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This was a successful troll. I actually believed you were serious for several hours. Thanks for brightening up my day.
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Logitech's optical trackballs are pretty bulletproof. No moving parts; they use a special dot pattern to detect how the trackball's being moved around.
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Maybe I missed something, but the power imbalance seemed to be the only issue. If he wasn't her boss, then she wouldn't have been afraid to say no.
FAT -> GIT

SQL -> Datomic?
Ah, thanks, you're entirely correct!
Assuming you weren't being sarcastic, this is one of the most brain-dead things I've ever read on HN. Pointing out irony or hypocrisy is important because doing so helps to weaken false arguments put forth by those in power. For example, when someone like Zuckerberg claims that privacy isn't really important in the modern age (I may be mixing him up with one of the Google guys, the point is the same), then acts to increase his privacy, it tells people that perhaps he isn't being entirely honest.

I will admit, though, that the HN crowd probably already knew these particular arguments were false, so perhaps the value of this link on this particular site is somewhat diminished.

> We as a society need to start learning how to deal with this, accept our place in the food chain, and obey those more fortunate.

This struck me as incredibly anti-market. Since when should any free market actor "accept" her place? Fuck that. If you don't like the way things are "change the world"! Isn't that what Silicon Valley does? I mean, the world usually ends up just as lousy as it was when things got started, but it sure is different! To me, there is no reason to think that Zuckerberg and Facebook will be unassailable for decades to come, to believe this would be to ignore the entire history of computing.
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What are you referring to ?
OMG! And my flat number is 42!
These statistics make me curious about the religious breakdown of the various Nobel committee's.
Home ownership tells me a story -- "You are staying right here." For better or worse it is not easy or cheap to sell a house. If you plan to stay in one place for a long time then there is a lot to be said for buying and methodically paying down the mortgage.

Internet experts analyze home ownership as an economic decision, using their personal beliefs about economics and investment theories, as well as the perspective of their extremely limited life spans. "What is true for my 32 years on the planet whilst breathing the air of Texas must be a Universal Truth for all sentient beings." I exaggerate slightly.

The point is, you are alive once. You are you. Owning a home is an important meta-message to your brain about who you are. Use that to your benefit.

At one point in my life I had to be told rather abruptly to just stay put for a decade. That mattered and it helped me immensely. I now have six years to go until my youngest child finishes high school. Things may change then. But the personal benefits of staying out have been immense.

So my suggestion to you is that your grandmother may be talking about these intangibles -- based on a lifetime of experience. You may be looking at home ownership with the investment logic in full gear. Both are important. But give greater weight to the story told by someone with a few more decades on the planet. She knows something you don't.

And remember. You can't make a mistake. If you buy a house and it is horrible and you sell it and you lose money? You have lived your life. You are not in a race. I have fucked up innumerable things, at great cost. I am richer for it.
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That sounds grossly ineffective.

Reminds me of some production PHP I saw once, returned the entire database (`SELECT * from 'db'`) and manually walked through it with a for() loop. It wasn't very efficient at scale.
I don't know your pet peeves with Outlook, but I've used Outlook 2007 and 2010 for 5 years now. Outside of an annoying "I've changed my AD password 2 weeks ago and you keep asking me for it" bug, Outlook is pretty solid.

And as one of the comments below said, try Lotus Notes for a while :o)
Shutting down a product after acquihire is not something to celebrate with users
> ..they support each other when they are in position of power and therefore raise the status of their communities.

I think the real question to ask then is what is religious breakdown of the various Nobel committee's?
Buy expensive car. Don't buy insurance. Apply sticky bomb. Kiss $500K good by. I'm assuming this works. I have not bought a car yet so I don't know if they come with some sort of automatic/permanent insurance. If that doesn't work, steal car, pimp out LS customs. Apply sticky bomb. Rinse and repeat until $500K disappears.

This does make all garages completely worthless unless Rockstar lets us own an apartment and a garage later via patch...
Isn't it a bit dangerous to show Meem's picture all over the internet like that? What if she become a target for retaliation for the story, or she loses her job because of the unwanted attention.
I'm not noticing much of an improvement on my mid-2011 MacBook Air (< 6 month old battery, 145 cycle count). The fact that the battery life indicator shows applications that are using significant amounts of energy has made me more aware of which applications are sucking away my battery life, however.
...do the credentials still work? :)
Online in this game is the biggest "beta" I've seen in recent memory.

