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To tidy up a repository with lots of merged branches, you can use this script: http://snippets.freerobby.com/post/491644841/remove-merged-b...

Although it seems the best approach would be to actually keep the branch pointers around, but have a way of hiding them to reduce the clutter
> You're assuming sarcasm rather than a "whoa, seriously?" response

There is a difference between "whoa, seriously?" and "whoa, seriously? if that's so, then why aren't you swimming in money?". The former is ok, the latter is generally given to people who tell you that they speak with Elvis or they can travel freely to the future and back.
Most talks will be 30 minutes, some will be 45. We don't know which are which yet; that'll come when we publish the actual schedule in the next couple weeks.
Not to mention harping on about an IDC report about last quarter Windows Phone sales while WP8 launched only last month and is selling okay according to many reports. People were waiting for WP8 to launch because of both the new OS and hardware but also because WP7 phones can't be upgraded, so sales weren't that great.

>This "writer" needs to be fired

The "writer" is more likely to get a pay hike or get promoted because his blogspam is garnering a lot of hits from sites like HN because of the headline and content.
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https://github.com/drbunsen/describe/

It was a utility written by the author for his analysis work.
Great idea - I'll see what I can do!
Hey, that's a bargain compared to the Square card reader, which sells for $10:

http://packstore.anvil.net/products/square-register

...that's, um, $10 more than Square would charge you. Or am I missing something here? Someone please correct me, because this just seems mad.
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I'm also wondering this. Most of the stories I hear are of issues in the USA/Canada rather than the EU. I bet we get our fair share of scams too but it'd be nice to know if there are any other protections (especially in the UK).

Just my 2 cents, i've sold two smartphones on eBay and not had any issues. I once did have a scam buy-it-now where they'd asked to ship to a foreign country but was able to relist quickly and sell to a legitimate buyer.
Dude, why can't I just browse a bunch of products for sale? That's all I want to do, I don't want to sign up to your site. I just want to see what's listed and possibly buy some parts. I'll probably check back again tomorrow if I see a few interesting things, probably in my lunch break at work. I've been thinking about getting a Garrett 3071 turbo kit but haven't given into the temptation yet -- but probably after seeing one listed for a few days I might cave in and buy it on impulse.

But I won't, because I don't want to sign up to be able to window shop...

and I stopped looking at your site after about 15 seconds as a result.
> What am I missing?

How many people do you know under 10? That's the generation MSFT needs to worry about.

Anecdotally, the kids I've seen get tablets/phones/ipod touches and blast away on them. They'd vastly prefer a tablet to a laptop. Arguments like "You can do real work on a PC!" are not going to sway them. If anything, it reinforces "regular computers = drudgery, to be minimized as much as possible".
When was the last time you upgraded a CPU on a laptop? Laptops already outsell desktops, and by 2015, tablets will outsell desktops.

http://www.inquisitr.com/76157/tablets-to-overtake-desktop-s...

I can't see why Intel would continue to worry about an increasingly shrinking part of the industry.
"New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006" ... "with an estimated arrival date at the Pluto–Charon system of July 14, 2015"
I actually think that attaching an IP address to web mail is a good thing.
Google Plus is usually good enough for this kind of stuff
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They could also buy Valve and then integrate Steam and XBox Live. It would be horrible for end-users (they'd probably botch it) but would be lucrative from a business perspective.
you are a fucking retard. wow.
Both my parents only use an iPad and never ever used anything else.
Given that the person in question isn't dead (at least according to my information, I searched for details just because of your irritating comment), I believe that your comment includes a good mixture of bad taste and irrelevant "who cares about SMS" attitude.

Both are crap.
I know a handful of people that have completely left the PC market for the tablet market (read: iPad), but you know what they say about anecdotal evidence.

Sidenote: they are thrilled with the transition.
Even better, the update finally includes the ability to install games to drives other than the one steam itself is installed to.
If I had to simultaneously generalize the idea and make it specific enough to explain it further, I'd say fiddly callback state machines are a code smell in Go.
>"I don't think America surpassing Britain in any category was solely due to copyright laws."

This may be incorrect, at least for one category (literature). There's actually some really interesting lit that argues that lax/nonexistent copyright laws of the revolutionary period are the reason that the publishing industry ever took off in America. And these same laws, it could be argued, are how American literature got its start. (Sorry, this is skeevy, but I can't remember the title of the book that articulates this argument for the life of me... Will post it if it comes to me.)

As to your second argument: Are there other aspects of Japanese society that could influence their innovation that go beyond intellectual property? I'm not going to deny that IP protections could play a role in innovation, but I could certainly imagine two countries with identical IP regimes having RADICALLY different levels of innovation. (Education, culture, etc could all create positive impacts on innovation... and these effects may even outweigh any effect produced by an IP regime.)

