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Could you explain this euphemism in plain English I have no idea to what it refers?
World changing ideas in the early stages are more found by LUCK than logic or intuition, I mean, if something could be reasonably (logically or intuitively) known to be world-changing, it wouldn't be so unexpected or valuable when it happens. I doubt any of those founders, even intuitively, expected their ideas or companies to be world changing when they founded them.
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Sooo many photos and no video? Weird :)
They are advertising the clothing store - however the reason people buy them is because they think they're incredibly subversive having clothing that appears to say "FUCK" in public.

I don't find "fuck" to be particularly offensive, except that the reason people are using it (in this instance) is because they wish to offend the public sensibility, so they are attempting to be offensive; which I _do_ find offensive.

French Connection, before this campaign, was a high-end clothier. Now it may charge high-end prices but they sold themselves into chav-dom.
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The Haskell Paradox, too.
He mentions that. And Erlang, too.
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Where does my inspiration come from? Drawing. (2007 sketches about webapps)
How would one do things right if there are no examples of comparable quality?

Revisit the recent drama with twisted vs tornado.
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Yeah. I'll consider Drupal as well for blogging. Are there some good themes for Drupal and does it support pingback?
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This is great, a single standard being implemented in WebKit AND Firefox. Someone will probably have to write a plugin for IE though, since it's HIGHLY doubtful Microsoft would cooperate.
Go for a pair of G-Star Raw jeans, you'll pay eight times as much - but they will fit you perfectly.
Hook, line and sinker.
Would you like to buy a watch? Sure it's going to cost you 100 times more than another watch but you can't skimp on quality. This will make you stand out as an individual. Everyone will want to know you with this watch on your wrist. Can you feel the power yet - come in for a fitting today.

etc.
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It's a good thing they've spent so much time focusing on a photo editor!

See tptacek's comment about WordPress security http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806760
Google cache has it though:

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.yes-no-cance...
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Software is different, because, except for games, software is not the final good, software is a tool people use for other ends; Quicken or spreadsheets for finances, word or text processors for writing, databases for finding and managing information, many internet sites for communicating one to one or many to many (HN for example), and so on. It is confused with content because it is communicated the same way, the difference is in how it is used.
This is practically content free. If there really is a known security hole in WordPress, I for one would like to know what it is, so I can patch my sites. Vague burblings about XSS just don't cut it. After all, it's possible that his site was exploited prior to 2.8.4 and he just noticed the problems (or the attack has just become active) now.
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I don't know much about fashion but the mini was developed by fashion icon Mary Quant (of LBD fame) came out in the 60s and had no particular association with prostitutes.

Stockings were worn way back to keep peoples legs warm. Lipstick was in use at least as far back as Ancient Egypt (but perhaps by prostitutes I don't know).

Fashion appears to be largely cyclic and those cycles have been accelerated recently in a bid to extract more cash from fashion victims. Haute Couture is not so cyclic (but probably the influences are) but then on the whole it's not affordable or useful to the general populous.
Best response to this is in the comments onm the articles:

Outside the U.S., you're asking Facebook to make politically based value decisions. No Iranian should claim that the holocaust didn't happen, because holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. But can an Armenian group claim that Turks committed genocide against them, when it is illegal to make such claims in Turkey?

It's a complicated mess - just where do you draw the line (beyond what your legally required to do)
Let's not reinvent the wheel and use a framework that has been developed since the seventies. Anderson's ACT-R framework is based on cognitive theories and models, and can deliver pretty accurate results.

For a more user-friendly tool, take a look at CogTool. You can build or import a prototype UI, create tasks (sets of actions: click this, type that), and let the software evaluate or automatically optimize the interface. Last time I checked they used ACT-R as the cognitive engine, so the results should be accurate.
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People won't look at her and think "clueless" they'll think "nice outfit."

Men won't look at her and think "clueless" they'll think "I'd like to 'have' her". Gay men may think "nice outfit". Women will accuse her of being "clueless" whilst secretly thinking about whether they could ever look that good (even if they look better).

