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{ "score": 0, "text": "The most valuable two settings I know for this are:set ttymouse=xterm2set mouse=nNow you can use the mouse to resize buffers and click on tabs. You can even click to focus on a buffer and don't need to meta-press your way around when you just want to browse things. Go on, click on topics inside of the help, assign the right click to supertab[1], navigate NerdTree[2] like the explorer clone it is. Collapse and expand code folds[3] like a 21st century digital boy.[4]Furthermore, your scrollwheel all of a sudden now scrolls through your document in putty, xterm, screen, rxvt, tmux, iterm; all of them. Yes, total heresy, I know.The only thing more important than this is doing a visual selection[5] and then doing a :!(any program) like say: fmt, sort, mail, python, rdoc, indent, bc ...I know what you are thinking; \"But kristopolous, this is so easy; it is not possible\". Relax my friend, this is unix, you know this.PS: Here's my custom vim builder/environment maker: https://github.com/kristopolous/vimbuild[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658[2] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643[3] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/fold.html[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6kCgMUjFw[5] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/visual.html" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As one of the original instigators of dwm and wmii before that (mostly by shouting at garbeam) I want to point out that this kind of tiled window management was first introduced in larswm (that is sadly discontinued), which in turn was heavily inspired by Rob Pike's Acme editing environment ( http://acme.cat-v.org ).So in a way we have gone full circle, from text editor, to window managers, back to text editor.That said, I still prefer Acme to vim, but would be really cool if somebody added mouse chording to vim :)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As one of the original instigators of dwm and wmii before that (mostly by shouting at garbeam) I want to point out that this kind of tiled window management was first introduced in larswm (that is sadly discontinued), which in turn was heavily inspired by Rob Pike's Acme editing environment ( http://acme.cat-v.org ).So in a way we have gone full circle, from text editor, to window managers, back to text editor.That said, I still prefer Acme to vim, but would be really cool if somebody added mouse chording to vim :)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "HN needs more posts like this. just saying..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "HN needs more posts like this. just saying..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Not quite figuring out how this is functionally different than vim's split buffers. Just seems less flexible than splits in that it did not mention that tiled windows could be repositioned or resized." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Not quite figuring out how this is functionally different than vim's split buffers. Just seems less flexible than splits in that it did not mention that tiled windows could be repositioned or resized." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I recommend Golden-ratio for this kind of thing:http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3690It does not take away the ability to do :split or :vsplit or force a particular layout. It does dynamically resize your windows to maximize visibility" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "\"He tweeted it to his 1.6 million Facebook followers, and the rest was internet history.\"When your name becomes a verb that can be applied to your competitors' products, is it good, or is it bad?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Very insightful analysis as to how quotes get mangled. I feel like the only thing \"new\" about this event is how quickly it happened. The retweeted quote is so in keeping with Dr. King's beliefs it is no surprise that so many people would attribute it to him. In contrast with the real quote, though, it is really clear just how much more eloquent a rhetorician Dr. King was. Every time I read (or reread) him, I'm blown away. In my mind, the saddest thing about this is that people who don't realize the quote isn't really a quote might walk away with the impression that he wasn't as amazing a writer as he was." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Very insightful analysis as to how quotes get mangled. I feel like the only thing \"new\" about this event is how quickly it happened. The retweeted quote is so in keeping with Dr. King's beliefs it is no surprise that so many people would attribute it to him. In contrast with the real quote, though, it is really clear just how much more eloquent a rhetorician Dr. King was. Every time I read (or reread) him, I'm blown away. In my mind, the saddest thing about this is that people who don't realize the quote isn't really a quote might walk away with the impression that he wasn't as amazing a writer as he was." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "How ironic that it was Penn Jillette, debunker extraordinaire, who ended up spreading the false quote." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "How ironic that it was Penn Jillette, debunker extraordinaire, who ended up spreading the false quote." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This is a follow-up article to an article previously submitted on HN.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508819" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This is a follow-up article to an article previously submitted on HN.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2508819" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "\"It's amazing in a time when so much information is so readily available to so many people, false information is so readily accepted.\"-Foresterh" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The tech that powers this is astounding. But am I the only one that really doubts this voice-powered future everyone seems to be aiming for? From Siri to the Xbox One and Google Glass, there seems to be an overall assumption that voice is the interface everyone will be using- but didn't we assume the same when dictation software first came out years ago? That we'd all be dictating our documents rather than typing them?The only place voice control feels natural to me is when I'm in a room by myself. So that rules out the office, public transportation, and my home, except at rare moments. I'm actually quite happy about that- the last thing I want is to be at work surrounded by people talking to their computers." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "No one is asking this, but why is this chrome only (Disclaimer: I am a Firefox user)? is there a specific part that is tied to the native browser code (microphone and speakers can be accessed though web languages)? [Note] the tone of the question is curious and not accusatory" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "No one is asking this, but why is this chrome only (Disclaimer: I am a Firefox user)? is there a specific part that is tied to the native browser code (microphone and speakers can be accessed though web languages)? [Note] the tone of the question is curious and not accusatory" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Me: \"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow\"Google: \"Did you mean airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow\"Me: \"Yes\"Google \"According to Wikipedia, Yes are an English rock band who achieved success with their progressive, art and symphonic style of music.\"D'oh. If you're going to drop in an easter egg that asks a question, assume the user who finds it will actually answer it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Me: \"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow\"Google: \"Did you mean airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow\"Me: \"Yes\"Google \"According to Wikipedia, Yes are an English rock band who achieved success with their progressive, art and symphonic style of music.\"D'oh. If you're going to drop in an easter egg that asks a question, assume the user who finds it will actually answer it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Remarkable. Chrome asked my permission to use my laptop's microphone and was then off to the races. I followed the examples in the post but added, \"What is his dog's name?\" The first result was the Wikipedia entry for Bo.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_(dog)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Remarkable. Chrome asked my permission to use my laptop's microphone and was then off to the races. I followed the examples in the post but added, \"What is his dog's name?\" The first result was the Wikipedia entry for Bo.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_(dog)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Asked it \"Who Made You?\"And Google Replied:\n\"To paraphrase Carl Sagan: to create a computer program from scratch, one must first create the universe.\" :)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "You know, within my lifetime there was an actual state-level adversary with actual nuclear weapons, an active campaign of support of terrorist organizations far more effective than Al Qaeda, and a well-funded espionage program with real, live agents in the most sensitive parts of the US and allied governments. But somehow this threat is worthy of pooping our collective pants over." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I heard a story from a friend the other day who told me about a terrorism investigation in his apartment building. Apparently some guy doused a hotel with gasoline. The NYC counterterrorism unit traced him using image search on Facebook using a photo from the hotel security cameras. They found a picture of him on his mom's Facebook page, got her phone number, and used that to locate him." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I heard a story from a friend the other day who told me about a terrorism investigation in his apartment building. Apparently some guy doused a hotel with gasoline. The NYC counterterrorism unit traced him using image search on Facebook using a photo from the hotel security cameras. They found a picture of him on his mom's Facebook page, got her phone number, and used that to locate him." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If the FBI's main objective was law enforcement, then wouldn't the general populace expect them to pursue other Federal agencies that are actively breaking the law? Where as, if the FBI states their main objective as 'National Security' they can turn a blind eye to the the other law breaking Federal agencies as long as these agencies are acting within the interests of 'National Security'.And in truth, many citizens are law breakers. And many of the laws that are broken today may not even exist in a couple of years. Where as, ensuring 'National Security' is a non-transitory objective." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If the FBI's main objective was law enforcement, then wouldn't the general populace expect them to pursue other Federal agencies that are actively breaking the law? Where as, if the FBI states their main objective as 'National Security' they can turn a blind eye to the the other law breaking Federal agencies as long as these agencies are acting within the interests of 'National Security'.And in truth, many citizens are law breakers. And many of the laws that are broken today may not even exist in a couple of years. Where as, ensuring 'National Security' is a non-transitory objective." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "When Bush created "Homeland Security" I thought for sure it was a matter of time before that name was changed back to something less fascist sounding. Now I'm surprised the trend is still continuing after all these years with "security" creep into an excuse for broader state power." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "When Bush created "Homeland Security" I thought for sure it was a matter of time before that name was changed back to something less fascist sounding. Now I'm surprised the trend is still continuing after all these years with "security" creep into an excuse for broader state power." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "As a Brit, I thought the entire point of the FBI was to tackle crimes that individual states couldn't due to jurisdiction not crossing state lines (nor should it). Sort of like Interpol within one country. So who does that now?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Programming Interviews Exposed is great: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Interviews-Exposed-Secrets...http://www.careercup.com/ is also helpful.Lastly you can look around http://programmers.stackexchange.com" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I like Cracking the Coding Interview: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Fourth-Progr...And The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Fourth-Progr..