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> So if my understanding, including that bytecode generation requires a comparable amount of effort, why didn't they do that?

They might. It's just not what they've chosen to do first.

> Really? I wasn't aware of that. Are we talking Apple's and Google's? What app store's catalog is predominately C++?

Well, we're talking the iOS app store here. Objective C is the main language, but Apple also supports c++ xcode projects, which Haxe can produce. The reason why Haxe targets c++ is because it can provide garbage collection through the Boehm libs, and (in general) can be made to fit better with the Ecmascript nature of the Haxe language.

Google is much less restrictive in terms of supported languages, but their java toolkit is very polished.

I also think that source code generation also lets you understand better what the compiler is doing, and how to best take advantage of it. Right now, the java target is very early, but it already has a clever way of handling reflection that is much faster than the standard method. It was interesting to me to read through the generated output, even if it was a little ugly.
Or advanced anything else for that matter.

Cannese is a really bright programmer though; man built a programming language with an interesting runtime, and manages to use them for his one-man game studio. Not bad.
The management types above you will never understand why you wouldn't want to move "up" the ladder to management. That's the way they're wired. If you're a techie, you may never be able to think, talk, and act the way that they do.

Don't fool yourself into thinking you can take the tech lead title and pay but keep coding. That's hugely frustrating. Read pg's essay Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule. You'll never have enough uninterrupted time during the day to be a maker, so you'll spend your days being a manager and nights trying to be a maker and do neither well. If you're going to be a tech lead, you need to drop coding and make a clean break to management.
How so? A unique identifier is a unique identifier.
In fairness, when Jobs was Meyer's age he was mostly regarded as a wild eyed dreamer who lost the computer wars. He was fortunate to get a second act at Apple (which looked very seriously at Be instead of Next).
Digg, MySpace, Flickr — stories about vaunted companies that didn’t make it.
Who won't support spdy by the end of the year? The pace of protocol obsolescence is increasing. I can't find stats about how much http traffic facebook is responsible for, but i'd bet it's at least 1%

Governments and home grown enterprise apps are my guess about who's late to the party.
Seeing a number of moochers feigning disability for unearned dole outs, is surely the most common disgust of our times.

If you really think that is true then you possibly need to get out a lot more, we got this whole banking crisis, massive depression and unemployment, corrupt politicians, ecological collapse, huge civil unrest across previously stable democracies and loads of wars and all sorts of crazy shit going down.

On second thoughts, scratch that, could you please stay indoors. It is probably for the best.
Great post, Andy. It's so awesome that you made this leap. I'd love to follow you in the near future.
Vimeo founder (Josh Abramson) answers why Vimeo lost to YouTube
Debian has the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the community as whole is less supportive of proprietary software, not to mention that it's all volunteers. I think Valve would rather work with a company-supported distro like Ubuntu, which focuses on just working.

In any case, the client may very well run on Debian, it just won't be officially tested or certified by Valve (for now).
ReiserFS. After Reiser was convicted for murder.
I thought people stopped writing Assembly a while ago but I recently interviewed at Apple and I interviewed with one group that deals with optimizations for vector mathematics using special hardware on the A4/A5 chips and he said they still write some code in Assembly because for performance reasons.
Blogspam.

OP: http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/16/mayer-yaho...
Uninstall Android apps remotely from Google Play.
Odd, it seems the examples given of politicians being hit by take downs were Republican. It can't be that those in the Internet and Entertainment spaces are predominantly liberal and use that to silence their opponents can it? Nah...that'd be crazy to think freedom loving liberals would want to suppress someone else's speech.
Link points to the comment thread, article is 9 months old.
Using LocalStorage to build simple persistent apps in Javascript
You don't have to subscribe. Office 2013 will be available standalone:

"Is Office 365 required to run Office 2013?

