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It's interesting that someone who professes loving to program in Perl refers to it as "PERL". People who refer to it in all-caps instantly give themselves away as outsiders to the language. It's like someone claiming to be a senior JAVA programmer, it's not an acronym.
Anyway we use Perl pretty much exclusively at Book... | ...and you have exposed yourself to be culturally ignorant. (East) Indian people often spell words in ALL CAPS to emphasize importance. I know this from past experience dealing with (East) Indian people in a professional software development environment for over 10 years. So I believe that was what the original author ... |
Check it out on this baby:
http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5
That's a LaTeX paper by one of the guys who built the reader. | That's very impressive. Any idea how these guys achieved the rendering of all those math symbols so flawlessly? |
This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning.
http://www.newsblur.com
I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native m... | Looks like it's not able to handle the load. Will check in some time.
Nice app btw. The only good thing from GR closure might be that the dev community comes up with some real great alternatives. And yes, I hope paid ones. |
Some questions for the researchers, or anyone else who thinks this was okay:
1) Were public roadways and speeds of 70mph absolutely necessary to demo this?
2) What was the plan if the trucker approaching at 70mph hadn't seen the Jeep stalled early and had to swerve or panic stop, possibly crashing and injuring themselv... | Real world scenario was used to gain more publicity and to get mainstream media sources attention. People get attracted to catchy titles and can relate the incident to themselves because it happened on a highway. Nobody bats an eye if the test was done on a parking lot. |
Google Glass took a good idea for some contexts and mass marketed it to a completely different context where it's primary feature was mostly useless. HUDs and AR make a ton of sense when you need to augment human knowledge, intelligence, and sensory in real time with voice as the primary user interaction. Flying fighte... | Arguing against AR is going to be as silly in retrospect as arguing against email/internet. It will undoubted connect people to information, which is at the very core of what we're looking to achieve with technology. |
The most common form of Microsoft-hate usually centers around how a company of such gargantuan size makes such gargantuan fuck-ups. But this is to be expected of companies of gargantuan size, and is certainly not limited to Microsoft alone (although recently they've had more than their fair share).
My qualm with Micros... | In terms of UI (flat content based UI) at least, they did not copy Apple, it was the other way around. Apple just did it better. |
I'm one of Webscript's founders, and I was pleasantly surprised to see this here. We just launched this morning, and I'm happy to answer any questions. | Please stop saying "no servers". Obviously there is a server involved for the script to run on. |
Can someone explain to me why it should be illegal for Ford or Chevy to sell their cars directly? Is it really anti-competitive? Apple sells their phones directly, AT&T sells Apple phones directly, and resellers like Best Buy or Radio Shack sell Apple phones, and they're all doing pretty well economically.
Not even arg... | In addition to what the others have said in response, I've heard that car dealerships collect a fairly hefty chunk of local sales taxes due to the nature of the product they are selling, which may give them some leverage with local governments to keep things the way they are. |
Does anyone know what kinds of companies or applications make use of z/OS mainframes? | I worked for a company that does z/OS software and got to see their client list--it was pretty much a who's who of industry leaders in every industry, plus a bunch of colleges. |
The last few days I have been digging into the functional world, because I can't ignore it anymore. Lots of developers I respect say it will make you a better programmer, and you can even use it for building real things (like websites), not just calculate a fibonacci in fewer lines. I'm so lost, I thought there was onl... | i am a fan of "how to design programs" [http://htdp.org/]
if you are already an experienced programmer, bits of it may seem trivial, but avoid the temptation to skim; following along all the way through will genuinely introduce you to the functional way of thinking. |
Honest question - what business model for free content do you see other than ads? I understand all the privacy and distraction issues related, but increasingly many news sites I read feature only paid content. I suppose it's connected to the rise of ad blocking.
At the moment I'm not hosting any content of such kind my... | In terms of business models for free content: I'm a big fan of Patreon, and I use it to actively pay for a half-dozen sites and authors I enjoy. There are many more sites and authors I'd pay if they offered the option.
On the other hand, consider actually charging for your game. Or, alternatively, give the game away ... |
And here is the end result of people leaving Firefox for Chrome. You neutered Mozilla. There is no longer a browser vendor which has both your interests in heart and sufficient power to direct the evolution of the web.
Who now gets to choose which features are built into the majority of desktop and mobile browsers? Adv... | I left Internet Explorer for Firefox because I was unsatisfied and jumped to the first viable alternative. I left Firefox for Chrome for the same reason. I'll jump to the next viable alternative as soon as it's available. |
I don't see the point of this. Objective-C is not hard to learn, and with ARC, blocks, the new literals for NSArray and NSDictionary, etc, Objective-C has actually become pleasant to write IMO. The example RubyMotion code also doesn't look very nice either.
The problem with Rubyists (being one for the past 6 years I fe... | The point is that compared to Ruby, Objective-C is just aging, bloated, and incomprehensibly loaded with special traps designed to keep you wedded to the platform.
