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How much $$ have you spent on lattes reading his free book?

Books, videos and course materials don't just happen because we say so. Real people create this stuff.
Your comment about California having a "long coastline" got me wondering how it compares to other places. It turns out that even if you measure the length of the coastline quite generously (i.e. tidal shoreline) the length of the California coast is 3,427 miles.

That sounds pretty impressive until you compare it with places with more crinkly coastlines - Norway has ~13,000 miles of coastline and even tiny little Scotland has 6,158 miles.

However, I suspect that there won't be much call for de-salination in Norway or here in Scotland (where it has been raining for most of the last week).
What? Few German's would be 'very happy'.

> ruling parties refuse to have democratic elections of this question

Seems like you don't know much about the system in Germany.
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lispm: IMO the author of this article is knowingly proposing something absurd on purpose. See my post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4094584
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Whether or not I agree or disagree with the argument of this artice, it has made me ponder momentarily Europe. If my college history serves me right, it looks like the floundering countries might vilify Germany and a few of the other more secure nations. War is usually brought about by a large group being in a bad situation, finding common ground from which their pain stems, and finding a common "enemy" to blame. The better question is whether or not the Eurozone tension will diffuse before any charismatic leader can rally the troops...
> "Isn’t the main goal of content producers that their content is seen ? Well. If you would charge less for a movie I would be glad to pay for it. But prices for buying movies online are just abusively high."

in HN-speak: "The main goal of a developer should be to get the product/code in front of many people. If the price would be lower, I would buy it. Ergo, the price should be lower and if not, im just gonna take it"

Hi i have a bug in my movie. Can you tell me how to watch the last part? My movie doesn't start? (support)

I agree with your other points.
On the contrary; if the conditions continue to deteriorate, I fear a violent disturbance of peace coming from the southern countries. There's a reason why Greece's far-right party Golden Dawn raised from 0.23% to almost 7%, and I can see that happening in other countries where unemployment is rampant and poverty rising.
> GHC uses pre-emptive thread switching, not co-operative thread switching.
> Threads may be switched when they allocate.

If threads are scheduled in and out when they allocate memory or are about to issue a possibly blocking system call, it's called co-operative multithreading, isn't it?

If the thread execution was stopped using external means like a timer interrupt, that would be pre-emptive. Some definitions of pre-emptive involve the ability to stop a lower priority thread in favor of a higher priority thread that becomes ready when a syscall is finished.

The best I understand the situation, Haskell's green threads voluntarily (co-operatively) give up their time slice (for another green thread) when allocating memory or doing I/O. Haskell's green threads run on top of several native threads that are pre-emptively scheduled by the operating system.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
In each of these examples, the credit is obscured. In Cushman's examples, credit is preserved. Perhaps the outrage is really about lying.
Mission Control, as defined in the video, is absolutely brilliant, and in a perfect world would replace the current method for app switching. I also love the "swipe from the bottom" implementation, though honestly even keeping the current home double-tap method would be an improvement.

The rest of the improvements (with the exception of putting the notification center in its rightful place below the home screen) seem unnecessary.
Germany has been exporting its inflation to other European nations since the inception of the Euro, and will continue to do so as long as it can.
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Have a look at voting rights in the EU and relate them to the number of inhabitants.
I don't think it's bad. I grow up in a time where it's normal that all information are free. I already have to pay fee's on electronic devices like printers, hard drives, DVDs etc. so this should be enough.
So, pretty typical of the EU then?
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what? where did you get that from?! the EU is about european integration and reducing transaction costs within the union, thereby generating a stronger economy of all nations.
Now it looks like producing apps that are tablet + phone capable is important for this to succeed. Think if you have an app running on your phone, and you dock it now you just got more space so you're app should change to tablet style interface. Android's architecture might shine because apps are capable of single binary with all of the goodies included for phone vs tablet. So plugging in your phone just causes the Android App to run onCreate() again on your activity and now you're in tablet layout vs. phone layout. iPhone is a universal binary, but it's two different executables in one package so you'd have to start the app over. The over arching point is form factors like this require app developers do certain things to make their apps behave well in these environments.
This gave me a damn heart attack as I have an app using the Dropbox SDK that was being pushed through. Article author is behind the times.
Either or fallicy.
I'm not using shared hosting, no. Although I did work for a company that provided it a few years back. I'm just trying to figure out if you're actually being serious with your claim that everyone with a database backed website should be running it from isolated servers? If you actually understand the implications of this or if you're just making nonsensical off the cuff remarks? I wonder how many tens or hundreds of millions of servers that would add to the Internet.
I already own a domain based on my name. I have a low grade fear of someone taking the domain, either through underhanded means, or by bullying through legal means. I've had my domain more than a decade. There is at least one online business that has since cropped up recently, that uses all the words of my domain as the words in their apparent business name.

