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I wish they would post actual measurements, as in Anandtech analysis articles. A video is nice, but are there any dB measurements out there?

The C Programming Language (aka K&R)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language_(boo...

Sorry, I thought it would be interesting; I've never seen anything like it and was hoping someone might be able to offer insight on how something like this is done. It's mystifying to me.

(Although if votes on my past submissions are any indication of belonging, I would have to observe that SMB seems more appropriate to this forum than an essay by V.I. Arnold on teaching math, or an article linking databases to category theory. This is also mystifying.)

I think you missed the point with the first comment. It's a show of appreciation, not a charge for a service.

As for your second comment, I think you're mistaken. With the same reasoning, one might think that developers have no incentive to make it easy for users to stop using their application and migrate their data to a competitor's, but this is actually a good thing to do. Google in particular is known for this. I would personally be more inclined to send cake to a site that links me to other good content.

Flattr shouldn't be evaluated purely based on hard, rational economic principles; it's more of a social effect, so it's more complicated than that.

Not as a principle, but in practice: when I go to a website and it's broken, I don't exactly have great faith in the quality of their products if it's a technical offering.

For me that's an instant disqualification.

The Toshiba Portege R700/R705 is a nice one - cool and light (3.2 lbs). I was considering it but wasn't satisfied with the price to performance/build quality in the end. Not too expensive though.

Vladimir Arnold passed away last Thursday.

http://www.physorg.com/news194804767.html

This is getting ridiculous.

Apple is NOT trying to oppress or control people. They're not even trying to rip people off; that's not how they work. People are upset because Apple makes something amazing that masses of consumers want, but they won't let developers/publishers put just anything on it.

Bloggers/writers/opinionators: if you don't like the decisions surrounding the iWhatever, don't buy it, or write your software/distribute your content on some other platform, but for goodness' sake stop comparing Steve Jobs to an oppressive political figure.

Get some perspective.

I used to be on Facebook quite a bit. I deleted my account a week ago, and the abrupt change felt surprisingly liberating. Facebook was becoming a chore to manage, but I didn't realize this until after I left.

Sems like there's still room for something more simplified (but not to Twitter's extreme.) Buzz?

Or just add a link to the HN thread?

Nothing that moves. (Or talks. Or does anything but sit unobtrusively in a corner waiting to be glanced at.)

The only ads in which I've ever been sufficiently interested to click, even out of curiosity, have been Google text ads.

The second; you want to answer not "what does this do" but "how will this impact my life".

I'm expecting Google to roll in and take over any day now. Social networking almost overlaps with their existing turf already. I seriously doubt Buzz as it exists now is as far as they'll go.

We're clearly moving to a more federated system and I'm not convinced that a dorm room startup can pull off an industry unification move like this. They don't have the traction.

A successful musician told me this once: "Put 110% into everything you do, no matter how unimportant, otherwise when the time comes that it actually is important you won't know how to do it."

I see some variant of this in every "advice to younguns" list I come across. Admittedly I still suck at it.

It's hard for me to feel the same way about a Google-sponsored open source project as I do about Microsoft's commercial ventures.

Maybe it's just the masterful PR, but I really do believe Google is actually doing good here.

They might see a resurgence after today's xkcd.

The more abstract the better! I love category theory.

Curry-Howard isomorphism blew my mind when I read about it; that's the sort of thing I'd like to read about. Do you know of any good treatments from the lambda calculus perspective?

This is reassuring, because for months now I've been searching and searching for a sort of "mathematician's introduction to computer science". Something precise, concise, with elegant and efficient constructions and rigorous argument... possibly in the style of Rudin's classic analysis textbook?

I recently discovered Knuth's TAOCP but the thing is overwhelmingly long and I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for.

Does anyone think they were destined to succeed had they not been unexpectedly shoved into the spotlight and showered with cash?

Awesome, thanks!

Fascinating.

And I thought I might be missing out on learning CS by learning abstract math instead.

1. A refresh button that does a POP fetch from other accounts. Currently I have to go to Settings > Accounts and then click fetch, and if I don't do this on an active email thread things get messy with replies to outdated messages.

2. A small one-click popup note feature. When I need to jot down something quick I write it as a new message and save it as a draft to come back to later. Or if I need to upload a document to access from a different computer I'll do that in an email draft as well. It would be nice to keep that kind of thing separate from actual email but close enough to be just as convenient.

I suspect it has to do with differentiation.

By trying to make a product too similar to an Apple product a manufacturer would open the door wide open to valid criticism about being an Apple knockoff company. By doing something different, they have claim to their own identity. But since (almost) nobody can beat Apple at design, that difference manifests itself more in getting more performance per doller (=cheap construction) or lots of products with special features (e.g. gaming machines).

Also it takes time to develop mass production capacity for something with a very different manufacturing process.

That's what she said.

That's what she said.

> Are investors supposed to be cheer leaders?

No, and neither are they supposed to not be assholes.

But imagine a situation in which someone elects to profit from a crowd of people getting run over by a freight train. Why is this bad?

Very good point... maybe we should focus on developing photon torpedoes and phase cannons before we go advertising our fragile existence.

No, I was torn between the W510 and the then-unreleased macbook pro update. Now I'm not.