There are a lot of basic mechanics to what a Rockstar MMO would have, but none of them are implemented to the point that I think people are expecting.

Rockstar hasn't mentioned anything about developing the in-game economy any further than it already has. The game is more online deathmatch and less MMO...welcome to the world of console gaming, I guess.

Enjoy getting run over by folks who flag passive after you kill them for the time being, but don't expect the fully-realized world in the trailers.

In short, if you don't want to spend your 500k, then...don't?
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So, you are saying she is supposed to shut up or what? Or what is the point you are trying to make? You want to muffle her voice? That’s your point, right?
> I'm disappointed to see that MS Word has become the default for publishers. ... FrameMaker allowed you to do ad hoc formatting, but it was designed for a stylesheet approach. ... It is possible to pop open a style inspector in Word and use that instead, but it feels like an afterthought.

How long has it been since you used Word? The styles are now right on the Home tab in the Ribbon. On my monitor, it takes up over half the width of the Ribbon. You don't have to "pop open" anything to use styles, but you do need to open the styles palette to define and change styles.

A publisher could supply a Word template to its authors, and forbid the author to make any other formatting changes. They could also enforce this by opening the styles inspector and checking for any unauthorized formatting.

An author could also apply a different stylesheet to reformat a text to match a different publisher's stylesheet.

Word is a styles-based word processor, internally. If you boldface some text, Word will create a new anonymous style that's simply the existing style, plus boldface. You could even use the styles inspector to change all instances of that anonymous style back to the original style, or to turn it into a named style.

You can use Word like Framemaker (sans frames) if you want. It's just that most people don't.
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A metaphor for life, it seems.
You seem very emotional about this.

Look, people consume differently. When I was younger I used to look at my friends to tell me what their opinions were. Now that I'm older I form my own opinions. That means I value people who take the time to create and publish their thoughts. If those people do it all for free? I still value it, but the quality of the transaction goes down. See, for instance, all the Yelp problems, the fake Amazon reviews, and so on.

Google pays about .000001 for you to post your opinion on something. It makes about .0001 from it. I don't have a problem with this math. I'm much more concerned with what it says about the human species than people making money. Are we so lost that we need constant reassurance from others on how to live, what opinions to have, what things to buy? As Schmidt said, do we really just want Google to tell us what to do?

I really don't need 99% of the crap online. I need food, shelter, and medical care. That's about it. The rest of it is all discretionary crap. I'm not sure we have to monetize discretionary spending advice. The web is mostly free. Why not just allow people to publish their own opinions using their own hardware and have protocols to share it all? Why do I need all these third-party services just to communicate?

You either draw the line somewhere or eventually you end up with cranial implants produced and owned by Apple sharing your every emotion and opinion with the rest of the world -- while they make money from it. That's not a future I'm willing to work towards, although others seem so fascinated by the tech that they don't care about the rest of it.

Just wanted to make sure you understood me. Thanks for the chat!
no offence, but you sound like you've been brainwashed
I've been using serial cable with data leds and gpg ascii armored data over it. Very easy to visually inspect all data before further processing. Only attack vector remaining is gpg ascii armored parser, signature verification & decryption.

Afaik, this is quite safe.

This computer has not been connected to the internet ever, and it won't be in future.

Don't forget physical site security.
shrug

Eh, what's a few dead bodies and rotting corpses? The same "filth" is found in pretty much any large body of water...whether in solid or liquid form. Are US rivers really any cleaner? Industrial runoff, agricultural runoff and any number of other pollutants
James Cameron's Avatar and Neal Stephenson's "Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out" (2009)
Guess what happens when a lot of people search.
In the section "Functional programming for real" he states:

> Note that the order of the definitions is important: had we moved our base case at the bottom, the recursion would never finish because map(F, [H|T]) would always match (remember? an empty list is also a list with a head and a tail).

Which confuses me a bit, since I am used to the empty list not having a head (I am thinking for example of Haskell). Is it true that in Erland the empty list has a head? And what would it be? Some generic null object?
It's interesting that the reactions are non-judgmental. That said, India is really filthy. We (Indians) keep the insides of our homes spotless, but anything outside of the house is fair game. People don't give a second thought about dumping trash on the street, or peeing on a wall, but you'll raise eyebrows if you walk inside a house with your footwear on. Sigh.
It will get you the apartment of your choice. The most expensive is something like $422,000. Or any car under the top tier. My fear is it will get those who already have a decent bank account closer to the tank, fighter jet, or attack copter. Too many of those in the game at once could cause problems but it's only a matter of time before that happens anyway...
I suppose you're the kind of person who sends extra money to the Revenue if you feel your tax bill was unfairly low?
Probably. Then what will happen to these workers?
This has been a popular point lately. I wonder if it is a reflection of our current tool set around architecture and design. It seems realistic that implementing a "simple" new feature should not be inordinately costly, I don't dare to claim it should be a one to one relationship, but the current ratio seems out of control.

