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While I disagree with the manner in which many of the "calm down, folks"-esque comments take for granted that this issue will automagically sort itself out, I do agree with them that there are more constructive ways to deal with it than writing rants on HN.

Please, if you are, as I am, concerned about the potential consequences of this provision, please calmly inform your representatives (especially ones on the [very powerful] House Ways & Means Committee) that you would like them to support HR 5141 ( http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5141/show ), which selectively voids this provision.

Concisely and realistically emphasize the impact you believe this provision will have on your present or future business(es). Also, IMHO, it would be constructive to mention that (regardless of your stance of the ACA) you are not expressing concern about the ACA as a whole, but rather about this specific provision; Democrats may otherwise interpret your message as a general attack on their hard-fought (perhaps Pyrrhic?) victory and Republicans may take it as encouragement to frame the debate over HR 5141 as part of an overall attack on the ACA, which would likely cause the the bill to fail. IOW, know your audience.
It is pretty much the OO and readability. I worked with Perl for years, and, much to my shame, I really didn't understand a lot of many of the CPAN modules I relied upon. I read the poddoc and then copied the syntax they used and edited to my needs.

Perl provides many, many different ways to achieve the same thing. This is somewhat by design, in the idea that Perl should match your own intuitive style. But most people's styles are not yours, and it becomes impenetrable.

IMHO Ruby's strength over Perl is the much stronger OO, Python's strength is the focus on "there is only one way to do it", which lets most people be able to grok most of your code.

I couldn't go back to Perl by choice now. I first jumped to Python just to get some sense of clarity in my life, but now I prefer Ruby due to how its extreme openness means there are some really awesome gems out there.
Steer clear! They are awash with inexpensive overseas labor, so it's near impossible to compete. AND, They are almost always filled with people that want something for nothing.
we probably "pointless move to the right" in some of our cognition and never notice it.
I wonder how much this lowers the price of 30 day rentals in April 2011 vs. 3 x 10 day rentals today.

I was going to AirBnB a few separate places in different parts of NYC for a month or so, but now it looks like I should do just one. If all of the daily-rentals have to convert to 30+ day rentals, it should increase supply by a lot more than the number of people willing to switch from short stays to longer stays.
when I actually go to do the tedious and source-obfuscating micro stuff I usually check my assumptions first - you kind of have to anyway, once you go that deep.

Absolutely. Fun to read, made me smarter, but half of it could be different in any other version of gcc.

And frankly, if these are your problems, you're doing pretty well. I worked on a product that had some numerical parts, which were sometimes the limiting factor in performance, though usually not. So one day I was talking to a guy who wrote the numerical code about why regression testing was difficult and subtle, and it was revealed that our numerical results could differ from build to build. I.e., a single build of the product always produced the same results, but if you changed the floating point code, the new build might produce different (though equally accurate) results, even if semantically the program was supposed to perform the same C math operations on the same data.

Which makes perfect sense if you're using the old stack-based x87-style floating point instructions. We couldn't be... not in the 21st century on Opterons... check Makefile and gcc man page... biggest facepalm of my career.

We were able to announce a nice speedup on some workloads in the next release.
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This is a pet peeve of mine: when arguing about whether something should be legal, its current legality is irrelevant. Pointing out how illegal, unlicensed, etc these places are does not work as an argument against legalizing them, or as an argument for making them "more illegal". Stick to the factual arguments about crime, taxes, etc, because that's what the decision should be based on.
I am not one of the biggest fans of Wordpress but after working with Wordpress 3 I was surprised how easy it was to fully develop a theme. The dynamic menus for me where one of the biggest time-savers for me. I've had so many problems with clients wanting different stuff on the main menu.

I sub-contract quick Wordpress jobs, code on my pet-projects during my free time and work on my day-job. So any improvements on Wordpress affects a lot of my routine - I can do more stuff :D
I wish I could take credit (I wasn't on the game engine but rather the matchmaking/store/chatting part), but I was working with some real geniuses there (technical and creative).