Ruby skills: applicable across a very broad range of computing devices. Objective-C: not so much. |
Improving a company 101:
* Get rid of HR people.
* Profit. | Can't tell if this is sincere, or just a summary of what everyone else has said.
Probably sincere, I guess. |
This looks a little too elaborate for an April 1st joke, but they can't possibly serious?
I mean, who will scatter these "buttons" all over their house, which will inevitably need new batteries at ever shorter and diverging intervals... | I know a gent working on e-ink tags for grocery store shelves. They have a similar energy usage, lots of sitting idle punctuated by doing something. He's gotten 5 years on a single coin cell. I can't imagine that this would be much different. |
I'm looking forward to the first first-person shooter built on Tango. E.g. a ghostbusters game in which you walk around in your own house, the ghosts only being visible through your Tango. | Imagine combining this with an Oculus Rift, so that you can make your house look however you want within the level, and you can move around through this new world. It would take virtual reality to an entirely new level |
Holy hyperbole. Definitely seems like this worker is frustrated beyond sense or has an agenda with saying things like:
They give rookie operators two months training, and after that just throw ’em in. They’re not ready.
Two months training is not enough training? This is implausible. At its core, they're answering t... | That would be true if you were a sociopath. But those with empathy need to learn to deal with stressful calls, and I imagine that would take some time and effort. |
There are two problems, and the FCC has solved one of them perfectly.
Problem 1: ISPs trying to charge to (de)prioritize packets.
Problem 2: The two biggest ISPs suck, and should be broken up, and/or it should be mandated that competition is much easier.
Would you be happy if they solved problem 2 without solving probl... | Did problem 1 really need 700 distinct new regulations to be solved? |
My dad works in the airplane industry and had an interesting story to tell me that relates to this. (I'm not sure exactly how accurate it is or what the source is, sorry). Apparently, it is illegal for pilots to read while flying. Even if they are heading in a straight line with no one around for miles. This is because... | The pilot should be there when the Software fails, and that's why he shouldn't be busy with something else. It adds to security, and it's worth it (from my point of view) whatever is the cost. |
Perhaps it makes me an evil fascist, but I really don't see the big deal in trying to avoid paying taxes, assuming you're doing so legally. Liberals tend to attach some sort of moral component to how much money you give the government, as in if you try to pay less than what they perceive to be your "fair share" (usuall... | "The government" is not some alien entity; we're governed by the people for the people. We didn't vote to impose taxation for fun; we did so because we hold that society should provide certain things for the people. Avoiding making a fair contribution to the various common services for which tax is used - whether that ... |
What I find striking is that someone working at a gas station, and with apparently no formal CS education, could get hired and eventually become a lead developer, at Microsoft. Google would never hire someone like Zeke (they might have in the past, but not current Google); without a degree from a "top-tier school", yo... | Google would never hire someone like Zeke (they might have in the past, but not current Google); without a degree from a "top-tier school"
If this is true, this is disempowering to Google for 2 reasons:
1. Many potential superstars simply never get the opportunity to go to a "top-tier school".
2. In applicability to ... |
Stuff like this makes one wonder that even though unfortunate, it is time to consider naming your babies with names that are extremely unlikely to be common. heck, may be even add a salt to it while we are at it. Ok the salt part is a joke but seriously, one has to feel for those who share their names with people on th... | >May be a start-up idea for prospective parents to run the names and ensure that before they name their babies, those are not on some list. //
I imagine just googling a name is pretty close to being a certain test for it's existence. |
It's great to see some objective research being done on this, and I am very interested in following the results.
They mention evaluating the effectiveness of giving a candidate a project to do "in their own time." I recently had a interview that included this and I can share the result: I accepted an offer from a diffe... | I think the take-home project can be successful, but not as most companies implement it.
A basic rule of courtesy is that a company shouldn't ask the candidate to invest more time in the process than they are willing to invest.
Most companies will spend an hour or half an hour talking to you on the phone and then give ... |
>Parents are warned to keep kids off the computer
This point cannot be overstated. I'd never have been a hacker without vast quantities of unsupervised, unfiltered internet time around age 9-12.
The largest enabling step for me was when I got my own laptop which I was free to break (software-wise) and free to take into... |
> This point cannot be overstated.
Oh, it surely can. I got the first my own PC when I was ~24.
I had no access to computers till I was almost 18.
However I was very curious about them, I learned to program (with pseudo code) without them and I am still much more curious and willing to learn than many of programm... |
Disclaimer: I am one of the most paranoid people I know and I know some pretty radical left-wing hippies.
I never understood why people hate CCTV cameras - they are in public places. Places where anyone can film you at any time. Public places are not private. Online surveillance has better arguments against it but 90% ... | > they are in public places. Places where anyone can film you at any time.
Except when they're pointing at your private property.
