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Yeah its true for all systems. Its hard to keep the results if your a sedentary worker like a soft-engineer :) ...
Thats why I've always wanted to be a kitesurfing/adventure sports trainer or something of that sort.
I spend a lot of time on the command line, and personally find having that much info in my prompt incredibly distracting. I would really prefer to leave things like battery monitoring to my OS or Window Manager - not my shell prompt. The screenshots in this article look like the kind of stuff that you do when you're just starting with a new piece of technology and you want to use every single feature just to play around. Cool and fun, but at the end of the day perhaps not very useful.
I am reminded of a piece of alleged research I read a few years back: Scientists have determined that regular jogging extends your life span. The amount by which it extends your life span is precisely equal to the amount of time you spend jogging.
And by listing negative effects, you can also make bad things sound bad.

Lots of people kill themselves with marathons. Maybe there's a right way to do it, but obviously it's easy to do it the wrong way. Which makes marathons dangerous until someone figures out your right way.

"if running a marathon is bad, then surely running half a marathon is still not good, right?"

No. Does not follow. As you say, there are probably distances where the good far outweighs the bad. 26 miles is not that distance.
There are many more good reasons for privacy. Laws are sometimes inconsistent, and it turns out to be impossible not to break at least one of them in a particular situation. Sometimes you have to break the letter of the law in order to comply with its spirit. Making such breaches visible to everyone would do nothing but open the floodgates to blackmail.

Also, there are moral issues. Abortion is legal in many jurisdictions, but many people will still treat it as homicide. Am I really under any obligation to argue about abortion with a potential employer or suffer the consequences of not sharing the employer's opinion? I think not. Keeping professional duties and private opinions separate is my right and it is necessary for any company to remain functional.
I am excited they finally decided to push HotCocoa a bit more. I think it is an absolutely killer way to write basic Mac apps.
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The concern at Yellowstone is not a quake, it is an eruption.

Earthquake swarms are a sign of magma moving under the ground, which would be a potential precursor to an eruption.
Do VC's compete?
Are you using hashlib library (http://github.com/brainfucker/hashlib) (I just wondering=)

Did you need some other functionality, and also have you any interest of new modules for node?
Juries are (hopefully) your defense here. If the govt really did start prosecuting lemon buyers, one would hope that juries would not convict.
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How is this an interesting twist? As a website owner, it not just as bad -- it's worse, because it gives the user an additional incentive (beyond convenience) to block my ads, and feel self-righteous doing it.
Hopefully you get some jurors who are familiar with Jury Nullification. Otherwise the instructions from the judge and persuasion by the prosecutor might convince them they have no choice but to follow the letter of the law.
I'm not sure the statistics show it's quite that busted. 140,000 apps vs. 25,000 apps is sort of what you'd expect given the time advantage the iPhone had. The iPhone native app SDK was released in July 2008, to a built-in market of millions of iPhones already out there. The Android SDK was released in September 2008 (beta in August 2008), to a much smaller market of shipped devices. It wasn't until mid-2009 that Android as a platform became a serious iPhone competitor and started attracting app developers. Since then I think it's been holding its own reasonably well: I think if you looked at new apps shipped in the past 6 months, the gap would be much smaller.
Instapaper-friendly version: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/american-decline
I'm coming at it sideways. I work in a .NET shop and I'm pushing for ironpython at every opportunity :)
The only thing I need to know about marathons is that according to legend the first person to run one died! ;-)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides for details.
I like having extra information in my prompt, but not to the point that it takes up a whole line of its own. Here's what mine looks like: http://grab.by/26hX
What sort of Python job are you looking for? I know that there is definitely demand out there for Python programmers who work with Django (a web framework built on Python, for those who don't know). We (Discovery Creative—part of Discovery Communications, parent company of the Discovery Channel—out of Silver Spring, MD) are currently looking for Django/Python people.
Depends on where you are maybe?

I don't think many places pick Python because there are fewer people who know it. I know some people who use it in their jobs though and their employers sort of just understood that people had to learn it on the job. I wouldn't say Python is a hot skill really but it depends on where you want to work.
I fall sick easily. Now slowly recovering from a brutal case of stomatitis.

