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The fact that you compare SQL to C tells me that we clearly have a different understanding of programming languages, yes.
There are people that say "i code HTML". Yes, call it coding and programming if you like. I won't. Clearly SQL is powerful and great but you don't write software in it, which is my point of differentiation.

Yes yes, and there are probably a lot of programs writen in Ada and Fortran that have millions of lines of code and are reliable.
But, you can argue with me or not, it still is a niche.

C appeared in 1972.

Lisp (as one of the oldest i can think of) appeared in 1958.

Can we agree to say that there are far more programs written in C then in Lisp?
I don't argue which language is "the best" (because clearly, it's more subjective then objective to state on that).
But somehow, there is probably a reason, that C, as a newer language than Lisp, has by far more "followers" then Lisp.
If Lisp (as the grandfather of functional programming, but you can replace lisp with haskell, erlang or whatever you like) is so easy, creates better, more reliable code, etc. etc. Why did C take off and Lisp didn't?
In fact why do younger languages like Ruby have the bigger growth? Clearly people look for new languages, the people that nowadays learn ruby or c#. Why don't they learn Haskell?

For example:
Look at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
The really brand new language Go made it to #13. Lisp/Scheme after decades is #18. It's becoming more popular it seems, but i bet it won't be in the top10 for the next years.

Now, my simple and plain question is: Why is it like it is?

I actually don't want to argue what the best language is, there is no sense in that. And i can't code functional. See me as an observer from the outside. I'd like to learn erlang some time, for sure.
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Wow, this fits perfectly into a project I am currently working on. I love how I think of problems and miraculously the solution appear on Hacker News. Not the first time this has happened.
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I think the point being made is that it has an API similar to the Django ORM, not that it is an ORM.
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I and i think most people would disagree with you because above does not "feel like" Ruby.
Google already runs realtime crash reporting system, it’s called Gmail
Surface uses giant infrared cameras and a projector for display (the medium has to be permeable to IR, so traditional screens don't work). You couldn't put that technology on a WinMo device. Their mobile division is basically dead in the water and I don't foresee any rescue.
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Wave versus gmail and docs. Chrome OS versus Android.
I'd also accept a directional EMP gun

Well there you go, the technology you want! Should be relatively simple to build. They're not available off the shelf, for blindingly obvious reasons.
Just a data point, but I am in this position, for the reason listed in the blog post.

When I say in this position, I mean that I would like to switch but won't in the next future (too costly).
>Linux is much nicer to program for

In my experience, this is largely a myth promoted by Linux hackers.

> and wouldn't take too long to convert the majority of programmers over to it

This on the other hand... is just wishful thinking.
> d) Find places to find great work (I mostly look on Craigslist right now)

This is probably your problem. I had a lot more success finding bigger companies with more money to spend. Or entrepreneurial types who work in the "real world" and were willing to spend hard cash on a web presence too.

A lot of my consultancy work comes through my consultancy partner; it's all Jewish clientele (and they are usually big spenders). We got gigs that, really, and less than 3 month old consultancy shouldn't have got - all because my partner is Jewish.

So you need an "in" to a niche market of clientele.
6) EMP. Seriously. They make them, you can build them, they work. And they can cause some serious damage, so be ready to get slapped with vandalism charges. Here's another solution: call the police on that guy (for a terrible taste in music, oh God, introduce him to some real hip-hop!).
Accelerated learning?

Search for Vera Birkenbihl.
She has an audio course which is really amazing. I improved my memory and creativity and helped my kid memorizing foreign language words in school. He really enjoys the playful way we do it and aces at school.
Great job, guys :)
Having some knowledge of the internals would help you.
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Mike used to be a lawyer, so that shouldn't be a surprise
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Am I the only person reading about this wondering what's going on? I thought a major part of being a tech writer was getting free stuff, particularly laptops, cameras, and such?

I mean, come on - "TechCrunch" isn't exactly the New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal.

If someone had written "So and So intern got a laptop for writing an article at TechCrunch", I would have said "Awesome. Good on him. Hopefully he scores some more nifty electronics...."

