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> But you cant force me to apologise or admit something that i do not believe in.

This is not an apology. It's a publication of the facts, as determined by a court of law.

In the US, slander and libel are both illegal, as is defamation, etc. Part of the judicial process is to determine the facts of the case. After the facts are determined and the defendant is acquitted, the plaintiff can't keep publicly affirming the defendant's guilt without risking consequences. This is completely precedented.

Once the courts have determined that Samsung didn't copy Apple, Apple can't keep advertising publicly that Samsung copied them. In this case, Apple acted as if they had already won by prematurely advertising a victory ('Samsung copied us!'), so they're being required to retract that.

(Typical disclaimers of UK vs US law and IANAL apply, though my point is that this would not be unusual or unreasonable if it had happened in the US).
> A decent internet connection where I can talk to support staff who can actually tell their ass from their elbow

I've occasionally wished for some kind of certification program that works as follows:

1. I take a test that proves I'm not an idiot on the subject of consumer product category X, and that I know how to do basic troubleshooting on problems in category X. I've given a certification in this.

2. When I call support for a problem in category X, I can tell them I'm a certified X consumer, give then my certification #, and they can verify it.

3. They then skip past all the "is the device plugged in?" and "have you tried rebooting?" and so on crap, and forward the call to a higher level tech who knows how to work with customers who know what they are doing.
So police will demand that the FAA works to implement "secure ADS-B", using a secret key with tamper proof transponders. Police departments won't go rogue for very long, but disconnecting the tracking is a good metaphor to demonstrate the actual motives at play.
Caller ID doesn't. That is the problem. Fix that problem and this goes away.
doubtful. it's not a real award like COTY or International Engine Of The Year.
This is SO cool!!! Cannot wait to try it out.
If they can get to volume production, I think the $50-60k models, leased, could be great sellers. The really interesting thing would be to rip off Better Place's model and lease the cars at a discounted monthly payment plus a per-mile "fuel equivalence" charge. It's just accounting, but you could basically price the Model S at BMW 3-series lease rates (or even Toyota Avalon!), plus a per-mile fuel cost which was 10-20% less than gasoline. Combine that with the quality of the Model S, the environmental/status benefit (90+% of the girls I've polled would be more impressed by a Model S than a 2-3x as expensive Ferrari), and HOV lane access, and it would be great.

The Leaf, which basically sucks by comparison as a car, is essentially free in California ($200/mo lease, $2500 California incentive tax credit covers the first year, fuel, HOV lane, and toll savings vs. a less-efficient gas car pretty much cover lease payments IMO).

I'd have a Leaf as a hold-over until Teslas ship in quantity if I had a second parking space.
It could also be a sign of engineering. All metaphors are leaky, some more so than others, especially mine.
I've been a customer for a little over a year now. It's simply a convenience, set and forget thing. I never had enough underwear or socks until I became a customer of Manpacks. I now never have to think about socks or underwear ever again.

For me personally, I'm cash rich, time poor, so it's a great trade off. I save the hour to go to the store, or find the best reviews on Amazon.

Manpacks curates only the highest quality products, so I pick from among the best.

You might be in a different place, but it's been a great value for me personally.
It wasn't a criticism on edw519 but rather on programmers as a group.

As tptacek once said: "Try to get it through your head: people who can simultaneously (a) crank out code (or arrange to have code cranked out) and (b) take responsibility for the business outcome of the problems that code is supposed to solve --- people who can speak both tech and biz --- are exceptionally rare."[1]

I would put Ed in the exceptionally rare category.

[1]- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615
I think github and stackoverflow are both good indicators of how people use their spare time (and the quality of work they expect from themselves). It shouldn't be used blindly or out of context, however I feel both can be a powerful addition to a talent-judging heuristic.

To comment on the actual question, i.e. which do I value more, I'd say github. This probably comes from my bias of valuing execution slightly more than domain knowledge (and understanding executors better than domain experts).

