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It could, but you can verify that our eyes cannot detect loss of blue information even in the parts of the image that are rather blue (her wristwatch, the car in the background, the edge of the windshield, the stripe on the towel).

In each of those cases fidelity is more damaged by loss of quality in the other
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Nice hacking btw. Note that spidermonkey is fairly easy to build on its own. It lives in the Mozilla repository, but it doesn't have any dependencies to the rest of Mozilla.
"P2P - Person to Person data sharing"

Fail.
I'm not particularly familiar with twitter, but I'd have thought this kind of thing (interests, not porn) would be an obvious application.

I mean, I (introverted) am definitely not interested in what my friends had for lunch, but I'd really like to know what book they just finished, or movie, or song. I don't think it would be that hard to separate them by media, and there would be a lot of interesting data to get from this.
Only for fetishists that get off by reading 140 character reports on other people's porny thoughts?
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Yup, I know :-) I'm kind of a lazy bum so I wanted to skip one step. I figure there are more worthy things to hack than compiling spidermonkey.
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Thanks for reminding me how paltry my Bash skills are. Yeah, thanks a lot... :)
Don't have time to read it now but looks very interesting thinking so I will read it later.

I am using bazaar to do daily backups at some webapp that stores serialized data in files. I was thinking a little about syncing it between servers with bazaar if needed but you seem to go a few steps further. :)
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Ah, but the blue receptors in your eye are as accurate as the green ones, just less tightly packed. Spatial filtering therefore preserves more-visible color accuracy at the expense of less-visible blue location.

Not that that stops all those standards that use reduced bit depth for red and blue.
I always wonder why nobody gets my shirt that spells BritneySpears14 on the back.

Isn't there a #hashtag for the normal twitter for shorturl porn tweets? Now I need to get a tweetdeckreader for this site too.
The only person I've ever heard of really hit the ball out of the park with donations is Rick Brewster (Paint.NET). He has some interesting blog articles about the subject which Google will bring up.

http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/07/13/making-money-with-freewa...

More typical is SyntaxHighlighter, which is the JS syntax highlighting thing that everyone and their dog uses on their blog. The author has raised about $100 in donations so far (number pulled off site). I'm one quarter of that, because his software saved me so much work I donated the USD equivalent of one sale of my software to him. Since he started accepting donations his software has been, conservatively, downloaded several hundred thousand times by people who use it to increase their commercial and professional opportunities.

Compare that to commercial software for a moment: I sell about a hundred dollars worth of licenses to my bingo thingee a day, on rather substantially less than several hundred thousand installs.

Which is a long way to say "Charge money for value".

(Relatedly, I am reminded of a good line I heard from a developmental economist once: Only one country ever got rich from foreign aid, and the Vatican is not a great model for Africa.)
There are some things that I find extremely enticing about Git. First of, there's the speed which I already mentioned. The second is how it's designed to be decentralized - and my amazement at this probably stems from the fact that this is the first decentralized VCS that I've ever worked with.

I've been using rsync to keep certain directories of my various computers synchronized, but I think I'll go one step further soon enough: for my Linux computers, I'll keep some parts of my home directory in Git in order to maintain an identical user interface / configuration on those machines.
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Shouldn't this be possible with remote sessions of X or so?
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Okay, okay, this may "amuse" hackers but is it interesting? The reason I found it provocative is that it reminds me of a huge challenge we face when introducing new ideas outside of the startup echo chamber.

Even something that seems obvious like email at one time seemed mysterious. Why would anyone besides a nerd have wanted it in 1985? It was feature-poor compared to paper and most people had never heard of it. If few of your friends and business contacts had email, why would you want it?

What are we inventing today? And how will we explain it to the rest of the world?
Yes. And there are even modifications for using the Dvorak keyboard layout with Vim.
You could say "if you're offering a lot to a lot of people" then donations might work. At the same time you could be charging as well, and even though this adds complexity, it also adds a business. Charging does reduce popularity in the short term and chances of going viral.

I suppose it's generally the most altruistic that give a to a website. It's not like you're curing diseases or saving lives, generally.
I've been waiting for this. Ever since:

1. I learned from Linus that git is a decentralized "content" database that gives identity to different versions of the same content and allows them to be compared and merged. (as opposed to a traditional VCS which is more of a "delta" database)

2. I learned from Damien that CouchDB is a decentralized "document" database that gives identity to different versions of the same document and allows them to be compared and merged.

I've been wondering just what the difference really is.
Bay12 Games (Tarn Adams) has been somewhat successful with donations, I think he works now full-time on his own stuff. (http://www.bay12games.com/)

From their forums:

March Donations: $2997.46 and 50 billion dollars in expired bank notes from Zimbabwe
February Donations: $1428.62
January Donations: $2099.48
December Donations: $5279.49
November Donations: $1305.10
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Well, it's simple: different command line switches :-)
Geeknrolla was awesome. We need more events like this in the UK!
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Slightly less offensive maybe? Twat offends the constitution of the weak.
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In my experience, the "positive" business types (those to whom reality and facts are "negative" if those don't fit their agenda) are in reality some of the most negative, vicious, two-faced, double talking, backstabbing, manipulating, thieving humans in existence.

