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Why do people put the TL;DR summary at the bottom? If the content is too long, and I didn't read it, then I'm not going to see a summary at the bottom. Abstracts, introductions, executive summaries, etc., go at the top. You don't even have to call it one of those: the goal of good writing is to engage people before they move onwards. I guess that locating it at the bottom is equivalent to adding a conclusion, and I'll grant that some people skim to the conclusion, rather than use the abstract/intro/exec-summary.
No absolutes in art, ever, no matter what! :D
Embarrassing, I know. If this actually gets into the attention of the mods that would be awesome
Isn't it funny how most software patents can't be protected by trade secrets?

How many patents were infringed (1) by mistake, or (2) by somebody trying to emulate some behavior or (3) by somebody reading a patent description?

Personaly I've never seen (3) happening. It may sometimes happen when it comes to video codecs or AI, but funny how those domains are strongly linked to math ;)
Would be great if this were a library that can be integrated rather than an api. An api makes things problematic because it provides the kind of functionality that would break an app if it for some reason isn't working. I don't see how it can be viable service for anything other than non-commercial/non-critical projects. Also...no php?
Could be that Bandcamp or MySpace has become a synonym of the other (in Google's index)? As far as I'm aware, this sort of paring is done automatically.
Where's the linux client? Where's the source for the client?
I would say that progress comes about when unwavering advocates win over the pragmatic people with the power to make change.

Both types are needed. Because Stallman is uncompromising, he'll never be in a position to make change. But he can pressure and try to convince those who are.
Im from Dalarna, currently studying CS in Stockholm though
Any water you capture will just be sent back into the air later. Think of what you drink - all of it end up in the air or land again later.
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On the contrary, it is our current system of allowing laws that are totally ambiguous that results in the poor situation we are in now. For example, the 2nd amendment is black and white. I have the right to bear arms and that right shall not be infringed. And yet how many laws are on the books making it an offense to bear arms?

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- Data is consistent.

The problem with our legal system is that it is expected that it is ambiguous. Those in power tell us that it is good for the law to be ambiguous. Yet what are the results:

1. You need a law degree to even practice - control.
2. The government can selectively prosecute - corruption.
3. Fear of losing, even when morally right.
4. Everyone is a criminal.
This is ridiculous; there's certainly a place for creative code. It's an obfuscated code competition. Yes, you can write a BrainFuck interpreter in the C preprocessor. If it was your job, would you do it that way? Would you saddle other people with the work of maintaining your implementation?

The second half of your argument is equally vexing. Yes, ideally tools would turn intent into actions. We would think, or express what we want at some high level, and it would come into existence. That's not how the real world works. Painters need to use a brush, musicians need an instrument, or at least sheet music.

Some would argue that brushwork is like coding style. But the thing is, do you want to work on a team of Jackson Pollocks?
They manage to break GTK3 theming too. I find that to be even more insane, especially how god damn awful Adwaita is. Sorry, I bought a high res monitor for more space, not so my GTK3 widgets could be enormous.
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Wow. Hmm, how can I put this politely? As a desktop Linux user, I don't feel particularly left out in being ineligible for the hiring pool for a company that wouldn't let me use Linux. Maybe they scared away all the competent Linux admins with their negativity towards Linux?
What you need is NoScript ;-)
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This tendency is why UK English had to invent the word "twee".
This looks brilliant. Looks like I'll be using this for my next project (shame it wasn't released in time for my previous one)
So Paypal's also sucking it from the MAFIAA, hardly surprising.
FWIW this is actually smaller than many things you'd find in Manhattan (legally). NYC IIRC has minimum allowable size of 300 square feet for an apartment.

I think the main issue with NYC "micro" apartments is that they're often carved out of older units/buildings and shaped very strangely, resulting in less useful space overall than the number you're actually getting.
Good luck -- looks interesting. "Documentary" misspelled, fwiw.
When we wrote assembly language in fixed columns in an 80 character wide green-screen, it was useful to be able to fit the operands/jump labels into two columns (16 characters), so we tended to keep labels below 12 characters. We tried to be as expressive as we could with the names, but there were obvious limits.

As an aside (and from memory) we used the following tab stops: 0 tabs for labels, 2 tabs to the instruction, 3 tabs to the operands and 5 tabs to the EOL comments. All tabs were 8 characters.
Life is sh#t. We have to sell our start-up :( Buy it now price is $25 000
>Just a rope, tied to two trees. There were two villages, one at each side. At first, people pulled packages across that rope with a pulley and string.