And even when you're in public it's still unpleasant for them to be slurping this information, especially if they misuse it.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/15/michael-mcintyr... |
I know it's "cool" to hate on EA, but assuming this isn't against any Google Play terms of service, I actually think it's a great idea for any developer.
With that said, it's obviously not in the end user's best interest in terms of seeing a true rating prior to download an app. It merely helps the developer to achiev... | > I actually think it's a great idea for any developer.
> With that said, it's obviously not in the end user's best interest
I think you mean, "a great idea for developers who don't mind abusing their users" |
Rock!
I get the feeling there is some weird backlash against all things Agile lately. I've noticed it particularly in reddit comments.
I suspect it's young people who just weren't around before Agile. | Its because, quite frankly, most places suck at doing Agile. And they fully embrace most of the aspects of "Agile" that seem to be there only to treat devs as children and easily replaceable cogs. Most people's first exposure to Agile is in this kind of environment, and so they grow to resent it.
Someone will undoubted... |
It's interesting to see someone else talk about this. Becoming something like independently poor has become sort of a goal of mine. It's a little surprising to me to realize how hard this is. There are so many organizations eager to give me a high salary for full-time development work, which has a high probability of k... | Try teamtreehouse.com - or, ping me, as I know 1-2 other companies that would gladly hire a talented person that wants to work a bit less. |
Hold Up.... Quick question. How is the price of bitcoin suppose to fall to 1BC = $30 when they're going to DDOS all the exchanges except for BitStamp?! People can't sell their bitcoins and cause a devaluation if they aren't able to login. A tiny percentage of bitcoiners actually have auto-bidding set up, and if BitStam... | My favorite part is where they say they have people committed to selling 250,000 bitcoins in an attempt to drive the market down. So that's people owning $30,500,000 (at $122 per bitcoin today's price) worth of bitcoins that are willing to tank that value down to $7,500,000 (at $30 per bitcoin, the group's supposed go... |
The question is, why would I want that?
With the availability of Kotlin, Groovy or (somewhat limited I believe, but still) Scala on Android, what advantages does Go offer?
I was under impression that it's more of a backend language, tailored to the needs of backend devs
I understand the crossplatform argument - write a... | Why wouldn't you shoehorn a language who's ergonomics and limitations have been argued for by how it would fit for concurrent (web)server code in larger projects into application development? I mean, err... |
I'm surprised more companies don't use version control such as git in their documents. | A lot of companies use wikis, which track modifications. |
Committing code should not be a glorified Ctrl/Cmd+S. With few exceptions each commit should be an isolated unit of work. Also, this floating to the top of HN is a bit of a mystery to me. | > Also, this floating to the top of HN is a bit of a mystery to me.
Then you should take the time to think about why.
Either you are not understanding the issue or not understanding the current view by most people on the issue.
Either way you're not at industry standard. |
Solution: stop using Ubuntu.
There are lots of other very able distributions out there, many of which not only have better privacy features but also are technologically superior in one way or another.
In no particular order, these are all very capable operating systems for a variety of needs:
* https://fedoraproject.or... | I used to be an elitist and dump sh*t in Ubuntu, but lately I've been running it on my Desktop.
I mean, it works, it's pretty, it's used... plus there's something in Unity which I like, it just gets out of the way (most of the time).
Of those distros you've posted there, I'd consider OpenSUSE, Mageia and Debian. OpenSU... |
There’s this great story from the book “Art and Fear”, that's very appropriate here:
===
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right s... | Reminds me of a quote I really liked from a Macklemore song:
"The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint. The greats were great cause they paint a lot." |
No. The most interesting part is that this is an example of a vindictive employer ruining someone's life.
I used to work at Goldman's and can tell you that they are paranoid about this kind of thing. They are trying to make an example out of Sergey. We used to get daily updates (on the corporate intranet) about the ... | > One last point. There is no market for stolen code. If I stole Google's search algorithm, who would I sell it to?
Microsoft would not buy it because that would be illegal on their part as well.
However, if I can reverse engineer Google's code, I can put myself at the top of the search rankings.
Sell that, rather than... |
No. The most interesting part is that this is an example of a vindictive employer ruining someone's life.
I used to work at Goldman's and can tell you that they are paranoid about this kind of thing. They are trying to make an example out of Sergey. We used to get daily updates (on the corporate intranet) about the ... | Yeah, I'm still not feeling much sympathy for him though. He did 11 months for a premeditated theft for which he tried to cover his tracks. Is that too harsh? Of course they're going to go after him. And you're worried about him getting another job?? I don't get it. |
Founder of JotForm here. I’d like to thank you all for your sympathy.
