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You are not morally obliged to 'do something which costs me more and I dislike' just because you think 'you will help society more'.

You help society most by making your life as full as possible and in most cases that is related to how much you enjoy your job.

Not everybody is morally obliged to become a missionary: otherwise, there would be no 'missions' (all of us would be in the Third World preaching...).
A byte-code based on Javascript VMs would be less useful than you might think.

For many years people who have tried to build dynamic languages on Java have had to go through horrible pain to build their languages, and not gained the performance they would want -- only the recent addition of invokeDynamic have finally allowed fast implementations.

Personally, I would hope any browser bytecode would have big integers as a primitive, as implementing them in dynamic language is very slow. However, no Javascript byte code would have big integers, as they aren't in Javascript!
This article got me thinking about places in my life where there's friction. My computer stands out as a huge source of friction. I already try to close unnecessary windows/tabs, but after reading this, I realized that, because I use it for so many different habits, my desktop fails as a friction free starting point for work.

So I've identified a few ways I use my computer and I'm setting up a user account for each one:

* coding in Ruby
* coding in Java for work
* blogs and email (and hacker news)
* personal and household maintenance

This way I can tune each desktop to the appropriate kind of work. I can eliminate clutter in the dock. I can leave the appropriate windows open without it distracting me when it's time to do something else.

If it goes well, I'll try to write it up in a blog post.
The advantage and disadvantage of this approach: you have to already know Unix commands. Inevitably all programmers learn Unix commands - but probably a rough approach for beginners. Although, I'm guessing this advice isn't really aimed at beginners anyway.
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If I want to market a soft-drink containing cyanide, do you think free speech means I don't have to mention the dangers of my drink?

What if I disagree with the required warning?
How about reamed by geeks?

I for one decided my recent seven inch tablet purchase and now my upcoming ten inch tablet purchase based on Apple's bad behavior. This just reinforces the idea in my head that I made the right choice. The Nexus tablets offer an incredible amount of features at a price point Apple doesn't even try to compete at and all without the Assholiness of Apple
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Interesting read; not sure how much it'd help the POTUS...
I could have seen this being unrelated and just a UX polishing touch, but then they didn't think to put it on the other versions of the site to at least try and make it less suspicious.

Pushing past the limits of acceptability now, they should face some fairly serious punishment for this.
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I think leaving breadcrumbs for yourself can be a great way to reduce friction. The challenge for me has been when I wake up and I find that I've left myself a bunch of breadcrumbs for several different tasks.
By making yourself infinitely obliged to the future, you also put pressure on those who follow you to be infinitely obliged to their future. If you're turning yourself into a beggar in order to meet your obligation, aren't they expected to do the same? Their well-being is negatively impacted by your inability to accept a finite obligation.
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I changed the site a little to attempt to explain the method before login is required.
Other side of the coin: you'll learn unix commands in a very non-superficial way.
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For the same code, C++ is generally measurably slower. One reason is how exceptions, which are not optional, are handled at run time.

Having written some seriously high-throughput low-latency code in C++, you have to turn on bunches of compile flags (e.g., ignore exceptions) to get the best out of it.
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While I agree it needs a proper introduction, example code can easily be found in the source of the compiler itself (the compiler is written in ESL): http://code.google.com/p/esl/source/browse/trunk/src
What is the message they are getting though? Is it a message that asks them to go vote, or one that says to go vote for Obama?
Most American voters do not understand what the President is which is part of why they find the Electoral College confusing.

The President is not the President of the people. It is the President of the States. Only the States have a vote. In fact, for most of its history, the State governments voted directly and there was no popular vote for President. In modern times, they allowed people to have a say in who their State government votes for but it is still only people controlling the vote of their State. They have no say in how people in other States choose to vote for President.

When people complain about the Electoral College, what they are really saying is that they want to eliminate the concept of States voting for President. For better or worse, the idea of the President being the Executive of the States is so foundational to the US Constitution that you'd basically have to throw out the US Constitution and start over. The only representative in Federal government people were supposed to have is their Representative; in recent decades people vote for other Federal positions as well but it is only to decide how their State will apportion its votes rather than voting for the Federal position directly.
Except that the email (I also got one) clearly states:

Apple recommends replacing your affected hard drive as soon as possible. Before you go in for service, please back up your data. Learn more about backup options.

