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Google had four canonical languages: C++, Go, Java, and Python. They are defined internally in an engineering handbook. There is no such similar style guide for Go, as a a lot of what the existing guides say is "don't use x." If that were needed for Go we would have failed.
I figured it out eventually, it just seemed odd to leave password reset out of the web interface.
Meetup has many good language and technology specific groups in the area.
I appreciate your excitement. But what I've seen over the years will keep me resistent for the rest of my life ;)
Of course, but the real question is why did he choose not to be recorded?
You and mdasen both have a valid theory. Unfortunately it's just that, a theory.
It's a large market, I'm not really sure how you can be surprised by significant market segments that don't actually care all that much wich web-enabled phone they get when their contract is up. Not everyone make purchase decisions like a geek.
Note that `reduce` has been, if not deprecated, then at least discouraged (not that I agree with this, but reduce gets taken away in Python 3, so it's probably good form to stop using it). The author does `reduce(operators.add, lst)` a lot; you can do that using `sum(lst)` instead.
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Because this was a civil lawsuit (Wiley v. Kirtsaeng; a corporation suing an individual for damages), not a law enforcement issue.
Followup: I went back and bought the ASUS X202E laptop with the touchscreen. It's $499 at the Microsoft store, and $599 elsewhere. So far, it seems nice.
Sorry but what does this have to do with IT or HN in general ?
i'm sure you're correct. i actually don't know the nitty-gritty technical details. i only know wind from a policy perspective. any power source imposes costs on the grid (transmission congestion, ramp rates, supply/demand mismatches, active/reactive power, etc.) and wind is considered almost pathological in every dimension - but i'm sure it's all solvable.
That should be easy, right? Just cross reference the list against every app's users (and their friends?)
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Right off the bat: why use Silverlight instead of non-proprietary technology?
If you're a chef and you're consistantly asked to short order cook then change kitchens.
Yes. I've never given to a Kickstarter campaign but would totally contribute to this. Proprietary chargers feel like such a ripoff at ~$30-$50, but clearly the $5 generics are a bad buy, so what you're suggesting is a real opportunity.
The question is whether the first-sale doctrine (the right to freely re-sell things that you bought) applies to items originally sold outside the U.S.
Hi Rhizome, I am not sure how much of an electronics hobbyist you are. But if you are into electronics hardware, you may have had a chance to stumble upon ladyada's store 'http://www.adafruit.com and maybe even took a look at her background at 'http://www.adafruit.com/about/. My best guess is she knows what she is talking about. As someone above mentioned, her run-of-the-mill customers are not your average Joe customer.

I believe that she is meticulous about what she sells in here store and tests them out before she makes it available to her customers. She is not rebranding the products as hers. She is just assuring her customers that she is doing due diligence prior to selling it on her site.

I like Fry's just like the next guy and they have great deals, but I don't expect to get high tech stuff there or necessarily high quality stuff. They are just another big box store but also catering to your average hobbyist. I don't know if the purchasing department there puts as much effort into checking out the products they sell.

You got what you paid for at Fry's.
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Here in Australia Samsung has noticeably increased the advertising for the Galaxy S3 in response to the iPhone 5.

That seems like a much bigger reason for their increase in sales than anything else.
True, but you've missed the point. They are interpreting null as "Track the fuck out of me."
The iPhone might be their first choice but we're not talking about people here that camp out in front of an Apple store to get their smartphone.
I'm sorry, I just see "SIII sales rise as iPhone 5 release" -> "Well it's just because they can't buy an iPhone 5" to be asinine. They couldn't buy the iPhone 5 before the announcement either. Playing it off as "they don't care" doesn't make any sense because there's correlation with the iPhone announcement date.

Even if they were potential iPhone 5 buyers, they either said: "Meh, not that great" or "Not great enough to bother waiting... 2 weeks". I guess I see a 2 week wait for a 104 week contract to not be a big deal...
Update of Office for final version was available at the day of launch. Why you did not install it?
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why doesn't your blog have an RSS feed?
Making sure that nothing bad happens under your watch may not be such a bad thing in the military. Most of the critiques in this tread sound like this comment by Davidson about the french change of leadership in Vietnam:

On arrival, Navarre was shocked by what he found. There had been no long-range plan since de Lattre's departure. Everything was conducted on a day-to-day, reactive basis. Combat operations were undertaken only in response to enemy moves or threats. There was no comprehensive plan to develop the organization and build up the equipment of the Expeditionary force. Finally, Navarre, the intellectual, the cold and professional soldier, was shocked by the "school's out" attitude of Salan and his senior commanders and staff officers. They were going home, not as victors or heroes, but then, not as clear losers either. To them the important thing was that they were getting out of Indochina with their reputations frayed, but intact. They gave little thought to, or concern for, the problems of their successors.

