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+1 for providing an example, but "Git vs. Mercurial" belongs on someone's blog, or on Wikipedia as a comparison matrix.

Now if you have a specific question about some aspect of Git compared to Mercurial, that can work on SE. But as a broad kitchen sink, catch-all, "compare these two giant things kthx", you'd end up with Gorilla vs. Shark.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/
Advanced, functional programming and basic...

Not phrases that usually go together.
Such a strange post. Jeff spend the first half arguing that the qualify of the second half somehow decrease the quality of Stack Overflow. I liked the second half better.

I've never understood why Jeff and Joel felt these kinds of questions should be anathema on Stack Overflow. Most of the information on Stack Overflow exists in some form or other elsewhere. The value-add that Stack Overflow provides is community-based filtering and maintenance. Not only are these questions entertaining in their own right, but their very existence enhances the feeling of community on the site.

Also, it wasn't as though they were using some off-the-shelf software to run the site. They could have provided an outlet for this kind of thing, which all communities want to do, within the context of the site.
I'm having a tough time understanding talent acquisitions.

You have a set of people working for the startup and the outside investors in the startup, and you have an outside company trying to purchase them. The outside company offers $X for the company in an acquihire. Let's say all the outside investors own fraction Y of the company. Why can't the outside company offer a total of X * (1-.5Y) in signing bonuses to the people in the startup, leaving both them and the employees strictly better off? Are founders and early employees just walled off with non-competes to make this not realistic?
Fair enough, my underlying point is that `assembly` isn't a language, it's a family of languages which have a set of characteristics which are tied very tightly to the instruction set used (often called an architecture). Comments would be a characteristic of the compiler, which you may call an 'assembler' if you wish, however an assembler is not a language.
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it's not just health. look at Google Now on android 4.1. they're going to know everywhere you went and a lot more info. sooner or later, this will likely lead to targeted ads if they can deliver high-value ads the user actually wants. ie., [you're driving past your favorite pizza shop] Pizza Boy is offering $5 off today your normal order. Should i place the order for you?" the reason most everyone will opt in is because of the high value-add it provides. my wife quickly opted in to Google Now on her android phone cause she wants the extra features.
This is nonsense. It has no place on HN.

First of all, cheap ads are not a bad thing. Cheap ads are like cheap oil: sure, it may put some oil companies out of business who can't deliver product efficiently, but this has no impact on the rest of the economy.

Second (I can't believe I'm actually defending FB) a lot of people go to the site. If FB can maintain control of the social internet and, frankly, suck less, they will own a massive channel. Part of the trick is controlling a bunch of social networks. This would would allow FB to set ad prices on all networks like a cartel.

Third, if you see a price war between Google and FB, then everyone who wants to advertise on the web wins. Yes, start-ups that hope to capitalize on ad-supported services suffer, but the rest of the web, not to mention the economy, pays no attention.
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Ndot Scam - Internet is the place where you can see more about scam reports. That too inorder to damage the brand reputation of a particular company the competitors do this work. Let me come to the point directly now.
wtf. First Breivik, now this. What do we have to do to prevent such exceptional events from happening without giving up essential civil liberties? There must be something.
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I guess it depends on the use case. I never "hang out" on StackOverflow (though maybe I should). I find it through Google, so I never see the non-sequitur posts. I had no idea that content like that even existed there. Knowing that you guys have posts like that is so great for the brand.
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Sharing location with apps is trivial to avoid (just don't use them if you're not comfortable), it's not an iphone secret file that stores everything until someone exposes it (zing!). Besides, 'you are on main street' vs 'your daughter has herpes' are far different levels of invading privacy, the former is not a particular secret at all.
Many interpreted programming languages are implemented in C: Python, Ruby, Lua, Io...
If you make 80% of your main source of income as a bonus (as i did on my 1st job in a newspaper that did that to avoid paying extra for the daily overtime) then you have very little security and leeway in negotiation.

That job had one good thing. It vaccinated me against the lousy startup mentality that you must work overtime Fridays and showup weekend after launches because you have "equity"
This is actually one of my favorite little places to read up on Scientology. :) He has great info!
Multiplayer game League of Legends introduces report cards for banned users
We tried to get IETF and W3C interested. They barely talked to us. The most we could do was a Vorbis over RTP draft that I wrote. The next best option was to incorporate as a 501c3 and run our own standards body, similar to the XSF in the XMPP world.

