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I find that long variable names are usually a sign of design that needs improvement. For example, those names are highly repetitive and don't actually tell me how each of those variables is different from the other, which is the information I care about right that moment. By putting them into a function or prototype who's name communicates the commonality, say "getAllMax" on UniformVectors it could be just as communicative to say something like:

combined = fragment + original
I would love nothing more than to play Defender or Yar's Revenge, but I can't bring myself to execute arbitrary binaries downloaded off the internet. Any safe place where one can download or buy roms? If whoever owns Atari now were smart, they'd sell them through a legitimate online marketplace so we could safely run them on very nice 2600 emulators like this one.

EDIT: Found an answer, waking up half my family in the process (Yar's revenge is not a low-volume game). Atari does, in fact, both sell and offer some of their old 2600 games for free:
http://atari.com/arcade/arcade/yars-revenge
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So only people who have been wildly successful have the right to share their thoughts? This guy failed and writes a blog post about what he may have done wrong and includes the advice he got from his mentor. Agree, disagree or ignore, but I don't see how your comment adds any value.

BTW - There are plenty of successful people offering awful advice. Can't we just try to evaluate ideas on their merits?
Don't read too much into that example -- I chose it as a humorous metaphor, not a mathematical argument, and I messed up the delivery in the talk, anyway.

I'll refine the example for the next time!
They certainly are boring. The problem is that they have had high moments in the past which is what this designer is competing with.

They should take a brand that has always been boring and make it shine.
Use a virtual machine.
"I'm sure I'm not the only one working on a system to spin up and grab a few extra instances as soon as my monitoring detects the beginnings of a problem"

Evil idea of the day. Instead of actually spending money and buying possibly unneeded services from AWS, a somewhat less ethical person might choose to ddos the provisioning API at the first sign of trouble - then if it turns out that you _do_ need extra provisioning, you'll be first to know when the API becomes available (since you call the ddos off yourself when it suits you)…
I've already stated that I view the patent system as broken. We agree here.

The question I'm asking is within this broken system. How natural is this gesture? It means without the apple iphone, would we still be using this gesture, would it still be considered obvious?
I am a productive programmer and I am absolute uncomfortable with the command line. I can't count the times I have written

svn commit -m "Finally fixed bug #123!"

...only to get some weird bizarro error because I should have used '' or escaped the !. This is usually when I am deeply focused on some programming language or bug #123.

Tower.app is the only reason I've ever touched git, and the line-by-line staging and committing is nothing I would ever bother to do with a CLI.
Looked at one of the suggested profiles and they'd clocked under $4 and I thought "That's not even a beer." Made me think.

What about a site along similar lines - FridayBeer or whatever - that perks up via social media and supporters at the end of each week. You're having a knock-off drink in the final hours of your working day, or heading off to the pub and the site asks who or what made a difference to your week. Someone's work on an open source project meant that you continued earning a living. Maybe someone else was out there volunteering in the muck while you had it comparably easy in your office. Perhaps it's just a Twitter user or HN commenter who shared an appreciated article you might otherwise not have seen. Shout a beer or, if you're generous, a carton/case.

I think I've seen virtual buy-a-coffee or shout-a-beer sites, but can't remember them being a regularly scheduled thing that makes you consider who you'd like to thank in that moment.
Yep, they fucked up a bit. It happens. Fix coming in Go 1.1.
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Which proves the point. Trying hard to find compliments is at best not genuine (and eventually it can be "cute"), at worst manipulative.

In most cases it's also easy to point out. People smart enough to do that properly are rare. (and usually manipulative :)
Because the patent doesn't seem to apply to servers i.e. it specifically refers to client devices attributes.

The original use case for the Apple patent was the Sherlock search feature back in OS 8.5 (1998) which utilised a plugin system. IIRC it was a unique feature as not even search engines e.g. Altavista were doing multi source search at that time.

I can't imagine it would be hard to find prior art for it though.
I agree with the last paragraph in the article -- it's pretty crazy to see Google anointing this software update as special and rushing it out so much faster than normal Android updates.

I mean, I get it, this is a headline-grabbing issue and they need to act to keep a flagship phone on the market, and it's Google writing this patch rather than the phone manufacturer. But if it's okay to fast-track and skip some of the process for this patch, why not others?
That's true, I run XP on virtualbox (linux host) almost every day, and could just make a throw-away copy with no network access. I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that.

