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I still have a television.

For watching movies, you can't beat a good, large-screen television (or a projector I suppose) in a comfortable room.

Also, in the UK we have a reasonable (well, fairly reasonable) selection of shows on Freeview and Freesat. The BBC's recent multi-channel coverage of Glastonbury is a good example.

That said, it is a horrible distraction and I feel guilty about the power consumption of the big plasma...
Got one but then I have to have something to connect the Wii, PS2 and DVD player to.
Those are great tips! As a 2+ year fan of the FiveFingers I don't think I could have put it better myself, although I would add that you should always maintain good posture as well (shoulders back, head up, back in neutral alignment, hips in line with shoulders).
The Songbird guys should talk to Palm, and vice versa.
I used Google Finance when I needed to check out some stocks (twice a year or so) just because googling "GOOG", "MSFT" or "AAPL" shows a link there. Original article mentions 20M uniques for Yahoo Finance; I looked on Crunchbase for Google Finance figures -- it's mere (in comparison with YF) 1M. Surprising.
He qualified the statement by saying "from his perspective" which could be taken to mean "95% percent useless in his life" with a sample size of 1.
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I'm not hiding anything. I'm just pointing out that this sort of gloating is a really bad idea. If I had actually broken into TechCrunch's systems do you think I would post an article about it?
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Hey Sgrove, did you read the guideline that recommends flagging items you find inappropriate rather than complaining about them in the comments? Because your patronizing quotation of selectively applied guidelines added very little positive contribution to the conversation, and dragged your comment's overall value much lower than it should have been.
This. Also, the media computer.
I'm using a bunch of Yahoo's APIs (not sure whether this counts) for my pet project (geolocation, geocoding, etc). Google Maps API is not offering an alternative to some capabilities of Yahoo (Yahoo's/Flickr's reverse geocoding, for example, is really strong).
No television and no cable but I do have a projector that is hooked up to an xbox 360 for gaming and netflix.
well, I toyed around with writing my own search engine (have a pretty good proof of concept) but in the end the bandwidth costs would have been prohibitive... so there :)
Media PC + OTA broadcast TV still makes a TV worthwhile in my house.
Well, if you aren't used to it... Your muscles are going to be weak since you are using them differently.
And the author hasn't updated the page to reference the latest post in this intriguing ongoing saga, "Aral Balkan's Twitter 'Cihad'":

http://ruby.sys-con.com/node/1028923 and the followup,

http://www.sys-con.com/node/1035252

SYS-CON's CEO explained his views on that particular subject in his "Social Media Terrorists" blog, which is an appropriate blog title especially since this man's religious, ethnic, cultural, and national background fits into FBI's profile definition of the modern day terrorist."

Keep in mind this company publishes popular magazines, supported by big corporations (Adobe, Microsoft, etc.), and runs huge conferences that many people attend:

http://events.sys-con.com/
Why not, try to create a loop that writes to the Console and set some timeout
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I feel the same way.
I suspect that people are having a knee-jerk reaction because it sounds like more (and boring) work. Just like if someone asked you to write comments to every line of code. Hence the argument "sounds good on paper" which seems to always come up. To me, TDD doesn't sound good on paper at all. It just turned out to be more fun (to my surprise) because it is much easier for me to get into flow.
If astroturfing is false advertising, does this case mean that any review of a product is also advertising? If I post a positive review of, say, cigarettes and I don't comply with various regulations does that now open me up to having my house seized and being thrown in jail?
Yes. 50" LCD
The idea is close but using GSM for internet locks you into a reoccuring monthly fee to keep it working -- stop paying the fee and it becomes just another scale. If it worked over wifi with the ability to access the information on my local computer (and not just via the website) and kept the $119 price tag I'd be interested.

I understand that I'm not a typical consumer, but I am a typical early-adopter.
What percentage of people who don't own a TV, like to tell you at every single opportunity that they don't own a TV.
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I agree with you about the "not exciting" part, but I disagree about their reputation in geek circles - at least "real" geek circles and not just tech digerati that are obsessed only with what is changing and new and what drives traffic to their blog sites.

Yahoo pump out loads of tech stuff all the time - YUI, Hadoop, YSlow, YUI Compressor are all hugely respected and popular tools. They've write articles and published research that are almost definitive references for things like web site optimization. They have a boat load of web service APIs that are used all over the place and some of them are very innovative. It's worth just browsing around http://developer.yahoo.com/ to see all the stuff they have going.

