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OK well reality backs up my point of view because every small, medium and large business in the world is running Windows so that they can use all of the business software that was written with VS to run on Windows, IIS and SQL Server.

We're not talking about best of breed for "the cloud" either. SQL Server and IIS are absolutely best of breed for in-house, self-hosted business apps.

And your big complaint about VS 2015 is lacking any kind of substance. Do you measure the quality of all software solely on how much disk space it takes up or is that one you just reserve for Microsoft? I run 6 or 8 instances of VS2015 at a time and my Windows machine stays lightning fast. Meanwhile, I run one instance of Xcode (all I'm allowed on OS X, on my Mac Pro) and it's dog slow.

You didn't name anything you think is better either. Says a lot.
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I don't know who Tesla expects to sell to, but I agree that utilities could be very interested. They benefit from smoother demand more than just about anyone.

In many places, the utilities aren't allowed to charge different rates over time (or if they do, it has to be in the form of a discount/incentive vs. the single-rate price, it can't be punitive) even though power costs more to produce at some times. Smoothing out demand by pushing storage out to the edges of the grid seems like it would be a benefit to them.
Just to clarify for HN-ers who didn't click the link: the linked page was apparently written by some reddit user in /r/programming, then deleted there, and "is preserved here for posterity."

I don't know if that changes anything for you, just thought I'd clarify that.
Here's the thing though: The end user, the one who pays the majority of our bills, doesn't give a shit about your language choice, your code, your DB choice, or any of it. They care if it works, if it's easy to use, and usually if it looks nice and that's about it.

People publish blog posts about how they aren't using MongoDB or aren't using PHP anymore because X and Y and do you know who cares? Pretty much no one aside from the pro PHP people who get mad or the anti-mongo people who point to it as justification for their part in a completely pointless argument.

Yes, low skill and approachable languages attract amateur coders because that's what they're supposed to do. PHP was designed from the get go to be an accessible web server language that anybody could use, that was the POINT so naturally anybody who can will use it.

I've seen brilliant PHP websites and I've seen utterly garbage C code, and both of those reversed too. There is a correlation between use of high level languages and skill but it is far from a fixed relationship, so to parade about someone's use of those to justify their arrogance as a programmer relative to people who are WELL AWARE that they are better than them just makes that person look like a windbag.

/rant
1. According to Wikipedia, North Korea emits 3.0t CO2 per capita as of 2011. US emits 17.0t per capita. One could almost make the claim that economic sanction is working. :/

2. The problem is to change the behavior of billions of people, and many will find it inconvenient (to varying degrees). Of course it's gonna be political. These days I end up regarding anyone proposing "de-politicization" with suspicion, because "getting the politics out of it" is a great way to ensure that whatever solution we can apply is delayed by years.

3. The same for geoengineering. I know some people are sincere, but in many cases it sounds too much like "There must be a unicorn technology that will solve the problem without us paying the price. If it's not there yet, we just have to wish it harder."
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If you seriously think that all it takes is one year to become a competent software engineer/developer, sorry , but you have no clue what it means to develop good software.

Software development is devilishly complex (as in multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary) to do right. It takes years to master it.
Yours is not a technical argument either -- you're just pre-emptively claiming that no counterargument can be valid.
There are a lot of people posting great stuff not about their own private lives, but about public issues to Twitter and Facebook... and Google doesn't find that content. Even old Reddit threads seem to have very spotty Google coverage, and I remember the days when google didn't spider Fark threads at all.
One simple question: Did NASA-GISS alter datasets to create a trend that is the opposite of that shown by the unmodified data?
I love everything about this story: the kids, the systematic training approach (TDD for robots!), the simple strategy, and the open-sourcing at the end as motivation to not rest on their laurels! Really fantastic stuff.
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I'd have to say that that may be your experience, however I have to voice that for the decade I lived there I haven't heard of any crazy harassment stories. Maybe just my luck though.
From Rob Pike quote at the end, after the Ryan Dahl quote:
"... the UNIX/POSIX/Linux systems of today are messier, clumsier and more complex than the systems the original UNIX was designed to replace."

"Messier, clumsier and more complex" are adjectives that could describe almost all of today's software vis a vis software from the 1970's. This is not a criticism of today's software it is just the evolution (or devolution) as it happened, an objective observation.

By and large, programmers do not attempt to make software more clean, more efficient or less complex. Most do not spen all their time cleaning up messy code, fixing bugs, or sacraficing inefficiency at the expense of usability or abundance of "features". And almost none spend time removing code and reducing complexity.

