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I consider "programming" to be a religious journey:

* "You're on your own path" you get errors that the person next to you doesn't.

* "To learn is to invent; you must come to realizations by yourself" different solutions in stackexchange in 2012, '13, and '14 don't work for you.

* I don't have a cliche-quip for this, but if religion is how you find your complex relationship with the world, programming is how you find your complex relationship with computation. I emphasize "how" because its a process and a practice.

* It's mostly bullshit. Because we don't have physics-for-everything, we have religion. Because we don't have math-for-everything[0], we have programming. I'm speaking loosely and rhetorically.

* Related to the above, religion is a bunch of workarounds, like programming. This ecumenical counsel said such, but that ecumenical counsel revised it.

[0] In this instance, I'll define "programming" to be "mostly failed attempts at precise description." Math-for-everything would be "very precise descriptions."
> Put your Raspberry Pi next to a car motor, and it's pretty likely() a part will fail in the heat and grime conditions.

Depending on how hot your motor goes, there's a good chance that unshielded Pi will simply de-solder itself into pieces.
I'm not actually sure which part of my comment you're referring to, which makes your ellipsis seem premature.
Hmm, I see what you mean but not sure why this would hit whites in particular.
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If Cocoa KVO was well done, this would not need to exist:

https://github.com/facebook/KVOController
Nexus devices (i.e. the one with the most Google backing) can be completely re-flashed with a firmware that won't accept updates from Google's servers (e.g. with CyanogenMod). If you want an Android device free from their "imperialism", they've always offered one.
Invariably, unless it's a major software product with a lavish budget, the GUI based setup program is less intelligible than the command line, and is accompanied by instructions consisting of page after page of screen shots, "with circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back of each one," to quote the balladeer. And when the next version of the OS comes out, or a new version changed the installation slightly, the instructions are invalid, but were too costly to update.

After years of that, "sudo apt-get install" was like a breath of fresh air.
Does anyone know what the common stock valuations (or 409a valuations) even are for the big, later stage companies?
> trusting hat

If you are wrong and Microsoft suffers a breach, your defense for HIPAA violations has to be better than "but I trusted Microsoft!"

> I would think that MS is only transmitting enough data to keep the machine running and virus free

I don't think that's true. It uploads what you type, your calendar, contacts, etc... so that things like Cortana work better. What makes me nervous is that even if you turn off all the Cortana things that you can, Cortana is still always running. Plus, how often to business users use Cortana?
Ask HN: Lean legal for an unethical startup?
So I have an idea for a side project/startup that most people would consider unethical. I'm not convinced that it's unethical and I want to give it a try as an experiment, one that may make money if successful.

But due to the questionable ethics of this project, it seems it has a good chance of getting sued. Imagine, for reference, a site that helps you put copyrighted material on YouTube, except not as far on the unethical scale, and without powerful entertainment industry opponents.

What's the minimum I should do to protect myself before trying this experiment? I'm thinking just set up an LLC. I want to minimize my expenses since this is mostly an experiment for my own amusement. (Although if it succeeds it could generate substantial cashflow.)
I'm a researcher in the same basic field, and I too am pretty good at this "bullshittery."

However, Philip trivializes the "10,000 hours" spent learning this stuff as merely learning how to cope with this interface. This is so far off it hurts. Those countless hours spent messing with free software is how I learned to use other people's work, compile it, read it, fix bugs in it, and learn how other people think and write software. This is an incredibly important educational experience and there's sometimes no substitute for time and patience.
This article strikes me as a person who begged for attention via social media changing their tactics and begging for attention by being anti-social media. That is to say, this strikes me as quite vapid.
But the energy isn't going out a nozzle. You're describing a lightsail or photonic laser thruster, not the EM drive. If the EM drive works, it violates linear conservation of momentum (and therefore, if relativity holds, conservation of energy). This makes it very unlikely indeed that it works.

I hope the explanation isn't something terribly boring.
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Where do you need help?

- Valuing stock options or shares in a private company? (http://www.payne.org/index.php/Startup_Equity_For_Employees)

- Negotiating compensation? (http://www.amazon.com/Negotiating-Your-Salary-Make-Minute/dp...)

- Establishing a benchmark? (check AngelList)

Similar questions are asked every few months on HN. Search hn.algolia.com to see answers provided by others. A few of them are worth reading.

