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To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen the grey cartridge version of Ocarina of Time, at least not in Australia... I purchased my Ocarina of Time just around the same time Majora's Mask was released and I received a gold one.

I remember at the time talking to the salesperson at EB about if it was so limited edition, how could I pick order one easily after the release of the next version. He told me that he'd never seen a non "limited edition" (his fingers went up in the air to indicate the quotation marks) version.
I enjoy tobacco, and drink alcohol and caffeine. I have about 30 cigarettes or cigars a year, and about 40-500 shots of espresso. I'm not sure about the wine / ale.

I do all these things because I enjoy the flavors and sensations of them. It seems even on HN people can't quite grasp the idea of enjoying good tobacco but not being addicted to cigarettes.

I also think the caffeine is probably doing me more damage than the cigarettes. I also find it harder to not have coffee.
You can smoke cigarettes and not do it every day. I enjoy the twice-a-month Silk Cut or YSL after a restaurant meal.
I like how gets() and scanf() are both considered unsuitable for use. There's something wrong with a language when you can't trust the standard library's input functions, and I say this as someone who rather likes C in the right context.

Where's the mention of the three-argument main() variation? (int argc, char argv, char env)? Is this not standard?
So I can deploy anything I want?
I agree 100%. On java projects, I don't consider myself a "java developer" because frankly, writing java in unsupported editors is a pain in the ass. I couldn't imagine writing java code with Eclipse. It would be an order of magnitude less efficient.
It's a lot harder to take this stance if your site is impacted by the arms race, but it is cheery news for the technologist inside us all.

One caveat is that this sort of development seems more likely to remain in the darknet.
Note that the argument isn't that Eclipse [1] is perfect, but that Java without Eclipse is impractical.

[1] Or some other rich IDE.
If you move a class to another package in Eclipse (using drag&drop), it will automatically issue the necessary svn move command, and synch up the import statements everywhere. That's a 20 minute job done in 2 seconds.
Isn't that fork essentially a logical solution? If RedHat continues to pay Drepper for his work, he will still develop/maintain glibc. Meanwhile every valuable patch can be ported to eglibc (provided the licenses are compatible). It's a win-win scenario... community gains something and Drepper can still do what he does best in his sandbox.
When your job is almost entirely about providing immediate gratification for other people, smoking is something you do entirely for yourself and your friends. Even if it involves huddling in the cold.
There's good reason to believe that the Great Filter is not only behind us, it's way behind us.

A Great Filter in the future would have to apply to the vast space of possible intelligent lifeforms. This means that no matter what the psychology of the intelligences that evolve--no matter what they value or attempt to create--they all get themselves killed somehow. Every intelligence would need its own unique story of how it died so quickly, and these are burdensome details on our theory.

In contrast, the pre-biological past is simple and homogenized. Any Great Filter would be a regularity of physics and chemistry, which we know apply universally. If physics dictates that it's really hard for anything self-replicating to form (excluding trivial things like crystals and fire) then we've explained the lack of life everywhere. The theory is simpler, and Occam's razor tells us the simpler theory wins.
Film seems to be about the same. Literature probably about the same, not really sure. TV has been much better over the past decade. Art has been pretty subpar for a long time. There is good modern art, but it's usually not called "art".
The only problem of course is that when your "more complex than a very simple project" hits the size where Eclipse just can't take it any more. A project I'm working on is pretty much at that scale, and random things basically stop working if I so much as stop looking at them. Its quite amazing.

I've heard from coworkers that IntelliJ could handle it, but at the cost of agonizing slowness. So now I fire up eclipse (and reset all my project options and input from scratch) only when I need refactoring, and use emacs otherwise. Its not great, but at least I don't swear all day long.
Shell - http://www.kionic.com/tools/dbbackup.sh.txt

Python - http://www.techieinsights.com/2008/12/recursive-mysql-dump-w...

PHP - http://www.sematopia.com/?p=61
What size projects are you using?
Gravedigg - vote on what will die next
Default parameter values is a great addition I think, and optional parameters!

Please don't provide examples of languages with these features in response :) Some of us do use C# for a living
The future answers don't need to be unique and convoluted. Offhand, there's Baxter's suggestion in "Manifold: Space" that epic-scale collapses of multi-star systems might happen more often than we think, with sterilizing effects on big chunks of space. Egan used a variation of this in "Diaspora".
I just had a site offer to hook me up with Friend Connect. First time i've seen it deployed other than as a test...and it works pretty nicely.

