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The issue with Gnome has never been there libraries. They are lays consistently top notch. A lot of their UI is quite awesome as well. There issue is that there is a lack of consultation with their users when they make changes.

Basically, the developers meet at GUADEC, whatever, think of an idea that directly affects users, then implement it without any communication or consultation.
That looks good actually. Does it make the promised 10 hour battery life from the reviews? Ah but the resolution is 1366x768, that's a fairly big turn off.
I'm under the impression that Mongo is merely hiding away some complexities, instead of truly resolving them.
RESTful Scala with Spray
Visual Studio on a 10 inch screen? Are you kidding me?
An awful name change: wait for the redirect
I think it might fall under Dutch jurisdiction, as most of the European activities are served from their HQ in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands. Although Virgin Media probably will stay British. Then again, ianal.
You've misunderstood my point in order to make your argument, I think. I didn't say that someone won't "know if this branch is tested because it uses an if" - obviously, they won't get certification if they don't know.

But the point is, they will have to write MORE tests to prove this knowledge. In other words, BREAK the conditions of the if statement in order to test - so simulate a full bitrot scenario on the conditional-branch. We've actually had to write tests to do this, but then been able to rewrite the code to use goto, effectively and without any of the disadvantages you mention - in fact, reducing the cyclomatic complexity of the entire system. This is a good thing.

Bit rot, not common? Well, if you're really safety-critical trained, you would simply never say that, in my opinion.

FYI, my software is running the trains in 38 countries around the world, track-side in thousands of locations. Replace the hardware? Forget it: that hardware will be there, in torturous environments, for years upon years and therefore: must be SIL4 rated. There is no exchange of hardware after a crash.
The point of that sentence was to indicate two things. Firstly your existence is random. Secondly - you are wholly the product of your arbitrary environment. That is all.
Not the OP but I'd say giving Postgres a try is a suggestion.
> this article which boils down to 'my language doesn't have feature x. So shitty feature y is really meaningful'?

Actually that's not what this article is about at all, it's a small part of a much larger arc about C, C semantics, and LLVM. As I pointed out, you're ignorant of this.

> Perhaps you could write an article about the usefulness of Option Explicit in vbscript to really underline the take away here.

Irrelevant and unconnected.

> I'd love to see you defend the claim that [goto] has a number of legitimate uses in well-structured code including an idiom seen in systems code

No need, it's an argument that's been covered already, probably before you were born. As others have pointed out even Dijkstra conceded it's (appropriate) usefulness, he simply wished to promote structured code and the (at the time) endemic bad use of GOTO.

> a claim on the superiority you're fatuously exuding.

Just experience, and seemingly more than yours.

> But perhaps I'm too durr hurr stupid to notice in the hundreds of different programs I've read.

While I originally inferred ignorance and not stupidity on your part I concede that you are making a strong case for the latter.
Yes, as has been mentioned several times. The act balances the interests of all the parties -- the delay may hurt, but it provides actual victims of copyright infringement the time to go to court and get a preliminary injunction to prevent further damages. If the notice was fraudulent and there was no infringement, the filer is liable for damages and attorneys fees of the accused should they wish to sue and recover them. Whatever loss those 10 days offline caused are recoverable damages.
There are also JSON and XML types in PostgreSQL. It also supports an easy transition from PostgreSQL native, record and array types to JSON, and it supports a wide range of the SQL XML standard.

However, there's still something missing. PostgreSQL lacks support for XQuery. It lacks support for querying parts of JSON structure, although there's an external extension for that. And it lacks decoding JSON into native/record/array types.

So for a pure document store, PostgreSQL would require you to add lots of userdefined functions for handling your JSON structures.

However, PostgreSQL is great for hybrid approaches, when you separate your documents into content and metadata, i.e. free-structured JSON and hard-structured native types.
It might be correct about the 4 hours. It might also be irrelevant for most people. For most disciplines, accomplishing anything consists of some cognitively very demanding work, and a lot of 'admin'. Some violin players and mathematicians may get by on doing only the hard stuff, but most have to apply for grants, participate in conferences, transcribe/arrange, maintain equipment, etc.

For a startup founder I think this is especially true. A lot of the things you do won't be very cognitively demanding. That doesn't mean you can skip it if you want to get anywhere. It doesn't even mean those 'menial' task create less value in your context than the hardcore 100% concentration parts.

Maybe when you've settled down to a predictable working pattern and managed to configure your environment to cater to all the necessary but trivial tasks (and create enough value in your 4 hours to pay for other people taking care of the rest) you can realize this. I'm not there yet.
I believe that Microsoft has too much legacy code in Windows to change it. At best, Metro is a slapped on interface on Windows.