They do the opposite: add features, pursue "ease of use" at the expense of common sense and incessantly generate and commit code believing that any decline in commits or "software updates" signals a project is "dead", not "modern" and probably in need of a "replacement". Again, I'm not critiquing this, I am just stating the facts. This is what they do.

Not sure about Pike, but the reason I think some older software is higher quality than most newer software is not because it was or is high quality in an objective sense. It's because today's software is so low in quality and in too many cases worse than yesterday's. Indeed, it's "messier, clumsier and more complex."

In an objective sense, 1970's UNIX is nothing to celebrate. But compared to the then-alternatives, what came afterwards, and what we use today, it can be held in high regard. It's only good in a relative sense. Everything else was and still is so bad. (Why is anyone's guess.)

Avoiding the hassles Dahl alludes to[1] brings me a certain feeling of satisfaction. My language of choice is Bourne shell. And if I am just working with text, such as reading and writing, I do not use a graphics layer - no X11.

The question is: Does Pike's comment apply to Plan 9?

1. Not to mention avoiding the needless complexity and obscurity of Microsoft Windows.
Tricky question.

At the moment destroying these means destroying people's external memory. The "promise" was to keep them for us, so we needn't have to worry of keeping it ourselves, and so we can "live" more, since there is less to worry about.

Many will only realize years later how bad this is, and will try to re-live an experience which they physically attended to, but not really took apart in it - just to find that all of this is gone.

So at one point, it's a good thing that they are gone: people will learn not to rely on them. From another perspective, it will result it a lot of lost memories.

But hey, we need to learn our lessons somehow.
Unless your code is like 99% of all the code I've seen ,where you only deploy to a handful of locations, and it's really handy to just say '-profile=stage'. Besides, including config in the build does not preclude being able to pass it in as well.
Their home prices aren't impacted by this. Their asset is already rare enough that it is insulated from minor issues like this. I mean, who is going to come out to an area like this and not bother buying because they see a turbine? No one. If only one home was impacted, I could see that home suffering...but there is no choice here. You will either see turbines or you find a house fifty miles away. The homes fifty miles away will have more disadvantages than advantages.

Santa Barbara has some of the most expensive coastal real estate in the US and they have line-of-site of numerous oil platforms. Santa Cruz beachfront homes have tripled in value since I moved to the Bay Area in 1994 even though they have line-of-site to a PGE plant with huge smokestacks. etc etc

Location trumps minor annoyances.
Great example. Nobody's going to use caddyserver in production for a major site for a couple years for that reason. Right now it's widely used on 'hobby' sites. A couple of years of good track record on hobby sites will let it be trusted enough to run on more mission critical sites.

And caddyserver isn't a distributed service, so the level of trust required is much lower.

Distributed services are difficult to get right for a wide variety of reasons, as shown by Aphyr's Jepsen tests.
In academic vernacular, it is and has been for centuries common for a person who is criticizing a given work or statement to be referred to as an opponent. It implies not malice, but an indication that that person is presenting a view or idea that differs from the original idea of the work or statement presented in a way that questions its validity or veracity.

When one is giving a defense of a thesis or dissertation, the professors who hear the defense are referred to as opponents. To suggest that the very professors who one studies and works with throughout ones degree as actually hostile simply because their job is to find flaws in and oppose the points presented is absurd.
Suffer. Why do you think married couples with kids are always so miserable?
The problem is how does the free market test these kinds of things when there is every incentive to cut corners? We're not talking about toasters. How many people have to die before the market reacts? How much research into individual company's testing should a person do in order to buy an epipen?
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But "source" of CO2 is meaningless without the other column, "absorbtion". Obviously nature produces CO2 (e.g. by animals and plants breathing), and CO2 isn't a problem by itself. The problem is the increase of CO2, i.e. the delta between production and absorbtion. That 0.2% of human CO2 surplus turns into 20% increase over a 100 years. That's the problem, not the production/absorbtion/cycling of CO2 itself. And that part, AFAIK, is all human-made!
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The point where your narrative breaks down somewhat is that when you look at pollution per capita, the US is far worse than China. This is even without accounting for the fact that most of the benefits of Chinese pollution, if there are benefits, end up in the USA.

China's population is 4.3 times that of the USA, but they only burn 1.3 times as much coal. In other words, the average American burns nearly 4 times as much coal as the average Chinese person.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Energy/Coal/C...
Cool. If you think you can embed etcd or consul that'd be awesome. Please post again if/when that happens!
Singapore was an Asian Tiger, too - and it did very well. You should have included it in your list.
> Riddle me this, how would a Map be implemented if Null was stripped from Java?

