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I agree that some problems are easier solved in different languages, the same way every polyglot shifts languages depending on what he is trying to convey; nevertheless I think this is actually a by product of context, not necessarily because of a necessity to use a language. I generally think of a broad idea and probably pseudocode (which can have any syntax I want or create on the fly) which then morphs into a programming language either as I express the complex idea or as I add detail to the scope of the solution.

Also, the joke does have a translation to English: "How do you call an elevator in Spanish?" "With your finger." Expressing yourself is a game of context and expressing an idea is not necessarily a verbatim translation from one language to another.

On another note, on the "to wait" and "to hope" comment, you are right depending on what mannerism the people around. I could very well say "tengo la esperanza de" is as much a Translation as "espero que". Again proof that context and semantics are more important than language choices themselves.
Has anyone thought of or seen a startup designed to bring these kinds of tax advantages to average citizens?

There would be a real value in streamlining this legal process of creating shell companies or whatever is needed in some sort of mass market approach.

It seems like the only people this is available to are big companies or high net worth individuals who can afford expensive one-on-one consultation with accountants/lawyers.
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Hardly. Probably IRC too much.
Trying it now. Thanks for the suggestion. Looks good so far.
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I wouldn't call any of Dawkins' work a 'vulgarization'.
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Smoking weed when drinking reduces the associated brain damage, and most likely it would reduce the depression as well. (I'm guessing that most of the depression is from alcohol being a pro-inflammatory, whereas the CBD in weed is a powerful anti-inflammatory.)
SoyLatte is nothing more than a build of the OpenJDK BSD Port. You can build that yourself.
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If we just changed % of profit in his plan, wouldn't that solve it?
If this scheme saves them that much money on overseas corporate taxes, why send your sales revenues to Ireland, and then jump through these hoops to avoid taxes on them, in the first place?

Why not move that part of the company, that collects all international ad revenue and whatnot, to the Netherlands or Bermuda, and just skip the tricky step of getting the money out of Ireland?
I think the last.fm decision was purely about money. Internet radio streaming is significantly cheaper to license than on demand radio.
I can't comment on lawsuits but I think the Wikipedia article is inaccurate. We remove tracks voluntarily so not every takedown is accompanied by a lawsuit. :)
Which of the above services do you think wouldn't exist if Google avoided less tax?

You're going to have to explain to me how this is relevant.

What Google is doing is legal which means that you're trying to make this an argument about ethics. My point is that Google provides real value to millions of people around the world and has the resources, both human and monetary, to make real progress in many areas of technology which then benefit you and me. It benefits me more to have the money stay at Google than go to a failed school system or failing healthcare system.
I started javascript programming just a few months back, and I think a really quickly picked it up due to my relatively good programming background as yourself. I've primarily written in Java and Perl before.

Javascript is dynamic language, and I think a lot of it will have some familiarity of python (...well, I think so - I do not know python...). I would recommend to start with "Object Oriented Javascript" (Stefanov) from Packt Publishing, rather than the Javascript brick from Oreilly. You get through this book relatively quickly. One quirk of JS is the use of the "this" keyword, which you might find being used in a bit oddly ways.

HTML will you understand relatively easily as well. You might need to pick up some CSS layout techniques which I sometimes finds a bit baffling from time to time.
Actually I think they have more an effect on how you express yourself. If closures are the solution to my problem I'll probably think about it in language agnostic way first, and then express it in code in whatever language I prefer or need to write in.
Wonder how the first sentence goes with mandatory garbage collection.
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Plus he's the only "mainstream" author I know of who regularly uses D&D/gaming references while making "serious" points, which is awesome. I just love this: "Inducing them, and those in between, to change class, to trade their plate for robes, to trade the broad-sword for a spell-book, is the real work."
I finished my bachelors at Harvard Extension. As far as I'm concerned, it's been a worthwhile investment. As a guy in his late 30's, I didn't want to deal with the traditional college experience. I also didn't want some sham degree from a for-profit degree mill. HES was a perfect option for me.

What isn't often mentioned is that the courses at HES are often live streamed from actual Harvard College courses. Same course, same grading. I've directly questioned my profs about this and they say that they don't differentiate between students in either population even if Harvard sometimes lets people believe they do.

The CS courses are the bomb, BTW. The CS faculty at Harvard are very supportive of nontraditional students.
This is what I was thinking too (made a separate comment before seeing this):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1816651

I will say that this seems like a company that should be started by lawyers and not programmers though.
I'm not sure I follow. Just because they end in the same 4 letters doesn't mean they have anything to do with one another. They are completely separate target audiences and demographics (technology aficionados/18 - 30 males compared to women's fashion and entertainment news/18 - 24 women). We've much more copied some other sites in our space like Gawker, Lemondrop, etc.

