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It's been in private alpha test for a long time now, and yet they hyped it up a year ago with insane performance claims (50x faster than MRI!). I'm glad to hear they are "focused on RubySpec compliance". However, the whole reason people got upset last year was that until it's at least usably compliant, it's not Ruby.

Their compliance graph looks encouraging, though, hopefully we'll see some proper tests soon.

Yeah, I've been playing with the new release of MacRuby all weekend and it is great. And it's embeddable, too! The possibilities are incredible. Don't get me wrong, I love MacRuby, I just think Antonio's benchmarking process is flawed.
Nope. There is no such thing as an average sense of humor. At a company I worked for we got a lot of crap for sending out passwords like "invisible*negro" and "murdered#pakistani". The odds are not as low as you think.

Hell, we got crap for adding the tags "Russian" and "Jew" to people who were, in fact, from Russia and Jewish.
Its not a matter of "that's ok with me". There are many variables to success. If someone else's "Collaborative Shell Client" takes off and mine doesn't, or takes off in a market I haven't or couldn't service well, and I was on the internet first, I need to review many other variables besides just product design.
aldaily.com does this pretty well.
Practice, practice and more practice...

There are plenty of apps that will teach you the techniques and give specific drills for improving your speed and preciseness.
It depends. I have heard from the graduate students at my school that the ones with wives work much harder and usually always finish on time. I imagine this is because they probably aren't allowed to spend more than 40 hours a week at school, else their wives would kill them. Near limitless time (which most graduate students think they have) can be a huge burden. I have no idea how this would translate for a startup, but a marriage can be a huge net gain fora PhD student.
Ask PG: Is d(users)/dt constant on HN?
Eternal September wasn't so much an issue of "too many users" as "too many new users that couldn't be taught local customs before they overwhelmed said local customs." If it isn't roughly constant, especially over longer periods (i.e., quarter-over-quarter growth), you could work out when either you'd expect HN to fall victim to an Eternal March (demo day + applications = lots of press and spike in users?), or when you'd need to work out a different new user welcoming process?
Just subscribed, good idea.
Look at the screen and don't look down. It'll feel awkward at first, but it's supervised learning: you'll make mistakes at first, which your eyes will detect, and the keep trying keys until you get it right. Touch typing requires proprioception (knowing where your body is without looking), and vision completely overwhelms that if you're looking at your hands.

Give it a week, and don't get discouraged if you don't seem to make any progress inside typing sessions: most improvement happens in the off time after you've practiced for a while (sleep is especially good here).
Err, I don't think so. What I quoted said "People who are X do not do Y". The contrapositive of that is "People who do Y are not X". And I disagree, because I know people who do Y and are X.
aswanson, absolutely nothing. Similarly, nothing has stopped me from writing that book I've planned for two years; but, unfortunately, what I intend and what I do are distinct.

abe-epton, it's unfortunate that they do not allow comments.
I still think your focusing too much on "language" rather than "community".

Jeff Atwood and co. could never "copy" the StackOverflow community into China. And that's what they would have to do..."copy it to China". I highly doubt they could have done it and maybe this new set of programmers can. What harm is there in providing a community for Chinese programmers to thrive?

Look at all Google's efforts...and they aren't the dominant search engine in China. There is too much belief that if a Western company creates a product that they have implicit rights to world domination with it. I think a fragmented world is interesting and more competitive. If it takes copying to bootstrap that fragmentation, so be it.
Start a subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/reddits/create?name=humanities

I guess it's not as impressive as running your own site, but it gets you 90% of what you need and lets you try out your idea to see if there's enough interest in the first place.
Agh! Good point! Some kind of regex should definitely be included.
My use of the word "quality" refers to their personal qualities that are relevant to relationships. I don't mean that people who do this can't be interesting and worthwhile people, but they're certainly not the type of people you want to marry.

That's how I was using "quality" too. I'm not sure that I would refuse to marry someone simply because she had engaged in casual sex from time to time when she was younger.

A person's sexual history is evidence of that person's character (or lack thereof).

To a degree, I agree with you - it can be in some cases. But I'm not convinced that occasional casual sex necessarily indicates lack of character.

If a person gets into the habit of casual sex when young, that person's almost certain to cheat in a long-term relationship

And there's the rub. I totally disagree with this statement.