Still, by far and away the most interesting Java project I've ever worked on. I'd never heard of so many enterprisey technologies around a game before (unfortunately, I don't know what would be covered under my NDA, so I probably can't say much more than that :).
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I like Tim's assessment of Perl's strengths.

There's this idea in the Perl community that it succeeded due to Larry's theories about syntax, but I think that's a bit of a myth.

Everybody forgets that when Perl was created, the idea of a 'dictionary type' as a standard feature was a pretty exotic notion, and the idea of wasting such jewels of computer science on sysadmins and philosophy majors was almost scandalous.

And of course now we have entire languages built on dictionary types, like Python and Javascript, and nobody thinks it's weird.

I wonder what the Perl of our time could be. If someone dragged all the neat bits of Haskell into a language that mere mortals could use, that might be a start. And in fairness the Perl 6 people think they can bring parsers into the mainstream. Personally I think they're a bit overobsessed with syntax, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
That's not really a justified expectation, though - the reddit community isn't particularly fond of the digg community, but the developers have never shared that sentiment, and said so repeatedly.
Mitsubishi introduced something very similar in 1993: http://www.mitsubishijettowel.com/
I'm not sure how many they have working on it but Starcraft 2 strikes me as something that the developers have been given a load of time to do justice to a Starcraft follow up.

In contrast though it seems like the WoW devs have a pretty brutal schedule in order to pump out expansions and updates fast enough to keep giving the millions of players enough to do that they won't stop paying the subscription.
I highly doubt they are paying state income tax on income received from renting. Or occupancy tax, for that matter.
The landlord can probably kick them out for having extra people living there that's not on the lease or for breaking something in the lease. (My parents are also landlords, though not in NYC.)

Of the places I've been in, the landlord knew about it and didn't care (not noisy or dirty), or it wasn't active enough to cause anybody to notice.
My first baby is on the way...it scary to think that another life depends on me now but it also drives me to optimize my work so that I will have more time to spend on things/persons/events that really matter.
12 characters isn't _that_ short, there are still something like 52^12 combinations. I suppose it all boils down to how many sessions are active.
I click the wrong arrow quite often on my netbook. On my phone... fuggettaboutit
I cannot upvote this enough as I am internally battling between my envy to resign next monday and the need to feed my son.
They are all good languages splitting the same market (roughly).

Perl lets you get under the hood in a way that either is frowned upon, impractical, or prohibited in other languages. So there's a language for every temperament now.

For example, in Perl, [if you wanted to], you can roll your own object system. That makes some people happy, and other people uncomfortable. But much of Perl has moved on to one very cool object system, Moose.

The Tim Bray article reads as if he's unaware of Modern Perl and all the Perl 6 stuff which has been back-ported to Perl 5. In all honesty, I had to check the date because the article had a 2002 feel to it.
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>Simply asserting that "strong motors are expensive" doesn't answer the question. If expense were the determining reason in the past, then no one would make/buy them today either.

This assumes that stronger motors aren't cheaper today than they were, relative to weaker ones. I think that there are also advances in robots and toys that it seems to me should have been possible decades ago (even with slower processors)
When I reformat pages in my online iPhone app user manual for use on mobile devices, I go with 2.5em.

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A startup like AirBnB worked to increase ease of entry into the market. Outlawing it is simply protectionism of an industry that simply isn't staying as competitive as many smaller entities organized by a technology. Let's pass a law limiting holding time of tbonds to at least 30 days, shall we?
Sure, but the trashcan is the "proper organizational tool" only because a better solution doesn't exist yet, not because it solves the problem optimally. Isn't there some reason that copy of the Economist is sitting on your desk in the first place? Presumably you do want to read the interesting articles in it, and it'd be handy if the most interesting ones were somehow brought to you.

Now, Tab Candy doesn't do that, but I think it's at least a step in the right direction of trying to address the cases that are somewhere between "garbage collect the tab" and "immediately use the tab".
Grammars are a good start. Mix in parse-controlling predicates if that isn't powerful enough (C++).
My take is that the other languages simply supply more structure for how to do things, while Perl leaves you free to do things any which way. Sometimes, that freedom is invaluable. But for some people, that freedom means that they have to work to supply the structure on their own.