No. You will still be able to purchase any Office 2013 edition with a perpetual license that doesn’t require any ongoing subscription fees. This version can be combined with a free Microsoft Account (aka Windows Live account) to allow online document storage and sharing."

http://www.zdnet.com/office-2013-editions-at-a-glance-and-fa...
You can be a phd mathematician and still do arithmetic wrong. And for my next trick I'll argue the semantics and usage of "idiot" in the quoted passage (exercise left for reader).
The 90s? They didnt launch until 99 and were hardly used widely until a fair time after that. Their heyday was ~2004-2007/8
That's really too bad. I don't work with/for them, but I know many of the recruiting team and they have been very responsive to feedback in the past. If you have specific comments/critiques feel free to message me, I'd be happy to pass them on.
Pagerank and radiosity
You can take better advantage of SIMD instructions and keep more performance critical things in registers for example.
I've been striking out on my own an implementing the solutions I think will work with our code when I'm on my own, especially if the idea doesn't make it through my boss.
You are taking it out of context. Point being that no celebrity worthy of videotaping would ever be spotted at McDonalds. So their crackdown on video cameras is unrelated to the proximity to the luxury shopping area.
This is what I assumed the headline meant. Like he was telling us all to brace for the inevitable crash and try to be Amazon instead of Pets.com.

That would be more accurate advice in the present climate. imo.
so your "solution" for cookies, is to mandate that all web apps must use ajax, and pass session IDs as part of the URL for all requests?
No FU money for sure, I'm too late for that. I might be able to negotiate for a different postion, or more salary though.
Typical engineer approach. "Sure, we can squeeze that project out in few weeks, no problem". Always over opportunistic. Just wait till she get hit with postpartum depression...
you probably know this, but cookies are sent with every damn request the client makes. So it's a tax, It may be a small % of total traffic, but most of the time, it's useless.
> and regulatory-compliance standpoint

One of the main reasons why people can't just turn off Cookies is because they are needed for session management. This makes it very difficult to just disable. If there was a dedicated session management method in HTTP/2.0 then that would remove a lot of the need for Cookies. Then they could be used for what they were intended (local persistent state). This would also give users better methods for managing them (or just disabling them).
A pretty good day for Marissa Mayer: why Yahoo could still win
It is nice, and I'll admit, full screen applications with command center are quite nice. Its great having a full screen terminal with tmux running, chrome, xcode, etc... I agree its one thing done right.

And then there is Finder... but at least I have the shell, if only I could keep Finder dead or at least not visually running I'd be happier.
Coming from someone who works in it, the whole biosciences field is woefully out of touch with good technology practices. People demand MS office documents for things that could easily be pdfs or txts all the time ><
Let's say I flipped a coin a million times. Now lets assume multiple witnesses saw me flip the coin so that heads came up twice in a row. There may be hundreds of such reports. Maybe even thousands. Would you conclude from that group of reports that I can, on demand, always flip the coin so that it comes up heads twice in a row? Or even that every time I flip the coin it comes up heads? Before taking a group of reports as evidence, keep in mind that this is selection bias.
According to the HBO documentary "Hot Coffee," which is excellent, by the way, even after she sued she didn't request damages beyond medical costs, rather they were awarded by the jury.
Hacker News Disappoints
Could you link or cite the PDF? Curious to know what that was about the interior of the Earth.
> The consumer experience with Office 2013 will work something like this: when you purchase Office 2013 or any of the individual applications from a retail store, instead of getting a box with a DVD, “you’ll essentially buy a coupon or card” with a license code and a Web address, said Hough.

Um, what about allowing the customer to purchase online? Seems like they could cut out the middleman that way.
HTTP/2.0 doesn't have to be backwards compatible at all. In fact, I see the future protocol switch being pretty simple. There will be new HTTP/2.0 servers and HTTP/1.1 legacy servers. The clients will speak either language, but 2.0 servers will be faster. Eventually clients will let the user say if they want to talk to 1.1 servers at all.

