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I agree - digg has a fairly elegant design that's easy on the eye, without being obstructive. I don't think hacker news would suffer a great deal if a :little: more attention was paid to visual design. It doesn't really matter, I think people come here for the content, and that's fine.

Rater than comparing hn with digg, the comparison I saw somewhere was with http://www.newspond.com/ - an example of a site that looks nice (if you like gradients and glasy, round corners), at the expense of usability (only 3 posts per screen height etc). The first time I visited it, I was genuinely impressed by what they've archived, visually. But I've never been back since.
It's not exactly news.

A Googler accidentally mentioned this at their dev. conference in India last year.

The "other language" (which has been in the AppEngine roadmap for a long time) was always going to be either Java or Javascript, but all the bets were on Java
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Not to the extent that I've had Apple-related developer gripes.
Not being able to turn away or and look out of the window! Sounds even worse.
Here's a link on the Indian story: http://www.controlenter.in/2008/10/google-developer-day-bang...
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The time related gameplay elements shown in the videos struck me as extensive, entirely unprecedented and exciting. Wow!
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The complexity of their game engine must be staggering...
I believe I categorically disagree with every point you make. You are pissing in the wind if you think you can treat a system with 100M LOC the same way you wrote assembly on a 6502. They are different beasts, with totally different emergent properties. It's like claiming that you can understand the weather if you just stick to thinking about individual molecules.

[edit:] I believe the xkcd strip can be read two ways. Unknowable complexity equals magic (a riff on Arthur C Clarke). I strongly believe that exactly what's been wrong about software is our clinging to the idea that it is reducible and manageable. We don't think that way when we work in the physical world; we do rely on science, but it's empirical science, with statistically useful models at appropriate levels of abstraction. We don't rely on quantum mechanics to build bridges.
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btw, one IP of youtube 208.65.153.253 is un-blocked in China today.
Sun were always a bit wary about the Java trademark after their tangle with Microsoft. That may be part of the issue, but honestly I think it's more likely to be down to the random bureaucracy of the JSR and JCP efforts.

I really don't buy the conspiracy theory and I'm puzzled to see the article up-voted so high without comment.

I'm much more interested in the question of what will actually arrive in Java/JDK7 and whether they'll ever move to a faster release cycle than the current geological process.
Wow ... I consider myself reasonably well-versed with C, and I had never heard of that header.

I would of course, bias and all, consider any programmers deciding to use it to be well out of touch with reality.

I don't see a real-world benefit either, all it does is make those guys feel macho and elite for knowing something (of little value, in my opinion), and making the code hugely harder to maintain.

Ask a manager, while providing some kind of statistical data showing how common use of this header is in C code "in the wild".

A quick search with code.google.com gives _0_ hits for "iso646.h", that tells me something.
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Common sense says to track absolutely everything. Flickr (care of Cal Henderson) have written extensively about metrics and analysis.

A framework that lets you track the results of A/B variate (or bucket) testing helps for trying new things, too.
I think you've nailed it all a lot better than I did! :)
But if you are a company (a good one), you should have a backup plan to help that 1 user.
This is a must-read.
I have no idea if it'll keep me intrigued long term, but the game blew my mind for an evening just thinking about game mechanics. The slow moving 'time waves'/windows are such an elegant solution.
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Amazing. the wikipedia says:
"which, without the header file, cannot be quickly or easily typed on some international and non-QWERTY keyboards"

Anyone have one of those keyboards?
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I was referring to economic timing, if it wasn't clear. People have less spare cash than ever. Even Apple fans.
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Are drugs so relevant to Hacker News that not only do we have to have an article a week about them, but we're fishing out copy from 10 years ago?
It's not so much a conspiracy theory as a well documented public argument between Apache and Sun. You can decide who's right, but there's neither conspiracy nor theory there.
No, the key is to threshold it so it only applies in the extreme cases.

For example, let's say, bankruptcy only lets you discharge 100% of the first $1 trillion. After that, some combination of owners/officers/executives are responsible for (say) 0.1% of obligation beyond $1 trillion.