I'm trying to visualize this, and it's not making any sense to me. I searched around to see if any such system is commonly used, and the closest I can find is a hauling line, which requires a second length of rope, at least long enough to span the gorge twice, which is hooked to the original rope via a carabiner and anchored at both sides. But there's no pulley involved with that (although if you wanted to over-engineer it, I guess you could use one instead of the carabiner).

So is this an actual thing that people do, or am I reading too much into this parable?
This is why I like coming here. I'd never thought of the tradeoff in that way before reading that quote, yet it makes perfect sense.

(I'm not arguing with your point at all, but of course there's software... and then there's software. Building might be cheap for both, but cost of deployment could be entirely different. Spacecraft control, microcode in an appliance, even certain classes of enterprise software all benefit from big up-front design because it's so expensive to patch later.)
I'm not a lawyer either, but I am in my 3rd year of law school - so yes I've heard of all those things. I've also studied the CFAA.

Common law is judge-made and only governs in the absence of statutory authority. (Due process and trial by jury are constitutional laws). The reasonable man is primarily a negligence standard.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190406060457657...

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I've never seen an ad during a presidential debate. Are you in the United States?
Because the resistance of any economically feasible liquid is probably higher than that of air. The energy needed to overcome that friction doesn't drop just because the water carries more momentum.
It's like having a goal of writing a poem and choosing between a sonnet and a haiku.
I think the problem is that you're imagining the same frontal area moving through two fluids. Certainly moving the same toyota camry through air and water will give vastly different results, but if you turned that toyota camry upside down and sealed all the holes, the actual wetted area that needed to be pushed through the water would be significantly less.

I'd be happy to look at your calculations. My knowledge of hydrodynamics is somewhat limited, but I do have a fairly good understanding of aerodynamics and a lot of that stuff is transferable. I can't decipher your email riddle though - is [4:5] saying the 4th and 5th characters? Mine is leorampen (at) gmail.
Seems to be https://launchpad.net/sopcast-player
I certainly agree with you, and if you work for me that is the treatment you get.

If you aren't the manager though, you are NG in my example, its hecka frustrating. When the CTO (and the author is the CTO of his company) says "There won't be any coding style strictures here" you give the CC guy a weapon to annoy his co-workers and his manager. And yes you should fire him once that personality type is made apparent but counting on the manager to have the stones to make that call is often a losing bet. To give you an example of how passive-aggressive this behavior can become, I knew an engineer who wrote his comments in Klingon. The style guide demanded comments, he didn't feel comments added anything useful over reading the code, he wrote comments in Klingon. What sucked (for him) was when Klingon translators started popping up on the web. Needless to say his rants ceased being private to him.
I'm bad with restaurants in Manhattan, but Anella and Bozu are two favorites in Brooklyn.

I agree there are many loud restaurants in Manhattan, but that is mostly a factor of the bar and/or a large space (e.g., Buddakan). Look for places not trying to attract attention (a full curtain on the window, rather than trying to advertise their popularity / bar scene).

My main point was probably that Manhattan != NYC. :)
We're getting it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/nyc-apartment-size-...
To address this and the comment from epo, obviously such a system is not possible.

I don't expect laws to be formally defined, I just expect them to be few, sensible, and transparent. Reasonable people shouldn't have a hard time inferring whether a specific activity is illegal.

Right now, our body of law is vast, complex, opaque and uncertain. Because of this, as I said above, most people likely break the law every single day. This gives rise to tyranny by selective enforcement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement), burdened economies and reduced investments due to untested and protectionist regulatory regimes, and an overall reduction in freedom and civil liberties.

By contrast, yes, the knowability and certitude afforded by a hypothetical-but-impossible legal system based on mathematics would be preferable. This is really not a complicated idea.

“Corruptissima republica plurimae leges. [The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]” — Tacitus, the Annals ca. AD 69
In C, braces on a new line is the prevailing style? I've been doing the opposite because that's what K&R C does (except for braces that define functions).
That isn't the question. The question is if jschr's modal implementation is more (or less) bug free than bootstrap's. Based on my analysis and many others, it is more bug free. Feel free to read through the issues. https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/search?q=modal
Patents don't last 30 years.

