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The original intent of the hierarchical namespace was to distribute name space authority along existing administrative boundaries.

At the top-level this was/is accomplished via the two-letter country code domains.

The support/creation of generic top-level domains (com, net, org, edu originally and .info, .biz and so on afterwards) was a mistake in that there is no way for these top-level domains to map to any real-world administrative boundary. Administration and adjudication of these domains requires a a complex web of international agreements, legal frameworks, and a fair amount of hand-waiving. It is a mess and will always be a mess as far as I can tell.

I don't see how the genie can be put back in the bottle but we would have been much better off if all names had been within the two-letter country code namespace.
For giggles, I call mine "Free Internet."
I've tended to explain it to people this way -- In the related computer science fields there are only three kinds of problems:

1) The problems math makes for you. These are the kind of problems lots of people think they work on, but don't. Compared to other problems, there aren't a lot of them, but solving one has a huge impact on the field as one solution can be shared across the industry.

2) The problems physics makes for you. These are the problems you encounter when you take the math and start applying it to actual machines. This is hardware design or software to directly make that hardware do what you want. This is 'applied' computer science and again, many can leverage the work of a few.

3) The problems other software engineers make for you. This is what most computer scientists/engineers/programmers actually have to do. This is dealing with making someone else's code do what you want. It's dealing with API's and layers and layers of other, primarily human-created, problems.
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I dislike the direction Microsoft is going with this "open dialog" scheme.

"We’ve talked in depth about building Windows 8, including the features, the designs, and the background behind these. We’ve done so in over 70 posts totaling over 500 pages if printed out and 34 videos totaling over 90 minutes"

It's like, if you asked people what they wanted in a car, they would have said a faster horse.

This is going to a huge kitchen-skin, designed-by-a-committee disaster.
The thing here that is eye opening to me, and relevant to any web programmer, is that accessing something from memory from another box in the same datacenter is about 25x times as fast as accessing something from disk locally. I would not have guessed that!
If you're still logged in at work, then just
use the change password link on the profile page.
I find it interesting that you think a programmer needs to know big-O to know when to use a hash-table vs a list; I don't find that to be the case at all.
Does anyone where I can download their data? It says Open and uses user-supplied data so I assume it is available somewhere?
The proliferation of new TLDs is already, quickly reducing some interesting shibboleths of the web. In a few years, young audiences won't be expected to realize how awkward and silly mid-'90s through '00s movie and TV show dialogue seemed when the writers threw in silly TLDs to round out their jargon. That some domain name ends in .ponycorn won't seem preposterous and silly. Probably an opportunity for someone to pick up some of the more memorable fake TLDs from recent history.

I do also wonder how it impacts organizations that have used internal TLDs to manage their intranets, e.g. the FBI's .fbi. There have to be collisions at some point, right? And as the amount of fanfare with each new TLD falls, it seems likely that some of those things could get missed, and lead to some interesting vulnerabilities.
Perhaps an email based recovery system could be added for people in this situation if email accounts are maintained in the HN database. (I think they are.)
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Rails didnt have the pressure to be a $45 million dollar company (investors expect a 5x return don't they?).

Although, thats what Google paid for Android.
You would think Google would do better ... also, if it's a prototype that doesn't do anything, why Google is building hype by having Sergey and Sebastian Thrun wear it in public?
Developing for Metro might be amazing, but developing on Metro is a non-starter. After all, Visual Studio is not a Metro app (yet). Since most "hackers" will spend most of their time on the traditional desktop anyway, they see little reason to upgrade from Windows 7.
Metro style apps can only be installed through the store. Old-style desktop apps can be installed the same way as before.
Thanks for the reply. I put my age in anyway :)
The application form was actually fun to fill out, it got me thinking about my motivations for wanting to join the class, and a bit of looking at oneself is always a useful thing to do.
This looks great. I applied. Will you guys help with housing or perhaps providing it would be great. You know what would be awesome? If you are finding spaces, why don't you find a hacker house and then people can live as well as learn together. This way all the participants won't have to spend money on rent and try to find an apartment?
Ah, great then, this will be even more epic fail than Vista. No Start menu, ridiculous 'store' instead of freedom of installing everything, new antitrust process vs goverment because of attempt to make Firefox and Chrome second class citizens and require BIOS vendors to reject unsigned bootloaders of Linux and FreeBSD.

