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I'm not defending Wordpad whatsoever.

He suggested that MS would cop flak from the EU if they included those products in their OS, which they already do.

Just because they're not as good as other offerings on the market is irrelevant. The fact is they're there, and MS doesn't cop flak over it - which is partly why I think the EU decisions up to date have been pretty pathetic.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Microsoft, nor do I currently use their products (Linux user).
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The Kindle lets you adjust fonts, and it can handle non-DRM'd formats with ease. What do you mean by left-right buttons?
My apologies. I'm sure I did overreact. But when someone flags a submission that could well have been part of one's autobiography for arbitrary deletion as hopelessly offtopic it does feel rather like a slap in the face. This is presumably why the "flag" vote total is kept secret, and folks aren't encouraged to post replies talking about how or why they flagged something.

But it was almost certainly an innocent mistake (it's not as if the intended use of the "flag" button is known to anyone who hasn't read the entire guidelines page or been present during its invention) so I'm sorry that my reply came out as snippy as it did.
Netbook remix is awesome. Makes the 7" screen on my eee much more useable.
I think he is confusing beliefs with identity. I think identity requires both the internaliztion of a belief and an emotional commitment to its truth. It is easier to establish the commitment for shared, socially approved beliefs that are regularly being reinforced by others - the main reason religion is accepted.
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The libavcodec has an option that does exactly that. It skips steps in the filter loop that only affect the single frame. It makes things quite a bit faster.
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It seems a bit odd to me that one would need to reduce the screen real estate in order to force one to write smaller, more succinct functions/methods. I think you either do this because of the right reasons, or you don't do it -- and trying to trick yourself into it just seems goofy.
Actually, there already is a service which connects advertisers with Twitter users for paid advertising, but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.

Fortunately, it hasn't caught on. There isn't much incentive to sign up; advertising makes you look like a tool, the money available is bound to be small, Twitter in general doesn't incur overhead, and people mostly use Twitter for fun.

Perhaps Twitter make it against the TOS, but even that seems overkill. The "viral" nature of Twitter should keep the negative effects of advertising to a minimum.
Well I can't see who is theirs' Matt Maroon, but I don't know if the world can stand two of those! :D That would be too much genius in the world, of course!
"Dear Google: Please buy Twitter. Signed, a Twitter investor."

The idea that real-time search will be big is still interesting.

However, seeking a twitch-timescale update on everything is ultimately a bad habit, except among certain kinds of professional investors. Considering the author's example of a mysterious rumble in Fall's Church, Virginia: people don't benefit from the distraction of twitter-scale updates; the wiser strategy is to get one authoritative report when the story is settled. (The few genuine "holy crap do I need to do something?" situations are too rare to build a giant search business on.)
I think identity requires both the internalization of a belief and an emotional commitment to its truth.
Although it's written by a murderer, there is a lot of good thought and even humor in this piece.
Why would I not "hard code" strings? These suggestions don't seem that great to me.

How about learning to type with your feet, or only using the mouse, or maybe code blindfolded? (or all three!)

Somehow, people seem to have gotten the notion that doing things the hard way is somehow better or morally superior or something. It's not.
I don't want to do business with a site that is dishonest to its readers

Then don't give them an incentive to be.
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One of the ways I wouldn't mind advertising in Twitter is if I could get a compendium of Tweets emailed to me by Twitter every X hours - they could just put traditional banner advertising in each email as a sponsor link.

One of the things I like about twitter is the short form blogging. One of the things I don't like is having a twitter client distract me every few minutes (so I don't use one) or if I use the site instead, having to flip through a couple of pages of noise to find the little gems contained within.

I think a compendium of tweets would compile these two aspects of twitter, yet also give twitter the ability to make revenue off my attention.

my 2 cents.
I think identity requires both the internalization of a belief and an emotional commitment to its truth. Paul's argument is that you should not incorporate unimportant beliefs into your identity. I suspect the "strength" of a person's identity is either unrelated to its size in these terms, or possibly even inversely related - that is, the more peripheral beliefs you have incorporated into your identity the more diffuse and weaker it is.
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I'm pretty sure most of the presenters at TED haven't been keeping their ideas secret until presenting them at TED. Most of the people are prominent in their field and have surely already done a lot of publicly available work.
But how big is too big? I originally coded in Monospace 10. I tried to go 14 but I just found it unpleasantly big. What fonts can you recommend?
I think this article is supposed to be a joke... or, to clarify, its supposed to make bankers feel good about themselves while ridiculing them.
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Awesome. I've been wanting something like this for a while, but have been too busy with my projects to start it.
I agree. Except for a couple spots like the "disruption of the power process" diagram, everything seems to be relatively sane in this manifesto.
Why do you post everything from howtoforge.com on here? This is not an inflammatory question - I am genuinely curious since the articles (at least from your submission history) seem to be rarely voted up.
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And you're not even factoring in that most of their income comes in the form of grants or options that pay the capital gains tax rate.
How haven't they? You can search Google News which searches all of the top stories from top news sites. Use Google Blog Search to do the same. Sure they can't search Facebook(unless allowed) or some of twitter but that isn't a kink in their armor.

