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So PSD is undeniably an incoherent piece of legacy crap. What's so wrong with that that Adobe/Adobeans feel they have to explain themselves - do they feel ashamed somehow? All that is needed is to just accept that it's far from perfect. It doesn't mean it's wrong or they're stupid or whatever.

Many old formats are crap; heck, you might even expect any old format to be crap in a way or another! You can only write a clear, consistent format specification after the fact when you know everything the format needs to capture.

Even if the basic structure is simple, such as in XML or AVI/RIFF, developers only proceed to write hacky extensions in terms of that very basic structure. The complexity just arises on a higher level, then.
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Just asking, does currently available compilers support restrict? (or C99 standards)?

I use msvc mostly and gcc sometimes.
This is the best article about Wolfram Alpha ever.

I'm a cynic, but it gave me some glimmer of hope for WA's success.

All the rest have just seemed to be talking heads talking about talking heads.
And for the console, dvtm.
I have to agree with you.

Having an all-rounder is good for short term goals. Ultimately having clear responsibilities and goals is better as the scope should be narrowed down to achievable goals, whether its a startup that's bootstrapping, or gone really successful
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I don't think anyone would argue with the fact that success ultimately depends on having a great product and providing great customer service.

I think this highlights an important point: the best product in the world will fail without customers and awareness. This point is clearly fundamental but one easily missed by hackers living inside their products.

I've intentionally put zero marketing and promotion into my startup as I'm completing a full-time undergraduate degree and can't provide high quality customer service to a large customer base. The product is great in so far as those that use it (about a dozen) love it. But since no-one knows of it, the customer base barely stays in double figures.

The end result is interesting and the process is worth noting. The tactics used to generate the buzz may be questionable in places. Change the implementation as per any ethical concerns and you have an interesting buzz-generating framework starting point.
> As I cannot try it (I'm using 64-bit Linux)

There's a Linux link on the page. It works on 64-bit too.
"For one, if the libraries are what's important, then just keep on with java."

Java has a very restrictive and inflexible syntax. I'd rather have macros, first class functions, and all the other benefits of a Lisp, as well as being able to access Java libraries.

"It seems to me that the use of one shitball java library could negate any value that Clojure brings to the table."

You mean you could use a Java library that uses threads and has locking bugs?

Sure, that's a possibility, but I can't think of a language that doesn't have this problem. Even if the language itself is safe, there's usually a FFI.

"I believe it is the case that there are libraries that are acceptable for use with more java, but their use will be discouraged if Clojure is thrown into the mix."

Why do you believe this is the case? If a Java library suffers from race conditions in Clojure, it'll suffer from race conditions in Java as well.
gcc certainly does (use -std=c99). If you don't want to use C99, use __restrict__ to use it as a gcc extension. This is C-specific - I don't believe a similar standard has worked its way into C++ yet, although compilers may have extensions that support it. I don't know about msvc, I'm afraid.

GCC's C99 implementation is mostly complete - you can find out more here: http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html
But doesn't digital products actually have an initial development cost that can be really expensive (depends on what you're building) ? Yes, you do (most of the time) take in 100% of the revenue, but you need to allocate some of that back to the development cost, no ?
Personally, I liked your article. It was informative and showed some of the interesting ways in which you use the medium to generate interest. Some of the methods are questionable, but you achieved your goal, and were kind enough to share it with us. A follow up post about the money generated from sales would be interesting.
I'll be there. I'm actually the guy that's going to talk about combining Django and XMPP to make this fun little app: http://wikipediagame.org. See you on Wednesday!
You're both making a pretty odd assumption here, which is that a program typically runs exactly once and that I am the only user of my own program.

Users' time is also much more expensive than the computer's. That's why we write software in the first place.
What about ReadWriteWeb ?
This is just ridiculous. Belongs on The Onion.
Companies that have a clue don't buy other companies for $700m just because they're "so hot right now". Because they could well be "so dead tomorrow".

If anyone buys twitter, it'd be for one reason, and one reason alone - PR. It'd be just like buying the milliondollarhomepage - which was also "So hot right now!!!".
Please, just say the dollar figure already.

