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Morgan Brings Back the Threewheeler
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I was interviewing them as well, but I was 4 months unemployed with a disabled wife that couldn't work but whose disability claim was in limbo. I might have actually taken the job had I been offered one, sadly.

Fortunately, all's well that ends well. An old headhunter I'd used in the past tossed my info along (for FREE!) to my current boss. After talking to me on the phone, he gave me the old "We don't have a position open, but I'll call you if something opens up" line. I wrote it off, but he worked to get a position opened up for me and I'm genuinely doing what I love to do for a living these days. It involves Information Security, physical security/surveillance and general-purpose IT work (Sysadmin, programming and networking). I'm basically in geek heaven. It's also 6 miles from home, giving me the perfect excuse to ride my bike to work every day, rain or shine.
I use RoR for all our control panels and human interfaces at work. RoR is many things but fast isn't something I would call it.
Top Fifty Web Tools for Reviewing Doctors and Hospitals
Technology and health compliment each other very well. One example of this is the web tools that are currently available for rating both hospitals and doctors.
This is naive, if we knew then what we know now alcohol would never have been legalised.

We have to deal with the situation we have and criminalising alcohol would be very difficult, its too entrenched.

The fact that alcohol is worse and legal is not in itself an argument for legalising cannabis.
For those worried that it might break something on their site, a word of advice. You shouldn't expect anything to "just work," and should, like any technology that you make use of, evaluate and test it out to see if it's right for you.

There's no details on it, but I wonder if GoDaddy has some plan to provide a way to turn specific things off. If not, this sounds like it could be a disaster.
Problem is with that type of regime, you'd end up with no garden left and some really annoyed neighbours.
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Well, yes. It's not that hacking in and of itself is not sexy; it's that hackers and social awkwardness tend to be fairly highly correlated. That doesn't mean hackers, as a categorical rule, must be scrawny and squirrely and awkward. But a lot of us are. I don't consider myself to be, nor do I fault those who are for being that way. I just think we'd be slightly naive to assume the myth of the nerdy hacker is no longer reflective of reality whatsoever.
"Oscar Wilde".
You are so right of course. Even a few breaks throughout the day - increases my coding. If I forgo any kind of exercise - it's a fast downward cycle.
Yes it's very practical.

Finding a hosting solution for PHP is not going to be to difficult.

It's not going to 'go away' anytime soon, certainly not
before it becomes time to re-write your codebase.

The docs are good.

Whether or not there is something which does any of those points better does not change the answer to the actual question.
Yes, PHP/MySQL is still practical for building web apps.
Agree on 'cave-hiding' being just as possible in svn as git, but I disagree that your workflow is particularly complicated or poorly performing in svn.

Creating branches in svn is cheap, switching branches is cheap, checking out a new working copy if you want to work on two changes at once is also cheap, merging is cheap. There's no reason not to do what you're suggesting in svn.

One of the things that git does better than svn is merging branches when files have moved, but I don't think your use case addresses this directly. Git does some things better than svn, but svn does a good enough job that you have to be a little careful when making the case against it.
Here we go with the amateur legal stuff, but until a more educated comment comes up, as far as I know, it is a question of the drivers being GPL, and coding up against the drivers crosses the threshold.
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_Godel, Escher, Bach_ describes similar phenomena with camera feedback loops. When I read GEB, I wondered if it would be possible to create a Sierpinski triangle using four specially shaped/curved mirrors. I briefly played with povray, but didn't figure it out.
kohana 3 is more like RoR for PHP, CI is like RoR for PHP4 :)
Downvoted why? Because it's not compatible with your groupthink?
If you're going the "non-default" route of using postgresql you might as well ditch PHP.

Unless P=Python? :-)

LAMP is a loaded acronym which these days basically means "a web app built using FOS but not in Java or Ruby".
I am absolutely open to debate on the matter, provided that it's constructive and relies on evidence and rational debate. When people make wild accusations of data tampering, fraud and shadowy world government conspiracies despite abundant evidence to the contrary then yes, they are deniers, and I use that word in an informed technical sense.

