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This statement is absolute nonsense. Why should a programmer hate himself so?

I want to have beautiful and powerful tools. The code you write using an elegant language might as well be ugly. This shouldn't stop you from enjoying the process and demanding the best tools to do an already difficult job.

He admits that PHP ain't pretty, but argues that it does the job and that's good enough. Yes, yes it is good enough. However, he also claims that its the way it should be if you are "interested in building software for the end user." No, it really shouldn't, and thankfully we have practical languages and successful projects that prove it.
Arabs ban BlackBerry? No, not exactly.
He's wrong.

There's already work going on to port newer ZFS (w/deduplication) to FreeBSD. The biggest outlying question is if it will only be in 9, or if it might make it into 8.x.
That's right, nobody would ever do anything like echoing everything you type to a command shell or anything:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/worst-bug-ever/680

:-)
To Clarify - in his book he makes it seem like if he never signed Miked Oldfeld (Tubular Bells), then the company would have gone bust in its first few years, and that 25 year period would never have happened.

Hence, it was being in the right place at the right time once which allowed those future bad decisions to be made.
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>there is no creativity that follows

You are likely lacking in enthusiasm or other deep interest in any area. I find even casual reading outside the field tends to spark ideas in areas that I am interested in. Try to find some problem that you find deeply interesting and think about it while reading or, as jaquesm says, choose and actually work on a specific problem.
No. I didn't say that. The language you write in doesn't matter nearly as much as your attitude about writing the software. If you don't design for maintainability and readability, then modifying the code later will take much longer.
you should link to the original source: http://www.fefe.de/c++/
Take a long holiday.
I did it for my company. Except replace garage with basement. I have a business ISP account with a dedicated staff rep. and 24/7 on-site repair. It costs just at $77 a month for 10/5 with 5 static IPs.

I purchased an older HP Proliant server off eBay with 12 drives for just under $600 shipped for everything. I installed VMWare ESXi on the machine and then created 5 virtual machines. One machine for an email server, one for database server, one for web, and two staging machines for database/web server. Total cost for those machines was zero, and thanks to virtual appliances I can expand.

At that point I have redundant power supplies, raid hard drives, and plenty of backup swaps. I also can configure the server whenever to allocate resources as needed to the machines running. I can quickly copy and create a new server whenever I need one, which is really nifty.

In the end the only down-time I have is when my power is totally out. If I host I usually have about a 97% up-time excluding regular maintenance. The machine running constantly makes less impact than my Dell XPS 720.
piece of mind -> peace of mind
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As adbge mentions elsewhere, the latest ZFS package in FreeBSD is lagging OpenSolaris's.

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1567463 (or scroll down)
OK, but one of the things that C programmers often say differentiates them from non-C-programmers is their ability to grok pointers.

E.g. "I can't remember the last time I had trouble getting something done in Pascal because it didn't support pointers" :-)
I don't like using SVN for enterprise because of it's broken merging/branching. It's hard to implement a proper feature branching strategy without dealing with conflicts.
Very cool. In Emacs.app (aka. Carbon Emacs) my right click acts as an eraser and does not show a menu like it does in the video. Does anybody know how to enable that popup menu (I am a vim user and a emacs noob.)
Another 'co-founder wanted' post here a couple of days ago garnered 150 responses, you'd think that amongst the 149 that won't be 'the one' for that particular person there might be one that is right for you.

The posting that led to the 150 responses should be part of a textbook on how to approach potential co-founders, have a look at it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553095
Ask HN: How do I pick a logo? /$500 99designs contest with  70 entries/
I kicked of a $500 99designs contest for my logo on Friday and received over 70 submissions already. I eliminated the most obvious suspects and asked friends and family for help.

The contest doesn't end until Friday and I wonder if there's an algorithm of sorts I can use to tackle existing designs and the ones that will, undoubtedly, be coming.

I understand that combinations of deep red and black don't make for a good web site built around the logo. I also find myself partial to the sci-fi 3D orbs -and- the flat shape designs like #55 or #11.

http://wagerlabs.com/logo-contest-for-algokit

Other bits of interest... This is for a web-based compiler (source-to-source translator) between various trading languages. The aim is to enable users to migrate between platforms at a push of a button, without having to manually rewrite their strategies. The plan is to charge $400-600 per translation.

Translator is written in OCaml, the backend is OCaml with Ocsigen, uses Amazon SimpleDB and S3 and Plimus for payment processing.
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>The spinning top at the end is a red herring -- it's Christopher Nolan having a little fun with us. The true indication of what happened, that Cobb has reached reality, is in his ability to see his children's faces at last.