So instead of assuming they would do a backup for you, you should actually follow the advice from the official instructions.
Well, that at least is fairly new. apple.co.uk was until recently an illustration agency: http://web.archive.org/web/20110517201243/http://apple.co.uk... (Now apparently http://www.appleagency.co.uk/.)
The sleezy-ness of Apple is completely unacceptable as of late
This stuff makes this company so incredibly unlikable.

Maybe some uninformed consumers don't see it, but for informed people Apple loses sympathy every day with this behavior.
I didn't know – thanks for bringing this up.
It wouldn't =D
I feel like this approach might get boring after a couple of languages.

I think most people here could skim through the language intro, and then just start working on a new project in that language (picking up more of the language as they go).

This is the approach I usually use, and it seems more fun than porting the same tools. Just my opinion though :)
It just says "Please Vote Today"
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I think I would hire an electrician but I'd still like to know the right way to do it. If you install a transfer switch could the generators ground be connected to the houses ground?
I have never owned a dryer. In the UK owning a clothes dryer is quite unusual - clothes drying racks work quite effectively.

I suppose if you decide that you must live a "normal" life, then you can't really change anything about it. If you decide that you want to live a comfortable but low impact life, then there's plenty of things you can do to reduce your peak power.
It's not illegal to play poker online. I'm not an expert in the legality/legislation of online poker but the PPA[1] is a good place to start.

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We just want to get young people out to vote; we think this may be one of the most effective measures at this point.
Interesting, thanks for the share.
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They fixed the bug we reported too, one day later! It's possible they already had a fix in the works, but we were surprised at the quick turnaround nonetheless.
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True - but you have to understand the distrust people have with supplying a website with information like other people's phone numbers. What happens to the numbers after Tuesday? Will the data be used for anything else? Will the message include any additional advertising?

I'm sure you're doing this with the best of intentions, and commend you for that. But you have to understand that healthy skepticism on the internet is necessary to protect yourself.
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Hehe. Thanks.
The only actual proper thing in this whole affair was Apple's lawsuit. As Samsung was copying them right down to the shape of the charger Apple felt they had a real case. They lost, but disputes are supposed to be settled in court when the parties can't come to an understanding.

- Samsung slavishly copying Apple's designs

- The Judge issuing a order designed to embarrass Apple

- Apple posting a snarky letter of the law notice

- Hacker News posters like in this thread

...these things are childish and immature. Grow up.
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Only politicians in the vanishingly small percentage of districts that are actually competitive.
This may be a newbie question.

Article states: "... it should work fine in any metal box, right?"

But then says the case had some electronics which failed. Which means it wasn't just a metal case. Anyway TIL that server cases aren't just metal boxes.

And in case somebody wants to respond, how important is vibration dampening to ensure hard disk reliability? What's the best way to damp vibrations in a consumer tower desktop case?
I agree with your entire comment except for the first sentence.
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For sure. I'm not really sure how to handle that though - any suggestions?

The twilio script we are using deletes the numbers after the text "Please Vote Today!" is sent to them. That's all the text will say; no advertising at all.
I don't buy that for a second. You weren't about to purchase an Apple product and then decided not to because of this. There is no need to be so two-faced.
Vibration dampening is this important --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
This whole thing is turning into a PR disaster for Apple... Some variation on the Streisand Effect.

When Apple first posted the "apology" Gruber et al all whooped up how clever Apple was. A bit of blowback now.
'rayiner, you should post this somewhere prominent. It's a succinct, cold-eyed, and powerful case for the notion that "we're all in this together."
This script was already used in september for the iPhone 5 homepage. This is simply called vertical responsive design. See these screenshots for exemple : http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawnblanc/7980347228/in/photos...

It has nothing to do with the Samsung trial's verdict.
I guess the judge will soon design the Apple frontpage himself with MS Paint, if Apple doesn't stop this behaviour in the next few days.
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Nice !!! So all the fimls are free as noone owns the data. That means that films on the cloud, have no ownner, and no responsable. So if I host a film in a server in amazon, I can also say that I am not the owner.
> I don't think that 2x faster GPU improves UX a lot for the average user.

