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Was it a seminar that offered free stuff (like lunch) for showing up?

As the marginal cost of providing this service ought to be low, any reputable provider ought to give your client a single-member license on an evaluation basis.

$5K doesn't sound like much if it's hosted and no additional fees are levied. If SaaS, why aren't they using a subscription model?
GET, PUT, POST and DELETE

It doesn't matter if it is local or remote. Let http handle the requests, let javascript handle the response.
Branching!

The way that git deals with branching is great. I'm a real fan of the way that it lets me context switch. This feature isn't a result of git's distributed nature, but I think it's worth switching VCS's for.

One of the advantages it certainly gave me is that there isn't any difference between the local and remote repositories. There aren't any daemons to start and no infrastructure to keep up; just initialize your repo and go!
Sure it does. Traveling with a car is cheap. Cars travel on a massively subsidised infrastructure (they are called roads).

The purpose of subsidising an infrastructure is to make operating a service on it profitable.

I don't understand why people are objecting to high speed train networks as if they are a totally novel idea. They are a true and tested transportation solution - I have yet to encounter a country that built one only to regret it, or have it unused. We are not talking about putting a man on Mars here.
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Glancing at someone's behind in the supermarket is qualitatively different from porn. As far staring at buttocks goes, you're right that we've all done it, but does that make it a Good Thing?

Anyway, not sure if this is OT or not, so I'll stop here. :-)
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This is drivel. The author labels Google "pirates" for linking to AP content and states that there would be no online marketplace for music if the RIAA hadn't sued napster, even though the pirated music marketplace is vastly larger than it was in 1999.

A prescription for newspapers is specialization. Let the AP be replaced by a looser agreement for content sharing between sources. Every paper focuses fiercely on its locality.

And hire some people that understand BOTH journalim and the web.
* Can bugs be assigned to a branch or only to a project?
HAWX was awesome. The demo doesn't really give you enough of an idea of what the full game is actually like.

Let me paint you a picture: There are escort missions that are actually really fun.
Well, I know a number of people like Tim in real life, and while they are great people, they can't hold long term relationships or be "close friends", because they are so focused on self-improvement/fulfillment that they just don't have the time for other people. They end up being more "James is in town - we should definitely head to the pub" friends more so than "James - I'm having a really tough time and I just need someone to talk too" friend.

I'm sorry you guys think this is trolling - but seriously, how does one dedicate their life to learning a new skill for three months straight when they have a family or close friends who depend on them? Its honestly something I struggle with when looking for guidance from guys like Tim.
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"Gitbug is an in-repo bug tracker for Git repositories."

So that still makes it a very interesting project. GitHub's issue tracking is not bt integrated into the repositories from what I can tell.

link: http://github.com/kig/gitbug/tree/master
You haven't spent much time watching a cross-section of society use computers have you? :)

I remember the first time I had to tell someone about how to use a scrollbar. A tab is almost nuclear physics from there.
Geoffrey Pullum continues his critique of Strunk & White [audio]
What is CLA?
If that's the case, "You're doing it wrong".
I think a lot of people just use status updates and walls. I know that's how my mom uses Facebook. I don't think the status is an app; not sure about the wall.

Also, maybe they're including inactive (or nearly inactive) accounts when they say "users".
I actually later managed to play the first 4 missions on a borrowed copy... I stand by my impression of the game :) It's decent fun if you have no other game to compare it with, but coming in as a fan of the genre (Ace Combat et al) it was a sore disappointment.

Aircraft handling felt sticky, and I found myself fighting it constantly just to point the plane in the right direction - which may do well in a realistic sim, but this is an arcade game. The "evasion vector" feature is also kind of pointless - if you relied on it to get an attack vector on every opponent you would never pass the missions, seeing as it takes a solid 30 seconds to lock onto your opponent.

Both art style and setting could use some work also. Ace Combat 6 (which is the only real same-gen same-platform comparable game) had the skies filled with hundreds upon hundreds of enemies, and it felt like a real battle (unrealistic as that may be). HAWX felt like miles of nothingness with a few bogeys (which is more realistic, but less fun).
I would pay for good access with long article expire times, to only to comp.* and sci.* and the other useful text-only groups. I have never downloaded any binary file from a newsgroup, and I have been using them since about 1994.
It is a nice basic and traditional issue tracker

That's exactly what it's meant to be. We're not in the business of building fancy bug trackers :)
Most of the users I know only get their software through their distros package manager. I think it would be quite tough to get malware in there, especially since most distros accept only free software.
I haven't read the books you've mentioned, although I'm pretty familiar with the debate, and the latest arguments.

