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Kragen, please take some time to reflect on your own behavior in this thread. It is not bizarre in the least that people are downvoting you. Nobody is disputing the substance of your complaints about Erik, but your timing is completely inappropriate.

If Erik was a 10 on the asshole/sociopath scale, you're running at about 8.5 right now.
I think the point of the article is more about the idea of self-experimentation than the diet itself.
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Google gets start of Winter wrong by 3 weeks
Today, on http://www.google.com.au/ the normal Google logo is replaced by a wintery looking one, with mouseover that reads 'first day of winter'. Thing is, in Australia Winter starts June 1st

Yes, not exactly HN material but amusing to see even places like Google get this wrong
Where did you learn etiquette, FOX News? Yammering endlessly about their "legacy", less than 24 hours after their passing, is not okay, particularly if you're vilifying their memory. That wouldn't be right even if it was a relatively hated public figure, and certainly not for a guy that was just a chronic Usenet poster.

Look, I get it. I concede your point that he said a lot of things that shouldn't have been said.

But you and kragen are basically being trolls now, and if you claim to be the ones who have some respect for empathy and civil discourse, you'll just zip it.
Ask HN: The long tail of Founders at Work
I recently finished reading Founders at Work (absolutely brilliant!) and was wondering about the early stages of startups that aren't as big as or weren't as successful as the startups included in the book. For eg, Peldi has a post about it here (http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2008/10/14/personal-whats-your-story-why-start-balsamiq/). Similarly, I'm sure it will be really helpful for aspiring entrepreneurs to get insights from the early days of smaller, more normal startups (mom and pop shops on the internet). Hope it makes sense. Thanks.
It's definitely steep (I ended up paying $270 after coupon). I jumped on it when I started having wrist pains and waking up with numb hands (first signs of carpal). Since using the keyboard, the pain and numbness has gone away.

I will point out that it took a good 2-3 weeks to get used to the layout, though now it feels quite natural.

For more info, I highly recommend the stack overflow thread on keyboards:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/687/keyboard-for-programm...
It's hilarious that today, decades after its release, the Model M (and keyboards like it) still seem to be the defacto standard for the entertainment industry to convey characters are typing. Only very recently I've noticed a shift towards a softer, more realistic, typing sound.
I read all the main theorems without even reading any of the definitions and examples for the first pass while at the same time I write down any questions I have with a reference to the theorem it pertains. For my second pass I go back and look at the examples to see if they answer any of the questions I wrote down and write down more questions referencing the examples. For the first two passes I don't try to answer any questions. I simply try to engage the material. Finally I try to answer all the unanswered questions and work some of the exercises and write down more questions if there are any left.
What would be then the ideal way to fix Apache?
I think some people (including the app reviewer possibly) are not understanding the SDK terms correctly.

"3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s)."

The key phrase here is "other executable code"- i.e., code that isn't already in the application bundle. There's nothing wrong with running an emulator or interpreter. You just can't have it dynamically download new games or apps that weren't already bundled. It's understandable why Apple would have this restriction, or else there would be a lot of people trying to build their own app store within an app.

If the C64 app didn't allow new games to be d/l'ed then there's no reason for the rejection. Perhaps it wasn't clear to the reviewer (it certainly isn't to me, after reading that article) whether it allowed new games to be loaded or not.
Probably it's a question of support. Supporting a given config costs money. While I never called Acer's for the Ubuntu I use on my netbook, it's fair to say I am not a typical user.

That said, the netbooks in question not only don't come with Windows, they are as Windows-proof as can be.
No, this is not a great keyboard. Not even close. It's terribly unergonomic. When I worked at IBM, I had this keyboard, and it seriously hurt my hands. I pulled off the keys and purposefully crimped the springs so that they'd be weaker and it would have a lighter action.

IMHO, most modern non-ergonomic (straight) keyboards are bad for you because they force wrist deviation (bending). That would include Apple's, and this is the one area where I really dislike Apple's design principles.
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30? No. In 1979 Microsoft was a tiny company that paid the bills by selling BASIC interpreters to computer manufacturers. Nobody was afraid of Microsoft in 1979.
This is horrible advice, don't listen to it.

Buuuttt...

Look at hacking your body the same way you would look at hacking a computer. What makes your metabolism tick?

What you're going to find is that excersizing, and eating a LOT of proteing (so that your body doesn't metabolize muscle tissue [like your heart] while you're on your uber low cal diet) are the best way to lose weight.

Don't eat anything (or very little) for like 2 days and the thought of eating a black and blue burger will start to seem repulsive. This is when you start eating fruit and chicken.
Have you ever combined the cottage cheese and the apples?