JotForm.com has been suspended by Godaddy for more than 24 hours now. They have disabled the DNS without any prior notice or request. They have told us the domain name was suspended as part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation. In order to res... | They also did that to me a few years ago, golden rule #1 don't host any domain of value with godaddy |
Dear 42 Floors: why exactly do you think you need rockstar software talent? Your execution is obviously phenomenal, but it's not like you need a team of <del>haskell/clojure ninjas</del> grizzled enterprise vets who know how to tackle ridiculous complexity of integrating dozens of services against ever changing require... | Oh, and the real answer is of course "because they can". |
I thought BankSimple was a great brand, because it tells you what it is and fits well with the current zeitgeist.
What is "BankSimple?" A way to bank that's simple. Sounds interesting! Everyone hates how complicated banking is, right? Let's go to the website to find out more.
What is "Simple?" Who knows. A website that... | Mint, Square, Ally. I think the naming convention fits other examples of successful startups in this space. |
C# really feels like the most mature language that I've ever dealt with. Writing it feels clear, if something is wrong the debugger is very clear. The number of features that are there is incredible (especially post C# 2.0 when they added generics). Properties are delightful.
How do you convert to a string? Convert.ToS... | I don't think anyone will be pulling out C# marketing videos from their archives any time soon. Like AT&T archives' the unix operating system http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3749496
It will be interesting to see what happens with C# if Microsoft succeeds with Windows 8 on the desktop, tablet, and phone. |
C# really feels like the most mature language that I've ever dealt with. Writing it feels clear, if something is wrong the debugger is very clear. The number of features that are there is incredible (especially post C# 2.0 when they added generics). Properties are delightful.
How do you convert to a string? Convert.ToS... | This makes me so happy to read. Honestly i love writing in c#. I spend a lot of my life now using php, but honestly the times when i followed best practices the best (unit tests all over the place, often test first approach) was when i was coding in c#. I think the language just lends itself, and the IDE...to doing thi... |
Since it is a drought, there is literally no "fix" for it, and California has been responding per their plan to the length of it. You need only drive down the central valley (I-5) and see the thousands of acres of farmland reverting to desert.
The next step is mandatory rationing of drinking water. At some point one mi... | I can't imagine the scope of a project that would move water 1500 miles over a mountain range. From the Missouri valley to western Kansas is a 3000 ft elevation change. You are literally trying to get water to flow uphill. |
I'm the editor of Dr. Dobb's. I'm happy to answer any questions. | Hi Andrew,
I'm curious to know - have you explored other forms of revenue like sponsored content. For instance there is a great deal of paid software out there and a great number of companies create infrastructure for complex software out there like (e.g. Hadoop). Today companies more than ever are pouring their advert... |
What does "tactical" mean in the phrase "tactical nuke"? | Strategic nukes take out cities, tactical nukes take out tank formations, fleets, bunkers, etc. |
What is so bad about leaving them alone? I would bet they are much happer than the majority of the FB and Twitter obsessed narcissist that I run into every day.
What is so bad is you making the decision for them -- one way or the other. It's that kind of pompous paternalistic attitude that caused all kinds of pain and ... | Your reply is so laced with hypocrisy its disgusting. How do you know their lives are so bad? From what the video showed they seem to be doing just fine.
I would rather be A West coast armchair philosopher than an elitest who feels he is so superior to other people that I have the right to be condescending when discu... |
Those of you on HN that are past the 30+ mark. What would you add to this list? | This advice is clearly not for everyone but it has been working for me for many years:
Do your best not to off yourself until your parents are dead. Avoid romantic relationships and avoid inflicting your accursed genes on another generation. Do not make promises that you cannot keep.
Seek out and savor close friends.... |
> I've been to Russia before the cold war ended. I've been all over the middle east. I've been to China. I've travelled all over Europe. I've been to Cuba and I've been to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua. What all of these places have in common is that going there was a far more pleasant experience than going to ... | I would say as a non-USA person travelling to other countries is quite pleasant vs going to the USA, his statement is not over the top.
I would the experience of a USA person travelling to other countries wouldn't be quite as pleasant as their is a lot of pent up rage against USA in other countries and when they get to... |
I'm fascinated by Wordpress success.
It's an horrible peace of software, with horrible PHP code 4.x style, a db schema only a beginner could have come up with and an ecosystem with a lot of trash(not even talking about the admin which is hideous ). Yet it's a blazing success in the CMS space, because of 3 things that a... | It also works because customers have heard of it and believe that they can edit the sites themselves (in spite of your warnings), so it's much easier to sell. "We'll just put you on WordPress!". Done.
Of course, they never figure out how to edit the site, because the WYSIWYG editor is anything but, and even the text ed... |
Hypothetical: I get a call from my boss's boss at 7pm asking if I can create a weekly metrics spreadsheet for him for the meeting tomorrow. Because I'm a go-getter and want to help him out, I have three options:
1. Wake up crazy early the next morning and head into the office early.
2. Cancel my evening plans and dri... | 4. Don't answer the phone at 7pm when you see it's your boss. |
A big reason I haven't been posting anything in months (years!) is I think what I have to say isn't very novel or interesting.
"Time is limited, make every day count." Yeah yeah yeah. We know. Everyone knows.