Mine aren't the best, but might be worth skimming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7370839

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092653
Honestly it comes down to whether or not you want to understand how something really works. If you are 99% of users then someone has pre-anticipated everything you will ever do with a computer and so there are nice pretty GUI tools to do whatever you want to do that someone has worked very hard and possibly been paid a great deal of money to create to make your life easier.

If you are going to be building things or programming or creating new things you have to understand how things actually work. I'm sorry if that means you need to know that python on OSX is different from python on Windows but you do.

If you are doing research by definition your needs can never be anticipated so you will never have pretty GUI tools to satisfy your needs. So I know the command line sucks for most people but if you want to do real work you're going to have to learn how to use it since it drops all of the leaky abstractions that prevent you from doing what you need to do when you're doing something novel.
Thanks! I'd love to see the source of your cli app!
You'd don't think corporations use marketing to intentionally make people feel bad about themselves?
I think performance is the reason, but that's only speculation from a long-time JavaScript developer with plenty of in-the-trenches experience on resource-constrained platforms.

The platforms that do not shy away from data and embrace mutability at all times -- I believe those are called databases, and when necessarily distributed for scale, that mutability is the enemy of consistency.
Hell, they've campaigned on that issue http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/will-rep...
MIT and Stanford degrees and the guy can't make his personal website go the full width of my 13 inch monitor.
Interesting that it's only enabled in the United States right now, could this be due to stricter privacy laws in other parts of the world?
The Python crowd has worked out what I think is a decent compromise, which is to create some packaged installers that are good enough for most of us. I use WinPython. I don't know what it would take to do something like that for other languages.
Facebook's freebooting is pretty terrible. But this can destroy entire websites. The title is misleading. Google isn't just not punishing thieves, it's heavily punishing the originals. They dropped from 20th result, to 100+, because someone stole their content.
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I don't see NASA having anything to do with this. Neither Eagle or "NASASpaceflight" have any affiliation with NASA.
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I have one of the cars that will be impacted by the recall. Performance and fuel economy are both top notch. The cabin fit and finish are on par with vehicles three times the price. I'll certainly be holding on to mine. If the used vehicle price plummets I'd definitely consider getting a 2nd one for my wife.
Google app invites is a smooth flow, but not designed for high performance. Selecting a bunch of friends from a list is just better. I haven't seen much data here, but some growth community forum posts agree with this intuition.

Their contact rankings are good though. Not FB level insight, but good
Uh oh! Someone lied on the internet, and then felt bad about it!
Can't upvote this enough, and I urge people also to read his other article on this topic, as well as the rebuttal linked within.

I got into computers in the early 1980s when built-in BASIC interpreters were considered Terribly Clever and graphics were something you got by loading/constructing an alternate character set to fit on the text grid. Like many others I stumbled onwards through Vax terminals and onto PCs, where I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of AT&T System V/386, heh heh. So that's a fairly decent 35 years of experience with command-line interfaces...

...and about 15-20 years of dismay at people continuing to reinvent the damn things. Look, you know the only reason for commands like mv and cp was that one time we had 300 baud modems hooked up to dumb terminals and there were good reasons to worry about minimizing character count? It doesn't mean that the resulting obscurantism was a good thing in itself. It's not. There are no good reasons to make people go through typing everything and to perpetuate ASCII graphics fetishism and so on. If anything, it's become an unspoken set of rules to keep people away from our nerd treehouse. Actually typing out all that shit is a huge waste of time.

Writing shell scripts and makefiles by hand is insane, we buiilt computers precisely to save us from this sort of pointless tedium. I find it really depressing that UI innovation on Linux has basically ground to a hatl and that KDE, Gnome and so on are have basically not evolved at all over the last 15 years. Back around 1999 I was running Gnome and E.16 (or was it 15?) and I had a hugely customizable UI that was may more powerful and flexible than anything on Mac/Win (admittedly this was less true for applications, but still. Nowadays when I boot into Linux it mostly feels old and tired.

As I pointed out, I've been using CLIs for a good long time. I got my first copy of Linux from comp.os.minix because there were no distributions as such at the time. It's not like I can't figure this stuff out. But I'm sick of it! There's a reason most consumer software is built around GUIs - they are better. In a well-designec GUI, you can find everything you need within the user interface, instead of having to accumulate a heap of arcane CLI knowledge (starting with the question 'what do I type?!').

