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Turbo Pascal 3.0 was my first serious programming language (after Apple ][ Basic). 30kb of editor/compiler in one package.

Then used Turbo/Borland Pascal 5.0/5.5 for quite a while, a bit of 6.01, short Delphi, and by that time already moved to C/C++

I moved of a reasonably stupid thing. The MoveFile() function exposed in Borland Pascal was not able to move files between folders. Although I knew some assembly, and Ralph Brown Interrupt List was the greatest thing ever, I did not consider rewriting routines in it (For some reason I was thinking - this language supports this, and this one that... much later I realized - these were just libraries, even if they were builtin ones - CRT). But for that reason I moved to C/C++ - because it had the function... lol.

I loved how .TPU/.DPU files worked, much more efficient than headers.
Please describe these actual threats to your children that you claim. As the first public internet provider in my country we encountered many of these 'actual treats' claims or 'child pornography' witch hunts but we never found a shred of evidence to support them.
The password isn't stored locally, I use oauth 2.0 (and also support folks with 2-factor auth enabled!)
I really don't understand why people are so up in arms.

First everyone was in love with Quora, now everyone hates them? What changed?

Yes - they want you to join their community because their ecosystem depends on people signing up. I signed up for Quora once and since then it's never forced me to sign in again.
The world did! 36,000 Americans died trying. The UN, led by the US, fought a brutal war in Korea from 1950-53 that nearly liberated North Korea...until Mao's Chinese army crossed into North Korea in overwhelming numbers in a surprise attack that resulted in the current stalemate. It was a global effort, over 1,000 Brits also died and hundreds from many other random countries gave their lives trying to free North Korea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Right now it just supports 1:1 text chats. My plan is to do group chat next, then add support for Video/Voice.
it relies on the client's html > DOM conversion, so in a sense it does. but it does not have a self-contained html parser.
Adobe open-sources Photoshop 1.0
Watch the Canadian Parliament Debate the Zombie Apocalypse
How Not to Do It: Chromium Trioxide
That's not a bad idea. Here is some bookmarklet code that retrieves and displays the actual answers when hovering over the blurred out answers. The downside is, it cannot do anything about the answers that do not have a permalink (clickable datestamp).

javascript:(function($) {
var $answerTextDivs = $("div.answer_text:has(.blurred_answer)");
function heal() {
$answerTextDiv = $(this);
$answerLink = $answerTextDiv.find("a.answer_permalink");
if ($answerLink.length === 0) {
showError($answerTextDiv, "could not find answer - no permalink.");
return;
}
$.get($answerLink.attr("href"), function(d) {
var $permaAnswerDiv = $(d).find(".answer_text");
$answerTextDiv.empty();
$answerTextDiv.append($permaAnswerDiv.first());
}).fail(function(e) {
showError($answerTextDiv, "ajax call failed - " + e);
});
}
function showError($container, message) {
var $errorDiv = $("<div>");
$errorDiv.text(message);
$errorDiv.css({
'background-color': 'red',
'color': 'white',
'padding': '2px 6px',
'position': 'absolute',
'margin-top': '38px',
'z-index': 2000
});
$container.prepend($errorDiv);
}
$answerTextDivs.one('mouseenter', heal);
$.ajaxPrefilter(function(options, originalOptions, jqXHR) {
/* this is to prevent annoying UIX usage tracking POSTs to Quora */
if (options.type === 'POST') {
jqXHR.abort();
}
});
}(jQuery));
I am a huge Quora fan and user but would have to agree with this assessment. Most of Quora's traffic "lurks" and this will be the search audience they need to get. What they're doing now is trying to make sure they have your account credentials to monitor what you "lurk" for. At some point, my guess is that they'll remove this tactic. I will say, however, that the web created "inside" Quora is some of the richest, most high-fidelity information on the entire web, and it may not exist elsewhere.
Facebook Moves to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Instagram TOS Change
Who owns the content on Quora?

