skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I might find this position more attractive in a number of ways" - Talk to your boss about this, tell him why you would like to continue working for him and see if there is something he/she can do.

If it doesn't work, walk out, making sure you honour your notice period and have a face-to-face chat rather than sending an email.
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If there was no way to measure, there would also be no space.
This sounds very much like the medieval trivium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium_(education)
And what implications would that have for programming languages?

Probably not that many, as programming languages abstract data manipulation and this new technology only requires/allows different ways to implement data representation and manipulation.

Now these differences in representation and manipulation are large, as you don't need to 'get' and 'store' data from the memory to the CPU anymore, as the memory is the CPU. Calculations could basically be implemented as moving data from one part of the memory to another.
Of course it would be best if the settings were so simple that no education were necessary.

But my claim is (a) for a site like Facebook to work "well" [where we can argue ad infinitum what "well" means], some information needs to be shared in the system, and some needs to be private. (b) this is often different for different groups of people. You now have to implement a privacy system that works for every piece of content, for every set of users that I want to define a setting for. I think you'll quickly come to something fairly complicated. There are very smart people trying to come up with abstractions and interfaces that make this easy to do, but I fear that at the end of the day, users are simply going to have to learn some new tricks if they don't want to be surprised. And that means, we have to figure out how to explain this complex system to them.
pyramid schemes don't create true value
My business model consists of convincing users that their giraffes are private and then, once I've got half a million, shamelessly changing my privacy policy to help advertisers.
Basing on case studies I would learn and use QGMLWY, but this layout is downloadable as a pkl layout, and pkl is only for windows. If I switch to QGMLWY and I'm in another computer, it is problematic to download and install not only a layout, but a software, and if I'm on linux I can't even use it.

Dvorak is the most versatile on this regard, but given the case studies, Colemak is superior to Dvorak (I agree, that is debatable) , and easier to switch to as it shares some keys with QWERTY, so the shortcuts would be no problem (it has Z, X, C, V in the same place as in QWERTY).

Moreover, Colemak has layouts for Windows, Linux and Mac.

I think I'll give Colemak a try!!

Thank you very much for your answers!
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> "Putting the company downtown will effectively force everyone to go through the I-90 or 520 bridge"

Which has plenty of capacity for transit, especially the mass, rapid sort that cities on the east side are so busy trying to prevent from being built. Yeah, screw efficiency and the environment, as long as the smelly poor people can't get to our neighborhood!

It's clearly a much better solution to have everyone trying to cram down a freeway, a single occupant to each 1-ton vehicle.

Side note: it's a bit disheartening that 2 passengers qualify for the car pool lane around here.

You see a nice house, I see rows of identical houses with equally identical people in it. I see stagnation and loss of perspective, as everything the least bit unseemly and incongruous with your hard-earned socioeconomic status is blissfully hidden.

You see a cramped apartment, I see living in a neighborhood with history and soul, with something more than more rows of cookie cutter houses. Where people living in highly developed places don't pretend to be living on a "ranch", "glade", or "estate". Where there is so much life teeming around you that walking home is a treat, not a chore.

Putting it that way, no wonder the same money buys a big house in the burbs... I mean, there's gotta be something to justify all that you lose by leaving the city.

It's all perspective I am merely telling you that not as many tech workers enjoy the suburban thing as you seem to think. This goes far beyond hard-partying young types. I've met many a middle-aged or even elderly folk who like livin in the city for the same reasons.

Hell, I know some people with children that greatly prefer living in the city.
AWP whore.
I would like to do this but without consuming all of the power an old pc uses/wastes. Any recommendations on in-expensive, low-powered, small footprint pc-like devices?
I work with systems with hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

We try to check everything, and we have decent unit test coverage, but there are bound to be places we don't hit instantly - and running the tests takes longer than compiling does.
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"The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up. This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
FUCK. THAT. SHIT."
xkcd
I don't see the new page. Is it US-only for now?
If you're refactoring a lot then your method leaves you with huge amounts of extra code, which makes maintainability much harder, because you've got multiple levels of indirection.
Apple never managed to get agreement from the newspapers to create an iBooks for newspapers (or at least in time for launch).

