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Copy pasta much?

> But here on Hacker News (of all places), let's instead criticize his personal preferences on fucking ties.

So someone writes about their personal life, and then people discuss it. What the heck does a whole bunch of honorary doctorates from Latin America have to do with this? Obviously the people in Latin America like him.

As far as I'm concerned, a single actual doctorate is worth more than all of that, or say an equivalent feat like writing gcc, emacs, gdb, and the GPL (iirc). But nevertheless, even those significant accomplishments don't make his personal opinions sacred to the point of inoculating them against possible counterpoints.

Guy states a bunch of preferences on internet, preferences are now up for discussion. End of. I thought it was an interesting read.
Is this before or after taxes? Because American salaries are typically reported before taxes.
because h1b visas require you to stay employed (you have like 30 days before they deport you) and they require you to keep the same job title throughout the whole greencard process or your waiting period starts over.
Oh, I get it, you're an anti-extremism extremist.
You should try to empathize with RMS.
You seem to have confused "armed drone" with "drone".
I don't know what the official stance here in germany is, but I talked to a member of the Autobahnpolizei (Highway Patrol) and he told me that while they have high powered cars that could follow most cars at high speed they will "give up" when hey feel they pose a danger to other drivers and concentrate on blocking exits etc. . But I have to say I have not seen a police chase in germany my whole life.
Yes before taxes. The 16k I reported was before. So I got roughly ~12k.
Surely several of these are possible, by any individual, at once.

You can admire and benefit from Stallman's work and achievements, without necessarily agreeing with all of his positions.

And if someone essentially judges you morally deficient for as much as using a cellphone or MS Windows, it's kind of open season to judge him on superficial things like his choice of ties or personal habits, in return.
It is not a problem if his friends don't object to borrowing him a phone, nor is it Stallman's responsibility to carry a phone so that his friends don't even have to not object.

If someone doesn't like him asking for a phone or lunch or whatever, then I assume it would be up to that someone to reject his request. It's not like Stallman goes around grabbing people's phones or lunches without asking first.
It's sad to see so much guesswork around here...

Here's GNU coreutils rm [0] calling its remove() function [1] itself using fts to open, traverse, and remove each entry[2], vs rsync delete() [3] calling {{robust,do}_,}unlink() function [4] [5].

Now a little profiling could certainly help.

(damn gitweb that doesn't highlight the referenced line)

[0]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f...

[1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f...

[2]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f...

[3]: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync/delete.c

[4]: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync/util.c

[5]: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync/syscall.c
Are you seriously blaming the police for the death of that? Surely it is the guy's fault for stealing a car with a child in it and recklessly driving it.
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I've had a similar experience, and I appreciate the compassion in your post.
I live in Los Angeles, and it happens here all. the. fucking. time. It's a cultural thing, somehow. It a) makes no sense that the criminals are running. They never get away. Were are they going? Bakersfield? And b) A chopper or drone is sufficent 9 times out of 10. Proof- they're televised. From choppers.
I think the result is probably a larger number of shallower friendships than you'd have otherwise, or at least that's the pattern I've noticed, and I don't think that's necessarily better. The rest of most people's time on there is generally spent idly browsing the trivia of other peoples' lives. I just don't think it's a very effective use of users' or engineers' time.

I used to use FB a lot, especially in college, but aside from being great for organizing parties, I've found that I like the old ways a lot better. For actually communicating and having conversations with people, IM and email are actually more robust/effective/universal, and aren't engineered and A/B tested to hell to suck up attention as effectively as possible.
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We begin to see the true purpose of GAVI once we realize that its official literature contain thousands of papers, journals and textbooks on what is known as "Reproductive Immunology" or to the layman, "how to make women immune to pregnancy." A GAVI article from 1991 has the headline "The WHO Task Force on Vaccine for Fertility Regulation". Numerous institutes have reproductive immunology on their research scheme. And as we see, the method is based solely on vaccination programs and the WHO is deeply involved in their practical implementation.
how would you get started with clisp instead of sbcl?
Military in Turkey was a tool of the Kemalist regime and vice versa. Erdogan did change that. You call it gutting the military and I call it the right thing to do and to tell the truth I am happy with the result. Let's just keep the military in a place where they belong and have them out when they are needed. I don't need the military to protect the regime, I need it to protect me and my land.

The incidents are nothing different than what the police were doing to Kurdish protesters or Muslim protesters (whom you probably call Islamists) protesting the turban ban across the universities and govt offices and the Kemalist regime's actions against Islam for the sake of secularism for almost 100 years. Erdogan himself knows this better than anyone else. He was thrown into prison just because he read a poem by the Kemalist regime, its laws and its bureaucracy.