It's true that the CLI offers greater flexibility of you know exactly what you want to do. It's also true that for physical items, you can cast or 3d print something that is absolutely perfectly shaped if you know what you're doing. But if you have kids and you want them to discover the joys of engineering, you should probably buy them a big box of Lego instead of a set of carving tools or a CAD workstation.
NeXTstep (from which OS X is derived) used a font for its terminal window that could very well be this same font, perhaps with minor tweaks:

http://www.typewritten.org/Media/Images/nextstep-1.0.png

It would be funny if this font is indeed just coming full circle.
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Excellent post. Confirms my original vision.
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Yeah, my favourite too, even though it has low ratings.
I think it is ineffective to only focus on command line "bullshittery" and not discuss API bullshittery. I think the problem of learning commands pales to the problem of learning poorly-designed APIs. One extreme example of this is the Windows Event Tracing API [1], but there are many more along the same vein.

[1] http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0029.html
Nice design. I would try it if I had an Apple TV. (Also I have no need for a TV-based workout program since I have a gym.) What's up with the name choice "Streaks"?
It's not a strange statement. Stocks that don't pay dividends would still appreciate because investors are pricing in either the dividends the company will pay in the future, or the value the company will have to the dividends of the company that will eventually acquire it.
While I completely agree with the gist and point of the the article, the word "bullshittery" is a bit over-the-top.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and in middle school and high school there was an abudance of shop classes; wood shop, metal shop, electronics, auto shop. In first-year wood shop, we started out with a little coping saw and a file and made golf tee holders and bird houses out of soft pine. After a while, our projects got bigger and we moved on to using stuff like planer and jigsaw. After we demonstrated proficiecy with those we moved on to more complex/dangerous tools like the lathe, table saw and drill presses. Stuff that could easily take a finger off, if you weren't careful.

Throwing someone unexperienced at a lathe or a bandsaw is simply _irresponsible_. I think that one need to learn the basics, to grasp the the mechanics, with simplier/less dangerous tool. However, one proficiency is gained there is a new class of tool available to a skilled craftsperson/professional.

Yes, its important to learn how to use a coping saw, but that doesn't make a table-saw "bullshit". Just a different class of tool, that could seriously hurt you if you don't know what you are doing.
>>I can find, so it's profoundly stupid to disproportionately filter out entire demographics based on bogus criteria such as prior familiarity with incantations like “nohup tar -jxvf giant.tar.bz2 2> cmd.errs &”

Is this the best you can do?
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As it happens, Doctor Who is right in the middle of a story about this.

What's really surprising is that as of the first part of the story, Doctor Who seems to, for the first time ever, be taking a more right-wing than left-wing approach to the political metaphor. It turns out that letting twenty million shape-shifting Zygons settle on Earth actually was a terrible idea after all! Not all of them are bad, but a sufficient number are, and you can't tell the bad ones from the good ones.

They'll probably find a way to twist it back to a leftism-compliant story in the latter part, but it's interesting that the first part of the story at least is a pretty convincing argument against letting large numbers of potentially-dangerous foreigners into your planet/country.
speaking of jobs, where does the product ultimately take the public? Not alive during the dev. of rockets, and space exploration, but everything since then seems to just be a circle jerk about the next uber-for-pulling-bugs-off-my-windshield.
Equity is something that is often effectively worthless. Ask yourself, if you were in a position to exercise your options, is there actually a market for them. Paper value is meaningless, if there is nobody who will buy your shares.
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Well I was worried Plex was going to push that god-awful xbox one interface they just ruined PHT (Now Plex Media Player) with. I'll hold out on my RasPlex 2 with PHT for now until some of my friends pick up the new AppleTV but both Simplex and Plex's official app look nice.

PlexConnect was amazing for what it did and how it did it but was pretty buggy (no doubt not the fault of the creators) and constantly restarting it was a PITA. RasPlex is the best out there right now IMHO (direct play's everything I have) but I'd be happy to go back to AppleTV. I do really miss AirPlay and my family shared photostream as screensaver.
I've always had people who wanted to learn programming become so bogged down in the tools around programming. It led me to thinking that it might be better to teach the fundamentals with pen/paper/whiteboard. To get the "this is why programming is important/powerful" message across. Anyone tried this/had any success with it?
meanwhile in reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDrive/comments/3r8jo0/next_big_fu...
For a comparison, check out Intel's video from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj-5RNdUz3I
Simplex is a Plex client. Quite good, actually.