Glad you like the design though :)
What about self-sacrifice? Giving your life to save others?
I also prefer cannabis to alcohol. From what I learned, the difference is -- when you're stoned, you become numb to the pain and can think about the stuff you can't think while sober. It's like an anaesthetic for emotional (and physical pain) that might allow the healing process to go faster. Alcohol merely makes you not give a shit for a while.
Oh, I think I'll live :-). Apology accepted! Cheers mate!
> most people clothe and feed and wash themselves

How so? Most don't own the means to produce all those things.

Most people buy those goods and choose between a range of available products. The fundamental flaw with that (at least as far as I see) is what happens if the products are unsafe. Imagine that FDA wasn't there (or its European equivalent) and companies could sell you anything whatsoever as food. How often have you gone shopping with a pestiside testing kid, a bacterial testing kit and a geiger counter? How do you know that all 15 type of shampoo you can buy don't all have mercury in them?

Basically both extremes don't work. A completely planned economy will not work but I have not seen a liberatrian utopia either so far.

The one advantage of the government is that at least in theory you can cast a vote to effect some change. You could not do that if you are run by Google.

Maybe I don't like Gmail and Gmail is the only mail in town, I can't force Google to change it. But can at least attempt to call my congressman if I don't like a particular upcoming bill.
If only Indian colleges worked that way. They have only one way to get it (I mean the finest one's IITs/NITs/BITS/IIIT/Best state colleges), give there entrance exam after 12th class. Crack it, your in, don't crack it, your out.

This is pretty much the way it is in any country with a non-dysfunctional school system. Germany, Japan, etc.

In the U.S. we have been hypnotized by the notion of everybody is special" and "anybody can make it". (Also, "everybody has to go to college if they want a good job".) This sort of milquetoast egalitarianism has had the expected result: diminished educational standards, even the Ivies. If you flunk the university admissions exam in Germany, you can still go to trade school and end up with an education at least as good as a U.S. undergraduate degree.
You can run Soylatte. Landon Fuller ported it when there was no Java6 on 32bit Intel Macs. Soylatte now is the Openjdk7 port for Macosx.

Which is all good except for desktop Apps. It was impossible to run Netbeans, Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA on top of Soylatte which only supports X11. Server side development was great with Soylatte and most likely still is. Thanks to Landon Fuller who earned an eternal place in my personal hall of fame with this :-)

Without him I would have had to work on Linux or Windows at that time.
heh. I did an internship at NASA that basically involved image alignment of IUE starfields compared to another dataset. All done on a Sun 4. I would surf with Netscape while the conversions were running, which took anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes each.
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It's more about convenience than resources. For example I'm very happy that I don't have to carry my laptop with me anymore as I can always reconnect to my virtual machine from home and continue at the same place where I left.
There's a more general lesson here: personal interactions are the quickest way to bend the rules. You may have a stellar application/resume, but so do many other candidates. If you want to get an unconventional outcome, do it in person.

Related: I was a terrible student as an undergrad and when I later applied to grad schools I got rejected by every university with half a shred of self-respect. So, I enrolled as a non-degree student, took mostly Ph.D.-level courses and befriended my professors. That's how I "snuck" into grad school.
it would solve it for me, certainly. Really, that's how I view the tax system now. (I mean, there are loopholes and all that, but I don't really have enough money to put too much effort into that sort of thing at this point.) but, the guy was suggesting that %revenue is more simple and harder to fake than %profit (and he's right about that.)
Let's face it, the current way of installing applications in OS X is extremely confusing for newcomers to the platform. Apple should be lauded for trying something that is proven on iOS devices and getting it to work on OS X.

Additionally, the Mac App Store is opt-in and there is no indication that it will be the only way to install binaries. Let's not get ahead of ourselves in the conspiracy theories.
I did not ask for something that fits your needs for 2x less. I've asked for something "not so different".

If you really think that those things you pointed to are not so different, we have nothing to discuss.
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Good summary of my waffle ;) I suppose the stats of startups making it out of the 5th year is appalling. Less than 10% as I recall which may be similar to US but every extra hurdle in the way doesn't help either! Plus US markets are generally larger so ROI is bigger for similar risk profile at a guess.
I agree, radio is probably our weakest area. We try very hard not to play duplicates, but our underlying data is very messy since most of our content comes from users. Better recs and better deduping are high on my wishlist.
The best approach is to design and build a system so that you can make updates to the live system with minimal impact: no need to stop and start servers, risk unaffected components being down, etc.

