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The article states that cheap US wine is better than cheap European wine, but that sounds crazy to me. The last time I was in France, you could buy 3 EUR carafes of wine at a restaurant -- cheaper than a Coke! -- and it was really quite drinkable. That doesn't exist in the US.

Oh, that is fantastic.

I saw it at a screening many years ago and was never able to see it again. The movie clips made releasing it too difficult.

I see now it was released in October 2014 -- ten years after it was finished!

Very worth watching, even if (like me) you've never been to LA.

We've used this one: http://wtfsigte.com/

Crude but effective.

This recruiter idea is genius. I just added it to my standard reply to recruiters and I've already got a response.

I was really surprised that Git "won" because I thought that Mercurial's friendlier CLI and being written in Python would give it an advantage. I think I underestimated how good it makes people feel to understand something incredibly complicated. I guess immutable history was a turn off for many people as well.

This fake interview is pretty funny:

"Linus: Git has taken over where Linux left off separating the geeks into know-nothings and know-it-alls. I didn’t really expect anyone to use it because it’s so hard to use, but that turns out to be its big appeal. No technology can ever be too arcane or complicated for the black t-shirt crowd."

http://typicalprogrammer.com/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linu...

This is awesome! I'm excited for a chance to nerd out with fellow Emacs users and increase my (pathetic) Emacs-fu.

On the subject of text editor conferences, I know some people who put together one about Notepad: http://notepadconf.com/ I think it was mostly about drinking beer, though.

There was a throwaway line about this in one of Larry Niven's Ringworld novels. The Ringworld was an artificial structure, so had no fossil fuel deposits. The protagonist muses that it must be hard for the inhabitants to bootstrap civilization, because they have to go from alcohol-based biomass fuels straight to nuclear fusion.

I do this as well. I still check news, but the affirmative effort required limits consumption. It's not as advanced as some solutions but it's enough to keep me from getting distracted most of the time.

I wish I could easily block my personal email without blocking my work email, though (I use Gmail for both).

Also, using Pocket has been good for me. If I see something interesting on HN during work hours, I'll add it to Pocket and read it later.

Such a huge lost opportunity. Many cities (Boston, Minneapolis) have very beautiful parks connected by chains of greenways. San Francisco could have built that, but didn't, and the lack of parks in the Eastern part of the city has a major negative effect on livability. Consider how nice South Park seems compared to the rest of SOMA.

Agreed. I think the entrenched property owners and long-time renters are a big part of the anti-building coalition in SF. For owners, lack of building is actually in their interest. For renters, at the very least, the lack of building doesn't affect them.

Both have "got theirs" and don't want to let new people into the city.

I'm not saying it necessitates rent control. I'm saying that Prop 13 and rent control both came from the same place, the high inflation 1970s (see the TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/).

Repealing rent control without repealing Prop 13 would result in a MASSIVE wealth transfer from renters to landlords. I don't think that's fair.

There is no way San Franciscans renters should give up rent control without landlords giving up Prop 13. Landlords can hold property for decades without seeing their taxes go up, yet they cry crocodile tears about rent control (which resets every time a tenant leaves).

Rent control and Prop 13 are two sides of the same coin.

patio11's writing style seems to run that way. I find it difficult to read, but he's presumably tested it. Maybe he got stuck at a local maxima.

Thanks for your feedback! Adding a simple way for WordPress users to give credit is definitely something we want to add. Stay tuned.

It's been a fun ride these last two years. I'm excited to see (and help build) what comes next.

We're hiring, obviously. I'm happy to talk to anyone about working at Swiftype. My email is easy to find.

I think the idiom is "Cue the haters" but "queue the haters" does have a nice image to it. I'm imagining a long line of haters waiting patiently to dis Angular.

Thanks to Keegan and the other Rust team members for hosting this event. It was fun to see how things work under the hood.

I've had tinnitus since my early 20s and it is annoying but not such that I can't live my life (I've read of people who suffer from apparent 90 decibel buzzing). I have high frequency hearing loss and continuous buzzing, particularly in my left ear. Even though it's not debilitating, I'm happy to read that someday there may be treatment options.

This seems like a pretty good compromise on integer overflow. I'm happy to see the Rust core team taking the problem seriously after seeing so much discussion about it.

Apple's inconsistency about what is and is not allowed in the App Store is one of the most frustrating things about developing for their platform. They should be clear and consistent. It's fine to expand the capabilities of the platform (it seems silly that iOS apps can't use USB), but Apple needs to announce when things that were disallowed are now OK.

Particularly galling is Uber's contention that it helps its "partners" run their own small business. Yeah, right. A small business that Uber can take away from you at any time for any reason. Uber drivers are employees in all but name and tax treatment.

Massive wealth inequality combined with few jobs leads to servants. Servants more-or-less stopped being a job in the US after the last Gilded Age with the rise of the middle class, but with Uber and other service apps, they are back, fractional reserve-style.

There's a corollary to this, which is that if the economy starts growing again (for regular people, not just programmers) people now doing 1099 piecework employment are going to find better options, and these services are going to have to increase their prices to attract workers. The cheapness of Uber has been subsidized by investors and made possible by desperation.

Jon was great to work with when my company was in YC. Happy to see he's a full time partner now.

I wondered about that. The spec isn't clear about it, so we've been taking people out if they leave.

Can any iOS developers comment on whether or not Twitter required special permission from Apple or this is simply something any iOS app can do? I'v read conflicting comments online.

If it's the latter, I guess we should be thankful they bothered to tell us, because there are surely other apps that aren't.

War Before Civilization is a terrific book. One of the things I recall from it is a debunking of the "ceremonial" nature of war in stone age cultures. It may seem ceremonial that two groups meet, fight, and disengage without a clear result, but on a percentage basis the casualty levels are unbelievable (the linked Wikipedia article says 60%).

My recent trip to the Computer History Museum (http://www.recursion.org/2014/10/16/a-night-with-the-ibm-140...) had me thinking about this.

I was struck by how _physical_ the exhibits are. For the most part, the exhibits are old hardware. In some cases, they have the hardware running software that you can use.

Software from the PC era can be preserved with emulators (assuming its copy protection can be defeated), but what about internet software? The museum has a _photo_ of Google's first server, but not much about Google's software. Should we be preserving screenshots of Google results so we'll know what they used to look like?

If I ever start another company, I am definitely going to do this. The burden of supporting only paying customers is so much lower, and you can really focus on what's important to them.

I left my company due to cofounder conflicts and lack of traction (we had a few customers, but weren't able to raise funding and I didn't see it going anywhere). I was really depressed for a while, and for lack of a better idea started doing freelance/contract development. After a couple of years of that, I got the itch to work on a startup again and decided to come back to the Bay Area for that. I got a job at a seed-funded company as their first employee.

This is probably what you are thinking of: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html (It was linked to in the comments of the blog post.)