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Thank you for sharing that. I enjoyed reading it.

I think you misunderstood, however. Nothing is cut and dry. Did I say it was? When I say that you own your choices, I am not promising some kind of magic future if you just get Positive Mental Attitude. This is not a Tony Robbins seminar, and I am not trying to just throw out slogans. I believe most of your reply was based on this premise, and that was not the intent of my comment at all. I am also not trying to get into a "who's the poorest" contest. There are lots of ways these conversations can go off the rails.

As an example, and to specifically counter this idea of quick-fixes, I used the scenario of the person dying from cancer in the ditch. Will proper choices make them any less dead in a day's time? I seriously doubt it, and that's completely not the point.

Any life in any situation can be celebrated and you can use your mind to make choices about your attitudes. People in concentration camps awaiting death can be cheerful. Perhaps you would stop by the ditch an lecture the dying person on the futility of it all, how you knew many people who also died this way, and how painful it was. Perhaps you would go on about the pointlessness of action, and how tens of millions are in the same place and we must do something to begin " pulling an entire base of people out of a mindset" About how few ever make it out.

I would not do this. In fact, I would go so far as to say that those who do this to someone are not their friend.
By the way, we have made similar discoveries with our launch. Olark is an incredible service to have and extremely useful to directly communicate with customers.

Also, keeping the product in private beta has helped us iron out a number of bugs, while slowly releasing our product out to more people. Eventually we need to make our tool public, but this strategy has worked well till now.
I'd say a good start would be:

1. Less syntax, so that later language features don't cause upgrade problems and can more easily be worked around rather than causing syntax errors.
2. Awesome package management with everything not core in packages that work with the distros so they don't mind using them.

Both of those are damn hard to do though. Less syntax makes the language fairly unusable (Forth), and package management is just a nightmare in general.
Exactly. It was part technical and part social.
perhaps he's trying to lump it into some sort of category that is accounted for by the 'american way of life'. coronary disease is at least somewhat affected by living a healthier lifestyle.
I agree to an extent. That stuff matters when you're starting out and just learning. But after you get to a certain level the 'language ecosystem' isn't important at all IMHO.
The layoffs themselves may not be caused by individual performance, but from the employees perspective the two may not be unrelated. At some point the manager has to justify the question "Why Person A over Person B?"...and that's when individual performance is likely to enter the equation.
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However, the amount of money per child is (at least in Germany) so small, that it would be dumb to have a child and expect to profit from it.
Lorem ipsum has the advantage of being unreadable, so you look more at the overall design rather than being distracted reading the content on the page.
I'm pretty sure he is not talking about the US.

Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.

This is definitely not the US. Most of our poor don't work at all (and are not trying to work), and about 90% don't work full time.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2008.pdf

Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.

In the US, 67% of poor households have 2 rooms per person (compared to 70.2% of non-poor households).

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/understandi...

Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn’t have make dinner tonight because you’re not hungry anyway.

In the US, being poor is eating the meat, the potato chips, the bacon and the ice cream. But it might be a quart of Krasdale rather than a pint of Ben & Jerry's.

[Edit: I'm speculating that the poor get fat off a broad sampling of typical American fatty foods. I could be getting specific food items wrong. Thanks krschultz for pointing out that my comment was unclear.]

http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/February06/Features/featu...

I really don't know what part of the world he is talking about.

[edit: changed secondary source to original source on obesity. ]
I'm really torn here. Do you use less code and support Safari and Chrome, or wait for jQuery Mobile, which has wider support. Anybody have thoughts to offer here?

I've already run into an issue in which somebody complained about Skyfire not working with something as simple as a click binding.
well said.

If people accept less money for teaching than they could earn elsewhere, it is because they enjoy teaching and that enjoyment is part of the compensation.

Professions that are a natural part of human life and thus simultaneously enjoyable and in demand as a career for a lot of the population will always have lower salaries. Like all careers, there is a competitive marketplace and many components to compensation.

And people are perfectly capable of judging for themselves what's right for them. And if they are not, perhaps we should not be entrusting out children to them.

Of course, none of this applies to a unionized situation. The pay is dependent on how much political pressure can be applied not on mutual benefit.
Ew. That was... vivid.
As the article (email) says, it's from a book printed in the 1960s.
virtualenv doesn't work for a tool like m2sh, and isn't usable for people using other languages.
Oh well, you know, it's definitely not trouble enough to drive me away from Python.