Took a sudden death and a lot of sobbing today to make me say fuggit and just write, without worrying about bei... | Just write. My wife and kid have been doing http://nanowrimo.org/ the last few years to force themselves to write something every day. My daughter (12) loves it. |
Looks like Kivin was surprised when HR told his manager that he requested to be transferred. His manager then used this information against him, by putting him into a 'performance improvement program' which blocks transfers to any other group for some period of time.
Let me let Kivin and any one else working for a com... | I'm surprised that HR was immediately on the manager's side. I'd expect HR to protect/defend management that is above their work group, they write the checks after all. However, there is no incentive to protect anyone on the same level or below their reporting manager.
HR exists to defend against litigation and conspir... |
I'm working on a side project now that will eventually be an open source project. I think it could benefit a lot of people.
My problem is that I have a full time job. When I come home at night I want to cook dinner, run, socialize, drink a beer with a friend, or work on an art project. I don't particularly want to conf... | Are you in a position to negotiate four days/week with your employer? |
5.96” - A phone just under 6". This is possibly the biggest disappointment about the phone. Its simply too large for the average user. The nexus 5 was already quite difficult to reach the top corners with one hand in my opinion with its 4.95”.
you get over 24 hours of use from a full charge. - too many times I have hea... | i get 1.5 to 2 days sometimes on my 5s... |
I really don't like saying this, but here it goes:
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
We need real, substantive patent reform in this country. | >Don't hate the player, hate the game.
In case you missed it, it's the players who make the game and keep it running - a self-sustaining spiral of endless bullshit. |
HFT provides liquidity, and extracts a price for providing that value.
HFT seems like stealing only because they are using advanced technology methods to make money, whereas in the 1980s and before market makers routinely manipulated the spread and pocketed likely a similar percent of trading profits.
At least the onli... | One explanation I've heard for HFT's profitability (which I'm too lazy to source at the moment) is that it's also an artifact of the granularity of prices permitted by the exchange, just like the 1/8 limit.
Instead of competing to save you a few more slivers of a cent per share, they compete to fill your order a few mi... |
Every one of those licenses is more pretentious than I'd like. Does anybody know the closest one to: "Here's some code. Do what you want with it?"
As a guy releasing code, I don't want you to feel obligated to me in any way. I don't want you to have to attribute back to me, or even acknowledge in any form that you'... | Could you just claim it to be in the public domain? |
I've got a perspective here that will likely run contrary to the dominant view, but I encourage you to think about for a moment -
I'm of the belief that the ability to keep your work, voluntary exchanges, and assets private contribute to a free society in the same way that attorney/client privilege, priest/community, a... | If you tell your lawyer or doctor that you're planning on committing a crime, they have to report it. Attorney-client privilege ends once you're breaking the law in the present tense with the attorney's knowledge.
Similarly, here we have people who were allegedly breaking the law. Not telling the authorities would ha... |
With all honesty, if you're a programmer or a hacker working for GCHQ (I'm certain there are some of you around here) you should really bury your head in shame. No excuses, you are simply disgusting. | It's a pity they have a hiring booth at jQuery UK, which is otherwise a great conference. |
While all of the changes look nice in terms of writing less code, they are the kind of syntactic sugar I learned to hate in CoffeeScript. Mostly because the code was so much denser and harder to read. Especially when reading other people's code.
As I write more and more code, the more I want simplicity and ease of unde... | Most of the features make the language more consistent and reduce syntactic noise, making it easier to read. The only feature that puts additional mental burden is the elvis operator. |
"I learned that you should go straight to the person you're upset with rather than go to authorities."
This is bullshit and dumb advice. If someone steals my bike and I find out who it is, I'm not going to go to his apartment and beat him to death in the middle of the day (smart money on confronting a scumbag not lead... | Should you ever end up in prison, you'll likely end up in "Punk City." (PC = Protective Custody = where snitches are kept)
Rule #1.) Never tell the authorities about anything that happens "inside."
In a prison society those who allow themselves to be victimized will naturally find themselves on the lower scale of that ... |
(The proverbial 'that guy')
Delhi police or CBI (whomsoever) is handling the case is one of the best in the nation. So, let me do my bit (because no one else has raised any voice).
The post portrays Delhi and India in a bad light. I am pretty sure, the case is NOT as dramatic as it is being described (or the victim not... | Huh, a person is in trouble, people are volunteering to help with a lawyer, and you're concerned about India's image? Seriously, this isn't a news and views armchair discussion thread. |
What is the difference between software as a tool and something mechanical as a tool? Mechanical devices, for which there are many patents, take a state of matter and change it to another state of matter. Why should you be able to patent a circuit board, but not a set of program code that does exactly the same transf... | Are patents a right? If the artificial system is detrimental, then the rules need to change. It's not fair for citizens to be forced to give up their natural rights and not get anything in return. I know a lot of nerds love simple rules, but let's get real. The point is for us to get more tech produced. If it's no... |
Absolutely shameful that WikiLeaks would choose to publish stolen, private correspondence, and frankly I'm surprised and disappointed there are people in the HN community that don't seem have an issue with it.
