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> "The Sputnik will allow developers to create “microclouds” on their laptops, simulating a proper, at-scale environment, and then deploy that environment seamlessly to the cloud. George explained it would use LXC virtual environments containers for the microclouds. These cloud applications can then be deployed to Ubuntu instances running on the Amazon, OpenStack, bare-metal with Management as a Service (MAAS), and, eventually, Microsoft Azure clouds. "

Jesus. Can I just have a laptop, please?

I don't think they understand that their target market is going to wipe whatever they put on there and reinstall their own. Or at least reconfigure the crap out of it. It's like our house, you can't just dump whatever you like into our environment.
It's not really a question of wings so much as weight.

The wings - because they were wings - were vulnerable to debris strikes during launch.

Which wasn't important during _launch_ but was sure a problem during re-entry.
3. A middle mouse button.
Nice drama title. Of course the drama tanks when the reader finds out that it's for a job where people write for a living. That's like asking a programmer to do some coding in the interview. Which is, IMO, not weird at all and rather something everyone should consider.
There are only two types of languages, those that people complain about and those no-one uses.

Given that my own personal favorite has been described as "a DSL for changing large blocks of XML into stack traces" and I laugh at this, I think you'd be hard-pressed to objectively evaluate "more than anyone else's."
I take it you haven't submitted to many CS journals ;) Last time I made a submission to the ACM I had to essentially hand in a publication ready pdf, this is true for the vast majority of CS journals. Additionally I've published in open access journals outside of CS where I did just have to submit a word doc and they took care of the rest.

Additionally I've known plenty of editors who do many of the things you mentioned above for free (for paid journals) with the only reward being bonus points for tenure.

Considering that there the costs to creating software are much higher (simply because unlike journal articles there's no real incentive for devs to give away there rather price labor, other than just wanting to give back) and we still have a thriving OSS eco-system I find it very hard to believe that we can't easy substitute out the very few parts of academic journals that do incur some sort of real cost for the publisher with volunteer work.
Ironically, it was "rethinking digg" and "rebuilding it from scratch" that killed it in the first place.
> If writing is not particularly part of the work, don't worry about it.

I suspect the author is (perhaps unknowingly) using his grammar test as a proxy for general IQ. General IQ correlates _very_ well with performance across a broad spectrum of tasks. (The notion that there are different IQs for different areas of life, though sentimentally appealing, doesn't correspond to reality.) It's no surprise, then, that someone with a high IQ (as measured by this proxy) would do well in a position that requires solving other complex problems, even if these problems have nothing to do with writing per se.
Thats approximately the exact feedback I gave when I signed up for the Project Sputnik beta - better keyboard, working suspend resume, rock solid wifi drivers, use slower processors if that means better battery life and improved thermals and a great screen resolution ( >= 1600x1200 ). Do that and get out of the way, dont try to add lock in on top of that.
ORMs either arise from need (homegrown) or are bought with way more features than you need and the associated complexity that brings.

If there were a way to scale an ORM so it can modularly add features/complexity as you need it (ie, customize the metamodel complexity), that would be the most ideal approach.

On the other hand, testing thousands to millions of possible use cases in combined codebases is a nightmare.
So I should read this as all of the small business owners in the world should either just give up or strive to be acquired by ACME corp? I think we have a very different understanding of the word "successful."
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However, by the standards of English then in effect, it makes perfect sense. Part of the problem is that written English prior to the 1900s included a large element of (conscious or subconscious) verbalization of what was written.

Try reading the Constitution out loud, taking appropriate breaks at the punctuation. It becomes a lot easier to understand and read; most (but not all) of the ambiguity will disappear.
Personally, I feel that to focus on trivialities such as the difference between "it's" and "its" to be morally indefensible. It's like being unwilling to hire people who are blind or deaf, or who need a wheel chair. (Uh oh! Is "wheel chair" one word or two? Or maybe it's hyphenated–oh no! I'm going to get fired!)

There are plenty of people who are quite smart and motivated, but are borderline dyslexic. Or maybe even not so borderline. For instance, I fully know the difference between "it's" and "its", and between "there", "their", and "they're". But I can stare at a paragraph for an hour and not be able to see such subtleties. Or sometimes even notsosubtle-ies. It's quite frustrating. And now I'm allegedly a poor employee to boot. Fan-fscking-tastic.

On the other hand, I am rather galled whenever I drive by the restaurant named "Your's".

Edit: I'd be willing to bet good money that whoever voted me down is not dyslexic. And despite making such mistakes frequently, I've often been commended for my clear writing. I received the highest grade given in several years in Creative Writing in college, got above 700 on my verbal SAT, and graduated from MIT. And yet some people want to judge me on whether I might type "it's" for "its" sometimes, and then utterly discount my opinion on that issue. Oy!
"pretty much perfect"... Wow. In what of the 2^160 senses of 'perfect'?
This pisses me off. It's irresponsible to the current customers. I hope other startups don't follow.