(No, I don't work for Yahoo or have any association.)
A productivity tip I found somewhere on the internetz

"Avoid the tube".

And it works.
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I've lived without a tv just fine for a couple of years, and didn't really miss it.

However, the technology-loving part of me recently bought a decent Sony Bravia 1080p set for the purposes of watching tv series and films with housemates, as well as the news in the evening.

Definitely nice to have for the social element, as I'd much rather not be in my room staring at a PC screen outside of work. Streaming DivX over the wireless and having the housemate's PS3 plugged into it isn't much of an inconvenience either ;).
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Homepage? I don't even have a homepage, just whatever tabs I had open last time.
Right. With Haskell and OCaml, a lot of testing can be pushed onto the type system. The language is better about letting you express semantic constraints via types, without making you declare every single instance of everything the way C and its descendants do.

I wrote a QuickCheck-eqsue library for Lua, FWIW: http://silentbicycle.com/projects/lunatest/ (It's the first released version, and the documentation still needs work...) For table "objects" and userdata, it checks the metatable for how to generate an arbitary instance.
I used Yahoo finance before the market tanked (No, really before, I got out in time). I loved how easy it was to view up to 100 years of history of almost anything. Certainly helped me believe there was absolutely no reason my modest portfolio would grow much further on the stock market.
you can also sue their customers
I don't have one. I do watch a couple of shows online and have seen full seasons of couple others after they ended. Overall I think I watch more shows/movies than my friends who have TVs.
He's getting so much coverage because his posts are interesting to read.
I think I'd find "avoid the web" a better productivity tip :-).
May I politely tell you to "bog off"?

I've never blogged about this change in my TV owning situation, and never bored anyone with it. It occurred to me that I was probably not alone and having been hassled by the TV licensing people in the UK because they don't seem to believe me, I wondered how many other people don't have a working TV.

I'm not here to be holier-than-thou about it. But if you want an argument then, how about "what percentage of people who have a TV, get all defensive when they discover someone who doesn't have one?"
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Use the one that Apple sent to Microsoft when they were suing for the look and feel of Windows being a rip of MacOS.

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I like the trackball for three reasons:

- I don't have to periodically pick it up and reposition it because of running out of mousepad room. (My wrist doesn't like doing that, and my sister -- who has had surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome in both of her wrists -- says it's bad too, but I couldn't find an online citation.)

- I can press the buttons without accidentally moving the pointer at the same time. (This is mainly a problem with ball mice, but I've gotten unintentional pointer movement with optical mice too.)

- I find it easier to do things that require pixel-level accuracy with a trackball.

I prefer the Logitech TrackMan Wheel, whose trackball is thumb-operated:

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/d...
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No.
my reason is, a little bit silly, the quality of the show in my country is really "low". as a replacement for entertainment i buy some DVDs once or twice a month.
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What they currently use is Cyrus done by Carnegie Mellon University. http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/
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I picked one up a week or two ago, 'free' is a bit of a stretch, of course you pay for it but you pay for your subsidized cell phone in much the same way, in installments through your 'plan' rather than in one lump sum when you buy it.

The interesting thing is that the plan that came with the netbook (rather than the other way around) was actually cheaper than the one without... go figure!
I remember reading some guy's blog entry where he cuttingly remarked that he used to not watch TV, but that he spent so much time smugly telling other people that he didn't watch TV that it took less time to actually just watch the damn TV :-)
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Cute.
I am a moderator of a few active Yahoo! Groups. We opened them at eGroups in 2000, and they are still working.
When you take the proverbial out of someone elses systems, on a technology website read by thousands of tech savvy people you're asking for trouble.
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Somehow that seems a little embarrassing. The "greatest" technical university in the world needs Microsoft to take care of its e-mail?
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Or maybe that's what you want us to think. After that last hack, you'd be rather high on the suspect list.
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You mean White People? (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-t...)
I think I've seen a bunch of plans with free netbooks in Ireland. The lack of proper broadband infrastructure has give HSDPA dongles a boost here.
Some people think the way to respond to fanatical zealotry and dogma is with fanatical zealotry and dogma they like.

