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Are threaded comments the killer feature of Disqus? I've never written a comment system myself but I don't think it's hard to hack it into an open source blog soft like WordPress. For hosted solutions like Blogger Disqus is awesome since you don't have to wait on Google to finally update it (and it looks like Google has abandoned Blogger).
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It's not a full-fledged PHPMyAdmin alternative (yet). Interface seems non-intimidating and immediately usable, so for that it might be handy for basic MySQL needs.

Not open source. But free for non-commercial use, $25 otherwise. If it inspires an open source MySQL GUI to think critically about UX then that would be just great.
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Why do you hope for his sake he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated?
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Why wouldn't Erlang be the next C++? Erlang's fast, compiled, but still flexible and dynamically, strongly typed. It has a type inference engine so you can look over your code, and it's fairly easy to do IDE integration with Erlang.

Erlang's distribution and multi-threading primitives are unbelievably well tested, and everyone could learn a thing or two from the OTP model.

I can't imagine why we'd ever consider Scala over Erlang.
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This is big news the way Windows CE was big news, which is to say, it isn't. The giant's found another way to leverage its platform, grow ever more bloated, and push its once-admirable principles and style further and further into its past.

The whole system of turning tiny startups into giant corporations is fundamentally broken. It turns things of beauty into piles of shit.
That's always been my favorite color. I feel so validated.
Cause Erlang is a point solution that is totally painful outside of its target domain and has practically no library support.
I can never quite concentrate in class: best thing I could do is carry a laptop and take notes on it, hoping to review them later, read the textbook and make use of all resources available to me.

As far as concentrating on work/hacking, the tips are:
Use a development environment where you can concentrate on creating useful features versus the process. To me it's:
- Linux with a window manager that allows me to have multiple work spaces and tile windows automatically
- Emacs with the tramp plugin (allows me to edit code on remote machines as to test the code immediately)
- Dynamic programming languages and unit/other automated testing.
- Either dual screens (preferred) or a single large screen.
With this combination I am writing code on one screen (or part of the screen) and debugging (or editing a wiki/bugzilla bug entry/base camp task list) on another.

Also I try to be aware of when I am in the "zone" and try to get as much of the crucial (or core) work done as needed during that time. When I am not in the zone I try to get as many of the annoying/"easy, but tedious"/need-to-be-done tasks as possible, so that things are easier for me next time I enter the zone.

I also try to maintain a work out schedule as to keep myself free of headaches and fatigue.
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I've been a vegetarian for 14 years, so I don't exactly recall what my concentration was like before vs. after (and I was a teenager before, so I was probably only concentrating on girls and rock and roll, but mostly girls). I do know that it isn't uncommon for testosterone levels to be reduced in men who become vegetarian, depending on diet, which actually has an adverse effect on many aspects of life including concentration. However, with a small amount of care, it is very easy to eat a vegetarian diet that is entirely positive for health. Walnuts (among other tree nuts and legumes), for example, provide the building blocks of testosterone better than the vast majority of animal products.

I think, in general, we have a pretty poor understanding of how various foods interact with the human body, particularly foods that trigger hormone production (as many high density proteins, like meats and non-tofu soy products, do). So, I would probably agree that a well-balanced vegetarian diet probably does lead to a more balanced day-to-day emotional life, which helps with concentration, wakefulness, and feeling good about what you're doing with your life (which I find is the single most important aspect of productivity for me).

I certainly encourage folks to give it a try, and see how it works for you. But do some reading first. There are some non-intuitive aspects that throw new vegetarians for a loop, and make the experience less than satisfying. For example, soy proteins of some types, while they seem like a high quality protein, are actually rather hard for your body to deal with. Tofu, on the other hand, which is processed similarly to cheese, has had those hormone-related proteins broken down into a form very friendly for your body.

I've also known people who've become vegetarian and gained weight (which was not my experience, as I lost about 15 pounds within months of becoming vegetarian without trying), because they've become carb-o-terians or bean-and-cheese-a-terians. Even if you rule out a whole class of (predominantly) unhealthy food in the form of meat, you can still eat a phenomenally unhealthy diet. And being unhealthy is bad for concentration (among other things).
"I can't imagine why we'd ever consider Scala over Erlang."

