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Some years back in Orlando I asked the bartender whether they poured anything smaller than a pint. Technically, she said, it's not a pint, it's 14 ounces. Fourteen ounces, I said, is more than technically not a pint, it's just simply not a pint.
you beat me to it! I should have a prototype working by the end of the week for something similar (but hopefully better as well). It was a learning exercise for me so I didn't really lose any time.
Thank us both. If the comment originated at Foursquare, of course that is down to them, but there is much less friction to finding the data on geosay (IMO)
I would not rely too much on these terms, every company has its own process that evolves. Agile and Scrum can assist in finding out what kind of a process you want to develop. There is nothing called "Scrum" that will fit all software companies.
High performance isn't just about getting stuff done faster, it can also be thought of as getting the same amount done in less CPU time. When I'm running on batteries, my laptop's CPUs are running at 800MHz, and I get about 8-10 hours of battery life. If something's making my computer work, my CPUs go up to 2.4GHz, and my battery life plummets. More efficient javascript engines should be able to do the same work with less battery use, which makes me happy.
Nah. Consider that they teach woodworking in school, but not how to make desks and blackboards.
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Too scary for me. Who decides what is essential and non-essential? Is it worth risking thousands or millions of dollars worth of equipment sitting on the commercial power grid without conditioning? In case of natural disasters you have to accept the reality you could be without commercial power for a long period of time. Might work for Yahoo's architecture but I'd be more comfortable with a more traditional approach myself. If you have a somewhat power efficient data center a small UPS/generator is pretty cheap. I'm guessing they're doing this more for environmental concerns than cost.
Apparently I do too...
Hell yeah... I don't have the benefit of having offices this close to Squarespace, but after spending just one (awesome) lunch with Anthony & Dane I too can attest that they are super cool & extremely clever. :)
It's about to enter public beta... release is probably at least a year out.
Well for one, Btrfs is more efficient in some cases, according to the ZFS developers.
How often does that happen?

What's the worst-case scenario if it does? Some people don't get served their web pages and have to hit reload?

I'm more concerned about Blue Waters. Power outages might not happen very often at Urbana-Champaign, but each one will annoy hundreds of scientists.
Having tried to do this sort of thing in the past, I'm fairly skeptical. Maybe if you're trading in large volumes over short spaces of time you can make money with AI, but at least in my simulated runs with small scale investment the results didn't look encouraging.

Also it should be borne in mind that this kind of activity isn't really making any constructive or lasting contribution to society. It's really just moving money around slightly more efficiently than previously. If you really want to change the world, do something else.
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Seriously? You must enjoy your O(n^2).
Quite right. Also, the much more interesting half, so I'm not exactly upset about it. :)
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You'd have to browser-check and then load something like the jsTree stuff if it failed. That'd be a major pain.

But the performance and styling is looking really good. It's very tempting.
Fun exercise: paste in excerpts from famous authors. I gave it Faulkner and it said he writes like Joyce. Hemingway writes like Shakespeare who writes like Dickens. Lovecraft writes like Poe who writes like Nabokov. (It correctly identified Joyce, Dickens, and Nabokov.)
I must have missed something...how did we jump from questioning Visual Studio to the conclusion that Ruby and .Net developers are solving problems in different domain spaces? There are IDE's for Ruby, good ones. What does that matter though?
This is more due to the shift from buying albums to buying singles. This shift is made possible by digital distributions.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/the-death-of...
Is there a possibility things would be better if PHP was abandoned?

Nope. Beginning coders write vulnerabilities until they're otherwise educated. In PHP these are SQL injection and XSS holes. In C they're buffer overflows.

Of course things would improve if we educated all PHP developers on the security implications of whatever it is they're programming. But so many years of coding have shown it's infeasible (for any language).

Education is feasible for any language. Some segment of the programming population will always remain uneducated -- laziness or apathy on their part -- but this doesn't mean education doesn't work.
So women don't think you're a real man. And the solution: throw away expression of the personality you like and want to be and respect, turn all interactions with women into a game, and carefully craft yourself and all your presentation with single-minded purpose into a seduction machine.

I think that the solution is three-fold.

1) Find the right community/context. If you live in a community where evaluation is too shallow, then move. Find a different place to hang out. It's a big world out there, and there's all sorts of contexts. There are contexts where people are not completely vapid.

2) Substance. Be willing to die alone for your values. Are you? If you're not, then don't take this path. If you are, then welcome, brother! (+) In the meantime, do substantive things. Competence is sexy so have it, not just its semblance. Combine this with some genuine fun, and it's a killer combination.