Could someone just scrape all the user contributed stuff and start a new site? Even if it was just all flat text I'd use it. Would this be legal?
Warp records' retail arm begins selling electronics kits
...unless you are talking about SSD isn't the network faster?

It was my understanding that most or all of the Chromebooks have (small) SSDs.
Cool! If you can, try mushrooms or acid with people coming with that intent. The setting and your intent going in matters. Best if your guide is someone who treats this as a sacred rite.

Something else that complements vipassana well is the method described in Tsultrim Allione's Feeding Your Demons.
I've completely left ORM-land (in PHP). I find that:

* I have little need to switch databases
* ORMs provide little support for things like
views, stored procedures, custom types
* I like to see the SQL in context of my code.

I've come to these conclusions for myself after having run the gauntlet of several Symfony projects. There was simply too much abstraction from the actual code that "did the work." I found myself creating and extending classes (or annotating) to simply add a type or make code do simple joins.
Yeah they asked me why I opted out. I said "I don't trust the government". Then I imagined a CIA robot zooming in on me. I clarified: "I don't trust the government with medical x-ray procedures"
Collecting Personal Feedback Anonymously Via Twitter
I find the negative tone of this article very odd.

He is (rightly) upset that bug fixes are not glamorous, and not submitted as often as they should be to WebKit.

Yet the fact that Opera has moved their team onto an open source project, and is actively submitting bug fixes at all, is surely a positive thing?

The alternative is they continue to develop the Presto rendering engine, to which no one but Opera can submit bug fixes, and this bug fix wouldn't have been submitted to WebKit at all.

So surely this move is a positive gain from any perspective? I'm not sure why the negative spin.
This doesn't seem responsive to what I said. Every other financial transaction you engage in carries some kind of disclosure of identity. Your credit card has your name on it and discloses it when it's swiped. You can't order anything at all online without giving them a shipping address. You can't even buy a coffee for cash without your picture being taken by security cameras.

Holding this particular kind of transaction up as (no joke: your words) a "breach of trust" is just ridiculous on its face. So much so that frankly I suspect this is just yet another "Apple vs. Google" flame war in clever disguise.

Again, I agree there's an interesting discussion to be had about this stuff. But only if you give up the absurd absolutist flaming.
I think there's a disproportionate amount of beginner's material that involves the use of storyboarding and Interface Builder, which gives the impression that iOS development is a lot like it is in Visual Basic.

Perhaps other iOS developers can weigh in on this, but I feel like it's fair to say that the most qualified developers do everything programmatically.

I've been doing everything exclusively programmatically since I've started, and I've never had any problems with XCode - to the point where I was surprised when I heard people complain about it for the first time.

From that point, the only downside I see to using Objective-C over Ruby is verbosity, but that seems pretty inconsequential given some of the benefits sandofsky mentioned above.

It's nice that there's something out there for experienced Ruby developers though.
Quora is now 3 years old and has taken $61 million from investors. Are there any numbers publicly available to show user growth over this period?
Jobs at Google Ventures portfolio companies
Zombie hoax blamed on lax password security at US broadcasters
The new .com for Geeks
So that's what that is. The entry/exit is bizarre. I seem to recall coming out in some sort or shared exit with a small supermarket or something like that.
I can also recommend the tour - great staff, very much off the beaten tourist trail (or it was the day we went) and a great place.
The massive cemeteries are also worth visiting for the huge mausoleums and crypts and general creepiness - on a dark day it feels like you have gone back in time 300 years - until you hit the James Morrison grave trash and Wilde lipstick rampage.
Except lack of redistribution rights also complicates research and academic study since technically you can't even share any derivative work among colleagues.

