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"You've yet to state how using XML as a serialization layer introduces any additional complexity into XMPP."

Among other reasons, because the stream is invalid XML until ended, ruling out the use of 99% of XML libraries and leaving you writing your own crazy custom streaming parser.

The XML is without a doubt the worst thing about XMPP, IMO. The whole point of XML is that it is standardised, and yet until the last second of the stream the whole thing is invalid, ruling out all those standardised tools, removing the point, leaving a vacuum (which you then have to fill with tons of ridiculous reinvention of the wheel).

And don't even get me started on the ridiculous overuse of xml namespaces and the incredible fragmentation of the standard, which is in like 50 different parts. The entire format is an over-generalised, over-engineered, commitee-designed gordian knot of needless complexity, verbosity and just plain ugliness.

Why do you think there are so few XMPP implementations beyond a few mega-projects? Why should it be a mega-project at all? The XML foundation is a huge barrier to implementation and is the perfect example of counter-productive adoption of buzzword-of-the-day ideologies, handicapping a whole ecosystem for years afterwards.
I've got both an LLP and an S-corp.

For the income pass-through reasons, you're right that a S-corp or LLP is the way to go. If I recall correctly, the tax difference between the 2 boils down to how much you're going to make - that is if you make over $X per year you want one solution and if you make under $X you want the other. I was in a similar situation, crunched the numbers, and determined that an S-corp was the correct solution for me, but your situation could well be different. I believe an LLC/LLP also dodges the $800 / yr that CA demands of a corp for the privilege of doing business in its state, so that might also factor into your consideration (not so sure about that one though, my LLP isn't in CA).

You can always convert to a C-corp later, but it doesn't seem like it makes much sense for you now.
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This alone makes it worth rooting for!
Thanks, it's good.

In examples/README, it mentions of exmaples/zenon -- certification of Tom's output using zenon and Coq. Apparently, the "zvtov" tool required for that is part of FoCaLize. Given that Coq was used to create a surveyable proof of 4-color problem, it sounds impressive.

Links:

FoCaLize -- http://focalize.inria.fr/

Coq -- http://coq.inria.fr/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq#Four_color_theorem_and_ssre...
Well, I plan on incorporating in Delaware if that's what's agreed upon, which, I believe, has a much much lower annual fee. Thanks for the advice.
I have seen this with Scoble and bunch of these guys who don't count themselves part of a company or its decision making - "after" they stop receiving pay check. Even most successful companies mismanage certain things..You can't cherry pick and publish dirty laundry if there is no gross injustice..such things should be highly discouraged because it affects real lives of others
If you're doing business in CA you'll still need to register as a foreign corporation, so the Delaware registration gets you very little.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/corp/corp_faq.htm

"Do I have to register (qualify) my out of state (or country) corporation in California?"

And it looks like the LLC doesn't avoid the fee:

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/llc/llc_faq.htm

"Every limited liability company which is doing business in California or has filed Articles of Organization or an Application for Registration with the Secretary of State's Office is subject to the annual limited liability tax of $800."
Belief in a higher power has been around since the dawn of time. There are as many religious people in the world as ever. Decrease in the west? Yes. Increase in the east? Yes. Faith has survived thousands of years of innovation, so it's a bit of generational arrogance (possibly coming from your particular western enlightenment reddit-reading background ;o) to think that we're finally outgrowing God.

Nietzsche declared God dead a hundred years ago and since then religion has been booming in china, africa, south america, et al. Of course, maybe those poor dumb people will be rich and educated like us someday. :-/
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I have also requested this change. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one.
I am humbled by his achievements and academic work. Sad to see such an influential figure leave us. A tragic loss for us all.
I liked it first, using a eeepc and only thouchpad it was comfortable, then I tried some of the labs stuff and got disappointed.

I realize that there are some hardwired behaviours on how I interact.
1) I keep hitting :q or ZZ in anything that looks like a texteditor, even in emacs.
2) I keep hitting ctrl-a on every line that have a cursor.
3) wsad and boomstick on 1 and rocketlaucher on 2

I don't think that I should be the reference for how a user should interact with a specific program or site. There are some areas where you could minimize the number of clicks like we have now days more or less removed the use of dialogues and wizardzzzzz.