Here's an example to illustrate why I believe this way. Person 'a' may write an instruction manual for some appliance -- this may take considerable skills (it is unclear whether they borrowed the instructions or composed them entirely themselves). How do we know if the instructions are accurate without first implementing them? Either we or someone else, let's say person 'b', must execute on said instructions and have the knowledge to know whether the build was a success. By this, I do not make the claim that everyone on github who builds things writes good code (or even understands if they've assembled the parts correctly). I have, however, experienced that a good github profile (on average) provides me with more information than a stackoverflow post. Do they contribute with others, do they comment their code, do they catch bugs, do they write efficient code, how regularly do they contribute? Granted you can obtain some of this information from stackoverflow, but this leads me to a question of my own -- why choose just one?
It seems the minimum reported by window.innerWidth on 16.0.2 (OS X, 10.8.2) is 453. Once it hits that, I can drag it all the smaller I like, and it is stuck at 453.
Now the galleries would look a lot better if they used normal photographs; instead of hideous HDR and heavy photoshopping.
I just tried out OSH Park with an existing circuit board that I had made elsewhere earlier this year. Their quality is excellent and the purple soldermask is cool. Prices are just unbelievable. My board originally cost me about $40 with shipping for two units of an approximately 1"x1" board (no silkscreen or mask) with 3 day turnaround using a vendor I've used many times before. This was the cheapest of my usual vendors.

The OSHPark boards were 3 units for $5, shipping included! The only drawback is that I had to wait about 3 weeks, but there are a lot of small boards that I don't need quick turnaround on. I'm definitely using them again!
I agree with you, though carpentry and cabinet making are generally considered different disciplines despite using many of the same tools and materials. That might be a little closer analogy with respect to kernel hackers and web hackers.

Me? I just like to solve problems. If the problem requires hacking a kernel, I'll do that. If it requires baking a cake, I'll do that. If I need to print a circuit board, I'll do that. I don't see any reason to get too caught up in tools, personally.
having a touch screen when writing touch enabled HTML5 games has come in handy
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very cool! is there a way to do this without using command line?
Rock Stars come and Rock Stars go. I'm not counting on people liking my posts tomorrow, much less for the foreseeable future, especially if I can't do better than this one.
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They need a lot more dealerships. Look at the map of their dealers and there's a huge hole in the middle of the country. A couple in Chicago, one in Denver, and one in Houston. That's it. If you live in say Tennessee you're looking at close to a 10 hour drive to even see one.

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It's funny... Only (and only) MapKit has new APIs!

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Caller ID can still be forged

Can anyone explain, or point to a resource that explains, why this is still the case in 2012? Is there some technical reason why this is the case, or do the phone companies make enough money off of scammers and robocallers that there's no incentive for them to fix it?
Tesla is actually the perfect partner for google's robocars, as the other big manufacturers are bound to lose from declining number of autos, tesla could in fact gain.
Thanks, my curiosity is sated.
> (90+% of the girls I've polled would be more impressed by a Model S than a 2-3x as expensive Ferrari)

maybe in SF (or US in general, I don't know). around most of Europe flashy loud cars are still cool, fortunately.
A price increase of more than 10% during or 30 days after a declaration of a state of emergency in NJ is prohibited.
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Using tweetadder is a great way to get your account suspended. Also, it's not about the quantity of followers you have, but the quality. People who follow back based on a keyword search are probably going to be pretty worthless... If all you want is a big number on your profile page you may as well just buy followers from Fiverr.
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I absolutely love the idea of this, but the editors are so frustratingly buggy I keep giving up. I've submitted several reports.

Also the user-contributed part library so far has been pretty mixed in quality. Mostly it's junk. I hope this improves over time; I'm attempting to do my part.
They need something to sell first. All those showrooms can do right now is sell reservations for a possible 2014 sale.
Imagine we had never heard of this "comments" idea. How would we design such a feature? For starters, we'd need moderation. Some automated spam blocking. Voting might be a nice feature to draw attention to good comments. Reputation for the participants might help.

