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I think the issue was the activities escaped the subreddit and surfaced other places. Say you disagree with the Healthy at any Size crowd in the subreddit? Fine. Start harassing them on their Facebook pages, tumblers, etc and it was deemed (in my humble opinion) going too far.

The irony is not lost on me that to make Reddit a "safe place" for all some ended up booted off the site for activities outside the site itself. Same as the fact that the primary object of fph's disdain got far more attention and perhaps even sympathy than she would have otherwise.
One of my great fears is that posts like the one you responded to turn out, years later, to be 100% legitimate, despite how weird they sound now.
So what's the purpose of this site? To attract learners and contributors? To build a better source code browsing system? To build an open-source ecosystem? To promote the spirit of open-source softwares?

The half-assed design of the webpage indicates that Apple is probably not paying attention to it at all. So what's the purpose of this site exactly?
Thanks for the great link! The P-51 is a thing of grace and beauty, but in combat I'd rather be in a P-47.
>From what I've read it seems like the lack of ubiquity forced the Plan 9 guys out of Plan 9 and back into Ubuntu or OpenBSD

That's… interestingly ahistorical. No one was force back from plan 9 to ubuntu or openbsd because when plan 9 "lost" neither existed. Plan 9's window of opportunity existed in the early '90s when linux and the web weren't firmly established.

Unfortunately Plan 9 wasn't released with a proper license until 2002, at that point Linux had already won the war (for half a decade), the problems that plan 9 solved had been solved in other ways (perhaps less elegantly) by the rest of the world, plan 9 lagged behind on a number of important areas and bell labs were being downsized significantly.
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You don't raid someone for doing that, you raid someone to silence them, then use that as a justification.

Some people will totally accept that explanation. And some people will pretend to accept it, even though they know it is a sham.
The idea is that you'd use the mouse when you don't remember the keyboard shortcut.
Not sure why hoisting is listed under "the good parts"
I'm generally not a fan of these Lua C API wrappers because they tend to add a lot of useless syntactic sugar that makes things more complicated... but yours is pretty good, I like the usertypes feature.
Was hoping this would be similar to PHP: The Right Way (http://www.phptherightway.com/) where everything you need to know is on the one page with links for more information available, rather than just links to other sites.
XML is a very complex spec which is difficult to implement properly, a heavy format with high storage overhead, which is extremely expensive to parse or process, but also too verbose and finicky to be pleasant for human editing. It doesn’t have built-in standard support for most of the common data types you want in a structured document, so they are all stored as strings or sequences of tags, and then parsed out in an ad-hoc way by each tool built on top. Its namespace feature is ineffective and often a potential security vulnerability. Its separation between attributes and elements is handled arbitrarily by various XML-derived formats and tools, usually inconsistently within the same format. It has terrible support for big arrays of numeric or other binary data. Etc. Etc.

XML, like SGML, is plausibly reasonable when you have something like a word processor document or web page, but is wholly inappropriate for almost every other use.

Notice that despite its acute limitations, JSON ended up as the metaformat of choice for most Web APIs.
"Among creditors, a big catchphrase now is “moral hazard”. We cannot be too kind to Greece, we cannot forgive their debt with few string attached, because what kind of precedent would that set?"

They already set that precedent by refusing to punish the individuals involved in the fraudulent misrepresentation that led to Greece entering the Eurozone.

Still not too late for the creditors to make amends for that mistake.
> Employment isn't the goal of an economy. Production is.

That is more or less a tautology; it's also not a particularly useful observation - the economy only of metrics by which to judge a society. Pretending that only the economy (via wages, stock prices, GDP, or other measurements) is one of the more damaging things to happen to the world over the last ~50 year or so.

Which bring me to my main point - did you even read the article?

This article wasn't about employment, nor was it about some sort of neo-ludditie anti-technology crusade. It also wasn't claiming anything about the current size of the tech industry.

This article was about the popular fallacy - propaganda, really - that the only thing that should matter to a business is "maximizing shareholder value". This has never been any sort of legal requirement, and - as described in the article - since the 70s. Regardless of what anybody's wishful thinking about what the effects of focusing on "maximizing shareholder value ought to be, the de facto results are to allow owners and high-level management to basically steal the wages of most of their workers. It's nothing more than a cheap excuse to justify greed.

As the article shows with examples like the old airline industry, extravagant waste can lead to lead very rapid changes when a new competitor notices what's going on and decides to exploit the money being left on the table by the traditional industry by being more efficient (what the tech industry likes to call "disruption").