Just look at the ambition and creativity displayed by Navarre's "hedgehog" strategy, and the (spoiler alert: dismal) result it got for France in the Vietnam war:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu

Not losing may in fact be one of the requirements for winning :-)

In corporations, the consequences are not that bad - closing door is not a big tragedy. Ten of thousands dead on the other hand, and a war lost is a tragedy.

So please don't dismiss the military just because they work differently. They are on a different problem space. They need different solutions.
Did that image remind anyone else of Joy Division?

http://gothstore.piratemerch.com/images/joy-division.jpg
> Everyone hated the start button back when too

I don't know about that. I remember playing with Windows 95 the day it came out, and I thought that the start button was awesome. Of course, this is compared to Windows 3.1(.1).
There's a difference between personal first-sale and wholesale distribution. It sucks that information - There's no value in the paper, just the printing on it - can cost different amounts in different areas, but it's fairly easy to differentiate between "I bought 1-3 copies of this book in my home country, moved here, and brought them with me" and "I had my parents ship crates of books from my home country, which I resold at a profit". The gray area will remain "I personally bought something from foreign land, even though I do not reside there".
I've been told that one way to come up with ideas for startups is to put a timer on your watch/phone that goes off every 30 minutes. When that alarm goes off, stop what you are doing and ask yourself "Why does this suck, and how could I fix it?". Keep a journal of the ideas and see what you come up with over time.

I think that if you are a 25 year old guy living in San Francisco/Chicago/NYC/insert your favorite major US city it is really likely that you are going to come with ideas that solve a common set of problems. Are those business worth building? Maybe so. Are they going to make an impact on a global scale? Maybe not.

Perhaps if you combined an entrepreneurial spirit with travel to emerging/developing nations and put yourself in uncomfortable or unusual situations you could come up with something that had the potential to change the world.
Love this idea. So obvious yet so fresh. I think it's because we live on autopilot most of the time. We passively accept the things we use as "the way it just is". Or that it's not up to us, or not our responsibility.

Case in point is litter in scenic areas (or anywhere). People just ignore it, even when it's completely in front of them. It's like a negative hallucination. When people do see it, it's not their responsibility and dismiss it. It's so ingrained its almost instant.

The environment, the water is OUR responsibility. Don't leave it for someone else to deal with.
A well maintained alternative, also open source: http://greendao-orm.com/.
Disclaimer: I am affiliated with the company that initiated this project.
Check out this awesome article on tablets from Tadhg Kelly: http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/10/27/tablet-first-mobile-secon...

Makes the case that tablets can provide different value from phones.
> Copyright law governs both the creation of copies, and their distribution.

This is an interesting idea that I haven't heard before. In what ways has copyright law governed the distribution of objects when no copying is involved?
Perhaps the set designer just searched for "handdrawn map" and filtered to "Large" images. For me, Google is returning that Dungeon map as the 2nd result.
That's actually a pretty neat ad.

So far the only ad I've seen for the SIII in the UK is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsP-S2nETCc

With selling points such as "it understands you", "keeps track of loved ones", "recognises who you are", "follows your every move", "waits till you're asleep", it sounds like a commercial for a bloody serial killer.
That's a pretty interesting situation. I certainly don't think there's any "something" blocking you, I'd guess it's more of a vague feeling of caution that you're clinging to because you can't quite understand it. It's easy to get into these traps when it's something very important (like your job).

There are a few things you can try. You can create a personal project to explore the depths of "not refactoring", in hopes that you'll get used to it. You could also just try getting faster at your newer technique: writing code and refactoring in an hour instead of 3 (learning your tools like a master helps with this).

Your "sudden change" probably wasn't so sudden, but rather your experience with hitting the limitations of writing shitty code. Now you want to avoid those pitfalls in the future, but your boss doesn't seem to understand.

There's also plenty of places for you to go still, if none of the above works for you.

Edit: Creating a checklist of "the smallest chunk of work" can help you keep moving rather than getting stuck in tweakfinity.
The soldier who loses his rifle faces harsher punishment than the general who loses the war.
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Geeze, they're even copying Apple's "make fun of the market you want" advertising.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYP1Tjgt1Ao

Just joking. The Samsung ads are kinda funny
Sadly, many people don't think that much about phone purchases. Waiting an extra two weeks for a phone might seem like the rational thing to do (if you wanted the iPhone 5 in the first place), but buying things isn't always a rational process.
Develop for Tablet First, Mobile Second.
If mdasen is correct, sales for all phones should rise following the unveiling. If Steko is correct, only the Galaxy S III would spike, and other phones would probably dip in sales.

