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I didn't say "look cleaner", I said "cleaner" as in not a mess, which was his point (in the sense that you describe), and it's ridiculous, an argument against higher-level languages. Of all the things one could argue killed Smalltalk's chances of becoming mainstream, this has got to be the dumbest, which is why I wonder exactly what Ward really said and in what context.

A former Smalltalker I worked with for years argues that it was mostly the greed and arrogance of the vendors that ruined its chances: greed as in refusing to make even trial versions available for free, and arrogance as in refusing to make it easier to integrate with other systems. Edit: This, by the way, was the perspective of a guy who was simply reflecting on what he had observed, not someone with a software ideology to push... as opposed to Bob Martin, who seems to be saying "Smalltalk got killed so we should all write lots and lots of tests".
Ballmer Talks at Stanford, Says Now is the Time for Entrepreneurs
Here in Italy, people mostly use solar power to dry clothes, rather than a dryer, which very few people possess.
Yeah. Openness is tricky.

I think Founder's At Work is such a good book because it wasn't written after the entrepreneurs' moved on from the projects they founded.
Download the API docs. Turn off the internet. No reason to really need the 'web when coding... And when you get into bugs you're looking for help on: leave them aside and work on something else- fix them all in one burst. We make excuses for network connectivity, but in reality, we can easily get our work done without it.

For more proof- just ask all your hacker friends where they get the most work done - the answer is nearly always on flights. :)
Yes, this is an amazing roguelike. My favorite one.
Too bad it's sequel (Jade) is still vaporware...
Glasses that make everyone look attractive.
Maybe Chrome needs to change the name of their browser.
Steam/iTunes type deal where you have the movies you own hosted online, except work it to where licenced/purchased movies are p2p shared off the computers logged into the network so you don't have to pay too much to funnel the movies down the pipe.

say i buy ID4. it starts downloading P2P onto my system at home. once it's downloaded i can watch it there, of course. but any time i'm on the network that particular movie is also shared P2P to other people who want to purchase it.

i can go to a friend or family member's house, download the software, log into my account, and watch my home movies from that remote location if i want (barring the download time).

i would also push to get theatre releases on the release date for this service if made. if you don't want pirates stealing screenercam shit, create an avenue where they can legitimately purchase and view movies the day they're released. at least you'll make some of that money back :|
Yeah that bothers me too. Though I suspect if I was one of those "cool kids" it would bother me less ;-)

As an aside, dailybooth is really a unique idea, it's in this round of ycombinator. I see it has a picture-twitter that suits vloggers (iJustine is on there for example http://dailybooth.com/ijustine )
without sounding pretentious - one of the biggest things I've found is that today's authors suffer from a lack of eloquence. Communicating well is not something that's simple to master, and few are truly good at it - in the same way that computer science is a discipline, there are myriad courses in university devoted to communication.

But we're trying to glean insight and information from blog posts and articles often produced by time starved writers, first time bloggers or similar. The art of communication is being lost in search for the sound bite, the skim reader- the 20 second attention.

Perhaps we should all commit to reading a book a week- or how about writing a short story: surely the better we are at communicating then the more enriched we will be as a society?
Glasses filled with beer seem to work.
That wouldn't work in northern Europe for large parts of the year, because of the climate.

There are both advantages and disadvantages by air drying. By drying them outside, you get a more "fresh" smell. But if you use a dryer, the clothes are often "softer".
The launch, the doubts, the decisions of a 10 week old startup
I totally forgot about 禅! I usually associate 善 with those sorts of emotions, because of words like 積善 (the accumulation of good deeds) and 善導 (guidance in the direction of virtue). Goes to show where any of my religious feelings might lie. grin
Parents don't last forever: cherish them while you can.

My mother passed away in Sept. of last year, my father on the day I was set to walk for graduation getting my Master's (2004). It changes your outlook on the world when you don't have parental units in life. 28 was too young to be an orphan, but it happened. So, yes; cherish them indeed.
Does google really have the much higher a success rate with moving into new markets? How often do you really use Knol, Lively, Google Base, Checkout, Sketchup, etc.?
We do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_(vehicle)
Nuclear powered laptop never needs recharging
Alternatively, just sell matching pairs of electronic tags (sticky) that both have buttons and beep when the other one is pressed.
I hope these links are somewhat more helpful, though the blenders aren't much different than those in the states.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3D...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3D...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3D...
As if to prove my point, I'm reading that Oprah is producing a new talkshow starring Jenny McCarthy, with the intent of promoting McCarthy's vaccines-are-bad crusade.

Science: NOT OPRAH'S STRONG POINT.
I have three great ideas for startups that fit this request.

