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No worries antoko. We're not really banging up on you, just pissed off at heroku :) Their wording was good, better than usual when companies fuck up. But they're deeply embedded in the startup community so good PR with us is expected, betraying our trust like this, however is not.
I wasn't really thinking about the legality of the issue so much as the social acceptability.
And that's the reason term limits are needed for each and every political office. Of course nothing on the order of a constitutional amendment is even remotely possible in the current US political system (that's likely to persist for a long long time to come).
Responsibility and limits are key. Be responsible for what you through into the Internet, and make sure you take time off.

Also, read!

Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman

And theorist Vilem Flusser was an amazing philosopher who forecasted the ways of the Internet before the Internet was mainstrem.
You can always get your iPhone repaired or replaced by Apple. Whether you have to pay for it is determined by a lot of variables. The main ones:

- Is the product newer than 12 months, or if isn't, did you purchase an extended warranty (AppleCare)? That certainly helps.

- Is it a manufacturing defect, or hardware damage caused by an Apple software update? Then Apple won't charge you for repairs, even if your phone is officially out of warranty.

- Did the product stop working correctly after something you did to it? (dropped it, banged it, froze it, fried it, took it into the shower with you, opened it up, etc etc.) Even if you did do something stupid to your phone, chances are that Apple will fix it for free.
David what you say is absolutely possible, that is, the reason could be more of a cultural / focus shift, but when I think to invest my money on a startup where the core guys can't, if they want, setup a server and run their operations if needed or fix a bug overnight understanding what's wrong in a server, I feel there is something wrong.

About the focus on making sure you build something the market wants, it is a good approach, but on the other side maybe the focus is just on that, and there is little interest about the ability to create a sustainable service where the only exit is not being acquired. A big part of being sustainable, especially with the freemium model, is cheap operations. It's a key value of being able to say to your users once you start to get some traction, ok, give me 5$ per month, and I'll be profitable.

From that point of view startups spending like 2000$ / month while not even remotely profitable while it is possible perhaps with more wise coding and in-house ops to spend 200$ seems very odd to me, and not a trend I want to see encouraged, so I posted my original message in order to provide, maybe with some provocation intent, a different point of view.

Just think for a moment if there are no longer big companies acquiring you (that is now the norm but it was not in the past) how the operations and costs point of view changes.
On the other hand, at least I think so, the Japanese are using emails instead of text messages on their mobile phones.

Text Messages: One of the worst, and still the most popular IM systems.
That is not what the bbc is asking for here!
Google is actively allowing piracy
Please write a blog post on this!
"If bias is wrong, being biased in favour of a minority group is still wrong, in this view."

Another way to look at this is that the exception proves the rule. These sorts of deliberately perverse inversions of discrimination really offend. Perhaps they may also serve spur the male colleagues to clean their own house. Sometimes people can become aware of their own biases when they see their actions mirrored in front of them.

As an aside, I will believe the people arguing for deontological ethics just as soon as they give up the lifetime of power, privilege and status afforded them due to their sex (or race).
Of course we do! The past was a perfect glorios place! Men were big strong men who supported a family all on their own. Women were perfect housewives that raised 2 beautiful children. Everyone had a big house a nice green lawn and 2 of those oversized 50s cars. It's been downhill ever since!
Not OP but my feeling is that none of the git GUIs are particularly good or feature complete and I usually end up having to drop to a command line if I want to do anything interesting. That said, I really like `gitg` for its tree view and generally looking relatively nice, but I think functionality wise nothing really matches git gui and gitk, despite how ugly they are. Qgit is also kind of nice.
And if there wasn't anything you could do to land yourself in court, wouldn't you start to wonder if there are any real laws at all?
Recently heard the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" on the Colbert Report.

"Citizenville" author Gavin Newsom
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I wish you would put a B612 Foundation link on there (which is sort of a product link, I guess)
Another one: even though businesses have POS systems, they all calculate the total bill on a handheld solar calculator. Why???
Create a session timeout in Symfony 1.4
In both cases, the second 'git rebase' is just a fast-forward (moving the ref ahead without modifying the graph). Thus we need only distinguish what happens in the first 'git rebase', which is a different choice of which patch gets rewritten. Note that you can shorten

git checkout bugFix
git rebase master

to

git rebase master bugFix
This wasn't because of some sort of advanced thinking on the part of the Japanese. They just couldn't use SMS because it can't handle enough 8 bit characters to string together a whole sentence.

