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It seems like that would be one of the last spaces to be interested in a dynamic scripting language versus pure speed.

Game developers learned the trick, a while back, of writing things like low-level graphics engines in C/C++, and then high-level control/flow/UI/plugin systems/etc. in "slow"-to-run but "fast"-to-develop-in languages. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if there were also plenty of tasks in the finance world which need code, but don't need hand-optimized-down-to-the-individual-instructions performance.
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Agreed that you're not overreacting.

Seriously, this guy has shown himself to be fundamentally dishonest (both for starting this behavior after the rules of the game have been well established over a couple of years and then by neither stopping his theft or repaying as he promised). You're just not going to make things work with this guy and it's a lot broader than him taking money from the company that can't afford it, he's demonstrated that you can't trust him at all.

As philiphodgen says, either you remove him from the company (and don't delay) or you remove yourselves from it and let it die. You've given him the one chance he deserves, now is not the time for half-measures, including any compromise that includes him continuing to work with you in any way.

My father once worked at a very high level for a company where one of the founding partners started helping himself to anything he took a fancy to. The company was very profitable so it's not quite the same thing; getting rid of this partner was intensely painful and expensive (e.g. his demands for immediate cash when it came time for investment limited the options and caused everyone to take a needlessly big tax hit).

One lesson from the above is that if you do become successful the pain and difficulty is only going to be greater. If you were making 10/100/1000 times as much money how much might he be helping himself to? He feels entitled to the money....
Just to complete you, these are the attributes that enable men to be more supportive and women to produce healthier offspring.
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I agree it could be any of those things. Observationally, though, I concur with the doctor based merely on the lack of women I see running across the road in front of my car, skateboarding, BMX biking, base jumping, or generally pratting about in public compared to men.
Another straw for the camel's back. It's not far off breaking now, friends have been tempting me with offers to return to my roots - Ruby/Linux. Fuck Microsoft.
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are you trying to argue that nothing is wrong with women? is that seriously what you're trying to argue?
I have a masters degree from both a US university and one in Europe. It always struck me how the American books were consistently thicker then the the ones I got in Europe. The contents was the same basically, just much more condensed writing. The American books I could read almost like a novel, whereas before I had to carefully study each page, sometimes read it two times to understand what it meant.

Just a matter of style really, I wouldn't read too much into it. Perhaps the fact that in the US you have to pay for your own text books is a driver too.
"the right, because they involve special treatment for people who do not deserve special treatment"

What amazing garbage. Well over half the homeless are such because they belong in a mental institution, the closing of which was a major successful crusade of the left through the '70s or so (many libertarians and some members of the right like Jerry Pournelle joined them in this and the more honest of them like Jerry admit the mistake). "The right" was entirely happy with "special treatment" for these people since that is the only humane way to accommodate them. (You have, I assume, spent a little time around a schizophrenic person? Their ability to think is PROFOUNDLY broken.)

Antipsychotics were and are amazing wonder drugs: my Mom did her nursing residency in the '50s and part of that was working in a psych ward. Later she took a job at that same hospital and was amazed to see one of the previously hopeless cases productively working there as a janitor or the like.

The problem is that antipsychotics are also seriously nasty drugs (even more so when the above crusade happened, before safe atypical antipsychotics were on the market (the first was so dangerous that you couldn't get the next month's prescription filled for your patient without sending in a blood sample)) and "compliance", getting people to take their meds, is for all too many an impossible challenge outside of an institutional setting. Note also that the "drugs and alcoholism" problems are all too often attempts to self-medicate.

Anyway, we ("the right") believe these people deserve "special treatment" (the causes are mostly genetic after all) but the left has outlawed the only one that works. Not much we can do now but to pick up their bodies off the street when it's all over as harscoat relates.
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Yeah I agree, number 3 and 4 kind of sounds like a fear driven sweat shop to me.
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This was already submitted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1582203
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Well, there's hackernewsers.com to find people in your area who use HN. Use the search box to find people who use ruby.
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If you're running on EC2, you should _really_ be using a tool like Chef or Puppet (or at least your OS's package manager with custom packages) to make your configuration repeatable. This will allow you to spin up new machines in a known configuration in minutes, and your entire environment will be completely documented.
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If you parse a string of bytes, it's nice if it always turns into the same DOM. That's the scope of the HTML5 parser. There is no benefit to inconsistencies here.

