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I was just writing some dumb hardcoded json mock code here and wondering when my IIS-powered colleague will be available for us to test and implement the proper requests. Then this comes in and allows me code an almost production-ready frontend all by myself on my Microsoftless linux box--which I'll be doing right away.
> JRuby really is a different language than Ruby.

No, JRuby is a JVM-based implementation of Ruby.

> Not only is it built on a different ecosystem of libraries (anything on the JVM vs anything for Ruby)

Irrelevant, you can make the same claim about any impementation of a language: GHC has extensions to Haskell, why isn't JHC benched as well? IronPython can use .Net libraries but not Python C-API libraries, why isn't it there?

> there are language extensions

Which are not used in the shootout and — again – are irrelevant anyway.
I wouldn't say 37S were "enterprise" , they started at the low end of the business market. I'm guessing a lot of their initial customers were freelance rails developers.

They do have enterprise level customers but that's more of a "trickle up" thing.
2012 - 2007 = 5

About 5?
Your argument, as I understand it, is thus: you are indebted to those who helped you along the way, and so you should not be vain. Sexiness is vanity, therefore by thinking that your job is sexy, you are being insufficiently humble to those who helped you get where you are, and you will be the worse for it.

Three points: firstly, how is this at all specific to 'makers'? Absolutely everyone has been helped along the way to get to where they are. Thus by your argument, nobody has a sexy job.

Secondly, I don't buy that sexiness implies vanity. My present job is certainly not sexy, but I have had jobs in the past that would be considered sexy by many, and I don't think that made me (or any of my co-workers) vain, I just think it made me enjoy my job.

Thirdly, being a 'maker', if we understand the same things by that term, certainly IS sexy, in the literal sense of the term. Being able to create interesting, useful and fun things is a very attractive trait. Lots of girls are attracted to guys who can build stuff, and personally I find very few things hotter than hacker ladies. Can't speak for the gay view on that, but I don't see how it would be any different.

I would say the opposite. Be sexy. Revel in it. Go create.
I predict an Android phone announced by Nokia within the next 2 years. And I am looking forward to this phone.
'Twas his smiley on the end, I didn't add it.
Yay! I think it's easier to open an account in Canada from outside than opening one in the US. Do you know if that's true for Mexico?
So you're saying to be more humble, or is there more?
Is SSH built-in, or an app?
I don't see a link to it but this is a FANTASTIC little tutorial on web typography:

http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/css/don%E2%80%99t-fear-we...
Not being from the bay area can anyone on that side of the planet who survived the first bubble (2000) to today give an honest assessment on if attitudes really have changed[0]?

Around here (midwest) not much has seemed to change. I don't see nearly as many rockstars/brogrammers as articles I read seem to suggest.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-yuppie...
Didn't see any word on battery life fixes in 10.8.2 - any notes on this?
It's not a ban on things that are illegal, it's a ban on selling things with historically high fraud/chargeback rate.
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Just as "adult" content is, right?

I wonder why a blanket ban of pornography - is it because of the upstream providers or a policy of Stripe?
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While I think the article reinforces the desire of nice people to act nicely, a part of me wishes that people didn't write these "it pays to be nice" articles. As long as nobody brings it to their attention (by writing an article about it), the jerks of the world might not realize that they have a big "tell" that lets others easily see their true nature. :-)
I don't think that's a feature anybody is pining over (with the possible exception of a very small percentage of end-customers who don't have credit cards).

Although a few web sites accept it (I think), I don't think I've ever heard of anyone actually buying stuff on-line with Interac. Anybody have any data to rebut that?
Yes. According to various news outlets, battery life improves significantly with 10.8.2.
No. They are OpenJDK. The only use of OpenJDK is to see java programs crash in unexpected ways.
I would love to see examples of classes of bugs not caught by the tools. Do you recall any offhand?

