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It's only slightly smaller than the whole of the United Kingdom.

But your summary is more astute than the article.
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I completely disagree with this.

There is no WAY that anybody ever loved Pets.com the way that I love GitHub.

And I'm not the only one! Not by a long shot.
Don't they sell the iPad 2 for 400 US$? This would be at least 150US$ more than the most expensive Nexus 7 and 200US$ more than the standard version or the kindle fire (assuming the next version won't be more expensive). I'm sure Apple could meet the price point or even undercut it (bear in mind that Google ads 25US$ credit for the Play store) but that would mean their margin goes down a lot. I'm not sure Apple is willing to go down that route.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't believe that Apple is going to release a product that is inferior in some main aspects (eg screen resolution) and trying to compete on price.
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I don't think he meant land area.
"Sponsored by Telecom Egypt". Now that's what i call ironic!
Python also has plenty of stupid edge cases while being less functional, flexible but more complex than JavaScript. My theory is that Python gets good press because nobody has to use Python, so the people who don't like it just use a different language instead of complaining. Obviously, this does not hold for JavaScript.

If you're going to complain about language choices, don't force everybody on Python!

I can't comment on Ruby because I have never had to use it.

What would be perfect is Scheme in the browser. And, apparently, we almost had it except marketing or management forced Eich to make it look like Java resulting in JavaScript.
that js implements the floating point standard is not js' fault. but that parse("1something unreasonable", 2) == 1 is just wrong. it should generate an exception.
I've installed it for the very first time, and it is pretty cool! I've dabbled in Clojure before, and the mention of Leiningen in the context of Light Field worried me a bit (getting Clojure, Leiningen, etc working on my Linux system was quite a chore).

However, installation of Light Field was a breeze and I'm puttering around. Links to basic how tos would be more helpful, and I'm sure you'll be getting to that. But for now, thanks, it is looking awesome!
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When I lived in LA, I heard many times that the taxis there were run by the Russian mob. I wonder how Uber will fare against them. Russian gangsters arent really a group I'd want to be the one to "disrupt"
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Market share. Windows has had over 90% desktop market share for almost two decades. If Apple doesn't address the low end of the market, Google or Microsoft will squeeze them into a niche player again.
Sorry, your point about jQuery is off the mark. jQuery is a library (not a framework), and if you are not using libraries you are most likely doing it wrong, in any language!

jQuery does nothing to alter the language, so people using it are still coding pure JavaScript. jQuery itself is implemented in pure JavaScript.

----

There does exist variants of JavaScript, such as Paper.js, Protovis and maybe even CoffeScript, but these are not what the majority of JavaScript users use.
I'm cross-posting here the comment I added to the mozilla blog:

[quote]
Firefox went to live because of the IE dominance in the corporate and private world. In the same idea, Thunderbird went to live to offer an alternative to the Exchange/Outlook pair domination (and is still widely used in the corporate world).

We have a few very good alternative to Exchange outside (Kerio and Zimbra for instance) but
Thunderbird lacks good Card/CalDav support which is a feature request that Mozilla has completely fail to deliver. And that’s were the real innovation was (think about it twice, please). Instead, we are seeing Thunderbird chat coming in. “Great”. Are you kidding?

Furthermore, I don’t get Mozilla communication ATM. When I hear “What Thunderbird users have in common is the need for a very stable and secure email product – first and foremost.”, I just think the guy saying that is making fun of the users.

Finally, as I said yesterday on Baker’s blog (comments), Mozilla should remove the Donate link on its website, as long as the long term goals are as unclear as they are now.

[/quote]

I also think that the decision to stop Thunderbird is based on a falacy: WebMail does not make e-mail clients obsolete, or even less important.
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> getting Clojure, Leiningen, etc working on my Linux
> system was quite a chore

Can you elaborate on that? Tooling and set-up used to be one of Clojure's big weaknesses; they are less so now. On Ubuntu, for instance, it shouldn't be much more than

$ sudo apt-get install leiningen
$ lein new my-proj

What went wrong?
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Disagree. If you arent hallucinated by the vision that you can somehow change the world, you wouldnt dare step out either. One has to be a masochist to want to set up themselves for failure.

Once again, its not the embracing of failure, but what you perceive as failure. Most start out for the fact that they love what they do and would do it even if they werent paid for it - its the learning along the way, the friends they make and the experience that drives them. The payout, is a bonus. Failure is not going anywhere, and not even getting a lesson out of it or growing a new skill.

There is nothing wrong with the article. You are setting yourself up for some trouble when you claim you know the "real" reason - backed by zilch data, and just pure perception :)
Yes, I didn't mean the land but the people.
Why does it "need" fewer cars on the road?

