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I had the 400 which had a plastic membrane instead of keyboard. And it was always running out of memory. Good times.
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My first thought when reading this is "The Django guys even think about Rails?"

I don't know much about the Django community, but in the Rails community I seldom hear any discussion of Django. The few times I've heard talk of Django in the Rails community, it's along the lines of "Oh yeah, it's great for x/y/z use cases." It's hard for me to imagine DHH or other Rails notables writing anything remotely similar to this post.

Is this just me being sheltered? Or is there more of a pre-occupation with Rails in the Django community than vice-versa? If so, why? Just curious to hear what other's experiences have been.
I totally read read as read.
Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to toss bras in a washer and dryer on high heat. Ideally, they should be hand-washed. If that's too much hassle, one should at least put them in mesh lingerie bag so the straps don't get all tangled up with parts of the washer and other clothes, which tends to deform the straps. The hooks of a bra can also get caught on other clothing and damage the other clothing. Washing bras in hot water generally shortens their lifespan. A good bra can be quite pricey so some women who hand-wash nothing else do hand-wash their bras, especially if they are hard to fit.
I think that some of the Python guys have a bit of Ruby envy: Python has steadily been gaining momentum over the years as the "scripting language", and along came Ruby and in the blink of an eye it had, at least in terms of publicity, surpassed Python, at least where web stuff was concerned, thanks to Rails.
I live there and I don't think you're wrong. They would certainly not be sued out of existence, anyway - suing is rare and is considered to break the harmony (和).

I would also expect the device to detect it rather easily if the door doesn't close, or if there's too much resistance. It's not more dangerous than an elevator.
One of the issues with 'startup ideas that we'd like to fund' as I perceive it is that people might interpret it as 'if you come to us with this idea we will fund it'.

And that just simply isn't the case, you will have a better shot at it, but it is not a guarantee.
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Having two babies, being put on steroids for health problems, weight gain and loss, and living at 3000 feet above sea level for 2 1/2 years which caused my lung capacity to increase and thus my ribcage to enlarge. This permanently changed the number part of my bra size (and probably saved my life the last time I had pneumonia and was bedridden, so it's all good). Cup size is a relative thing, dependent in part on that first number. The short version: The number part of it is a reference to the measurement around the rib cage directly below the breasts and the cup part tells you how many inches larger than that the measure around the fullest part of the breast is. An "A" cup is one inch. A "B" cup is 2 inches. Etc. Though the number part is a not a direct measure of the ribcage - ie a size 36 bra does not equal a measure of 36 inches around the ribcage. To make this arcane art of bra sizes even more unfathomable, they add a different number to the basic measure depending upon whether it is above or below a certain size -- and I no longer remember what the size cut-off is or what the different numbers are that they add.
Google tries its own take on customer service
There's generally an awareness and a decent discussion in the django community about other web frameworks in general. Even though I use Django full time, I usually keep an awareness of happenings in other Python frameworks like TurboGears, Pylons. And I usually tend to have an awareness of big events that are happening in Rails.
The django core devs are one of the best thing the framework has. I'd have a beer with any of them at the drop of a hat.
I agree, direct and pointed questions do come across as rude and people need to learn to deal with them. "Why should I trust what your saying when your last recommendation cost me $100,000.00" sounds rude, but its just direct.

However, if you add "you stupid idiot" to the end, then you've increased the rudeness without increasing precision. This is how a lot of the original post came off.
Desmond Morris, who wrote "The Naked Ape" and some other books, said some very interesting things about human anatomy and human sexuality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Morris

http://www.desmond-morris.com/
I see this just as an application of Occam's razor. What Penrose does has been called the "law of minimization of mystery": consciousness is misterious, quantum mechanics is misterious, so why not try to explain one with the other.
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Convince me of the benefits.

We develop for Windows and I haven't yet seen a compelling implementation of any DVCS that brings the speed and experience that would be expected (yes, we also use TortoiseSVN) as well as the integration into the tools we use (CruiseControl .Net, Target Process).

I'm happy to consider something else, but we have something that works and works well. We've had no issues with Subversion and the support for it in other tools is phenomenal.

