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This stuff was one of my first personal projects. I wrote several versions and demoed them around to maybe tens of people. Typical response was mild interest but no one wanted to use it. Too generic. In fact, it's more generic than Excel: Excel is packed with features that solve specific customer needs.

Dabble DB seems to have carved out a niche, but they executed exceptionally well: they have map integration, natural language parsing, all kinds of charts, all kinds of import/export formats... I'd recommend learning from them and copying them shamelessly (features, promotion, pricing, every aspect where you're not completely confident) instead of choosing a vertical.
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It does not have to be a sharp jump, and as I pointed out previously, the jump from pure capitalism to ideal economy (equilibrium) may not even be a large one at all.

When I said right and left, I meant literally the right and left of that chart.

My point was that both pure capitalism and pure communism dont't work, and that a balance must be struck between the two. The graph may not resemble a bell curve, but I'm sayig that it should. I explained previous why current data may not show a bell curve and it's that the data set is too small. The fact that trends show That more economic freedom leads to better life simply means that more countries are on the right side of the economic spectrum (more regulation) moving left than there are left moving right, and I explained the possible cause to this too (remember a country had to be more developed in order to even have an economy worth regulating, so more developed countries were closer to the perfect balance already). I'd also like to add that if equilibrium is indeed closer to the capitalism side, it too would explain why the data shows more economic freedom=better life. And this is because given equal distribution across the spectrum among countries, you would see more moving left to right if equilibrium is towards the right. But I already suggested that less developed countries tend to be less economically free, which means more of those countries start on the left in our current times. Now i'm not saying that civilizations start out with regulations and moves towards the right, simply that current data shows less developed countries with less economic freedom (according to your data, if true). As for civilizations I believe the position on the continuum oscillates left to right as the civilization advances until it settles towards equilibrium.

In the end you cannot claim the data shows an unregulated economy to be better than a completely regulated one. They both suck. :)
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I tried the "magic" and at least I feel that it is more fun to read. News are not sorted by date any more, which it gives me some "feeling" of randomness reading that I like.
The new sorted news "seems" to be ranked according to my previous history of reading. Not sure if it is better but so far I like it a lot.
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the inconsistancy between page templates is mindblowing
I agree with you that the state of California is, all things considered, not doing too badly, and it looks as though it will be doing better in the near future. I think that the original commenter was referring to the government of the state of California, which is in serious fiscal trouble. And it looks as though the state government's problems are going to be exacerbated in the future by the tendency of the state legislature for the last several years to "solve" any fiscal problems with temporary fixes and postpone real solutions. The state itself certainly still has a very bright future, but unless the legislature makes some drastic changes in the near future, the state government's future looks very troubled. "California" and "the government of California" are two very different things, and it's important not to conflate the two as often happens in these "California is going down the shitter" debates.
I quite liked this, regarding this subject:

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If the command-line interface doesn't scare you, I recommend Mutt. It's customizable and have pgp integration.

It seems there's a Windows port too but I haven't tried it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/unixmail-w32/
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IMHO, there are three groups: 1. Haven't done complex concurrency. 2. Hates threads/concurrency. 3. Pain lovers.

Erlang is on my to-learn list, maybe that will change my opinion.

(I am currently updating my very rusty lisp (inspired by a comment on HN, btw). Gambit Scheme had some lib inspired by Erlang. I'll read that and maybe learn enough to have an opinion.)
Couldn't agree more. I'm looking at a number of payment processors and merchant services, and some make it extremely hard to figure out what they actually do--it's all buried in useless marketese.
I see that the pilot demotions were temporary, and didn't negatively impact their careers. They also received the first ever FAI diploma for "Outstanding Airmanship".

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I'd love if I could get an internet connection like this, provided it was substantially cheaper. Now you may think this is silly as why don't I just buy a lower data cap. The problem is I live with people with whom it is very hard to enforce any sane usage policy on. We go over our cap regularly. Now if I could "outsource" the enforcement to the ISP that would be different.
This really is "Coder Myopia":
Jeff should be the first one who is familiar with the "eye movement hotspot" study that we see over and over again. Users rarely notice anything along the Right Hand Border (most web ads show up here). All user attention is focused on the top left edge, left margin and the top few lines. If you want to catch the user's eye this region is your best bet.

Move the formatting suggestions just below where your "Title" is placed and you will see a higher uptake - guaranteed. Blaming Users for Poor UI design smacks of unwarranted arrogance - never a desirable trait.
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And type classes force you to override related operators together. (With dependent types that Haskell doesn't have, the relationships between them could even be forced to adhere to mathematical axioms.)
It seems like there is a basic problem here. Users have spent years using WYSIWYG editors like MS Word, Email apps and so on. Having a basic text box breaks that. Not only that, it's different markup on every site you go to. User don't want to relearn the basics, especially not for each site.