It's impossible to have any sort of reasonable discussion with people who claim to be scientifically informed, but dodge and evade as soon as you ask them simple, straightforward questions like, "where is the scientific evidence which supports your theory?", or "what is your explanation for this obvious hole in the logic of your argument?".

So yes, they are deniers. If they don't like it, they should start arguing properly, or admit that they're wrong. You know, like scientists do.
I would still argue yes. As a rule, a software company that knows what it's doing doesn't allow marketers to take control of development in the way the article describes. Ergo, by the time the marketers are invited into the "hive," the company is already in a bad state because it is the sort of company that now makes such decisions and puts such structures in place.

Furthermore, clueless marketing types don't even learn about most hot software companies when they're still hot. They only even discover the company after it's already old news or has become mainstream. If anything, this was more true 15 years ago than it is today.

The article confuses cause and effect.

It's not that the suits can't still do a lot of damage, because they can and they do. But they are not the driving factor behind a company's decline. They are symptoms thereof.
I am using the LNNMMMMP stack at the moment... Linux, nginx, node.js, memcached, MySQL, Mono, MongoDB and PHP.

Am I normal?
The best web design company in the world
In a similar vein, Google is largely written in C++.
Auto Transport, Why Is My Gas So Cheap?
Ask HN: create a LIKE-ad network? (startup idea)
I was reading an article a few days ago, which quantified how much money is worth for a business when some of their users use Facebook's Like button to share the business with their friends.

Suppose you're selling something (movie tickets/rentals, gadgets, etc...) and allow your customers to share/like on facebook what they purchased. Naturally, some of their friends will check it out and even make the same purchase (especially for certain type of products, like events, movies, etc... where it's important if some of your friends attend).

I'm wondering what you think about providing this as a service to everyone selling something out there?

I'm thinking something like an ad network which enable store owners to let their customers engage with their friends, which in turn drives more traffic/sales to the store owner. The store owner would pay a CPC or CPA fee.

Thanks!
That's one reason why politics is a bad mix with sites like this.
> Why would someone vote for a law that seemed to them likely to create harmful side effects

Because as well as the bad effects, the law might also have good effects, i.e. be a net improvement. Most policy proposals have some potential bad side effects -- if they didn't, people would already be doing them.

So if a policy appears to be net-positive, it is probably worth supporting.

> rather than waiting for a less ambitious, better-designed law that wouldn't?

If a referendum fails, it may make it less likely that a better designed law will come along later. This is IMO the case for the referendum on electoral reform that will be held in the UK next May -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote...
Remove M for MySQL in LAMP and make it M for MongoDB
On the BBC's Econet system unless a machine was 'protected', any other machine on the network had access to its RAM - including the keyboard buffer. So it was fairly easy to get access to the teacher's password, especially if they always used the same machine and you could make sure in advance to unprotect it!
I see a couple more upvotes, would be really interested in my last question, thanks.
To act as devil's advocate, this bit:

> It's impossible to have any sort of reasonable discussion with people who claim to be scientifically informed, but dodge and evade as soon as you ask them simple, straightforward questions like, "where is the scientific evidence which supports your theory?", or "what is your explanation for this obvious hole in the logic of your argument?".

Could apply to people from either side. There's theories and evidence to support either direction. It's not a binary it is or it isn't happening thing. It's not a binary we cause it, we don't cause it thing. The problem with the debate is that it becomes a religion to both sides.
Servers are cheap, programmers are expensive and bugs can kill you.

I suggest going with whatever gives you clean and correct code faster. I wouldn't suggest PHP for a new project. If you already have a big codebase written in PHP, you should keep it, but by "keep" I mean maintaining and cleaning up, not only adding to.

As for MySQL, it's good enough unless you get too successful - then it becomes painful to keep it going. Mostly any RDBMS has this problem. Again, for a new project, I'd go with PostgreSQL, but that's more a matter of taste.
It takes some time to degrade, I can only assume Mail, Safari, etc. leak memory over time (or maybe start fragmenting?).

That said, I'm not sure a lawsuit is the appropriate solution.