In short, I think some people feel that there are too many ways to do it.

Anyhow, that said, I think that people are too quick to write Perl off. Some of us are still writing Perl. Maybe I'm not doing anything big or fancy, but it's all documented, readable, and every single script on my computer uses warnings and strict. If you compare Perl to duck tape, I'd be like McGuyver: always keeping a roll of it in my pocket.
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One thing is that Perl 5 doesn't include by default a number of modern features that Python and Ruby have OOTB. Easy OOP, exceptions, and named function args, to name a few. If you want these things for Perl, you need to dash out to the corner store (the CPAN) for them.

Also, Perl 5 tends to be used for a lot of unglamorous admin work. So, although almost everyone's got a few utilities or cron tasks on their system written in Perl, they're not shouting about it from the rooftops.

Also, Python is an easy language to learn, and so people like to learn it and blog about how easy/nice/shiny it is: http://xkcd.com/353/ .
"Not a problem for me" is not the same thing as "not a problem."

People's browsing habits differ. Some of us do use multiple windows and tabs so we can switch our focus away from a task and return to it later. Mozilla's user studies and large-scale data mining through Test Pilot bear this out, e.g. http://surfmind.com/muzings/?p=505 - among other things, that analysis of several thousand Firefox users found that tab opening/closing behavior among the participants followed a bimodal distribution.
No, but there is frequently other stuff to do. There were some weekends where I could do some work (been doing the job for 8 weeks now), but not enough to make real progress. Overall it seems too unlikely to have time on weekends regularly.
Not yet, since I only started the job 8 weeks ago. I guess instead of just quitting, I should ask them if they have any other ideas for me. 3 days a week would be great...
There was a discussion recently by a number of long-time accounts on how this seems to actually be coming to pass, and that the quality of submissions hitting the front page has clearly decreased. I can't say I disagree.

That said, I'm just as annoyed as the next guy at the inefficiency that the IRS seems to be trying to foist into the economy to help them raise revenues.
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Well, the one I stayed in had a lot of cats, but it certainly wasn't dirty. It was actually pretty awesome. The lady who was running it was using the revenue to rescue cats from NYC overrun animal shelters, where cats maybe last 3 days before getting euthanized for space issues.
"have an idea and a really clear roadmap"
Then whats the question?
Do you have a developer and a designer with whom you are working?
If you want to get a general idea of startups read PG's Essays.

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I don't have a bunch of tabs I want to throw away - I have a load of them that I'm using, for different purposes.

Being able to separate them out from each other would be fantastic. Naming them is less necessary.
I'm just curious: what did you live off (food, rent...) while you were taking no pay?
I think Perl 6's Rules are a natural and important extension to the language. Perl has always been a tool of choice for text processing; but people tend to [ab]use regular expressions even where a real parser would be much more appropriate because their language -- Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, pretty much any commercially popular language these days -- gives you regular expressions on a platter, and their presence in the core language or standard library sort of enshrines regexes as a tool of choice.

Look at it this way: pretty much any "Programming ______" book will at least touch on that language's regexp implementation. How many such books currently cover implementing basic parsers for non-regular grammars?

So yeah, if Perl 6 can bring parsers to the mainstream by providing easy, visible tools to implement them, and even simply by making parsers something you learn about in the course of learning Perl, that'll be a huge win for us all.
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Note that this does not seem to be shared by everyone @ Google, at least today: http://groups.google.com/group/unladen-swallow/browse_thread...
> the language implementation is incredibly easy to read and understand.

Thanks! After wading through an SML compiler whose author apparently thought single-letter variables and no documentation was perfectly fine in a language that doesn't even have fucking type annotations, I figured the least I could do to advance the state of the art was make the code legible.
This is from hazy memory, but I stated that because I think GCC, Clang, MS's C# compiler, and javac all use hand-rolled parsers.
You're missing the point here.