3) Find ways to "be more you." One thing that impressed me about some of the hairdressers on "What Not to Wear" was their ability to make someone more who they were. They didn't jack with someone's identity, they just cleaned it up a bit.

(+) - Hetero women have a similar path that they can take, but it's not the exact same one as for hetero men. As for other orientations, there must be analogues, but I don't feel qualified to comment.
Why aren't the other browsers warning about this? It IS a security problem if people mix non-SSL content into a SSL page.
Is there a service that aggregates all the hacker news aggregators?
Seriously? I'd like to think I wouldn't say something like that about someone I didn't know at all, 'mahmud.

For the record, and not that it should need to be said, but we do zero business with the US Government.
While I don't doubt that the increased ease and frequency of piracy has had an impact on the bottom line of the recording industry, I believe the decline of the industry as a whole has much more to do with the increased capabilities of home computers and the spread of broadband Internet access.

The big recording companies provide a few main services to artists: production, distribution, and promotion. For years they kept CD prices artificially high because there weren't alternatives for most people (for artists to create albums or for consumers to obtain music).

Once everyone could record and burn CDs expensive production studios became much less valuable, and broadband Internet makes distribution nearly free (relatively, at least). Simultaneously, radio has become a much less important means of promotion, so the connections that the recording companies had in that arena become much less valuable.

In other words, the big record companies just don't offer the value they used to - either to artists or to consumers. And once the value your company offers disappears, so should your company (unfortunately this usually happens very slowly, with the company(/ies) trying everything to avoid extinction).

So was it a coincidence that this all happened at around the time that Napster took off? I don't think so, I think there were just common causes that led to both results.
Submitter, why link a "pre beta" password-wall with no explanation? Poor show.
I think you're confusing the split second decision making required during a surgical emergency and the simple steps they need to take before starting to prevent infection and common issues. Such as making sure everyone washed their hands, correct dressings are used, having the right medication available for the procedure etc. It should be don't start this procedure until all the checks are ticked. Just like a pilot doesn't take off before he's done with his checklist. Personally I'd rather my surgeon go through a checklist of 20 things before operating on me than trying to remember them.
This debate reminds me a lot about another debate about language. When I studied English in college, I occasionally came across papers enumerating the weaknesses of the English language. It's terrible for writing poetry, because you can't rhyme like you can with Italian or seduce like you can with French. It's difficult to learn, because of irregularities in spelling and pronunciation.

Now that I'm a PHP developer, the response I give when people ask me why I use PHP and not a "real language" is the same one I would give if someone asked me why I speak English. There are more people who speak my language. If I travel to a remote fishing village in China, chances are I can find one person who speaks English. Try to find someone who speaks Italian. When I'm working on a web project, I know that if I write it in PHP I can find hundreds of developers to hire at a reasonable price versus hunting around for Ruby developers (who cost double).

At my day job, we run 200 websites, and 194 of them are written in PHP (1 is Java, 2 are .NET, 1 Ruby, 2 Coldfusion). When the company buys sites, the first step is converting them to PHP (if they aren't already), just so future maintenance is easy and cheap.
You could offer an 'Ultimate'-version of your product which would disable "inconsistent and unpolished user interface" and unlock the 'polished' one.
I don't work in a start up (hope to one day).

We use Agile - had been using Scrum, just moving to Kanban.

I find Kanban A LOT better for a cross discipline team (editorial, UX and tech) - but not been using it that long.

Yes it's working for us in a very large company, in a smaller privately owned company, where everyone's ass is on the line, maybe it wouldn't be so useful.

I do see the boards (scrum/kanban) as being a great way to surface what is happening in the team, to answer questions and show bottle necks. But in a smaller team that should just happen.

I think it can be used 'wrongly' to try to control teams, but i see it as a stakeholder management tool - "ok so you want that extra feature, lets go put that in the backlog, hum now see how our dates move? Ok you do, great, so what is your priority (considering we have fixed time)..."
Doesn't this fit more appropriately the other way around?

"I don't know. Why would you use a language other than PHP? Most people use PHP. What's so special about you that you need what another language has to offer?"

