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A virus? What do viruses look like? What made you think that?
Sounds like a great idea, though the naming is a bit unfortunate, there might be some confusion between the Git hosting and collaboration application: beanstalkapp.com.
Indeed, I had to go below the fold.
Wow, thanks, I didn't know that Sweden had passed the US (edit: it hasn't see link below). This must have happened the last 4-5 years.

Still, the links in my previous post are about purchasing power, not GDP/capita. But you're right, they are at least much closer now.

Actually, this is pretty good news for the US, because Sweden was in a terrible mess in the mid 90s but managed to clean things up in a relatively short time (less than a decade). Of course, the US economy is much, much larger, but it's worth noting that things can get better rapidly once you're on the right track again.

EDIT: here's a graph from 2009 showing GDP/capita where Sweden is still far behind the US:
http://www.ekonomifakta.se/en/Facts-and-figures/Economy/Econ...

EDIT: purchasing power adjusted figures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
Sweden still far behind the US.
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Upvoted for not saying "UK libel law" :-)
While the site itself is nice designed and I enjoy playing with various countries, I see that the main purpose for designing this site are the amazon links below the comparison. Am I right?
I'm surprised that longevity in the US is lower than many other countries (the same is true for Italy as well). I wonder if the food industry and the obesity problem contributed to this problem.
I remember seeing about 5 or 6 users on a Compaq 286 running Xenix accessing an application built around Informix. :-)
That's most likely a direct transposition from French "secretaire d'etat", which is just a junior minister.
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I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility also plays an important role.

You can move from one *class* to another in USA(e.g Obama could become President)
You must not move from one *caste* to another in your life time in India(e.g. Ambedkar could not become Prime Minister)
To my eyes, it looks too american-style.
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This feature is actually causing damage.

Several times yesterday I found myself opening a seemingly interesting discussion, reading the comments, then wondering why so few people were talking about it.

The link that says "Hey, there's actually more discussion that we're hiding. Click here to see it" is tiny (and unexpected) so I just plain missed it. I even missed it on this thread until I read a comment talking about other comments that had scrolled off the 1st page, thus demonstrating that there must indeed be a 2nd page and that I should look harder for a way to find it.

Had I been able to find (and therefore read) the whole discussion on those topics yesterday, I might have had interesting things to add. So might all the other people who missed them for the same reason. I suspect that the overall quality of discussion has taken a dip since this feature went live.
Bob Bob Ricard are somewhat OTT, but still their milkshakes are divine and rival what you can find in NYC: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=5205391226741305498

Shame you have to go to a high class restaurant/cocktail bar for it though.
He has a B.A. and M.A. in Classics, and is doing a B.A.I. in Engineering at the moment. He has a decent grasp of the theory of C++, having read through Stroustrup though I'm not sure how good the practice is.

In Ireland, we've recently moved from a four year B.Eng. (Honours) system for professional qualification to three year Bachelor (Ordinary) with a subsequent two year Masters being necessary for professional accreditation. Given that it's a new programme no one has any idea how the new degree will be viewed in the marketplace.

I'm of the opinion that it'll be a good standalone qualification, he isn't.
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which also heavily depends on how old you/what period of life you are.
Switzerland is less appealing in your 20ies but much more when you're 40 with wife and kids. You just can't have an exciting, always changing, but still well-organised and super-stable country.
You know, I think they need a better internal search engine. Whenever I'm looking for something on facebook, within my inner social circle (and sometimes extended) I have a very hard time finding it. I think they could do a better job at that.
It's critically acclaimed because it's original. A critic (and I know this having worked as a reviewer) has likely seen every single show that came out every year. When you've seen generic sitcom A through F, you're going to love something that's original right through from premise to characters (the characters do fill out into the 2nd season, but Fuller has a problem that his main character is often a complete vacuum - like Dead Like Me the main character was simply a way too present observer; by the end I literally loved every character but the lead).

Better Off Ted suffered the same problem (different creator) with the main character being vacuous. His boss was great, his colleagues were great, his daughter was great, I even liked the narration because it was out-of-character from the main character.