Are there any metrics for innovation as a whole? This would be an interesting thing to look into...
Microsoft's nightmare is really just a great boost for everyone. There hasn't been l balance in computers for almost 20 years. Microsoft has a monopoly that needs to be broken. It will be good for everyone, including Microsoft. They'll still be widely profitable and they will probably be more innovative and competitive. Given Microsoft's 90% desktop market share and domination with Office, I can't see them falling below 50% anytime in the next decade. They really are that entrenched.
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How is Skype a royal mess after the acquisition? Also Skype is run pretty independently even now with Microsoft. Their entry badge IDs even say Skype and not Microsoft. Also, deprecation of MSN/Windows/Live Messenger is good. Why have two different platforms which basically do the same thing thus wasting resources within the company and confusing consumers? I can't imagine they've been making too much money from Messenger.
I'd be interested in hearing about that too. I just ordered parts to build my parents a computer, I'm using it as an excuse to try out a Trinity APU. If I like it I'll look into building an ITX size for myself.
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IANAL either. BUT, I know a guy who had his car stolen through fraud. The fraudster gave him a bogus cashiers check (and his bank took over a month after deposit to alert him that the check was bogus).

His car insurance paid out on a theft claim. I'm sure there were more details to it, but I've never heard of "fraud insurance" as part of an auto insurance policy.
You interpreted me right. One dimension that needs to be considered is that, as opposed to Newton's day, the average human has substantially less chance of dying from a consumer product.

The pharma industry is a very good example of this...the costs of drugs and the tricks pharma companies use to extend patents is rightly criticized...on the other hand, the research and regulatory process is massively lengthy and costly, and one that no one would pursue if another company could swoop in and profit on billions of R&D.

There's also something else...rate of advancement is likely going to seem slower than it was in the past few centuries, because of a natural diminishing rate of return. To paraphrase -- I think, Stephen Colbert -- it's easy to make scientific discoveries when not burying diseased corpses next to your water supply is considered a health breakthrough.
I took a look at it, and I just don't think it would work for my non-tech savvy clients. There's too much going on.
Honestly, my iPad is collecting cobwebs, along with lots of other friends' iPads. Maybe he has the fads backwards. After all, how many "employees" do real work on their iPads?

More disastrously for Microsoft, who needs a PC to make PowerPoints? Keynote will kill Microsoft.
You can't copyright a physical law, you can't even patent it. So in that respect Newton's work wouldn't be limited in it's use.

Personally I think he'd release his treatise under CC-BY (which requires copyright law to work).

FWIW patents are about an exchange of knowledge for a time-limited monopoly on the use of that knowledge. Patents allow the free propagation of the ideas behind patentable inventions and provide means to incentivise inventors and to reward beneficial inventions. They also, by exclusions, all the development, experiment and investigation of others in to the content of patent disclosures before the details therein would normally be disclosed.

The alternative to patents ("open [letters]") is industrial secrets. If you can show me how making all current patent disclosures in to industrial secrets promotes the propagation of technological ideas I'd be much obliged.
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Since I've already heard about of lot of these through Hacker News, I can't really comment on how interesting this store would be to the average consumer.

Apart from that, the website looks very nice. The "home" button (little house symbol) has an awkward animation (why can't it just highlight?), but other than that it looks very clean and professional.

On last thing: it took me a while to realize that all of the hardware featured on the store interacts with iPhones. I got the "App Store for hardware" message, but for some reason my brain didn't connect that with only iPhone hardware. Perhaps if I owned an iPhone that connection would form more quickly.
man i loved that :) guide to mostly harmless hacking (GTMHH) :D
I'm not sure if it's actually impossible. IANA physicist, but if your singular all-consuming goal was to get out of the solar system as fast as possible you could probably get a better gravity assist from a single pass of the sun than Voyager got from the entire grand tour.

(Feel free to correct me, physicists!)

The bigger issue is convincing someone to hand you millions of dollars to literally throw away faster than anything in prior human history.
I know zero Go (it's a little far down on the to-learn list), and maybe he edited it, but I went back and read the GP's code and didn't see anything that looked like ignoring errors.

