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No problem and the they are getting better with this. Stubhub and some of the other providers offer etickets (they email you the tickets). Stubhub also has something called Last Minute Services where you can pick up the tickets up until game time. Unfortunately, they don't do this for most events.
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urm, I dont see what that has to do with the scroll gestures, unless you count swiping your finger across the screen as "clicking", which it isnt
Good point. It would obviously apply to places like Detroit and the marginal return should be pretty large if the program was smart. But I suspect in this case the mental-illness population is not as substantial, by ratio.

If we assume the ratio is some proportion of the general population, it would still be surprising if the effect warranted a full-fledged government-sponsored program (warrant, in the sense of profit, which I am assuming is the only means to convince most modern organizations to action).

As a soft example, I was told there are many pocket pickers in Milan that basically exhibit no hesitation nor covertness (in your face, even) in their stealing attempts. I don't know the impact on numbers, but I know that tourists are forewarned and generally go, aware of the risks.
You seem to be making the same effort to miss the point as the man that ran through a litany of objections starting at 45:18.

I don't like the "there are no geniuses" phrase, especially since they then have to back down and say, "Well, it isn't that there are no geniuses -- just that they're extremely rare," which just obscures the point further. The point I think they're trying to make, though, is that the myth of the hero programmer who writes a perfect program and releases it to a world full of unhelpful clods is counterproductive.

If you want to dispute their point, then answer their question: What successful, widely-used project was created entirely by one lone genius?
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To point 1:
If you have a stomach virus, you may find yourself puking all over the floor. Nobody asks "why is he puking all over the floor? Can't he see that's inconsiderate?" At that point, you are unable to help yourself. However, it's clear that if we take you to hospital and get you well again, you will be able to get on with your life.

The problem with mental illness is that it messes with the concept of "intentional" behaviour. If you are mentally ill, your sick brain may motivate you to do something antisocial or even criminal that, were you mentally well, you would never do.

So just because it is intentional _at the time of illness_ doesn't mean it is truly intentional, conscious behaviour.

2. Consider a diabetic. Without regular shots of insulin, they will lapse into a coma. More "criminally" antisocial behaviour? Many forms of diabetes are a combination of genetic and lifestyle factors -- these people have a "tendency to lapse into diabetes", if you will. However, with regular shots of insulin and other lifestyle changes, they can be perfectly productive individuals.

Again, with mental illness it is harder to see that someone with a genetic predisposition to imbalanced levels of, say, serotonin, triggered by drug abuse, is not at fault for their condition. But with medical treatment and lifestyle changes, they too can control their condition.

In both cases, it is in society's interest to help them do so, even from the barest economic principles. Factor in some basic human compassion, and it becomes imperative.
Thanks!

It's for a good cause too. We were expecting a softer launch but once Lance Armstrong mentioned us, we were off to the races.

Fortunately our little xen instance has held up and the exposure has sure made the search for sponsors a lot easier.

Now vote this story up or I'll have to #BlameDrewsCancer for it not making it to the front page!
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One day I hope I'll be able to "natively" browse the internet, graphics, videos and all... in a terminal window, or, something fully compatible with Vim/Emacs bindings.
Your High School program sounds pretty amazing. Nothing like that when I was in school.

The one benefit you may get from Java that is tough to learn in Ruby is formalization of your object interfaces. Since you've already been a bit brain damaged by C++, the Java won't do any worse ;).
Making stairwells more pleasant would be nice, but any stairways with too many additional features such as natural lighting would have to be constructed in addition to the fireproof stairs required by building codes, so I imagine that builders will continue to follow the path of least resistance and only provide unpleasant stairways.
Ever seen http://flickriver.com/? It predates the big picture. Doesn't show the images quite as big, but is still a nice way to browse.
I can't wait until I can navigate the internet using ERPs!
I have had similar experiences with a Compaq Presario C700. Got it cheap. Even after a memory upgrade to 1.5G it ran erratically and the security screens and automated updates drove me to distraction. Sometimes it would take 45 minutes after power up before I could actually get some work done.

