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I am always impressed by the amount of effort some people put in answering stackoverflow questions.

I have sometimes been answering stackoverflow questions, that I happened to come across and that I knew the answer to. I gave that up because my answers stood next to other people's who obviously spend extensive amounts of time researching and compiling their answer.
His solution isn't much different from solutions most of the kids were giving.
That is when faced with problem you don't understand
-throw away the problem
-solve something you are comfortable with
-try to convince others it is the solution of the original problem

We don't need people who fabricate data and make unfounded guesses.
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Yes, I know this has been posted before[0]. But it was mentioned in the recent and continuing discussion[1] about someone writing their own OS and the small but significant triumphs along the way. The discussion on that previous posting is extensive, but closed, so I thought it would be worth having a reference to it, and allowing people to make further observations.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115951

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6852423
Now (re-)submitted as an item in its own right:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6853813
Secret, probably not. But in most cases I'm reasonably confident that each email address I use is currently only known by me, the one site I registered it with and the NSA.

I have a couple of email addresses that thanks to that address either having been sold, hacked or given away by including in the to/cc field of a mass mailing are now out in the public domain, and I get spam (and almost certainly malware attempts) on those two on a pretty regular basis. I'd prefer to not have the rest of my email addresses end up in the same situation.
For a 4-year-old post about the progress of Overgrowth, it doesn't really convince me to use OpenGL, considering that Overgrowth is still in alpha. It's a 4-person team and an ambitious game, so I'm sure it's not related to OpenGL use, but it's still kind of funny.
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Yeah, no sane person would have expected BTC to become legal tender in China soon. Very nice that they acknowledge BTC and say that trading it is fine. This is really good news and the article is just trying to make up a negative story.
When is anyone at bitcointalk not BULLISH about bitcoin? It's not like they have a financial incentive to let it tank.
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For those planning "wow, I can use the google datacenters, to scale to such level", first check this part:

https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/resource-quotas

Just in case.
At Day's Close by Roger Ekirch is a great book about our historical relationship to the night (sleep and not sleeping). http://www.amazon.com/At-Days-Close-Night-Times/dp/039332901...
This is a great illustration of why Android is likely to face problems in corporate deployments. Lack of security updates less than 2 years after release is likely to prove a serious problem for companies who operate a 3-5 year device refresh lifecycle...
The sentence about Eclipse was merely a side note and not related to the question about ReSharper. Sorry if that was not clear enough. :) I know that ReSharper does a lot of magic that is lacking in Eclipse, unfortunately.
Heh, real people wake up early to take advantage of the uber-productive time between 5-7am.
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The point is presumably that there's no equivalent in the Apple ecosystem at all. If you want an iPhone for even close to the price of a low-end Android phone, your only option is a second-hand 3GS which is also one major version behind and no longer getting updates (or the equivalent at whatever time that survey was done). Except that, because Android can update many of the bundled apps seperately and iOS cannot, you're actually worse off.
Interesting. Scientific American used a photo of mine from Flickr[1] that is not licensed for commercial use[2] for one of their articles[3]. I'd be happy to grant them a license to use the image if they had of asked, so it seemed like a waste time to follow up on, just to demand that they do nothing and have a license. Nonetheless they are technically in violation.

It does seem a little have-your-cake-and-eat-it that they would do this on the one hand, and publish a blog article encouraging people in my situation to go after violators with a form letter. On the other hand, the article does note:

> The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/notcub/917981750/

[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

[3] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=poisoning-t...
Obviously, (as I am sure you are aware after careful consideration of my argument) my conclusions were towards the need for a better understanding of the subject itself and not towards "proving" a particular subjective viewpoint on the matter.

I thought it fair though to offer up symmetrical counterpoints to the OP to show that this is all drawing global conclusions on a particular set of examples (or small sample sizes if you will).
SO is very useful for a asking a certain type of question.
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(i am not a fan of android at all and much prefer ios)

its trivial to solve. test the os update on old devices and don't push os updates to old phones if it destroys the user experience. i'm not going to condemn them for not ruining my user experience...

my issue is the fact that they change their tools and processes to make it impossible to support e.g. iPhone 1 if you want to. My app will run lovely on an iPhone 1 or 3G, but I can not make a version that runs on these phones as well as an iPhone 5. This is a choice, not a technical constraint or avoiding maintenance costs - I'm very sure its /more/ expensive to do this than not.