Losing my domain would be a nightmare. It's my identity (and after 10+ years it feels as much like my identity as my given name), and it's a key to passwords for almost all my business relationships.
This does demonstrate the value of third-party "professional" reviews (e.g. Consumer Reports, Zagat) and a big reason why Google bought Zagat -- the trust factor.

You never know if personal reviews on various sites were driven by ulterior motives. Although it's likely that the majority of personal reviews are genuine, you should try not to be swayed by just a few reviews without further research.
Spain actually had better fiscal discipline than Germany during the boom, with lower government deficits and lower public debt, so "discpline/indiscipline" is definitely not the whole story.
How do you figure? German banks very much fueled the housing and lending bubbles in the rest of Europe. This is one of the reasons Germany is so against debt holders taking haircuts on their loans.

Germany is very much a part of the neighborhood going south (so to speak) in that they were at the very least enabling all the loose lending, if not actively complicit in fostering such an environment (e.g. why weren't they vetting their loans better).
Facebook had discovered a very sweet blind spot in the human social awareness system.

One person posts a picture and a friend comments on it, then mutual friends (such as those who are oddly curious about the poster of the picture or someone in it) can take a quick glimpse at that person's life. This is rewarded by the brain with a small shot of dopamine.

This is a function not of the social graph itself (friend) but of the addictive nature of the fleeting glimpses it allows people to have of others.

Suppose you have 500 friends who each have several hundred friends. Some subset of those friends constitutes your "fascination graph". Maybe you think they are hot, maybe you aspire to their lifestyle, maybe you hated them in high school, etc. etc.

In order to continue to succeed, Facebook (and app makers) have to realize that it's not the mundane behaviors of your Facebook friends that are interesting... it's the allure of those on the fascination graph that generates the dopamine and the slot machine-addict kind of clicking that is gold to advertisers.

Facebook has managed to deliver this dopamine in a way that's not creepy (nobody has to go through anyone's garbage, etc.) so the question is, is it ever going to start to seem creepy?
Tool support is usually poor, particularly for debugging. Interfacing languages is a mess, whether obviously (if you do it by hand) or hidden away (if you use SWIG). More code to deal with and step through. Higher chance of really ugly, hard-to-diagnose side effects from making a mistake on the C side. People working in both languages will regularly introduce bugs or perf problems because they get the languages mixed up as they're working. If you have less-technical people working in the higher-level languages, they'll will work around bugs in the C side, so you never hear about them until you fix them and break everything.

I've worked on a number of mixed-language projects, and these same issues keep cropping up. Perhaps it depends on the team, but that is not something not everybody gets the chance to choose. My current mixed-language program (tcl/C++) is working out OK, with just me working on it, but tool support is poor, and hand-writing the language interfaces is annoying.

(Notable exception: Visual Studio 2010 looks to offer pretty decent mixed native/managed debugging, and the CLR has good C++ interop support.)
It's one thing if you tell them before hand "C, C, it's all about C here!" But every interview I've had has been pretty flexible in letting me choose what language to use.
Nrsolis has read his/her history. In addition, I'd like to point out that humans are still humans, and cultures can change very fast given a precipitating crisis.
"Lack of discipline is what caused the crisis."

Don't say this kind of stuff. It's verboten. Always, always blame lack of government spending. ;)
No. Not everyone can export high-tech machinery. Btw., Germany exports all kinds of other stuff, too. Adidas makes clothes. BASF makes chemicals. Allianz sells insurance.

What Germany wants is that the other countries get their house in order: keep the housing market under control, get the banks under control, have people pay taxes, etc etc.

Structural reforms.

What Germany learned from Reunification is that MORE MONEY DOES NOT MAKE AN ECONOMY WORK. Work makes an economy work. Investments. Companies. Workers. Education. Ideas. Products. Services.
Tablets are expensive because of their screen, touch screen, battery and mechanicals. Everything else is cheap in comparison.

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/New-iPad-32-GB-4...

Devices like this still have a screen and battery and mechanicals. Instead of $20 of CPU and $10 of RAM they have a $10 CPU that includes RAM. That's pretty much the only savings available.

On the other hand, tablets sell in huge volumes; this is a niche market. So it's quite probable that tablets and/or notebooks without a CPU will be more expensive than ones with a CPU.
"Now, do you really care if some community bulletin board's database gets owned? Probably not. But I wouldn't run a shopping cart on a shared hoster."