I have not used Surface but have a laptop with Windows 8. Hardware wise, Surface is quite good but Windows has two basic problems:

1. Legacy Code: No matter what, there will be some part of Windows that will behave oddly and not upto current standards. I use multiple Wi-Fi networks and my iPhone, iPad and my friend's Windows Phone automatically use proxy settings for that network. Windows 8 needs a manual change.

2. Slapped On Metro: Metro feels very unpolished. There are settings and other apps in Metro but real power still lies with classic Windows UI.

Microsoft is presenting it as a "no compromises" approach but it feels like an all compromises approach.
Me neither; I just find it annoying :) And like I said; when I buy a laptop which starts out with X hours battery life, it'll take less than a year to get to half of that. Only exception has been Fujitsu Lifebook laptops which, even after years (I still have a p1510 with the extended battery) it still has the same battery life and works like a charm.
I'm talking about C code. For every if-branch, a test must be written to exercise the extreme case - the if failing, for some reason (bit-rot, radiation or heat or hardware-failure derived).

In SIL4, its not enough to say:

if (SAFE == something) {}; //dosomething..

.. and then just test the SAFE condition. You also have to test the condition where the constant SAFE gets bitrot, where the var something gets bitrot, &etc. Adding a test case for every potential bit-rotted branch of the conditional.
They haves messed up even basic colours in Metro. Only two out of some fifteen colour schemes look good with Metro!
The question was whether or not it could compete in the desktop/high end market, not whether or not it was targeted at gamers.
Luck is merely preferable random chance. I never argued for determinism. I argued for probabilistic determinism.
Thanks for the kind words! I actually tried yesterday, may have been some bad luck with nobody really seeing the post :/ Would love to hear any other feedback you might have :)

Edit: Please add all those questions! We built the entire site to be the home for them :)
If ou are talking routing, this can happen anyway, and quite likely does - when I knew something about ISPs most traffic leaving a telehouse in London heads to the US and direct EU exchanges have grown but not that much.

Generally it's not worth worrying about this.
I have a saeco odea, they designed the bean recipient so it looks more like a curved plate than a bottle : http://imgur.com/CJzJLQ3 .

I think it's quite obvious to the user you don't put water in this.

On the other side, the water tank is a bit hidden, being inside the machine, behind an opaque face. Making it transparent would probably help.
So... Where I used to work, someone once put milk in the water container, 'cos they thought that's how you get frothed milk.
> continued success of Apple

Well it looks like Android is largely catching up on Apple's iOS, and actually selling more than iOS phones worldwide. Tablets is yet another story. Apple's edge may not be enough to justify the extra bucks they are asking for, and Apple's share in laptops remains marginal at best. And Apple has no intent to make things cheap anyway, so their reach will remain limited in that field.
A function call necessitates setting up the stack for the call, and returning from the call by popping values of the stack. To get 100% coverage, you'll have to test the call, test the broken call, test the stack being corrupted, and so on. This adds to the cyclomatic complexity of the TESTING required to certify that your software doesn't have/take any unknown paths during its lifetime while installed in highly hostile environments (heat, radiation, water, desert conditions, Antarctica, etc.)
Not necessarily -- email me your CV & links to your code samples, blog posts, etc. if you have any! :-)
That's not a name change, per se - Rakuten (楽天) is Japan's largest e-commerce site, and recently has been expanding overseas. They also own Play.com, Linkshare, and Kobo - it appears they've decided to get all of their websites under the Rakuten branding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten
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how do screen shots represent 'guesswork'?
> JSON type and functional indexes

Those "Indexes on Expressions" are really a great feature that can also be combined with XML (not just JSON) and any other types. I recommend everyone to have a look at those:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/indexes-expression...
But what are we gonna use then to open the germy bathroom doors, for the 95-ish% of us who use the paper towel we dry out hands with to also open the door and then drop in a bin next to it?
Correct me if I am wrong, but the prevailing thought when that article was written (1992) was that digital currency would resemble more of a transferred digital coin, with signatures representing each transaction. So if I had coin #12345, and I transferred it to you, I would digitally sign it to you giving your private key the spend capability.

With those architectures, a central authority would be required to prevent the double-spend. And with those architectures, the coins grow with each spend.

The difference with Bitcoin (which I think is totally misnamed) is that it's not a coin architecture, it's a ledger architecture. So no matter how many times the amount 1BTC is transferred, each transfer could be just the same length - the sender's address, the recipient's address, and an appropriate signature. Even 50 years from now and ten thousand transfers of that "coin" later, the "coin" doesn't get larger.