Despite the whole version madness across Linux distributions, Python is still my preferred language for web development, and even if that means going through a bit of trouble getting it properly installed on a particular system, hopefully that is something I'll only have to do and document once every few years.

I surely hope all distros eventually catch up with Python 2.7 so we can all stop worrying about this. Thanks for taking the time to make some noise about it ;)
Is the title here incorrect? From the article:

Our combined income exceeds the $250,000 threshold for the super rich (but not by that much), and the president plans on raising my taxes.

As for the author's premise, it all depends on what you're willing to put up with. I have a rusting 25 year old car and a dead front lawn (no gardeners, scarce water, no time to landscape myself). There are likely people who disdain this, and I posit the author may be one of them. But I have a family of six in an expensive area for well under half of the money he describes.

To the people with plenty of money, gardeners and private school are simply part of the cost of doing business; non-negotiable. But they remain optional, just as my choices of four kids an an expensive area are also up to me. There are others who would call me wealthy with my spending of money on such things. And they are right, in their way.
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I think dialects are tough to predict emergent behavior that will inevitably happen if a language becomes old enough. They just want to happen.

If your language assumes this and supports version-dialect from the start it will be more robust and age gracefully in the long run.

edit: basically it would require too much work or a stroke of pure genius to ensure perfect syntax for a new language in public release 1. Language designers should assume as project age approaches infinity the probability of a syntax revision approaches 1.

edit2: also if the interpreter host could interpret all the older versions up to the latest by default, you could write your code in both 2.7 and 3.1 and use 2.5 libraries with it etc. No need to rewrite every single older library for trivial changes.
I upvoted you, since I've had the (apparently not so) unique experience of having my first kid at the same time as my first "real" startup, and it was fraught with peril. I agree that the preachiness of your comment is grating, but the tone of the blog post you're commenting on kind of warrants it.

That said, the real risk in this scenario isn't to the child; the risk is that you'll demolish your relationship with the other parent. The kid will be fine for the first year or so. They're basically very smelly houseplants until they get to crawling age. You're constantly terrified that they're going to randomly die on you, but the rules for preventing that outcome are straightforward and hard to forget.
Actually, it's not that Python doesn't work the way I expect, it's that distros have killed Python's portability promise and made C more attractive. Granted I'm able to code C well enough to pull this off, but having to do this is annoying.

Also, this is how things improve. Someone doesn't like the current state of affairs and changes it.
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How to gift wrap a cat.
I don't like the notation. If one is not familiar with double factorial and encounters n!! one will think it means (n!)!.

A good mathematical notation should be easily recognizable by someone not familiar with it as something new.
Cool give it a shot. We've got a bunch of stuff we're working on for the 2.0 push but what you have in 1.1 should be stable and usable. If not, let me know by dropping a ticket.
Really? That's new to me.
Why Not Feeling Rich is Not Being Poor, and Other Things Financial
A problem that I have with this is that the school system is too rigid.

Maybe it was different for some people, but when I was in school, it was very much "you are allowed to do this specific thing with this resource, and nothing else." One school that I went to, my junior high school, actually had an outstanding tech shop. We had a CNC mill, CAD stations, a pneumatics lab, some robotics stuff, a wind tunnel...lots of absolutely amazing things. That said, I never got the impression that I could use the CNC mill for anything other than writing my name on a piece of plexiglass (a souvenir that I still have.)

(I actually moved away from this school mid-term and never got to do the wind tunnel, or the pneumatics lab)

What I'm talking about is taking the shop that I had in middle school and putting it in a library so that everybody can use it.
That's only because package management "on some distros" (I won't name them, we all know which they are and I'm sure we're talking about the same one) is fubar. I'm not talking about the package manager alone, but also the over-the-top package dependencies, incoherent dependency resolver, let alone the sheer stubborness of some developers working on package management..
You never know what the motivations they had for doing it. It could have done all sorts of good, at a cost of some personal sacrifice.

Or the person could be serial thief relying on the stolen goods to avoid work and with an aptitude to participate in other criminal activities. Just like he was.
If you are a vegetarian out of a sense of duty toward your own principles, that's a fine and respectable thing.

