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I don't think you got the parent poster's meaning of "old college try".

Sure, in college, you should work with more academic and esoteric languages. I learned Lisp in college.

The point is, many people dismiss the merits of Microsoft tools and languages. One guy I worked with said, "I haven't used any Microsoft products in years" and that's supposed to make you an expert on them somehow? :)
Congrats Dan!
For me as a one who lives in Eastern country and practiced breathing, I can really say that it helps your body and mind. It is far old tradition to practice some kind of breathing(or zen you say, or yoga for more physical). After a few months of daily practice, I myself experienced amazing response of my body.
But never attend classes that has some kind of religious color or ask you to buy some products. They might not be a hoax but some were reported as hoax and made some news in here.
At one point in time, they did release a version of the CLR that could be built on OS X and FreeBSD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_I...
This shows the great disconnect between IT and HR at most companies.
> 5 years ago for .Net was a very long time ago. Back then the only games in town were C++, java or .net.

Wow! I was building sites with Zope by 2002. There were far better alternatives than C++, Java and .NET far earlier than 5 years ago. I did lots and lots of Perl since 1996 and some PHP thrown in around 2000. Only used C++ and Java when nothing else would do (mostly because of clients that had too much of the wrong Kool-Aid).

Microsoft has been crappy for a very long time.
The analogy is good because Brad Pitt's value comes from people value him for other people's opinions. The pull for going to see a movie star come because you believe that his fame has value for itself.

If Mike can just make one employer think that other people want to hire him, he can command these otherwise absurd rates. It's a sort-of mirror world.

Prestige, log-rolling, extended-Ponzi scheme. It's all representation chasing more representation.
Is Good making the point that the US DOT has poor ROI for bike and pedestrian projects?
> The author didn't know that it existed.

I find it quite telling. Every company I know of that blocks unauthorized websites, IRC channels and so on happens to be .NET (or other flavors of Microsoft) shops.
What do you guys think of this movie? Going to be any good? Did you read the book? "Accidental Billionaires" what did you think? I honestly was looking for more out of the book, hopefully the movie is able to go deeper and add more drama.
I remember it working with 3.1 even, although it wasn't built in (needed something called Trumpet Winsock). '98se had connection sharing (I thought I remembered that '95 did too, but Wikipedia says no... maybe it's that it came with something to install on '95 machines that would let them be clients? I know for a while we had an XP machine with the modem, and a '95 machine that could see the internet through it.), which did for your dial-up much the same thing that your home router does now for your cable/dsl.
Why is it shallow? It's a facade he has deliberately chosen to present to the world. That choice implies things, and he's either aware of that fact or utterly clueless.

Note that I'm not saying anything about what conclusion I draw from that fact, just that it's a fact.
It does not fulfill your needs exactly, but it may be a start: http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/

I seem to remember a tutorial on setting that up with git, but Google is failing me right now; does anyone know where that might be?
Google get rid of Google Checkout and allow users to pay via their cellphone bills for apps.

Also my assessment of Android users vs. iPhone users is the latter buys their music from iTunes, while a big portion of the former download from p2p and the alike.
If it's anything like the way specialist science-lab IT works, I can definitely see that. There's plenty of chemistry labs with ancient OSs on some machines because they have some piece of equipment that doesn't have drivers for anything newer. Basically a disconnect between lifecycles: a good piece of chemistry equipment is supposed to last 20+ years, especially if it's doing something relatively routine and well-understood, whereas software seems not to usually be intended to stick around for 20 years.
Not for cash: well, you probably could buy two condos for cash, but that's not what I meant.

I meant in terms of down payment. Even here, (rural Minnesota outside the Twin Cities), people want to rent. A house around here with 20 acres of land can be had for less than $300k. Houses in town on 1/2 acre can be found for under $200k, and this is in a pleasant small town. There are many people who for one reason or another can't afford their own home, and make great tenants. My favorite was the guy who paid cash, months in advance because he traveled a lot and "didn't want to be late."
Man, does that bring back memories!

I think I read a copy in the late 70's, though I had already seen the Unix sources in '75-'76, as Harvard had the first copy of Unix outside of Bell Labs. Sources printed on upper-case-only DEC PDP-11 line printers with strike-throughs for upper-case designations, and all...

It was quite a revelation to see an entire operating system in so few lines of code. I had only explored some of Multics and TOPS-10 (the PDP-10 operating system) sources at that point, and those were monstrous by comparison (especially Multics, I guess that being the whole point of Unix as counterpart...).
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Seconding that. Gunderson rocks.
your wise friend is right.

bet on yourself. expand your work team into a multi-person team.
He's looking at what could have been done to avoid this situation.