Copyrights that may expire long after my death also don't seem like something I should be grateful for.
Remember the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania or near there? News spread to the passengers and they overcame the hijackers.
They missed COBOL's fixed-point math, which is unmatched in any other language and makes accounting a breeze and its fixed-length strings, which significantly enhances performance and make green screen/HTML layout easy.
Great point about targeting the niche markets. We kept the product general enough so that our users could help us find the niche. So I agree with this point completely, and since we have some data points now, we're going to start focusing on specific verticals.

Regarding to your second point about getting people to switch. You are right, "mobile first and responsive" itself is not enough, but simplicity is. From our user interviews, we've found that the single most important reason they switch over to Strikingly is because it takes less time to set up and manage. Also, they don't need to worry about how an edit on the web will look on mobile. The key is saving their time. The majority of our customers have actually switched from an existing website builder or CMS to Strikingly. As for why mobile is important, I think you'll agree that any website today should be mobile optimized. With the growth trajectory of mobile traffic, the importance of mobile is going to precede web in two, at most three, years. The question is what "mobile optimized" means. Taking a complicated desktop website and try to fit it onto a small screen is hard, but the other way around is not (Fred Wilson has an article here: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/12/rethinking-mobile-first.html). Mobile is a catalyst for a web design revolution, with simpler and more intuitive designs. This trend is also happening on the desktop web, and that's why more people are using the one-page design. Mobile first is both a mentality and design shift, and eventually, desktop web design will have to assimilate the mobile experience. Our users agree with this philosophy of ours.

Of course, we are also working on simplifying the whole onboarding process. Some interesting updates will be released soon. Thanks for your feedback!
Of course he is a perverted ideal. It's been a while, but didn't they insinuate he was genetically engineered or something along those lines?

Besides, he is not without flaws. If you didn't notice them, maybe you weren't paying enough attention?
I mean comparable, in the sense that it has a similar set of features, and allows you to perform similar tasks with similar amount of effort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo
They'll slaughter it, for sure.

I don't have any evidence of this mind you, but I've been through this cycle with favorite books enough times to have learned: don't get your hopes up.
"I got into YC" is the equivalent of "I got into google" in the spectrum of startups. It is a form of credential and carries all of the negative connotations, with the added downside of opacity (at least with standardized tests, the rules are known ahead of time)

Keep in mind that the hardest lessons of entrepreneurship are only exposed to those who are taking the biggest risks (staking out on your own or with friends) and are lost upon those who don't have to take a significant risk.

In many ways, you see the differences in the behaviors of VC-backed companies versus bootstrapped companies.
As @yor said, Mindfulness in Plain English is good. You can find a copy free at: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html

I never heard of Unlearning Meditation but I do know that there were a lot of things I thought I knew about meditation and it was ... not exactly like that. Anne Wise's book, High Performance Mind gets into some of the technical details. I like Daniel Ingram's book, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha but a lot of people don't. It's not exactly a beginner's book, but it's something to keep in mind if you ever start getting some weird experiences that you have difficulty framing.

I say vipassana to mean the specific practice of experiencing reality, every little bit. It's not the only modality, and you'll find this particular practice in other traditions (and I mean, in Western traditions as well. There's not much you can tack on to "experience reality").

I have also been (slowly) translating the Tao Te Ching from the perspective that it is a book to guide you in your practice, not necessarily a book stating a philosophy. For example, the famous "The journey of a thousand miles begin with the first step" when put into this context actually means, let go of the thought/emotion/sensation at the beginning rather than when it becomes a full-blown train wreck that you have to ride out.

I'm a bit stuck with the translation because I'm hitting the parts that resemble more of a trip with psychedelics, and the audience was originally intended for people who may not have those experiences. Having said that, I noticed that Brian Browne Walker's translation is in that particular spirit.