The initial line will remain the same, except for the version:

GET /page HTTP/2.0
*** extra 2.0 headers/request ***

If the server speaks 2.0, it will just carry on. If it doesn't, the server will return a 505 and the client will resubmit the request:

GET /page HTTP/2.0
505 HTTP Version Not Supported
GET /page HTTP/1.1
*** 1.1 headers / request ***

There is no reason the protocols must to be backwards compatible past the first line. Hell, 2.0 could even be binary after that first line. So, while they don't have to be compatible, they can still coexist.
This was my parsing of the article as well. The video could be viewed as being either a "commentary" or a "criticism" or both. The continuation "and copyright law explicitly..." is reinforcing that author's belief that this is the case.
First time I have seen a Yahoo article linked on HN in a while.
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Today everyone is sort of an addict to social networking sites or a website that allows you to stay connected to your friends and relatives as well as allows you to make new connections. If you do not have any such account in present generation then it would rather sound strange.
It would be fantastic to be able to summon the MIT wearables division in an emergency. Surely one of them has built a Gundam by now. http://www.wearcam.org/computing.html/borgs_outside_medialab...
What about simple sale of illicit goods ? That would warrant a response like this. With so many people in and out it would be easy to slip something in with the orders. It isn't the first time it's happened, either.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city...
On Planet Android there are frequent posts along the lines of "10 best apps for X" (where X is something like exercise, cooking etc) or roundups of new games for week. It is reasonable to assume the posts are written because they are read.

Can you get an install to happen to your device when going to a Windows Marketplace page on a desktop (without tethering your device etc)?
The point is that you can use -U to specify arbitrary user-agent strings, and -E robots=off to ignore robots.txt.

User-agent blocking is completely braindead. It does nothing at all. The fact that somebody in 2012 can possibly think it works is astounding to me.
Glad to see long-stack-traces is getting an update! Any chance you benchmarked it? I'm curious how the various long stack trace solutions compare.

Anyone that's interested in this should checkout domains, now shipping as experimental in v0.8 or the async trycatch module (mine), http://github.com/CrabDude/trycatch.
My father says the same thing. I've heard others describe similar formations and "sweeps across the horizon."

I don't doubt it at this point. I really just have two thoughts, maybe three.

1) I really want to see it for myself.

2) Is it of present-tine Earth origin?

3) Please come to me and take me somewhere magical!
I flagged you. Sorry, this just looks like flamebait/trolling to me. If you want to believe I'm a Liberal Elite silencing your "discourse" I guess I can't convince you otherwise.
So they are moving this in a SaaS direction?
Won't this vastly increase the TCO in the long term?
There are only so many monthly subscriptions that my credit card can withstand!
Every time I've installed Windows, it's come with basic drivers and programs.
Tech layoffs hit 3-year high of 51,529
Valve may be sealing their fate as the most successful game publishing company for this century.
Originally titled after my Tweet:

"Hacker News has gone to shit; help me find a good editor for a replacement"

https://twitter.com/haxor/status/225088232721879040

Just another example of how things are done around here
It's easy to work around this in a backwards compatible way, though, in a way that's applicable to more than just cookies - in requests after the first, only re-send headers that have changed.

Or just live with the hit while sites migrate to the new mechanism; I'm fine with it being considered a legacy thing.
lights =/= aircraft

There are a myriad of natural phenomena, optical illusions and - dare I say - mental aberrations that could account for one seeing lights in the sky.

I've seen several objects in the sky that I've not been able to immediately explain. Having been 'tricked' in this way and later realising the 'natural' explanations the idea of UFOs being explained as extra-terrestrial is not at all surprising to me.
There is 0 marginal cost to read the book for prime members.

BetteR?
Haha.. They've changed the title to this post 3 times. Good going, guys!