Mouse and clicks are good but a thouchpad interface maybe should not pretend to be a mouse.

I know that HN is leaning more or less to web user interface but there are actually still a number of usage of interfaces to computer[programs] that don't is a browser or the toplevel GUI of your OS.

I guess there is some site where those making all these kinds of new games to DS,PS?,XBOX? discuss more or less the same kind of things but from a different angle.

My kinds don't look for wsad , the look for a stylus or the stick. The don't click instead they press X or blue button.

If I have a point at all, it must be that when your used to something it is a hard to relearn but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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"I'm guessing you're an American, because everybody else is very ill served by the C/POSIX locale."

And because everybody else is ill served I recommended to use ICU and don't touch setlocale() for processing unicode text. I'm not sure where we disagree. What makes you think that I feel well served by POSIX locale?
It might be a good idea to decide based on your target market..
>> "Actually, I think they just took the lead in search results presentation."

Is that a serious comment? They took the lead by copying googles layout and colors? Seriously? Or are you being sarcastic here.

The other UI crap I don't care for personally. I don't think it makes up for the significantly worse search results.
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Seems my post was very unclear and I apologize for that. What I meant to say is:

Try to avoid POSIX locales at all cost. Use ICU!
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> I'm not sure whether to be annoyed that their installer messes with my system configuration...

Could you add more details / post a link before I try installing? I didn't see anything in the release notes, etc. Thanks.
Recent discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640479
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Presumably it's the difference between a text-mode filehandle and a binary-mode filehandle.

So (untested, because I'm baking a cake) printing to fdopen(1, "wb") should just send bytes, allowing printf etc to work?
Some useful tips that can be applied to other areas too - not just open source coding projects. I liked the examples of dealing with time & resource sinks.
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Instead of dos, to play lucas art games you're better off using scummvm
I actually decided to install windows on bootcamp just for this...
I think that this is probably the most insightful comment on this page. Microsoft can probably afford for Bing to fail, because it's not their bottom line. Their bottom line is licensing with OEMs and large businesses.

I love Google products, but from a business perspective, their only source of profit is search advertising from their search engine. They are basically bleeding money through Youtube every single day with apparently no clear way to generate revenue.

If Microsoft can focus on the domain of searches to very profitable topics, such as airline tickets and hotels, and provide a better user experience through statistical analysis and information, they can carve out a part of the search revenue. No one is going to seriously use Bing for casual search, Google is too good and too entrenched for that. But, perhaps for some areas, they might turn to Bing.
your statement kind of reflecting what I am trying to say. I am from East and not West.

I am referring here to religion and not to God. Religions like Christianity and its institutions like church are so much based on Dogma that can not stand reasoning.

Will that vanish with time and scientific progress?
True. Unfortunately, the Archos was quite large, and had a clunky interface. The iPod was certainly the first hard disk mp3 player to have a good interface, reasonable size, and not be hideous looking, all of which were important for mass market takeup. It didn't have truly massive innovations, but it was a wonderful, weel thought out product. Which is what Apple are genuinely good at.
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I'm actually impressed with Lucas arts open mindedness compared to Vivendi.
By the way, I wonder why Vivendi allowed AGD Interactive (http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html) to release their King Quest 1 & 2 remake and didn't allow the development of Space Quest 7, seems a bit incoherent...

Hope you can use the work you did on Space Quest 7 and release it one day, I'll be happy to play it :-)
Ask HN: Does immense pain and sowrrows lead man to the ultimate truth?
Jesus or Buddha, both had to go through immense pain before they were recognized as prophets.