I've never, ever, lived under the illusion that TC is some bastion of journalistic integrity... And I say this as an Avid and enthusiastic reader.
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Same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079016

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070033
Does this gratify anyone's intellectual curiosity or is it more worthy of a tech tabloid? This feels like one of those trashy "reality tv shows," I expect more from the front page of hacker news.
You've got it backwards. Standardisation happens after first implementation, not before. The article author can deliver this functionality into a popular-enough client without waiting for anyone else.

If the benefits turn out to be worth it, maybe it'll go somewhere.
Unless they're from London, in which case you asking for a pony could be interpreted as asking for £25... you're selling yourself short.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_slang
What the hell... is he running his webserver off his ipod touch?
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I've read that on Twitter, and was given this link as an example. The usability of iTunes is so bad that I was unable to create another link for another app, even though I think I have seen a "create link" button at one time.

Also I have been unable to browse the app store with the browser. But if at least one can link to individual apps on the web, it is a start.
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Too right. Production root passwords had a planetary theme - where planetary means one of the giants in our solar system - not hard for a nosey and curious kid to take a peek at any system they wanted.
Give him a break; he was mature enough to apologize in public to TechCrunch and the tech community and should be forgiven. The kid seems to understand that his actions were wrong and promises to learn from this experience. I'd like to see the start-up who sent him the gift make the same public apology.
Essentially, it breaks down to if the non-journalistic party offers it to the journalist as part of the "review process" and it is disclosed it is ethical, if the journalist demands a random "gift" in exchange for running their story it is unethical. Speculation leans towards the latter being the case.
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Apachebench ships with Apache and can be used for simple testing.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

For more realistic mutli-page tests Selenium works well - spin up a few EC2 or similar machines, run Selenium Grid and you can get a decent idea of how your site will cope.

For a simple Wordpress blog Apachebench should suffice though.
Who says he was offered a bribe? Perhaps he demanded it?
It's not so much about having geniuses coding in it, it that when you do use it, you use it to make conceptually elegant code. When I work in C++, I simply do not use templates, because I find the make the code impossible to grok - the complexity can overwhelm you (let alone a new developer unfamiliar with a given C++ code base).

Treat C++ like Ruby, and try to use it to make beautiful, and elegant code. That's where it shine, IMHO.
>> 6.

That is a security mechanism. If I can inject a message with a hash that collides with something else in your queue, I can at least prevent you from seeing the original, or potentially spoof a message from someone else.

I know it depends on knowing hashes of other messages in the mailbox, but if the hashes are supposed to persist, that might not be a problem.
Heh. I've thought it would be awesome to just bust out some Biggie .. if only I had a directional speaker that would just drown him out .. hrm .. maybe those sound weapons would do it?

As for calling the police? If they wouldn't do anything when I gave them tapes of my neighbor selling heroin out her window at my old apartment, they're probably going to say "shut the fuck up and stop calling us, you entitled upper middle class white nerd" .. in fact .. I think they said that the last time I called.

Fail.
Both parties are still in the wrong since the start-up shouldn't have accepted any of his demands.
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Yeah, it made for a pretty lame non-apology. He needs to own up to his mistake and admit that he crossed the line, not that "a line was crossed".
The real fun part is when you're so over-flowing that you're hiring full-time engineers and you've turned into a consulting company. That's what happened with my last company.. I don't recommend it though, consulting isn't very scaleable, and there are no big exits.
As far as I'm concerned, the argument for JSON over XML is that the parser should be much lighter. No bloody entities to worry about, for a start.
One mans definition of cool isn't always another's :)
And of course they should be invisible in the source after the first go.
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Well, just maybe because when they are under 18 they are deemed a "child" and the thing about "children" is they don't always act in their long term best interests. They may have been raised badly. They may have done badly at primary school and been left behind by the education system. Yes, some people are feckless scroungers. But punishing them for that is leaving things too late. We need, as a society, to find ways to help people become productive members of our society, wherever they start from.
This all goes back to people skills. I've got a friend in the sex industry .. yes that means what you think it means. Every once and a while we talk shop .. I think I respect myself more, but she made about $175k in cash last year, a lot of it while "working" in other cities .. so she got to travel.

That being said, she has more social skills then almost every sysadmin I know. Same thing with the bartender. A bunch of my friends are bartenders, and I'd much rather hang out with them than with most of my colleagues .. Of course the bartenders are far more dramatic, and most of them are either alcoholics or recovering alcoholics.

