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Jetbrains rocks, and I don't even own any stock. I've been out of the Java world for a few years, but when I was a young padawan I wanted to use IntelliJ at an investment bank but they wouldn't pay for it since Eclipse was available. Now I know it'd have been worth the productivity boost to pay for a license myself, because I currently use both RubyMine and TextMate at work, but I find that RubyMine helps me get more done and I can find my way around large projects more easily. RubyMine 5 was just released and it's fast, and it's also kind of cute when it points out that a line of code doesn't look like the Ruby style guide. :)

FWIW, I just discovered VIM Adventures a week or so ago, and I'm planning to try to give it a chance to win me over:

http://vim-adventures.com/
In a more civil society, people go to trial for accusations, especially ones as serious as terrorism.

I think it says a lot about our society that it is widely seen as a 'good thing' that we kill out of passion.
Never give up hope! One of these days, you'll leave a comment about people's refusal to read blog posts all the way through and by doing so change the world.

Do you write a lot of Go code?
I like the concept and have longed for this for some time, but I'm not a fan of the big sign up button without an easy way to know the price (maybe t's through that button? I dunno and don't want to put the effort in if the price isn't reasonable). My suggestion: make a pricing link or put pricing into on the front page.

(I'm on a mobile device, so these comments may not apply to a full size browser.)
Too cool to finish reading an article that already "changed your life" so you ask some plebe to give you the tl;dr.

Grow up.
Who has done more wrong US army or Al Qaeda? Killed more civilians? Done for money or faith? Which is more important money or faith? What about Trial and Bin Laden's rights? Why wouldn't Obama be killed for killing civilians?
Not only is tptacek completely correct, the Go maintainers are completely against code colorizing, so having visual markers in syntax is quite nice.
Hey, it's nobody's right to make you hang out with them if you don't want to!

But small talk and chatter are part of the glue that bind friendships in my world. Perhaps our worlds are very different.
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Murder is unlawful killing; Whatever you think about this from a moral perspective, it was not unlawful.

More to the point, Personally? I think the 17 year olds we throw into actual battle are the least morally culpable of us all. They have to face the physical consequences of an enemy who actively fights back; they have to face the psychological consequences of having killed another human.

And they have to make the decision (the decision to become part of the military machine or not) usually at an age where none of us are equipped to make that sort of decision.

You and I? we're paying for it. If our government is right (and I don't know that they are) we are benefiting from it.

I think that you and I, assuming you are a tax paying US citizen like I am, are in many ways more culpable for the unjust killings our country commits than the 17 year olds that actually pull the trigger.

(well, that, and while the war in Iraq looks completely unjustified from my perspective, with the information I have, killing bin laden, well, I'm not sure it's the right thing to do, but it certainly has more justification than invading Iraq.)
Could the next head of the Catholic Church come from outside Europe?
The face tracking didn't work well at all for me. Maybe I have an odd face.
That's a point I hadn't thought of. Though on the negative side, it does make it significantly harder to create a true "drop in replacement" that other languages have (i.e. where a library provides a replacement of another library without requiring any modification to the source code of an application using that library).
They're against code colorizing?
Not rushing to war just because you want oil?
I hear you. That said, I think there are several good reasons for preferring to submit the canonical URL, which on most websites will include links to specify other page formats. Among other things, that helps HN's duplicate submission detector work much better.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4624933
Do you write a lot of Go code?
Even if it's under-diagnosed, that doesn't mean it's under-treated. The most common prescribed treatment for AD(H)D is a stimulant-- and how many adults do you know drink coffee, tea or soda for its caffeine properties?
It was fashionable in the late 90s dot com bubble to give stock to Linus Torvalds and other open source luminaries before your Linux company went public.

In 1999 Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation. That same year both companies went public and Torvalds' share value temporarily shot up to roughly $20 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

See also http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/1999121000105NWLF
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How do you tell real ciphertext from complete random-generated garbage?
It wouldn't hurt the successful ones at all to pay something back.

Especially considering so many sites are fundamentally built on top of open source while being closed source.
Bin Laden was an admitted architect of mass murder. I'd have felt better if they carried out a trial with him in abstentia and sentenced him to death before his execution, but so be it - his killing was justified.
Hey Helen,

Thanks for the detailed response - a lot of valuable information in your comment.

