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> The advantages [ClojureScript] has over ES6 fail to make up for the loss of a huge ecosystem…

What kind of "loss of a huge ecosystem" did you have in mind?

> …and this only seems to get worse because of the rate big JS community innovates (whether you'd classify this as 'churn' is another matter).

Last time I looked at CLJS and JS, it was the JS community that was catching up with CLJS (figwheel vs hot reloading, re-frame vs redux). People like David Nolen, Bruce Hauman and Mike Fikes are doing a lot of stellar work!
Why does HN say I posted the article 3 hours ago at 4 AM? I submitted it before 10PM last night.
Indeed it's very unclear, though some little bits from a previous announcement[1]: "bebop is a new development platform that makes it easy to build and maintain enterprise applications."

I guess it was vague on purpose[2]: "[bebop] had not publicly said anything about its technology, operating in so-called stealth mode."

[1]: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.tw/2015/11/investing-in-...

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/technology/google-picks-di...
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They sowed the seeds for their own destruction when they got out of the actual electronics hobbies the marketplace. Had they stayed true to that original vision, they'd not be in the mess they are now.

I won't be shedding any tears. They ended up selling worthless, overpriced electronics, so their value proposition became essentially close to zero for many people who used to shop there. Those who did start shopping there had no real loyalty as they could go to any consumer electronics store - and later online store - to get what they needed.
So, if I understand you correctly, Windows’ new “headless” servers are not actually headless, they simply have an invisible head – it’s still there, you just can’t see it.
>They spend an awful lot of time at work, most of it on looking like they're working.

Guilty. If I could switch to a 4 day work week, I'd get the same amount done, but spend a bit less time on Hacker News and other distractions. Hell, let me work a 2 day week and I'd cut out all distractions to finish what was needed.
I'm almost disappointed Ken Brennan isn't a programmer—he'd be the best debugger we'll ever see. Almost, because he's definitely doing valuable work elsewhere.
You can divide by 2, 4 or 8 just fine in base 10.

3 and 9 are also fast though you get either a remainder or a repeating number. So, really the advantage is 6 vs 5.
Oculus is giving Rifts to their original Kickstarter backers
ISO Extended Pascal and other Pascal dialects had open arrays.

Algol and Mesa were two other languages that you could generalize over array size.

For anyone interested in systems programming it is a good eye opener to delve into the system programming languages from 60 and 70's, before C escaped UNIX.
I've had the same thing happened to stories I submitted, so I'm upvoting this question.
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That's the favorite pastime of armchair transportation experts, blame the past for mistakes made today.
You can read the headline in a hilariously ironic way.
I'm "paid for" 40 hours a week. However since I'm awesome, it takes me only 20-30 hours a week to accomplish more than the output of the younger software developers. Work from home, come in late, come in early, work late, leave early. Doesn't matter, it balances out.

The more I work from home, the greater productivity gains I have over everyone else that remains at the office. It's satisfying.

And I get paid more than them by at least 40%. Go figure.
For Swift, a lot of the designs were due to the ability to automatically transform Objective-C apis into swift APIs. The big issue from what i can tell is in extracting the first parameters name from the method name automatically.
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> but I never thought of it as something typical German before.

Well, people from Spain, France, Italy, Poland etc. are definitely on average louder in usual day to day situations.

In that sense I feel, as a German, keeping your voice on a lower level is somewhat typical. Then again there are of course more countries with this tendency - some of them even stronger, f.x. Estonians.
This kind of marketing turns me off before I even get to hear most of their message. Especially when they say they are better than slack because they are "free". Free just means we have a huge burn rate until we can figure out how to make money. It doesn't instill confidence, it makes me weary.
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Ideally you have deep understanding of distributed systems and have tackled a diverse set of problems.

We're only interested in working with someone who writes clean maintainable code.
As a company, problems are handled pragmatically & professionally, expectations are high but we’re more interested in someone who knows where their knowledge stops and wants to be constantly improving. The work environment in comparison to other startups I’ve been in would best be described as ‘sane’, in that projects are planned, code tested, efforts estimated and reviewed. Our current team is cross-functional and highly experienced in this field. We offer competitive salaries, good working conditions and we are willing to sponsor visas.

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Someone who disagrees with your policy does not make them a douche. This is the beginning of illiberal politics: If you are not with me, I will denigrate your person and declare you an enemy. The left wing of Europe was running at full speed towards Stalin / USSR for most of 2nd half of 20th century. It's easier to name-call than to govern.
Looks interesting, but supports fewer metrics than Zalando's PGObserver[1] which I've used and find to be very useful to monitor your PostgreSQL installation(s).

