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The OP was wrong in using manual scavenging as an example of a lack of economic progress, when it is actually an example of a lack of social progress, as I mentioned in a reply to him[0].

However, I don't believe that the homeless problem in SF can be compared to the manual scavenging problem either, because of the difference in terms of degree of severity. One is the result of millenia of systematic oppression, while the other is the result of people refusing to get help for themselves even when it is offered for free. Caste-based discrimination is a much bigger problem than homelessness is in India. If you don't believe me, you should watch the video linked in my other comment[0] - caste-based discrimination is much more widespread than most upper class Indians know or are willing to admit.

However, none of that changes the fact that economic progress is also sorely needed in India. The sort of progress that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in China and educated them hasn't even begun to start in India.

The reason why it appears like India is doing so well is because if only 5% of the Indian population is well-educated and contributes significantly to the global economy, that's 60 million people - the size of a large European nation. So when (by my estimates) ~10% of the Indian population does so (as it has over the last 10-20 years), it creates huge ripple effects in the global economy. And Westerners especially notice when it occurs in service-based industries that they have direct contact with.

But that doesn't change the fact that hundreds of millions of Indians are impoverished and suffering from conditions worse than those in sub-Saharan Africa. When it comes to social development, the only parts of the world behind India are those that have been or continue to be torn apart by war. It's particularly damning when you consider that India's independence was achieved with relatively little bloodshed and that it hasn't had any military coups or dictatorships since independence. Compare this to the likes of countries like Germany, Japan, and South Korea, which rose from the ashes following WW2 and the Korean War to become first world nations. China suffered from enormous devastaion during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, and yet it has made huge strides over the last 20 years and continues to do so unabatedly with each passing year.

0: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4386845
> a non-political crime.

I think some will disagree with the reason for asylum. I don't think there is any doubt that this is political. This is not about rape accusations. This is very political.
Actually, I do believe morality is absolute. This would be more painfully clear by 2033, but it looks like we're already too tolerant to notice so I don't have much hope.
I'm 28, but on behalf of all those who are legally powerless and who have other people 'looking after their longterm best interests' we'd prefer you didn't.
I am being serious. I'd rather doubt the seriousness of anyone moaning about an 11-second delay before they can start to code using Visual Studio while ignoring the features one truly uses Visual Studio for (which you have conveniently labelled as "not interested in using").

Why are they using Visual Studio at all then? Why not Textpad/Notepad++ or Emacs if they're so concerned about startup time? The only IDE that does come close to VS in functionality is Eclipse and that has a woefully slow startup time - never stopped any Java developer from touting that as the greatest IDE ever (it exceeds VS in many cases, IMO). Both of these IDEs, once they load, are extremely responsive considering the scale of the projects they are made to handle. JIT compilation occurs for chunks of code as you type code - that is dazzlingly fast for VS (and it's not just plain symbol-based lookup as used to happen in VS6 IntelliSense).

Incidentally, I don't think it was really features that made VS2010 slow

What do you think makes it slow during startup? According to me, it's sub-component/assembly/library load time during IDE startup and file parsing/symbol loading time during/after project-load.
Willing to share how big of a team you need to have to turn out 10 apps per month? I'm honestly curious!
any truly autonomous agent would be out-competed by one that has a human in the loop modifying the code to adapt to the market

Not necessarily, you could have a self modifying agent using genetic algorithms that could develop quicker than having a coder tweaking everything.
> HN has had top stories telling programmers not to care about corner cases or to assign a very low priority to them.

That's because HN focuses on startups. Startups have extremely little time, money and resources. Microsoft has over 94,000 headcount.

Microsoft has extremely different expectations from startups. In fact, knowing just about anything about Microsoft's decades of history, you'd know just how much attention they pay to corner cases when it comes to backwards compatibility.

Another example: do startups spend much time preparing support for 50 different languages, including RTL, before a product release? Should Microsoft?

Advice you see on HN doesn't represent anything more than the current hip advice for startups. Certainly not how a multibillion dollar international corporation should design products.
Think of Ryanair as the libertarian airline. Them fucking over the passengers not clever enough to figure out the rules or causing exceptions makes it a particularly joy to fly with them as you do not subsidize others' inefficiency.
> The extradition request is for questioning;

That sounds pretty silly. He was only a couple of hours away by plane, he is surrounded by media. Runs a talk show. Claiming they can't question him is just ridiculous and make them seem like they certainly have other ideas than just simple questioning for not wearing a condom.
Off-topic: Marketing Is Everything (that includes marketing to the right people who can support your project - investors, advisors, early customers)

When I read the article, I immediately noticed (in the picture) not the Socks.com puppet but the sculpture behind the puppet. The sculpture was called "Puppy" I believe. It was brought to you by Damien Hirst, the brand behind 'Beautiful Union Jack Celebratory Patriotic Olympic Explosion in an Electric Storm Painting’ (2012)'[1][2].

