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>I agree with you that the Internet has made information and knowledge far more accessible than ever before - for those who know where and how to look for it. For many/most other people, it can be even worse than previous propaganda channels of print, radio, or TV. The sheer variety of the Internet guarantees that if you don't want other perspectives and prefer company that thinks like you, you can readily limit yourself.

I definately agree with you, but we're talking about a totally different topic here, the one of self-limitation, or something like that. I know many people around me that are like that. Also , the best way to hide information on the internet, is not to try and prevent it to spread, but much more to drown it into tons of irrelevant content, wich can be a very effective technique, and as tech-oriented fellows, we see that done all the time. This certainly nuances my former post.
My favorite are customers that email in a problem, then email in again, then email in again... Then email in that "THEY'VE EMAILED THREE TIMES AND HAVEN'T GOTTEN A RESPONSE!".

That, obviously, is quite worrying. So you investigate as to why they haven't gotten a response by their fourth email, and discover that all were sent within 7 minutes of each other in the dead of night.

Yes, some customers are just too much fun.
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I'm really happy with this announcement. Microsoft is a trend-setter and whatever the reasons behind this "opening" it really sets a powerful precedent for future projects getting open-sourced by companies ... and developers/entrepreneurs that believe in the power of commons are wining the fight.

> There are equivalent (or better) tools available in the open-source world.

No, not really.

.NET approaches the strengths of Java ... high-performance, lots of available libraries and tools, lots of programmers working with it.

Besides Java and C/C++, it doesn't have any direct competition, and C/C++ is a mess.

I'm working on a project right now in my free time. Because I do lots of number-crunching on large data-sets I just couldn't afford to do it in something like Python or Perl (my favorites) ... it doesn't have to be optimized, but it does have to complete in a reasonable time without me thinking about all the implications of every god-damn line of code I write. My server resources are also limited, my VM only has 2 GB of RAM / 2 cores with 1 GHz and I can't afford another server.

The only reasonable alternative for me is Java, but I hate Java. I tried porting my initial Python prototype to it and the results where awful. C# is very much alike Java, but its more bearable, and some stuff like Linq is just sweet. Not to mention that from within .NET I can also use Java libraries through IKVM.NET ... I'm already using OpenNLP through it.

And there are also people working on Python interoperability ... IronPython is great, and there are people working on Ironclad, an interface allowing to use CPython extensions (like numpy, that already passes 1100 tests).

> Code just isn't everything

No, but the code + license is everything. The whole point of open-source licenses is that people and companies can't be trusted, and when you're really unhappy you can just fork.

I'm also happy with the design of many things coming out of Microsoft. I'm not happy with Guido's ideas or with many choices in Python's design ... I only prefer Python because of its large community and available libraries. If you think the community has anything to say about Python's future, think again ... there's always a core that sets directions, and any community is created through natural-selection ... people wouldn't use Python if they wouldn't agree with a majority of Guido's choices.

This is a good thing, please stop portraying as something bad.
That's a PITA since I was planing on studying it. Are you sure? Do you have any references?
> We would ask you to respect Paul's privacy and not discuss this outside of the office.

So, by all means, please forward along to techflash post-haste. While I agree this is "interesting" in a newsworthy sense, I think it's a dick move for it to be shared with the news media other than by Paul's consent.
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Yea, waterfall works if you do it properly. Is that so surprising?
This has been a very long time coming though; so how many record deals made since this Act was passed will have ignored the end of a revenue stream 35 years from when the recording is made, and gone in at what will now be a loss? Clearly, accountants in the music biz will have been factoring/warning about this for ages. A timebomb? I really don't think so.

Totally aside, I really don't see the logic in saying that digital remasters are new works and warrant individual copyright protection. I don't know much about the process, but I assume that it's merely a transformation/reprint of an original recording, no?
In some cases yes. In some cases (i.e. the mask-programmable ROM) you would have to deviate significantly from the original design to provide duplicate functionality on a transistor substrate you don't control.
> Mono won't kill Linux. It just doesn't really matter, that's all. There are equivalent (or better) tools available in the open-source world.

