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You could optimize the many queues so they're just as efficient as the one single queue but you'd have to know everyone's processing time in advance - impossible in a real world setting.

Not quite impossible. You might not know individually, but on average for a group or segment you could get this information and optimize. Banks can do this by splitting consumer and merchant lines. Merchants typically take longer (who knows by how much), and get their own queue.

With this system, you have 2 queues, 1 for each group. There may be a lot of variation within each group, but the averages work out. Consumers wait the average minimum processing time for the consumer group, and merchant wait the average processing time for the merchant group.

This still leaves room for underutilization. What if the merchant line is backed up and the consumer line is empty? Ideally, the extra tellers would work to pick up the slack, but if this isn't possible then it's still not an ideal system.
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there is another comment that speaks to this ("it comes down to code"), but i'd just like to say - use what ever you can to get the job done, then think about porting/optimizing/frameworks...

TO the question at hand - Yes - php and sql can get the job done... i mean are you building it for 1,000 users? or 100,000? php and sql can handle both...

Code tight and code well, tell everyone else to go to hell
An rdoc is only as useful as it's included use-cases. About the best thing about PHP is the fact that there are zillions of included comments on the php documentation pages. While most are not at all what should run in production, a single good comment can give you a lot of insight as to how to use some code.

Tests != actual usage.

This is actually why a readme for a gem, plugin, extension, module etc. is so important, and why I think Github has been good for the developer community at large.
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You realize that you're defending a bot which provides random citations base on key phrases found in twitter posts on the claim that "most people's ... nonsense isn't ...skepticism, It's noise"?

Here is someone providing no thought and adding nothing to the discussion, by definition, he is providing noise.

Just because you disagree with someone, doesn't mean what they say is nonsense.

The primary attribute of the global warming ideology is to reject, out of hand, the possibility that global warming is not human caused. It is not a scientific movement, it is an ideology that rejects science as its first basis. Not once have I seen a global warming proponent who was willing to debate it on a scientific basis, nor have I ever seen one who was willing to listen to scientific arguments. The global warming movement is an anti-science movement, and here he is providing random citations as if they were relevant to discussions he's not even seeing...

this is the most profound example of the anti-science nature of the global warming movement combined with the deaf ear that it advocates towards people who disagree, or who "question the science" (which is known, in scientific circles as providing an alternative hyptohesis, and is intrinsic to the process of science.)
Right. So - plenty of downvoting, zero actual debate. And you wonder why people are writing bots to argue with climate deniers.

Respond! Don't just blindly downvote.
Wall Street solves this problem quite efficiently! The annual bonus is really the same as the performance review, so they simply tell everyone "you did a great job this year, here are your compensation numbers."

That way, as a rank and file employee you don't really know whether your "review" was above, at, or below average. First order, because you'd have to ask your peers about their compensation, which most people consider rude (at least in the US). Second order, because the bonus is supposed to be an aggregate of your group and individual performance (plus your seniority), so it's usually impossible to find a suitable cohort for comparison.
Reminds me of:

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

(While usually attributed to Mark Twain, the actual source of these words of wisdom is unknown - there is no evidence that Mark Twain ever said this.) from: http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/
My personal opinion is that a project can be language agnostic. You can build in whatever you want. It doesn't matter if you build your app in php, ruby, python, asp or whatever, if you're a good coder you will produce good secure code, if you suck, so will your code.

So build in whatever you're most comfortable with and don't pick a language because of a superficial reason.
It's about the developer, not the language. Just write good code and the language at the beginning won't really make a difference. If you like rails but you are more comfortable with PHP, maybe you could try CakePHP or Codeigniter. Even Python/Django could be an option you should consider.

