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Zero. Their location got flooded with a 12 foot storm surge. I doubt the police are letting anyone near that area. I'm up on 96th and Park. We've had flooding and power outages along the river inland to 2nd ave up here as well. Also, there is practically no way in or out of the island of Manhattan now. All bridges and tunnels are closed except for _possibly_ the Lincoln tunnel.
How would he provide value on top of something that he perceives of not having any itself?
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I'm not sure if everyone receives the same email but last year we got one from Harj Taggar to setup a video call. They wanted to:

1. "Give you a heads up on the kinds of things likely to come up for you specifically at interview".

2. "Let you ask us any questions you might have about YC".

It was a 5-10 minutes thing.
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I don't need another day, we submitted our application two weeks ago, but if people are having problems because of 'Sandy' it's ok for me if you give them another day or even a week.

If I were in their situation I would really appreciate the help.
Ah, future... you promised us the flying car, and what did you give us instead???
I liked Erlang's binary patterns so much I copied them for OCaml:

https://code.google.com/p/bitstring/
And Wikpedia got the 2 billion words with zero paid editors, and indeed a culture that is suspicious of financial motivations, which is a big reason why the Foundation/community doesn't seem to have any interest in paid editors.

But if they thought they could use them, it doesn't follow that they'd need a staff of a thousand-plus. It depends on the (unstated, entirely-hypothetical) strategy for using them. Superficial word-count-output extrapolations wouldn't be part of such a strategy.

They've got plenty of money (provided each year's donation campaign meets its goals). They've got plenty of words. There's just not a clear path where "if they just had enough funding from some modern Andrew Carnegie" they could throw paid editors at their mission and improve things. (That was the particular suggestion that started this tangent about whether they need more money or not.)

Other tangential evidence: while the Foundation reaches its fundraising target each year, they often spend less than planned. See for example:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2012-2013_Annual_Plan_Q...
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I really love Evernote. It has absolutely changed my life for the better. Every single significant piece of paper in my life, be it physical (e.g., parking ticket) or virtual (e.g., airline e-ticket) in my life goes into a feed scanner which directly inputs it to Evernote, then into the shredder. It has spared a lot of cumulative hours of my life from being wasted on crap-work.

Having said that, the Mac app totally SUCKS. Big time. It abruptly loses the cursor and keyboard focus so you can't type. It sometimes pauses for a looooong time. It crashes. Outlining is buggy. Keyboard shortcuts buck the standard Mac conventions. It has egregious design flaws, including completely wrong/insane behavior for the basic functionality of creating a new note (Cmd-N opens an insanely huge bloated master-detail view of all your notes, search field, notbook list, multiple toolbars, and activity monitor, requiring that you find the new untitled note in all that crap, double click it to open the new note in a note window, and then close that bloated behemoth (necessary even if you don't mind a huge unnecessary second window being open, because several editing operations cause crashes when two views on a note are open simultaneously)).

It is one of those apps where the actual function is so beneficial/important that you deal with the app itself being a total piece of crap.

So I look forward to a major new version, although pre-announcing software that isn't available is annoying, and there's not much in this post to indicate whether or not the severe problems with Evernote 3 have been fixed in addition to adding all the glitz.
You know, I work for a 122 year old > 100,000 employee megacorp, and it is not so bad. It takes longer to do things, and you have to work around a lot of problems, but the vastness of the problems and systems has some appeal.
I sympathize with Gruber's apparent position, which I would summarize thusly: "Markdown is /this/, which I released; it is good enough for me; if it's good enough for you as well, use it; if not, feel free to make something for yourself instead".
From one of the participants who is/has been in touch with prominent figures on P.SE:
http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/a/4018

>If someone makes a Q&A site for Programmers to ask questions and get answers from other Programmers about any issue related to their career choice or self-identity as a programmer, let me know. I'd love to participate in such a site again, and will help you promote it.

>As for this site, I'm done with it unless something changes. I feel its changed too far from the original programming resource it once was, and the current moderation style is not for me.

>I dislike that so much valuable information gets deleted for the sake of "maintaining a clean site", dislike the way many users are treated (particularly new ones), and dislike the way the overall culture of this site has been changing from a community of programmers out to teach and learn from each other, to an insular group of programming elitists (of course this isn't all of you, or probably even most of you. Its just a large percentage of the more active/vocal users who take part in running the site).