The problem is usually with zealotry and dogma itself, though. If you approach the problem from the angle of, "Ok, let's try to figure out where TechniqueX is a good fit and where it's a poor fit," it gets rid of most of the arguing. It also tends to highlight the people who persist in arguing that TechniqueX will solve all problems for all people, all the time.

It doesn't drive blog traffic as well, though. (The middle path usually avoids all that drama...)
Hmm. I wasn't smart enough to think of that angle. I guess I wouldn't make a very good criminal mastermind. Oh well.

But remember on that Hacker News hack, I just thought of the possibility. Someone else did the actual work (and, in fact, totally independently of me).
Aren't the situations a little asymmetrical or are they ? How much does a disruption in Twitter service affect people and how much a disruption in Techcrunch affect the internet economy.
I own a TV but it's hooked to the DVD player, Wii, and Xbox without cable.
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Mobile phone operators in the UK have done this for a while.
At least this post will have everybody running like headless chickens at TC deleting every unethical or compromising evidence and fixing every possible security hole.

But there will always be one hole left...
I think a lot of people do what zach did, though - because of hype, perhaps, they're loose with terminology and conflate TDD with automated testing in general. Then, people argue until they're blue in the face, because they're talking about completely different things. (This happens with OO all the time.)
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Does anyone detect a pattern?
I think there's been a large 'elitist' movement last few years on the web. People suggesting that anyone who even owns a TV is a mindless drone. The funny/ironic thing is that often the people suggesting this are the same people who mindlessly sit in front of twitter/reddit etc watching rubbish all day. How this is any better is anyones guess.

I'd be interested in TV owning situation for those with kids though. Not having a TV when you have kids is borderline abuse IMHO. Kids should have some exposure to popular culture, and be able to talk about the same stuff as their peers.

It's like some people who use adblock though. They just love to tell you at absolutely every single moment that they "see no ads!", I guess because it makes them feel clever.
Get off the guy's back. That last hack was both clever and responsible. Having the ability to find security problems does NOT make one a suspect automatically.
I guess the original suggestion corresponds to the "experience" section on your CV/resume; it's demonstrating that others have hired you.
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I've got some C++ up and running now (using my own test hash and word list). The lowest hamming score I get (12 hours run time) is in the low 40s... anyone getting lower than this? I think there will be a lot of tied submissions... no clear winner.
My guess is that the first really free netbook will be available from Google. Chip in Chrome OS, and they could be able to buy themselves into the OS market easily.
"The funny/ironic thing is that often the people suggesting this are the same people who mindlessly sit in front of twitter/reddit etc watching rubbish."

That's me :-)
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Just for Travel Channel, Food Network and Gossip Girl.

Deleted all news channels.
i do, but i refuse to watch it. it's for my servants, they will complain otherwise.
That's what I was referring to. Oh well.
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Slightly off topic now, but doesn't it seem right+proper that you have a TV license if you use BBC iPlayer?
I concur. Y-Slow (and Smush.it) and Firebug are absolutely essential to my workday. Yahoo gets lots of geek cred from me there. (Their CX design is terrible though and Yahoo small business just went to charging $30+ per year for domain registration. WTF?)
Verizon is doing this too now with DSL and telephone contracts.
10 is a huge stretch. My testing in C++ agrees with you. The lowest score I've gotten is 41 after about 12 hours. Sure, I may get lucky and get one in the high 30's or something, but it would just be blind luck and persistence, nothing more. Not a very cool contest IMO.
Yes, but it is analog and gets less than an hour of use a week watching the Discovery channel almost exclusively. :)
I've never owned a television in my life. This has the following consequences:

- There's a lot of smalltalk I can't engage in, you might not notice but there's a lot of references to TV personalities in daily interaction with people.

- Sometimes I miss big stories that are only communicated through television. Typically some documentary about online predators, horrible conditions at old people's home or such. Everyone but me seems to know.

- I'm terrible at movie trivia and references since I don't really watch any.

- I'm forced to do something when I'm bored. I can't just turn on the telly and chill out, I have to do something active like reading a book, fixing my boat or commenting on Hacker news.

- When I watch television somewhere I instantly think how much facade and how little information the medium contains. This has gotten worse over the years.

- I have a lot of freetime to do stuff.
> Christine C. Fitzgerald, a spokesperson for IS&T, said, “We are running Exchange servers in order to offer Microsoft Exchange. This is an optional infrastructure solution for those departments who will benefit from an integrated e-mail and calendaring solution.”