The world's richest artist ($300+M net worth). He is the Madonna, the Material Girl, of the Modern Art world. The person responsible for those inscrutable titles for artwork.

Why is he the world's richest artist? His personal brand. A Marketing Genius (overused, by appropriate here).

He is/was original[3][4].

To be fair, he is using his personal wealth to help create and endow an art museum.

[1] http://www.complex.com/art-design/2012/08/damien-hirsts-flag...

[2] http://www.damienhirst.com/news/august/olympics

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2012/07/20/is-dami...

[4] http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-01-18/art/damien-hirst-died...
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One thing going unsaid in all this is that it's quite likely British intelligence sources were put at risk but various wikileaks as well.

Which is probably key to their reaction.
https://github.com/dougireton/vimfiles
Perhaps, like purchasing a license to all forms of the work? I too would like to start purchasing ebooks, but used books are much cheaper than a kindle versions on amazon.

This is a great find though!
Conspiracy theories are usually self-reinforcing that way.
Isn't it just a little ironic that this is coming from the same guy who said: "You should aim to hit 100 million active users, and get an off-the-shelf monetization solution later" Really? "Just get 100 million users and slap ads on it bro" is good business model advice?

Who's really 'acting like its 1999' in here?
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They kept complaining about their 'conversion rate' thoughout the post. Everywhere they talked about how they weren't selling enough, they couched it in terms of how many downloads they got.
The fact that you consider involuntary sexual intercourse as worse fate than death speaks volume of your lame political correctness.
One of the big issues I see is mobile app distribution. In app store, you have this dynamic where the top ~25 are making tons, and then there's everyone else not making so much. I'm assuming it's the same dynamic on Android.

So how do you get your first 1,000? Do you spend money on some mobile incentivized downloads, or ads, or what?
I'm sorry, but that just doesn't match reality.

I wish we lived in a world where we could put down our stick and trust everyone else to do likewise, but I do not believe that is the case.

The problem we have right now is ensuring the stick is used morally. That is an inherently cultural concept. There is no easy answer, unless you believe you are entitled to the same autocratic oppression of those you criticize.
Individual apps can do far more destructive stupid things than changing sql_mode.
It's hidden on Apple's site, but a developer can ask for an expedited review. Bugs, upcoming marketing dates, conferences, etc... all are reasons that can get an app review expedited.
Don't want to give away all the secret sauce, but you can do it with about 10 US workers and about triple that in India.
Sounds like fun.

I would love to see one that used different DB back-ends at some point. I'm sure it would be interesting to see the other attacks we are not considering with the much more diversified stacks now in existence.
> Sweden would like to question Julian Assange about allegations made be two women.

He has been under house arrest with access to phone, TV, internet. He even runs a freakin' talk show. Telling the world they can't "question" him is a little dis-indigenous and they need to make up a better reason.
I don't really see how this is anything like using YouTube like iTunes.
But before I even looked, I wondered, would I even want to use YouTube like I use iTunes?

what is the benefit of this as a user? I don't have that clear. Initially.

Your description doesn't "youtube the fun easy way..." and all the other text on your site doesn't tell me anything about it or why I would use it.

It took me a bit looking around (which most users won't give you) to figure out that you're using youtube as a music player. Oh!!! Why didn't you say so? Don't say "like using iTunes", tell me, "Use YouTube to find and play music!" (like itunes if you like), but you have to explain that to the user. Remember, iTunes isn't just music anymore, it's apps, movies, tv, etc.

Not meaning to be harsh, but your interface is horrible. Sure, I can play without typing, but it isn't just not nice. Go copy a design from somewhere else and use that. Copy iTunes if you like it (I think it's horrible), Zune is a much better UI, and most people won't recognize it because they don't use it, or do something like spotify.

At least you've launched something (which is better than many people), but you've just got started, still lots of work to do.
The artist in me finds your shovelware business model sad, although my inner accountant nods approvingly. I guess profitability trumps a lot of other concerns, since you can't put out too much software if you're bankrupt.

