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Even if we take an uncharitable view of Bill's time at Microsoft, the harm is fairly limited. Some companies went out of business, computers are slightly more expensive, things crashed quite a bit, IE6 is still mucking things up, and really old bugs in Microsoft Office occasionally make life miserable. You know, first world problems.

On the flip side, thanks to Bill's philanthropy, there are now billions of dollars flowing towards vaccines, mosquito nets, life-saving research, and other undeniably Good Things.

It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison, but if you could quantify and compare the impact of old Bill and new Bill, I'd say he's a net positive.
Ah yeah, sorry; xa65 is the package name on Debian as well.
Thanks so much! That's a great idea; I'll write that up.
>Bitcoin is not a currency, it is a technology, a service and now a commodity for speculators which is crashing right now.

Agree on that it is not a currency (the word "currency" doesn't even appear on the Bitcoin client's website). However, please explain why you say it is "crashing"? 3 months ago the price was $130 on average. It's around $500 today. How is that a crash?
The PS4 is x86. And I wouldn't be surprised if it used ELF (like the PS2/3). Though I can't find any mention of the format that's being used.
I have released it a few week ago (see my submission), but I got caught up with fixing bugs and fell into the trap of "this is crap if this feature doesn't work" and then another and another.... and now at the stage where "I need to finish this but my brain says no cause it needs more customers to validate this software fits a need."
Interestingly, in the long run inflation may be problem with Bitcoin rather than deflation.

In 30-100 years (the numbers vary according to the source) the world population will start to shrink. From that point on there will be ever more money available per living person. Which, of course, mean inflation.

Central banks can counter it by burning money. It's not clear who would do such beneficial activity with Bitcoins.
> But I want a whole new programming language that is designed from the GROUND UP to be amenable to programmatic transformation.

Pretty much any modern statically typed language can easily be refactored.

The problem is not the refactoring, it's deciding when to refactor and to what (e.g. renaming). This is much more of a human than a computer problem, and as such, it will probably be intractable for a very long time.
Yup, I believe what these sites provide is a platform for introductions and initial agreements, but both parties still need to do the relationship building themselves.
Kiva's no different.
There is a reason there are so many languages extant. They each serve a purpose.

What exactly do you think you're on to? Insight has built all of the things that you're hoping to replace. So what are you bringing to the table?
Go is already extremely fast to compile, I'm puzzled that they choose to improve this aspect of the compiler, which nobody really complains about, while ignoring elephants in the room such as generics and a proper exception mechanism.

It's almost as if they choose to tackle the easy problems instead of the hard ones.
I know celebrities with have done AMAs, and I can say with the exception of proxy PR people coaching (usually when they have a movie coming out soon or something), you end up getting pretty honest and direct responses on reddit from them.
Similar age, similar history, although currently employed and having a blast with some new toys....

I re-entered the trenches by specialising in one hot technology (iOS) and producing a series of apps on my own account.

From your description, I suspect a CS degree would probably bore you and it wouldn't make a great deal of difference to your employability. That's not to dismiss university out of hand though. There are other departments where technology hits the road in a way that throws up opportunities all over the place. In your position I'd consider taking a few courses (not necessarily a whole degree) from a decent business/marketing faculty...real world experience can bring a lot to the table and they certainly do deal with fuzzy, hard to define, difficult, and above all, profitable problems.

I did a fascinating MOOC in gamification a few months back, if only I wasn't so busy....
Sometimes low tech is all you need. Put on a toque or beanie hat, pull down over the eyes and temples, sleep. As for waking up on time, I have a mobile phone for that.
What are movie devices? The README is bare text; I like my READMEs to look as good in vim as they do on Github :)
I don't think that your librarian needs to "infantilize" you. You're doing a fine job all by yourself.
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The Gripen NG does not appear to be any less capable than the Super Hornet, with the exception of being single-engined as opposed to dual-engined.
You say "government" like the "market" and the "government" are separated by a vacuum. Spoiler alert, the "government" is the single largest purchaser for the "market", they drive the most demand and ensure a stable supply for a large majority of commodities that prop up your "market". They also seem to provide a safe and stable market place.

FMFM are an organization that is subsidized by the government and is held accountable to the government. In the same way Farmers are subsidized and held accountable to the government. In the same way hospitals and eldercare are largely subsidized. In the same way weapons manufactures are subsidized. In the same way fire departments, police, road construction, rail, utilities, and air are all subsidized by the government.

