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While we understand the arguments of the ISPs, the simple truth is that the web will not work if a few Internet providers control what can and cannot be streamed to your computer. Without net neutrality rules, they could decide to shut off YouTube, Hulu, or any other website for whatever reason they choose.

As long as there is even a modestly competitive market for internet hookups (more than one firm), then ISPs will compete to serve the interests of the consumers. Comcast isn't going to shut off Hulu unless it's massively unprofitable. If there is not a competitive market, then that is the real problem that should be addressed. You shouldn't limit people's ability to enter into contracts to buy services. If we want bandwidth to expand, and if we want fast, low latency video and voice connections, cable companies will need to be able to charge premium prices, both to consumers and content providers. Instead, we are beginning the long process of binding the internet in a layer of legislative gray goo, despite there being no evidence of ISPs acting against the interest of consumers.
It's time for Airbnb, Listia, and RentHop! (And one other, as yet unannounced.)
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" ... these talks will slowly trickle onto the infoq website"

Do these videos ever appear someplace for easy download, or will they forever be stuck on someone's walled garden?
Who said fancy was desired? Artistic direction, especially in games, refers to much more than just graphics.
OK, so I forgot the "kilo" in front of the "Watts". What's three orders of magnitude among friends :-P
You can't call it a "contract programming" situation if there is no contract. What you are admitting to is quoting a price in haste (to get the job?) and getting it wrong. I would never provide a quote until the client has provided a specification. If they can't produce a spec, then I write one for them on a T&M basis and suggest that the client invites others as well to quote on doing the job. The spec then becomes part of the contract.

What the client does with your program once completed should be of no concern to you. You wrote it for them and it's theirs to use or not use as they please. As ninjaa points out, you may or may not have intellectual property rights to the program depending on the jurisdiction in which the agreement was reached.

If you accept no money and reneg, then your client doesn't have much to grouse about except for the wasted time. It's obvious that your client wasn't being professional either since they didn't demand a written contract. You could probably both put this episode behind you and chalk it up to experience.
Actually I made a calculation error. I would have been about 80 miles an hour.
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This is just a big, semantic muddle. Gruber put it best:

Google doesn’t see the difference between "not accepted" and "rejected" that Apple claims to see. (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/18/google-unredacts)

Obviously, there's some kind of communication/PR/spin gap between Apple and Google. The distinction is so tiny and cosmetic that it's not worth getting all worked up over: Apple is weaseling around its decision, and it's pretty slimy, but it's going a little far to shout "you lie." (A "nuke"? Seriously?)

Personally, I wish the hotheaded folks at the 'Crunch would move on to the larger questions: what's the real reason the app was "not accepted"? Is the decision anticompetitive? What can Google (and its customers) do about it?
I think you're underestimating the amount of competition needed for a healthy market. I have two choices: Time Warner Cable or AT&T DSL. It's easy to see how they could both decide that, for instance, crushing Hulu is in their best interest. Both of these companies provide television service. If they did this before Hulu got popular, it'd be even easier to avoid angering customers.

ISPs are free to charge premium prices for premium services, but it is dangerous to allow them to discriminate between sources of traffic when there are so few competitors.
Lessee...Google job, T-shirt. I think I'd rather have the job.
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I can pretty much guarantee that eliminating the regulations that led to the current telecommunications oligopoly will not result in Bell competitors sprouting up all over the place. It's a done deal.
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I think he's asking if it's OK to steal the guy's idea and do it on his own, because he wants to license it himself.
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I don't think that our points are mutually exclusive (why "except").
In other words, just because you might get 10000000000gigs of "free" inbound, doesn't mean you can actually get that much inbound out of the pipe.
I hate warped statistics. A probability is not "2000% lower". That would imply a -1900% chance. I suppose he meant that the probability of dying in a flight is 1/20 of in a car, although I cannot be sure.
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Yup, I observed first-hand exactly the process you describe. It seems to be inexorable. I even came here to comment "That's what they all say." :)
Your solution is:

print"""Happy Birthday To You\nHappy Birthday To You\nHappy Birthday Dear XXX\nHappy Birthday To You""" -> 103 chars

This came up on the Clojure mailing list:

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Yeah that would be a great argument if DirecTV didn't use licensed spectrum and have exactly the same constraints --- not to mention a 10+ year history of booby-trapping their hardware to stop people from changing anything.
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I agree. It's not possible to run it without being constrained by it.
perhaps it's more rewarding to exploit it

This feels evil. Exploitation. It's a lie. It's wrong. That's the problem with it.
The answer to people not knowing about useful third-party apps is not to stuff all the apps into contrib.
Sadly we don't all have these options. The project I'm working on right now, a prototype DSL for writing counters to check data, can't be written in a fancy language like ML, Haskell or hell even Python. They don't want any "weird languages" that someone else will have to maintain once I leave. So C/Lex/Yacc it is.
I interned at IBM in 2002 and didn't have Office on my computer. I spent a whole day trying to format and print my resume in Lotus Notes for their internal career fair.
Interesting, but not much use until somebody writes some demo pages to show it off.
Thanks to everyone for the great responses, great fun to read them all!
I once passed on a story to TC that had one upvote on HN at the time. It went on to become a huge sensation online and in print worldwide. I won't disclose it but basically the company threatened to sue all involved in spreading it. Afraid, I wrote to Arrington and he assured me he'd rather goto jail than out a source.

Of course I never seriously thought the company had a case(especially against me). I just took a public link and fwded it to someone who made it big. Very different from leaking.
If by hand-waving you mean giving life and meaning to a professional occupation that has been stifled by mediocrity, FUD, and decades long short-sightedness, than I gladly welcome it.

As far as pseudo-philosophical, I would direct you immediately to SICP. From the very beginning it points out that the computer can (and SHOULD) represent a beautiful philosophical, even metaphysical, exercise- the understanding of "how things are done".

Mr. Hickey isn't pulling things out of the air here, there's a long tradition of scientists (and hackers) attempting to communicate to their peers - "Hey, start treating your practice with some goddamn respect. PLs are not religions. Like music, really, truly, like any art, like any civilization worth continuing - let's keep striving for something better". Perhaps I'm being overly poetic. But if there's no poetry in your work, then what the f&%k is the point of doing it?

EDIT: original poster deleted his post. As much as I like Hacker News, I find the fact that people can "game" the karma system by deleting comments clearly destined for down modding lamentable. Perhaps the algorithm for karma should be tweaked so that if you have karma, bravely accepting a brutal down modding for a flawed viewpoint should count for something. That is, if you can't accept being wrong, you probably aren't a hacker worth her/his weight in salt- acceptance of the fact there's always something new to learn should be rewarded after the punishment ;)
Color arguably isn't essential, but an awful lot of work goes into it. There are, literally, books written about nothing but the use of color in film. Hero was a particularly dramatic example in recent years, if you haven't seen it.

Well..the cinemas are making some money out of 3d for a while - even with a tv, it's a lot different when it's 30 feet tall. People say they don't see the point in the theater any more and I think thy're insane for not wanting to see a film the way it was meant to be seen.
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In US telecom most of the damage is done already. Taking away the laws, regulations and policies that built government assisted monopolies does not set things right. Many of those regulations are already side stepped and you don't see new wireless, cable or fiber deployments from startup private industry. It's too expensive to compete against an infrastructure that was bought & paid for decades ago. A great example of this is the FCC wireless spectrum auction. Who ended up getting it? All the big established government assisted telecom monopolies of years past for the most part. It was open to anyone yet Verizon & AT&T spent more than $15B to extend their strangle hold. It's nice to have $15B worth of capital you earned from years of plundering anti-competitive markets.

I see your point about the problems of more regulation to solve past regulation and would prefer to see socialized broadband instead. The market is too screwed up for the private telecom sector to ever recovery even with lots of good regulation. Since it's quite expensive to build this type of infrastructure nationwide open/fair access policies are a step in the right direction. It's treating the symptoms, not the disease.
Give it a shot. You say you're inbetween jobs rights now so you've got nothing to lose. If it doesn't work out you can always leave and find something else. By the sounds of it, the company would be great to work for and you'd be happy there. You can't put a price on happyness and if love doing what u do, it wont seem like work.
This is a reimplementation of a Scheme quine. It is slightly more verbose than the Scheme version from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Scheme_.28als...) because 'quote x is expanded to (quote quote) x. Contrariwise, lisps may contract (quote quote) to 'quote, which is, for example, what Allegro CL 8.1 is doing.