Edit: Anyways, if you want to repurpose this thread for constructive criticism that's fine. I'd rather this site fixed things instead of searching for a replacement.
Eh... maybe eventually, once nothing uses cookies anymore (including existing HTTP sites). But surely this can be solved today by having browsers force cookies to expire with the session?
If you need more incentive to read the comment, this phrase might help: Cloud Zombie Apocalypse
Note: i live in europe, have no experience w. american banks.

Whenever i've had pain with my banks, it's always been revolving around exceptions, and not everyday business like paying the bills. Examples of 'pain with the bank' for me has been malfunctioning cards, accounts that are not hooked up to online banking, the bank having the wrong address for me, etc. Essentially: problems that currently can't be solved online with the mainstream banks.

It's gonna be very interesting to see if banksimple/simple can do something about making these things easir to deal with.
> So, are there UFOs?

No doubt, if you talk about unrecognized flying objects which can be anything—from weather baloons to weird clouds.
Were ther aliens? I don't think so. Yes, there may be another intelligent life in the universe, but even so I think it is too far away even for the signal from it to reach another one within the lifetime of their exsistance.
Physical visit is even many many orders of magnitude less likely.
The top post there now is from the person at Facebook that did this, explaining what happened. Basically a glitch when fixing a problem with spam filtering. Here's a link directly to his comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/wo8ej/facebook_h...
Many companies I've dealt with seem to forget that the person they're interviewing probably isn't interviewing with just one company.

The last place I worked for (government) was maddening in this respect. We'd find a great candidate and HR would delay or otherwise jerk them around, and then have the gall to be shocked when the person accepted another offer.

In my recent job search the company I joined had a written offer to me within a day or two. Others contacted me weeks later with offers, even after I told them I was considering multiple offers at the time.

I don't think most candidates will tell you that, but that's likely the case. You snooze, you lose. There aren't many reasons you can't make an offer within a week after an interview.
Are PC Makers really competing?
The nice feature would be when I choose one friend and then the app will show me longest conversations with somebody.
If you are a light user of office then you can always use the web based version of word\excel etc.
For context, unless I'm mistaken, aboodman wrote GreaseMonkey, went on to work on Gears at Google, and since then has been on the Chrome team.
I know god exists. elvis told me only last week, and the king never lies.
Keep in mind that UFO just means that it is unidentified and not necessarily from another galaxy. In my opinion Sagan and Hawking are right and that actual visitation from an alien species would be really unlikely given the size of the universe.
I've seen a UFO once, it was probably either a Beechcraft or a Cessna.

It was unidentified, flying an most definitely and object.
This. And flakey drivers.

I think this is a big step for Linux on the Desktop. I look forward to the day I can ditch OS X and Windows and replace it with a Unix that has a nice UI, stability, and is open.
That comment was clearly sarcasm.
Been trying to convince my girlfriend to read this for a while.

She finally started to read it under advice from a mentor, and it is really having an impact on her effectiveness.

It was just yesterday we were discussing some of the points of 7 habits over wine.

RIP Stephen. I will remember to "Sharpen the saw".
> I've never seen a reasonable justification for the amount
> of hate it receives.

More likely you just chose to ignore it.

> I don't think the haters realize how good it actually
> is compared to the historical alternatives.

Oh, they do. At least some. But being better than alternatives does not make it good.
I think you'll need to elaborate a little. None of that stuff competes with VMWare software. I was talking about Xen.
Thanks for summarizing the 7 principles here. I am familiar with the book as well. However, I am not sure if I should envy or pity the people who feel their lives so incredibly enriched by them, by the majority of accounts almost bordering on the religious. For myself, they are too obvious, shallow and trivial to really have that positive effect that apparently so many are experiencing.
Damning in the sense that a game company wishes to sell games commercially? God forbid that they do such a thing!

Yes, I suppose it is better for Linux if nobody attempts to sell commercial software which could work with Linux, ever.
A Prototype vs a Hack
As far as I would guess, the market is hot if you meet all ten of the bullshit this is how you spot rockstars this week criteria. Otherwise it's slow.