You're entirely correct about the owners usually being too wrapped up in their business to spend time on their business setting up any new products.

Thus whatever the product is - it will have to have obvious savings (time or money) and simple integration. Thanks for the input - I'm hoping some small/medium business owners pitch in :)
they are diversifying a bit, such as with the bad piggies (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bad-piggies/id533451786?mt=8) which was pretty popular when it came out (probably still is)
Right, it may be a tiny bit better but it's still not easy to read. The only way to make it actually readable is with typedefs.
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For someone who fears for their own safety (training your wife how to shoot through a door with a shotgun, trying to scrub your name from public records, etc), talking to a reporter seems like utter madness.
> That prizes are "usually not" enough to recoup the cost of the R&D does not means that prizes can't be raised to where they do recoup the cost.

> Furthermore, the probability of not winning exists in all R&D: A lot of it fails, or they're beaten to the punch by competitors. Whether the potential payoff comes from revenue from patent encumbered products, or from a government prize fund is irrelevant.

You have to read your two points in conjunction. Sure, the prizes could be raised until they were big enough to recoup the R&D costs weighted for the probability of failure. This is basically what happens anyway--a company will engage in half a dozen R&D projects with the assumption that only one or two will be successful and the revenues from that will recoup the R&D investment on the other ones.

But to actually get anything done in fields like aerospace, medicine, etc, you'd be talking about billion-dollar range prizes. You'd also be talking about a very different allocation of the R&D burden. Right now, the people that use say a drug for diabetes are the ones that pay for the R&D, by virtue of their paying high prices for the patented drugs. But with government-funded projects, everyone would bear the costs of these innovations equally. Also, it puts government in the position of deciding what innovations are valuable by its choice of what to offer prizes for.

People are rightfully skeptical of the idea of the government handing out billions in taxpayer dollars for "innovation" that some bureaucrat thinks is necessary. I don't think it's a clear win over the patent regime.
So what's the take away here? We need to pay even more money to the US military? $800 BILLION a year isn't enough?

> The ones Vice-President Biden called "the finest warriors in the history of the world"?

Does anyone think this level of appalling ignorance and arrogance helps the US in any way? I know Biden was excited about Bin Laden's death but come on. These so-called warriors followed a tip and snuck up on some people who they massively outgunned and managed to kill them. I wouldn't even consider that "greatest warrior of the month" material.

P.S. Can we please keep this political nonsense off HN? I don't know how many people outside the US are going to care too much about the plight of ex-mercenaries.
If you think he was killed 'out of passion', then you are not thinking. It was an execution of a war criminal.
>Earlier, it calls critics of the focal language in the article "idiots".

No, he only calls critics of SPECIFIC aspects of the language (aspects inconsequential and prone to bike-shedding) idiots.

>It simply lost credibility for me at the point where it asserted that Lisp programmers don't use hash tables.

You weren't supposed to read his article as coming from a Lisp expert, seeing that Lisp wasn't the main focus at all.

Heck, you weren't even expected to read the article as coming from a Go expert. Just as an article from a guy that tried Go and shares what he thinks of it.

>It simply lost credibility for me at the point where it asserted that Lisp programmers don't use hash tables.

Would an article by Einstein on relativity "lose credibility" for you if he makes some ignorant remarks about some aspects of mathematics in it?
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Hey czbond - thanks, yeah I intentionally left it quite high level, just to get a better understanding for myself. Once I get this background I shall get more granular. Going to check out the interview you mention. Thanks again.
My country's actions should be litigated separately. We're talking about Osama bin Laden and the man who shot him.
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Which is such a baroque rule that it's probably not even a rule: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5079787

Go's declaration syntax is one of the best things about the language. I thought it would take me forever to get used to, but within a day it was the opposite: C feels backwards. It's especially excellent for references to functions.
He killed a man who declared war on my country, attacked it successfully twice (both WTC bombings), carried out attacks on my country's assets overseas, and was (apparently) plotting new ones.

I would have preferred it if bin Laden stood trial, but he knew the risks he was taking when he did these things. We have many admissions of guilt on video, so I don't think it would be a long trial if he got one.
Whaaaaaa?! A "desktop" Minecraft, written in C++, and with an API?!