Is it the two ", _" things?
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I have always asked a question to myself about SEO and paying for links from directories. Do they work? Maybe or maybe not. Let me share my experience. Every week i get calls from directory services offering me top google listings and yahoo for my site. http://www.proscreens.net informing me that i can become top of major search engines and achieve lots and lots of traffic. This maybe so but there is something to consider. When i get a call from these directories the first thing they do is ask me to log on to their site therefore gaining a hit. Then they ask me to search for something random like hairdressers or plumbers say for example in Ascot. In doing this their gaining a hit for the company that has paid to be on that directory and top of the listing. These people can be very persistant trying to extract £300- £500 for a listing. Also as a small business i also like others maybe look at directories to see what the opposition are doing so once again gaining more hits for their website but not necessarily looking for a service. I find the best way to gain more hits in business is to offer a good service and meet friends on the way. Us at http://www.proscreens.net would rather not spend the money on this kind of advertising and give something back to the community. ie for us, we do free film screenings for charities. Also we ask other business to link swap with us when we see their work, ie, when we are on a job and there is a company that also does a good job. I would very much like to know other peoples opinion to this.
> cls=clear # Yes, I started out in DOS

ctlr + l is your new best friend.
If you're actually willing to engage in this discussion, then here's
your answer.
YC and (other "incubators" like it) are basically opportunistically
exploiting cheap/free labor of thousands of naive (mostly) young
developers to play the lotto on the cheap. You throw in a laughably
small amount of money for a good chunk of equity, encourage your young
charges to go forth on a steady diet of ramen noodles and ketchup --
burning through 100 hour weeks to experiment with 100's of
different(mostly bullshit) trendy catchwords of the day.You only need
to get lucky to be able to flip a few of these companies to the next
level of VC's or acquirers to make back your money multiple times
over. Rest of the blood, sweat, lost sleep and trashed health of the
thousand of other fools that failed is no sweat off your back.

Care to publish aggregate statistics on the percentage of yc backed startups became profitable businesses compared to rest of the industry?

EDIT: Apparently I was mistaken. He's not actually looking to engage in a real discussion of yc's business model.
Except when they "all" go bust. There is only so much VC money to go around and when that contracts open positions do too. We've been in a good period for a while but tech is also very cyclical.
Yeah, it's like a bad spy movie where the villain is sure to explain his plan to everyone so that the good guys can swoop in just as he's finished telling his plan.

Wow, what cunning genius to explain your ruse. Live blogging your flee from authority is just well... dumb...

Here's an idea, get the hell out of South America and shut up.
Isn't this the same as a message queue? Why would you want to rewrite this using a database? Also point/trick 2 seems unnecessary if you are using 3 (idempotent jobs). By queuing job ids you now have a consistency dependency between your message queue and database.
AWESOME! I've been waiting for this! I've got an SSD that I only want to install certain games on because it is not big enough.
Fascinating, back in the way back time when Ebay was first starting, the only way I would sell something was payment in advance, but check. Further the check needed to clear my bank before I would ship the merchandise. This was a pain but it was the only way to do business if you wanted to avoid fraud. Paypal made this so much easier, they would carry the risk if it was a 'certified' account.

The whole "not as described" is an impossibly giant and stupid loophole.

Back to asking for checks I guess.
If you wanted to have a probe pass Voyager 1 in 10 years, you would need to launch it today and get it going 15.9 AU/year, which is blazing fast. Almost 5 times as fast as Voyager 1. New Horizon, if launched today, could almost do it (14.13 AU/year), but it's mission wasn't set up to leave it traveling as fast as Voyager 1. Although it's going out in the same direction and was launched faster, it will ultimately end up going slower.

If you give yourself 10 years to design the probe and something to get it going that fast, then the speed you actually need jumps up to 19.5 AU/year. The longer it takes you to design your fast rocket, the faster it has to go in order to catch Voyager 1 in the same amount of time.

Realistically, unless something exotic happens in space propulsion technology, we will never catch Voyager 1 within our lifetime. If we launched today at twice the speed of Voyager 1, then we could catch it in around 50 years, but that's not going to happen.
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They didn't give a figure though, the salary offer might have still been below what the guy considered his market value so he countered by wanting to bump up the equity to go with it.
I think as long as people have asses we will have chairs, and as long as there are chairs there will be desks and we will want to use our hands at them.

So I don't think the physical keyboard is going away, it will still be the most efficient way to bang out a school paper, computer code, or a thoughtful business email.

The screen we prefer to look at while sitting down will probably always be larger than the one we prefer to carry around.
In the instance of online auction marketplaces, you could create an escrow system where the seller ships the good to the auctioneer's warehouse (with some practical limitations) who verifies condition and that the good is legitimate (not stolen). Buyers pay money to the escrow company (e.g. Ebay) who ships the goods and send the money to the seller. Any chargebacks go against the escrow company who also happened to have validated the good and can use TOS/Legal Agreements to fight the chargeback on grounds of item quality. In this situation, they could also probably finagle a decent relationship with the CC processors to streamline the process and weed out fraud.

