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No problem. I hadn't really given it much thought until recently, but when a friend suggested it I jumped at the idea. I have been dreaming about all kinds of exciting things to try, like beers brewed with fruits and peppers.

Like programming language communities, hobby communities can also add or detract from the experience. In general, I have found homebrewers to be pretty laid back. You don't want to do the fancy processes and equipment? No problem, you brew the beer you want the way you want to do it. There's no right way, do what makes you happy.
Actually, high fructose corn syrup is a combination of fructose and glucose - the same sugars in most fruits.

For example, grapes are 52% fructose, 46% glucose, and 1% sucrose. Pears are 63% fructose, 29% glucose, and 8% sucrose. High fructose corn syrup used in sodas is usually 55% fructose and 42% glucose.

The "natural" sugar you're thinking of is sucrose. Sucrose is not the dominant sugar found in fruit. Fructose and glucose are the predominant sugars found in fruits and in high fructose corn syrup.
Scrutiny Takes Toll on For-Profit College Company
Very nice! How about exposing an OData feed?
Vistaprint was 250 cards for $24.25, for a per-card price of $0.097. Overnight was 25 cards for $8.81, for a per-card price of $0.352.

On a per-card basis, Overnight is 3.6x as expensive as Vistaprint.
Read the comment by Drew McLellan.
It seems to me that their wording pushes their anti Facebook data locking agenda, intimidating novice users. To me, this goes against their "don't be evil" company motto.
It was just a lot of fun. I couldn't help myself. I started my first year of college doing something related to CS, but after I started taking some CS courses I switched almost immediately. My MSc. was even more fun, I really liked the problems. However, I didn't want to go to grad school, I just don't see myself working on one specific problem for 4 years or more.

I guess I'm burnt out indeed. A while ago, I asked my doctor about this, but she said that I should just make a list of things I like to do, and not worry too much: it's natural at my age (the infamous quarter-life crisis).
Trying all the words in the captcha one by one has a big chance of "hitting" correct answer. If it doesn't a brute-forcer can just request a new captcha until it works.

Said that, they don't seem very spam-proof to me.

For more info about how hard CAPTCHAs need to be read Luis Von Ahn's papers:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/
The federal reserve is printing almost $1 trillion in "easy money" that will be lent out to businesses at close to 0% interest rates. Don't fool yourself into thinking that this money won't end up creating a bubble somewhere. It might not be a tech bubble, but it very well could be.
An Open Letter to Apple on Server Technologies
Facebook already offers your contact information to Microsoft and Yahoo. However, I think friends who have emails set as "only me" or equivalent do not export. I tried the feature today and 10% of my contacts did not export to yahoo :/
Most people don't actually like their job. If you can find something you enjoy doing and it pays reasonably well stick with it. If not, consider your tradeoffs in time, money, and boredom.

PS: Just don’t stick with a job you hate it’s rarely worth it.
Actually these comments are embarrassing to me as a developer because they support the conclusion that far too many of us have the tendency to believe our own publicity. If everyone is a Randy Moss I'm beginning to wonder who is paying attention to the fundamentals and moving forward.
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You can call C directly from Lua too, with alien (http://alien.luaforge.net/).

Generating the bindings really isn't that hard, though.
The other options are the check boxes. New buttons will appear when checked.
I think VMs are the future of application programming, especially as manufacturers become more amenable to using "unconventional" architectures like ARM to host full-featured computers. LLVM, the JVM and the CLR all have benefits- I don't see any reason to believe there will be a convergence in the near future.

Environments like .Net and the JVM stack will slowly allow tighter and finer-grained interoperability of the languages they host. We currently have class-level blending of languages, and in the future we will probably see method-level blending. The best DSL for the job.
Eat a Bagel, Lose Your Baby
For kicks, I deployed the same app on Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 2008 R2 micro instances on AWS. I chose the plain Windows instance - with no software ( ie, IIS & .NET) pre installed. No database is used in this app.

I had the mono/Ubuntu version up and running in about 30 minutes. The longest part of the install was that I chose to use Mono 2.6.7 which isn't officially supported, so you need to do some work to install it. The app was deployed using FastCGI and Nginx.

It took about 90 minutes to get the Windows 2008 version running. Most of which time was spent waiting for the instance to start and waiting for the bloody Platform Installer (worst app ever!) to do whatever it does.