Thanks!
If Google used the same operating policies in all countries that apply to every individual country in which they operate, then the number of things that would either not be listed or be heavily discriminated against would be enormous, and would certainly include things that would cause more than a few people to be fairly angry due to feeling discriminated against.
Both Redis and Lua are easy installs, from a package manager or source. Is there an advantage here other than skipping the installs?
And to me that means absolutely nothing at first glance. It's much harder to read because I have to do all the work of translating it into the first example myself, and I have to do it when I was presumably trying to figure out what the code means. By the time I do I could have just written it that way in the first place.

The difference in style is similar to how the invention of punctuation, spaces, capitalization and paragraphs made writing much easier to read, and shorthand is annoying as all get out. It is certainly possible to misuse punctuation, spacing and paragraph breaks to the point where they make writing harder to read, but most often the writing wouldn't be good without them either.
If you have the right work environment and employees, recruiters don't stand a chance :)
What would be your opinion on those who have another mother tongue than english? If they never succeed to master all the details of english grammar, do you consider they are doomed to have a hard time programming?
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"No. Teleology has a goal in mind and evolution has been seen to run down dead ends many, many times. All of the extinct species are dead ends."

The best way I've heard it described is like dropping a marble into a bowl. The marble will go up and down and wobble around but will eventually settle at the bottom of the bowl. In other words, it would basically be encoded into the universe as a preference that over time would win out.

"All of the extinct species. The fact the human eye has a blind spot whereas the squid eye does not."

Just because not all matter in the universe is condensed into a single point doesn't mean that gravity doesn't exist. Sometimes things get further apart, sometimes things get closer together, but gravity still exists.

"That mix of simplicity and increased predictive power makes the non-teleological theories a lot better than the previous teleological ones."

I'm not arguing that teleology is a better scientific theory than evolution; it's not. But just because it's a crappy scientific theory (well, actually it's not even a theory) doesn't mean that it's less likely that there are some sort of teleological forces baked into the universe, e.g. a preference for the creation and preservation of novelty.
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I think that people can get a sense of 'touching greatness' because there are a lot of people that show up on HN that are 'movers and shakers' in the tech world. It can really be a thrill to see a posting about some really popular site/webapp/software, and have the original creator of the software pop on and resolve issues on the spot.

That being said, the effect is not as great as some people presume that it is.
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Having worked with MSSQL for 12 years, now PostgreSQL full time, I would like to hear what in your opinion is bad. Other that the lack of query parallelism, I find Postgres to be a pleasure to work with.

SQL Server is good to, and the price point comparison is correct, pending the changes being made for SQL 2012, which may change the pricing advantage somewhat.
Yeah ... agreed. I can't understand how Perl could be above JS either.
FWIW, it's called the recurrent laryngeal nerve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent#Recu...

That's a popular example, but Wikipedia has another example (mentioned in the same section) which I was unaware of: the vas deferens in human males, which unnecessarily loops over the ureter. You learn something new every day...
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If we're going to talk about obligations... I seem to recall that Microsoft and Apple had made some promises with respect to the Nortel patents they bought (triggered by a DoJ investigation).

Of course, somehow the patent troll they set up:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/rockstar/all/

doesn't have the same obligations, but that still leaves Microsoft's and Apple's hands clean, right?
Sorry, But how is that difficult.

Even the simplest form of source control involves checkout->change/add->commit->checkin. And this is regardless of any version control system you will ever use.

The only extra stuff there is branching and merging. And to be frank. I've never felt the individual need to do that. Its a different story if you have a big team and members working on several projects which merge at a time. Now that's difficult with any VCS, not just git.

But for individual development anybody should be able to do the checkout->add/change->commit>checkin easily.
Reading through the comments here is infuriating, and it's no wonder people don't git what the big deal is.</lame>

With git you can share you current work to any arbitrary remote branch. The implications are your half baked feature can get pushed up and your coworker can do a checkout on the new remote branch. If they have suggestions they can make a change which you can cherry-pick off their branch into your branch. Also, you can branch off your current working branch, rebase master and merge their new branch in and push that up to master when everything works as expected. Try that workflow without breaking the central repo effecting everyone else's work in SVN.
Shows how pointless TIOBE is. C++ is still light years ahead of Objective-C use in the field.
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I think this is a general problem with people with extreme addiction to IDEs and Windows based UIs.

I've known people in my team who can't do any work on the command line comfortably. I see this problem especially among people who work on Frontend and especially Java developers.

If a certain set of tools are making you dumber by the day, know it for sure that it will be automated or you will be replaced by lesser skilled cheap labor inevitably.
We need an independent invention defense. If I can show I had no knowledge of your patent and came up with the idea on my own then it must have been obvious. If 2 other parties did also, then it must of been painfully obvious.
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Is a point not a zero length line?

edit: it's going to have to be line segment isn't it. Since nobody drags infinite lines across a screen.
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Correct, I meant n^2.

