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Thoughts on people's sense of reality.
I don't see as many people using or applying this "There are two sides to every coin" in real life as many would readily agree to it theoretically.

Now, I wonder how many people would agree if one were to say " There are 6 sides to every cube"

And how many more would agree or apply in life if one were to say, "There are numerous sides to a polyhedron"

Sometimes I feel like telling people, there are numerous sides to a polyhedron and you could be looking at the smallest face of an irregular polyhedron, so stop thinking the face you are looking is the only face in this universe,.....(choose your favorite word, to be placed here).

Hmmmm, did I make any sense up there? I guess that was way too convoluted.

May be its lot more simpler and effective to just say "Be open to perspectives beyond your own"
anyone else get tired of this "programmers are special", navel-gazing, pseudo-analytical tripe? How about treating programmers as individuals with different tastes and motivators instead of stereotyping to the classic "geeks want new toys and to be left alone to write codes" mold.

> I typically upgrade at the top of the tree and push machines downwards

that's one practice I find incredibly distasteful. If someone needs a new computer, give it to them. If they don't, leave them alone to do real work instead. You're only rewarding the guy at the top, everyone else is getting hand-me-downs. Nothing says love and respect like being given someone else's cast-offs... yeah right.

> Programmers program because they love to solve problem

citation needed.
If we select tuition based on price, we will, collectively, drive prices downward - with a proportional decrease in quality (much like we do with airlines). There are lots of schools in this position. Prestigious ones have the luxury of setting their tuition as high as their target market will bear, because they are focusing on quality, not price.
Yes - it's much "bigger picture" than just recipes. There is a fair amount about meat proteins (Ch 4), but there's still a lot of material applicable regardless of specific dietary constraints.
DDG uses Yahoo and Bing APIs, if I remember correctly.
When I started to get good at my second language (Japanese), I found it easier to be outgoing than when I was using English. Now it's been several several years and I speak Japanese and English every day, though I use Japanese a lot less (maybe 10% of the time), and I think the distinction has gone away. Sometimes I do find myself wanting to use a Japanese phrase when I'm having an English conversation, though.
The frustrating thing about the article is that it never asks why the cost of four year education has been up faster than inflation for many, many years.

His answer to the problem is less education. That seems like a problem to me.

The reason we had affordable state school was that education was a good for society as a whole. America, as a whole benefits from having well-educated people.

The state schools we had were affordable for both the student and the states. Why is that no longer the case? The article misses this question entirely.
Positivity is something I consciously work on.

1. If at every point you're taking what you believe to be approximately right decisions, given all the information you have at that time, then you can ban regrets from your mind. This is a good frame of mind to be in: you can focus on the future. The corollary is to arm yourself with information. For more on this, and more besides, see: http://bhorowitz.com/2010/05/30/how-andreessen-horowitz-eval...

2. Although we face a lot of negativity, it comes only in a few limited forms. Any negative statement, such as "your business will fail because Google will crush you like the tiny ants you are", should only have an impact the first time you hear it. You then decide what you think of the statement, and unless later information convinces you otherwise, your mind should be made. No regrets.

3. I consciously try not to emotionally react to situations. I also try to smile :)
> computer science is probably the easiest subject to learn from the internet.

Only for some values of "computer science". There is a lot of very tough math involved and having a teacher will save you ages.
Have been using DDG for more general info and Google if I need to look something up (Errors, movie quotes etc)
WordPress FTW. I deploy small CMS websites all day for my living and Drupal is just not fun (although slightly better for larger community sites). Joomla is a joke.

If you don't like WP/Drupal you can go with any of the 20 or so smaller CMS lite website-in-a-can services (Weebly etc.)

Also, the folks behind WordPress will even host and manage your blog if you blow up (VIP service).
But it can be done just as well, or in some cases even better, by renting. No fines, no selling (worst case scenario you have to rush to sublet, which is a lot less paperwork and hassle), and depending on the area you even get to be picky. You can move every 5 to 10 years buying and selling property, but it sounds like you have to throw away a lot of money to do so, and I thought the point of homeownership was to avoid throwing away money.
No, C++ is already ridiculous; it's just getting easier to deal with the existing ridiculousness.
How can benefits be $41,791? If this is the average, what are they on the high side?
Actually, anarchists don't generally see Somalia as an example of anarchy. It's generally accepted that for an anarchist... state to form, significant social change is necessary before any sort of governmental chance. You cannot just take the training wheels off, or you'll fall.

