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You're way over thinking the problem.

I'm not so sure there is a "semantic contract" for comment blocks since they're made available via reflection. Comments are metadata after all.

And this is more akin to annotations/attributes ala python, java, C#. C++ doesn't have any feature that is approximate by virtue that annotations are aspects of reflection and C++ doesn't have reflection.
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Hey, that's a nice list of questions to know the answer for.

All about getting a rough working product to a prototype to a finished product ready to sell.

I've heard a lot of people doing printed PCB stuff, but I'm not sure if it is related to getting a finished product or a prototype.

I've noticed that most huge companies like Nokia, Lenovo etc outsource these stuff. I see a Nokia 1100 from Germany and another 1100 from made in country.

P.S: I pointed out Nokia 1100 and Germany coz I heard the ones made in Germany are still selling in the cracker market for around $1000 becoz some defects in the Nokia 1100 made in Germany allow these crackers to reset IMEI numbers, reprogram it, etc
When I found out that facebook has an easter egg like this (http://www.manu-j.com/blog/cool-easter-egg-in-facebook/257/) I was surprised. Is it worth paying the extra bandwidth for a joke that 99% of users don't even know about and the other 1% will try once and never again?

That bandwidth has to be expensive when you are dealing with facebook crowds.
your assuming I wouldnt spell check a 5K essay and therefore would dail such a test... ;)

EDIT: as I mentioned elsewhere people do do things in other ways (though you seem to be suggesting my approach might not take a problem seriously??) and there ain't anything wrong with that. At no point did I say there was :)
"uuidgen | xsel" works for me.
Not only that: An important feature of Last.fm is its recommendation system, and Mendeley seems to have one as well.
Nah your actually really poor at this... but i will humour it :)

Wait no i cant be bothered: you've given up the charade so will I.

I know your trolling, it's amusing to feed trolls because (especially round here) it outs them from what they are for very little burn.
Why would they want to get around it so that everyone sees "To @jack: Are you ready". Why would anyone else care about that message.

I really don't understand twitter usage one bit. This update seems sane. Now if they can hide all the noisy useless banal tweets from me....
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I agree, but there has been a trend that options only serve to confuse users, which is the cause of much of the current Gnome, IMO, idiocy concerning UI customization.
Gave up after Three and a half months!! There is no magic..it takes time to build a business..

In addition, Never a good idea to build a business based on what newspapers are saying or how the stock market is performing...
Yay, yet more hurdles for low vision/blind users while being of minimal benefit to everyone else....if they update. And keep that setting enabled.

I've always been curious as to why users aren't forced to create a non-default login to a router during setup. I bet even changing just the username could be helpful against lots of attacks.
Counterpoint: Use any language you want, as long as you keep in mind that you might have to re-write libraries that are available to you in more mainstream languages or use inferior or incomplete alternatives.

On many projects this isn't as much of a problem, but I think it's dangerous to assume that one can easily use 'any language' when developing web-based software.
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This might very well influence a lot of people here:

As newspapers go away, a shrinking supply of ad inventory will drive up ad prices, rewarding innovative new media.
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I first thought this would let you simulate your arduino. This isn't the case, it's a sketch-only tool.

From the faq:
Does Fritzing simulate my circuit, like, does an LED actually blink if I plug it in?
No, sorry. We don't think that the advantage of having a simulation is worth the effort. Hardware is very difficult to simulate and it would also complicate the usage of Fritzing. Also, we think that it is important that you get hands on with the real stuff, and that you should try out your circuits physically. We will however add some simple checks in the future, to help you avoid common mistakes.
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It's actually not that new but we haven't really done much yet to try to promote it. That has to change!
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By looking at the way these users modified our built-in templates, we
knew what we needed to add to them.

Big companies outsource their R&D like this too, letting startups detect problems and solve them. Then the big corp. buys that startup (or copies it), and absorbs the solution into the platform, so the platform is constantly improving. It's a great thing for users.
"you might have to re-write libraries that are available to you in more mainstream languages or use inferior or incomplete alternatives."

Use (something like) Clojure (or a dot net equivalent)and you can have the best of both - a lisp and lots of libraries. The (minor) price is some grunginess at the interface of the lisp and the libraries, but this is paid only once.
I side with TPB because I consider them a great example of civil disobedience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Exten...

"The Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier."
Reaktor now actually is almost 10 years old; used to be called Generator. (I worked at Native Instruments before founding Directed Edge.)