The ledger gets larger, but the coin does not (since really there's no such thing as a "bit COIN" - really what you have is a series of account numbers in the giant shared ledger.)
There is not a one to one relationship between B and C. Luck factors between those two points as well.
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By a factor of three, which is nothing.
CRAP design via D3JS
Just tinkering with D3 and applying principles of design CRAP
> plug in a monitor

Surface will happily drive a 2560x1440 30" IPS panel display. Plenty of real-estate for Visual Studio.
The course should be interesting, it shall be teaching everything through Three.js.
"The trends don't lie"

Wah. And you do not even seem to be ironic. Trends always lie, there is always a next thing that will take the opposite direction, in philosophy, in science, and particularly so in computing stuff.
> Don't make the threads all about real-time, but rather focus on how they can be useful in the future.

This. I'd like it on reddit. We have 7 years of back logs that just sit there.
It's called cognitive dissonance. It's how religious people can argue on an internet developed using science or risk their lives to machines made with science. They never join the two logically incompatible worlds.
I would love to see a design criticism even once that did not hold up Apple as perfect.
If HN is a merely ok news aggregator that is ultimately just a podium (?) for YC cos to market themselves, why do you use it so much?
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That is pretty darn awesome. Kudos given. Downloading now.
no doubt, it's just that buy.com is a beautifully simple domain name. I think it's Rakuten's ego driving the decision to axe a 3-letter domain.
Or maybe the less used APIs just don't reveal themselves as crap yet, because of the lack of experience with them?

I'm yet to see a very well done API.
Is that some kind of HN userscript, or did you mock up the screenshot?
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'Looks like' does not mean 'has the same capability,' for example, in processing power
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I don't know what goes on inside the coffee bean hopper, but fundamentally I can't see why one couldn't just prevent the machine from breaking if the user does make a mistake. The machine could then warn the user of their error and allow them to correct it. They'd soon get the idea.
I have happily programmed for long stretches - refactoring, doing project work, mentoring others. Once you've been a developer a while, you can produce magic without very much mental strain.

Break away from that and do something truly difficult - specification meetings where you're designing a process for huge pieces of hardware that haven't yet been built - studying something complicated and unfamiliar to you - etc - and perhaps you'll find - like me - that you've only got a few hours available to you before your brain turns to mush.
This is ... awfully vague stuff.

Tangentially, the question of "who is the fittest?" comes up from time to time in various places. It's a fairly meaningless question of itself, but fully explaining why leads to roaming over stuff like multi-objective optimisation problems.

Which is neat if you like that sort of thing.
Probably no one has ever "taken you up on this" because the body of literature on Anarchy is enough to be a library on it's own. Since you've somehow managed to miss it means you're unlikely to read anything anyone would point you at.

But for anyone else who might happen on this comment and be truly curious, here's a good starting point: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-edi...

It's heavily cited so you can go as deep as you care to.

P.S.: The short answer is: the "gang warfare" scenario comes from bartering, whether with money or direct bartering (e.g. trade 100 loafs of bread for a bicycle). For Anarchism to work, you'd need to get rid of capitalism and bartering completely. Think Star-trek.

Also note, I'm not arguing for anarchism but rather against ignorance. I personally don't think the world is ready for anarchism but at least I know what it actually is.
Definitely odd that they didn't at least go with "Rakuten Buy.com", as they did with play.com...
The screenshot of the task manager ...

I find the task manager in Windows 8 to be a big improvement over previous versions, so I spent 10 minutes going back and forth through the article trying to find what you're talking about.

There are no pictures of the task manager at all.

You're attempting to base an opinion on some random photos, rather than actually trying the product for yourself.
The artist turning typewriter parts into sculptures
We sit down with Jeremy Mayer, an artist who takes typewriter parts and turns them into sculptures. He calls his technique "cold assembly."

“I don’t like the appearance of welding or soldering or outside fastening. It’s the same with woodwork for me, I like not to be able to see the joinery.”

http://bit.ly/11TJS1h
Wow, that's so deep. And here I thought computing devices came with a free lunch.
I don't have a problem with physics, I just think that applying this level of determinism to human interactions is useless. And as I said, if you have completely internalized that yourself, how is it that you are question other people's behavior? It is, after all, predetermined.

To put it another way, it's like trying to fix a watch with a shotgun. And as long as you would like to keep the watch, I'd say save the shotgun for other uses.

Pure determinism is fun to play with, and you can believe that it is the ultimate answer, but it has no real use here and now.