I'm curious whether iOS uses compressed memory swap techniques (e.g. Linux's compcache or whatever it's currently called) and if not, if anyone has tried such a thing on a jailbroken iPhone 3G. I'd give it a go if I had the time.
> It's not about whether or not the facts he's spamming people with are right or wrong, it's the fact that he's doing it in the first place.

I wouldn't characterise it as spamming. He's sending the messages on one of his own twitter accounts. If he was auto-replying on other people's blogs, he might more accurately be accused of spamming.
Punchier still: "Ask forgiveness, not permission".
Not only that, but MySQL AB considered their network protocol to be GPL as well, and went after anyone who tried to make a clean-room implementation of it.

I don't know whether SUN and Oracle still pursue that strategy. Otherwise you could indeed bundle MySQL with some clean-room libraries to talk to the server.
4.1 did improve the situation noticeably, but it's still rather sluggish unless you hard reboot very frequently.
Making cannabis an exception to the law of comparative advantage doesn't seem like a sensible use policy to me.
I don't know what MMGW is, and i don't know why people like to distract from the subject of matter here.
It's not about indians or religion or whatever.
It's about a problem that should be taken seriously, because it is _global_ and it will affect future generations!

Shutting down discussion is equal to what the parent suggests (that is to shut up and not to react to those false claims).

So, when you say "you can attach urgency to every claim", you are suggesting that we shuld just wait the next decades and see what happens, or what is your point?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635260

and: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1635653

Here's another take on the same question:

+ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756470

+ http://www.dataists.com/2010/09/the-data-science-venn-diagra...
Visual Website Optimizer is built on PHP/MySQL stack (but we do use Redis for queue). And the application is serving 15+ million requests _daily_. So, it is certainly possible to build a good enough application on PHP/MySQL.
I don't think it is. If I refer a job to a friend, I do so knowing that particular friend can handle the job. Different jobs I'd refer to different people. Whenever I refer a job, I'm putting my name on the line in recommending that person. If they fail, the customer loses confidence in me as well.
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It's certainly not worse than Oracle MySQL...
Y Combinator Winter apps
Hi I was just wondering if all of the applications for winters YCombinator have been finalised as we are still awaiting word and are on tender hooks here...
London, UK

We're looking for a strong C# developer to join our small team.
We're a young software company creating innovative solutions for the Legal and Financial sectors. We're based in Shoreditch. I think it's a fantastic, varied and challenging role at a place that's fun to work. If you're a fast learner, love to code, pragmatic, and have a couple of years experience with C# & SQL Server then check out the job ad below and get in touch with me directly: rory.kingan@priorysolutions.com

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/Jobs/8973/c-sharp-net-devel...

no remote.
Yes, but there has to be a certain elegance to it I can't quite see here.

Hammering screws is not hacking.
The assumption you're making here is that the person who's claimed 'Fluid' doesn't have a legitimate use for it
Wake me up when you finish writing one in any language.
So this was the one and only mistake on IPCC part?
Even if I misunderstand IPCC process looks like they are not happy with it themselves: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100616/full/news.2010.302.ht...
Informative: I believe the term you are referring to is Sigil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)

I actually never found having the dollar sign as a sigil was any problem. There are a lot of punctuation symbols used in programming that are not used the same way as they are used in English grammar. In English, you don't create a new paragraph for every line indented in, the ^ sign is not often used for exclusive or, % is not used for modulus, and * is not used for multiplication.

You could also probably make a length function which returns strlen($str) if you really wanted to have $str->length.
On the note of testimonials, this might be a good opportunity to leverage something like facebook or twitter. Testimonials can often look contrived. Linking a testimonial to a facebook account would tie it to a real person and make it more believable.
there's also a very large body of high quality iOS apps, especially games, that could be ported with minimal effort
"... and his advanced Ruby knowledge made fixing bugs a real treat."