Also Pome only supports PG9.4, whereas PGObserver supports older versions (I used it on 9.3 and 9.1)

[1] https://zalando.github.io/PGObserver/
Part of the retooling process of the brand that occurred to make it. Leading up to this, Lego was coming out of a slump and trying to identify how to streamline the number of bricks, product offerings, and generate solid revenue streams.

Also, a person on brickset suggested it may be sorting costs from manual labor. [1]

[1] http://brickset.com/article/1705
Python gives you packages for domains as large as "time". You would create a directory (for the uninitiated: with an empty __init__.py file in it) and now that directory is a package. The files within it are modules. There would be a time package with a timezone module within. That module would have the Timezone class.

The language has a feature -- a second level of scope -- that does need to be managed if used. You're right about that and it's a legitimate concern I suppose if it affects your throughput.

I suppose to me it's a win because my Python code has fewer classes than say my php code because I'm able to make use of module scope to provide encapsulation for things that don't need to be a class.
I am old enough to remember when everything what you list was not even considered to be written in C.
sounds great, how can I get the discount?
Most of them suck, some of them rock. I have no problem with being flooded as long as we have ways to quickly assess game quality (game score on steam is a good enough metric to start with). By the way, it is not yet over. The growth of the number of releases has slowed down, but it hasn't gone down yet. There are still over 300 new releases per month.
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A quick glance at the README.md indicates that you can input the hostname, port, etc. of your db at the command line, so it should work with AWS (your hostname would be something like blah.blah.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com).
Just got this email, woo!

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Friends,

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Tomorrow, we'll be opening Rift pre-orders on Oculus.com. This is a major milestone on the path to putting great VR in the hands of millions.

You’re going to experience thrilling adventures in Lucky’s Tale and Edge of Nowhere, feel your heart race as you scale mountains in The Climb, and become a rockstar in Rockband VR. You’ll create and share something magical in Oculus Medium and participate in the ultimate space dogfighting in EVE: Valkyrie. As one of the early supporters of Oculus, you helped make this revolution happen. And before we open Rift pre-orders to the world, we wanted to share one more special update with you, our Kickstarter community.

As a small token of our appreciation for your support, all Kickstarter backers who pledged for a Rift development kit will get a free Kickstarter Edition Oculus Rift! And like all Rift pre-order purchasers, you’ll receive a bundled copy of Lucky’s Tale and EVE: Valkyrie.

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Yes. But I think the problem is they can give misleading insights if you're not careful.
The "long ban"? On XBox/PS/etc?
Trading while insolvent is illegal (in Australia). Though I suppose they can blame their banks.
Honestly this seems like the ideal scenario. Full pay, likely no argument from superiors about the amount of work you'd accomplish, and the ability to take long weekend trips without wasting a day or two of PTO.

I only see a few possible downsides:

- Someone expecting you to be in the office and you're not, particularly if they're not familiar with your schedule.

- For developers the same issues with 60+ work weeks often come up in hours 7-10 of a single working day. Off-campus lunch for a full hour (or more) would probably be important, which pushes your full day to 11+ hours.

- Using 10 hours of PTO when you take a day off, but I guess that's what you get for getting the 4-day weekends :)
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Ask HN: What Are Better Alternative to Amazon S3 for Cloud Data Storage?
Bandwidth cost of S3 is freaking high. So we are searching for some reliable and cheap data storage host. We will be mostly storing PDFs & PPTs which will be accessed via our Web & Mobile app.
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Exactly my argument. I would rather not give the user the option of creating that chart in the first place because 95% of them are misused and give misguiding trends, etc.
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This was written as if it were an intro to Humanities applications of CS to a math/CS academic. Not the other way round... was that intended?

If the target audience for this is someone from the humanities field with little to no experience in programming languages and environments, the ramp in this tutorial is very steep.
Yeah -

Why are consoles banned in China (2010):
http://kotaku.com/5587577/why-are-consoles-banned-in-china

China lifts the ban (2013):
http://kotaku.com/china-lifts-their-console-ban-but-theres-s...
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I'm not sure how much you should count my input, but this was my first time to have seen a double-y axis chart and I'm still not sure if I was reading it correctly.
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I made a PR:
https://github.com/rach/pome/pull/20
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I wasn't denying that, but yes I agree.
I only use one though, so I can't say for sure but judging by their blog posts they offer to choose which monitor Ubersicht runs on, but I believe it can't be displayed on multiple monitors at the same time. That's true about the menubar icon, but it doesn't bother me.
How does that say anything about the labor market market mechanism?
It's going to take a lot more than a new programming language to fix the problems. If there's 10 million dollars worth of data to steal, that's enough to pay an entire team of professionals to work full time for a year or more on stealing the data, with a huge payout.