Allowing browsers on different platforms to adjust page widths, font sizes, whether or not load images and plugins in accordance with the user's preferences is fine, but that's an entirely different issue.
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No. Browsers that implemented this would just lose their market share instantly. Users prefer being able to use their favourite sites.
I would call the credit card company and report the card as lost/stolen, immediately.

Then, set up a policy requiring 2 people to sign for all purchases, and pay for things by company check only. Establish a formal expense reimbursement process. You can probably get an accountant or bookkeeper to help you set this up.

If this person was initially a friend and productive, and suddenly started behaving differently, there are three possibilities.

1) He was always a bad person, and you just didn't notice.

2) He has given up on the company for some reason related to the company, and is being passive-aggressive, plus inherently somewhat dishonest.

3) He is having personal financial/emotional/etc. problems.

Not sure how you would determine which of the above it is, or how best to respond.

I've had embezzlement happen at a company I owned, and it ended up killing the company (the scale of embezzlement was high, and it wasn't a normal tech company). Ultimately, the problem is a lack of process/controls, adequate enforcement and supervision, and hiring immoral people. As a result, I am much more cautious with all of those things now.

I think you're more doomed due to lack of founder vesting than anything else.
ASK HN: How to be a better programmer?
I am a 24 year old guy who recently had an epiphany that the field i accidentally landed up in(programming) might just be what's my calling. But i want to get better at it than i already am today which frankly is not much.
and i need your help. I read this article by Peter Norvig in college http://norvig.com/21-days.html and have tried to follow it as a manifesto.
Specifically i want to ask these particular questions?
1. What blogs/books i can read on a daily basis to get a little better every day?
2. As i have a fulltime job which occassionally stretches into 12-16 hour workdays can i contribute to open source in a meaningful way? Or will working on a problem which i face is the better solution.
3. Any other tip that you might have, which you follow yourself or have seen someone doing that helps me towards this goal.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> If you think about what made YouTube, Facebook et alsuccessful,
> it wasn't some magic new technology,
> it was the right implementation and market acceptance.

I would have put that as the right implementation at the right time

many implementations will fail simply because of being too much ahead of time

the "right time" imho is not only about market acceptance or market penetration
it's also about "when people are ready to accept it".

Before google decided to use xmlhttprequest for gmail, nobody would want to use it
because it was considered "IE only", but once google used it, it gave xmlhttprequest
a certain credibility and then suddenly everyone started to use it and then the word "Ajax" was created.

In another context, take smartphone publishing their location in foursquare or whatever,
it's not only because they have the technology to do it (GPS), it's also related to social acceptance, after people got used to display their personnal infos on facebook, myspace, etc.
then it is just a little jump to accept to display their geolocation.

I do believe in "build what had previously not been possible" but it's not only because of technology or market penetration, there is also a big "social acceptance at the right time" parameter.
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You can always tell when you're doing something that is interesting or at least incredibly obscure, because you'll have extreme difficulty scrounging up any discussion of it. People only want to blab about boring retreads. :)
Wasn't the reason Newton invented calculus so that he could calculate mechanics (i.e. Newton's Laws)?
The word-tearing case had unrelated data values packed within the same granule of cache storage, and that derailed the running environment in a very subtle way. With just the right (wrong) timing, you very occasionally saw slightly different values in the adjacent variable within the granule when (apparently-unrelated) threads were spun up, and got tangled and torn. No shared references. Just sharing that granule.
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Practice makes perfect. The more you code, the better you become.