Is it necessary even for a common man that they go through pain before they reach close to God?
"In that entire paragraph, only that last sentence is opinion. The rest is a very simple application of information theory."

urm, only the first sentence is an "objective fact", the rest is your opinion and fuzzy attempts at reasoning, if you are going to patronise, please be right.

while its true that the interface is sending less information, its entirely your opinion that there is not enough information already being sent by the user to determine what exactly they want to do.

thousands of people have installed mouse gesture plugins, the xbox natal project looks to be an entirely gesture driven, the idea that this type of interface is pie in the sky "art", as opposed to a useful experiment is well, wrong.

I usually wouldnt mind discussing this more but you have pretty much put me off any further conversation.

and please note I said "worthwhile experiment", not "revolutionary"
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No I hadn't. Thanks for mentioning it. The site looks pretty good.
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But it doesn't open a new window?

Edit: I seriously don't understand what the post is about.
That simply isn't true tho'. The biggest and most famous franchise of all, Star Wars, is heavily religious, the very first film states it openly. So is the best recent sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica. A main character of Firefly is a preacher.

Even in Star Trek the Vulcans spend an awful lot of time contemplating candles and wearing robes. They may not talk about it on-screen but the producers must have consciously chosen to use monastic/Catholic imagery.
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This talk explains some of the motivations of free software, and it's relation to the sharing of knowledge and ideas. I'm prompted to post it after reading some of the comments about Knuth's view of software patents.
The genre almost died at the end of the 90's, in part due to the lack of commercial success for Grim Fandango.

There were a few franchises that survived, like the Broken Sword and Runaway sagas, and a few more games by other studios. Then Telltale, founded by a few LucasArts drop-outs, started to bring some new life to the scene.

If you like the adventure games of the 90's, you can play some of them in ScummVM, or DOSBox.

Most of these adventure games were programed using custom languages and VMs. ScummVM reimplements a dozen of such engines, for more than 60 games supported. It can also run some windows games like MI 3, or the first two Broken Sword games. Furthermore, they have been able to get some of the supported games to be released as freeware.

DOSBox, being an X86 emulator can run most if not all of the DOS games of the era. With some work, it is possible to get it to run Win95.

Both of these projects are FOSS and have (among others), a Mac OS X port.

You can buy some more ScummVM or DOSBox games at Good Old Games (GOG).

I've heard that some of the TellTale games are supported by WINE (hence Darwine and Crossover Mac), but I don't know which ones.

http://www.scummvm.org

http://www.dosbox.com

http://www.gog.com

http://www.telltalegames.com
Christianity is a very young religion (taking one example). I am certain it wont exist 100's of years in the future (mostly because certain elements wont stand the test of science). But will there be replacements? Religions born out of existing ones or created anew (a bad example: scientology). I imagine there will be.

At the end of the day religion is designed to fill a void: not the unexplained (because that, I think, is to do with faith and belief) but rather because humans constantly seek to hand off their reposnsibility. "It's not my fault I ws told to...". In a group like a religion blame can be spread out. I think society does need these organisations, for better or worse, to function (personally I wish it was different).

Will faith and belief in a higher power exist many hundreds of years in the future? Well I think there will always be those who refuse to believe the findings of science (Im thinking along the lines of young earth creationists). Many of those are due to religious brain washing - but some have actually developed that view through free will. And I dont see that changing. But I do think that faith and belief will focus on different aspects of the unexplained. I t just depends how far our science goes. In thousands of years we should have documented proof of darwin evolution for example. But will we have figured out the big bang? Who knows! :)

SO the simple answer to the question is, I think, yes religion does have a future and yes faith does have a future: but the form it takes is dependant on our scientific progression (a small irony there I feel)
Yep i remember quite clearly seeing the iPod for the first time and thinking "cool! An Archos that fits in my pocket!"
Well said. The world is full of shiny new things to play with, as well as consulting clients who pay real money right now. It's tough to stay focused in the face of all that.

But it's a game of inches. Every little bit of polish will get you a little closer to where you want to be. Every one of those annoying edge case bugs you squash gains you another inch. Sure, it doesn't seem like you're moving fast like you were a year ago (it certainly doesn't for me), but you're moving.

