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If someone can always "churned out 4 line solutions for an assignment that took you 10 pages of code to complete", he can use any editor or maybe simply "cat >".
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In the early 90s I ran a small BBS from my bedroom. I had used a bit of BASIC, but programming doors for my BBS was my first actual programming. I just got rid of the book recently. Because of this start, I got the bug to start coding for real. After this, I migrated to the more traditional C++, but I still have fond memories of writing extensions for my BBS. (Not that I had many visitors... it was more just for fun).
I agree about the physical rendering size always being the same for a point, a point should be more general, but I still think there is some utility for having things defined in real-world units showing up as real-world units when measured on glass in the same z. An inch is an inch, and if it's too big for the display it should be clipped and if it's 100 feet away it should be unreadable. It would be useful for classes of devices--instead of special casing for resolutions, ratios, and densities, special case for desktops/laptops, phones, tablets, home projectors, conference projectors, etc.

But what's really missing is the explicit presence of a projection surface and the ability to adjust the factors that go into the calculation when projecting. It would be nice to have a unit that lets you say "I want this item to be as tall as the subjective inch if a person holds a ruler one foot away from them." That way no matter how close or far away I'm looking at the item (assuming the display is large enough--too small and too far will get it clipped, too few pixels will get it blocky), if I hold a ruler one foot away from me the item will be "as tall" as the ruler's inch mark. (Edit: I'm having fun trying to visualize a powerful enough 64x2 display built on a mountain. Where I grew up, there is just a single letter. From afar: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Little_mountai... And from on top of it: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QeeaDcCiD4o/TexykEujKiI/AAAAAAAAHR...)
Not strictly a book, but this made something "click" for me back in the early days: http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/oop/oop1.htm

Sadly the author passed away in 1999 -- when he was younger than I am now & just a few years after I first read his "book". IIRC his parents were still trying to get the book published for a while.

Looks like his family maintains a web site in his memory: http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/
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Ahhh PEEK and POKE...yep.
Well, it's kind of specific, but r/TheoryofReddit is a very interstitial sub that often deals with the questions we're talking about here. I find it to be quality. Here is an interesting comment regarding the submission problem: http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/rbwn4/ran...

You could also check out Hubski. It's a much smaller new community with completely different social feed mechanisms. I like it quite a bit, though the volume of users is small (but growing). The owner coded it from the open source HN code. There have always been differences in the features and mechanics, but mk just completed a redesign that completely removed even stylistic similarities.

Time to hit 'reply' and see how badly I mangled this post typing on my phone...
the booth is built with 3/4' laminated plywood, we'll have pics up soon (would already but the hotel wifi sucks.) the iPads sit on small metal L brackets fastened to the wall and are held in place heavy duty velcro. the L brackets have slots cut in them to allow the the connectors to pass through. everything is spaced and laid out such that the ipads are end-to-end horizontally and only have about 1/3" between them vertically. i'll try and get some close up pics tomorrow.
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Long time ago, SAMS books were one of the best out there (lack of competition).
Apple ][ BASIC Programming Manual. The green spiral-bound one with the groovy Atari George Opperman style cover. Integer BASIC of course. AppleSoft BASIC hadn't come out yet.
My situation was a little different as I got serious about programming when I was 23, a year ago. The first real book I read was SICP (I had done learn python the hard way by Zed Shaw right before that, but it's more a set of exercises than a book); a friend who I met through HN strongly recommended it. It was awesome and I loved it.

EDIT: It's free online: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
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http://books.google.com/books/about/Programming_in_MacScheme...
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I read that into it also. It strips everyone into stars and job-occupiers. But I think it leaves out another really important subset of people who can identify those of their peers who are prodigies, and absorb their thought train and problem solving patterns through osmosis. If you're sitting next to the smartest guys in the room, and you have the right mix of social skills and an appreciation of process, you're bound to have it rub off on you.
The first one I finished was The Mythical Man Month. At the time, high school, I doubted if I was good enough for programming. So I started reading through Jeff Atwood's recommended books: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading...