Also for RoR you could use Heroku that makes deployment a breeze, but definitely when it comes to resources Ruby is way more expensive than PHP.
I think that he was just comparing places he's actually lived and worked- which IMO is nice because then I don't feel like he's making stuff up.
You're misunderstanding the purpose of the solution by taking it at face value. I think it is important to step back and think about why the global warming movement is being perpetrated. The real "problem" is the lack of a world government and the lack of power of governments over people's lives. Thus "Cap and trade" and all these other proposals that will not work on the face of them are actually solutions because they give governments dictatorial control over industry and people's lives....and they bring us closer to a global government.

I believe the left does not really care about people, especially poor people, at all. These people are just stepping stones or excuses to increase their power -- much the way wars and fear of terrorism are useful to the right.

I've learned enough economics and attempted to explain to people on the left in very straightforward economic terms how a given policy will actually hurt poor people, and never once have I managed to persuade a leftist to oppose that policy. They don't care, or they just decide that because I'm speaking economic science I must be a republican and therefore evil.

I am coming to believe that ideology inhibits thought.
Thanks Elliott. Five more things I can think of:

1) Are you (still) proud to tell people you work for this company?

2) Does your job (still) make good use of your skills and abilities?

3) Does your immediate supervisor (still) do a good job at "managing the work," that is, making appropriate work assignments, setting priorities, scheduling, etc?

4) Is there (still) an open, honest two-way communication?

5) Do the people you work with (still) cooperate to get the job done?
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This is the problem you global warming proponents have. You demand a response or citations, yet you never povide them yourselves. You didn't provide an argument worth debating, you just claimed there was no basis for the opposing viewpoint and called them a name.

Global warming is an ideology that rejects science and includes the belief that all opponents reject science and therefore are not worth arguing with. This is why you will not find arguments from global warming advocates, you will just find derisive claims and namecalling.... which you provided an example of.

Note: I am not getting into the debate with you, I am merely pointing out why your namecalling produced, as you put it "zero actual debate".
I'm glad to see an app store coming to the Mac. I had an idea to build an app store for Mac and Windows as a startup a while ago, because I wanted to bring the convenience of Linux package managers like apt to Mac and Windows PCs and include commercial apps. I chose not to pursue that idea, because I predicted that something like this was already on Apple's roadmap and that they would beat me to it. It only made sense, since they already had most of the infrastructure in place with iTunes and the iPhone app store. I guess it turns out that it was a wise decision. (I feel like I should give Joel Spolsky credit for influencing my decision to not pursue that startup with his post on platform vendors: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/06/10c.html)
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Maybe they are angry because they see this as somebody bribing young kids to make what might be the biggest mistake in their lives.
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For a brief moment, I considered porting some of these to JavaScript, but then I read one of the program listings
...
Nevermind! I forgot how painful BASIC was.
The people who are arguing for the climate change are the same group of people that used to tell me that the (rain)forests are the lungs of the earth.

I grew older, learned agriculture and forestry and saw that in mature forests the old trees die and rot, releasing the same amount of CO2 that was captured when they grew.

Now, the same people are telling me that we are responsible for the climate change.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting the rain forests, but thats because of the diversity of life they represent. I'm also for reducing the use of fossile fuel, -because we'll have to sooner or later anyway.
You lost the argument at "notorious denier hack", which is ironic given that you're just re-asserting the same assertions, sans evidence, that every religious adherent to global warming always asserts. By the way, props for having the balls to cite an uninformed blog that, is using exposed-to-be-fraudulent-by-the-climategate-emails data to make your "Argument".

This is why actual debate is impossible-- you're not even aware of the terms of the science that are relevant to debate.

The absorbtion of CO2 and proportion in the atmosphere. The fact that the planet is getting colder, and that we're overdue for an ice age, and even the historical temperature cycles of the planet seem to be beyond your ken.