Both theories are probable enough that they likely happened in tandem - with some people waiting to see Apple's phone before pulling the trigger, others heading for Apple and being sold a Samsung. We could probably figure the quantity of each by comparing sales variations by brand and model.
Could it be sold for scrap? ie with a cover note reminding the new owner they own the physical book but be careful not to use its contents?
More than once I was showing a workmate some code and absentmindedly touched the screen which highlighted the code and rearranged the order or cut it to the clipboard.

Why would you touch the screen when pointing? Non-touchscreen monitors generally shouldn't have your fingers all over them, so at least for me I've developed the habit of never touching the monitor when pointing.
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this is a very interesting question, but can it be answered?

I mean, we can say that design by contract (or linq/multiple dispatch/type state/whatever) offers an interesting solution to common problems and was ignored.

But.. just because it's not listed in the FAQs?
MUJI does this often, looking at small, often over looked devices and objects, and re-imagines them in a blue-collar yet poetically beautiful way. Their products often strive to be invisible for the same reason.

The third paragraph on that link really sums it up by opening with "MUJI has always been dedicated to the pursuit of adequacy, of designing products that are truly fit for their purpose." Their view of the term adequate is in stark contrast with a modern representation (say, a minimum viable product). Adequate is good.

In a similar vein (from a different perspective), Milton Glaser's 10 Things I have Learned (http://www.miltonglaser.com/milton/c:essays/#4) says the same "Just enough is more"
Tell HN: Let's Be Civil
The release of the iPad Mini and the Microsoft surface have brought with them a rash of uncivil and inappropriate threads. I can count on one elbow the number of times I have seen the word "fanboy" or its faux-hipster alternate "fanboi" used in a comment that led to a productive discussion.

Everyone has opinions about consumer electronics. Everyone's entitled to them, even when they're wrong. I owned and liked a Windows Tablet PC at one time! But truly and honestly, are we discussing things that gratify our intellectual curiosity when we attack each other or the authors of the fine articles for their bias? Are we really bringing fresh insights to the table when we complain that the marketplace is capricious and sometimes values things we think are superficial?

As hackers--and I include in this definition those who hack software, hardware, social behaviour, and marketplaces--our mission is first to UNDERSTAND and then second to INFLUENCE. When we read a review, no matter what we personally think of its flagrant bias or the comments of others on the thread, we should aggressively throttle our temptation to wield the flame-hammer. We need to ask ourselves, "What understanding would my comment add?"

The same is true when we see someone else violating these precepts. The downvote (and flag, where available and appropriate) are the right tools for the job. Most of the time, calling someone out for diluting the discourse simply adds to the noise while simultaneously feeding the troll.

(This is one of the reasons I have a personal policy of either responding or downvoting but never both. If it deserves a constructive reply, why is it worth a downvote? If the reply would not be constructive, I downvote and move on.)

If we as a community are unable to throttle the bile effectively, then perhaps we should ask the moderators to do it for us. There's no shame in deciding that non-technical articles about iPads or surfaces or what-have-you are better off in /r/technology.

I know that in a few days or a week these articles will go away as the novelty of newly released products fade. But the reason I am speaking out regardless is that the echoes of this type of discourse last much longer and I fear they will spill over into other threads. I believe that forums like this need a zero-tolerance policy towards the kind of divisive incivility I've read lately.

I'll close by misappropriating an old joke: "Do you know why the flames about consumer electronics are so vicious? Because the stakes are so low."
I don't know if it's unfair. I know I followed yesterday's link and completed the survey there.

So in my perception, this is a duplicate and I think that's why it's not upvoted. I don't see what fairness has to do with the success or failure of a submission.
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It sounds like the all too common story of an inexperienced programmer being overwhelmed by technical debt[1] as their code grows larger and more complex. I'm sure it's a lesson that many programmers learn the hard way at some point in their careers (like I did).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
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I expect that even if you were that dedicated to ferreting out the best chargers, there's plenty of variation in quality when dealing with chargers that are manufactured in the hundreds of thousands and move through the supply chain very quickly. I've been very happy with my HP Touchpad chargers but that's not the universal experience.
Yes, laptop tablets have a touch screen, but they are really just not the same thing. Have you used one much? Unless they've made huge progress in the last few years, a laptop tablet is like a laptop, upon whose screen you can WRITE with a stylus. They are not touch devices like we think of today.
Not so much. Have you read many of Ben's Blog articles or spent much time with Ben in person? If you had, a "No Bitch Ass Ness" t-shirt would be considered entirely appropriate dress for Ben. My guess is that he just instinctively is conservative about cameras, and being recorded. Probably the result of all the discovery he's gone through over the years as an executive and CEO at various companies.
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I think the main reason is that the GS3 is mentioned in so many articles about the iPhone 5.
What's the big deal? Once it's done - it's done. Unless you're on a metered data-plan, I don't see that initial upload as a huge problem assuming you can keep your system alive for the month it takes to perform the initial upload.
For a second I thought this was an Onion article:

> 'I was shocked by the numbers,' Kevin Packingham, chief product officer of Samsung's U.S. mobile arm, said. 'What the heck is going on here?'