The times have changed though, and the IETF is now receptive to this type of work (although it didn't happen without a political battle). Note that many of the Opus contributors are Xiph.org contributors as well.
Looks like it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519747 and other comments verify.
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Hey, I am looking to get into a discussion about the strengths, weaknesses and differences in building social features into products (twitter vs facebook vs google). I buy into the importance of building products from the ground up with social dynamics at their core. It’s obvious to me that nearly every useful product ever made will be remade in a way that has a simple ux making the app both a utility and toy for sharing (easy access to move that data around if the user so chooses). It may just be me but I see building with these platforms as a Huge risk and a Huge necessity. Lots to discuss. Anyone want to dive in first?
To give some light background, League of Legends is a popular game where two teams of 5 players are matching against each other. DAUs are in the millions, making moderation and banning difficult. Instead, players voluntarily participate in the "Tribunal", which is a jury-like system where players vote on abuse cases.

More details here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/tribunal/
This reminds me of FaceMaker, which was excellent, but sadly doesn't seem to exist any more. Here's a video though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RezhSLAijY
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Opus is a (usually) lower bitrate codec for very low latency applications. In other words, a completely different sweet spot than Vorbis, AAC, etc.
I think leveraging existing social platforms is fine and you're realistic. Ultimately you need to be building something of your own if it's going to be a sustainable/scalable business. But make use of the existing social platforms to get things off the ground or to enhance virility of your app/product.
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Startups say they want rockstars which of course is just another way of saying brogrammer. When I read these types of help wanted ads, I cringe at what the culture in these places even if it is just 5 guys must be like.

I imagine a frat house orgy of people puking up code.
The key problems for online advertising are:

1. Advertisers can see if it worked. In traditional advertising you accept that a lot of your money will be "wasted" on people who will never buy your product or service. In online advertising you can track a customer from first viewing an ad to purchase. This gives advertisers a lot of leverage in price negotiations -- "your site only has a 0.05% conversion rate, why should I pay that much?"

2. Inventory is growing faster than demand for inventory. In advertising terms "Inventory" means "I have a place to show your ad". Well every new web page can contain inventory. Given how fast the supply of webpages is growing, compared to the total pool of customers and businesses ... well let's just say that the supply-demand curve on this does not favour the sellers of inventory.

I am of course fascinated by this problem and my startup (currently in stupid unfunded single-founder mode) aims to resolve this exact economic problem with a different model.
Sensor person here. These a problems are all solvable with enough sensors and compute power. What good is it? I am sure that there are specialist applications that make sense, like for doctors and mechanics that want to see schematics overlaid. I haven't seen a single consumer level use-case that makes sense. Games? Sure. Anything else?
Anyone figure this out? Can't find it in new nor in the first 4 pages.
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In designing their model, the scientists chose an approach called object-oriented programming, which parallels the design of modern software systems. Software designers organize their programs in modules, which communicate with one another by passing data and instructions back and forth.

Similarly, the simulated bacterium is a series of modules that mimic the various functions of the cell.

Pretty cool that a relatively mass-market outlet like the Times thought it was worth mentioning OOP. Even as a software developer, it's a stretch for me to visualize what it means to simulate an organism; what a difficult job for the Times to distill it down into a couple of paragraphs for a lay audience.
I have to use TFS at work. I have to say SVN is much nicer.
It isn't bad for Microsoft. It is bad for Nokia. The customers who are prepared to spend top money with a brand obviously has some affinity for it. These are the people a company needs when it goes through difficult times. The last thing a company should do is to alienate their best customers.
Mobile news is as old as newspapers... this is just a different format. :)
The slides for Inside PHP and Inside Python are probably best accompanied by the modified source code so you can see where changes were made :)

https://github.com/thomaslee/oscon2012-inside-php
https://github.com/thomaslee/oscon2012-inside-python

If I had thought ahead a little, I would've done an initial import before the presentations started so that folks could see a nice little diff... oh well. Next time!
Startups are becoming the new resume... essentially.
TV ads are poorly targeted yet businesses are pouring billions into it.