In your example, the PC is the inferior but nearly ubiquitous (and easier) choice. Isn't that the position PHP is in as well?
I give him an "A" for effort but the higher the vote does not always equal the most interesting. Take yesterday for example...the old spice twitter feed. Wtf?
Brilliant. What's important, with simply conditional CSS it's still usable with older IEs (ie. not totally broken). The collapsing functionality can be considered as optional usability.
I don't see any reason why Google couldn't add to their javascript tracking code the ability to detect if a non-SSL script sits on an SSL page. They would then flag it in the analytics control panel. Whoever is monitoring analytics could spot it right away rather than waiting for their consultant to point it out months later.
It's fun to meet people, but maintaining functional relationships with people is not about fun. The "balance of terror" thing was meant not too literally. In other words, if one always fears losing the other, then one will invest in the relationship. If there's no fear, then she'll gain 20 pounds and he'll become a lazy, useless slob... and then it's all doomed. There's nothing unconditional in this world, especially when it comes to "love".
Also assuming that it's true. Remember that these are people who want to sell you $3000 weekend courses.
> this kind of activity isn't really making any constructive or lasting contribution to society

There was an interesting discussion about this on quora: http://www.quora.com/Is-high-frequency-trading-good-for-the-...
Those at least give you neverending variety. There are novel thousands of new variations on the lolcat theme every day, and no end to the slot-machine-like fun of rating people hot or not in the hope of eventually getting to one who is either particularly hot or hilariously not.

But once you've posted in a sample of your own writing, gone "Hahaha, I write like Mario Puzo, hey guys, guess what?", I find it hard to imagine anyone coming back time after time.
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> In the long term, this actually bodes well for society.

Perhaps in a very long term after there is an outcry against bogus and erroneus debt lawsuits.

> Previously, the reason for not collecting debt was due to the higher cost of legal action, resulting in people using a variety of methods from simple reminders and payment plan offers, to intimidiation and threats.

Now in addition to reminders, payment plan offers and bogus threats, they can also use the state to intimidate and jail debtors. Might as well just start a debtor jail like in Saudi Arabia.

> Now that legal action is cheaper, courts will be requiring much more is done to ensure accuracy and fair representation.

Somehow I see the opposite happening, at least in the short term. The cheaper it is the more errors will be commited. Any little debt collection agency can acquire, sell and re-sell these databases of debt-ors. In the process spreading and entering bogus data and errors. The justice seems to be cheaper for the debt collector who can fire off lawsuites from a database table, but I don't see this being cheaper the debt-ors. This is just the collection agencies getting the state to do their job for them.

> Cheap and effective justice is something to be praised, and in this case will eventually reduce the cost of credit too.

I agree as long as debt-ors also get to benefit from it not just the collectors. Collectors should not be able to file lawsuits in Alaska or Hawaii for debtors that live in Florida for example. Someone has to make sure the debtor received their summons so they know there is a court case they can go to and defend themselves.

To summarize, I think cheap justice will also mean a lower quality justice or justice that benefits only one party.
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So by "hidden features" they mean "can be found in the first pages of any tutorial"

(Ok, I didn't know about re.DEBUG)

EDIT: I'm not claiming this link is worthless. But I'd call it "great features of python" or simply "features of python"
It's only counterintuitive until you think about it. Like "people who receive chemotherapy are more likely to die of cancer than people who don't."
If a person doesn't understand the value of intellesense, they're not doing it right

I think the argument against a full-blown IDE which optimizes code-writing is, if it's possible for an IDE to make your code easier to read or write, why isn't it possible to simply improve the programming language itself to make the code easier to read or write? Some sort of automated code translation/compression/generation is improving the coding experience for you, the developer. So why can't that improvement be baked into your compiler/parser/libraries, so the program's code reflects that improvement regardless of the tool you use to view it?
Can we just declare this law as unenforcible and make it void?
Don't conflate class divisions with racism. Whites did not flee the 'digital ghetto' of Myspace. College-educated young adults fled the 'digital ghetto' of Myspace.
I'm not sure. This would be first real number there. Unless you count the DRM costs in.
Agreed. Fwiw, many of the complaints apply to other "better" languages also:

- PHP has inconsistent naming of built-in and library functions. - C has types like int, size_t, jmp_buf and FILE

- PHP performance is abysmal without caching - MRI Ruby is pretty slow too

- Functions are case insensitive - Lisp anyone?

etc etc

The whole meme of PHP warts seems more like an exercise in confirmation bias than objective analysis.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
I agree with your point, and taxing internet to pay for newspapers would be horrible... but it is the kind of funding scheme I would expect from the U.S. Congress.
I suspect the webapp is just suggesting random writers.

Nope. It's just a Bayesian classificator :)
or worse, reddit/digg
And people wonder why the settlements/lawsuits demand so much money. Its not to recover costs but to deter. HOWEVER just like the death penalty, a deterrent that is not immediate, seen as unfair, and is extremely unlikely to happen to you, is not a deterrent at all.
Indeed. That's the point I was trying to make. It's not an issue of whether it's Google's fault that the company didn't update their tracking code. It's the fact that when you start integrating 3rd party stuff into your codebase, it suddenly becomes your job to keep on top of every one of those plugins to make sure they stay working.
I'll plan on being there. Didn't know rms was moving out west!
Also it should be borne in mind that this kind of activity isn't really making any constructive or lasting contribution to society. It's really just moving money around slightly more efficiently than previously.