In fact, the use of email on phones has resulted in people continuing to use their carrier's email service instead of migrating towards Gmail and other device-agnostic services that also have a lot more features.
Fantastic work, I'd suggest that you provide walkthrough on each the solution, so that it's easy for people very new to git to follow along.
Way to not actually address anything at all.

Seriously, who the fuck cares who wrote the articles?
That's a great idea! Right now I'm totally willing to accept levels with the current functionality, but it would be great (like you said) to be able to cover all the aspects of git. Staging / committing, branching, and eventually origins.

I think the next thing on my plate is to implement origins, so you can demonstrate what a fetch / pull / pull --rebase really does
Phones do come with email addresses, and that's primarily used instead of text messages, but there is SMS/MMS (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what Softbank's S!Mail is, though, I get the impression it's mostly just used in-network, by people on family plans). Also, Naver's 'Line' is particularly popular for messaging right now.
Does your dad do work on commission? I'm working on a website to help artists who do large scale commission artwork get more work. We do screen artists who apply for quality, but if you'd like I'd be happy to show the woman who does the screening this example to see if he would be a fit. Shoot me an email if you want to chat more. Email is in the about section of my profile.
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Well, uh, the country was founded on the principle that a government should be accountable to the people. A lot of men died toward that end. So I'd say that yes, at some point, we did have principles. And it was in the past, oddly enough.
Thanks a ton for catching this. I guess there is a distinction to be made -- the compression might use delta's, but a commit specifies the entire state of the repository.

It's a tricky line to walk though, because commands like "git show" and "git patch" clearly show the delta-like nature of a single commit. I also don't want newcomers to think that commits are heavy and should be used sparingly.

I'm totally down to discuss this on a github issue with you, we could go over the wording. Maybe something like "a commit specifies the entire state of a repository, but is usually stored on disk as a set of changes"?

EDIT: moving discussion to:
https://github.com/pcottle/learnGitBranching/issues/6

EDIT: fixed in:
https://github.com/pcottle/learnGitBranching/commit/168852b2...
Felix Klein's lecture made Lindemann's pi and Hermite's e transcendental proof accessible and interesting to German `HS' students, and was my own first persuasion. It was a Dover soft cover: Felix Klein's Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, Dover, 1956.
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I'm removing this for now, my apologies! This is what happens when a WIP gets submitted
Hack design is really awesome. It goes down from what is design, understanding design on everything we do, to typography and next on.
It doesn't. At least there is zero evidence that it does and there is a lot of evidence that it does not (i.e. simple hill climbing beats GA in every practical situation). I've mentioned this before on HN and reddit, but from time to time these kind of stories come up again. There is a weird fascination with genetic algorithms. Even though dozens of people have a career based on it, as far as I can tell the whole field of biologically inspired optimization algorithms is basically pseudoscience. Note optimization algorithms, so this does certainly not include e.g. neural networks, which work fantastically well.
A quick note for those upvoting this ...

Thank you. I'm casting about for more things to write about like this. There are lots of things hackers will have read, but not seen the details for, and sometimes the details are very accessible.

If you liked this one, what else would you like? For example:

* Between every two rationals there's an irrational

* Between every two rationals there's a rational

* The rationals can be listed, in full, exactly once each

That kind of stuff. What assertions or claims have you seen made that you'd like explained in more detail?

Feel free to reply here, or email - address in my profile.

Edited for layout.
here's one:

You're paying an interest rate on your car, your mortgage and your bank loan right? OK, that interest rate is set by the bank. The way they do that is to use LIBOR, and add a bit on top which is their profit. So your loans follow LIBOR. The banks basically rigged the game, and changed LIBOR as they saw fit, meaning that you paid more in interest than you should. Your neighbour did too. And his neighbour. If you add it all up it's billions.

They fucked everyone to make a quick buck, and it's illegal as hell.
Python god takes the kitten as a sacrifice for the unnecessary list of indexes you created :).

range(len(some_list)) is a convoluted way iterating over the elements of a list. What you are doing is creating a new list with elements [0,... lengh-1] and iterating over the elements of this list, only to immediately throw them away after using them as array index to grab the item you really want from the original list.

Instead you can just directly iterate over your original list: "for item in some_list". If you really need to know the index value, you can use enumerate: "for index, item in enumerate(some_list)"

One nice thing is that the "for x in y" lets you iterate over things (iterables) that you may be generating on the fly (e.g., all prime numbers smaller than N).
Will do. Mind being a second set of eyes on it?
I see comments like this all the time - where people with a strong background find faults in scientific articles and such written online. Why do these articles get things wrong so often? In this case I think you're saying the paper itself should not have been using isotropic coordinates. Is this because of different schools of thought in this higher realm of physics? Or... what?
One thing Fog Creek did was we hunted harder for qualified women applicants, which meant we actually had to go to female tech recruiting events.