I find with the major sitcoms people relate to the main character and solely the main character. I think the main reason Chuck Lorre has done so well with Two And A Half Men and The Big Bang Theory is that it's not just the main character that you can relate to, meaning you get the unbelievably avid fans from those "critically acclaimed" shows making huge noise and driving a near doubling in viewers of their shows (the big bang theory went almost 7-million viewers from the first till third season). You don't see this growth in your average series, it tends to start large and decline continuously (Hawaii Five-0 dropped 4-million viewers in the first 4 episodes).
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It's on usenet. Best sci fi ever made!
> Revolutionary jets like the SR-71 or the 747 took months to design.

Yes, and without computer assisted modelling, when they wanted to try out something - say, reducing trim drag by moving the center of gravity further aft - they had to just try it out in the field. That experiment killed one pilot, and it's a miracle the other survived. What caused that death? Engine unstart. Why was unstart a problem on the SR-71? Because its analogue computers couldn't always keep up.

All in all a spectacularly bad example, CAD would have saved lives, and despite his ranting it DID have a computer on board, and when that was replaced with a digital computer system it increased the reliability and safety of the plane.

Here's the story from the survivor if anyone's interested: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/sr-71_break-up.htm
Quoth RiderOfGiraffes 34 minutes ago,

Ironic that PG's definitive reply is now below the fold:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2118936
Slightly off topic: for quick & common image manipulation stuff, there's also mini_magick: http://github.com/probablycorey/mini_magick
Sorry for the screw-up. As it happens, it was submitted earlier anyway:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115559
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I'm confused, the post I was replying to discussed doctors who did not believe the child was being abused. Are you saying you are 100% certain the doctors KNEW you were being abused, and decided it wasn't important?

As for treating the symptoms and not the cause, how can doctors treat teh cause if they can't pin down what it is? Would you prefer they just refused to treat the symptoms before finding the cause? That's the only other option.
Segways haven't been banned in the UK - just from the public highway.
Absolute drivel.

In a year or so, when online music streaming becomes big (maybe) with Apple and Google both competing in the sphere, will you want Facebook to add a music streaming service as well?

How about a map service? Or an image or document format converter? People seem to use those a lot too.

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Stepping away from the argument that Facebook is a direction-less fad that probably will become irrelevant in the coming years, they're fine how they are --- a big aggregator for your social activities on the web. There is no reason for them to start moving towards a kitchen sink approach.
Uninformed. Paypal did not launch in obscurity - see Max Levchin's account in Founders At Work.
The fine author brags about how he could access the internet on his calculator, and sneers at people who buy phones to do the same?
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My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other’s negative tendencies...
Garage48 is one of the best event formats I have seen and experienced. I wrote a first person post on the experience.

I have a business background, but also have a basic understanding what can be achieved with different languages. These events are definitely needed to spur interest towards creating interesting web applications (and startups).

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/01/18/last-weekends-experi...
I read that as more of a goal statement than a description. Whether or not you think they've succeeded, they certainly seem to have put a lot of effort towards that goal: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/
BS, someone has to bear the responsibility of decisions and policies made and approved. If this sort of thing keeps happening and CEO's point the finger at underlings, well then maybe people will start getting wise on the social responsibility of the places that they work at. Or maybe the CEOs need to go to jail and learn that they can't keep shrugging their shoulders and saying, "Deal with it."

Maybe we need people to go to jail in a society for wrong doings in order to prevent pathological behavior from becoming the norm.
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I've used iSSH for a couple of years on my iPhone 3G and couldn't be happier.
Agreed. I think it is pretty good overall, and can see potentially using it in my own projects. However, I don't think that the design of the technology class icons are particularly well execute. I feel like they suffer from an attempt to match the angles and styling of the logo too closely and would have rather seen more easily recognizable elements used to represent those concepts.
It tastes like they completely forgot to add sugar or milk. It's like eating raw cocoa, or cheap hot chocolate powder.
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That would make the stalkers happy too.
The new system can easily be "gamed," as has been discussed already several times. Here's a specific example. I wanted to observe the irony that PG's definitive answer is now below the fold, but I wanted my comment to be "above the fold" so that people could find PG's comment. Realising that if I simply commented in the appropriate place - as a reply to the original submission, as I have done with this comment - then my comment would repidly disappear even further below the fold, I added it as a reply to the unshakeably top reply:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119471

Thus my comment is technically mis-placed, but guaranteed to be on the first page of replies and discussion.