If it's in the hundreds, you don't have to be too embarrassed.
Neither - Ghostery got it wrong.
How do you use those plugins that are supposed to be dragged onto bookmarks toolbar? Do you really have the toolbar?

I switched off the bookmarks toolbar from the beginning and didn't yet have a reason to turn it back on.
Just something little: Since you've got such a nice URL, you might make the NSFW-ness a little more obvious by generating links with NSFW capitalized (ie. http://isNSFW.com/XsYK8G rather than http://isnsfw.com/XsYK8G). isnsfw isn't as immediately parsable. Otherwise, very well done!
I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the Forbes article.
I'm using xflux for about 3 months now and wouldn't want to miss it anymore.

My first reaction was the obvious "Urgh, I'll never get used to this red tint". Only 30 minutes later I was barely noticing it anymore. And on second day, after an allnighter, I realized that it really does reduce my eyestrain significantly.

That said, the tool itself is not without flaws, at least not the linux version.

I'd much prefer if I could just manually set the color temp without their latitude magic which is always off by an hour or two in my area. Also I'd want it to fade gradually instead of switching over in one fellow swoop.

Maybe a fellow hacker can point me to a command line util that lets me manually set the color temperature in X11?
My 2 cents: The eye's perception of color "white" is _very_ dependent to context. That's why whatever change this does to the monitor at first, it will not be visible in a few minutes. Also why I check the "slow transition" checkbox. The least you notice about it the more useful it is. Or so I'm guessing.
I'm not sure entirely fabricating a 'leak' is what Arrington meant when he said 'create a story'. Such advice from journalists (and I've been one) usually means 'give me some angle, give me some reason to write about you' not 'make stuff up'. :|
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He's absolutely right about pointer aliasing. I work on a DSP compiler for architectures strongly geared towards instruction-level parallelism, and when the compiler occurs pointers that may alias (but probably won't, but we can't tell because of the language's liberal use of pointers), many optimizations have to be a lot more conservative.
That's what I mean. I didn't like "Awesome Bar". I use the latest version of Opera that doesn't use it (and reluctantly use Firefox 3)
I love this bit: "We would have passed on reporting this rumor at all, but other press is now picking it up."

To rephrase: "We have to follow the herd here even though it's a very wild rumor."
Sure, and I'm not saying he was advocating that. I'm just trying to show that I took his advice, fabricated or not, in giving them an interesting story - something beyond your usual 'hey, we made this cool site, please write about us.'
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Java communities typically favor portability (and easy deployment) over what you can gain in terms of speed. A lot of libraries/frameworks actually even advertise themselves as "100% pure java", whereas one might expect "expensive bits optimized in C" as attractive as well (but you rarely see it).
I don't think that's the problem here. I think the bigger question is with the premise of the site: why, exactly, would I want to "debate" Coke vs Pepsi, or Arsenal vs Manchester Utd?

Clearly, I'm not your target audience-- but the fact that most rivalries have less than 100 users seems to indicate that you're not hitting your target audience, whoever they might be, if they exist.
...Which may involve "embellished" numbers right?
It seems to me that this has nothing to do with the plugin itself. From the articles and the responses, it seems that it is only his website that blocks the CSS popups of Ghostely.

The plugin does not do any harm to ghostery. He just uses a CSS rule on his website to disable some of ghostery's functionality.
> What is a policy going to do?

The Mozilla Foundation controls addons.mozilla.org. If they decide an extension is against their policy, they can remove it from their repository - and, while this doesn't mean it's impossible to install, it makes it MUCH harder to find. For an extension that relies on a.m.o publicity as much as NoScript does, it'd be a death sentence.

> They tried this once with their icons and the name "Firefox". The result is that I don't actually know of anyone that uses "Firefox" anymore, they use "Iceweasel".

You must have strange friends.
shame it doesn't work in VMWare.

I tried both isos, the 7MB and 77MB one and tweaked a little bit with the settings but I just get a black screen, it doesn't seem to boot at all.

