kaitnieks's comments

It's also difficult to drag the car with automatic gearbox (you have to do it very slowly or put it on a trailer) and you can't start the car by pulling it if battery gets flat.

Sure, but calling someone who hasn't read the manual a moron takes more effort that shutting the fuck up. So either help the poor illiterate person or shut the fuck up. It's not like this person knows that there were 58 persons before with the very same question and then the next one will come and won't know that you just called this one a moron and ask the same question again, so you're not solving anything. Quick copy-paste of a link with the answer is a much better and easier solution, don't you think?

I used to lead a community and those were my rules - help or keep silent; tolerate others. That's not so difficult, is it?

I wonder which browser am I supposed to use? It doesn't seem to work in FF4, Chrome or IE9.

Despite my worries that this is turning into offtopic, I'll note that I haven't noticed that this particular PHP feature gets bashed. I've seen the opposite, people remarking that one of the things that is pleasant in PHP is working with associative arrays.

The ridiculousness of their demands is impressive but I found Sony to be the most amusing of them all. Sony worries that users will visit each others houses and download MP3 collections from their clouds. Honestly, if I visited someone in their house, I could simply copy the mp3 files from my laptop.

You can achieve the same effect with smoking pauses:

1. your mouth isn't stuffed and you can and want to talk during smoking. It's reflexive - as soon as you light the cigarette you're looking for a conversation;

2. you have more pauses per day;

3. the pauses are shorter;

Are there any downsides? Well, some say it's unhealthy... Anyway, I'm not smoking anymore, but back when I was, we solved lots of problems and came up with tons of ideas while smoking.

I'm introvert but I loved eating with my coworkers. It's very different from the energy consuming socialization that you would experience at parties or otherwise.

Then again, I didn't eat with all of my coworkers, just my friends.

It sounds like his dad ruined his childhood not Ayn Rand.

That's not entirely true. From the book in Galt's Utopy:

  The recaptured sense of her [Dagny's] own childhood kept coming back to her whenever she met the two sons of the young woman who owned the bakery shop. . . . They did not have the look she had seen in the children of the outer world--a look of fear, half- secretive, half-sneering, the look of a child's defense against an adult, the look of a being in the process of discovering that he is hearing lies and of learning to feel hatred. The two boys had the open, joyous, friendly confidence of kittens who do not expect to get hurt, they had an innocently natural, non-boastful sense of their own value and as innocent a trust in any stranger's ability to recognize it, they had the eager curiosity that would venture anywhere with the certainty that life held nothing unworthy of or closed to discovery, and they looked as if, should they encounter malevolence, they would reject it contemptuously, not as dangerous, but as stupid, they would not accept it in bruised resignation as the law of existence.

I can hardly believe it, but this seems to be for real. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20051425-1.html

Update: different opinion here: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2011/04/04/web_coder... - see the comment.

It wasn't like they were showing the failure with the sounds and the proclaimed that the car doesn't work. From what I remember, Jeremy said that car has overheated and has reduced power (then they showed car stopping at the side of the track with the sound, which sounded very much like sound-over effect instead of make-believe real sound). At the time I thought that stopping because of overheating is normal and can happen to any car on the race track.

The "does not work" came later, near the end of the segment, and it was clearly stated, that the car does not work in the real life (because of the charging times), not that it doesn't work literally.

I'm starting to dislike Tesla very much even though I was excited about Tesla, even after the episode in question. I hope HN gets bored of this whole subject and stops writing about it.

Wilman's points are very clear and straight. Teslas response sounds like hysterical feeble attacks. This whole thing reminds of trolling attacks in online forums. Please settle it in court in a civilized manner and stop the trolling.

Same. This is their home page: http://sharetheair108.com/

Some sites say that the home page will be launched after they cash out the check they have supposedly already received for their startup. This must be a big joke.

Wait... I must be having hangover or something, but it sounds like they ask for money to fund startup that sells jars of air for $10,000... I can't figure out - is this REALLY for real?

It probably sounds worse than it is. It's not like we're stubbornly keeping to our own opinions whether the code should belong to company or not. We're all inexperienced in this area and intuitively I feel like the code should belong to the company and the other programmer feels like we should not restrict ourselves. We just want to do this right.

What I would love to hear is some experience or consequences that could result from assigning code to the company and also from not doing it. I'm sure both ways have their minuses.

Most likely they don't care, they are enforcing the licenses and that's it. There's probably a division in Microsoft that has to do these things and that's what they get paid for.

I think teacher should stick with VB.NET. Why? Because it enables students who like experimenting to get results quickly and this is extremely important if you want to get children enthusiastic about anything. Yes, python is free and open, and I bet many of the students who will become interested in programming will switch away from VB.NET anyway, but right now at this moment the ability to put a button on form with a mouse, doubleclick the button and write in a simple line to display messagebox of swearwords on click, is the most important factor of them all. And it looks like real, professional application window, I mean how cool is that?

This is problematic with services that have limits such as maximum connections per day from a single IP

I wonder about the Mondays. Wouldn't it be more likely that people break up over weekend but only update their status on Monday?

Update: not that they claim otherwise, but the point is that this data is tainted by internet usage patterns and other things that affect Facebook use.

About faking the deadlines - this has never worked for me. Honestly, how do you expect to fool yourself? I've tried to find a bunch of reasons to convince myself that keeping the fake deadline is important but the other half of me just knows that it isn't. How do you convince yourself?