Similar to Reaktor is also Max/MSP and its uglier, but open source, cousins jMax and Pd.

For things a little closer to code there are CSound and SuperCollider and the less-mature-but-more-elegant ChucK.
Rewriting libraries can work out really well. As well as a great way to learn, you may often end up with something better than the existing libraries - giving you another edge.

I'm not saying you should write everything yourself, just the bits that matter :)
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maybe you mis-read the word "sketching" in the title :P

But yes, the website's intro to the tool is very confusing.

"Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product"

How about just saying that it's a Arduino sketching tool? ;)
Just an aside, @someting(blah) isn't a comment or docstring--it's a decorator. So apples to oranges and all that.

The equivalent in Python would be:

def my_controller(request):
"""route: /thing/:var/"""
pass

or similar.
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I really like Juno. It's very small, and quite elegant, and it mostly feels like Python (rather than a DSL-ish framework). My only issues are that the URLs are tightly coupled to the controllers--from a stylistic point of view I prefer to manage the URLs in a single place (since they're both related but different).
Regular expressions are overkill in most cases, and clutter the code. Do you really always know you need a 6 character long integer in a URL? what you really want is an ID, which may be a 6 character integer. Simple keyword-based routing is fine for 99% of cases.
Startups often don't have the time or resources available to them to re-write everything.
Many open source libraries have been developed by dozens of very smart people over many years, do you really think your solution will be better?
They would have started working on the product months before the world came to know about Alpha
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In specialized spaces that matter 100% to my startup, yes.
Ask HN: help me to choose laptop for programming study
I am a new student. I would be using my laptop for programming (vb. net, asp, php, sql server ) and others related to programming. I am going to use also software like macromesia (photosoph , flash, etc ) I would have budget until $1000 . I have seen my friend using Dell Inspiron 1410. I have planning to buy Dell Latitude E6500. Please give me any advise on this.Thank you
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That's sort of the point, though, isn't it? You should be concentrating on that stuff, not replicating (or writing from scratch!) N other libraries that you do need, but that aren't the core of your business.
Sure. On some projects your advantage is on a technical level. But on others it's time to market. Or an unique idea that's never been tried before.

In these cases it's to your advantage to use the mainstream tools because there are so many resources available to you.
Sorry, what's delusional? The abuse of the Holocaust to negotiate preferential treatment for Jews is real. My case in point is this:

http://www.claimscon.org/index.asp?url=hardship/leningrad_si...

"In an historic breakthrough, the Claims Conference has negotiated one-time payments from Germany for certain Jewish victims of the Nazi siege of Leningrad."
Remember that libraries licensed under the GPL don't count, as far as startups go. You'd be surprised at how many of the libraries you use in hacked up code on a daily basis are ones you can't release with a closed source product.
Ask HN: Keeping track of stuff on the net
What tool(s) do you use to keep track of stuff you find on the net? I'm talking about something more complex than a bookmarking service.
Well sometimes it's a case of gluing together the right components and quickly getting it out there. Not everyone has to be the next Google.
I think he mentioned it somewhere on his blog before, but does anyone know what financial software he uses/used to generate the charts and graphics for his earning posts?
There's no reason 2 guys need a nice office in a good location. They were a pure internet company doing something like group-buys for fine art. Chances are the expenses might be something they couldn't reduce like warehouse space, escrow, or insurance related. Usually employee salaries are the biggest expense for typical internet companies.
"You'd be surprised at how many of the libraries you use in hacked up code on a daily basis are ones you can't release with a closed source product"

I thought GPL libs could be used n a web based project? PG's article says (emphasis mine)

"One of the reasons to use Lisp in writing Web-based applications .. "
Their idea reminded me of Paul Graham's initial idea of selling art over the internet (before Viaweb). The only difference with Paul's idea and theirs involved the partial ownership bit.
I disagree. Advertising is a necessary evil, and can sometimes be tolerably, but it's rarely enjoyable.
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Paul Graham: Any Language I Tell You
define stuff.
For example: www.myropcb.com

It's called "Printed Circuit Board Assembly"

Tooling for plastic molding is >$10,000, even simple parts. Look at machining premade plastic parts or using sheet metal.
"Release" being the operative word. You can do anything you like with GPL code you run on your own kit. SAAS is a huge end-run around the GPL.
links, notes on articles you find, basically anything you'd want to save from the web to reference later
I use Excel 2008 for Mac - old school huh? ;)
There was just a thread about this a day or two ago. snipd.com and snipt.net were the suggestions.
Surely this is what the blog was invented for? (In it's original form: the web log.)
This is not a counterpoint. Actually, I think it's a point of the article: use any language that better suits your needs. If your web app needs a library that's not available in language A, use language B. Or mix languages -- write feature X in language A, and feature Y in language B. The point is -- you can do whatever you want, as you control the environment, unlike with desktop apps.