There has to be a better solution to the problem of load. It depends on the cause, of course, but in the absence of profiling information (always the first step) I would investigate more cacheing to make the system less dynamic.

ADDED IN EDIT: I love the way this comment has attracted down-votes - I've been watching it bounce up and down for a bit now. It's clearly alright to discuss the merits and otherwise, but for some people, clearly not alright to demonstrate the effect. On a forum for hackers, I find that delightful!
Isn't that the whole point of the website? To make sweeping generalizations about entire countries?
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Heroku will probably still have the advantage of being git-based. I doubt Amazon will support git with beanstalk.

Now, Amazon may start siphoning off python users that switched to rails just to use Heroku.
Hilarious the green/red colouring scheme which I presume means good/bad. Take for example Australia vs Democratic Republic of the Congo:

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/AU/CD

Democratic Republic of the Congo spends 99.39% less on health care = good...?
Double ironic that his post is below the fold - but this one isn't.
He does not exactly make a cogent argument. Paraphrasing part of it, "Stuxnet was made in China because Realtek and JMicron are Taiwanese, which is basically China."
If he loves to code credentials are irrelevant, otherwise he needs to credential up.
IMHO, there's a huge difference between calling a C library directly and shelling out to an external process.

mini_magick uses Subexec which in turn causes a fork and exec and might, depending on how ruby's backtick operator work, also start a shell which in turn does another exec for the specific ImageMagick binary.

The process startup time alone is a significant overhead and so is the additional memory usage.

In the old days, when I was maintaining a mail server for a free web mail service, I remember the lengths I went through to prevent my MTA from forking for mail delivery due to the huge cost of launching another process.
Facebook shouldn’t be telling me how many “friends” I should have, especially when there’s clearly no technological impetus for it.

Does Facebook do that? I get recommendations of people I might know, but I don't recall ever being told how many friends I should have.
Well, yes and no. A major advantage of FB is that, once they suppressed the crazy app invites, it's spam-free. The only people who can send me messages are people I've already "whitelisted" by adding them/accepting their add. Once they start allowing inbound email, it all goes a bit hatstand.
The problem is more one of cost and efficiency. You can still run your care for 100k of miles (the 1M miles is fiction, imho). But when e.g. the engine is broken, you don't fix it anymore but replace it wholesale. Less hassle, guaranty on the new part by the manufacture and generally cheaper: The old engine gets sent to the manufacturer for refurbishment by people only doing this (and hence more efficient than your run-of-the-mill mechanic).

Furthermore you can't fix a car do-it-yourself-style anymore because these things have become way more complex. So running a car _way_ past it's economically sensible lifetime (if you'd factor in the labour cost) is simply no longer possible.

And even old cars totally overengineered do fail all the time (my brother has a bunch of them). But since it's usually just for leisure, labour cost doesn't count. And because the parts are simpler it can usually be fixed.

So I'd blame this on the massively increased labour cost/car cost ratio. Go to a country with really cheap labour and it all works like it did here half a century ago.
Forward? Add someone else to the thread?
I tried a few, and iSSH is the only one still remaining on my iPad.
Yet another reason to use Auto Patch Work - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/aeolcjbaammbkgai...

I didn't even notice the pages were paginated thanks to the extension (it auto appends page 2... page 3... to the bottom of paginated content)
That's deliberate gaming of the system by me, as discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119549
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Link to the referenced paper:
http://homepage.mac.com/peptoids/RZ_paper_pdfs/Murnen_JACS_2...

The original press release from Berkeley:
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/01/18/nanosca...
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Have you looked at the subscription billing web services?

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Everything is getting more and more simple, isnt that good?

Lots of ranting towards Facebook here of late, I must say.
Facebook is a great way of telling your friends that HTML5 has got a logo, for example. Also, this way your friends that arent on sites like linkedin will get an idea of what you're up to.

I'm sure people who are interested in programming and building webpages will go their own way in the end anyway.