I think it's interesting to make an analogy with a sport like running. If you measure running ability in a group where every person has absolutely no training, all the differential in running ability will be genetic. But a person will be able to train and improve, and so a change in environment ran result in gains in ability. If some people in the group start to train harder, then the differential in scores will be a mix of environmental and genetic.

If you compare members of a cross country team who all endure the same grueling training, the differences in their running speeds will be genetic. If one member tries to train even harder, he will probably be unable to raise his speed even higher. At some point, he maxes out and no training will raise his speed even further.

The subtests that have a flat trend were vocab, math, and general knowledge. What this indicates is that the environment of a century ago maxed people out at these skills a century ago. This is not surprising, as these skills are the most culturally common skills. Even in 1900 a person had constant exposure to reading, math, and general knowledge.

The subtests that have seen the greatest rise are all obscure skills - object assembly, picture arrangement, similarities. My guess is that the great increase in schooling resulted in more training in these obscure skills. Increased availability of games and puzzle books also helped. In 1900 if you were a genius kid, you read the classics. In 2009 you can play all sorts of fun puzzle games online or in books. As a result of this, scores on these obscure puzzles have gone up.

The net of this may mean that the hardcore hereditarians ( Murray, Jensen) are wrong about the specifics but right about the big picture. They are wrong to think that differences in the Raven test by themselves mean that one group has more natural cognitive abilities than another group. But they are probably right that individual and group differences in the economically and socially useful cognitive skills are mostly genetic. The differences in the obscure cognitive skills ( Raven's, picture arrangement) may be much more environmental.
http://www.thepcspy.com/read/what_really_slows_windows_down/...

Aparently not.
I think what was lost in the discussion in the last thread about Pullum is that he really chose his words with care, and was careful to criticize Strunk and White as GRAMMAR advice--because Pullum is a grammarian, and Strunk and White are perhaps prose writers, but not scholars of grammar.

Meanwhile I thought that most readers of English could learn a lot about good writing by reading George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language,"

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

or

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

which deals with more important issues than Strunk and White anyway, and is very thought-provoking.
May be, but I would say it is inspired by uservoice.com
You can generally find a seat.

The only issue I ever ran into was finding a group of seats together; in that case you might want to reserve seats(otherwise you get to hotbox with a cigarette smoking Japanese businessman!)
I cannot remember ever purchasing food over the internet.

However, I have driven 30 or 40 miles to go to a speciality ethnic grocery store or farmer's market to get a specialty food I learned about over the internet.

Perhaps you should look into finding non-internet ways to sell your item, and then simply advertise on the internet.
The author of that page did not come to the conclusion "do not use antivirus software because it will make your computer slow" but rather ask consumers to make an educated decision about which software to purchase based on their detection rate.

Malware will also slow down your computer, and could result in your personal information being stolen. If the choice were between waiting an extra few seconds for my computer to boot or having all of my files accessible to people I neither know nor trust, I would choose the former.
I have a (rather battered) signed copy of Jackson. Some friends of mine in grad school heard he was coming to town for some physics seminar, so we all went to the Ithaca airport, waited for him to come in, and got his autograph.

Man, was that my all-time personal peak of geekiness. Jackson himself was quite bemused.

If we're going to name-drop great physics teachers and texts, though, let me recommend Roald Hoffman. His course in bonding in solids was my favorite science course ever -- and he even wrote a book! ("Solids and Surfaces") It was the highest-numbered course in the chemistry department -- the one where chemistry and physics become aspects of the same thing -- and he used a deliberately simplified but intuitively clear computational model and a great many examples to give you a mental picture of how bonding works, and how band structure is a special case of chemical bonding. One of these days I've got to reread that book.

Amusingly, I signed up and took Hoffman's course without even knowing, at the time, that the guy had won a Nobel prize and hosted a PBS series. Cornell could work that way sometimes.

(God, textbooks are criminally priced. I just discovered that my copy of Solids and Surfaces is worth $100, used, on Amazon. That's awful. As if recommending graduate-level science textbooks wasn't hard enough...)
No, I am proud of it.
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The first 4 missions are like... training levels.