The moral of this story: the Windows micro instances are unusable. But to scale vertically, use Windows. To scale horizontally, or if you are cheap||frugal, give mono/Ubuntu a shot. Can't wait to see what moving to LLVM is going to do to mono's performance.
A recent client had Moo biz cards and the quality of the card itself was awesome and very thick. They had a photo on one side that looked great, but the side with their information was kind of blurry. Is that just from them not doing something right in the creation of the card or just from the type of card stock Moo uses?
Excerpts: What Steve describes in "The Four Steps to the Epiphany," is a method of doing that in four stages but when Brant and I sat to talk to Steve about this, Steve himself said, "if I can convince people just to get out of the building, they have done 90% of what needs to be done." And, getting out of the building means getting out and talking to humans about the problem, the solution and the product. It’s not feature mongering, it’s not market research, - it’s trying to really find the pain points and depending on who you are, this can be pretty difficult or very easy.
That's only if you deactivate your account. There's also a way to delete your account, and then your content will be deleted. However, they will still maintain the social graph (so if you'll create a new account with the same email, they know who you were connected too).
I'm talking about WinForms .NET. .NET itself is not even 10 years old.
Been there, decided to join a student exchange program for half a year without touching a computer. I still have my doubts, but I also know that I want to create with my own team, not for somebody else.
An approach that works rather well here in Edinburgh is private shared gardens - the owners of properties in an area have a large shared garden with controlled key access. Everyone pays fees (I think ours are about £200 a year) - which is a bargain as far as I am concerned, especially as we have neither the time or the skills to look after a garden properly!

You can see about half of our shared gardens here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gr9iFLntf8dAesyBFxUSnQ

[NB not my picture]
It might be overkill, but the nearest analog (perhaps successor would be a better term) that I can think of is SketchUp.
To me it embodies their "don't be evil" company motto. I think Facebook is being evil here, and Google is fighting the good cause.

However, I can see your angle as well. It seems that the world is not black and white after all :(
It sounds like you've already made the decision. Never do anything that feels like failing. If your heart's into trying something new, try something new. I spent a year thinking programming was no longer for me, and when I came out of that phase I was more refreshed than ever.
Think about teaching, perhaps. Certainly for me, if I know something well enough to teach it, I've gotten bored with what I can do with it. However, if I actually then _teach_ someone, there's a constant barrage of questions, from a completely new perspective. Plus, there's always the feel-good initiative, and the money in teaching or grinds isn't bad either. Just my €0.02. :)
That's 3 months old, before these Java related scandals.
Apache Foundation to vote down Java 7, protesting Oracle abuses
It allegedly registered my complaint without me being logged-in, so whatever they do, it's for show only?

This reeks of a cheap shot.
While I understand your point - businesses should act in ways that benefit themselves. I think that is simply a recipe for a business to succeed, but it is a short-sighted one. I think the guideline which Google is putting out is better for the system as a whole, our economy, and the end user. And that seems to be - businesses should act in ways that benefit themselves and their users. The fact that what Google is really saying do what is good for your end-users (and us) is irrelevant in terms of my support of their stance.

None of the existing companies have to let you leave freely or support the movement of your data, but to a large extent they have been willing to and it has benefitted the end users, the economy, and the web, in the form of new start-ups, new mash-ups, and interesting ways to view and share the data you've put into other systems. If one company wants to benefit from that sharing, but not return the favor, I think consumers ought to call them on it. The unfortunate fact that most users don't understand the effect means that other companies are going to have to make them aware, and Google is taking that step.

I hope they succeed, but it isn't because I think Google needs the graph access: it is because in the end it will benefit the end user in general and us (hn/new startups) to do so.
I believe it's because younger people are cheaper to support (financially, physically) as a society than older people. More flexible, too.
Quote: The shorthand properties are for setting multiple related properties at once. It’s not the case that any value you don’t specify when using a shorthand property does it get set – it gets set to a default value.

http://www.welcomebrand.co.uk/blog/please-stop-using-backgro...
This. They've rather missed the point of the cascade; perhaps he only writes very simple CSS?

I've always preferred being a little more verbose, if only to avoid hidden side effects and improve readability. You can always compress later if it really bothers you.
I'm having flashbacks to the nineties and working with CORBA and it's C bindings.

"Those who do not know history are doomed to reinvent CORBA_Environment."

(Although there are few new details, such as the aborting if the dtor determines it wasn't checked.)
;; It must be possible to declare a local default-directory.

make-local-variable is an interactive built-in function in `C source
code'.

(make-local-variable VARIABLE)

Make VARIABLE have a separate value in the current buffer.
Other buffers will continue to share a common default value.
(The buffer-local value of VARIABLE starts out as the same value
VARIABLE previously had. If VARIABLE was void, it remains void.)
Return VARIABLE.
Yeah, the 180million number is irrelevant. What's important is the number and variety of patterns, not the number of questions.