The problem is that there are few female developers to start with, and they are all heavily recruited by large software companies (Google, Microsoft, etc) already. The larger companies have big budgets to devote to this and encourage the very small number of women developers to go work there.

If you just sit back and wait for more women to apply, they are going to get picked up by the bigger companies before you even get a chance to interview them.

It's also difficult to attract that small group of women devs to apply to work at your company when there are no women developers there currently. The larger companies already have a bunch of women developers, so it can suggest to future candidates that these companies are great places for them to work (i.e. they won't be discriminated against at these companies). It may be that your small company is also a great place, it's just that you don't have any women to vouch for that.

So in Fog Creek's case, we increased the number of women applicants by making it our goal to get more women to apply. That's the only thing we changed. Our interview process stayed exactly the same.
The discussion forums were set up while Steve Jobs was iCEO but he's never commented there and he has never referred to it in a keynote.

Let's not pretend that since Tim Cook took the reigns Apple has suddenly become less communicative, that's poppycock. If anything, since Jobs' passing, the company has become more open towards its customers, its investors and the press.

See for instance the following press releases, they reveal a lot more than Jobs would have allowed:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/02/07Statement-by-Apple...

http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/10/29Apple-Announces-Ch...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/08/27Craig-Federighi-Ap...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/03/19Apple-Announces-Pl...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/02/13Fair-Labor-Associa...
He could have thrown the "key" out of the window, the car likely would have shut down as soon as it was out of range. I found this out the hard way, taking a similarly equipped car for a test drive.
PKG-INFO has included "Requires" since PEP 314, and I think actually there was tool support for it before that. So it might be a gradual process, but we're getting there. In the meantime, if you can, use a modern tool like "pip". If you can't because you're on Windows, it seems like this new "wheel" format is intended to ease construction of "bdist_wininst" or "bdist_msi" distributions from "sdist" distributions, so that should make your life better too.
One reason in the U.S.: Health care insurance. All the more so if you have a family.

Individual insurance in the U.S. is a recipe for disaster. (It may not befall you, but the odds are far greater than miniscule that it may. And as you get older, individual insurance -- or no insurance -- becomes increasingly risky, along with the likelihood that you will have a family including dependents.)
No? Else the link / project would be called "Learn CVS Branching"
In defense of bullshit
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If you want to commit a white collar crime make sure that it involves stealing or laundering billions of dollars through the banking system rather than downloading journal articles that are ostensibly in the public domain.
Probably in reply to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5231665

http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/02/16/use-webkit/

For some weird reason removed front the front page in short time. I have seen submissions with less votes and less discussions stay on the FP much much longer than this.
That's a good idea. Right now I just blast the commands and hope you can follow along, but it would be nice to show the thinking behind the solution
ssh with no cipher still requires authentication, and can stil use pubkey auth.

So "ssh with no cipher" means "people can snoop, but I can use proper auth". But rsh means "plaintext pw - or worse things if allowed".
You also don't fix the problem by watching out the window as the wasp nests get bigger and more numerous.
I agree with the vast majority of your comment, but please stop saying that North Korea is communist and that "communism can never produce a high standard of living." the former is patently false - North Korea is a Juche (which is not communist) dictatorship that uses communist theory as a carrot to keep its population hopeful. Read the Communist Manifesto if you doubt me.

The latter is unknown, as there has never been a true communist country (this isn't a "No True Scotsman fallacy" - a true state of communism is pretty clearly defined in the Manifesto).

I don't consider myself a communist (if anything more of a socialist) but reading this sort of FUD about communism is almost as painful as reading about blind hate for socialism in America.
Breaking my planned HN abstinence, but this is exactly the one thing I worry about: "for instance if they display a preference for talking to or dealing with male colleagues over female ones"

Why is this discrimination? I think people should still be allowed to be individuals. So maybe I am more interested in Star Wars and some female developer is more interested in Sex And The City (sorry for the stereotypes, but actually I think more women than men are interested in Sex And The City - fwiw I actually found SATC more interesting than Star Wars, I am just making this example up). So maybe I prefer to talk to a colleague who is also interested in Star Wars? If that is discrimination, or if to be a good non-sexist developer I have to take an interest in Sex And The City, I think this approach to eliminating discrimination is not going to work out.

Personally I think there are differences between men and women and to try to pretend they don't exist will end up a failure. (I don't mean mental capabilities).