We'd end up reinventing HN, Reddit, Digg, &c. One of the reasons I prefer to link to HN is that there is a community with a well-understood standard for behaviour. If I had my own comments, I'd have to ask people to live up to some set of arbitrary standards, and that's a lot to ask when someone might only read one thing from me every month or so.
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That was fixed pretty quickly: http://erratasec.blogspot.be/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-req...
I've been using IntelliJ since version 4 or so. But there are just so many times where it simply doesn't cut it compare to Emacs that I've always been running both simultaneously, both configured to "re-synch upon file modification" :-/

Rich Hickey said: "Patterns means 'I've run out of language". Someone blogged recently about IDEs being a language smell.

I understand if you're stuck in the Java+Hibernate+XML+Spring+SQL development hell that you need IntelliJ. But you're not necessarily being "productive" for doing so: it's pretty much the Java ecosystem forcing that down your throat : (

So if you say: "I can't really imagine using a plain text editor for $BLUB development work" (where $BLUB would be, say, Java or C#) then I kinda see your point (been there, done that).

But don't imply that no "development work" is done by people using Emacs / vim.

As to me, when I do really need to work in Java, I'm now using Emacs + eclim (Emacs connecting to an Eclipse server to get Eclipse code nagivation, refactoring, etc.).
Tooling isn't such a linear improvement as this article makes it out to be.

In VS 2005, Microsoft spent a huge amount of effort adding edit-and-continue support. This is a feature that requires collaboration from all parts of the environment. The additional boost to productivity is minimal, compared to having colouring, auto-complete, and a REPL, and those 3 features combined are probably less work than EnC.

I'd argue that auto-complete, one of the major IDE/editor features, is alone responsible for most of the boost I get from coding in an environment. Instantly, thousands of symbols can move out of my brain and into a list that appears as I type.
Your point is definitely true. The challenge is that we don't seem to be skilled in distinguish a hammer that is better from one that is simply newer and different. Programming technology seems to be about 20% utility and 80% fashion.

Sure, wearing pants is good and having pockets lets you carry more stuff. But beyond that, changing your wardrobe because cuffs are out or pleats are coming back is just changing just for fashion's sake.

That isn't to say it isn't important: social signaling is a huge part of what human animals do and we can and should never disregard that part of our simian nature. But we also should try to understand when we're picking things for pragmatic versus social reasons.
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This is just the first time I've seen it. I wonder what the policy is on creating an off-site mechanism to post to Hacker News. I looked over the various APIs and none seem to offer a method to post a link. They're mainly read-only.
It's a down economy after all, and Christmas is coming up.
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I used to use Netbeans when I was doing java development. It's one of those languages that have so much cruft/overhead you have to deal with that working outside some kind of ide can be very painful.
A sad fact is I had to look up the answer, and the algorithm is well known from one of my university's professors which I've had class with.
I find it way to huge, and kind of out of place as the rest is subtle and clean.
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The Model S is a revolutionary car, but I really hope the the big touch display without physical buttons doesn't become the norm. I really prefer the feedback you get from them while keeping your eyes on the road, especially for common functions like the temperature and basic stereo control.

People will disagree with me, but I have really grown to like the current iDrive system which lets me keep my looking up high while my hand sits in a comfortable position.
Who are these famous former-musicians who have become music critics?
I didn't understand the photo in the article.
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You have a good point. It really depends on how well of a fit the audience in question is to your content. If you're trying to build your own community then it makes sense to maintain your own comments and moderate them yourself.
That's a really great idea. It's kind of like the Solar City model applied to cars. I wonder if anyone has thought of that?
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That is a seriously large iPhone at the bottom right of the landing page.
I guess because I fall into the first category. I use the same text editor for a wide spectrum of languages that I fiddle with, and feel like the time spent by core language devs on an IDE is better spent on the language itself.

