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Sorry if too off topic, but the last line of the first commenter is exceedingly random.

"--Call me an Apple Fanboy, fine. But there's a reason I've got work, how bout them Windows Developers?--"

Is he actually implying there is no work for Windows developers?
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Question, when is one man enough for a safety razor?
He's using backend in the direct marketing sense... What you do with a customer after you make the initial sale (cross selling, up selling, follow up pitches, customer reactivation, referral drives, special events, etc, etc)
> If only Microsoft's management would see this as an opportunity and open up .NET a bit, probably not.

What exactly would you like to open up?
Yes, the problem is that iPhone’s HTML layout engine breaks the page when you rotate the phone, then breaks it further when you rotate it back to where you were. I put the viewport tag in to solve the iPhone, but then the iPad came out and there’s no way to have a different viewport for an iPhone / iPad. Blame Apple, I’m still trying to find a working solution.
wtf? Learning another language is never a waste of time. If nothing else, it will help you learn your own language better.
Which merely means is that Die Zeit is using The Register as a source, as that's where Patrick's quote originates.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/diaspora_pre_alpha_l...
I started using JungleDisk after a I got my laptop AND bankup disk stolen a few years back. It's worked well for me.
Thanks! I've been introducing dropbox to friends too (not just because of the referral=) ) It just works. However, I was wondering whether it's cheaper to use S3 instead, since I intend to store around 200 GB worth of files.
Thanks, I was not aware of that
I'll second that. Having only ever used private CVS before in my life, I've never published anything open source ever. In fact, after hearing everything I have about Git, I went ahead and purchased the $7 plan so that I could give it a try, but without having to share anything publicly.

That said, as soon as I started checking code in, I ended up creating 2 (very small) projects and sharing them publicly, as they weren't anything close to even remotely core to the other product that I'm building (that I bought github for), and it seemed silly to use up 2 of my private projects on such trivial applications.

This is exactly the behavior that Github encourages, and as someone who hasn't contributed to open source in a very long time, it was interesting to see how quickly Github re-converted me.
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Thanks! This might be something I'm looking for.

Ryan
Agreed!
When using RabbitMQ / 0MQ or even Redis for queue replacement it's possible to build a great infrastructure around them, you're not sticking to the worker library launcher set. You simply have a queue, you may distribute it and get it working the way you want to.
I don’t think you understand what “CSS hack” means.
1. Intelligence is a distribution -- I don't disagree, but I also believe 99% of the population never realizes their potential, and in a lot of cases the educational system is the cause.

2. Yes, technology is driving down global poverty, but in the already privileged world I don't think this holds true. Where people want to learn they will find ways to do so. Where they are apathetic, they will find ways to remain ignorant.
Yes, I could track my own progress easier this way, going chapter through chapter. Just writing a blog post wouldn't feel as productive. Writing long blog posts is very difficult. But pushing a review of a chapter to GitHub every other day is really easy. That's why I also usually split my articles up in n-part series, it's very difficult to write long articles.
What I never got about this myth is why people thought that the razors should cost more than the blades. The razor is molded plastic and the blades are a bit of plastic holding a small bit of metal that are honed so they easily cut hair and have a hard time cutting skin. There's no reason to think that the plastic should cost more than the blades. My best guess as to why the blades are expensive would be to cover marketing costs and for patented technology.
I don't know if you are joshing over the "safety" part of their names or not, but I'll assume you are not :) So, I would say, any day you are ready to stop wasting money on disposable Gillette cartridges. My husband bought one (a Merkur Futur) for his nephew who's a teenager, and apparently shaving is no longer an annoyance to him. Most likely he will also never have to buy another razor, ever - that thing was made in stainless steel, built to last a lifetime.
You're correct, of course, but the fact that information is only a web search away has driven down the perceived value of formal study and demotivates children from learning. That was my point, not that Jefferson wasn't exceptionally fortunate himself. Jefferson's own regimented work ethic, however, was an outlier even amongst his privileged peers.
int[] is fairly tight. If you're going for performance or optimum memory usage, using lists and boxing isn't going to be a good plan.

I once wrote an x86 emulator in java and later an ARM emulator (long story). It ran fast enough :)
I'm not sure if my situation is better or worse. In our case they don't even bother trying to clarify specs. :-)
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It depends.

I've been to a number of Sybase conferences, which where really beneficial. The difference to Oracle is that they actually discourage marketing fluff (there's a business track where it's allowed, but for the technical tracks it's definitely not welcome).