That's the most absurd rationalization I've heard all morning.

If you go back and watch the movie again, there are a number of clues that the entire movie is a dream (mysterious, nameless agency chasing Cobb, the sudden importance of an irrelevant power company's heir, Cobb getting trapped between closing walls as he flees, etc.). In fact, that when he finally "sees" his children they start out following exactly the same scene he kept hallucinating seems to be the bigger giveaway. In any case, why does Cobb insist that seeing their faces will mean he's really awake? That sounds like the kind of nonsense one might believe in a dream.
A very high conversion rate with a very low total influx of potentials is also a way to 'beat the system', but if you'd play that trick in a corporate setting you'd be out of money and closing the doors pretty quickly.

Conversion rate is not something to tune for, turnover/profits are, and if you can increase your turnover without increasing costs in such a way that your profits suffer then it is perfectly ok to see a drop in conversion rate.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.
I'm experiencing this same issue. I also have MMS and Facetime working, although I got it pretty late in the day yesterday so they probably already fixed that issue.
Oh I had forgotten about that. Haha
The way they count the conversion rate is not from people coming over to the page but instead the conversion rate of people buying the software after having downloaded a trial version...
My first thought was "Wow, she's an Aussie!", and immediately looked for SoundCloud job postings in the local area.

They're all in Berlin. Nuts.
"According to Maclean, comparing mainframe performance against, say, Oracle running on an x86 server platform may yield similar results in a low usage scenario. However, a mainframe will prove its value as that application set scales up in volume. The difference isn’t in the CPU, which (in non-IBM cases) is the same on both sides of the comparison. Rather, the difference is in the architecture of the operating environment."

http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=artic...
In fact, western civilization runs on the mainframe AND excel. As a consultant, I see a lot of both...
Currently just the CME, all of it was written in house, with the exception of Quickfix for Java for sending orders and OpenFast for CME marketdata. We'd like to replace Quickfix in the near future as it has too much static singleton state for our liking. It takes a few months to a year to write the exchange connectivity pieces depending on how many times you've done it before. We've done it several times so we are pretty comfortable in that area. Subsequent exchanges are a lot easier once you have the basic infrastructure in place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalNumber.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsequence

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Subsequence.html

Does anybody want to explain why they downvoted a mathematical fact?
I thought about that but if you notice, it's only the statue that leans. The island and all background objects are even with horizon.
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>[mobile providers] offer about the same service quality at about the same price

Not in my circle. I pay less than my AT&T friends and they bitch constantly about connection and service.
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Also Linode and Slicehost handle power and network reliability issues better than your local service providers (probably).
That is, if you can't setup a CL system, you simply are not skilled enough as a programmer

But these things are unrelated! Your ability as a Lisp programmer is entirely unrelated to your ability as a Windows/Linux/whatever sysadmin/build engineer/whatever. If anything it's the old "it works on my computer" excuse that (bad) tech support trots out. That's the thing that sets the Clojure guys apart, they actually are interested in making it possible to take it for a spin.

I'm reminded of the difference between PADI and BSAC, two competing dive schools. PADI says let's get you in the water as soon as we can, don't worry, it's only a swimming pool and we have instructors and lifeguards on hand, and when you're ready we'll go out to sea and continue learning there. BSAC says study in a classroom for 6 months, then let's go dive a wreck at 50m...
What users notice most is latency, not bandwidth.

For example, if every page asset has an extra 1 second latency, then you are adding several seconds to your base page load time as all those 1 second delays stack up. First the main frame has to load, then if you have a subframe, the subframe has to load, then finally the content in it. Nest frames or other content, and suddenly your site seems sluggish for a single user and you're nowhere near your bandwidth limit.

I've had Fios and Comcast and on both latency wasn't great. Latency on their networks varies widely by location and is harder to keep consistent and build a good marketing message around, so they don't sell on latency.
You can google "namecheap coupon" and the top site or two is consistently one that keeps track of their coupon codes.

If you follow their "free SSL" link from their front page and register from that direction, your cart will contain an entry for a free PositiveSSL certificate. Note that you have to then follow the link listed on its line in the cart (or something like that) to actually get the free certificate included in your order. (I don't know how widely accepted/pre-installed this certificate provider is, but it's "free".)

You can also elect free whois protection (their contact info and a rotating email address that forwards to you) for the first year.

Note that after the first year, "free" goes away from the whois protection and the certificate. The protection is US$2-3- for subsequent years. I don't know about the certificate, but they also offer RapidSSL certificates, which I believe are pretty widely accepted, for fairly cheap.

