people have posted links that are FeedBurner or Google feed proxy redirects to content on blogs, and you get "google.com" or "feedburner.com" showing up as the host on HN.
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Though their cars have improved, at least according to Consumer Reports, they have left bad tastes in consumers' mouths from past years of sub par performance.

And even if what you're saying is true, they shouldn't be going to the government for free handouts. Their current state (including higher costs from deals _they_ negotiated) is no one's fault but their own. And then to call the American public investors is embarassing.
Pabulum for people who have Rand or Heinlein poisoning.

Saying that Bear Stearns and AIG were cash positive is absolutely meaningless, as if I just bought $5 million worth of stuff on my credit card, make $40,000 a year and haven't gotten a bill yet, I'm still cash positive.

It's a little different, and much more complex, but I don't think the article writer really cares to understand any of that -- he just wants to beat the dereg drum, no matter how much sense it makes or doesn't.
How does your codebase look? Neatly organized and with tests? Does it use much modern best-practice, or are there a lot of not-so-nice pieces?

Also, it may just be difficult in general to find really good people to help maintain an already mature and large codebase.
TARP was the largest economic mistake of the last 30 years, at least. That $700 billion, if it needed to spent at all, could've done much better in so many other ways.

My favored idea was capitalizing an alternative financial system, that lent to businesses directly.

But giving the money to the crooks who got us into this mess was about the worst possible choice.
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Well, they certainly don't when the ensuing argument buries the valuable thread in question!

Lots of good book recommendations below, folks. Keep scrolling.
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"Having the government "stimulate" the economy with demand only postpones the inevitable"

Since we're basically borrowing money from the future to attempt to smooth out a difficult transition in the present, I think a stimulus can make the problems less bad for some people.

That the money will be used inefficiently is probably the case, but the money is more valuable in the present, in a sense, than it is in the future -- because without the money now, a desirable future may not exist.

At the worst, the stimulus won't matter much.

At the best, it'll help a few million people.

The truth will probably lie somewhere in between those two extremes.
evolutionary dead ends need not apply. :p
Isn't this broader than the limitations of first order logic? After Turing we know that no matter what formal system of axioms and rules of inference one choses(as long as these can be mechanically done) then there will be some true statements the system wont be able to see. (does the nth turing machine stop?, does a particular diophantine eqn have integer solutions?)
I think what you are doing with the Thingys is brilliant .. Keep it up !
all I can say is "yes!". I have a ton of programming books that I would love to re-read and discuss even (the art of the meta object protocol, let over lambda, on lisp etc.) but I would also be down with relevant math and fiction stuff.
This seems to be more of the "distraction culture" of recent times. Everything seems to want to let you know. I'd rather be able to easily ask it to let me know. The majority of time, I don't need to know more than I knew when I set processes in motion in the first place.

That said, I like Mark's approach. But I'd like them to go one better in that direction. Instead of just ephemeral, I'd rather that they not be there at all, unless I ask something to "let me know when it happens."
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I actually do have a "secret" method: Datacenters. If you're a programmer/network/system guy there is no faster way to get lots of clients than meeting people in datacenters. They're the most qualified leads you'll ever find.
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I'm most productive working about 25 hours a week, from what I've discovered over the years.

Modern jobs aren't the sort of the old days, like hauling coal out of a mine where working 80 hours produces almost twice as much coal hauled up as a 40-hour workweek.

Anecdote and studies show that after a certain time well before 80 hours in a work week, most people's productivity falls drastically, even if they do not perceive this drop themselves. (Many of them perceive their productivity as being unimpaired, much as a drunk driver perceives their driving as being just fine.)

Bottom line: A shorter work week may improve many people's productivity. It would mine.
Does anyone know about Twitter's funding?
Does anyone know if Twitter went for any rounds of funding after Odeo (in their initial stages of development back in 2006)?
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I don't think they took any funding in 2006. Have a look at their CrunchBase profile (Funding section on the left sidebar): http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twitter
Find one client at a low rate and please the hell out of them. Then find another client, but increase your rates. Do the same; do anything it takes to get the job done ahead of schedule and to make the client as impressed as possible.