I don't even need to program something which will understand all of the patterns. I just need to program something that will understand some of the patterns, which just keeps fetching captchas until it eventually understands the format, eg "What is X plus Y?"

This captcha system is considerably more simple to break than the typical image based ones.
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This is due, at least in part, to the fact that it's considerably easier to track down card thieves, whereas Blizzard is largely focused just on getting the accounts back in working order for their customers (and, as mentioned in this article, preventing them from being stolen in the first place).
Find something else to do and just go do it. Then you'll either realize that you really did like Programming, and come back, or that you made the right move.

Sitting there and wondering will never bring about a resolution to this.

The sooner you do this, the sooner you'll know and the sooner you can get on with the rest of your life. Delaying it means you delay the pain. It's got to happen sometime.
I wish he would have gone after the real culprit: hand wavy advice. Telling someone to be passionate about one's work is about as helpful as telling someone not to set himself on fire.

He should have singled out Gary V to make his point. The guy didn't start with only his passion and a video camera. He started with employees and a multi-million dollar business. Responding to comments is not hustling.
Just because your not signed in doesn't mean it can't register a complaint - by not tracking username or personal details with the complaint the point of being signed in is reduced to nothing. They can't even make sure you do it twice without tracking your user ID (which they won't do because they could then get username or password).

Therefore being able to register a complaint not signed in seems odd but fine.
I started out with Vistaprint once, after clicking on a Google ad saying '250 card 5 euros' or something like that. Designed business card based on their templates, put it through their web order forms, turned out I had to add a bunch of options and preparation costs and shipping costs, and the whole thing turned into 25 euros or something. By that time I had spend hours on getting the business card just right for their template format, so I just went with them anyway. Other printers had the same I found out - I never did find heavy paper, ad-free cards including shipping for less than 20 euros or so.

YMMV.
I used it to register a complaint even though I have no blood in this game. In general, I agree with Google's stance on this one, despite the fact that the motives are anything but altruistic as their verbiage tries to imply.
I'm pretty sure Alpha still doesn't permit non-alphanumeric characters in passwords.

Go figure..
A Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies
As a beer lover, I have looked into brewing and decided I don't have the patients for it. So I did the next best thing. I have a good friend who loves to brew. He always wants to give away as much beer as he can so he has room to brew and store more beer.
jQuery is great for smaller sites and it’s easy for anyone to pick and use, which is why there is such a strong designer community...but I wouldn’t want to use it to create the Yahoo! homepage. For scalable web applications, YUI really excels.

I'm curious: what about YUI lends itself to scalability?
It depends if you have an existing customer base. If you are starting out with nothing releasing early is part of your marketing strategy. It turns some of your earliest users into your evangelists and gives you real feedback. If you have a large existing base releasing early needs to be weighed against how your customers perceive the quality of your product.
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You may want to consider a third option, one that has worked well for me: Solve a hard problem.

This requires 3 steps:

1. Find a hard problem, with the emphasis on "Find". It must be someone else's problem, not yours. It also needs to be big enough to be important, hard enough that the elegant solution hasn't been found yet, but not so hard that you'll waste the rest of your life on it. Examples:

Bad: Invent a time machine.
Good: We need a better e-commerce website
Better: We need software to build better e-commerce websites.
Best: We need software to attack this problem differently.

2. Figure out your approach (how) and learn what you need to learn.

3. Build it, get feedback, iterate.

Your problem is that you're not challenged enough on something important enough. Do this and you won't be bored. You will also know once and for all if this is really for you.
How people get paid to design systems like that, I'll never know.
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Google is trying to monopolize your relationships (i.e. they give you an option while advising which option you should take), while pointing out that Facebook is monopolizing your relationships. They're taking different paths to reach the same end.
It sounds like you have excess creative energy. The nice thing about life is that success in one niche is not always easily translatable to success in another niche. Programming is easy for you. Why not push yourself and diversify out of technology? There are many things you could push yourself into, especially related to your love of travel. Assuming you are not already, please consider learning and studying another language other than your mother tongue. As you surely know, when you travel, you will always be a tourist until you speak the local language.
Java is a great platform for long-lasting robust apps. It is invaluable to both the business and the scientific community, providing stable code longevity and long term reusability beyond any other current platform. It provides near-C++ performance too if you tweak your code a bit.

Yet here we are. Politics. Politics and business pissing contests. If they do ruin or derail Java, can you imagine the amount of lost capital? The amount of man-centuries of work that would at the very least now have to be ported?

Of course, I don't think that will happen. The momentum is too large. But it could, and the fact that you have a bunch of salesman-type assholes threatening to destroy billions (or more) in value in order to measure the length of their dicks is sickening.