No association with them, just a satisfied user.
Hum... Using AK, why not suggest some of your designers try to use a PRISM /\ with light coming out of it to make the K. Since your software converts one type of code into others.
> The mainframe software market is twice as big as the Linux market

That's one hell of a compliment for Linux then.
It's not just annoying it's counterproductive. In my head setup fees trigger warning bells on two areas:

1. The company is so un-automated that it actually needs considerable human intervention to prepare a server and doesn't actually bother to include this basic operation into their total cost (they sell servers after all).

2. It's a trick to squeeze at least the 150 euro from you. Because if I find out in the first months that their service is sub-par I can just cancel my subscription but I'm not getting my 150 euro back.
I suppose it really does come down to common sense.

If you get into business specialising in something you have little to no passion about and you are unsuccessful then chances are you won't have enjoyed the process whereas if you are unsuccessful after attempting something you truly are passionate about then you will more than likely have enjoyed the process regardless.

It reminds me of what my Dad used to tell me 'Do it because it makes you smile, not because it makes you money'.
>a legal invasion

From who's point of view? I don't care if the invading force claims it is legal or necessary.

> I would definitely be upset, but it would not be murder

Well what if it was the mafia who "saved" you?

>During a legal war, it is clearly legal, provided the belligerent obeys the law of war.

The problem with this line of thinking is it's completely one sided. If an entity declares war on another entity the second entity can't simply say "we don't accept". They are at war at this point and now all sorts of nasty and immoral things become technically "legal".

This is compounded even more with the US' current "war", the ludicrous "war on terror".

>The quality of life in Afghanistan is probably better today for 90% of Afghans than it was in 2000,

I need some citations on that. And non-US military (or pro-US military) ones.

>In Iraq, the quality of life is absolutely better for the Kurds, and quite possibly better for most Shia, than it was under Saddam. Around 2009 and 2010, it's probably reached the turning point of being better on a daily basis than it was in the past, at least for those who didn't leave Iraq; there are definitely displaced persons who are worse off.

I disagree. And my "displaced" friends would also disagree. The people I know who do mission work there would also disagree. I wish I could somehow inspire you to get your news from sources that aren't so... sympathetic to the US' imperialistic causes because the picture your sources are painting seem to be particularly rosy.

>I don't think the decrease in quality of life from 2003-2007 was inherent to the invasion, but to incompetence during the occupation

It was a direct result of the invasion. Sadam was gone, extremists who were afraid to do certain crimes became free to do them. It's very clear.
I think that used to be more important, but these days when your pages are being generated from templates on the fly it's not much harder to change the template than the CSS.
I boot off ext4 and have my home on a BtrFS partition. My kernel is 2.6.32-24 and can't remove snapshots. I am waiting for the next Ubuntu release so I can properly remove them.

The machine is configured to take a snapshot of my home folder on boot, but I am staring to regret snapshotting the downloads folder. I will change the setup accordingly in the future. I would like to mimic the way OpenSolaris does it, but didn't have the time to dig into the docs. Or a live OSOL box.

I haven't had any real problem beyond the annoyance of being unable to remove snapshots (have to rm-rf their guts and move them to a "delete-me later" folder), but, as always, YMMV.
You need to get a designer to redo your homepage, and you to put in some more work toward marketing. You may have a fantastic product, but the website looks like it was done in 5 minutes back in 1997. Lose the javascript "not there yet" alerts and just put some copy of what will be there.

Good luck.
That's my original point. If you are sending relevant users to download the trial (albeit with a high acquisition price) your trial -> paid conversion rate will be higher.
To remember something you have to constantly use that information. The basic information from your youth stays with you because you were tested on it daily and practiced it for years. Also the young brain soaked up information better before than it does now.

To learn new information you'll have to do recite it often OR put it into practice often. So make sure it's subjects that you enjoy or can force yourself to use/memorize.

I can still recite the first few lines of Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson since I memorized it for recitation years and years ago. I practiced for hours and hours.
Sorry, edited my poor subtext. :) thanks for answering.
lol, you sound wired! Get some sleep ;)

Best of luck on the new company!
A dash after tumblr would have been much more informative than a comma.
I believe that this should be applied to almost anything you want to learn in your life. In my opinion it is almost always a waste of time to read and study something if you are not immediately applying the knowledge. I think this is just how people learn.
No, it does, however, ensure that my errors don't randomly get dumped on the page, and that instead an exception is raised and a proper 500 page can be returned.
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I came here to mention that was the most stunning bit of the article. Not the fact. But that someone is using the size of the Linux market to demonstrate how large mainframe's share is.

