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It's not piracy, lol. MacHeist has been around for quite a few years now and developers opt-in to the program. Although, I don't remember a year that they offered the bundle free, or am I forgetting?
Not only that, Android applications respond to event like "you are about to be killed, please serialize your state" or "please restore your state", something that "classic" linux applications do not support.

Android is not typical linux - it is not supposed to run on devices with gigabytes of fast memory running off AC outlet. When your memory bandwith is two orders of magnite lower, you have 128MB of it (on G1, 64MB of memory is used by the radio) and you are on battery, putting GNU system there would be not very smart - if you want something usable and with battery life longer than few hours, that is.
It bears repeating several times. This is more about a clash of cultures than anything else.
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John Hughes Contrasts Erlang and Haskell
I don't know much about the Rails community, but they should definitely look at Django.

Django currently is more modular. The ease with which you can integrate third-party components is unparalleled in my experience. I also like Django's ORM a whole lot more.

Rails is awesome, other frameworks are too ... but keeping blinders on is not good on the long term.
That's not my impression at all.

Truth is, people can get kind of religions about their technological choices, no matter what those choices are (I guess it takes some faith to believe in your choice, when there's no clear answer to "which is best"? ... there never is).
That was refreshingly quirky and true. Thank you.
"The best solution would probably be a job right here in London, but I have no "in" here."

But this is exactly what I said. SO is targeted at people who don't have an "in". "Elite " programmers generally get an "in" by their reputation and contacts, not by paying to list a cv on some website(I don't believe SO can overcome that lack of "in" any more than any other job site, but that is a separate point. And anyway, if I am popular on SO I can just add the url to my cv. Why pay SO?).

If I were in your position (US citizen looking for an "in" in London ) I would make contacts in the local sw industry asap. Attend local ruby/c++/whatever-tech-you-are-interested-in interest groups, attend major conferences and so on and make friends with talented people.

Writing /contributing to open source software buys you quite a bit of "in" with competent people anywhere.

People you know are the ultimate "in", followed closely (for devs) by shipping products/open source software you wrote.

Anything SO can provide (in addition to a url to your contrinuctions which you have anyway)is a weak/nonexistent imitation. And you certainly shouldn't (imo) have to pay for it and (again imo) won't be getting value for money if you did.

All that said, I do await SO career success stories. I'd love to be proven wrong. I still maintain that "elite of elite" programmers (to use Joels' words) won't pay SO (or anyone else) to host their cv.
In the article:

Papayas already come in three sexual varieties: male,
female and hermaphrodite, but it is only the hermaphrodite
varieties that produce the succulent fruit that is sold
commercially.
It should be pointed out that he is referring to the UK. Just because UK (and EU) citizens have allowed their rights to be taken away from them doesn't mean that Americans should not be outraged at what this treaty forebodes. It is an affront to anyone that values the freedom of speech and due process.
You can define a second function in a file, with the constraint that it can only be used by the main function (I think). The following could happily go in one file named foo.m:

function rtn = foo(x)

rtn = bar(x) + 1

function rtn = bar(x)

rtn = x^2
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Dam I love it! Finally I can get rid of that clutter Evernote... Love the drag function too awesome app guys!

Edit: I'd love to have a web interface with this but.. can't have everything right? lol Definitely getting the iPhone version to sync up

Edit 2: If you guys could add uploading as well to share on twitter for eg. Well gosh darn that would be something special right there ;)
I agree; the "well, it's almost like that already, so what's a little more law" argument is unconvincing to my ears.
Hm, regarding the tail-optimization slides, the example used doesn't look like a tail-recursive call. I just tried compiling the function he provided using gcc's -O1, 2 and 3, and neither produced a tail optimized call. I rewrote it to match what my idea of a tail-recursive call is, and sure enough, under -O2 and -O3, gcc tail-optimized it. It didn't however with no optimization settings or -O1. I rewrote it as follows:

long
fact(long x, long acc)
{
if (x <= 0) return acc;
return fact(x-1, acc*x);
}

(edit: the whole slide deck is summarized well on the last slide: "If you do an optimization, test it on real world data. If it’s not drastically faster but makes the code less readable: undo it.")
Obviously I'm the only one who can't get the serial numbers generated? How long did it take for serial numbers to generate for you? I'm using Firefox 3.5.4 on Mac OS 10.6
I haven't gotten mine as yet though :(
I'm pretty sure they'll come in at some point
It's commonplace in my experience. I wouldn't call it borderline criminal, but many startups cross moral lines. I find it absolutely despicable, that people can rationalize their ethics away. "I know what I'm doing is wrong, but when we have revenue we can afford to do the right thing.", and other the-end-justifies-the-means rubbish.