Primarily because you're forced to use the JVM by some executive degree or similar. Likewise, if you're in a .NET shop you'd want to consider F#.

All that aside - I'm a huge Erlang fan.
If arc could seamlessly access PLT scheme's libraries that would be a good start. I know from first hand experience that there are a number of ways to access PLT scheme from arkani and arc. But, there are two big issues. First there are type differences between fundamental types (lists gah). This means there can be a lot of work to convert between PLT scheme and arc, not impossible but time consuming. Secondly, there is no nice way to pull in a PLT library and just use it in arc. Of course this could be implemented - it's just not there yet.

There are two choices I see going forward immediately. Arc and the arc community starts implementing their own libraries or we find a way to use PLT scheme's libraries (ok maybe sbcl if you are using arkani).
If you look at the research, though, there are a few reports of patients having severe insomnia for weeks or months after moderate doses of provigil.
Thanks for the reply, and sorry about the confusion. This is a question about frustration in general; I thought the most salient example for fellow readers would be the hair-pulling craziness from dependency hell and that sort.

Taking the mind off the problem is one way, but subconsciously you know the problem is still there; so for example, if I decide to go treat myself a snack, I wouldn't enjoy the taste as much because the stress is still there, and the "time elapsed since you started" keeps increasing, which is annoying to think about when you ask yourself "how much did I accomplish in the last X hours".

Say you are 2 hours into the onset of some extreme frustration. In your experience, do the benefits of leaving for 20 minutes and coming back usually outweigh the costs of decreased efficiency from working in a bad mood?
Hackers are more liberal than libertarian. Rand embodies libertarianism. I assume that's what you meant?
Word....I've been programming for 3 years and I still don't feel like a hacker :-(
Wow is that the worst website I've ever seen. It's like someone took this Skin Bracer advertisement and turned it into a blog:

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I guess they meant they don't send a notification per message, but rather batch them somehow.
I have his card right here.

Ah, so you also insulted your boyfriend.

..............

At any rate, nothing you can say vis-a-vis teenagers today is necessarily comparable to the past. In the past, certain things would have not be thinkable. No--they didn't restrict teenagers from getting tattoo parlors or going into tanning salons (bother invariably stupid behaviors) but only because such things didn't exist. Restrictions on drinking were less severe, no doubt. But such leniancy predated regular car ownership. Likewise, economic changes have changed the meaning of "good" work from manual labor, which teens are capable of, to such things as quiet and steady and detail-oriented paperwork...which teens are not so good at.

The bigger problem is the excessive sexualization of young people--not just teens. Somehow I doubt that Psychology Today is too concerned.
what definition of liberal and libertarian are you going on?
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Err .. as far as I understood their Jabber/XMPP announcement, these are used for interoperability and integration with 3rd party products only and not for the internal implementation.

So it's only natural that the article doesn't mention XMPP.
"I would hope that most users these days are not dumb enough to blindly hand their mail authentication credentials to some random website."

That's exactly what most sites that let you import contacts ask their users to do.
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Scala's concurrency model is based on Erlang actually, although the Scala actors are not OS independent like Erlang, but the message passing mechanism and the concept of light weight processes independent of each other exchanging messages( no shared states ) is common to both.
Scala runs on the JVM so its much easier to integrate it with huge java projects, and its performance is comparable with Java, and its being promoted in a big way by many of the big names in the industry.
I see scala being widely accepted, whatever little I've used of it, I really love!
This doesn't answer Ryan's key complaint though: that disqus sucks up all the SEO from blog comments on blogs that use it.
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When did you first know that you hope for his sake he's built Eliza-like behavior into HN such that his responses to all "Ask PG" questions are fully automated?
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I think you missed the point of the comparison. One of the reasons C++ took off was that it was deliberately compatible with C (the dominant language at the time), so you didn't have to discard your existing C code and could ramp up from your existing skills. Likewise, today the dominant language is Java, and Scala compiles down to Java bytecode and allows you to continue to use your existing Java libraries. To my knowledge Erlang doesn't have these capabilities.
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Listening to what, exactly? "I suck, because I haven't programmed for 10 years"? What exactly is the message here?
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A funny metaphore. But if you think it to the end: I would rather open a restaurant than being a taxi driver, because it's much more fun, there's more creative work to do, you have more liberty in your decisions, contact to your customers is closer, competition is not around price but around quality.
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In theory, a good speculator allocates money more efficiently. In 2004 this might have meant shorting Bear Stearns and buying stock in Google. Google could then sell stock to raise money, or take out a loan with its own stock as collateral, to pursue projects with the money. In theory, a good trader lends money to the companies that deserve those resources the most. So, as far as I can tell, it isn't a zero-sum game.