How the hell do cops and firefighters right off a car accident like this, as if its nothing?

People are ignorant.
I think this is related to a variety of factors, some of which seem counter-intuitive at first:

1. writing new code is often easier and faster than reading and understanding somebody else's code well enough to modify it

2. wildly varying differences in talent and knowledge and skill sets between different programmers and teams. A follow-on guy may be much better, or much worse, or just have a totally different skill set at which he excels

3. old code may "work" and be satisfying a lot of old required behavior but some of that behavior is no longer actually required. a rewrite can get rid of the bathwater while keeping the baby.

4. fashion. the new guys want to redo it OO. the later new guys want to put in more Design Patterns. the later new guys want to add Unit Tests. Then rewrite being totally TDD. Then add Aspects. and so on. Meanwhile.... the core behavior actually needed by the business stays, well, about the same.
There's an app for that? Between locale (which allows you to set location-based ring preferences [e.g., do not ring while at the movie theater, but turn the ringer back on when my location is elsewhere]) and some other app whose name I can't remember (that lets you set positional ring-settings [like, if I place my phone face down on the desk, it won't ring, otherwise it will]) -- I don't know what else I might be missing.

I'm not at all familiar with recent Blackberries though, so if I'm ill-informed, please let me know.
I'm not involved with Tapulous and therefore I'm not really at liberty to say. Actually I probably should have kept my mouth shut on this thread, because I despise when people do what I just did, but I just could not sit by while that credential got thrown out there as if Tap Tap Revenge was his brainchild or something.
You might also consider whiteboard paint. Paint a wall surface and voila, instant whiteboard. That said, the one guy I know who did it ended up covering it with glass panels, so YMMV.
Usually at home, I see the little wifi symbol as it's hooking on to my router, but if I turn off wifi, your suspicion appears to be correct, I can see that it's on 2G at home. So yeah, that probably has a lot to do with the issue, thanks for the info. My carrier doesn't have the greatest 3G coverage in all areas, but they're currently IMO, the best of a not so great bunch of options in my country.
This is why I have found that strong interfaces and assembling teams and developers around those libraries and interfaces, helps them to isolate code away from the developers own code. What this does is get's the team used to looking at other developers code as a block box library in much the same way you would look at a third party jar in java or a gem in Ruby.

When it becomes a library to them, then they stop thinking about it in terms of code and start thinking about it in terms of components that provide functionality. In the enterprise SOA is very aligned to this concept where disparate teams stand up services and the interface become other teams end point in and out of the black box.

Teaching developers to black box code can go along way to curing the I did not write it attitude and forces the developer to document how to use there black box.
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git/GitHub plus DropBox is like chocolate plus peanut butter
Another reason not to be the bucket of crabs, guided strictly by self-interest, is that if one person declares that he's charging a big sum for doing something and consistently getting paid, it will raise the bar for the entire industry.

In other words, if you're a good iPhone developer, you can also raise your rates while still giving your customers a discount compared to that Mike Lee guy.
Carl Jung said that it was scientifically provable that yoga and meditation help physical and mental health - he probably made that comment 60 years ago, but it is still true today.
OK, the support ones make some sense, but I'm baffled by the one that wants experience with Matlab and Windows 95. Who uses Matlab under Windows 95 today? A scientific organization that hasn't been able to buy new hardware for more than a decade?
You also have a good chunk of the framework's source code available (comments can help quite a bit when reading code).
I think it varies by program. I was a CS major, but at the school I went to, EE was actually not that far away from us. I tend to think of circuits as sort of ground-zero of most EE programs, and then some programs push more downwards in the abstraction hierarchy, covering solid-state physics and similar, while others (like ours) push more up the abstraction hierarchy, covering more CEish topics like chip design, pipelining, even up to embedded-systems programming (there was also a very strong focus on signal processing). Ideally I guess you'd want to know everything, from fundamental physics to CS, but a 4-year program sort of has to pick some subset.
It's not just the valley. The east coast is doing well too.
They block access even for their developers? Can't be... may as well blindfold them.
Also, their Marketplace is limited to just a couple of countries (which does not include India). I would love to jump into Android development, but then I'll have to manage payments myself.

The Android Marketplace cannot possibly compete with the AppStore. Not yet.
Yea, wtf! And there's basically no word on wether they're even working on in.
Great work! I can't wait till the day this becomes a drop in replacement for cpython. C extensions go a long way towards that goal.
>...but better, in the long run, than ignorance.