Excuse the meme, but ORLY? Novell has done excellent work on Mono. Development tools for Mono are great. With Mono, you can actually distribute binaries and expect them to work on every distro that has Mono installed. And the best part? It doesn't look shitty like Java. IMO, there's too much frothing at the mouth in the FOSS world.

(On a different note, I'm glad I switched to OS X. The development tools are not great, but they're decent enough. Oh, and nobody boycotts anything.)
I might go see this at the weekend...
It is more like a work-around for RFC2616, the HTTP 1.1 spec, which says that compliant clients SHOULD NOT make more than 2 simultaneous connections to one server. This interacts rather poorly with modern sites, which may well need to load 50+ files on a single page view.

Much of the YSlow recommendations center on various ways of getting around this limitation -- for example, using multiple redundant domains (images1.example.org, images2.example.org... permitting you to do 2*N downloads in parallel instead of 2), putting all your CSS/JS in one file, image spriting, etc etc.
As far as I can tell IIS supports pipelining just fine since version 6 (2003). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining
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Or indeed what they did to King Ludwig II.

http://www.castles.org/castles/Europe/Central_Europe/Germany...

Disney basically ripped off the design for one of their most iconic images..
> Does it really make it "much, much" harder to read?

Yes. Maybe not harder, but more strenuous.

> No proficient coder will be reading lines of code as English sentences

In that case, I'm not a proficient coder. Neither was the inventors of the IF..THEN..ELSE and WHILE .. DO .. and DO .. WHILE .. statements. Or the guys who made the convention to use hasXX/isXX for boolean getters. Or LINQ.

> I don't think having a few keywords in a different language makes much difference.

I do, and I've coded and maintained a lot of code in both camps. And, we're not aiming for "much difference", we're aiming for "easier".

> You might just as well say that the switch in languages makes the code easier to read, since it separates out keywords from variable names.

Well, I don't think any proficient coder has any problem with that. We have syntax (and syntax highlighting) for that purpose.
I think it matters quite a lot in terms of educating undergraduate electrical engineers.
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I only made it through the first part, it is simply too much text. However, I don't see the scam. Trading futures is not a scam, or is it?

Making a company look better with round-trading might be a scam (I don't know the laws about that), but I don't see how that should be related to the price of oil? It is related to the price of the company doing the round-trading (and if people notice what is going on, the price will probably crumble to pieces).

Sorry that I did not read the whole article, but I am weary of all those articles that try to blame evil traders and markets for everything. It just comes in so handy because it is a complex system - so if you say "it is their fault", it is difficult to argue against it.

In reality I don't see how riskless trading should be possible. Buying futures is not riskless.

In that sense, I don't think trading can be evil per se. What is evil is to lie to people about the real value of things, and thus selling them crap. By trading stuff on the exchange markets you are not lieing, though.
That's because everyone can publish Flash. No middlemen, gatekeepers or censors required.
I did not find the Pendulum more highbrow than the Trilogy.
Points Tim has got wrong:
- Google and Amazon does not have the platform value as Apple or Facebook has!
- This era is not different from PC era at all. He just does not want or have courage to say it: Google is the new Microsoft. It's doing the exact opposite (of MS) and still locks customers in. If you want free GPS then you MUST buy Android phone from THE carrier(s). Amazon is not on the Google level but if you want to buy (e-)book who would be your choice? Amazon, of course. Does this count as lock-in? Yes it does.
- Microsoft and champion of open web? How will that be so?
Erlang is a flash in the pan compared to how old these technologies are. IBM's S/360 goes back to the early 60s, then came the S/390, and finally z/OS; the hardware of the S-series could be hotplugged, the entire machine updated in hardware and software while it's running. Since the 1960s!

Like the articles says, us whippersnappers, 00s, cloud-this and distributed that types know jack about this stuff. Kneel and kiss the ring! ;-)
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This is directionally pretty accurate based on my understandng. What's amazing is that Mike Evans, the tech co-founder, built it all himself back in 2005-2006. I've sent him a link to this thread to see if he wants to chime in.
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I don't think any of his opinions expressed are actually a turnaround from his previous statements. He used to talk about the good things at Microsoft and not mention the bad things. Now he is talking about the good things at Google (with comparison to bad things at Microsoft), and not mentioning the bad things at Google (which I won't attempt to enumerate, since I work at Yahoo).