This is separate to my main point, but I like this quote from E. F. Schumacher: "Relativism and positivism, of course, are purely metaphysical doctrines with the peculiar and ironical distinction that they deny the validity of all metaphysics. including themselves."
So you prefer gotos to reduce the number of tests you have to write by artificially pushing down the number of countable code paths?

I guess I see the reason. It seems to be connected to your development economics -- SLOCS required to reach a certified state.

I'm glad that works for you. It still scares me.
User Interface is about user experience.

You can't experience using a product with some photographs.

Similarly, you can't pretend to be a judge of good design based on a couple of photographs.

This guy was clearly just spouting an opinion based on nothing, and we shouldn't respond to such comments as if they deserve merit.
I'll be sure to tell my wife, who meets all of your points.

As a kindergarden teacher, she'll be delighted to hear she's a top engineer :-)
That $45.2m figure was not the average valuation of all cos we've funded, but the average valuation of companies with known valuations (either by raising an equity round, being acquired, or dying, in which case the value is 0).

I realize that unless something is changing, the more recent companies that don't have fixed valuations yet should have the same sort of distribution. But that quote in Wikipedia still makes me a little uncomfortable, because it's not strictly correct.
I would love to have one of these to do graphics work on the go: runs all the industry stuff with some extra processing power, decent res, and Wacom input (compare to the cost of Cintiq). Hopefully they will be able to improve battery life in later models.

But for programming, I can't really understand using a tablet at all, while a normal cheaper laptop will do just fine.
Is the United Breaks Guitars guy available?
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> Also worth noting is that 1920x1200 is less dense than the Retina displays.

So you'd expect it to cost less.

I run Linux, and I am not interested in MacOS X, even if the hardware is nice. It's not a good fit for how I work.
There are ways to alleviate the need for batteries, although without a powerful source of energy it would be rather moot - Wireless Electricity. It could lift some burden from the batteries, still without an extremely powerful source it would be more or less moot.
Take a person who has never used iOS. Show her screenshots of the home screen and a few random Apple apps -- say, Find My Friends and Podcasts. Would you expect her to draw a reasonable conclusion of what it's like to use an iPhone and how the design works in practice?

More likely, looking at screenshots would divert her attention to secondary things like the textures and illustrations used in the apps rather than the actual UI design.
I never said absolute determinism (notice the randomness in the line).

You took down a straw man.
For the same reason I used forums, Slashdot, Digg and Reddit before HN - these sites start off very interesting and addictive and then they gradually appeal to a wider and wider audience and in doing so become less interesting. Or maybe it's because I'm growing (or shrinking I guess). Either way one of us is not keeping pace.

If it wasn't a podium for YC companies we would see very few of them being mentioned because most of them just aren't that good a match for this audience, so it's forced.
There's a difference between being maximally productive at any given time and coming out cumulatively ahead. The strong claim is to state that one is always net less productive when working sub-optimally at any given time. I doubt that this is true but i suppose it depends on how quickly productivity falls off with strain. I suspect that it's probably ok to work long hours to get through repetitive learning but its best to reserve a fresh focus for your more creative moments.
I've been looking forward to seeing what Jeff was going to put out next. If Discourse is anywhere near as well thought-out as Stack Exchange, it could be a great success. Congrats and best of luck, Jeff!
Hacknos
> probably before you were born.

"Goto Considered Harmful" was published by the ACM in 1968.

I'd love to see accurate numbers for ages of HN reader and HN posters.
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What happens when MiniTest runs, or, what I think about testing using classes
Also, unlike AWS, you can't choose to migrate to a different provider in a way that will be completely transparent to your users.
This can be a problem with some, but I think it really depends on the goal of hackathon.

It sounds like the ones you attended were all startup and business focused, in which case the idea (and hence the pitch) does become more important.

But other hackathons I've seen are all about the tech, and they do give people time and space to set up a live demo at the end.
I don't see why she isn't - since we are talking in relative terms here anyway.

Your wife works building the minds of children, improving them, making them as efficient as possible to help their growth, she is the modern growth hacker of education, whatever that means.
HN comes up in discussion among startup types here in Berlin a lot - it's definitely having an impact with more reach than individual YC investments, but what that impact is seems like it would be impossible to quantify.

I know that I became an entrepreneur at least in part because I started reading HN in 2009.
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You didn't have it in the previous post in which you said this:

"Finally, physics eliminates the case for free will. So yes - you do what you do because you were set up to do it."

Also, for the purposes of my argument randomness doesn't really matter, anyway. It's whether you exclude free will or not.
1000x more productive is too many orders of magnitude in individual performance for me to really process, perhaps he means 1000x more productive than 1,000 monkeys with typewriters?