Why won't they just do that with the real game??!
Please, tell me about all the oil in Afghanistan, and all the oil gained in a night border raid in Pakistan. Seriously, stop spewing rhetoric. It's embarrassing.
>Never give up hope! One of these days, you'll leave a comment about people's refusal to read blog posts all the way through and by doing so change the world.

I agree. People having patience with other people and going through their argument thoroughly is much more important than someone complaining about another's remarks on his language of choice.

Of Go code I've written around 1000-1500 lines, merely to check the language out (a small server app and a logging utility). That said, Go itself was never the focus of this subthread.
Seems like everyone's misunderstanding my sentiment--now that I look back, I was pretty unclear.

I'm not arguing that Mathematica is too expensive. I think it's worth the money and more for math/science/engineering work. I was glad to pay up because it fills that niche for me.

My beef is with the suggestion that it should be used for general purpose work, like scripting. I believe that if people need advanced math features, Mathematica is extraordinary. But dropping $295 for a proprietary system as a replacement for Ruby or Java?
I wonder if, with a good enough camera, you could detect people with non-ideal vision by watching their eyes and "anti-blur" the screen in such a way that it's perfectly in focus for their eyes and head position?
Love the rose colored glasses but we are at war. The only reason we even got trials in WW2 was after the conflict ended, this conflict seems to be almost endless.
Uh, yes? EXTREMELY yes?
> The size the font needs to be is a factor of distance and eyesight.

And the PPI of the monitor/viewing device.
> Include the Internet Explorer Shiv

A 'shiv' is a knife. Despite all its faults, IE never stabbed anyone.
Many of these "I don't need anything" posts should be subtitled, "If I want to use something, I just mooch it off friends", "I let other people maintain and store the stuff I use" or "I don't have any hobbies".
Some good points.

The funny thing about forum/group software is that they always look so plain and unexciting when there's no content.

Of course, we all love StackOverflow, but the interface, editing, and UI capabilities all pale in comparison to the wealth of information it provides us.
Ahh, I was assuming the parent to my comment was implying that people who don't already have Mathematica should check it out for general-purpose programming.

If you've already bought Mathematica, great, use it for whatever you want! However, I don't think you should buy it unless you actually need its advanced features.
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> phone phreaking which was illegal at the time, despite being something you do with your own phone

No. The important part of phone phreaking is the public telephone network. (Although modifying a phone was probably not legal at that time).
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I joined Intel in 1984, in '85 when the '386 was coming out (it worked first pass which was amazing) and started looking at ways to get a 32 bit OS that fell to a guy named Ken Shoemaker and to some extent me as I had been helping keep intelca, a UUCP node, up which was running Xenix (Microsoft's version of UNIX System V). I got to work with Pat who was helping me figure out all of the 'reserved bits' the Microsoft had used in the descriptor tables on the 286 which were causing the 386 to fall over dead. (We were initially sad that Xenix didn't boot in 'compatibility' mode, when we figured out (which Pat's help) why we were rather irritated :-)

He was one of my heroes at Intel, someone totally dedicated to his idea of what he wanted to do, and by God Intel could either help or get out of the way.
.. here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation: Nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for himself or his family.

Can anyone speak to the truth of this? I'd never thought much about it, but if that's true it's a pretty terrible gig. I was under the impression that most members of the military get substantial tuition assistance? That seems like a benefit most Americans don't have the luxury of.

No pension? Really?
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The take away here is in the US we pump a ton of money into our military for what happens on the battlefield and then forget completely about the people who come back and have to reintegrate into society. US soliders have extremely high rates of suicide, depression, divorce, ect because we do nothing to get these people support afterwards.

I agree though, this has no place on HN.
They mean syntax and semantic highlighting. It's mostly a generational thing that goes along with 80 column line widths on amber terminals.
I've found Angry Birds merchandise in remote villages in Thailand. It's reach is unimaginably large.
Incidentally, weren't the button gradients originally background-image based?
I'm a big supporter of returning veterans, and I've worked pretty closely with a number of national veterans' support organizations. And this is indeed a touching story. But, at the risk of sounding a bit insensitive, I have to wonder: precisely what is the author asking us to do about this situation?