From my experience, reading books is one thing but if you didn't make your hands dirty, it's nothing. My advice would be, if you are really new to programming go learn the basics and get your hands dirty ASAP.
Are there any tech/startup events in your area? The best way to meet people is to go to places where there are like minded people.
While this strategy might put pressure on this client to pay this bill, the long-term damage to this firm could be quite high. I would never hire a vendor who airs grievances in public like this, and although they may need the cash now and not have the luxury of thinking long-term, this doesn't seem like a good way of brand-building.
I have a question though. Suppose I wrote a book. How do I start promoting and selling it? How do I put a kindle version of it on Amazon?
I agree, nice way to phrase it. However it seems a little long? Do some A/B testing, see what works
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Not hard to believe at all. Digital will be the norm and print on demand will be the fallback.
Ways to become a better programmer:

- Practive! The more you program, the better you become. The harder the thing you program, the better you become. This is the single most important thing you could do. All the great programmers I know program outside of work, in their own time. That is, they take an interest in programming and practice even when they don't _have_ to.

- Read code wrtten by people better than you. This will inspire you and give you ideas on how to improve your own code.

- Go to local user groups or meetups. Meeting other programmers outside of work will give plenty of opportunities to improve, by talking about ideas, showing each other projects or code or by working on projects together. If the group also does talks/presentations/tutorials, then you have even more opportunity to learn new things and improve.

- Learn new programming langauges is a good way of improving your programming skill, as long as the programming languages you learn are all different. For example, if you know Java, you won't get a lot out of learning Java and if you know Ruby, you won't get much out of learning Python etc (unless you want to use a specific library for those languages). However, learning something completely different, like Haskell or prolog or Common Lisp would help make you a better programmer. Basically, learn a language that is of a different paradigm than the ones you already know. The language itself might not be useful to you, but the concepts, techniques and ideas of those lnaguages will improve your programming skill.

- As far as books go, people have different tastes. Most people will recommend the classics (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; The Art of Programming, Code Complete, The Pragmatic Programmer and so on). They're good books, but may or may not be what you want.

- You can contribute as much or as little to open source projects as you want or have time for. Even just fixing a bug here and there is beneficial to the project, so find yourself a project that interests you and contibute what you can - but don't worry too much it if you find you don't have enough time. Understanding other peoples code and fixing their bugs is a great way to improve your own skill.

- Blogs.. I don't know. Its definitely a matter of taste. Keep reading articles linked by Gacker News and other such sites and bookmark blogs whos articles you like. Or go on stackoverflow.com and find people who post great answers - they may have blogs that would interest you. Bascially, try and find intelligent people who post about things that interest you.

Anyway, good luck!
You gloss over the treatment of patients at the "mental institutions". It was truly horrendous and deinstitutionalization arose out of that. I don't think anyone would argue that we've arrived at a solution.

Also, "the right" today is much changed from the 70s.
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Used book market... Until there is a reliable, easy way to resell e-books, they'll be limited to books with short half-lives, magazines, summer trash-reading and the like. I guess this should be expanded to transfer and/or resell, given the short lives of the devices themselves.
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You can also try #startups or #ruby on freenode. (if you're OK with IRC) - lots of like minded people
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I primarily met other programmers and like minded people on IRC, open source project mailing lists, or at cons. If you really want frequent f2f contact with other developers, I'd suggest moving to SFBA (if you're not already there).

If working in isolation bothers you, you could try and work with more commonly used technologies. Like the programmers you mention, I've never used Ruby either.
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Personally I don't see myself reading more ebooks than printed ones in 5 years time. Sure they may end up selling my ebooks than physical ones, although I hate how overused the word dead is when referring to technologies.

Dead to me is there is no market at all, dead is no bookshops in shopping centres. It could happen, I just don't see it, from my viewpoint public perception is that they are a great addition but not a replacement.
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Did the original AWS setup use Memcached? It doesn't sound like it, and clearly that would make a huge difference (and perhaps explain the sluggishness)?

In other words, they could have just added memcached to the AWS setup and gotten the same (or better) gains?
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There are some procedures, such as laperoscopic (sp?) procedures, that the surgeon does "remotely" - I mean, in close proximity of the patient, but not actually holding the tools. Are there difficulties that would prevent a surgeon from performing these procedures from someplace else?
Power-law solutions have little appeal to the right, because they involve special treatment for people who do not deserve special treatment; and they have little appeal to the left, because their emphasis on efficiency over fairness suggests the cold number-crunching of Chicago-school cost-benefit analysis.

