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I just tried Org-mode and it looks really promising. I've been Omnifocus user for a while, but flexible, almost natural feel of Org-mode is amazing.

And it's telling that there's even iPhone app for it http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/ . Wow. RIP OmniFocus.
It seems like you have something really useful to say, some additional perspective that I'd love to hear. Unfortunately all you wrote were non-specific and inflammatory criticism.
MMMM sounds cool. Would be nice to practice against some challenging AIs vs the crappy one provided by SC that cheats to win :P Specially without perfect awareness.

Would be awesome if the AIs had a difficulty tweak that allowed them to be used in actual SC games :)
I do not know. I submitted it by hand, less than 3 hours after it was created
Truth is: I don't want to use wave to meet new people. Also, I am sure this is not what wave is particularly useful for. I would love to actually use wave to DO stuff.
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"Democracy Wall" writers in this transition period referred to the example of Taiwan as a basis for criticizing the Communist Party regime in China.

So China had no choice but to loosen economic regulation and tacitly reject orthodox Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist doctrine to catch up to Taiwan.

I agree with the original article's limited claims about market reforms, but since you seem to reference more than economic reform:

China only made the market reforms, and politically, Taiwan was still at the time, an authoritarian, one-party Leninist state. Many Chinese Communists were former members of the Kuomintang and their similarities weren't just superficial; they both learned their bag of tricks--propaganda, how to organize their party-state-military structure, how to suppress dissent, how to control the larger population--from the Soviets. To this very day, Taiwan still has political military officers stationed at all public high schools and colleges (though thankfully their role has changed a lot). If Taiwan was showing China anything, it was that they could keep around the party and the authoritarianism and open up their markets at the same time. As you are well-aware, martial law wasn't lifted until 1987 and Taiwan wasn't even really anything you could even nominally call democracy until the 90s.

So basically 1) Taiwan was still Leninist and 2) I don't get what the Democracy Wall writers are inspired by when Taiwan wasn't a democracy then.

Ironically, one foundation for economic prosperity in Taiwan was the land reform the Kuomintang copied--although they would not admit it--from the Communists and implemented after they occupied Taiwan after World War II. They forced all the big landlords at gunpoint to trade in their land for largely worthless stock in state-owned companies. Prior to that, much of the population were landless tenant farmers. The possibilities for entrepreneurship change quite a bit when you go from being a tenant farmer to a small time farmer with your own land.
It's like making a disarming face and smiling lightly while saying it, it makes it an obvious joke?
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My beta testing would be much more productive if I only could test it with people I actually work with. Don't you think?
I'd recommend some time with that dear old brother, Epictetus:

First decide who you would be, and then do what you must do.

Men shut up tame lions in a cage, and bring them up, and feed them, and some take them around with them. And yet who will call such a lion free? Is it not true that the more softly the lion lives the more slavishly he lives? And what lion, were he to get sense and reason, would care to be one of these lions? Why, yes, and the birds yonder, when they are caught and brought up in cages, what do they suffer in their efforts to escape? And some of them starve to death rather than endure such a life, while even such as live, barely do so, and suffer and pine away, and if ever they find any opening, make their escape. Such is their desire for physical freedom, and a life of independence and freedom from restraint. And what is wrong with you here in your cage? "What a question! My nature is to fly where I please, to live in the open air, to sing when I please. You rob me of all this, and then ask, 'What is wrong with you?'"

More: http://www.archive.org/details/epictetusthedisc010837mbp
http://www.archive.org/details/epictetusthedisc010384mbp
Yea getting hit by anti-trust laws can be damn costly to a company.
Paul -- as a fun aside, one of the books in that article (The Year That Changed the World) is my father's latest book.

Let me know if you want to borrow my copy ;-)
I admire Rich Hickey and Stuart Halloway and I've been reading the prag programmer book on Clojure, but I still haven't been able to wrap my head around why I should replace my preferred language - Ruby - with Clojure.

I understand that if I was building a database, or a traffic control system or something with lots of concurrency, it's useful.

But if I'm building a web app, the appserver and database handle the concurrency issues for me.

So I haven't quite understood why Clojure is so important.
I guess so. I interview for them in the Spring (when they only had 170 million users) and they had ~200 engineers out of ~800 employees.
Learning the ins and outs of regex is well worth it. I find myself doing regex search/replace almost daily within textmate.
>only females buy stuff?

He's talking about the teachers that are his customers, I think.
Dreaming about this kind of thing is one reason I went into computer science.
How are android sales? Is it possible make about $500 a month with android on average?
It's a challenge, but one that can be overcome.