i'm fairly sure that its part of their strategy to encourage you to use the latest devices. lots of apple consumers seem to be aware that 'apple don't give a crap about you if you use their old stuff' - i've heard this opinion unprovoked from very un-tech-savvy types much more often than once.

if you work with the apple tech much yourself its an obvious recurring theme - they all but explicitly tell you not to support old devices and then do make it actually impossible beyond a certain point.

this is just not the case for android or even windows or any other platform/os except for perhaps games consoles which are special - if i want i can make an app run across all android versions and have one entry in google play and supporting old versions of windows is trivial work usually. apple have the worst ecosystem for this by miles and miles - nobody else comes close

...and actually old android phones do run 4.4 - you have to put it there manually perhaps, but this is at least possible. it actually has performance benefits on older phones too... which is how it should be. the fact that each ios release is significantly slower isn't down to new features or niceness its programmer sloppiness.
"If somebody owns something, it's not mine to take from them, even if I want it really badly."

That's the crux of much of the copyright debate, right there. Copying doesn't take someone's work from them, he or she still has access to it. Right or wrong, good or bad, it's not theft. Unfortunately, much of the public debate surrounding copyright circles around appeals to emotion about how much like theft copyright violation is.

Personally, I'd say not at all. It might be similar conversion -- the use of someone's property without their permission -- but I'm not sure about that.

There's also the "thingness" of a work. In the usual sense, even if your first copy of a work is a thing, it's not the same thing as a copy of it. And copyright necessarily acknowledges that, as the property like component is not the work, but the copyright itself. So the thing that is (sort of) yours -- if it exists enough to call it a thing -- is not the thing you created, it's the legal instrument that controls replication of the thing you created.

You're right, copyright is complicated. But it's not so complicated that confusing it with possession or ownership of physical property is a useful approximation.
Is this current crash related to this news?

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/
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Thanks, I avoided rooting because I didn't want to spend the time and take the risk, but given the amount of frustration the it's given me I should have done it ages ago. If I wasn't about to receive a Nexus 5 I would definitely try this.
It has been submitted several times before if I'm not mistaken, in fact I know it from HN.
Forget Adblock, just use NoScript. The article was perfectly viewable for me.

Not trying to start a holy war, NoScript isn't a universal cure. There is plenty of content linked to from HN that requires JS. (However, I don't bother reading most of it!)
I think the main factor is that SO is very aggressive in closing "bad" questions.
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I think the consequences of using NoScript outweigh the benefits. I don't think I could stand 40% of the sites I use being unusable due to lack of JavaScript, that's not how it's meant to be.
"You have to stick with older API's when developing Android apps if you want to target the largest audience possible."

what? surely you just use the new features as and when they become available and always use the oldest API as a 'base level'? this is the same for all platforms... including iOS - if you approach backward compatibility as something you seriously want this is not even a problem. even given the quick uptake on updates in the iOS world, supporting just iOS 7 seems a bit nuts to me.... maybe i get the wrong end of your stick though.

i'm kind of mystified how you are doing things to make this the case... the only significant headache i have ever had with backward compatibility is when apple stop me from being able to do it by force.
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Does this count 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 as separate versions? I had all 3 on my phone and barely anything changed between them. This looks like typical Apple fanboyism to me.
I'm not sure that's true. I'm a researcher and at least among the younger generation of researchers, the anonymous peer review system often results in "oh shit" moments where you get a paper to review that you have to begrudgingly admit is good and recommend for publication, even though it makes some of your work invalid.

That's just one persons experience though, I have come across proud professors (and reviewers of my own papers) who seem to let pride come before professionalism.

Peer review should also be blind. Too often a famous name can get papers published that would not be published otherwise.
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Chargebacks happen after the transaction settled.
Or the beginning of another soar.
Similar what (some?) countries in EMU were saying. It's not a currency, you can use it at your own risk. Also you can't print/create physical representation IIRC, i.e. money.
It's wrong: frogs don't do what was described.
> Why do I have to use iTunes to add music to my phone?

You don't. You have to use iTunes to add music to the bundled Music app. You can use other music apps that have different ways of getting the music onto your device, e.g. Spotify, last.fm, Amazon Cloud Player, etc.
Actually it is the opposite [1]. Efficiency is theoretically increased with more blades. The three-bladed turbine is the most popular because of the cost benefit of building blades vs efficiency gain of extra blades - although the case of harmonics for even number of blades does hold true.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/we.274/abstract
People complain that PayPal freezes merchants accounts. But PayPal only does that if the number of unsettled goods is too high. In this particular case it would always happen because parties would not acknowledge a transaction for a long time.

