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It was meant as that sort of tone is generally not accepted toward anyone/anything, especially as a one-liner because it doesn't add anything to the discussion. It was probably perceived that way because there are many people that have that sort of attitude toward DHH and 37signals. So any intent of humor was lost.

It has nothing to do with agreement or disagreement with their philosophy.
You make a bunch of generalizations here without supporting evidence, especially with regards to the Black-White gap. Differences exist in and between (recognized) ethnic groups and are enforced by strict social phenomena (slavery for dark skins; liberty for lights). If we eliminated the entire historically privileged white middle and upper class from America, this would render the remainder of the population with much of the same social problems that plague the Black and Hispanic communities today. In this case, after a few generations the "gap" would very likely be as good as gone.

However, what this, and your comments in particular, have to do with immigration as it relates to Founders is beyond me. Your post basically just degenerates into one of those racialist garbage tediums (see paraphrase:"we've tried to fix blacks for 150 years"; slavery was abolished in 1865; segregation in the 60s; one can't right wrongs by not actually doing anything about them) that litter much of the white supremacist blogosphere nowadays. Hispanics, I might understand some frustration to do specifically with immigration, but what the state of Black America has to do with regards to Founder immigration I cannot discern.

Your tangent on how Blacks and Hispanics, two disadvantaged but otherwise tasteful groups, are figuratively destroying America is an example of practiced misdirection.Neither of these two groups objectively stand in the way of adjusting immigrations practices to allow more Founders.Hence your entire rant exposes itself as racist fear mongering drivel written by a someone with very little to say on the germane issue at hand.
Great stuff.

Just for sake of completeness, you can basically copy-paste that code into Ruby as well via em-websocket: http://github.com/igrigorik/em-websocket

Also, to avoid some of the callback muck that a few have brought up: http://github.com/igrigorik/em-synchrony

(same idea, closures + coroutines to abstract the callbacks).
You do realize that your friends are possibly becoming increasingly drunk as they repeatedly ask you if you want a drink.
You occasionally hear "SF" spoken aloud, especially when the city's name is being used as an adjective, but by far more common is "The City".
"Finally, are you making the claim that there is nothing wrong with smoking Marijuana. If so does that mean that you would be OK if your kids smoke Marijuana? Now please be honest."

I'll make that claim. If my children were of an age where marijuana would not hurt their development, I would not only be okay with it, I would smoke it with them and listen to music.

It's possible to have a moral compass aside from the law. Law is a horrible moral compass--governments are among the least moral institutions on earth. Wearing a beard was illegal in communist Albania. My moral compass is totally fine with downloading music and smoking marijuana. It's not fine with waterboarding or theft or murder.
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I'm in. This seems like the kind of thing that would be easier to organize on meetup.com
Did you find that it impacted your creativity/lateral thinking? I sometimes consider focus-enhancing drugs, given that I feel that I'm not nearly focused enough in my programming or my daily tasks—but I'm also a writer of sci-fi/fantasy stories, and I wonder if taking such drugs would prevent my mind from drifting to the kinds of places it needs to go to give me new material. Thoughts?
In Ruling on iPhones, Apple Loses a Bit of Its Grip
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The website's homepage is largely composed of a plain-text logo and a giant hyperlink that simply says: "Submit documents."
Maybe I am too tired tonight, but I don't see how this reply addresses the question--why is addiction (perhaps specifically "internet addiction" or whatever you want to call it)--bad enough to warrant "hip flask" and other equivalences with alcohol?

My comment about the oxygen was trying to derail the equivalence of addictiveness with badness by a "proof by counterexample". The proof goes like this: If oxygen is addictive, and if it is not bad, then not all addictive things are bad.

I am having trouble parsing your reply, but it seems that the premise of the proof that you are attacking is not the goodness/badness of oxygen, which you do not dispute, but you do not think it qualifies as actually addictive because at some point it will be cured, just as the "dependence" on "[not] flying across the atlantic" was cured.

Again, it is late, and I am probably misreading you, but we will probably at some point find a cure for all sorts of addictions, but this does not make them any less real or potent right now. It might console you, as you suffocate, that someday people will no longer die this way. But it cannot help you. The need for oxygen is still substantial.
>Why aren't sites that scrape content blacklisted?

The problem is more difficult than you'd think. For instance, virtually every news organization "scrapes" the associated press, but we wouldn't want to throw out every news organization.

