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But a mortgage is still a form of long-term forced savings, after all

No it is not, I don't understand why people cannot get debt and assets straight in their head. A mortgage is a debt, it is theoretical money at some future date. It is resold on the market as an asset when in fact it is not.

So here is the deal, If I buy a house today with all cash and the market continues to erode it will eventually devalue other sectors in relation to it. Because a house is a tangible asset and tangible assets have this tricky way of devaluing other hard assets on their way down (eventually). So for instance a house is today worth lets say 15 cars. No matter the dollar amount cars and houses will roughly measure out to the same exchange scale give or take a car.

Just as we are seeing now the housing market is threatening to put us into a deflationary spiral. In which other real assets will fall in line with the monetary conversion value of housing. So no matter what the $ amount is, a house will be worth 15 cars give or take a car. As A side note, if you can time the times when they are significantly out of balance you can make some money. It was once said that in the 1800's an ounce of gold would buy you a nice suit and that today and ounce of gold will buy you nice suite. This has held relatively true.

OK, so back to my gripe with the article, why is a mortgage not a form of long term savings? Because the mortgage reflects the monetary valuation of an asset at a certain point in time. After that point the monetary valuation of the asset and the mortgage can diverge. The house still has roughly the save value (or will adjust to), just not the same cash value. Mortgages are not written on an index compared to assets so you are exposed to the risk of the asset adjusting while you have a fixed monetary debt instrument.

This is why, one should be in an all cash or all asset position depending on the state of the market. In a declining market one should take a cash position and in an inflationary market one should take an asset position. Timing the switch is the trick. Conversely, being on either the owning or receiving end of a debt based security is not the same as being in a cash or real asset position, no matter the direction of the market, but for some reason people confuse this in their mind.

Purchasing assets on leverage always exposes you to the risk of adjustment, it therefore cannot be considered a form of savings as there is not a guaranteed return as we have witnessed so clearly as of late. One should always be very cautious when leveraging an asset. They can and do diverge.

Not to mention that leverage causes assets to hype-inflate (bubbles) and then many times rapidly deflate once over leveraging happens.
Only time I ever used IE was to download Firefox

Next time use ftp.
Exactly. Even I feel using Open ID is quite complicate when I was forced to use it for the first time on Stackoverflow.
I was at a mutual gathering and I ran into someone who had worked on an iteration of Duke Nukem Forever. He seemed genuine about the product and he definitely said it was still on... even though he wasn't actively working on it.

We all want it to be coming, that's the point. :)
This title gave me my biggest smile tonight :)
No. Part of the reason for that is America's culture of debt; it's obviously not real money to the woman in the story. I wonder what her credit card statements look like.
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Not only was the public voting a big factor, it was also greatly affected by preliminary results being published two days before the voting ended. That had a big impact on subsequent voting. The teams on top started getting a lot of "competitive votes", i.e. people voting one star all-round to favor other projects.

This kind of behavior really soured the spirit of the voting. I wish the organizers had thought twice before publishing the results ahead of time.

Other than that, big props to the organizers. Everything about this competition was well organized and well ran. So many awesome projects came out of it. I'm so glad I could be a part of it.

Full disclosure: I was in the Swarmation team.
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I recommend that you sit behind a non-technical relative or friend, and watch them use Ubuntu without offering them any help.

There are quite a number of things that they'd like to do that isn't clearly expressed - or even easily findable! - though Ubuntu's GUI. They will struggle with it for a bit.

Plus: even if we set that aside, there will be certain bits of hardware you'll want to use that would require opening the Terminal to configure/install.

Because my objective is to minimize my time spent on helping my friends/relatives with their computers, Ubuntu simply isn't a good enough alternative to Windows. You merely trade the time spent on making the computer virus-proof with time spent teaching them where to find things (which is funny, because most of the time I'm finding things for the first time myself, seeing as I prefer the Terminal).

As opposed to the Mac - I send them away to buy one, and they never come back to me for help.

PS: Why the downvotes? I expressed a justified assertion, backed up with some evidence, and people react to the fact that I'm dissing Linux? Tsk, HN, I expected more of you.
Do you have an specific SOAP API in mind, or do you want a generic "SOAP sink" powered by Node? If the former, you can get away with your own lousy in-house implementation (2 pages of javascript, really.) If you want a full blown SOAP client implementation, including WSDL parsing, you better hope there exists something already.

My recommendation, as the developer of a SOAP client/server library; don't bother. Use Java or PHP, as those have the best SOAP libs out there, and figure out a way to pipe SOAP requests through your own java/php "proxy" app and let those libs take care of the cruft.