Google just needs to figure out a reasonable baseline latency to subtract - for that, there's ping, ping the previous host on the route, latency to other hosts with close IPs, GeoIP+a database of baseline latency to sites in the same area etc.

And the tricks will be dealt with the same way as now: If you're caught doing them, you're blacklisted. But this will be less of an issue in this case: If you've taken the trouble to set up caches that you can direct Google to -- why not direct your actual users to that too?
I hope you also noticed the R=ken(Ken Thompson) and R=dmr(Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie) in the commit log messages :)
And what are the other 600? I fail to see how they (as a whole) bring much value to the company relative to the engineers. Could you image a startup of 1 lawyer, 1 manager, and 1 engineer?
I think many tech blogs are the worst offenders, and go way overboard with widgets and third party services. Take the front page of TechCrunch - it weighs in at 508KB. Mashable gets to about 884KB before FireBug gives up in disgust.

I can't really see this being sustainable in the long term.
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I think you're being a little bit dramatic. We're talking about computer professionals. The "pain" we might experience professionally is pretty mild. So we might only have a high paying but not totally self-actualizing job. If that squashes you down so hard you can't express your love to your kids, I'm not sure it's the job that's the problem.

And going the entrepreneurial route isn't exactly a way to spend more time with your kids.

I agree that escaping the rat race is a good thing overall for the family, I just disagree with the dichotomy you're presenting here.
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+1 on the org-mode upvote
> Maybe it's just a 20% project that is being released into the wild...

It is not "just a 20% project" (the list of people involved is quite big), plus if it was ken's 20% project, 20% of ken is like 20000% of your average hacker.
That's probably true for average joes. But I'm guessing the OP is far more motivated by making an impact in the world than average. Personally, I get 70% of my happiness from making a difference in the world and building great stuff, and 30% from relationships. (Despite that, my lifetime average length of relationship is 4.3 years. It could be worse.) I found that my life improved when I accepted that ratio and organized my life around maximizing the 70% while not ruining the 30%.
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Isn't this written by the real life Fake Steve? Which shows the irony that someone with a successful voice on the web comes across as Captain Obvious when tied to the "main stream media" column format.

Wouldn't this piece be much more interesting in the Fake Steve voice? Or maybe it says something that "Fake Steve" would never discuss something this boring in the first place.
If google stopped ranking the most relevant content at the top, I would start using bing instead.
of course it's possible. Is that sustainable for your average single app? probably not.

However, with 15 some odd phones releasing in the near future, if you're doing mobile development, you have to be putting more focus on Android.
That's really cool. Wish it existed on windows or linux.
Being Canadian, I can't put up paid apps (yet), so I don't know.

It's also a hard question to answer, because it depends on app popularity, price, complexity of the app, etc. For my next project, I am planning to roll over iPhone and Android nearly simultaneously, so I look forward to answering that question in a blog post, at least in a relative way.
I've had success with the approach of Jon Kabat-Zinn -- see his talk @ Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

... his book, Full Catastrophe Living is a good read as well.
You mean only U.S developers can sell apps in the android store?
Justin.tv is a great startup, but this is going to kill their traffic.
It's not really so smart to go into a market right at the start of the bump, because the values at the very start will be way off the charts compared to when it is a stable store.
> I appreciate you clearly stating the relationship between <strong> and <em>.

No problem. It's pretty much lifted straight from the HTML4 spec:

> EM:
> Indicates emphasis.
> STRONG:
> Indicates stronger emphasis.

There's a lot of fun stuff in that spec, I don't regret having read it (almost) completely once a long time ago.
HTTP supports protocol upgrades although this has never been used in the wild.
If the app helped him get laid with some random chick (not his girlfriend), then I think that would definitely be a killer app.

Still happy for the bugger!
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This works well with programming. I took two years of Java in high school (an intro course and an AP course) and now, as a HS senior, I probably couldn't declare an array for my life. However, I've self-taught myself python by programming a few GUI apps, and, even though having never taken a class on it, I'm infinitely more competent.
I just checked - currently you can sell apps from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, UK and US. From what I've read, the local carriers play a large role in where paid apps are available.
I'll second the education part.

I was a military brat. I went to 10 public schools in 18 years, mostly in poorer areas. By all accounts my education should have been terrible. It wasn't.

I got a lot out of my education, not because I went to the 'best' schools.. but rather because my parents instilled in me a love of learning. They laid down an expectation (not a demand) that I learn and continue learning throughout my life.