Lack of richtext editor support in browsers has been the problem so far - but I believe mostly there with contentEditable support in all browsers?
I'm thinking we need to put the formatting help -- for new users only -- directly in their line of sight

Even then, you'll find that some users will just spend their time looking for a way to get rid of the help (and do what they came to do), rather than read it.
We've recently had to put up a "You have a stale link and will be forwarded shortly..." page. As expected, people started calling us to ask why the system wasn't working.
Let's consider a house. Clearly the amount of money that someone would pay for said house varies from person to person. Which value is "correct"?

The one that actually results in a deal happening, which often means the highest amount on offer. The more standardized a good is and the more it's traded, the more well-defined its price is. If deals don't happen, there's no market-clearing price, e.g. no way to price sex with Mother Theresa.

Before you jump in with some clever aggregation function, suppose that the owners want to sell said house. Will they agree to the value that your aggregation function produces?

Yes they will, by my definition above :-)
Let bindings create a new local scope. It's only in the GHCi prompt that they apply "from this point on".

It is possible to do a more global redefinition but as far as I know you'd have to suppress the Standard Prelude which would mean you wouldn't really be in Haskell 98 anymore. It's certainly not something that would happen in a normal software project.

So to answer your question: In Haskell the effect is contained to a lexical scope (a few lines usually) where as in C++ it infects absolutely everything.
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Food adoption is growing at a similar rate, I think.
Actors are decoupled from the means by which they are executed. Scala has a nice system where you can run thousands of event-based actors in a thread pool. It grows the pool as needed (as threads block). See http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242

While it may use threads, Scala's actor system effectively allows you to create thousands of actors.

Kilim is actually a pure (depending on whether you see a byte-code processing system as pure) Java system that does the same thing (as far as I can tell): http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/

Kilim's author did a nice Google Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NaHRE0Sqw

EDIT: Fixed some grammar and added video link.
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Maybe he talking about Scala Event-based actor which has many actors per thread?
Is it possible to evaluate the readability of the submitted text using some algorithm? If so, when text is entered in the input box, the page could automatically display some kind of assessment of readibility.
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I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this--it seems to boil down to "I don't use comments because then I'd have to actually maintain them." I certainly don't think that every line of code should be commented, but as others have pointed out, some comments are important, particularly around why, say, an algorithm was implemented. Even for my own code, I need these little reminders, especially when I'm jumping between projects frequently.

I'm also at least slightly troubled by the assertion (not made Aschwin, but others) that the code is the only artifact worth reviewing. If you have a specification, or documentation, that doesn't line up with the product, why do you have those documents in the first place? Again, I don't expect that those documents will outline the specific implementation (though, if your shop uses software design documents, they should), but I should be able to get a reasonable explanation of how the system works from the docs. If this isn't the case, how do you expect to have someone test the system?

All that said, I agree that having the ability to read and understand others' code is critical to being a good programmer.
Before someone start talking about OS X with Windows one should at least understand what does clang, llvm, libdispath and blocks mean.

Btw, new clang (llvm 2.6 release tree) can complile such a horrible thing like mplayer from trunk. (on ubuntu X86_64)
No, but it's the reason (almost) all countries have an army.
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I was wondering when that was going to happen. As far as I know, there's a FUSE port of ZFS - no idea how far along that is.
Loved this one:
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Paul Buchheit seems to visit regularly: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paul

You may also have noticed Paul Graham: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

I'm not aware of accounts of any of the others, though I'd be surprised if most of them hadn't heard of HN, especially the investors.
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Following the coverage on Justin.TV in my case. Hopefully by next year I'll be able to afford to fly out to CA and experience it live.
It's no wonder that users don't read the Formatting Reference (as shown in the screenshot). It's written in totally cryptic jargon that's only understandable by someone who knows HTML, and is itself formatted in a manner that makes it illegible.

Worse, those big blue buttons in random alignments grab all the attention and make the text even harder to read (they should probably be plain old links).
Maybe they don't know what "stale link" means. If I saw that I'd be confused too. Can't you just silently redirect?
This is an example of one of the assumptions that break down very badly. In the real world, it usually doesn't take just one cheater for the agreement to break down, and the cheating is usually obvious to all participants, and results happen slowly (i.e., it's a repeat game scenario) rather than being a one-time event.

In other words collusion in the real world is MUCH easier than the scenario presented, and yet the students almost managed it anyway.

Suppose that the colluders are three (instead of eight) dominant telecom companies, who want to collude to keep cell phone prices high. Their prices are public knowledge, widely disclosed, and competitors can check each other on a daily basis. Market share - the prize - changes very slowly with changes in pricing - if you drop your prices 5 cents under your competitors, you may eventually win more market share, but it will happen veeeeeeeery slowly.