Being secure against that kind of attack is going to require an entire paradigm shift in how we approach security. New languages, new operating systems, and new assumptions about how much an attacker has compromised, including learning to keep things heavily compartmentalized.
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No, that's not what we're talking about. You gather eggs until there are no more eggs in the coop. That task has an end, and then you are finished. You may begin a similar task again at a later period.

If you were asking about a job where you do it once and it stays done permanently forever, that's silly, and it's not what the guy you replied to was referring to.
Oculus kickstarter backers to get free CV1
I used aseprite to create all the graphics for my latest Android title, great piece of software.
As much as in theory the GLX would benefit me (living in Union Sq/Somerville), I'm also kinda like "shrug, the busses work just fine". The Green Line has always been kinda terrible (too slow, too many stops, too crowded), and memories of living in Allston in 2002-2003 make me never want to take it again.

Instead, I have options of the 91, CT-2, 86, 87 and 85 busses (yes, all of those within a block of my apartment) that take me to the Red/Orange line pretty swiftly. No "signal problems" or systemic track backups. Yea, busses can break down and they are pretty unreliable in other ways, but no worse than the subways here.

Also, the spiking real estate prices around all the "walksheds" near proposed green line stops is really hurting the area and benefiting wealthy landlords. I'd be fine with those landlords needing to chill for a few years.
Somewhere in Idaho there's a five person dev shop who's really, really worried about making the tool for production companies that have to deliver 30 second radio spots in 40 languages.

Sharepoint's bread and butter is in Fortune-500 companies' IT departments that use Microsoft, IBM, and Hewlett Packard software because they are not in the business of risk. Software is a resource, just like the buildings those companies occupy and the people they employ. It helps them meet a business objective. They do not care what developers think makes them most productive. They care what will minimize IT training and support costs and what will be around in ten years. That is why companies that make their livings off of enterprise sales design their software for C-level execs and IT decision-makers, not low-level developers. It's also why most in-house enterprise software is written in Java and not Ruby.

So the point is that, just like for Apple with the 2012 MBP, there is money to be made from those who are risk-averse and see more cost in moving to a new platform than from sticking with what already works. Somewhere there emerged an assumption that no developers understand that there are real P&L driving business decisions underlying the crappy software they are forced to use. I think most people get that, but that the software sucks to use is still an opinion shared by most of the people who use it for hours a day.
> Every full-time job is 40 hours, which is the maximum allowed without having to pay overtime.

Categorically false. I'd wager 90%+ of the (American) readers here are exempt FTEs, meaning they are paid a salary which is based on calendar days/weeks/months/year, not hours worked.
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This is definitely the "rose colored glasses" way of describing their playbook. I think, more accurately it's this:

1) Find a company that hasn't optimized the look of its cash flows and balance sheet to the tastes of pension funds and other institutional investors who manage "dumb" money (a.k.a. mom and pop).

2) Buy said company, and make the superficial changes necessary that will fool the dumb money into paying more than the company is really worth.

3) Sell to the public pension funds, whose managers are well-known for being the dumbest in the business, and whose failures are backstopped by taxpayers who will have to make up for this stupidity (and in some cases, corruption[1]) by paying truly scary amounts of taxes.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Former-Cal...
We all stand on the shoulder of giants. I'm pretty sure when the first languages appeared, some people said things like "It's a pity that one can call himself a "developer" without having the tiniest idea how a transistor actually runs, what a perfored card is..."
> every cash purchase where you use this card

When I pay with cash, I usually don't present a card as well.
I’m mostly trying to understand why this is deemed interesting, and not to snark. I mean, sure, anything voted up is interesting enough, but I thought that this was below the minimum level of knowledge a C programmer ought to have. It’s like if there was a story on the front page of HN about debugging HTTP using “telnet”.
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I'm interested how much time people generally spend for work, let's have a small poll - https://guaana.com/quiz/hn-how-many-hours-you-work-in-a-week
Same here. It was expensive and fraught with issues in making it (including poorly glued ceiling panels when they opened it), but now it seems pretty great. I can get from Somerville to Dorchester or the airport in minutes on 93.
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Indeed. It's a means of weaponising ambiguity into guilt. Everyone knows it's not unlimited, because you can't take 3 months off. But because there's no boundary, the real limit has to be found by stressfully, riskily probing it. Then there's plenty of room for favouritism in who's actually allowed to take the time off.