We also bring in contractors occasionally, and it's great to know that they will be instantly comfortable with Subversion, the same is not true of DVCS yet.

I'm sure we can fulfil the basic working requirements fine with DVCS, but I can't see much in the way of benefits for moving away from a working solution with wide support to something else... especially when in the Windows world it would greatly reduce the experience the developers and contractors have.
Science is tasty. So very, very tasty.
My guess is that it was a bit of self-deprecating humour.
The guys at Google are not stupid. They are actually some of the smartest guys I've ever met (I haven't met anyone on the Android team, though). Most of them also have fairly extensive experience with Linux. To make the implied assertion that they just threw everything out and hard-coded the system because they are stupid is asinine. I'm guessing that they were aiming for squeezing as much performance out of the system as possible. Considering how abysmally slow many of the smart phones are, I can't blame them. Purity as the highest ideal in software engineering is for academics. In the real world, performance is much more important goal.

And the idea of using X11 on a smart phone is laughable. Please, let's not continue to perpetuate that monstrosity on any more platforms.
Right, but non-local determinism is difficult to square with general relativity.
FWIW: Cup size is an increase in circumference, not length. And cup size is a relative measure. A "D" cup is supposed to mean that the fullest part of the breast is 4 inches more than the ribcage in circumference. So a 34D is going to be much less mass than a 44D (but, ironically, also a lot "fuller" looking relative to the rest of her figure). The last statistics I heard: The average American woman is about 5'4" tall and a size 16 dress size. More girth around the ribcage due to weight means "average" cup sizes that equal more mass because cup size is very much relative to that initial ribcage measurement. (I'm reminded that not long ago there was an article posted on HN apparently about women getting both shorter and fatter on average -- or so I gathered from the comments.)
If Google actually has customer service that would be news to me.

There are several outstanding issues with them and I can't say that I have any hope at all that these will ever be resolved.

These include not serving ads on some of our sites without any apparent reason and the complete mess-up that they made of converting all the accounts to analytics to 'google accounts', which caused us to no longer be able to change who has or hasn't got access to our statistics.

It's frustrating to say the least.
When was the last time you heard of a company searching the text of an email through their email system to find the culprit?

Anyone who has worked for a large company has heard of this. It probably doesn't make it into the news a lot, but having worked at <Large Company # 123232> we were told many times that your email is constantly being monitored (though they didn't go into the details of how).

Now, I don't know how AA works, but I'm guessing they made this clear upfront. If not, thats a separate issue.
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No, the only reason to a) specifically add the option for case insensitive matching and then b) copy-paste the same regexp just with the case changed is if you really don't understand what it means.
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Are the AppsFire statistics only valid for apps that are used by AppFire users? It'd be useful to compare statistics for how many apps are used more than once or twice after installing too.

Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones last quarter alone. A single digit percentage of total users is still A LOT.

Do I need 100,000 apps? No. I only use a dozen non-Apple apps, but I'm willing to bet that even if you use only a dozen apps, we're not going to be using the same ones.

There's a lot of junk in the App Store that maybe no one uses, but quantity doesn't necessarily mean there isn't quality in numbers either.
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> Could you link to some commits on Macosforge that were based on patches by people from osx86?

There are cases that I'm aware of, but I think several Apple employees would fear retaliation if I outed them here :-)

It's too bad that the XNU development process is totally closed (even if the code is OSS), as that's where you see so much of the osx86 activity. In particular, go look at voodooxnu, xnu-dev, etc. These are all drop-in replacement kernels for mach_kernel, run by hackintoshers, that accept patches from contributors. I believe voodoo will be the default kernel for the next PureDarwin (the new OpenDarwin) release.

> Can you link to some custom kext's that have risen from osx86?

http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/
http://code.google.com/p/voodoo-power/
"Stupid rules and how to change them"
I got a suit for €100 in Damascus a few weeks back. It looks awesome and is really, really comfortable. :-P
There is something very unsavory about consuming something that underwent a sex change operation.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was it now that you mention it.
When is More Important Than Where in Web Application Security
Avk, it is offtopic but I think your signup form (which asks for credit card number) might scare a normal user into believing that his data is not safe. The browser says that HTTPs page contains some unauthentic elements + the fields where you ask for card information do little to build confidence.

