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Jeff Atwood has not publicly released any details yet. However, his recent interview on Mixergy (http://mixergy.com/jeff-atwood-coding-horror-interview/) indicates that it is an open-source project which can be run by anyone on EC2. In the same interview he indicated that he was targeting a neglected software category that he considers to be broken, in the same way that online technical Q&A was broken before StackOverflow.

Relevant Mixergy interview excerpts:

"Let’s go back to the Podcast. Think about the way we started “Stack Overflow.” We identified something on the web that needed to change. We viewed it as a strong villain figure that everybody vilified and hated. If you think about the software that you use on the web and the websites that you use, there’s still a lot of software out there like this. It’s kind of a forgotten software category in my opinion. But it won’t be when we’re done, I think.
...
We’re still building it. As I talked about at the start of the show, you get tired of explaining it after certain points, it’s like “No, just go look at this thing.” So we’re building up enough of it so that I can stop explaining it and just show it to people and they’ll see what it is. But I can say it’s a fully open source thing meaning if you want it, you can just take it, run it, grab it, install it on Amazon EC2, install it on your PC at home, wherever. It’s fully 100 percent open source."
It's true that Java is more bureaucratic than most languages, but there is a reason why getters and setters are the standard. And the reason is encapsulation

Zen tip: When there is a reason for a bad thing, that is called a bad reason.
Is it not the intention to replace directgov, rather than integrate with it?
They're simply using the standard "Feel, Felt, Found" formula , which I believe was pioneered by Roger Dawson in "Secrets of Power Negotiating" - http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-Roger-Dawson...
The other day, out of the blue, my young niece starts telling me about Scratch (online visual programming site), and how she's written some stuff on it. She then proceeds to start telling me about other people, how they had done things wrong, and how she knew how to fix them.

I was so freaking proud. I had never tried to teach her to program because she's as hardheaded as I am. Trying to force it on her was doomed to failure. But because she discovered it, she bit in pretty good. She's playing at being a cheerleader now, but I can't help but think the experience will help her later, even if she never programs again.
Definitely. It's understandable why people dislike these sterile scientific considerations of very real and human problems, but they're incredibly useful. Though romantic notions of things transcending dollar valuation are well-intentioned, they shouldn't get in the way of that utility.
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I'm achieving exactly this with my local email client. Okay, it's not a fancy web application, but exactly that's making it so valuable for me.

When I open my email client, it shows all "old" mail to me, and allows me to write new emails. It only fetches new emails when I explicitly tell it to do that.

I'm using Mutt, but I think this should work with any other email client such as Thunderbird. All you have to do is disabling the auto-fetching of new emails. And if you still feel the urge to hit the "Get Mail" button, then just configure it away from the toolbar.

tl;dr: It's all there - you just need a tiny configuration change in your email client.
That was my thought. Nexus 7 took everyone by surprise. I finally got my hands on it and was blown away by how much better it was than the cheapo Android 7" tablets I've previously used.

Nexus 7 came out at IO, 2 months ago. So it's hard to believe Amazon could have done much with the Fire 2 after they saw the Nexus 7 (unless they managed to see it before it came out, unlikely). It would be nice to believe they could independently come up with something as great as Nexus 7, but coming from the baseline of Fire 1, we'll probably have to wait for v3 for the competition to get serious.
That is until all the three (Apple, Google and Microsoft) decides to only allow installs from the maketplace, you know for "security" reasons. The problem is if one company gets away with it, others follow suit.
It allows me to see in detail exactly what the short subject is referencing without having to click through and then hit back. I can hover over each link and quickly visually browse one right after the other.
This is shaping up to be a interesting fourth quarter for the 7" tablet consumer market. Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft are finally going head-to-head with their own devices (where they control both the software and hardware). It will be interesting to see how consumers respond.
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The first point seems to cover it: Kids will just opt-in too.
Yes. I am considering the integrations which are going to have to be moved from direct.gov.uk to their new Rails platform.
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lobste.rs for sure has/will have his public but what I like in HN is that is not only technical but also features interesting stuff for smart people allowing curious people from other fields to join and enrich the community (even if lots of people claim the opposite). For example I'm an architect (buildings not IT) and HN is my favourite community. You can say that for me there is reddit but it is full of BS where people too many times comment without having nothing to say.
Indeed. This is a typical South Korean bank website[1]. I despair.