See, for example, my comment in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595513
Careful tagging on Delicious, combined with a personal Wiki/notepad web app that pulls in links, photos, etc, based on the wiki page/tag.
Well whatever you think about if TPB is illegal or not the ruling was also against the the fourth person a 45 year old business man Carl Lundström. He had no involvement with the tracker after consulting a lawyer who warned that it might not be legal before getting into buissness with them.

Also the €2.7 million in fines is unheardof as we don't do punative damages in Sweden (now you might think that's absurd but that's an issue on it's own). The verdict is also about accessory to spreading a handful of copyrighted material and not about the site in general.

Then there's the whole issue with the judge possibly being biased, the police investigating the case getting a job at the movie industry, an entity in the European Union announcing its support for a verdict against TPB, the plaintiffs lawyers knowing the verdict long before anyone else including the accused did, the original raid on TPB took all the servers the webhost had (which was a lot) not just TPB servers and I don't think they ever got to the bottom of if our old minister of justice Thomas Bodström had told the police to perform the raid to begin with (it's highly illegal for a minister to directly order or otherwise use his influence).

I happened to think what TPB is doing isn't illegal however I'm not a lawyer and I do place my trust in the Swedish legal system, so if the case is found to be illegal in the last instance it can appeal to then obviously it is. It would be nice however if this whole thing didn't ooze of corruption so much it's disgusting.
Gilbert appeared on edge.org..

"You may think that it would be good to feel happy at all times, but we have a word for animals that never feel distress, anxiety, fear, and pain: That word is dinner."

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gilbert06/gilbert06_index.ht...
> Actually, I made an HTTP request to the main page, and then selectively loaded the rest of the page. How can you possibly argue that it's somehow my moral responsibility to load a web page in it's entirety?

You're not doing this by hand. The selectively loading argument is patently absurd. You're altering the standard behaviour of your web browser with the strict intention of denying a site owner their revenue source. You're using something without paying for it.

> and if your business model cannot support people that do it you're fucked.

This is not about my business model. My business model can support it fine, partly because there's so few people like you.

No, this is about morally corrupt people that need a lesson in civility.
Sure. Just get rid of .dylib (dynamic library) and use .a (static library). The difficult part is that Xcode will automatically use the first found .dylib in PATH instead of .a, so to workaround you should put .a in PATH before .dylib, or just rename .a to something else (libcrypto.a -> libcrypto-my.a) and link with renamed library.
What if you want something completely web based. I usually work on multiple computers, e.g., computer labs.
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The point of the article is that you can use more powerful, but less used languages when developing web based apps. That hasn't always been feasible when writing software targeting the desktop. Which of course is true, but could have implications of it's own.
Those two are completely web-based, as far as I know.
The GPL will also kill your entire family when you're not looking. You should use the much better "jrockway is awesome license", which gives you the freedom to give me all your money. I like that one a lot more.

(Also, what is with all the anti-GPL FUD on this site? Have any of you guys read the license, or do you just like to bash it because you don't like Free Software?)
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Hi staunch, although Valerie's job title accurately describes what she's going to be doing, it's also meant as a bit of an inside joke since she won't be managing anyone. And while she's not getting any equity nor a big salary yet, I hope to be able to offer her both one day!
Why would have Google bought Loopt?
It is. But if they're competing with the free stuff, the solution is to make stuff that's worth more than the free stuff. So much more that people are willing to pay the price. They may go out of business if they fail, but if they succeeed, we're all better of because of it.

If, on the other hand, they're competing with their own pirated stuff, making it better will only make the problem worse. The way to solve that is to make piracy harder, more dangerous, or useless. If they succeed we may be better off (if they change their business model and the new model gives us better quality), but it seems unlikely. It's more likely that everybody will be worse off whether or not they fail or succeed.
I'm actually very much for the GPL. Before you criticize people for not reading, you might want to do a bit of reading yourself? My comment history clearly places me in the pro-GPL camp, and there's nothing about my parent comment that suggests that I don't like the GPL.
I'm not a fan of either. I guess what I'm looking for is something like delicious but more multi-purpose.
Looks cool. Taking pictures of receipts though... does that open up avenues for fraud?
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Exactly. Why would they buy Alpha?