I didn't go to an Ivy league school (we simply didn't have the means). I went to a division II school in central Arkansas. None of that matters. I still learn something new everyday. I've parlayed my love of learning into an entrepreneurs life. I'm on my third startup. One has been wildly successful, one not so much. The third is going well so far:)

More importantly I have a great wife and live in a place I absolutely love (Denver). We have a nice house, but not too nice. We have great friends. Really, at 30 years old I just couldn't ask for more.

All of this not because I had fancy toys, private school, or even much stability growing up (moving around every year or two impedes that). Nope, I've been blessed by having parents who where adventurous and chose not to live life in a conventional way. They freed me to walk my unconventional path to happiness. That's a far greater gift than money can buy.

To the OP: Don't be afraid to step out and find your happiness. Your kids need a role model just as I had.
maybe, maybe not. I understand the viewpoint, but it's not how I'm experiencing parenthood. Looking at pictures of my kids when they were babies and toddlers and preschoolers - they look so unformed. It's like watching a sculpture come to life out of a block of marble, watching them slowly become more themselves.
I'm not sure this app is possible on the iPhone. Apple doesn't allow access to call history, favorites and what not..

At least that's how it was last year when I 'used' to do iPhone dev..
> but do you think there is an HTML processor out there that notes a subtle semantic difference between bold and strong?

Screen reader might. And anyway, the subtle semantic difference between <strong> and <b> is that <b> has no semantic significance whatsoever.

That's not very subtle.
I'm split on whether that 1 min pre-roll is effective or not.
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> HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE: Perfectly fine, use STRICT for l33t designz bonus points.

For even more l33t bonus points, use the HTML5 doctype declaration.
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Is the link to your twitter purposefully crossed out to entice more clicks? Genius...
> Do we really need another programming language?

Certainly.

Just not another 1970s abomination which firmly traps programmers into the compile-pray-debug cycle.
Here's one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8

Impressive stuff. Others in the video responses below.
> Do you have a specific issue with XHTML?

Most of it is a lie, and when it's not a lie everything breaks (many JS behaviors change quite a bit in XHTML-as-XML).

Also, XML blows goats.

> Personally I would say that it's so good that they should probably do away with any non-xml serializations of the DOM...

Wow…
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That was actually a trick by 22 year-old Zawinski to get the rest of the world writing software that would get him laid.
Keep those dreams alive! I'm sure one day you'll be in a position to make it happen.
Mental health professionals can hurt you as well as help.

I think if you're not actually going crazy, I'd advise against this. Talk to any kindly outsider. If you do actual controlled studies - scientific evidence, can you dig it? - they show that if you're not organically crazy, talking to professors works just as well as talking to mental health professionals. And professors won't take all your money or get you committed or subject you to the psychoanalytic flavor-of-the-week etcetera.

Yes, there are good mental health professionals, but just going out at random is really risky.
It's a (lame) joke, but who knows, maybe it will result in greater than 12.81% clickthrough :)

http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html
These all sound like a step in the wrong direction to me:

The reason HTTP has been so successful has been it's simplicity. HTTP with it's human readable format is not the most efficient, but this makes this it simple. Things like header compression to me are missing the point.

SSL encryption will break all caching, and add latency in terms extra round-trip times.

gzip encoding has minimal value on media data types (images, movies) that represent the majority of the data.

This just sounds like a whole load of complexity for a relatively small one-off hit.
I think I detect a hint of sarcasm.

We don't actually know about Perl 6 yet. It's still got a few more months before it's feature complete enough for use in any general case (and performance will probably take another year or two after that to come up to snuff).

But, I strongly suspect that both Perl 6 and Python 3 will be blips on the radar of language history (even while I expect to write quite a bit of code in both before then), as JavaScript will take the place of both for a large class of problems. But it'll be seven to ten years before that shift becomes apparent.
That's really going to depend on what your web app does. Simple CRUD work? Clojure may not give you much benefit over RoR (at least not until compojure or one of the other frameworks gets a lot more time put into it).

If part of what your web app does involves heavy duty data processing then it could be much more interesting. Flightcaster (Ruby or JRuby, I forget which) on Rails front end, Clojure doing all the hardcore machine learning data crunching on the back end.