[1] http://www.globalibk.com/home.jsp
Can you elaborate on injecting session cookies? If the secret was in the error page why did you need to do anything besides crash the app?
Enough with the whiteboard coding during interviews
That's a very nice talk especially if you are interested in 3D mobile games development (like I was once in the past). I wish I'd knew all these before. Thanks for the post.
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I think it does, they are saying that even an adult-only opt-in is flawed because thats the same as the child restrictions, it's often not set up.

The last point is probably why a lot of parents buy iPhones for their children.

As for the app in question, I find nothing objectionable about it, im sure the same information is available through Safari, but i suppose the same argument applies to adults wanting to see this content, stop whining about not having an app to do it and just look it up online.
"Project much?"

Guilty as charged.

"How do you know that she hasn't?"

Well then that's a pox on his house for not bringing up that very important point in a discussion related to how much he admires her when discussing business.

"You think that you do and you think that she's doing it wrong...."

My issue isn't at all with the cleaning lady. It's with the specific example of using the cleaning lady to make this point:

"She’s been doing it some twenty-odd years, and that’s just an incredible success story. To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company"

I don't even think he really means that actually. I fail to see what makes that "far more interesting than a tech company".
So, you're suggesting the following analogy: The crime level of a region relates to the region itself the same way that the quality of software relates to the language the software is built on? You're comparing a property of an object to the object itself and a property of an object to another property. Pretty awesome you'd make that mistake in a thread where you're agreeing with someone's criticism of OO principles.
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With the number of government-backed education loans that are defaulted on, you could also say the risk lies with the taxpayers.
So what if some company did something similar to Zediva, but with a model where customers "buy" the DVDs and then sell them back to the company when they are done streaming it? Basically use first sale to set up a streaming service where you don't need to deal with licensing issues.

I pay $20/month for access to the servers and infrastructure. I get $10 of that to use as purchasing credit. Movies cost anywhere from $1-$5 depending on popularity, and the company buys them back for some small amount.

The company would probably need to have some system in place for dealing with people that actually want the DVD that they 'bought'. Maybe something as simple as letting people know that they own the DVD, but the company is not responsible for shipping it to them. If the customer wants to come pick it up at the office, he can feel free to swing by and have someone pull it from the data center for him.
I'd take issue with psychology not being a science. Ok, 'pop-psychology' as evidenced in this article is not, but psychology itself definitely is (speaking as someone who did a very rigorous course in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge).

Just to name a few things that psychology covers (off the top of my head):

Speech and language development
Child development (e.g. work of Piaget and many since)
Models of mental illness (depression, autism, schizophrenia etc)
Animal psychology- operant conditioning (Skinner and forward), language in other animals etc

There's too much to mention really, and its an extremely important and relevant field.
Those are fair points, but I don't agree with your general point of view. After all, it doesn't matter much if the product is just slightly lousy or awful. You don't end up using the products so the money is equally wasted in both cases.

Let's suppose 30% of all products are duds (i.e. you wouldn't buy them after playing with them for 10 minutes or reading a few reviews about them). So when you buy a product a launch day you pay a premium for getting your hands on it 2 weeks early. The kindle fire was a $199 device, I think, so you're then paying a $60 premium for having it a week or two early. Whether you want to take on that risk is entirely up to you. I personally wouldn't take on the risk, because I know myself well enough to predict I'll feel disproportionately bad when I waste money on a gadget I don't use. It looks like you're the same way. Most people aren't suited to gambling like this.

So you have to take a look at all the anticipated consequences of buying early. And the sour taste of ending up with a dud is part of that. By blaming Amazon for a lousy product you lose sight of the more important conclusion: that this outcome was completely predictable and avoidable.
Up until 1812 or so, I would agree with you. But the landed classes were forced into the professional ranks throughout the 19th C. "To makes ends meet." The Corn laws, ca1830 & ff.

Edit: If I may elaborate on this.

Also, i did not mean the political sense of "ruling class". I meant, strictly speaking, their status as economic agents. If you are a partner in a partnership, you have legal control rights. Same as if you are a material shareholder in a stock-company. You are not an "at-arms-lenght-employee" in other-words. So, the idea that you would need a union for what were in essence "company directors" just does not make logical sense. Again, that changes when (whatever the expertise) thes folks are forced to work for the state; they are then stripped of their control rights and take on a position more akin to Labour, structurally.
Every technology gets proven with its use, investing time, great loads of effort, sometimes money, and courage. Last one it's the most important for me :) Btw, did you know any technology that was already proven when it wasn't known? IMHO that's a part of the mainstreaming process, and almost everything we have today has past through it.
I love Amazon, have a Kindle 3, Prime, spend thousands a year there... but I'm getting pissed at their handling of firmware. The Kindle Keyboard is getting regular steady updates, font rendering, smoothing, functionality and features.... none of which are getting shipped to the 3... seems as soon as the Keyboard came out, they decided that was it for anything older.
Just curious - are developers putting themselves at risk by revealing they're using RubyMotion? ie risk of being penalised in app store or possibly even banned if Apple's policy swung back to how it used to be.