Its OK to sell, but they should have pushed Google to maintain an support Sparrow for at least 2 more years.
give me a t42 with a 2nd gen i7 then stfu.

why is this so hard?
It's important for software like a mail client to be platform-neutral. What if Facebook bought Camera+ and only let you export photos to Facebook?
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I've been working on building a project manager for Github that I'd like to use myself, and here's the proof of concept I have so far:

https://airport.runway7.net

Here are some example pages:

https://airport.runway7.net/jashkenas/coffee-script

https://airport.runway7.net/madrobby

https://airport.runway7.net/github

Right now it's read only, Chrome-only and very much an MVP, but if you see promise please give me feedback at

https://github.com/runway7/airport/issues
Completely disagree.

jQuery is a tool to make things simpler. Innovation comes from creating new tools that can make everyday work as simple as possible.

jQuery in itself is innovation. And to the developer ecosystem provides a lot of innovation. Making other librares do greater stuff and moving standards forward.

Making tools is one of the best ways to innovate.
"If you've ever found yourself trying to try a product online which required a credit card, even when you just want to take a look, you know why we made this. "

Could I get an example? Off the top of my head I can't think of any sites that require a credit card, but don't authorize or charge it.
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Don't use GMail? What kind of a cruel person would do that to himself? (Sarcasm intended)
A good app has been EOL'd so the developer(s) can go work on a known crappy app. We've gone from "known good" to "hopefully this will work out and the gmail iOS app will be good"... how is that not frustrating if you're a fan of the iOS apps?

As for the Sparrow desktop app, well, obviously Google isn't going to be developing a native desktop app for Gmail...
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Especially in the case of a product that had revenue/customers, I can't see why you'd want to quit just to go get a job. Sure you'll make some money and your work may have a larger scope to impact, but why not be known as that awesome company that makes awesome things?
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Me too. And it does affect their programming in some obvious ways. Particularly if you are working with English language-heavy languages like Javascript. But even if you aren't, comments that are absent or unreadable can make working with someone's code a nightmare. Forget about documentation. And I'll never forget having to work with some code where a variable was "pubic_key."
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Holy shit. They replaced a journalist with a buzzword machine.
I was wondering about this as well. Is this a correlation number, and should I translate it as "the best tests give no better than a coin flip of selecting a good candidate"?
I was hoping for the same. But I think they are not going to do any more development on their Sparrow client according to the latest email they sent to the users.
Sucks for the current paid users, but hey who cares once they get a million more users and many more $$, right?
I consider reality reality.

Some things are worth correcting the 'proper' way. Others can be fixed much more easily with a hack. I'll let the computer send the invoices for me and spend my time on things I love, instead. I'll likely never be completely free of the problem anyhow.

If I were to fix the invoice problem in me, it wouldn't be by brainwashing. Instead, I'd figure out why I felt that way and attack that, instead. Maybe it's a fear of rejection. Maybe it's a belief that money is bad. Maybe it's something else entirely. That other thing doesn't go away if I just attack one of the symptoms. In fact, it hides it, and makes other problems harder to diagnose.

Even reasonable people need shrinks sometimes. Not every problem can be fixed without help. I've never been to one, but I'm guessing they'd attack the actual problem, too, instead of just curing symptoms. At least, the good ones. The quacks will just prescribe the latest wonder-drug and collect their fee.
as Tokenadult's comment points out, such "cultural fit" tests may be illegal
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4270768
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On Linux it's a matter of writing a one-line shell script to automate that process. I wrote such a script to reinstall packages after doing a clean install of Ubuntu, and it was entirely painless.
Google has abandoned tons of stuff and poorly maintains lots of others.
The odds are really really low. You don't need to worry about any of these being valid.
There's a new native email client coming.. email me for more info.
That's when I finally bought-in. The thing has a critical bug with iOS6 ... no clue if it'll ever get resolved.
I've never used Ninite once... shouldn't your package manager take care of this for you?
This is one thing that I've thought about Web 2.0 (now that it is in full swing). Countless dollars seem to be going to trying to reinvent the desktop inside the browser, when really the internet should supplement it as an expansion to its capabilities. Dropbox is the best example of this: there is a web client, but Dropbox truly shines as a simple folder that is the same across your devices. It takes the folder system and improves on it, rather than doing away with it altogether.
Our business is gonna need massive growth relatively quickly.
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The day Google acquired in France (oh wait, that is today)
My wife (also a tech exec) could've done this too (though she'd taken 4 weeks off, with an experienced full time nanny). Some women are just super organized. And yes, some women are less sensitive/susceptible to hormonal fluctuations. We have 3 children. Each has quite different personalities, all of them fairly attached to their mom. If you got lucky, things are pretty smooth :) You can solve the breast feeding problem by smart combination of pumping and feeding. All my kids were on breast milk longer (> 1y) than average (drop to 43% at 6m). I got to spend more time (still less than her) with my kids too, changing diapers and picking up/dropping off to/fro school etc.