Simply put some residents in Istanbul did not want the authorities to destroy Gezi Park and build a mall instead. They were harmless and friendly. Police went brutal and the protests turned into resistance. Police and authorities acted in a more fascist way. They ignored people's right to protest and the anger increased and spread across the country. In my opinion, Erdogan himself should come up, apologize and hold the police and other authorities responsible for their actions and make them answer in front of the law. This is fascism, this is authoritarianism and we do not want it. We've had enough of it.
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I work at Bigcommerce. The development, QA, design and product teams are here in Australia; the sales, support and marketing teams are in Austin.

(There is some mixing, eg. a few devs in Austin, a few support guys here.)
All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary?

In 1954 this was the issue of primary concern. Although the so-called "moral issues" were raised, in view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent.
This reminds me of something my dad, a minister of religion, used to repeat constantly "No-one is promised tomorrow". I'm pretty sure he was trying to impress on a given audience "Repent now, you may not get another chance".

I tend to approach it from a different angle. Be brilliant and live your life now, you may not get the chance to do so later. It sounds like he was doing awesome things, so one can only hope that his work lives on.

My condolences to Andrew's family.
I think it's interesting for that reason though,
because it doesn't say as much about his actual
lifestyle as it does what he thinks about other
people.

But that's part of what makes his lifestyle his. I don't think you can have a lifestyle, much less live a life, without considering what you think about other people yourself. It's quite important, actually, because what you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. So, in effect, it tells us more about Stallman himself and Stallman's lifestyle than if he had just iterated some of his aesthetic preferences.
Not quite. Your pricing for ops is just included in the price of your Heroku deployment.
Excuse me, but the welfare systems are public, not free. We pay for them with our taxes. At least in Spain, education and health system are public, not free.
Imagine a future where self-driving cars (=home delivery taking over retail), 3D printers, fully automated factories, and the death of copyright/intellectual property has put 75% of the population out of work. It's hard to imagine anything BUT some kind of socialist/communist system required.
That is a statistical lie.

His music preferences are described with 2076 characters, while ties uses 1838.

You could state that ties is the singular item under a bullet point list with most text. However then we are either saying that music isn't "a singular item", or that in a compositional sense, RMS hasn't spaced the tie text with bullet points where for music he do.
> they hate him, they love him, or they barely know who he is

I would suspect that for the majority of people, both the ones who hate and the ones who love him, barely know who he is.

I don't know him at all, but I would guess that if I did get to know him, I would find that he's just another human being - and being a human is often hard and weird, so we all cope differently.
It's sad how people here nit-pick on this. He have done so damn much, and still you guys critize some silly behavior of his. I think it's mostly beacuase the frequent readers, contributors and commenters here on HN are software developers, business people and designers, not hackers...
That’s because Germany implemented the necessary social reforms before the crash (around 2005), rather than after. It also still has a superior education programme with apprenticeships for standard jobs, as well as cheap university access with extra funding for poorer people.

Edit: You can even see this in the graph. German youth unemployment peaked in 2005, well before the financial crisis but after a decade of slow growth, also cf. [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe#Modern_use
I don't think we should consider the "good enough" case when security is involved. (some) password vaults are secure and yet have a straightforward interface.
How many startup employees (not founders or investors) are getting even 0.5-1% effective equity?
It also has a VC culture of not funding anything that isn't pulling valuable things out of the ground. :(
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There are a lot of issues around bitcoin and seeking to build a pretty interface to it addresses none of them.

One of my objections to bitcoin is the suggestion that I use Tor to mask my IP to keep my actual IP from occurring in the blockchain.

I think if you are telling users to use Tor to "stay safe" thats a problem already.

Second, "balance" information from your wallet is also stored in the blockchain.

Thats comforting, an IP address combined with how much bitcoin I possess. We have seen where that ended up more than once. Why not just paint a target on my forehead?

Cold storage is one solution to backing up your bitcoin and keeping it offline until needed.

Needing to "create a new bitcoin address" for every transaction, also fishy.

I would rather someone build a solution to bitcoins defiencies than see a pretty screen.
That is a gross exaggeration.

Ban on abortion was there before, is still there. My take, I support ban on abortion except some cases.

Ban on alcohol: They ban consumption in public places. it is becoming close to the Many Eurepean counties level. But not there yet.

Jailing journalists: Most of them involved with PKK (A terrorist organisation acknowledged by US and EU) directly. However, I agree the ones did not do action should have never been kept. There is a list: http://www.cnnturk.com/2012/guncel/03/07/tutuklu.gazeteciler...