Chrome doesn't render it properly though., which is a surprise.
just for the record: i always found rob pike's advice on c programming very thoughtful and readable (and, common: he should know ;)

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html
Why? I never look at other people's karma anyway. Really it's a silly concept because it can only, really, go UP (except in odd cases) and there is no easy way to judge 2 people next to each other (because they will have joined at different times and commented in different places).

And besides 68 Karma does not make you (for me at least) any less "important" than those with thousands of Karma...

(of course, this topic does put me off slightly)

Forget the Karma - get involved in the sub-culture and you will gain respect.
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…but that’s what they’ve been doing all along. They’ve been on the engines of all of Quake 2, Unreal, Unreal 2 and Doom 3 I believe. The trouble with that approach is that every couple of years the state of the art has moved on so much that you have to regenerate all of the graphical assets (models, textures, etc.).
Funny thing is, this probably went from HN to reddit to you, back to HN.
I totally agree with Rob's final statement (Community = Good), (Communities = Bad). In fact, you can apply the same analogy to all sorts of other relevant real world situations. Think: politically, racially, religiously, etc.
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There are cases where you need more than 4 GB of virtual address space even if you're not actively using 4 GB of physical memory.

Our application, for instance, uses mmap heavily and pretty easily tears through 4 GB of address space while comfortably running on a machine with less RAM.

One other nitpick I'd add there is that 64-bit runtimes consume drastically more memory -- mostly meaning interpreted languages, JVMs, etc. Compiled C, C++, etc. fare better since they usually make use of the stack more widely rather than having everything running through three levels of indirection (thus using lots of 8-byte pointers) up in the heap.
Improving github?
3D Printing Buildings
Why do so many Entrepreneurs Play Tennis?
It would be great if there were a karma market:-) Having accumulated a bit of the stuff, it's evident that it's entirely useless outside of comment threads, where it indicates popular comments.
What matters most to me in my decision to get a Pre or stick with the iPhone is carrier. I will never switch to Sprint.

But I did switch to AT&T from Verizon to get an iPhone. I'd switch back in a second if Verizon either got the iPhone or the Pre (assuming the Pre offers a user experience 90% as good as the iPhone -- which _appears_ very possible, maybe even likely -- and there are apps to replace the ones I use daily... I could use my iPod Touch for games if I really missed them).

If Verizon got both phones then, well, I'd have to see what the user experience was like on the Pre then make a decision. But if Sprint remains my only option for a Pre, no deal. The last rumors I heard were that their exclusivity was only 6 months... which makes me hopeful.

The thing that worries me most about the Pre experience is that as far as I know there is no virtual keyboard. A physical keyboard is a huge plus in my mind, but that means no keyboard available in landscape mode, which is kind of crummy.
"And yes I saw the thing about Plan 9 compiling a kernel for all arch's with no ifdefs - well they only way you can do that is by cheating and either making your own preprocessor, or a fancy makefile. So big whoop."

I think that's a rather reductionist assessment. See:
http://ntu.csie.org/~piaip/plan9/archives/000005.html
I can't find the quote I was looking for, but it doesn't really matter. Hes argument is that "capitalism" is a thing which is harder to define then it seems at first glance, and it includes various property rights of higher order (i.e. I don't only own my house, I also own the right to sell/rent/mortgage/use as collateral). Copyright fits right in.

Anyways, my point was that it would be dangerous to mess with an important part of this "capitalism" without understanding how it works. It is true that extending copyright and patent inflation stifle, to a degree, original research. Is even more true that abolishing them would instantly kill all significant private original research.
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It probably has to do with the fact that very prestigious schools typically have smart students and being smart in general is probably going to play a huge role in success.
"Conditional compilation, even with #ifdef, is used sparingly in Plan 9. The only architecture-dependent #ifdefs in the system are in low-level routines in the graphics library."

So, in other words - yah, you need need a preprocessor with ifdef's, because sometimes there is no other way to do it.

And in other places he basically says he avoided ifdef's by using a fancy makefile, which doesn't seem an improvement to me, since the makefile essentially becomes a (less flexible) pre-processor.