Who knows, it might still arrive.
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While I understand his point about multiple files, large sites like Reddit have a very good reason to concatenate all their javascript and css into single files: it drastically reduces the number of HTML requests needed to render a page.
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I started reading that book many years ago, but quit when he admitted that pessimists' views were more accurate. If people need to hide from reality to accomplish something, people are incredibly screwed up.
Theodore Roosevelt's The Man in the Arena:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Arena
One solution i can think of is,

You Create your own data and keep it stored on your device(can be anything, laptop,desktop,mobile etc). When you visit some host, it knows where to find your data(we assign a common known to all social port to our host), but needs your permission to download the data.So now when a relation of yours visits the same host we visited, It can tell our relation that what we have done on the host, only after we both use a common key.
I have to take issue with two points:

"relatively few gamers are pirates" : sadly, I don't believe that. I work in the games industry and I am surrounded by people who pirate. They also buy a lot of expensive games too, but they continue to pirate games and movies.

"Blizzard is one of the most successful game developers because create games that are designed from the beginning to work well with the mouse and keyboard" : Blizzard are successful because they created the first main-stream, polished MMO. MMOs are the future of games exactly because the server component cannot be pirated.
The article says that Google doesn't disclose which part of revenues comes from AdWords and which from AdSense. But what about this slide from their quarterly earnings report http://i.imgur.com/v0ijp.png I always assumed that "google.com" refers to AdWords and "network" refers to AdSense.
It's worse than that, I use the advanced options from the CLI.

Rarely click on the "advanced search" link, the left column in the new design is a waste of space to me.

Ugh, I've become a Google search snob!
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Yes, it was for the pdf. Clutter the web with SE spam, and the make you log in to get the real document. Gee, thanks.
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It applies to me, and I'm in Canada.
What happened to programming-books.com?
A couple years ago I found a great site called something like 'programming-books.com' (but not exactly that).

It let users submit links to their favorite books for various programming languages, and write a short blurb about why they're so good. You could include their Amazon page and the website would grab a cover picture.

I've since lost that bookmark and am trying to find it again, anyone know what site I'm talking about? Is it still around?
"can't"?

There are private server instances for World of Warcraft, actually.
I wonder if any of my postings about Facebook alternatives here was inspiration for this project? (Which I would love if this were the case.)
they care about regaining market share

MS is a big beast, and "market share" means different things to different parts of MS. The developer tools division, which makes, among other things, ASP.NET server-side environment for serving web pages, cares increasingly about working on any browser. And this is a good thing.

If you want to know what the IE9 team thinks about HTML 5 and cross-browser issues, try some of these:

HTML5: Cross-Browser Best Practices http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL27
HTML5: High-Performance Best Practices for Web Sites http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL29
In-Depth Look at Internet Explorer 9 http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL28
Clearly they cherry picked the tests

What's the point in creating new test to cover things that existing tests already cover?
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I humbly disagree. Markets are not 100% efficient in aggregating information. The list of examples is endless. Remember 3com and Palm?
I don't really like though how we justify piracy by saying people wouldn't have brought it anyway. Isn't that how our economy works? You either have the money for something and you buy it or you don't have to money so you don't get it.

If someone exchanges 3 hours of pay for a game how is it fair for them that the guy sitting at home doing nothing gets it for nothing and it goes down to he wouldn't have been able to afford it anyway.
Looks cool, but that menu would get very annoying after the first 5 seconds.
What's so hard to leave about Dropbox? I don't even have to copy my data off. I already have multiple copies.
Sure Ancient Hindu and Buddhist mystics had said this about time using the language of religion

Bear in mind that in the ancient world, there wasn't necessarily a sharp distinction between "philosophy" and "religion". There is evidence that the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the "Brahmanas" (Hindus) and "śramanas" (Buddhists) to be simply different schools of philosophers.