I suspect your opinion of anarchy is that of 13 year olds and punk bands, and I can't really blame you. There's a large amount of poor press involved. It's actually very thoroughly thought out, even if you disagree with their premises. If you'd care to learn more, there is a FAQ: http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html

Note, this is from a collectivist perspective, who say that anarcho-captialists are not anarchists. I'm not sure of a great resource on anarcho-captialism, but it's basically just a more extreme version of libertarianism/minarchism anyway.

Okay, enough off topic stuff. Just please try to consider the way you casually dismiss others' beliefs, it makes them less likely to listen to your arguments (which are good ones).
Dupont Circle in Washington DC could take a page from this. It's the exact opposite principle: inner and outer circles, with sets of inner and outer traffic and pedestrian lights at each incoming road. At rush hour, it's fortunate if one vehicle can make it through each light. Other traffic circles in the area, in my experience, work much better without such control.
This was the link I was looking for when I posted that, a slightly more "authoritative" source. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/business/13digi.html
Good Eats episodes are focused on an ingredient and what you can do with it; Cooking for Geeks is essentially inverted, focused on concepts with recipes to illustrate and explain. This approach allows me to cover topics that don't readily fall out of traditional recipes or ingredients (ie psychology - what type of cook are you? or physiology - how does taste and smell work?).

Check out the preview on Amazon -- it's a very generous preview.
> there are numerous sides to a polyhedron and you could be looking at the smallest face of an irregular polyhedron

verbose, but it has a certain charm.
If I may add that the usability for the management of content is pretty bad with Drupal compared with WP. In my view this negates it's advantages in the 'complete solution' category.
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There's a huge difference between the housing crash and a potential student loan 'crash'.

A house is an asset. A unique asset at that, the only kind you can live in (other than your car). An underwater house, despite the term, becomes illiquid. You literally can not sell it. If you become unemployed you can not move to find work without walking away and trashing your credit.

A drop in house prices affects everyone. The student loan crisis affects very few and even fewer who make a meaningful contribution to the economy.

An underreported aspect of the housing crash was the end of the house as a magic ATM machine. People were spending vast amounts of HELOC money during the boom. Literally doubling their mortgages by pulling out cash against their house. With the crash that has stopped and the economy has ground to a halt.

What market would a student loan crash take down? Are people flipping degrees somewhere? If people feel a degree isn't worth it they'll go to a state school or transfer in from a community college. At worst schools will be forced to drop tuitions.

The post mentions student loan debts in the billions, subprime losses alone are in the trillions. That's the money out in the open. There's even more money off the books as banks don't have to report a loss until they sell REO property. There's a shadow inventory of foreclosed homes right now that matches the houses you'll find on the MLS.

The student loan crisis will in no way shape or form "dwarf" the housing market crash.
Thanks! And it tastes good, too! ;)
I'm not sure how widespread it is, but a handful of Bing blindspots I've run across are something they can't do anything about without violating robots.txt: a decent number of sites block all crawlers by default, but whitelist GoogleBot, presumably from a "we don't want to be crawled, but we do want to be googleable" line of thought.
I use it on both sides (client and server). There's some code sharing between server and client side, but it's not a huge productivity boost that one should switch to a language they may not be comfortable with on the server side.

Organizing your code into smaller modules is probably more important in Node.js than most other frameworks if you want to keep your sanity. Otherwise you'll end up with crazy arrow code due to all the callbacks.

The speed that you gain from sharing the same language, you lose in the inability to write shorter code (Python/Ruby) and debugging callbacks. I think it's good to be language agnostic and have some sort of http rpc interface system to communicate between the languages.
Why OpenCL will be on Every Smartphone in 2014
I've seen a lot of responses recommending Bing. What is Microsoft's stance on net neutrality? Aren't they the company that tried to prevent other web browsers from being installed on their OS back in 98?

Don't get me wrong, my business is enmeshed with google now and I'm looking for alternatives, but if the problem is with Google's political stance on net neutrality wouldn't all these recommendations be incomplete without including a statement on the company's political stance with regards to net neutrality?
A lot of staring at screens and eating free food.

There's more to life...

Oh wait, you get to wear a sombrero.
Are you sure anti-Microsoft bias wasn't seeping in somewhere? (It used to be pretty easy, but it's getting harder with every new Google news article...) My roommate and I both tried it and didn't really get tripped up (and that was a while ago)
I speak 2 languages fluently and a few others adequately. I definitely think my behavior is a little different when speaking Spanish versus English, but I don't think there are any deep-seated psycholinguistic reasons for this - it's more because of cultural differences.

