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Off-topic, but this discussion might attract the right people.

How much NetBSD-originated code remains in Darwin and OS X?

I remember that in the initial betas, there was heavy usage of NetBSD's userland (at least); I've no idea how much remains today.

EDIT: Everyone's mentioning FreeBSD, but I swear to $GOD[0] that I remember seeing 'NetBSD' at the top of many early man pages. NetBSD's site seems to remember something similar: http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin
There was nothing sexist in this post.
I think it's weird.If they "really" like you then they should hire you as soon as possible.Or at least give you a temporary position.
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For the younger generation, email is no such big deal anymore, they hardly use it.
Maybe we just need different channels for communication.
What if email in the future is only used for ads and newsletter kind of stuff.
The more important communication could take place on other channels for example iMessage. You can basically exchange messages and media, do we really need more?
Looks like Azure is having problems in the US south-central region [1], but fine everywhere else. The fact that they don't mention their region suggests they may not understand the implications.

If the status page is accurate, their downtime is just poor planning on their part. Same goes for Amazon. If you're stranded in one region, you're asking for downtime.

[1] http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/
I heard that Google is a "bot".

Do they say "No Thanks" to themselves?

Maybe the title should read: Google Says "No Thanks" to Other Bots
It's a hard problem to solve especially when the draw of Facebook is that you have a smaller network of people you actually know. You're right the definitely need to do something. I think they are trying to by creating a separate pages feed for example but even that isn't good enough yet.
Surely you must understand that the current obesity epidemic CAN NOT be caused by people suddenly becoming more weak willed?

If you had been born in Japan you would almost certainly be thin now. Why? The answer is not that Japanese people have more will power.
>> The person who figures out how to get teens to spend their free time learning instead of socializing is going to go down in history.

Shouldn't teenage years be spent having fun? :) For some learning is fun (I enjoyed it to a certain extent and used things like iTunes U a lot) but even if there was a way to learn that was fun for everyone most teenagers will still want to go to parties, drink alcohol, and waste time. I think it's a cultural thing more than an aversion to learning and I don't think technology will change it (for the majority of teenagers).
Thanks for your feedback. I will write more basic articles as we go. In fact, the latest post "Download and Install Python" is a start of doing that. I want the site to be for all python users, even though the site name is "pythonforbeginners".
FSF campaigns against Apple plenty.

https://www.fsf.org/search?SearchableText=apple

The banner at the top of every page currently says

"Giants like Microsoft and Apple are trying harder than ever to control the software you use.
The FSF brings software freedom supporters together to amplify your voices and make an impact."
I liked your writing style -- anecdotal with the moral at the end of each section.
It's really not qualitatively different, it's just faster for the operations it provides. It does, however, take great pains to try to display to the user the "right thing". It also does in fact, not lose information once given it.
But that actually is not qualitatively different than you could make git or svn or anything else, it's just a more careful implementation.

As for the rest, i don't want anything. I just don't pretend that textual displays of blame/diff/etc are actually showing me a correct history, instead of one possible history of textual changes. If it says bob wrote/changed some code, i don't assume that's really correct (unless of course, the changelog says "wrote code" :P), I ask bob.

I will point out that historically, there were version control systems that were integrated like you describe, even for C++ (IBM Visualage C++). But people are happy with what things like git/svn/etc provide, and that's fine by me.

Remember that I worked on a system whose sole goal was to provide a qualitatively better experience than CVS, so I don't have very high standards :P.
>> yes, they're very suboptimal. and whether or not it's an iPad that's used to fix the problem, it's probably some type of basic tech

Then I think we're in agreement. Restaurants absolutely should be improved

Maybe some way to anonymously rate them and/or tip analysis would help give the owner insight into how their staff is doing. Being able to pay immediately is nice - sometimes at "slow" places that we know we get the check much earlier than when we're ready to leave for just that reason.

Anyway, it's likely I mis-understand the potential solution, I'm visiting a different type of establishment, or I'm not the target audience.