1.) scambledporn.com - If you can remember tv before it went digital, porn used to be scambled by varying the horizontal sync of the tv signal for that channel. This made it unwatchable, unless you were really really patience. My idea is to create a website that has porn that works on the same concept; it would be scrambled until people pay to have it unscrambled. The more you pay the more unscambled it would be.

2.) Fire Energy Convertor (FEC) these are self contained devices that can be dropped into wildfires. Once placed into the fire; the device would convert the heat of the fire into electricity. After the fire subsided, the device would be placed into a grid that would provide electricity. Let's stop wasting all the energy that is release by forest fires. Eventually the device (FEC 2.0) could be placed into active volcano as well.

3.) An exercise device that can be used while you shower. It would be like killing two birds with one stone. People wouldn't have to worry about having to take a shower after working out, because they would already be in the shower and can soap up when done. The marketing plan for this device is a 30 minute infomercial that walks people through its use, with several nice looking and in good shape people. When you purchased the device, you will also receive a instructional video of your choosing (Male, Female).
If you have room for it, it is more practical with a separate dryer and washing machine. You will lose the ability to dry clothes while another batch is washing. But if you are single and don't have to do more than one wash at a time, it is of course not a problem.

I also think that they had some problems in the past, where the clothes didn't dry as well or that the machine could wash a larger load than it could dry. If you wash a full load and need to take some of the clothes out, a combo will lose some of its practical use. But that was years ago, so they have probably improved a lot.

If you have room for a washer, you usually have room for a dryer since you can just put the dryer on top of the washer (the dryer weighs nothing)
Actually, we use electric kettles here too nowadays.

As for the wash/dryer, haven't seen it around here.
Its a tragedy that all geek theaters are ultimately reduced to a chorus ...
yeah, justininindia.tv?
Or those hard plastic cases that don't involve cutting with scissors or a knife and possibly slicing off a finger.
See also, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530605.
Yes it is probably slightly weaker. It would be weaker if there are collisions in the 1-16 character password space for sha1 (assuming a 16 character limit on the password).

My point was that if you already have a lot hashed passwords then you need a way to transition to salted ones and this was a method to do that.
There are more things I want to touch on, but I'm afraid my posts are long and opinionated as they are

Yes, and they're very good. More of your posts, more posts like yours!
What happens if someone's OCD ends up turning into taking pictures to make sure that they did something?
I have experienced these 'spin driers' built into washers. They spin my clothes for two hours but don't contain a heating element, so nothing happens.

Possibly everywhere I have lived has happened to have a broken one.
The person who is discerning has a more active and challenging experience

Eh? Surely it's more challenging to enjoy a mediocre film than a really enjoyable one? To create a good picture from a point and shoot camera than a $4k DSLR? To be happy with a $800 used car is more challenging than being happy with a $60k luxury car. Isn't it?
dropbox would be perfect if i could use my own private server
Fat-powered laptop (iphone, etc) plugs into your stomach and makes you lose weight.
Indeed, I suspect the article is simply wrong on all counts.
Actually, there's all of about 4 diseases you can catch solely from contact (IE handshakes). #1 is Athletes foot (occasionally some other fungal infections can spread similarly too) where an infected person can spread it to a susceptible person, however this is easily solved by not sharing towels and actually cleaning your bath/shower.

#2 is HPV, aka warts, which usually most people would avoid shaking hands with someone covered in warts. The other way is similar to #1, so again good bathroom hygiene wins out.

#3 is impetigo, commonly found in 2-6 year olds whom I sincerely doubt are in business meetings. The only other common way is close-contact sports (rugby/wrestling).

#4 is syphilis, which in very rare cases can spread by direct touch with the chancer (ulceration of the skin).

Besides those four, no infection worth worrying about is contagious.

The next major worry for handshakes would be fecal-oral transmission. However, the reason public health officials espouse good bathroom hygiene isn't for hand shakes, it's for the fact that if this bacteria it has a chance to develop a large enough culture size to beat our immune system. The amount of bacteria actually carried on someones hand is so few and so exposed it cannot survive our stomach acid.

I've taken several courses on all this and I'm certified for food safety, first aid (for all ages) and a few other courses I needed to work with people with compromised or weak immune systems (infants, elderly and immuno-compromised).

Arrington has no fucking clue what he's talking about, he's an office worker spouting BS about personal hygiene. Unless you work in a hospital, you likely wouldn't make a single person sick if you only washed your hands when you showered. It's actually been shown repeatedly, that increased exposure to infectious bacteria increases your resilience(this is the whole purpose of the immune system) and can prevent you from getting worse infections. This is why health officials have been stock piling regular flu vaccinations in case of a H5N1 outbreak, because immunization against one type of flu strain can help against other flu strains.