Heaven in my mouth.
Not a legal expert by any stretch but couldn't a later group of authors challenge who the outcome of the case applied to? If there in no way affiliated with the Authors Guild?
I've just been watching a Boston Legal episode (from series 4, ep 7), and fictionally, they sue YouTube. Not 'MegaView' or 'SuperVid', but YOUTUBE. I wondered how they can get away with using a real company in a fictional lawsuit?
I'd be content with zero-support[0] PCs sold without any OS. At a guess, some 5% of the market would go for that, including most Linux users as well as many Windows power-users who have a wipe-before-use policy on store bought PCs.

[0] There would still be a hardware warranty.
In the UK, at www.play.com

They're taking pre-orders for the 3GS at £999 for the 32GB version. Ouch.
How does this even have two votes? Incendiary title. Utter tripe.

Flagged.
Many sites go unnoticed even though they are providing a real public service. As an outside spectator of the "silicon valley hype machine," it seems that none of these sites really fit their mold. I.e, "Changing the world in one fell swoop!" Their mass impact is exponentially more subtle than Twitter, but still quite effective and important.

At the site I co-founded we are in a similar situation. We provide bank rates, reviews, news, etc. and we know that these are important issues to the average consumer. However, this doesn't necessarily translate into TechCrunch writing stories about us. We're just not that cool...

But, as we all know, you don't have to be cool or change the world to be profitable.
It's probably due to the start of the winter solstice — the shortest day in the southern hemisphere and the longest in the northern half of the world (where thousands will be celebrating the summer solstice): http://www.theage.com.au/national/pagans-party-as-winter-sol...
I'm a contractor working on the new NYC 911 system and the supporting IT infrastructure. The current system, at the desktop level, is all old IBM AIX boxes and every single one has one of these keyboards. The monitors, mice, etc have all been replaced due to wear and tear, but these keyboards have put up with the abuse of 24/7 constant typing for the last 15-20 years. Pretty amazing. I wouldn't mind grabbing one or two once they cut over to the new system.
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I have a 'USB to PS2' dongle thingy with a USB mouse (into a PS2 adapter!) and keyboard. The trick is not to buy a keyboard PS2 adapter... buy one that does BOTH keyboard and mouse. These work better than the single sockets for some reason.
So the question we have to ask ourselves are what startups--and subsequently--what innovations are being stifled, if not avoided altogether due to copyright laws getting in the way?

Well that is exactly what I don't get. I mean, there seems to be an assumption that market dominance in cultural distribution is obviously bad, no explanation required. But it is not clear to me what the precise danger is here, because it is not clear to me what the necessity is for content creators to stick with Googlezon if Googlezon as a content publisher becomes deleterious to their well-being.

He mentions that there are only 6 (major) movie studios. Let's pretend that they have a merge-a-thon and get down to one major movie studio. Would it matter to anyone? Probably not, because the 6 current large studios more or less all churn out the same mainstream fair. Would a small independent studio be worse off if there was one instead of six major studios? Probably not, because the small independent ("startup" in your parlance) exists to cater to a certain niche that welcomes its products almost by definition because they are not a major studio cookie-cutter production.

Don't get me wrong - I can seriously wind myself up thinking about the consolidation of the news media, or of chip manufacturing companies, but in this particular case I still don't understand what I am really supposed to be afraid of. And he asks for pretty major action as a result of a danger that is not particularly clear.
Same here (albeit with a somewhat newer model of IBM keyboard). I switched to one of the new Apple keyboards, and I've been recovering ever since. Pity the keyboard layout is so damn unusual on this thing, though. Configuring it for Linux was a real pain.
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"Enclose the /element/ in matching delimiters"

I don't understand this part? What is he proposing this looks like?
> Ecology aside, that's a very selfish way to think.

Saying "ecology aside" brushes off a lot of stuff, and not just the sort of hippy-dippy environmentalist shit that corporate types and pro-growth economists scoff at. It basically assumes extremely cheap raw materials and vast, far-off factories churning out parts. It assumes horrendous waste, both of materials and energy, in most cases.

Disposability almost always carries with it a huge externalization of costs on somebody else. In many cases when the costs of replacement are fully internalized into the part, it's no longer nearly as cheap; repair starts to become a viable option.

There may be situations where it's cheaper to replace than to repair, but in order to find where that's really true, we need to work towards full encapsulation of production costs in end goods, something we do a really shitty job of today. If we work towards that, I suspect the world we'll end up with has a lot more skilled-labor jobs, but won't create them for nonsensical or romantic reasons, where they're clearly unnecessary or wasteful.
I think it's a slap in the face of all the people Erik bullied and abused over the years...