Even if you supported the publishing of the NSA documents on the grounds that it was whistle-blowing, and thus... | So. Enron. What should have happened there? |
>This offers almost no advantage over a late model iMac with a Thunderbolt-to-PCIe breakout module (which is what many power users have been doing in the years since the last update).
A few big advantages over the iMac: Xeons processors, so more cores & more cache; ECC RAM; and (two) workstation graphics cards. Six thu... | Another interesting engineering innovation relative to the iMac is PCIe mass storage (as opposed to SATA). |
My biggest gripe with smart keyboards is that it doesn't work well for multiple languages.
I speak three that uses the english alphabet, and the keyboards get annoying when it starts predicting english words when I'm typing something in a different language altogether.
Most of the time I even disable the dictionary on ... | Swype is getting better at this, you can type in English + [language of your choice]. Predictably, its guess become less precise because now it has to choose from a data set twice as large, but one can swap between setups... |
From first-hand experience, I can say that React+Flux has scaled well to 8+ developers over 800+ JS files and ~60k lines of code in a large single page app here at Facebook. I'm happy to answer any questions! Some things that we've struggled with:
1. All data should be kept in stores. You may have some local component ... | do you just not use react state at all then? I have a similar sized app as you, we started off naively using state at various levels, over time we refactored the state higher and higher, and now we are at the point where all the state is kept only at the root of the view hierarchy (we use cursors). We're about one step... |
I have never, ever, ever met someone who was well-served by skipping a grade. Myself included. Ever.
Skipping a grade means giving up a full year of education. If that proposition doesn't give you pause, you probably don't have enough respect for the value of education. Even if you you get absolutely nothing out of... | My dad was well-served by skipping a grade. He went to university when he was 16, and eventually got a PhD. I think I would have done better if I'd skipped a grade. By the time I got to university, I'd grown so lazy I couldn't deal with courses that required actual work. A bit more challenge a bit earlier would have se... |
I have never, ever, ever met someone who was well-served by skipping a grade. Myself included. Ever.
Skipping a grade means giving up a full year of education. If that proposition doesn't give you pause, you probably don't have enough respect for the value of education. Even if you you get absolutely nothing out of... | > Skipping a grade means giving up a full year of education.
Education doesn't stop with schooling. |
Using bitcoin as a way to launder dollars requires the ability to turn USD into bitcoin and back again, which, incidentally, is exactly what Mt Gox does.
dirty money -> mt gox -> bitcoin -> mt gox -> clean money
I'm obviously speculating here, but this seems like a logical reason for the DHS to come in and shut thin... | Money laundering is about legitimizing the source of money and isn't facilitated by the unit of exchange: dollar, yen, rupee, peso or bitcoin.
Post-2001 and the Patriot Act, bank tellers, stock brokers and insurance agents have all become lay intelligence officers under "Know your customer" compliance requirements. Inf... |
Against my better judgement I'm going to attempt to contribute to this thread. There are good arguments on both sides but most people are talking past one another. As I see it, it comes down to this:
Uber says there is a surplus, people driving cars with empty seats, and they attempt to capture that surplus. From an ec... | How about the concept of freedom?
Am I, as a human being on this planet free?
In that context, shouldn't I be able to exercise my option to make choices such as whether I want to use a government-sanctioned transportation service or pay an equally free individual for transportation services.
Both kinds of services get ... |
"Oh wow, that seems neat. I should check that out"
clicks link on Hacker News
"Hmm, not sure what this is about. I'll just hit the 'Start' button"
Hits start button. 'Add a button' dialog pops up
"That seems pretty straight forward, I'll just add drag that thing labelled 'Button' from the left window pane, on to what l... | exactly what I did |
Hey,
Thanks for speaking up, contributing your viewpoint on HN and not attacking me.
I'm sorry to hear your employer deciding to not to work with you on this and I hope they reconsider, bring you back on and dealing with it constructively.
For context, I'm a developer evangelist.
That means I'm an advocate for develope... | You smiled while you took the photo you planned to shame them with.
Enjoy your notoriety. |
Hemingway said that one goes broke "gradually, then suddenly."
I hope the same thing is happening to Windows marketshare.
I hope the same thing is happening to iOS.
edit: Note that I said "marketshare." I'm not wishing bankruptcy on Apple and Microsoft. It would be a weird desire. | Weird, I would hope that for a company which requires me to leave my data on NSA servers. |
First of all I think the lawyer is clearly wrong to take such a foolish case, yet I don't think it is right that so many people chose to attack him personally. Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do.
If he can make some money off FunnyJunk pushing obviously doomed-from-the-start legal action, then the on... | I could understand a lawyer writing a letter they later regret on behalf of a client, but he followed that up by trying to get IndieGoGo to take down a charitable fundraiser.