I think that statement says more about Android fans than it does about "the average users". Who needs a fluid UI and responsiveness that can't be beat? That hardly affects the U-->X<-- which stands for experience let's not forget.

The way iOS works benefits heavily from an overpowered GPU because it was designed with hardware acceleration as a core consideration from the ground up. Android device manufacturers tend to spend that component funding where it counts in Android, bumping up the RAM to reduce slowdowns instead.

> And for me, 3G is fast enough (about 2Mbit/s where I live).

It's true, 640k of memory ought to be enough for anybody.

> Accurate maps are more important IMHO.

Good thing I have accurate maps then. Possibly the most overblown issue in history, the Apple Maps are actually fine. Weaker in most areas but stronger than I expected at launch, and good enough that I don't miss Google Maps.

If you think they're "inaccurate" then you're doing more tech-news reading than actual investigating. They're plenty accurate. Considering you have the world to work with, obviously this doesn't apply everywhere. However, neither does the conventional wisdom that Google maps is better. In certain areas that Google has neglected, Apple maps is already better right out of the gate.
Just counting steps isn't very effective. You need to walk for a good long while at a time to use up your glycogen (stored sugar energy) and make your body dip into fat reserves. So if you spread out getting your steps you are less likely to do that. Similarly, there are heart rate complications. If you don't walk fast enough or throw in some interval work to get your heart rate up, you aren't getting as much exercise...
Better than robo-calls.
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I assume you're referring to what Google did, i.e. implementing a subset of the API but not the whole thing. But in that case I wouldn't agree that the functional element is lost. It continues to exist exactly to the extent that they copied the API -- the functions they copied are compatible. Any code using those functions will compile against both. (Incidentally, it feels like a very strange argument for Oracle to say that the problem with what Google did is that they didn't copy enough.)

I suppose you could argue that it's theoretically possible to copy the creative elements from an API while specifically setting out to break all compatibility, but it's hard to say what that would even look like. You can't break compatibility without changing the function signatures, but if you change substantially all of the function signatures then it's arguably a completely independent API. More importantly, it seems like this would be more of a theoretical problem than one seen in practice -- the only practical reason to copy an API is to achieve partial or complete compatibility. Can you provide any example of an API being copied for reasons other than achieving compatibility?
I download ebooks as well for several reasons without paying for them. I mostly get a epub version of a book and start reading it. This way I can see if I like the content and the style it's written in. I will get the book as a hardcover version and continue reading on paper at home and on my kindle on the go if I like the content after the first three chapter. So I have the advantages of both media. However, I wouldn't purchase the book a second time as ebook, because it's doesn't make any sense to pay for the same content again. And I wouldn't buy a ebook in the Kindle store, because I don't support this DRM crap at all. It's the same with movies. You'll have more disadvantages if you are honest and buy the movies then just downloading it from the pirate bay _without_ copy protection, ads & propaganda("bootlegger are criminals and have to go to jail for five years. Buy your movies").
I expected them to be able to do `dd /old-hd /new-hd` but that was too hard.
That is really impressive. My OCR solution (see comment above) uses a neural net on the server. Your code is both simpler and faster. Nice job.
Your ruby version of cat implements none of the command line switches.

I learned C by going through the FreeBSD code and helping with POSIX compliance. For fun I would implement a lot of the commands in Python. You get the most out of learning both the language and UNIX by implementing all the command line options.
I don't really care one way or the other, but I'm curious why Apple is being "shamed" in a sense. There are copyright rulings all the time but I haven't noticed or read about too many websites with notices posted on them.

Was this a condition of the plea bargain, or is this just something that is common in the UK?
Consider Peter Neumann, who has been hacking since the early 1950s. At age 80, he is beginning work on the 5-year DARPA-funded Clean Slate project to "build something new from the bottom up" to respond to security problems. Recent HN posts link to NY Times stories:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714328

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722781
Exactly. There's almost no information. Skeptics (like myself) will want to know who is behind this app, why they're doing it, or something. About Us? Terms & Conditions? Privacy Policy?