The point about dead-branch pruning instead of ifdef is well taken though. (But there are cases where that doesn't work.)
As better outlined in A Berkeley view of Cloud Computing GAE and EC2 serve a different purpose/market. Comparing the two on prototyping time is rather silly. For instance, people are already building GAE alternatives running on EC2.
I guess one of the most strongest reasons why PHP got popular was its default support on shared hosts. You could taste your first real web creating with PHP real quick.
Which types of smaller RoR apps would work well with Heroku as opposed to say EngineYard's solo plan?
21 Best Google Android Applications
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>WebOS applications will be created with standard Web development tools such as CSS, JavaScript, and HTML that run on a version of the Webkit engine. This doesn't mean they are "Web applications," which require a connection to the Internet to work. It does, however, mean they are (in general) more lightweight and less-resource intensive than iPhone applications, which are developed using the Objective-C programming language.

This is the first I've heard of that. I'm not saying it's not true, but Objective-C I wouldn't call Objective-C more resourceful than something running in a browser without having numbers to back me up. Anyone know if this is true?
I am fascinated, please tell us more.
200%?
Don't forget about time. What you'll see in imaginary high-precision telescope is "past."
In terms of UI design XING is a way worst. UI responsiveness is bad in both cases.
Post an article about xyz company rumored to be in late-stage talks to acquire Twitter.
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(ARA) - Most people provide their cars with the right maintenance in order to make their investment last a long time.
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(ARA) - Most people provide their cars with the right maintenance in order to make their investment last a long time.
Dialectical reasoning ftw.
So no matter what we do, things will be fine? Just like the free market erasing poverty from the world? I am not convinced.

Sure, "nature" will probably survive one way or the other. But as an example, what if I happen to LIKE whales? Is it wrong to be concerned about their survival? I think not.
so hurd will not ship with a copy of DNF, now I am disappointed
But this post has just finally convinced me that the only people who cling to emacs for large scale development are true believers who will never be swayed.

Yes, judge thousands of people by one person. That has served society very well over the years.

Anyway, in Eclipse, every non-trivial rename "requires preivew" and often requires cleanup. If you just want to change the name of a class, the GUI is fine. If you want to do something more involved, you end up doing it manually anyway.

For trivial renames in Emacs, I have a function called "rename-this" which is mode-sensitive and Does The Right Thing for languages I actually use (Perl, Haskell, and Lisp). (Most things are non-trivial, though, as dependencies on a class name are not always in the form of the class name in the source code. "${prefix}::Foo" is hard to detect, but occasionally appears. Refactoring works well in Java because there is no possibility for syntactic abstraction, and it must be a function of your text editor. That approach is why I avoid Java.)

Edit: BTW, if you get to make a snide comment, so do I:

"Your post has finally convinced me that the only people who cling to IDEs for large-scale development are true believers who are more comfortable clicking buttons than writing software." Tool building is an important skill that IDEs actively discourage.
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I am not a heroku user yet but was just going through their docs and they seem to support arbitrary gems... http://docs.heroku.com/gems What am I missing here?
Rebuttal to: I want to believe
True, the post does say that $5k went directly to "design, hosting & legal" which didn't include the development costs (time, etc) of the 4 founders.

Yeah, it's $5k that was spent, but surely the development of the product itself has to be accounted for.
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No, I am no longer using it - for some reason it was a lot easier to kick that habit than the cigarettes, so it was a good stepping stone.
Physicists are ridiculous. Here's an unsolved problem for you:

Given the positions, velocities, masses and charges of a set of macroscopic bodies moving in vacuum, (in speeds which may be relativistic,) calculate the position of each of these bodies after a specified amount of time `t` has passed.
(Neglect gravity.)
(All quantities are given numerically, and the answers should be numeric too, allowing for a specified margin of error.)

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Until physicists can solve a problem like this, they can take their time with quantum gravity and string theory.
Or pretty high, if you realize that 7 extinction events were not capable of completely eradicating life.
@Google - @Twitter To Start Indexing Links For Search
Favorite line in the article: Twitter Search isn’t meant to replace Google, that’d be dumb.
The Upcoming Xperia will be Xperia X5
Underpaying isn't allowed--the gates at your destination won't let you leave

There is no fare correction machine on the way out?
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

--Carl Sagan
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Kudos to the writer for actually taking the time to do this. Yes it's only 20% of C (in this particular metric), but to be 20% shy of the performance of C and several orders of magnitude ahead of expressiveness... is there really anything to talk about? ;)

P.S. I like C quite a bit. Languages should aspire to be so succinct.
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"Over time, the best ideas will escape their parent communities and become adopted by all the major versions."