Oh, and for what it's worth, I've never had casual sex. I've only had one partner, and we dated for two years.
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CS is not about state-of-the art tools, but it is most definitely about good tools. In fact, I'd argue that much of undergraduate CS is about learning how to recognize, use, and build good tools, and part of the way that you do this is exposure. I think that people still forget that CS is, at least partially, a creative discipline, and the solutions that its practitioners come up with are often influenced by the tools that they use.
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MySpace shrinks as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo grab its users
Immediately thought of this Business Week cover:

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We plan to make money by selling the applications as Apple app store. Further, We can private label our Tonido network and domain server for enterprises.
Comparison: How realistic Avatars can look like?
I take the moral as the need for controls in experiments i.e. always analyse a 'clean' q-tip in each batch.
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"which is then one step away from generalizing about people on other attributes, like race or sex."

Since pursuing an advanced degree is a choice, rather than an attribute you're born with, it is much more akin to generalizing about a group of people based on their choice to pursue a degree at all.
You might want to check out our blog at codelathe.com. We have written posts about the capabilities of Tonido Platform.
Regarding open source, we are contemplating that direction too.
I've noticed some curious charts and graphs in various posts on HN lately. Trend lines where bar charts are required. Pie charts where they aren't applicable. Etc.

I saw this graphic a while back and found it to be quite insightful. I spent a bit of time searching around for it because I think never hurts to have a refresher in the art of conveying information intelligently.
"I'm not going to reply to most of this"

Because you can't?

"The "equipment" may be "built right in", but its purpose is not to be used lightly and indiscriminately."

This is just your opinion. You offer nothing to back it up.

"Look around at the sorts of people who have a lot of casual sex. Do you seriously want them to be highly represented in humanity's genetic future"

Yes? Of course? Why ever not? They are humans, after all?

"You're conflating "inexperienced" with "unskilled". I don't think there's much of a correlation."

The two words are practically synonyms. One gains skill through experience. Again, go try and get a job and use that line.

"If anything, people who are overexperienced tend to be shitty lovers, because they've never need to develop any skills."

Is it opposites day? Do you need a dictionary? They have developed skills through experience, which is the only way skills can be developed. You are utterly fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

"If someone's that good, why would s/he have slept with 20 other people and still not found someone who came back and wanted to make it a relationship?"

Because they like sex and feel no need to make it a relationship. You are confusing your own priorities with those of others. They value their freedom and do not want a relationship.
So where is the source?
There's not a whole lot of "private" data that Twitter keeps locked up. Their API and search are very good, with few exceptions.

Have you seen this project of mine? http://twistori.com

Or the PepsiCo Zeitgeist, which I designed & developed with my husband for the SXSW conference. The conf's over now so the experience isn't the same, but videos of it in action are here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pepsicozeitgeist
I didn't recommend banning him, I recommended that people pay attention to what they are upvoting.
> Seriously, do you want to marry someone who might cheat because your dick is not as wide as that of a hookup who happened to show up at the college reunion?

Why are you so afraid of women?
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No, it's not a logical fallacy. time_management has said over and over again that quality women do not do X. Not that women who have the quality of chasteness do not do X.
It actually made sense when I read it. Hitting a "rough spot" in a relationship can be a draining experience and end up negatively affecting other parts of your life if you're not careful.
A bit of Ask HN/stackoverflow for startups: http://www.chuwe.com

This is my startup of course, just for full disclosure.
Slightly off-topic: I consider applying at Warwick for a PhD position. Could we get in contact to talk about your university? You'll find my email address in my profile. Please drop me a line. Thank you!
I learned it by switching to Dvorak. I put little stickers on my keyboard indicating the letters. So I started typing with hunt-and-peck. After some time, some stickers came loose. The keys I used the most, lost their adhesion the first. These were also the characters I remembered the first. The reminders let go in perfect order and never too soon. The rest was just a matter of putting your fingers in the right spot. Everything else came naturally.

Probably not the answer you're looking for though, but I like telling the story :)
Because you can't?

No, because it would be tiring and pointless, and I'm never going to convince you that you're wrong anyway.

The two words are practically synonyms. One gains skill through experience. Again, go try and get a job and use that line.

Quality of experience matters a lot more than quantity. Having had sex with 10 or more different people does not make a person good in bed. In fact, it probably means that he or she sucks for two reasons. 1. People who can get meet their sexual goals easily have no incentive to learn how to do anything right. 2. If he were talented at all, he'd probably be able to find something more fulfilling, which would mean more long-term relationships and less time to rack up a number.
I'm not calling for anyone to be banned. But don't worry too much about a few numbers on a website; it doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.
While I love Ruby, and use it for most code I don't write in Javascript, I can't help but wonder if in 10 years' time Ruby will look as big and bloated and arcane as Perl does now, and some new upstart will have all the mindshare.