As someone mentioned above, the fact that it's got am "obama favicon", yet makes no other reference to obama anywhere is also sketchy. Being neutral about the importance of voting is a little more trustworthy.

Resolve all those things, and I'm still not to keen on giving out my friends' phone numbers for fear I'm adding them to a spam list.
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Well you could always follow the Unix system programming in OCaml tutorial:

http://ocamlunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/
The certainty of Romney's loss is bad for page views and viewer numbers for one. Pundits seem to have an interest in perpetuating uncertainty and turning the election into a narrative of a dead-heat horse race.
Statistically, the odds of an election being close enough to require a recount is infinitesimally smaller with a single nationwide pool of 300 million voters than it is with 50 smaller pools. In other words, getting rid of the Electoral College would make recounts far less likely.
Many of those districts are still competitive, just at the primary level instead of the general election.
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What an awesome Idea! I wish I had thought of this when I was teaching intro to java!
The US site alternates between two different promotions, the iPad Mini and the iPad with Retina Display. Every other language's site (I've tried quite a few) which promotes the iPad Mini is showing just a single promotion and exhibits the resize behaviour.
Any tennis player knows this, always recenter. I think somehow the idea of automated garbage collection got to some of us programmers.
I'm pissed off at Apple these days for various reasons and very glad Forstall is leaving so as to get rid of the horrid iOS UI elements. And the Samsung suit is turning into a clusterfsck.

Having said that, they do make great kit. I just went by my local Apple store (packed, BTW) and saw the new 13" retina MBPS. Looks gorgeous!
While a bit deceptive, I think it's rather funny and cute. I almost get the impression that Apple is intentionally mocking the court. I know it doesn't make business sense, but it seems like they had to know they're taking a bit of a risk in not complying in full-faith.
Yeah, like I said. Compared to someone like Elon Musk, he's just some guy.
"Your ruby version of cat implements none of the command line switches."
I don't think he was trying to show off what a feature complete cat command he wrote. Just trying to illustrate his idea. No need to be rude about it.
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I went to the page to see what all the bother was about and ended up buying an iPad mini (to replace nexus 7). Thanks Samsung. You can't pay for this publicity.
why oh why would anybody want to have any piece of text looking like my little's brother 1993 geocities webpage, and why do we need to clutter text encoding with this?

if you want to put pictures in your text, just put pictures in your text. html has allowed you to do this since its inception.
tkelogg, I am realy happy you found the post interesting and informative. Sometimes one forget to explain things that may seem obvious and one thinks that the code speaks for itself when it doesn't. I'll keep your advice in mind when I'll write my next post. In the mean time I have edited the post and added some additional explanations. Thank You :)
>“If you think it’s a toss-up, let’s bet,” Silver Tweeted at Scarborough. “If Obama wins, you donate $1,000 to the American Red Cross. If Romney wins, I do. Deal?”

Wouldn't a better bet be something like $800 to Scarborough's charity if Romney wins or $200 to Silver's charity if Obama wins given that Silver has Obama at 80%? That makes Silver's confidence more visible than by using an even bet.
First this is patent, not copyright law.

And the issue is that Apple has effectively committed libel against Samsung in the UK with its repeated claims that the Samsung tablet is a copy of the iPad. This claim has turned out to be legally false, and now Apple is obliged to correct any turn of public opinion against Samsung that it instigated by making this false claim in the first place.
By preemptively dismissing any and all "rationalizations" as examples of flawed logic, this wise author has effectively created a black hole into which he can throw any counter-argument of his thesis, dismissing it all as "proving my point". Yikes - do we want to pay attention to the kind of rhetoretician who constructs such a system wherein no possible counter-argument is allowable?
Hey, that was my idea too, see my own comment [1]. I've actually developed a (very simplistic) programming language utilizing this approach. I even compiled the interpreter to Javascript so you can try it our from the browser.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4736630
I don't think "heavily used by pirates" really qualifies as winning anything, I would hand that claim to H.264.
From your own link:

"But the consortium, looking at a broader group of rejected ballots than those covered in the court decisions, 175,010 in all, found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount of all the rejected ballots. "

So I am right.