It was not until I came across Jeff Atwood's fizz buzz post that I started to belief I could program.

The Mythical Man Month opened up my eyes to the fundamental difficulty of programming. In contrast to the typo based difficulty I was going through at the time.

Thus between Man Month and Jeff Atwood I determined that I was capable of programming and that it would be a challenge worth pursuing.
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Yes, this manifesto is worth echoing.
thanks.

pixels of iPad screens:
768 * 7 = 5376
1024 * 3 = 3072
approximate dimensions:
51.75x27.5"
> I don't recall saying it was a 1:1 ratio.

Right, but that's implied when someone says commercials are 50% of the programming: 1:1 ads to non-ads.

I did mistype that originally, though. I wrote "50% and 33% (aka a 2:1 ratio and a 1:1 ratio)". It should have been "50% and 33% (aka a 1:1 ratio and a 2:1 ratio)".

> As I recall, jrockway specified 20 minutes content, 10 minutes ads. It's plausible to call ten fifty percent of twenty, leading to his unfortunate grammar vs math, but that wasn't his point.

That's plausible if the context makes it clear, but it was extremely unclear in this context.

> Btw, per Wikipedia, "a typical 30-minute block of time now includes 22 minutes of programming and eight minutes of advertisements", making it quite clear as I also used the terms, that "programming" is not "ads".

Uh, how does a quote from Wikipedia make it clear what you were saying? Were we discussing a random Wikipedia page and I missed that?

> Using the wiki terminology, that's a 30 minute block of time, 22 minutes of programming, 8 minutes of ads. So, contrary to your assertion a couple comments up, programming and ads and time were the correct words, and my application of the word "time" was appropriate and accurate.

No, your application was not appropriate or accurate. Your statement's structure still implies that ads are a portion of the programming. "X is Y% of Z" implies that Z is a superset of X.

Your comment("Yet 10 mins of ads to every 20 mins of programming makes ad time exactly 50% of the program time.") says that ad time is 50% of the program time.

> saying that +/- 2 mins of ads undermines jrockway's double dipping claim

Right, but I didn't say that. I said that it was an exaggeration compounded with the misleading "50%" claim. That you're now trotting out other statistics to try to support the misstatement is irrelevant, because jrockway himself said it was 10 mins ads and 20 mins programming. He clearly wasn't talking about product placement.

I also find it strange that you're still pushing 20 to 10 as a "reasonable average" when your own reference (Wikipedia) says it's 22 to 8. Your 17-18 to 12-13 seems to be original research.

> It says late night talk shows may have advertising "49% of total content time", while commercials are "36% of an average prime-time hour".

No. That's a selective reading (and a little bit of bias pushed by the article). It says that "commercial messages" are 36% of an average prime-time hour. They included "in-show brand appearances", aka product placements, in this. As in "I can see a brand on-screen". They actually said there were about 14 minutes of "network commercial messages", or 23%; not 50%, and not even 33%. For late night, it was 26% "network commercial messages".
What position did this Facebook employee hold at the company? In which office did they work? Is it possible they weren't really a Facebook employee? What sort of censorship are you talking about?

I ask because I've never heard anything like that, despite working with the teams that build tools to fight spam, scams, fake accounts, and to assist the User Operations team to handle reports from people who encounter harassment, bullying, and other anti-social or criminal activity.
> the news of Digg's own sale has yet to show up on Digg's front page

The news is on Digg, about 2/3 down the page now.

When I first looked earlier today it was in the top five with less than 100 upvotes. Even now it has only managed 166. Even HN has surpassed Digg.
I've used both IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA) and Emacs. Originally I preferred the IDEs, but then I learned how to use Emacs properly. Besides, Emacs actually combines the best of both worlds for some languages like Scala or any sort of Lisp. (But, notably, not Java.)

I may be crazy about Emacs, but I'd probably still use an IDE if I had to do significant Java development. This says far less about IDEs and editors than it does about Java: I'm going to try very hard not to do any significant Java development in the future, thank you very much!