I know a lot about all this stuff. So please, don't call Arrington well-informed, because he's clueless. He's a programmer, he runs the best tech-news site on the web and should keep his opinions there where he is exceptionally clued in. This article lost Arrington a lot of respect from me because of how sheerly ignorant he is and how clearly he has a serious condition.
If you are using a DSLR in burst mode it probably won't choose a variety of apertures and shutter speeds. It will determine what it believes to be a correct exposure for the scene and set an aperture and shutter speed it considers appropriate, if the shutter speed and aperture change they will probably only vary relative to each other; the exposure will be the same. You can do something similar to what you've described by putting the camera into auto exposure bracketing mode where the camera varies shutter speed to give a predetermined degree of over or under exposure per shot in sets of three (or more) shots. In the somewhat unlikely event that your camera was unable to sufficiently capture the dynamic range of a scene you can merge multiple photographs of the same scene with differing exposure values to produce an image with greater dynamic range that can then be compressed through tone mapping.

If you don't think "playing with fstop and shutter speed by hand" is only worthwhile for "art shots or action shots" then why bother framing a shot the way you want it? Decisions about aperture and shutter speed affect more than just exposure.
That's what I think.
3D Realms always said they were self funding, so saying Take-Two pulled the financial plug sounds a bit too odd.
Besides, 3D Realms always had their way of releasing stuff when you least expect it.
Let's hope my feeling is right...
Ask HN: Do anti-aliased fonts promote better eye health?
I always disable font anti-aliasing in my text editors and other applications, but I'm curious if there are technical arguments for or against this in terms of what's easier on your eyes.

Without having any way to measure or prove it, I feel my eyes spend more time focusing on anti-aliased fonts.
These days, I could care less about Microsoft. When I hear that they're about to announce a new product or enter a new market, I don't consider it important because innovation and quality just isn't in their genes. IMHO, they're living off past successes while companies like Google and Apple continue to innovate and make Microsoft a marginal player.
If you are carrying around five pounds of camera gear to take vacation photos, UR DOING IT WRONG.

Today's point 'n' shoots are cigarette-pack-sized and take fantastic photos. Unless you have e.g., specific lighting or fstop or depth-of-field needs (i.e. you're an actual pro), you aren't going to need the advantages of pro camera equipment, and you are making life more difficult by giving yourself more shit to carry and more knobs to puzzle over when you take a photo.
Wouldn't they just end up compulsively checking the photo?
After learning how many bacteria can live on bathroom door handles in a food hygiene course, I stopped opening them with my hands when leaving. I'm thankful that most public places now have the S-shaped doorway.

Incidentally, the door handle in a public bathroom can have significantly more bacteria on them than the toilet seat. So ladies (and gentlemen I guess) when you hover over the seat, reconsider if you actually want to touch that door handle. IIRC one study found a 20:1 ratio between doorhandle and toilet seat (door handles are wiped down with a regular cleaner, whilst toilets get a professional-grade bleaching).
If you like this sort of thing there is also Angband - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(computer_game)
What happened to Microsoft last quarter was about thirteen billion dollars in revenue.
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bubblecity1
Quite frankly I'd rather be working with robots than building text adventure games (been there, done that: when I was 13). And while building a meta-circular evaluator is interesting, I don't see how it can be considered a central tenet of introductory computer science. Also, both Python and Java have implementations that are meta-circular (PyPy, Jikes RVM, and Squawk), so it's not like you're shutting the door on these concepts to beginner students by bootstrapping them with conceptually-limited languages.
HI, You were very lucky to catch the RSI tendency in time.I am a massage therapist who has worked with many RSI "victims."
Just to warn others: there is another problem-thoracic outlet syndrome that programmers and others get from too many hours at the computer.
If you want to avoid this negative development and RSI, get up every 30 minutes from your computer and get your arms over your head; do the back stroke; bend over and let your head and arms hang down. The nerves get trapped in the chest muscles as they travel down from your neck to your arms and hands. Make sure you stretch your pectorals often: open arms out to sides. LIsten to your pain messages and don't push through pain because you might become disabled. take care.
All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof
On a related note, for the past year I've lived in a city with time-limited parking spaces on the street (i.e. "Two hour parking this block this day" or something similar). I would love to have something that detects when the meter maid comes by the first time and notifies me via sms so I can stay parked for the extra time between when I park and when the mm first comes by. I've racked up way too many $15 parking violations in the past year.
I doubt that would have held her - seems like she wanted to explore the area outside of her cage. I would too, if I was in a zoo.
"The alarm was raised by a member of the public about 11am."

As an electrician, who has installed several security systems... why wasn't the electric fence tied into an alarm system? It's not that hard, farmers even have it installed in case their fence gets knocked down by a falling tree branch. The last thing you want is a herd of cows or horses loose. You'd think the last thing a zoo would want is an escapee oranguatan, but obviously they don't care the few hundred dollars it would cost to secure an exhibit that probably cost over a hundred thousand dollars.
The New York Metro area has 3 teams. All have had varying degrees of success and the Rangers are the dominant team, but New Jersey plays in an arena too close to New York and the Islanders play too far from the city.