Based on what I've seen how Marissa operates (organized and data driven), I'd say she'll have no problem (on her side) to handle her first pregnancy and child.

As an XY! Good luck Marissa!
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Deals fall apart at the last minute all. the. time. You can't just stop doing business.
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Abandon the brand and never speak of it again.
The entire 'mission' of the company was supposed to be providing a decent Mac/iOS client for Gmail. Now they're cancelling the product and working within Google? I don't see any reason to believe Google will find religion and release a decent Mac/iOS client when as a company they're obsessed with pushing web apps over native apps. If they wanted a decent Gmail client on iOS they should have cancelled their own app and just rebranded Sparrow.
I wish I had a personal grammar nazi who'd poke me everytime I make a mistake in English. Unfortunately, I don't have such an individual, so I'm left with myself and my doubts.

I have to balance between near-perfecting English as my second language, or learning and concentrating on stuff that is relevant to my domain. Although I am a perfectionist, I also am a realist and consider that there are, in the end, things more important to my life than writing perfect English. Perfect English will not help me building all the great projects I have in mind.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4271587

"I didn't buy Sparrow thinking I was paying for a piece of software that was feature-complete. I bought Sparrow mail as a piece of innovative software along with the promise of lots of great future updates to come."

I agree with this. I bought Sparrow when it had a pretty big bug with folder management on my IMAP account. I emailed them and they fixed it in an update, but there was still lots of room for Sparrow to grow (If Apple allows them to do push, other integration with the OS like Siri, etc).

It looks like Sparrow will turn into the Gmail client for iOS, which is a shit sandwich for everyone who doesn't use Gmail.
What makes this worse is they've been offering a discounted price this past week for their apps. Seems wrong to take money from new users days before your about to stop development.
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Their question about "how do you get your news" is very significantly missing Reddit or Hacker News as an answer.
Sorry, but Gmail isn't a crappy app in my way of thinking. It was the best webmail in 2004, and it still is. You may not like it, but that doesn't extrapolate to crappiness. Although I'm sorry that Sparrow is being end-of-lifed, Gmail is a best of breed web app.

well, obviously Google isn't going to be developing a native desktop app for Gmail.

Sounds like a feature to me, not a bug. Desktop software is going out. Why do you think Mozilla recently canned Thunderbird? I haven't used a desktop mail client since 2005.
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Just sent the following e-mail to them:

I just recently purchased Sparrow for iPhone a few days ago, regardless of the lack of push, since I knew I'd be supporting a small team with developing an awesome app. I was particularly excited for the promise of push notifications coming in the future (I was going to be more than happy to pay for a subscription service). So now that this Google acquisition has occurred, you've said that you are no longer going to be working on features for Sparrow. Does this include previously promised features, such as push?

If so, it seems like you've slapped me in the face with a huge middle finger. I paid for both of your applications in hopes of a future of growth for what was already an awesome e-mail client, and now you're telling me that you're killing development? That's a really shitty way to treat your customers if you ask me.
This kind of outlook and having a grammar test doesn't make me think that you'd be a great boss to work with, nor does it make me want to work for you. I may not be the cultural fit you're looking for, but undoubtedly you're shrinking your potential talent pool and removing exceptional candidates by just sounding like a stiff and non-flexible place to work, as a programmer.
It's a laptop targeted at developers and they give a measly 4GB of RAM? I hope it's upgradeable. I like to run VMs and other developer-ish applications, some of which use up a lot of RAM.

But on the top of my priority list is a good battery. Drop in an 8-10 hour battery and I'm ready to buy.
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It's never a good idea to buy a software product (or hardware product) for what it's "going to be." You have to buy or not buy it based on what it is today, because they may or may not go down the path you expect in the future.

What happened with Sparrow was unfortunate, but at the same time it was unlikely that an email client like this was ever going to turn into a great standalone business that would adequately compensate a dev team of that quality. One of the benefits of acquisitions like this is that they also encourage other great developers to try building terrific products and taking risks.