I agree. tptacek is the one who disagrees with you. He thinks there is "never" a good reason to use shared hosting.
Nobody in my household has pirated even one track since the advent of Spotify in our lives. I know it's not the best sample size, and it's only anecdotal, but I suspect that would be the pattern across the board if similar models became adopted for other forms of media.
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Why did I get called a fuckchop?
Scott Forstall had these meetings with Steve every Tuesday, where Scott and team gave updates on things Steve wanted to know about. Sometimes these were fun, sometimes not. (imagine a small room full of anxious people.. [execs, UI guys, engineers] getting a call from steve's admin saying he was on his way. 'oh, and he's just coming back from the dentist, not in a good mood') This day in particular started light, with Steve laughing/incredulous about this insult he was called or had heard "fuckchop", and wtf did that mean anyway. (this is the way back machine here, so it's fuzzy) I was up to show what would become iChatAV, very early days. That still didn't excuse a bad demo. We talked about a couple things, and then I went to my office to get the party started. A few seconds in to the demo, my mic went dead - I could hear/see them, they could see but not hear me. Trying to debug during a demo is a rook move, but I did it anyway. He got agitated, and said something to the effect of "I think I've figured it out... you're a fuckchop!". It was meant to be funny.. or at least that's I say when I cry myself to sleep at night.

What was I doing wrong?
Well, plenty I'm sure! Anyone who had any dealings with Steve at any point eventually incurred his wrath. Just the way it was. You didn't get to that point however by being an idiot (or, 'fuckchop'). Steve always pushed the envelope, and that guaranteed you were going to fail at some point. That's good! If you don't fail, you're not trying hard enough. However, chalking up failure with a simple "oh well"... that's bad! He wanted you to take failing seriously. Or maybe he was having a bad day. Either way, you got the business.
I think the parent may be referring to some of the undemocratic elements of the European Council, or the bailout fund that was proposed a while back to be run by a separate body to the ECB.
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As a note;

./configure --with-ns; make; make install, then copy to Applications.
You got it.

And enjoy some media / regular mobile experience in the interim.
you guys really need to educate yourself about europe, I can't believe this has so many upvotes. while the current crisis certainly isn't good for the political climate, we're now further away from a european war than ever - the european integration thru ECSC and now EU did really work in those regards.
It amazes me that people invest 20 hours in reading a book and complain about the price. If we assume roughly $40/hr for a $80k programmer, this is about $800 worth of time you're investing. Does a "hard" investment of $29 (4%) really make that big of a difference?
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Looking to others' works for inspiration is not a bad thing. You just need to ask why they did something rather than "how can I copy it." You can begin to copy/emulate once you have an understanding of why the choice was made and if that why fits with yours.

I like this site and subscribe to the feed. It offers me a quick view at good/cool UI components and if I want more info, I go to the service to play with it.
None of the major transfers of political power away from the German parliaments/citizen towards the democratically non legitimised EU institutions have been put to a referendum in Germany (and various other countries). That's a clearcut erosion of democracy.
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Lots of startup advice being published and preached by "gurus".

Be careful of taking advice that is not tailored specifically to your circumstances.

Careful judgement needed to pick out and implement advice.

Ensure advice is actionable and measurable.
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One could argue that they were in a way complicit, but not responsible. Is it Germany's fault that the representatives of a country made it seem that they were able to make good on their debts?
Question: why do desalination plants use a filtering system, instead of evaporation? (like that desert survival trick of spreading plastic over a hole)

(guessing) Is it because (1) evaporation is actually very energy inefficient compared to filtration, especially at scale; or (2) evaporation doesn't separate out impurities that also evaporate.
Ha, there isn't going to be another war in Europa proper. Trust me, no european wants another war.

You can have that in the US because the US doesn't typically pay the price of war, and the country knows it. The greek people know they will pay the price for invading Germany. And that price is enormous.
I would be interested in hearing more as to why you think Austin has a better quality of life than San Francisco. Having moved to SF after three years in Austin, I definitely think my quality of life has improved. Reasons:

1. Austin has one weather throughout most of the year. It is not conducive to urban exploration unless one keeps hydrated often. The great thing about San Francisco is the micro climates and the fog line. It keeps each neighborhood different.

2. Austin like most Texan towns is spread apart. If you are not in downtown or close to UT, get prepared to drive. Of course the flip side is that Austin has great parking and clean streets. On the other hand, people like me who hate driving have an awesome experience in SF.