Maybe our definitions of realtime search are different; what is yours?
Wherever you need it to fall. :-)
This is beyond ridiculous. Real time search is something you care about a tiny, tiny fraction of a percent of the time. And when you do, Twitter is still pretty near worthless. You heard a plane crashed in the river, so you search Twitter, and see a bunch of posts like "OMG a plane crashed in a river, now I'm going to the gym." and maybe a picture of a submerged plane. Who cares?

You won't destroy Google by building a search service that does nothing but break news 5 minutes before CNN does.
What earns the best online marketing ROI?
I have a result which shows that a squared number minus 2, if put through the fermat test (modular exponentiation), is always prime. I got some 30k digit primes this way, but I couldn't get mathematicians interested in it. They'd just ignore it and say it was obvious.

Is anyone interested in me writing a little document and posting it to Hacker News?
(throws voice) ooo, is that a new slideshow mode?
I would choose Cocoa because it is awesome. You will have so much more fun. It is also the only way to create great Mac apps that have a correct native feel.

Personally I think C++ is a big wart compared to the beautiful simplicity of Objective-C.
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> Use a bigger font size.

>...

>The effect is: you're forced to write shorter methods. And that's a Good Thing.

I find the opposite is true - I need to see more lines to appreciate exactly how goddamn awful that 200 line function is. And when I go to refactor it I need to be able to see as much as possible of it on the screen to start extracting bits out and make it shorter without losing context.
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I understood the hyperbole.

I was just suggesting that even taking the obvious exaggeration as literal fact, I still don't feel sympathy for these bankers...
The kindle has a fairly complete note-taking/annotation system, since you can't write in the books.

As someone who doesn't write in books, though, I agree with you.
If real time information was such a big damn deal, Wikipedia wouldn't be the top hit for every other Google search. Honestly, CNN TV/.com/etc still wins for breaking news (they had more viewers than any of the OTA networks). So Twitter wins by five minutes. Seriously, who gives a damn? Just media navel-gazers.
In a sense, it is an entirely different font, as Monaco includes both the original bitmap style for and the later outline style. When you turn on anti-aliasing, it overrides the use of the bitmap style when it would otherwise be used.

To see just how different they are, open up a window where you can toggle AA on and off (e.g. a Terminal window), and compare Monaco at 9pt-12pt each way.
Guy posts 1* review due to faulty copy, author personally delivers replacement on Xmas day
Oh I see it now. I was on an iPhone before.
reaction: this is awesome. sure, if you get connected to someone unpleasant that sux (the "14-yr-old" problem). otherwise, you get a neat little mystery and random but pleasant connection to a stranger. sounds fun.
Link to the review: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1OJWAR9L38UTF/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt...
I sense a new online tutorial coming on..."Six minute compilers."
I found a National Geographic Moon Landing Special from 1969 the other day. It being more than a decade older than me, I was amused at the adverts in the front.

Watches with "electric" (rather than 'electronic') precision, that run for a year on a power cell and don't need winding (gasp!).

A stereo where the 'stereo' ability was the main feature (woo!).

Polaroid cameras advertising all the brilliant things you could do for your business by having a near-instant photo (You mean they didn't bother inventing a digital camera to take to the moon? What were they doing?).

A cadillac, an oldsmobile, a steel framed suitcase, a Hassleblad camera crowing about auto-wind-on film, an insurance company covering an elephant on a raft, a dishwasher...

A mere 40 years ago, and a lot of the products have an air of being low-spec, basic, simplistic, even. Growth in wealth? Aye.
Interesting recommendation to hire a PR firm. I guess if you have $17M in cash and an audience that still pays attention to traditional PR, that's a justifiable expense...
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I use the default font size, but rotated my screen, so I get 111 lines. I would hate to go back.
Amen. Every time I hear the "waily waily waily you can't live for less than $90k in California" I think "for God's sake you've interacted with several people today who are doing it -- think back to the last ten times you physically handed money to anyone, they're not making $90k".