It's easy (and perhaps even tempting) to cut corners but what good are ethics when you throw them out the moment they become inconvenient?

So yes, the behavior is to be castigated, and I have no respect for people who're willing to fuck their customers/users/suppliers in order to make it as an entrepreneur.
You know, I find a lot (not all) of these silly studies a waste of time and money, but for some reason I found this one full of win. Babies, crying, accents is just brilliant. Now I want to hear recorded baby cries from several different countries and hold a web game show called "name that baby's country".
Google relases Javascript compiler, other tools
I used to buy books on writing, read magazines on writing, listen to interviews of authors talk about their methods.

You're right--they simply sit down and write.
Ha, I'm going on almost a half hour now, you?
Closure compiler: A compiler for Javascript
It took 2 hours for me. You need to wait a bit, don't worry.
My suggestion would be to join a local college games club. There is tremendous overlap between techies and people who play non-mainstream games (e.g. Rail Baron, Dominion, RPGs, San Juan, Fluxx, etc). Playing card / board games with people for a few months, means you will:

a) have a lot of fun

b) make new friends

c) have a chance to get feedback on your idea

d) discover who the talented CS / designer / whatever people are, and get a pretty good picture of what they are like. If you're looking to take someone on as a technical co-founder (which I presume, from your mention of 'free tech talent') you'd better know in advance if you can stand to be around them.

General games club meetings are fun and will provide you with contacts and information on those contacts. If you want an in-depth picture of someone, get into a role-playing game with them. To use D&D references: do they play the cleric and heal the party, or the assassin and backstab their teammates? Do they hog the snacks? Can they listen to other players' suggestions politely and implement them if they are better than their own ideas? Do they participate in the group when it isn't their turn to speak, or do they have their laptop open in order to play WoW && IM && check email?

There may or may not be "right" answers to any of the above questions, but they will give you a lot of information to make a decision on.

You will also find that college games clubs consist of more alumni than current students. This is a great way to network to experienced people (techies among them). As an example, at the Columbia games club, we have someone who currently works at Google. I met my co-founder at CUGC.
No it's the first (and probably last) time they are giving away for free.
I think I'm about the same lol, race ya?
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At least prostitutes engage in a mutually beneficial and consensual arrangements. Pincus' tactics were (are?) neither mutually beneficial nor consensual.
If you ever heard the debate about what if all males went extinct or women could no longer reproduce (like the movie Children of Men), I believe that hermaphrodites are nature's proof of concept that "nature will always find a way".

Although I was never curious enough to research if it is believed that there is a possibility that hermaphrodite humans can impregnate themselves, like plants reproduce. Anyone know the speculative answer to this from a credible source?
Of course Haskell has closures, there's always a scope to close over:

f x = (\y -> x + y)
I'm going to send the server processing the request some left-over candy from Halloween, so expect to lose.

EDIT: According to @oscardelben above it took him almost two hours. He didn't use candy.
> We also found that OS X’s say command provided somewhat more natural sounding voices. Our solution was to run the conversion processes on a cluster of several OS X boxes running at our homes.

That is awesome! If you ever want to free up those OS X boxes I recommend a couple of Mac Minis hosted at http://www.macminicolo.net/
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The timeless classic Why Women Have Breasts:

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Indeterministic laws and the non-existence of particle positions and trajectories are difficult to square with general relativity too - and Bohm's interpretation doesn't 'suffer' those problems, while it predicts the exact same observations. (Though I should say this is way out of my amateur-physicist league - I'm taking my cue from 'Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony' http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Historical-Contingen... ).
Isn't MacHeist just a clever way to make Apple fans buy stuff? Nothing against the apps in question, but I hate to see this marketing scheme on HN.
Children of Men is actually a novel by P.D. James

Just a pet peev when people overlook the original material, but I was pretty surprised to learn this. She mostly writes detective stories and was inducted into the crime writers hall of fame.