Sometimes, just sitting there and getting in touch with reality is difficult. So there are other practices that can lead up to doing this. If you are still interested in this, but find Mindfulness in Plain English intimidating, I suggest Dan Millman's The Way of the Peaceful Warrior and followup with his Everyday Enlightenment.
Pidgin.im and Skype
Social remixing for musicians
This is very interesting. What book did you read about this in?
Those who escaped from North Korea to China will be sent back by the Chinese government if found and possibly executed. They are literally the most miserable people on this planet. China could have become some west "North Korea" (China is at the west of North Korea) if American hadn't killed Chairman Mao's son during Korean War. For that I am really grateful to the US. Life is not easy but it could have been much worse.
That is a solid observation. What YC has done to the world of startups is a massive study - if PG would open up the data (founder issues, funding, what the founders are up to today etc) we can get some really great insights.
I thought I had remembered this from Startup School, interesting story.
I don't understand what all the fuss is about. It's a great book---in fact, for a while, it was my favorite book---but humans have been fighting wars for thousands of years. The Romans ruled the ancient world, and the Mongols Asia, with their mobility.

And yet we're supposed to believe that "hey, strategic and tactical movement is pretty great" is a new idea?

Frankly, most of the time, size and power win the day. Oracle is still here. Microsoft is still here. Yahoo is still here.

The reason Card writes about weakness combined with movement and agility and brilliant insight is the same reason we are all fascinated with startups---because they're all counterintuitive (read: loses most of the time) and therefore fun to watch. That's it. Not because it's always a superior fighting style. Try fancy-schmancy maneuvers in the no-man's land of WW1 and you're done.

Now, I am an underweight computer programmer, so I don't know what I'm talking about. All I've done is think, and play video games. Which is precisely what Card has done.

And I say this as a fan of Card's work. But turning military fiction into the Art of War is a little much, it seems.
About 75% of the code is in Pascal
Ender is profoundly not a role model. I think you may have missed something crucial there.
I think I'll pass--I instinctively check my phone too much as it is, I really don't need another device to feed my dopamine addiction. Reminds me of an old Calvin and Hobbes strip--if we wanted technology to make our lives more convenient, we'd make computers slower, not faster.
Indeed, tell us more about these children's lives you saved. I've done extensive research on these occurrences when my first startup internet provider first encountered these claims in the nineties. We never found any evidence whatsoever. We did find an overwhelmingly large number of people ready to go on a witch hunt or lynch these so called perpetrators, but that's been going on for thousands of years now.

Has anyone claiming child pornography online ever actually found something? Again, please show us, they would be my first datapoints ever in our assisting of the police in investigating these.

The business model of the OP is itself predatory on the fears and underbelly feelings of uninformed parents. Better to explain to those parents how to raise children so that they are cautious about anything they encouter online.
Special Notes Lookup in Rails
Same here. In my opinion ORM's are evil. They are very easy to get started with but once your application logic becomes more complex you will find that you've painted yourself in a corner. I'm all for an DB abstraction but I stay away from ORM's.
What makes you think the first sentence is true?
I would in fact, assume the exact opposite.
I've bought plenty of things where the warranty was automatically registered by buying it at best buy, and samsung/sony/whoever sent me a postcard, to my name and address, letting me know that.

It's very clear my personal information was shared.
Same. It takes a lot to get on my blocklist and the only site that now populates it is quora.
I'm confused. Did they protect kids? I don't remember if he said that or not.

Anyway, a few comments:

- They paid for free users with no business model in place

- They failed to complete requirements of their previous investment deals

- Handshakes don't matter, term sheets don't matter; nothing matters until the check clears
Scaling Happiness at GitHub (video)
I had the same experience in central Missouri, so… probably not. I'm totally okay with them being able to ship faster than sending e-mails, though.
I, too, signed up for Quora once. But I don't want to sign in every time I want to browse the site.

The ironic thing is that, if they'd just let people browse, they'd sign in on their own.
The Nordic super nanny state is something of a myth. All three have very open markets and size of government that is 50% of GDP or less (US is 42%).

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/sweden
Well its sad but not surprising. I mean look at it from a young South Korean's perspective. There is a huge economic and many be now even a cultural gap between them and the folks from the north.