And whoa, low and behold they are all also held to the same regulatory and market pressures any other company are held to. Just that, society decided these institutions are important to THE PEOPLE as a whole to let them go to shit because they don't attract investment because the margins are too thin.

Its not as black and white as you want to make it. Look hard enough at an "market" and you will find government subsidizing it in some way, even when it regulates.
Yup, that's definitely true, but opcode parsing and dispatch needs to be a really tight loop. Keep in mind that function calls still involve pushing/popping stack frames, which while super, super cheap, are still not free. There are no loops other than the main loop in here, and every instruction takes constant time, which means that constant factors in opcode parsing and dispatch are going to really dominate.
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Talk about a blast from the past! Time to try to find a rom dump...
Exactly how many would he need to know to be able to safely make that statement?
I came to the Silicon Valley to get an internship. Now what?
I am a CS senior undergrad at a state school in the east. Though it's a mediocre school, I have a very high GPA, and my resume is not weak.
( https://www.dropbox.com/s/icnpwwelsswtyec/Eric_Na-resume.pdf )

However, througout the last semester, I found it extremely difficult to find a tech internship, and after a lot of thoughts, I decided to come to the Silicon Valley.

Now I am staying in Santa Clara, and I have about 36 days until I go back.
I like the town and its neighborhood, but I have no idea what to do in order to boost up my chances of getting an internship.

Meetups may be helpful, but one I went to tonight was nothing more than a seminar. Also, I doubt anyone there would be willing to help me.

Hackathons are not held until Spring.

What should I do? Please help me.

p.s. I am an international student, but I am legally authorized to work as a full-time intern, and at this time I don't need any type of visa support.
There is a minimum warranty throughout the EU, and most countries go well beyond that.

This is why Apple was forced to change their Apple Care plan, since most of what you would buy is already guaranteed by law.

(Apple isn't the only one that tries that, many brick & mortar electronics retailers still try to sell people "insurance" that for 90% exists of rights you already have.)
1. To-do list. Come up with 10 things you want to accomplish on the project tomorrow. Keep them small, so they're 20 minutes of work each. When you wake up, you have some direction, and get a sense of accomplishment as you check things off. Since they're quick to finish, you can convince yourself to take care of one 20 minute task before playing a few rounds of Counter-Strike. Waking up, and thinking, 'Uhh, I really need to finish this project', is overwhelming, and you don't know where to begin, or even want to think about it. Write your to-do list for the next day before you go to bed. Just sit down for 20 minutes, and think about a small step you can move forward.

2. Take a break and focus on other hobbies. You don't need to think about your project 24 hours a day. No, seriously, you can take a break. Here's the situation. You have work to finish, so you convince yourself you can't take a break and leave the computer. At the same time, you don't want to think about work. So, you end up browsing HN, Reddit, and playing games the entire day. In the end, you accomplish absolutely nothing, didn't enjoy yourself because in the back of your mind you're thinking, 'I should be working', and you don't even feel like you took a break to begin with. Set aside some time for a break. Pick an hour, and watch a movie, or go to the park next door and play with your dog, or work on something hands on around the house, or do some exercises or meditation. When you dedicate a particular period of time to take off, you can actually enjoy it, without feeling guilty. It's a good way to clear your mind. When you write your to-do list, choose the times you'll break the next day. Don't make your break HN, and get off the computer if possible.

Anyway, good luck. I'm in the exact same position, 95% finished a project that's been going on for well over a year, and trying to get things wrapped up.
It would seem more fair to charge for the privilege of making calls (either access to a talking area, or a seat in a talking area).

But, of course it would probably be an easier sell to say "hey, pay an extra $50 so that you don't have to be bothered by asshats screaming on their phone!"
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Okay so I've read through some of your other comments, and I've been there myself (procrastinating by means of Counter-Strike).

I'd say the best way to get over your burnout would be to choose a more relaxing hobby - some people play a musical instrument, some people like working out, some people simply like getting some fresh air.

Next, enumerate your immediate goals on paper (getting that remaining 10% done? What steps can you break that down into?) and assign deadlines to them - by dinner time, by tomorrow afternoon etc.

Choose a distraction free space (if working with other people is what you like, hit the local library/coffee shop) and get cracking!
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It should be opt in so most people get it by default. When it's opt out you're one database leak away from being able to out out all those awful people who like boobs. If a law like this was passed I'm sure the climate is such that a list like that would be useful for black mail
Good stuff if even as visual reference material as to some of the awesome possibilities CSS 3D brings. Love it!
We also can't ask the corrupt official whether he wants his communication to be traceable and seizable, yet cryptography enables him.

