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Yes, the cost equation of X PHP developers + 90 servers might be cheaper than the cost equation for Y C programmers + 1 server.

Y is almost certainly greater than X.
If you believe congress would throw a party by forcing out the sitting democratically elected president then you're not very much in touch with reality, it would be a first in history and it would send some pretty significant shockwaves through the electorate. It would be the equivalent of a king abdicating elsewhere and it would make it very clear that there are lines that will not be crossed.

> The President could simply have ordered the military to start executing members of opposition leaders' families until they complied. He's the commander in chief, right?

I think I'm done here. Thanks for your effort.
Just to let you know ...

In case you wonder why this link to such a fantastic project gets so little response, it's been submitted many, many times, sometimes with significant discussion.

I still think it's brilliantly conceived, and completely bonkers.
For an HTPC that thing is massive.
Is iOS7 out yet?
I own a web dev company. We do everything in C. For 10 years we've been doing so. The advantage is, we can do anything and everything. We do it faster, too. And we never have to wait for the language or some library to catch up to the new stuff. There is nothing we can't do and speed or platform is never a limitation. In fact, there's always this underlying feeling that coding in anything but C is crazy.
Potentially each item could have a bower package name or endpoint that you can copy and paste into terminal?
I too see JS growing to be an all around general purpose language, and it is definitely a good one to learn to break away from the standard class based languages. The book Javascript - The Good Parts is a great and explains the power and weaknesses of Javascript.
Good question. I try to submit interesting content to HN but just haven't had any luck with them getting any attention.
One idea I had that is on my list of things I'll probably never get around to doing is an ad blocker that pays the ad companies for adverts you don't see on a page.

The thought behind this is that the ad companies already handle micropayments to websites, and there's only a few ad companies - 'all' you need to do is set up an arrangement with them where you take fees from users and distribute to the companies when their ads are blocked (as detected by the tracker). Website owner still gets paid, and ad provider effectively gets paid for being your microtransaction provider. You only have to set up relationships with a few companies, rather than practically every website in the world.

For people like myself who would like to block ads but feel ethically bound not to, this would be a great way around the inflexibility of current models, where I subscribe to a single website or whatever.

As I said, I'll probably never get round to it, but if someone feels like it they're welcome to use the idea.
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When an agreement has clauses like reasonably necessary for the management or protection of the licensee’s network, then you have nothing to complain. Well at least you can't reasonably complain about them violating the agreement, because a clause like that basically lets them do what they want.

Even if they had to prove that not allowing the Nexus 7 is needed for the protection of the network, it would be trivial for them to come up with some reason and all attempts to prove them wrong will end up with "your $REASON is no valid argument. I can't tell you why though because that's a trade secret".

Whenever you read an exception like this, be assured that the whole agreement is worthless because anything can be tailored to fit that exception.
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There are five current street circuits. You missed Melbourne, Valencia and Montreal.
Although maybe this blog post was already in the pipeline, unfortunate juxtaposition with yesterday's GitHub outage.

Although I truly do love GitHub, it's not unconditional love. My love's uptime closely tracks GitHub's.
We've actually stored legal documents on Github in the past (think contracts, proposals, employee handbook, invoices...) as Markdown files. It felt very strange though to collaborate around files through Git. The `PULL > COMMIT > PUSH` workflow works well for a lot of things, not necessarily well when you're preparing a contract.

We've actually built a tool around Dropbox for that very use case. Happy to share it here when it's ready end of this month.
Don't want to be pouring cold water here but there are much more important things that should be fine in order to avoid later regrets: traveling in another culture deep enough to really know what is different and what is similar, having kids and spend time with them, etc. Say you get to be the next dropbox founder, good for you, but will that count that much when you will be 80?
I've never met anyone who programmed in C because they were too dumb to learn anything else

I have.

They were too dumb to understand that they were writing unsafe C code because they weren't skilled enough to write safe C code. So it never occurred to them that they had a problem that would be solved by writing part of their system in Python or Ruby or Java.

it's often processed by a succession of "segfault-y" and "arbitrary-code-running" software such w Apache and Linux

The vast majority of C programmers are much less skilled than Apache and Linux developers.
Agreed. Bought a ticket from the US to Moscow - $720 - $400 ticket and $320 in 'fees/taxes'. wtf?
I read somewhere that a fingerprint couldn't replace a password, as they are different auth methods, and the fingerprint can't really replace the password. Does anybody know why? I searched the article but haven't been able to find it.
The taxes really depend on the airport involves during the flight. On a recent return flight from Dusseldorf->London Heathrow->Dubai->Melbourne, on FF points, the tax was 1/3 cost of the full price tickets, (around 450EUR).