In this environment price collusion is easy to maintain indefinitely. It would almost be surprising if they weren't colluding.
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I didn't think it was so much about the technical challenges but the licence and IP issues?
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I like it. Good as a reference.
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She keeps you by convincing you that you don't have a choice. You're just not smart enough for one option or rich enough to afford the other.

Wow, just WOW. That my friends is THE master stroke.
Indeed, there won't be any inclusion into the mainline tree unless Sun re/dual-licenses it to be GPL compatible. I'm just surprised that it's so far been FUSE-only, given that the non-GPL kernel module API exists. I guess it'll require distribution support for it to be practical, as compiling kernel modules to survive updates isn't exactly for the faint of heart.
Hm, I didn't know the MarkDown-Syntax and I must say that it really is totally unintuitive to have put 2 spaces at the end of a line to get a linebreak.
That's just not what one would think having to do.

Ok, so there is the preview but I must admit that I would probably think that the preview is broken, if such a simple thing such as line breaks aren't displayed correctly.
I've encountered so many broken things in web apps that I'd simply assume that this preview is broken, too.
It wouldn't occur to me that there is a special syntax for something as simple as a line break.
You might want to watch the documentary series Mayday (also called Air Crash Investigations). They had an episode called "Gimli Glider".

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Well the prompt for html/plain text can be turned off... But I also had a hard time finding it when I started using Thunderbird.
Junk in your inbox - use a e-mail server with a good junk mail filter... your e-mail client won't ever be as good as filtering... and you don't want to be downloading tons of e-mails before you can filter them...

I agree with your other pointers....

But no, I can't recommend another e-mail client
I agree, the debugger is so important to understanding foreign code, yet so many people only use it when they are looking for a bug or not at all.
this headline should read: fringe group of 44 wealthy germans demand higher taxes, strangely making the news.

the rest of the country opted to kick out the socialists from government in recent national elections, replacing them with a libertarian party running on a tax cut platform.
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>Another was building a platform for financial apps...It was only after I tried building a platform myself that this reached the top of the list for "things startups should never do"...I guess lots of other founders haven't yet learned that either.

You're saying that startups should never create platforms, should never create webapp platforms, or what?

Personally, I would say that startups should never start off by building a platform. They should build a service, which can be expanded / redesigned into a platform later, as more services are discovered that work well with it. But at all stages, you must have income paying the way and / or customer feedback justifying it.
See http://bitbucket.org/_ben_/cassdict/overview/ for an implementation of orthogonal persistence for Python's dictionary data structure using Cassandra.
This is probably just fine but I am note sure I would want to add something to a web page from a (to me) previously unknown site that was submitted by a brand new HN user.
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I'm not from Germany, but the CDU is decidedly not a libertarian party. It's conservative center-right. You don't really have an equivalent of this in the US.
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Signatory Peter Vollmer told AFP news agency he was supporting the proposal because he had inherited "a lot of money I do not need".

Um yeah, because a guy who doesn't work for a living knows a lot about sound economic policy...
While I don't like the quality of their news reporting, I think CNN is one of the few news entertainment companies that really understands web design and has a minimally coherent plan for integrating with the internet. A UX guy at my work was describing how the current design is used as almost a textbook example at a good tech school of a clean way of presenting information.

Contrast that, for example, to nytimes.com which is literally designed to look as similar as possible to the newspaper. Like I said, their "journalism" is garbage but maybe some startup or media company can emulate their ability to create an interface that encourages users to explore.
The url for BaseShield App Store (in baseshield.com) links to the download. Is this intentional? (I was expecting to see a list of applications in a webpage)
I think he referred to FDP, which replaced the SPD.

Currently, Germany has a coalition of CDU + SPD which will become a coalition of CDU + FDP.
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That's right. In US we have establishment-Red and establishment-Blue: a 1 bit political space.
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I'm working on a startup in Chennai, and I can't really say I've met many people who want to go the startup route, not even from IIT-M. Most seem to be content with working for others either as engineers or as MBAs. As such I'd say the startup scene is barely existent in India.
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> compiling kernel modules to survive updates isn't exactly for the faint of heart.

Nvidia's been doing fine so far. I know that distributions theoretically support them, but everyone I know uses envy-ng for some reason (new hardware support, problems with resolution, etc.) So even if the distribution is lagging behind, a good update script that is needed only during a system upgrade isn't that ugly... Especially if ZFS will be used by proper admins that will choose it based on what they really need.
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Just praise her for her non-physical qualities, so that that when the twisted high-school value system kicks in, she'll at least be aware of an alternative value system.
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I do exactly the same.
Added to this, in large legacy code bases with no or very little tests, i sometimes try and break the functionality near to the part where a new fix is required in my private branch to check my understanding. I find that its much easier to understand the code when something doesn't work rather than when its working perfectly. With any luck, the stacktrace will tell me what's going on.
I've had good experiences of using DKMS under Debian for 3rd-party proprietary driver modules that recompiles as necessary when updating to a new kernel.