Eventually you'll find the ceiling in terms of how much you can charge per hour, but you'll have an entire mountain of reputation built by being fast, dedicated, and reliable.

I'm a student and due to a family lawsuit (dad's business partners ran off with the company's bonding money, fitting him with the bill) I can't get student loans so I freelance to pay my bills and to fund my own projects. My main philosophy when I'm working with a client (and I tell them this) is "the sooner I get in and out with this project, the sooner you do too" and I then sit down with them if they are available and work on it until it is done. It's not as feasible for programming as it is for designing, but the same focus on speed is killer as a freelancer.

I'm still finding work at $100/hr as a 22 year old freelancer, so soon I can finally begin leveraging my personal brand equity and my time to creating more passive sources of income, (i.e.: services and products).

Hope this helped a bit.
And on a side note: ALWAYS take the blame when something goes wrong, even if it's not your fault. A good client will appreciate that you have the balls to claim the fault is yours which will actually improve your relationship, and bad clients will show their true colors and give you an opportunity to send them to someone more desperate for work.
Going into debt at all is bad? Since when has that ever been basic economics?

The stimulus package is about infrastructure. If the resulting payoff is greater than the debt, then absolutely it makes sense to go into debt. That's basic economics, and it has been for as long as the concept of debt has existed.
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A recent report shows that 98% of search is divided among the top four search engines - but that remaining 2% is still a considerable number of people. A few search engines make the top 10 list that should be considered when optimizing work seems done - you might have a little wok left to do!
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I've had to independently discover many of these observations by hand while doing jtv stats as we've scaled...this is an excellent overview I wish I'd read 6 months ago.
Why were they forced to meet margin calls if they had enough cash flow to pay their debt and expenses?
this is all just like blar blar blar to me sorry.
Dude, examine the metaphor more closely. Everyone knows that junk food is healthier than starvation.
I'm not sure what your popularity metric is, but here at GitHub we're making plenty of money on subscriptions for private code hosting without a single advertisement on the site. We've also never taken any outside money. GitHub was designed from the very first line of code to make money off of recurring fees for premium features while bringing in traffic, goodwill, and buzz by making everything free for open source. So far so good!
Ignore the Web? Good luck with that
But if everyone employs the same strategy, there probably won't be a second edition.

If it's truly a good book, I don't mind buying an updated 2nd edition.
the 25% tax in mahalonomics is pretty steep
another reason not to use sql
I interpreted his comment to mean new programmers. Maybe smart people have gone there in the past, and some of them may not even have left yet, but I would think that someone just getting into scripting is very unlikely to start with Perl.

There really isn't a reason to; the script languages that have come since then have fixed Perl's problems without losing any power. The only argument Perl has left is CPAN [1], but given the amount of duplication and bad code there, CPAN isn't as big as it's made out to be. I don't know about Ruby, but I used Python not so long ago and I noticed that not only did it have libraries for everything I needed to do, aside from DB access (which I had to download) they were all included with python itself. This is very nice in big organizations where downloading anything is a huge pain.

[1] Well, ok, it also has the COBOL argument of "there is a large code base out there to be supported" but I would expect this argument to only be compelling to the same people that were attracted when COBOL used it.
Timothy Gowers has an Erdos number of 4.