I had a brother like that once, and he was THE most negative person in the world when it came to me . . . amazing! My ex-wife too!

If you ask me, when it comes to most of those types of people, the whole "positive" thing is just mental and emotional masturbation plus crack.

I can only be real in life. "Positive" or "negative" are just illusions that cloud the FACTS.
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The fact that Gladwell pulled the figure out of thin air?
I guess MS knows this. They use (tolerated) piracy as one tool to gain and secure market share.
There are musical works that have been under copyright for longer than the average human lifetime. In most places, singing "Happy Birthday" to a child in the street is an infringement of copyright. Amazon successfully patented "one click". Other people have patented inventions that contradict the laws of physics as we know them. Mike Rowe got harassed by one of the largest and most recognisable brands in the world for making a joke out of the similarity between his name and theirs.

If you're so deluded as to think that common sense always works in the area of intellectual property law, I think it's pointless to argue with you.
This one is my favorite: http://hnstartups.com/startup/239 :)
There isn't even enough resolution on my screen to tell the difference between a good font and a great one.

A decade ago, when 1024x768 on a 17" monitor was doing OK and high quality icons were 32x32 in 256 colours, they might have said the same thing. Today, screens with twice that pixel count aren't unusual, and everyone from operating systems to web sites is using much more detailed icons.

By the same token, low resolution screens are one of the places where the difference between a good font and a great font really stands out. It's not the same difference you'd see on paper out of a 2400dpi printer. In fact, the qualities that make a font good for screen use are quite different to those that make a font good for print use. But to maximise the visual appeal and, more importantly, the legibility and readability of text on screen in a world where on-screen reading is increasingly taking over from other media, we need people who understand how to achieve the best results with what precious screen real estate we have.

Alas, as with most things in graphic design and typography, good work is rarely noticed because it's good work, while bad work is rarely noticed because people don't know the difference (but still read slower, make more mistakes, and get tired sooner).
Sorry, I must have a sense of humor failure. I don't get it.
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I started with makefiles and emacs but fell in love with Visual C++ and eventual .NET.
Netbeans is aok, but the article has prompted me to review "the impossible" and check out yet another interface.

My ideal user interface for programming?
A brilliant group of younger smarter coders with better memory.
If there were only some way to give code snippets on the web some form of universal resource locator, you could skip the guid...
Great point, maybe that's why I fell in love with visual studio, the debugger?
In its first few years, my webgame had donations flowing in at the rate of about 50 cent per active player-year. By that I mean, a population of 100 active players (active means using the website at least once per week) would result in some 50 dollars per year. It's a lot less now due to less activity on my part. This is in the same order of magnitude as adsense, except that adsense depends less on "fresh" users.

This is all small numbers though, since my game inherently doesn't scale.
I realise that was meant to be a joke, but that's exactly the sort of dramatic shift in sales and marketing tactics that might keep the major foundries relevant.

Look at how many people have their own blog, or MySpace page, or otherwise have created a little world of their own design on the Web.

Look at how successful iTunes and the like have been in selling music conveniently, reliably, and at a price that doesn't make someone who wants that music think twice and look for a free but illegal copy elsewhere.

I don't think selling fonts very cheaply via these sorts of channels and/or partnering deals with the major social networking/blog services is such a crazy idea. Different, yes. Unknown, sure. But not crazy.
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The existing problem (for Jeff) is that it is hard to find modified or improved versions of the same snippet. Whereas a URL points to an inidividual snippet, the GUID could point to different versions. The same GUID could also be used for the same snippet in a different language.

Obviously you could also group related snippets on a site, but that formalizes it too much. Snippets are mean to be copy/pasted and passed around on forums, blogs and sites.
http://bash.org/?104383
Am I the only one who finds that kind of unsettling?

This sort of behavior is why, even among scientists, a generation often needs to die out before new ideas can be seriously evaluated. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Rev...)
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GCC is crippled in that regard, but it's a problem with gcc itself. It's written (perhaps deliberately) in a manner which makes it difficult to just use parts of it, e.g. just the back-end for code generation.

For an example of a less accidentally complex way to do what C++ templates do, look at ML's functors.
This article points out a common problem and discusses some ways to avoid it, but http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html describes how to solve it.
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I'd rather do it with voting/not voting rights... primarily with outside investors, if we get them, 49%/51% equity can be easily overriden if the outside investor agrees with him, and I'd like any outside investment to be given pro rata
If investor wants 5%, 2.5% from his share, 2.5% from my share
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Yes, but screen is usually good enough for most people (self included), and is quite trivial to set up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Indeed.

I'm working on a tool to help maintenance coders undo the damage from copy-and-paste programming on huge legacy code bases. One approach it uses is language-specific, but requires a bit of configuration (via Lua's wonderful LPEG), and the other is language agnostic. It's searingly obvious how much worse C++ is in this regard.
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I think it needs a system, not simply developers do it like that.