For somebody young in South Korea, a North Korean is somebody who shares his mother tongue in a different dialect- nothing much apart from that. By now North and South Korea are two very different countries, with many things being different and few things being common.

When a refugee arrives they may not think of him/her as 'one of us'. More like some troubled person from the neighboring country who will dilute/be a burden on our culture economy.
HAproxy is a more efficient load balancer for really high scale apps. That said, only about 5% of people would see a difference in load/memory usage. Source: I work for EY.
Money aside, the schedule of the contest is way too aggressive given the long list of requirements; some of which are quite vague.
Android wheel menu
As someone building a Heroku Cedar-esque PaaS[1], here's the problem with your analogy: back in Aspen/Bamboo days (and what a lot of people still think of as "PaaS"), Heroku was like this (i.e your app was the one-a-time cashier, and Heroku's "routing mesh" setup checkout lanes and routed customers to your cashiers intelligently).

Now however, Heroku lets you build your own checkout lane, so you can run apps with single-response thread Rails, multi-response thread(e.g. unicorn) Rails, and async long-polling/SSE etc apps w/ ruby/node.js/scala/go/erlang/etc that can handle huge numbers of simultaneous connections. Throw websockets into the mix here too (we do). And you can even mix & match within an app, distributing requests to different stacks of code based on URL or the time of day, which may have different internal response/queuing characteristics (e.g. we have a Rails app w/ a Grape API w/ a handful of URLs mapped in via Rack::Stream middleware rather than going through Rails).

So to get back to your analogy, Heroku is automating the setup of the "lanes", but each supermarket is allowed to use its own blueprint and cashier and checkout process, and basically just do whatever they want within a lane. Maybe some "lanes" are more like a restaurant where 25 customers spend an average of 45 minutes at a time juggled between 6 waiters while others are still bottlenecked supermarket checkouts, with everything in between. Maybe one type of customer ties up the cashier/waiter so much that he can only handle 10 others instead of 100 normally. And it could all change every time the store opens (a deployment with new code occurs), or based on what the specific customers are buying.

The point is simply that there's not a "next available checkout counter" in this situation, because all apps are not single-threaded Rails apps anymore. Which doesn't mean there aren't better solutions than dumb routing, but it does get a bit more complicated than the supermarket checkout.

[1] http://www.pogoapp.com/
It would seem the UN/US's previous attempt to invade is what keeps us from trying it again. That is, fear of a reprisal from China once again. From watching documentaries on the Korean War from the point of China crossing the Yalu River into North Korea onward, it seemed like not one GI would want to face the seemingly endless waves of Chinese Infantry again. We definitely underestimated the motives and preparedness of the Chinese at the time.

Any future action on North Korea without China's approval would definitely not be a good outcome for the UN or the nations involved.
Does this not create a webkit monoculture? Find a security flaw in website and suddenly two thirds of browsers are vulnerable.
Do you know of any resources to start this? I am essentially going to do a pilgrimage around the world, starting from SF. Going to Mexico, Panama, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, with a hop to Australia. It would be great to talk to some people who manage something like this, and how they manage their freelancing.
Try telling the manager that.
> For existence proofs, plural, consider the Nordic states. They're more state than many, if not most, yet they're widely regarded as among the "best", even by objective measurements.

That's also what I had always heard, but surprisingly, it's precisely backwards. [1]

> Contrariwise, consider Somalia. That's about as least-state as you can get, and yet it's somehow not the very model of civilization...

That's a straw man. Small government people are not calling for anarchism. Anarchists are calling for anarchism. (Some self-styled anarchists claim to be in favor of small government; they should just be dismissed.)

> but it's by no means axiomatically so. Any assertion to the contrary is ideology.

All scientific progress is attacked in this way at the beginning.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570840-nordic...
I've looked, but cannot find a way to hide my email for app purchases through the Play store. There doesn't seem to be anything in either the Play store settings of the Wallet settings. Do you know if this feature still exists?