If anyone does manage to get it going could you please post some instructions? Thanks.
As above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593872): this isn't a platform issue; it's a distribution issue. The platform will almost certainly continue to support malicious and ill-behaved extensions, but a.m.o won't.
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There was a screenshot a few months ago showing the debug version of twitter which showed that each page request needed about 12 mysql queries... that's proof enough that they didn't have any talented engineering talent.
Their business guys and designers were however top. But hey, at the end it worked out all very well :-)
"Yes, when you think of the actual pigs that have been slaughtered in a hysteria-prompted move in Israel (no one has yet contracted the illness there), then this seems ... totally insensitive."

Wasn't it Egypt that ordered the slaugher of 300,000 pigs not Israel?
Yes, I found it, downloaded it and disassembled it...

Of course it would work on amd64 if you have also 32-bit userspace (ie multilib support) installed and 32-bit emulation enabled... but I don't.
Maybe twitter will be used to replace SMS by Apple?

They might have deals with carriers that they are not allowed to sent sms messages through the internet and must use the carrier's network, but what if they are deploying their own sort of sms network?
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We learned OBERON in the first programming course. There were also oberon workstations available for students to browse the web, but nobody was using them, so they got replaced.

Anybody else remember the inter click? :)
I was confused by your comment because limiting software to open-source (or 50% in this case) doesn't strike me as any more non-competitive than any quality or quantity requirement.

Any company can compete, they just have to follow the same rules as everyone else. It would be non-competitive if a specific company was mentioned, or a technology that only one company could provide is specified. Unfortunately exactly those things happen every day when it comes to government IT procurement.
Interesting. The usual link to read for any discussion of a report on a research result like that is the article by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

There are a lot of news stories about autism, and checking those stories for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed can help in seeing how relevant they are.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I've become used to ignoring "50 style sheets for your web site!" type submissions.
US ISPs are video providers. THere is no doubt in the next five to ten years online video will cannibalize their cable biz models. Economically I only see capping bandwidth as a way to sustain and increase their profits!

Online video currently provides me with freedom of choice I have not had with the cable biz model; no a la carte options! It's great now (not's sport fan) as it's free and I watch what i want to when I want to. Though I know this free ride won't last too long; hopefully it does for awhile though as I only pay the cost of Internet!
Isn't this what social hacks are about? To use the dynamics/mechanisms of the system to your own advantage.
as apposed to 'Write some code, earns some money'

Seriously, $5k for writing an app - sounds like a rate for a baseline contract, not a competition where you might not get paid.
And this is a big deal because while Rails might run on JRuby (even outside of Google App Engine) not many people do in practice because the various libraries and gems haven't caught up yet.
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No, he is not. He is at best average.

I agree, but he is perceived as being some elite coder by a large portion of pretty fresh web-devs, probably mostly because of the prevalence of his blog, and the readers lack of technical skill/knowledge.

I know that I thought that he must have known what he was talking about a while ago. That is, before I knew what I was talking about.
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"Every website should have a "buy our merchandise" link"

Hear hear! I can only speak for myself, but I can say with absolute certainty that I am far more likely to give money to someone if I am actually getting something for it, not just tossing cash into some anonymous "donation hole" where I am lucky to even get a thank-you email.

Sure, I should donate just for the satisfaction of doing the right thing. Should. However, in the real world of "do", I do give more money to people/projects who are actually going to take some sort of action in response to my doing so.

If I'm thinking of donating at all, that means I like the project, which means I probably would like their logo on a t-shirt or sticker or something. Classic cases here are Daring Fireball and The Pirate Bay. Chance of me donating if it's just for my quiet satisfaction: low. Yes, I suck, but I'm just going by the historical record here. Chance of donating if you have a cool t-shirt: High. Very high. If I really like the project and it's a cool logo, pretty much 100% actually.

ABP's logo needs, uh, work. But all hope is not lost. Maybe they could cut a deal with Mozilla proper, try to get some commission thing going - I donate through ABP, they get a cut, Mozilla get a little, and I get a coffee cup with the Firefox logo. Something like that. A tie. A lapel pin. A beer holder. A little magnetic firefox plush toy which goes on the fridge. A commemorative spoon. Anything!