I disagree. Efficient allocation of capital is what allowed modern society to advance as far as it did. Capital markets are a tremendous innovation and add tons of value to society. Almost every startup turned major corporation out there was capitalized by the financial markets. You trivialize this value when you say investing is simply "moving money around more efficiently". That money NEEDS to be moved around more efficiently so the most productive members and organizations in society are (a) given the resources to expand their business and (b) rewarded for the value they add to society.
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This really depends on what you are running. If you're running an eclectic mix of Windows, Linux, all running different applications and software, you might not get much benefit. Most of our VMs are all running Windows Server 2003 (ugh!) and the exact same terrible web application so we get pretty good savings; about 50%.
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It's a fixed password listed from the Stackoverflow blog here:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/third-place-chat-beta-...

I forgot I had entered the password by the time I posted. Frankly a little puzzled as to why they are using it. Maybe spam prevention?
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I work for a startup and we scrum every morning. We have some people working remotely so it's a good chance to get everyone on the same page.

Agile - I don't even know what that means. Different people use it differently. So yeah - uh - we're agile.
I think perhaps I wasn't clear. I don't disagree that checklists aren't a great tool in an environment less sensitive to time constraints, rather, I believe that the culture of the healthcare industry is one of constantly being prepared for time constraints. Healthcare professionals tend to apply the same procedures in both critical and non-critical circumstances, and I think there is some legitimacy to that

Imagine the nurse who spends her entire shift insertting IVs. Now imagine that she grows accustomed to working off a checklist everytime. Day in and day out she operates with a checklist for weeks and months on-end. Suddenly, a patient goes critical on her shift and she has seconds to insert a life-saving IV for fluids and medication. Can she operate efficiently without a checklist? I suspect the answer to that question is a resounding "no" and that her patient's life suffers as a result.

The situation isn't as cut and dry as I'm making it, that's for sure. No doubt there is incompetency and complacency all throughout the industry, and checklists could probably combat that effectively. I just think that mandating their use across the board in every circumstance will have unintended consequences that may very well cost lives.
Ask HN: Should some re-submissions go back on the Newest list?
Sometimes I'll make a submission, and it turns out the item has been submitted a long time ago, with no activity or points. So my submission turns into a point for the existing item and nobody sees it again.

I think that below a certain activity threshold, items should go back on the Newest list. It could be that the page may have changed since it was first submitted, or that the content is now relevant in a different way.

What do you think?
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> If you're still pirating music in 2010, and the track you're pirating is available on the Apple Store for 99 cents, then you're just being a cheap bastard.

Where can I get my iTunes for Linux?
So basically, practice makes perfect.
If human beings can’t understand the rationale that an AI-driven hedge fund is using to make its trades, then how can humans tell the difference between an AI that has actually figured out a strategy to beat the market and an AI that is just having a run of good luck?
"Then, when you realise it's a runaway success and all the investment starts piling on board, the last thing you want to do is stop and tread water for 6 months whilst you rewrite everything (introducing a whole new set of problems as you do), just to get back up to where you are now, before adding those new features."

Using Ruby on Rails, .NET, or python won't magically give you great programming skills. If you are a poor developer in general, you will run into problems with all of these languages.

"So, arguably these sites are successful because of their ideas, and the fact that they use PHP is more likely a historical accident than a carefully considered decision, at least in terms of their codebase."

All sites are successful because of their ideas. Using language X is just a design choice. I carefully choose php for all of my projects because it's better than all of the alternatives. I know I'm not alone in my thinking.

"To put a positive spin on it, you could argue that their early choice of PHP is what allowed them to become successful by letting them get their ideas out, rather than the best technology for a internet top-100 site or whatever."

A positive spin? How about a bias spin against php. If this were the case, we would see many more sites using other languages because PHP is so terrible.

Here is an old article on why the guy from cdbaby.com switched from ruby back to php:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...
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The sets I'm working on tend not to tend toward infinity.
Probably their QA got fired after this event. Who knows? Seriously though I am amazed how can such companies remain to exist. I am amazed at how trivial this error is.

On another note. The payment processor we use (2checkout) have an error in their checkout page where they ask PIN code but explicitly point out _Only required for US customers_ but in reality it is needed for ALL customers. Raised this bug two months ago, they acknowledged it and it is still not fixed. I'm furious at this but based outside US I have little or no option to switch.
Startups and attribution bias: "This could only mean one of 347 things"