You may notice that this about a management problem, and is not specific to the software, electronics, manufacturing, IT, or any other industry. The main prediction made in the article is all about how basing your business on such an obvious fallacy is bad business. The airlines were a good example, and like the old airlines, the big IBM-type businesses had better start paying attention to things like customer service (stop treating disrespecting customers) and making high-quality products people actually want to pay for. Failure to do so will simply leave a vacuum where a competor (asia?) will race them to the bottom.

The bottom doesn't have much profit in it, when modern technology keeps reducing costs to almost nothing.

Now, you do bring up a useful point: there wil always be IT work. Not that this does not necessarily extend to any other kinds of tech work (i.e. software). This is because IT is a trade, and will will always need it for the same reason we will always need plubers. While an interesting topic, the article was about the likely fall of the big industry player.
I want to know if HL3 is coming.
well according to a former employee who was also recently sacked when asked about that she replied ""You'll have to pry this position from my cold, dead hands!!!"

https://i.imgur.com/cOw7LvF.jpg
Lots of dudes on the Who to Follow section?

Anyone have any female JS experts to recommend?
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Your sentence is a bit muddled. I'm not sure if you're in agreement with the above comment or not. You say "there's no middle ground" but you are also saying people usually only defend free speech at certain "times ... when its truly worthy".

There certainly is no middle ground. You must defend it all the time or defend it not at all, because once you lose free speech you will not get it back without a fight
Thank you for saying that. If you haven't seen it, you might look at Red: http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html
If she didn't file the lawsuit against Kleiner, I wonder if people would be calling for her to step down.
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Cunt is more sexist than it is racist.

But yeah, some people write hateful, stupid things on the internet. It doesn't mean we can just dismiss every page with comments enabled.
How to evaluate “Uber for X” companies
Isn't that obvious? To release the modified code used in some of the Free Software packages they use for their devices. It's a requirement.
I doubt that most people will close Edge to open IE 11 just so they can use Silverlight unless they absolutely have to.
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Who says that most content creators are against her?

Also, if you're talking about /r/funny and other default subreddits content creator, I think they will easily be replaced.
>what's so bad about XML?

That no programming language deals natively with XML's data structure. That's why xpath and xslt needed to be invented.
This suggests that XML's data structure is not actually a good mapping for people's problems.
My exact sentiment.

Earlier this week there was a thread on HN about Taos, another very interesting OS from that time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

Today, with multicore, heterogeneous cores, a huge range of communication types, IoT and the physical world becoming connected from the tiniest of pieces up to the largest structures, there should be ample areas where OS research could find interesting challenges and solve problems.

The most interesting I've seen in a few years is the library OS work from MSR. But coming from Oberon, the most interesting feat was doing it to Windows and get it to work. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to become part of Windows.

To be fair though, the amount of virtualization tech developed the last decade could be perceived as OS related.

One professor I met once claimed that the Mach OS, micro kernels was the bane of OS research. Suddenly there was an OS easy enough to work on for a Phd to test implement a feature and get a degree.
I said this after reading this conversation [0] on comp.os.plan9 about rc. Though it does appear that I misread that as well. However, my point was that it seems like the shift away from Plan 9 or 9front or whatever took place in the late 2000s when they moved to Ubuntu or OpenBSD due to work concerns because it was easier to support the masses. (I cannot find the conversation on comp.os.plan9 to support that though.)

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/g2qBh0...
What baddox says is true, but I have to add that there is a noticeable difference in timbre between the same note played at two different places. So if you find yourself with the choice, you have to use your own judgment to decide which fingering you think sounds better.
This is to be expected from a field which is traditionally male-dominated. Personally I don't think gender matters at all - it is great to want to give exposure to minorities, but people should be valued for their skill, not genitalia.
I think @TheMagicHorsey's sentence in question is actually talking about the multiple colors of people's faces, I don't find it offensive in that sense.

Though you have a point that the word's history has unpleasant connotations. I might have paused and looked hard for perhaps a different word to convey the same meaning.... say, "multihued" or "heterogenous" or something.
In other words, it's a hazy and easily misinterpret-able term. No, defining a prerequisite/s instead of relying on an general idea of 'intuitiveness' would be a more appropriate approach.

Everything 'makes an impact' the magnitude of the impact makes all the difference.
They are also at the companies founded by local arms of foreign companies.

I've observed Chinese companies paying Chinese speaking workers and Indian founded companies paying Indian nationals less than they paid Americans (of varying ethnicities). On my limited observation, this practice is not uncommon. And, as we know, small and medium sized biz employ more people than do large firms. This wage variance is little mentioned but quite prevalent. Same as the hole in the wall taco joint run by foreign nationals, they tend to exploit their own the most taking advantage of national affinity or whatever.
While reddit stated they weren't banning an idea, only the subreddit, alternative subreddits that popped up on the same topic were also shutdown. The belief is that the idea leads to negative unacceptable behavior, and thus they have actually banned the idea, not just the subreddit.