This problem is not unique to California or Manhattan. I get the same from people who choose to live in Nagoya apartments which cost about my monthly salary, then whine how impossible it is to get ahead in this city. Hey, I work five minutes from where you work yet my rent is $450... considered a lifestyle change, maybe?
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A new twitter story every week. Will the hype ever end?

I'll freely admit: I don't get twitter. I tried it, looked around, followed some twitter-crazy friends for weeks. I wanted to like it. Even sent a few tweets myself. It didn't stick. I can't see the revolution. To me it was just noise from the beginning and remained noise until I quit. Maybe I'm old (28) or in the wrong business (IT). I normally spent a large part of my computer-time trying to optimize the signal/noise ratio. I use RSS feeds, tweak my mail client filters, actually put myself on "unavailable" in skype sometimes.
I fail to see how twitter can help with that. In fact, I envy people who apparently have such a great SNR that they can pollute it with twitter and even benefit from it.

You may hate me now and throw tomatoes at me.
If you want to win at football, you most definitely need a good football coach, and the markets for pro football coaches and college football coaches are hardly separate. So you have to pay college football coaches somewhere in the ballpark of pro football coaches.

What has never been properly explained to me is the utility of winning football teams to universities. I really would like to hear about that.
It's often good to try things the hard way and then go back to doing it the easy way once you've mastered that. The easy way seems so much easier once you've done otherwise.

The "ugly strings" suggestion is bizarre, though. If he means "avoid hardcoded strings so you can localize your program", then you still need keys into your message catalog, which are usually...strings! And if he means "define constants for strings", you still need to define their values, which are also...strings!
Certainly. But the semantics of what "uint16" would mean is not in the grammar. There's nothing to prevent me from defining "uint16" to be a double precision floating point number. That would be stupid and unintuitive, but still possible.

If you look at the specification for any language, the grammar is the smallest part. The C++ grammar takes up less than a dozen pages, but the entire standard is over 800.
i don't understand the problem with one-line summaries. if you stop question them and pleading with people to remove them there wouldn't be this whole thread anyway.

also:
> "By the way, I've flagged the article based on this. The main idea is solid (you've got to learn how to read people) but the execution was flawed. Besides, it's off-topic IMHO."

weird. i appreciated the insight in this article, as well as the general brevity. is flagging the new down-voting? or am i missing the scope of what should be flagged? (i rarely downvote and have never flagged. i like to be inclusive. i also see the necessity of information overload handlers, so we might just want completely different systems).

[edit: eit. looks like the flag point was handled by mechanical_fish and inerte above. good work :-p]
I don't use it right now. But I need to learn about participating in it for micro-isv, that article helped my ignorant self.

Without using an account presently and just having Google alerts etc. with some keywords, I have continually seen there is a lot of information tucked into people's Twitter comments (especially regarding my current research field).

So in some sense, I'm stuck with it whether I even participate or not. And in the future with a consumer product, I think it is a great idea to respond to people's comments about the product (positive or negative) if you can get alerts as they happen.

Regarding finding helpful information there, I guess it really depends on how intensely you're tracking certain topics (and how much the speed of knowing new developments matters).

Agreeing to constantly and actively participate by adding comments (especially not @ someone)? That's a different thing...
Rough estimate: 10^(-11)) errors per bit per hour.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.47.html#subj7
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The rentacoder but for long term freelance relationships is a great idea. Email me if build one. I'd like to help.
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Obama owned the Web because Plouffe believed in a few smart kids and let them go a little nuts.

"A little nuts" = teams of volunteers typing "four legs good" into youtube comment sections. Why say "a little nuts" when you can actually describe the dirty tricks going on? Why not also mention that the media's uncritical love of the guy resulted in all sorts of omissions just like that?
Love to read about Lightsail on your site. Very good concepts and vision. I wish you the best of lucks.
The killer app for real time search seems to be in figuring out whether this week's Heroes episode is worth watching.
The total costs here... are $790,750, which would require about a $1.6-million salary to compensate for taxes.

Wait a second, 50% taxes? Not the marginal rate, the effective total rate? That is truly gobsmacking if it is accurate.

I did a little math, too, and it doesn't seem impossible, particularly if you're actually spending most of that money (and thus hitting the 8%+ NYC consumption tax). 35% federal bracket, 7% state bracket, 3% city bracket, plus property and consumption taxes, and you'd be paying more than fifty cents out of every dollar in taxes. And since your total tax rate approaches your marginal rate as your income increases, their total tax rate may well be in excess of 50 cents on the dollar.