Of course being a compiled language, odds are you can write faster code in clojure in at least comparable number of lines of code to ruby, with the speed of the jvm. So if you think your site will see much traffic that might be valuable to you as well.
"use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?"
well this use case is certainly the main strategy for facebook and myspace.
agreed, however, the mobile app market appears to be very fast and finicky. Unless your building an application that is tied to, or supports another, already existing application, it's primarily a craps shoot on making money or not.
"One builds, one sells", the organisations which I started that worked had this at the start, or they started working well once they had it.
Very funny :)

Just wanted to take this chance to say thanks for Phonalyzr. I'm a big fan!
I'd imagine a large portion of them are in sales - they do have to make money, after all.
For example Emacs could use a good programming language. Emacs lisp is awkward. (At least we should get static scoping.)
A good cup of orange pekoe. More often than not, a quiet time to meditate with a warm cup in my hands gives me the greatest productivity breakthroughs.

I fear I have fallen to the monks of old: "First, boil water."
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Haskell, too?
I'm glad you're learning this earlier rather than later. This internet thing might be useful after all.

I know people that had radically new ideas, made them happen with a hardworking and talented team, are beloved by people that use their creations, have appeared on covers of magazines, can be said to have changed the world just a bit, and eventually became rich.

They're still not happy. Their success hasn't even made them slightly happier. At the end of the day, if your wife doesn't respect you, or you aren't there as a parent, or you can't regulate your own emotional fuckups, it doesn't matter how many zeroes are in your bank account -- you're not much better off than someone doing a more traditional middle class lifestyle.

The best you can say is that they have a bit more free time and have visited a few more places, and know a few more interesting people. But you can do that for practically no money today anyway, just drop out and backpack for six months.
Blaming the internet for the downfall of print media is like blaming low pressure for the evaporation of water.
Your comments ring very true to me. My father decided he'd rather stay in a relatively low chemical engineering job rather than push up the corporate latter into a black tie management position. As a result my friends all had much nicer toys and bigger houses, but they rarely saw their parents. On top of that my friend's parents never seemed happy, ever. Whereas my father has always been one of the happiest people I know. Throughout my highschool years he'd tell me stories almost nightly of something interesting he'd done that day. Now that I'm older and nearing the end of my own degree I have no doubt I'll keep the same perspective: stick with doing what you love no matter how much you make off of it.

- I should clarify that we didn't live anywhere near poverty. My father wasn't putting us in a bad situation to keep the job he loved. We were just significantly lower than the people around us, and as a result he didn't have many friends among his peers (by that I mean parents in our suburb) because they looked down on him. So that situation may not have any real bearing on this discussion since he didn't seem to be facing a hard decision: give up the respect of a bunch of career pushing suits or hate his life and his job, hmmm.
Are you under the impression that religion is harmless fun? Read a history book. Even in modern developed countries, people who turn to religion out of desperation often end up seriously hurt. A huge mainstream cult is still a cult.

There are better arguments that could be posted against why you should turn to Jesus, but I'm not ashamed to downvote the original comment. It's not good advice.

I wonder... if I'd posted a comment saying "Get involved with transhumanism" or "sign up for cryonics", and someone had posted a sarcastic reply saying "Where's the science?" (not that this isn't a perfectly legitimate question with I-should-hope legitimate answers), would you be working so hard to defend me?
Some people find joy in different things. It seems that at this juncture of your life you are trying to analyze what and why you are doing what you are doing and where do you want to end up. I feel that I am to young and inexperienced to be giving this kind of advice, add to that the fact that I don't know you and I don't like to give generalized advice. If I was in your case, I'd like to think that I would do what my heart is telling me to do. If I do that, I will know that I will be happy if I follow that path and because of that, it will reflect towards my family. If I am a creator and I don't create, I will be a sad panda. Good luck for you with whatever choice you make.
Sounds like channel 4 are getting pretty desperate for viewers.
I have not yet fully read the API. This is an unfounded idea but I am curious: if we could hack it so that developers could shoot it out over the internet prior to the combination, would anyone want a HN league?
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Is this a useful service? Is it simple to understand? Other comments?
Would love to compete, but the required investment of time seems potentially enourmous.
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I am planning to learn AS3 for personal and professional reasons. I have very, very little programming background and was hoping for advice on the best sources to begin my education.

I know that learning by doing is the best way to move forward. I was hoping for advice on any online tutorials or books that you have found helpful for someone in my position.

Thanks for all the help!!
"So, you are effectively arguing that since the namespace is finite that google had no option but to pick a name that was already in recent use ?"

No, that's you making things up and trying to pretend that I said them.

And, again, the fact that "Go!" looks rather strongly like abandonware makes me wary of granting its author the right to demand no-one use the same or a similar name.
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