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you should have read further , until completion instead of skimming the first part of the article & you would have concluded otherwise.
>I don't know who bob44 is,

I think you do.

You're engaging in some serious trolling right now.
Well Objective C was a preprocessor extension as this proposal is so it's one and the same. Both are extensions.

Yes we all know where vendors that do that got us:

-moz-gradient:
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gradient:
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Oh and Microsoft with their C++ CLR extensions and middle finger to C99.
I like the idea. it has the potential of making a change and enabling people to do new things.
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I can tell you that I used leandomainsearch to get my domain for a project that shifted focus (old domain was completely irrelevant) and it was a great tool. That said, I'm just a random guy on the internet but I plan on using it again.
Icomoon is definitely awesome and useful. endtwist and I were craving more of a Compass spriting style workflow for icons, however, which is how this project got started.
>".. with a loan..." I rest my case.
that still obscures the full price of a transaction. interest is involved, different payment plans are presented, repayment modalities are different. That does not comport with your earlier claim that Europe does it without subsidies.

>Well, they should be more efficient then. There's no reason it would take so much man power.

or you could be more thoughtful instead of throwing completely made-up numbers just to support some wild assertion of yours.
> Surely Objective-C, which adds a hell of a lot that C does not address and many syntax and runtime changes to support it, would fall under the definition of "fork of the language"

It's not even a fork, it's a different language source-compatible with C. It has its own semantics, its own syntax and its own runtime.
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They mention:

> "‘import’ ignores preprocessor state within the
source ﬁle"

I wonder if that would remove specific use-cases where you wouldn't want the import to ignore the state of the pre-processor within the source file?

Overall, I like it!
Always nice to get an insider's POV and an education about what is going on in at least one angel investor's head
We're thinking subtitling might help with dubbing efforts but we won't go in subtitles direction for now. Amara has this field covered really good.

Long term goal is to become a YouTube for non English speaking users :)
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What do you call what goes on on daily basis now?

On a side note, it's a false equivalency to say "Congress"; it's the MO of the Republican party and those who share the frame of mind that is prevalent and represented therein.

When you have a bastardized bi-polar political system from the agricultural era of western history that merely represented a coincidental flame of sanity in the dark and gloomy misery of religious psychopathic fraud, human characteristics and mentalities will polarize. Although not in any way absolute, the reality is that as much as the bumbling, well-intentioned foolishly self-assured enablers end up on one side; the greedy, psychopathic, selfish, heinous, paranoid, and self-righteously sadistic end up on the opposite through a process of attraction and repulsion.

It is the reason why the nation was forged by sacrificing state power plurality as a result of the civil war, and it is what will continue to escalate the present disharmony and possibly lead to quite uncomfortable disruption.
Hey, I like your article! I do feel like you're highlighting things that are just generally true of human nature. People tend to delude themselves about their intentions, are unrealistic about their stated goals, etc.
> On the other hand: if someone would do the equivalent to their browser, people would call it fragmentation.

This happens all of the time in browsers. See: Dart, vendor prefixes, JavaScript, etc, etc.

This is also absolutely nothing new in compilers. GCC has had a bucket load of its own C extensions for years (decades), as have many other compilers from many vendors.

Vendor-specific extensions are par for course. In fact, they're a good thing! The first step in moving a standardized language forward is to have the vendors designing and adding non-standard extensions so that they can experiment with ways to "scratch the itch" they're feeling. Good extensions get taken up in committee, and if they can be made palatable to all involved, they get standardized. Bad extensions die on the table.

Having tried-and-tested features drive standardization allows hindsight and experience to strengthen resulting standards. We call the opposite, where the standards body invents a feature out of whole cloth with no example implementation having been tested in the real world, "Design by Committee". This strategy does not have a high reputation for quality and success.
I like being able to browse the source too--in fact, I depend on it for debugging Java programs. But that has never been considered "the" documentation for Java, and in many cases (I'm looking at you, Morphic) it is the case with Smalltalk.

If the Smalltalk community wants to remain small, insular and essentially irrelevant then they shouldn't change anything. However, if they want to win people back, it would be a good idea to take stock of what the rest of the world is up to and consider adopting it rather than insulting it. Clojure is conquering the Lisp world today largely by absorbing modern FP techniques, a modern base and adding clever bits of syntax--changes that would have been heavily derided as unnecessary by the traditional Lisp community.

When your community is small, self-selected and indignant, it's hard to know what changes will make your product more appealing. But defending a lack of progress and chalking low usage up to the inferiority of other programmers is insane, especially in a world with increasing numbers of Haskell programmers.
Moxie Marlinspike has an excellent argument that DANE doesn't make the problem better, it makes it worse, by concentrating all power in the hands of a single third party.