With these thresholds, it hardly applies to "every single public company".
Wikipedia's "Light rail" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail) article has some interesting numbers on the cost of light-rail construction: Over the U.S. as a whole, excluding Seattle, new light rail construction costs average about $35 million per mile. By comparison, a freeway lane expansion typically costs $20 million per lane mile for two directions.
Chris used a neat strategy against me in a memorable free-for-all game between him, Konrad, and myself. I launched a massive surprise attack on Chris's mining base, so he traveled back in time, prepared a large fleet to counter my attack and succeeded. However, in the present I acquired nukes and sent a nuke back to the end of the battle that destroyed his remaining fleet. Before it was over, he jumped back further in time, moved his mining base and undid his counter attack. Since his fleet had left the area and my army had conquered it, my nuclear blast from the future decimated my own forces! Right at that time, Konrad came at me with his forces, so I didn't have time to undo my nuclear blast.

Okay... I was skeptical... in fact I'm still skeptical... but this sounds awesome.
- "I go back in time, and kill the creator of this game"

- "That's against the rules!"

- "Not after I'm done"
Article in one page: http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/08/27/heroinson/pr...
Holy cow. Just... holy cow.

This is Dwarf Fortress levels of awesome. OK... close to Dwarf Fortress levels of awesome.
The man who most wants to rule the universe is the one that is least suited to do so. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. So a sneaky scheme has been devised: The ruler of the universe doesn't know, or care for that matter, that he happens to rule the universe.

This idea remains me the Republic of Plato: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(dialogue)

The ideal Republic of Plato is ruled by philosophers with no interests for the power itself.
It makes sense, really; C code can really mess with managed systems like that, and by the sounds of it, Erlang deals with it gracefully. Unfortunately, the JVM feels a little too monolithic for my liking with regard to processes; it's more unixy than .NET, certainly, and I guess that's the price you pay for a VM that sophisticated.
I wouldn't be using this. Because static screenshots doesn't cover testing of dynamic behavior. For example when testing liquid layout I should be able to resize the window. Not mentioning testing hover effects on links or javascript effects.
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No, that's me!
I think he's talking about his own site though, not HN.
Seth Mnookin wrote a great book detailing the Jayson Blair-New York Time's scandal as well:

http://www.amazon.com/Hard-News-Twenty-one-Changed-American/...
even the smallest niche can be huge.
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Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is schema sharding? I assume given the rest of your post and its common use in many DBMSs you're not talking about horizontal partitioning.
I wondered roughly how that compared to highway costs, and I found that it's about four times as much. One thing I found was that while this article claims $700million/mile for the LA Red Line, the MTA reports that $4.5billion was spent for the 17.4 miles, giving a cost of $259million/mile.

project $million/mile persons/day
LA Red Line 259 [1] 140943 [1]
MARTA heavy rail (estimate) 200
I-64 highway 53.5 [2] 140000 [3]
American Maglev (estimate) 20

[1] http://www.metro.net/news_info/facts.htm
[2] http://www.modot.mo.gov/newsandinfo/reports/2007Accountabili...
[3] http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/370990/human_factor_...
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Why couldn't you use the elevated track strategy these guys developed with modified light rail cars? The light rail cars would also benefit from lighter construction.
Don't bother. "Articles" go back as far as 2000... hardly cutting edge for Startups.

Plus: You only get to see first hundred words or so of articles which are "free only to subscribers." Who needs this?
They've not just considered outsourcing the manufacturing, they did it from the start. Lotus makes the cars in England.

According to Wikipedia: "The car is assembled at the Lotus factory in Hethel, England, with drivetrain components and body components supplied to the factory by Tesla. . . Tesla Motors' plant in Taiwan manufactures the motors and the Energy Storage Systems (ESS) was initially manufactured in Thailand during development and then moved to San Carlos, California, after production started. Chassis are manufactured in Norway. SOTIRA, in St. Meloir & Pouancé, France, create the RTM carbon fiber body panels. The Roadster's brakes and airbags are made by Siemens in Germany and crash testing was conducted at Siemens as well"

Confirmation of the Lotus relationship from Tesla here: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=7
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Separate to how useful this is, this is an awesome marketing technique that others should look into. That is, distributing a desktop app that's really just a front-end for what your Web app already does.