Obviously you would use an Optional<T> (for a Map<K,T>)

See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional...
> that's the whole point of the flying spaghetti monster

and a point illustrating empirical science: If we don't have strong evidence that something holds, by Occam's razor we should not assume that is holds.
There are at least two distinct patterns producing this result.

One is the obvious pattern of sharing new and ephemeral content. John Kerry's campaign site was popular for a time, but disappeared with waning public interest.

The second, more interesting pattern is of content which is lost because it is shared. Think of works like Flappy Bird - taken down to spare its creator excess attention - or copyright-violating works that face legal action when they grow too notable. Seeqpod remains one of the best internet music services I've ever found. I used it for two years, after which it became notable and won enough R&D awards that the record industry sued it into bankruptcy, a victim of its own success.

The simple result here, about disappearing content, is worthwhile. But I would be fascinated to see an investigation of how many shares are received by content which is removed instead of abandoned, to look at what constitutes critical mass for legal and financial headaches.
Also manipulating datetimes for a living (telemetry + billing). The reason I stick with Arrow despite its slowing maintainership? Its ability to round up or down time along a granularity: http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/#arrow.arrow.Arrow.floor
He goes over languages in the first part.

https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread...
I am curious how a framework like this would detect and handle something like a pivot. It does seem like the logical conclusion of the agile-mentalities that have been developing and the iteration logic embodied in Boyd's Law (which is, of course, cited). But I've watched several software projects with a lot of promise iterate themselves into evolutionary dead-ends by paying attention to nothing other than metrics, and rapidly founding themselves oscillating in a local maximum.

Granted, that may just be my bias towards some manner of top-down vision/guidance speaking. It may be that the global maximum I was imagining never actually existed.

I do like the emphasis on single point of truth when it comes to metrics. I think that idea is integral to any software development process that wants to have a bus factor > 1
> we here in the US supposedly pay for it at the free market price

The free market price system does not work in American healthcare because we do not have a free market. Healthcare is one of the most heavily regulated industries and the third-party payment system means that consumers are divorced from the price mechanism.
I completely agree with you. While I think it would be pandering to universalism to say that "anyone who bemoans 'political correctness' is a dolt", I could instead perhaps say: "I have yet to encounter anyone who bemoaned 'political correctness' who were not in fact simply concerned about losing the privilege they have to treat other people poorly without feeling the guilt they should be feeling for treating other people poorly."

As to the research itself, any self-respecting scientific study of gender's influence on anything needs to start with "Step One: in order to obtain a reasonable comparison, we need to dismantle the Patriarchy." It is pointless (and exhausting) to "engage and refute" any research on a point-by-point basis, when that research is so transparently driven by a need to prop up that very construct which deforms the research landscape. I think we can pretty easily categorically dismiss such research as grounded in an incorrect paradigm. (others may disagree, of course, such is the nature of paradigms. I merely hope we outlast them).

So yes: perhaps an ad hominem, but it is a worthy one. This person's opinions are indeed tainted by the (objective) fact that xie is literally a sexist baboon with brains the size of a small, frozen pea.
I know it can, just as Java can. It's not very common, though. Particularly in the up-and-coming companies. I'm not surprised that .NET and Java get lost in the noise created by all the JavaScript/Ruby/Python.
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And the coolest thing about Holland is that they are one of first to do terraforming on a large scale by creating a local environment under the sea level!
The people who make me crazy are the ones who argue that everything will be fine, there's on need to change behavior because we'll fix it in post, I mean, geoengineer our way out of any problems.

I always want to suggest to these people that they should start smoking, because clearly, the future's so bright there will be a cancer cure soon.

And, not to be too crass, but that admittedly snarky reply is about one body. The geoengineering proposals are about intentionally influencing a hugely complex system we still don't fully understand, and that is undergoing changes with implications we don't fully understand. All the talk about ecological engineering seems to assume that the worst that happens is it doesn't work. That sort of naive optimism would be cute if we weren't literally talking about the planet. And if at least some of it weren't duplicitous.

This isn't the reason I chose not to have kids, but it sure does reaffirm that choice. Perhaps the Drake pessimists are correct, and intelligent life can't get off-planet before offing itself.
That's probably the best way to look at artists that don't strike your personal taste.

I don't care to listen to any Beatles songs, but I know the world would be worse off without them due to their enormous influence.
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I'm starting to think of what VCs do as providing a "product" to entrepreneurs.

Is it really qualitatively so different from getting a car loan (with banks competing to offer you the best terms?).

Shouldn't we all be asking, "do I really need a car loan (or an expensive new car)" rather than regarding financing as a goal in itself?