How so?
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I find the frequent major changes in the Ruby ecosystem to be quite frustrating. That's not to say that I wish this progress wouldn't occur... I just wish it would occur in a more controlled manner. Documentation seems to suffer the most and I have definitely come across a few libraries that don't "just work". I love Ruby and the Ruby community, but I long for the day when things move at a less frenzied pace... I know it would put my managers at ease, too.
> I think part of it is that OSS UI reeks of design-by-committee.

I hate reading this. It shows little experience with with open source programs, and ignorance of how open source programs work.

There are hardly any OSS projects with thousands of people- in fact, the only one I can think of is the Linux kernel. Most GUIs in the open source world are worked on by one or two people. Firefox is a good example. Ben Goodger and (one?) other person did essentially all the UI work.

Now, it's true that there are a lot of open source programs with terrible user interfaces. Some of this is because of the strong connection between *nix and OSS, and the primitive toolkits available 15 years ago. Some of this is because it's written without an end user focus. Sometimes the authors don't care. Some of it just sucks.

It's true that Apple has had a lot of success by paying a lot of attention to UI issues. But they're not only different from the majority of OSS software, they're different from the majority of proprietary software. Have you ever tried to explain to someone how to use Opera, or Internet Explorer? Word? Security products like Symantec? The world is filled with baffling crap, it has nothing to do with the licensing scheme.

In short, I am bothered by your generalization because it I believe it to be untrue, and worse, unexamined.
You don't understand -- this is the result of rapid innovation in the health sector.

Stuff takes a long time to come to market!
The script of this movie embellishes even more than the book itself. David Fincher was given a sweet deal by Sony if he directed "The Social Network" even though he could care less for it.

The Set Design and Props department for this movie are the best in the business, but they're getting no help from Sony when it comes to anything that is not Sony branded. No other companies are allowed to make endorsements to this movie. Yes there were a lot of Apple and Dell products in this movie; not sure if they're going to make prominent appearance though.
Although borisk is correct that engineers mostly work at higher layer of abstraction, this absolutely was taught when I was at engineering school. What's more, there was a detailed discussion of transistor geometry, which is fairly critical but elided completely in this explanation, presumably because it's hard to draw ASCII art pictures of it.
It's for sale on the Internet somewhere, I'm sure.
In that case, Python and Ruby must be front runners. I'm not sure why they put Ruby so close to the bottom, or why they used the obscure ARGF mechanism instead of the more readable examples elsewhere in this discussion. It seems as though the author may have an interest in promoting Python as the choice.
It's still better to have a slightly degraded user experience for your non-JavaScript users, rather than a complete site failure

I would suggest that a company look at their web analytical and make that decision. I know that for most of my clients their trends show less than 1% for JavaScript disabled. This, weighed against maintaining a degrading site programming model, to support 1%, did not make economic sense, given that those dollars could be used for multilingual translation, (a far larger segment).

This is really a question that is best answered by looking at your sites trends. For us it made more economic sense to do a JavaScript detect and if they did not have it enabled pop a page suggesting FF, Safari or Chrome.
Actually, it might have been Locale that did both of those tasks. I just looked over the feature listing, and apparently it can configure display, network settings, notification settings, ringtones, volume and wallpaper based on location, calender events, manual timers, contacts or battery / charging levels.

I don't see position, but uhhh, maybe?
One hack I've heard of is to fake it.

Fake it, at least at first. It's a way of bootstrapping yourself into truly being confident. Act like someone that is confident, and do it enough, and pretty soon you my find that gosh you've actually become pretty confident!
Ask HN: SEO offer by big network, ask for 50/50 split of extra revenue
Hi guys,

Let's say I've been offered SEO / ad optimization by a big network. Some of the members of this network currently are amongst the biggest players in my sector of activity. All the sites in the network are very high quality.

The offer is as follow: provide us with historical data about your site (past year or so). We do SEO / ad optimization for you, provide you access with our Google Adsense Premium ads. We keep 50% of the extra revenue compared to the previously mentioned baseline.

Standard offer for such work? My site is young and has plenty of potential, so it will probably still continue to grow in the future (professional SEO or not). I guess their strategy is find new promising sites, help them in the beginning and reap the rewards on the long run..

On the other hand, I currently have no time for this kind of work and for once, it seems that its a serious offer from competent people (not from some SEO spam I receive every week).

Any of you guys have experience with this kind of deal?
entrepreneurship is stressful? Other countries, especially developing ones, have more small businesses?

This might be one of the least insightful articles ever on mint life.
They are called Makyo in Zen (check wiki).