Content-free search result pages are things we do try to remove, even manually if it becomes a big enough problem.
I am not familiar with the cost of running a high profile website, is the price tag for Reddit considered a lot, or little?
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For good hackers, it's a good sign if the company has high standards for hiring. But the candidate has to be already interested in your company for some other reasons.

If it's a cool company like (say) ITA or Atlassian, I'd be happy to take the time to solve a couple of puzzles and send my code if it got me an interview.

If it's a random startup, I would likely not bother wasting my time before an interview. At the very least I'd need a phone screen first.

In my opinion, the ad should give an idea that you're doing something exciting without sounding grandiose. It should give a good description of the position and responsibilities. You should avoid HR-speak and requirements that are too specific.

In any case, I think the key is not the job ad itself. Your company must be seen as a desirable workplace for good programmers. You need to market yourself for potential candidates, even before you start hiring.

Are you making an interesting product? Does your current team loves to work there? Do you have low turnover? Are you in good terms with people who left the company, and would they heartily recommend you? Etc.
I'm curious ... I also have what you call "Reddit seeking behavior"

Could I go to a general practitioner or local clinic and get a prescription to try Adderral?
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Ug... I'm fairly disappointed... His conclusions:

- Separating a cold thread from its underlying hot thread is not without performance overhead...

Of course cache misses dominate performance. This is basically the first vector that work stealing queues attack. For eg. erlang tries to tie erlang processes to the same run queue (which maps to a kernel thread), for as long as it can as long as it maintains reasonably balanced run queues.

- Lack of preemptibility based on time quanta creates performance problems...

Well yeah, but either that is part of the model already (thread pool), or that is taken into account by the user level scheduler (ie. run X instructions or time then automatically yield to next runnable user level process).

- Nondeterministic LWP creation can have an appreciable and unpredictable impact on performance. The nondeterministic nature of the SIGWAITING mechanism makes performance debugging difficult...

Mainly because the SIGWAITING mechanism hes described (which sounds like it is based on solaris) is pretty bad for implementing user level scheduling. Windows 7 and MAC OS X Snow Leopard both seem to do significantly better (Maybe that's because they've had 10+ years to fix it...). In any case thread pools have generally worked around this by handling LWP creation based on the number of waiting threads and have seemed to be reasonable in performance.

That he even brings up his 14 year old outdated thesis is pretty sad when talking about the state of the art today. STM is no panacea but it is not worthless either.
Are you Canadian? Drive 8 hrs in any direction in the UK and you're in the sea :-) So a drive of that distance is simply out of scope for most people.
Ask HN: Am I working enough?
I've recently seen a few HN posts/read a few blogs/heard a few interviews where someone mentions they are working 60+ hours per week (or at least how they were doing that when they launched their start up) to drive their careers forward. On the other hand you always hear people from the Four Hour Work Week or 37Signals camps saying how you should hyper focus and get a ton done in a super small number of hours.

I'm no good at either of those. I love everything that I am doing right now, and am incredibly passionate about it. That said, I tend to work about 40-45 hours week on the following:

12-15 hours contract work (usually putting together basic marketing sites for small businesses).

12-20 hours a week working on two of my own projects.

8-10 hours studying Ruby on Rails and improving my general technical skills (although obviously this one spills over into the other two quite a bit).

I have some hyper focused periods where I get quite a bit done in short periods of time. I have other times when I get very little done. In general I think I average out to being a bit more productive than most people (though everyone says that about themselves so don't necessarily believe me).

In general I find myself a bit disappointed at how much progress I am making, both on monetizing my own projects and improving my coding skills. I wonder if I am working enough hours (or at least enough SUPER-focused hours) to achieve my goals?

Is this something where I need to start putting in more time, or is this something where I should say to myself "OK, this will take me 5-10 years to be where I want to be, just take it easy, don't burn out and you'll be fine."?

Any thoughts, bits o' wisdom, or semi-coherent ramblings will be accepted. Thanks!

EDIT: I should mention that my background is in Biochemistry, and that I have only been working on web stuff for the last two years or so.
I don't have a problem with content mill sites -- as long as they provide me information quickly in a format I desire.

I think lots of folks want "authoritative". So let's suppose I'm mentally disabled and in search of a recipe for cake. I google "cake" and I got 40,000 sites. Top of the list is the Cake Institute of America. I google airplanes and I'm looking at the history of winged flight. I want to learn to tie my shoes and spend 5 hours on the history of footwear in western culture.