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I like Cracking the Coding Interview: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Fourth-Progr...And The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Fourth-Progr..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If you can't remember merge sort, quick sort or heaps, a easy starting point is wikipedia, and then code them up in your language of choice. It shouldn't take long, and you'll learn it better by doing than by reading about it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If you can't remember merge sort, quick sort or heaps, a easy starting point is wikipedia, and then code them up in your language of choice. It shouldn't take long, and you'll learn it better by doing than by reading about it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If you have time, get Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Jon-Bentley/dp/...)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "If you have time, get Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-Jon-Bentley/dp/...)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...This course is CS 161 at Stanford: Intro to Algorithms. It's got a lot of short videos, so you can pick which ones you wanna watch. Also, I took the class, the prof is really good." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "This is one of the reasons I very strongly support the Neovim project. They are taking an incredibly sensible and pragmatic approach to modernizing Vim.Yes, there will be controversies. There always are. But even collaborative open source projects need strong-willed leadership, or they cannot grow properly." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "For those who, like me, had never heard of Ex-mode:\nhttps://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/Vim/Mod..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "For those who, like me, had never heard of Ex-mode:\nhttps://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/Vim/Mod..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is like dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 in a website - code gets cleaner at the expense of a minor group of users getting a worse experience. I think it is a good tradeoff." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is like dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 in a website - code gets cleaner at the expense of a minor group of users getting a worse experience. I think it is a good tradeoff." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Good riddance. It's cruft. I've used it exactly twice, and never was it something I couldn't have done on the command line. It might be useful on Windows, I'm not sure? But if you're on a *nix, there really isn't any point." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Good riddance. It's cruft. I've used it exactly twice, and never was it something I couldn't have done on the command line. It might be useful on Windows, I'm not sure? But if you're on a *nix, there really isn't any point." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "While I don't particularly care for ex-mode, I think it's weird to be calling it Neo 'vim' without it.If it's going to become more of a radical departure from Vim and start omitting features as well as adding, I would rather they change the name of the project instead, one that alludes to its Vim heritage rather than having a prefix that means 'new'. Is it a new version of Vim? Or an editor that started as a fork of Vim, but only has the good parts?Edit: Removed my insult of the name 'Neovim'. Just going to state that I dislike it." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I found this to be an interesting read for the UK consumer perspective: http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-money/savings/2008/10/07/ice...Personally I have a significant sum of money in an icesave, part of Landsbanki, account. With the Icelandic government talking about every-country-for-itself the guarantee they have in place on the first £16k doesn't look that secure any longer." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm not worried. All this is just hype, things are quite fine in the world. Money does not disappear until value does, and people are still producing a lot of value." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'm not worried. All this is just hype, things are quite fine in the world. Money does not disappear until value does, and people are still producing a lot of value." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The PR skills of Iceland's government are terrible. They keep saying OMG we are going to go bankrupt. Surely then no one is going to lend them any money.I don't think other countries aren't asking for debts to be repaid. Then it's just the creditor of the banks which are asking for their money. Presumably the savers want to take their money out. So it's a run on all the banks of the country. But since they already nationalized the banks, surely they just have to print more currency. The currency takes a hit and it feels like Russia in the 80s, but it's probably still better than other outcomes." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The PR skills of Iceland's government are terrible. They keep saying OMG we are going to go bankrupt. Surely then no one is going to lend them any money.I don't think other countries aren't asking for debts to be repaid. Then it's just the creditor of the banks which are asking for their money. Presumably the savers want to take their money out. So it's a run on all the banks of the country. But since they already nationalized the banks, surely they just have to print more currency. The currency takes a hit and it feels like Russia in the 80s, but it's probably still better than other outcomes." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I couldn't get a handle on what assets were falling away from the Icelandic banks. The article says that they weren't mixed up in the now toxic subprime assets, so is it just the credit crunch that is inhibiting Iceland banks from making short run payments, or are their assets crumbling in other ways? Anyone care to explain?When I was in school taking econ courses every day I was always so informed about this stuff. I feel so ignorant now!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I couldn't get a handle on what assets were falling away from the Icelandic banks. The article says that they weren't mixed up in the now toxic subprime assets, so is it just the credit crunch that is inhibiting Iceland banks from making short run payments, or are their assets crumbling in other ways? Anyone care to explain?When I was in school taking econ courses every day I was always so informed about this stuff. I feel so ignorant now!" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "My interest rate at Landsbankinn was around 14%, which is normal because of the high interest rate from the Central Bank (15.5%)." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "To some Christian fundamentalists, the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico heralds the apocalypse.Is this \"some\" you speak of statistically significant? Hmm? Here's how the media works, if you don't know:1. Identify the group you detest. (Christians, liberals, whatever.)2. Find the stupidest member of said group.3. Pretend said member is statistically significant.4. Spew bullshit. Repeat." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a Christian, I have to admit this never crossed my mind. I feel so behind on my apocalyptic parallels.Also, I hope the Christian == Republican mindset goes away in my lifetime." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a Christian, I have to admit this never crossed my mind. I feel so behind on my apocalyptic parallels.Also, I hope the Christian == Republican mindset goes away in my lifetime." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Jesus said, referring to the end of time, \"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.\" [Mark 13:32]2000 years ago people were trying to predict The End. Nothing has changed. They will continue to do so and continue to be wrong." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Jesus said, referring to the end of time, \"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.\" [Mark 13:32]2000 years ago people were trying to predict The End. Nothing has changed. They will continue to do so and continue to be wrong." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "To some Atheists, the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico heralds the end of days.To some Atheists, the world is flat.To some \"Insert Religion Here\", the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico heralds the \"Insert End of World Scenario Here\".Overhyped garbage news from newsweek.Seriously though, I do agree that the oil is turning the sea into blood and with tensions in NK/SK and the Middle East ratcheting up a notch, there is a good claim that this year has the major potential to suck... hard." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "To some Atheists, the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico heralds the end of days.To some Atheists, the world is flat.To some \"Insert Religion Here\", the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico heralds the \"Insert End of World Scenario Here\".Overhyped garbage news from newsweek.Seriously though, I do agree that the oil is turning the sea into blood and with tensions in NK/SK and the Middle East ratcheting up a notch, there is a good claim that this year has the major potential to suck... hard." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "To some Christians, the fact that the mail was delivered late last Thursday heralds the apocalypse.I'll never really understand how some people can be so enthusiastic about the end of the world." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "For those who don't know what's going on: Joyent made a blogpost calling Ben, (one of _THE_ most prolific contributors to nodjs), an asshole (http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun) and said they'd fire him if he'd been working for them, because he refused to take a commit making language in some part of the code gender-neutral. \nHere's Ben's last response to the whole ordeal: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...A lot of people speculated that this is part of a dance Joyent is doing to assert itself as a big cloud player. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but as a general spectator I feel like wanting to remark that Bryan Cantrill only fanned the fire here in all of this. And so perhaps there should be some weight given to the fact that a worker of a company that's a competitor to Joyent just quit, arguably due to Joyent's rough play -- if Joyent had approached the matter differently, carefully, sensitively, there likely would have been a different conclusion to this. But now it's done, and pretty much every participating party in this whole thing came out looking like a loser, Joycent, Strongloop, the whole nodejs scene. Here's hoping Ben now finds a workplace that appreciates him for his talents and respects him as a person." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Wow. Joyent certainly came out looking childish and pedantic to go so far as publishing a blog posturing and name calling[1]. I am at a loss to even comprehend why this amount of feminist alliance was even required by Bryan Cantrill, or why even such a public naming and shaming is being advocated by Joyent as a company. I'm not on the Joyent hate wagon but they certainly come out of this looking hilariously immature.@bnoordhuis if you're reading this, I've never used libuv as a developer, but you obviously worked hard on the project. I'm sorry you had to felt forced to give it up over some blog post from a company I once believed to be reputable.[1]: http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun\n[1a]: mirror: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3051faface454d516929/raw/3..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Wow. Joyent certainly came out looking childish and pedantic to go so far as publishing a blog posturing and name calling[1]. I am at a loss to even comprehend why this amount of feminist alliance was even required by Bryan Cantrill, or why even such a public naming and shaming is being advocated by Joyent as a company. I'm not on the Joyent hate wagon but they certainly come out of this looking hilariously immature.@bnoordhuis if you're reading this, I've never used libuv as a developer, but you obviously worked hard on the project. I'm sorry you had to felt forced to give it up over some blog post from a company I once believed to be reputable.[1]: http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun\n[1a]: mirror: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3051faface454d516929/raw/3..