Airport taxes in US must be quite low, relatively.
I'm not questioning whether the work has value, but the article is hyping it way beyond justification.
I guess I should have wrote that better as I believe btrfs is NOT under a neutral license and thus the reason the ZFS crowd won't migrate or help.
Saw that issue, hope to eventually respond to it with a pull request.

Are you Sebastian Macke? [Edit: scratch that, I see he's commented elsewhere.] Either way, get in touch (info in my profile). I'm curious to hear what issues you ran into in trying to add another serial port. I'm not terribly familiar (read: not at all familiar) with OpenRISC, but I'd imagine it's just a matter of creating a second instance of UARTdev in system.js and adding it to the 'ram' object at an appropriate base address. If OpenRISC is similar to ARM, you may need to add the second uart to your platform/chip/board init as well so the system is aware of it.

Regarding networking, I intend to actually implement eth.js and wire it to a WebSocket, then on the other end I'll write a receiver which hands the frames to/polls a TAP device. At that point, you can do whatever you want on the backend with that interface. I'd like to start this weekend, but (how often does one get to say this?) I'll be at the governor's mansion and that's going to take a bunch of my time.

I'm not sure I follow on the package management bit. Would these be emulator extensions, or packages which the image would use?
No problem jacques.

Just to be clear though, you still haven't been able to explain even one legal effective option the President has for closing Gitmo.
The author's postscript links to this follow-up blog post:

http://cxwangyi.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/chinese-whispers-in...

To me, the speed at which the code executes is a second derivative problem - this is to say that if a language gets version 0.1 deployed two months faster, then it is faster in a more important sense. A hammer and screws is more useful than a screwdriver and nails - intact it is more useful than a Phillips screwdriver and slotted screws.
Except that spectrum has been deemed a public good. The phones that utilize that spectrum are not.
Thank you so much for the reply. I was thinking I was doing something wrong with the cycle: edit, save, reload in browser, test it, repeat.

Great work and very impressive.

Thanks!
Get serious about learning Rails, then get serious about learning EmberJS. If you are good at both of those you will be in a great place when it comes to building web apps.
Think of a project, pick the tools, and start building. If you don't stop until it is done you will learn something.

I just did this with ruby and sinatra. When it was all done I ended up learning ruby, sinatra, javascript, jquery, redis, passenger, rack, haml, and how to edit gems in github.

Best of luck.
Even though I partly agree with your, is language really just "tools"? I think there's more to it, it's a notation, it's a way to think about problems, etc.
Hey ... congrats as well.

So to fill add a bit more.

I agree with duiker. Except the harsh part ... :)

- For design you can always have a look at bootstrap to help you with the CSS.
This way you can make a nicer responsive template.

- The completely free stamp, well it doesnt really work that well. It overlaps the words above.

- Personally i don't like the buttons ("create your list!")
The bottom button, doesn't really want to work that well.
I had to click it several times until it decided to work

- Allow them to create there list and then if they want they can register.

- Estoque de comprimidos atual? Stock ?

- See perhaps if you can add some of the most common medicines in a cache search field to make it easier. That way you can also have a picture of the box of the medicine. Make it easier to distinguish for older people.

- The fonts are too small. On my laptop i have to squint and go close to view them better. Imagine old people with bad eye sight. Build to the people you are aiming for.

- It needs to be more intuitive and nicer to handle and look at.

It is a good first start. I had to rebuild my first actual website 4 times till i got a better looking site. And it still could need a lot more work.
Take your time, improve it. You'll want to make as simple as possible.
Send an email to remind them, and add a link to verify that they had there pills today.
As well as quick button for the pills in the site.

Other than that .. it is a good start.
Keep it up.
I didn't know the ".wiki" notation for downloading it. Thanks!
You completely misread everything in my comment.
That is actually quite impressive seeing as I explicitly stated in summation what I meant, I feel I shouldn't have to explain myself because of a lack of reading comprehension but here goes.

> not just a reflection of human nature

I acknowledge the human element, I should think no-one believes a construct doesn't reflect the maker, but society like any invention is also more than that.
Looks like 531 libraries are in this list as of now.
By strategically I mean that while it may offer great benefits to both customers and apple, the technology in and of itself offers only a small barrier to moving to another platform. That barrier will rise with the adoption of touch id across Apple devices and services.

If you're an iPhone user and I took away your iPhone and replaced it with an Android phone, would the first thing you complain about be touch id?