I don't understand your point (6) - intuition and a small amount of experience tells me that users judge software overwhelmingly by its design - can you elaborate on this?
It's a little depressing how underwhelming that answer was.
It sounds like someone higher up just put the smack down on someone who might be on the take. Boston is trying to be as progressive as they can despite the puritan roots they're stuck with.
I think part of that is the narrative that his wilder inventions were "suppressed". Things like wireless power transmission, which as designed by Tesla, (1) is ridiculously inefficient and (2) would cause significant collateral damage. The narrative of the competing current systems (AC versus DC) was inflated into some kind of larger ideological conflict between Edison and Tesla themselves, and we like to root for the underdog (even though Tesla won that debate). I suspect that the biggest part of his modern popularity is just due to retro aesthetics you see in video games like BioShock and Fallout, or appearances in media such as The Prestige.

He deserves museums, but not hero worhsip.
DevDiv (which makes up both Visual Studio, .NET and a bunch of other stuff) had ~5K people when I left. So very definitely possible.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by the 'shell'. VS is a huge beast and has dozens of components, several of them coming from outside the VS team.
By the way, this link should be inspiring http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/15/tech/web/teens-music-youtu...
how long is the trip from LA to LA, how much would the finder's fee be, on each continent and could it be made to include at least a stop of 48 contiguous hours?
Does JReisig's work support the Bret Victor idea of selecting the line of code and highlighting the pixels that it draws?? (shown at 8:00 in the Bret Victor video)
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How so? I'm not saying that anyone is correct because they are being smeared. I assert no connection between your smears and the alleged smear campaign against Assange, and I certainly am not saying that your smears in any way vindicate the accusations of those who you are smearing. I'm just saying it is amusing.

Well, not really amusing; that is the wrong word. There is nothing amusing about accusing somebody of "all but justifying raping women". That is a serious allegation.
I'm running Win 7. I was also served malware while listening to music on grooveshark. Had to restart my computer afterwards. I think it has something to do with their ads.
Basically he intended 'type' as not 'datatype' as in 'dwSomething' (for double word) but the purpose of the variable. For example, if you're using an integer variable to store the length of some entity, you would name it something like 'lenSomething' as opposed to 'dwSomething'.

Storing the type of the variable makes little sense as in most cases it is only a quick grep away.
Fail HN: Updated LinkedIn API is "working as designed"
I've actually had good luck with searching for specific technical books through GoodReads. I've found reviews there to be in-depth and fairly accurate.
Its not just start up time (only relevant on reboot or VS crash), its the amount of time it takes for VS2010 to page back in after being idle for a few hours, its the amount of it takes to edit a file, the amount of time it takes for code completion to activate, the amount of time to build your project. I'm only comparing 2010 to 2008, Microsoft's biggest competitors are often its own older products!

We can speculate all we want on what the deal is with VS2010; I'm just happy 2012 seems faster.
I think there will be a class of phones that do almost all of the things a smartphone like an iOS or Android phone do, but that have an app and content ecosystem where more of the revenue goes to the carrier.
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I honestly think people that complain about referral link are just inherently negative. A free link, that takes you to a promotion, that saves you money, and you want to point out that the guy who brought this to your attention, is gaining something positive, at no expense to you or anyone. You probably pirated the book too.

Thanks OP, great deal and I bought it.
i am curious about what you find wrong with UAE transit or stops. was fun to me.
> 1. Giant php codebase.

As a Python enthusiast who works in a N-hundred kLOC PHP codebase for a living, I have to say large PHP codebases aren't really a problem if they were written by competent people who took the time to think ahead a little.

Sure, PHP has it's deficiencies like any other language, but my day-to-day experience is more along the lines of "I dislike not having <feature that's somewhat unique to Python>"; I don't find myself thinking "wow, I hate PHP, it's such a terrible language and makes my life miserable!", as many people are prone to think with PHP.

PHP may not be your favorite language, but in good hands it's a perfectly workable language, and IMO its use should be a small factor in where you work.
I wish someone would do this for the games that I loved, particularly Starflight and Myth.
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If your business model is:

1) Carry everything or everything-in-your-market

2) Have customers drive product decisions

3) Have the primary metaphor be "Buy a product from our shop"

4) Have all products be available elsewhere

Then Amazon is probably going to bury you.

But that's like four knobs you can twist, right?

Maybe you sell only one item, or a limited set of items. Maybe you don't let customers pick anything because that's not really what they want to do -- in fact, maybe not needing to choose is your selling point. Maybe you're selling a subscription to consumable goods rather than consumable goods, or a relationship which is so subscription-like that it makes no difference. Maybe you have exclusive access to a product, to a product mixed with IP, or to a particular opportunity to buy a product.

c.f. Dollar Shave Club, Gilt, BlueNile (which might as well be SaviorOfTheCluelessGroom.com), etc etc.
It should be no surprise that PPACA saves money over 10 years, if the 10 years contain 10 years of PPACA revenue and only 6 years of PPACA spending. Perhaps we would do well to determine whether it saves or spends money in its eventual steady state, rather than pretending that the world will end in 2020.
You seem confused. At one point you claim that this is about helping the women who are Swedish citizens and trying to question Assange so they can charge him with rape or figure out what happened. Have we agreed that in the previous comment you seems to be concerned and think the Swedish government is also concerned about these women?

