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What if the government wanted all dictionaries to be curse-word-free? Will the publishing companies involved just sit back and accept the move as " this is the world that we live in"?
During the initial phases of adoption, yes, you are absolutely correct. Geeks provide a sort of "buffer" for the rest of the public; we test things and report on what is the best.

The iPhone has reached a point where it isn't going to matter what we say anymore. Look at windows, how long have we all been screaming from the rooftops that it is garbage? How much affect has it had? Some, maybe, sure...but people look at their computers, realize that they can more-or-less get what they need done done, and then they forget about it and go on with their lives.

People are NOT going to give up the iPhone on some silly ideological ground. Yes, this pisses me off, no I won't be buying an iPhone, yes apple is moving further and further away from something that I want, but NONE of this matters to my mom.
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To any of you who are parents, how fined grained are the parental controls on iPhone? If I want my child to have Project Gutenberg and a dictionary in his pocket, do I then allow him to install any NC-17 application?
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While I heartily support your attempt at feeling significant by coming across as an arrogant prick, my original question was moreso along the lines of "are you guys restricting the featured sites to those using the code you've provided?".

I haven't seen that explained yet, hence why I asked. ;P
True. I'm sure it's majority Asian-American but I found the cutest ones to be straight Asian. Of course, they were also the hardest to make things work out given the severe language issues.

Interestingly almost all straight Asians in SF are there to learn English.
It's probably about time the geeks & nerds of the US figured out a way to pool our resources and get these laws changed. Lobbying works. If we had the money and a legitimate political organization things could change.
So, lawyers and economists are corruptable but engineers aren't?

The only difference between this and a crackpot is that the domain is stanford.edu and not geocities.com.

There's so much wrong here that I can't even figure out where to begin. Most points are based on distorted facts, contains fallacies, ignores realities, and so on.

There are some reasonable ideas (standardized mortgages) that I've heard elsewhere, but a lot of it is crap.

#1 fixes what, exactly?

#2 is reasonable.

#3 is just ranting about credit cards. the fees may be egregious but someone does need to get paid to run the machinery. of course, it should be a fixed cost per transaction and the machinery should be less complicated. but it's not related to the actual crisis.

#4 just moves the problem.

#5 is just painful.

#7 are you kidding?

#8 is just silly. and I work there.

#9 is more pain.

#10 is not the problem either. It's that there's multiple processes. It was leverage and VAR that hurt, not the raw gaussian mis-approximation (although it didn't help.) The markets are gaussian (well, GARCH) short-term, but the regime shifts and changes are the output of another process.

A more reasonable solution going forward is going to be a) transparency in financial instruments for consumers, b) strict guidelines about new kinds of financial instruments, and c) leverage restrictions on financial organizations.

I think that simultaneous failures of other industries due to lack or loss of flexibility will have to be dealt with in different ways.
I'm one of the developers for Ninjawords. Thanks everyone for sharing in our frustration. I thought this was a bit ridiculous as we were going back and forth with Apple, but I didn't know it would cause such public outrage. I guess Apple is really striking a nerve recently in exercising their totalitarian App Store powers. I hope they're interested in rectifying the developer experience, because it really is a great device to build software for. It's just that months of rejection over an innocuous educational utility tends to crush any excitement, you know?
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I disagree, at least a few of his proposals struck me as eminently sensible. Politically impossible at this time, but that can change.

Of course, I've been exposed to some of the primary sources for some of the more syndicalist ideas he espouses.
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New tax bracket, 90% tax bracket for anyone making more than the president of the USA -- retroactive two years. Rates were higher than that in 1963 (historical rates).

Bad idea. Besides being in very poor form (changing the rules after the fact), retroactive taxes will snare people who made perfectly reasonable financial decisions given the rules at the time, but would now find that they don't even have the money to pay their (retroactive) taxes.

As for 90% taxes on high income, I'd prefer that they simplified the tax code and got rid of loopholes.
The 90% tax bracket is too much, that actually does make people not want to work. 65-70% would be better, or just actually closing all of the tax loopholes.
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I really hate to be "that guy", but his incomplete sentences are killing me.
What's the point of the rating system if even dictionaries have to be rated 17+?

Wasn't the idea to allow finer-grained control over the content allowed on a given iPod/iPhone than was possible previously?