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

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/William-Timothy-Gow...
The problem is that you'll maybe find two other people on this site who understand functional and meta-programming well enough to discuss the issues with you (and I'm not yet one of them).
Stopped reading at Team Jason...
No, in terms of new adoption: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/12/07/python-surpasses-perl etc.
Yes, that's how he intends to weed out the undedicated.
Here's the actual ad:

http://blog.chryslerllc.com/blog.do?id=564&p=entry
The point of the spending isn't because infrastructure has a positive ROI its to artificially create jobs to cushion the people suffering from the current economic collapse. Also, traditionally investment is repaid as a result of the investment activity, where in the US it seems to be repaid from increased borrowing. How long can that go on before it stops working?
This is an interesting/tragic aspect of (at least) organizations, professions and technologies: Once created, they become a sort of living thing. No matter how "obsolete" the world may see them now, they don't want to die and will do everything in their power to stay alive. Including doing immoral things, breaking laws or even murder.
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you can't have anything that is unlimited!
1) a girl, 2) laptop with 3G card, 3) food
"fairytale-like cash bonuses on the north side of $20,000" ??

That's what? Around 20%? Hardly "fairytale-like". The last place I worked was around 30%, and the place I currently work has an average (well, had until this year) of 40%.
I wasn't for the bailout. But I still disagree with everything Cuban said. Their sub par performance was due only to their higher cost basis. Americans don't suffer from a lack of quality engineering. Look at Lockheed, Boeing, etc.

Lowering the cost to build a car is the only way they can compete, and that means lowering wages.

Also, calling Americans investors might make them feel some ownership, which might push them toward a Chrysler next time they go to buy a car. People who own stock in companies have been shown to patronize them over competitors by a wide margin. Of course we don't literally own stock in Chrysler, but if they can make us feel that connection, it might factor into a buying decision. It's possibly good marketing. (It's possibly not too though, I'm not sure).
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1. I use a free e-mail service, and all I am concerned about is they still earn money over me..

2. I am so used to old fashion competitors' e-mail clients and too dumb to learn new things, yet "I am a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems"

3. I love to use mouse for every action.

4. I hate to use mouse for every action. (and as nirmal points out I am too dumb to learn how to do what I want to do, I prefer to complain)

5. Once in five times, I can come up with some features that everyone can like..
i like plex more because it recognized my media much more accurately than boxee, has an indicator for a played video, and also lets me manage cover art. the one thing that boxee does well is the apple remote controls (more intuitive), but then we also get less control over what we can do as far as cover art management.

although the social features are a nice add on, i wish there was a way to disable it for those of us that don't want to use that particular feature.
This was my first reaction.

My second reaction was to wonder why the place for improvement isn't coming in the form of easier access to direct power sources. I want power surfaces that let me place my cell phone down to recharge it.
Wow I've always wanted to get a foot hold in developing games. But I don't know where to start as the range of my development experiences comes from J2ME apps to web applications.

Are there any YCer's here who are in to game development that could give me a helping hand? Should I start with Flash or something?
Congrats guys. That's a large angel round, and the list looks like good people too.
Well, we have to pay some transactional fees so it's more like 15%. Fairly reasonable given the investment we're putting in this.
Can you say who the lead was?
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since you're from the java world, if you're open to working with MS stuff - they have XNA http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/ I think it's a specialized version of Visual Studio for DirectX (PC/Xbox) and you can use C# (which is very similar to Java - just not as much open source libs)

Here's a look at some Xbox 360 community games:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/gdc2008/xna/defau...
Good on you for taking the plunge and getting something produced.

But is anyone else strongly opposed to automated Twittering and all other automated status updates?
Up until about a year ago I was data security coordinator for a very large cable ISP. A large portion of our team's time was spent dealing with DMCA copyright complaints.

At this point, by law, an ISP must accept copyright complaints and have a publicly registered copyright agent (At our ISP, our team's director was the registered agent). The DMCA gives ISPs some choice in how they handle the complaints, but they can not be ignored. I fear this ISP owner may not be fully aware of current obligations(I am not speaking about non-actionable RIAA threats or future plans).

We hated this work. Our main focus was catching criminals that were committing crimes either utilizing or against our network. With an online customer base in the millions we would get thousands of complaints a day. If a big movie came out on Friday, for the next week or two we could get upwards of ten thousand a day. We feared Star Wars openings like you wouldn't believe. You can imagine a team of 6 very techy hacker guys getting extremely depressed spending 2-3 hours a day matching IP logs to modem MACs and finally onto a customer.