If you'd ever been to Bangkok you'd know why it needs fewer cars. Pollution is terrible, and traffic is appalling - often a journey which should take 20 minutes takes hours, and safety standards are very low - the most popular form of taxi is a pick-up truck with bench seats in the back which is really unsafe in the event of an accident. They desperately need to encourage more public transport and get rid of some of the cars/trucks on the road to prevent rush-hour gridlock and massive pollution.

The easiest way to clear up the roads for public transport is to make driving more expensive and use some of that money for improvements in the public infrastructure. I doubt they'll ever do it, but they could do worse than follow the example of London with a congestion charge for central areas, and use the money to subsidise public transport, which is underused at present (because the train is so expensive, and the buses are so slow due to all the other traffic).
Half the size of the ipad and you're looking at a big phone - something like the old dell streak or the (actually very popular, though ignored in HN circles) galaxy note. Double the size sounds incredibly impractical to me (you'd need a suitcase to carry it around in), but look for bigger tablets to happen if Toshiba's 13" effort is a success. It's no surprise that most manufacturers are sticking to safe ground, but there is innovation going on if you look for it.
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GitHub recently announced Subversion bridging:

https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-su...
I would say the (bigger) problem is in JavaScript randomly calling toString on things, especially when you're calling parseInt on a number already.
What about better Caldav support and Implementation of the Carddav ?

Chat Integration, who cares when you don't even have a decent addressbook integration?
"brainwashed by the state controlled media to share their opinion"? What do you mean?

Or did you mean "not to share their opinion"?
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At which point you can challenge the legality of the law itself, and will have bought time to get enough happy users in town to make it a political issue and possibly replace the regulators.

Some legal hacks work, others don't.
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> I would love if Romania would start to be known for something other than antivirus solutions.

Ubervu and Epayment, off the top of my head.
Historically, contributions by the RIAA have been pretty evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. Lobbyists care more about influence than they do about the R or D after the name. Politicians care more about reelection campaign funding then they do about ideology.

Edit - sources:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2012&cm...

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00139519...

You need to look through the last few election cycles for a full picture. The MPAA, it seems, leans towards Democrats, but they do shift contributions according to which party controls each chamber.
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Well, start the discussion, then.

What do you think is fun in Emacs and not in other editors? What was unfunny in Vim?
Using law instead of tax dollars amounts to the exact same thing: State control and interference. Reminds me of the bad old days of socialism.
According to the article the valuation is $750m, that means they probably purchased 12.5% for $100m. To generate a 2% return on $100m @ 12.5% implies $16m of distributable profits. Assuming 40% of GitHub is net profit (a generous estimate), this implies $40m in revenue.

That represents 476k 'micro' subscribers in one year, 277k 'small' subscribers, 151k 'medium' subscribers. Cheapest business plan (bronze) would require 133k; most expensive (platinum) would require 16.7k subscriptions. Github announced 1 million users on 21 September 2011. I can't find any details about current #s or the % of paying users.

Remember that all these numbers double if GitHub only has 20% net profit (bear in mind this would be 2.5% higher than the insurance industry, which is an extraordinarily predictable and profitable industry, and oil/gas, the most profitable industry, sits at 25%).

So while not 'spectacular' it's not at all obvious whether they can generate the sales required to generate the return necessary, and the optimistic attitude of people posting here without any numbers to support their conclusions is a bit disturbing (not a reflection on parent's comment, but in general).

Looking at the numbers I'll make the following observations:

- the total market size of potential GitHub users has a fairly low limit (somewhere in the 10s of millions I would guess)

- GitHub has some popularist advantages but ultimately competes on price as far as I can tell (I've started moving to Bitbucket because I see no point in paying for something I can get for free, and the recent hack shows GitHub doesn't offer better security AFAIT); as soon as they gain a larger market share there's no reason to believe competitors won't want in on the action, and as GP points out, switching repository hosts is really easy

- while it looks like they'll be able to generate that 2% return over the next few years I'm struggling to see them generating a much more interesting return based on the numbers I'm looking at

- I have a feeling people are confusing feelings of "GitHub is cool and I like it" for implying that "GitHub should do well as a profit generating business for its investors"; they are also probably fantasizing about having $100m invested in their own startups and taking criticism as personal attacks on this 'plan'
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You can hide it, but "Drafts," "Sent Mail," and "Trash" are under the "[Gmail]" folder. (Even though there's a duplicate and empty "Trash" folder above the root.) I check those frequently so it has to stay. I'm pretty sure Thunderbird hacks around some Gmail quirks already, they may as well hack around this one too while they're at it!
I'm sure Apple think they've got a patent on it already so why not use it?
I'm not so sure whether jQuery can be considered a framework or not. If you're using jQuery properly ($(document.ready).ready() and so forth) jQuery behaves very much like a framework, with inversion of control and other patterns.

