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Ebert endorsing Avatar is a real surprise , he is quite anti-3d , this must be executed real well.

With regards to the - bland storyline -, as Ebert himself says elsewhere - "its never about what it is , it is how it is about what it is" and as others have mentioned James Cameron is an absolute Master Action Filmmaker.
My hope is Google plans to subsidize this device themselves and totally shake up the wireless industry.
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That is actually really cool and I am glad, and a little surprised, to hear the perl community is still alive. I will re-evaluate my preconceptions.
Google has been around 12 years, you don't see them getting bored.
Did you forget to paste in the statistics/facts that show me how wrong I am?
How about javascript? It seems most new interfaces are written in javascript - node.js for instance, and most people need some rudimentary exposure to javascript for web programming.
I could add the following languages:

SmallTalk (or SELF): After I learned some SmallTalk I realized I had never understood the deep meaning of OOP before.

FORTH: It's the Nirvana of building abstractions in layers, starting from very simple primitives.

Tcl: a few Tcl ideas are really worth understanding. The idea of having a single data type in the whole language, and the [uplevel] command that basically provides to the language the equivalent of Lisp macros but with a trivial semantics. At implementation-level the dual-ported objects strategy is a very powerful idea that little programmers are aware of.

Javascript or SELF: it's very interesting to understand how prototype-based OOP works.
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When crossing an American border. Or do you believe this can happen when you drive into Norway, Switzerland, Croatia or even Turkey?
Climate change? Well, we'll be dead by then
Amusingly, he also quoted jwz as saying "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." This incident appears to be proof positive of that.
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Yes, I live in a sleepy town in central Japan and have for the last five years. Please feel free to email me -- my address is easily discoverable.
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Is the software that runs hacker news open source?
What runs Markenomics.com is certainly the same as what runs Hacker News. Is this open source?
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Yes. It's distributed with ARC.
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Smells like bullshit. Firefox doesnt have more usage than IE. Must be traffic to one website, not global usage.
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Hey, I'm on my iPhone so I will write a more thorough response later, but --

My book is an ebook, not a physical object. I offer a very strong refund policy and getting a refund is as easy & instant as emailing the address listed on the site & book. Typical return rates for other ebooks range fro
3-5%, based on my convos with other people selling info products.

Also, when I say "support," I mean it in the traditional sense. I don't mean "customer support" as in "answering emails." Remember that that term predates that particular meaning.

Support, as I explain in my article, means helping people. I create products, first, with a goal of helping my customer make themselves/their lives better. That is my guiding purpose.

Then, with my marketing, I help them decide - really - if the product is for them or isn't for them. I make it extremely clear who the product will help, I don't cast as wide a net as possible.

Helping people realize "this product is NOT for me" is respectful of them & their time.
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/.'s ownership was part of one of the early, milestone Web 1.0 bubble buyouts and IPOs. HN wouldn't even be here today if it weren't for what Andover, VA Linux & all were doing 10-15 years ago.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with this list. Here's some I would add:

PHP - even if you loathe its every existence, if you're a web developer, you're going to come across it, might as well know it.

Perl - text processing, data scraping, all around great language.

Javascript - Like others have mentioned, I think its a great language, used in front end web development, and now moving to back end.

Shell scripting - Of some sort, please don't be afraid of the command line. Its so insanely powerful, you should definitely take advantage of its power by learning some basic shell scripting.
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Generally the comments in this post (currently 5) all demonstrate a misunderstanding of the core principles.