I don't believe the hype. Ads do work, and web ads are even better.

Not only are some ads personalized, but they also have a call to action. There are many times where I can make the purchase right then and there.

The experience will get better over time and I'm sure in the near future online advertising will own the biggest piece of the $ pie.
It's grate to be dedicated to your business, but don't say 'never'. There may come a day when you've exhausted all and every one option on the table, but getting acquired for the sake of a high-bonus job would allow you to preserve sanity and to get some $, before once again embarking on the journey that is entrepreneurship.
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Yes, this is my favorite part - the emotion that can be projected onto these random mishmashes of triangles is astounding! I've gotten a stoic old American Indian chief, a scary demon baby, and spitting images of both Patrick McGoohan and Fat Marlon Brando. The author should really store copies on the server and add a gallery of some hand-picked favorites!
Based on emails, I'd say it was a person, who I won't name, at ycombinator.
If a question gets oodles of upvotes and answers that seems like a vote by the community to keep it open.
That's actually a really well done short review. It was well paced, and he did a good job of not just sharing his opinions, but explaining them so that I could tell if they would apply to me or not.
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Are you solving a very real problem and does the 'Social Platform' help do that? If not then don't bother with the Social Platform, in fact don't bother with the product at all. Solving a real problem is what matters. IMHO.
I haven't even finalized migrating from 0.4 to 0.8...
Advertising is a $600B a year business, and the Internet still has yet to catch up with other media in terms of share of total budget versus time spent on the medium.

Google just reported revenues up 35%. It's all advertising, driven by high quality algorithms and lots of data. Internet advertising is more effective than other media and we're still just scratching the surface.

I'd like to comment on all the specific ad startups and their revenue and growth rates but I'm not able - you'll just have to wait and see it.

Happy to make a $1 bet on the subject with any naysayer here or with the author of this shoddy article.
No, but seeing that they take the time to say, 'what would someone not fammilar with this do?' is very useful. The question of new jargon could be viewed as what novel things do you do that are so common for you, but uncommon for most people, that you had to create your own word.
off you go, waiting to hear your first idea.
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Really great project - would almost have convinced me that computers can actually create art, if I didn't know there were a great coder behind it all :)

One interesting observation - I turned up the output resolution without changing the target fitness and started noticing that the (larger) results didn't look nearly as much like faces to me. At first I thought there must be a technical reason for this, until I realized that it was all psychological - the smaller images hold less information, and therefore my brain has to try harder to fill in the gaps, tricking me into believing that the low-res faces have more detail than they actually do. To prove this to myself, I scaled down the larger images and - sure enough - the (imagined) faces became much more believable.
What you call crunch time is what I call poor project management. I started out as the managing editor of a daily newspaper. We shipped an entire product every day. We never slipped, we never missed a daily deadline… Just like every other daily newspaper. And there was never a OMG OMG crunch time as the daily deadline neared. If you manage a project correctly, when the deadline arrives you'll be sitting around telling jokes and admiring your work. I've done it many times. It can be done and it is not that difficult.
Those expectations don't reflect reality. Look at the quora and linkedin apps. They are mostly web views and no one would even know if you didn't tell them. I will admit the performance characteristics of javascript are much more complex compared to objective-C, but the tradeoff is that you can share most of the code across platforms, and you can iterate much faster without app store approvals. On the other hand, if the mobile web was ready, phonegap would not exist at all. At the very least, it's more nuanced than one platform being superior than the other for any category of application, barring games.
And you've also proved why any dev can't make any money off of open source unless they have speaking engagements lined up.
But internet advertising is a relatively lousy form of advertising. Compare to print and radio ads.

I hear a radio ad. It is interesting. I write down the number and call the person. Not ideal, but I am reminded by the medium that I must act now or else I lose the info of the ad. Same with tv ads. But even to ensure people can follow up you have to have the ad repeated over and over.

With print ads, I can cut them out and save them. Less urgency, and a lot of durability.

Online advertising, with the possible exception of advertising on search engines, provides the illusion of durability without delivering it. So it's an inferior medium.