> the company on Wednesday threw a splashy party for media, d-list celebrities, and select Samsung fans...

> Winning 'Phablet' fans

Alright, nice that Samsung is doing well, but come on--this article makes it sound like Samsung is a joke!
If Steko saw it play out, then it is more than a theory. It is a contributing factor.
We've been at war for over a decade. That's 3X the length of WWII.
I am particularly fond of the samsung ad that has the line (in response to somebody claiming they need an iphone because they are creative) "Dude, you're a barista".

It's not very nice, but it definitely got a good belly laugh out of me.
No, not all phones. iPhone-class phones, of which the Galaxy S III is most certainly the most successful and hardest pushed.

When someone comes in the store asking for an iPhone 5, the salesperson is not going to push some cheap crap on them. They will push the best, most expensive alternative. As far as I can see the Galaxy S III is pretty much the only phone marketed on eye level with the iPhone by carriers.
I did the same with Palm Pre/Pixi chargers. I'm disappointed they weren't included in these tests, but industrial design-wise, they are THE best I've seen. The same size as Apple iPhone chargers, but cylindrical with soft touch surface and folding prongs.

You can still find some on Amazon, it's just hard to tell whether the seller will give you the correct, genuine ones. http://www.amazon.com/Palm-Wall-Adapter-Charger-Treo/dp/B002...
"Simulacra and Simulation" was the one I remember.
Actually, no. If they condemn the sales, then they have effectively restricted what you can and cannot do with overseas produced goods. Then everything gets sold from overseas to bypass first sale.
Clearly a polished GUI is not requisite for good compatibility/performance, but it certainly is a canary-in-the-coal-mine indicator for other less visible bits. Basically, if they haven't had time yet to fix things like unreadable menus, that gives you an idea of how close to RTM quality the underpinnings are.
I got the impression that a lot of people decided to go with the s3 after iPhone 5 launch didn't give them anything truly compelling.

As others have said, the average smartphone buyer is quite fickle, so just as easily as Apple can win them they can loose them, even if in effect the person will use the iPhone and s3 the do essentially the same things.
First, thanks for checking it out!

Part of the sign up requires access to your webcam so for the sake of consistency we developed the entire sign up process in SL. In addition, based on our development backgrounds, it was the fastest way to put this portion together with a reasonable amount of polish.
Wouldn't an adaptation of the Backblaze Pod do..?

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...
Well, it's also purely anecdotal at that point.
The Python language has been able to build many successful large-scale projects without language-enforced private fields or functions. (There is a convention to prefix internal functions and variables with "_" to indicate "This isn't intended to be part of our public API, it's probably totally undocumented so you'd better read the code before you start messing with it, and it may change or go away in future releases." And double-underscores, but I don't like them and don't use them.)

Ever since I started using Python, in Java I've started just making all my member variables public and forgetting about accessor methods.

It actually works.
With selling points such as "it understands you", "keeps track of loved ones", "recognises who you are", "follows your every move", "waits till you're asleep", it sounds like a commercial for a bloody serial killer.

I watched the ad you posted. It's bland.

It's too bad that they didn't have something edgier, especially with those quotes you mentioned. Maybe even something a bit more like this, from a few years ago?

http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2006/02/new_psp_ad...
*iPad
what are you referencing with the "snapping" comment?
> I believe the technical term would be "deceptive marketing"

Deceptive about what? They are competing with the iPad more or less. No one is saying this thing is meant for serious production of content, it's meant for consumption of content.

> they are showing what it isn't

You can still place it on a table and expect good results as long as you're not 6'3"; or have a higher table then the author's. You can still hook it up to a keyboard.

You can even run Office on it, it's just that you'll need to update the "preview" version of it to fix a couple of bugs.

> Let's wait for Windows 9 and hope current devices can be upgraded

"Surface for Windows 8 Pro" and other OEM like devices are coming out. I think that will be the real test to see if consumers adapt a Windows 8 tablet device. Give it 6 months.
So...this is a good opportunity to write a word processing app for the Windows 8 store. Score! It's well known what people like with those...
When speaking at an event with 1000+ people, anything you say should be considered public. No more risk from this than blogging.