Chargebacks allow a merchant to get the money right away and still give the customer the option to reverse the charge a month (or more later) in case something happens.
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from the article:

> An abundance of scientific findings, many from research sponsored by the military and NASA, has led many executives to abandon the quest to minimize sleep unreasonably.

They aren't arguing entirely from anecdotes, they are using them to illustrate the point mostly. They are writing for a broad audience of non-scientists, which they've used as an excuse to exclude references from passages like the above, perhaps justifiably.
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I hate that I know there is a 5am. Unfortunately this week I'm in a training class and have to get there earlier than I usually have to get to work. I can't wait to sleep this weekend.
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While I can't speak to this example specifically, in general:

The issue is what happens if the line is missing entirely?

If the default is to allow, then adding a line "allowTcp= true" hasn't actually changed your config. And deleting a line "allowTCP = true" doesn't stop allowing TCP, which could be confusing.

What the addition of the line does is actually disallow TCP.

The above is the kind of reasoning that causes configs to end up with double negatives.
I run a bunch of small content sites, and dad a guy email me last month with an image that was a problem.

It was a 64px icon version of a generic photograph of a pill bottle and pills that he had used the larger version on his site.

I don't have a problem with playing nice and abiding by the law, but geesh. We spent a ton of money screwing around with a small image that wasn't even directly related to his site or work, much less mine.

Made me wonder if there was some other part of the story I was missing.
Agreed, it's difficult to see why anyone would spend BTC instead of USD, except for anonymity or multi-sig transactions.
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Indeed - I also knew it from HN. But

* it's not been submitted for a long time,

* discussion there is closed,

* it's really good,

* it's technical, and

* it's relevant.

I commented about why I've resubmitted it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6853824
True, but since those are 1 in a million or less, their advice still holds.

(Except for people who always assume the will be the exception -- Vegas is full of them also).
This is an oversimplification of an already simpleminded discussion (in pursuit of being able to "justify" conclusions you have built on presumptions beforehand).

I am not sure where this irrelevant accusation of "macho attitudes" came from but it certainly fell in line with using terminology similar to what the article use with words like "effeminate" and "male champions".

And yet this article contradicts your argument by naming several (large) companies incorporating sleep-is-good attitudes.

SO I highly doubt that my singular paragraph offering contradictory arguments for the sake of discussion and clarity is the reason why "common-sense attitudes ... have not taken hold in companies".

Regardless of studies that have shown individualized scenarios of productivity loss due to sleep deprivation (also dependent on numerous external and internal parameters) there are still counter examples that cannot be scientifically ignored.

Your (appeared) devotion to 'scientific-establishment' is just you using particular studies to justify held beliefs (and/or just to be in agreement with localized observations e.g. your personal dependency on sleep or those you work with).
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It's awesome that you stick to the moral high road despite the consequences for your own work. I think that the problem may become more pronounced as the length of a researcher's career grows.

Peer review should also be blind. Too often a famous name can get papers published that would not be published otherwise.

Fully agree, although that only solves the problem of pushing through papers based on researcher merit (not the topic of rejecting papers on the basis of conflict with your own agenda)
Nothing important, I think you are on the money - the comparisons on their website are utter bogus - the swept area of the turbine they compare against are not the same.
I believe this still to be a very good advice and applies to both sexes. In family life circumstances when a household must depend only on a single source of income are abound. Families where each participating adult can provide a basic standard of living for the entire family in times of need are much stronger financially.
And also in STEAM [1] with Linux support.

[1]: http://store.steampowered.com/app/262940/
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Apparently over 80% of the world doesn't agree with the OP. Why could it be? Apparently they only care about what they can do with the phone they have in their hand, not a bunch of models listed in a table showing some argument, such as being stuck at an earlier major version. And some random bits:

* on iPhones they can't install CyanogenMod, Ubuntu Mobile, a custom ROM, newer experimental OSs. versions, Firefox.

* on iOS they can't find enough free apps, they end up paying 5 times more. It's a money trap.

* On iPhones they can't install Android KitKat neither since iPhones are stuck on iOS.

* Newer iPhones are stuck at similar specs to the previous versions mainly they couldn't easily keep the API consistent if they had launched a 6.0inch iPhone and a 2inch one.

