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I hear this sort of thing frequently, and I've never really understood it. I personally find Objective C wonderfully easy to read & understand, both in terms of interface and implementation. In fact, it's the only language other than Ruby where I frequently catch myself in moments of joy while using it. I find it hard to believe that a compiled, largely static language can feel so flexible in terms of typing and runtime, while at the same time have a strong enough type system that Clang can run the magic it does.

I'm not being contradictory here, I'm genuinely curious: what in particular do people find ugly about ObjC. What languages would you appeal to for design hints in light of the needs of Objective C?
Same thing; just check for loops
Chinese Chip Maker Comments on Backdoor Found on Chip Used by U.S. Military
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Being closed to the possibility of rewriting a project is one of the worst decisions advanced-intermediate engineers make. How much technical debt has accumulated? How many future features/changes need to be made? How long does it take just to maintain the current feature-set?

If a re-write saves more time than it takes, then it should be considered. If it takes you a week to implement something that should be done in a day, and you realize that you'll be doing lots of those things over the course of the next few years, it's probably worth considering a re-write. It's not a solution to every problem, and it's probably done more often than it's not, but there are certainly times when it pays to do it. It's easy to have simple rules that say don't do things. It's much harder to make the best decision for the business. Just because some businesses in the past have made the wrong decision with regards to re-writes doesn't mean it's always wrong.
Yes. Exactly, sorry, it's a lazy cliche, but I do think the evidence is there in the HB Gary emails that enables one to conclude beyond some reasonable level of doubt it was U.S. produced. However, the NY Times piece does provide evidence from the mouth of the source, and has far more detail.
> Piracy will continue, he said, no matter what providers do.

Of course it will. But this is like arguing that crime will never hit 0%, so why bother trying?
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I disagree. Show HN would be just another marketing tool if you were looking for people to use your app. But usually when you do a Show HN you're looking for feedback and criticism. You're bringing it before it's really ready for wide release, or when you feel it could use improvement. Or just want someone to puncture your bubble of love for your creation and let you know how everyone else feels about it.

HN is a community of people who build things. When you bring something you've built to them, you're looking for their opinions on it. Not just advertising to them.

Edit, as an example here's my own Show HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053786

I'm not looking for people to use it. How many HNers are really my target market? Very few. I'm looking for opinions on the design, the feature set I've chosen, my implementation of them and advice on how I could build its community.

I suspect it's already been flagged by someone, since I can't seem to comment on it though. :/
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That's interesting. I don't really support Firefox yet. I didn't know Firefox prompted users before allowing html5 offline storage. The webkit browsers don't have this behavior.

I use offline storage to sync books and make them available to read offline.

You are right that the back button behavior is a little weird. I completely missed this during my tests. Shame on me. The use of the history API was meant to allow people to bookmark places within books not to make "back" act all weird. I will have to reconsider how I do this.

Thanks for the feedback :-)
>Science and beliefs can coexist perfectly well

I have no idea what kind of messed up definition of "beliefs" you are using. Of course science and beliefs coexist; science is a process for arriving at accurate beliefs.
It is a stone cold, dead in the ground for a decade, crystalline clear FACT that Iran has no nuclear weapon manufacturing program, and no plausible capacity to engage in one in the near future. Period, full stop, end telegram.

Armed with this certainty, you can now begin to answer the rest of your questions for yourself.
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It worries you that people will read more? That people will read more varied things? That authors will get better compensation? That self-publishing will become a much more viable model for literally millions of authors?

Man you worry about some weird stuff dude.
Same here! Red would be an option, but consider putting several links throughout the page too. There mustn't be a time when you don't see an (obvious) link to buy your product.
The parallel comment by salimmadjd has a point about Pakistan maybe being even worse than Iran, when it comes to terror support (I do doubt that Saudi A as a country is worse).

I might stand corrected, there.

>>Every powerful country kills the civilians/citizens of other countries

To explicitly target civilians is serious because it breaks the laws of war, etc. Democracies generally don't do that.
there is a big difference between rewriting netscape and rewriting the time tracking software for a 100 person company. Netscape was a very large, complicated product written by a lot of developers. Most software isn't like that. I'm not saying that learning from netscape's mistake isn't valuable but there is an important distinction to be made. Rewriting software can often get rid of a lot of cruft and edge cases caused by developers not following YAGNI.
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Objective-C is a superset of C, functions can be just that - a function. Especially for higher-order functions like map and filter. Not everything needs to be glued to an object.
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Show HN: discuss.io - Get feedback on your designs with visual annotations
Is Technology Fostering a Race to the Bottom?
ETSI chooses Apple's 'nano-SIM' design as new standard
"Aussies have to wait an additional week to view episodes of the show. Little surprise then that they turned to BitTorrent in droves..."

I think this says a lot about how the internet has changed society. Waiting one week is not a big deal. There used to big release gaps between countries when movies were released in the cinema. Sure it sucked but life went on. I know that many people don't think piracy constitutes theft (although it sounds like these people would have paid, so it is a lost sale), but having to wait one week should not be justification for pirating content.

A lot of money is put into making a show like Game Of Thrones. The £1.89 iTunes charges per episode would not be enough to cover the budget and I believe that's why this staggered roll out happens (deals with TV companies are more lucrative). If the episodes were priced higher (say £4.99) but released immediately I don't think very many people would pay.

The internet seems to be fostering an attitude of "We want it now, and we want it free or very cheap".

I think it's going to be very hard to ever find that sweet spot where people are happy with what the content company can viably offer, and they won't pirate.

