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I'm surprised nobody said a word about stumpwm yet (http://stumpwm.org). It's a lisp window manager built with the mentality of rat poison.

The great thing about it is how it integrate with emacs/slime. For instance, let's say you want to close all the windows from the second/third workspace, you write the code in emacs and evaluate it in the context of stumpwm.

Why is there a link to python's documentation on HN frontpage? I mean, it's not like it's a new release or, wait for it, was anything new.

Here are some others:

   - Python/C API Reference Manual http://docs.python.org/py3k/c-api/
   - Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html
   - Google http://www.google.com

Actually, it's very well explained in one of the "Effective C++" series.

IIRC, when calling a function, the compiler first looks at the name and only then will try to match the parameters (and choose the right function if there're multiple ones).

So, in that case, it tries to find a function with the name "func" in the Derivate class.. it finds one. Then, it tries to call it and fails because it has the wrong argument. I.e. It won't look at the Base class since it already found a function with the right name.

TL;DR: First = search by name, Second = Match parameters.

It's cute but too much distracting IMO. I prefer to have it fade a little bit on focus and disappear on writing.

What scare me the most about Clojure is collaborate with other devs. I.e. In 2 years, who will maintain the project.

Look, watch that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hHc7TZjyY

That beauty transformed into this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-vXcmpZIw

Please, don't blame the musicians.

"Do the math on what it'd take to email 3,000 rejected applicants."

Imagine reading 3,000 applicants!

I haven't applied this year but I really hate that rejection email. I hope one day YC could man up and tell why it was refused rather then giving a "You don't need to get in to create a successful business" bullshit. Even if it's only one sentence.

I feel like not doing so is really lacking respect for the teams who put hours filling it up. Add on top of that the fact that some demos are not even tried.

As some people like to say, applications are only for the people who didn't find a better way to get in.

I agree. I had no idea it was custom made by a graphic designer.. that would explain a lot more the 100$ cost and the fact that there's no demo.

Few questions:

1. How did you manage to get all these awesome resume templates?! That's fairly impressive for a one month project.. I could have had only one of them and I would be proud!

2. There's no talk about the 10,000$ in the blog.. where does it come from? Is it 100 sales? Is it less but with more urgent need (For instance, clicking "1 day" or "custom color").

3. About the process of converting the html template to a pdf.. how does it work and how good is it? For instance, is it a simple html->pdf which could give ugly conversion or end-of-page text to be displayed wrongly on the next page?

And as a suggestion, it'd be interesting to give a demo of the cv. For instance, I'd enter my data, it'd show me the resume but with a clear "Demo" written on each page of the pdf.. or something similar.

I know I'll probably get down-voted but.. isn't it unfair to take a new job and get away for 6 months for parenting purpose? And what about being lesbian.. why would a company not hire a women because of that?

I don't know, I somewhat believe that once you put something on the web, be it facebook or not, it's now public. Yeah, on my facebook I have pictures that I'd rather not show to any employers but if they choose not to hire me for that, I'd rather not work at a place like this.

But, while writing this, I kind of realised that not everyone is in my position.. and not everyone is as open minded to accept homosexuals.. so I guess I understand what it's unethical.

I'm an avid reader but was disappointed with the dragon book. I felt like once finished, I still couldn't write a simple interpreter! I guess it's a good reference.. or maybe a second book, but that's definitely not the best book to get started and learn compilers.

I did actually read The C++ Programming Language when I was in high school.. at that time I thought it was a very important book. Now, with the insight, how dull it was and useless!

After standing on the landing page, I really wasn't sure about what it was about. I decided to signup to try it out but there was clearly too much fields. I'm an asshole, I know. I'd suggest making the font bigger, cutting the text to a strict minimum, providing a Demo page or an example of a diary and finally making the signup way smaller (or even better, let the user start to write.. and let it create the acount later on).

I downvoted you mostly because I wasn't sure why you were talking about making Python exercises into a Javascript emulator/learner tool when the thread is about Perl.. but then, I wanted to cancel my vote but was unable to.

Wow, I just got nerd chills while listening to that video, great idea and awesome execution. Where it will shine is when you'll be able to follow a 5min tutorial and create a "Quake" and invite your friends to play your game.. while letting them hack their own characters, edit levels and add more original features to the game.

Interesting article. I like the provocative asshole.. with a nice conclusion at the end specifying that people are just busy and not being direct is just non-respectful to your audience.

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Look, there is nothing wrong with classes and OO in general. What is wrong is using OO when it is unnecessary and only adds layers of complexity.

I find this to be over kill but I see the point.. as if you're always trying to make "good" commits you kind of lose the "get all the shit done" mentality as you have to separate everything in smaller ideas.. whereas it's faster sometime to really hack lots of thing and commit, and then at the end cleaning stuff.

"The retina display is amazing, everything in the UI feels faster, and the price points remain the same. What’s not to love? It’s that simple."

Sadly, it's not enough for me to switch from the ipad1 to the ipad3. If there was a way to have a reduced prize by trading it with your ipad1, then maybe.. :) Still, I wish there was something more to it..

Thanks, that's interesting!

Well, the thing is that it complained about only one particular file which I didn't care and knew it was safe to --force on it. So, basically, you type:

  foo -abc

And it tells you, "Can't alter file bar.conf".

After a google search you read, "bar.conf needs the --force switch to be altered".

So you're like, fine..

  foo -abc --force

* Everything crash *

Next reboot,

"Press <enter> to get in the shell"

Me pressing enter.. and even the keyboard isn't working.

That's what happened.

Yeah, well the thing is I never had to use it before. But a package required it, so with a quick google-fu it said to include --force. What wasn't clear is that you had to do a --force for only that package.. while I simply added it to my already crafted command. (I.e. ctrl-p --force <enter>). Let's say I've learned that one the hard way ;)

I love Arch. Best distribution by far in my opinion. Sadly, I had huge problems one week ago when I did a full system upgrade (took me 2 days to fix everything that was corrupted and lost lots of money because of it) but then it was my fault. (Never use --force with a system upgrade!) To be fair, there should be a warning when you try to execute the command as it's probably not what a user would want to do.

What you might not get is that people used to be as lazy but without the framework. So, you'd get really ugly websites without any good design touch. Bootstrap gives these people a way to have something that doesn't look like shit; still letting more design oriented people to improve and making it stand out.

BUT, I'd say that people seems to only use the SAME bootstrap page; I.e. it's a big framework with lots of useful snippets.. it's sad that we only see the black top bar thingy everywhere.

Wow, thanks for sharing this. I really thought it was for efficiency. (Well, it is also, obviously).

Ironically, that page would look so much better if bootstrap was used!

Was your post sarcastic? I'm wondering because if you try http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/touch/examples/production/kitch... on an ipad, it's really slow.

About performance.. or more importantly "feeling", how does it compare with native iphone app? I.e. does it have a 2 secs lag on everything that is clicked, etc.

I feel you but networking is probably the most overlooked strategy with first-time entrepreneurs. Party and startup events are a great way to meet seasoned professionals.