(Full disclosure: I work for HP Fortify.)
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Even Nintendo got this right, on the 3DS of all things.
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Agreed - but this is not building a business, this is gambling on a potential exit
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I have yet to implement Stripe but PayPal's options without a monthly fee are downright goofy (and PayPal is the only other processor to have a no-monthly-fee option in Canada). "Buy now" buttons and IPN... eww.
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I installed TeX writer in my iPad (the other iPad TeX version referenced around here in the comments), just for fun (when I needed to do some TeX on the go, I just ssh'd and looked at the PDF in Dropbox.) Finishing my PhD, I don't generate any more images, they are all already done. And TeX Writer is surprisingly effective as a compiler (feels faster than my desktop!) Love it as a proof of concept... but only use it sparingly. I don't think I'd use TeXPad any much, although the editor looks fancier
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It's interesting what a small difference on-line ad revenues make to the newspaper industry.
I like your thinking. Perhaps they are interested in only driving up the cost of coins - taking a bunch out of circulation can certainly do that.
I can strongly recommend phpstorm for javascript and php inspections. Errors are highlighted as you type (including but not limited to what jslint catches) and quite a few can be automatically fixed. They also have a good spellcheck for misspelled variable names. No more poeple arrays in my code :)
Thanks. Might we get back to Snow Leopard levels? I'm still on SL, and have been wary of upgrading due to the reported significant battery life drops in Lion, then ML.
Bravo to you sir! Hit home about some great points. Mainly, the one about delusion of "sexiness". It annoys me when people who have worked at startups think they're better than those who have secured a job at a stable company. Also, the act of trying to force others to the "maker" class when it's clear that some people weren't innately created for such a task. Lastly, I really appreciated the point about our parents...because lack of family values seem to be rampant in this particular day and age. Keep them coming!
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I'm in the US and I get the same thing. No update available for me for OS X or for iOS. I'm guessing they do a rolling update...?
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Is the goal to do aaronsw favors? This is pretty clearly newsworthy.

I think you can ding the reporting for missing important subtleties and lacking context (i.e. the fact that the downloaded material wasn't covered by a JSTOR copyright somehow gets skipped!). But arguing that we should plug our ears to news about a case with clear impact to the community because it might look bad for the defendent is just ... weird.

The point about this being a bargaining tactic makes sense though. They want a plea on something to avoid embarrassment, and it wouldn't surprise me if Aaron was refusing to deal.
How good is the code analysis in IntelliJ compared to these tools?
I should just mention that there’s yet another way to build a $100M company, but it involves starting with a $1B company.
Pick up a copy of Popular Mechanics from the 1960s. Makers were alive and well back then, and there was a lot of marketing effort put into making it sexy.

Do we need a dose of humility? Certainly. But we absolutely can, and should enjoy making great stuff.
I checked this morning. It's on the developer website, but still in preview mode.
This is potentially terrible precendent essentially allowing private entities to write federal law.
"Most secular liberals think that all religions are the same, and they consider any suggestion to the contrary a sign of bigotry"

I can't speak for others but personally I don't make distinction between religions because I view "religion" overall as an atavistic and harmful phenomenon that seeks to deprive human beings of critical thinking capacities and is often used as a control tool towards nefarious ends.

Individual religions/cults certainly differ between themselves in their potential to cause harm but it is the overall concept of "religion" that must be rejected by humanity as wrong in principle - otherwise those extreme and violent manifestations of religion will keep reappearing and with the speed of technological progress as it is today will soon pose mortal danger to the whole human civilisation.
"Full support for Java Threads"

Fantastic!!!
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The native iOS 6 Maps are just short of wretched. No transit directions, unhelpful default views, a dramatically weaker points of interest database, weaker scrolling performance, and a busier UI that doesn't add anything of great use.

It's a rather big turd in an otherwise delicious punchbowl, and it is going to become a real-world talking point about iPhones starting today.
Apparently, yes. This test includes 10.6.8 numbers:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/10/os-x-10-8-2-restores-not...
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Humility breeds a state of mind which evidences itself through action. There's not really more, except that actual humility isn't something you can measure directly. So the advice "be more humble" isn't actionable. "Work to pay back the debt you owe" is.
That's scaled down -- do you have a full full full resolution?
Don't get too excited... http://dashes.com/anil/2012/09/who-benefits-from-ios6s-crapp...
no, because funds might be easily transfered to another address. and after that you need to mark new address as "bad" again. and it become complicated when only part of funds transfered to another address. and it become even more complicated when funds transfered to "pool" address, of big exchanger like mtgox for example. and these funds end up in hands of honest users..
That could be easily updated if necessary. Moreover, it's entirely possible that there are dormant APIs precisely in case this sort of thing happened.
Thanks! Yeah I won't be expecting much. Although, would you happen to know the conversion rate for cold calling? What's considered a successful rate?
Great article, and your point about tunables is spot on; in the guts of several curses implementations there's an evil little select() call which is trying to work out if you meant "cursor down 1 line" or the four seperate characters ESC, [, 1, A by doing millisecond-precise timings.

IMHO I think this all needs to be replaced with something sane. VT100 is obsolete, and we can now spare a few more BPS for a better terminal layer. Wasn't so long ago that if you left capslock on, something (getty?) on the Linux console would assume your terminal was one of those olde-worlde 6-bit ones, and stop using lowercase letters...
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Pretty sure I've read this exact thing ~1 year ago.
If Stripe and Square made a baby it would be the most glorious merchant baby ever.
If you enable dev mode you get access to a full linux environment, including ssh.