Sweeping generalisations? Shallow stereotyping? Never! ;0)>
"Science, after all, is about evaluating evidence. Science journalism, sometimes, requires pointing out when evidence is weak or absent. This is especially important in the context of medicine and health, where misinformation or lack of information can be deadly."

What exactly is the problem then? If misinformation can be so deadly then surely one should have a sober mind and do all his work, also think twice about maybe three times about misinforming the public or "bending" the fact due to conflicting interests.

Surely if what Mr. Sigh said is true, then there is no case to defend at all as I would presume that those who are bringing proceedings are not so stupid as to embark on such a journey when it is certain that what is said is the truth. Perhaps Mr. Sigh exaggerated a bit, perhaps to such extent that he defamed them and speaking outright lies so as to defend his own profession. I suppose he would not feel good if I were a respected and an individual of influence and said that medicine is rubbish, just drink some water with sugar as the placebo effect will take care.

I would suggest that this has nothing to do with Mr Sigh, or science, truth, justice, or right and wrong. Instead the journalists hate the fact that they can not exaggerate stories to such extent as to tell lies in order to sell their papers. Science journalists are the worst, claiming contradictory findings every day and exaggerating all findings out of proportion.

The truth of the matter is that libel laws are there to protect the public. Lying is not a crime, but it does have strong moral condemnation. Defaming on the other hand is a lie of extraordinary proportion which cause so much damage to the defamed organisation or individual but also society as a whole. Tell the truth and you have nothing to worry. Lie and you do so at your own peril.

We can not have the forth arm of governing be unaccountable. Libel laws are there to keep journalists in check. If they became more lenient no one would benefit, not even the newspapers as no one would trust them any longer.
The IP document they have on the site is quite interesting. Wonder why they call it confidential when it is lying out in open on the site.
I may have stripped it out. Given the ease with which a client can be installed ("sudo apt-get install ...") then why waste the space. Sure it's small but the principle stands, and many small programs add to lots of space - also that small program is going to be downloaded millions of times unnecessarily, written to CD/DVD, written to HDD or flash drives .. countless transfers and writes, even for a few KB that's a waste.
Another false one here: "Tetris was designed and programmed in the Soviet Union by Alexey Pajitnov in 1984."

Source: "http://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm
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I disagree with the premise that "feed the family" money is all the founders should ever be allowed to take off.

They deserve a higher than minimal and/or even average salary, too.
That depends on whether you agree with it.
Is Melville's Typee or Omoo on the list? I've just finished reading both and they are so fun.
Of course it is. It's helpful for the people who've already bought into 37Signals' philosophy of doing business. For them, it's a reminder -- in-the-group signalling -- like a vaccination. If people nod and go, "Yeah! That's so true!" then they are confirming their group identity and commitment to the philosophy they've adopted.

If you're not thinking about these things all the time when you're reading things, you're not getting maximum usefulness out of them.

It's not just what people say, or what people read, but WHY.
fiduciary responsibility requires you to take it.

If you have major shareholders or they vote to take it against your wishes then perhaps. But, if you are the major 'holder or have a casting vote then you can do as you wish. Sure greed may motivate you more the bigger the numbers get but you don't have to take the money.
14 hours ago, 16 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831185

It's still on the front page.
Let me ask you this: is your opinion of dental insurance in any way related to your age and lifestyle? You have a strong opinion but, from an outsider, it seems that this is one of those, "This works for me therefore it must work for everyone" cases. A family of six with three under the age of 10 would likely have a different perspective. Is it possible that, as you reach 60+ years, your perspective will change? From seeing my own grandparents and parents expenses, I'd guesstimate most elderly spend upwards of $10-$30k on dental work from 60-80.
The only problem I see is it will be trivial to find the culprit, just look for the Googler wearing a TC shirt.
My dad told me about "Careington" the other day and says that it saves him money: http://www1.careington.com/index.aspx
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I have to say the shot of him in his Hawaiian shirt with the huge phallic turgidity of the engine held erect against him does look rather like an example from a Freudian textbook.
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You might be the greatest capitalist thinker I've ever come across. Gruesome, macabre, the epitome of evil genius.
Esoteric languages are a lot of fun. But they're not very productive, exactly for the reasons mentioned: lousy IDE support, buggy compilers, few libraries, few bindings to existing libraries, and so on. When you work in a stable language, you can assume that when something goes wrong -you- messed up. In a new and cool language you don't have that luxury.