I'd also point out that we don't actually know what's going to happen with the codebase or design, just that this is the end of the road for the standalone email client "Sparrow". Obviously if any of that product is released by Google, it's not going to be called that anymore.
Which days these are depends entirely on the state and school district, at least in the US. Districts with a low or no Jewish population aren't likely to take Rosh Hashanah off, etc.
I was ten. Was allowed to stay up all night on the sofa to watch it. I'll never forget it. Still vivid memories in black and white flickering images and commentary by James Burke and Sir Patrick Moore.
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I thought numpy was python's killer app
Am I the only one without a smartphone? I'm still using some old, beaten up Samsung crap which allows me to talk and sms a little. I spend my whole life in front of a computer, I am still always connected.

Clearly, they are taking the "mobile" approach, it just doesn't suit me very well
Love of money is not the root of all evil.
Right on about the price. I recently picked up a MacBook, for a good deal less than $1500, and while it doesn't have an SSD drive, the rest of the specs beat out the Dell.

Of course, now I'm just sitting on the couch with my little Acer netbook running Ubuntu. Getting a newer, slightly larger keyboard netbook would have put me in driver hell, thus, the Mac.
wow, good call. late night oversight. edited the survey.
If the entire mission of the company was to make a Gmail-only mail client, why did they allow the use of other IMAP services? They should have stuck with Gmail only if that was their true mission.
No, probably not. And the reason is simply that, as a gross generalization, women are more into parenting than men are, and infants need more motherly attention than fatherly attention initially. Men cannot physically have a child, nor can they breast feed a child directly, and they are not necessarily guaranteed to be the father of any child presented to them. So it's not a stretch to imagine that a male CEO would let the natural motherly bond take hold with their spouse in the first few months.
100 million is only if the company turns around in a big way. Staying the same will likely get her fired, as will tanking the stock, and moderate growth will result in less than 100 million.
Those beeps are known as Quindar tones, and were used to mute and unmute the radio transmissions.

http://www.ehartwell.com/Apollo17/MissionTranscriptCollectio...
They're not off to a good start. I just spent 10 minutes filling out the text boxes on page two, and it just lost all of that info.

I hope the site works better than the survey.
> D's garbage collection is global, and either off or on

That makes it sound like you can't use GC and manual memory management together; you can - std.container uses manual memory management internally for max efficiency.
This article reminded me of "Thank You For Smoking" where the young kid asks his dad what he should write about on the topic of "Why is the American government the best government in the world". Aaron Eckhart's character ends up explaining that the question is ridiculous because it carries implicit assumptions (America is the best government in the world, 'best' can somehow be measured) without explaining them. He follows that with an explanation that this is basically an invitation to write whatever you want - write about tariffs, write about executing felons, write about our appeal system. It's not about the question, it's about the writing.
Well... that song was better than Rebecca Black's "Friday" song. Not sure that is saying much though. :/
I presume that Dell are aiming to make a killing from less-informed buyers such as bosses at small companies (I have no idea how this might work at large companies), and parents for their kids interested in programming. Given how many people buy Dell, the "developer" tag will carry a lot of weight.

I certainly can't see any developer going out of their way to buy this for themselves. My HP ProBook was cheaper, and came with a whole lot more (including SSD and 1600x900 resolution). The only improvement I'd like is a sturdier body, so will probably go for an Elitebook or Lenovo Thinkpad next time.
Can't Polytron use some of their IGF winnings to fund the patch to patch the bugs they introduced when rushing out their first patch
You can delay your half-off sale for a week.
anyone else like how the URL is shortened to "i-wont-hire-people-who-use-poo"?

/12yearsold
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I believe the Letters project died. Sad as I was really looking forward to it.
When I say "crappy app" I'm talking about the iOS gmail app.
Really? Just tested again and it worked fine. Sorry about that. @ me on twitter @jrlevine if you're still willing to give feedback.
Yeah, that was my first thought too.

The second thought was that ground-up rewrites are almost never a good idea to begin with. You end up throwing out whatever's good about the old property along with all the bad, and risk turning off the members of whatever user base you have left (who presumably stuck around because they saw something they liked in the old version).

I suppose the population of Digg users is probably small enough at this point that the new proprietors aren't worried too much about whether they stay or go, though...
Maybe $4.99 is a lot of money to him. It could be the amount which makes or breaks his startup. ;)
I filled out the first survey then stopped at page two. I'm too lazy to fill in all those boxes. I hope they didn't lose all that "valuable" info they got from me on page 1.
I think the known crappy app the commenter was referring to was the Gmail iPhone app, not Gmail in general. The app isn't nearly as good as Sparrow.
While I agree with your analysis, an alternative view is that a commit message in the imperative form would pair well with the code fix.

With a bit of revisionism it reads like a wizard's incantation:

fix bug! ::code that fixes bug::

add feature! ::code that adds feature::

add documentation! ::comments etc.::

After all, in an ideal world, every code change would simply be the execution of the whiteboard/pencil-and-paper/planning that precedes it.