I believe as the software industry increases it's understanding of architectural design that we will learn to add most types of features, in a systematically less costly way. Making them easier to maintain,update, and detangle from the rest of the software.

In fact, I am finding that we are just now arriving at that point with functional languages. Not that functional is our savior, but it does provide a good set of tools for this particular problem.

To wrap this up, I don't think software needs less code and less features. I think it needs better tools and methodologies with which to deal with creating, updating, and maintaining features and complexity.
Unless I'm mistaken, isn't something like 75% of a CPU's power consumption just in pushing the clock signal around? I just assumed that a faster clock would consume more power (as a general rule).

Wikipedia seems to agree with me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation
Anyone notice how slow the iOS simulator is when running apps on the 6.1 simulator?
Tell him to try heroin and see if the war on drugs comes to his aid.
Show HN: Simple seed for PHP-based applications
I know this is a hard place to show this kind of stuff, but here it goes...

https://github.com/eridal/web-seed

After writing the same glue-code for a couple of webapps I decided to put all that into a simple project that I can later use as a `seed`. It's based mostly on my common needs, but I hardly think they are too specific -- yes, it's an opinionated project.

This is my attempt to create a baseline for small webapps that quickly bundle the common ecosystem tools available. I've been digging the web for some related projects and it's sort of a compendium of tools.
My idea was to reduce the code needed to it's minimum, keeping it as much declarative as possible.

It was baked using modern tools such as: Composer, Slim, PhpUnit, Leesc, Mustache.php

Althoug it's a work-in-progress, I would love to get some feedback.
link: https://github.com/eridal/web-seed
Ooops, I tried to be funny on HN :-(
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I'm curious as to why this is now not on the front page?
It occurred to me once upon a time that I could use just such a keylogger to capture my classmates' student ID card swipes when they went to release print jobs at any of the print stations on my university campus. I recognized this as a security flaw that (probably) didn't have many lucrative uses, but I never imagined such a technique might work for credit cards. I wrongly assumed that credit card readers would employ greater physical security.
By being careful?

I'm all for tests but tests aren't the ONLY way to write software that you can modify without "breaking things." It does require more time to develop and test, but then again, you're saving some time by not writing and maintaing tests.

Again, I believe in automated testing because I think it hedges my risk but I'd caution against believing your own hype that there is only one way to do something..
Please. Zuckerberg cares about you to the extent he can advertize to you. That's it.
No wonder I had a hard time finding that Glass book in Google, it's Robert Glass, not Phillip. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Facts-Fallacies-Software-Engineering...
You also have to account for both cultures placing a very strong emphasis on education. Judaism is defined by the Torah and Rabbis are scholars. Chinese and other East Asians are strongly influenced by Confucianism which places scholars at the top.

Also Indian Americans are well represented in hard core undergraduate courses too. Not sure which direction Indian is read from. If it's the same as Hebrew and Chinese then I might have to concede :-)
This comment perfectly encapsulates everything that is horrible about legal discussions on HN: they are anti-intellectual, in the sense that they penalize knowledge or understanding insofar as such understanding complicates some poorly-stated valence issue (most often "the government should honor everybody's right to privacy"). It's not that the angry HN commenter has a carefully-considered (or even specific) complaint about Orin Kerr†. Rather, the angry HN commenter is angry that anyone has taken the time to understand the legal issue at all, instead of simply joining them in baying at the moon.

You should be embarrassed to argue this way. You should want to first understand the issues that are at play, and then figure out how your principles engage with those issues. You obviously shouldn't be trying to dismiss dense sources of information that you clearly didn't already have access to by making allusions to torture. But you do anyways, as do many on HN, adding no value, no original insights, no new information, not even a meaningful criticism of someone else's insight or information --- just, "new information that doesn't fit my worldview: BAD".