You'll be less productive, but you'll have more fun when you get to program in language. A good trade off? I don't think so. A few years down the road you'll have to maintain the same project. The honeymoon period is over, and the code base isn't quite as good as you'd like it to be (you designed the project back when you didn't know the language very well, and it shows). You know you could spend a few weeks refactoring, but that would probably introduce bugs and you'll drive the other people in your team crazy if you start renaming methods, and move stuff around just to make the code "nicer". And besides, you'd much rather be programming in the next-nifty-language, because it lets you extend the syntax at runtime and it has a debugger that will let you go back in time.

The bottom line is that when you pick a language that is on the cutting edge of cool right now will no longer be cool a few years from now, but it still won't have any libraries and other essentials. Languages too have to cross the chasm, and they all have to go through a period where they're neither new and exciting nor stable.

If you're serious about software, concentrate on writing something that is reliable as hell and easy to maintain and install. Want a challenge? Write your app in such a way that power can be lost at any point in time without losing any user data. Or (for desktop apps) make sure that the UI -never- hangs, even when the hard drive has to spin up. Software is never done, there are always things you can make better, more fault tolerant, faster. It's not as if we've run out of challenges.

Messing around with unstable languages is a lot of fun. It's educational too. But don't build your business around it. Python/Django and Ruby/Rails are only barely stable enough to work with. Thinking that using Haskell, Clean, IO or Lisp will be a net benefit to productivity is foolish.

(Of course there are obvious exceptions, and that Clojure and Scala use the JVM does make the whole library thing less of an issue. But it's still a big deal.)
Agreed, I'm trying to work out what the story actually is here.

Apple said that they hadn't rejected Voice, just they hadn't accepted it yet because of concerns it competed with the iPhone's core functionality.

The truth is they had rejected Voice, for the above reasons. Is that it?
As your long elaboration demonstrated, disk images are a crappy way to deliver software. Don’t do it.
Because it's down now, a vague summary from what I saw.

Python and Ruby are now basically "mainstream" languages with little of the all new sparkle they had several years ago - little early adopter aura around them. What languages have that 2004 shine in 2009? Author decides to try Scala for this reason and likes it. Author thinks Scala is the new Python because people are excited by it.
Then, as I said, fix the competition problem. Don't add some new regulation that doesn't fix the underlying problem, and that causes new problems of its own.
I completely agree with this. Reductionism is a poor choice for studying such things. About limits of reductionism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism#In_science
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He forgot OCaml ;-)
I would strongly disagree that 3D in UP can be dismissed as merely a "post-process like VHS." All future Pixar films are going to be in 3D, and Pixar does not make story / layout choices on a whim. Just because the movie is enjoyable in 2D doesn't mean a lot of thought / early planning went into the 3D, it just means the core story was not strongly affected by it. Here's the first part of this interview with the director of UP talks about the use of 3D in the development process:

http://www.movieretriever.com/blog/336/interview-pete-docter...

Some choice quotes:

"We just focused on telling as strong of a story as we could and then the 3D group followed up with the 3D. And they did use it creatively. We tried to use it like color or like camera or anything else - to emphasize emotion."

Development is pipelined at Pixar, starting with Story. So this sounds like 3D was integrated as soon as Animation got their hands on it.

"If people really embrace it and feel it's the way to go, then we'll do them all that way. This one, you can see either way, which I think is nice. Some people find it really engaging and interesting but other people are kind of put off by the glasses and whatever. I don't think you're losing anything by seeing it in 2D, it's just a different way to see it."

As an extreme analogy, I bet that watching UP with a black and white filter, I would still laugh / cry while watching the film.