Twitter are NOT worth investing from if you take them in isolation. If you're investing in companies because you believe they will become big profitable companies then Twitter as an investment is quite absurd.

The only reason they ARE worth investing in is because collectively investors and would be acquirers believe they are.

Definitely investing in Twitter is a good bet because they'll likely get bought by some silly bigco.
I still don't understand what you mean by the "second order axiom system" that is somehow the domain only of humans...
how about software that can take your history and automatically make a mindmap? does this exist?
IE9 does, but it only whitelists two codecs, H.264 and VP8/WebM. How this will actually work, and whether it will allow you to install alternative versions of either codec or whether only the native H.264 and a specific VP8 decoder are blessed, I'm not sure.
Whether they can actually enforce it is the question. Many leases already have provisions against subletting and landlords have had a hard time doing anything about violators.
Perl 6 doesn't have much to do with Perl 5 except that the same guy created both. Think of Perl 6 as Perl 5's Clojure. Heavily inspired by the original, but a totally new and different language.

(Think of how non-radical PHP 4 -> PHP 5 and Python 2 -> Python 3 were, and how hard it was to get people to switch. Now imagine differences 100x those, and you can start to see Perl 6's relationship with Perl 5. P5 is going to be around for a long time; it's a great language, and people are going to be using and improving it for a while. P6 is a good language too.

They both happen to have the same name, though, which apparently confuses people.)
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Or people who live in the most dense housing in the US deciding they don't want randoms, particularly people from out of the city who often aren't aware of just how loud they are, frequently moving in and out as neighbors. As a former and future resident of NYC and current resident of SF, I'd hate to live next to such a place. I did until recently in SF and it sucked.
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I've found it's one thing to make a ToDo list, but completely another thing to complete the items on it. What I've found is that there are actually (at least) two major things that get in the way of finishing up projects. The first is knowing what you need to do, which a todo list solves. But, all too often I used to stare blankly at the "todo" list, and while it was comforting to know what needed to be done (and actually quite fun to come up with these things), I'd still have the overarching feeling that "it's really going to suck doing these things, and I really don't want to do them."

The way I get over this second hump, the way I actually get myself to do things that I know need to be done, is pretty simple. I sit down and imagine how it's going to feel when I finish doing these easy tasks, and how I'm going to feel when I've conquered this list, and seen my idea through all the way. I know it's going to feel great to finish the things, so why not just do them already? The more I think about it, the more I get excited to go to work.

If your goal of completing your todo list is "I get to feel what it's like to conquer these things, to completely realize this idea or project of mine from beginning to end" as opposed to "I just need to do this drudgery," then you might find yourself being propelled by your own desire to feel good, and you might even have fun doing it.
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In the code above the random number is uniform(0,1), the standard random number in most languages. So each individual death is Bernouilli, although you don't need to know the word Bernouilli. Then this leads to a binomial distribution for a hospital as a whole.

But the binomial assumption doesn't need to be known or explicitly built into the model. It's effectively an emergent property of the individual deaths.
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Yes. Sit down and imagine how you're going to feel when you are finished. Really try to make yourself believe that you're done. If these are features, imagine using the product with those features in place, and how much it adds to it. If it's design, think about how much better it's going to look when your through with it. If it's performance, think of how your product is now more capable of handling more requests or is faster and lighter-weight feeling. Whatever it is on the todo list, I'm sure there's a good reason it's there.

Now that you've imagined how much these things on your todo list are going to improve whatever it is you're working on, and how awesome it's going to be when those things are in place, why not get to work?
I persist my infoguilt in the form of starred Google Reader items. Depending on their worthiness/boringness ratio they can sit in that 'starred items' list for weeks until I finally unstar them.

Anyway, this looks very cool. I do have a slight concern that I'd want to put things in these folders other than webpages, which I suppose means that I want the facility to be 'bigger' than the browser, but it just isn't comparable to using the existing features of a window manager as a lot of people seem to be claiming. Perhaps if I want to take notes and add them to a group, I need to put those notes in the cloud.

Also, could this be the start of Mozilla Firefox OS?
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