And yes, there is a balance, and I'm not suggesting it's been reached. I just want to dispel the notion that it'll all be hunky dory with no patent laws.
There is a 10 year old PeerCast that does (or was intended to do) something very similar. The only difference, which is crucial, is that BT sits on a massive userbase that they may be able to repurpose for bootstraping their project... Though Skype was in a similar position and look how well their Vienna Project is doing (it's dead).
"You're looking at a lot more than 1 atmosphere of pressure if you're under water"

There are already some very long vehicular tunnels at depth (the Chunnel, Seikan Tunnel, etc.). I don't think one atmosphere more or less would be a showstopper.
Either adblock or ghostery is blocking that ad network, then.
The maker movement isn’t just for hackers anymore.
what kind of reading are you looking at?
Heh. Startup ending:

Super-colourful, free-to-use bridge with moving walkways and an open bar half way across gets incredible traffic (despite dumping a few crossers into the gorge every now and again). Then one market day it's gone, replaced by a sign with a smug-looking photo of the builders and a note excitedly apologising for selling the bridge for parts to the nearest big city.
Only around 1 billion active users per month.
Human bias.
Autonomy analysed
How often do you check to see if you're getting better at coding?
I thought the same thing. As someone in marketing I was thinking if corporations are not doing this stuff already you are well behind the game. The thing to note with the Obama campaign is not the strategy but more how well they executed it.
> Obj-C is only dynamically typed

> swizzling happens only once at compile time.

Objective-C is a dynamic language in every sense of the term.

As examples, at runtime, you can:

- change an existing class' superclass
- swizzle methods
- create a class ex nihilo (though it'd be a better idea to inherit from NSObject)
- give that class (or even an existing one) methods, ivars, and properties

.. and much more

Visit the runtime reference[1] and jump into a running Objective-C app with GDB or F-Script. It's a lot of fun.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa...
Sorry, but I completely disagree. Did you read any of the extremely critical articles over the last few years, even in the mainstream so-called "liberal" press. Obama was strongly criticized over his policies and actions. One example - the drone program. He was and is roundly castigated about this.

I really don't agree with your "cult appeal" statement either. The people I know who support Obama are smart and well-informed, and made a conscious decision that he was and is the best choice for the country. You may not agree, but please don't fall into the trap of dismissing his appeal to many people.
I'm in New York at Knewton.

We do a lot to mitigate mistakes (code reviews, testing, rigorous QA), but when they happen I'm not getting the switch.

We're taken care of w.r.t wages and time. Hours are totally interchangeable here--if I arrive 45 minutes late, I make it up on the back end. I'm also taking care of a graduate degree out-of-pocket (speaks to both the wage and time thing).

I won't speak to arrogance (fallen into this trap, and you don't want to be the guy asserting falsehoods matter-of-factly), but junior devs shouldn't be afraid of assertiveness. I wasn't happy about something here, and when I was asked to discuss it with our tech management team they (a) listened and (b) acted on it immediately. That's big.
This is just not right.

Unless it's a submarine, a ship doesn't move through water, it floats on top of it. The wetted surface is going to be a tiny fraction of the total frontal area. 90% or more of the hydrodynamic drag of a ship (by area) is in the air, not in the water.

For example, here is a nice little 21-foot 1200-lb motor boat that can reach 16 knots with a 25 hp motor, while carrying four people: http://www.southportislandmarine.com/ordereze/1011/page.aspx
Another option is to donate to their operating costs here (http://watsi.org/about) under the Donate to Watsi heading.
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> I wonder if at some point in the future there's demand for a C level exec with populist charisma in the megacorps.

Well, there was this company called Apple ...
I think I prefer the idea of the style guide, which you might argue is a coding standard, but the use of 'guide' allows for a bit of lenience.

Moreover, I think one of these things is missing the point if it's entirely about syntax, whitespace, and whatever else can make the code appear readable on the surface. There's no substance to this and the code can still be shite while being 100% conformant. It'll just be formatted nice.

What a standard/guide should try to do is serve the dual purpose of educating or informing people about good practices, both in general and while being language specific. Some might disagree or find it patronising, but even if it's only encouraged by colleagues or peers, it can be the sort of thing that makes you think twice about the code you're about to commit.

By the same token, using a style guide for that should never be a replacement for a good, collaborative work environment. This is essentially a people problem after all.
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If he really meant the actual downtown of Los Angeles, then there is definitely a problem getting out of there in time to make anything feasible. And all of the ground, air and underground around there is going to be an issue. Heck, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westside_Subway_Extension shows 4-8 billion just to extend a subway through part of it.