Is that workable? Quite possibly. Is it probable? Probably not.

Edit: Spelling
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Launch speed isn't the whole story though. You can accelerate to ludicrous speeds once you're in space. Compare the following to New Horizon's launch speed of 16 km/s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_probes (70 km/s)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Probe%2B (theoretical 200 km/s)
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Apple store does the same - Sell for $10, with $10 in service credit attached.
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Cool!

But is that actually answering my post? I was giving an example for reasons that might lead to the 'is the job secure' discussions, as pointed out in the article.

Your post isn't related. Weekends and salaries were not part of the discussion before your post. Job security (a.k.a. "Sorry, Jim. We need to let you go") was.

So I don't quite get it. If you wanted to reemphasize that it makes no sense to apply to a tiny startup in a situation like mine: Okay, I didn't need that support, but I'm happy you're agreeing. If you wanted to tell me that it's not that bad, since - hey - many startups can 'give their employees weekends' (did you think before writing that? Are you really convinced that 'giving' is involved here?) and offer competitive salaries (which might be the case. It just totally, utterly ignores the point I was trying to make: Job security matters, financially. I didn't even start talking about the emotional level here: Lack of job security will make your life more miserable (unless you've got enough FU money on the bank)).
The Daily's biggest competing app was the web browser. Thousands of websites with better information, accessible quickly and for free.

That's not to say a paid news magazine is not viable, but if you are going to start one, you need to know what you are competing against.

A fast, presentable application with unique focused content is going to be key in the future. It seems The Daily was the polar opposite of that - trying to put an old world concept on a new world device.
I wonder if steam will eventually add other media (movies, tvshows, etc) to their ecosystem.
I have kids bracketing that age range. They all enjoy the family tablets.

However, as soon as they need to complete a school assignment, they have always used a desktop with a keyboard (we don't have floater laptops). This despite never having had any instruction on how to type. I have never heard them once consider using a tablet for this.
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That's usually how Square handles retail of the reader, and it includes a $10 credit on your account.

Apple, for example:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H8332LL/A/square-credit-ca...
I'm curious, why do you doubt that it happened? Nothing in the story strikes me as at all implausible.
Well, technically most of the mission cost would be spend on Earth (paying Earth engineer salaries, and Earth factory bills), so the money never leaves Earth. The only money you are literally throwing is the material cost of the rocket and probe, which would be fairly low (the cost of a bunch of titanium (or whatever the rocket/probe is made of), silicon not worth measuring, the rocket fuel (which is surprisingly cheap), etc.
The iPad eats the consumer PC market?

Oh please, please stop this BS. The iPad sales are shooting up, true. The PC sales are going down, maybe true. But that could be due to several reasons - Maybe consumers are just 'upgrading' (like RAM, HDD, etc.) their existing PC's, or maybe existing PC owners don't want to even upgrade their PC at all because it's still working fine, there just could be a lot of reasons.

The statement that just the iPad alone eats the PC market is like saying, KFC is killing Ford's sales because it sells more chicken. Makes no sense, does it? Exactly, that's what the iPad vs PC comparison looks like too.

NO consumer would want to replace a PC with an iPad because there is a LOT of utility attached with a PC that it would be a blunder to replace it with a tablet like an iPad.
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I'm distressed by this: Mr. Salmon is a victim of severe Dunning-Kruger problems and it's painful to read the column as a result. He doesn't know jack diddly about tablets, and he thinks that he knows all about tablets. I also can't imagine that his position in old-guard media helps.

The problems he's observing are not new - the iOS developer/designer community has been grouching about them for a long time, because for us, it was patently obvious that publications like The Daily were doing a bad job of adapting their content to tablet form. They are a failure case, not "this is the only thing that can be done on tablets." For a very nice counterexample, there's Marco Arment's "The Magazine," which is a genuine digital native and solves pretty much all of Salmon's problems.

Salmon is full of it, and it's a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger problem - he doesn't know enough to know how stupid his argument is.
Even though it's called Big Picture mode, it looks like it could potentially make a great touch interface.
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It's not that big of a stretch. Instead of looking at sales you should be looking at engagement. What are the #s looking like for time spent on the Internet by people who own both a tablet and a PC?

I assume it's leaning more and more towards tablets which really does imply that tablets (cough the iPad) is eating the PC.
I am pretty certain Valve would reject even the most ridiculous of offers from MSFT
This statement is just as inaccurate! You've completely dismissed the fact it might be happening based on no evidence at all.

My brother just tossed his laptop for an iPad and he loves it. There's one person who has, so you're already wrong.
It's typical for retailers to match a recommended MSRP. We love the Pack Store and the fact that it highlights the new generation of app controlled products like Lockitron.