There are trade-offs.
Morelike the palm was crossed, amiright?
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http://www.syncfu.com

SyncFu is a tiny js extension for websites, allowing group purchasing through reservations. Reservations are paid (micropayments) via cell/cc, ensuring some reliability for sellers.

The concept is very simple, demand forecasting. Discount codes are generated for each reservation and item, so after the item meets a deadline, that can be reused within a shopping cart for instance.

To a seller, this means volume sales, while for customers - lower prices.

Its a versatile tool, but most likely used in promotions, organizations, pre-ordering etc.

It works over http/https, hosted on heroku. If you wish to test https:

https://syncfu.heroku.com
I think the technology for augmented reality dating is almost ready, or might be ready now. Face recognition seems to have become really good lately.

The only real problem is getting all the profile pics out of facebook.
C programmers often use the free GCC (GNU compiler collection) to compile their programs. clang is a new open source C compiler that may be better for some people because it has a different licence, will be faster in certain circumstances and may give better error messages. The significant milestone the clang project has reached is the ability to sucessfully compile a very large quantity of C code.

(Edit: C++ as well as C)
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I'd love to have most of the things you mention, and some are on their way such self driving cars but there is lots of interesting work out there
How about
- pranav mistry's sixth sense project
- bio printers creating organs with ink jets
- combinatorial genomics
- google street view (still blows me away to check out a friend's new place in NZ from my couch in Canada)
- photosynth
- Self replicating 3d printers
- open source UAVs/autonomous helicopters

and that's just off the top of my head. I remember being prett impressed by the last 'what are you working on' thread as well.
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Nonsense. Perhaps the codebase is more stable. But why would a friend of mine still run windovs 98? He has no compulsion to change. You have to think end user.
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In my opinion most in the US are far too concerned about running public infrastructure plans at a profit. The example that comes to my mind most readily is mass transit.

Living in Taiwan, I've seen absolutely amazing changes over a relatively short amount of time. In 1997, Taipei city was hellish. literally millions of people drove their scooters to and from work every day, traffic was terrible, commutes were slow and air was so bad that it was common to see people walking on the sidewalk wearing facemasks.

Now, there's a fairly extensive subway system that links to both a traditional rail system and a high-speed rail (top speed 300km/h) that goes to every major city on the island. In Taipei, commute times from one side of the city to the other dropped from 3 hours to less than one. People don't wear masks to walk on the sidewalks anymore, either. The system has been a major improvement economically, environmentally and in terms of quality of life. In fact, I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that subway system saved the city.

However, it was an investment. Nobody expected fares to pay the costs of constructing the subway directly. The government spent the equivalent of over 30 billion US dollars on it and while it was undoubtedly a good investment, it was one that only the public sector would undertake.
Geez it's midnight on the west coast. Let him at least get some sleep before he writes his apology.
Microsoft is ahead of Sony in the console race right now, but I think that Sony will end up leading the current generation. The Wii novelty will fade, and the PS3 will ultimately dominate thanks to a deeper line up of exclusive titles. I have always felt that exclusives were the Xbox's Achilles' heel - even going back to the original Xbox. Most of the best XBox games are not exclusives. For example Gamespot's best 360 game award went to Assassin's Creed 2 this year, and to GTA 4 in 2008. Both games were also released on the PS3. In contrast, the best PS3 games of 2008 and 2009 were MGS4 and Demon's Souls, respectively. I was really hoping that the Rare acquisition would pay off this generation but it doesn't look like it will anytime soon, if ever. I own a 360, but I am planning to buy a PS3 by the time God of War 3 ships, as I feel that it will be home to a lot of fantastic gaming experiences that will not be available anywhere else.

To make an analogy with movies, there will be no shortage of 'Spiderman' or 'Batman Begins' on the 360, but only the PS3 will have 'Return of the King'.
I think I like the Unobtrusive JavaScript helpers the most out of the new features. This will really help cleanup our pages and make it easy to switch libraries. Also everything has just generally been fixed/rewritten, kind of like Snow Leopard. Another exciting addition is arel, because out of anything in Rails, I think the associations needed the most work.
So, I only took a quick look at the two links. No offense, but do you really think those are what the OP is talking about? He's asking for flying cars and full VR immersion... its unlikely that very efficient database is going to match up.