Good luck!
Leave an email here.I will solve your problem.And no, I am not joking.
IOS dev? Go grab my photo f/x tute. You too can rock GLSL.
Very similar. It's a really cool app, too - had I known about it before, I wouldn't have developed C'est la vie.

Pros/Cons:
* Epic is only iPhone, Habit is Web & responsive, so will work on all devices. I'm working on a PhoneGap app too. Anyway, I thought EW only on iPhone was lame, since I have Android.
* EW is badge-based, and only tracks improvement. Habit is more traditional RPG-style (exp, hp, gp) and tracks both improvements and failure, so it's better for gauging actual progress. ++ for Habit: it's more real, and more comfortable for SNES RPG players. ++ for EW: you won't experience failure anxiety, as @ElliotH mentioned below.
It's hard to get all the data in one place, but this article has links to good sources:

http://ccap.org/extreme-weather-trends-climate-science-and-p...
You are right, and I'm working to get the formatting issues fixed. The way codular.com does it is very nice. If you have any more ideas or feedback, please contact me. Thank you!
Don't they have debit cards in their own name?
It's difficult to find all the data in one place, but this article has links to good sources:

http://ccap.org/extreme-weather-trends-climate-science-and-p...
I think it makes total sense that no one she knows reads blogs. Most kids don't read the paper, or read books for fun. This is not so much devolution of reading habits as democratization of computer usage.
I feel a worthy, yet absent, *BSD would also be DragonFlyBSD.

Exactly what the difference is between DragonFlyBSD and other BSDs I will leave for someone else to summarise in a more definitive way, however my take is that it is all-round more "modern".
In case any github people are reading this: you also have an annoying approach to web crawling "robots". Your /robots.txt is based on a white-list of user agents with a human readable comment telling the robot where to request to be whitelisted. Using robots.txt to guide whitelisted robots (like Google and Bing) is against the spirit of the convention. This practice encourages robot authors to ignore the robots.txt and will eventually reduce the utility of the whole convention. Please stop doing this!
>Much larger hurricanes have hit New England before.

I'm not sure. Sandy was 1.8 million square miles. How large was the 1938 hurricane?
I just started seeing this too. I think I know what it is, and am trying to figure out how to go about fixing it. When someone closes their laptop or turns off their phone before closing the browser tab, it crashes the app. Something with socket.io + connect-mongo in DerbyJS, it's a new bug.

Anyway, 500 indeed - but I'm using nodejitsu/forever-monitor to restart the app when it crashes, so it should come back just fine, you'll just have to refresh and wait a bit. Thanks for pointing this out
Aye, decoupling the rendering (visual "frames") from the simulation speed and physics in general can be tricky!

I remember I wrote a fun little OpenGL game [1] some time ago, with flocking agents aka boids. I had a lot of fun making the creatures' "thinking speed" independent of the rendering speed and the simulation speed of the virtual world itself.

[1] https://github.com/piskvorky/PredatorPrey
This HN link( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4798791 ) introduced me to the knowledge that OpenBSD is commonly installed on networking gear, instead of (for example) Cisco IOS. So you could say "freebsd on your desktop and/or server, and openbsd on your router." I confess that I don't know enough about NetBSD to offer an optimal use case.
I first used Haskell in around 1995(?) as a Miranda replacement. I started the Haskell FFI bindings in mid 2009, about 6 months after starting the libguestfs project. At that time I made many requests for help, but didn't get any at all.

libguestfs has 300+ API functions, and is about 500 kloc of code.

