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And the endless cycle continues.
Just a few things I can think of off the top of my head

- Alternative priority system. Putting them in order is cool and I like it but I need a way to say "This isn't important" vs "This needs to be done yesterday" without using labels and to have them be sortable

- Dependent issues. Ticket 4 can't be completed until 5 and 7 have been done.

- Custom status folders on the left hand side. Open and closed aren't really enough for a lot of work flows. New, In progress, ready for review, ready for deploy, closed are ones I like but everyone is different here so maybe make them customizable? You could use labels for this I guess but it just doesn't feel as right as I folders on the side would.

Those are the main ones for now.
What would be the advantages of a preprocessor knowing the syntax ?
perhaps my favorite image of all time is this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UGC_10214HST.jpg

the tadpole galaxy. just looking at all the other galaxies in the background is mind blowing. for best effect, check out the extra huge original:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/UGC_10214...
This is a great example of what I don't want to read, or be convinced to read by a semi-interesting title.
In case it's not already playing in your head:

Wilson Phillips: Hold On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDwcDYth6gg

(tee hee)
Good luck with that :)
If you jumped from Eclipse to NetBeans, there wasn't any pain from the different plugin offerings? I don't enjoy installing two IDEs for the same language, but that's what I end up doing, unhappily.
I'm tempted to say the game's worth more dead than alive. It's been over 12 years now since it was first announced so anyone desperate to play it has probably come to terms with never getting that opportunity.

Beyond that I have to believe it would have found some way to get produced by now if it was really a great game. My guess is it's a mediocre mis-mash after 12 years of mishandling.

So in the end it's legendary as a game that was promised for over a decade and never delivered. But if it ever does get released, and it is bad, it will just be another sucky game that fell by the wayside.
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This might be stupid, but I'm not seeing the joke (if it is a joke). What do you mean, going to sleep before 5am and waking up before noon?
That 1 out of 2 is definitely bad.
I remember reading A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and one particular rambling that stuck with me was that the Earth had been through something like 7 extinction periods where 99% of all life had been eliminated. It was after all these extinction periods that life evolved to what it is today.

That gives you another perspective--one that shows the possibility of life outside earth is pretty small.

But I wonder if there is some probability that can take both of these factors into consideration.
You could also run a laconi.ca microblogging server, here's a list: http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/ListOfServers and any event is sent out from one account from which all users are subscribed.
Reminds me somewhat of the story of Demomotus.

A notable ancient greek philosopher for 5-6 months or so:
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/demomotus.htm
Haven't a whole lot of ideas been attributed to drugs over the years? It would seem like a effective starting point for insanity with the added benefit of reverting to your sane old self when it's over. Or so I'd assume, I've never done drugs (beyond caffeine, nicotine and alike).
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What does SproutBox actually do -- fund ideas and use SproutBox employees to help build them? I ask because a friend applied for a position there last year and another friend (who lives in Btown) had some relation. So it seems like it is kind of a big deal coming out of a "small town." (JCM)
I don't know if it's in Amazon's interest or not, but at least from my experience at Rutgers, it's more than true. Internal file sharing networks had PDF versions of nearly every textbook used in the CS and Math departments...
I love the idea of Pylons, if for nothing other than its inclusion of SqlAlchemy, which I respect hugely.

However, after working on a medium-sized Pylons project for a few months, I found that there was quite a bit of "glue" that I had to implement myself, the type of thing that's typically handled under the hood by other frameworks like Django.

Perhaps it was my own ignorance or drive for simplicity/elegance, but I wound up getting nervous about the lack of these standards, and I got pretty frustrated about constantly rolling my own architectural solutions with little more guidance than comments in bug reports and scattered blog posts.

That's not to bash on Pylons - I think it's incredibly powerful, and in comparison Django (or Rails) feels a little like moving from power tools to a Fisher Price toy. Regardless I think it's the established standards that make these more mainstream frameworks better choices (in a business sense) for banging out working products.
So, looking at the definition of noon it says it's twelve o'clock...

Now lets do the math - starting from 9 and working until 12 is 12-9=3 hours.

Well, maybe I got something wrong:

9 -> 10 = 0 + 1 = 1 hour
10-> 11 = 1 + 2 = 2 hours
11-> 12 = 2 + 1 = 3 hours

hmm...

How on earth can I trust someone writing this kind of lengthy blog post if he cannot even get the simple math right. I wouldn't complain if it was a bit smaller issue - but the whole article is talking about 4-hour workday that starts from 9 and ends at noon :)
Stay up late, and then go to bed at 5AM. Then you'd sleep for 7 hours or so and wake up at noon. Then you can't really work until noon because you slept through the morning.
I heard Tim Ferriss is going to spend 10 minutes learning C++ so he can finish Duke Nukem Forever in his spare time.
Better video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2L9IKVe9LA&feature=relat...