Maybe I misunderstood this article and the previous about Facebook rants, in that case I apologize.
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Thanks for the detailed reply. It's funny that you can't use a test to select people for a job, while you can use the same test to select people for college (though perhaps I'm extrapolating, since the wikipedia article only mentions that you can't use the test for internal transfers and promotions.)
You keep forgetting that the points that Nate brought up are completely irrelevant. The goal was not to hide from Symantec a year after the fact. The goal was to ruin Iran's nuclear plant. And that is what they did. In fact, many modern military strategies involve intentionally demonstrating your capabilities. There are good reasons to do that.

It seems silly that there is this debate going on about advanced code obfuscation that absolutely no one involved cares about. "Security experts" really need to learn when not to give their 2 cents.

I think anyone that has actually shipped complex software would agree, adding stuff like that is seriously not worth the risk. If you jeopardize a mission like that by inserting what amounts to intellectual masturbation just so that irrelevant bloggers can praise your technique, you definitely aren't the person for the job.
Quality and price aren't related when the price and quality are controlled. Most countries control prices or quality (running the services) unlike the US.
I agree with that statement, however the situation has now reversed. Disclaimer: I own an iPad and an Android phone. I still prefer Android over iOS, its faster and its more flexible.
> If Facebook isn't for you, then that's that.

But when my whole family is on facebook, and have stopped checking their email. Then yeah, it is for me too.
Wait, don't people do this anymore? Oh no, am I the last person to handroll html code and upload it using UNIX commands? I just typed "scp" the other day. I should have charged myself admission to an internet museum where I was on display.
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People do this every time Facebook changes anything. People make groups (on Facebook, of course) protesting it, nerds point out the new ways it can expose personal data, and Facebook ignores it all.
A messaging system isn't for you unless it has bcc? No.

The lack of bcc leads to different usage patterns and can be thought of as a feature itself. It leads to more explicit communication. It means the recipients are exactly the ones who are clearly listed.

More generally, Facebook is bigger than the sum of its parts because of the social behavior that emerges there. Enabling this is what makes Facebook special.
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The blog/site readers will be able to submit the solution and see if their program has been accepted or not. Exemplary usage" http://sprega.eu.org/index1.php?/scarky/3/1
I agree entirely. What Facebook provides is certainly not the only way to accomplish (or access) messaging/photo sharing/whatever. However, despite the limitations of such Facebook services, a large percentage of the population still choose them over other available options with more functionality. Perhaps the extra functionality isn't really that important to the average internet user. Or perhaps the average internet user even prefers the lack of extraneous, seldom used functionality that confuses and distracts them from their core purpose in using such services.
I've seen major security vulnerabilities result from losing a single '=' (turning "if (uid == 0)" into "if (uid = 0)") or adding a single '=' (turning "for (...; i < N; ...)" into "for (...; i <= N; ...)"). That's half the typo size of a missing '++'.

Sure, writing crypto code is dangerous. And writing user-authentication code is dangerous. But are you seriously going to say that writing loops is dangerous and generalist developers shouldn't do it?

If the underhanded C contest taught us anything, it's that perfectly innocent and benign seeming changes can introduce security vulnerabilities anywhere.
The site's slow loading and keeps segfaulting Google Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10 for me. I like the idea though.
Comp sci programs indeed don't teach that, that's right. On the other hand, a lot of college grads have taught themselves to code effectively in their own time, either in open source or by selling their own apps. These are generally bright amd well-motivated, and have experience in diverse areas of programming. It's a matter of picking the right people.
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It's actually below the fold now.
may you please elaborate more on why the Czech Republic wins hands down?
Not really. MySQL was multi-licensed and MySQL AB, Sun and now Oracle can re-license it under any license their clients want, provided they pay the price.

MySQL AB was sold for about a billion dollars, proving you can make a whole lot of money while still writing software that can be obtained through a license that respect the rights of the users.
No.
Like in English, it's "Gräset är alltid grönare på andra sidan"/"the grass is always greener on the other side".
You should interpret it as "the grass on the other side always looks greener than it actually is".
Your version is sometimes used as an after-the-fact statement that something didn't work out as planned, but it's not the traditional form.
Yes! I came in here to recommend those, too.

I was about to re-invent that wheel, too. See http://thoughts.pro/beekeep/

But when I heard of Ledger I abandoned it. A lot of great work has been put into Ledger.

UpTheAsset looks like a great project, too, but someone should be fully aware of Ledger before reinventing that wheel.