We autogenerate most of the bindings in ~ 10 programming languages using an OCaml program [hence the large defensive comment at the top of my rant]. I'm very happy to promote functional programming, but only where it's practical.
Need a first-world problem solved?
They're not passing the buck, they're voicing their unhappiness. It's important that this happens, because it damages the reputation of cloud providers that go down a lot (like AWS' US-EAST). Being down for 24 hours is pretty impressive, in a bad way.
Consulting may be tempting financially, but is a terrible idea strategically. For me, main realization was - why waste precious time helping others develop their ideas, when you can develop your own instead.
A few more requests:

http://epguides.com/Suits/ http://epguides.com/1600Penn/ http://epguides.com/30Rock/ http://epguides.com/Copper/ http://epguides.com/HellonWheels/ http://epguides.com/Hunted/ http://epguides.com/PeepShow/ http://epguides.com/Survivor/ http://epguides.com/Newsroom_2012/

Pretty please :)
Apple’s ’12 Days of Christmas’ app brings 12 days of iTunes freebies
Congrats, brotha!
Why must it be a free software project?
I'm not saying that we have become more weak willed - i.e. that this is the reason people are fatter than 100 years ago - just that weak will does play a very big part.

Maybe if I was born a century ago I would be skinny and fit, but that doesn't change the fact that my current weight is caused by my own lack of will as well. Will power is the reason on an individual level, but not the reason behind the cultural trend.
That reminds me of a first-grade story. One morning I had a flash of brilliance and realized that if I didn't have an eraser, I would never make another mistake in my life. We had those big fat red first-grade pencils, so I spent all day making really dark circles and then erasing them as completely as I could. I was really proud of myself at the end of the day when my eraser was completely gone.

I was really confused for a while when I made my next mistake.
I attended a 10 day silent meditation retreat a while ago. One of the most important instructions was: "Do not look around to see what the other folks are doing. Everybody will sit still as a Buddha and you will feel bad".

In this case you get a moments view during which in all likelihood nobody will fuzz.

In this article we see a moments view chosen by the authors friends to be post-worthy.
I like it, but would suggest repeating the date of the next episode on the individual pages and making this the most noticeable like you did on the frontpage. Perhaps even making it linkable so it scrolls down to the episode in question (and highlighting it).
I personally have experience using: symbolset.com on one of my sites.
Absolutely awesome :)
Things change a lot once you begin to have disposable income. Almost everyone my age has a smartphone.
Great idea! On the long run, if you keep it as simple as possible and clutter free, you'll have a winner. Good job.
I expected to see them stop using Azure or something, but this is a good idea that's entirely opposite from what I was expecting!
Does it not strike people as somewhat ironic when something like this is written by an investor, a person whose MO is to basically spread risk across a portfolio of companies instead of an entrepreneur like Elon Musk who has actually done what is described in the post time and time again?

Don't get me wrong, I really like DMC, but it strikes me as somewhat contradictory for a piece like this to be written by anyone but a person who consistently/repeatedly spreads risks a lot of what they have on bigger ventures. Once you have an exceptional network and reputation, there are few positions, besides maybe being a lawyer, that come with less risk in Silicon Valley than that of an investor.
No love for clojure?
This is great. If you could then link each episode to a torrent on the pirate bay and notify me each time a new episode is released, you would be my hero.
No icon for StackOverflow? :(
According to this post he has a VA

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4983008
I've heard people talking about using Quickbooks or other bookkeeping software, and I'm unclear why. I'm running a business in Israel, and we have an accountant and bookkeeper. Once a month we send all receipts/invoices to the bookkeeper, who deals with everything. I get reports a few weeks later. I never have to touch any software.

Is this not standard practice in the U.S.? It seems many people talk about using Quickbooks.

Alternatively, am I missing something by not doing the books myself? In general, I still have some issues in understanding the finer points of our finances, and I'm still looking for ways to get better insight into our cashflow, revenue, etc.
An email would be great.I believe I can help you that.
NetBSD on your toaster is the canonical example.
Would be great to hear more less successful stories i.e. first freelance making less than the previous job.

It's tricky - and my first year isn't over yet, but not living in a concentrated tech city has made it difficult. Have been considering moving to a bigger city.
I prefer working in teams, which is also an issue as most freelancers seem to prefer to work solo.
Thanks for the comment. Whatever detail you can add to this conversation is much appreciated. It's a neglected topic, and it's important for us to understand it better.
Thanks for positive feedback.
No doubt they're less nice than more expensive bikes.