And you ever notice how hard the camera tries to avoid taking neck-down shots of Carnie Wilson? Marketing counts, apparently, and being slim counts a lot for marketing. This despite her being IMHO the best singer in the group.
I believe this is accurate - I spoke w/ Mike in Miami recently and this is how he described it to me:

You (and your friend) have this awesome idea & have a pretty good idea of how you're going to do it - but you don't have UI experts, you don't have scaling experts, you don't have marketing experts, etc etc - Sproutbox gives you some ramen money & a kick ass team - to take your business to profitability.

Doesn't sound bad to me! My only real q is - How much equity are we giving up for that?!
Too bad Textmate is only for the mac, it rules the earth as java editor and it's lightweight like a gui text editor.

I moved from eclipse to textmate over a year ago and I can't even open eclipse now it upsets me.
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I'm not sure if it's obvious or not, but PDF's of many popular textbooks are widely available either free as in beer:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html

Or free as in money from a bank robbery:

http://thepiratebay.org/browse/601/0/7
Is that album any good? Cause I've had it on a flash drive for 2 months now and haven't bothered with it yet. This is pretty good, though;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3KdcTgrno
many of us stay up until 5am and then don't wake up until noon, making it mathematically impossible to complete a full workday before noon.

I wonder if Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome) is more prevalent among hacker-types than the general population.
You've got an interesting vision of artists.

Don't you think that creating requires at least as much dedication as science ? After all, in art you never know that you're right, whereas in science you could verify it quite easily.
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This is why I want to learn stats. Just not the type of stats I am currently learning. :)
Yes, but it's a pain to use - the keyboard isn't all that good for typing, and the on-screen response time of any interaction is pretty slow (maybe 0.5s)... still, great device for front-to-back reading.
If you are using a service that is making money by your mere presence aren't you in a way paying them?

Although I don't exactly understand the rationale that free invalidates complaints, I would think a company wants to hear from their disgruntled customers. While praise is a nice morale boost it's the unhappy customers you need to please, the happy ones are already taken care of.
Does it just do the DNS support (i.e. CNAMEs) for those services or does it somehow register you for them and get them setup for that domain? The screencast stopped short of showing what it actually did. I assume it's just setting up the CNAMEs for you?
Submit your URL directly, rather than a description and a URL, please.
Farewell, Apogee Software. You were a wonderful part of my childhood.

/me gives Commander Keen a final salute
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I don't know about coding & smoking weed, but coding on an LSD trip is very hard. With a huge effort you can barely manage to do it. I tried it as an experiment, but I'll never do it again. It takes out the fun from both coding & LSD.
> Several hours later I was knee deep in Linux permissions errors and cursing loudly

On the other hand, these diversions have taught me a lot of assorted technical knowledge that I wouldn't have picked up otherwise.
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That says Forever is probably still canceled, but the recently announced Trilogy is probably still going.
Only by convention and common practice though. You can easily mix and match any part of the MVC as you see fit. This is where the "magic" comes in. Rails gives you a set of very sane, most-common-scenario conventions that are the basis for it's huge upfront productivity. Obviously once you step out of this convention zone you're going to hit a wall, because you'll actually have to write code. It just feels like a wall because everything that led up to it was so damn quick.
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This might come off as a bit sad, but save moving to a warm country, I wouldn't know how to spend my time if I really did follow this and end at noon.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks :-P

I wonder if Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome is more prevalent among hacker-types than the general population.

Given the sample size of "me", absolutely.
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Um...function calls do have an overhead. Yes it is negligible in most cases but it certainly made a difference when C was invented.

In fact, C++ still carries the "inline" declaration around to avoid function call overhead. The compiler can ignore when knows better but the fact that inlining exits implies that function call overhead is not imaginary.
We should all try - when times get tough - to lose hope, admit loss, and give up a little faster than this.
I didn't read anything saying his day started at 9. how on earth can i trust someone writing such a lengthy complaint when he can't even get the simple facts right :)
Their approach to hosting brings along with it some technical limitations. I recently ran into the situation of wanting to store files on Heroku but their system (understandably) does not support it. The way to get file storage on Heroku is to use a service like S3.

I suppose base64 encoding could also come in handy on Heroku.
Ah, my bad, I misread
Pot, to help me think/write, never socially.
Man this sucks... now we'll need a new piece of vaporware to be the standard by which we make fun of things.

Oh, and I guess not getting to play DNF also sucks.

What is everyone else's favorite vaporware?
Mobile VoIP, heartburn to Telco Operator
That only gets me one round trip, and I don't want to stop at the kiosk every day. It lets me buy multiple tickets, but not put multiple trips on one ticket.
it would be interesting to know what problems you faced. If you could elaborate on the roadblocks you hit - and how other frameworks solved it for you, that would be great.
There's nothing stopping them from licensing the latest id engine and writing a Duke Nukem game with it and just calling it Duke Nukem Forever, which is probably a more plausible line of action than continuing with what they have now.
Eclipse's emacs mode is nothing like Emacs. For example, it binds undo to F9, leaving C-/ (the emacs binding for undo) as "comment this line". WTF. Of course, once you fix the bindings, Eclipse's undo doesn't work anything like Emacs' undo. It's not Emacs, it's Eclipse with C-a (but not M-n) and C-e.
Matching logarithm? Sweet.
I'm not sure how investing is taxed right now. On the assumption that the author is calling for an existing tax to be taken away from a certain kind of investment:

Under the current tax structure, the author believes that investors are encouraged to engage is overly risky behavior. It is not obvious that reducing taxes on a subset of financial instruments will make the rest of the instruments less appealing. The flexibility of the taxed instruments is not necessarily made up for by an increase in the rewards of the untaxed instruments. Massively increasing taxes on the instruments you dislike seems like a more straightforward incentive system.