You have to. Because if you stop you die.
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This is global index; and it gives an insight at where the companies globally outsource their work. There are plenty companies in the Middle East that outsource work to Pakistan. The percentage of US companies outsourcing work to Pakistan is less. If conditions stabilizes in Pakistan then it might attract become an attractive outsourcing destination.
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He's a really great speaker.

A good quote:

Success is moving forward, being able to build on what you've done and continue to do it, and move forward. Success is the road, and failure is the car your driving. It's the vehicle by which you move forward, it's those incremental steps. No one ever goes in just one direction, failure is how you find your bearings.

Another good talk on obsession from HOPE 08: http://fora.tv/2008/12/12/MythBusters_Co-Host_

Video of the water heater explosion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3FwgIHsQA

Link to just the explosion (time offset): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3FwgIHsQA#t=4m
definitely watch it through - there are some excellent points to be taken from it.
its that people remember god only when they are in trouble. When it comes to Christian missionaries, they catch people in sorrow and try to preach them their religion as they are soft targets.
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> the tax difference between the 2 boils down to how much you're going to make - that is if you make over $X per year you want one solution and if you make under $X you want the other.

I have an LLC, and some time ago I discussed about converting it to S-Corp with my accountant. I forgot the details but the logic was like this:

In LLC, you pay 2.9% of your net income (wage + dividend) for SE Medicare tax, no matter how much you make. In S-Corp, FICA tax, in which 2.9% Medicare is included, is only taxed on the wage portion. Thus if your company makes a lot more than the standard wage, S-Corp saves the 2.9% on the dividend part of your income (Wikipedia has example calculation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_corporation ). If your company just makes around or below the standard salary, you don't have this advantage of S-Corp, and it is a matter which one needs more paperwork and accountant fees; for one-man small LLC like mine, these overhead cost is smaller than S-Corp.

(Note: Social Security Tax has a cap, so it doesn't make difference if you set your wage above the cap. You cannot set your wage too low in order to save FICA tax; it must be "reasonable").

Converting LLC to C/S-Corp looked a lot more work than converting S-Corp to C-Corp. My accountant suggested me that the easiest way was to dissolve my LLC first then establish a new S-Corp. Since my LLC was for small business and I didn't have any prospect of external funding, I decided to keep LLC.
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I only clicked in the middle of it, and I must say it is too overdone for my taste. The angelic music, the soothing voice preaching to me and so on... Nice pictures and probably a huge project, but I pass.
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I think it was a complex system, they spent a lot of time refactoring it to add features, and some anecdotes suggest that performance (so it could scale to all of Chrysler) was one of the major feature categories that they were working on — and kind of failed on, I think. And it's the project Beck's best known for.
Well, ideally the timeline goes something like this:

2008: announce the project; get the attention of a few of those who would be teaching

2009: launch, get a press hit in the NY Times; get the attention of hundreds of thousands more

2010: report good results and plans for expansion

2011: report good results and plans for expansion. At this point some of those who would be teaching who were entering university in 2008 are almost ready to graduate, and others are ready for a career change.

2012: report good results and start hiring a bunch of the fabulous scientists, engineers, etc., whose attention you've been attracting over the past four years.
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Just a quick note on typography: The point of italics and bold is to emphasize words or phrases. If you overuse them, they not only fail to emphasize anything, but they end up distracting the reader. I had to struggle to read this post given all of the noisy formatting.
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It sounds like you are "fit" on the client side.
If you want to start programming the part on the server side, I would propose to study "data modeling" first. If you do not even know what "entity" means, your backend is probably going to a permanent construction site.
If you are not able to "design" a good fundament it doesn't really matter what programming language you are going to use.
Choosing/switching the programming language is the easy part - in my opinion.
Better headline would be 'Unicode is broken in OS X'. Lets just try out for fun how Linux box handles this: http://codepad.org/vIa5Byya

Yeah right, Unicode might be impossible in C++ ...

... on OS X
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There's also Ratpoison - http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
There's Conkeror (http://conkeror.org) which is like a minimal Firefox with Emacs bindings.