Have installed Ubuntu v9.04 over Vista and everything works fine. (The WiFi required a bit of Googling to locate the drivers) The only remaining problem is an APM issue when powering up or restarting. The BIOS goes into some strange mode. A very small price to pay for the convenience of a system that runs fast and doesn't waste my time protecting me from myself.
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Don't have time to watch the video, but I read through the PDF (which, btw, consists of very brief notes, so it's not really worth reading. However I think I got their basic thesis.)

I find it an interesting point of view, since I'm a total noob when it comes to programming - first year CS student, only done a few tiny VB projects before that. However, I really enjoy programming, work on a few projects in my spare time, and plan to get some decent languages (a scripting language (Perl/Python/Ruby), and maybe a functional language (Clojure?) under my belt soon. I've used OO in class projects, but I want to figure out how to use it in my own projects. I want to learn software engineering practices. I want to learn graphics programming. That's just over the next couple of years! In 10, 20 years time, who knows?

The appeal to me is that I can never peak in programming, their will always be new stuff to learn. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, my point was that I'm a noob now, I'm very willing to be modest and learn from others, but the hope of becoming a genius programmer I find very motivating.
You don't have to work in public using github. That's the nice feature of DVCS — you can have it all your code for yourself and at the same time enjoy all the benefits of VCS.
Using centralized system you don't have much choice - either you don't commit, or you commit and everybody sees your ugly code.
With DVCS you can have your private branches and work on your code as long as you want. When you a happy with your work, just push it to the public repo (hosted on github for example). Even more, you can have a lots of tiny working commits and then "squash" them into one big and nice final commit.
I wonder what decision is driving them to screw their chances in other countries. Because that's what they're doing. Anyone who gives it a try outside of the US is probably never going to look back.

One of the reasons for the rebranding was because people wouldn't give Live another chance. Now those same people are gonna see that Bing sucks and that image will get hard printed on their mind.

I already recommended it a couple of times to people in my country and they always tell me it sucks. I'm not gonna spend the extra effort of telling them to switch to the US version. They don't pay me to do that.
truly, if you can't work with people then you can't accomplish great things. the days when one could single-handedly crank out something revolutionary are gone.

maybe 3% of programmers can still do this, and 2 of those percent understand how much easier it is to lean on a dev team and learn co-operation.

that just leaves the bitchy 1% we see taking offense at this informative presentation by their betters...
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Linus was making fun of SVN in his talk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 ). One of his point was, that SVN chose the wrong way right from the start and there is no way to have "CVS done right" because CVS is hopeless by design.
Just a little warning: The "for i in..." paradigm breaks if the strings you're iterating over have spaces in them. The way around that is to either use find and/or xargs instead of "for i in", or to first set the IFS variable to a value that doesn't contain spaces.
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You say that "Subversion was not that great of an idea" but if you go back to 2001 (which is when svn became selfhosting), or even 2004, CVS was such a disaster for some use cases that the need for a replacement was readily evident. Add to that the fact that svn was a compelling replacement for Visual Source Safe, and it was definitely a worthwhile idea. Sure, it's now the "old safe standard" of version control, but there's a lot of value in that for many companies. Several of the original svn team (including these two) have admitted that some of the design decisions (the handling of tags and branches most notably) were probably mistakes, given the value of hindsight. They got a lot right too, though. The delta editor interface is nicely abstracted to the point that hgsubversion uses the same delta editor as the svn command line client to do something the original design spec never would have anticipated. Yet it works extremely well.

Subversion is much simpler for people to "get" than other systems. I've been a heavy evangelist of DVCS tools and workflows for a while at work, and it's taken since October (8 months) to get any critical mass behind actually even investigating switching to those from SVN.