Of course a lot of this depends on your framework, tools, etc., but a little forethought can go a long way.
Even if Oracle supported Macs. Apple made it clear they won't allow Java Apps in the Mac App Store.
You're probably not using a low-voltage version of the processor though. This could make a difference (I'm assuming that Apple is using the lv or ulv version of the Core2Duo in the MBA).
Amarok was a pretty good option - my favourite on Linux, but some years back they rewrote it and broke it.
Fair point.
Most of the classes I drop in on are large, lecture based classes, where I'm going more for the lecturer than for the validation.

In some cases (CS courses), it's really the peers/TAs that matter more than the lecturers. Of course, gaining trust and access with them is trickier than just showing up to a lecture, but it's definitely not impossible :)
All your repliers seem to disagree, but I believe you're right. When I started doing MMA I read a number of academic papers, which I believe are the source of what you're saying above. (Sadly I don't have citations, it was years ago).
See also: Caldwell's talk from Startup School on the challenges facing music startups

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/imeem-founder-dalton-caldwe...
1) Apple already managed one processor transition

Two, actually. 68k to PPC to x86.
Like I said, I get the bug. But it's not like Mac apps do that good of a job protecting secrets outside Facetime.
i might be a little biased here but really- "extremely confusing"?
One time, I got a call from a hiring person at a company telling me that I wasn't selected for a specific job I had wanted. I turned around and asked him why and asked a few feedback questions, and the guy ended up changing his mind and extending me an offer. So at least from my experience, it's always good to ask for feedback on how you did.
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As others have mentioned, this really only works if you have a simple (and solid) deploy and rollback practice. Most people don't.

Given that, all it takes is one terrible deploy: shit goes way south and you're down for most of the day. Now you have the CEO standing around your desk nervously looking at you trying to re-federate the databases when you to realize a 7PM deploy is not all that bad.

>Deploying a major update when I’m not in work-mode is awkward as well.

I'm sorry, no. I love my family and time, too... But logging in from home for an hour or two in the evening to do a deploy and validation isn't that much to ask, especially considering most of our salaries. If you're that sensitive about it, come in late the next morning.
The upstream bumps the version when the ABI breaks. This is a social convention, there is no requirement for them to do so, but if they don't package managers certainly will.

Also many fixes DON'T involve breaking the ABI, generally it is a fix within a function so the function return type, name and parameters stay the same as such the ABI is not broken as that is all that matters, you can change the function all you want so long as it still returns the same thing as before.

Yes it works very well in practice, and makes development much nicer, as libraries around my product can easily be updated without me having to update anything.
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While this is certainly true (you have to a car to low-ride it), shouldn't be expect social groups to be at play with alcohol as well?

For example, lawyers tend be to more intelligent (and have higher incomes) than the general population, and perhaps lawyers tend to drink more. Is this suggestive of a correlation with income, or profession? Do the smarter and presumably better paid lawyers drink more than others?
> the average experience of using it would be getting your query on Rails ActiveRecord validation answered by a junior Java programmer from India

Please avoid such racist stereotyping. There are terrible and awesome programmers in every community, and it's an insult to put them in the same bin and call them the same name. I found it quite offensive myself.
If your search space is almost unbounded then you are almost surely stuck in some local optimum.
Bad culture/developers will screw up a project regardless of what language you use. You cannot prevent this by giving them successively castrated languages. They will still find ways to make things difficult because they don't know what they are doing. I like minimal languages from an aesthetic perspective, but ultimately they're just tools. The second they prevent me from expressing my intent as cleanly as possible, I become much less impressed by any claims they made about purity.

The defer statement is certainly Go-esque, but not as clean as RAII, because I can still forget to write the defer statement after opening a file. This violates DRY when doing file I/O. You can argue that Go never purported to support these concepts in the first place, but, at the end of the day, I'm writing code over and over again needlessly. Not elegant in the slightest.
The solution is simple - sports should ban ALL hits to the head. Zero tolerance, it is uncalled for and brings nothing to the game
> Jobs also bars apps that use Java and other "deprecated or optionally installed technologies."

I'm still not sure how Objective-C and HTML aren't "old" technologies, Steve.
Our deployment process was always at night (10,000+ user org).