See "Tyranny of Structurelessness", etc, etc.
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Are you are aware that Google provide you with a method to do this regardless that doesn't rely on random script blocking? Details here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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Superphish showed us that Dell is clearly willing to do something of that nature, but the data the hackers are alleged to possess (shared secrets, support histories, ...) isn't the kind of thing you'd sell. There is no proof, but there the author certainly presents plenty of evidence. Unless you have access to information outside this article, the most likely hypothesis is that their database was compromised.
Is it just me, or is this deal somewhat shady? It just seems like acquiring the startup of one of your board members is one of those things you shouldn't do, for the sake of appearances if nothing else.

When Ralph Yarro was using pumped-up SCOX shares to acquire his side businesses, people were rightly suspicious, and lawsuits followed. Of course SCOX != GOOG in any way, but the activity seems analogous.
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There is a difference. Yes search results can reveal a lot, even just a few hundred likes on Facebook can reveal your entire personality [1]. However this data is not regulated the same as actual personal information like names, address, gov id numbers, credit card data, etc. even though it should be.

The protection of the law does add to the security. Also anonymization of the PII (scrubbing into just a serial number) combined with the dilution of purchases into larger categories provides lots of protection. Your google search history is lot more detailed and granular than most of the purchase data you can buy through data markets. You might be able to figure out a basic "profile" and maybe use lookalike modeling but it would be incredibly difficult to actually distill that to a discrete person.

There's also been a push to buy "insights" rather than just data to get more ROI with less effort/cost so instead of buying purchase histories you would just buy a segment of people interested in buying washing machines for example.

1. https://soundcloud.com/rawdatapodcast/episode-1-uploaded
> "If it is possible to make very long parallel adders, it should be possible to make a high-precision, ultrahigh speed arithmetic processor based on continued logarithms. It would be an extremely parallel device consisting entirely of registers and having no static memory."

Did anything ever come of this idea?
Anyone else have custom dashboard fatigue? I'm pretty tired of seeing custom dashboards written for different pieces of software.

I'd really like to see more effort going in to API's that allow you to pull data from (in this case) PostgreSQL in a meaningful way that are open, extensible and composable. Maybe this is a "big platform" problem, but for me all these once off dashboards just don't scale when you've got so many different parts of your stack.
I think something the article missed is you should probably test your ideas(cheaply if possible) because facts are better than opinions(apparently drunken' ones in the authors case).
Hi everyone!
I've been working on my first Android game in my off time from my day job as a game dev, and I've finally released it. I was inspired by games like Canabalt, but wanted to put my own twist on the genre. The gameplay is simple but challenging (I can't even beat the current highscores on the leaderboard, dangit!).

I have full Google Play Games integration with leaderboards and achievements.

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/sUFYG

I'd love to get some more feedback!
>Modern-day heart disease deaths were higher in states that experienced a rapid rise out of poverty between 1950 and 1980 — even when controlling for the effects of obesity, smoking and education level.

No mention of controlling for a predilection for sweet tea, fried everything, and vegetables being limited to fried okra or green tomatoes. I loved southern cuisine when living in the South, but the cultural effects seem to have a much greater impact than biological. Take as a control anyone who has the biological makeup described and grew up in the South but then moved. It seems like poor study design to me.
Thanks for sharing this! I could wish for some tool use (gdb) screenshots, though really the inspiration to learn is valuable enough.

A next read in this vein might be Bug Hunter's Diary by Tobias Klein: https://www.nostarch.com/bughunter
At a previous company with a "no vacation policy" policy, I found I was more liberal with my odd Friday off to go skiing, and more likely to work remotely one or more days on my actual vacation.

Today, with a normal PTO accrual system, I find myself very aware that a day of vacation costs me $500 in lost paid out PTO. That makes a semi spontaneous Friday on the mountain more expensive than I'm comfortable with. It means that when I'm bored over the year end holidays at my in-laws home I don't do any work even if I feel like it because I don't want to waste my limited PTO.

Honestly, I'd rather ski more and have semi-working vacations. Not all the time, but often.
Wasn't Sweden a lukewarm half assed ally of Germany in World War 2, at least for the first few years?
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