I've actually got a website for this one. But I still need to learn a programming language to write an app to go with it. :(
This is much ado about nothing. Here is a quote from the referenced TechCrunch article:

"The results also say that web server is Microsoft-IIS/7.0. That doesn’t sound right, so what gives? Well, it turns out that because Gates is using Akamai to mirror his sites’ content in the event of massive traffic (or more specifically, something like a DDoS attack), this data is being filtered through there. Akamai uses Linux for its servers, so that’s what OS is being passed back to Netcraft."
how hard would it be to create a phone-accessible chat room where you could have community participation and a few google reps on-hand ready to make app recommendations and answer questions about what is available on the market?

or they could just make app search better...
A camera makes a lot of sense, actually. A lot of the augmented reality stuff that showed up for the iPhone would work even better on an iPad.
I live in Dallas, but I'm looking to move to the Bay area (San Francisco).
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Some version of this can still might happen if Microsoft would be seriously threatened by Google.

If Microsoft task would be to replace each google-ad with a much more useful ad(which they probably could, since google optimized for money per ad), they could offer much better ads.

If those ads could really help people , this could have a really strong PR for the common people. And maybe Microsoft could even wrap it in some ethical claim.
I want privacy because

(1) I break laws I don't know about
(2) I do things which might be misinterpreted as breaking the law or as being immoral
(3) I do things which are considered immoral by most people, but which are not illegal.

For these reasons, I cannot act autonomously or creatively without privacy.
It looks like Cringely was quoting Jason Calacanis' tweets - which Jason admitted were made up jokes. They started out semi-belivable, but then got more outlandish as they went on. How he fell for them, I don't understand.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/10/rubber_hose_cr...
Check out some of the hubbub going on around PyCon. Also, look for Python-related meetups if you're in a major metro.

Coincidentally with PyCon, Atlanta seems like a hotspot judging by the number of members of the PyATL and Django meetup groups.
UMiami offers an entrepreneurship major. I feel like it's very targeted towards a small business owner for a local establishment ie- restaurant owner, services provider,etc. That's nice and all, but it's pretty limiting. I don't think you could teach guys like us how to do what we do in a classroom. I will say, it might be useful to have some type of crash course that focused on some of the more mundane things you'll need:

term sheet negotiations, basic accounting, legal docs stuff, interviewing skills, some public speaking (for conferences/demos),etc.

There's certainly a large world of entrepreneurship out there beyond the tech sector, but I bet there's some type of common ground that can be found.
Are you open to remote/telecommuters?
What are your criteria? Do you have a geographic location that the employer must be within? Do you have a minimum salary you need to make (before bonus or equity)?

We just finished a hiring round, which included Python. I expect that we'll wind up hiring some more in the not too distant future.

For what its worth, I post my jobs on Craigslist and at local university offices first, only falling back to the big job boards in a worst-case scenario because as an employer they present a poor signal-noise ratio.
Where did you get a list of how the top 15 sites on the internet hash/bcrypt/whatever their passwords? That sounds like some interesting information.
I use python all the time, but I'm an embedded developer. So, the python code is just for internal tools and rarely ships. Therefore, a posting for my job would require C and assembly not python. However, it would definitely be useful.
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” - Lincoln
You also might want to try getting in touch with the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/. Among other things, they're currently researching ways that they can be more useful to the community, and I know that things like job boards and job fairs for Python programmers have been proposed.
Wow. I didn't realize you could run Microsoft IIS on Linux. :-\

Somebody needs to learn how to read a Netcraft response, I think. There's probably just a load balancer or something in front of it running Linux.
In other news turns out when i'm brushing my teeth in the morning the other person in the mirror is a "reflection" and in fact I am not temporarily cloned every morning.
Activism and cause-fetishism is a good way to side-step people's critical faculties. If you couldn't get rational people to install your adware toolbar, reframe it: call it Green Advertising and drape it in some vague altruism, and viola.
My experience is limited (although unusual) and my exposure to the current job market even more so. However, it's my impression that there are very, very few "Python jobs." It's becoming more and more the case that multiple skills are required, and frequently Python is one of them. However, it's common to find that people are looking for "C++ and Python" or "HTML, Python, SQL and framework."

We're not hiring at the moment, but we use Python extensively. Even so, if someone was primarily a Python programmer, without equally strong skills in something else, we wouldn't be able to hire them.

As I say, strongly biased, unsupported by statistics, random opinion.
It's less ideal, but not impossible. Drop me an email if you're interested (josh_ourisman@discovery.com) and I can pass your info along to the right people.
I would have predicted one, too. But if that prediction turns out wrong I would start to doubt what I quoted.
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Really?! I never really considered checking craigslist. Also, if you want to get in contact with me, my email is in my profile.
Chris Okasaki wrote such a language. One of it's features was mandatory indentation (like python). Why mandatory indentation was effective at making a language learn-able, he didn't really know for sure, but he suspected it is because there is less visual noise.