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is so sad on many different levels. A guy who clearly liked working on this module has to make a choice to walk (which is his choice) because people get offended by pronouns. I seriously don't like where all this is headed: where he, she, they are all NEEDED so people don't get offended. This is the whole christmas thing all over again, and it needs to be enforced by society that just because you don't like something and it "offends" you then it doesn't mean that people can't/won't do it. in this case, a very popular project loses a great contributor but how long before other things like this starts happening because people are "offended" by little things. Good job on Ben for standing on for whats right, and hope more people take his route and say enough is enough." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is so sad on many different levels. A guy who clearly liked working on this module has to make a choice to walk (which is his choice) because people get offended by pronouns. I seriously don't like where all this is headed: where he, she, they are all NEEDED so people don't get offended. This is the whole christmas thing all over again, and it needs to be enforced by society that just because you don't like something and it "offends" you then it doesn't mean that people can't/won't do it. in this case, a very popular project loses a great contributor but how long before other things like this starts happening because people are "offended" by little things. Good job on Ben for standing on for whats right, and hope more people take his route and say enough is enough." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The last time this was discussed the story was buried pretty quickly.My comment was pertinent to drama and the community, it sort of got reinforced a bit more now so I'll just repost. Sorry for anyone who already read it already.---My understanding of Node.JS and libuv community is as an outsider. I don't follow what's going on unless it is on the front page of HN once in a while and other forums.But one impression I get from Node.JS and its surrounding community is arrogance and immaturity. This is from top to down -- companies sponsoring it (Joyent) and many of its vocal proponents. I see plenty of energy, enthusiasm, but mixed with immaturity. "We don't know what are doing, but darn it! we will be very vocal and do it with lots of enthusiasm".One guy doesn't want to commit a trivial change. It blows up into a media shitstorm. Reverted commits. Joyent's reaction is what surprised me -- "While we would fire Ben over this". This guy doesn't even work for them. Hypothetically firing people, hmm, so committed to Women's Rights, they are hypothetically hiring, and firing this person on the spot. Have they talked to him in private? StrongLoop, a company I never heard of until this point, is a bit more mature, that's good to see, but even they couldn't resist the veiled threat.What is sad, as a whole this episode just reinforced the (hopefully wrong) stereotype I have of the community. Joyent instead of helping the community (which I think they thought they did by writing that blog post), are hurting it.\nBuying into and spending time and money learning a platform/language is also an implicit buy in/participation in the community. So far it screams to me "stay away". Hopefully it will grow up at some point.---" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The last time this was discussed the story was buried pretty quickly.My comment was pertinent to drama and the community, it sort of got reinforced a bit more now so I'll just repost. Sorry for anyone who already read it already.---My understanding of Node.JS and libuv community is as an outsider. I don't follow what's going on unless it is on the front page of HN once in a while and other forums.But one impression I get from Node.JS and its surrounding community is arrogance and immaturity. This is from top to down -- companies sponsoring it (Joyent) and many of its vocal proponents. I see plenty of energy, enthusiasm, but mixed with immaturity. "We don't know what are doing, but darn it! we will be very vocal and do it with lots of enthusiasm".One guy doesn't want to commit a trivial change. It blows up into a media shitstorm. Reverted commits. Joyent's reaction is what surprised me -- "While we would fire Ben over this". This guy doesn't even work for them. Hypothetically firing people, hmm, so committed to Women's Rights, they are hypothetically hiring, and firing this person on the spot. Have they talked to him in private? StrongLoop, a company I never heard of until this point, is a bit more mature, that's good to see, but even they couldn't resist the veiled threat.What is sad, as a whole this episode just reinforced the (hopefully wrong) stereotype I have of the community. Joyent instead of helping the community (which I think they thought they did by writing that blog post), are hurting it.\nBuying into and spending time and money learning a platform/language is also an implicit buy in/participation in the community. So far it screams to me "stay away". Hopefully it will grow up at some point.---" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Joyent's decision to publicly shame one of Node's largest contributors with a passive-aggressive blog post instead of approaching him privately speaks volumes about their maturity." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I think the prevailing strategy in negotiations is to make the other person show their hand first. For example:INTERVIEWER: What are your salary expectations?\nCANDIDATE: Before I state my requirements, I would like to know the entire expected compensation package including salary and benefits. If need be I can present my counter." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I expect to be paid by the ratio of profit and my contribution to a realization of it.Working on what exactly? I ain't gonna invest my time, work and good will working for peanuts on some dead end shitty project.The amount starts at X just for joining your company and is NEGOTIABLE upwards regarding duties, projects and technologies that I'll be working with/on.Every programmer can be an entrepreneur - not every entrepreneur can be a programmer." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I expect to be paid by the ratio of profit and my contribution to a realization of it.Working on what exactly? I ain't gonna invest my time, work and good will working for peanuts on some dead end shitty project.The amount starts at X just for joining your company and is NEGOTIABLE upwards regarding duties, projects and technologies that I'll be working with/on.Every programmer can be an entrepreneur - not every entrepreneur can be a programmer." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I generally reply that I let the market decide. I apply to several positions in batch, just as they interview several candidates in batch and I take the best offer, taking into account the learning opportunities and the company culture." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I generally reply that I let the market decide. I apply to several positions in batch, just as they interview several candidates in batch and I take the best offer, taking into account the learning opportunities and the company culture." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Somehow "I'm negotiable" sounds a little off. "I'm willing to negotiate" sounds so much better to me.\n/grammar fascism" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Somehow "I'm negotiable" sounds a little off. "I'm willing to negotiate" sounds so much better to me.\n/grammar fascism" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I totally agree with this. If you know you are worth what you are asking for in salary, you are more apt to get it if asked with confidence." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The other problem is that state laws aren't keeping up with law enforcement technology. FOIA-similar laws in Minnesota meant that every ALPR-captured license plate was public information, which I requested to prove a point. I got back 2.1 million license plates (+ timestamp and coordinates) on a USB stick.Without strong policies and laws, this data is ripe for abuse -- domestic abuse victims and stalking where someone eats, visits, and sleeps, or tracking regular routes of hazmat or cash trucks, etc.https://tonywebster.com/2012/12/minneapolis-police-license-p..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have a personal experience with the harm that ubiquitous recording of location data can bring, even when you don't do anything wrong.When I was in college, I was called to the police station and accused of breaking a glass door in the dorms. I knew NOTHING about this. I told the police I knew nothing about the event, but they continued to press me. They asked me details about where I was that night (many weeks prior), and I had difficulty remembering where I had been. To make matters worse, I originally thought the day in question was another day, so I ended up giving information about my location that was incorrect. If the police decided they didn't like me, they could have easily pressed charges for lying, even though I thought I was telling the truth. Luckily, they eventually believed me and I was let go.How is this related to license plate readers? Well, the only reason they suspected I was the person who broke the door was because my ID card had been swiped at around the same time the door was broken. Simply because I was present near the time and location of a crime committed weeks prior, I was accused of a crime and nearly accidentally perjured myself. (Don't worry; I know now to never talk to the police!)If we start tracking everyone's movements, this sort of thing will happen more and more often. You will EVENTUALLY have driven by a place where a crime was committed. You may be called to account for your being nearby, even weeks or months later. When the police ask you why you were there, will you remember? Will your answers satisfy them? Will your general unease at being questioned make you appear suspicious? Will you fumble, and say things that contradict yourself, making you appear even more suspicious?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I have a personal experience with the harm that ubiquitous recording of location data can bring, even when you don't do anything wrong.When I was in college, I was called to the police station and accused of breaking a glass door in the dorms. I knew NOTHING about this. I told the police I knew nothing about the event, but they continued to press me. They asked me details about where I was that night (many weeks prior), and I had difficulty remembering where I had been. To make matters worse, I originally thought the day in question was another day, so I ended up giving information about my location that was incorrect. If the police decided they didn't like me, they could have easily pressed charges for lying, even though I thought I was telling the truth. Luckily, they eventually believed me and I was let go.How is this related to license plate readers? Well, the only reason they suspected I was the person who broke the door was because my ID card had been swiped at around the same time the door was broken. Simply because I was present near the time and location of a crime committed weeks prior, I was accused of a crime and nearly accidentally perjured myself. (Don't worry; I know now to never talk to the police!)If we start tracking everyone's movements, this sort of thing will happen more and more often. You will EVENTUALLY have driven by a place where a crime was committed. You may be called to account for your being nearby, even weeks or months later. When the police ask you why you were there, will you remember? Will your answers satisfy them? Will your general unease at being questioned make you appear suspicious? Will you fumble, and say things that contradict yourself, making you appear even more suspicious?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "From user qz10 (who seems to have been hellbanned absed on IP):It should be no surprise that this is happening. Give anyone unlimited surveillance power and it will always be abused.I live in a western EU country and have a friend in law enforcement. Last year, he brought me to see our city's traffic surveillance 'control room'. Almost every street corner and traffic junction here has a pole-mounted police camera transmitting video data back to servers accessible from this room and elsewhere.To summarize the demo: He was able to type a vehicle registration plate into this system, and instantly see every journey the car has taken plotted on a map, as well as the thousands of raw video clips of this vehicle that were used to generate the map." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "From user qz10 (who seems to have been hellbanned absed on IP):It should be no surprise that this is happening. Give anyone unlimited surveillance power and it will always be abused.I live in a western EU country and have a friend in law enforcement. Last year, he brought me to see our city's traffic surveillance 'control room'. Almost every street corner and traffic junction here has a pole-mounted police camera transmitting video data back to servers accessible from this room and elsewhere.To summarize the demo: He was able to type a vehicle registration plate into this system, and instantly see every journey the car has taken plotted on a map, as well as the thousands of raw video clips of this vehicle that were used to generate the map." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "A few days ago I posted a document regarding NYC's relatively new booting program for cars which have accumulated too many tickets/fines. In it they point out that the system is backed by a team of vans which scour the city doing license plate recognition to find these cars. Obviously the consequence is that everyone's license plate gets photographed, but it's up to the NYPD what to do with that information. The ACLU doc has some stats, but if you want to see the document I'm talking about I've linked it below.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6049276Though Bloomberg and the NYPD hardly have any trouble pushing these things through for the last decade, I imagine one impetus behind ramping these programs way up would be incidents such as the would be Times Square van bomber from a couple years ago. In that case however, the perpetrator had actually stolen license plates from another vehicle (which they learned after finding a VIN that wasn't scratched and the registration didn't match).http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Times_Square_car_bombing..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "A few days ago I posted a document regarding NYC's relatively new booting program for cars which have accumulated too many tickets/fines. In it they point out that the system is backed by a team of vans which scour the city doing license plate recognition to find these cars. Obviously the consequence is that everyone's license plate gets photographed, but it's up to the NYPD what to do with that information. The ACLU doc has some stats, but if you want to see the document I'm talking about I've linked it below.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6049276Though Bloomberg and the NYPD hardly have any trouble pushing these things through for the last decade, I imagine one impetus behind ramping these programs way up would be incidents such as the would be Times Square van bomber from a couple years ago. In that case however, the perpetrator had actually stolen license plates from another vehicle (which they learned after finding a VIN that wasn't scratched and the registration didn't match).http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Times_Square_car_bombing..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I always wondered on the legality of private license plate scanning. With just a bunch of people cooperating one could pretty much map out all the troop movement throughout the city." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "They still haven't done the most critical thing: add tests. This is for two reasons: the code has no tests now, and when you refactor, tests are important to make sure you're not subtly introducing errors." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'd love to see information about the actual security value of these changes. A ton are just adjusting to KNF.http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/log/lib/li..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'd love to see information about the actual security value of these changes. A ton are just adjusting to KNF.http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/log/lib/li..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would have loved knowing their reasoning behind this decision, which I'm sure it's very calculated, because the implications are huge. They're choosing to switch from a simple packager role to a maintainer role, they will have to always keep their fork in sync with upstream which if they try to apply every changes will require a lot of work, or maybe they have decided on another strategy e.g. freezing functionalities and applying only security patches, I don't know I didn't look at the current types of clean-ups maybe that could hint what their intentions are.Regardless, I have mixed feeling about this, one month ago a lot of people lauded openssl for not being vulnerable to the goto fail saga while criticizing Apple for not using openssl and now everyone is ready to ditch openssl in a heartbeat for a flaw not related to crypto, not committed by core developers. I'm not defending openssl, I would love a concerted effort by big industry players for implementing a new SSL/TLS stack from scratch, maybe in a safer language, but I also don't think it is a reason for taking quick, disruptive decisions like this. It is also likely they had this move in mind before this episode and this flaw was the last straw but they should have exposed their plan, it would have been a bit better for us to understand their reasoning." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would have loved knowing their reasoning behind this decision, which I'm sure it's very calculated, because the implications are huge. They're choosing to switch from a simple packager role to a maintainer role, they will have to always keep their fork in sync with upstream which if they try to apply every changes will require a lot of work, or maybe they have decided on another strategy e.g. freezing functionalities and applying only security patches, I don't know I didn't look at the current types of clean-ups maybe that could hint what their intentions are.Regardless, I have mixed feeling about this, one month ago a lot of people lauded openssl for not being vulnerable to the goto fail saga while criticizing Apple for not using openssl and now everyone is ready to ditch openssl in a heartbeat for a flaw not related to crypto, not committed by core developers. I'm not defending openssl, I would love a concerted effort by big industry players for implementing a new SSL/TLS stack from scratch, maybe in a safer language, but I also don't think it is a reason for taking quick, disruptive decisions like this. It is also likely they had this move in mind before this episode and this flaw was the last straw but they should have exposed their plan, it would have been a bit better for us to understand their reasoning." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "In case your cvs-fu is rusty FreshBSD[1] or OpenSSL Rampage[2] provide an easy way of keeping an eye on the changes. One of my favorites so far is: "Remove hacky workaround for Cray T3E," as in the debuted in 1995, Cray Research T3E.[3] -/* Added for T3E, address-of fails on bit field (beckman@acl.lanl.gov) */\n -#ifndef BIT_FIELD_LIMITS\n memcpy(&server.sin_addr.s_addr, ip, 4);\n -#else\n - memcpy(&server.sin_addr, ip, 4);\n -#endif\n\n[^1]: http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=project%3Aopenb...[^2]: http://opensslrampage.org/[^3]: http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/01f41ed5b37037b963c0de2c2...[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3E" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "In case your cvs-fu is rusty FreshBSD[1] or OpenSSL Rampage[2] provide an easy way of keeping an eye on the changes. One of my favorites so far is: "Remove hacky workaround for Cray T3E," as in the debuted in 1995, Cray Research T3E.[3] -/* Added for T3E, address-of fails on bit field (beckman@acl.lanl.gov) */\n -#ifndef BIT_FIELD_LIMITS\n memcpy(&server.sin_addr.s_addr, ip, 4);\n -#else\n - memcpy(&server.sin_addr, ip, 4);\n -#endif\n\n[^1]: http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=project%3Aopenb...[^2]: http://opensslrampage.org/[^3]: http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/01f41ed5b37037b963c0de2c2...[^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T3E" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "There are tons of simple cleanups I'd love to do. But with all the activity and people already working on it, I'm afraid I'd just be stepping on people's toes if I started sending diffs now." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "VEVO Execs Must Face Criminal Charges For Copyright InfringementCriminal charges are a serious business and I don't think it promotes healthy debate to sling around loose statements suggesting that they be pursued recklessly by the authorities, no matter how unattractive the party involved in the wrongdoing. No self-respecting prosecutor would even consider bringing charges where only a one-time incident is involved and where the alleged perpetrator claims (as here) that the incident was inadvertent (however lacking in credibility this may be, it is a classic \"plausible deniability\" excuse). Do we really want our government devoting substantial resources toward trying to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in such a case? And does anyone seriously want this to be the standard by which criminal prosecutions for alleged copyright infringement are brought?Since I would assume the answer to these questions is no, then the only point of this piece is to use an absurdly overstated headline to draw attention to itself.I am against hypocrisy as much as the next guy, and I have no particular sympathy for the musical labels (or even for the sort of glitzy events at which this incident occurred), but it does not advance the cause of attaining sane copyright legislation to make \"off with his head\" demands that have no basis in reality.Music industry hypocrisy is fair game for advocating against draconian copyright enforcement and in itself makes for a potent argument. The effect is much diluted, however, when the argument cannot be taken seriously. If instead this is not intended to be taken seriously but is rather a form of street theater intended to dramatize a point, then it is (in my view) just lame and ineffective.This is a case of infringement by which the copyright holder can choose to take civil action or not as suits its purposes. If a cost-benefit legal analysis suggests that little damage in fact occurred and that the incident is non-recurring or plausibly explainable, then there is likely nothing worth pursuing. What the incident boils down to, then, is a horrible embarrassment for the music industry execs involved and, at the level, it does carry a sting. The rest is fluff." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The message is very simple - if the content industry does manage to push their legislation wishlist through congress, then every single one of the content middlemen guys should better watch out for all their personal actions every single second for the remainder of their lives.Because we will be watching. If they manage to criminalize what they're doing themselves, then they must reap what they sow. And they will.We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The message is very simple - if the content industry does manage to push their legislation wishlist through congress, then every single one of the content middlemen guys should better watch out for all their personal actions every single second for the remainder of their lives.Because we will be watching. If they manage to criminalize what they're doing themselves, then they must reap what they sow. And they will.We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/music-labels-joint-venture-...Update, 2/10:: ESPN says it will not be pursuing legal action. A spokesperson gave us the following statement:“We’re disappointed the exhibitor took this route, especially at a festival for an industry whose jobs are most at risk if we are not able to curtail stolen content.”" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/09/music-labels-joint-venture-...Update, 2/10:: ESPN says it will not be pursuing legal action. A spokesperson gave us the following statement:“We’re disappointed the exhibitor took this route, especially at a festival for an industry whose jobs are most at risk if we are not able to curtail stolen content.”" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "These guys probably have no idea what piracy is... They must've been very surprised when they learned that streaming a game is pirating content. Hopefully, they'll start thinking about it more and come up with better solutions (like, you know, making the damn paid content available anytime, anywhere, for anyone)..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "These guys probably have no idea what piracy is... They must've been very surprised when they learned that streaming a game is pirating content. Hopefully, they'll start thinking about it more and come up with better solutions (like, you know, making the damn paid content available anytime, anywhere, for anyone)..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "\"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.\"Apparently said by Lincoln, though I remembered the attribution going to Theodore Roosevelt." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I use Chrome or Firefox built in developer tools, however I still think Firebug fits my workflow the best. Unfortunately it's too slow to use.The thing I miss the most is the inline display of AJAX call responses, and being able to write/run multi-line snippets of JavaScript (without ctrl+enter).Somewhat interestingly, Firefox built their entire add-on architecture because Joe Hewitt wanted dev tools (for debugging the actual browser moreso than websites), and Firebug was split off from Firefox and made into an add-on. A decade later, this has reversed and every major browser now ships with integrated dev tools." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I used to use Firebug extensively. These days, the built-in Firefox developer tools seem to cover everything I need." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I used to use Firebug extensively. These days, the built-in Firefox developer tools seem to cover everything I need." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I really need to stop being so dependent on Firebug. I've done coding sessions or interviews where the other developer only has Google Chrome. Since I use Firebug so much, I am not as proficient with Chrome Dev tools. It makes me look like an amateur when I fumble around. Half the time saying I am used to Firebug is useless since they don't even know what it is." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I really need to stop being so dependent on Firebug. I've done coding sessions or interviews where the other developer only has Google Chrome. Since I use Firebug so much, I am not as proficient with Chrome Dev tools. It makes me look like an amateur when I fumble around. Half the time saying I am used to Firebug is useless since they don't even know what it is." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Video walk through of what is new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtgLX5vZZSI" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Video walk through of what is new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtgLX5vZZSI" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Still the best developer toolset, on any browser. Unarguably once its combined with FF native tools, and the webdevtoolbar." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Would you have listened to yourself or anyone who'd told you that 5 years ago? I've got some people in town that I do some mentoring with, and I've given them most of this list over the last few years, and generally it's ignored. However, I'll get a call, email or coffee with some 'hey - gotta tell you something!'. I listen as they excitedly share some revelation which is pretty much exactly what I'd told them 2 years earlier. I initially took it personally, but I think now it's more a case of \"you gotta learn for yourself\". As much as people think they can 'crush it' by reading garyv's book, it's not until you're out there living things day to day that most of this stuff is really driven home.Another thing I've learned is that it's not what you say, but who you are when you say it. Both who you are to yourself, and who/what others perceive you to be when you're saying it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Thing is: I don't think your younger self would have listened to this advice because your mindset is a function of time. I know I wouldn't have. Unless, of course, the advice giver can show you actual proof that the things he's saying are true, e.g. like the Almanac from the future that the older Biff is clutching. Or to show Archimedes how to derive the volume of a sphere using calculus (should you show him how to generalize the formula for a n-dim sphere, maybe not).So that brings us to the following thought: There are two kinds of advice a time traveler can give: (i) \"Objective\" stuff that will actually happen, and that perhaps you can provide proof for, i.e. the Instagram advice; and (ii) \"subjective\" stuff that may or may not turn out that way, i.e. \"don't marry that girl\".BTW, due to the Butterfly Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect) these two are not as clear cut as above." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Thing is: I don't think your younger self would have listened to this advice because your mindset is a function of time. I know I wouldn't have. Unless, of course, the advice giver can show you actual proof that the things he's saying are true, e.g. like the Almanac from the future that the older Biff is clutching. Or to show Archimedes how to derive the volume of a sphere using calculus (should you show him how to generalize the formula for a n-dim sphere, maybe not).So that brings us to the following thought: There are two kinds of advice a time traveler can give: (i) \"Objective\" stuff that will actually happen, and that perhaps you can provide proof for, i.e. the Instagram advice; and (ii) \"subjective\" stuff that may or may not turn out that way, i.e. \"don't marry that girl\".BTW, due to the Butterfly Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect) these two are not as clear cut as above." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would have told myself to divorce the ex then, instead of waiting 5 years and prolonging the misery." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would have told myself to divorce the ex then, instead of waiting 5 years and prolonging the misery." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "it's really challenging to give any advice that i would follow without having walked the path to have came to that conclusion. thusly, it'd be things where time = output. such as taking up pilates, playing more golf, waking up earlier.my favourite high level advice is: the best time to plant a tree was 5 years ago, the second best time is today." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "it's really challenging to give any advice that i would follow without having walked the path to have came to that conclusion. thusly, it'd be things where time = output. such as taking up pilates, playing more golf, waking up earlier.my favourite high level advice is: the best time to plant a tree was 5 years ago, the second best time is today." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This is good advice.I started out on my own startup path almost 2 years ago now, and it's dawned on me by now that things don't change. If you're building a company (or anything worth building really), you will always have problems, they will often catch you by surprise, and imminent success or failure always seems like it's right around the corner.Best case scenario, you get to deal with higher quality problems, make more money, and still love what you do. Worst case... well, I guess you go get a job (and/or go bankrupt?)" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Feuer told me that Zuck gave him some memorable advice on building out a strong team. The two golden rules? Only hire people you’d spend time with socially, and make sure you’d feel comfortable reporting to the person if roles were reversed.I'm not a big fan of the "culture fit" filter, but the second one is great advice. Peter Drucker said[1] something similar: “Picking a leader: would I want my son or daughter to work under that person?”1: http://robertamter.blogspot.com/2008/07/peter-druckers-tenet..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> Panorama isn’t a vastly complex piece of technology by design. Feuer has found that analog, paper-based systems still work best with students, parents, and teachers. The team will work with communities to host pizza parties and other gatherings, where the surveys are handed out.Awesome that they're not trying to force technology down everyone's throats, which might keep real people at arm's length... and especially impressive that they can scale this approach to 4000+ schools. Best wishes going forward!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "> Panorama isn’t a vastly complex piece of technology by design. Feuer has found that analog, paper-based systems still work best with students, parents, and teachers. The team will work with communities to host pizza parties and other gatherings, where the surveys are handed out.Awesome that they're not trying to force technology down everyone's throats, which might keep real people at arm's length... and especially impressive that they can scale this approach to 4000+ schools. Best wishes going forward!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Very exciting — it looks like something school districts need very badly.I wonder how much Panorama participates in the interpretation of the results. It's one thing to efficiently gather responses to survey questions, but quite another to effectively figure out what the results mean.The University of Chicago Consortium on School Research has done interesting work on something similar with Chicago Public Schools[1], though they also probably do more basic (i.e., academic) research about what to do with the results.Unrelated, what's with the website[2] for Zuckerberg's education foundation, Startup: Education? I guess it's not really used for anything. But it's ironic how cheap-looking it is. The logo is a JPEG.[1] https://cps.5-essentials.org/2012/schools/[2] http://www.startupeducation.org/" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Very exciting — it looks like something school districts need very badly.I wonder how much Panorama participates in the interpretation of the results. It's one thing to efficiently gather responses to survey questions, but quite another to effectively figure out what the results mean.The University of Chicago Consortium on School Research has done interesting work on something similar with Chicago Public Schools[1], though they also probably do more basic (i.e., academic) research about what to do with the results.Unrelated, what's with the website[2] for Zuckerberg's education foundation, Startup: Education? I guess it's not really used for anything. But it's ironic how cheap-looking it is. The logo is a JPEG.[1] https://cps.5-essentials.org/2012/schools/[2] http://www.startupeducation.org/" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Excited for this. Checked out Startup Education fund. Zuck should've put a lil more effort on this page. It's pretty awful and seems outdated.http://www.startupeducation.org/" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Excited for this. Checked out Startup Education fund. Zuck should've put a lil more effort on this page. It's pretty awful and seems outdated.http://www.startupeducation.org/" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Congrats to Zuck on backing progressive looking edtech ventures..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "This is an interesting idea that uses email/IMAP as a transport for social message passing. It plays to the strengths of multipart email messages having a human-readable part that is as rich as possible for email client viewing (when users aren't in a social-aware application), and a machine readable part (JSON) for plugging in to the rest of the social infrastructure.Here is their own summary of problems with this approach (from the article): * Not all users have a suitable email service (requires IMAP to support the\n “read it if you feel like it” model).\n\n * Servers tamper with messages as a normal part of existing infrastructure\n (especially mailing lists and spam filters).\n\n * Basic IMAP does not provide the full gamut of features required (some mail\n servers don't support all IMAP verbs).\n\n * Mail systems may have standard protocols, but individual implementations\n may have different performance characteristics." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "GPG/PGP keys were the greatest missed opportunity for social networks. For example widespread acceptance of gpg/pgp would have been a great way to reduce spam." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "GPG/PGP keys were the greatest missed opportunity for social networks. For example widespread acceptance of gpg/pgp would have been a great way to reduce spam." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "From https://github.com/tpurtell/socialbar/blob/master/chrome/con... : //fallback for running in chrome\n function md5(str) {\n return \"e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0\";\n }\n\nHuh?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "From https://github.com/tpurtell/socialbar/blob/master/chrome/con... : //fallback for running in chrome\n function md5(str) {\n return \"e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0\";\n }\n\nHuh?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I wondered where I had seen the name of Monica S. Lam (one of the co-authors) before. Turns out she's one of the co-authors of the Dragon Book." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I wondered where I had seen the name of Monica S. Lam (one of the co-authors) before. Turns out she's one of the co-authors of the Dragon Book." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I think this could be a part of the solution to the 'replace email' theme by PG[1].Since their API abstracts the email sending/receiving details away AND gives specific tags to work with [SHARE, LIST, GET, WAIT], one could for example write a TO-DO app or maybe a bug tracker that notifies and updates when a mail with a specific tag comes in.As I understand it, the problem with building smart mail clients is that there is no standardised format that all clients will agree upon. Using this API circumvents the problem, as the mail client does not actually perform any actions. Using this API's capabilities for \"smart\" mail clients instead of \"social\" apps could be interesting.