What a bizarre thing for Gladwell to write. He's inexplicably generalized from one particular power-law solution, giving free apartments to the chronically homeless, to state that all power-law solutions are politically unpalatable.

In the case of the tiny minority of excessively violent LAPD officers - a simple power-law solution would just be to assign them to useful administrative jobs. I can't really see how that particular power-law solution would aggravate the right or the left.
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Perhaps it's worth pointing out that Americans receiving funding are already "getting money because of something [they] have no control over", like their nationality.

I am assuming here that an investor would be more likely to invest in an entrepreneur with a green card. They would certainly be saving money by doing so.
I believe similar observations have been made in subsidizing the price of fruit and vegetables (or even bikes and gym memberships) vs the medical costs of bad diets and lack of exercise, too.

Not sure if you were trying to make this point but:

The reason many people don't eat enough fruit or go to the gym isn't because its too expensive.
I was thinking something similar. I took a compiler course in college in 1990 and we were required to implement a couple of these optimizations (common sub-expressions, constant calculations). So I assume that they were considered easy.
I don't see any reason for printed books to exist anymore. They're more expensive to produce, they are not environmental friendly and it takes time to go out and buy them or to deliver them. I think it's almost the same as with printed photographs. Can you find anyone using them today? That would be a challenge.

Sure older people like to sniff paper and are somewhat sentimental about printed books. Hell, even I like to touch printed book with a nice cover. But that's just an illusion and the truth is that printed books do not add anything (and maybe even subtract) from the reading experience.
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On general principles expect it to die in one way or another, unless it's got a major high level champion left in the company (note that the departure of Hurd might be followed by some people who will now be lacking political cover).

I'm not saying this will happen, it's just that this is an all too common pattern. Nothing in big companies that work like HP gets anywhere without champions ... so see if there are any left.
What about long-term preservation of knowledge. As far as I know a well-printed and maintained book lasts a long time. Are you confident that future archaeologists will be able to read Kindle files 500 years in the future? 1000? 2000?
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We can't get our shit together long enough to stop destroying the planet, do you think we'll care if people will be able to read our books 2000 years later?
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I think printed books and bookstores more broadly will end up like vinyl record stores. They still exist, the medium is still produced, but the number of retailers are far fewer in number.

These shifts tend to take longer than most pundits say. I could see 8-10 years being a more likely estimate.
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Program tiny, but real, things in technologies you're not familiar with. They have to be tiny (to avoid a long list of unfinished projects, and because you learn more from finishing things), and they have to be real (ie. something that at least 1 person can actually use).
Unless you code the same thing over and over again until you retire, that is.
Stavrosk: that's what people were thinking around the year 1000 ... "OMFG the antichrist is coming, the end is near". Sure, civilizations disappear, maybe we'll manage to reduce world population to 1/100th of the current population. But disappear outright? I'm more confident in the resilience of homo sapiens than that.
That's what people were thinking around the year 1000 ... "OMFG the antichrist is coming, the end is near". Sure, civilizations disappear, maybe we'll manage to reduce world population to 1/100th of the current population. But disappear outright? I'm more confident in the resilience of homo sapiens than that. And given this, we owe it to future generations to at least think about these issues.
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Heh, yeah, the picture is probably not an accurate representation of the type of attendee we will have.

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"truly horrendous" was worse than dumping them out on the streets?

I'd say we've "arrived at a solution" since any attempt to limit the "personal autonomy" of the severely mentally ill gets absolutely nowhere, unless of course they end up in jail as they all to often do.

"much changed from the 70s"???

Could you be more specific? Note that I came of age in the '70s so I lived through that and subsequent periods in the evolution of "the right".

Here's one good essay to look at WRT to a thesis it touches upon WRT to three generations of activists on the right (e.g. Buckley/Rush/Drudge): http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/nobody_can_fire_andre...