You can even use ssh without dev mode, but it is crippled.
Facebook banned the app when the point was to hack another account.

They put the app back up under a new name / context to comply and demo the app.
No, you cannot do that. A prosecutor must demonstrate, first to a grand jury, then to a criminal jury, and simultaneously to a judge, that the accused not only violated the terms of service to a website, but in doing so caused material harm or found material gain, and that they did so knowing that they were violating the terms of the site.
So $100M is the new $50M? I used to hear VCs talk about "We don't want to invest in something that isn't going to be at least a $50M business."

The other question is this, "Valuation or revenue?" If I can build a business with $30M/yr in revenue and 16% net income I shouldn't bother talking to a VC? I don't know, seems like you leave too much money on the table with this world view of $100M or nothing.
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Unfortunately, that precedent has been (being) set for some time now.
Here, let me Google that for you. The first Google result was this article, "OS X 10.8.2 Restores Notebook Battery Life to OS X Lion Levels."

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/10/os-x-10-8-2-restores-not...

In the future, if we're not around to look things up for you - give it a try sometime. http://google.com
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> Its not at all far fetched to assume if the plane suddenly rolled at its maximum rate that it would pull the pilot's spine apart.

The pilot sits very close to the roll axis of the plane. I find it hard to believe just rolling very fast would seriously hurt the pilot unless the plane could roll insanely fast. A pilot can really hurt him/herself by doing severe pitch and yaw changes, but I don't believe the g-loads (and the g gradient) during roll would be that high.
Ask HN: Where to find a replacement for my technical co-founder
At the beginning of this year, I went through the long process of finding a technical co-founder. I used my network, friends' networks, meetup groups, Craigslist, and other resources and ultimately found a guy. They worked out well and they've done a good job, but unfortunately they're going to have to leave the project for personal reasons in a few weeks. At this point, I've got a MVP almost complete (the former co-founder is wrapping up the last few things before he departs) and I only have minor features that I want added immediately. I could use something like ELance to take care of those features, but ideally I'd really like to bring on board a more permanent replacement rather than bouncing from contractor to contractor. I'd really like to avoid or simplify the process I went through last time, so I'm curious if there's any site out there specifically devoted to linking up developers with permanent opportunities at startups. Any suggestions?
I'm in the UK and currently downloading the update for both iOS and OS X.
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My favorite caption:

"Because it's there" is more poetic than, "I'm rich enough that my goals are arbitrary."
You're unfamiliar with the style, and you're confusing that with it being ugly/unreadable/dumb.

I can't speak for GP, but I promise you I've spent plenty of time reading code with single-letter identifiers. If I'm going to have to actually understand some code, I'd much prefer descriptive names.
The problem is that books that try and sell me based on promising some improvement in my lifestyle usually set my BS radar off.

I have a lot of programming books on my shelf about various topics , but I don't have one called "make a shitton of money with your text editor".

It would feel a bit like those ebooks that promise to make it easy to generate effortless income on the stockmarket or get highly attractive women into bed with you.

I have no doubt that such books sell, but I wouldn't feel confident writing something that might not necessarily do exactly what it said on the tin for everyone reading it.
A key advantage is that drone pilots can learn something from having their planes blown to pieces.
How? How would getting your Paypal account suspended put you at risk for federal criminal charges?
How does ratcheting up the charges minimize the embarassment to the DOJ if Aaron is ultimately vindicated?
I'm a maker and I don't agree with the moral judgment against sexiness, ambition, and creating freely without guilt.

I've met very few "entitled" or "narcissistic" people, but I've heard the term thrown around a lot, usually to refer to people who live a little too boldly for the comfort of onlookers, lacking the guilt complexes and constipated style of self-expression many of us inherited.
Apple doesn't care. GPL backers like the FSF are who enforce GPL'd software not being in the App Store. They feel that the GPL is incompatible with Apple's distribution mechanisms, since it's impossible to "distribute" a modified version of the app to iOS devices without going through the App Store. But if a group decided to upload their GPL app, Apple isn't going to check, and won't kick the app out of the store on GPL grounds.

The VLC example mentioned below in fact supports this: Apple was absolutely fine with it being in the store until Rémi Denis-Courmont filed a copyright violation with Apple asking them to take down the version that had been posted there. Apple didn't take initiative to remove it themselves.
There are a couple interesting differences between the US terms and the CA terms:

1) The CA terms say "you [...] will not use the Service to accept payments ..." while the US terms has the more-broad limitation "you [...] will not accept payments ...". I wonder if Stripe in the US actually cares about payments you accept using other services (seems unlikely).