This may be the last OS they release ever, isn't it?
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Parse, Meteor, and Firebase are all YC companies and all of them are working on this.
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I understand it's also blocked in the offices of at least one major label. Not surprising given certain legal action, but must be annoying for Grooveshark that their potential big customers are actively blocking them.
There already is one, but he doesn't need it if he's still logged in.
uh, citation needed? You'd at least have to specify whether you mean "offered for sale" or "purchased by users", because I suspect a big chunk of game sales volume comes from AAA games which are probably going to be native ports.
Thanks for the input - we switched them over!
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Other companies don't have the legacy that windows does. For windows 8 to be successful, they need the buy-in of consumers in all the various use-cases of the OS. Apple never had that legacy to deal with so the comparison isn't fair.

Determining what the general public wants is a crap shoot. the only reason we're even talking about Apple is because they got lucky a few times. What about the countless companies that were creating the future only to fizzle out for lack of interest? Microsoft can't take those sorts of risks on their core cash cows.
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I don't know how, but your Clip-bookmarklet totally killed my browser. Had to force-kill it. Chrome 18.

Will try the extension for now.
You should stop downvoting me.
I wonder what the Remote Desktop people at MS think about this.
Hi aw3c2 - at the moment it's just the maps that are open (which isn't great we realize), but we have an API on our roadmap. Individual data collected by each user is exportable via the app too.
How many will be swayed by a bumper sticker, or a tweet, etc., etc?

I think it's less about trying to sway people than it is about making a statement about yourself.
I probably won't be using those buttons, but I appreciate the sense of humor :)
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The jump from Metro to traditional UI is not that big. Your visual studio can have its own tile on Metro that takes you straight to the app in traditional UI. Except when writing code, I am usually back in the Metro.

It's just like web development. I code for the browser, not on the browser. And still, I am always on the browser, except when I am not.
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please on your front page, provide a 1-line description and a compelling reason for a newbie to start using your product. I read so much faster than waiting for video to load and then watch. thx.
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* Dividing or multiplying a fahrenheit temperature is meaningless, because 0ºF is arbitrary.

* Ideally, you want separate types for absolute temperatures and temperature-deltas. Absolutes cannot be added, multiplied, or divided; subtracting absolutes produces a delta; adding or subtracting an absolute from a delta produces an absolute; deltas can be added and subtracted, and multiplied by unitless values.

* Multiplying a MeterNum by a MeterNum would ideally produce a SquareMeterNum.

* If you don't have to worry about precision, MeterNum and FootNum should both be replaced by LengthNum.

* You can convert a LengthNum into, say, meters by dividing by whatever value represents "1 meter" to produce a unitless int.

* Often operators don't make sense at all. (a << b) only makes sense if b is a unitless integer, for example.

I implemented most of this (but not absolute temperatures) as a Python library. The source is at <http://timmaxwell.org/svn/src/pychem/units.py>; and <http://timmaxwell.org/svn/src/pychem/std_units.py>. (Warning: these will download rather than opening in the browser.) I also found this: <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/units/>.
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The semicolon is used by Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Java, and C#.

None of those are what I would consider 'low-level' languages.

You can write arcane code in any language.
At least at my university, you can't get a CS degree without a significant amount of programming. Everybody--even the theory people--gets a thorough background going all the way from high-level programming through assembly and even a bunch of EE (it's technically an "EECS" program). Then everybody who isn't specializing in EE or very interested in CS theory does a lot of programming in more advanced courses. On top of this, most people work on some research which also tends to involve a significant amount of programming.

Really, it's not like saying an Art History major could easily learn to paint as much as saying an "Art Practice" major could.

Also, I've found that more CS-oriented people often have a good grasp of software engineering--designing programs, keeping them maintainable, ensuring correctness and so on. On the other hand, non-CS people tend to lack knowledge of theory unless they go out of their way to learn it (and most, unfortunately, don't seem to). It's much easier to get by programming at some company without knowing any theory than it is to learn CS without knowing how to program.

Now, there are obviously CS people who spend very little time programming. But, in my experience, they're relatively rare and tend to stick to academia. Really, they're more like math major who happen to like CS than anything else. The ones like that I've met here also happen to be some of the smartest people I've ever talked to, but that could just be a coincidence.
Yes but what happens when everyone wants different things? How can you be bold when you have to keep your foot in the past, the present and the future?
You're assuming that the GET request is the one being blocked, but it looks more reasonable that it's actually the response (the html results page) that's causing the problems. Probably the "Great Firewall" detects a page that includes frequent use of some "bad" term and blocks the connection.
I think there are a couple of things at play here:

The aesthetic - as art, tastes are subjective (and there is no accounting for them), there's basically stuff you like and stuff you don't like. Right or wrong, for many people, liking and not liking translates to "good" and "bad". For example, "Comic Sans is bad because it's ugly".