I am not writing this to deride the anti-sexism campaigns, but because I genuinely would like to understand how the future is supposed to work out.

One example: will sexual attraction still be allowed at the work place? Obviously it is going to exist, but we can of course learn to suppress it. I would like to hear from the anti-sexism crowd a definite statement on how the envision the sexes to deal with each other.

Making a rule "sexual attraction at the work place is a 100% no go" is of course a possibility, but the reality at the moment seems to be that ~20% of couples met at work. So taking that opportunity for couples to meet away will create a hole that needs to be filled in some other way.

Sexual attraction is also another reason why men might be less comfortable talking to other women than other men. I don't think calling that "discrimination" is doing the complexity of the issue much justice. I also reject the notion that being sexually attracted to a woman is sexist (or vice versa).

(Edit: I'll log off again, but I'll read replies next week...)
That sounds reasonable, looks like someone has already opened an issue. :)
That is not a good argument among non-nudists :).
I would seriously consider packaging this as an enterprise teaching tool for developers. Companies buy this sort of tools for training. Very good commercial potential here.
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And you're not some sort of "intellectual" idolizing ghettos? I have to go in and around one very often, and hearing "learn to appreciate your local ghetto" from some Random Internet Dude is almost farcical.
I made a petition: https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/save-the-bbc-from-drm...
We aren't talking 10x slowdown anyhow—asm.js slowdown is more like 2x, and that's just version 1.
I am building a company on this model, and quite successfully so far. I'm in college right now but will be hiring in the future. I'm glad the model is finally getting some validity, as I'm sure it's a good one.
Rad, especially the persistent mode.
So cool! I'm new to git (coming from mercurial) and think this would be awesome as a general purpose tutorial.

Unfortunately it seems to assume some knowledge. For example, rebase is introduced in a very understandable way, but then I need to know what "rebase -i HEAD~4" does without being introduced to those concepts.
Why  World News Obama worried about russias arms race?
Any wisdom on how to import posterous content into tumblr? Posterous's auto post is not working for me anymore.
Abandoning bottom-posting
jQuery is here for that... You should use event.target.
There are two responses to something like LIBOR. One response is Taibbi's, which is to ask for the US government to crack down on bankers. This fails because of the tacit assumption that the US government is any less corrupt.

The second response is to embrace something like Bitcoin, which decentralizes everything. No central banking, no LIBOR scandal. But also no ability to stop "money laundering", defined as a transaction that a government doesn't want you to engage in. That's the tradeoff: the Bitcoin protocol is based on an adversarial environment and gives no special privileges to government or banking nodes.

LIBOR (banks), QE4 (govt), and the bailouts (both) are all enabled by the fact that some nodes in our system are granted special powers to set rates and print money.
Yes, features are important, and you don't want to waste your time doing stuff you can easily outsource. However, I think it's not about saving $2000 by outsourcing, it's really about understanding how your software runs. How each request is handled. How each layer and architecture affects scalability, performance and stability.

One of the things we've seen in this Rails/Heroku example is that the platform can't really be completely transparent. If you treat it as some obscure service and don't understand how it fits together - you lose. You can't optimize, you can't scale, you can't give consistent experience to your users.

I personally don't particularly like the distinction between devops and developers. I think all developers should have a good grasp of the platform. Of how pieces fit together. This is a worthwhile investment, not to save money on your PaaS, but to build a good solid app with good architecture. Performance, scalability and security are also features you should be shipping.
Free alternative?
I agree. And companies are trying to digitize the faxes, like NTT, "the giant domestic telephone company... It is offering services that allow older Japanese to use their fax machines to send messages to their children’s and grandchildren’s smartphones, where they appear as attachments to e-mails."

That's found in the last paragraph of the article.
You can't do it already. What you described is not the same level as current flash solutions.
It is not disingenuous, it is feigned. A subtle but important difference. She points out in the first 30 seconds of that clip why it is important that they SHOULD occasionally sue - leverage.

You can't just count the cost of one suit against one settlement and call it economically rational.
How do I store something with a \n in it ;)

Edit: While I posted this as a joke, I do love the way that redis avoids any kind of injection attack via prepending the message length. Of course, I understand that this project is not at the stage where it is meant to be deployed in production/security become an issue; it's just interesting to see how the different communication methods have different consequences.
I believe though that a meritocracy is a system where people are selected based on an objective criterion, regardless of the above definition of merit

Why? If two candidates are equal in every way, why not favor the one coming from a disadvantaged background? Shouldn't they be more, rather than equally, likely to achieve more given the same future resources?
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