JavaScript in the browser has access to the standard JavaScript and DOM libraries. I really don't think that not using any third-party libraries in any language means "you're doing it wrong". Pure JavaScript/DOM can go a very long way (especially in these days of more standard-compliant browsers), just like pure Objective-C & Cocoa or pure C# & .NET.

Finally, while obviously jQuery does not alter the language, it really changed how people approach problems in JavaScript. Code that uses jQuery looks nothing like code that doesn't use it.
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I wouldn't say "no amount", but it's clear that Russia as a whole is not ready to get rid of Putin yet. So 100k, 200k and maybe even 500k people protesting against him probably won't have much effect, unless it's millions of them, or the vast majority of them actually votes against him in the next election.
It's marketing and lies. A video iPod or a tablet or whatever is that worst idea ever only because they're not selling it, once they start selling it it's new and revolutionary and you can't live without it. Most companies lie in their marketing but no other company that I know of has their customers praising them for it.
It will probably not matter in terms of preventing the passage of the law, but this is the sort of thing that has led to the groundswell of support for Pirate Parties elsewhere in Europe. Given the current brewing of civil-society initiatives in Russia, this can well play a non-negligible role.
> I don't believe that Apple is going [...] to compete on price.

Probably not on price, but on market share. iPads currently are the only decent game in town, except for the e-reader niche; they're safe as long as Android doesn't reach a critical mass, which would allow a healthy apps market to develop, and competitive HW prices to be reached through economy of scale.

That's worth giving up some gross margin, and even cannibalize part of the iPad 3's market share. I don't know how they'll address the Nexus 7 threat to their monopoly; through a 8'' tablet, by further dropping the iPad 2's price, by litigation or other means... but they will fight back with all their might.
The land route to Canada is this:

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

It is not an easy, nor accessible route, and it gets you to Fairbanks, in any event - from there you'd have to double back down to Anchorage.

I could easily see undersea cables with a bit of ice at the end being easier to deal with than cables laid in permafrost in an extremely harsh landscape, with large temperature fluctuations throughout the year.
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The land route to Canada is this:

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

It is not an easy, nor accessible route, and it gets you to Fairbanks, in any event - from there you'd have to double back down to Anchorage.
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I also enjoyed:

> It’s the NOSQL capabilities that makes this so interesting. A NOSQL database is designed for big data.

Still, glad to see the HN comments here provide the perspective and analysis that TC couldn't.
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Public opinion has effect. It's just that government-controlled media would otherwise not report such controversial laws being considered.
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Same situation in Beijing (and most of China actually). But then I rely on taxis heavily and avoid the over-capacity subway (different from Bangkok) unless I'm despearate, so I'm kind of a hypocrite. Taxis do not really improve traffic, and only help preserving parking spaces (which we have precious little of).
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I'd be very surprised if a quarter of academics believed that falsifying results or plagiarism were key to success in research. Perhaps this is only because fraudulent research is so likely to be discovered and virtually guaranteed to end careers. Still, this shows that a higher standard exists in other fields.

Perhaps it's time that we, as a society, demanded greater accountability from the financial sector. Perhaps those found guilty of insider trading, etc. should be banned from work in finance for life.
Must be a slow news day as it isn't that hard to use the internet without using any google products. How the article failed to list alternative search engines is somewhat supprising and seemed to be more a privacy min-rant if anything.

Simple answear yes you can avoid google whilst using the internet. Just as you can read the news from other sources instead of the BBC, all things being equal.

Still suppose it highlights that consumers have a choice, even if those alternative choices are not listed or highlighted - they are out there if you so wish.
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CtrlP (and other similar plugin)s doesn't have knowledge of your filesystem before you point them to a directory and it has scanned its content. Obviously, this operation can take some time on large/deep directories which will vary between implementations.

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Huh? The most popular form of taxi in Bangkok is a typical sedan. The Songthaews are more like mini-busses and actually are a pretty affordable form of private small-scale mass transit. They definitely aren't safe, but without them most of the poorer folks in Thailand would be screwed.

Driving is already fairly expensive in Thailand: cars and gas are both pretty expensive. Taxis in Bangkok are much more expensive than they are where I live (tourist areas are even worse with their taxi mafias). Bangkok already has a public transportation system that is much better than other cities in the area (barring Singapore), they aren't doing that poorly.
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