(Granted: it's nice that founders are able to support themselves and their companies by convincing others that what they're doing is valuable.)
I find myself occasionally thinking about the fate of Mr. Albert Alexander who was the fourth patient to be treated with penicillin (who died because of the lack of sufficient quantity).

He was a constable who happened to be scratched in the mouth by a thorn bush and contacted strep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Alexander
Graphics (speaking of modern 3D graphics) on Linux sucks, because NVidia and Co do not really care about it. It has gotten better (e.g. the deep learning crowd is mostly on Linux using cuda), but is still a far-cry from the stability of other sub-systems.

So I would say it is mostly gaming. There are not many games on Linux (again, getting better, but it takes time), so gfx vendors do not allocate big resources to support it, so the developer-experience is suboptimal, the classic chicken-egg problem.
I wouldn't say it's diverse, it's like the Midwest where's there's only black or white, in Phoenix it's just Hispanic or white ethnicities. I think LA and SF are much, much more diverse.
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Have to agree (I'm in the UK too); horrible word.

Could be worse - at least we weren't told that the person cancellized the accommodation they'd previously reservized on AirBnB.
I had a manager once that had the lazy version of such a plan. It was "don't make any process improvements that your replacement will not be able to understand"
It seems a worsening move for free users. Until now basic Power Ups like calendar and Aging Cards were free, now just one can be used

And $120/years just for having more than one Power Up is a steep expense
Wha? Just GPG your email.
This is not true at all. This is a false, hysterical fear, I assure you Arizona is safe for everyone
"Energy storage solves that problem"

Yes, but we don't have that solution.
I'm surprised you haven't been called a "denier" yet.

Edit: my comment was originally made tongue-in-cheek, but it's clear that some acolytes are highly offended. I'll take it as vindication.
I only noticed after they had left the country. I did go to the Guards (Irish police), but they confirmed what I thought that because they were now out of the country then there wasn't a lot that could be done.

We also reported them to Couchsurfing who seemed completely disinterested.
Having some fun imagining what films would be available.

Godzilla, because he's the people's monster for destroying Tokyo.

The Sound of Music, where a family escapes an oppressive regime - probably not.
I'd be interested to see a comparison on the amount of advertising done per capita in Holland vs. the United States.

Once I stopped watching television, I was no longer exposed to such incessant advertising.

As a result, I stopped caring so much about impractical consumption. I.e. buying the new car they show every 10 minutes in such persuasive and skillfully crafted multi-million dollar targeted advertisements.
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The later stage your startup becomes, the more conversations you end up having with your board members. It's no longer once a quarter, but often once a week or sometimes daily. While their word should not be treated as gospel, I've found that our VC board members have become extremely well versed in our business and industry.
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> Still more effort and more rare than a screwdriver and a knife/wireclippers. Not that modern cars can be easily hotwired - but the "good 'ol days" definitely had a lower bar for theft...

Hot-wiring required physical accesss and breaking one car at a time, here one bug can effect all cars. Fat-tails?
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1) I was thinking of GV's investment in Uber as an example. (Not a PE firm). But the point still stands, the Austin kid isn't going to swing $1-5m. Even if they were brilliant.

2)You missed the point about the training. The point isn't that they are trained. The point is that we know that they are trained. There might be dozens of people better than the traditional VCs at identifying the right opportunity but who are they and how do we find them?

The last half of your response makes me think I may have missed the original point. I thought the original point was that the VC skill set is being democratized because data is more freely available. My two points were meant to be reasons why that may not be the case.

This point about being in the middle between very large and small players might be right. I have to think on it, but it was not what I thought I was commenting on.
Hrrm, maybe. I personally wouldn't consider it spamming as it's literally a startup in the area of noodle soup, which was the subject. Thanks for the tip though!
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Sometimes I wonder if a higher learning curve isn't a feature. If it takes some amount of core-competence to simply hello world in a given language, then a code-base that uses that language automatically signals higher general aptitude of the programmer.

Could a language be "better" simply by being harder to learn?
There are some impressive libraries in the Node ecosystem. As an example, passportjs gives you support for a lot of weirdly custom OAuth implementations, Kerberos, etc
Cheaper and easier to just pass marine development laws that categorically invalidate their claims. If people want to move, let them. No one will.

edit: for some reason I cannot respond to the child of this comment, but I recommend reading this if you think Bay Area NIMBYism is omnipotent:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-brown-housing-pla...

State and Federal governments override local concerns all the time.
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The section named ATimeSeriesDB talks about an approach to build a persistence layer for time series data. I agree, not a great submission, though.
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