But in many cases, it just doesn't matter very much. If you only want to bike a few miles on flat ground, bop around the neighborhood, don't care so much about speed, etc., a low-cost bike should do fine.

American biking culture is traditionally the realm of the hard-core biker who races, tours, or bike-commutes long distances, and who obsesses about his gear, but there are many other sorts of bike cultures in the wider world (and indeed, "other sorts" are probably the vast majority, numerically). In many places, practicality and cost are much more important than optimal efficiency at high speed.

With biking becoming more and more mainstream in the U.S., at least in urban areas, American biking culture will probably shift towards a more casual stance too...
They continue to not be training, or doing a bare minimum of it. My current company thinks sending me to a 3-5k class a year is apparently more valuable than increasing my salary 3-5k a year. It's not.
>>I fail to see the link between the Scandinavians and their current state of welfare and the Vikings, as far as I know the Vikings were no better or worse than what the rest of Europe was up to at the time

But according to your previous comment, the West owed the third world an incredibly amount. The Scandinavians are OK because their victims (France farmers, etc) were as bad as themselves. That means the third world was much better than the west from the 14th century forward to modern times...?

As ramanujan noted, most others (Huns etc etc) did at least as bad when they had the capacity.

Your position seems based more in emotions/politics than reason.

(Also, the Scandinavian Viking era had a violent clan society which probably was worse than West Europe even in the "dark" period after Rome's fall.)

Edit: Clarity
oh yeah, openbsd has tons of great networking stuff. pf, carp, openssh all have originated from openbsd.
I like the simplicity of this. Where are you pulling the thumbnail images from?
Anywhere from 20 minutes to 3 hours depending on how inspired I am.
Season <--- is spelled this way, not sezon.
I don't think this is a server-to-customers message, but rather a programmer-to-other-programmers message.
Based on that distinction (which I think is accurate) I probably do 50% consulting and 50% freelancing.
So far your best comment? Argument ad-hominem is, of course, not indicative of falacy. On the contrary, it is quite usefully devastaing. You can consult wikipedia. Or Neitszche. But I'll leave it to you to do the work.
My predictions:

- Facebook will make enough money from advertising

- They will make tons of money from all kinds of sources

- They will be here, and strong, in 10 years

- You will reactivate your account, eventually
More likely: Time continues emulating Newsweek in 2013.
I've just got into a really good habit of using trello for everything, I look forward to this having an API so I could look into hooking the two together.
Yep. I will readily spend money on experiences like travel, but think really hard about about spending the same amount of money on a possession like a car.

Both our cars are older (7 and 13 years old) and have been paid off for some time. Not having a car payment is great!
My superficial understanding is that DragonFlyBSD is more of a research platform for all sorts of fancy new stuff.
iBooks Author, then exported it to a PDF. It's great software.
If any of you develop, Habit has very simple one-method REST: https://github.com/lefnire/habitrpg/wiki/API
It's the kernel and basic elements. When Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X, he stated even then that its kernel would be open source.

Watch Steve Jobs state this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko4V3G4NqII

It's still great that Apple does this, nonetheless. More open than Microsoft.

(Similar source is available for iOS and some other properties too.)
One big reason for this is the different start up times between versions of Ruby, especially JRuby vs anything else. It can impact your development time quite a lot. If you know they're compatible and you have specs there should be little problem with doing this.

I completely disagree with DHH btw. Checking in generated files is a no no in my book, as is telling other people that using differing version managers is organisation failure, as is this kind of teenager's-diary style blog post.

He needs to take a step back and breathe.
Wikipedia says that one of their remote features is: "Defrag the hard drives"

Someone pushed the wrong button there? ;)

Seriously, that just reminded me of running Windows back in the old days. You had to make sure to have the latest AV, do system upgrades all the time and of course defrag the drives... yay
All self published and marketed on my own.