The craft - the technical parts (i.e., kerning, spacing, scaling) are much more objective and have more to do with quality, so it's easier to classify stuff as good or bad. For example, "Comic Sans is bad because its kerning is broken".

I usually ignore aesthetic commentary - everyone's different. Some people like the way Comic Sans looks, and that's OK.

On the other hand, I do think criticisms on the craftsmanship are valuable, especially as a non-designer.
They didn't need to take away the start button, and it's going frustrate a lot of users. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU

I've been running the preview in a VM, and getting back to the launcher frustrated me so much I had to install a small utility made by Stardock that makes a fake start button that takes you to the launcher: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/.

I'm a Mac guy, but my job requires me to be in Windows half the time. I hope they take a hint from Stardock and that video and put the start button back in.
It is the server change that really pounds home how completely screwed up Microsoft is now. They're so committed to their tablet operating system -- so desperate to bet the entire company on it -- that they're forcing it on their server operating system. It really trumps even my worst expectations of Microsoft's Apple-initiated insantiy.
Mostly to developers, but man are those sliders annoying. It took a lot of fiddling to get all three in line. Some option which would let me under or over allocate temporarily would have been a huge help, instead of this one up, that one down, that one back up, that one down again.
If you redefine "benefits", you might have a point.

Many jobs have health insurance, and thus "benefits". Many health insurances are rather picky with what they do/don't cover. If you claim that only "insurance that covers what I need covered, at a price I deem acceptable", can be called a "benefit", then sure, your mention is valid.

It's also a pointless statement.
GP specifically said that they're doing this to be rude. I'm offended by it because that was the intent.
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Can anyone tell when this preview expires? I can't seem to find that information in the FAQ.
They managed to turn a file manager into something like http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/images/17/2011/08/xlarge_... when something like http://www.muktware.com/sites/default/files/images/applicati... would work just as well. Yuck.
You will be violating their ToS and they will blacklist you.

If they send you a cease and desist, you will have to honor it. If you don't, they will have a case.

So it's completely legal until they tell you to stop, at which point they can sue you for damages.
Not a complete list, but this is a tricked out wine used by many many games:
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>Time spent learning the UML meta-meta-model and Object Z >is, for 99.9% of developers, time completely wasted

I thought it was interesting that the poster used these examples for CS.

I didn't take a single course at university that dealt with either of these topics. Everything I dealt with in comp sci was algorithms & complexity theory, coupled with a smattering of, "this is how computers actually work". Far as I can tell op is talking about computer programming subjects, and not computer science subjects.
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People severely underestimate how hard it is to build a head-mounted display that is small, light and provides good, high-res image. To do it cheaply adds another order of magnitude of difficulty. It has been the pursuit of many technology companies for decades.

I'm pretty sure, the Vuzix device is in the tens of thousands of dollars. And it's on a wire.

Oakley might hint all they want, as many companies have over the years, but they admit themselves in the article you've linked to that they've been chasing this unicorn since 1998.

And devices like the Epson Moverio BT-100 or Sony HMZ-T1 are a whole different class: they're entertainment clunkers that you wouldn't wear on your head on the street. What Google will likely offer is of unprecedented size and weight, bearable looks to wear among real people (not nerds), it's wireless, capable of linking with your device of choice (smartphones, possibly laptops), and will have to carry price tag acceptable for more affluent consumers (say, those who can afford iPhones and top-of-the line Android phones). So, when you ask, is it really that hard, I would respond: you have no friggin' idea.
You are technically correct, but you are belittling the amount of work that Codeweavers put into the LIMBO Linux version.
Yeah it just doesn't remove it when I remove the tag and hit enter then refresh.
"Obamanation" is a pretty common wingnutism.
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Rails was developed internally and later released open source. It's a completely different model and your statement is ignorant.
For what it's worth, Wozniak actually did EECS at Berkeley ;).