I received some great trainings there, not covered by the standard curiculum. For example Replication Server internals and - trouble shooting.

I have once attended an Oracle World and that was a total waste of time, save for the presentation of an indipendent Oracle consultant.

I can't speak for other vendors and imagine that the quality of such conferences differ a lot.

Oh, and the keynote is actually always a waste of time.
Thought the same thing when they mentioned scrum master.
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Me: Spirals. Analyst. Lisper. Vim user (though I always used to be an Emacs guy until my tendons started complaining). Underwhelmed by object orientation. Looks like my mind would be well compressed by your algorithm. I'm very impressed.
I'm not sure the comparison works though. He doesn't object to the act of writing a book, I suspect he didn't even really have too big an issue with writing a detective novel. He objected to being asked to do those things badly when he knew he could do better.

We're talking plots he felt made no sense, poor characters, clunky dialogue, and when he tried to improve these things he was told in no uncertain terms to stop messing about and go back to what the publisher was paying him for.

The equivalent for a programmer would be to be told to code a website with actively bad coding standards, no use of style sheets or code reuse, no normalisation or referential integrity in the database and no error handling. And every time you try to make something better, you get told to shut up and do it the way you've been asked.

I don't know about you but that would make me hate the project.
Two bits of BART history:

- My understanding is that BART was originally intended to go around the entire bay, but budget squabbles among the counties led Santa Clara (San Jose), San Mateo (the Peninsula), and Marina to drop out (c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Bay_Area_Rapid_T...).

- The D.C. Metro is actually based on BART and uses the same trains, ticketing system, and fare structure originally designed for BART.
Ask HN: Feedback on company name - Drag the Lake
I'd really appreciate some feedback on the business/website name Drag the Lake.

It's for an internet curation business/website for intelligent blog posts and news.

American Heritage Dictionary definition is "To search or dredge the bottom of a body of water." People do this when trying to find a corpse, a gun, a sunken boat, or something else that might be lying on the bottom and not visible through murky water.

I thought it was a good metaphor for the internet.

I've got the .com and .org

Anyone see a problem with the name? Only thing I could think is it's hard to say fast and doesn't have a good possible nickname.

Thanks
No, I didn't miss those things, nor have I missed other great stuff like the Khan Academy or MIT's OCW. My beef is with structured education -- especially in the US -- and the fact that the immediate gratification provided by technology hinders more than helps many children.
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Or option 3: invest $30 in a good beard trimmer :)
Just today I interviewed someone for a programming position. I asked him if any of his code is publicly available (a open source project, a small library, anything) and unfortunately he said no. So now I have to bring him in for a coding interview.

It really saves a lot of time if you have something out there. Just make sure that the first thing one finds is something you want them to see (not some crappy code you wrote two years ago).
What is this competition? This is the first I have ever heard of it, and there is no link to the competition website.
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The early days of TC were what Arrington did best. His writing was engaging and the his takes on startups interesting. But the urge of getting big had a significant — and I think negative — effect on the quality of the news. Countless stories of Twitter being down or Apple's Appstore rejections have damaged the TC brand.

Who's the next "TC of the early days"?
FEBlog, I'm very much interested in robotics. Infact I code just hoping to learn robotics someday and that my programming skill can come in handy for it.

I just saw your profile, says you 'document' your experiences. You have a blog?
I completely agree that you learn all sorts of unexpected things doing a PhD that are often unrelated to the specific field you're working in. Lots of these things seem to be common across the experience of many people, but some of them while be uniquely yours.

But lots of what you'll have to do won't be cool or new, it will be tedious and time-consuming drudgery. Of course, it still might be worth it, but don't expect it to be all sunshine and light.
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I made the same switch a while back but eventually I moved back to Gillette.

What I learned was:

There are a bunch of things involved in a decent wet shave, the razor is only one part of it.

Preparation is key - exfoliate every week and moisturise daily, warm your face before shaving (lots of hot water), ideally shave first thing in the morning (your face muscles are more relaxed) and apply shaving foam gel with a brush (it works it in and softens the bristles better).

Razor burn is as much caused by technique as tools - shave downwards, all over the face once. Ignore the fact it still feels stubbly, you're taking off the worst of it. Now lather up again (avoid a razor on bare skin, that's going to burn) and do it again. Finally one last time (having lathered up again) going up the face if you have to to clear up anything remaining.