But culture is not a set of specific abstract principles. It's the set of mutual values, expectations, conventions, and methods of communication that define the way people within your organization interact with each other and work together to achieve the company's goals.

You guide the development of your culture not by fiat and ideology, but by carefully structuring the organization in a way conducive to healthy growth, by selecting the people with the right mindset to put in positions of responsibility, and most importantly, by setting the example in the way that you act and make decisions.

If you proclaim your company officially vegetarian, here are the effects I see to culture, as understood in this way:

* Alienate members on your staff who are not vegetarian.

* Blur the distinction between personal preferences and business strategy.

* Establish a precedent that the founders's personal opinions on issues wholly orthogonal to the business are still valid grounds for policy-making (imagine the consequences of future managers emulating this).

In the long term, you're probably moving toward a culture with an unhealthy amount of internal contention, and a staff that may not feel fully invested in the company's goals.
I recently found out how much money WIC pays out for "supplemental" nutrition.

$50 a MONTH. In vouchers. For only certain foods. Ice cream would definitely not be one of them. White bread is not one of them. Soda is not one of them.

Get your facts straight.
In business strategy this is known as The Peter Principle. From Wikipedia, The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence".

As Tumblr grew beyond Marco's abilities he became incompetent as a CTO. Great job of him admit this and step down versus having to be laid off.
Being poor is buying only Oatmeal and Mac & Cheese because they don't require electric refrigeration, can be purchased in bulk inexpensively, and you just add water to eat.

That brings back bad memories. Granted, compared to many parts of the world it's a walk in the park.
Wow, in America it's $5 and they don't blink an eye if you work this type of job and live in a shelter.

The business owners in America have no respect for the poor of America. It's 'not their problem', since 'everyone does it'.
Ask HN: What do you want to see in a deployment management system?
Deployment management can be a painful, slow and repetitive task if overlooked. There are tools available to ease our suffering: chef, cfengine, puppet, capistrano. While these can help, at times they feel like monstrosities to overcome in themselves. I use chef to deploy/maintain and apps and configs on <100 servers. The initial installation and learning curve was not as smooth as I'd have liked but now its doing a good job. Even still, I feel its lacking in some ways for my needs and the amount of moving parts required to keep it running frustrates me at times.

In an ideal deployment management tool, what would you like to see? Is it ease of installation? A hosted solution?

I'm looking to write something to simplify the process greatly not only for my own benefit but for others out there as well. I would like some insight into what your needs are or what you think a good deployment tool should be capable of.

Thanks HN
"My Lie": Why I falsely accused my father
Vivid? Seems more casual to me.
I feel much better with the signals you have raised. But I think if you have many effects on settings you will lose the bright property of Django. Everything should start from the simplest things.
You have no idea how spam works. A bot isn't just one user trying to enter "cat" repeatedly. Botnets send requests from thousands of different IPs. You wouldn't know which ones are real users, and which ones are bots.
Cortex corrected[1] me, it's an occasional occurrence but not 'usually'.

[1] http://metatalk.metafilter.com/19828/I-give-you-the-ability-...
"The kid will be fine for the first year or so. They're basically very smelly houseplants until they get to crawling age."

The major exception is that they lose the ability to learn the phonemes of other languages after the first year. There are other potential abilities that are lost after the first year too, but nothing as difficult and time consuming as this. (Because for whatever reason playing a CD/DVD doesn't work so you actually need to find someone to speak to your child in person, which usually means doing some sort of baby exchange for a few hours a week.)
Finally some good news for the day! I have some good Marco stories...
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Second that, one of my favorites. The guys who built the SR71 were the ultimate hackers.
You mean XS modules, and any well-written XS module should be binary compatible with any other point release. That is to say, if you compiled an XS module against Perl 5.10, it should work unchanged with Perl 5.10.1.
duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1711815
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I would be very curious to learn why you had not packaged Mongler2 with cx_freeze, which allows you to provide your own copy of Python with any modules you may want to add to it.

Doing so would have made your software immune to the broken Python installations.
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A lot of people have these things they call lifestyle businesses: if they're meeting payroll and expenses, and loving what they do for a living, they've 100% satisfied their goals.

I'm not sure that's what is going on in Scribd's case, though.
A guy who is ripping off backpacks from unlocked cars isn't in the mafia or the Yakuza: He doesn't have a group of thugs to call upon. And I doubt he takes it terribly personally -- rip people off and you'll get burned eventually. Acting hurt and vindictive about it seems pretty foolish.