I assume there's no way to tell an app is RubyMotion by inspecting the UI, though maybe it's possible to tell from the binary?
I think one important thing to understand is that beautiful music is not the only kind of music that can be great. Sometimes music is designed to invoke a wide array of emotions which is why good music is crucial in TV and film. Good music can make you feel excited, happy, sad, scared, calm, nervous, anxious, angry, inspired, or any mix of the above.

So while I think it's great that he is moved by beautiful music, he should keep his mind open to allowing music to take his emotions in other directions too.
That's a very good point to focus on. Thank you! ;)
I'm sure Zawinski's law of software envelopment applies to this in some way.
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I agree, Kindle Fire wasn't a pleasing product. It was slow, the browser crashed even on Amazon's site, got a defective one the first time (colored lines running along the screen), the customer service wasn't up to the par (had to wait a week to get the replacement), the market place was lacking. I hope they get it better this time!
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I've spent thousands more on Apple products once I got a taste of the return policy. My iPhone 3G was 2 months from the end of it's warranty period and the speakerphone stopped working (most likely from me dropping the phone too much) and because they couldn't solve it at the Genius Bar they just gave me a brand new one.
Is it it just me, or is the font, clarity of writing, color combination and diagram presentation extraordinarily clean on that site. There is a small bug with word wrapping beside some diagrams on my iPad, but everything else pulled me into about 25 minutes of awesome reading on grids.
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If you don't like the surveillance culture, don't work at a place that accelerates it.

There are a ton of companies that do good work unrelated to scraping big data for personal information.
I'm about to do an multi-week after school "Intro to Programming" session at our local elementary/middle school in Scratch in Baltimore city. 8-10 weeks for 5th to 7th graders. It is an urban school with quite a range in the kids' abilities and not all kids have working computers at home. It'll be a challenge but I think the kids will surprise me.

Last school year I taught 2nd graders a little bit using Scratch and many of them got it and with a bit more exposure this year they could be creating programs on their own.
If a felon wants a weapon, how is buying it from a guy printing guns any different from buying it from a guy who imports weapons?

Why go through the trouble of finding an illegal weapons importer when you can just get a friend without a felony on their record to buy one for you?

I think the bigger issue would be importing large volumes of weapons which are banned for civilian use, a la drug cartels. An argument could be made that it would be a lot easier for them to switch to 3D printing the guns. Although I doubt that is really the case. Any criminal organization with any power is going to be a big player in the black market, which means they are already going to be attached to an extensive and proven-successful smuggling network.

I think it would be a much bigger deal for groups like the Michigan Militia. Whether that's a good thing or not is probably good fodder for an acrimonious debate, so I'll stay away.
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You can do $x = file_get_contents("http://news.ycombinator.com) and it will work (well, in that case it wouldn't as the machine had locked down network access, but you get the idea).
Haters are going to hate. It doesn't matter what field/discipline you're in. JavaScript is as much a proper programming language as Python or Ruby or Lua. They're all high level scripting languages that do roughly the same things. Only one of them is natively in every browser (JavaScript). JavaScript turns out to be fairly forgiving (you can intentionally or unintentionally leave out semicolons and it will generally still run as intended).

I wouldn't worry about "technical elitists". It's really the Dunning-Kruger effect at play more than anything. The less someone knows, the more they think they know, and the more likely they are to be outspoken about people they think are "below" them. There's also a fair amount of disdain between people in different programming paradigms (OO vs Functional, Low-level vs High-level languages, etc). NONE of that matters though. Build cool stuff and keep getting better. Let the "technical elitists" spend all their time worrying about what is or is not proper programming while you get on with your life, build cool stuff and continue to get better.
I don't get your logic. Apple pretty much got away with it, Microsoft wasn't really in this space at that time, and still Google didn't follow.
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$7 Trillion GDP, 1344 Million people.