Why can't they allow filtering over the sub-categories rather than just the broad labels? There's a world of difference between "obscene" words and graphic pornography.
If apple makes one, especially if there is some kind of cellular data plan attached, it is going to be a big hit. Newsflash, all those iPhones are basically tablets and it has gotten enough people used to that kind of interface that a certain segment of users will happily start replacing their laptops or skipping the netbook class all together in favor of this kind of device.
"Businesses fail for one reason and one reason only. They spend more money than they make."

True, but that's not the definition of a business. Facebook and Twitter are certainly businesses. The "get users, figure out monetization" path is a real-business path (though I happen to think it's riskier).
"Institute a 10% tax on landlords that flows into a federal savings account in the name of the renter. The renter can draw from his account only for a home mortgage, or at his retirement."

So landlords raise rents 10% (or more) and the effect is simply forced savings. Why not just make the SS tax rate 10 percentage points higher? Ridiculous.
No one disputes this. However, the vast majority of cars and car parts sold in the U.S. are made here and are made in states below the median in average income; neither of those things are true for computers. Furthermore, this is a mildly net environmental positive.
You can set a maximum "level of naughtiness":

Don't Allow Apps
4+
9+
12+
17+
Allow All Apps

So, the short answer to your second question is "yes". Pretty stupid, huh?
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Another fine example of laws existing to protect the greater goo... oh wait.

Why is it that someone can buy drug paraphernalia at a retail store? Isn't it because there are theoretical uses for those products that are legitimate? To convict him, wouldn't they have to prove that there was NO legitimate use for his "services"?

I just don't see how this can possibly go the distance.

EDIT: I should clarify that I mean "legal" paraphernalia, such as rolling paper and the like. Not the kinds that have been explicitly deemed illegal.
Why are they a great concept? Non-folding bikes aren't particularly heavy or unwieldy. Finding a place to park/lock your bike isn't hard in most cities (I think).

I guess I don't understand what problem a folding bike solves.
I think the sensible option is to eliminate income tax completely.
Props for being such a young and upcoming entrepeneur, especially being able to juggle school, internship, and a start-up company.
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I think that's a little defeatist. Apple caved when it came to developing full blown apps for the iPhone due to the outcry from developers. Remember, they originally only wanted to allow Safari based development.

I'd love to see some creative, coordinated protest from the iPhone developer community. The best conference protest I can remember was when indigenous Australians stood up and turned their backs on our former Prime Minister John Howard. Imagine if that happened at Apple's WWDC, it would send a powerful and embarrassing message.

Apple is becoming increasingly belligerent and rely on the fanatical loyalty of their developers to simply keep taking it. At some point it's time to take your hand off the stove.
Won't the cars traded in just get sold right back out at extremely low prices?

Overall this program is likely increasing the number of vehicles on the road. The energy cost of producing the new more efficient cars may well be offsetting the energy gains of trashing the old clunkers.
I have a feeling if he made this a centerpiece of the defense case he could have it appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. If you "buy" something, you own it. Similar to the car comment, if you buy a new home, it's not like you get it with a EULA that says you can't modify it, although home owners associations act in a similar manner.

He could also potentially counter-sue with a class-action lawsuit claiming that the video game systems makers committed fraud by way of falsely advertising to people that they were "buying" the game systems, when in fact, they were actually leasing them.
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Such as? Note, by the way, that I am not against significant reform here. These are reactionary and shallow, is all.
Does this guy ever sleep?
I had this exact same thought.

It turns out that they destroy the cars that are turned in.

So really, it's a program to destroy functioning assets. Perhaps we can also pay people to break their windows.
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i think you could make some good money as a naming consultant.

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I wonder how many organizations use separate test environments; because parallelism is really useful for this kind of migration.

In the case of IE6, it would mean setting up some machines with $NEXT_GEN_BROWSER and some side servers with copies of the antiquated "web" apps. Gradually, everything that's broken without IE6 is fixed by tinkering with the side copy that no one is really using. Sometimes, the company's been really stupid and doesn't even have source code, etc. so "tinkering" might really mean "try something new entirely", but at least they'd be showing interest in modernizing (however long it takes).