As for oceans, I think the risks are less than you think. A tsunami does great damage when it hits land, but in the open ocean you just bob a few inches. The mechanics behind that are simple - a wave coming in to shore starts to get bigger once the depth of the land is the same as the depth of the wave. Tsunamis are very deep waves.
I love when metaphors get stretched beyond their breaking point.
In aerodynamics, everything is relative. If you, plus a bunch of air are moving at supersonic speeds through a pipe, then that looks exactly the same as if you're moving a pipe at supersonic speeds over static you.
Agree - this type of parable may be suitable for small children, but if you think about it, it has zero information content, and no applicability to the real world.

I'd much rather read a real story about a real bridge or two - that's what I come to HN for.
Same here. It works perfectly.
I think by "pulley", he meant "zipline". Just something which can ride along the rope.
clipped.me/tftrial check it out - Its a one man teen startup - would love to get feedback from the community!
> The entire point of the courts is to address grey areas.

Let me know how that works out if you get dragged into a patent lawsuit in East Texas. :-)
Without judging on the underlying patent... this is definitely not a troll. The patents in question are held by a practicing entity.
Real world version: Google Wave is bridge #1.

Edit: The CueCat is an even better example!

Meanwhile, the transition of Amazon from bookseller to everything-seller to hardware maker to cloud company is a good example of a real-world Bridge #2 story. Or the transition of Justin.tv into Twitch.
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Not to mention that 'Silicon Prairie' is already taken, several times over: Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie, Illinois Silicon Prairie, Wyoming Silicon Prairie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Prairie
Now I see that -- not sure why I didn't notice sooner (@@)

I wonder how many other users may have had a different takeaway of the product if the attribution and sources was more obvious?
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This article reminded me blog post on Coding Horror back from 2007 called "Falling into the pit of success". This is exactly what Obama has created for his staff: "a pit of success". His staff had to merely just fall into it.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/08/falling-into-the-pi...
Or as Mark Zuckerberg sees them, only around 1 billion people to extort money from per month.

FB stopped being about social media some months ago.
I believe you are reading too much into the parable :-)
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What are the advantages of using air instead of liquid? Is it just the breathablity aspect?

I posted a few comments in the past on my guess. A liquid filled loop with a (super)hydrophobic inner surface. Energy stored as kinetic, solar accelerated.

I have been looking, and haven't been able to find much info on reduced energy loss by using hydrophobic surfaces. It's a new enough tech that all the good info is behind academic paywalls.
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Heh! Everything in moderation. Except moderation. But then...
I look back at what I was doing 6 months ago every once in a while. If I'm not embarrassed, I'm afraid.
you just HAD to go and get the lawyers involved didn't ya?
If you're Canadian I highly suggest NOT ordering from this company. I had a nightmare with shipping and vowed to never order from this company again.
To get water out of the air, it has to be condensed into liquid. Condensation requires a significant temperature difference, and the best way to get that is refrigerant. I'm surprised that he was able to do this using only a solar powered fan.

You could create condensation with only a light breeze, but it probably wouldn't yield a significant amount of water. I think the best case for these would be to attach them to balloons and put them high into the atmosphere (where it's much colder), so that they could produce even more water with the same amount of energy.
Fantastic post, and one that I think a lot of developer founders can sympathize with. If you're in the specific circumstance of being the developer founder turned CEO, I think this is one of the toughest aspects of that role. I appreciated the fact that you brought in advice from numerous outside sources as well.
If I might channel my inner grumpy-old-man for a moment:

I find it curious that people who design nifty new devices are regularly referred to as "scientists". This is not science; it is engineering. Why not call it that?
Needs more GNU/Bridge
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Signed up. Good luck!

I don't really have or listen to vinyl, but I'm a music lover and also love album art.
I remember Musk saying that its propulsion source was similar to that of a rail gun's. Sorry, can't remember where, but it was recent.
Since when is giving people what they want, in a democracy, "very, very bad?"
I have heard a very similar tale used to describe the inefficiencies of a centrally planned economy vs free market.
This is awesome, looking forward to seeing the full project!
This time of year, the package delivery companies are hiring lots of temporary help. There was a sticker looking for temporary delivery guys covering up the local paper's lead story last week.
It has a 2 cell battery. I doubt it's 30W.
I think that is a bit of an ad hoc fallace.

Sure, because Obama won we declare him the most charismatic candidate. Had he lost, people would say the oposite, declaring him 'professorial' 'aloof' or 'elitist' (all criticisms directed at Obama at times in the media) and point out his lackluster performance in the first debate as evidence of a lack of charisma.

Perception of charisma is also heavily influenced by our personal biases. I'm sure that we perceive candidates we like as being more charismatic. I bet a majority of Democrats would say Obama is charismatic and a majority of Republican would disagree.
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