I've noticed it in myself (and I'm sure it applies to others) that I sense more "value" in downloading a "free app" versus using a free Web service. I was familiar with Litmus's services before, but I hadn't really bothered to give it a go until this. This desktop app makes it convenient (even though you have to use the Web to setup an account!) and it "feels" better somehow. If you have a Web app, think about whether a similar tactic could work for you (I've seen a similar thing happening with free iPhone apps promoting Web apps).
I can't claim to have done a worldwide survey of gas and electricity prices, but my 4x number is from a direct calculation off of my own utility bills. I did the calculation about 2 years ago, but both costs have remained relatively constant (within 25%, say?) where I live in Boston since then. Additionally, Massachusetts electric prices are around 2x the national average (~$0.20/kWh rather than ~$0.10/kWh).

But maybe I'm a statistical anomaly. I'd be interested to see broader evidence if you've got it.

As mentioned in another reply to your comment, it could be that people are getting some savings by using heat pumps rather than resistive heaters. For temperatures near room temperature, heat pumps have a coefficient of performance as high as 3 or 4, but as it gets colder, it approaches 1. In a warm place like California, you might beat an inefficient old gas furnace with an electric heat pump.
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Eclipse and Netbeans come with pretty good profilers. You can also get one of the commercial ones.

I really like your Clojure blog entries btw. I am very excited to start doing similar stuff.
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I agree completely with the point on "customer obsession". The last company I worked for didn't have much of a customer focus while my current company is truly obsessed with the value we deliver to the end customer.

Needless to say the earlier company has gone under while the current company has been going from strength to strength.

I'm not to clear on the point of "frugality" though. My current company does spend a lot on what could be considered trivial stuff to make us comfortable and it makes for a rewarding working environment. Does anyone have an opinion on "frugality"?
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Similarly, http://browsershots.org/ will do this sans native OSX app.
Holy shit! First I thought how can this possibly work, I mean having two players playing at different time periods at the same time sounds iffy... but it looks like they might actually pull it off.

Thats pretty cool since time progresses, just in modifiable ways. And what is awesome there is how the progressions are propagated via "time waves" So even though you might have died in the past, you can still fix it in the present and undo your demise.

In any case we need to get some serious budget for these guys to work with :)
Was it really necessary to explain this with a video, with no apparent text FAQ or documentation page? Not everybody's work LAN permits video traffic...
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Here are some really helpful tutorials from the author: http://www.binarylogic.com/authlogic
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I think this is a pretty interesting gesture. It is possible that Mr. Bezos will learn something that will help him improve working conditions and efficiency within the company. But who will be the CEO while he is busy working in the distribution center? It seems like an inefficient use of his time. Does this show a lack of faith in lower management?
I wondered roughly how that compared to highway costs, and I found that it's about four times as much

That would imply that the US has several trillion dollars invested in its highway system, correct? Does that number pass the smell test to you?

Wiki reports that our ~45,000 mile interstate highway system cost about 425 billion, or a hair under $10 million a mile, in 2006 dollars. That's under a twentieth of what the LA transit folks are quoting. (I think they're doing creative accounting by reclassifying part of construction as operating expenses, which is a frequent trick in this field, but I've got nothing to back that up.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
litmusapp doesn't require an app either. In fact, I think the app is just a gimmick
Static pages are pretty rare these days. Quite a lot of the cross browser issues are when it comes to dynamic content, so I'm not really sure how useful a single screenshot is.

I'll stick with VirtualBox for now :)
http://axod.net/browserTesting.png

You can download the XP images free from microsoft, ready installed with IE6 IE7 and IE8. You just have to jump a couple of hoops to get the images into a format virtualbox/vmware etc understand.
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The man speaks so much sense that its easy to forget IMF/WB/USAid debacles in eastern Europe. Even under his watch?
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I too had been searching for a list of various web business models. This seems fairly comprehensive in categorizing the models in use, but does not help in determining what has been successful. I'd love to see some analysis of the profitability of these models.
I actually think, in this case, being a niche app is much better..especially given the niche he's selected. He's addressing a real problem with an audience that something like this would be a fantastic boon for. Going beyond that would make it too general and would change the entire way it's marketed and approached.