This is just silly. Communications 101 says that the message changes depending on the audience and the medium. Yet those in the search engine business, it seems, want "authoritative" and "best" sources. I could give a shit. I want information custom-made to me -- who I am, how I speak, my culture, my mood, my life.

The "There can be only one" attitude is not helpful. Somewhere, right now, some guy wants to find out how to train speckled-bellied pigeons to dance. And those dang E-how guys probably have a video for it. Back in the day it was painful as heck to find information. Now companies are figuring out how to make each little penny they can on creating content. As long as the content is useful, I think that's awesome.

Having said that, the problem is that the drunken-angry-sailor-web-content is different from the New-England-school-marm-content. That's okay. There's room for growth. Isn't progress a good thing?

But the domain-squatting nonsense, and the sleaze factor some of these companies bring to the table? That's got to go. With lots more tlds I think the domain-name-spamming business has a limited shelf-life, thankfully.
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This is something discussed extensively in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion amoungst other places. It is sometimes referred to as a second order desire.

For an obvious example, I want ice cream. I do not want to want ice cream. I know that eating ice cream is counter to my fitness goals and not overly good for my teeth either. Yet, I want ice cream. My first order desire is for ice cream, but I hold a second order desire to not want ice cream.

Your air example fails to be analogous because air is necessary for life. A person may very well be able to stop wanting air, but they will not be able to stop needing it to live.
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He talks about this in the last paragraph of the article. If Apple believe that desktops are going nowhere, and they aren't going to start building cloud stuff, there is no reason they would want AMD.
I've held all three of those titles, so I find them pretty much interchangeable. The one term I hate though is "coder."
American. Can't you drive under the sea, through a chunnel and into continental Europe? (Also, can't you take trains, likewise through a chunnel and into continental Europe?)
As usual, I like Philip Greenspun's explanation better than all of the anecdotes and fuzzy generalizations in this blog post: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/acm-women-in-computing http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

tl;dr: It's because the women who would do well in CS/STEM have much better paying, or easier, or more prestigious options available to them.
I think most opinions of names are post-hoc rationalizations. I think that if Meebo was a failure we would all think it was a stupid name.
CS education works best for people who already know how
to code before they begin. CS teaches the theory behind a
practice in which they assume you already have some
skill. Women are less likely to already know, because
they don’t play video games as much.

This does not make any sense. How does playing video games translate to coding skill?
I’m 21 and my parents are in their 60s; we’re Judeo-Christian, we typically vote Republican, and we live in LA County. We briefly talked about this a number of months ago and I was surprised to hear them express that they might vote for legalization (mainly due to the additional revenue, less stress on our law enforcement system, etc.).

I don’t think legalization this year is as far-fetched as you make it out to be.
"There's no way that Apple is going to sit idly by while Intel builds a hardware/software platform to compete with iOS, and then gives that platform away to Apple's competitors."

Yep. Apple won't sit idly by. No matter what Intel does.

Is Apple concerned if somebody makes a cheap, one-size-fits-all platform to compete with the iPhone. I highly doubt it.

Isn't Apple designing its own microprocessor for iPhone now so they optimize exactly what they want optimized? Why would they care if people believe the opposite strategy is better?
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Here's an example: this back-and-forth between you and Paul was fascinating enough that I read every word, but now that I spent 5 minutes doing it, I realize I'd rather have been working on my startup idea. I didn't realize this as I was reading it, but now that I spent a somewhat significant amount of time reading (and now, also, answering), I wish I hadn't. Part of me wants to finish writing this comment and go write code, and another part wants to open github and start playing with implementations of ideas that have been building up over the past two weeks.

In general, something you (1) do often, (2) enjoy while you're doing it (immediate gratification), but (3) don't enjoy having done it in hindsight (gratifying recollection?), can be classified as the bad kind of addictive.

That said, a simple change of framing could make this activity non-addictive. If I think of this comment as engaging in a community of philosophical study of sorts, of "partaking in the hive mind", as they say on reddit, of "swimming in a River", as Yegge once called it, the memory of this comment suddenly has meaning and the recollection is suddenly gratifying.
> (This is not at all intended to be a joke:) In many cultures, homosexual activity would meet this criteria. There are many social and psychological reasons for guilt to manifest itself, and I don't think that these alone form a robust definition of badness.