Asking for credit card information is a huge thing and either show in the form that you are concerned about security or better still use an external trusted vendor such as PayPal or Authorize.net
Simple as that.

Not as simple as you might think...

Large companies have policies. They have these policies because they don't want people breaking them.

Now, you might say, "well, technically he broke the policy, but I don't see how..."
a) he revealed any big public secrets
b) he said anything we don't already know
c) it did more harm than good in the form of responding to someone with a reasonable criticism
d) etc...

It doesn't matter. If you want to break company policy, you get permission to do so. If a large company allows people to break policies "so long as its not so bad..." they will run into problem of interpretation. Mr. X broke policy, and he got fired. Maybe it seemed reasonable at the time, maybe he did it because he cared, maybe he predicted that doing so would increase AA's business. Doesn't matter, at the end of the day, AA was well within its rights to fire him and they might well have been right to do so to stop others from speaking their mind whenever they feel like it.

Don't like the system? Think it should be more careful, discriminate between helpful breaks and unhelpful ones? Want it more fair? Well, I'm sure a lot of people do, and many of them have probably tried to come up with a business model that does all this and is also efficient. Seems like they aren't being adopted by large companies... so there is probably a good reason.

If you really want things to change (and I hope you do, because I agree, a lot of change would be welcomed by a lot of people) you need to propose a reasonable solution to this problem.
The keyword is "static". You'll often want to use a mock implementation rather than connecting to a remote server, checking for a 404 error and returning true or false - every time you run your tests.

Loosely coupled objects will allow you to do that, but how would you redefine the behavior of something static?
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Good points, all, but that's not really what he said. And by the tone of his talk, I don't think HE thinks they can "go the distance" by just doing avoiding past mistakes.

Then again, I could have mis-heard. But I did actually listen to it. =)
I was thinking the same thing, except with Evernote - I started using it a few weeks ago and have already built up a sizable switching cost. Maybe it'd help to hear more about import options as well as competitive differences?
Where do you live though? In many parts of the country the weather is not conducive to biking regularly. If you visit colleges on the west coast you'll notice an infestation of bicycles but they have very nice weather year round so it's practical to rely on bikes to get around.
I'd love to see it in action because I was considering doing the same thing for 14gears, especially if we make it into the ycombinator session after the interview in a few weeks. I've often wondered about the nuts and bolts of YC and it doesn't have fancy video segments like techstars :)
Greenlight if-branches and switch statements

OO cowboys will want to have a whole polymorphic soup of collaborating objects

Of Course! When I implement, say, Bubble Sort, I do not implement the classes BubbleList with the methods sort and addObject: anObject and BubbleObject with the method bubbleMaybe: aBubbleList, just to see my tests for BubbleObject fail when I switch to Quicksort.
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Google is making plenty of mistakes as we are writing this, and I think most of those have a pretty good history of being 'past mistakes', including, but not limited to not listening to your customers, crappy support and changing your 'winning formula' to try to make a few bucks. Coupled with a total lack of transparency I think they are well underway stringing out the rope that will eventually hang them, or that will give a competitor a leg up.

Since the other giants don't seem to be too busy with really trumping them I think the final challenger will be one that right now is maybe on a drawing board somewhere, but not an established entity.

And google is geared very well to dealing with the existing competition, but does not seem to do well with 'upstarts'. If the youtube vs google video contest was a sample of how things will play out then they will have their work cut out for them.

One thing is for sure, it will be interesting to watch.
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If you eat papaya, you're already eating hermaphrodite fruit. This can't make much difference.
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I'll make it concrete too. First up though, I'm not particularly unhappy with my career.

I live in London, and work remotely for a US company, but I'm not from London, and haven't worked for any other companies in London. (I'm here because of my girlfriend.) I have no colleagues in London. Most of my contacts are on the west coast of the US, where it's somewhat awkward to get a job as a non-US citizen, and doubly awkward if one wants to work remotely.