The Hamilton-Buffalo connection is overrated. People in Hamilton don't support the Sabres and you see lots of Habs fans there, simply because they hate the Leafs.

Giving them a team would create an instant rivalry and allow fans who have wanted their own team since forever.

It's akin to people saying Devils fans only support the Rangers and Flyers. It's just not true. New Jersey teams don't play close to the majority of the state's population, so fans go where it's easier to get to.

The Newark arena helps that a bit, but there are some problems with that city and people's perceptions, which don't help anyway...plus it's still not close to most of Central Jersey on most game nights.

Hamilton would be successful and it's not going to hurt the Leafs or Sabres, as much as they'd like you to believe.
Happy birthday IC
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It's been done and you can read all about it: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1169006
A spin drier and a heated tumble drier are rather different.
Egads. Where'd all the paragraphs go? I am simply not patient enough to wade through your big block o' text.
I don't know - I've not heard that before. I always turn off white backgrounds in my IDEs but I've not heard of using anti-aliased fonts.
I'm not sure the author understands the benefit of OAuth. here's an analogy:

First, let's assume that the end user uses the same username/password combination for every website, which is quite common. Also, assume that twitter and your server accept the username/password combination as a basic auth encoded string. What you have, in OAuth terms, is a universally acceptable auth token, without the shared secret (similar to an unsalted password hash). Anyone in possession of this token can access any resource on any website as the end user (assuming they have a single username/password everywhere).

So OAuth allows you to take this universal token (or at least the information contained in this token: username/pass), and generate a new access token which can only access a limited resource for a given service, sometimes for a limited period of time. Also, it has a shared secret, so it's harder to abuse.

For the end user, it's actually much safer to keep the access token & secret locally vs. making them login to your central service with a username/password. If the username/password gets out, they no longer control their identity online. If the access token/secret gets out, they no longer control the resource.
Create an online AJAX IDE for developing flash using the haXe language. It would be compiled and put together on the server, but the client would be open source and free as a desktop app too, by the magic of haXe. Services could include webhosting and automatic upload of your app, as well as stock flash animation media and sounds.
Discernment is about perception, about recognizing a difference between things. It's only harder to enjoy an inferior product if you can discern the difference.

Discernment can offer some advantages, though. A movie can be bad in interesting ways, or simply interesting in spite of being bad. Plus, the more qualities you can appreciate about something, the more likely you are to find something redeeming about it.
The arguments for changing the course do not include teaching marketable skills or using popular languages. The main argument is that the practice of computer science has fundamentally changed since the course was originally developed.

The argument is that computer scientists rely more on existing libraries and systems that often require fundamental research for an individual to comprehend. They have changed the course to reflect this using robotics and a library to control the robots. That library happens to be written in Python. They didn't start with "Let's change to using Python" and develop the course around that.

The validity of this argument is debatable. But I don't think your reasons address it at all.
Guys, guys.. You need a workshop on basic PR strategies... As a former VP of a tech PR firm, I would be glad to explain the basics:

1) To get any serious media coverage you need to be newsworthy,

2) What is newsworthy? Any person, company or event that fits into a large economical, social or political picture can be considered newsworthy.

3)Best way to learn and practice being newsworthy is to read the Wall Street Journal (There are other pubs, but if you have only enough time to read one, make it WSJ)

4) Don't just read an article, but read and answer 3 questions.
a) What is the trend(big picture) that this article describes?
b) How does my company fits into this trend?
c) Where can I find statistics that support my point?

4) Once you see a great fit for yourself, write to the author of that article an e-mail. Most of the WSJ reporters are easy to reach. If you do the 3) practice right, sooner or later, you will be included in those WSJ stories. Just think, companies pay $10,000 and up in monthly retainers to PR firms to get their names in WSJ.

5) Similar strategy applies to getting coverage from Guy Kawasaki & other top tech bloggers.

a) join Twitter, follow Kawasaki http://twitter.com/guykawasaki on Twitter
b) listen what he is talking about
c) join the conversation,
d) if your comments(twits) are intelligent, he & others will notice & answer, re-twit your comments.
And that is your surest way to get coverage from Kawasaki.

6)One important point to remember.The media(Kawasaki included) always want to post a)educational b) entertaining content.

Give them something new(educate them), be it an idea, a point of view, personal observation & a joke, tie your current work into it for promo benefit. Keep it short and simple. (Twitter is a good way to train yourself in brevity)

P.S. I am here because I a fan of Paul Graham's ideas. Paul, if I can be of any help in your endeavors, you can reach me via my Twitter http://twitter.com/mylifeandart