From wikipedia:

In the 2nd century CE, the Christian dogmatist, Clement of Alexandria recognized Bactrian Buddhists (śramanas) and Indian gymnosophists for their influence on Greek thought:

"Thus philosophy, a thing of the highest utility, flourished in antiquity among the barbarians, shedding its light over the nations. And afterwards it came to Greece. First in its ranks were the prophets of the Egyptians; and the Chaldeans among the Assyrians; and the Druids among the Gauls; and the śramanas among the Bactrians ("Σαρμαναίοι Βάκτρων"); and the philosophers of the Celts; and the Magi of the Persians, who foretold the Saviour's birth, and came into the land of Judea guided by a star. The Indian gymnosophists are also in the number, and the other barbarian philosophers. And of these there are two classes, some of them called śramanas ("Σαρμάναι"), and others Brahmins ("Βραφμαναι")." Clement of Alexandria "The Stromata, or Miscellanies" Book I, Chapter XV

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Hellenistic...)

Before then few Westerners would have even heard of Buddhism.

To the contrary, see also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Expansion_o...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism#Greco-Buddh...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greeks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_the_Roman_world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_trade_with_India
Yes yes yes. Either you believe that asymmetric tactics like terrorism are legitimate, or you believe that anyone who has the biggest guns should be boss forever 'n ever. And I say that as someone who lives in Moscow, which has faced terrorism very recently.
That's a neat story :) Did one interior renovation myself with tight budget/schedule before we could move in. My wife still wonders how we survived that. I nowadays take very seriously the advice my in-laws gave me: "Concentrate on doing what you do best. Hire the pros for other serious work."

PS Just wait, your computer skills will get you appreciation from the younger generations.
Your coworkers should not and probably will not feel negatively about you looking out for yourself. Speaking from experience from both sides of the aisle. Just how personal relationships work.

The company has invested in you, but you have been investing in the company as well. You won't get the time you spent there back to work on something else.

If you are going to grow or be more challenged more somewhere else, then the future impact will be positive anyway, for you and others. Just be you aren't drinking the new company kool-aid before making a decision.
So i think the conclusion to the story is that if you want to be acquired by Google:

Develop a scalable, location-aware Android friendly business that has advertising and mobile payments built in.
Well, we'd still need "programmer groupies". If they existed, I imagine economic growth would soar in the Western world.

(Though I don't really get marcus's point/joke, probably because I haven't watched the video.)
One short stay shouldn't have any negative impact in future. Most people understand sometimes things don't work out or you get an offer you can't refuse (in a good way). If you had, say, three short stays in a row, future employers might get nervous.

I would go where you think you'll be happiest where 'happiness' is a linear equation comprising money, interesting work, nice colleagues and whatever else matters to you.

A word of caution: make sure nobody at your current company finds out you're talking to the new company until you have an offer on the table.

Good luck.
Apart from the pyramid owner :)
But you don't "pirate" the experience of playing with every other person who has purchased the game, being able to run into your real friends in a virtual world by sheer coincidence of numbers. Running your own WoW server is like running your own instance of Facebook—the network effects just aren't there.
For a lot of reasons:

Making a difference. Facebook has about 1000 engineers/product people, Google has about 10000.

Interesting, popular product. Over 400 million people using, it's exciting, once-in-a-lifetime type of product despite the issues revolving around privacy etc.

Money If you have opportunity to get any stock options inside Facebook, you have possibility to get quite amount of money after IPO.

I assume that you have smart coworkers in both places. Google has more middle management and thus company politics, but it's still relatively flat for an organization of its size.
In my space, the major 'soul suck' for most people is phone support and sales.

I've often wondered if it would be possible to offer people a chance to outsource phone support in the small business or startup space?
Agreed - we've moved all of our DEV queue into PivotalTracker after benefiting from it's ridiculously simple UI and workflow.
This seems to let you host media on your computer, and to work around the need to have a fix IP address or a dyndns account.

It doesn't seem to know about graphs of friends, which is the central principle of FB. FB is not about videos, YouTube is; FB is about getting the videos you like to spread across your friendship network.

However, it looks like a nice application, even if it's only remotely related to Diaspora or Facebook.
Here's some more great examples of effective UI design:
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http://survs.com
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To your first point: Can you link to anything that would back this up besides anecdotes? I'm unconvinced that "I am surrounded by pirates" is more authoritative than the NPD's report.