The game seriously picks up a couple of missions past that. You don't even have the ability to disengage your alpha limiters until mission 5 or 6 (the one presented in the demo). As for the HUD vector thing? It's useful at certain points in the game, but it's best employed in the campaign during a couple of really awesome sequences where they require you to use it.

My biggest gripe is that it was short. But I think there's some major replayability in there, particularly if you get some buddies to fly wingman.
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I'd argue the USSR was the imminent threat. According to wiki, Khrushchev openly & repeatedly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. The space race was a bid to regain technological supremacy after sputnik.

Also back then it wasn't clear that it would be just the one trip.
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Yes, Pullum's harsh criticism of the grammar advice is combined with lukewarm approval of the style advice and full-on praise for White himself as a writer. That's too complicated - it's not how emotional associations work.

Incidentally, I don't know what "blogs" Pullum is referring to in the interview, but pretty much every point he mentions came up in the HN thread. Perhaps he's been lurking!
Foodoro (a YC company) and Foodzie both do this.
I'd love to hear about this. I'm fascinated by food and food business.
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(Not that he lost money)
And a house isn't a hole in the land you pour money into?

Acceptable home maintenance costs are between 1 and 4% of the house value, however this doesn't necessarily extend toward the higher home prices.

Of course all these prices vary, some people pay ridiculous amounts for home maintenance because they can't do simple tasks and some people pay almost nothing because they can do everything themselves. However, I'm sure the same goes for boat maintenance too.

It's the mere fact that paying $4,000 in home maintenance of a house costing $250,000, and paying $4,000 in boat maintenance on a boat costing $50,000 that you live on.

I suppose your food costs would be significantly cheaper if you like fish though. Well if you're a good fisher. Personally if I had to rely on my fishing skills I'd probably die from blood loss.
Ask HN: How do you learn to be creative?
I overheard an MIT admissions representative talking about what they look for and he focused on the concept of expressed creativity. His views were that creativity is very difficult to teach. Hence the question.
Who's equating? I just said they're both more reliable than humanities; that does not imply they are equal. You can overspecialize yourself out of a job in science and engineering, but at least you stand a chance.
He uses a false analogy in my opinion. Hotel guests don't congregate and ask each other, "Do you reuse your towel?" The ad campaign may be effective in that case. But if you tell a group of teenagers, "Most teenagers don't do drugs" they'll know the campaign was lying when they go to their first party and someone comes back from college and passes the pipe around. (College kids are cool, so do what they do.)

A better campaign might be to explain why using real life cases. It isn't hard to do this with alcohol or heroine, but it may be difficult with something like weed.
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in my humble opinion, everyone is creative in their own area of expertise. its just much more difficult and less obvious when expressing creativity in fields like engineering. and it is difficult to express creativity when jumping fields. as an engineer-type, i can't really do creative graphic design. i've tried, and i just can't seem to cough anything up. but i can definitely come up with creative solutions to a problem.

and if that fails, this essay is kind of interesting http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/56-creative-thinking-hacks...
That summed up everything. I spent 5 minutes trying to be creative enough to think of something to add, but all of it was covered under that.
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"You're doing it wrong" personified right there. If you're using MacAfee or Norton, that's like wrapping a seatbelt around your neck (as those numbers show).

If you're working without at least common-sense anti-virus protection, you're going to deserve what you'll eventually get.
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I had the pleasure of having out with the folks in the UPenn plclub (their programming language research group) one summer during high school, awesome group of people. One fellow who graduated a year agowas hacking together a pretty snazzy user level tcp/ip stack with a programmable scheduler in haskell. (some measures indicated that it did better than apache or erlang!)
Being creative is not something you learn. It's something you _do_.

Examples: start building webapps or working on free software, publish writings on your
blog, do paintings, record yourself playing music and put it on youtube,
tinker with mechanical devices or build your own electronics, build furniture,
conduct physical or chemical experiments, publish your cooking recipes... and
so on and so forth.

It's not "expressed" if it's all in your head.

Quite literally: make something, and show people.
My bias is that creativity is something that you develop as a child.

Nevertheless, I also think creativity can be emergent: when you are focusing on being creative in one area, draw analogies from other areas (interdisciplinary). I knew someone who once determined where to situate a package shipping center by using physics for example.
I feel that one of the ways to realize and induce (your) creativity is by getting bored - proscrastinate - do nothing, and let your thoughts guide you.