> These women have a right to make these accusations, and they have a right for the state to investigate them. Nobody could possibly deny this.

and

> not beyond the realms of possibility, is that these women are genuinely making these accusations.

Those statements seem to support that, wouldn't you say?

However, when presented with the question of why didn't they just come in and questioned him after being invited and granted access you reply with

> Sweden is well within their rights to refuse that offer.

So they are just dragging their feet refusing the offer. Is it because they don't like British food or is the travel too grueling. Remember, they are spending all this effort and time supposedly because they deeply care about the fate of these two women.

The next step in the process is the questioning and then after being invited to question him to move the process along they refuse.

You'll have to forgive everyone if they don't quite believe the official reasons. To me it sounds fishy for example.

> Assange in the embassy and decided they wanted to charge him he would just walk out happily?

It doesn't matter what happens then. They identified a next step in the process and they claim they cannot accomplish it. While it has been clear that they can.
The StorJ example mentioned at the top is pretty interesting: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53855.msg642768#msg6...
It is in Australia.

The regular speed cameras (radar+photo) are high res and clearly show the driver - very difficult to argue you weren't driving the car.
I don't know about that, the last two 'normal' applications he wrote (git and subsurface) were in C.
Chipping the license plates would make more sense -- those change regularly, regardless of vehicle age, and might prove harder to shield. Likewise if it was an E-ZPass style RFID transponder on the back of your front windshield registration sticker.
I think the all caps is pretty terrible and I use VS all day at work and on my personal time for hobby projects.

Obviously it's not the end of the world, but as far as design decisions go it is pretty silly.
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There's nothing amusing about the remark that "one could argue that 'sex without a condom' with a naked woman already in bed with you by her own will is not rape". The notion being put forth is a justification of rape, and "one could argue" is a way of rhetorically evading responsibility for putting the notion forward.
I imagine the SGN's stylus (and extra inch over the ordinary SGS) mitigates that a bit.

There's also Bluetooth/USB mouse support in Android 3.1+, which just brings this to a whole new level of silly.
My inner artist actually struggles a lot with it as well, however it has allowed us the runway to invest in larger, higher quality projects.

Regarding (6): Users judge by design, if design is all your app has. If you are providing an enormous amount of content thats of value to the user, design becomes secondary.

For example, 2 of our highest performing apps (about 70-100k per year) have poor interfaces, but killer content that specific users really want access to.
There are also product categories that the big players(e.g. Amazon) won't touch. I'm currently operating in one and its definitely lucrative.
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Have you considered that maybe these guys want to develop iPhone games? Telling them that all they have to do to make more money is simply stop developing games, and choose a different platform might be true, but it's not very helpful if they want to live their passion.
The benefits are nothing to download, no searching, and less typing. I will be the first to admit the design really sucks. But the core functionality needs to be complete before we start decorating. The design and user interface are the next big challenges I'm about to focus on.
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In Assange's own mind, yes, he probably is the victim of a massive international conspiracy whether or not he committed rape. It's a little disappointing to see so many people on HN take those delusions of grandeur at face value.
How much money will Ouya actually make from Kickstarter?
That is a very nice looking bike.
I'm amused by the notion that Assange has to somehow be extradited to Sweden if the CIA is going to rendition him. The CIA renditions people by kidnapping them off the street. They can do that in London just as well as anywhere else in the world. If the CIA wanted to rendition Assange, Assange would have been renditioned by now. The whole Sweden business would only get in the way of a rendition, not facilitate it.
You mean with something like this: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bdbcffca-32a6-...

I don't believe it has been released for 2012 yet, but I am pretty sure it will be (I can ask Matt tomorrow at work, but I can't see why he wouldn't as I don't believe it would require any changes, just updating the manifest to say it supports 2012).
I read it as the tower itself being demolished in 1917, but the laboratory building, which surrounded the base of the tower, and the foundations of the actual tower, being still intact.

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Edit. Found a link to a report of the current state of the site: http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/2011/05/visit-to-wardencly...
> If he was subject to extraordinary rendition, they'd have him by now. That's the whole point of extraordinary rendition.

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how well-protected and cautious he is, and how much cooperation the renditors can get from the local government.