This is not to say that what you folks are doing isn't completely awesome. But the OP's requests seem very different.
There have been a lot of research into this, and the hypothesis is that genesis was assembled from (at least) four different sources or oral traditions. The two creation stories are clearly from two different traditions, one calls the creator-god "Yahweh" (somewhat misleading translated to "The Lord" in English), the other uses the name "Elohim" (translated to "God" in English). The differences hints to different cultures: "Elohim" separates the waters and creates the dry land, "Yahweh" creates a spring in the desert. This could indicate that the one tradition originates from shore-dwelling people (water is the primary element, land is the exception), the other is from desert nomads (the dry land is primary, water is created by God).

Note that the primary difference between the two psalms when seen in the diff view, is that one uses "God" one uses "The Lord". Hence they are probably the same original song filtered through two different traditions. When the Bible were assembled, the editors took pains to include all traditions, even when the content was overlapping.
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I think the point is that they're all training for years and doing so with insane dedication. In that situation it is largely a question of genetics.

There are plenty of swimmers who put in 15 years of intense effort under world-class coaches, but still couldn't even come close to beating a less experienced guy with a 6'7" wingspan, size 14 feet, huge hands, short legs, and muscles that produce 50% less lactic acid than the normal human.

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They still make the CPUs for the XBox 360, PS3, and Wii, and they do a fair amount of collaboration with AMD, so they're still making an impressive number of CPUs.
Care to explain?

From what I remember, Java and then Flash were used extensively for games (ever since Netscape incorporated Java applets), and XmlHttpRequest originated in ActiveX, which was and is still is used extensively for corporate-intranet apps. The kindergarten my wife works for uses web-cams with an ActiveX app that's transmitting live images to parents (in 2010).

And streaming audio/video really happened with Flash, although it was possible with Java applets and ActiveX.

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Note the point about long tail in what you commented on... Google for it.
For laundry, why not automate at least a part of it? I'm sure you can build a device above your laundry machine where you can toss your clothes. Once it gets above a certain weight, it can dump your clothes into the machine and trigger something else to add detergent and maybe something to push some buttons to start the thing.

About getting it in the dryer and folding it... I'm not sure, but surely you can come up with something to do part of the work for you.

I think the immersive VR bit is being worked on, but its slow going. I see Avatar as a step in the right direction. One necessary condition for this will be to get proper 3D. Once we can speed up that process, we'll be almost there.

Other stuff... I dunno.
Dinosaurs and Google. 'nuff said.
One year shy of being an adult? I've met 18 year olds and they are not adults.

Give him a break. And a second chance. Only call him a serial offender if he actually is one. Do you really believe that he should be punished for life ("no one will do business with him again")? What a fucked up attitude is that?
In defense of Linux, the vendor linuxes on those netbooks were generally a terribly broken custom user interface on top of a broken and badly hacked up distribution.

They could have done much better by asking Canonical or Novell to write the last drivers they needed and using Ubuntu or SuSe.
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They say that radio in the workplace increases productivity and moral. I totally agree with them. More, that should be inevitable...
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Thanks, I didn't know about fetch/build in Macports.

> except that a million build scripts and make files out there assume /usr/local/ as a default location. setting up something like '/home/shared/' is not a problem, just don't mess with paths that are defaults

Yet Macports puts everything in /opt/local and that doesn't cause any significant problems. I haven't run across a free software project in years that didn't have support for an install prefix.

Anyway, I should have been more specific: on a Mac, making /usr/local user-writable and using it with a package manager is no different than creating a 2nd home directory for that purpose, from a security standpoint. I agree that putting things in /usr/local is the most logical place to put compiled software (mainly for consistency with one's own scripts that run on multiple platforms), and that's one of the reasons I use /usr/local with Homebrew instead of something in my home directory.
Who's never screwed up and lost sight of the long-term for a quick kick?

Perspective wasn't built in a day.
Plus not telling the TechCrunch management and giving the gift to them, plus disclosing it in the post.
I wonder why no-one seems upset that Android, which is written in Java, doesn't let you use Java applets?