[1] http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Damn, I've been using vim for almost a decade and didn't realize that /<term> worked as a movement so you can do things like y2/foo and yank to the second occurrence of “foo” (to use the example from the tutorial).That's why I scan every beginner vim tutorial that comes across hn. I always learn something" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Here's a Vim trick I only figured out fairly recently. Everybody knows that % jumps between a bracket, brace or parenthesis and its matched pair, but what happens if you hit % while the cursor isn't on such a character? Turns out, it searches forward until it finds such a character, then jumps to its matched pair.So for example, let's say you had a nested function invocation that was getting long and unwieldy and you wanted to break it out onto its own line: foo = makeFoo(\n globalConfig.getParam(\n \"FooSize\",\n int,\n default=\"37\",\n )\n )\n\nIf you put the cursor on the 'g' at the beginning of 'globalConfig' and press \"d%\", it will cut the function name and all the parameters in one action." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Here's a Vim trick I only figured out fairly recently. Everybody knows that % jumps between a bracket, brace or parenthesis and its matched pair, but what happens if you hit % while the cursor isn't on such a character? Turns out, it searches forward until it finds such a character, then jumps to its matched pair.So for example, let's say you had a nested function invocation that was getting long and unwieldy and you wanted to break it out onto its own line: foo = makeFoo(\n globalConfig.getParam(\n \"FooSize\",\n int,\n default=\"37\",\n )\n )\n\nIf you put the cursor on the 'g' at the beginning of 'globalConfig' and press \"d%\", it will cut the function name and all the parameters in one action." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Nice tutorial—better than many.However, these kind of tutorials always fail to mention the number one way to learn Vim: vimtutor\n\nand :h usr_02.txt\n\nThose two (and successive pages in the user manual) will teach you practically everything about Vim—and they're included right in Vim." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Nice tutorial—better than many.However, these kind of tutorials always fail to mention the number one way to learn Vim: vimtutor\n\nand :h usr_02.txt\n\nThose two (and successive pages in the user manual) will teach you practically everything about Vim—and they're included right in Vim." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Don't do what this guy says! Or at least don't stay in phase 1 for longer than a day. I've had used vim for a few years as a pico replacement, whenever I was on a remote computer on ssh. I picked up some really bad habit, like staying in insert mode all the time and using the arrow, home and end keys. I actually had to deactivate the arrow keys in my vimrc.I would recommend going thought the tutorial, that comes with vim (vimtutor command) and after that reading those articles:http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.htmlhttp://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Don't do what this guy says! Or at least don't stay in phase 1 for longer than a day. I've had used vim for a few years as a pico replacement, whenever I was on a remote computer on ssh. I picked up some really bad habit, like staying in insert mode all the time and using the arrow, home and end keys. I actually had to deactivate the arrow keys in my vimrc.I would recommend going thought the tutorial, that comes with vim (vimtutor command) and after that reading those articles:http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.htmlhttp://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Actually \"cw\" doesn't change the current word.. it changes where the cursor is to the end of the word. Something I tend to use a lot is: (| is the cursor) ciw (Really change the current word. \"Fo|o Bar\" -> \"| Bar\"\n ci\" (Change in between \": \"Test 12|34\" -> \"|\"\n da\" (Delete in between \" AND the \"\": a\"Test 12|34\"b -> ab\n\nAlso, plugins are extremely important. For instance, one of my favorite makes the \"w\" smarter for day to day programming word. (I mapped it to ,w) For example: \"pac|kageManager\" ci,w \"|Manager\" \n \"pac|kage_manager\" ci,w \"|_manager\"" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "This article is obviously biased toward extolling the advantages of iOS's uniformness, yet the best example it takes to argue against Android's fragmentation is an application that fails to support only 7.8% of the Android market! How is this a proof that fragmentation is causing a \"shocking toll\"?For the curious, I decompiled this \"Temple Run\" app. It requires Android 2.2 or higher, because its AndroidManifest.xml declares the use of OpenGL ES 2.0 which was introduced in that version of Android. (And the app's minimum API level is Android 2.1.) The app also needs android.hardware.sensor.accelerometer and android.hardware.touchscreen.multitouch, but virtually all Android 2.2 devices have these capabilities.So, effectively, Temple Run works on any Android 2.2+ device, which represents 92.2% of the devices in the wild: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... When the developer says they support 707 of the 1443 unique devices on Android Market, this means that these 707 devices represent 92.2% of the market, whereas the article tries to present this as \"only half the market is supported\".Yet another article written by an iOS fanboy trying to unfairly depict the state of the Android ecosystem... Nothing to see here." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Yes, Android is a free-wheeling mess. But I am not concerned.I see this as a replay of the 1980s. Apple was the dominant player with a premium option on nice hardware, a consolidated set of software options, and facing fragmented opposition. (Then the PC/Windows landscape. Now Android.)Then Steve Jobs was yanked from the picture (then by being fired, now by dying), Apple lost its focus, and the fact that so many people were on the messy platform caused it to win in the marketplace.There are big differences. Tim Cook is hopefully not as incompetent as John Sculley proved to be. Google is not Microsoft reborn.But we've seen this before. The rule of thumb in computers for decades has been, \"the commodity always wins\". And Android is better positioned to be that commodity than Apple is." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Yes, Android is a free-wheeling mess. But I am not concerned.I see this as a replay of the 1980s. Apple was the dominant player with a premium option on nice hardware, a consolidated set of software options, and facing fragmented opposition. (Then the PC/Windows landscape. Now Android.)Then Steve Jobs was yanked from the picture (then by being fired, now by dying), Apple lost its focus, and the fact that so many people were on the messy platform caused it to win in the marketplace.There are big differences. Tim Cook is hopefully not as incompetent as John Sculley proved to be. Google is not Microsoft reborn.But we've seen this before. The rule of thumb in computers for decades has been, \"the commodity always wins\". And Android is better positioned to be that commodity than Apple is." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This article is overblown.In Android you don't have to support any device you don't want to, just exclude it from being shown to those users. Same with the OS version, if you don't want to support 1.6 you can make it unavailable to those users.Most apps don't have fragmentation problems unless you're doing something tricky and hardware dependent, like trying to do fancy things with the camera. I've released several semi-popular apps with few bug complaints.If you look at Temple Run in Play you will see it is very highly rated and it has over a million downloads. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imangi.tem...Finally, the author's link to one badly voted Reddit comment with little discussion made me think he was just out to write an Android bashing article as link bait." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This article is overblown.In Android you don't have to support any device you don't want to, just exclude it from being shown to those users. Same with the OS version, if you don't want to support 1.6 you can make it unavailable to those users.Most apps don't have fragmentation problems unless you're doing something tricky and hardware dependent, like trying to do fancy things with the camera. I've released several semi-popular apps with few bug complaints.If you look at Temple Run in Play you will see it is very highly rated and it has over a million downloads. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imangi.tem...Finally, the author's link to one badly voted Reddit comment with little discussion made me think he was just out to write an Android bashing article as link bait." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I really, really hate supporting an app on Android. This is a big part of the reason for that.As an example, at one point it apparently would simply refuse to start on the Droid X, despite running great on the original Droid I had to test it with, and the VM I set up to emulate the X. Without access to a physical Droid X, it couldn't be debugged. The app doesn't require anything from the hardware besides a GPS, so I was at a loss for what would cause this.Because it's a huge pain to properly test new versions, I tend not to keep the Android version up to speed with the iOS version of the same app. As a result of that, I get a lot of complaints from Android users that feel short changed and bad reviews from people who feel like the app isn't keeping pace with the alternative apps (mostly they use the web app as reference).It's just a really crappy situation. I've thought about dropping Android support, but then they would just complain that the iOS crowd get an app and they don't, so that wouldn't be much better. At least I wouldn't have a low star rating publicly attached to my brand, though." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I really, really hate supporting an app on Android. This is a big part of the reason for that.As an example, at one point it apparently would simply refuse to start on the Droid X, despite running great on the original Droid I had to test it with, and the VM I set up to emulate the X. Without access to a physical Droid X, it couldn't be debugged. The app doesn't require anything from the hardware besides a GPS, so I was at a loss for what would cause this.Because it's a huge pain to properly test new versions, I tend not to keep the Android version up to speed with the iOS version of the same app. As a result of that, I get a lot of complaints from Android users that feel short changed and bad reviews from people who feel like the app isn't keeping pace with the alternative apps (mostly they use the web app as reference).It's just a really crappy situation. I've thought about dropping Android support, but then they would just complain that the iOS crowd get an app and they don't, so that wouldn't be much better. At least I wouldn't have a low star rating publicly attached to my brand, though." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I think it's very valid criticism and it can't really be compared with Windows. There's many differences:- Windows has a lot of APIs and hardware abstraction levels. Microsoft has always been known to change things very, very slowly, and keep backward compatibility.- Hardware makers don't mess with Windows nearly as much as they do with Android. They will install a Norton trial and that's it. They don't remove the UI and put their own.- Microsoft acts as a gate to what innovation hardware vendors can bring in, even more so today with driver testing and signing. Remember back in the day when an OEM did something crazy you'd get BSODs from bad drivers. Now that doesn't happen anymore, because everything is so much more robust. Android is still no where near that, and Google isn't doing much, relying on the open community." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "This is a good illustration of how tone doesn't come across well in writing. Reading the comment by the original author, it sounded like a friendly request to please take the content down.The guy whose site it was clearly didn't see it that way and responded as though he'd been viscously attacked. He ends up coming across as quite angry, when more likely he was just rattled and feeling defensive.I guess the takeaway is to always take a step back before responding when you feel attacked. Chances are you're not being attacked nearly as harshly as you think." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The worst part of this situation is how martinemde is portending himself to be a \"translator\" like from English to Spanish, ignorant of the fact that you even need permission to do that. http://twitter.com/martinemdeAlso its pretty crappy how the Ruby Protection Squad came to his rescue with blind hate for Zed throwing comments like \"Wow didn't even know who Zed Shaw was, now the first thing I learned about him is that he's a total d-bag\" - http://twitter.com/PeteTheSadPanda/status/598669095084033Yes Zed doesn't always say things gently, but what he did say was 100% truth. Regardless of if you like what he says you have to respect 1. the truth and 2. who was really in the wrong here.Final note: this guy could have buried it by just deleting the whole repo, but left it up to seem like the \"martyr\" - that is what kills me the most." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The worst part of this situation is how martinemde is portending himself to be a \"translator\" like from English to Spanish, ignorant of the fact that you even need permission to do that. http://twitter.com/martinemdeAlso its pretty crappy how the Ruby Protection Squad came to his rescue with blind hate for Zed throwing comments like \"Wow didn't even know who Zed Shaw was, now the first thing I learned about him is that he's a total d-bag\" - http://twitter.com/PeteTheSadPanda/status/598669095084033Yes Zed doesn't always say things gently, but what he did say was 100% truth. Regardless of if you like what he says you have to respect 1. the truth and 2. who was really in the wrong here.Final note: this guy could have buried it by just deleting the whole repo, but left it up to seem like the \"martyr\" - that is what kills me the most." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Interestingly, Martin has now updated the readme https://github.com/martinemde/learn-ruby-the-hard-way#readmeHe concedes both of Zed's main points:1. That he didn't have a legal right to \"translate\" the book2. That \"translating\" the book from Python to Ruby didn't work all that well anywayThe rest of the message boils down to a complaint that Zed wasn't nice enough in his takedown request. While Zed could have phrased things more nicely, he wasn't especially rude given the context of clear plagiarism and copyright violation." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Interestingly, Martin has now updated the readme https://github.com/martinemde/learn-ruby-the-hard-way#readmeHe concedes both of Zed's main points:1. That he didn't have a legal right to \"translate\" the book2. That \"translating\" the book from Python to Ruby didn't work all that well anywayThe rest of the message boils down to a complaint that Zed wasn't nice enough in his takedown request. While Zed could have phrased things more nicely, he wasn't especially rude given the context of clear plagiarism and copyright violation." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "At some level, you have to love zed. He gives and gives to the world, and the world just craps on him.Of course, I have a feeling that his personal brand isn't going to be helped by this exchange." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "At some level, you have to love zed. He gives and gives to the world, and the world just craps on him.Of course, I have a feeling that his personal brand isn't going to be helped by this exchange." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "\"I'm a fucking Engine Yard programmer for fuck sake.\" - what an arrogant statement." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "It's at http://thecupcakeblog.com/ , if you're curious. Personally I don't think the site is worth that, given the demonstrated revenues and what the market is typically like for sites with this model [1], but then again the fair price for most things is where a buyer and seller agree it is.Here's the auction page on Flippa:https://flippa.com/2736282-over-1000-ad-rev-199k-visits-475k...[1] You'd probably be looking at about $10k for it usually: trailing year's proven revenue. Nothing about it is defensible at all.Incidentally, if you were bound and determined to be the source for cupcakes online rather than a content scraper in the middle, you'd end up producing a site like:http://www.christmas-cookies.com/My SEO buddies and I ballparked owning that site as being roughly as lucrative as a full-time job as a cookbook author/editor (though it may have suffered a bit since we spitballed those numbers, due to ranking changes and the like -- it no longer dominates results like I remember it doing in ~2008)." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I did a similar thing years ago, here's the Flippa auction (sold for $20k): https://flippa.com/127164-no-1-blog-about-casual-games-in-sp...I'm open to questions, although here are the main aspects of it:- Started a blog in Spanish about indie/casual games, mostly for fun- It was part of a (very small) network (NexoBlogs.com) run by a friend of mine on his spare time- After a year or so I ran out of things I wanted to write about, but then I noticed some terms driving most of the traffic, and focused on them. At this point I was making probably $40 a month- A year later, after focusing on those terms, traffic grew a lot (even though for most "big" keywords I wasn't number one) and revenue was maybe a couple hundred bucks a month- At this point I started looking at affiliate programs. Ended up with BigFishGames' which pays 25% of each sale and keeps the cookie on the user's computer for a year- Another year went by and I was making around $1K or a bit more a month, quite comfortably- I spent almost a year basically not writing (I'd write a generic summary once a week). Traffic still went up- After that, traffic started declining, so I hired someone from oDesk to write for 5€ / post 20 times a month to write new content- As you can read in the auction, at one point income from BigFishGames dropped a lot and I decided to sell it since someone else could do better with it, and it sold for the amount I wanted- It ended up netting me (sale price aside) maybe $20K in total, and it was my only source of income for a year while I traveled around South East Asia" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I did a similar thing years ago, here's the Flippa auction (sold for $20k): https://flippa.com/127164-no-1-blog-about-casual-games-in-sp...I'm open to questions, although here are the main aspects of it:- Started a blog in Spanish about indie/casual games, mostly for fun- It was part of a (very small) network (NexoBlogs.com) run by a friend of mine on his spare time- After a year or so I ran out of things I wanted to write about, but then I noticed some terms driving most of the traffic, and focused on them. At this point I was making probably $40 a month- A year later, after focusing on those terms, traffic grew a lot (even though for most "big" keywords I wasn't number one) and revenue was maybe a couple hundred bucks a month- At this point I started looking at affiliate programs. Ended up with BigFishGames' which pays 25% of each sale and keeps the cookie on the user's computer for a year- Another year went by and I was making around $1K or a bit more a month, quite comfortably- I spent almost a year basically not writing (I'd write a generic summary once a week). Traffic still went up- After that, traffic started declining, so I hired someone from oDesk to write for 5€ / post 20 times a month to write new content- As you can read in the auction, at one point income from BigFishGames dropped a lot and I decided to sell it since someone else could do better with it, and it sold for the amount I wanted- It ended up netting me (sale price aside) maybe $20K in total, and it was my only source of income for a year while I traveled around South East Asia" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The purchase price reflects the fact that 479,000 page views is worth more than $1000 per month.That is $2.08/1k views (CPM). In a niche space like cupcakes, doubling that to $4.00 is extremely possible.If someone purchases the site looking at those 500k page views, and expects to be able to monetize at a CPM of $4, then $36,000 is a fine deal. It's a lot of risk, but not insane." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The purchase price reflects the fact that 479,000 page views is worth more than $1000 per month.That is $2.08/1k views (CPM). In a niche space like cupcakes, doubling that to $4.00 is extremely possible.If someone purchases the site looking at those 500k page views, and expects to be able to monetize at a CPM of $4, then $36,000 is a fine deal. It's a lot of risk, but not insane." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It sounds like she's basically just a cupcake aggregator but has chosen to do all the work manually. I think it would be a fun project to automate everything. You could:setup a cron job to scrape the top 100 or so sources for cupcake articles every day.use mechanical turk as quality assurance to make sure the articles are indeed about cupcakes. You could also have them help tag each article.write a script to automatically tweet each new article.write another to automatically post each picture to pinterest with a link back to your site (might get banned for spam?)." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It sounds like she's basically just a cupcake aggregator but has chosen to do all the work manually. I think it would be a fun project to automate everything. You could:setup a cron job to scrape the top 100 or so sources for cupcake articles every day.use mechanical turk as quality assurance to make sure the articles are indeed about cupcakes. You could also have them help tag each article.write a script to automatically tweet each new article.write another to automatically post each picture to pinterest with a link back to your site (might get banned for spam?)." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "30 hrs/mo * 24 months = 720 hours24 months * (1000 / 2) avg $/mo = $12,000 [1]$12,000 earned + $36,200 sale = $48,200 total income$48,200 / 720 hrs = $66.94/hrGiven the exceptionally high risk, I'd have to declare that a ROTI fail but different people value their time differently.[1] My revenue calculation assumes a relatively steady growth." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "That seems like explaining gene heritability with a quick detour through organic chemistry to explain on a molecular level how DNA gets unzipped. Did the person need to know those details? Were they obviously capable of understanding them? If there are not two \"yes\" answers here, one might question the likely success of attempting to cram half a college class into their heads in a session." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I think one problem is that both DH and RSA depend on the fact that finding inverses is hard in certain big groups, which isn't an intuitive idea.(Admittedly, in RSA, the idea that factoring is hard is intuitive, but then you have the problem that the fact that the big composite number gives you a group, isn't).I always find it a shame that Fermat's Little Theorem, and multiplicative groups aren't taught earlier in a typical maths education, as the beauty returned from a small effort is significant." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I think one problem is that both DH and RSA depend on the fact that finding inverses is hard in certain big groups, which isn't an intuitive idea.(Admittedly, in RSA, the idea that factoring is hard is intuitive, but then you have the problem that the fact that the big composite number gives you a group, isn't).I always find it a shame that Fermat's Little Theorem, and multiplicative groups aren't taught earlier in a typical maths education, as the beauty returned from a small effort is significant." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Diffie-Hellan is a pretty simple algo. You can do a frame-by-frame analysis of it in about fifteen minutes and it should be fairly easy to understand.The trickiest thing about public key cryptography is that I always lose my keys!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Diffie-Hellan is a pretty simple algo. You can do a frame-by-frame analysis of it in about fifteen minutes and it should be fairly easy to understand.The trickiest thing about public key cryptography is that I always lose my keys!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Monads and why they're useful (in application)(I understand, but I just find it fascinating that no two monad explanations seem to be similar on the surface...)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Monads and why they're useful (in application)(I understand, but I just find it fascinating that no two monad explanations seem to be similar on the surface...)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The tricky thing about cryptography is key-management with secure key-exchange a close second." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "So what's improved since then?1. Bandwidth\n2. Hardware\n3. Language ease of useWith respect to the implementations of these \"services\", things were actually better back in the day. That's because users were generally more responsible (because you had to take an interest in how the network worked in order to use it) and there was no NAT. Peer to peer connections were the norm.By comparison, todays \"web\" (which people confuse with the internet), is crippled, functionally.So all of these \"services\" use ugly hacks. Like trying to stay in touch with people you know through some sociopathic stranger's website. As if that was \"connectivity\". Or trying to run programs through a \"web browser\".NAT forced people to use the web, and forget about the internet.The future lies in moving beyond NAT, and beyond a port 80, web browser-centric model of what people call \"the internet\" (which is actually just the crippled web).We will never get the full functionality of the internet through only \"the web\"." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I worked on the PLATO system beginning in high school as a 15-year old through college. (The building where PLATO was located was diagonal south-west of my high school). David Woolley who is created Notes mentioned in the article was an undergraduate when he wrote Notes.PLATO not only had social networking but was the genesis for other technologies. The orange screen in the article was invented at PLATO and was the genesis for the color plasma TV screen. In fact, Larry Webber, the or a key inventor of the color plasma TV screen was a post-doc in the lab. Ray Ozzie who took over from Bill Gates as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft was also there. The PLATO terminals had touch screens.\nFor software development, when there were compilation errors, you could press a single key and you were given an explanation of the error.Also, the PLATO system has been resurrected. You can run a terminal emulator from your computer and log into the PLATO system and experience and use it much as it was used 40 years ago using a terminal emulator on this website:http://cyber1.org/Here is a list of the notes starting from 1972. An image was made from the line printer at the time:\nhttp://archives.library.illinois.edu/e-records/index.php?dir...Use of the notes program mentioned in the article starts in 1974.As undergraduates some of us would get EE degrees while working our way through college programming computers. We were in this very fertile environment of both software and hardware and we got an enormous amount of autonomy.PLATO leader Don Bitzer had enormous trust in the abilities of even high school students to make contributions.\nhttp://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/03/2614" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I worked on the PLATO system beginning in high school as a 15-year old through college. (The building where PLATO was located was diagonal south-west of my high school). David Woolley who is created Notes mentioned in the article was an undergraduate when he wrote Notes.PLATO not only had social networking but was the genesis for other technologies. The orange screen in the article was invented at PLATO and was the genesis for the color plasma TV screen. In fact, Larry Webber, the or a key inventor of the color plasma TV screen was a post-doc in the lab. Ray Ozzie who took over from Bill Gates as Chief Software Architect at Microsoft was also there. The PLATO terminals had touch screens.\nFor software development, when there were compilation errors, you could press a single key and you were given an explanation of the error.Also, the PLATO system has been resurrected. You can run a terminal emulator from your computer and log into the PLATO system and experience and use it much as it was used 40 years ago using a terminal emulator on this website:http://cyber1.org/Here is a list of the notes starting from 1972. An image was made from the line printer at the time:\nhttp://archives.library.illinois.edu/e-records/index.php?dir...Use of the notes program mentioned in the article starts in 1974.As undergraduates some of us would get EE degrees while working our way through college programming computers. We were in this very fertile environment of both software and hardware and we got an enormous amount of autonomy.PLATO leader Don Bitzer had enormous trust in the abilities of even high school students to make contributions.\nhttp://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/03/2614" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If you would like to view the entire article in one pageview, please use this link: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/social-media-hi..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "If you would like to view the entire article in one pageview, please use this link: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/social-media-hi..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I dislike \"this new thing is just that old thing\" analogies. Someone on HN once tried to argue with me that the old unix talk utility was no different from Twitter.Just because it's a computerized container for human communication doesn't mean it's the same idea. I mean, when you get down to it, it's all strings." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I dislike \"this new thing is just that old thing\" analogies. Someone on HN once tried to argue with me that the old unix talk utility was no different from Twitter.Just because it's a computerized container for human communication doesn't mean it's the same idea. I mean, when you get down to it, it's all strings." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This is fascinating. The question that immediately springs to my mind is this: can I look at the crappy failed projects of today, pinpoint the missing technology, and send a note to myself in the future to re-attempt building it when that technology exists? If so, I'd be competitive with the iPad, iPhone, etc." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "It looks like the trick here is to hook into a global NSNotification called "UIApplicationWillBeginSuspendAnimationNotification", which is assumed to be "app will enter background", and then throw up a fullscreen UIView on top of everything.I think this is an undocumented notification, so it's possible other iOS versions will break this feature." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'll wager Apple will shut this down or reject apps that do this.If you're going to do this you have to consider the ramifications of how stale the information on the card becomes over time. The example, showing a "Checked in since..." will become stale if someone checks in/out on another device.A real iOS 7 API to update these cards in the background would be a nice addition." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I'll wager Apple will shut this down or reject apps that do this.If you're going to do this you have to consider the ramifications of how stale the information on the card becomes over time. The example, showing a "Checked in since..." will become stale if someone checks in/out on another device.A real iOS 7 API to update these cards in the background would be a nice addition." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I expected the example to be just the app's logo. Ie: oh, that's my Dropbox app because instead of the Dropbox UI, I see the big Dropbox logo (Nothing against Dropbox or their app). I also wonder if we'll ever see the app switcher card being used as advertisement space.A little less cynically: If you can redesign a screen in the app to remove clutter and highlight the important information for the user for the app switcher, why don't you do that in the app? Sounds like it might be a better UI design. Now, I can think of many reasonable counter examples, but I'd challenge you to spend more time on the app UI where your users spend most of their time." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I expected the example to be just the app's logo. Ie: oh, that's my Dropbox app because instead of the Dropbox UI, I see the big Dropbox logo (Nothing against Dropbox or their app). I also wonder if we'll ever see the app switcher card being used as advertisement space.A little less cynically: If you can redesign a screen in the app to remove clutter and highlight the important information for the user for the app switcher, why don't you do that in the app? Sounds like it might be a better UI design. Now, I can think of many reasonable counter examples, but I'd challenge you to spend more time on the app UI where your users spend most of their time." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Nice idea. Probably something Apple should be making available easily via the API as it could make the task switcher much more useful." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Nice idea. Probably something Apple should be making available easily via the API as it could make the task switcher much more useful." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Interesting stuff, surprised the built-in apps don't do something similar to this.As an aside, is there anything similar to this for android? I've tried a fair bit of googling but can't find anything or the right search term." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I just want to note that Packer (http://www.packer.io) fits perfectly into the model of immutable infrastructure. Packer is an open source tool for automatically creating machine images (perhaps for multiple platforms).The idea of quickly and easily creating these master images in a way that doesn't slow down agility to change infrastructure is crucial, and Packer enables that.Disclaimer: I wrote Packer." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Conceptually, it's good. But in practice, it's just an analogy. Immutability in programming languages is enforced at compile time and run time. Something like:val x = 1;\nx = 2;is an actual error and the compiler/runtime will give a "you can't do that".Immutable infrastructure, on the other hand, would require read-only enforcement on all aspects of configuration. It can be done, but not easily, and someone always has root. So what you're really talking about is the ability to reconstruct an environment programatically from scratch, with no manual intervention, which is laudable but not exactly immutable.This is the sort of thing that makes me appreciate the 12 Factor App idea (http://www.12factor.net). Rather than trying to make configuration immutable, make it impossible. Don't rely on the existence/continuity of a filesystem at all. Don't use configuration files." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Conceptually, it's good. But in practice, it's just an analogy. Immutability in programming languages is enforced at compile time and run time. Something like:val x = 1;\nx = 2;is an actual error and the compiler/runtime will give a "you can't do that".Immutable infrastructure, on the other hand, would require read-only enforcement on all aspects of configuration. It can be done, but not easily, and someone always has root. So what you're really talking about is the ability to reconstruct an environment programatically from scratch, with no manual intervention, which is laudable but not exactly immutable.This is the sort of thing that makes me appreciate the 12 Factor App idea (http://www.12factor.net). Rather than trying to make configuration immutable, make it impossible. Don't rely on the existence/continuity of a filesystem at all. Don't use configuration files." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The idea of applying purely functional programming concepts to deployment is not new, see the Nix package manager and the NixOS Linux distribution built on top of it (http://nixos.org/). This paper explicitly makes the link with functional programming: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "The idea of applying purely functional programming concepts to deployment is not new, see the Nix package manager and the NixOS Linux distribution built on top of it (http://nixos.org/). This paper explicitly makes the link with functional programming: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I see that Wunderlist uses EC2. So I speculate that they create a fresh machine image for each new revision of the application, and also use immutable machine images for bits of infrastructure such as the database.But how do we put the idea of immutable infrastructure into practice on bare-metal servers? One option would be to set up one's own virtualization infrastructure, such as Xen or KVM. But that would undermine the I/O performance and resource consolidation advantages of running on bare metal. Docker looks promising; we just need to discover the best practices for running specific kinds of services (e.g. web applications) on top of it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I see that Wunderlist uses EC2. So I speculate that they create a fresh machine image for each new revision of the application, and also use immutable machine images for bits of infrastructure such as the database.But how do we put the idea of immutable infrastructure into practice on bare-metal servers? One option would be to set up one's own virtualization infrastructure, such as Xen or KVM. But that would undermine the I/O performance and resource consolidation advantages of running on bare metal. Docker looks promising; we just need to discover the best practices for running specific kinds of services (e.g. web applications) on top of it." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "http://docker.io is how I'd do this as soon as they have a stable version for production. Pick a common (or at least mostly common) base OS for every server, configure your entire system on top of a LXC container, badda bing, badda boom. Quick, low profile, repeatable, redistributable, etc etc etc." }