If the entire stock market does its job like this, money gets to googles more easily than it gets to pets.com. The economy uses capital more efficiently, and grows more than it would otherwise.

Of course, that's all in theory. In practice, being an investment banker is rough.
My message is that it's one thing to learn how to hack, but another part of it is learning why hacking is the way it is in order to figure out what to work on today.

Some things change fast, others don't. Most don't take the time to understand this--the best will.
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> Surgery to give you 20/20 vision = OK, Surgery to give you 145 IQ = not ok?? Why?

In my case, both would be downgrades.
People might not always know what they want. An example: my mother needs a simple, easy to use computers that does barely more than surfing in the internet, manage her photos and write some documents. But she thinks she needs a full-blown PC with Windows Vista just because her friends have one.
is norvig born in denmark or he just has danish heritage?
couldnt find out via wikipedia or his site but he wrote "...my fellow dane..." on his site.
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> It amazes me that a guy with a nobel prize was willing to be told to go run to the store to pick up office supplies because a 20-something told him to.

Another is (apparently) Fermi, from WP: "Walking into the lab one day, Smyth saw the distinguished scientist helping a graduate student move a table, under another student's directions." He seems to be among the awesomest people to ever walk the earth.
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And, for the folks running PostgreSQL, and don't like being in the ghetto without good GUI tools:

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I don't know of a definition of libertarian that Ayn Rand doesn't fit into. Technically she was an objectivist and spoke out against the anarchist libertarians, who are mostly gone from the movement now. By today's standards she'd be a true libertarian.
Erlang's fast? Compared to what?
Scala is usually about as fast as Java.
Not trolling. Genuinely curious.
Good comment. We can't only look at the merits of the language itself, but also see wider context and circumstances in the software world. Thus my answer to the original question is: No, it isn't.
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here's a pdf about the language http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/ScalaByExample.pdf

it's definitely not bad. whether or not a language has first-class functions is a major point for me, and Scala has strong support for functional programming and even has some specialized sugar for it

the only thing i don't like about it is the type/object stuff, which always feels unnecessary
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I never liked long lists of books, they tend to freak readers out too much. I think someone should pick one and if that one is any good, then it will lead you to the next, whatever it may be. Repeat as necessary :)
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Ayn Rand was a strict Laissez-Faire capitalist while libertarian political ideology encompasses a broader swath of positions on government regulation. Anarcho-libertarians believe in the totally free market while more moderate libertarians believe that the primary purpose of governmnet is as an intermediate between an individuals natural rights and the repercussions of the free market (externalities).
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Erlang is fast if you are using multicore processors because it scales [almost] linerly by performance by core number.
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You can call Java (or Python, Ruby, C etc) libraries from Erlang if you really have to. I'd bet Erlang's libraries would be quite sufficient for a wide range of apps, though.

Where did you run into pain trying to use Erlang outside of telcom apps? Just curious...
Adults lie constantly to other adults too. And I'm not saying we should stop either.
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Go ahead and Google "Ayn Rand libertarian". You'll see quotes immediately like "Russian-born Ayn Rand (1905-1982) brought more people into the libertarian movement than anybody else."

Also from her Wikipedia bio "Rand is considered one of the three founding mothers (along with Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) of modern American libertarianism"

Rand was too intelligent to be an anarchist.
Also remember where java started (oak) - a much more point solution than what erlang has ever been.
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wasn't this same company featured on tdwtf? Interesting to look at if you want a differing viewpoint.
"Funny to see insomnia listed as a side effect of Provigil."