Our only solace in this work was something that my manager made clear was a department goal and practice. That this menial task was meant to protect the customer base from the copyright holder's carpet bombing mentality. We kept accurate data and because of that, were able to simply discard a large portion of the complaints as inaccurate. When the evidence was clear, we forwarded the complaint to the subscriber by email and snail mail. We instructed our subscribers to not contact the copyright holder to discuss it as this would just enable the holder to get identifying info(name, address) without a subpoena.

We also warned our customers that after a single complaint the copyright holder may subpoena our records and take them to court. Out of the almost million complaints a year, I saw an insignificant amount of cases ever go this far. The DMCA complaints were largely a scare tactic and often nothing more.

I was not privy to any knowledge of the compensation we received for completing this process, but did gleam from over hearing from the higher ups that we did indeed receive some money for the process or were in process of creating contracts to do so. I wish I had more info on that aspect to share with news.y.

The guys doing this work hate it, but the law forces it onto them. Until the laws change, no security department is going to bend over backwards for these guys.

It was an amazing and exciting job despite this issue.

On a lighter note, for your random facts file, the movie "Mean Girls" was the number one infringed file for 4 years running. Lots of laughs were had seeing what kind of weird and random stuff the people were downloading. Fun times.
Thankyou!Just recently I've been dabbling in Python. What do you think of producing games in Pyglet?
I'll tell you what would be awesome. A peer reviewed hacker reading list. But, only the really sacred books. For instance GEB or from the post that prompted this post, after reading that review, I can tell you it will absolutely be my next non-fiction book. I've been wanting to read through some old textbooks to try and pick up somewhere I might've left off, but always found them distancing. This looks like a great way to dive back into it.
The comments in the original blogpost are moderated. At present no comment is published. Could it be a paid advt?
Why this on the hacker news?
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"The point of the spending isn't because infrastructure has a positive ROI its to artificially create jobs to cushion the people suffering from the current economic collapse."

The reason why we're spending is to cushion ourselves from the economic collapse, yes. The reason why we're spending on infrastructure is because this is the only way to do it that isn't ultimately a waste, and we would have needed to do it at some point regardless of the state of the economy. No better time than an economic collapse to do so.

(This assumes that the infrastructure plans themselves are wise, of course. So far, they appear to be.)

Saying that investment in the US is traditionally "repaid from increased borrowing" has nothing to do with the rationality of spending on infrastructure (which eventually pays for itself by increasing GDP). A lack of responsible accounting and accountability causes US debt to be repaid with increased borrowing, not what the borrowed funds are spent on.
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And what of the dozens of other countries with exceptionally low living standards but restrictive trade policies which remain poor?

Cheap labour gave these countries an initial competitive advantage in certain forms of manufacturing, but it was trade that allowed them to make use of this and to gradually advance into more sophisticated manufacturing and services.
Good article, but making headlines more descriptive like "Private iPhone APIs" can save people reading through RSS few clicks.
I spent 1min:30secs on the site, and few searches other than those given (iPhone, Facebook) didn't return any result (eg. Ruby). Or may be it was doing something in the bground (doesn't tell that if its doing something, like a spinning wheel or hourglass or something). And moreover site doesn't have an 'About' page, and is so minimalistic that, its hard to know what it is about. So I got frustrated and writing this ...
You're buying into the hype. Think for yourself, don't listen to the news about the 'terrible economy'. This is just a way to push the blame from yourself to external factors.
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I'm also interested in offshore VPS hosting, but I want the servers to be located in a country without police state laws surrounding Internet traffic and/or speech, so this excludes the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland would be acceptable, and I'm willing to consider other countries.

I've been using RimuHosting, and they've been pretty good, but their servers are located in jurisdictions that are problematic for true online liberty.
Why all the cynicism here?

I read his email this evening and thought it was helpful both for tactics (how to do xyz...) and motivation (gets me fired up to hear an entrepreneur talk about how he actually gets shit done).
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