And that's really the entire point of my earlier post: it was not in favor of editors or IDEs, it was in favor of not using Java. Java is a poor language cursed with a good implementation: it's too good to die but not good enough to use.

A common argument I hear from people defending Java is that their IDE can generate half their code for them. And that was what I was really responding to: if you can use a tool to automatically generate all that code, it should just not be there in the first place!

Your experiences using an IDE for Java say as little about the relative merits of an IDE or text editor as experiences using Emacs on some Lisp: they're both extreme cases. And, more importantly, the reason normal editors are poor for Java, and the reason that SCdF is not touching a normal editor, are endemic to Java and not to the other tools.
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It's an interesting case study from a real world perspective: "I did A+B+C with the best intentions, after a while it got slow so I did X+Y+Z to fix it."
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I think what the grandparent was implying is that only landowner families would have had the means to take the exam and become a government official, so it wasn't a fully meritocratic society. Of course, these things are all relative and there was probably more social mobility in this system than other contemporary nations.
On some sites you can get around it by tabbing to a different element then hitting /. Also note that / searches all text, but ' will search links only, which will let you get around it on gmail etc. And there's always good ol' ctrl-f.
Now is a great time to quit: the job market is crazy for software developers. Maybe you don't have the luxury of choosing what tools to use, but you certainly have the luxury of choosing where to work!

Unless you're planning to stay at your current company forever, this is as good a time as any to try something new. Put some excitement into your life :).
We will see. I hear what you are saying, but in practice what Apple seems to have done is used the massive groundswell of iOS adoption as a mechanism for converting these users to their other platform products. Rather than competing with iOS for organizational mindshare and other resources, OSX seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the larger iOS adoption. I think it is because of iOS that OSX is going gangbusters in the PC market. While the two may never merge, Apples platform is greater than the sum of its iOS and OSX parts, and Apple is developing increasing application, UI, and stylistic synergy between the two, with OSX bearing the brunt of the makeover.
Sure, either one.
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> Cocoa classes begin with the acronym "NS" (standing either for the
> NeXT-Sun creation of OpenStep, or for the original proprietary term
> for the OpenStep framework, NeXTSTEP)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_(API)#Cocoa_history
Points aren't completely standard in print either.

Prior to significant computerization, a point was slightly smaller than 1/72 of an inch. Often 1/72.27 of an inch.

With computerization (particularly postscript but I think it has roots before that) it was redefined to 1/72 to take advantage of integer arithmetic.

These days publishing systems can still use a mixture of definitions.
itty bitty bytes of space for the commodore 64.
Would be a valid defense argument for your lawyer to use. Lot of good that will do you in Gitmo (when the US implements this kind of law).
The "click to upvote story" patent would be extremely valuable if someone ever found themselves in a patent dispute with Facebook. I can already see a lawyer explaining to jurors how a 'like' is the same as a zero length 'digg'.

Don't want to get in to whether the system should or shouldn't work this way, just that given the way the current system does work that the patent could easily be worth $4 million.
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the sleeping is only for the monitors, the computer is still running.
But the domain name is tied to IP (at this time)
What is the incentive for those bots to like/click the ads? The stakeholders are (1) Facebook users (might be fake/bots) who like/click ads (2) Facebook (3) Companies promoting their product in FB (4) Agencies which put the ads on company behalf.

(2) and (4) have the monetary incentive.
Interesting, I have a developer account registered with Nvidia and I have had nothing from them about this. Checked spam folder - nada, inbox - nilche. Am I bothersed - Nope as I use different passwords with no corrilation on each external site I have to register with. I also for the past year use seperate emails address's of a domain I own.

That all said if I do get a email form Nvidia saying I have been effected later on after it has made the `headlines` then I will view them as having messed up priorities without the users interests at heart and the fact it made news before I was even notified would in itself be from my perspective - very poor show on many levels. One such level is advertising to everybody else that there are personal details out there to grab, yet not advising those effected.