If you want to make a super easy-to-teach, I suggest you try the following:

(1) Mandatory indentation. This is one of the most influencing factors.

(2) As little syntax as you can afford.

(3) An interactive loop. It makes Tinkering easy.

(4) A simple, probably dynamic, type system (numbers, chars and functions are probably enough). If you go the static route, there is no other way than Hindley-Milner based type systems. They are quite complex and their paranoia annoy some students, though.

The closest I can think of right now would be a scheme without parentheses, like in http://www.genyris.com/
There are different things to consider depending on whether you'd create new app alone / with trusty co-founders, or you'd want to introduce it to a team using some form of agile development, or you'd want to expose NoSQL to people using ol' rusty waterfall model.

The last case is hardest and I'll share some thoughts on it.
I know most of you don't live in such environment, but still you can infer the "agile" scenarios from the waterfall one. In other words, the following waterfall issues can be areas of potential fkups using whatever development model.

So, the impact of switching to NoSQL for different waterfall'ish teams:

- it changes the way how your data is organized -- mostly it's denormalization and some strategies tied to the specifics of queries you'd have to use most (read: ad hoc strategies). So, it influences the analysis, architects, development & release management.

- it changes the way how the db "schema" changes can be introduced. You'd say "there's no schema". Well, it's partly true, but in real life you have to add some metadata information to the underlying db, otherwise your db queries won't run. For example, Cassandra has ColumnFamilies definitions, CouchDB has its view definitions. Somebody has to agree what needs to be changed and then write these changes and maintain it in sync with the codebase. You'd probably need mechanism like Rails migrations to maintain it - you won't get rid of it with the promise "there's no schema". Somebody has to apply such changes to production as well. So, back to the waterfall: it influences analysis, development, release management & operations.

- it changes the way how your app scales. The goal of many NoSQL engines is to easily scale horizontally -- this is a big win to operations! But we're not there yet (Cassandra? Maybe MongoDB?), see eg. http://bjclark.me/2009/08/04/nosql-if-only-it-was-that-easy/. Also, if something you need crucially doesn't scale, you have to redesign your app. So the influence is: operations have less work, release management has more work, but in the worst case all the teams have to rework the app.

- it allows for some non-standard app behaviours. Eg. CouchDB is excellent at disconnencted operations, meaning: ocasionally synchronizing data between nodes which are mostly offline. It's also called "no master" as opposed to "multi master". No wonder IBM research funded CouchDB development (trying to rewrite Lotus Notes? ;) and also Ubuntu chose it for their Ubuntu One sharing platform. Feature like this is a relief for release mgmt & operations, but can need a lots of work from the architects, analysis & devs.

Hope this is useful. I'm considering convincing some BigCorp to use NoSQL in some project and these are the issues I thought of.
This is one of the most useful posts on HN in my opinion.
It is both very practical and informative.
Even the supposedly sealed iPad sits close enough to our laps for us want to make something, even if it’s just finger paintings.

"Just finger paintings?" I saw a lot of potential in what Brushes is doing. Another HN poster deprecated the finger interface because it wasn't capable of "precision pointing." Any designer worth their salt can think of a way around that in about 30 seconds. (A gesture where you have crosshairs between your fingers, combined with a zoomed-view, much like a sniper scope in a FPS.)

There's no reason why a multitouch interface can't subsume most of what we want to do with computers. The last barrier is text input. And a small Bluetooth keyboard like Apple's seems like a dandy solution to me!

Prediction: Interfaces as light and unobtrusive as a pad of paper will change the way we use computers.
Adam Curtis made a great documentary about Henrietta Lacks 10 years ago called "The Way of All Flesh."

I definitely recommend it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8448974573505946013
The death rate for manned space missions is absurdly high. At the same time, robotics, AI, and remote control technology have all made incredible progress. Unmanned missions are much cheaper. So, an unmanned program is a greater bang for the buck, and a greater bang per death. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_accidents_and_incidents.