Even if your process is great and there is no downtime during upgrades, any problem might cause the whole organization to loose thousands of work hours (instead of just your team working during the night).

If your deploying a "nice-to-have" app, its all fine.

Otherwise, get to work late, order a pizza and prepare for a night of
adventure.
I think they are saying that until relatively recently only people lots of openness-with-experience and intellectual curiosity would spend the time learning about and tracking down random fruits in order to get fucked up. And so between roughly a million years ago and ten thousand years ago, it was mostly intelligent people who were co-evolving with alcohol. So that's why intelligent people today get more pleasure from drinking.

I personally would propose that intelligent people are more likely to have less empathy and social intelligence as the evolutionary tradeoff for being smart, so they benefit more from using alcohol socially.
Why? There are already Core i3/i5 ULV laptops around that get 12 hours of battery life. It's only Apple that cares about that extra 1% less size; the rest of the industry is just fine with Intel's new gen.
Not to mention that you can do cool things with virtual machines like live migration and fail-over from one physical machine to another in a fully transparent way.
For a country with a dysfunctional university system, the US certainly seems to create a disproportionate share of the good research.
Has a lot to do with keeping on keeping on with a startup as well. Too hard to just cave in to another reality where the company is not what is haussed up to be. To be able to fight for a reality at odds with the world is both a curse and a blessing.
Many, many young devs are in love with the idea of developing games. Many more than the industry actually needs. It follows that you're less likely to land such a gig, and that you're more likely to get underpaid and be burned out by overwork if you do - there's always someone else who still has stars in their eyes, waiting to take your place.

If gaming is really a dev's passion, they should already have compelling work they've done on their own, a substantial portfolio, some contacts developed, etc. If not, it's probably an unrealistic flight of fancy, and it should be recognized as such and discarded.
Actually, if you developed and distributed a non-GPL compatible plug-in for GCC, the GCC license prevents you from linking to the gcc stdlib without distributing built code under the GPL.

It's a peculiar exception - and Apple is almost certainly never going to be in violation of it. Still, the point is that Apple's lawyers are terrified that it could somehow taint iOS/OS X/iTunes if someone comes to believe that Apple might be in violation of it. Why take the chance? Clang is a compliant and fast c/c++ compiler at this point, and is mostly clean code (which is more than can be said of gcc).
> "intuitively I think it's absurd to believe our little planet is the only one with life on it."

Intuition is often wrong, especially when it comes to probability.

We have n planets, which we can rewrite as 10^x. There's a probability to evolve complex life of 10^-y on any given planet. Which is bigger, x or y? By how much? What are your error bounds? I've seen people throw out numbers with thirty zeros after them and think they've made a point, but really, either x or y could be much bigger than 30. There could be complex life on 10^many planets, or it could be a total fluke that it exists even on this one.

Either way, your intuition isn't going to tell you anything meaningful.
You didn't lose all of it before you whined. I know that because I downvoted your whine about being downvoted, and didn't downvote your bah-it's-just-a-netbook comments.

(I have a policy of always downvoting whines about being downvoted and "I know I'll be downvoted for this ..." comments and so forth, because (1) they're boring and (2) I have a nasty suspicion that they produce net-positive results for their authors and want to make them not do so.)
Yeah, but why bother? It's not like Apple has any reason to go LGPL (and actually, now that I looked it up Clang seems to use the same license as LLVM — which makes sense — and that's the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License not the 3-clauses BSD, which again makes sense considering LLVM got started at UIUC, so it's not even Apple who decided on the license of the LLVM suite and related tools, they got into LLVM years after the project started and just used the same license for the stuff they built on/around LLVM)
Of course the installation /setup of software/application like Wordpress,Joomla,Drupal etc. are in my list
Puppet and chef help with the doing, but not with the knowing what to do.

I'm a developer who only knows enough about sys-admin to mess around in /etc when needed. Knowing the sys-admin specific knowledge is beyond me, that's what you'd be paying for here.

Even to the point that what's delivered is a set of Chef recipes that are easy to run.
Has gmail improved your quality of life? Really?

The ability to access my email from anywhere, organize, and quickly search through thousands and thousands of emails in seconds has improved my quality of life. Maybe not as much as indoor plumbing, but it has.
If Google thinks that they can more efficiently contribute to the public good by using the savings to provide services directly than by paying taxes, they have a moral obligation to minimize the taxes.
Did the author buy the computer the day it was announced, did he pre-order, or was it given to him or lent for evaluation? Knowing the origin of the product, and how it was acquired is important.