TheOatmeal didn't direct a mob to attack FunnyJunk or their lawyer. TheOatmeal said what happened and directed a mob to express their emotions b... |
i found almost offensive that they offer just 10k for such a task | $10,000 and a line-item on your resume that's pretty hard to beat. |
Say where you are located.
It is down for me, SF Bay Area (east bay). | Down in Houston; using Apps for Business |
Github like any monopoly will come back to bite us. That is why I think we need an open source Github.
That said, the interface seems a bit too "inspired" by Github. I hope they rethink how an application like this should work for themselves rather than allowing Github to influence their designs.
I see this quite frequ... | Well - there in an option - http://rhodecode.org - its open source and it supports both HG and git.
I use it with redmine and have a really good setup with project and repository management. |
I don't know how to say it without being blunt, but I mean no offense, I'm just curious. I've heard of this mythical type of user (no-JS) but never heard their side of the coin before.
I dislike ad tracking, information culling, and I think that JavaScript underpins and makes possible many of the things I dislike about... | I turn off JS on a blacklist basis, but I've ended up disabling it for pretty much most publishers. For me it was 100% about speed: I have a relatively high-end laptop, but with the amount of tabs I keep open and the way Chrome uses CPU in the main browser process, I would literally be waiting for 5-6 seconds before ... |
Is it just me who likes Eclipse? I originally used Netbeans, then swapped to Visual Studio for awhile while doing Windows dev, then moved to Eclipse. I tried using IntelliJ for awhile as well, but the javadoc popups are pretty awful and it's missing some of the nice plugins you can get for Eclipse.
Eclipse has just alw... | I like it too. I'm fond of it partly cause I learned how to do plugins and can create myself one if I would want one. Not that I do it often, I just like to have the possibility. |
This is not worth getting excited about. Really.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. These drives would violate conservation of momentum.[0] Conservation of momentum is built in to the known laws of physics at an extraordinarily deep level. It is obviously not impossible that our known laws are wrong, ... | Also, as everybody knows, it is impossible that the earth could be orbiting the sun rather than vice versa - all books on the subject confirm it, and this would totally defy the theological principle, which is certainly impossible.
Only hereticks waste their time thinking of such stupid ideas as a heliocentric solar sy... |
I hate to leap in with what seems like an ad-hominem attack on the 37 signals, but their utter and complete misunderstanding of all the basics of business is starting to grate on me, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Chicago. Is the problem that they're sitting there in a city without any other Internet i... | On behalf of
Groupon.com
Orbitz.com
Feedburner.com
CareerBuilder.com
TicketsNow.com
Peapod.com
Apartments.com
Restaurant.com
ShopLocal.com
Legacy.com
GrubHub.com
EveryBlock.com
Apoolicious.com
Threadless.com
Newser.com
Songza.com
ViewPoints.com
Timelines.com
SitterCity.com
BlockShopper.com
CarePages.com
SurePayroll.com... |
When I read posts like this all but confirming MongoDB isn't the great product 10Gen make it out to be, I wonder how the heck MongoDB are still even relevant and then I remind myself of the fact that 10Gen have one of the best marketing and sales teams in the game at the moment.
While MongoDB has improved greatly over ... | Mongodb has marketed the database as a general purpose one when in reality it doesn't even come close to one. And the case is the same for all other NoSQL systems. No More general purpose database? The developers at http://www.amisalabs.com are tackling today's database problems. |
No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it. | Hopefully one day it will be feasible to host our computing architecture in space and avoid all these terrestrial obstructions. |
Researchers injected a chemical called nicotinamide adenine
dinucleotide, or NAD, which reduces in the body as we age.
The addition of this compound led to the radical reversal
in the ageing of the mice.
While this is pretty cool, it seems that the most immediate effect would be a higher availability of adeno... | You may have a strong attachment to mortality, but I personally don't. I strongly believe I would be able to cope with immortality, and I think it would very much be worth it for a chance to see more of the universe and the future of humanity. Please keep that in mind when you consider the morality of these issues. Alt... |
In my mind, an important point here is that NO ONE should be asked to put together a pot luck. Why does anyone think this kind of thing is appropriate in the workplace? It makes me want to vomit when workplace boss becomes social boss. If anyone ever told me to put together a pot luck my immediate response would be "go... | If you worked with me, I would tell the entire office that everyone is welcome to the 24-pack of beer I brought from home ... except you. |
A radical idea: Maybe our model of intellectual property is wrong, or outdated. When IP was tied to a physical object, it made some sense to restrict and explicitly license each reproducer.