Anybody had email from them advising of said compromise?
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It must have been a Pascal book, but the first one I remember was K&R.
Yes, it did. iTunes, Quicktime, Final Cut (the old one)... each had a fullscreen mode that worked on single monitor mode.
My first coding book was c++ in 21days (HAH!). It did cover the basics pretty well but it took me a long time before the abstraction of objects really sunk in and templates I don't think we're especially well covered.

I probably bit off more than I could chew at the time, but I stuck with it because I was so hellbent on game programming. I didn't end up in game dev, but I think I became a better developer after spending so much time with a low level language.
I'm reading that one right now...
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I wanted to see if the hackernews community would be as excited about Ruby on Rails The Game as I am. It's sort of a nod to startups/developers/hackers with some inside jokes. While the average user wouldn't get the references, it would be a fun game for them regardless.

If there's one thing I've learned from previous endeavours it's not to get too attached to your ideas. So instead of operating in stealth mode and keeping this a secret, I want to know if anyone likes the idea of me finishing and releasing Ruby On Rails, The Game.

Here's a teaser...please don't post this anywhere it's for hackereyes only =)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/774413/LP_Mock-up.png

Funds are getting low, I'm trying to keep as lean as possible ... so before I try to start a fundraising campaign and annoy all of my friends/family to raise the rest of the money needed for development and promotion ... Would you play it?

Thanks!

PS I'm a long time hackernews lurker ...posted a few times, but I've lost my old account because like a dope I didn't set an email address.
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It always bothers me how the focus is on making a robust password when the real world security risk is not brute force attack but rather phishing. It always has been (even in the days when hackers would call 'Jim' down at the control center for a reminder of the password).
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Any time someone acquires a team, it is not simply a matter of buying a company. Members of that team can quit anytime they like. Acquiring a team means showing them enough money that they are willing to stay after the acquisition.

I do not know the terms of this particular deal but the rule of thumb is that acquiring a good engineering team will cost $1-2M per head. Some of that will go to investors but a big chunk of that will also go to the engineers as an incentive to stay on.
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I'm guessing those companies have been burnt so much by fake qualifications that they simply choose to ignore them.
Can Rust retarget GTK or QT ? Actually, the important question is whether it is meant to.

Will it ever be intended to replace application languages like Vala, Mono (used to write Tomboy, Banshee, etc.) or will it be restricted to system level stuff.

If yes, will there ever be scripting support (like Ocaml https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/80)

edit: Rust has a nice decentralized package manager as well called Cargo https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-using-cargo-to-mana... ) Pretty nice.
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I used vim for about 10 years before I finally gave up, and it was completion that did it for me. It was just so ludicrously hard to customize vim (writing vimscript - although the python integration wasn't much better) that it hurt. I was held back by not being able to customize it, and the fact that I couldn't get any better completion than ctags was insane.

My startup Circle is written in Clojure, so I was pretty much forced to learn Emacs, and the world is such a nicer place. I really wish I had learned Emacs 5 years ago - with the time I spent mastering and then trying to customize vim, I could have mastered and learned to properly customize emacs.
Thanks for posting that. I'm a bit of a VIM noob. I learned * and '' from that. Most useful. So much awesome yet to discover.
A team is not worth anything if they all quit the next day. Acquisitions of teams include substantial incentives to individual team members to induce them to stay.

Of the people I know who have been acquired in this manner, their payouts just to stay on were in the $500k-1M range. Given the way teams are usually valued, it suggests that the actual team members capture about half of the purchase value for the team.
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TRS-80 basic manual. That sucker's looong gone.
I doesn't matter that Reddit itself is only usable as a news source for hardcore users, if news stories show up there first and then are shared to a wider audience.

That's precisely why it is the source of stories: there is a myriad of communities with the wildest varying interests, and that's where things grow before going mainstream.
Yes, Rust is intended to play nicely with GTK and Qt. For one, browser engines need to interface to the platform-native toolkits.

Scripting support would be cool. To me, Rust isn't necessarily the best language to write small one-off scripts in; I personally prefer dynamically typed languages (or whole-program type-inferred languages) for that. But if you want to write scripts in Rust, I'd certainly review any pull requests to make it easier :)