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ssl-and-the-future-of-authe...
It shouldn't even be that expensive. You can designate a single region for way less than that (or at least you could, it's been years since I looked into it) and to trick it into the business press, you need to only add links like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to your pr story.

In the late 90s, companies would add ridiculous statements like "company X manages large scale industrial controls in the same vein as GE (NYSE:GE) , HP (NYSE:HPQ) and IBM (NYSE:IBM)" to scam yahoo and other pubs into linking their PR From the popular stock pages. It was very lame.
I commented on the Forbes article, but I figured I'd repost my comment here:

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Hey Jon,

Thanks for the comments.

We do our best to listen to our customers. The primary reason that we haven't built Bitcoin support is that we haven't seen requests for Bitcoin as a payout method.

We use GitHub to track feature requests, so I created a GitHub issue (https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204) for Bitcoin. I'd love to get feedback.

I also submitted the GitHub issue to HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833049) to drive more attention and increase feedback.

Matin
Co-founder/CEO, Balanced
Cue someone writing a "get get-shit-done" script that turns on all the productivity scripts you have at a specified time
That's an interesting point. A while ago I got an email that was clearly not intended for me with some big confidentiality warning on the bottom.

So I did as it said, deleted the email and informed the sender. Got a reply back saying "oh, sorry it was intended for xxx@xxx.com".

So then I get another one a few days later, this time I deleted it and forwarded it to the intended recipient. Then I informed the sender again getting no response.

Now about once a week I get this stuff into my account (which is basically a throwaway I hardly log into).

I assume I'm not expected to somehow play secretary for these people.
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I have strong reservations against the word "hacking" in of itself. From an engineering perspective, "hacking" is a quick-n-dirty fix, like "hacking" it together with duct tape. It seems so subversive and manipulative, especially in the context of "hacking" these interviews.

I'd rather not say that I "hacked" together anything. What about diligently and properly planning, designing, researching, and implementing?

Where are the "How I planned for my YCombinator interviews" articles?
That is my initial reaction - but given the partner's propensity to defy the odds in their other endeavors, would that be sufficient evidence to take a gamble?

Also, given that this particular endeavor is one in which they have tied up their entire identity in - and they are not intentionally 'not-committing' (in fact, they have explicitly stated and done things to indicate that they are committed - just not to the extent that the other partner feels fully comfortable). Also, they are a relatively "public" figure/mini-celebrity in a particular niche, so for them to back down from such a public commitment would be more difficult than a "non-public" person.

I guess, going back to the marriage analogy, it's more a question of "not because your partner doesn't love you in the way you want to be loved means that they don't love you with all they have". Is it possible that they could genuinely be fully committed, but just can't commit in the way YOU (i.e. the other partner or investor) wants them to be committed...and it still be a success.
> instead of, for example, inextricably tying its design to classes and namespaces

Considering it's Apple-designed and Apple works mostly with C (and Obj-C), it's not really surprising that they designed it for C and working with C++ rather than design it for C++.
Isn't loose regulation of the wireless industry the reason the US has completely incompatible CDMA and GSM networks competing with each other? IMHO the consumer would be much better off today if the government had stepped in and pushed everyone to one or the other.
My motives have nothing to do with free entertainment. Generally I find movies to be shit, but occasionally order one off amazon because I can afford it and can't be bothered with the hassle of managing a download. I love music (to perform) but don't listen to it because I find it distracting.

I'm interested in digging in hard on issues where the people in our time all seem to be blinkered to the truth. What are the issues where people in five hundred years will look back at us and say "how could they have been so [stupid/cruel/content]."

Copyright's one of them. It's not conducive to creativity, it doesn't reward creators. There's never been a public policy case made that explains why we have it, just vague hand-waving about how it's necessary for creation of production.

In order to enforce it the government needs to encroach on more and more freedoms.

For all its madness, copyright is generally accepted. Good people are made to feel guity for doing it, partly because of unsupported economic claims, and partly from bald-faced lies that smart people should see throuh, such as branding copyright infringement as 'stealing'.
I think this Onion video is very possibly relevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqZ65pUQxyQ
This is so unamerican. Giving stuff away for free is really bad. Teach a man to fish instead. Or rather, the man should be trying to learn to fish. It just feels so bad. Like spoiling a child.

If you really want to help somebody you must really make them work for it with blood and sweat. Otherwise they will not appreciate it. And they will teach their children (sub-consciously) to just wait for the next billionaire to give them something.
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How do I track issues then? I sent the link to the issues page.