That has no relevance to the present. That's like the argument against upgrading your computer because the parts you buy will be outperformed by newer parts on the horizon. Eventually you have to settle for a while, and plenty of people are settled on Ruby for now.
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Facebook bet heavily on engineering talent and it's paying off.

Myspace has had very few updates to its site and narrowly focused on the niches it dominated. It's now paying the price as Facebook continues to grow while Myspace stagnates.

The article said that Myspace isn't done with. While they'll probably be able to stay profitable and (and therefore still around) for quite a while, unless they have a complete company culture change I doubt they'll ever be able to get back to #1 again.
Perhaps, but some issues are more important than others, and moral character is a big one. A person's sexual history is evidence of that person's character (or lack thereof). It's the one area of life where people are easily pushed to do awful things to themselves and each other.

How did you reach this strange conclusion? It seems to me that a person's sexual activities are completely orthogonal to their moral character (excluding non-consensual stuff of course). Sex is a wonderful thing to do with someone, not an awful thing.

Seriously, do you want to marry someone who might cheat because your dick is not as wide as that of a hookup who happened to show up at the college reunion?

What does that have to do with anything? It seems to me that being monogamous has more to do with keeping a promise than not being tempted. I suggest you find someone who will keep their promises in the face of temptation, not someone who won't be tempted at all.

Do you want your teenage daughters to be raised by a woman who dated the football team, and to learn about respecting themselves from such a person?

Some people take the view that sex is fun, and having fun is good for you. Respecting yourself might involve having sex, not repressing your natural desire.

Is sex with a woman special if it used to be available to any guy with a six-pack and a nice car?

Just because a person has a lot of sex doesn't mean they didn't find quality partners.

If a person gets into the habit of casual sex when young, that person's almost certain to cheat in a long-term relationship, even if the relationship is otherwise going well. It's not a habit that people break easily.

Citation needed!
Wow, this is interesting on many levels. The slides from ILC are a good overview: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/Moon-ILC09.pdf. They contain this fascinating statement:

Traditionally, code walking has required ad hoc code to understand every “special form.” It is better to have a well-defined, object-oriented interface to the Abstract Syntax Tree, scopes, and definitions. This is why objects are better than S-expressions as a representation for program source code.

I have never heard anyone point to s-expressions as the reason code walkers are hard to write in Lisp (and they are, at least in CL).
What would be cool is if they stick a little camera into the back of the car. This will help a lot for reversing, etc...
That's not legal so they won't make that functionality.
These are tough topics. I'm not sure you will find answers here as each has to find comfort on these issues within themselves.

You clearly feel that sexual history is highly correlated to moral character. This is a common position. Its not that you may be wrong (neither position can be proven) but more importantly if that's how you "feel" then you know what kind of woman to exclude from your search. Its great to find a "nice girl" and live happily ever after. Please be careful though to not brand people as immoral simply because their past is different than yours. Its better to simply talk about "compatible" instead of moral. Character judgment like this is a slippery slope.

From my perspective, I do not find a strong correlation between "sexual history" and "morality". I do find a strong correlation between "sexual history" and "sexual 'fitness'". This doesn't make me correct. Its my perspective and I don't project moral character with it.

Bringing up the topic of sexual history with a woman is generally a huge turnoff. When you do so, you are clearly judging her and telling her she must fit some predetermined notion of what you, a man, thinks a woman's place is in the world. It doesn't matter if you actual think you think so. Its what most women hear when you bring up this topic.

Additionally, I have found that many men that feel as you do have internal feelings of sexual inadequacy and/or "control issues" and in turn project these feelings into a moral dilemma on others. My only training on this matter is from living my own life and having to grow out of some of these issues myself. To put is bluntly, this is the common story of the geek who didn't get laid in high school and has evolved a blanket of morality around the reasons why.
Why do you think I'm "afraid of women"?

The fact is that, if a woman's had a lot of casual sex, she's developed a taste for variety and you have no hope of being her ideal man. When you're in bed with her, she's wishing you had Biff's abs, Jethro's penis girth, and the "roughness" of that club promoter whose name she's forgotten. So she's likely to cheat after a while in search of those traits, and even if she doesn't go off and do it, she's going to be mentally cheating all the time by fantasizing.