ClojureQL provides DB Agnosticism and language-level statement construction. On top of ClojureQL you could build any number of high-level abstractions, but ClojureQL is not an attempt at doing that.
Why do C and C++ always get such a big fellatio in programming articles? They're ugly languages with serious problems and bubble gum fixes.
My guess is the average non-geek does not think his emails stay private, but they do not think about it at all. Email is something like a hydrant, it's just there, so what?
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What other low-level language with a lingua franca status would you suggest?
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Sorry to say, but at least one of your tests still suffers from a non apples to apples problem. Specifically the "make" tests. The jquery make test does parsing of strings into dom elements and various appends. The rightjs make test is just a wrapper for DOM creation. That's not even close to the same thing.
Your calculation does not consider reserved instances. Reserved instances allow you to get the cost of running a large instance down to $127/month (not including bandwidth, on a 3 year contract) or $163/month (not including bandwidth, 1 year contract). Does not change the overall picture though.

You also do not differentiate between traffic in and out ("in" is currently free fo EC2 and in any case cheaper than traffic out) - this may be significant depending on the kind of service you run (for most applications it won't be).

Similarly: if you make use of other Amazon Services (in particular S3 which you too seemed to like) this would count as external traffic from servers external to amazon but not from EC2. However, again, for most applications that would probably not change the overall picture.

But i do see one argument that can change the picture: if you use ec2 for overflow, testing and short time workloads and some other hosting (in-house?) for everything else, then this significantly complicates your infrastructure, i.e. you need take care of your in house servers and understand ec2. This may be significant enough to run even long running servers in the cloud.
arguments.callee is deprecated in javascript 1.4. Use function name instead, so interpreter will have chance to perform tail recursion. Give names to your anonymous functions anyway: it will be much easier to trace them.

Example of anonymous recursive function with arguments.callee:

var factorial=function(n) {
return (!(n>1))? 1 : arguments.callee(n-1)*n;
}

Example of anonymous recursive function without arguments.callee:

var factorial=function factorial(n) {
return (!(n>1))? 1 : factorial(n-1)*n;
}
Probably, but don't blame me, I just test how jQuery actually builds elements, because people do build elements this way from time to time.

But don't count it if you don't like the idea, it's just one test among many others and not the slowest one. So it won't change a lot.
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The final link is also notable because it's immediately followed by a discussion about the HN "signal to noise ratio".

They seem to be the two most common topics here - are we becoming Reddit? and why isn't nickb around to help prevent it?

Perhaps the answer lies in some erlang source code?
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A bunch of the code that runs news.yc is not in the public version of news.arc.

Apparently at any one time some of it is not even serialized to disk -- just keyed into the live REPL by he himself.
That should be mano-a-mano, surely?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano-a-mano
I wonder when's the last time a site got slashdotted now. Doubt it happens much nowadays as it did in the past.
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Seems likely as he also shows up as the co-founder of Excino Technologies and WiPlay Networks.
fixed. thanks for heads up!
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Can someone explain me, how PureDom can be slower?
According to this article
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn881-private-life.html
Nick Bobic also goes as Nikola Bobic.
That could help if it is him.
It's not slower, PureDom is faster in most of the tests, there are just couple of tests insert/before/after that seems have slower implementation, don't really now why.

It's not RightJS only, Dojo and YUI win in those tests too.

Generally speaking PureDom is still faster than RightJS. It has to be.
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Obviously it depends where in Europe you are, but in the UK at least, the police need reasonable suspicion before they can search you (or certain other specific circumstances must obtain), and there are limits on what they are allowed to search for. They are not legally allowed to search you just because they feel like it.

There's a summary of police powers of search and seizure in the UK here:

http://www.activistslegalproject.org.uk/searchseizure.pdf
Defiantly Javascript, pretty much any web developer these days will be making at least some use of Javascript these days and if not like PHP you will end up dealing with things that do.
There aren't any I would suggest. That's the problem! C is the highest used solution and most praised when it happens to be a really bad solution for humans.
It's arguable that a) if they do the same and thing and b) it is the accepted way to do that thing in each framework than it is surely a fair test?

:)
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well folks who wants to be the first person to tell this guy to run as fast as he can?
Why try to convince people to execute? Entrepreneurs don't need convincing - they can't stop themselves from executing. It takes a certain type.
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P.S. For some reason I can't up-vote.
It is arguable. For this reason I left the thing in one single test.