I'm extremely surprised that the police paid any attention to this: Keeping valuables -- well, not really valuables -- in an unlocked car...that just doesn't fit the bill of the sort of crime that the police will even show up to your place for a statement. That the officer(s) actually put in legwork, and the justice system carried out a sentence, makes it almost hard to believe.
It wasn't meant to be preachy, so much as a word of caution. I (perhaps mistakenly) believe in some sort of unofficial "hacker dad" fraternity exists where people can be a bit informal.
I doubt you'd call a tool and die man a "lathe monkey" if you had much experience in the chip making world.
Almost, "with" became a keyword.
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YC Ideas in a Wordle: Its all about people liking your software
One of the things I think is most important is that employees should not be utterly surprised if layoffs occur. They should be well informed, and invested enough in the company to be aware that the company is having problems. Senior management should be communicating company performance long before layoffs are needed.

I've now seen several examples in small companies where the CEO has held back the bad news until layoffs were required, and the morale of the remaining employees was much worse than it should have been because of it.
Technical Debt at a startup will be always be present at a large scale as long as your main mission statement is getting to market as soon as possible. Their first question is 'does the market want this' instead of 'will it scale when it reaches mass numbers'?

I always consider Facebook as a prime example. The first version may very possibly have been something hacked together in PHP, with the intent of releasing something asap that had a good chance of flourishing. Now that it has flourished, and the proof of concept is validated (with VC money), you can afford engineers who will rewrite the system the way it was meant to be, complete with a PHP compilers and custom flat file databases. The risk paid off.

Digg's technical debt served them well too. They got into the market fast, and the performance issues of the previous site wasn't nearly as big as a factor as the business domain problems they introduced. Submitters didn't mind the occasional 'invalid token' error messages nearly as much as the revolt caused by the publish of a certain encryption code.

Joel says don't rewrite from scratch. We talk about big design up front, when the design doesn't even appeal to the market. But when your product has reached a critical mass, and you have an army of talented engineers salivating to rewrite the system, all that debt is forgiven when the system is redesigned from scratch.
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The guy stole a backpack from an unlocked car with visual valuables. Police in my area once tried to make it a crime to have visible valuables inside of a vehicle, locked or not, because it encouraged crimes of opportunity by casual criminals. It essentially wasted their time.

This guy wasn't going to pass the car by and then decide to murder an old lady.
350K sites have installed Facebook like button
Absolutely agree. What irks me, and I think others, is that people are still using it privately and that's because Facebook is switching defaults, hiding them behind confusing settings, and not talking about them. That's very wrong in my book.
Ask HN: what do shopping clubs do?
I don't get what shopping clubs like
http://es.showroomprive.com/accueil.aspx.

My question is: do they buy the items and "risk" or they only sell, pick up and then deliver the goods?
thx for answering
PS: do you have any of these in the US?
Nice panel, just hoping this is recorded.
Is it a good idea for Gov to provide free diagnosis? And patients will pay hospitals for treatment.
Thoughts on Social Altruism as a Vector of Virality
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What I mean is that the kid isn't going to grow up writing emo poems about his neglectful dad if dad's reading commit logs during "quality time" at 2 months. I don't mean that babies do fine if you stick them in a Skinner Box. Yes, talk to the baby.

Try reading the commit logs out loud.
Wiki Is Not Wikipedia
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The writer seems to be a woman, not a man.
- easy web-based 1-click deploy. I choose the version. Click deploy. Done.

- Don't worry about updating database changes, I can do that manually when needed, it's too complex anyway.
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"The actual print production process was quite an adventure—going right to the edge of what was possible."

I liked the book a lot, but have a hard time not seeing this as hyperbole. Yes, it's the printing industry..but it's just just diagrams and text; I don't remember anything that a few weeks of learning LaTeX couldn't accomplish?
Just a quick comment; most books one cannot even give away. A lot of used books are sold on Amazon for $.01. The local used bookstore won't even take boxes of nearly mint books for free, because they can't give them away either.

I read thousands of books as a kid and paid for nearly none of them.
why not just buy gold then?
And reinstall your entire operating system when a core library needs a security patch.
The latest v2 would be the easiest step to take.
I think there is no right way to lay off people.