The simple fact is that all companies should have this kind of "beta flow", in which they can basically try whatever they want (time permitting). Today it's IE6, tomorrow it could be something entirely different; there will always something new that "might" vastly improve efficiency, and a company that can give these things an honest trial is way ahead. I cringe when I see change-averse IT groups, because deep down I know they're shooting themselves in the foot.
It's harder to be corrupt if you have to argue technically why your decisions will improve the economy.

Engineers and Scientists value the truth, whereas Lawyers value a convincing argument whether it is true or not. Think about their jobs: you can't convince reality you're right, but you can convince a jury.

I think you'd find it much harder to create feedback models of the economy which just happen to predict the best thing to do is to "Give Goldman Sachs a bonus to fix the economy", than it is to come up with some unprovable scare-mongering which terrifies the politicians into doing just that.

So yes, engineers or scientists would probably be more trustworthy running the economy as long as they stay true to the discipline.
Why is it working? Are you fucking kidding me? (Mod me down, I don't care I have plenty of karma) If you offer more $ than something is worth of course people will take you up on it.

This program is a huge destruction of assets. They add a sodium silicate to the engines instead of oil which causes significant internal engine damage. So you can't even make rebuilt engines from these cars.
A law by Congress cannot override a Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court has the final say on the Constitutionality of laws in the United States via judicial review, which was used for the first time by the court in Marbury v. Madison.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article03/13...
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Agree,

The only thing the "everyone else's ideas are crap, let me start from my gut" approach has going for it is that it appeals to ... other people's guts.

A lot of economics is junk but a lot of it also involves some subtle thinking about problems where common sense often fails.

Indeed, one might even argue that the crisis came because there was already too much "technological" thinking and not enough thinking about the history of ... bubbles. LTCM was pretty close to the "engineering mindset" (at least the bad part) even if it was physicists running it and many actors (Alan Greenspan esp) viewed the market as a technology that would take care of everything.

-- Also, #7, right or wrong, "retroactive" law enforcement involves ... abandoning the rule of law. Again, if you study the history of places where that happens, you know that's a bad thing. So, no let's not let engineers or software engineers or mathematicians run the country, even though I'm in the last two groups...
I can't picture Steve fuming about it. I can see him kicking doors in and fixing it. But he's (aparently) not. That's the thing: either Steve lost control of his baby or he lost his sense of morals. Both are disturbing to me.
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> Passing MyArray[x+3] as a macro argument would lexically copy this expression in multiple locations in the macro expansion, causing the generated code to needlessly evaluate *(Myarray+x+3) again and again and again.

Wouldn't any decent optimizing compiler eliminate those common subexpressions? That's one of the basics, isn't it?

Of course, if you're in a tight enough loop to worry about that, check the assembly by hand.
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Exactly. This is nothing more than a reverse bail out. There wasn't the political will to give the money directly to automakers so they just waited a couple months and repackaged it.
am i the only one that read (at least a few of the suggestions) as tongue in cheek?
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I already have an HP tx2500-series Tablet PC, and I adore it even given some of the manufacturing oversights I've noticed.

That said, it's actually a pretty valuable tool for presentations and tutoring sessions with several people, and reading digital-format maths and physics texts is not that bad either.

... but that's assuming I have a stylus and a touch panel and the whole nine yards. Apple's probably going to use only the capacitive touch panel and not include stylus input capability.
This bike design is so bad, someone has written and recorded a mock commercial for it:

http://www.supload.com/listen?s=FKrRVn
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To be "normal", you are by definition average, and to achieve anything, you need to be "above average" in some way. If you're "above average", then you must by definition be "abnormal". Considering anything "abnormal" is a disease in psychiatry, then anyone that achieves anything must have some type of psychiatric disease. :)
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Before relational databases, you know what was the standard? Hierarchical databases, aka key-value stores. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_management_system#Hist... Since then, object oriented databases have come and gone - another hierarchical DB.

I wasn't there when it happened in the 70's, but I think it's essential to understand why relational beat hierarchical then; and to understand what has changed since; because only then can we make an informed prediction.

I think the issues were efficiency and ability to analyze the data. Anybody know what the actual reasons were?
> If you're going to work 70-80 hours on a startup, basically no sane woman is going to join you (I know a couple women that'll do startups, but most seem to want some semblance of a life too.)

Not true at all! Really driven, busy women usually choose choose driven, busy men. I worked full time, ran my own company, and had a full classload studying for a business degree for two years. My working breakdown was: 30-50 hours at my job, 20-40 hours at the startup, and 9-20 hours doing classes and schoolwork.