An example: in Colombia, when demonstrating the height of a child, you hold your hand vertically, while when talking about the height of an animal, you hold your hand horizontally. If you do the wrong thing, people may assume you're a foreigner and don't know, or they may assume you're just rude. The fact that I learned to hold my hand a certain way when speaking Spanish with Colombians doesn't mean my personality has changed, it means I've absorbed a cultural lesson and if I do it, I do it because I am trying to fit in.

The same things goes for the way in which you express yourself with speech. The way you greet people, how long you make small talk before "getting down to business", how to flirt in a bar; all of these things vary a LOT from country to country and if you want to fit in, then you need to pay attention and learn some things. But again, doing that does not mean that your personality has changed; you're just behaving differently.

One more thing - as somebody who studied theoretical linguistics and speaks the two languages fluently, any time people start making ridiculously subjective claims about a language like "English, a more unemotional and efficient language than Spanish" - keep in mind you're reading complete bullshit.

That's like saying the firewire cable that you use to transfer movies from your video camera is more "artistic" than the USB cable you use to attach your hard drive to your computer. It's confusing the signal with the carrier, and making some pretty subjective claims about the signal too.
Securing WordPress and using a 'small' selection of plugins to optimize performance (cache) are two critical elements of running a successful WordPress site.

If you're a non-technical user, trying to manage a website with more than 5-10 plugins is a recipe for disaster. Stick with the major plugins that are well supported and establish a relationship with a PHP/WordPress developer to bail you out if you mess something up down the road.
"Laws" also require government regulation, yet you wouldn't have much commerce without them.
When working overseas and immersed in a foreign language, I found the processing power required for translation occupied my brain enough that I was less filtered and, as a result, more outgoing. I also picked up a new set of social cues and linguistic mannerisms since I was working with a blank slate of sorts. Both contributed to a slightly different personality.
If you're using Google without clicking on their ads you're not exactly supporting them...
I think it's a lot more cultural acclimatization than language, although the language you're using at the time may "force" a cultural context. I've certainly been different people when living in different places: the back-woods bilingual (English and "sawmill French") Stan of Northern Ontario had a lot in common with the distictly Maritime-accented Stan who lived in Halifax, Summerside and St. John's, but is almost no relation to the Stan who lived in Montreal or the current Torontonian version -- unless you can drag a bit of Newfanese or joual d'scierie out of me in a conversation. When that happens, the "my time is precious", stacatto-speaking urban a-hole melts away and a mellower (yet, oddly, harder-working) kind of fellow takes over. Granted, that's "anecdote", not "datum", but it frames an alternate way of studying the phenomenon.
Hey, you're the one who worked there :)

What do you think made me so anti-college?
Do public sector unions make any sense at all? Are the members ultimately being protected from themselves as voters in a democracy? When you have a government monopoly on providing the service and a union monopoly on providing the labor...monopoly pricing seems likely.

All defined benefit pensions should be converted to defined contribution at current value.
PHP isn't all bad, it's super easy to deploy as well and on a bang-for-the-buck comparison it probably works out a lot cheaper than hosting a rails based app.

The rails stuff would most likely be faster to develop and would be easier to maintain long term, which also translates in to some value.
More details on the suit in this article / video:
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Bing is really good, but is absolutely not a good alternative from a "taking a moral stand against evil corporations" point of view.
Thanks I saw this one, but I was leaning more towards getting opinions from the audience that I respect, that is here :) Plus lots of startup people here, too.
My Head is in the Cloud
USA today is comparing the average size of grapefruit to the average size of limes here.

A Bad paper is doing bad statistics
I'm not really sure how they could make sense given that no one is representing the interests of the state itself in the negotiating process. I'm not sure anyone could either.
How a programmer reads a resume
Pension plans.
Interesting, but hard to consider a "look back" posted on an official Facebook blog as anything but necessarily whitewashed. (Not knocking.)
Compared to my other overseas adventures, Downunder is a much easier adjustment. I have a family now and we're all going so I'm happy about this. Good to ease them into the whole expat thing.

We'll be starting down south, in Adelaide, coming from DC. What struck me most about the difference in these two places is just how laid back and casual everything is down there. Right-hand drive is stressful for me though!

I'll be back down there in a weeks time looking for a place to live and finishing immigration paperwork. Any HN folks in SA who might want to meet up for a quick pint some idle evening, drop me a line.
OK, obligatory inversion: What do you (programmer/etc.) know about your girlfriend's passion?
because at the stage we invest at, we assume the idea is inevitably going to change so we're really looking at how strong the founders are. that's why it doesn't matter to us if google could 'do it themselves' or if there's competition from other startups, since we're funding the team not the idea.
I agree with most of this post except that you should build to scale. Scaling isn't what you should be focused on. If you focus on this you will loose sight of the product you should be developing and responding to user feedback.
At least on a car, a stick shift is a lot more fun than an automatic. Since people ride motorcycles largely for fun, I'm not surprised they're uninterested in automatic transmissions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
I've been living in Spain for 8-9 years now and notice this whenever I go back to visit Canada or even the UK.