What is all this sexy and intuitive UI for if I cannot even mention it? Github repos look just like file folders in most GUI OSes.
The Snopes article also links to a page on a moonshine distillery website that claims to show you how to get diplomatic immunity: http://www.coppermoonshinestills.com/id53.html

Well worth reading for kicks, and reads more like a primer on how to make yourself a nuisance to local courts.

tl;dr You have to fill out some documents, notarize them, have state and federal judges sign them, and refuse any case you're involved in to be heard by magistrates in lower courts. In this way you'll be put on the "list" for diplomatic immunity although you are (presumably) not a diplomat. They even sell diplomatic corps car tags.

The legitimacy of the article is undermined by the fact that the author often spells "you" as "ya".
True, but I wasn't. You really weren't as clear as you seem to think you were. If all you're saying is pick as roots nearby notes on the circle of fifths, you could have been much clearer.
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Or, like many people, you are less naturally good at communication, and you need to actively improve this ability.
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Am I the only one who realizes that while voice is approaching commoditization, you still have a lot of specialty equipment required for moving calls? It's not the same as IP, where, for instance, the time to reorder the packets on arrival is inconsequential, whereas in VoIP it's death if those packets aren't sorted in under 200ms.

Is Voice WAY more expensive than it has to be? Yes. Is it 5 factors overpriced? Probably not.

The $ figures cited in the article treat voice like another packet and it just isn't.

Source: I work at a company that's trying to open-source core telecom infrastructure.
Thanks - That's great to hear and something I'm sure a lot of HN'ers will appreciate.
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What did you made think bad about Heroku?
Clojure would be great! It's an awesome language with a great community behind it, it would be awesome to see it get more traction and start making it into more challenge sites like this one.
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I like the idea, but hopefully they'll shorten the std submodules to `std.io`, `std.lib`, etc.
With extractive governments like Assad's, you could hardly expect something different.
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Not really a review. They didn't even have a unit. This is just a listing of the specs and some pictures. No information about the screen.
> Why is this?

To get any benefit from the use of precompiled headers at all, you need to include practically every single header in your project in your precompiled header. Doing this is the opposite of modular.... it tightly couples each of your N compilation units with each of the M modules (changing any one of the modules bundled in the pch will force you to recompile all compilation units using the pch.)
> it tried to be a portion of the OS but not quite enough

That's actually a fairly recent problem (since the 90s maybe?) as Smalltalk implementors had to move onto "third-party" OS. The original smalltalk controlled everything but the hardware, much the same way Lisp Machines worked (yes I'm aware most lisps didn't work that way)
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And by the way, company x will not donate a dollar to this poor cancer suffering baby for every like the photo gets, Mr mamboto will not transfer 25 trillion dollars to your bank account, and the Microsoft lottery was already won by the early share holders.
I don't know why but every time I see those statuses and chain emails (same thing really) I lose faith in the common sense of humanity...
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They use a system of representative democracy to keep it from being too unwieldy: http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/about/the-partnership/...

Not that much different from how things work in public corporations. Every shareholder has a say in the running of a business, but AMD does not check with me for every single decision they make, even though I own a share of the company. Except in this case, the shareholders and the employees are identical sets.
Re: Precompiled headers

It may be possible to do precompiled headers right. However, compiler vendors have been trying to do so since the mid 90s and haven't succeeded yet.

The reason I personally like this proposal better than PCH is that it requires explicit use. You can slowly convert libraries to the import syntax while still #including other headers that require conditional stuff. Seriously, just converting all #include <anything from C++ STL or Boost> to this will save 10s of gigabytes of source from being compiled on some projects I've seen.
Is it necessary for friends to "be an advantage" to you besides just being your friends? When you spend a lot of time in places like HN, you're at risk of succumbing to some kind of extremist lifestyle where you have to rationalize even who your friends are or use dumbbells while you're brushing your teeth because it saves time. This is not necessary.

I have friends from way back that can't relate to what I'm doing and will probably never "help" me in any way. However, when I go back home, I greatly enjoy spending time with them and for me that enough.
This is the third wave I've seen of this on facebook... at least it's better worded this time.

This pretty much proves what many of us knew: the average person has absolutely no idea about copyright or TOS agreements, and what rights they have or are signing away.
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Pg, are there really many ugly ducklings on demo day, despite the rigorous selection and the subsequent teaching/incubation process?
> Ruby block syntax is straight up lifted from Smalltalk

Uh... no it's not, it's lifted from C/Perl with a smattering of Pascal.