They are just another distraction, like any other thought but visual. Just let them go. The bigger a deal you make of them, the harder that will be. Acknowledge them and let them go.

As you progress in your practice you might have spacial and auditory hallucinations too. The same thing applies here. Just let them go.
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Hopefully today's generation learns who the Toy Story character was inspired by:

Buzz Aldrin: To Mars and Beyond!
Right, I just meant your finger tip covered about that much.

You can hit smaller targets, but not easily.
In the places where Google Checkout supports seller accounts, perhaps. The rest of us are mostly giving Android development a miss because we can't sell apps.
If you're forcing anything in meditation, you're doing it wrong.

And of course some people will 'react poorly'. For most people it's the first time in their lives they've actually sat down and looked at themselves. This can be shocking.

Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away though. That's just 'treating' the symptoms and ignoring the causes, just like we do with modern medicine.
You're so wrong even google disagrees with you...

Yes, I'm aware of the HTML-only version. No, gmail wouldn't matter if it didn't leverage javascript to build a client that competes with, and in some ways surpasses, desktop mail clients.

Apps are moving off the desktop and onto the web thanks to the new HTML standards and modern javascript environments. To talk about "degrading" these gracefully is to live in the past. These aren't "sites" - they're applications.
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Linux has exploitable bugs about once a week, read lwn and scan over the security page for kernel cve's.
Sheesh, all these years you think people who write core modules are robots and then one day one comes up and replies to you on a message board! :) What you say is true, but in any case, my congratulations on a very pretty API.
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The entire "open source doesn't look as good" myth died a long time ago... at least 3 Ubuntu releases ago.
I found it similar to Quroa.
s/writing/distributing/

There's nothing wrong with charging for writing code. It's when you charge people to use your code (that they will need to make modifications to to get it to work) that it becomes detrimental to the community.

On the other hand, it's less of an issue if you're charging people for something that works out of the box. That said, in my experience just about nothing works out of the box.
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As for having to know about the structure of the database and know trees and stanzas and things like that: Did you RTFA? I said there'd be handy tools for dealing with it so you don't need to know this stuff. Seriously, you think I'm going to foist a full on SQL schema on anyone?

So you are planning on wrapping this in some kind of reasonable DSL? If so, the fact that you're storing an intermediate representation in SQL seems uninteresting, although you also seem to suggest that the advantages of this approach are realized via direct manip via SQL.

I can see some room for improvement and standardization in config languages, but any server that doesn't allow me to do config purely via text files and that doesn't have a config language rich enough to encompass directives with subdirectives and conditionals isn't useful to me. Why not just make everything Lua?
I was in a CompE program a year ago. I didn't take semiconductors but I'm pretty sure it was required of the EEs at some point.
I wasn't writing metaphorically.
This is clearly not as bad as Perl, but it's still raving a bit. My key complaints are the complete lack of clarity as to what kind of thing split is, as well as what exactly is going on with select. (I'm assuming it's getting passed a predicate in the form of a lambda or block or whatever the cool kids are calling it these days, and it's obvious to the Perl programmer what the block does after that.)

The equivalent Python is something like

import sys
for line in sys.stdin:
print '\n'.join(filter(line.split(), lambda word: word.endswith('ing'))

which I would argue is more readable to a layperson because function calls look like function calls. (By the way, does Ruby's puts automatically do the join with newlines, or what?)
The article states that it was harder to focus the optics on the older displays, causing the pictures of them to be blurrier, which could explain the apparently larger inter-pixel gaps in the images of the newer display.
How many point-of-sale systems have you seen that run on Windows 3.1 or old curses-ish UIs? I'm sure it's even more common out of public view: in airport ticket kiosks, warehouse inventory systems, and the like. I saw my share of anachronistic systems working for a Midwestern public library system.

Legacy code hell doesn't just apply to codebases.
With any article associated with National Review as a reader you have to go into it expecting a political agenda. Watch out for extreme cherry picking and spinning any chance they get.

To pick just one example, by page 4 you come across statements like this: "combined with the business-killing instincts of red-diaper babies like Barack Obama"

business-killing instincts? red-diaper babies? really?!
Say what you want about his ego, but this article will stick.

When some biz guy or PM has his back against the wall with a horrible, failing project that just won't work, calling in the 1k an hour iPhone guy won't sound like a bad idea.
Yes. Having pretty clear, hashed out guidelines and a component style to your architecture can do much to ease the itch some might feel to rewrite things.

Clear documentation and a parameter list to the black box you're calling are all you should need to get started on a new piece to the system.