* They can't install iOS on a phone with very large screen, with dual sim card, a very small screen, a phablet, a water proof phone, a watch, a virtual machine, a game pad

* iPhones are mostly oversold in US, due to carrier subsidy model. Most people end up paying higher sums during the whole contract, beyond the initial money they paid. It's a money trap to suck more from customers.
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If they have their own agenda, why should it matter? If this benefits them and Linux, why would this development be bad?
I am about to buy an iPad for the first time, and I thought "this would be a great app, cool!" and clicked on the store link.

So annoying that it's US store only - why do devs do this, anyone know?
Ah, but we would need to know the parameters and conclusions of these studies to know if the author was utulizing the data and findings correctly or if he is using it in a biased manner.

Assuming, he references the generality of the studies appropriately (abandon the quest to minimize sleep unreasonably). Then the discussion should cater towards the differences between unreasonable sleep deprivation expectations brought on unwillingly and its toll on the mind vs. sleep deprivation willingly done due to a personal will to finish a project or continue a streak of creativity, etc.
That was my reaction as well. Clicked the back button straight away and went looking in the comments to find out what was said in the article.
no exchanges? really?
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Products people repeatedly talk about on HN become popular to the rest of world after some lag. I can predict the same for Bitcoin.
Nice, but fungus is not a plant strictly speaking "[..] These organisms are classified as a kingdom, Fungi, which is separate from plants, animals, protists and bacteria. [..]" [1]

Which leads to an off-topic question: Is mushroom cultivation considered as agriculture?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus
You have no idea what you're talking about either. A first generation Samsung Galaxy S (released in 2010)[1] can run Android 4.3 through a stable release of CyanogenMod 10.2 and work is under way for Android 4.4 support[2].

[1]: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Galaxysmtd_Info

[2]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526478
Using Noscript, you can whitelist sites or unblock case-by-case.

Or, you can recognise that not functioning at all without JavaScript generally indicates a lack of interest in the user experience.
I at least briefly went through the almost all books before putting them into list (not counting early releases). It's not required to read every word in the book to understand what's in it.

I've heard about "FP in Scala" and it's loaded into my kindle prepared for vacation (together with many other)...
Register a LLC in the US, which is not expensive at all, this should get you on the road to sending DMCA takedowns to at least the US sites hosting your content. Here on HN, search for the user named grellas, who is a lawyer and may be able to guide you in that regard.

Disclaimer: IANAL

Nice site! Like the illustrations, had fun brushing up on things from my medical school days.
> there is a lock-in effect if you build on top of App Engine's proprietary APIs.

No. There hasn't been for quite some time.

http://www.appscale.com/ provides hosting services on top of an open-source codebase you can (with some effort) deploy on your own.
So in China Bitcoin status is equal to World of Warcraft goods (swords, shields, etc)? I mean WoW goods one can buy on eBay.
Nice.

I disagree though, the sheep invented the shepherd to give themselves a purpose.

History shows that a strong dictator can keep a population down for an awfully long time with nothing but violence. There's no reason for the dogs to bother inventing anything.
I use a similar program called ManicTime (don't remember the reason RescueTime wasn't an option for me at the time).

It's a great way to know what you're wasting time on.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but just incase.. Exchanges are not banned. They are being regulated with KYC/AML for customers. They also need to register with the telecom authority.
Jeff left StackExchange, he's just working on his own now.
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>Is the gender of said author supposed to be curious or worthy of attention?

It shouldn't be. There are two things going on here:

* Perception of our industry as all-male biases women against joining

* Default use of 'He' exacerbates this by unsubtly signalling that our community is all-male

So why flag female hackers?

* To try to combat the perception of us being an all-male community (we're not)

* To signal to women and men that both genders can operate comfortably in this environment

Why do we want more women hackers?

* We are ignoring more than 50% of the programming talent in the world
To be fair, we try to be significantly more useful than eHow.
In theory (stress theory) the shareholders (represented by the board) put a CEO in who establishes systems to minimize the risks of mini blow ups. But if the govt doesn't have to bail out a firm, who outside it should worry? If an overly ambitious marketing Manager at Colgate wastes 200 million dollars on a stupid idea, it's not my problem as an outsider.

As a corporate insider I can encourage systems where people have the right balance between risk taking and risk aversion. (Most large companies are too risk averse. Try implementing a change initiative at one.)
Investment means (among many things) taking risks for various reasons, which includes creating an income-flow. This reasoning remains valid regardless of currency's nature.

Also, the same can be said about saving. Why would one save money in an inflationary currency if the money will loose value? I agree that a lot of people out there don't save, yet there are people who do. How come?