.. and now that he's gone, you have finally gotten up the courage to do some bullying of your own, to a man who can't fight back because he's... you know... dead?

Umm, yay you?

What's your next trick, clubbing some baby seals?

The fact is, people post crap on the interwebs every day. It is true the net is a series of tubes and unfortunately some of those tubes are sewage pipes. Deal with it.
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in a persistent data structure, you don't actively remove, delete, or change anything. rather each time you make a 'change', you create a new structure which points to, and reuses as much of the old one as possible. then the garbage collector removes the unused bits, if any.
Age ~44? What are the oblique references to his declining health related to?

(" I am unable to keep my company in operation for health reasons, but it is one of those things I just cannot give up. Instead of being a commercial undertaking, it is now only a hobby. Until my health improves, which it might never do sufficiently" - http://naggum.no )
I suggest reading "The Mindbody Prescription" by John E Sarno. Here is an overview of what it talks about: http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc
(I know it's a Word doc, but that is the best overview I've seen)

It helped me recover 100% from what I thought was "RSI" and I no longer believe that typing can cause injury.

I bought a Unicomp Model M a few years after this recover, not for nostalgia, but to increase my typing speed and accuracy, which it did. The only downside is that it is loud.
That doesn't really sound like an argument against skilled labor to me. Somebody needs to maintain those machines. Someone needs to set them up, plug them in, calibrate them, feed them raw materials, and generally keep them working.

As technology changes, the skills you need in order to rightly be called a "skilled" laborer change. In general, they seem to tend to require more education over time (although this might just be social; I'm not convinced that it really requires more study to become a programmer today than it did to become a good paleolithic hunter, it just seems easier to us because their training wasn't formalized and thus seems invisible). You can't expect one skillset to just carry you safely through the rest of your life without staying on top of changes.

Machines eliminate some jobs, but they inevitably create new ones: designing, maintaining, and operating the machines. In many cases they eliminate more jobs than they create, which is something we need to plan for, but I don't see any real chance that the machines are just going to make human beings obsolete -- in any avenue of work -- tomorrow.
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misticflame.com - used occasionally, would be willing to part with.
Ask HN: Rate this Idea: Analyze your life with the help of a GPS data logger
Digg brainstorming new communications tool
Is it even possible to get such an assurance from Apple? If they do approve apps which violate your plain reading of the ToS, and reject apps which don't even seem to, what can you do besides roll the dice or stay out of the market entirely?
I don't understand it either. You somehow have to differentiate the tag from the content; maybe he wanted to reduce the redundancy of the open/close tags. Something like CSS:

h1 { this is a header }
p { this is the content. }

HTML5-style optional ending tags might also work:

<h1>This is a header
<p>This is some content.

(Though I remain confused about which closing tags are optional in the HTML5 spec. I think h1 tags have to be closed.)
HackerNews, this is an idea that I was seriously considering spending the next few months of nights and weekends on.

I've decided not to pursue it and was hoping to hear your thoughts. Specifically: is this something you would have been interested in using?
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Apple is being quite consistent in rejecting this - that isn't a story.

The only story here is yet another reason to dislike this policy of Apple's. Because of this policy, something exciting is not available for the iPhone.
Have you used one the keyboards on Apple recent notebooks? If so, how does it compare to the thin Apple keyboard?

I really wanted to like the new Apple desktop keyboards (specifically the one without the numpad because I actually like the minimalist layout, and want to reduce the distance to the mouse), but it just didn't feel good to me (not enough key travel). The new notebook keyboards on the other hand feel good; not as good as pre-unibody, but pretty close (I use both a unibody and an early-2008 MBP).

I haven't used one of these thin keyboards for a significant length of time (just tried it in the store for about a half hour), though, so I'm wondering if it's something that takes a little time to appreciate.

I use a Model M on the desktop, but I actually heard of someone who liked the Model M switching to the thin Apple keyboard because they liked it even better.
The problem is that 10 is not an especially divisible number. It only divides evenly by 2 and 5. English measurements have lots of 12's and 60's and so forth not out of malice, but so we can precisely determine what 1/3 or 1/4 of a foot is without using decimals.

Likewise, Fahrenheit temperatures are perfect for weather since the 0-100 scale consistently matches the spectrum from "especially cold day" to "especially hot day".
I love my Das Keyboard. I used to get some painful cramps during work (programming). I tried a couple keyboards that helps somewhat, namely Microsoft's old-school natural keyboards, and also the happy hacker keyboard, but I'd still get wrist cramping if I typed long enough. Haven't had any issues at all with Das Keyboard.