Extensive interview on 3D with some of the people in charge of 3D:

http://www.awn.com/articles/reviews/pixar-goes-3-d

"Yes, the most gratifying thing is that we put a lot of time and energy and thought in our approach to 3-D and we never really knew if people would get it. To see some of the online reviews coming out of Cannes, it seems that people really got our nuanced, subtle approach. We want to pull people into the movie and not push them away from it with a lot of gimmicky stuff coming at ya."

"What was really interesting was, not knowing how 3-D was going to work with editing and with composition, how good camera and staging play really nicely in 3-D. And this turned into a motto for us. We did about eight minutes of Ratatouille as a test and it was really stunning."

Gee, I would really like to see that one... anyways there are a bunch of interesting interviews on this stuff.

http://www.google.com/search?q=bob+whitehill+interview+up+3d
I have to say that, even as someone fascinated with Scala this week, I find the argumentation here a little disingenuous. There are a lot of ways to filter developers and I don't think that the ability to learn a new language sets the bar high enough to actually select for the good ones and potentially means selecting the wrong tool for the job.

There are a large group of people that are effectively programming language hobbyists, frequently learning new programming languages for kicks, and while that set intersects the set of good developers, it is not a subset of it.
Point 2. has been long solved.
And in ten years using exclusively OOo I have been hit by point 1 two or three times... The main offenders were the Gartner spreadsheets with pivot table. OOo calc v.3 opens them, btw...
This is why I can't get on with taking notes on a computer - ever. It feels stilted and thoughts don't flow that way. Some authors have claimed they can tell which authors write by pen and which write by a typewriter/computer - I believe it.
Thanks for your answer. I took another look at that chapter, though I'll definetly need to come back to it and try out some of the excercises for understanding. I should take a closer look at Clojure as well (tried a few Project Euler problems, but would like to try a large project in a Lisp dialect).
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> But don't build your business around it. Python/Django and Ruby/Rails are only barely stable enough to work with.

I agree with your basic premise but,

Python and ruby both have extremely good library support. Hell, python's stated aim is batteries included. Both of them have (al least semi-)mature Jvm implementations. Django has a stated policy of not breaking backward compatibility on point releases.

I agree you need to choose stable languages to work with, but if you are selling consulting services around Java god luck competing with BigCo. If you are building your products with Struts, good luck doing xml-situps.
I'm not sure how true this is. I was into Java in '95 when it had "lousy IDE support, buggy compilers, few libraries, few bindings to existing libraries, and so on". Java fell far short of its potential, and the ambitions Sun had for it, but still, that wasn't a bad call. People who got into Python early on made a similarly good call.

And also, some esoteric languages, like Haskell, the ML family, Erlang and so on have deep roots, they may not be mainstream but they aren't going away anytime soon. And sometimes something funny happens; anyone who has ML experience is going to feel right at home on F# and suddenly the library problem is solved, the IDE problem is solved, the bindings problem is solved...
"Uh, no. Being arbitrary and protective about what products you allow people to build onto your own products is not inherently a restraint of trade."

I think Microsoft would have a different opinion about that given their experience with the government in the 1990's and still to this day about what they allow and pre-install on THEIR own OS.
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> Esoteric languages are a lot of fun.

No esoteric language was mentioned in TFA.

> But they're not very productive

Esoteric languages aren't "not very productive", they're the most counter-productive langages on the planet. Productivity runs counter to the point of an esoteric language.

> Messing around with unstable languages is a lot of fun. It's educational too. But don't build your business around it. Python/Django and Ruby/Rails are only barely stable enough to work with. Thinking that using Haskell, Clean, IO or Lisp will be a net benefit to productivity is foolish.

Wow. Cocaine is one hell of a drug.
I am not sure you will be that much less productive if you go from Java to Scala. You know most of the libraries, and so code completion is less of an issue and Scala removes many of the problems that are in Java.
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I am not sure OCaml has gained any traction lately. The only paradox of OCaml is why people use it~
that's true for me too. one of my eyes is so poor that i have effectively no 3d vision. it keeps me out of sports involving balls as well.

but on the other hand, color-blind folks have had this type of impairment forever, so i guess it's only fair.