The fact is, a career as a combat operative does not prepare you for a civilian life at home. Sure, you get some fantastic team training and basic skills. You get some international experience. You get (in theory) a strong peer network. But you don't get a guarantee when you come home. You're back in the game like everyone else, and you make what you can of your life. And in the case of today's vets, you're back in the game with the deck stacked against you.

The WW2 generation came home and, in many cases, achieved a great deal of success in the civilian sector. What is it about today's military that prevents the same from happening on a similar level? Certainly it's not the talent or the caliber of the individuals involved. Many of the vets I know today are outstanding and capable individuals.

Instead, I think it's got something to do with the way the military is organized today, and the way we fight our wars. Today's professional military is nothing like the military of old. It's made our military an incredibly effective force, but it has completely isolated the military and civilian sectors from one another. We almost have a separate warrior caste within our society these days, and we have no idea what to do with them when they transition out of it. Nor are they prepared to do so. And their repeated deployments certainly haven't done them any favors in making a steady or stable transition.

Where I'm going with this is to suggest that funding more government assistance programs for veterans is probably not the answer. It feels like the right thing to do. But ultimately, it's a crutch. It's a band-aid. These folks need job training. So I think we should be giving our active duty personnel some practical training, in addition to martial training. Not just indirectly -- the kind of training often bragged about in recruiting ads -- but directly. And we should be finding ways to interchange talent, skills, resources, and knowledge between the civilian and military worlds. The complete separation of one sector from another is the root of the problem.

In as much as the service branches have recruiting issues, and in as much as the civilian sector has a very hard time reabsorbing vets, it seems like a return to real ties between the two worlds is in order.
Well Rob Pike did call it "juvenile" and compared it to those colored rods that are used to teach children how to count.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125958
Feature parity? When I visit that website, I don't see: buttons, wells, tables, alerts, form elements, nav, progress bars or modals. Those are all things I use from Bootstrap, and that I cannot find on Zurb's website. Maybe they are all there and I just don't know where to look.

I have no idea who @fat and @mdo are, but their lack of being behind Zurb is certainly not the reason I haven't used it. The reason I don't use Zurb is, that every time I've seen someone mention it on HN, I visit it and see nothing but a grid.
Just to perhaps provide some more reference to anyone visiting this thread, I've found quite a helpful question on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-problems-plaguing-...
I agree with everything you've said here. But just for the sake of argument...unlawful is sort of subjective isnt it? Might the unannounced raid and killing of a man on Pakistani soil be considered unlawful in Pakistan?
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Lighting is pretty important for the quality of the face tracking. If it doesn't work first time, try reinitializing a couple of times, the face detector tends to lock onto other objects than the face some times.
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Well, lots of important contributions in some fields have erroneous and ignorant remarks on other fields.

If that (instead of careful consideration on their own merits and in their main focus) makes them "lose credibility", then well, I guess you should have more patience and tolerance for errors.
He probably means that they don't get a pension when they "retire". Well, of course not. I don't get a pension either if I "retire" from a company at <30.
go through all your code and capitalize every use of it

Due to the ease of parsing go, it comes with a tool called gofix, designed for exactly this kind of change.

http://golang.org/cmd/fix/
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Please don't. Calling someone an "idiot" just because they disagree with you? Somehow that is is okay?
I own a couple of these, and know what they are capable of. But I do see where I missed the point, and its not the one you are making. I forgot that there are people who love using VS and will want to use it for their projects. The article helps those people.
> Whatever you think about this from a moral perspective, it was not unlawful.

Because you say so? Because your president thinks so? That doesn't make it any more legal. In short, killing people without trial is 100% unlawful, except in a declared war (and that means between countries, not "against terrorism" or "against drugs") or in self defense. As far as I know, Osama bin Laden has never been tried before a regular court of justice and even if he had been, breaking into his house and shooting him would likely not have been a proper execution of the death sentence.
Is the illustrator making some subtle point with those three locked-up gears that cannot possibly move?

P.S. Back in the it day was not only IBM that "was leery of a single vendor supplying the vital CPU." Having a second source for parts was considered essential in many cases.

P.P.S. s/iAXP432/iAPX432/ as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432