A more community minded approach may have been better, along with threats of working with law enforcement on matters of real-world harassment. This segues right into the next issue of poor community management and oversight. Poor tools & poor admin oversight of subreddits until they are too big to handle in a graceful fashion. Instead of working on these issues, they fired more staff.

All of these actions may have actually been completely justifiable, but were communicated and implemented very poorly.
My recent experience of doing quite a bit of JS/coffee script at a new place is that scope is the topic of conversation far too often.. :|
The Greek financial mess; and some ways Bitcoin might help
Spotlight used to be bad, but the issues were resolved long ago. It's fast and gives good results, and no longer freezes or consumes lots of CPU. In Yosemite you even have a bunch of NLP stuff, like typing "100 feet in meters" to perform calculations.
Not sure if she can be considered a "JS expert", but a good starting point could be Angelina Fabbro
I'd like for all apps to have a command lookup similar to Sublime Text: Type some text to match a command.

The list must be exhaustive -- if it's not there, the command cannot exist. (Unfortunately, Sublime commands are explicitly registered and the list isn't complete; it even lacks core Sublime commands.)

The list should also show keyboard shortcuts and allow a way to modify them in-place. (Sublime doesn't do that either. A real missed opportunity.)
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The point brought up on Reddit (but not posted here) in the comments is salient: if she were apologizing to the Reddit community, she would have made a Reddit post. But she didn't do that - she went through old media channels. This is in no way, shape, or form an apology to users, it is damage control with investors.
> If you want to give a justification for "firing her", at least use the one that she's not very connected with day-to-day of the non-business side of the site, the community and the volunteer moderators, and that she doesn't use the product she's the CEO of.

To be fair the reasons you stated have been discussed endlessly on reddit.

I agree that petition could have been written better though. I didn't even think to read the description until you mentioned it. I doubt many others have either, they just read the headline (as usual...)
That's how I interpreted it too. I was not offended but thought he may want to reconsider his wording in the future because the connotation. I guess the downvote was because my pendantic and unsubstantial comment was of low signal:noise ratio for the HN discussion
Nice. Simple and efficient. I am going to read more from that code base. Looks like this might be a nice read as well: https://ocaml.org/docs/papers.html#BytecodeCompilerandByteco...
This is rather interesting, and raises a lot of questions for me: does this site exist for a long time already, or is it some kind of response to Microsoft putting tons of projects on github since last year (IIRC), or what is the reason this is on HN now?

Anyone knows whether the downloads of 'standard' software like git/clang are pathed versions or the original?

Why would they not have used github or similar? Internally they likely do use version control anyway.
>and who would rather walk than be driven?

People who want agency.
And the bottom line:

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This is why you buy an anti-tailgating system for your unattended but secured doors.
He does make a distinction, but this is a case of people hearing what they want to hear.

He says HP and IBM half a dozen times, and uses the Airline industry as an analogy, so then why would the reader draw the conclusion that he means Google and Facebook? Does that comparison even make sense?

I doubt Googlers refer themselves as "IT Professionals." I'd even go so far as to think they may consider the title a bit insulting and at the very least wince a bit, at being referred to as such.
r/jailbait got a lot of sympathy also when it got banned (although in its defense it was not harassing anyone)
the context made it obvious that he wasn't speaking about blacks, especially in light of the responder stating he meant "diverse", which he did.

There was nothing wrong with the wording.
About your cars reference, there's a funny segment from an old Top Gear where the presenters beat everyone at the modified cars drag strip race using a stock Bentley.

Everyone else poured thousands of hours and thousands of dollars into their car. James May showed up with a stock Bentley - a big fat comfortable car - and won the day.
yeah, so think of your muscles as temporarily pretending to act like wood (rigid), and it just so happens that humans have to expend energy in order to carry out this feat.
I think it's been around for a while. Most of the things on that site are non-Apple-owned open source software.

(Stuff shows up on HN randomly)
Just saw I double posted in reply to you. Apologies.

Not sure what book I have in mind, then. I know there was one where they focus for many interviewees was whether or not they read other people's code.

And, I should add that I don't see it as a failing that people don't read some literature. I do think it is more approachable than it often gets credit for. To the point that I wish I had tried to read it years ago. That said, people that are being obviously productive should remain so using whatever strategy they have used to this point. :)
I would like to thank the author for putting together the words I would like to had put, but being out of skill and full of anger, I wasnt able to.
General literary sense. Have you read the play?
>Anyone have any female JS experts to recommend?