The thing is, the GP is only about hiring the magic people super fast - as soon you see them, yeah! Which isn't going to make more magic people.

The hire-ers might just think about making their process a bit wider rather than chasing the same things over and over again. Give more people a chance to show some ability rather than passing the same mantra about A-players back
and forth.
On a side note, Forbes website has terrible UX. First I'm presented with page-takeover ad. Then page is full of flash based ads. Page loading was terribly slow. Looking at web inspector, it made ~ 266 requests for ~ 187 KB of data. And it took 14 seconds to load it (even though I'm on fast corporate n/w). On top of that, I can't find single comment on the article. Then I see "Expand comments" in small font. In confusion, I click the link and then I saw the comment by Jim. What is tech team doing at Forbes? Imagine if I'm accessing it on mobile device.
"The computerized eyeglass processes imagery using Augmediated Reality, in order to help the wearer see better, and when the computer is damaged, e.g. by falling and hitting the ground (or by a physical assault), buffered pictures for processing remain in its memory, and are not overwritten with new ones by the then non-functioning computer vision system.

As a result of Perpetrator 1's actions, therefore images that would not have otherwise been captured were captured. Therefore by damaging the Eye Glass, Perpetrator 1 photographed himself and others within McDonalds. "

Dude, this makes no sense...
This is something that should be on PGs ridiculously ambitious ideas list: Kill the carrier.

I need to look at the economics of having NO data plan on an iPhone coupled with a 4G hotspot ala verizon that I have now. (The company pays for these now so the actual costs of both are invisible to me...)
I think very few phones are powerful enough to run recent Android on top of an obsolete version of Android.
Nicolas "Cannasse" just left his company, I'm not sure what he's up to next. It should be interesting to see.
It's owned by Sony Music. According to this site the breakdown for individual donations is 73% Democrat versus 27% Republican.

http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/sony-music-enterta...
On the very, very slight chance that this isn't a troll it should be voted down to oblivion for being the purest form of anecdote.
Wow, I think that might be highest compliment I've ever been paid -- thank you! And though I am now clearly biased by your generous assessment of Joyent engineering and of me personally, I believe that your other comments are (of course?) spot-on. For whatever it's worth, we reached out to Crock to see if we could dissect whatever wasp had crawled into his underwear, but (no surprise) we were met with deafening silence. Even assuming that his was an entirely emotional response to some perceived slight in the distant past, we still have no idea what he's talking about. If anyone knows what he was referring to when he called our stewardship "amateurish", please, enlighten us!
> Just imagine 1,000 years from now

Like flying cars in the year 2000? ;-)
I don't see the issue with doing away with cookies. Cookies sucks for so many reasons. A natively handled session is just fine. Oh yes, it means also you can't be easily tracked, because that's the other purpose of cookies. Well too bad. You can still track through other means.

If you wanna store stuff, there's HTML5. Cookies are really just tracking and session.

As for the router, what he says makes complete sense, but, if there is more to it, then, what are you thinking about? Personally I think the host header is the most important thing to parse, for, well, routing, termination, etc. I'm not certain what else is needed beyond that point.
It was 10% faster to switch from modulo to & on a recent real world problem for me.
If you don't store a leakable cookie on the client and only use a connection ID (which is autoassigned by the server and cannot be easily forged) then a lot of cross-domain evil hackery goes away.
That's funny how wires + blinking led => detonator, something you knead in your hand => C4, cute youg girl with bleached hair => suicide bomber

Osama achieved million times more than what he would have dreamed of.
pirated windows 7 installs?
Taxes? US listed prices often don't include taxes, where in many other countries require taxes (sales, VAT, etc) be included in the listed price.
Android Getting tweets into your app.
I've read this a couple of times, and I'm still not understanding it. How does the area of your desk surface (6'x2') relate to me or the parent post using items (paper cups, reams of paper) to elevate our monitors?