Glad I don't live there. I don't make anywhere NEAR $1.6 million a year but if I ever do, I will live somewhere that values having me around.
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There is no mystery here. If your asset base consist of two cows worth around $200 and the price fall to $4, your are in bad shape regardless of how you structured it.
Putting strings in a separate "message" file is a really annoying way to localize code. It's both hard to read, and hard to write. See GNU gettext for a more reasonable approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext

I agree that doing things the hard way can be an interesting exercise though, which is why coding blindfolded is just as good of a suggestion as these others.
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Top football programs basically fund entire athletic departments. So in order to maintain a top brand, paying an excellent coach 10% of your budget doesn't seem to be a bad investment.

See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122853304793584959.html?mod=...
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The football teams at most major universities are profitable, and the coaches' salary come out of the teams earnings. At my university, the football team ended up funding most of the athletic teams in unprofitable sports.
This is an excellent idea, please continue to explore it.

As my token contribution - Google App Engine allows storing and accessing several versions of the app (access through different subdomains). Perhaps one coudl use DNS to trick different users into seeing different app versions? Not quite what you wanted, but down the right path.
"Some eccentric people are very cool, but this guy seems a bit of a poser."

I might be misjudging him based on too little information, but that was the impression I got too.
As far as data transofmration goes you have two options:

1. Something akin to ActiveMigration is RubyOnRails world. This allows going back and forth different versions of your data's schema.

2. Use a more open data scheme such as Google App Engine uses where adding/removing properties to an object is not as disruptive compared to SQL-based solutions.
Education Is All in Your Mind
If you think that, just flag it.
Ask HN: Hacker Listing?
Recently, HN has had an influx of "Where/How to Find Work" posts. There has been some advice offered, but I know that the people that post these have been offered jobs. I was curious if there is any central "Hacker Listing" for people that are looking for work and frequent HN. If so, where?
Thanks so much mahipal and silencio for the pointers, greatly appreciated.

I've reached the point where my app and its webapp counterpart are both technically complete, so I'm all about the polish now.

My app isn't groundbreaking (it's going to be living in the Entertainment category), but I think that the similar apps that are currently in the store suggest that there's a place for it. Most importantly, it allows users to be creative and share their product with others; I'm not the gatekeeper, just the groundskeeper (clean up after the animals that mess my garden).
I'm guessing you're not on too many editorial boards... Perhaps you run hosting-review.com?

It's dishonest to offer "reviews" that are nothing more than advertising. It's not criminal, but it's not ethical. It's much like hiring people to be your references when getting a new job. You might be a kick ass employee, but if you really were why would you have to hire people to talk well about you?
"Critical," to me, means "what your clients/customers are paying for," or perhaps "what you're competing on with those in your product space."

Facebook's critical features are the friend network, the information page, and the wall. Facebook would be stupid to write their own HTML rendering library. They would be stupid not to make sure they have the optimum data structures and indexes underlying their relationship graph, and therefore probably wouldn't use an off-the-shelf FOAF library.
I guess it depends on the final drafting. Drafting the cap as "top 5 highest paid people can't make more than $500k" should solve the loophole you just wrote about.
I had a similar reaction. I'm turned off when people describe themselves as "eccentric", "weird" or "freaks." In my experience, such people want to be as they describe. Perhaps it makes them feel special.
Why iPhone 2.5G can be Good for both Apple and the Developing Markets
Same here!

I've been kicking around some ideas to put V8 to use, but the lack of file and curl access was a huge roadblock that I haven't had time to work past.

Thanks!!
wait! so in a time when many are without jobs and struggling to survive, the bankers whose salaries are coming largely from taxpayer money might have to keep wearing their old $1k suits, cut back to 1 $8k vacation per year, take public transit, take their children out of elementary schools that cost more than instate college without even giving room and board, and have their personal trainer come only once a week?!

Those poor, suffering souls. I'm sure that someone will form a charity where ordinary people donate small things they don't need anymore, like their old $15k dresses, so that the bankers don't have to risk being starved of their luxuries.
Only stupid people making that much money pay anywhere near that much in taxes. Get an interest only mortgage and suddenly your rent is "tax free". Also options can be counted as capital gains which is 15% etc. There are a lot of tricks you can play with that level of income. Consumption taxes only apply to a smaller subset of spending because so much of your money is spent on services and out of state.

PS: The worst income bracket is single and making ~100k because they are in a high tax bracket and need to pay 15% in SS taxes on all of it.
This would be great, but when Hacker News gets filled with all of the retards from Digg and 4chan, it'll turn into the "casual encounters" page on Craigslist.

Not that I would know what that's like, of course.