>Anyways, I'm not interested in helping to support this site anymore, although I will be happy to take part in any initiatives to changes things.

edit:sorry for the weird live-updating, I got lost in proxy errors.

edit2:this quote is not from Pierre 303. It is from a profile page that Pierre 303 agrees on and he said the [argument exposed] is the reason he left.
Some things take precedence over an application that allows for lateness anyway
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Actually, he lost credibility for not being a decent human being and e-mailing John Gruber first and StackOverflow is really irrelevant here.

"Say, so-and-so, you wrote a really nice book but there are several errors in the first edition. We think it's great and we love it, and we see the potential in your work, so we're going to rewrite a second edition by committee then sell it under your title and byline without your permission; that cool with you?"
Sounds reasonable. I figured you got to be in the industry to pick this niche. Good luck! :)
That's actually a lot better than the deal the UK got on the ARM Chromebook released last week, which was priced at $249 in the USA and £229 in the UK.

After taking 20% VAT into consideration, that's only a x1.07 premium compared to the US price as compared to a x1.23 premium on the Chromebook, which is actually unusually good. Often we see dollars converted directly to pounds.

Strange that the conversion is not consistent - can anybody speculate why?
I'm 20/40, and it strike me as amazing up close. Desktop distance -- not so much. I have a 27" iMac, and I can barely tell there are pixels. But since iPhone 4, it's been Retina all the way. The Retina 4G iPad arguably changed my life. All of a sudden I can have a full page of a pdf in bed, triple-clicked to negative color, and the text is still perfect. Naturally as soon as the Retina macbook came out, I was in heaven: I can line up two full-width documents, read one and type another (usually one is in LibreOffice, the other is in Papers or Chrome, but emacs is behind LibreOffice).

So with a briefcase full of Retina, I'm quite happy. But the 27" iMac still feels like the most spacious screen. The other thing the Apple hardware has going for it is that I can tether my MacBook to my iPad's 4G network via bluetooth, so the iPad doesn't even have to come out of the briefcase to be incredibly useful, and saves me having to have another data plan. I note the Nexus 10 does not come in a 4G model. That seems crazy to me.
Jeff Atwood is a blowhard sure, but you're ignoring the history here. Gruber has refused for years to acknowledge that there are any problems with Markdown at all. Some argue that he has the right to do with his creation as he wishes, but that misses the larger point that Markdown has communal value far outstripping Gruber's original contribution of aggregating a bunch of ascii typographical conventions and compiling them in the spirit of Textile.

By sitting on his high horse and proclaiming Markdown "works for him" and that his unspecified version with tons of nasty edge cases is canonical and that not only is it correct, he won't weigh in on any formal specification, he deserves to be case aside and have the project taken forward without him. He doesn't have a moral claim on something as simple and widespread as Markdown, and the fact that he finally has to deal with someone with similar blog reach going on a crusade is nothing worse than he deserves for sticking his head in the sand.
> Why can't there be more than one school serving a particular area? Does the mere existence of charter/private/parochial in a community undermine that community's public school? Why would that be so?

Tragedy of the anti-commons, basically.
So you think the only problem with this turning into personality-based drama is that it's the wrong personalities?
unless you develop metro apps using javascript/html - then you can use vector art.
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Your comment reeks so strongly of entitlement that I don't even know where to begin.

We could say Twitter was instrumental in organizing human rights causes in the Middle East and is now important to the human race as a communication tool; that said, if Twitter doesn't implement a feature that you want, you don't get to redesign Twitter at your whim and call it "New Twitter". You don't have a "moral claim" to write an open letter to @jack telling him why you're moving on without him.

You instead, like all rational people, design a competing service and let your work stand on its own.
Yeah, for me, standardized testing has been a canary in the coal mine more than it has been a legitimate point of contention. The fact that it's such a big deal is a signal that the need for a paradigm shift is strong.
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I have a friend who worked at General Dynamics for about 5 years and really enjoyed it. At least up until all the people he respected and liked working with quit.
> it isn't an accident that Jeff blogged about it instead of asking him privately. You do that when you don't care either way what the person says, and it's a completely dick move. As another commenter pointed out, there is no winning move for John Gruber here. That's so obvious that I can't even give Jeff the benefit of the doubt that he overlooked it.

What if he did ask Gruber privately, and the private answer then was the same as the public one now, giving Atwood the choice between disclosing a private conversation, giving up on this, or doing what he has done.
Excellent news. I have always been surprised by the opposing philosophies guiding hardware vs software design in Apple products. They consistently offer beautiful hardware designs that emphasize simplicity, sometimes at a cost in usability (e.g. the sharp edges of the newer iPhones are less ergonomic than the first models). On the other hand, their software makes few compromises in usability, which is a good thing. But it never showed this taste for simplicity and purity that makes Apple devices so appealing from the outside. From the brushed metal windows and shiny plastic scroll-bars of early OS X, to the leather borders in iOS applications, Apple under Jobs and Forstall has pursued the opposite direction. Stock Android actually has the edge here (although inconsistently), something I would not say about the hardware or usability. Hopefully this change means we will see Apple software that preserves usability without the tacky visuals.
I'd say you've discovered a hefty dose of speculation that lacks any evidence.