The only drawback is that now it feels strange to type on keyboards without mechanical switches.
Both of those are valid examples. A LISP-like syntax would also work:

{h1 This is a header}
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It's still cost until you discover the hardware problem was not a hardware problem.

As much as I love Linux, I recognize there is a legitimate reason to bundle Windows with many models - the support and remote diagnostics infrastructure is already deployed whereas with Linux OEMs would have to build one. It would be a better one, of course, but with the razor thin margins they operate, they may not be able to afford it.
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Every time I read this is causes me physical pain to think that I'd have to take more than a 50% pay cut to become a math teacher. If only I were independently wealthy...
> CS is a lot broader than programming

CS is a lot broader than computer programming, but one can program things that are not computers.
see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666425
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"The tactic works pyschologically to make her feel indebted"

I've had similar feelings toward free offers and I'm sure it's a common occurrence.
If you somehow prevent significant events like this from appearing on twitter, the net effect is that fewer people are aware of them. Is that the outcome you want?
There's no way that it could have been unclear to the reviewer - if the app includes download functionality, then it would be in the build that the reviewer saw and rejected.
I once ranted to a FedEx carrier, who refused to deliver after 12PM, in the UK that 'Junk bonds bought Fred's first plane', and 'where's that spirit now?' etc etc. They were very helpful after that...

They sent it out for 3PM and I got my parcel.

So basically rant on about corporate history and that gets their attention.
Yes, it's Winter solstice; no argument there. It's not, as Google are suggesting, the first day of Winter. Big difference.

It looks like the assumption is that other places start their seasons the same date as the US does.
Certainly his famous XML rant was informative and provocative. The thing that still rings in my mind is the argument that presentation and content are not really separable. Still chewing on that one.

There were many minor bits of analysis that he did to code, taking up challenges about performance, for example. I remember one example where he clearly spent hours on one performance claim, rewrote the proposed code within an inch of its life and gave an irrefutable argument about what the performance was.

His deep knowledge of SGML (I suspect deeper than all but a handful of folks) was a great source of insight on comp.text.sgml for what seems like a long time. His many rants about C++ were informative as well as confrontational. He told of working in C++ and generating very nice looking code, to the satisfaction of the client. He cheated a bit, however, as he used Lisp to generate the code.

There have always been reactions to his blunt, confrontational style. There are subjects, however, for which there are a right and a wrong. Erik wouldn't hesitate. Did not Richard Feynman reduce an ill-prepared presenter to tears with relentless questions?

Good teachers are not necessarily putting the student's feeling of self-worth first.
wow, look at all that keyword stuffing at the bottom of the first file.
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You can get podcasts based on this book, from the MIT's itunes page; MIT 6.046J introduction to algorithms.

Its not quite as good as seeing it on the page but it might help if your out for a walk or in the car.
Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy
And earlier about SGML.
"The Power of Now taught me that there is no line segment. The point is all there is. The past and the future are illusions. They only exist to the degree we focus our attention on them right now. We create the past and the future by imagining them in the present. But we don’t even exist outside the Now."

What? I feel like I've suddenly been dropped into the Time Cube and people keep telling me how "insightful" and "empowering" it is. Maybe it's just me but I come to Hacker News for intelligent conversation on important issues - usually technical. Feel-good self-important life guides should be filed in a different section. Maybe that's just me, though.
As well as the fact that sometimes entire new fields open up in very short periods of time -- for example, physicists thought at the end of the 19th century that they were basically just tying up loose ends, when relativity and quantum mechanics burst on the scene (in a relatively short time span).
I don't know much about Naggum, so it's entirely possible you're right. Apologies if I misinterpreted his relationship with the community.
This is true at all the top CS programs as well. They look at:

1. Past research (including published papers)
2. Recommendation letters

GRE scores are a pre-filter (not set too high, I think, and certainly the CS subject GRE is ignored, even when it is required), grades matter only slightly, and the admission essays are basically a chance to disqualify yourself by saying something stupid.
Yeah I thought about adding in some css transitions for safari 4 but went against it due to it causing problems with every other browser that doesn't support the -webkit-transition property.
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Source code for Palm WebOS released
I wonder whether it's greener to build 1 keyboard like a tank or n cheap keyboards and keep replacing them.
This sounds reasonable. But I've always wondered about Amazon.com's UI strategy in the context of choice - they always show me much more crap than I am interested in: on the home page, on search result pages, on product detail pages, pretty much everywhere on their site. Right now I can see well over 30 'recommended' items on their homepage (and this is after the huge Kindle ad). Surely they've conducted A/B tests. Why don't they see the same results?