Build quality, accessories, apps (maybe?) are all things that Apple has going for it with the iPhone that at the moment are more strategically important than touch id.

It's like free samples at Costco. They're awesome, you miss them when you shop at a different grocery store, but at the end of the day there are other reasons why you shop at Costco and if you decided you needed to go to a different grocery store, those free samples aren't going to sway you to come back.
Released where? To Cuba? Into the sea?

Most of the men abducted to Guantanamo have been released. All of those went somewhere. Most just went home, although some went to more colorful locales like Palau and Albania, particularly if they had been abducted while abroad so their native land had some excuse not to accept their return. This isn't surprising, since the vast majority of these men were not "combatants" and had little connection to AQ or any other terrorist organization. The "recidivism" of released abductees has been calculated at 4%, which is such a mind-blowingly low number that it speaks more to the indiscriminate nature of the abductions rather than the rehabilitational effectiveness of Guantanamo.

Besides, what's your brilliant solution? Maintain this obscenity until the last abductee dies of old age in about 60 years? Thanks for reminding us of the typical practicality of status quo Beltway-insider conventional wisdom.
Build something with no connection to the web whatsoever, eg. a platforming game that outputs ascii to the console, or a spellchecking engine, an emulator, or whatever. Make several versions of it, trying out radically different ways of conceptualising the problem in code. This stuff can sound intimidating if you've only done webdev, but it isn't at all as hard as it might seem.

Having a broader experience of the world of software will give you a wider range of skills and a wiser perspective on the web stuff that pays the bills these days. You'll be able to look at some horrible design and say "duh, that should be a finite state machine" and presto you've just wiped out a whole load of complexity.

Webdev is sort of a ghetto, the more "outside" knowledge you can bring to it, the more effective and the more employable you will ultimately be.

EDIT: also, become an automated testing deity ASAP. Just do it. You'll wonder how people can code without it.
I love this. When I'm browsing code on github (which I do often), I find myself trying to use my editor's hotkeys to jump around in the source. I've been hoping for something like that, and now that this exists, I think it's just a matter of time before github implements it.
Money and emotional trauma are not equivalent. When a thief is forced to give back the money they stole, the victim tangibly benefits. Torturing murderers doesn't tangibly benefit the victim's surviving family members, because emotion isn't transferable capital.

Thus, our goal should be the lowest possible crime rate, and I'm not sure punishment for vengeance's sake is ultimately compatible with that goal.
Lots of us flag "non-startup, non-tech" articles like this. They belong on reddit, not here. Think of HN as /r/startups + /r/coding or something, of course general interest articles like this are going to get moderated out, with the help of flaggers.
That's a problem they will need to solve, not I. My problem (ads) is solved by blocking them. I know for a fact that there are ways to monetize content that do work on me, advertising is just not one of them.

To name just one example, Google certainly has the means to implement a micro-payment system where each click on the thumbs up/like button deducts a small amount of money, assigns it to the uploader's account and keeps a percentage of that for their own hosting expenses. Let's call it Google Flattr.

Perhaps more people using ad-blockers would encourage such (in my opinion) positive developments. Until then, I'll enjoy my content without advertisements while you pay for it by getting your time wasted with ads and your brain crammed full of desires to buy shit you don't need.
Obama could pull a Reagan sell arms to Iran to pay for Gitmo's closure.
That's what TeamCity's for (http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/). Seems like they'd work well together.
The company that I work for suffers from a lot of people adblocking (due to the market we're in) so we offer an exceptionally high value subscription service, for a few dollars a month (between $2 and $5 depending on the payment period) any user can get an advertisement free experience across almost every website that we operate (over 100 websites) and there's a bunch more extra features that premium users gain access to... However I know of so many many users that visit our websites frequently (some that use our websites for hours every day) who use adblock and flat out refuse to pay the few dollars to view our websites without adverts legitimately.

There really is no magic solution, the sort of people that are happy to adblock websites are the sort of people that just don't care. Why aren't adverts a good business model? People get the content with no direct financial cost (that's what they want) and the companies operating the websites get the revenue they need to exist. A lot of people are happy to view adverts if it pays for the content that they consume: I am! I don't block adverts. If a website has advertisements that I don't like I find another website to use, or just go without.

Are shops relying on their customer's benevolence because people pay for the things that they want? There's a direct cost associated with delivering content to users on a website (which is incurred regardless of the advertisements viewed), there's a direct cost associated with delivering a loaf of bread to a customer of a shop, why is it completely unacceptable for someone to steal bread from a shop but the same is okay online? This isn't like media piracy, there is a direct cost associated with delivering content online.
What?! If anything the type system is quite simple.