Let's say China sent people to Mars tomorrow. What could they learn about Mars that we couldn't learn by sending our robots there, similarly equipped? Manned space missions are now almost purely about bragging rights; the first person to do X in space was from nation Y. Who cares? It's just propaganda.
I have an HP tc1100, and it's fun to use. Windows handwriting recognition is awesome. But Linux could do better, given enough will.
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The title should be that Bill Gate's blog uses a Linux CDN provided by Akamai with its ISS web-server. At least that is somewhat worthy of discussion.
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Here's the alternate interpretation for the modern day: Once you nail enough senators with outdated laws, the law will be repealed.
I guess he meant: complex queries are impossible at the server side, so you have to run it in the client.
+1 for Django admin! The amount of effort it alone saves would make Django worth while (for me) even if the rest was no better than PHP (luckily that's not the case though).
What would that "something else" be? For instance, would "Python and SQL" be a good combination?
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I'm not actually doing it for the financial rewards. Well, I am, but only up to a point. I could earn more money elsewhere, in a job that was more stressful, or less reliable but I'm perfectly happy with my current job, which challenges me in interesting ways, has good people to work with, and allows me to go home at 5pm and do fun things that have little do to with programming in the evening.
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It's a nice idea. Although I use ad blocking I have no fundamental objection to advertising online. What I do object to are ads which are annoying or offensive. If I could have greater control over what type of ads are displayed, so that they're always discreet and tasteful, I'd have no need to block them.
You haven't contradicted my claim :-) ... meh, programmers.

In case you're thinking Javascript games aren't possible ...

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/10-most-popular-iphone-web-game...
We're hiring Python programmers. Or rather, we're hiring strong programmers, and we use Python. http://www.woti.com/ ... DC area, no telecommuting, must be a clearable US citizen.
Oh, absolutely! But that doesn't mean I want to see the Adsense/Casale revenue dry up at the hands of some opportunistic do-gooding scheme.
People tend to think it's a lot more of the federal budget than it is:
"For example, in 1997 the average estimate of NASA's share of the federal budget by those polled was 20 percent."
From http://bit.ly/aAg7I3
Er, try 0.58%. But this misconception is a real problem: if people think there's just tons of money in there, cuts don't seem like a big deal; in fact, they seem entirely reasonable.

Add to that the unwillingness of our political class (both parties) to do anything about spending and cost growth on defense, medicare, and medicaid and you've severely limited "what you can cut" to NASA and a handful of other programs, even though cuts to those are a fractional percent of the budget and barely enough to even register over a 10-year window.

Leadership takes hard decisions. Our "leaders" have shown no interest in same.
Correct, and the app seems to actively encourage poaching business from brick-and-mortar retailers: you can submit a photo of a product, and within a minute or so, you'll have a working link to an Amazon product page. I use it often to wishlist books I find at the bookstore but don't want to buy right away.
Nothing, indeed. I thought I was clever in 2000 when I had IIS "running on" Linux simply because I was using Linux as a reverse-proxy to my IIS box, just for fun (if learning Linux by starting with Slackware could have been considered fun).
If you're going to store that info, use gpg (or perhaps gpgme) to encrypt it and keep the private key for decryption somewhere completely separate. Access to the source code shouldn't matter at all.
Well, I care about propaganda; manned space missions are really cool, and they get people excited about science and technology.

We throw most of our budget away anyway on defense, which is certainly not doing anyone any good; if we can't politically agree on anything useful to do with it, it would be nice to at least spend it on something cool, instead.
> or whatever they are selling to stay in business nowadays.

I simply assumed they'd started fudging their books and dumping newspapers en masse into a deep hole where their gold bullion used to be buried. How else are newspapers supposed to survive today?
Unmanned missions are not only safer, but a lot cheaper. It's sending human habitats to the moon and back compared to sending a package one-way.

I'd be very exited to see the moon as a testbed for robotic technologies. With little effort we could make a moon base before anybody even goes there. Or useful stuff, like a telescope.

You have cheap energy, lots of space, some building materials and time. Could be a lot worse.
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Python, Django, and PostgreSQL tend to flock together.
Well because I suspect a lot more people would consider this "
wrong - which lends strength to the argument that ad blockers are sometimes unfair
>I don't stop at a stop sign if I can clearly see that I can go without impacting anyone else. For me stop sign means "the other people have the right of way, don't impact them". I find following the letter of the law "all four wheels to a full and complete stop" irritating, insulting and of little or no value.

I can digest your "rules as guidelines" approach, but blowing stop signs because you feel like it is just stupid.

Why?

Because none of us have perfect perception. Because we get distracted, sometimes at the wrong moment. Because sometimes we just don't perceive an oncoming car. Motorcycle riders are painfully aware of this fact.

We're supposed to stop at stop signs in order to make absolutely sure there's no oncoming traffic. Slowing down and glancing to each side doesn't cut it, and if you think it does, you've got some growing up to do.
Blah-blah, Google is so cool, nothing worth reading, actually.