WalkingDead

> The problem is with the people who rounded up the innocent women and children, put them in trains, and then sent them off to die. >

The whole point of this video is about killing of innocent man, women and children by shooters who wanted to kill. Not soldiers killing soldiers. Whether they were rounded up or not, or put on a train or not shifts the focus.

The discussion is not about does this resembles the Nazis or not. It's about: are we looking for a justification for this killing by falling so low on the morality ground, that the same logic can even be used by the Nazis for justifying their killings.

> I think it's laughable to try to draw a comparison between soldiers fucking up and causing collateral damage and the Holocaust.

That's not what you said. You said...

> the blood is on the hands of the people who started and continued the war > not the ones who have to actually fight it.

I disagree with that statement. With the same argument, one can justify all war killings. Even the act of Nazis. We don't bring in Godwins law when discussing and comparing war and killings.

> the blood is on the hands of the people who started and continued the war

> not the ones who have to actually fight it.

The nazis probably said the same.

> Only writes in dynamically-typed languages with a strong functional component

aka, javascript.

In many places the vocal minority controls the media. I guess this popularity issue is not a Asian thing only. A significant large number of silent people in Germany I assume is supportive of Hitler's work --- that's what my impression is after personally talking with a limited few.

I guess that might have to do with load these search engines generate. Previosly in a thread we checked that comments posted in HN appear in google search after a minute of posting. That should create a good amount of load on HN. Multiply it for all the search engines in the wild, and PG probably have decided blocking those woun't do any harm. My guesss. Could be wrong, or it might be temporary or a mistake.

For offline version I had been using this application for some time now...

WebKit HTML to PDF http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

This is a PDF generator which uses WebKit engine to render the HTML page and then converts to PDF. Has command line advanced options, like this site.

I am still waiting for node.js for windows.

I don't know. I read the original article and felt he was talking about building numerous cheap apps and selling those to get rich quick instead of building a single one and hopping it will take over the market. I did not felt like he was talking about spaming!

Few days back there was someone here who told us that he was getting as much as 1 thousand dollars EVERYDAY by developing many small apps for the iPhone and selling those. This is opposite of putting all your time on a single iPhone app and betting on it.

The original article was really helpful for me. I disagree with those that are getting a different message from it.

Here is a step by step comparison on how cutting off ruby's features can make the JRuby implementation faster, from the guy who worked on JRuby.

http://blog.headius.com/2009/04/how-jruby-makes-ruby-fast.ht...

Read it, you will find it interesting. The guy also wrote a small language called Duby which used Ruby like syntax but is much more faster, because he didn't include any of those slowing down features.

I think the parent is implying that while discussing with any second party, it is easier to mutually agree on which one is an issue and which one is details --- compared to discussing on the problem itself and finding a resolution.

Doesn't work on V8, at least not on the version I am using. Which JS engine is 1.8.1 complaint?

I don't even understand the broken window fallacy. The broken window repair does seem to increase GDP, as long as G means Gross (Gross Domestic Product).

Of course the net gain is zero, but that's not what GDP mean, I think.

Backspace doesn't work on Opera too. Up arrow should bring forward the last line typed ---- that doesn't happen here.

There is also the other side of the story. Read a few stories on Steve Jobs (just google) and how he behaves with Apple Engineers and Designers (hint: worse than what one guesses) and how they ultimately turn that in into profit (better product).

Initially there were only one version of iPod. Now check how many versions are there in the market.

> You guys should see the evilness that is Access, the inconsistencies there make this look like nothing. And it's a black art with almost no documentation anywhere.

Are you talking about MS Access? It's about 15 years old. There should be a lot of documentation. You need to look for old books form the last decade though.

It's bad that you can't copy your PDFs into iPhone and read those later. Not unless it's jail broken. iPhone can render PDF, but only when the file is sent as mail attachment or downloaded from web.

This single thing is preventing me from purchasing the iPhone. I have a lots of PDFs and need to read those over time.

Exactly for this reason I found myself writing assembly again: Invoke C functions from a scripting language. The last I wrote was probably 15 years back.

If we look back at human history and extrapolate that trend, 500 years on we could be worse off than what we are now in technology. Civilizations no matter how strong they look, have a trend of rising and falling. And when it falls, it's knowledge gradually gets lost.

40 years back, human where more capable of visiting the moon then they are now.

Fundamental discoveries in physics is almost stuck now for 60 years, since discoveries of quantum mechanics.

The only gain we are seeing is in medical science, and information technology (in Engineering, not Science).

That's what I feel.

5. The functionality of the docs hasn't kept up with Clojure.

6. Debugging facilities also have not kept up with the state of Clojure.

These two are the first thing I check before trying to use any programming language.

Best advice of this century in it's class.

I don't know why we are still wasting our time with calculus while I see a lot of people suffering in their daily life because of their lack of understanding in probability theories and statistics.

Statistics is easier and even more fun to learn than calculus.

I am still using TextPad which I started using since 90s. But wish I could jump to something better. TextPad is now dead with no update for, what 6 years? No v.5 doesn't count as update, it's downgrade. No Unicode, only more fancy GUI.

Switching editor is really hard.

Probably first time I am seeing a micro-optimization having some really significant impact on a micro-benchmark test.

Parent said that economy will go down at some point no matter what. Which is why perks don't last. That's only one of the many reasons.

Use "mysqladmin"

run: mysqladmin ping

output: mysqld is alive

They need to have an English section on their web site.

I am watching the revival of assembly --- a decade after everyone declared its death. This article would have been a meaningless hacker article 5 years ago. Now everyone feels they need to write a JIT for their DSL. Suddenly there is a new interest in assembly.

From the article:

> The big boss, as a reward for thinking up all this stuff, gets to lounge in a nice, relaxing chair

I do agree with you. But what is the solution? Even if I can't change a global trend, what can I do to side step it and still keep it enjoyable to myself?