Using Node for SOAP is sacrilege. The two are diametrically opposed in their philosophies, and SOAP will easily negate any performance gains you might have made from using an event-drive server.
Solo founder beginner-league looking for a second. Send me an email. I may be unranked, but I pwn n00bz in the practice league.

This will be after the Terran nerf patch comes out, so there are no guarantees on how good I will be.
Exactly what I was going to say. Read for learning, write for practice.

Continual learning and practice = Mastery
Not sure where eclipse is at now but I have less than fond memories of that beast. I did most of my java coding in ultraedit so I could actually listen to mp3s at the same time back then.

Not that I had a lot of love for VS either, but I don't remember it ever running as heavy as eclipse.
My experience is nearly the opposite, Modern Perl for me is a wonderful language to write web applications in. Nearly everybody I speak with regularly is developing some web based application in Perl. Then again thats what I do for a living so my glasses are definitely rose tinted.

Sites like the BBC iPlayer system, and Omni Hotel's booking application are large public examples of Perl applications, Magazines.com is another. At the smaller end of the fence I worked on ParkingMobility.com, a REST system written in Perl with multi-platform clients (including iPhone), was written using Catalyst and the KiokuDB Object Persistence engine.

You have moved on, but so has Perl. Moose for example has had heavy influences from OCaml, Scala, CLOS, Smalltalk, and others. It provides anywhere from "some" (Moose has Type Constraints but not inferencing for example) to much if not more (Moose's implementation of Traits can provide state unlike Scala's from what I know) of the features of other languages.

The rivalry between Perl5 and Perl6 means that more and more of these features will be expressed. For example, I've seen some proof of concept code for implementing Moose's type system at the core language level (my Int $i = 'One'; # boom!). With a properly motivated hacker and the right direction this could turn into an excellent dynamic type system, or even a semi-static system similar to the one Perl6 is implementing. Having this kind of a type system makes lot of Web programming tasks much simpler to implement (and eliminates a whole range of security holes).

The current momentum in the community has me very excited for the future of Perl.
To whomever modded me down: Are you capable of expressing an informed answer to a serious question, or is it that you just get dumbstruck at the prospect of explaining something you'd rather just take as a given?

The idea that plain copying for the sake of making a cheaper knockoff is somehow wrong or sleazy is prevalent in many places, but never well articulated. It seems entirely a cultural thing, something that bothers some people because that's all they've known.

If there's a deeper reason, I'd like to know what it is.
Just an aside, this hasn't been the way good science has been done for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_inference

I do however agree; many researchers I work with don't understand the benefits of adopting a strong inference approach.
Yes. You don't have to turn it on, but it shows up in the sidebar regardless.
At some point I interfaced with a DB2 product and some of the code was seriously 30 years old and had goto's as a best practice... really.

Really.
You and your wife have made several key decisions that indicate you are on the same page with money and will be successful:

1. You will live on less than you make
2. With the extra money, you will pay off your debt.
3. Once done with that, you will build up savings so you won't need to borrow for emergencies.

You correctly point out that communication is the largest issue here. However, before these couples can even communicate about their financial situations, they will need to understand them first. I think that anyone that does not have at least a vague understanding of what their financial situation is not yet mature enough to be married.
Wait, down-voted you before I realized the parody...
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Great narrative! The picture wouldn't have been the same without it.

This is probably explained by the Change blindness phenomenon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness
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I've had many of those myself, but the original question was why most people have more respect for pianists than gamers and the answer is that most people find the Moonlight sonata moves them in a way the goose juggler doesn't.
I really like the observations his niece makes, specifically “When I play hide and seek with my friends I have to hide, but if I don’t want to be seen by grown-ups I just have to be quiet.”
So, why is it the future? Is it the future because it's a huge improvement over current technology, presenting compelling reasons to move over to it, or is it the future because everything thinks that it's the next big thing, to make people buy stuff again, and produce an ongoing revenue stream in the form of horribly expensive glasses needed for it to work?
Definitely meant in jest. I was a fan of the original Starcraft way back in the day. Even now new games come out that still provide me with a little distraction.

"Sad is the developer who knows not fun."
Great article. The author coins the term "tiny pony" to describe the tendency of becoming acclimated to certain exceptional things. ie: There's a pony in the apple store and no one seems to care. Because its always there..

Maybe its because we're so focused on ourselves? I still have a regular brick-type cell phone. So its a lot of fun for me to play with an iPhone or iPad whenever I'm at the store, or when my friends let me play with theirs. I always get an urge to buy one - it could totally make my life better (especially mobile internet).

But if I buy it, I know the magic will go away. It's particular exceptional-ness will become an expectation, and even a frustration when it doesn't work correctly. And after a certain period, I'd likely refer to it as just another brick-type object, compared with whatever relatively exceptional technology is out then.
This is a rather timely inquiry, I'll jump on the band wagon: I'm moving to London next week.