I think keeping it only for LDS missionaries and MAYBE expanding it at some point beyond that to other youth missionaries abroad would be as far as it ought to go.

Being the "go-to" site for a particular segment is a winning formula here, not trying to be an "everyman" site to an audience that doesn't have a compelling reason to adopt something like this, whereas, the LDS missionary target audience doesn't have an alternative and it's rare that anyone would think to target them, so that helps a lot in this case.
WIth respect, jballanc, this is why the HN guidelines discourage editorializing by changing or embellishing the headline. This post is about a lot more than online writing. It's also about startups and hacking and just about anything else where there is a tension between expressing yourself and making a fast buck. The author's experience happens to be with writing, but there's a deeper truth here that could be lost if a reader skips the article because their interest lies in writing software rather than in writing words.
Well, Miles Automotive is working on a sub $40,000 car.

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You might not be able to get a job exclusively doing Perl hacking, but if you know Perl you make your life a lot easier. My wife is an IT manager and even she found Perl tremendously useful, beacuse she sometimes has to bang files into different formats or weed through gigantic log files dispersed on different servers.
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You're forgetting Day of The Tentacle!
I'm really surprised that one has yet to mention this book / system - Time Management For System Administrators:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007836/

This is a wonderful system focusing on goals, priorities, proper breakdown of tasks, stress management, relaxation, maintaining focus, etc. It gives a wonderful breakdown of how to manage planners, and this system has been working for me for years now. Hope you find some value out of this!
Hmm, same day as my Birthday.

I hope it's something new (and not the java thing), that would be a nice present from Google!
I'll believe that the Volt will come out first when I see it. As far as I'm concerned it's vaporware (designed to scare other people out of the market) until I can actually buy one from a local showroom.
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Ok, this looks awesome. I wonder how players will be able to manage the increasing complexity as a game progresses, but this definitely looks really promising.
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Instead of downvoting, why not post why you disagree? I think this is a valid line of inquiry.
> If that is the case then it isn't quite the same.

Why?
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No, for a number of reasons.

One reason for American dominance after WWII was that so much of Europe's manufacturing capability was destroyed by war. America has (about) the same manufacturing base as 2 years ago.

Another is that the strength of American industry was fed by the migration of farmers' sons and daughters into the cities. While American farmers may have been cash-poor, they had a lot of practical skills that were passed on to the kids that went to the city, such as fixing farm implements (requires mechanical aptitude).

Finally there is the question of the relative amount of freedom - not having been to China, I don't know the "full story" but it seems that America still has the edge.
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WOW. Just WOW. I have always believed that you can't have a good idea without someone else having it at about the same time, but this is the most uncanny experience I have had yet.

I had this exact same idea in January, or at least a very similar one. Time waves, etc.

Amazing.

By the way, this is one of the reasons I don't like patents that much - what if I had patented "A real time strategy game with time travel elements using propagating time waves"? Then these guys wouldn't have been able to implement it, even though they obviously came up with the idea separately, and have spent more effort implementing it.
Doubtful... You'd need a lot of time to accelerate to those speeds, and odds are you'd have to slow down to make a turn well before you reached anything appreciable.
This makes absolutely no sense. Have any of these companies racked up losses beyond $1 trillion? And even if they have, who is going to pay for the other 99.9% of their losses? This makes no difference to anything, except that you're now making some investments too risky for anyone to touch. The key, however, is not that the super-risky investments are the ones where companies look risky. They're just ANY company in certain industries.
What are the continued operating costs, though, from both the government and users? When I lived in Toronto I could have an all-access unlimited subway pass for $100 a month, that's $1200 a year.

If I commuted by car I would've personally paid a hell of a lot more for the privilege. The up-front cost of the infrastructure is not the only consideration...