> not to mention much of the semantics and standard library.

The semantics are as much Perl as they are Smalltalk, if not more so. And many pieces of Smalltalk are missing (first-class blocks to start with, Ruby's blocks are a hack)
When it comes to any mass-market consumer product, 99% of the users (I'm exaggerating, no, probably not) will leave all settings at the default. Therefore the default settings have orders of magnitude more real-world testing than all non-default setting combinations COMBINED. Nearly any mature product is therefore bound to behave dramatically better on its default settings than in any other configuration in sheer defiance of what "should" happen.
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This is great! I always thought the $150k was too much of a runway. It allowed the poor startups to limp along for too long.

And besides, the real value from these investments isn't the money, it is the mindshare you get with the VCs. This will help make that mindshare greater.
We're probably 5-10 years away until they can even send a rocket to Mars with humans, and another 10 years until the idea of a colony can begin to take shape. It's all very exciting, though.
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I think YC has more of a problem dealing with the bad startups than it does dealing with the successful ones. My opinion from Paul's writing is that his goal is to find the AIRbnb's as quickly as possible while relegating things that aren't going to be mammoth. It makes sense when you're playing a volume/numbers game like YC has been doing.

Quite the investor lineup; I think they had their choice of anyone in the world to be honest.

I like reading PG's stuff because these sort of decisions are counterintuitive, but very fun academic/didactic examples.
What stops other investment firms from making identical blanket investments, or how do you guys plan to stop that?
Is there any significance to Ron Conway not being in the group anymore?
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Elon Musk is my hero.
Having a limited C++ background, started with C++ in college, I have a half remembered idea about how #include works and linking and such not. When I started working with Obj-C, I found the mix of include and import. This proposal looks like Apple is migrating their* import (module) system to C and C++.

As for removing #include, at least in Obj-C, #include is still there to allow working with C libraries. I would assume the same for C & C++.

* Not really sure what is Apple's Obj-C versus a standardized Obj-C
That the only mapmaking authority to whom this island would actually matter is France (SHOM). Since it's in their territorial water and it also would extend their territorial water by being an actual Island. So it's in the very interest of France to have a clear idea what belongs to them and what not, also it's their responsibility to provide as accurate as feasible navigational charts to ensure the safety of ships which travel through their waters.

Look at the french charts featured at geogarage, the post has added a few more SHOM charts for reference which show no Island.

http://blog.geogarage.com/2012/11/south-pacific-sandy-island...

So what does it mean?

Basically one would only need to blame Australia for the lack of funding or interest to ground-truth and update their issued charts outside of their territorial waters. The easiest explanation would be a lack of communication between Australian and French nautical mapping authorities.
Second to that the Australian authorities didn't feel the need to do their own mapping by means of actively acquiring of information on the area by satellite, plane or ship for civil applications.
Your tl;dr is a bunch of links. What is the one-sentence tl;dr, because after reading the OP I didn't really see the point?
It's sad to see SV Angel isn't part of the W13 VC program.
You know when we built [PDFzen](https://pdfzen.com), we used Bootstrap and made it Metro-esque. I wish we'd have had something like this for the homepage. It certainly would've sped things up.
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This comment is about Kickstarter in general, and not about the Smartduino project, right? Even the linked blog post doesn't imply that they're not capable of delivering their product, and looking at their collateral they appear to be very far along, far more mature than the average hardware kickstarter project.

I just want to make sure we're not blanket conflating branding concerns with ability to ship, because they're entirely different issues.
If you want a little more precision, credit it to the Apple Compiler Group - they seem to operate with quite a bit more autonomy than, say, whoever's responsible for security there.
Seen this when it was still very rough. Huge progress so far. Keep it up.
Definitely seems like Go has led the way here. Not that there wasn't a lot of pain before, but Go's lightning compilation seems to be an impetus for the "let's finally do this" change.

I have to think that this is a minor repartee between Apple and Google language groups. Google did something clever that breaks with tradition, and now Apple is doing something similarly clever yet backwards-compatible.

I like this dynamic. I certainly appreciate this move as a OS X/iOS programmer, since getting a functional version of Go on iOS is a pipe dream for strategy tax reasons.
WRT compiler overhead, this is an asymptotic improvement, not just a constant factor. If this can get my 30-second to 20-minute compiles (depending on what's changed since the last make) down to the compile-duration range of Go (which uses this kind of dependency management for compiler performance reasons) that completely changes the workflows that are possible.

But yeah - the standardisation issue is worrying, although at least it looks like they've thought about the issue with their transitional proposal.
People are calling this a pump and dump scheme.
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