Let's face it: Subversion is many many times better than nothing, which is what a ton of people do. Most college graduates in CS or CSE come out of school never having touched version control in my experience, and the ones that have seen it were exposed via open source, not their coursework. Evangelizing Subversion is (really lousy analogy warning!) like convincing people to smoke cigarettes instead of doing illegal drugs. At least it's less bad for them, and the barrier to entry might be a bit lower. When we had a poll of the local Python users group one meeting, "email" was the most popular version control solution, followed by a basic dead heat between svn/bzr/git/hg. The fact that people still view email as a valid answer is far more troubling to me than evangelizing an old and very mature tool instead of one of the new upstarts.
My experience has been that the alternative to many small commits, occasionally batched (because who really wants to look at "cleaned up Checkstyle's warnings" endlessly?) is one big commit two or three times a day, which is significantly harder to digest. But in any case, as you allude to in your response, this is a social problem. I contend that the sort of people who work in a cave somewhere with a DVCS and then throw it all over the wall in a huge hunk would either do that anyway (see Linux kernel features before they make it into the mainland trunk for evidence; this was going on well before git, and if anything git has made it less of a problem) or wouldn't contribute at all.
My understanding is that an offsite backup is, as the name implies, a backup that is stored at a geographically separate location to your production site.

I have a few servers deployed at various locations around the world, and I have a machine here at home that performs rsnapshot daily backups of their files. I then make bi-monthly backups of those backups, and store them in a saftey deposit box at a bank. This means that if my servers go down, I can restore them to within a day. If my house burns down, I still have my data to within two-weeks.
Sheesh. What a mess! I got nauseas just reading about how all-over-the-map the leadership seemed. Why did they need 40 employees? Who's the sucker that funded these people?
Perfectly reasonable and agreeable, until the last paragraph.

It's hard to quantify because in the other cases, such as diabetes, the effects of insulin and no insulin are quite well determined, as an all-or-none outcome, and the cost-benefit analysis is very straightforward. Not so sure about the case of dealing with the head.

So we may go ahead with some program under the principle of "capable until proven incapable," telling ourselves that there is definite positive benefit. It may well be true, but the payoff is distance and uncertain. Also, is coercion involved? "We will provide free training for you" ... after a few days "screw this I want my alcohol" -- at this point, what to do? Extend the counseling? Or, trust their rationality that they are capable of seeing what is in their interests?

If the current situation is grossly suboptimal at least one person should have been looking for a solution. Misfits have been around for long enough, making me think it is part of the social dynamic. Or, the unpopular question that no politician will want to hear.
What's innovative about WebDAV ? It's basically a design by committee standard pushed by Rational to web enable clearcase; it's a very verbose protocol and there was an entry in Sussman's blog about replacing WebDAV with a better wire protocol like Mercurial's. Getting WebDAV into SVN was basically Greg Stein's idea - he had worked at Microsoft and had observed them transitioning over to WebDAV in a big way and started pushing for its usage in SVN as well - a move that was not well thought out. WebDAV is not very popular even with some of the SVN hackers.

Berkeley DB was certainly old when it was adopted by the SVN project. It's not like the NFS issues with BDB were unknown.
It made me calm, like medidation (or medication?). I guess I like it. I can imagine to have something like that for an ebook-reader style app.
If by "ridiculous" you mean "insightful". :) Seriously, the race to the moon was useless for accomplishing any of the things that we space nuts (though I wasn't born yet; no one has been to the moon in my lifetime) dreamed. It was a huge diversion from actual economic growth into pyramid building.

If done for a profit, going to the moon would be economic growth, but as it was, it was essentially a program to build a legacy for Kennedy and Johnson, at which it was immensely successful! After all, people associate those two with the space program more than with the Vietnam War, now, as far as I can tell.
Bravo. Its amazing that so many people took something other than this away from their talk. Really drives the talk's point home, doesn't it?
You're sort of right, but not in the direction you think you are. Finger swipes and gestures carry more information than clicking. The entire point of the clickless interface is for the user to convey less information that clicking; as I've referred to it in another context, the author believes that the solution to the problems of "point and grunt" interfaces is to reduce it to a "point" interface.

Modern mouse interfaces actually have more types of grunts (like the relatively recent scrollwheel innovation), and the iPhone multitouch is a way to get several types of grunts onto a touchscreen that previous had just tap and drag. Totally the opposite direction from this demo. If the iPhone developers carried anything away from this Flash demo, it was to head further away from this approach.