I've been here long enough to know that you're getting upvoted for comments like these, hopping from thread to thread shouting down anyone who fails to scoop out their eyeballs, pick up the accursed panflute or vile drum, and dance idiotically around the formless confusion of whatever issue you think you're advocating for. Just know, the same people upvoting you for poisoning threads are also the ones upvoting the incomprehensible douchebags who snark about "getting their side project acquired next time they get a job offer". You're two sides of the same debased coin.

† You can, once in a blue moon, find a carefully considered criticism of Orin Kerr on HN, but they've uniformly come from people on HN with law degrees and are thus obviously suspicious.
I'll stop. I tried fingering some thick skulls. I could not penetrate.
Yeah the logic behind it its kind of flawed and are trying to sensacionalize over the issue..

But the two things together can make us think about the privacy issue.. the thing is, we all need privacy, and need to have control of it.. thats what we value in real life..

In the virtual life front we dont have that sort of control, we need to obey whatever they think we should do.. we dont have the control.. that is the irony when we compare how much we can control privacy in real life vs. in virtual life.. and in the virtual case; who really controls it, is a corporation.. they dont allow us to control our own privacy.. Once you adopt their social networks its not harsh or ilusory to say they control us more than we think
Yes, US rivers today are cleaner. MUCH cleaner.

The same may not have been true a few decades ago. I recall stories when I was younger of rivers catching on fire. That's when you know things are bad :-)

Today however, almost all US waterways are in fairly good shape. We have made tremendous strides in the last few decades cleaning things up.
To me, it seems an order of magnitude more important to fire the person than to publicly acknowledge his wrongdoing. I would be extremely upset if they had done it the other way around, so I don't think this counts as sweeping it under the rug.

Do you think the public acknowledgement is more important than the firing? Is the problem that they were only 80% behind her instead of 100%? Is it something else? I really want to understand your position.
You're right he is victim blaming. Except, he says both parties were victims in their own way.
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I think I speak for many that your comment just made us all feel more stupid.
Consentual non consentual, they both needed to be letgo. Just because everyone does it doesn't make it okay to get drunk with coworkers on business trips. The company handled this the only way they could. If she wanted to own victimhood she should have pressed charges. It sickens me that she suffered so much, andiI hope she feels better getting this off her chest, but no matter the obviousness of wrong doing, in our society you have to push the authorities for the justice you deserve. The system doesn't do that for you.
We don't understand the carrying cost of code yet in the industry. That's the problem.
To have something objectively better - 100% compatibility with Excel + major limitations and bugs fixed + cross platform - more like tens of billions of dollars.

Excel is 28 years old and for its entire lifetime it has been one of the focal points of Microsoft development. It is also the center of one of the biggest cottage industries in the software world + servers as an SDK for probably hundreds of thousands of in-house developers.

I think such an effort is just an order of magnitude smaller than replacing Windows on desktop systems. And that's saying a lot about Excel :)
Huh? How did you conclude she is a victims from that blogpost?

This is what I call naïve. People will believe anything and everything in blogs.
> what's a few dead bodies and rotting corpses?

'Few' or thousands or may be millions, who knows? Is there some kind of data or statistical study to help here?

Calling that there is filth elsewhere too isn't really a great argument to support your shrug. It is understandable though that it hurts to see one's homeland in poor light. It's a good emotion to have - love your land - should be used to emphasize and drive clean up.
Very true. The trash piles keep growing and no one (citizens or govt workers) does anything about it.
At least India still has these (albeit polluted) rivers, unlike another nation (http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/04/28-000-rive...)
The amount of corpses is just weird. Here's a story about someone who collects corpses on the Yellow River and returns them, for a bounty, to the family.

(http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/16/100691/chinese-fisherm...)

> Wei is a fisher of dead people. He scans the river for cadavers, drags them to shore with a small boat and then charges grieving families to recover their relatives' corpses. Wei said he kept the faces submerged to preserve their features. Any dispute about identity makes it harder to collect his bounty.
Carried away. Both made a mistake. Both were pissed. He thought he was scoring, she thought she had to do it to fit in. This is far from being an assault, rather a gross misunderstanding. He lost the job, she feels like he needs to be punished further.
If anyone boy or girl, man or woman had to claim assault anytime someone tries the big step on the other, we'd all be in jail. Did she push him away? No, she "didn't reciprocate". He likely didn't even notice in the drunken excitement and there you go. They both fucked up, but one of the two feel more wronged. Also all the framing in the macho software industry doesn't help, including the employee/employer relation.
Peace. And love. Could it be that simple?
I think it was a glitch in Apache that made it spill out the sourcecode