In regards to the SaaS class: I know a bunch of people who took it before it was offered online. Perhaps surprisingly, most of them did not find it useful. The issue is that they picked up everything taught there either on their own or in internships; they really didn't need to waste a whole course on it. That said, the particular people I talked to are some of the better EECS majors who tend to have significant projects of their own and good internships, so there is certainly some bias.
Disruptive flower startup H.Bloom is looking for a fantastic sysadmin
H.Bloom is fast on its way to becoming the Netflix of affordable luxuries. With accolades in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company, and funding from Battery Ventures (Groupon, Skullcandy) and Shasta Ventures (mint.com, taskrabbit, Jamba Juice), we're scaling fast, and are in the process are building industry-changing technology from the ground up. We're looking for an on-the-ball Systems Engineer to ensure it all runs smoothly, efficiently, and reliably as we grow.

With our first product line, flowers, H.Bloom has experienced fast traction in our four current markets, New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago and San Francisco, growing revenue over 700% from 2010 to 2011. We're poised to massively disrupt the fragmented $32B+ flower market.

By joining our growing team now, you'll be instrumental in paving the way for our expansion, touching both front- and back-end systems that are vital to the way our business runs and grows.

Responsibilities:

- Architect, manage, maintain, and monitor our cloud infrastructure such that it provides best in class availability, latency, scalability, and security.

- Build monitoring tools to allow us to know the state of our systems real time.

- Provide guidance to software development on how to architect systems to operate most efficiently and most securely in our - infrastructure.

- Respond to emergency system issues and drive them to resolution.

- Corral our developers - if someone doesn't take away our root access on production boxes soon, there's going to be trouble.

Requirements:

- BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.

- 4+ years experience configuring and managing UNIX/Linux OS.

- 2+ years working with cloud based SaaS providers.

- Comfortable with Windows Server administration.

- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (shell, python, ruby, etc.).

Preferred:

- Experience with EC2

- Knowledge of MySQL administration.

- Familiarity with OO programming (C++, Java, C#) is preferred.

Perks:

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- 401k

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Apply here: http://bit.ly/KBOILR
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<rant>

Too true. So many companies, even younger ones, hold onto some stupid concept of paying your dues. Even the "great" companies give the employees who contribute 10x as much a 20% raise instead of a 10% raise...and that's AFTER a bunch of political bullshit to make sure you get recognized. Seriously? That's why even a tiny bit of effort to go out of your way to reward great people can have outsized returns...because nobody does it!

At most places there is just no concept of rewarding people according to how much they contribute. That's why talented people have to move all the time, because of stupid institutions that think a moderate increase in compensation is adequate for a massive increase in value. Ugh.

My current employer is actually really good about this, but so many places fail so completely they make me gnash my teeth in rage.

</rant>
I don't think so. I remember getting a game called "frozen synapse" which was available on the bundle and I couldn't get it to run in Linux without reconfiguring wine.
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Nice. I went with, "<TOWN NAME> FREE WIRELESS...NOT".
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This is the strongest indie bundle that I've seen to date.
Well, I can think of servers being connected to touch screens so no keyboard or mouse is needed. Of course this will require new hardware.
Nevermind. You click on the clip first, and then you get the option to delete it.
http://gawker.com/5832665/do-not-name-your-wifi-network-fbi-...

Spoilers: I live in a very dense apartment building and my wifi network is FBI_Surveillance_Van. I totally thought of it first.
$9M was the total raise, not the valuation. Presumably the exit would have to be much higher than $45M for a 5x multiple.
If you know there are only two states, why not have a bool that you flip each time?

is_even = !is_even should be a lot cheaper than string comparison or modulus, assuming a reasonable language.
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> Grotesque sans were uncommon before the (say) 60s, and were very stylized for the time.

Source?

Wikipedia sayeth about Helvetica:

"The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage."

There's a history of sans-serifs (with emphasis on grotesques) here http://www.linotype.com/en/795/thesansseriftypefaces.html?PH... that seems to suggest they had caught on pretty well by the 20s.
I think quotas do more harm than good. I've been lucky in my career to work for companies that valued their programmers for their talent - regardless of gender.
I don't have any information on the details of this deal but if it is a typical series A then that 9 million represents a 20-30% equity stake in the company. This means for a 10x return for investorss the company needs to grow in value to ~$360 million.
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There's a "PCI Express Thinner Interconnect for Mobile Devices" in the works:

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As a linux user with an Android phone and a healthy fear of Microsoft, I think the Windows Store is probably the best thing in the world for end-user computing coming out of Microsoft today. They are catching up to the package managers that Linux users have taken for granted over the last couple decades. They are catching up to the centralized update system and offering improved security.

I haven't owned a Microsoft product in many years, but the store is, to me, one of the best moves they've made...like, ever. Not sure what possible disadvantage there is to having it.