Here you have two powerful companies, Wolfram and loopt. Google has interests in technologies similar to what these two companies offer. They didn't buy/license loopt's technology, so why should they buy/license Alpha? There is no basis for what rms said.
Back when I did Java professionally (1997) it was expected and considered normal for a Java programmer to know the entire thing and be able to do GUIs or network servers or whatever else needed doing. The hyper-specialization came later.
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The `code` parameter should take an array literal (which is then converted with `.toString()`, as `Array.prototype.toString()` might not always return a certain string.

Edit: Why is my markdown literal not being converted? _foo_ __bar__, and [baz](#up_606627).
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init({'middleware': [('paste.gzipper.middleware', {'compress_level': 1})]})

dict holding list holding tuple holding dict :) no biggy to throw a wrapper over it though. Is it possible to place all the routes in one place you think with this? I am worried with a larger project I will forget which module contains what url... Unless there is some convention for url path->module name (if there isnt I would suggest establishing one). A suggestion I would have is standardize on some templating so if people end up using this there wont be a person using a different available one. (http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating) I noticed http://karrigell.sourceforge.net/en/pythoninsidehtml.htm was not on that page though... albeit its more like php.
What kind of open are you looking for?
It was an option. They took it away.
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What axod is suggesting is programmers can always write something of their own if there isn't anything they want. They don't have to write everything in the first go. But incrementally. This is how Django and Rails were born. Smart people will join later if they find the base interesting.
I got my first computer as Xmas gift when I was 7 years old. I read some sci-fi magazine and I soooo wanted a robot... But my mom told me they didn't have house-robots yet, so I asked for a computer instead. And I got it! A shiny Commodore 64, with the cassette and such. It took ages to load programs, and then most of the time they didn't work :)
Ask HN: Why isn't Markdown working?
It seems just today on Wednesday that Markdown stopped working. For example:

`inline.code:string`, _emphasis_, __strong__, [link](//news.ycombinator.com)

- List item using a dash.
- Another list item.
* This list item uses an asterick

Some multiline code:

box = new multiline.codeblock({
className: "foo",
id: "1234",
markdown: true
});

Ordered list:

1. *Emphasis using asterick.*
2. **Strong using two astericks.**
Intel fined record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case
Are admins developers too?
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I dont know if I would call a comment(part of language that has meaning only to the programmers) equivalent to a language defined thing like annotations/attributes which has specific meaning to the compiler/interpreter. But I do aggree it CAN be metadata in the same regard a file name or path can be (which many frameworks use).
This sounds to me like two people who sweet talked their way into a large amount of money from rich people, spent it all on an idea that had little basis in reality (market research was newspaper articles?!), and then wrote an article to make the people whom they lost money happy.

There were many losers in their story, but they sure as hell were not any of them. They had fat salaries, spent a lot of money and then folded the "idea".
Somehow I never noticed that this thing was going on...I've been holding INTC for several years. I'm not making money on it, that's for sure.
No, no, no.

1. Google is coming out with a new product called Google Squared. It's related to searching data sets.

2. Wolfram is coming out with a new product called Wolfram Alpha. It's related to searching data sets.

3. rms observed that #1->product and #2->product are related, and if their technology doesn't explicitly overlap, WA might be a good candidate for acquisition in order to broaden Google's hold on searching data sets.

4. You issued a non-sequitur. It's not related to the thread at hand, and I'm not even sure why Google would even want Loopt. (Please explain your rationale why Google would want Loopt, cuz I don't get it, but know that explaining it won't strengthen your argument against rms).

5. Sparknotes Version-- Your argument is this:
Google didn't license Y's technology.
Y's technology is from a powerful company
*Therefore, Google won't license X's technology, since X is a powerful company.

6. What you're trying to say is that Google won't necessarily go around trying to license technology from every company that has intersecting interests.
Absolutely. Even if to see what was so bad about it.
"We'll be introducing better ways to discover and follow interesting accounts as we release more features in this space." Twitter Pro, $4.95/mo -- "See More™"?
Can't you de-list yourself from Google? Or add a robots.txt file?
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, that's how it works in politics. The Obama administration knows where its bread is buttered. Imagine the howls of outrage tho' if the Bush administration had given tax breaks to Fox News.
Some tidbits about Rupert Murdoch: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b122948.html%...