To your second point: As devinj pointed out, there are a number of private servers that enable playing MMOs without connecting to the servers, albeit with a scale of a few hundred players. A few of them even tweak experience or drop settings for a "more entertaining" experience. In addition, Blizzard was well-known, successful, and loved before World of Warcraft so I'm inclined to lean more towards the notion that there success is because of quality design rather than MMO/DRM implementation.
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The comments on this article are like YouTube comments of programming.
I read through this, and all I heard in my head was "Click Here to receive 10% off your next purchase" and then the repeated sound of old-school cash registers. I think the hardest part would be coming up with an adequate monetization strategy for the purchasing sites. It may be a long-shot, but you may be able to do something like, user submits a referral. Referral receives a potential discount, original user can now redeem the discount promised. Your company receives x% of the purchase by the user using the discount. The existence of your service basically garnered 2 extra sales for the site, but I think it would be difficult to charge based on just the usage of the service. I think it would be an easier sell if you only charged if the referral resulted in a purchase. That way it costs the company nothing to try and get the free sales. The problem is, the take rate may be completely out of balance for the loads. Either way, done right it sounds like it could benefit the seller, the buyer, the referral and you, which is usually a pretty good sign of something worth trying.
OpenWRT runs on loads of "obsolete" hardware, MIPS being highly popular. Recover any of the below (second hand, online market, forums) and you got yourself an efficient home server, preferably with USB for storage. Gives you VPN, dropbox without handing data to third parties, a real homepage, 24/7 torrent etc. for literally less than a dozen W. Brings back its price in electricity bill within a year, besides being a good 'toy'.

http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware.html
And there's also a reason why suburban living is considered a luxury. For the past thousand years, people have chosen to live in the city

You see a nice house, I see rows of identical houses with equally identical people in it.

I see faceless skyscrapers, I see people packed like sardines where a 2 bedroom condo costs $1 million. The uniformity of city condos far surpasses that of the suburbs. Instead of nice green shrubbery and pine trees I see cracked concrete stained with oil and skoal spit out yesterday. Broken glass bottles on the sidewalk, some foul liquid oozes down into the sewer grate with a noxious odor. Crumpled cigarette butts line are nearly as numerous as the number of people walking over them.

The streets are lined with pan-handlers and people that are too busy to give you the time of day. A walk through the city will show you soulless corporate buildings taking up so much space. Or the occasional century old abandoned building with broken windows and carelessly pulled drapes that barely attempt to hide the empty interior. And countless rows of residential skyscrapers that peer out with 1000's of identical windows.

When going to sleep, you are annoyed by the number of sirens going off at 3 AM in the morning or the idiots who are shouting outside about how drunk they are. And then you wonder why most of the people who have a choice, don't choose the city.
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The article isn't about morality, it's about economics.

The article didn't justify piracy in a moral sense by talking about people who wouldn't have bought it. He was trying to build an argument by saying most pirates wouldn't buy the games in any case, so that describing pirates as potential customers is erroneous, and therefore high piracy rates are not necessarily the cause of poor performance in the market.

The example of the iPhone was particularly good, I thought. From the numbers, it seems self-evident that app piracy isn't actually a big problem, even when most apps are pirated.

And for what it's worth, fairness has little to do with anything outside of childhood; there's no daddy you can go running to saying "it's not fair!", only economics, courts and politics, each with its own dynamics, but mostly coming down to power in bargaining.
To gave momentum, you need to throw out something: air or water. If you need to drive into wind, you can only throw out air to one of sides by sail and compensate some energy by throwing some water to opposite side by fin.

Of course, you can use wind-powered generator and electric motor to drive into wind by throwing water. With wind-powered generator and plain sail you can drive to any direction.

(Sorry for my English).
"the experience" is hardly the same thing as "the server component".

Even so, this breaks down: this effect is (as you have noted) not just limited to MMOs. It actually applies to all games/services that use some kind of centralized network to connect players/friends. This means everything from Team Fortress 2 to Warcraft 3.