Forcing Religion on children: If you mean mandatory religion and ethics lessons, it was there forever. This is bogus. My take, Governemnet should never deal with Religion.

Restrictions on TV: was there almost two decade ago.. RTUK was founded much before this government. Similar organisations exist in US and EU.

Recent events.. Well I blame government for being distasteful. Their architectural projects are far from beautiful. Also I dont understand their fetish on Ottoman-ism. There was no point resurrecting that stupid building on that park area. However, I also see protests more like opposition sides play ground. They find every opportunity to make things a show. That project was there for years and now it is time to protest? please.
Also, a side note, if you stand on pressurized water like an idiot you fall and bleed.

Edited: Some wordings
Denmark's attempt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity
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"And if someone essentially judges you morally deficient for as much as using a cellphone or MS Windows, it's kind of open season to judge him on superficial things like his choice of ties or personal habits, in return."

No. It's really not.
Danger would be similar to say going to Spain or a Greek island. Perhaps less.
It was getting hyped up by the tech press and he was doing what he presumably loved right up to the end. I think this was probably a pretty happy point in his life. For me, actually finishing a project like this means a brief rush of satisfaction and then a funk of ennui. I think I'd rather die while I'm still working on something than when it's finished, and certainly it would have been worse to go while the company was still scrounging capital.
If you're already a programmer, you should probably read Paul Graham's On Lisp. It's a technical book, written by an advocate but before he became a VC or took up writing on woolly topics like the relationship of programming to painting.
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Yes, down with those extremist puppy cuddlers. Them, Al Qaeda: all the same.

Seeing you dying to leave HN proves to me in a very pleasing way that HN often just plain works.
If you're not even going to put the barest effort into keeping up the charade of anonymity, why bother posting from a fake account?

You may be trying to make a point with the account name, or may think you may not be able to get a fair conversation without the pseudo anonymity, but frankly, (I would hope) it's beneath you.

I would be happy to discuss my views on what useful and production mean. I'm pretty sure I know your current views on the topic (as a long time reader of your blog, my recollection is that they seem to have shifted over time).

Then again, maybe you aren't interested in having that discussion with me. If so, this seems a fairly inefficient way to communicate to the developers.
So instead of generating the passwords once, I do it over and over? I'm not sure that's a win.

Because realistically, I'm still going to copy and paste the end result.
The amount of people employed in such jobs has actually decreased in recent years and nowadays, more people than ever are employed in full social security jobs in Germany.
I know many people who do not own a car. Somehow, the argument here is that those shouldn't now be allowed to use a buss, taxi, train, or go with a friend somewhere in a car? forever doomed to walk and always only walk? Given the city where I live, only about 10-20% of people I know has a car. That would make it kind of depressing if we dictated their lives in the way described.

Thats just don't make any sense. The fridge thing do, but after the first sentence in your comment I have a small distrust regarding if you are giving the whole context here. Maybe the fridge is used for shared purchases of drinks/food/snacks that everyone could take when needed. How did other people use the fridge, and what was the initial purpose when the fridge was bought?
Tragedies are and should be a time to re-examine our policies, and try to prevent them happening again. Whether there should be a policy against police engaging in these kind of pursuits (and with the understanding that police do so with best of intentions) is absolutely on topic.
XUL was only part of the problem. Camino's goal was to make a browser that was designed for the Mac. Firefox's goal (once running on the Mac was added after the fact) was to make a cross platform browser that ran on the Mac. That's not just about UI toolkits, it drives basic decisions.

Firefox doesn't use Keychain because cross-platform trumped integration. Its localization (a different download for every language, instead of one multi-language binary like every Mac app) is "wrong" for the same reason. It doesn't integrate with the Me card in Address Book for form fill data for the same reason. It makes you set your accept-language list manually instead of using the identical OS-level list for the same reason. The list, some small and some large, goes on, and it all adds up.

It affects UI behaviors too. I don't know if they eventually fixed it, but for a while closing the last window would quit the app, which is against the platform guidelines for a multi-window app, and was widely hated by Mac users. The justification was that it was consistent with Windows Firefox.

Those of us who chose to work on Camino in our free time did so because it was the product we wanted to build, and Mac Firefox was clearly never going to be no matter how much effort we might have put into it. You can call it a waste if you like, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who worked on Camino who regrets the time they spent on it, or considers it a waste.

As for it being an "obvious dead end", until Gecko embedding was deprecated there was no reason Camino couldn't have continued indefinitely. How is developing software that many people still love and use a dead end? Not everyone in the world views dominating the market as the definition of success.
Yes, because they learnt the lessons from history and if there is anything that Germany wants to avoid then it is inflation.