I am not saying that online advertisements are doomed. I think we haven't figured out how to do it, and borrowing print analogies isn't sufficient. Or perhaps, if we are going to borrow print analogies we ought to take them all the way (selling ad space on specific pages on a non-rotating basis for example).
but that is just it... if we are building apps that people love I really don’t care about viralilty or getting it off the ground as much. Our apps are engaging and viral because they are useful/simple/beautiful. I guess I am talking about building something for the long term.

More specifically, I am not that confident in using facebook connect. Any experience with fb integration? thoughts on user experiences? things you didn't expect?
getting acquired for the sake of a high-bonus job would allow you to preserve sanity and to get some $

Yes, but as I wrote, Tarsnap is profitable enough that I don't need to go somewhere else to get money.
I'm skeptical of the "driving by the pizza place" examples. Physical proximity to the pizza place usually doesn't imply any intention to consume pizza. There has to be a stronger signal. I'm physically close to a pizza parlor and I just searched for "dinner and beer" would be enough to assume I have some intention of consuming pizza hence advertising the pizza parlor at that moment is valuable to both myself and the business.

Advertising based entirely on physical proximity could be almost useless. Imagine driving through downtown at 11 PM on a Friday night. As you pass the dentist you're prompted with "50% off your next teeth cleaning!". As you pass the park you're prompted with "Sunday Parade at the Park!". As you pass the liquor store you're prompted with "Beer sale!". Finally something useful. However by this point I would probably be ignoring the ads.
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As a former Toronto freelancer I share the same sentiments.
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I agree that there are a lot of advancements to be made. However, my experience is that Internet ads are already more effective.

But forget all that, are you ready to bet me $1 over the future of online ads? Go ahead and formulate the terms. I'll take the optimistic side and you can have the pessimistic side of whatever you come up with.
Couldn't you just use something like Circular polarization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_polarization. Each point on the glasses is a TFT and polarizes the light coming in to the opposite direction thus creating a good black surface.

His second argument about the processing time is good if the processing is done on the phone but with cellular networks becoming better organized you could easily have a computing cluster do most of the work. Using that and some basic statistical inferences (to fudge some of the processing) you can get pretty impressive response times.
absolutely, building an app that solves a problem is the only way to go. It is very important to face that thought and I am with you. But what I am talking more about how to approach adding the social features in an app. I'd love to get your take on how you think about integrating fb, twitter, google...

Highlight went all in with Facebook. Asana is betting on Google. Instagram and Path made a full network of their own. These apps will be tied with their integration choices most likely for the rest of their existence. It's a big deal.
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The pizza example would be more like you're driving home from work at 5:30pm on Wednesday on your typical route which passes by the pizza shop. Google Now knows that it's dinner time and that you've purchased from that pizza place before on a Wednesday for dinner. Thus, it "alerts" you of a special deal if there is one.
It works.

I wanted to get into software engineering & commerce double degree in University of Sydney. It required UAI of 95 (University Admission Index; a UAI of 97 means you're required to be in the top 3%, 95 -> top 5%).

One day a friend took me to the Career advisor office who gave me a UAI estimate of 75.

It shocked me to the core; At the time I was lazy, and told myself I was lazy; I was in a high school where being lazy was good enough to get by. "Apparently", being lazy was not good enough anymore.

I printed pages of full of the text "I will get 95 UAI." and posted it throughout my room and ceiling. I set the same text as my browser home page, desktop, desk and the study room. Every morning in the shower and on the bus, I repeated to myself "I am going to get 95 UAI", over and over again.

"Miraculously", this brainwashing led me to work harder than ever. It got me studying 8 hours a day for 4 months.

In 2007, the required UAI for the software engineering and commerce degree dropped to 94.45. I managed to score a UAI of 94.55, allowing me to study the degree.

I had scored really high marks in the university entrance exam, and would have gotten an even higher UAI had my school marks weren't 15% lower; The exam and school marks were worth 50% respectively.
I think both articles are just pretty much copied from the now hidden Stack Overflow question.
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If i approach angel investors with a huge concept having great potential, but i don't have any past experience in developing a company, i.e its my first startup. So what would be the response from the investors? And what are chances of getting the funding.
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I think the real question is why hide things to people unless they have a certain reputation. I understand locking a question, but I don't understand making a question with answers inaccessible. Does this serve some purpose I'm unaware of?