I don't know how many other people suck as much as I do in this respect, but it must be at least a few. Open source projects, if you want donations, heed my words - I am at least 5x as likely to buy your $50 hoodie as I am to click your "donate $10" paypal link. I doubt I am alone. Get merchandisin'!
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If your eyes are sensitive, as mine are, the first thing you should do is reduce contrast. Brightness is less straining, and colors are just colors.
"Your clojure-using peers will be knowledgeable engineers with things to do and products to ship and very little time to help you."

Is this just speculation, or are you basing it on observations?
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It's not been just the business market in my experience. I know two people within the last two months who opted for the Curve over the iPhone.
Because AT&T charge Apple prices for service for the iPhone.
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Interesting article. Even more interesting are the reponses with regard to your 'black hat' tactics of generating the buzz. There's no such thing as 'bad publicity', right?

I myself have been wondering how to generate some buzz around my own fun side-project: http://www.tjetter.com - a site that allows you to chat with random strangers, as well as read (and replay) all conversations that take place at that very moment... Not sure whether applying your tactics should be the way to proceed. Suggestions?
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Can someone who reports other people's ideas be influential? I'd have thought the originator should be the one counted.
I guess they influence what people see, if they're popular.
surely all forum links are no-follow?
That's the problem - when Rails bloggers come across as over-hormonal 15 year olds (as this blogger does) it casts doubt on the maturity of the community as a whole.

Why not try dumping this silly, dated "rock star programmer" attitude and start discussing the strengths and weaknesses of your preferred technology like an adult ?
Dupe story and the "game" is not worth looking at. It's merely a very poor attempt at making some ad-dollars from the flu-craze.
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he mentioned having a mortgage. Assuming a 300,000 house, 30 year mortgage at 5.7% or so, that's gotta be at least $2300. $5000, won't last more than 1.5 months in that situation.
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Russell, I agree re: your comment about the list being based on PR folk (admittedly, I am one). Interested to hear what a HN top 10 list would like. I'd have, personally, had ArsTechnica and ReadWriteWeb higher on the list.
I've been using the Mac version for a month or so now. My experience has been pretty pleasant: the slight hue shift serves both to decrease eye strain and to suggest that it's getting late (an unintended but useful consequence).

I personally am not sure that the ease on my eyes really comes from the hue shifting or simply from the reduced contrast, but either way I enjoy the effects of the program.

Easily the biggest problem I have is that the Mac version doesn't actually gradually shift hues and so when it makes its sudden change at around 7pm it literally hurts my eyes as they attempt to adjust.
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>The result is that I don't actually know of anyone that uses "Firefox" anymore, they use "Iceweasel"

On the other hand, I don't know anyone else who has heard of IceWeasel and while I know what it is, I've never used it myself.
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I don't think this is the "death knell" for NoScript; perhaps some users will get so angry that they won't use it but realistically what other options are available? None that I know of that offer the same experience. This is "not good", it isn't terrible IMO, and if the guy fixes it and stops doing stuff like this, then I'm fine with it.
The comments on the original user article seem to indicate that this is, in fact, not true.

"You're wrong. You've taken an emotionally charged statement from some random bystander and turned it into a conspiracy where there is in fact none. The NoScript extension is NOT blocking Ghostery behaviour.

It is in fact the noscript website, along with Giorgio Maone's other websites, that are blocking the Ghostery box, through the stylesheets. (As are mine - my website, I can style it how I like.)

Now that you've added fuel to the fire based on nothing but rumour, how are you going to fix it?"

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"Just to clarify, the NoScript program NEVER blocked Ghostery: this would have been unacceptable as much as the ABP workaround.

But the CSS is in the website, and it doesn't prevent Ghostery from working (the status bar info is still there).

Ghostery should use a notification bar like NoScript does: trying to delivery notifications overlaying the content is never a good idea, especially if it's security or privacy related, because it's entirely in the site's rights and powers to tamper with it (hide, relocate, or even worse maliciously modifying its content to mislead users).

BTW, it was done not to hide any info from the user, but because the box covered the donation button.
Any web site can do the same, and will do it if you cover important parts of the page.

Now could we backpedal with the FUD?"
I like the idea of a TWM zooming out, showing you all your windows scaled down, and then allowing you to come up with window groupings in a visual way.

Or, maybe you could zoom all the way out, then start tossing out windows you don't care about and the windows rearrange themselves and zoom in as you do so.
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