Next time I'll visit Glasgow. :)
How about in the United States, where homicides from firearms dropped dramitically after the federal law banning certain assault-weapons in 1994, bottoming out and climbing since the law's repeal in 2004?

Or how about the statistical analysis of gun homicides vs gun ownership in countries with a GDP of over $20k?

But why do I have to prove to you why having guns around is a horrible thing? We could argue to the death over the correlation and causation between guns, crime, money and murder and not make any sense of it.

At the end of the day, you're the one saying that yes, as a society, we should not only allow, but promote these devices whose sole purpose is to spit violence and extinguish life.

It is madness!!!
Further reading on the subject of physics simulation.

[review paper discussing lots of techniques]
http://depts.washington.edu/amath/courses/533-winter-2011/St...

[A PhD thesis with good background material]
www.visionday.dk/VD05/graphical/slides/kenny.pdf
I agree did you see the sewing needle in the log FFS along with craft word in the seal on the wall.

"don't worry ladies its just craft like sewing a quilt"

they will be going on about how they have some "negro boys" in the next group.
Someone just started saying that on patio11's post too. I for one am very glad you two are posting about your experiences. I hope to learn important lessons from you. Thanks!
Dude, you should put an about page. Link to who you are, why you did this, how do I find you? (Twitter, FB etc. This is a really good piece for your portfolio.

Good developers (who have ideas & are proactive) are always in high demand!
Analysts cut AAPL target price average to $740
Thanks solox3, are you referring to this line?
## .items() is the dict expressed as (key, value) tuples
print dict.items() ## [('a', 'alpha'), ('o', 'omega'), ('g', 'gamma')]
Will a Robot Take Your Job?
NASA’s NEXT ion drive breaks world record
That last point about FaceTime sounds like an opportunity for Sean Parker's Airtime.
The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register
Org-drill: flashcards and spaced repetition for emacs' org-mode
How the FBI, DHS and police coordinated the crackdown on Occupy with the banks
I love optimists as much as the next guy, but seriously, Paparazzi drones are going to be a scourge here before you know it.
According to wc -w, I wrote 571 words in support of that initial sentence. If you'd like citations for each of the individual points I use to illustrate my point, including the basic terminology, some cursory research should point you in the right direction of whatever you're looking for.

If you're looking for a tl;dr, you've come to the wrong place - not everything is so simple, and while I'm happy to explain my comments to people who ask politely (like isbadawi), I'm not really in the habit of writing MLA-style research papers on demand (and certainly not when the same information is already so widely and easily accessible).
From the documentation:

"Don't use it, use domains instead. If you do use it, restart your application after every unhandled exception!"

http://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_event_uncaughtexc...
Going to parties, drinking alcohol, and wasting time is a form of learning. How to live life, how to make mistakes, and where you're going to fit in in the world is probably one of the most important thing you learn as a teenager.
Yes, +1 for some type of notification. When shows are added (Nurse Jackie?) or when a new date is added
How did this not get flagged by the duplicate filter?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4975964
The L has its own horror stories too (mostly because it lacks a third track).
The education of the will,the theory and practice of self-culture(1914)
Logically you're asking about putting the cart before the horse, though. You can tell by the way you structure your questions about this that you're putting way too fine a point on it, and that you're combining goals that simply don't occur to most people. Who's goal is to sacrifice their loved ones for any reason? It just doesn't come up when deciding what to do. How many goals would ever require sacrificing loved ones? Sure, "behind every fortune there is a crime," but to start with the 'crime' part? Only criminals and sociopaths (cue CEO vs. psychopath study) do that.
What has using ActiveRecord got to do with whether Sinatra scales? You could've used it from the start.

Strange argument to make about any framework.
I particularly liked: "I have $36"

Although it's a joke it does raise some questions. A lot of the products we like, use, and that have huge investment, solve relatively unimportant problems. It was interesting to see links to products that solve problems caused by other products trying to solve problems (e.g. my social networking sites are too social).
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