But you're great at calling people names and pretedning like you've got science on your side, while rejecting the scientific method itself.
For another city to compare, I've spent the last two summers in Cambridge/Boston:

Pros

- Decent public transportation

- Huge college talent pool to draw from

- Startups in the area tend to come out of area colleges

- Recruiting from those colleges is probably the primary draw for the big tech company offices in the area

- Slightly cheaper rent than SF, with much cheaper options accessible by public transportation

- Home prices are way cheaper than the SF Bay Area

- Great nightlife, successful sports teams if you're into that

- There's a 200 year old frigate in the harbor that used to do battle with pirates and there are lots of cool old buildings all around

- The area is becoming more startup friendly. There are resources like TechStars and the Cambridge Innovation Center that weren't around a decade ago.

Cons

- Annoying Puritan laws that aren't enforced evenly

- Cold, long winters

- Hot summers, though this past summer wasn't especially hot

- Not much of a startup culture compared to other cities. Other than the students, people are pretty complacent in general in Boston/New England

- Most people in the area are from there originally or went to school there, more-so than other cities

- Small bubble of startups working on tools for academics

- Parking and driving are kind of a nightmare. Lanes disappear, Massachusetts drivers are super-aggressive, lanes are really skinny, etc..

Neutral

- Not as diverse as other cities, especially outside of the colleges

- Startups in the area are more focused on making money right away
I do have some future-direction worries about php (the 6 dev process has had some ... quirks; like "let's just bin this and start over") and mysql (re: acquisition by oracle and ensuing staff departures, forked projects, etc.). But they're still fine for a proof of concept implementation. Not many architectures survive contact with real use unchanged, so having to buttress (e.g. op code or data caching) or swap out components entirely is not unheard of. Sometimes the best way to understand a system is to build it, so even if you do end up rebuilding it in whole or in part, at least you've learned the hard lessons about how everything hangs together to make it work right.

PHP and mysql are dead stupid easy to get started with. An mvc framework like symfony/kohana/zend/etc. can help speed dev time for your PoC, but most of them are performance hogs so you'll probably have to buttress that (APC, memcache, etc.) if you do end up having to scale. All this stuff's widely supported and retarded easy to deploy usually.

RoR is a bit more of a moving target at the moment. Which means docs can/do lag the bleeding edge quite a bit, standard OS distribution packages are frequently out of date (or just out right retarded e.g. debian's disabling of rubygem self update), and the best practices for deploying and scaling are in a state of flux. (I think currently the recommended way is phusion's passenger/mod_rails or whatever it is, for apache/nginx anyway. Or has the state of the art moved on again?)
i know this will come off as dick-ish...

just saying this hack seems more like a ruse... which i guess is a hack... i was expecting more from such an inflammatory title...
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The brilliant thing about the global warming debate for proponents is that because they are not even aware of the science inovlved, but firmly convinced that they are on the side of "science" they can say whatever they want.

You think some of it hasn't been falsified? Provide a citation please!

See what I did there? Also brilliant about their position is that it is completely unfalsifiable (if I'm understanding it correctly, it is impossible to disprove, even though the planet is getting colder, because it is based on fantasy models-- you can't disprove a model because it is just a model. And these models having never worked with previous data sets is well known but advocates don't care.)
Not at all. IronPython is alive and well and (as I understand it) MS' bet for embedded scripting (at least, that's what they're recommending).
Is the public transit really that great? I was looking at the Wikipedia article and it looks like you guys just have one light rail line and some commuters. Can you actually get to all the places you need without a car?
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I think the problem is much more general.
It seems like the underlying problem is that technology companies have idea to divide people into two categories: manager and individual contributors (developers). And then rank them into levels.

This might work for non-tech companies, but I think that is wrong approach for tech companies. One of the key problems is that big money is in "management career path", thus very smart young people which are unable or not willing to go into management will leave to start their own companies.

For example, if you look around you, you see that your fellow colleges and managers are quite different. Some of them are "mentors" (people who like to mentor), "intrapreneur" (people with weird ideas), "fire-fighters" (people who are good in fire mode), "coordinators", etc.

I'm not sure what is the solution. Maybe something like mash up structure where person who is deciding on ones bonus and raise is not his/her manager.
Actually all of them are because it is just linking to random papers without any understanding of context-- it can't have understanding because it is a bot.