Then cold water to rinse, and moisturise afterwards.

On top of this an old fashioned safety razor did make a positive difference both to how clean the shave was and the razor burn (remarkable given that it's one fixed blade) but for me the extra effort involved in shaving with an old safety razor wasn't quite worth it. I like to be able to be a bit careless first thing in the morning while I'm half asleep and I can do that with a Gillette Fusion.

(Can I just say, for the love of god anyone making the move read up on how to shave with one first - it's not the same and you will cut yourself to pieces if you go at it the way you go at it with a modern Gillette).
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The downside is when someone finds code you haven't touched in 10 years and would disavow now and think it's your current standard.

So make sure you keep the home pages of such projects updated by saying "this project has been dormant since...".
I am sorry but I don't find it all that appealing personally. It is not really catch or memorable and gives no hint as to what your site is about.

Try expanding your search to include the non-std tlds as it is still possible to secure a great name. For example communic.do is available from the .do tld and whilst not quite on-message for your site, it is far superior to what you have and is really catchy and memorable.

Ps if you do want that domain let me know and I will advise the registra to release it as we have it reserved but ended up going with innuen.do for our project)

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The sooner everybody's a VP, the sooner we judge them on their actual competence rather than assumed level of seniority.
For much of last century, when the legend of the Gillette model originated, razors were not plastic.
A friend was recently asked the same, also said no, and was declined the interview. He is a very capable software developer.

It seems like being active on GitHub is slowly becoming almost a requirement in order to land a good job. I wonder if that is a good thing.
Actually, i was quite unimpressed by the London metro last time i visited.
London is quite famous for its underground but due to it's age it seems to be extremely overcrowded. My experience on a weekend trip has been that the train did only stop every two stations because of so many people and it was just overcrowded.

On the other hand this made me realize how good the Berlin system actually is.
Being active with open source communities is definitely a huge advantage, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that you need to be active on GitHub. There are other ways to contribute open code :)
Are there any 4 letter domains left?
I was wondering if there is any left available if so how does one find it? I would imagine people are just parking these domains.
On a positive note, I didn't need to read the description to know what it was going to be.

On a possibly negative note, it came across calling 99% of the internet worthless crap that hinders the finding of anything worthwhile. Whether that's intentional or not, I agree with it so it works for me - others might not be so cynical ;)

Long story short: Works for me, but am I your target reader?
Another feature that would be nice for Cloudfront is being able to back it with a non-s3 resource.
Re: (2), have you never read the Archie comics? That's where I was introduced to a 'jalopy' in all its visual glory.
Mind expansion and to learn proper English skills.
Why startups alone? How about the Haskell/Scala/RoR/Django hacker who has to get an MCSE and be a SharePoint 'developer' because it puts bread on the table?
Anatomy of Techcrunch spin:

(1) We don't trust PR people and often tell you things they don't want you to hear

(2) Sometimes the things they don't want you to hear are true, or become true. Even the 'spin' hasn't expressly ruled out building a phone, ever. And if they do, you heard it here first

(3) We're leaving open the possibility that Facebook aren't mentioning their phone because it isn't going to happen. If they don't build a phone, ever, it could just be that the project got killed and it had nothing to do with the quality of our sources.
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Ask HN: What's the big deal with startups anyways...
My father is a custom's officer. My mom's a manager in a bank. Government employees. Middle-class.

Dad focused on his mutual funds, mom on her promotions. And both, on everything in between. We now own three houses and close to a millions-worth.

I wasn't taught to be egotistic, brash and adventurous. I was taught to be hard-working, loyal and obedient.

I was told to maximize my intellectual, professional and social value for a company. Not for a client (the former offered better security and were easier to deal with anyways)

Math and Chemistry, not Psychology and Political Science.

Fixed deposits, not stocks.

I started a local website development business recently. My goal? Have something to show at interviews.

I want to know why this is so wrong today.

I want to know why we fixate so much on the millionaire's presentation about some bread-crumb concept like,“Love your job”. Was anyone was not aware of that?

What about an opinion by the 90k-salaried .NET developer. The one who probably couldn't be happier that he payed off his 3-bedroom condo last week. Or am I wrong here?

Why do we continue to preach the greatness, the undisputed manifesto of startups and entrepreneurship in general.

Why are there half-a-million blog posts by some 28-year old on how having your own startup will result in you losing weight and gaining muscle, eating better, dating supermodels with PhDs while the startup simultaneously mows the lawn and cooks breakfast every morning for you.