So that you have a choice. If you disagree, then you don't count this line, if you do agree then you count it.

Either way RightJS comes faster
I know everybody hates Java and I can surely not exclude myself, but it has to be on this list. There is just too much IT Business around Java to not know it. Even if U don't like it, it might be helpful to pay Ur bills.
Question to all people who have to know Java very well because of university or work: Do U think there is any better option for really big teams? If U encounter a problem, where U have to put 50 programmers on it, I don't know any other language that allows to slice a program so distinctly into seperate pieces as Java.
So basically Chrome's tabs works like they have done forever in Firefox and Opera.

yawn
Chrome has that feature, but unlike in Firefox you lose your history for that tab, so no way to go back. You get the page you were on and that is it.
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I don't think Ben Goldacre is saying that valid criticism of climate change is bad. What he is saying is the vast majority of people who are criticizing climate change are doing so based on incorrect premises.

This is why I personally have problems with people who are anti-AGW. Any valid points they have are drowned out by hundreds of non-scientific people frothing at the mouth and spouting exaggerated, incorrect crap.

He believes climate change is occurring because of the expert consensus. Claiming that all several thousand experts are involved in a cover up is pretty classic conspiracy theory thinking...
If that is actually a photo....

it looks horrid to me :( matte black plastic??
"This means Google is making hardware"

As if this is something new? We've known Google has been designing and building their own servers for years. They just haven't sold any of their hardware to the general public. In this case the author is saying that because a bunch of Google employees are running around with the same phone that Google is planing to sell that phone. Seems like a leap to me.
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agreed, but can you blame them? isn't the rational position to place the burden of proof on those who demand others change their behavior?
Google has been selling search appliances for a long time.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html
> He believes climate change is occurring because of the expert consensus. Claiming that all several thousand experts are involved in a cover up is pretty classic conspiracy theory thinking...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I said, precisely, "...and many of the experts have very recently been shown to do some serious scientific misconduct."

Is this conspiracy theorizing? No.

A lot of them just participated in some actions that are almost universally regarded as scientific misconduct, such as destroying data rather than providing it for attempts at falsifying. This was many of the formerly respected and important climate change scientists.

I gave a number of my concerns with the current research and views on global warming, saying that people are acting like the matter is no longer open to debate and discussion. And you responded that there's "hundreds of non-scientific people frothing at the mouth and spouting exaggerated, incorrect crap." And saying I claimed there's a massive cover up conspiracy, when I said no such thing. This is acting like the matter is no longer open to debate and discussion.

There are valid concerns with the state of the science. I am not frothing at the mouth spouting exaggerated, incorrect crap. I am not conspiracy theorizing. The matter is by no means concluded. This does not make me or others who are not convinced into deniers, or pseudo-scientists, or "non-scientific people frothing at the mouth". Immediately writing off anyone who isn't convinced in climate change does not help its cause - it sets off red flags in people who are not convinced and wish to look closer at the science.
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It actually looks pretty nice. It's a shame this didn't come to market in a cleaner way.
I hope this is just a troll. I'll believe it when someone more reputable than a brand new anonymous account can confirm it. nickb has disappeared for long periods in the past.

If I remember correctly pg has contacted him in past. Hopefully he can debunk this.
Swiss border guards at airports are worst - esp if your European (like me). I nearly got arrested for standing the wrong side of the yellow line a few months ago :) The best border guards I've met are the ones as Newark Airport, NY; friendly and smiley.

I actually find US/Canadian Border guards not too bad (by comparison) - as you say they are at least professional and perfectly helpful if you are courteous.

I agree with what you end with: he has to have done something pretty stubborn and rude to get that treatment.
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Doesn't surprise me at all, Google has the advantage that MS has - 'Brand Awareness' - Joe Q Public sees Firefox and sees a brand with no trust backing, unless they've already been preached to by a geek friend, but they see 'Google Chrome' and know that they trust Google/YouTube.