I'm a computational biologist / computer scientist with a background in algorithmic design and programming languages. Currently I'm employed as a research scientist at Brigham & Women's Hospital. I love finding robust and efficient solutions to hard problems.

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Lol,

"Cool" and "hip" once meant stuff too groovy for the squares to dig. But that was well in the past now...
A half assed service has the possibility of hurting their brand though, as well as driving people to competitors, e.g. http://twitter.com/garrettdimon/status/22824730445
At an old job, maybe 5 years ago, we still had an old 286 full tower with a 1200baud modem (running an old x86 unix) which was used as a dial-up file server... I doubt it's still in use today.
Entry-Level Developer - King of Prussia (~Philadelphia) - No Telecommuting.

ReminderMedia is a small company (~50 employees) that produces American Lifestyle magazine -- a marketing tool aimed at helping our customers build and maintain relationships with their clients.

We're currently in the process of moving our account interface to Zend Framework and will begin doing the same with our CRM in the near future. New feature development typically comes in the form of automating processes for the other departments.

Check out our latest job posting (http://www.remindermedia.com/careers/jr-software-developer-p...) or email me directly at jcampbell [at] remindermedia.com
I dunno, I think three dimensional video is an exciting medium once creators get over the novelty factor. It's going to be quite popular once the technology for glasses free displays are in homes.
That's insane. I'm at Waikato University, New Zealand, and we pay around NZD13000 (~= USD9000) a year
This reminds of the argument that you don't need to a degree in CS to be a good programmer. Sure you don't, but it helps.
Because binocular vision represents one ofthe complete capacities for human sensation. It's about as big a jump as it was from mono to stereo in terms of fidelity.

It's one step closer to total sensory immersion.
I would say that the majority of "users" (like myself) will not log into the service ever again.

It doesn't help having zero friends :/

And I will blame having no frinds on the lack of Fbook or Twitter connect
Typically jobs@ redirects to /dev/null.
And yet, the fine people on p5p keep making changes to something you're trying to claim is "done". You suggest elsewhere that "done"ness is a 100% thing. If Perl5 keeps changing, and it was 100% done in 1994 ... something is really inconsistent with the universe.

chromatic's pedantry is a symptom of people like us ignoring the fact that even a language like TeX will only be done when the author decides it's done (Knuth's death for example). That and he's a grumpy-butt sometimes. Perl6 is a fully-functional language in that you can write useful (for some value of useful) scripts in it. The specification is undergoing radical changes, but then as I've pointed out the Perl5 specification is undergoing changes that some consider "radical" (if you doubt this, read threads on perl5-porters sometime ... look up the debate(s) about the "feature" pragma).

Valid complaints about Rakudo being an unfinished implementation of Perl6 are better centered around things like it doesn't pass 100% of the Spec tests yet. The Rakudo developers will (I'm pretty sure) own up to this, and point to the fact that they're working hard on it and that patches are welcome. That doesn't mean that Rakudo * was in some way "Pre Release". I don't recall anybody using the term "Pre" when talking about the Rakudo * release. The terms I remember are "early", "useful", "useable","for developers". If we as non-members of the Perl6 community go about continuing to imply that Perl6 is somehow less than released in a way for developers to generate useful and usable applications, we're gonna have the grumpier members of the Perl6 community call us on it.

It looks to me like you have a unique opportunity to contribute most effectively to Perl6 moving from being what you consider pre-Released to Released. You can submit a doc patch to change the tense in the Perl6 documentation.
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We just finished our first 3D commercial production (airs on ESPN3D this weekend) and it felt a little hoakey the whole time, but damned if it didn't look really cool in the end. I hope someone enjoys it cause I'm not buying one.
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It's the future because it presents a new and powerful way to view and potentially interact with content. I think these implementations requiring glasses to use are a poor representation of the potential of 3D display technology. The 3D DS, by contrast, is more in line with where I think things should/will go.
btw, it is time to put the support for clang++ in V8's scons build system. It is not obvious what file should I modify. In the case of a traditional make I just redefine one environment variable before doing ./configure or modify one variable in a Makefile (clang is compatible with gcc's command line arguments).
Dude, none of the things you mentioned in the level design were possible in Doom's engine.
The so called 3D TV on today's market is really 2D x 2. Sometimes it's even 3D for one spot, one person only.

I guess real 3D, or holographic TV could be rotated at any POV like in-game cameras.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127195
> Steve Jobs releasing some new shiny thing that makes the lives of some very affluent people (on the global scale for wealth) magrinally better, doesn't compare [...]