According to http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_lisp.txt, the original implementation is attributed to Chris Hruska. Other lisp implementations mentioned there tend to expand to clojure.core/seq and clojure.core/list in Clojure; expansions usually work as quines in Clojure. This is an easy exercise. :-)
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It's by Anouman (http://anouman.net) -- but it's gypsy jazz, same style as Django.
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This goes back a ways. In the late '80s, when I was in college, I saw a story in the local newspaper about the city school system. They were totally jammed up trying to make schedules for the school bus routes. I'm thinking they might have even delayed the opening of school a few days, but I might be misremembering that. I'd been studying algorithms and this was, to me, obviously a traveling salesman problem taken to the next level. I spent several months researching the problem. I met with the guy at city schools who ran the office that made the routes. I got a friend's brother who was a fireman to give me a whole stack of large extremely high-resolution blueprint street maps. I spent an astonishing number of hours encoding street intersections and soforth into coordinates (using yardstick and multicolor pencils) and entering them into a QBasic program I wrote running on a PC under DOS. I wrote a functioning routing program that, given the map data and a bunch of addresses, would create a reasonable set of routes.

In the course of doing all of that work I really learned the meaning of tree-spanning algorithms, big O notation, and soforth - but I never created a usable SYSTEM. The map data was just too huge; I only encoded a small part of it. Also, the amount of computation required grew so fast that I realized if I ever did succeed in encoding the entire map the amount of computational time to produce usable routes would be impossibly huge.

My grades suffered horribly and I found actual paying work writing software for an insurance company. There were other issues, too. Finally I had to just quit the whole thing.

In hindsight, had I had access to Tiger/Line (I think it existed then but cost far more than I could afford) and been more advanced as a programmer and had more (any) support the problem could have been solved. Tom-Tom, Google Maps', et al route-finding fascinates me. It's obvious that they don't do a complete graph search - I think they use clever tricks like identify arterial roads limiting the graph search to those roads - things like that.
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A nice trick! And can be derived directly from the "definition" of the song (that is, from the way the song is constructed). Great!
> People say they don't see the point in the theater any more and I think thy're insane for not wanting to see a film the way it was meant to be seen.

Some films are meant to be seen on a huge screen, but some films aren't. Off the top of my head, '7 Pounds' doesn't need to be seen on a 30' screen to be appreciated. Films that are especially character-driven with little 'action' don't need to be seen on a huge screen (barring other things like shots of vast landscapes that set the tone for parts of the movie,etc).

I've seen Hero. There are films that make great use of color. Even looking at blockbusters like The Matrix, the mood of the film is set by the tone of the colors used and the lack of saturation throughout (and the 'lady in the red dress' scene wouldn't have made as much sense in b&w). Films like Amelie and (arguably it's spiritual successor.. though a tv series) Pushing Daisies also make great use of color (though it's much more in-your-face in Hero).
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What about Clojure? It's a lisp and can be used the Scheme way. At the same time, it runs in Java virtual machine and therefore can be controlled directly from Java. That is, your legacy code can be written so that it can be maintained by Java programmers (this is to sell it to "them".)
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Don't forget port 443 or else you will not get your encrypted stuff equally served.
This is much more hardcore, though. It simulates disc changes and the like.
Except the company who tried to kill Octopart( see pg's startup school 08 talk.)
Junk DNA could be protecting the useful DNA, so I can see an analogy.
Why shouldn't it? Didn't Mint successfully take on Intuit? I don't understand this lack of faith in entrepreneurship in such a place as HN. Not just picking on the parent, but my downmodded question and the general fervor towards legislation such as "net neutrality".
I can't email you, but if you'd like an inside look at how color is manipulated for use in film you might find this interesting: http://vimeo.com/5298634
Or, you know... read other comments before replying. My comment beat the other by an hour :)
Then why not just get rid of all of it and make a level playing field? Why favor entrepreneurs over big business, or vice-versa?
There is nothing wrong with dressing and grooming well. The essay talks about people who spend substantial time and energy at fashion, at projecting an image. there are only two things really worth spending time on: 1) family and friends, and 2) your work, that is what you contribute to society. The second is helped by good grooming, neither is helped by being "fashionable" (unless your work is mostly image, like acting or other entertaining).