Interestingly, I was about to post a conclusion to this post based on how nobody has ever adopted this interface for anything, but I just realized that as of yesterday (in the US), I am wrong. Totally serious. The new DS game Knights in the Nightmare uses this interface for combat. It is adapted to the touchscreen by making a persistent cursor that simply stays still if you remove the stylus (which in general is a bad idea in the game), and if you then touch some other part of the screen, the cursor will head straight for it with a maximum speed (so no teleporting around the screen). Weapons are deployed with dragging, commands are triggered with hovering and some light gesturing, and so on. It's interesting, but it's also a decent demonstration of why you don't want to use this for serious work. It's one thing when you trigger the wrong unit in a game, it's quite another when you delete the wrong file.

Metacritic page for the game: http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ds/knightsinthenig...

So, if you want to see who's right, you can now go try this interface out for a real product.
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There is unlikely to be anything worth bringing back from Mars, physically. I think Mars' biggest export to Earth, if it ever has any, will be entertainment or other information.

But I think humans-off-Earth will never be a large percentage of all people, even after/if people-off-Earth are an overwhelming majority. Meat isn't suited for space.
CVS may have had serious flaws, but I find Linus' original revision control practices to be less than optimal:

"The Linux kernel source code used to be maintained without the help of an automated source code management system, mostly because of Linus Torvalds' dislike of centralized SCM systems.

In 2002, Linux kernel development switched to BitKeeper, a SCM system which satisfied Linus Torvalds' technical requirements."

Nearly a decade without a revision control system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Revision_control
Looks like they've reinvented hygenic lisp macros.
Neat idea - I kind of like the mouseover awesomeness of Windows 7 which this in concept reminds me of. But I couldn't do without clicking - it's a tactile confirmation.
I never said WebDAV was innovative, just that it was brand new and full of problems. And as for BDB, IIRC they were having issues with the database getting wedged constantly even when not using NFS. But this was long after I had stopped paying a great deal of attention to the project.
Umm, how is this even tangentially related? This seems like simple comment spam to me.
Git and Linux started out as creations of Linus.
Interestingly, English words with irregular forms which are infrequently used often revert back to regular forms. The 'why' is simply because people prefer to say "viruses," either because they forgot the irregular plural form or because they prefer how a regular form sounds.
>>According to a Microsoft exec in charge of the launch, "The key will be whether we deliver a product and connect with people emotionally in the advertising."

No doubts, he is a MS guy.
Correct. At the same time, even trying to break a protocol is an interesting activity and improves the fertility of mind. That would help in the areas like identifying security holes in a system.
I was there recently actually - problem is it doesn't fall under the rubric of "city" as described in the GP...more of a war zone :-)
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its fucking horrible... Just mouse-overs and shit moving my mouse is no longer possible to just keep track of where im reading, instead i can't stop shit from radically changing on me. Most of the time shit was just popping out without a click or anything. Very annoying I could not use it for more than 1 minute.
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Very pretentious. Too much movement.
WWDC. But I suppose you're right, I'll just submit it as a top level post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644386
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TeX, by Donald Knuth, certainly qualifies. But I have a hard time thinking of another one so your point is taken.
I like the idea to reduce clicking, but eliminating it seems to create more confusion than easiness. On the other side, maybe it will be cool to have a mouse which doesn't need force to click- maybe that would reduce RSI (I am not specialist and cannot say for sure). For example what if the mouse had touchpad instead of buttons?
And they only took off because Linus is not a total dick, and he published his code very early so that collaborators could hack on it. Those two things were important in Linux and Git's success.

Thats all the talk is about. And the only reason anyone is arguing with it is the very insecurity the talk seeks to address.
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I wish you had an option for "Cautiously interested."

I've not yet carved out the block of time to watch the demo video, but from what I've gathered about it, I'm interested enough to learn more and maybe give it a try with a wave project. But I wouldn't call myself "hyped" for wave. I just want to have some practical experience so I can judge for myself its strengths and weaknesses.
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its getting late so cant reply properly, but

I dont believe the clickless interface is trying to make the user convey less information, but instead its trying to interpret information the user is already conveying in a smarter way, so they dont have to produce redundant information (the clicks).

Im sure I know of one or two good uses of this in practice, but its late and they arent coming to me right now.
I was at the Maker Faire last Saturday and there was a company that had a true multi-touch screen that was very large ( something like 20" ). I can see how this would be useful when using a touch interface: I would not want to tap the screen. Great work!
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