Certainly there are cases where the "insignificant" parts of an algorithm are not so, correct? In a simple case n^12 dominates a few n^2 sections, but there must be exceptions to that.

Are there cases where a more complete analysis is done -- like comparing two similar algorithms? Or at that point are you actually implementing the algorithms to test and measure?
Reminds me a lot of the gorgeous Zune Player UI.
Usual caveats about taking TIOBE with a grain of salt...
Given the peculiarities of Tiobe, I'm more surprised about Ada being on the list at all.
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In which field? Surely Objective-C & Apple's frameworks are much more suited towards general purpose mobile apps? And surely C++ is much more suited towards e.g. games?
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Lines are infinitely extended. Maybe you meant a line segment. Line segments have a minimum of 2 points.
> If they never succeed to master all the details of english grammar, do you consider they are doomed to have a hard time programming?

I was actually talking about anybody's ability to master the intricacies of grammar in general, not specific to English.

That aside, it's commonly understood that programming without knowing English isolates you greatly and robs you of the opportunity to both collaborate with and benefit from 99% of other programmers.

English has been and continues to be the lingua franca of programming.
This is one of the better explanations I have seen for this patent game. I remember the same thing came up with Google vs. Oracle. In that Google did a near clean implementation (albeit those 9 lines and few test files) of JAVA. I think clean implementations should be made part of Patent proceeding. This won't be applicable to this case but still would go a long long way in stupid idea patents like these.
As long as you're aware of it.
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No. A line (or line segment, as was clearly meant) has a non-zero length by definition. If it had a zero length, it's not a line anymore. It is a point.
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Not part of this, but I have experienced in the past sporadic download corruptions with users. I've never figured out the exact cause, but a reinstall has always solved it. It's been roughly 10-15 users out of 25000 or so purchases. My best guess is that some part of the distribution pipeline does not fully validate the app package and re-download it if it fails.
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This has been discussed here before, but no, in common English usage, a point is not a zero length line. Maybe in mathematics, but not in everyday English as the judge was using the terms.

Don't take my word for it, draw a dot on a piece of paper and ask ten non-geeky people, "Is this a line?" :-)
News from the future:

The last piece in the puzzle for the global supercomputer grew itself into place today -- newly developed organic cables that mimic human neural pathways have finished literally growing their way along the seabed.

The vast network connects a number of supercomputers globally, which are tasked with emulating different areas of the brain.

When the system goes live, it is said the network will be aware of its own consciousness to precisely the same degree as us regular folk.

So how do we speak to this newborn adult? As part of a requirement for stabilizing his concept of self with mind and body, his consciousness will be beamed into a physical avatar. So, no he won't be talking to you through your computer, or beaming himself around the world just yet.

While he is able to understand language and text just like you or I, he doesn't communicate through speech or writing.

Due to patents taken out by a number of former large tech companies in the early century - who are now major players in the algae industry, our new friend will have to be creative in his communication. He won't be permitted to use most kinds of direct communication. One of the infringements is defined as "face-like circles that display a variety of humanish facial muscle positions with eyes, a nose, or a mouth".

He will be able to communicate any way his imagination desires without using voice, writing, gestures, or swipes.

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It seems alot of those are "in" jokes that I'm not in on...
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One thing that sticks out for me about the post-mortem is that Tarsnap is heavily relient on Colin being able to diagnose and fix problems with the product. He is a single point of failure for the entire system. If anything were to happen to him it seems like any data stored in Tarsnap could easily be lost forever.
We only get to argue that once :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085613
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I haven't tried it yet, but this "Emacs IPython Notebook" that was posted a few days ago looks similar, and their docs say that it's "like SLIME".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185960

http://tkf.github.com/emacs-ipython-notebook/
The biggest problem for me was conflicting versions of SLIME.

Installing swank-js is a breeze with npm, but the installation instructions tell you to get the newest version of SLIME from their svn. That didn't work so well, since my clojure-swank already relied on an older version.

Simply installing slime-js from marmalade instead made all the difference.

As for my settings, they are public on github. https://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d/blob/master/setup-slime-...
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Let's not forget excellent documentation that links directly to the source code.
Thanks; I feel like I learned something. Your infinite patience was appreciated.
I'm with you. Git is powerful but in terms of user interface it's a complete train wreck. It doesn't need more guides or tutorials as much as it needs a sane command line and help messages. There's space for a Git fork, or a higher level "porcelain", as Linus himself calls it.