There were very smart people trying to limit the use cryptography in the 1990s and they failed, and recently there were governments trying to sabotage the development of cryptographic standards, and they also failed, probably because they know what happens when individuals can communicate securely.

The cat is out of the bag. Bitcoin is just another application of cryptography.
Not really what I'm looking for.
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Tell us about his dong!

edit: oh come on this is funny.
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Not saying this is all that matters, but if you have a verifiable c->go translator (that is to say, a well understood and tested translator known ("proven") to give you an output program that behaves identically to the input program), then you may be able to skip (or more likely alleviate) the awkward phase of bug introduction when translating a program. I think a problem like this is one of the cases where its easier to reason about in the abstract ("Clearly all arrays should be converted in this fashion"), vs the concrete ("in this part of the code we should do this with the array"), and also avoids the inevitable temptation of "fixing" or "cleaning things up" during the translation. Also of course there is a huge incentive for a good c->go translator to exist for the go community.
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Reminds of my little 6502 CPU project for the TI92
calculator.

http://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=c64

Only 30KB of code and it runs a C64 on it.
Great name, and interesting idea.
Your homepage is nice and clean, but after reading a few sections I found myself wishing that you would just focus on one thing. It felt like you were trying to be too many things to too many people. But, I also thought that maybe you had such a great system and a new development paradigm that would make it easy to accomplish everything you said you'd do and make it easy enough for your different target markets.

So, I signed up. Use my github account! Great. But then, why do I have to have a separate username and password for your site. That's disappointing.

Well, now I'm in your app. I was initially shocked and overloaded. So much going on on the page. Smallish text in the 'latest activity', but that's not my activity, who are these people? Why should I care what they're doing/saying?

Ok, it's a feed of all the discussions on Koding, with a bunch of filters down the left side. Not super useful to me now. I want to see what it's like to code on this thing.

I can search topics, member...Develop! Finally, that's what I want.
What the hell is this? I've got a domain and a machine. Oh, you set that up for me. Cool. But why is the page laid out like it is. It makes no sense to me. What is the build of that machine? What can I do with it? How do I set-it up?

Well, hide the environments, I wanted to code! Ok, Ace. What's that? Terminal, Teamwork and get more apps. Where's my editor? Where are my files? You've got my github, where are my projects?

Maybe I'm not your target market, but I am a developer, and much like my feelings on your homepage, after looking at your app, I can't figure out how I would use it, and for what?

I hope you can take this advice and either pair down your offering or provide a better on-boarding experience.
Yep, in San Jose.
An attempt doomed to fail. Iranian government has been trying this type of filtering from the day one, people still manage to go and find whatever they want... and believe me Iran is more aggressive than David Cameron the last time I checked.
Oh, the downvotes make me feel good. HN hates its cynic culture, and at the same time, this guy gets a stupid immediate benefit of the doubt for his feelings.

He asked for real criticism, guys. His post is really high on imagination and low on delivery, and if you don't see that you should probably think about how many people have created our programming languages and contemplate doing better.

This person isn't having conversations with them.

Am I rude for requiring him to step up to his talk?

Edit:

>>In other words, I think this might be the killer feature that allows one programming language to outcompete most others.

This sentence alone is flagrant ignorance.
> Dikshitar and Dikshit are (high caste) Indian names.

I'm sorry, I know it's impolite, but I chuckled and nearly spilled coffee on my keyboard.
Except things like ATMs are not. They use eventual consistency.
All of them, because it is ridiculous to assume that you know what every person in a particular group of people is like in real life based on the actions of a subset of that group on a message board.

Some celebrities "get" reddit, and some don't.

Some answer three questions and leave, and some stay for days.

Some see it as a promotional tool, and some are actually part of the community.

Some participate anonymously, some have AMA accounts, and some have both.

Most of all, even if you did know a good portion of them on and offline, you can't possibly extrapolate what the rest of the group is actually like in real life.

The idea that you can encapsulate an entire person into a couple dozen comments (on average) that they leave on a message board is absurd to me.

Going on to extend that abstraction to an entire class of people is even more ridiculous.
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Is that a new word for you or something?
The executable has to be read from the disk, and until it's fully loaded nothing would show. Since startup time must be minimized it's good to keep your executable size small. Also newer versions would be smaller for updates off the internet. Most of all the executable has to be linked over and over again (by developers) and then copied or written to the some kind of disk/drive somewhere to start it.