3. Food wise, I would argue that SF beats Austin handily. There are cultures in SF that have lived here for decades bringing with them their ethnic foods and creating specific hot spots of amazing food. I have not had the same experience in Austin but YMMV of course...

4. Austin is sold as one of the few young, culturally liberal areas in Texas. This is definitely true when you compare it against other places in Texas. However, its liberalism and culture pale when compared to San Francisco.
Actually, Germany did cause quite a bit of the problem. Without Germany, the Euro would have devalued much faster, much earlier, which would have easied some problems.

A Germany going it alone would also have a much more expensive currency. This is one reason Germany doesn't want the Euro to collapse I suspect (along with the massive disorganisation)
I think approximate linear distance is closer to a practical measurement than crinkly measurements. Consider a semi-circular bay. You may have more access (water/land interface) points, but all the pipes have to go out "far enough" to the same ocean. I suppose a really large bay might not have this problem, but then it looks much less crinkly, and more linear, than a small bay.
I don't believe that would be legal under most EU countries' domestic banking laws, not to mention EU law. For example, I'm a non-Danish national (American) with a Danish bank account, and under Danish law the government could not treat my bank account in a disadvantageous way (such as confiscating it, or unilaterally redenominating it) solely because I'm American. They could pass a law forcing me to close the account (e.g. by tightening the rules on foreign-owned bank accounts), but they would have to let me withdraw my money if they did so, in the same currency as it's denominated in (DKK).
It increases complexity. Your build system needs to be configured to support all the languages, you need code style guidelines for each of the languages, you need rules about when to use each language, you need to ramp up each new team member on the languages, etc. All this is overcomable of course, but it stacks the odds against using multiple languages.
My rule is simple. If you can show that the property is tied to producing things either for a sole proprietorship or a family-run business (in any form), then it's exempt. I don't think the burden of proof needs to be very high. The key thing though is that mere rental businesses would not be. Land, capital, and means of production employed in production would be.
Zed Shaw has made the book available for free. It's perfectly acceptable to point that out (indeed, it's linked from the udemy summary anyway). If you need more than the book, you can pay for the course. This is why it is labelled a "companion". There is nothing morally bankrupt about using the resource that has been graciously given away for free: it seems evident that Zed Shaw intended the book to be free, so use that fact. If you need more, he believes it's worth $29 of your money to access the additional materials.

There's a really good argument to be made if the OP were linking to a bootlegged free version of a book that costs money, but it's really silly to criticize him for pointing out the free version of the free book on the thread about its companion course.
valgrind:

==46592== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==46592== at 0x100000E90: foo (in ./a.out)
==46592== by 0x100000ED3: main (in ./a.out)

The matter is, valgrind exists. Everything is a C deficiency that valgrind is able to overcome decently is no longer a C deficiency practically speaking.
To me this, if anything, looks like a trade dress infringement (MacBook line). Can someone help me understand why it isn't?

I don't support IP whatsoever; I'm vehemently against all these laws. I'm just curious how they're planning to get away with it.
Its still German interests that dominate € policy.

The ECB still has in its mandate 'price stability' which means that it just doesn't do any inflation north of 2%, no matter what, which is an age-old German fetish. Which also pretty unreasonable because the deflation and close to zero inflation exacerbated the Great Depression - and we are in a depression again.
Glad to hear it--I've been looking into using clang more... This might just tip me towards it.
None taken, we're quite clear on how importantly the big players take Switzerland's economic health.
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The article isn't totally unreasonable, but there would be a much safer solution to the current crisis: Converting the BCE to a normal central bank, just like the Fed, Bank of England, etc. etc, ie a lender of last resort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lender_of_last_resort

Of course this would require a much tighter central control on each Euro country balance, one that would make it impossible for any one country to cheat the others (as unfortunately happened with Greece). But I think that all the EU countries would accept this right now to save themselves from a potentially catastrofic crisis.

Greece is for now the only failed state in the EU, but it has such a tiny economy (3% of the EU GDP) that it would be much lest expensive to bail it out now, with a decisive move, than try to punish it for its mistakes and, in doing so, prolonging the crisis. Fixing the other imbalances in the EU would still require a lot of work, but it would be definitely be possible if the interest rates for the countries at the center of the crisis went back to normal (as it would happen with a Fed-like BCE).
I agree with you that the German banks facilitated the spending, but the fault still lies with the countries that abused that money. You cannot blame the bank for your debt after requesting your 12th credit card!

Aside: I believe that the German banks have to live with their mistakes regarding due diligence, although even that isn't so clear as it seems that the greek authorities weren't entirely honest when it came to their financials.
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