Edit: I think this article explains my first point well. http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...
that was my first instinct too, but a search for 'new.ycombinator.org' on the .COM yields so many links.

I wonder why pg doesn't enable oauth for it
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Along a very similar vein, in an interview with Forbes, HBO basically expressed the view that watching things on the internet is a temporary phenomenon. It shows how out of touch a lot of these people are. Wanting content fast is "unreasonable"?

Pretty strange.
Maybe I'm an idiot, but the vast majority of times I've needed to recover something from a backup are due to user error, not hardware failure. RAID sure doesn't help there.
It says "Log in to your Facebook account" but it doesn't tell me what I get if I do.
My only worry is people starting spam "Show HN", hoping for the obliged up-votes.
This comment got me thinking: http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/06/i-thought-people-had-ide...
What problem or pain does it solve? How does it improve the quality of my life? Why should I care?
Yes, the US has done bad things, and AIDS is a bad thing, but it doesn't follow that the US caused AIDS. After all, nature has had no trouble creating pandemics without any deliberate human help over the centuries.
> There is plenty of caselaw I can find where, for example, employees have not left, but refused to sign over patents on stuff done in spare time, and companies sued to recover them while the employee was still working there. I have yet to find one where the company lost.

Is it possible to sum up briefly why this is? It seems to me that there are three kinds of spare time projects:

1. Spare time projects where the employer has no legitimate moral[1] claim of ownership.

2. Spare time projects where the legitimate moral owner is ambiguous.

3. "Spare time" projects where the legitimate owner is clearly the employer.

If employers only ever bother to sue in cases 2 or 3 I'm not sure there is a problem. Especially if there are internal procedures engineers can use to secure ownership of software in category 2.

Are companies routinely winning in case 1? If so this is a flaw in the legal system and should be fixed.

[1] Based on current generally accepted ideas about ownership. If a developer spends his nights working on a personal project with no connection to the employer, a reasonable person would attribute ownership of his work to the developer, not the employer who pays him during the day.
That's a nice view but it's the wrong one. Applications and websites gain users and popularity through sharing, whether that's individuals on Twitter and Facebook or on blogs. HN is a community of technology minded people, it's not a community of creators. There are a lot of creators here but they are not the majority.

Make a project -> launch it on hn with a Show HN (a free way to get traffic, as this post has proven) -> if the app/website is good people from HN will share it and it'll make it to blogs.

"Show HN" is absolutely an easy way to launch a product, HN has millions of users, this isn't a quaint little community any more. Yes "Show HN" should be about sharing creations and getting feedback and it does provide that, but it also provides a great launch. I'm not ashamed to admit that my personal launch plan for any "cool" website/app I launched is a "Show HN".
Where are the standard social buttons? You launched without a FB page?! When I post a link to your page (copy/paste) to FB the two graphics that are available for thumbnails are "learn more" and "buy now". Those thumbnail graphics may be as useful in pulling in customers as the copy text, but are wasted here.
Good point - I wouldn't be too worried about Google's lawyercats (unless you do something egregious) but for other companies this may be really important.
Please build an informative landing page. Even if it's just a couple sentences (maybe these two from your comment?) and a screenshot. Thanks
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part I: Working with files
Of course a RAID controller isn't supposed to fail silently, but it can and it does. I can't think of many complex pieces of technology that work 100% all of the time.
Upvoted for the well written post, but a quick question:

Why are you guys using Ruby? Is it the better libraries for client side JS libraries like Ember? It seems that you may eventually need some of the tools that Numpy or Scipy provide and the difference between Rails and Django (or Pylons or Flask) don't seem like a big enough gap. Of course you could use ZeroMQ (or whatever) to communicate between the two, but unless there is a big reason, why divide up your back end?
Cool. Did you use HTML5 canvas for the snapshots?
The impression I got was that you don't have to know Java, but you should know at least one of Python/Java/C++. They strongly prefer the latter two.

The leap from the questions to google failing at social networks is far fetched, though.
Backwards... smart!
Looks really cool. As other commenters pointed out I also couldn't find the price and I think you might be missing part of your target audience when you say:

You're at a party talking to an attractive member of the opposite sex.
Porn film producer to send filesharers warning letters
Can I rant? I have had about two show HN's without a single upvote or comment. It's like no one sees them. It's kind of discouraging but i will keep doing it. The next one will be a long exposure camera app in opera mobile, finished proof of concept yesterday. :P
Pretty cool. Is there an RSS/Atom feed I could subscribe to?
>> why would "The IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution[186] by a vote of 32–2

Because of pressure from Israeli lobby. I follow this very carefully, and most of it is propaganda to provide impunity to Israel for current and future actions.

The fact is, Iranian still unable to refine oil in industrial scale without outside help. Enriching U like any thing else becomes harder as you reach higher purity. US intelligence confirmed there has been no move to militarizing their nuclear technology.
The only part of point two I like is to not have faith. Never have faith in anything. Always observe, reason, and experiment.

That seems wrong. Without believing in both yourself and in something beyond yourself (it doesn't necessarily have to be physically real), there's little point in observing, reasoning, or experimenting.

Expertise in epistemology doesn't help much if you've got no normative philosophies for applying it.
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This brings to mind google's warning re: the use of functional idioms in Java:
http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/FunctionalExpl... Objective-C blocks make things smoother than Java, but it still feels to me like the language wants you to have a bunch of small objects sending message to each other. (rather than doing function composition)

That said, I use underscore.js in nearly all of my browser and node.js code, so I'll certainly consider this when the iPhone train comes back around.
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