Aren't all people equal?
Yup, I just posted a Ask HN @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1661905 . Lets see how it goes ! Prolly the timing might be a bit off due to the labor day weekend ?
I can't shake the feeling that I've always been somehow out of touch, because I'm not really a fan of most apple software. First thing I do with osx is the same thing I always used to do with windows. Get rid of all the distracting annoying stuff (dock, dash, iEverything) then happily get down to business. I never did use vista but with all other windows versions I would always just remove a dozen or so things and happily move along with my work never to be annoyed by them again.

The only thing that keeps me using my iPhone is safari and the screen. It's great. That's the killer feature to me. Yet it's annoying I can't turn images off without jailbreaking.

I don't really think apple delivers software products that are much better than MS products. Hardware yes although the xbox line is pretty sharp.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.
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Many private-university students receive nontrivial scholarships. And if you study a technical field at CMU you're unlikely to have trouble paying back the loans.

I graduated CMU in May. I have quite a bit of debt, but got a good job straight out of school and aim to have the debt paid off in a year by living like the graduate students I live with.
Extra vacation time is much harder to negotiate than the equivalent bump in salary. Vacation is more visible than salary, and people who want more time off than their coworkers are perceived as slackers or 'not a team player'. Plus, many companies link vacation allotment to seniority, so asking for more vacation threatens their primary reward for loyalty.
hi guys, first post here.

As it stands now, 3D tv is going to be a flash in the pan. Advancements in tech is about making things easier, not more difficult/annoying to use.

Having to wear ($200) glasses to watch tv takes all the ease out of it, and as silencio mentioned, is pointless when watching a movie/game with friends.
I'd say the abuse is in the fact that Apple hasn't tailored their products to the horse market, leaving horses everywhere feeling unimportant and neglected.
Ha! Tell that to the clang dudes too.
Yes it is an assistance animal[1]. It is kind of sad that the guy never figured it out. At least he didn't go and try to pet it or something.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04Creatures-t.htm...
The real problem with 3D video is that it requires a lot of production work to get right. You can't just record in 3D and expect it to work. You have to carefully manage focal length. And when it comes right down to it, it only adds things to carefully crafted shots like the bioluminescent plants in Avatar, or the birds flying through hallelujah mountains.

And the fact is 90% of television doesn't have visuals that are going to benefit from that. The remaining 10%, few people will miss it when it's gone. There just isn't a huge value proposition for most styles of video, and there's not a clear case that 3D video is a superior art form to 2D, it just costs more and takes more production time.
Thanks, I take that as a compliment :)
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Working on locking down space right now. Should know in the next couple of days.
I'd be interested in hearing the HN take on this. I recently moved here from the UK and am still trying to figure out the must-attend events, places to be, people to meet.

For hackers, it seems SuperHappyDevHouse always comes up in conversations. And I've been to the Hacker Dojo, which is pretty damn awesome. Other suggestions?
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I suspect you're right, but it doesn't change the impact it had on me to see right there in the diff that they removed it. I'm not going to ditch Google now just because they removed a phrase from their privacy policy.
That is what Erlang was designed for. ^_^

Memory latency is a performance bottleneck for Haskell code because the execution model uses a lot of memory indirections.
Choice 1: Burn lots and lots of coal + Fischer Tropsch + electric vehicles.

Choice 2: Thorium reactors + electric vehicles.

That's about it.

BTW, The "Peak Oil Community" are 5% oil and gas industry people, and 5% energy policy wonk want-to-bes.

The rest are radical environmentalists eagerly anticipating the ecological-Malthusian-doom rapture (see dieoff.org, etc) and are not interested in practical solutions and are just sitting in front of their computers waiting to be raptured up into their ecological-hand-tools-subsistence-agriculture wonderland.
Sports is the thing that's going to sell 3D TVs and there's no mention of it in the article. The broadcasters are investing a lot in their live sports 3D tech and it looks good.
It doesn't matter what's going on outside the relationship, if you're not communicating, it's not working. It really is as simple as that.
Yes, and that irks me. I can hide almost everything else in that side-bar. But this is mandatory taking up vertical space on my vertically challenged (widescreen) monitor. Grrr.
I'm not sure how being fitted with two entirely standard pieces of tack (a breastplate and a bridle) counts as horrible abuse.
You probably feel like you're yelling into the void of space, but I really appreciate what you've done with Meatball and Usemod. If you ever come through Michigan, I'd be happy to buy you excellent ales, coffee, tea, etc. (Beer is really our strong point, but I also know some amazing coffee roasters, etc.)
That article brought me more enjoyment-per-paragraph than just about anything in a while. I do wish the photo was revealed somewhere in the middle of the post though. I shared it with my wife that way, and it really has a pretty profound affect to wonder if it's just a metaphor for the first half-dozen paragraphs.
THANK you for mentioning that there was a picture there. The page made so much more sense after I loaded it.