This is actually a very accurate simulation of attempting to debate with a global warming zealot.
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Howdy, Hackers;
Last week, dustball and I announced OpenKeyval.org here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846088), and we got some great feedback. One thing we heard from a few people was a desire for it to be easier to work with from JavaScript. That was something I was very happy to hear, since this idea came out of my own brainstorming around making server-less web apps that could still have non-local state.

With that in mind, I'd like to introduce openkeyval.js, which offers an interface to OpenKeyval.org that's vaguely modeled after HTML5's local storage.

// Here's how you set a value
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// Here's how you retrieve a value
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});

Take a look at the site for more details and a link to the code. We're hosting a minified version on a CDN (incidentally, http://maxcdn.com is pretty awesome), so you can feel free to link directly to it from your sites with a reasonable expectation of reliability and speed.

As always, thanks for reading and please let us know what you think.

PS: This is definitely a first revision. Although it has memoization, it doesn't have any provision for local caching, and it can only get/set one item at a time -- basically, there is definitely a lot of room for performance improvements.
I agree. I think this is really a libertarian attack on academia. If you read the atlantic and the economist you will notice that an attack on academia had been going on for a while now from libertarian circles.

Which is kind of ironic because universities overloaded themselves with libertarian professors (some with very flimsy scholarly credentials) in the last ten years in order to suck up to the Bush administration and the right wing donors that are getting more and more important.

But of course libertarians are not happy to have some professors in universities. After all universities offer tenure and independence of thought, etc. They much prefer to have no universities and have all scholarship done in "think tanks" where "scholars" follow orders and get fired at the first sign of disobedience.
Clickable link:
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A few scroll-overs get my Safari (Mac) pumping. Worse than flash.
I would pay up to $100 for a website that had me take tests to prove that I'm not a crappy developer, and that had a reputation for uniting programming talent with awesome companies. I really wish something like this would exist, as I'm getting quite bored answering the sometimes-almost-insulting screening questions, and I'm absolutely certain companies are bored with asking them.

As per your offer, I probably wouldn't pay because I don't believe it's possible to offer such a service, without it missing some jobs I might really want, or without it not working. Some examples:

* Some jobs are exclusive to recruiters, and the only way to apply to them is through that agency.

* Duplicate jobs which have different descriptions. How could you handle that without making me think or do work?

* I don't believe you could offer better and/or wider reaching results than Indeed.com or other job search engines whose sole purpose is to find job postings.

* The job search market is already so full of middle-men that I don't trust half the posts and prefer applying to companies with job postings on their website, and via direct e-mail. In other words, you'd have to do a heck of a lot to earn my trust.
It is a myth. It is an ideology that rejects science. And the proof that hacker news is full of ignorant college students who choose ideology over science (and capitalism, for that matter) is the fact that any failure to blindly advocate the socialist position is automatically downvoted.

EDIT: I take the downvotes this post is getting as proof that my hypothesis is correct. If my hypothesis were wrong, I would get actual responses or counter arguments attempting to illuminate me. Downvotes are cowardly.
Whilst you may have an easier time finding PHP developers I actually think it is harder to find good/great PHP developers in comparison with Ruby devs. The reason for this is that Ruby/Rails development seems to focus more on TDD, CI, logic/display separation and other good practices, where as PHP, being older, hasn't traditionally had this approach. Having these practices at the core of what you do (IMO) makes you a better developer (not necessarily programmer).
Well, you're probably right, given that this was a tool for teaching.
It is impolite, and therefore unbalanced, to never agree to disagree.

Then again, if half of your conversation can be replaced by [fill in the blank] your questions may be imprecise.
The public transit in the Twin Cities is great... when compared to say... Scottsdale, Arizona. There's a light rail that goes from downtown to the airport and a bus system.
In my experience you can get cross town faster on a bicycle than you can on a bus.