Interestingly, when we go to foreign places where English isn't the official language I find that I take on my "Spanish identity", perhaps like this author did when using German in the Czech taxi.
Search is easy. Just use Bing. It's good enough and better in many respects. The bigger problem is finding replacing Gmail, Docs, Reader, GCal, Maps, Analytics, YouTube, Finance, Picasa, Android, etc. My life is tied to Google. Search is tiny compared to the other invaluable services I use.

Even if I find replacements for all these services online, there is also the desktop and mobile integration question. MS talks a lot about "cloud computing" but I've yet to see it from them. With Google, however, I am able to access all my data across multiple devices.
I wasn't refering to that extreme, but rather as in do I really need an (iPad|second car|fancy tv|another video game|nicer house|newest laptop|etc.)? I've lived in some different places to see both sides of this and found if you can answer no more than yes you'll be happier.
A TI-83+ silver edition was my first programming experience in 8th grade. All I knew was TI-basic with its 2 character labels for goto and one character variables. I tried to program a game and filled up a page with notes on what the code at the 100 different labels did... you can imagine my shock when I first saw functions and arrays in C!
Interesting that you brought that up. What IS your mother's maiden name? (Also, I need the name of your first pet, and your high school mascot, if you don't mind.)
uh.

people have always wanted to fatten their wallet. always will.

they just noticed 50-70 years ago that people who know more have fatter wallets.
IT security pros mentoring each other for career growth
Interesting Wiki page that is helpful here on code-switching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching
TFA says "Most of this was the government's contribution to pensions". But also consider that decent health insurance for a family is getting up near $10K a year, and federal employees get pretty generous vacation time, which is probably worth several thousand as well.
Good point.

I work around it by setting up the Google Sync account on the device without mail and adding it as an IMAP account as well.
The "break things" part of "move fast and break things" is something Google could learn a bit from. (Speaking as a Googler.)

We're great at adding 9s of reliability, not as great at sacrificing reliability for progress. You can only move so fast when everything must work.

This is the liability I guess of having a huge launch audience for even minor products.
It means that when your site goes down, there is a pretty good chance your husband can put it back up for you.
Good standing doesn't seem to be vague to me really. Your account isn't violating some ToS, delinquent, etc... Most accounts are probably in good standing.

I wouldn't worry about this too much. It doesn't cut you off, just limits it to updating once per day (basically just a day behind). Its possible that your business/company is dependent on information from hourly reporting in realtime, and if that's the case you should probably augment GA with some other paid service or roll your own BI internally.
Happened to my wife and I during her citizenship interviews. Brief panic. Mumbling - eventually she came out with, "he does something with computers". Good enough for the INS
Yes.

My wife is an artist. Learning more about her passion is fun and has tangibly enriched my life.
List of open source Google App engine projects: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/web/google-a...

In my opinion its better to start with GAE rather than Heroku, since GAE has a good gui app launcher and also provides simple interface for administrating your dev or deployed apps.

Not to forget that the free Resources and API support available for GAE is much more wider than that for Heroku.

Also GAE works very well on windows and Mac and linux.
One question I would have is, "how are things different now?"

A lot could look similar on the face of it, but the company has grown so much - in users, mission, employees - that that same experience may not apply at present, even if highly recognizable components remain.
I'm happy to run the server but I don't know what software to use.
That's exactly what I was thinking. This needs to be a major factor that I'll take into consideration in my next relationships. It's not just about my interest in what the other person is doing, it's also about that person taking the time and having the patience to explain what they're doing on a daily basis to someone from outside the field.
If you are going to be this pedantic, then even if he plans on growing wings and flying up there, you will still bitch because the meal he plans to eat the night before will be harvested by combine.
The solution would be then to do autoconversions as appropriate or return an error.

The compiler already deals with this issue with the ?: operator. It's a readability and maintenance problem there, too. It'd be easy to do; the language designers chose not to.
A sombrero might have changed my last 3 years completely. What I mean though is that I wish I could have done more than I have done in the last 3 years, I don't feel like I've moved forward much.
I assumed that existed, but I hadn't reached the right karma threshold yet. So I keep flagging things, which is pretty much the same I guess.