Politics is sort of like farting. Yes, everyone does it. Yes, it is normal. But it smells, and the people who do it a lot are kind of gross.
VB.NET is a solid language saddled with a terrible pedigree -- VBA macros, VB6, classic ASP. All nasty. But VB.NET now is an entirely different beast which happens to share the same name. It's like being the kid called 'Adolf'. It's not really VB.NET's fault.

Having used both languages, I've not seem any serious language features that one has that the other doesn't. What is missing in VB.NET, or made very difficult, that Python makes easy? Or vice versa?
Hopefully that was a typo, otherwise you launched a maximum of 10 days ago? It's hardly time to give up yet.
Work on getting posts up on hn, reedit and maybe digg, pro ote and be patient!
Go into management and outsourcing all your programming jobs.
Yeah this was the problem I ran into when I was being recruited by a few companies in NYC a few years ago. I live in Boston but they weren't willing or able to help me relocate and weren't willing to pay me anything close to what I could make at another job here in Boston.
Agreed, but at least on google you can export your data.
Not only do they follow a small number of patterns, most that involve subject matter rather than simply logic are part of a small number of categories. Almost all involve body parts, colors, names and days of the week.
I really don't see how you can do this in a normal work setting. If I work for 30, take 30 off... an 8 hour work day takes 16 hours...

Even if I got 16 hours of work done in that time, it does not matter really to my employer, who would still see it as 8 hours. Because we bill by the hour, what matters is the # of hours that are worked, not how much work gets done in them.

That said breaks in a lot of tasks are immensely useful. I can't remember how many times I've given up after getting stuck on a work task to come in the next morning and figured it out in 30 minutes.

I wish productivity mattered more :(.
Erm, this one is still on page 2.
Neat. I'd like to see By Career stats, too.
>Why should anyone consider it reasonable to insist that someone else needs to create an API that selectively differentiates between users based on arbitrary and easily spoofed technical criteria? This makes no sense. It is expensive technically and expensive in terms of the development time and effort needed to maintain it. Not to mention easily fooled.

What?

The distinction between apps and users is already very clear at every level in Facebook. I don't understand what technical issues you're talking about.

This could be an issue for people who blindly accept spam friend requests, but not for apps. Just because users get an export function doesn't automatically mean apps do as well, unless Facebook specifically implements it.
Software engineering is technical, sure, but it's not that hard

It's easy for you or I or most anyone on HN to say that, but my experience proves that it's not true in the general population.
Great link, as someone who has just gotten into home brewing it's a lot fun. I'm really only on my 1st brew (bottling day is sunday!) another thing to check out would be the Basic Brewing (found @ basicbrewing.com) podcast which has some good info as well.
The good news is that computers seem to be fast enough to allow game developers to work in less than speed-optimal languages, so long as they are willing to accept some stylization. Consider Minecraft, easily the hottest indie title in years, and it's written in straight-up Java. (As far as pure numerical computation is concerned, Java is actually a pretty good match for C++ these days, but 3d graphics remain a fairly serious bottleneck.)

If we're shooting for the stars, though, I'd personally prefer something more ambitious than Go, like GOAL[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
That's the whole point I was making. When it doesn't register username or any kind of identifiable information, it just counts 'votes', which doesn't amount to anything, as in the end it's just an arbitrary number open to manipulations.

What do they want to achieve by having the user click a button just to feel good?
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I get the impression that about half of the questions are list based. And the questions are about 10 words long. If that's the case, then using the algorithm you mentioned, you have a 1 in 20 chance of getting the captcha right. So yeah, it's a completely useless captcha system. That number should be 1 in a million or higher, not 1 in 20.
If you really want to start a startup you should just go out and do it. Don't settle for just another job if it's not what you really want to do. Figure out what's keeping you from doing a startup and attack that problem.
I thought it was just our school district. We got out at 14:32. Why not 14:30??
Absolutely - a wonderful book!
I didn't try it, but looking at the comments, it won't export email addresses

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=32853197098&...
Thanks. Useful tidbit for me to remember.
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I agree, although I haven't started brewing yet (my brother does). Doing it by yourself, I think, is hard, cause it's difficult to make a "reasonable" amount of beer for one person.

That said, it is def. appropriate for HN. Beer brewing is on my short-list of "telling hobbies" that is most certainly hacker-tastic. It just seems to be the kind of thing that good devs are drawn to, I could only make an educated guess as to why. I told my brother he needs to put it on his resume, somewhere at the bottom, because if I saw it on a resume, I'd give mental bonus points.
Try mouse hovering speakers and you'll see topic of their talk.