Probably only Oberon-7 strives to be simpler, from the current set of modern languages.
>Unmanaged dedicated hosting to managed hosting to cloud hosting are as different as a car rental to a limousine to a public transit service.

I've lost track of what you're trying to argue. People do compare car rentals to limousines to public transit to cabs to trains to airplanes. If your goal is "get somewhere" (or "online computing resources"), they are in competition.
Everyone love and use wikipedia but i do not see 10k posts per day saying that wikipedia is the new god.
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>The idea that >20% savings rates are not "realistic" is a serious mindset problem. Almost anyone on Hacker News with a paying job (i.e. not an early-stage no-funding startup) should easily be able to save much more than that.

You know that 50% or so of HN readers are not in the US, right? Some have to do with $300-$1000 a month (or less), with the same costs for food and costlier computers, clothes etc -- oh, and 3x the price of gas. And renting some small-ish appartment.
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JavaScript is a C-like language though. It looks like C. It borrowed its syntax and even many of its keywords.

Also, in some of his earlier talks he said that it looks familiar to C or Java developers (because it's a C-like language) and that this perceived familiarity is the reason why most people don't bother learning the language.
Looking for "the next big thing" is a crap shoot.

If what you want is all the consulting work you could ever possibly do, then learning more PHP will get you that. Stick with Wordpress and/or pick up Symfony, CodeIgniter, just about anything except Zend (and for the love of all things holy, do NOT go anywhere near Magento if you value your sanity).

If you're OK working a bit harder to find gigs but likely making more from them when you do (and facing less competition), Ruby/Rails or Python/Django would be good choices. You could go for more obscure languages and frameworks, but at that point you may have a hard time selling your services.

Starting with iOS (or Android) is also something to consider. People often don't realize that, when you get into full-stack web development, you have to be proficient with many technologies and software packages just to get a site working, tested, and deployed. While you'll likely end up having to expand into more than just ObjectiveC or Java fairly quickly when you work with mobile (don't get stuck in the PhoneGap/Appcelerator rut), a basic mobile app on either platform will be simpler to build and manage than a basic dynamic website.
How so? You think Google isn't measuring how many people block ads?
I learned C at school and self-taught myself enough PHP and JS to do web development. I understand programming logic and OOP pretty well. Now I'm reading Code Complete by Steve McConnell to gain a better perspective on software engineering.
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For a CRUD app, of course it doesn't make much sense and you'd probably have to be a masochist. :) But there are valid use cases I can think of: Anything that's very CPU intensive that would need to run very quickly: dynamic image generation, or something that does a complex series of operations on user input that needs to delivers the results ASAP.

Of course it's usually easier and safer to just throw more CPU at it, but at a certain scale that might get too expensive...
How does this "protections against spousal snooping" joke of an argument not apply 100% equally to your "undeniably cooler" face unlock? Both have PIN fallbacks anyways.
Assuming host OS is Linux, I wonder what are the benefit of "KVM + OSv + my_app" vs "LXC + my_app" (e.g. via docker.io).
That's only an implementation detail that could one day be overcome. PyPy is an excellent example of why, "X language is slow," is a silly statement. The implementation of the language runtime can be made to be faster.

As well as speed being a secondary concern for all but a few application domains.
This entire article runs on the assumption that the user will, at a time they choose, type their email address correctly.

This turns out not to be the case.

I've just spent over 2 hours tracking someone down who had registered for a service, but provided an email address that bounced. This is a service that is delivered via email, so this just broke the whole thing.

By all means, don't verify email addresses by habit, but be aware that there are people who really will type their own email address incorrectly.

Added in edit: I have upvoted this, because anything that encourages implementors to improve the UI is to be encouraged. Too many developers seem to run on automatic ...
ViewTube[1] is a greasemonkey script which allows you to play the HTML5 versions of youtube videos. So this lets you skip ads too

[1] http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011
"Quite a few smart people seem excited by it"

Why aren't you asking them for their qualifications, then? Serious question, think about what your choice implies. Is it that "you want to believe", perhaps?

You don't need a PhD in quantum physics to detect the hype in this article. The comment I responded to was reacting more to the unsupported claims and hype than any actual discovery.

"yet you dismiss it"

I'm not dismissing that the work could have value, but the article makes claims that go far beyond anything that's been demonstrated.
>>>>> Racing is about making sure you not only go the fastest around the track, but it's about endurance of the car itself.

Agreed.

This also involves a TON of strategy to make sure your car can make it the distance. If you can swap out cars, it would seem a great deal of the strategy goes out the window - no?