It's on my "todo" bookshelf, anyway, so any pomposoty is accidental ;)
Rails 3 is taking a turn towards that direction. More modular, open to more ORM's (we have more than ActiveRecord these days, you know! :P), etc. And I'm happy for it. I really like that aspect of Django (and somewhat of Merb, though it was painful sometimes with all the deps), so I'm glad to see it coming to Rails.
I wonder if that is due, in part, to the fact that there are so many web frameworks for Python (Django, TurboGears, Pylons, etc) that maybe we tend to discuss web frameworks in general a little more then the Rails guys. I'm sure there are some out there but I've never heard of any other web frameworks for Ruby.
I don't really post very much on 2+2; I just lurk a bit. I'm a member of FlopTurnRiver and the training site GrinderSchool. Thanks to an affiliate signup with RakeBackNation (and paying upwards of $1300/mo in rake), my GS membership is basically free at this point.
What is most clever about this article (besides the intense and long dialogue created by the subject matter which has resulted in some of the longest comments and replies I have seen for any article) is how his wife purchased that book for their child.

Think about the reactions many parents would fall to by default: Lecturing their child that if they want to be "x" they have to do "x" in school.

Or, not taking seriously what their child wants to do in the future or finding it too much effort to debate why they should be doing their school work because "kids, teenagers, heck even adults, change their minds frequently about what they want to do in the future and look at how many college students change their majors."

That was an impressive solution to the issue his wife pursued and an example that will stay with me a very long time.

+1 to the author of this post and his wife for parenting ingenuity.
This is one of the things I've been wondering about. I'd like to look at ways to get Closure to be more holistic in it's approach.

YUI Compressor has always been safe. I think the concern I have is that the new, exciting features here are the unsafe ones and, obviously, those are the ones that are dangerous.

I'd be really interested in seeing how we can make features like this safe again. For example, by scraping a page, rather than just a JavaScript file to see which methods are genuinely unused instead of those unused in an undefined context of an unlinked JS file.
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Interesting upward kink starting in August/September in the average number of JS tags on a page. Any idea why? Any particular tag in the data showing a similar trend?
Ask HN: what do you think of our startup's preview video?
In cold places during winter, bike lanes double as extra room to pile snow. The trade-off is that in the spring the bike lanes are unusable until the city sweeps the streets because all sorts of debris accumulates in them. Tire-unfriendly stuff like glass and screws.

I grew up in Canada. I speak from experience. :)
Hi,

This is awesome and thanks for posting it.

Question: Towards the end of your post you mention your amazement regarding how much of non-image content is accounted for by JavaScript code, citing 200K Facebook libraries and such. Could you comment a little bit about the mix between CDN-hosted JS and locally-hosted JS?

From your data, would you be able to speculate on the amount of efficiency gain (in bytes transfered and average latency across the visitors to the top 1000) that could be had if we aggressively re-configured this entire mass of sites to use jQuery/Prototype/etc from a single location rather than on their own sites?

Thanks

[edit: formatting]
I don't have a dead easy way to extract that information in general, unfortunately. It's something that I do look at the jQuery and YUI (to see whether they are taking the hosted or self-hosted versions), but for generic JavaScript I don't have CDN information.
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I'm pretty sure that the answer to that is the comScore Beacon used by the comScore 360 product.

http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/5/c...
They used to have one in Ann Arbor Michigan next to the U of M Hospital.
Very nice, but I would change 3 things:

1. Get it down to 30s. There is a lot of fluff that could be tightened up. 25s too long as is, cut the length of the confetti explosion, the long shot on the cat, etc..

2. Show off more of the interactivity. If I'm going to pay $2 for a virtual good outside of a game it needs to have some staying power. Show it off.

3. I'd add faces or something to show that the iPods are owned by 2 different people. It is pretty clear, but I was just watching in a small window with partial attention and I could see someone being confused.
I find it hard to believe that a project of this magnitude has so little fault tolerance.
Too much trouble. I prefer
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16892414.jpg with a heavy chain.
The way to sell that is to say "The Japanese (i.e. Sony, so it's even true) want the power to imprison you for sharing music with your friends" and similar language. Tie it into American xenophobia and it'll fly like a lead balloon.
Yeah? And Paul Graham made Hacker News as a clever way of sucking people into YCombinator, and lots of people here comment as a clever way of getting their product name out. There is nothing inherently wrong with marketing whatsoever.

In this case, a supposed $150 value is being offered for free. That's news worth posting.
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Good luck on this! I first heard of you through Sean, and the idea itself seemed to definitely have some legs - enabling live site collaboration should print cash. I do wonder about how the product is defensible. If I have one piece of advice, perhaps in follow up postings, add some lessons learned, inner links, and all that goodness that brings you here.
Actually, no. I'd never flown with a dog before and was a rank amateur; it didn't occur to me that dog crates might be a different category of luggage/cargo. I freely admit that this was my fault (in a way), and I'm not saying they should have flown the dog anyway - but the way they handled it was not good. Instead of just saying, "I'm sorry, we can't fly dogs because they're a different category of luggage we're not permitted to handle here" and refunding my money, they were very strange about it and didn't refund my money.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt
TSA always examines pets; they did check my dog.
What if you could vote with money? So everyone who votes on the winning idea can then choose to contribute some amount and the sum of everyone's contributions buys, say, a 25% share in the idea, acting as seed funding.