I think he is just trying to remain upbeat about his sudden and clearly quite wrenching departure from a job he loved at a company he respected.
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This is more focused on the .NET Class Libraries, but Rotor falls under this as well. From Miguel de Icaza: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Oct-03.html
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"Microsoft is a trend-setter"

I would say "was". The 90's want your assumption back.

"and C/C++ is a mess"

As much as I dislike working in C/C++ and do prefer less primitive technologies, C and C++ are nowhere near as ugly in Unix-like environments than they are in Windows. Your perception of how easy is to shoot yourself in the foot with them or how ugly is the code you have to write may stem from a biased point-of-view. I did lots of C and C++ for Windows and Windows CE and, boy... That's not the compact and elegant language K&R gave us.
Did we see Microsoft making a statement saying they will give up the right to sue any entity using said code for patent infringement?

Until then, this is just PR fluff. And, potentially, a trap too.
Dup:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=944670

Much comment already there.
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If I understand correctly, that's just like Common Lisp's way to specify cyclic references.
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I notice a flaw in your logic. The same way something coming from Microsoft doesn't automatically make it part of an evil plan, a part of an evil plan pointed out by the free software community may actually be a part of an evil plan.
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His story out of college sounds just like mine. Mechanical engineer, disillusioned with the M.E. environment and excited about computers and the internet. Same time frame too. Glad to see he is successful with his current startup.
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Surely, given the fact that one group is vastly over represented(in this case INTJ), it is hardly a surprise that the others have distributions that are skewed as a result?
>The second option is to re-record sound recordings in order to create new sound recording copyrights, which would reset the countdown clock at 35 years for copyright grant termination. Eveline characterized the labels’ conversations with creators going something like, "Okay, you have the old mono masters if you want - but these digital remasters are ours."

That sounds like nonsense to me. Remasters are only redone mixes of old recordings, so if anything, the original artists own at least part if that copyright. Thus: this should be a joined copyright, with a right to veto: if the original artist doesn't want the new remasters to be re-released, he ought to be able to block it.
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Just a reminder - I'm sure most of you know this.

The International Space Station is only about 200 miles away, and on a clear night, when conditions are right, you can watch it fly over. It's quite impressive to point at this really bright star motoring overhead and think: There are people on that.

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Get a grip, the internet will win in the end. Technology is society's master, not the other way around.
Of course, this really only shows the personality types of people on HN who answer polls. Still, that INTJ/INTP domination is kind of amazing.
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Ah... apparently I'm going to have to wait till 28th.
I should admit that for most of the questions, I could not come up with the correct answer (yes/no). I feel I answered many incorrectly. Did anyone else have difficulty in answering the questions objectively?
Oh, yes. Caveat emptor and all that. This is self-selected, took significant effort to do (so possibly eliminated busy people), and the test itself is based on questionable science. This analysis assumes that none of that had any significant bias.
Certainly true, and I'd definitely include INTP in that as well. I'm not sure how to adjust this analysis to reduce that influence. To be honest, statistics is not my forté.

Any suggestions?
Most significantly, 502 out of the 660 respondents (76.1%) are type NT (11.5% expected). With a single significant exception (INFP), every non-NT group is underrepresented. Conversely, every NT group is overrepresented, even the extroverted types.

Perhaps our Erlang-flooding people-filter has some influence on this.
This looks like a ruby on rails application. The restful url's, the nginx as a webserver frontend and use of prototype javascript library is all very common for RoR.
Andrew, fwiw, you have the highest ratio of useful-content / whiny-feedback out of any site that makes it to HN. It must be viscous preparing interesting interviews when you know you will catch the most flack for some tangential thing you "did".

P.S. This is in no way meant to slight the grandparent; I just keep seeing complaints in mixergy threads, even though I find the content most interesting (yes, the transcripts have been there for a while too :-)
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Here's a google-translate English version:
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Cool compilation. The NT (logicalness) is strong. It also seems introversion is strong too.
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Well if anything you'd expect a bias towards sensing/feeling for these kind of tests wouldn't you?
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Game recognizes game, and you're not recognizing Mixergy.