Often, I see/find people trying to stay busy doing something or the other all the time, but I think somewhere down the line it blocks their creative side.

Try taking a walk through the park, and relax on the grass for sometime. You'll feel more connected to your creative side.
In Ruby:

def englishlist(array)
array[0..-2].join(', ').to_s + (array.size > 1 ? ' and ' : '') + array.last.to_s
end

(Not claiming it's as clear to read, but I miss my old one-liner contests! ;)

You can implement it roughly as clearly (although not as efficiently) as such:

def englishlist(array)
case array.length
when 0; ""
when 1; array.first
when 2; array.join(' and ')
else; array.first + ', ' + englishlist(array[1..-1])
end
end

I do love me the Haskell so far, but I'm only into the basics still. Love pattern matching, was one of my favorite aspects of Erlang.
Here's my rule for all interactions: provide value. Usually it is knowledge, connecting the right people, whatever. But provide value.

Don't expect anything in return. The irony is, it'll come back to you in ways that'll blow your socks off.
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No, no: you don't ask the user separately for each thing the program wants to do; the program asks for several tokens from the keychain, and then the keychain asks for a single password entry, telling the user all the things the program wants to do with it.
If I were a cynical man, I'd note that "expressed creativity" means anything you want it to mean, that it is largely in the eye of the beholder, and that you can find it in any applicant you want to accept and fail to find it in any applicant you don't want to accept.

Ask your MIT admissions representative whether music is creative.

Then ask him whether it matters if the music is freestyle rapping or concert violin since the age of three.

Then tell him the rapper was Asian and the violinist was black.
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You don't. It's not so much that you learn to be creative as it is finding something you're inspired by. I've never seen someone fail to be creative at something they were inspired by. I'm not sure you can teach someone to be creative about a non inspirational thing. How do you find the inspirational thing? Iteration.
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pg wrote about the risks of trying to consult and build a startup at the same time:

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

Look at #18. It's what killed my startup.
"In social media, 'if you think it’s not going to spread, that’s when it gets bigger,' said Scott Hoffman, the chief marketing officer of the social-media marketing firm Lotame."

It got into the New York Times, so, yes, it did spread and get bigger.
I bought half life 2 this year, I am helping by buying really old games... hooray!
I agree. I completely hate the fact that having one million followers is considered main stream news somehow.
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I overheard an MIT admissions representative

When was this? Undergraduate admissions?
Its pretty hard (if not impossible) to write a step by step guide on how to be creative. This makes it very hard to teach someone creativity, which is probably what the admissions rep was talking about.

But if I had to take a gander at answering "How to be creative", It would go something along the lines of... Take initiative. Do something, anything. Then ask "What if this was done differently?" and follow through on the question or modification. See where that leads you and question/modify that. Ad infinitum.

Once you start, don't ever stop doing things or questioning everything about them. If you're stuck, or just need a change in something, talk to other people. Creativity doesn't mean being alone forever.
You can't learn creativity, but you can keep it in good shape. It has plenty to do with social inhibitions as well. With a tendency to question others' ideas and to trust yourself comes creativity. Here's a start: Be more creative than to ask others for this answer.
I might be scared if it was Apple. When people watch their favorite TV show, they don't want the functional but spartan interface that Google provides for all of its services. They want a UI like Hulu's or better. Entertainment is an area where you can't get by on just functionality like Google is used to.
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I think you would have to change your mindset, the way you think etc.
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Supporting multiple version control systems means accepting the set intersection of their features as your baseline. Part of why GitHub has been able to just fly is their laser-like focus on only those features which facilitate collaboration atop Git. (I say this from painful experience, having spent much of the last couple of months months trying with only limited success to make users of Subversion, Mercurial, and Git happy with the same UI for source code repository browsing.)

Furthermore, trying to implement fork queues, pull requests, and even proper contributor attribution atop Subversion would be a ridiculous amount of work for very little gain.

Regardless, if you really want to stick with Subversion, you might at least consider setting up a cron job that fetches to a local git-svn mirror and then pushes a clone to GitHub. You won't have to learn a whole new version control system, and your users will happily run circles around you with their ability to fork, branch, and merge before you can copy your source tree into a new tag.