If only there was a website where I could discuss with people if this is a good idea or not...
Count yourself lucky if it strikes you. :)
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"what else are you gonna call it?"

How about "Armadillo"?
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In a way, a wise creator of a theory should be the one least fixated by it, as he knows all its potential weaknesses inside-out and the messy way it came into being. From your description, Dirac seems to be one of those wise geniuses.
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"What you say is well-put, but to nitpick the last paragraph: the limits of quantum mechanics are well-established. QM is a special case of quantum electrodynamics, which is a low-energy special case of the Grand Unified Theory."

Somewhat misleading. The difference between quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics is not really pertinent to a discusion of the limits of quantum mechanics. Most people who are familiar with quantum mechanics will use the term to refer to the whole tree of theories that require quantization anyway (quantum mechanics (QM), quantum field theory (QFT)). The limits of QM is that we are really not able to calculate things in certain energy regimes.

Also, it is not really accurate to call QM a special case of QFT because different things are being quantized (particle states vs field states). Certain operators in QFT are then interpreted as particles.

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is an example of a QFT. People postulate the existence of a Grand Unified Theory (GUT), of which QED would be special case. The only evidence of the GUT is a plot that extrapolates the strength of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions over many orders of magnitude.
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Does someone with a little more knowledge have any idea how a bird with a baguette could have access to this part of the machine? What is stopping rain, snow, random people, etc, from breaking things?
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I don't think this is the main bundle.
The nano bundle was disappointing. Only TinyGrab seems like a nice app. The rest is poorly written or just low grade. Not the usual MacHeist quality.
"we want to make sure the damage done by the least skilled programmer on his worst day is strictly contained"

I strongly suggest this kind of risk to be dealt with at the human resources department.

Last time I had to deal with something like this, I suggested firing the HR person who interviewed the then candidate and who did nothing to stop what should have been pretty obvious even to someone without any tech background.

The saddest fact in BFEWAD is that, at the same time Java makes it safe to use 100s of programmers in several continents, you won't need a 100s developers in several continents if you use something less primitive.

As for the monkey patch, there is another technique that prevents it from ruining your week: all automated API tests must pass _before_ the kid in Seoul commits a file.

OTOH, I find Ruby's syntax a bit too flexible and that makes it difficult for me to parse someone else's code unless I know that person very well. When comparing Rails and Django, I prefer the latter. It's just that I can wrap my head around it more easily.
Try sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day and telling yourself you're supposed to be writing a story. I've been in a program like that. I'd bet that six and a half of those eight hours were collectively spent on Youtube.
"...if your life revolves around Google Web applications, the Android OS is probably the best phone on the market."

This is true in my case -- MyTouch (awful name) is the bee's knees. Google Voice and Apps for Domains makes MyTouch an efficient business machine. I have cheap-minimal voice plan and no texting plan (do pay for data of course). Texts and most calls via G-Voice. I get one-click access to email on the go,all my office/cell/home lines forwarded to a single G-voice line, transcribed voicemails (how did I live/work without this?), and full calendar/tasks integration. Win-ish.

Don't love the T coverage, 3G is spotty, and no physical keyboard is a pain for large-thumbed folks like me.

Cons aside, best phone on the market for my Google-integrated needs.
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"Asking how to scale Rails up to 100 programmers is asking the wrong question"

Just imagine what we could do with a Beowulf cluster of 100 Rails programmers!
True.

But he's still right about the "don't panic" part. Until this actually shakes out into the real world, we don't know how much of an issue it will be. If it's one of those things that no one bothers to enforce, then who cares? If they do try to enforce it, then there will be class action suits and it will eventually go away.

In short, I don't think we can prevent it, but I do think we can get rid of it if need be.
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I guess an even more experienced developer knows when to use his best practices, and when to leave them be for the sake of the project...
Prosody is an important part of language, and any study which gives insight into how language acquisition works is valuable and could lead to many practical technologies. Although the headlines (as usual) appear to be going well beyond what conclusions were justified by the study.

Here's a more skeptical in depth perspective from Liberman who's an expert on phonetics

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1869
Anybody who hasn't read this paper half a dozen times should give it another read. It's a fascinating article that will change your outlook on education a little bit.
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