I'm a guy of mostly above-average physical traits and skill, but it's humanly impossible for any man to be the best at everything, for every woman. I don't have, for example, a 10-inch dick that's 5 inches wide, and I wouldn't really want one, to be honest; I'm more than happy with what God gave me. But that's what it takes to please a woman who's had 20 partners, because she's taken a lot of huge dicks and is "stretched out".

A woman who's been with too many guys is always going to be missing that one thing that some other guy did or had, and nobody wants to be with a woman who's going to be constantly fantasizing about other men.
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What does annoy him is people misunderstanding his work – or “the technology”, as he puts it. One example he gives is an article about him in which the journalist confuses Java and JavaScript (the former is a stand-alone program which can be accessed online, the latter is a browser-dependent scripting language). We both laugh at the mistake, and for a moment I feel like Bak and I have clicked.

Is technology that hard, or are journalists that lazy? both?
My use of the word "quality" refers to their personal qualities that are relevant to relationships.

Your choice of language sets you up as a sexist and undermines whatever point you are trying to make. Ranchers say "quality livestock" and butchers say "quality meat." Your phrase "quality women" is dehumanizing and sexist in itself. If you were talking about "quality blacks" or "quality asians" there'd be no ambiguity about whether you were being racist.
"Instead, most developers should be monitoring one statistic: What is the browser share for my web site."

I was expecting some meaningless statistics, but it was refreshing to read this...
Ask HN: Can you recommend good and not too expensive web designers?
for a start up company? No investments yet, doing everything with own money.
Thanks for your input. It is early days and we are trying to make sense of the direction of how and where we want to take it.

One distributed P2P problem we solved is the synchronization of data. Imagine N peers operating on data, adding, modifying, deleting... offline or online and then they synchronize this with each other. This all works seamlessly in the Tonido Platform. We have API that can be used by any applications to use this in their apps.

Tonido Workspace uses this stuff to make it work. It is one giant workspace that people each have their own copy and work on when they want. And everything gets synced. Tasks, Calendars, Chat, Discussion Forums, Contacts, Files. You are finally free from servers to babysit interactions.

Similarly, Tonido Photos uses the sync API in a simpler way to synchronize photo comments, ratings, tags among Tonido Group members.
I would have thought that "think about your own audience" was just common sense.
Which fulfills the "Share Alike" portion, but not the "Attribution" portion...
As someone who idles in a few web dev channels on IRC, I think it's something that bears repeating. ;)
I hear phrases like "quality men", "quality women", "quality dating partners", et cetera, quite often and have never taken these terms to be sexist. "Quality person", in this case, is shorthand for "one who has the desired personal qualities for the relevant context". In this case, the relevant context is a romantic relationship.
You definitely could convince me, if there was any substance to what you said. I'm highly rational and you can find numerous examples of me swallowing my pride and conceding a point. You offer nothing, though, except mere opinions. Since it's you who seeks to impose guidelines on others' behaviour, the onus is upon you to justify your claims.

Quality of experience matters a lot more than quantity.

Do you ever get the feeling that a lot of your beliefs seem to be suspiciously self-serving?

Having had sex with 10 or more different people does not make a person good in bed.

All other things being equal, having had sex with 10 people is objectively better than having had sex with 1 person. I don't even know why I have to point such an obvious, indisputable fact. I mean - it's just laughable. You might as well tell me that having 10 times the programming experience does not make you a better programmer. Well, I guess occasionally it doesn't but .. 99 times out of 100 it sure as fuck does, actually.

In fact, it probably means that he or she sucks for two reasons.

Oh man, here we go ..

1. People who can get meet their sexual goals easily have no incentive to learn how to do anything right.

You know, this is utterly laughable and I am beginning to suspect you have no sexual experience whatsoever. Firstly, they would learn through pure trial and error. Secondly, of course they want to give a good "performance", for reasons of simple pride.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

2. If he were talented at all, he'd probably be able to find something more fulfilling, which would mean more long-term relationships and less time to rack up a number.

Again you wrongly assume that everyone else shares your priorities. I know many people for whom variety and meeting new people is more "fulfilling" than the drudgery and same-same of a long term relationship. Racking up a number has nothing to do with it. You just don't understand.

Your beliefs are nothing but a self-constructed delusion to explain away your lack of poon. You can't get it, so you convince yourself you don't want it, so you can maintain your self-esteem. Now I understand this post you've started is nothing but a new angle on the same thing - now you're trying to construct a new excuse for yourself, that you don't want girls because you're working on your startup, and that's why, not because you couldn't get any!

Utterly pathetic.