The rest of the last five years haven't been much less busy. In that time, I had a girlfriend who was a fashion editor and had her own talk show, dated an award-winning genius hyper-athletic architect, and had a really cute girl in medicine. All busy girls. I also had a couple other girls who led more casual lives, but came from driven families. My main girlfriend for a while had parents supporting her, and she picked me up and dropped me off from many of my classes, she cooked for me while I was doing my work, and when I got a bit of time off, we'd rent movies or go to a casino or something.

Normal, regular people don't understand busy, driven people. That's both regular men and women. It's hard to have "normal" friends when 70-100 hours of your schedule are blocked out each week with craziness. But busy people understand - so I went skiing and diving and got into trouble with my busy, driven friends when we had some vacation time, and the girls were always happy. Start looking for girls who are hyper-driven themselves: Lawyers, architects, executives, media, etc. And look at girls who have a super-driven father, which is just generally good advice for a driven man anyways.

Regular people don't understand busy people, and get offended, and want a "work-life balance" instead of building an empire. And that's fine, if they're happy. But there's plenty of woman who want, love, embrace, and support a driven man. Get one of those girls and you're cruising. I wouldn't recommend trying to date a "civilian" if you're living a crazy life though, they don't understand, won't understand, can't understand. No big deal - the driven, busy girls are awesome anyways.
Yeah. The tradeoff is that smaller tiles are harder on the client. I wasn't really rigorous in choosing the size, so it's likely not optimal. I actually don't use memcache yet.
Probably in cities where crime rates are high. I've gotten 3 bikes stolen in SF already. The last 2 bikes used some heavy duty U-locks that almost cost as much as the bikes themselves. Some office buildings in SF don't let you carry a bike inside, but they don't care if you fold it up and stick it in a bag. Also, if you have a car, it's a lot easier to throw the folded bike in the trunk than taking apart the front wheel of a normal bike and squeezing it in the back.
I don't expect to be able to type quickly, accurately or prolifically on my iPhone the way I would on something the size of a tablet. I suspect many people feel the same way...that was the whole point of this article.
The subjunctive: if only it were that easy. Actually, it is in English because we only ever really notice it in a few places...

Grammar nitpickery aside, good article. Is client-side hashing really that big a deal? I don't know from first hand experience because I've never bothered with these things yet.
object oriented databases have come and gone

They have never arrived in the mainstream, but they exist as a niche luxury item, mainly because the mainstream use broken languages with broke runtimes that can't persist objects between sessions without getting their pointers in a twist. So they settled for the next best thing: Object Relational Mapping, along with a matching pair of Impedance Mismatch. It's ORMs that are coming and going; at least in the industry hype-machine.
Law system contains natural numbers, so it has by definition some expressions that can't be evaluated :)
Is ie6 dead?
ha ha ha xD

At least HN is (and hopefully it will remain) free of stupid Apple censorship.
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I heard a lot of this before spending some time in SF. If you don't have problems meeting women elsewhere you won't in SF either. If you do, at least here you'll be able to join the throng of socially awkward folks that blame it on the city.
I think that the omission of Microsoft is rather deliberate; this is the next phase of the browser wars. Hopefully there's enough of an installed base of sites that work with WebGL that when Microsoft launches it's catchup version it's as much of an epic flop as WindowsME.

Or Microsoft could get on board and not attempt to piss in the pool yet again; stranger things have happened.
im sure people affiliated with or users of the respective projects will take issue with points made. all told, however, the main takeaway for me is what i already knew and which the author mainly drives home in the last paragraph. specifically, use and take advantage of all the tools out there including the ones in the nosql camp and the more mature rdbms camp. and simply, get started already!

projects im working on now sometimes have the same data represented differently in different systems to take advantage of what those systems have to offer. many of them mentioned in the article.
I continue to eschew a mouse in favor of the keyboard (hell, that's why I use vim), but I am a programmer. Oh, and that doesn't mean that you can still ship a computer without a good trackpad. (I'm talking to you IBM. That pointer-thing is not suitable)
Doesn't sound like you're competing against your peers so much as you're competing against the market. Outperform the market, do fine. That doesn't sound too tough to me; talented, motivated people are always in short supply.

Makes me wish they were hiring in a city where I wanted to live.
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