2) Only the US terms ban "personal computer technical support" or "predatory products or services".

3) The CA terms have a broad ban on "any product, service or activity prohibited by one or more Card Networks".
The PHP project uses OpenGrok for its codebase (although curiously at an address suggesting it uses LXR instead). http://lxr.php.net/ is always the go-to place to read the soure code now, not the Git repo. It's especially useful when tearing through the Zend engine.
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I shared many of those concerns from the previews given by Apple. That is until I actually tried using it, at which point I have deemed it much better than the Google-backed version. With that said, I think your location matters: Transit directions are not something I can use anyway, for instance.
I'd simply suggest that you post here a little bit about what you are working on and the skill set you are hoping to bring onboard, with your contact information as there are always folks on HN interested in connecting.
There's a built-in SSH as part of crosh[0] and a more usable version paired with a HTML-based terminal emulator as an app[1]

[0] basic troubleshooting shell in CrOS

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhomp...
Also, making is sexy.
That's a risk category issue. Porn is categorized as 'high risk' and you need a different merchant account class and associated review procedure for that. You will also pay (sometimes much) higher fees, potentially you'll have to accept a hold-back period and there will be a periodical high-risk fee that you need to pay.
I think he's using Obtvse: https://github.com/NateW/obtvse
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> No one is forced to use Google+

True, but the tons and TONS of people are harangued into using Google+ by irritating tool tips and notification messages when using other Google products (like mail, chat, docs/drive and even Chrome, which in and of itself has it's own browser campaign whenever you visit the search product with a non-Chrome browser).

If not provoked into Google+ by pushy interface cues (and don't play naive, you KNOW they've got top UX and marketing people trying to find that sweet spot of deniable annoyance, when crafting those notifications), then people are click-sniped into Google+, by stumbling into it, when they click on whatever caught their attention, simply out of curiosity and yes-ing to death EULA notices, not realizing that their publishing information publicly in the product and outward to the service, visible to other users (potentially in search results no less).

This is what happened to me, when I carefully clicked on things when it first came out, and relized I'd have to go back, delete things out and void my account and activity in Plus where I didn't want it. Add to this the recent privacy policy changes. But sure, gloss over these details.

Google learned their lessons from the Buzz debacle, and its accompanying lawsuits, so they aren't railroading people into inadvertent public disclosures anymore (like who they've been e-mailing, and their auto-contact list), but they ARE cattle prodding people into it.
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This is what I came to say as well, but I'd add that the prices matter, too. At a fancy restaurant, you're paying for quality.

At a mom n pop diner, you're paying for food.

The breakfast restaurant I eat at daily? I didn't send back food that had a bit of saran wrap in it. (They did, however, notice it and give me the meal for free. I wouldn't have complained, though.)

A fancy overpriced restaurant? I'd have the manager over there in an instant. I paid for the service and quality, and I didn't get it.

He didn't give any other examples, so we can't be sure exactly how rude this guy was. Being 'brusque' with your managers isn't that bad. It's efficient and they can get back to their jobs, and you yours. Was he actually rude? Did he talk snidely to them, condescend, or call them names? Or was he merely efficient?

We can't know, and we have only those 2 examples above to go by.
I saw someone tweet (and someone I follow retweet) this: "Nine years ago Safari was released: a fringe browser that didn't run sites for IE well. Today, its engine powers everything. Now think maps."

I laughed and then felt really, really bad for them.

It's unbelievable the way people react to criticism. (in any cases, not just Apple/iPhone)
Funny you should mention Alzheimer's...

Television viewing has been associated with Alzheimer's already in some studies. If not using your brain in day-to-day activities is a factor here, these could be the shoes that lead you right there...

(and yes I know, fortunately or unfortunately, these are just prototypes. Still, something to think about)
No, merely violating a ToS, by itself, is not criminal. Lori Drew isn't binding on the whole country, but it is precedent.
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The DoJ isn't human and is not subject to emotions like "pride" or "embarrassment." Their goal is to win cases and enforce laws, and if the bureaucratic cost of adding more charges improves their chances of having the defendant found guilty on them, they're successful.
I'm biased, but I don't think this is as big a problem as you suggest. Yes, customer acquisition is more expensive and takes much longer... but each customer is spending orders of magnitude more than in a typical B2C sale.

And I think there could be considerable cost savings in reduced overhead from having to support fewer customers at a higher price point.
Step 1: Write a ToS for your private entity

Step 2: Catch someone violating it

Step 3: Sic the Feds (government) on them for violating it (your private, unvetted agreement).

(no comment from me personally, but I think that's what the GP was saying.)