Why, even when we know that 9 in 10 of us are doomed.

I want to know: Why the hype?
For those who like this sort of essay, may I recommend S.J. Perelman? His "Cloudland Revisited" pieces, on the movies and books of his youth, are splendid.
I started doing the same as soon as I started working.

Something else that I recommend: Bump this up by 5% every few months and see how it works out. We can often get by with so little (especially people like me who have lived the miserly university life) and we can actually be /happy/ with it, that it just does not make sense to hold back.

I also like the idea of dedicated goals: For e.g. sponsor x children, feed x families etc. This helps solve the problem in manageable chunks and is easier for others to understand. (i.e. if every person helped x other people, we'd get rid of poverty/hunger).
That's maybe the one most important problem arising with Java if you are using it in an environment you do not know or not know well (as it is, on client machines - especially using Java on the web).
As of it, using Java 7 features in Web pages - no way, maybe no way ever if you do not want to exclude a big mass of people out there on the market.
one of tech's most famous he may be, but I still wouldn't trade places with him .. not with a lifestyle like that.

but he does seem like a good guy despite this.
There is always going to be hype around high variance career paths, because so little is understood about was factors are causal for success.

In low variance career paths, things are pretty straightforward so there is little blog about.
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I'd never reject someone on that point alone. I'm guilty of not having anything (at least not something I'd like to show) out there too (thou I am working on it).
Did your small projects gain any traction?
I like your last sentence. I am also sceptical if this is a good thing. And with reason: If you are working as a skilled software architect - and you work on projects under NDA or other laws/contracts for a long time, it could definitely come to the result that you do not have "current code" somewhere out there on github and such sites.
And not everybody has the time or the reason to contribute or start an open source project. That even becomes more critical if you want to do other things in your non-working time than coding.
If you have the chance to work for a company where you are allowed and instructed to work on open source projects and technology, then you are lucky. But I doubt that the major of software designers does so.
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Cops.

Cops, then the bank, then the insurance firm (you did take out contents insurance on the laptop, didn't you?), and then anybody else you have data on stored in your computer.

Ignore anybody telling you that they're going to tell the authorities because you have porn on your drive. It's pretty much a given that every laptop and computer in existence now has some porn on it.

If he knows what services you use, for goodness' sakes change every password you can remember. If your passwords are created by a master algorithm that you happen to have stowed on your hard drive, change that algorithm.

But first and foremost, cops. Give them all of the index and key numbers which identify it. Make sure to let them see that email. It has an IP address, and they can begin investigating from there.
So it's a myth, because Gillette didn't ALWAYS make their margins on the blades? I don't see the logic. They're still giving away the razors with one blade and expecting you to buy razors for it.
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We don't all get the time to setup beautiful open-source projects with beautiful tests and code.

I have a number of projects I've started or contributed significantly to that anyone can peruse if they want, but I'm definitely not proud of the code in all of them.

If you use this type of post ( http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/weve-read-your-code.html ) as a wakeup call to make your code better, that's fine. But, would it make sense to remove open-source projects that aren't your best work, with the rationalization that few if any are using them and they are a bad reflection on your coding skills? If your code is bad and is misleading/doesn't work and provides no benefit to others, take it down or fix it. Otherwise, I say leave it alone, and feel free to leave it attached to your name.

I've met more developers who were afraid (imo) to start or share anything open-source even though they certainly could have (because I was working with them, and I did, without any harm coming to me yet). As Frank Herbert once wrote, "Fear is the mind-killer." Don't let the fear of sharing overtake you.
The opposite side I experienced when I bought a German magazine called "brand eins" that focussed on the new kind of work. It was basically cherishing it's target audience into heaven. You came away from it thinking "hey, I can use a mobile phone, so I am a highly skilled and valuable tech worker".

I wonder about your girl-friend's dad. I really wish I could draw or design - that skill must have some value. Could he really find no other way to sell his skills? Why could he not learn to use computers?
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Apparently not, they were all bought by 2007: http://dyyo.com/analysis_remaining.php
With one caveat: that kind of a razor takes 2-3 once-overs and many minutes. With my safety razor I can be done under a minute ideally.
This is intended as a second piece of authentication to be used every time you log on, so it's not for resetting passwords at all. So it should always increase security.

I agree about bad password resets though. Developers need to consider a password reset mechanism as an alternative login method, and make it at least as secure.
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