I'm old and have lived through the growth of Linux. Starting as nothing, through all the FUD, and naysayer pudits, and claims it was communist, and MS many monopolistic attempts to squash it, etc. Comments like that still make my jaw drop.
Actually, if you look at the cast you will see that there are different children (different ages) who play the children at the two different points in the movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/fullcredits#cast
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It is on his wikipedia page, sourced from this 2004 Wired article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/hacker_pr.html

Lamo makes a point of refuting the accusation: http://pax.vox.com/library/post/citability-is-important.html

I found it interesting he only addressed the restraining order and not the general stalking behaviour or (alleged) stun gun use.

Edit: Not claiming this has any relevance to current events, I was just curious about the grandparent's claim.
Hopeless Dreams
40 years of OS games, including Woz's Little Brick Out & Bill Gates' Donkey.
Podcasts for security pros
What software are you using to deliver the auction status updates which appear directly below the image of the $20 bill?
The article is called "The Dark SIDE of C++".

(Must not get sucked into C++ bashing thread...)
Women 'view modesty as sign of weakness'
What's the best way to measure poverty?
Well OK, the formula at this link will give you all the digits of pi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_approximations_of_%CF...

The formula is clearly finite (on the order of 40 symbols), it does not contain "all the information in the world" and neither can any sequence it generates.
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this is so beyond cool...
Unfortunately http://www.khanacademy.org/ doesn't touch computer science, but I love to watch to review math and physics.
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You don't need to analyze WordPress via HipHop to determine that it is truly dangerous total crap written by morons, and given that, it's been apparent for a long time that it is disturbing how many copies of it are running.

If you take a look at any community of designers who consider themselves 'developers', its scary - most of them build on WordPress as a platform. Clearly this is somewhat like putting up a tent on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. I can't believe how terrible the innards of wordpress are. That said, the outtards work pretty well, somehow.
Pfft. I've sent Dave Winer at least one email telling him to stop using tables.

(He didn't.)
Obviously there is a business use case for mainframes, these can't all be legacy systems. But what is it? Can someone who has worked with such a system shed some light?
I've said about the same myself.

Rasmus is eminently practical. Mucho respect to the man.
The other credited actors play the VOICES of the children when Cobb calls home from the hotel room in Japan.
A lot of websites are outdated and built with 2001 in mind, no doubt.

But please don't turn the web into a console game.
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Are those really busses or are they trains? This scheme looks cool, until I try to picture what happens during turns. Remember that "large vehicles make large turns." One way to think about it is that "turn radius" of the from wheels is much larger than for the back wheels. It's more complicated than that, but it's the gist.

EDIT: Watching the video now. The "bus" is divided into many sections which need to "snake" around turns. This fact is fudged a lot -- many of the illustrations also show vehicles that do not have joints. Judging from the size of the bending joint sections, the minimum turn radius of the bendable trains looks fairly large.
I realise that if you pulled all the warts of any language together into on document it isn't going to make particularly nice reading. With C++ it is a bit like a horror story!
Hear hear. I looked at Haskell years ago, liked the functional aspects, recursion, lists, etc., but monads for I/O, database, was like hitting a wall. Switched to ocaml, it had enough imperativeness for that, but I got turned off when I got to functors of modules or something like that. Worked in Common Lisp for a while, but now I'm happy in Clojure, I got back the FP but I don't need a PhD for talking to a database.
I wonder what their turning radius is? How will they turn around at the end of the route (I would imagine probably just switch back like a train).
Thanks China for another crazy but awesome idea.
From a security perspective, kind of... it's not like for a decade or so every other security hole was a buffer overrun (or underrun, as the case may be) or others of that ilk. That's not to say they don't serve a purpose, but it's pretty easy to see that higher level languages have eliminated an entire class of security concerns in our code (at obvious costs).
That doesn't answer parent poster's question.

iPhone 4 unlock will come in next 24 hours. It's in last round of testing. You can use ultrasn0w 0.93 to unlock 3GS or 3G right now though.
First thing that jumped out at me was cars under it trying to make a turn... I think both of those would work with bridges that the bus would use around turns (picture on/off ramps on highway)
I'm done with slow disk on cloud hosts. But actually the one with slow disk was Slicehost, and I AM fed up to hell with that. They caused me no end of problems until I figured out they were the problem. It's a bit deceptive, really, since you're promised your fair share of resources - then it turns out you're disk i/o is as low as 3/mb a sec. W T F.

Instead of going nuts and hosting in my garage, though... I just changed hosts. A rack on a colo would make more sense than the garage route, too.