Now we have incredible machines that can reproduce intellectual property almost infinitely, distribute it anywhere on Earth, and f... | We did embrace it. We passed laws to embrace and encourage the creation of new ideas. It's called copyright. It works pretty well when enforced. Less well when it's not. There may be choices that are even better. Policy proposals are welcome. |
I have for a while thought of you as (total honesty here) a bullying cock (though talented at what you do), but this comment which is sincere, genuine and offered to someone for whom this could be greatly helpful has made me seriously reconsider. Kudos. | Christ, not this shit again.
Can we all please rise above talking about personalities? How fucking drab. |
I was thinking -- why isn't this more common?
Then I read the bottom of the readme, and noticed safari was holding back webdev once again.
I've been casually following this for the last 5 years and it seems almost too convenient that safari is regularly behind on mission critical features. | ZeroClipboard is adding support for the HTML5 clipboard API , while retaining Flash fallback for older browsers:
https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171 |
I suspect the Oxford\Cambridge undergrad interviews have less to do with assessing technical competency and more to do with providing admissions with a reason to discriminate against state-educated kids. The amount of Oxbridge intake come from private schools is disproportionately high to be due to exam results alone, ... | I got into Cambridge without any specific 'accent' or favour. Btwn, i come from a minority group. |
Just too bad 2011 OS X is hurting even more than ever for a competent programmers editor. TextMate is dying by inches and it never really had the powers of the Unix ones anyway. As for BBedit, it's pretty much a HTML editor with syntax highlighting for some other things. You might as well use Dashcode.
Yeah, Emacs blah... | aquamacs? |
I find the "American model" and the "European model" dichotomy very interesting.
American model: individually centered, "pay for what you want", development is driven by small companies and individual decisions (most of the time). "Works for me"
European model: centered on the community, social support, development by ... | I don't see the connection here.
In the US you have millionaires came out of "nothing" (of course, from nice universities, nice contacts, etc), people jumping at opportunities, while in Europe this would take 2 meetings, 3 viability studies and 4 months.
That is a really narrow view and a myth that is just not appl... |
“you’re a chick, leave this crap to REAL developers”.
I really don't understand guys who say (or think) shit like this. Honestly, it annoys me not so much because it's sexist, or misogynistic, or bigoted or whatever, but rather because it's fucking stupid.
I've been doing this stuff professional for around 20 years no... | Are you implying that the comment was supposed to be a rational argument? |
But we should not so readily give up the very freedoms that terrorists seek to destroy.
The freedom to not have your license plate OCR'd? Is that what it's all about? Putting that in there is jingoistic and appealing to the same emotions that the other side abuses.
Pervasive, often incidental monitoring (e.g. the growi... | It does seem terribly hypocritical to complain about the police capturing images from a public street, while simultaneously defending people's right to record the police in public.
I wonder what people would make of it if someone released a highly popular smartphone app that did this same sort of thing, just crowdsourc... |
I'll be interested to hear comments from fellow hackers. Reactions from colleagues have been... varied.
Jim Sangwine | Pretty cool. I was going to get a GUID tattooed to my arm :) |
It never occurred to either of us that a ten character last name with a space in the middle would be problem
Really? Because a space is commonly used as the delimiter between first, middle and last names. Wouldn't you think that, at a minimum, there would be some ambiguity about whether Jones was (one of) her middle na... | And to think this was only posted an hour ago:
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... |
Man, that video, typical marketing bullshit. First scene shows a guy writing on a typewriter, next scene shows someone hanging up Polaroid pictures. Seriously? Show me why this app is useful and why I need it, instead of trying to lull me into a world that doesn't exist. | Don't start working in marketing. |
Whether Bitcoin was designed as a scam, I'm not too interested. Whether Bitcoin today operates as a scam, I'm not too interested. The fraudulent nature and qualities often discussed don't interested me too much. There is a deeper issue I've raised, that I've never seen satisfactorily addressed, with Bitcoin:
It has ... | The laws of physics and mathematics aren't democratic, and that is a strength. |
Yeah, I lost about 200 karma (what was about 15% of my total) in the crash.
Good thing they're just silly internet points :) | Here you go, I gave you one back. |
Here are the winning flight details:
This is a 6-Continent RTW itinerary for $1,730. We personally verified that it's a valid itinerary, and at the time of checking, all flights could be booked.
JFK 18-Oct-2012 GEO 18-Oct-2012 Delta (New York, US to Georgetown, Guyana)
GEO 25-Oct-2012 JFK 25-Oct-2012 Delta (Georg... | RTW (round the world, I assume) may have some special meaning in this context, but to the lay person, that itenerary does not cross all degrees of longitude and, notably, not the dateline. |
> E-mail marketers will no longer be able to get any information from images—they will see a single request from Google, which will then be used to send the image out to all Gmail users. Unless you click on a link, marketers will have no idea the e-mail has been seen.
Absurdly wrong, marketers already use a unique imag... | > They'll see one request from Google per successful delivery to an inbox
But if the images are pre-cached before the user opens it, there is still no way of knowing the E-mail was read.
Unless the image is cached upon opening, which is a bit counter-intuitive. |
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