May be a new startup that takes care of snippets
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That raises a good question actually... what is the next event like this in the UK?
I guess the big drawback for theses kind of tools for me is the time it takes to setup a nice developpement environnement. To fine tune my vim as i like it with ctags completion , good keybindings, a nice colorscheme and all, it takes me around 5 hours minimum.

I'm currently dev'ing for QT under QT Creator, and everything is nicely integrated, with some really neat features you can't reproduce in vim, and it even has an (incomplete) vim emulation mode !

I used to be an hardcore vim / cli fan, but i'd go back to that for nothing in the world now, at least for this current dev setup. Also i hate having to mess with makefiles.
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Hopefully

Edit in reply to your edit:

Norvig's theories and conclusions are most certainly subject to being proven wrong by anyone who can manage to do so. You make it sound as if someone is attempting to force someone else to agree with his theories and conclusions, or to prevent someone from agreeing with opposing (or any other) set of conclusions and theories.

I see no evidence of that, and come think of it, I do not see evidence of that figure "being bandied about as though it were an actual scientific fact", if you can provide evidence to the contrary, please, by all means do so, or better yet, disprove Norvig's theories and conclusions yourself, no one is stopping you.
People store their home dir with hg too (I do, many coworkers do), and before the DVCS era people used svn and cvs. This is far from a git-unique thing.
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Finding copy-pasted pieces of code that have been modified in place is actually a rather difficult problem. I've been working on a tool for this in my spare time over the last several months, and I hope to release it sometime this summer. Pinning down what's "similar enough" is subtle, and if you go too far, it complains that boilerplate-y code in e.g. Java is unnecessarily redundant. (While this is certainly true, it's not useful.)

I look forward to the upcoming structured programming revolution. Some day, people will use subroutines!
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I'm becoming a fan of Daniel Tenner's writings, and I'm looking forward to seeing them upvoted rapidly to the News.YC front page like 37Signals stuff usually goes. I like how he writes because he makes a point and then tells a story (usually his) to support that point (public speaking keystone).

I've been fortunate to go to several conferences on my company dime. The best was the Colorado Software Summit in 2000 where they were talking about Ruby as the next big thing. However, none of these paid conferences match up to the BarCamp-type events and even informal meetups at bars to drink and discuss projects. I think there is a certain artificial short-term hype that is instilled in you when you fly to a conference and get hyped up on the energy and excitement and marketing parties - it is not sustainable once you return. I find that I enjoy local meetups more now - more long-term, less virtual, and you might even become friends.

Daniel Tenner's previous piece "Dealing with Impossible Crises" is worth reading if you missed it the first time

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552581
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I would be even happy if there was one event like this in NL :)
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He said he'd fork greasemonkey & maintain it if the official greasemonkey started informing websites of its presence(which would presumably allow them to target different content at greasemonkey users, or try to circumvent it, etc.). I hardly think that's an unreasonable position.
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So, um, has anybody tried using this?

Don't have time to set it up at the moment, but I'd been wondering exactly the same thing.
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Thanks for this feedback :-) I really do appreciate it.
Indeed. I've used svn, monotone, hg, and git for this (moving from each to the next over the last three years or so), and they all worked fine. In my experience, the special features of each have relatively little significance for typical operations on home directories.

It's worth picking any and just doing it, though.
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Previously submitted by rms:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=571686
Well if it's some kind of high level api to deal with 3d and shaders, and it's fun to code with and hasn't too shitty performance, it will probably work well.. What will be really needed is some good fun and simple game to create a buzz around it.
This link is only interesting when coupled with your comment. I clicked the comments link with a head full of steam, itching to justify flagging the post due to lack of content or some other such excuse.

The almost-a-cliche-easy example is Twitter: I have never been able to explain Twitter sufficiently to those who do not follow web tech closely. Suddenly, Oprah is banging out tweets in capital letters, and Shaq is correcting her 'netiquette. What happened?
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VNC or RDP, to be pedantic :-)
Does this not work for you?

From http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~jnweiger/screen-faq....

Q: My xterm scrollbar does not work with screen.
A: The problem is that xterm will not allow scrolling if the
alternate text buffer is selected. The standard
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Like the ones he linked to?
Jeff Atwood is essentially describing git/github.
You should copy and paste code so rarely that this shouldn't be a problem. The author of the article proves this point effectively with his snippet example; the correct way to fade out a window in Cocoa is with an NSAnimation and the NSViewAnimationFadeOutEffect on an NSWindow. His code blocks the thread directly and could cause problems, especially if called from a routine that responds to an IBAction (GUI event).

There's a reason good developer documentation calls example code Listings or Illustrations: you're supposed to read and understand it, then write it yourself in your own application. Copying and pasting code verbatim is always a bad idea, even for simple things like short regexps.

Don't copy and paste code that you don't understand or couldn't write yourself.
I think the most frustrating part about grasping Twitter is it's character limit. People are perfectly happy to accept a character limit on text messages, but (like myself) can't fathom why anyone would be interested in Twitter with such a horrible limit like that. It's an interesting dichotomy.