Why would you care about the sex of someone? To stalk them or something?
Loads of bullshit if you ask me.

e.g. "Singleton pattern in JS": var x = {}, that’s enough, folks, do not write pages of code when all you need is just one line.
From this site it seems to be at least 15 years old: https://web.archive.org/web/20000701000000*/http://www.opens...
This guy has got many facts wrong here. And why is he using HP/IBM examples to represent the industry - These co's have earned some disrespect quite some time back.

I believe the opposite is true. The US computer industry would have been dead out of cost and competition if it did not embrace offshoring. Instead what it is doing now is taking a bit of hit and staying in control. It has generated more leaders than just workers. I can only wonder what country would be the leader in the computer industry within a decade of the US banning offshoring or H1Bs.
There's nothing new about this page, other than software updates. It's been around for years. I don't know why it's getting posted.
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I disagree. Programming languages are just formalisms for writing down the theory and because they're made in part for machines to understand, they are not optimal for humans. I think you're better off learning the theory first using some high level pseudocode before you battle with the quirkyness of real world languages.

Data structures and algorithms are made to solve real problems. You don't have to be able to code up those problems to understand them and see how the algorithm works. Some of the cleverest theoretical CS guys that I know freely admit that they're bad programmers and couldn't implement the algorithms that they describe in their papers.
Whoever made this page: have you actually tried to use it?

I'm confident that all of this could fit neatly on 3 or 4 vertical scrolls (not 20+ as it stands currently)... Without making any compromise to readability, without the rainbow zebra bands.
What do you mean sidetracked? You brought up dollar value and I think there is an obvious answer to that part. The market dollar value of that work is nil.

Additionally, these people don't want to go. They like whatever intangible benefits moderating brings them. If it was so onerous and awful, they'd simply leave. Again, it's telling that not a single one has.
>We managed to move from a 14% deficit to a 1% surplus in just four years. Four. Fucking. Years. No other country in the developed world has done such a feat in such a short time. The effect of that was tremendous for the population, 50% of young people are unemployed.

yep, man, those sacrifices would mean that some bondholders in Germany will get their half-percent... I'm really feeling for your people - i myself lived through pretty devastating (or as it happened - transforming) years 25 years ago in USSR/Russia and such things are brutal to regular people.

Anyway, just compare - having your own currency, you could have covered the 14% deficit just by printing those money - it would have caused a few percent of inflation, like 5-6%. Few years ago US had like 3 times bigger deficit than that Greece's deficit (and FY2014 US deficit is about the same as Greece's) and just kept printing the money with official inflation less than 2% or something like this. And unemployment situation is among all times best today.
Same here - had the full collection of Mondo's and Boingboings (it was way better as a magazine) and so on .. chucked them all away and kept the 2600's. Those are always worth reading again and again ..
Totally agree.

Looks like this headline has been removed from the front page, despite being only 2 hours old and having a lot of votes. It's marked as "DEAD" on hckernews, whatever that means: https://archive.is/8RxuV

I can only imagine reddit investors (PG?) do not appreciate the heavy defense of free speech making its way into HN forums
Perhaps it is a bad thing that kids are never bored.

As a kid I was often bored - playing outside with friends was the only interesting thing to do.

My kids have unlimited YouTube/App's/Minecraft to enjoy.

Some of my later interests came as a result of having to occupy myself, I don't see this process happening with them.
Days of our digital lives
For Safari users: 360 video doesn't seem to work correctly in Safari. It does work on Chrome on the Mac though.

There's also a 360 music video from Avicii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edcJ_JNeyhg
"Sir" is a common way of addressing someone "above you" in India.

In general folks in India have a policy of "respecting elders" and "those above you" (teachers, your boss, etc), but this is mostly faux respect in the form of honorifics and not arguing with statements by these people. I don't like this too much (grew up in the States, people earn respect there), but sometimes I do it too in some contexts because it's a social norm.

I don't think this has anything to do with British oppression. Sir is just an honorific applied willy-nilly by Indians both online and offline.
Ubuntu's unity does the command lookup thing with its HUD.

XFCE allows one to change keyboard shortcut settings in a similar fashion (from within the menus as it doesn't have the HUD)?
Responsive Design and Fluid Grids
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Lots. More and more stuff has been disappearing, too -- usually as part of a rewrite that moves the functionality out of the existing open source project.
> for guitar music is that "middle C" on a guitar can be played on several different strings.

True, and in the Piano you have to care about which finger to play it with (which is a similar problem)
If you want to get ready fast - It is seriously much more easier to read the book (print or ebook) compared to this link. Saved me a lot of time.