You've also invented a false trichotomy. Those aren't Jeff's only three choices. The fourth one you left out is "make something new without shitting all over Markdown".
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So did someone start a competing site he contributes to now?
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The best defense against "anyone joining" in my opinion is time and boredom. A standardization takes at least one year and while in the first week everybody and his pet wants to add their opinion those people usually disappear after a few weeks.

Personally, I have a wishlist of people who should sign the resulting spec. Jeff and Gruber, of course. Furthermore the implementors of solid and/or widely used markdown libraries (Pandoc, MultiMarkdown, Markdown Extra, etc). A few markdown users (Doxygen, Github, ...)
Crime rate is a decent metric, but I feel it's too indirect to be useful. If they do change, there are a lot of possibilities that could explain it: police aren't enforcing silly laws, that laws are reasonably legislated, police have been corrupted by bribery, and so on.
> The software he wrote hasn't changed in 8 years, despite a number of bugs.

That isn't the problem. The problem is that the software hasn't changed despite a number of bugs and the source code asking you to submit bugs.

'Deprecate or maintain' is not an unreasonable request of a public persona in the technology sector.
What I'm saying is that we should not assume that there was no private conversation just because Atwood doesn't mention it.
Tests are a disaster for math education: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
The very essense of math is killed by tests (true for history/literature/physics etc as well).
well, maybe that's a feature?
Ah, the Hacker News brag. Nice.
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That's true generally, although it doesn't really apply in this case. I don't usually give free months to people who mention historious, I was just happy to see a mention and gave a freebie.

Arguably, the free bookmarks you get through referrals are more useful, since they don't expire...
It is no secret that BSGO(Battlestar Galactica Online) uses erlang for the game-servers. If you were talking about some other MMO I would be very interested to know.
Right. This is like the POSIX features writev() and 'struct iovec'. Essentially all of Erlang's binary output primitives are happy to take an iolist/iovec instead of a plain string and this means fewer concatenations and/or system calls. Good feature.
So hackernews doesn't have PM's. If you don't mind letting me pick your brain a bit about startups/research/neuroscience, shoot me an email at cantsayimpleased@gmail.com (or put your email in your profile).
What makes something "notable"?
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That's precisely what we should assume, because it's the facts as presented. Inferring things that don't exist because they benefit the parties in question is a subtle undercurrent that drives the entirety of our fact-unfriendly blogosphere, tabloids, and so on. You sound a little like an apologetic Gawker reporter, here.

We were given the story at face value, we interpret it at face value. We don't make up what could have been nor consider it acceptable to do so.
All of the Gawker network sites (Gizmodo, Lifehacker, io9, and others) are down because of the hurricane.
Ask HN: tools/methodologies to collect and flesh out idea's
I've got a collection of idea's that I'm constantly adding to when I think of a project that I want to work on some day. Problem is that this collection is spread out over several media. I have a moleskin that I take notes in, use evernote and/or pinboard to save websites/tools I want to use on one of these projects, etc ...<p>How do established founders actually collect their idea's on new projects and flesh them out? What tools and methodologies do they use?
An ideological debate between collaborative vs dictatorial approaches, misses the point entirely.

Markdown was a good effort, but I've been feeling for a while now can do better. It's rather encouraging, that there are others attempting to design a new standard. Ideally it would be one that's easier to work with, and less idiosyncratic. ('new' of course, does not automatically equate to 'better' in this instance).

Furthermore, developing this should not require anyone to 'be someone'. While it may help adoption, if it's great, then by it's own merits, it could have a decent chance of succeeding.
Nice, this finally fixes modals in small browser windows. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#modals
Wow. I think that Atwood’s proposal was an honest and good move, and a needed one. If Gruber feels like someone is twisting his hands by asking publicly, why not say so in a decent, grown-up manner? “OK, this makes sense, but I would have preferred you to write in private and not force me by writing an open letter.”

It’s a shame that so many technologies get shaped by egos instead of rational thinking. Good engineers should know better than that. If someone thinks the proposal for a spec plus a test suite is somehow technically flawed, say so and state the reasons. If not, let’s put the egos aside, take an extra dose of tolerance and work towards a common goal.
It varies from language to language, but those word lists are all around. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists is a good place to start.