For better or for worse, the world has come to expect integrated email and calendaring. I'm running Zimbra (community edition) for a few clients, and they like it, but alternatives to Exchange, even a good protocol, seem scarce.

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I get 4 channels in Sydeny (down from 900+ in Washington DC); I do most of my work with some kind of crappy American tv show in the background. I must say, from 10AM - 3PM, I have Oprah, Dr Phil, Ellen Degeneres and The View running in the background. I have never been this productive while hacking, and I must say, I am very close to lactating soon ;-)

I "watch" this crap mainly because I don't grok Aussie entertainment yet. Footie shows; three varieties of Rugby, all day long. And a politics scene that's even more petty than Omaha's provencial manicupal government. I still haven't gotten over the fact that Aussies are only 20M people; it just puts everything in a very tiny prespective. You would think the people who brew Toohey's Extra Dry would have enough beer goggles around to breed like bunnies. Harden the fuckup, Australia! :-P
Well, there are very few notebooks with other than TN displays. Thinkpads used to have IPS, but since the introduction of latest generation (T400, T500), they have TN too. For a very short list, see a poster above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=706579), he mentions one HP, one Lenovo model with optional IPS (W in series designation means workstation) and one Sony model.
Yes it needs help. But why would someone wanna save something that's a hell for dev and designers ?
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Agree. It's one step down from when companies shout about how secure their systems are and then offer some 'challenge' prize money that they assume will never be won.
Or, Michael Arrington could just send me an email and I'll tell him which machine I'm talking about.
The only reason I have a TV is for sports though we do have a few favorite shows that we enjoy watching together as a family. When no one is home, I either don't watch TV at all or watch online.
And the most important, it protects you from carpal tunnel syndrome. I started suffering from CTS and had to switch hands at first. Then finally dropped the mouse and got a trackball (precisely the one you point at) and never been happier.
MIT has plently of hackers that could just roll their own. The most suprising part is that they didn't do that, and just went with the packaged solution.
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Montezuma is nice. Also see how it "relates" to Lucene:

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This is really a poorly written and entirely superficial article. The only value that I can see is that it provides a fairly comprehensive list of open source CMS software. There are much better sources of information out there (cmsreport for one).
TV, analog with digital-broadcast-converter box and DVD/VCR combo. The kids watch a few hours of broadcast TV a week; when it switches from Fetch with Ruff Ruffman to The McNeil Lehrer News Hour or whatever WGBH puts on at 6:00, the kids suddenly have a powerful incentive to get away from the tube and come down for dinner. Aside from that, we pretty much only use it for watching videos.

When the kids are allowed to use their parents' desktop machine, they sometimes go to the Cartoon Network's site and watch Clone Wars reruns on it.
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My wife works in a hospital, and hates Cerner. That's one more datapoint.

But it's absurd to say that pursuing open-source models would improve this. Whether the software is open or proprietary, the real barrier to what the author writes about is that hospital IT departments aren't up to the job. It seems that generally, hospital IT is little more than Help Desk and report builders. They can set up a new desktop PC or backup the server. They can write some reports or export data for financial modeling.

But actually developing the hugely-complex hospital management systems, with medical records, billing, etc., all integrated together, is beyond the means of any hospital IT department I've ever heard of.

So pursuing the author's ideas really has a prerequisite of changing the mindset of healthcare IT, tranforming the from helpdesk-related jobs into full-fledged developers.
Similar situation. No cable. 720p projector + 100" fixed mounted screen. PS3. Wii. Netflix. Roku.

I love movies but cable is overpriced and overrated. Until it's a la carte, I'll stick to IPTV or OTAHD.
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Yeah, very true, especially with things like Rails where the community is somewhat .. faddish. Someone whose first real exposure to programming was Rails - and there are a lot of such people, coming from other web development areas - might well confuse TDD with automated testing itself. The two are taught/preached as one and the same.
I looked into this carefully. I would need a TV license if I watched programs on the BBC iPlayer at the same time they are broadcast. Currently there is no requirement to have a TV license if you watch iPlayer programs after they are shown.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/iplayer_does_...
The problem with that is that unit tests are so useful during refactoring. If you have enough unit tests, you can pretty much refactor at will without worrying about your program silently breaking.
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