And the essay by PG is relevant because it points out that nerds are unpopular because they have more valuable things to do with their time than suck up. The "in crowd" spends effectively all its time sucking up to each other, and shutting out everybody worthwhile.
Quite right, big business has successfully lobbied for many unfair advantages. But two wrongs do not make a right. Undo the damage by repealing existing regulation instead of heaping statute upon statute.
I'm not much into reading about signaling and similar issues, but from what Robin has written, especially over the last few months, I think most signaling, eg group membership, involves status signaling among its other issues.
Prototype it in the language you know best, implement it in the language you're "required" to.

A typical compiler project is at least 6 months away from start to finish. Deliver something in Python in 2 weeks and see if they can resist it; you still have 5.5 months to flesh it out in C if you still have to. I don't for once buy that a software shop will refuse having a working demo immediately, even if it's in APL.
Telecommunications is one of the most capital intensive industries in existence. Intuit is nothing like AT&T.
That's why you don't bring it up again. This isn't theory; it works, at least for me.
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Praising or even respecting "passion" is a stupid pop-psych thing to do. Passion is worthless except to the extent that it motivates you to provide value to society. Or do you and the ??s that voted you up somehow think that passion excuses or justifies serial killers and Adolf Hitler and other historical and real world excesses.
Perl 6 is not the next major version of Perl 5, which is what "Perl" refers to. The next major version of Perl 5 is Perl 5.12.

Perl 6 is a totally different programming languages that is like Perl 5 in many ways.
The problem I want to solve isn't unique to me, and the cat bowl is easy enough to hide from ants (it sits on a plate of shallow water).

I simply hate the idea of chemical warfare to combat ants.
There maybe a lot of films that you can take the colour away from with relatively little cost to the viewer.

But some of the best films: Schindler's list, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, etc would lose a lot if the had to be entirely black and white. I would say that most films would lose quite a lot of humanness if they where to be presented in anything but colour.
I've been very interested in #2 on http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html for a long time. I always thought that a sufficiently simple, unbreakable operating system constitutes a solution to the problem, especially combined with a homepage enabling basic access to 3 or 4 separate tasks.

I am optimistic that Google Chrome OS constitutes an absolutely enormous step towards #2 by building the actual Web OS -- which is more like the Palm Pre's OS than any other existing operating system. But I won't know if it actually works until it actually comes out, probably a few days to 2 weeks before YC apps are due, because Google usually launches about a week before Microsoft and Windows 7 comes out then.
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On reflection, it occurs to me that a Sufficiently Smart Compiler (TM) could figure out that you were going to open the file right after checking whether it exists and just call open(2) as the existence check instead of stat(2) and then open(2). This seems to depend on the details of the library implementation as well, though.
It is worth pointing out that the key is made of plastic, which means that metal detectors won't get it. This is going to be a fun century.
Perhaps I don't get it, but unless 3D movies become "interactive", there really doesn't seem to be a point to 3D. I've seen the latest slew of 3D movies in 3D just because I'm a sucker, and I have to say my overall impression was something like this:

1. "This is kind of irritative to my eyes".

2. Completely forgot I'm even watching it in 3D to the point that my memory is of the movie being in 2D.

And frankly I feel that short of gimmicky scenes where a ball "flies right at you!", this will always be the case. 3D is cool in the real world because I interact with the real world. If you had a video game that was 3D it would add a new dimension of playability, but not so much in a passive entertainment environment like movies.

But perhaps I'm wrong.
It all depends on how the email was worded. If the email said "How much will x website/photoshop killer cost?" and the guy said, "I would say about $xxx" then there is no contract. But if the emails read more like, "How much would you charge for x." and he replies, "oh I would do it for $xxx." and the client says, "OK." This would result in a contract in CA and probably in others. Even without that second exchange of emails a verbal contract is still a contract so you need to be careful of what you agree to do.
Law is just playing semantics.
I don't know if your recommendations are on target for this guys request. He wants more of a cookbook approach to learning calculus and DE with a focus on actual applications. The second link with the book on analysis seems to be much more depth than breadth. The breadth approach is more in line with a cookbook way to learn.