(I'm not convinced that choice of instrument divides investors into "good" and "bad" categories, but the author's proposed solution seemed like an easier target.)
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I don't do multi-file changes in emacs, but they are pretty trivial with "perl -pi -e ...". You have a lot more flexibility with this method. I often create a new branch, spend a few commits getting the rename right, and then squash the commits and apply it to my real branch. (Sometimes I apply the changes to the index instead of applying it as a commit -- this way I can change other things in the same commit.)

Anyway, the automated tools sort of fake this workflow, but sometimes the real thing is nicer.
I spent all these years waiting for someone to post the lyrics to Chinese Democracy and a strategy guide for Duke Nukem Forever on Project Xanadu, and today I have nothing left but bitter disappointment.
The answer to your question actually happens to be pretty awesome. Not on purpose, but timing just works out that the answer is: Hold on for one more day.
I think this covers it pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

"The planet isn't going anywhere. We are."
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Be that as it may, that's still an irrational reaction. We don't know what the odds of intelligent life are, and there's no guarantee that they are not comparable to the size of the universe... or even a long shot despite the size of the universe.

For all the stars in all the solar systems in all the universe across all time, for as large as that number may be, you start stacking together independent requirements for life (galaxy with available stable orbits, water planet, habitable zone, mineral abundance, perhaps big moon, and this is the tip of the tip of the iceberg for feasible potential requirements) and the odds against can go up fast, too.

As an example, it is hypothesized that only a spiral galaxy can support life, since only a spiral galaxy will have orbits that are not too close to the galactic center at some point. (Recently, there have been some suggestions that it may also be important not to be too far from it, either.) Right off the top, this eliminates a gigantic number of galaxies from contention. Certainly it leaves roughly an equal number still in contention (couldn't find precise frequency counts but 50% is close enough here), but even the mighty size of the Universe can't sustain an indefinite exponential culling.

We still don't know. Just because there's a really big number on one side of the question that's visibly obvious, doesn't mean that a much more subtle but equally large number doesn't lie on the other side.

(To save time, I've assumed "life as we know it". Feel free to substitute some other definition, though personally I'm yet to see a very convincing argument in favor of non-carbon, non-water intelligent life. YMMV.)

Please be clear: I am not advocating the "we're alone" position. I'm advocating the "we truly don't know" position. There's a difference.

(It may seem trite and old now, but I still think the Fermi Paradox is one of the most important questions of our time. The silliness of the Drake equation sort of got in the way, but it can be boiled down to: If intelligent life is easy and there's no terribly compelling reason why intelligent life can't at least populate the galaxy, why hasn't it? Note that "populate the galaxy" may and probably does take the form of some form of machine life, but I've seen no compelling reason to believe that's impossible yet.)
College Dropout, and fairly satisfied with my results. YMMV
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Ah, ok. I told a business exec I knew I was doing a startup and he recommended a company in the Pittsburgh area which would "grow your idea" for 51% (i.e. control of the company). When some suits are in control, it would seem that it is no longer any fun and more like working for someone else.

I like SproutBox's site, and the couple of sites produced already (found via their Twitter).
Now that I'm thinking about it, I should have just rick rolled to Hold on. Damn. It's always some mundane detail.
Ask HN: Home/Office Monitoring System
We just got a new office; and for security purposes, we'd like to have a bunch of webcams, with data streamed to a centralized server (for motion detection / logging).

"Privacy" is not a problem as it's a small company and all the founders are okay with it.

What are the best open source tools for this? We'd like the backend to be linux, and for the actual cameras, just get a bunch of cheap cameras (that can hopefully stream over wireless or network).
I'm abstaining since I use the services of 3 companies included in the poll and 1 that isn't (Rimuhosting).
I never understood how exactly one figures out these three:

f_l = the fraction of the above which actually go on to develop life

f_i = the fraction of the above which actually go on to develop intelligent life

f_c = the fraction of the above which are willing and able to communicate

For f_l, we've got a sample size of one. For all we know, life as we know it might be a fluke which has an infinitesimal probability of occurring.
There are certain things some people enjoy that I do not understand the appeal of. Among those are smoking cigarettes, drinking urine and self-flagellation.

Pretty sure that if you enjoy self-flagellation, you're doing it wrong.
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That actually seems worse than working for someone. At least it's their idea that gets screwed up when you work for someone. Watching someone screw up your idea, now that really sucks. BTDT.

Oh..and Thanks. Lot more to come soon.
I had the idea this year, sadly too late, for a great April Fool's - sneak a pro-looking display selling DNF, complete with boxes of discs, into any relevant games retailer. And now I never can.