$15 Trillion GDP, 312 Million people.

When China only catches up to 25% of the US GDP per capita (where Brazil and Russia are), it will overtake the US. The the US will have to boast about its per-capita GDP, which really isn't that good (compared to many other OECD countries, most importantly Canada).

I get the impression that a lot of US things go unchallenged (by most Americans) because they are "number 1", so they are obviously doing everything right.
I think this is the core of it. Why do I need to go your web site right now? What are you offering me that rewards that kind of prompt action? Most often it's absolutely nothing. And the QR code is on a subway train, where I can't load the web page anyway.
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Hey David, looks good. Have you checked out our site, http://ridewithgps.com ? We've been around for a few years, are bootstrapped and profitable. Interesting to see opinions that there is still plenty of room for disruption in the market. It's always nice to get a new competitor, keeps everyone on their toes ;)
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I agree with dirkdeman, you can't start a big web app overnight - you start small and learn by doing. Try deploying on a VPS and when you get stuck, you can ask http://serverfault.com. Also I would recommend checking http://debian-handbook.info/ for reference (if you're going to deploy a debian based distribution). Good luck!
Totally agree. If today were the last day of my life, I would spend it visiting my favorite spots of local natural beauty with my family. Not working, no matter how fulfilling the job. Even Steve Jobs, who was famously driven, left his career for his friends and family once he knew the end was approaching.

Since today is not my last (I hope!), and I know that I want to give myself and my family a life that is fulfilling for a long time to come, I work to earn money and hopefully make the world a better place.

I think it's good to remember that time is precious, but trying to guide your work habits by the "last day of your life" is not really that helpful IMO.
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Are there plumbing pages where people teach their children to plumb, or dry-walling speciality sites where folks discuss how to get their kids into plasterwork? Is this just a few cases, or is there something about programming that makes people think it should be done by everyone? I recall not so long ago a thread about how programming should be taught at school alongside English (read "mastery of relevant language" for non-English speaking nations) and Maths.
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I would love if these articles more accurately described the situation as ...

"Moskovitz joins a number of early investors who are now
unloading shares to diversify their investment portfolio
as is common with many people who've previously had the
majority of their net worth tied up in one investment."

... instead of ...

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at the chance to reduce their stake in the social network
after its dismal IPO and subsequent lack of popularity with
traders."
I outlined the journal must-haves if you're conducting a programming experiment:

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Month! Sorry, I thought that would be assumed.
I see this opinion expressed a lot, but I don't get it.
I think whiteboard coding is a great tool.

Maybe other people choose something so ridiculously abstract and difficult, but the way we do it at Thought Sauce it is always a very simple problem.

We make it clear that we care more about your approach than the code. We even kind of pair program on the board.

We don't make anyone feel stupid, and it works.

If it's a good fit we follow up with a day coding with the team (paid of course) and then make an offer.
> is there something about programming that makes people think it should be done by everyone?

Yes.
Moreover, even if the Communist party fails (or evolves) hardly means that China will have failed.

China will have crises proportionate to their incredible growth rate. But China's strong cultural emphasis on hard work, investment, and planning for the future indicate a strong future for China and the Chinese people.

I see more eagerness to find an achilles heel in China than I do blind faith that it will grow or dominate.
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I am astonished by the really positive feedback these frameworks are getting lately on HN and other places.

For sure, they tackle a common problem and offer some really sleek solutions but the one thing that really bothers me is their use of HTML and templates:

<a href="#" {{ action "edit" target="parentView" }}>Edit</a>

Or something along those lines.

What is really the difference between the previous line of code and this:

<a onclick="doSomething">Click me!</a>

Their use of HTML as something that it is not reminds me of ColdFusion and the really unreadable and unmaintainable HTML it required.

So I really have to ask, what happened to separation of concerns and using HTML for markup, CSS for styling, and JavaScript for behavior?

Why is mixing markup and behavior so appealing? Or is it just something you live with in order to benefit from other aspects of these frameworks?

How maintainable is the code you produce using these frameworks?
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Are you blogging about this somewhere? I've always wanted to write my own OS and I'd be fascinated to follow your progress.

edit: just found the Github: https://github.com/MattRyder/Matt-OS
Thanks for writing that. Arch Wiki is amazing. Ubuntu has also started writing and updating their wiki. AUR still makes your life easier for examples android-sdk, android-sdk-platform-tools, android-udev, and android-eclipse will install complete android development environment including ADT Plugin, etc.