Well, features of a language should be used to made the
code easier to read, not the other way around.
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+1 Awesome insider post. I would say I feel like this more or less across the entire West Coast.
"Tenterhooks": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook
What if you were only referring the job to your private network, of say 5-10 other freelancers who you trusted? Not the public network.
A lot of times, programmers do things that many people might find pointless... I don't know how many different "new operating systems" or "new programming languages" I saw come from the CS Department in 9 years spent working at a college. At least there's a snowball's chance in hell more than 2 people in the whole world will ever want to use PHP on Android.
Just a few questions about this: How would users like an advert? How would you aggregate the data and determine the amount of likes on an ad being more of a factor in bidding than price? (This would probably have to be used in an algorithm similar to Google's Quality Score). Also, considering that about 4% of Facebook users interact with ads, and less than that on other sites, how viable would this idea be?
Every time I see a reference to that website, it makes me cry.

As someone said: "The biggest non-technical difference between git and mercurial is the rabid culture surrounding git. mercurial users fairly happily and quietly use their tool, while I've had to send two separate door-to-door git missionaries away today alone." (http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/apr/06/differenc...)
This is a nice idea but I believe is in the wrong location and the government has missed an opportunity. London simply has far too expensive housing and is too crowded and a lot of smart people won't live there. Silicon Fen in near Cambridge also has very high housing costs. A UK silicon valley needs to happen where its cheap to live, geeks actually want to live there, and there are decent transport links to London. I think a better tactic would be to electrify the Midland Mainline to make the trains to/from the north faster. Then you could make tech hubs in places like Nottingham (which is a fun place for 20-somethings to go out AND has cheap family housing too) or Sheffield (ditto and has rock climbing on the doorstep as well).
Its ridiculous how so much tech work in the UK is concentrated in the crowded expensive south-east, and I believe an enlightened government would try to capitalise on the talent in the rest of the UK.
Seconded, Kohana really wipes the floor with CI nowadays (this from someone still forced to maintain a couple of CI-based sites...) :P
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I think email falls into the same category as the real life social graph. You communicate seperately with each group of friends. Other groups don't see your comments. The swimming kids don't see you reply to the friends from the gay bar talking about pictures.
One queue is fairest. From your example if there is only one server then there is no difference between one queue/one queue per server.
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You must stay hydrated, but I'm not sure if drinking water is good advice. You have to not forget your electrolytes. Something like Gatorade works, though.
Yes, just use a good framework like Yii (http://www.yiiframework.com) to smooth out the warts.
"meta-knowledge" is called epistemology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
That's $1.5 million not $15 million. Still, that would make you think they caught some kind of a music piracy ring, not a random woman that downloaded a couple dozen songs.
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To put it another way, one hour at the gym has the highest marginal return at curing death among all hours you will spend today.

I go for a similar reason: I'm banking time for my children.
The real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code
I thought you were going to China:
http://maxkle.in/giving-up-on-europe/

BTW, I don't mean this as a snarky retort. I'm seriously curious whether that plan has panned out for you.
I've read that when it comes to votes on specific propositions (Initiatives) the average voter tends to be more cautious. Therefore we tend to give into the prohibitionists and fear of allowing something, even if most of us would consider themselves non-conservative.

Examples:

- California says NO to prop-19

- Switzerland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret_controversy_in_Switzerl...

- Hamburg says NO to modernize public school system

- Netherlands + France say no to european constitution

- Initiatives to combine administrative entities (e.g. federal states) mostly fail

- If a referendum about the euro was hold in Germany in 1999, there wouldn't be no euro today
We have that in some stores here in Sweden too, except you put the stuff you buuy straight into your shopping bag. When you're done you just put the scanner back, swipe your store- and credit cards and you're ready to leave the store - no re-packing stuff from basket to bag.
I know how to get a zipper for a static graph by Tying the Knot (http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tying_the_Knot). But writing one where you can add and remove nodes and edges seems much harder.

You already know how a zipper for a tree looks like. And you have probably seen a functional queue. Generalizing from both of those, you can imagine how a zipper would work.

I can write down the types and all, even if I don't know of any implementation. But that's probably a topic for a blog post, or so.
However, isn't this bit like saying you can't beat IBM, Altavista, Friendster/MySpace or other established companies.