Huh? How does that work? Do homosexuals in such homophobic cultures... I dunno, intend to go to the local gay spot for just a blow job and wind up barebacking?
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There had been a donation drive the week prior to that, which was very well supported. I think people were saying that they thought the idea of 'paid accounts' just wasn't going to work as well as the donation drive had. The idea being that once people are paying for a actual service they expect more for their money.

After all, they're aiming for 2% of the userbase subscribing. That's a large number when they're offering basically nothing of value in return. I know other 'freemium' business get 1-2% subscribers, but surely that's when they're offering a real improvement in the service, such as Dropbox's 2GB -> 20GB.
I think Intel, like Microsoft missed the big move to mobile.

Intel want x86 on the phones, since there are so many developers out there used to it, so many tools, so much software that would only need a small tweek.
…or, you know, the directly hostile and sexist things women sometimes experience in the industry. As described in the original post.

Not to say that Greenspun is wrong in his conclusions, but when women are saying "I find it unpleasant to be in the industry because…", it seems kinda patronising to turn around and suggest that they're wrong.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
"The 2004 Hutton Inquiry and the subsequent Report raised questions about the BBC's journalistic standards and its impartiality. This led to resignations of senior management members at the time including the then Director General, Greg Dyke. In January 2007, the BBC released minutes of the Board meeting which led to Greg Dyke's resignation.[19]"

I followed the events very closely back then. It's interesting that you should mention the dodgy dossier. It was a dossier that the government presented in parliament as an intelligence report when in fact it was lifted from a thesis paper and then sexed up by government officials. This was a clear case of fraud. But none of the so called independent inquiries even looked at this dossier. They preferred to look exclusively at another dossier that was less troublesome for the government. I watched as much of the inquiries as was possible and I came away thinking, what a farce, what a complete farce. The government ordered the inquiries, they defined the narrow mandate of the inquiries, they appointed the people who conducted the inquiries, everything. And the inquiries didn't ask the questions that would have been tough for the government.

Instead they used a minor note taking mistake by a small radio reporter to pressure the BBC leadership into resignation. I heard interviews with Greg Dyke afterwards. They were plain and simple fired and the renewal of the TV license was used as a lever.
An Infinite Jest.
Don't try to pin that on devil drink.
I can guarantee you that no one in search quality, outside perhaps of the people who work in ui, care one bit about the revenue effects of what we do. Someone in the company certainly does, but not anyone in the chain of command of people who have control over ranking launches.

If the results suck, by all means, rail on Google and tell us we're doing a crappy job, but there's no need to suspect an ulterior motive.

Every so often, some well meaning salesperson will email one of the search quality mailing lists because they think there's a problem with how we are indexing/ranking one of our Adsense or Adwords customer's sites. Every single time, I've seen the person sternly told by a VP to never email those lists again.
could you set up something similar not on EC2?
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United's FAs have a real attitude problem. Their employee ownership programme hasn't instilled in them at all a sense of pride or commitment. Rather it's fostered resentment, as if they begrudge giving you a ride in their personal vehicle. Lots of amusing stores on untied.com.

Sabena were on mine (such a bad experience, never again) until they went bankrupt. Ryanair are at the top of my no-fly list.
I suspect women aren't attracted to computer science careers as often as men because they generally like more artistic and creative ventures. In other words, most women prefer careers and interests that allow them to be hand-on empathetic with the objects and people around them. In general, computer science is hardly portrayed as such a career. It may involve aspects of these things, but women generally aren't aware of it. The role models they see are all in the same sort of areas, and the majority of their female peers are all into the same sort of things.

It creates something of an echo chamber that simply multiplies a compounding effect with dominant culture that discourages women from even entering a computer lab filled with sweaty nerds, much less think about joining them.
We may be talking past one another. Perhaps it would help if you picked out a sentence or passage from the essay that seems false.
"at least as of a year or two ago". So, maybe, as other people have pointed out and as I've already acknowledged, the situation may have improved.
In short, the lack of a proof-based class renders students Calc-clueless. (groan)

This happened to me. I went straight from high school calc into college differential equations because the AP score allowed me. It took a Rudin-based analysis course, much later, for me to appreciate proofs of convergence or epsilon-delta arguments, because my H.S. calc did not have them, and the college diff-eq assumed you knew them already. The shock was painful.

Eventually though, you learn what you need to know.
I flew from Sacramento to Miami 2 weeks ago with Delta and they had complimentary wifi.
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