Now, if I wanted to get a different job, what would I do? The best solution would probably be a job right here in London, but I have no "in" here. But I don't see that that lack has any obvious connection to my abilities as a developer.
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... not that I've been able to tell. At least, they aren't posted yet.
What strikes me is that they seem to lose much time fighting procrastination.
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A couple of folks asked how tweetrad.io works behind the scenes (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=920610). Here's a little write-up on our technology and some of the choices we made while developing it.
Don't all plants flower and pollinate, meaning they are all hermaphrodites?
Ask HN: what disputes can arise between co-founders?
I am wondering about disputes that can arise between co-founders.

Founders can begin as friends but end-up sacrificing this in the process of starting-up.

Specifically, I'm thinking about conflicts that can arise between remote cofounders.

But generally, what are the serious or common disputes to think about that can be avoided or resolved?

Ideally, would only one founder with hired staff that have equity bonuses for retention be best?
I don't know if Rails scales to that sort of development, to be honest

Waaay off topic, but i wouldn't use the expression "scales to." Asking how to scale Rails up to 100 programmers is asking the wrong question. Asking how to maintain the same application with just one team on one continent is the question and Rails might be the answer. Then again, it might not be the answer for your specific company. But that is the question to ask.

If you do not quickly clue into the fact that Array#pack was redefined in a file you've never seen before that was committed last Tuesday by your most junior developer in the Seoul office, enjoy spending the next several days going over code you swear looks right looking for the error.

Again, you have my sympathies. But Rails is not the answer to this problem and neither is Java. One answer to that question that has worked for others in this situation could be continuous integration. Why didn't your automated tests fail when the dev in Seoul checked his code in?

I am not saying Rails is for you, or for anyone with 100 devs on multiple continents. But I do have a little experience with multiple developers on separate continents building C++ and Java applications, and the problem of stopping developers from breaking code was always solved with processes like continuous integration and code reviews and not because of some special property of Java.

I like Rails for certain things and not for others. I am not arguing you should use it. But I do feel that the issues you raise are not Java vs. Rails issues but process issues. Java won't solve them for you and neither will Rails.
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That's kind of like asking, "What disputes can arise in a long-distance relationship?" It's naturally a pretty open question.

In general, I don't think doing the whole remote-founders thing is a good idea for the same reason that it's probably not a good idea in a long term relationship. There are just too many points that you need to be able to sync up on.

When you get into a startup, just like a relationship, you enter with a picture of a person that hasn't been through the full-on trial-by-fire. When you turn up the pressure and leave it that way for an extended period of time, cracks in that picture always start to emerge.
The most common one is about whether or not the other parties are pulling their weight (because you can't see when / if they are working), and decisions regarding the direction to take.
Right, echoes with this thread:

"..The number one thing that caused the unsuccessful companies to fail was fights between the co-founders. And the successful ones-- were ones where the co-founders were very harmonious, because they had worked together for years before founding the company (multiple instances of this.) Of course, there were also instances where co-founders had worked before and they still fought all the time.."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246 (94 points)

thanks
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Fixing their homepage is the start of a systematic change they need to make.

As a guy who flys 10's of thousands of miles a year, I could care less about their homepage. I don't even use it, I usually go to Orbitz.com so I can get as many itinerary and price options as possible.

I'd rather AA offer better seats, or in-flight wifi, or the ability for me to pay an extra $10 to board in the first group when I am not in first class so I don't have to fight for overhead space.

Their website could be a fucking gopher site for all I really care.
This is likely a response to the recent announcement that Unity3D is now free to download and use for individuals as well as companies that make less than 100K per year.
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Just reading the headline I couldn't tell if the poster was proud of having been included, or annoyed at piracy of his app. The name MacHeist actually suggests the latter, and their website only says they supply licenses -- not saying what they are doing is legal.

Now that the comments indicate everything is above board, I wonder if MacHeist plans on having an "Android Annex", or will leave that to another company...
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I wish MacHeist provided a box to explain why you would pay the amount you specified.

When they are collecting this data, how are they going to know why someone would be willing to put out $20, $25 and so on for the bundle?

Just an observation. For me, I really need to give this ShoveBox a try. Wish I knew it was out there a long time ago. I've constantly complained about my Safari bookmark management and that there has to be a better way. Is ShoveBox it?