The point of the site is not to review local eats and treats joints, or recommend apps to you; that's the consumer side. Mixergy tells you about successful businesses, so you can .. be inspired by them.

I have never eaten at Chippotle but when I saw the interview I had to listen to it; there is a Chippotle in every major city, and if the Chippotle guys made it to Mixergy, I was sure I will get the inside scoop on how they got the ball rolling (it takes hell lot of effort to glean that information from the sterile content issued by a company's PR wing; Mixergy gives you the founders' voice(s).)
One of the major points of a round trip is that it creates volume. There are many technical investors that use volume as an indicator to negate risk. Adding noise into the system muddies the water and offsets their calculated risk, sucking more money into they system. The point being that the round trip does not in it's self create the inflation but rather it draws other traders into the fray.

As far as evil traders, I don't see how you cant blame the banks for their hand in this. In fact I am amazed at how blatant they have become in the mists of the collapse. I mean after they had pissed in the pool, they had the audacity to lobby for a bail out, right after they lobbied bush to change consumer bankruptcy laws so the consumer could not bail themselves out. It is funny the more and more news I hear of this sort Goldman Sachs always seems to be at the heart of it. I remember my grandfather always said, if trouble always follows you around you may want to reflect on where the source of trouble is coming from.
Putting your server farm on a volcanically active island just connected with 3-4 optical cables has its tradeoffs, too.
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I didn't answer the poll because I don't believe in Myers-Briggs Type Indicators.
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Something I was reading lately* noted that those numeric ratings are usually reached tasting wine alone, rather than with food. That can bias ratings toward wines that stand out after tasting several similar cabs (or whatever) in a row, including wines that utterly lack subtlety. "This tastes like getting whacked with a giant oak plank."

* One of the Culinary Institute of America texts, I forget which.
Or even for non-research tenured professors.

Actually, even among research professors, tenure is used more to protect the lazy than to protect academic freedom. Every department has plenty of deadwood, but rarely more than one or two people with radical ideas.
Would you care to explain the massive discrepancies?

If they are meaningless then I'd have expected randomness...
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Self-selection?
Does seeing the results affect your belief?

If you take as a given that the HN population is not representative of the population at large, then it is clear that Myers-Briggs measures something, as it correctly identified that.

If you'd asked me for a hypothesis before the survey, I would have predicted a significant overrepresentation of NT-types. That would seem to give the test some predictive value, unless you attribute the full significance of the findings to selection bias in who chose to answer (in which case Myers-Briggs would be an outstanding predictor of who will answer surveys).
I had this problem with quiet a few of the questions, but the end result (INTJ) seems to fit well to me when reading the description. This could just be that I haven't read the other descriptions and am bending it to fit to myself subconsciously though.
In that previous thread no one mentioned my favorite, Jasper Johns. Though if you like Waterhouse, Johns may not be your cup of tea.
Actually, MS releasing open source stuff is a good thing. If all the kids do it (google, MS), then Apple would look even more closed if it doesn't. Any releasing open source at all is good news. Why? because I can imagine how this can culminate on a world where the PR/marketing depts see it as a powerful way to woo audiences (remember devs's standing ovation -and raising their laptops- to the Wave presentation?).

The sooner this 'clicks' on any marketing high-up at Apple, the better.
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I have to agree - it does seem likely that the chances from SPDY will find themselves rolled into later versions of HTTP rather than an entirely new protocol being used.
Don't you find it at least interesting that HN readers are 7
times over represented in the "NT" or "Rationals" class? This is far beyond any self selection bias.

My point is this: Just because you don't buy into the whole M-B system, can't you appreciate that it is at least good at indicating what type of group answered it? IE - Hackers vs Painters vs Philosophers.
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I didn't do the poll and am INTP so I assume it is representitive
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Kind of an aside, but: reading this, I found that all the embedded pictures/videos actually made it harder to follow because they broke my concentration on the narrative. A few pictures may improve an article, but there are limits.
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The ridiculous overrepresentation of INTJ and INTP has shown up everywhere I've been on the internet -- not quite to this degree, though. That may have something to do with the places I go, though, since I consistently test as one or the other.
Thanks, I just updated the original post to include a break-down by pairs.