I am not a believer in rote word memorization, but rather putting each word in a sentence and using the sentence as the memorization route. Rote memorization stores the word in a different part of the brain than the language center, and using the sentence as the unit of flash card seems to override this.

I still see use for flash cards to re-trigger words in memory, but not for actually learning new words. I can't tell you how much I struggled to de-link certain words because I "memorized" them at the same time and so mixed up the meanings of the two words.
The grammar is not enough. You also need to specify the output of the HTML transformation.
Standardization by definition requires a buy-in of major players.

Nevertheless, TeX might qualify as standard without commmittee.
Erlang looks great, but if it's slow is it still a general purpose language?
Some people (like me) might be working on demos to go with the application. I also dwell on details like appearance and usability, and am hesitant to submit something I am not really happy with. I am going to submit right at the end.
> And how can I forget the joy that is Erlang's binary type DSL!

They're definitely awesome. Many people are weirded out when I note that bit-munging in C looks like dog vomit, and so do the Perl-inspired pack and unpack (imported by Ruby and Python)
More likely is Forstall leaked this himself if you consider who looks to benefit from the article.

.... Or it is completely made up...or the reporter is mates with an intern that overheard it in the lunch room...etc
When programmers came about, SO (StackOverflow) was already a well-established site for technical questions. It has a hard line on questions that are difficult to answer directly, either with simple logic or code, or references.

Programmers was created (or so it seemed) with a similar goal, but for not directly technical questions. Typically things that are too high-level and not detailed enough for SO end up there, e.g. questions about architecture, design patterns or paradigms (and many others).

What seems to have changed is that the moderation policy has become ever more to the letter, closing any question which doesn't seem to fit the site. The problem with this is that most of the policy (the "FAQ") is in line with that of SO, where it works great. I honestly don't think that high-level, architectural questions can be answered in a 100% correct way; they are often too fuzzy, involving trade-offs that are different for different organisations and people. So basically, if any question comes along which has no single "correct" answer, it is likely to be closed. This is a bit of a problem, because I for one would love to read about the (highly educated and refined) opinions of some great developers. Apparently that isn't allowed, however, only "facts".
Would say that Lager is the preferred approach to Erlang logging at the moment: https://github.com/basho/lager
At first I thought LTE is overrated, after using it for 2 weeks, its hard to go back. If you constantly on the go and need to check things out quick on your mobile, LTE makes the experience 'keeping pace with your move', there is less 'little waits'.
This is a case where I recognize the absurdity of pages in e-books, and yet I still like to have them. Pages give you a sense of progress through the book, and act as a proxy for time spent. They're not necessary as part of the presentation of information, or even telling a story, but I do like having them there.

Maybe this is one example of skueomorphism done right, at least from my point of view. An anachronism that helps to make the user feel comfortable with the application, even though it isn't strictly necessary.
I thought the problem was stated as employee A complains that employee B is spending all his time writing personal blog posts instead of doing "his fair share" of the work.
> The author mentions how he thinks representing all strings as linked lists is the 'right thing to do'

No. He wasn't talking about strings-as-linked-list there: list concatenation is O(N) of the first list, not O(1).

OP was talking about Erlang's iolists which are arbitrarily nested lists of binaries (~bytestrings) and strings (list of integers) which the IO port will iterate and serialize when it needs to: http://prog21.dadgum.com/70.html. Concatenating two lists (or two binaries, or a list and a binary) by creating an iolist merely requires allocating 2 cons cells, regardless of the size of the items being concatenated.

And because you misunderstood this, your whole comment falls down.

> and later complains about the language's runtime performance. These two things should immediately seem connected

They aren't and have nothing to do with one another. His complaint is about the erlang interpreter/VM being fairly slow. Because it is. Not strings being slow, the interpreter itself.
This looks great.

I always wondered why they never seem to highlight their best feature, which is the ability to search text in images or scanned documents. That has been a huge timesaver in the past. One day I'll put all my important documents in there.
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It may be related to patents:

"Why Android Jelly Bean 4.2′s Multiple User Account Switching Is Tablet-Only? (Hint: Nokia Patented It For Phones)"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/29/why-android-jelly-bean-4-2s...
Oh wow, I have not seen such a self-important wall of text in ages. Pull yourself together.
Wouldn't that be a restraint of trade? According to this: http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/countries_e/thailand_e.h... Thailand is a member of the WTO. If you prevent a business in the US from importing goods from Thailand that are not illicit or restricted, then wouldn't that constitute a trade barrier?
Yes they keep the interfaces as buggy as they always were! :)