It's taking a very long time. At the current rate of transfer, Linux will take the whole 21st century to absorb the progress Plan 9 made in the 1980s.

What I hope will happen, is that Linux will focus on the traditional OS role of abstracting hardware, and become purely a hypervisor system. That would exploit its strengths: the vast collection of device drivers, and systems such as network packet munging and LVM. It would provide a sane, consistent hardware interface, that sane, consistent application interfaces such as Plan 9, Oberon, and Alan Kay's new system could easily support.
Someone should implement a CAPTCHA system that simply presents the user with random HITS from Mechanical Turk (perhaps not all of them are suitable though) and collects the profit.
This doesn't actually show anything about the scaling behaviour of an App Engine application.
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his fingers went up in the air to indicate the quotation marks

Mark my words. When the revolution comes... people like that..
I'm using Slicehost right now but plan to switch to Mosso as soon as they support billing of clients outside of USA.
Well, all those bugs seem to be related to apps written in PHP but not related to PHP itself - other than at some places making it confusing for beginners to know what to use.
And if there are many bugs in apps this is also correlated to the fact that there are a LOT of apps but not enough good developers... ;)

I like this quote about PHP: "HP is just this piece of shit that you just put together—put all the parts together—and you throw it against the wall and it fucking sticks." (Terry Chay)
btw, I think you should add GoGrid to the list...
i don't follow what you're suggesting between 'other explanations' and 'assigning probabilities' - are you saying there are filters we haven't thought of, which we (obviously) aren't assigning probability to?
Be the first to post a new pg essay :)
Head on over to http://www.zoneminder.com/ and check out the live cd. That will let you see if it will work with your hardware and let you take it for a test drive.

We liked it so much better than the multi-kilo-buck commercial offerings that we use it everywhere, even where we had expensive proprietary setups before.
Well, so far I count 4 out of 5 comments immediately trying to reject the conclusion of the article (people base their vote on superficial features of the candidates).

That represents wishful thinking, we would all very much like to believe it's just correlation, that good looks are a result of capability, that Gore actually looks more competent then Bush (he doesn't: http://tinyurl.com/d6hur2).

But really, you have to realize this is true, people are hardwired to judge on looks. First judgements tend to stick, because people want to see their suspicions confirmed and when you start looking for something (especially during political campaigns) you will find it.

Wouldn't it be nice to just try to have elections where the candidates are anonymous? Everyone will be told the education and work history of the candidates and ofcourse all their standpoints. They'll have discussions purely in text, by newspaper or blogs. Unimaginable, I'm sure, but how would the voters react?
You complain about error on simple math, but you wrote 1 + 2 = 2 ;-)
There's a big difference between having a verifiable theory for something which is computationally hard, and having no theory at all!
This is a tragedy. We will have a storm of vaporvare jokes now, but 3D Realms was actually one of very few utterly uncompromising game developers. This seems like a massive case of perfectionism run wild, but perfectionism is how you create really great stuff.

Prey was released after 10 years in development, and it is one of the artistically best games I've ever played. We are not talking about desktop software here. Perfection in games is good.

I've actually been looking forward to this game, expecting that it will be completed and be as good as the developers' obvious OCD suggests. 3D Realms' track record doesn't suggest that I was wrong about this judgment, but their bankruptcy does. Now we are in the situation where the best-case scenario is that we get a lame ripoff that breaks the spirit of the original, just like we always feared.
Haha, those are great ideas. I would absolutely return regularly to act out different personas.
A guide for noses is created in Japan
Player-generated game content launches in City of Heroes
I don't know exactly why people downvoted you (I didn't), but guess it's because you attacked factual statements with emotional statements.
Edward Tufte and Howard Wainer both recommend bar- or pointcharts for the tasks other people would use piecharts for.

-- http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/~breiter/tools/piechart/war...
Out my 10 closest friends, 3 will not drink a sip of alcohol. And none do it out of religious grounds.
Exactly, http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#os has a list of the OS's you can run and within those you can run anything they can run.

I have some servers running java applications, some running php on apache, some running php on fastcgi+lighty, some running ruby, and some that just run memcache.
0.15% in the general population? Definitely more then that! At least in double digits among the people I know.
Good that HURD is still around..