Furthermore, the ECB is controlled by a money-printing Italian and last time I checked, German influence in the ECB was extremely low, especially compared to the relative size of Germany within the EU.
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I believe if I remember correctly, LAPD had a stand down on high speed chases years ago due to the property damage and personal injuries of innocent bystanders.

The police have a job to do, but in some areas, the level of aggression with which they pursue their duties is beyond reasonable and seems like adrenaline addiction.
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I think it is. If you make such a tremendous claim (and it is one), you're likely to hear some counterclaims. Even if they are 'your singing totally sucks'

http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossi...
it s like a scene from Avatar. Turks are revolting to stop the killing of 75 year old trees, police reacts violently and protests turn against the government.

Trees are leading the people..
Do you honestly think that he would face such intense criticism if he were just some guy on the internet? You seem to be defending a double standard by arguing that there shouldn't be a double standard.
Not based in SV. 90k USD, based in Hong Kong.
Publish your work, ie instead of hacking on a multitude of projects, focus on one, launch and iterate.

You never know, you might just end up with a profitable startup of your own.
My co-worker and I were talking about the Oculus Rift only a few days ago. We finally got our hands on the Leap motion device and were thinking up wondrous mashups with the Oculus Rift. What a terrible tragedy. Such a pity he can't be there to witness the Rift's success.
Iceland had their own currency though, and from the looks of a graph I googled up they inflated the ISK 100% since before the crisis. Ireland and Spain don't have that option.
Basic welfare is an unavoidable cost. The only way to avoid paying for food, housing, and healthcare is, to be blunt, to starve or bleed to death in the gutter. And basic welfare doesn't really cost much. The cost drivers for the European welfare systems are healthcare and pensions. With respect to healthcare, the EU countries actually have the enormously inefficient American system beat (often for better quality at lower cost), with respect to pensions, they generally lag behind due to lower fertility rates.

Education pays for itself because it is an investment. The average person will be more productive and earn more (thus increasing GDP and also their personal tax payments) if they have an education rather than being illiterate. ROI for education is extremely good. Countries like Switzerland and Germany do not subsidize education just because it's a nice thing to do, but because it's a positive sum game.
Silverstripe is onf the the MOST bloated and slow cms/frameworks I have ever come across.
Silverstripe is one the the MOST bloated and slow cms/frameworks I have ever come across.
> RMS has thought deeply through these issues for decades, you aren't going to discredit him with 5 minutes of snark.

OTOH, religion has been pondered well longer than RMS has been alive. RMS is not going to discredit the Church with 20 years of heresy.
This is what I use (although I am partially transitioning to Dashlane to try them out). It's fairly ingenious to use your passphrase and the domain to generate the hash, and the browser extensions work very elegantly.
http://caminobrowser.org/blog/2011/#mozembedding

Opera has a paid staff of full-time engineers, which makes rewriting a browser on top of a new engine a lot more feasible.

You're right in that if Camino had the developer time it had in its heyday it might have made the jump and survived, but the end of Gecko embedding is what made it impossible for Camino to continue to be maintained indefinitely by one or two people.
SuperGenPass does something similar as a bookmarklet (http://supergenpass.com/) There is a convenience vs security trade-off (an attacker could find the master password with javascript), which the author discusses in the FAQ.
The law can be enforced by nonprofessionals. It's inefficient but possible.
This! Also http://wijjo.com/passhash/

There are (Cross) Browser Extensions running the algo on your computer so can log in directly with your passphrase. You can have the JS code offline or in a Dropbox. There are apps using the algorithm on iPhone and Android. No need to rely on a single website. No need to type/copy'n'paste cryptic passwords. No need to rely on the Browser's password storage. So much better.
So maybe I'll start making a FAQ for everything.

Q. Who is this Adam Wiggins guy?

A. http://about.adamwiggins.com/

Q. Why did you leave Heroku?

A. It was time to move on. I'm proud of Heroku and everything I've done in the last six years. But like any other entrepreneur (or human being), sooner or later it's time to do the next thing.

Q. What's the next thing?

A. Vacation, travel, time with friends & family. Tinkering with new technologies.

Q. Are you going to start a new startup?

A. Almost certainly. But not in the immediate future.

Q. Is Heroku awesome?

A. Obviously. I'd like to thank YC/PG; all our investors (Redpoint, Baseline, Ignition, &c); everyone who's ever been a Heroku employee; Salesforce.com; the authors of Ruby, Rails, Ubuntu, and Git; and my mom.
But those unique challenges don't indicate that the U.S approach wouldn't work, they just explain why it isn't chosen.