It doesn't really help firefox that many of us geeks are switching to Chrome|Chromium|Iron for various reasons, too.
When people who have proven themselves eager to take away other people's money and freedoms argue that they have "scientific" reasons to do the same, it's smart to be sceptical.

If, while robbing you at gunpoint, I tried to explain to you that I had good scientific reason to take even more of your money, you'd be stupid to believe me. If I don't have the morals not to rob you, I don't have the morals not to lie to you.

The communists used science to justify taking away freedom and increasing their own power. I don't see the current politicians and government scientists any differently.
to the general public

(there is a distinction)
I would tell him that he'll never win that argument.
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"Bad Idea #1: Site Licenses.

The opposite of segmentation, really. I have certain competitors that do this: they charge small customers per-user but then there's a "unlimited" license at a fixed price. This is nutty, because you're giving the biggest price break precisely to the largest customers, the ones who would be willing to pay you the most money. Do you really want IBM to buy your software for their 400,000 employees and pay you $2000? Hmm?

As soon as you have an "unlimited" price, you are instantly giving a gigantic gift of consumer surplus to the least price-sensitive customers who should have been the cash cows of your business."

On the other hand, consumers massively prefer unmetered services as it avoids the cognitive tax of figuring out variable pricing.

AT&T is in a weird position here as these two forces are almost exactly balanced. It can either choose to start metering now and then flip flop a couple of years later or tough it out until provisioning bandwidth becomes cheap enough to not meter. Neither of these is an especially appealing solution.
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You are not an expert, yet you disagree with the expert consensus, and because of that you are most likely wrong. It has always been that way.

Mainstream views are correct more often than not.
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This is why I personally have problems with people who are anti-AGW. Any valid points they have are drowned out by hundreds of non-scientific people frothing at the mouth and spouting exaggerated, incorrect crap.

This is true of both sides of any issue. Most proponents of AGW are also frothing at the mouth and spouting exaggerated, incorrect crap.

Al Gore, for example: "Look at this graph, which historically shows CO2 lagging climate change! This proves CO2 causes climate change!"

Or a girl I know who works for Greenpeace: "Look at all the wacky weather events we've been having, glaciers breaking off, the north pole melting, the [2004] tsunami! This proves global warming is real!" (Since she knows I'm a conservative, she refused to believed me when I tried to explain how Tsunami's work.)

Yeah, if you want, you can focus on the weakest arguments of the opposing side and say "many idiots agree with my opponents" while ignoring the idiots who agree with you. You'll never need to rethink your views this way. Or you can actually try to understand the issue and think carefully about it...But that's both difficult and threatening.
If the rumors of this being a VoIP only phone, with a data access only plan are true, this is a "big deal".

This could be the beginning of the end for consumer telephony.
It also appears like Chrome is eating into Firefox's market share.
It is proven by now that the consensus is partially manufactured. The CRU emails reveal attempting to control the debate via illegitimate means: trying to shut down journals which publish skeptics, hiding data to prevent skeptics from finding flaws, and ousting skeptics from professional societies, removing editors who allow opposing views to be published.

A consensus of rational people is informative. A consensus of politics is not. There is considerable evidence that we have the latter rather than the former.
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Agreed. And includes lots of unexplained acronyms, e.g. HTC, HD2, SKU. I really can't be bothered looking up what they mean; the article should have either said, or linked to definitions.
The funny thing is, in general I have no common cause with conservatives at all. Honestly, I can't stand them. But on the issue of global warming, I'm right with you. I have serious doubts about the whole thing.

Climate change - bringing people together! Who would have thought?
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It's about which websites you're checking. On, say, cnn.com you might get a more IE-centric audience. On places like Slashdot, Linux would have a higher market share than IE. It's extremely difficult to make an accurate census of who is using what on their computers.