People who work on IDEs / text editors can work on tooling and integrating with languages as they become popular (or before), but developing an IDE from scratch with a language and continuing to support it seems like a waste of time when I personally would never really consider using it and its chances of being a decent text editor are slim.

Which is all not to say that I definitely do like coordination between the two camps.

So I guess I made two arguments, one that I like what I use and prefer to keep using it over having some new perhaps questionable tool, and two that it's a non-trivial amount of work that has already been done, which I feel is better spent by other external parties rather than core devs.
Wait a little while with this update if you use the Facebook app. Since I installed 6.0.1, the Facebook app crashes immediately after starting.

EDIT: Hmm, after 10 crashes it started to work.
remember, tesla is not actually selling cars inside their "dealerships". customers still have to do this themselves on the tesla homepage - and even then it's just a reservation. source from a previous hacker news thread: http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/tesla-plans-short-cir...
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Tech VC rock star Brad Feld shares his startup community philosophy
"Sending a quick follow-up email after each meaningful conversation shows that you care and can help keep everyone on the same page."

In my personal experience this (hard to keep) habit really makes a difference. Every time I'd sent my notes and comments to other people to whom I met with, their answer was super positive, and in most cases they would complement with further details that were more than welcome to my work (project management).
It wasn't only adding products, but adding the flexibility to easily add/remove products via a customer dashboard (while we curated/marketed products we liked) that allowed us to up our AOV. When we launched it was just "pick your plan" and we'd automate the rest -- so we sacrificed a little of the simplicity of automation for the flexibility of service and customization.

Nothing ingenious, just a decision we made that worked.
It depends on what primaries you choose for your OLEDs. AMOLED has perfect black levels (LCD technology does not) and near-perfect viewing angles.

Unrealistic colors are a problem of reproducing the information you acquire correctly. All of the colors humans can see are represented on the CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram. Choose any three points within that color space and draw a triangle between them. This colors within the triangle are those that the primaries at the vertices of the triangle can reproduce. The rest is just a software issue (controlling the correct voltages to each LED).
He just explained it with the semicolon in Python example. The moment when language designer starts making compromise with the language just because it would be easier to implement an _official_ editor or IDE is the moment that language is effectively stopping to advance.

The history has shown that languages developed without concerns of IDE were the most successful or the most influential languages.
san francisco is a very expensive city. If by small budget you actually mean a small budget, I would recommend checking up the hostels downtown. They have a great location and relatively cheap. Hope that helps.
Pop culture is by nature trendy, you can only listen so many times to the same song before it gets boring. Popular art aims to please, pleasure has certain characteristics, it gets old, it gets kitsch and is driven by novelty. There's no such comparison for programming, you can use the same old language millions of times without any diminishing returns. It's really not even a valid comparison, it's apples to oranges. The one relevant analogy i can think of is between programming languages and musical instruments.

Also, IMHO there are no superstar programmers who can influence developers. All the good devs i know are too arrogant to take any suggestion based only on who suggested it.
Great article. It seems that the ends of the spectrum are what are working. Either you curate heavily like GroupOn, Fab, Fancy, etc. or sell anything like Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist, etc. Is there anyone in the middle?
Sorry, I'm embarrassed now that I know what you were actually looking for.

I will say: my answer did mention the need to atomically release the lock and then wait on the condition, but it was buried in a bunch of other crap that was not what you were looking for.

If you really want, I'll send you an email — let me know.
I wonder if anyone has ever made a game with window resizing as the control mechanism.

Challenge accepted!
>Christie plans on going on the warpath

Can you elaborate? Does he want to remove the anti-"gouging" laws?
Is it really fair to take a cursory look at someone's architecture and call them out like that? It's especially unfair to throw out something like "I've had a sustained 4k-5k on a single un-optimised instance of nginx." Serving what? Is your problem in any way similar to theirs? Do you have a full understanding of their problem?
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Not yet, but very soon we'll add the upload function to the API so you don't need the cli.
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