I take your point, but (having experienced severe nervous insomnia for a while) I wouldn't wish it on anyone, except perhaps a narcoleptic :)
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Scala's actor library emulates a subset of Erlang's message passing capabilities, but it's far from what Erlang has to offer. Scala's actors are not distributed, they don't have their own heaps (Erlang processes do, to minimize garbage collection sweeps for soft real-time performance), they aren't preemptively scheduled by the VM (the only preemptive scheduling is done by heavy native threads), and they don't have "shared nothing" sematics because Scala lets you send pointers mutable objects between processes. Furthermore, Scala doesn't have hot code swapping or Mnesia, both of which are essential for building scalable fault tolerant systems in Erlang.
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You're married with 3 children? Is that LEGAL?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

People start up businesses at all ages in other sectors, I don't see why one couldn't for our tech industry.
Lies, damn lies and statistics :-)
I was just wondering, is PG married? and if it is so, does he have kids? :D
The factory system doesn't work in the modern world, because two years after graduation, whatever you learned is out of date

I don't know what kind of school this guy went to, but none of the stuff I learnt at school is out of date. If your school teaches you stuff that goes out of date in 2 years, you're going to the wrong school, pal.

Examples of stuff that don't go out of date:

* Maths

* Physics

* English

* History

* Geography (ok that goes slightly out of date, but very slowly)

* Foreign Languages

* Ancient Languages (Latin, Greek - out of date in 2 years my ass)

I stopped reading at this point - such a blatantly false premise can't possibly lead to an article worth reading. Was I right?

Daniel
I don't think that's controversial. It makes you think (way, way) out of the box.

It's the same reason people smoke pot for creativity - you come up with weird ideas and some are really good. Of course, only to begin with do you know what the good stuff is. Then you end up like this: http://www.familyguyx.net/episode/deep_throats/link_102/
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I so want my own site where people worship me. Now all I have is a site where I worship me.

It is the next best thing though.
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> there is a legal substance

Which is..?
Fiction books are overrated. I've read most of the books listed there and I don't have an impression that they've changed my life or my way of thinking. The only reason why I did so was social pressure to be an erudit. 100 of these books will change you less than Blackswan etc.
The long term consequence of "exit strategy" at work here. Yahoo "exited" way too soon, and the founders never really had any chance to shape the company. CEO Koogle assembled Yahoo (one of the smaller parts being ViaWeb) and Semel tried to remake it in a Hollywood direction.

Contrast this to Amazon, and later Google, where the founder(s) have had very strong influence on the culture. Another company where the founder exited too soon (voluntarily) is Ebay, and Ebay has no soul whatsoever, and they are doing everything they can to lose their natural monopoly.
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I think I get what you're saying. Rand was a minarchist in most senses. The waters of libertarianism are very muddied.Just browsing wikipedia you get liberalism, libertarianism, calssical conservativism, capiatl L Libertarianism, minarchism,and calissical liberalism. and the terms mean different things internationally.
That's not cheating, that's hacking the system... Maybe this is actually a really clever meta-post :-)
also this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_and_Objectivism
It will still be the boards responsibility to get the best deal for the shareholders. It is also unlikely that MS could go down from their $33/share bid that they already committed to. But I do see your point.
I'd say 6-9 years would make you a reasonable junior hacker.

Problem with the word is it's come to mean "quick and dirty solution". eg someone does a search on google, finds some code and copy and pastes it. This is not hacking.
My point was that it a doctor would probably consider it inappropriate to give specific medical advice on the web without examining the patient. The same probably goes for most legal and financial advice.

I can't remember the exact Google query, probably something like 'employment law job description'.

The 'Where to get help' section of that page gives details of where to get free advice, e.g. Citizens Advice Bureau, trade union. I know lawyers are expensive but depending on the circumstances many people might be better off paying for proper legal advice.

I also think the problem with setting up a site to give legal advice, aside from the liability issue, would be that you'd need to be a good lawyer to do this - and good lawyers make enough money already!
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