But as you've said, maybe moving some big clunky parts to dll would help.
SnapChat is already known to soft delete only, so really there's nothing new here.
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When I was at Microsoft, I actually remember Bill talking about how he's a hard person to buy gifts for. I think he said (I could be misremembering this) that he doesn't watch certain TV shows he really enjoys because he wants to be gifted the DVDs. He specifically mentioned 24.

I know he also really enjoys DVDs from the Teaching Company and has a pretty extensive collection.
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I wonder why snprintf did not make it into C89 given the Morris worm.
oh? Well consider me effectively misled.
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I used to have long discussions here about generics and other stuff with uriel.

However, I fully support this decision.

Bootstrapping is the best way to develop a language, as it allows the language designers to experience the language in first hand, while making it independent of other tooling.

Plus it is one argument less for C zealots against Go, in the sense of "my compiler compiles yours".
Boy that Kirchhoff guy's been a productive fellow.
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Good luck!
I am looking forward to see Hotspot replaced by Graal, post Java 8.

Lets see if it really happens.
Leaking the last four digit of your bank account can be dangerous.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44231957/#.UrKovi95F7M

Though old news god wonders what other services still do this.

We know your name is Martian and if we spend enough time we might be able to identity your true identity and possible to start trying things.

If you want to hide your identity, you probably should just use something more distinct.

Just saying.
Don't they have the Snowden Leaks? It would be very useful to have internal email conversations about them. There is a great deal of people who would be interested in that around the globe.
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I agree with you here. That is why such contests are going to be permanent in Telegram. New contests like this will be launched in March 2014 or earlier if anyone wins earlier. Consider the date for breaking Telegram open.
Why would you trust pg in the first place? I wouldn't trust him.
I remember Anders saying that they just started with C++, because of the existing toolchain.

If it was today they would have done otherwise, based on current experience.

Well, at least Rosylin is going to be available in an upcoming .NET version.
I think you might be referring to someone else.
While that makes them the same stream, it doesn't actually solve the problem. Many systems will write to stdout buffered, but stderr unbuffered, so that writes are visible when the program crashes. Redirecting streams at the shell level doesn't stop application level buffering ruining your day.

Having said that, GP's request is pretty niche, it's only useful when the program uses stdout (not a gui, web etc) and is doing work that might write to stderr while it's writing to stdout (so no summary report generators, long running physics simulations etc)
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> I'll show you a man who can solve any problem presented to him if said problem prevents him from seeing boobs.

And if the person is a 14 year old boy who can't opt out because he's not the account holder, what'll he do? I'll tell you: He'll find the long tail porn sites that aren't blocked. You know, the non-mainstream ones, the ones which go out of their way to evade detection. The ones where anything goes.

And what if the list of politicians who've opted in to porn is leaked?

And now the filtering technology is in place, it seems foolish not to block extremist, terrorist websites too. And communist ones. And protestors. And non government-santioned news.
Even back then I never saw gates as a mad tycoon like others seem to. When running a business at the end of the day the non software problem you are trying to solve is not necessarily to make the best thing in the world but to sell the most things and maintain future sales. It is just another problem to be solved along with getting your memory model right and ensuring customers aren't dissatisfied enough to abandon your platform. Of course it comes at the risk of having to allow hurt to other companies but that is the nature of survival.
One of the "porn" sites Newsnight tested as Reddit.
This already happened in Italy[1] and in other european countries like Belgium[2]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/12/apple-hit-with-12-milli...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/following-fine-in-italy...
Amtrak in the US has Quiet Cars. I was once thrown out of one for laughing too loud.
Not sure about external testing, but it's not a single "censorship infrastructure", all the operators have their own, proprietary filters. (Which is, of course, worse: your website may be visible to BT clients, but not to O2 users...)
That's exactly how it used to be with the in-flight air phones (except the exponential part, it wasn't needed with calls costing $10 a minute).
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In my experience, AppleCare covers more than a warranty, which only covers defective devices or parts thereof. For example, AppleCare+ for iPads and iPhones covers accidental damage. Consumer law hinges on what is and what isn't reasonable. So a cracked screen due to consumer clumsiness wouldn't be replaced under normal warranty terms as the law says it's unreasonable for the retailer to be expected to cover that. A failed switch, however, should be replaced a cost to the retailer unless there are reasonable grounds to deny so, i.e. evidence of tampering, which would include bodged self repairs.